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i. li. KNTII.b, Savannah, <a.
The Drawn Itattle in Ohio did Not
Settle the Financial (Question.
While the New York World and other
Democratic bond-holder*' organa are glori
fying orer the defeat of the Ohio Democ
racy, tl e Radical politicians and presses of
Penns}!vania are net deceived by that
dearly purchased victory. While, for
effect and to arouse the enthusiasm of
the rank and file, they have celebrated
their triumph in Ohio with a torch-light
proceamon and other jubilant demonstra
tion* in Philadelphia, the Radical or
garni of that city understand too well the
significance of the first great battle be
tween the money power and the people—
the Ooucord of the monetary revolution—
to feel any very great degree of
confidence in the triumph of their party
in the upproaebing election in their own
State. They do not fail to recognize the
disadvantage* under which the gallant
Democracy of Ohio met the issue in
which was arrayed against thorn the com
bined power of the bondholders at borne
and abroad, the Federal administration,
and the sectarian prejudice in their
midst, inflamed and intensified by mis
representation and falsehood. They do
not fail to recognize in the vote of more
than two hundred thousand freemen of
Ohio tho warning voice of an op
pressed, betrayed an indignant people,
resolved on resisting the further encroach
ments of a corrupt and corrupting
money power which threatens their en-
Hlavement. They recognize in the vote of
the Ohio Democracy the acceptance of
the issue betweon tho would-be money
aristocracy, allied with Radical cen
tralization and despotism, and the people,
battling for the uiaintaiance of Demo
cratic principles, constitutional govern
ment, equality, right and justice. They
regard the stand taken by the Democracy
of Ohfo as the beginning of a popular
revolt, and they know that revolutions
never go backward. Hence, tho Penn
sylvania Radicals find, in the drawn bat
tle in Ohio, nothing to bolster their con
fidence in the success of their party in
the approaching olection. Tho Evening
Star says : “Ohio’s verdict doesn’t
fvwiide, but intensifies the contest here.”
The h'or/tiny Telegraph gives the
reasons for entertaining the same
opinion. It argues thus; “Tho Repub
lican victory by a small majority, taking
Into consideration the iiuauciul issue
which enterod so largely into tho canvass,
shows (hat the party in this State can
only hope to gain a triumph and restore
the commonwealth to Republican rule by
the most strenuous exertion. We liavo
not in our favor such striking blunders
on tho part of our opponents as our
brethren in Ohio had. Tho inflation
horesy docs not form nonrly so prominent
an issue here, nor are tho Democratic
candidates so easily assailable. The Re
publicans in this State have a closer,
sterner combat to wage than had they of
Ohio. It boooiues, therefore, the duty
of all good Republicans to put their
shoulders to the wheel and to make the
best possible use of the brief spaoe of
time yet left them.”
The Washington Star, a paper gener
ally well posted in the views of tho lead
ers of tho ltadicul ring in thut city, gives
utterance to similar misgivings as to the
final result. Tho editor says: “Conced
ing all tho weight that should belong to
the triumph over inflation in Ohio, it will
not be safe for the friends of sound
money to take it for granted that tho na
tional battle is won, and that, for in
stance, a victory is assured m Peunsyl
vania on the same issue. The result in
Ohio is sufficiently close to show tho
popularity of “cheap money” amongst
the ignorant and tho unemployed, and it
is evident that but for the extraordinary
efforts made in the canvass there to edu
cate the i>eople of that State up to an
appreciation of the folly of rag money
promises of prosperity, Allen would have
been elected by a large mujority. As it
was, such localities as- Youngstown,
where mills were lying idle and the
promise was held out that inflation would
set all tho wheels of enterprise in motion,
went hotly wrong-headed on election day;
and there are very many more ‘Youngs
towns,’ and more idle mills and unem
ployed people in Pennsylvania than in
Ohio. Tho work of educating all these
discontented voters up to tho true mean
ing of inflation cannot be entered upon
too earnestly, or a day too soon. ’’
In the coming contest in Pennsylvania
all tho influence of the administration
and tho power of the money monopolists
will be brought to bear, and the canvass,
which was in a measure suspended pend
ing tho struggle in Ohio, will from now
till the day of election be intensely ox
citing. If the Democrats are victorious all
the party lost in Ohio will be more than re
paired. On the contrary, a victory on the
part of the Radicals no more decisive
than that in Ohio will be a sure augury of
the final overthrow of the money power.
During the recent Beecher-Tiltou un
pleasantness, a large number of clergy
men of the vicinage, with their flocks,
manifested an utter want of sympathy
with the sufferings of the Brooklyn Lao
oon: and, at that time, so tightly was
he clasped in the folds of the giant ser
pent of scandal, that he had no time to
waste in anything than attempts at ex
tricatiou. But, now that the coils have
relaxed sufficiently to permit of con
nected thought and utterance, Mr.
Beecher is doing his level best to get
even with Drs. Cuyler, Budington, et al.
At the last prayer-meeting in Plymouth
Church, the pastor, in the course of his
talk, touched upon the oldtime Pharisees
and their “modem counterparts” (mean
ing the anti-Beecher Christians'), and thus
expressed his “true inwardness" in re
rard to them :
They were pious [screwing up his face
to a knot as though he despised the very
thought of the men whom he was about
describe] ; yes, they were pious and
mean, pious and proud, pious and bitter,
pious and critically censorious, pious and
as hard-hearted as the devil! [Slight
applause.]
This is an “outcome of inner life”
fully as fervent as anything that “the
bird sung in the heart” in the Elizabethan
ra of epistolary highfalutin.
Ex-Senator Gwin, of California, pre
fers Tilden as the Democratic candidate
for President, though he says the people
y>f the Pacific coast generally prefer
Thurman or Hendricks.
fKleeblg f|em
J. H. ESTILL. PROPRIETOR,
Senators Gordon and Norwood.
Georgia is perhaps as ably represented
in the I sited States Senate as any State
in the t nion. There were some who
| ventured the opinion that the dashing
j and heroic Gordon, albeit interesting and
eloquent, would prove to be superfi
j cial, and lacked that depth and grasp of
intellect necest ary to the elucidation of
occult questions of constitutional law.
. But the most hypercritical, in the light,
j of his great speech on the finances, de
livered over a year since, and his subse
! quent bearing in debate when critical and
important subjects were under discus
sion, are constrained to admit that
r their judgment was erroneous. The
gallant preux chevalier of the Con-
I federacy, Life proved to be to
the full as effective as when leading
the Democracy against the cohorts of
Radicalism in the Senate chamber as he
was valiant and irresistible in the field
amid the iavis£o and tumult of battle
At the same tinle even his enemies must
confess that his course has been temper
ate, conservative and wise, challenging
the admiration of those with whom he
splintered lances in the forensic arena.
Who then is not proud of our Gordon ?
The accomplished Senator from the
“city by the sea” Las also won for him
self an enviable reputation and unfading
laurels in bis Congressional career.
The writer, who has been associated
with him almost from boyhood, was well
aware of the powers and brilliancy of Mr.
Norwood’s intellect, though constitution
ally modest, it was not his custom to
thrust himself forward on all occasions
as is the manner of some. We then an
nounced that he would be fully equal to
the duties of his exalted position; while
the escutcheon of not a single official in
the nation was morally more stainless
and pure. The result has more than vin
dicated the opinion.
Mr. Norwood is calm, sagacious, and
watchful. He speaks but seldom, but
when he rises in the Senate, all give heed.
We doubt if the records of that august
body contain a nobler exhibition of
caustic satire, classical learning, epi
grammatic word painting, and genuine
wit, thau were to be found cropping out
and sparkling through almost every sen
tence of the Senator’s celebrated speech
on the civil rights bill. Ilis delineation
of tho carpet-bagger was so just and
vivid, that neither Hogarth, Darley or
Nast would have required a personal sit
ting to sketch the contemptible creature
iu all his life-like proportions. Iu the
oration before Emory College also, he
showed himself to be every inch a
scholar of commanding genius and versa
tile attainments.
Justly, then, has Georgia cause to be
proud of her Senators, and long may it
be before they are shelved siuqtiy to make
way for ambitious aspirants. This rota
tion in office for rotation sake, is simply
a disgrace to the country, and is preg-
Daut with danger to the Republic.
If a man is incompetent, dishonest, or
neglectful of his duties, make him “step
dr-wu auu out” iuccntinently. jßut when
the opposite is true, to decapitate him
without cause, is like inflicting upon a
faithful servant the fate of the ostracized
Aristides, aDd for no better reason.
Wo hoar of no dissatisfaction with Mr.
Norwood, nor has any one, so far as we
are aware up to this time, openly entered
the Senatorial lists against him. Far be
it from us to dictate to the Democracy
in the premises. But the above tribute
is justly due to an honorable, capable,
and worthy representative of the State at
large iu the Sauate of the Congress of
the United States. —Macon Telegraph.
An Attempt to Sectionalize the Finan
cial Issue.
When the currency question was made
the leading issue in the Ohio election, we
congratulated the Southern Democracy
upon the substitution of a practical liv
ing question of national policy for the
theories of sectional prejudice and hate
which have been so long used by the
Radicals to excite the passions and per
vert the judgment of the people. We
were gratified when, in the opening of the
campaign, Morton’s attempt to excite the
sectional phrenzy of the people of Ohio
by flaunting his threadbare bloody shirt
iu their faces proved a most signal fail
ure, aud he retired from the field of con
test iu disgrace. There was a hope of a
return to reason and calm judgment when
the people refused to be any longer de
luded aud crazed by tbe raw-head-and
bloody-bones of the past, and whatever
might be the result of the contest on the
financial question, good was in our judg
ment certain to come of the new line of
tactics which had been forced upon the
Radical party. But it seems that the
bloody-shirt party are determined not
to bo deprived of the talismanic in
fluence of sectional hate, by which they
have so loug controlled the Northern
masses. The South is still to be the
lamb to the devouring Northern wolf,
and to be held accountable for the
issue that has arisen between the Radical
coutraetionists and monopolists aud the
oppressed tax payers of the country.
The attempt is now beiug made by lead
ing organs of the Radical party to hold the
“Southern Confederate element” respon
sible for the auti-contractiou plat
form of the Ohio Democracy. The
Philadelphia American says: “ There
is scarcely any disguise of the fact that
the programme of unlimited issues of
baseless paper money, and of practical
repudiation by paying the war debt and
interest with them, was dictated by the
Southern Confederate element, which
thus continues to govern the Democratic
policy as it did before the war. The war
currency and the war debt would thus be
degraded to about the same level as the
Confederate currency and debt. All the
Southern organs and orators of the Con
federate Democracy unite in advocating
this policy and denouncing the Northern
friends of a sound currency and honest
payment. But fortunately the North
still holds the reins, and the awakening
of the Northern masses is a serious affair
under any circumstances, as the Confed
erates have some reason to know. The
first point is gained; inflation and repu
diation are dead. The next point is
whether the national banking system shall
be destroyed or sustained. That we must
decide in Pennsylvania in November.”
The “rag baby” that has so disturbed
the plethoric repose of the money
monopolists of the North and East, is
of Western nativity, without a drop of
of rebel blood in its veins. But as it
is a robust, hearty baby, and bids fair to
grow apace and make a noise in tbe
world, we of the South have no objection
to stand god-father for it. While it ha*
our good wishes it is not our bant
ling, and it is unfair for the editor of
the Anurican to question its paternity,
and try to frighten it to death with his
everlasting raw-head-and-bloody-bones of
the “ Southern Confederate element.”
Is This a Nation or a Constitutional
Union of States l
The action of the Alabama Convention
setting the Union above the Constitution
has rejoiced the hearts of the consolida
tionists. The Philadelphia North Ameri
can, the leading consolidationist organ of
Pennsylvania, is greatly elated at the re
cantation of the Alabamians, which it re
gards as putting an end to the doctrines
of State rights for all time, and therefore
to be regarded as the grand climax of
Radical revolutionary achievement. The
editor says:
Against all of the detraction that is or
may be published: against all of the mis
representations, and in partial apology
for real shortcomings, and positive as
well as negative errors, the Republican
party may file the clause incorporated iu
the Constitution of Alabama by the Con
vention that recently adjourned : “The
people of this State accept as final the
fact that from the Federal Union there
can be no secession of any State.” Re
publican achievement has been unparal
leled in variety and importance, and com
paratively brief as the sway of the party has
been, after surpassing all former deeds
of all preceding parties in war, in the
promotion of industry, in commanding
foreign consideration, in elevating a race
to freedom, in perfecting and nation
alizing a financial system, it crowns these
by that expedient conduct under which a
question that has perplexed all former
administrations and disturbed the pro
gress and development of the nation, is
forever laid away by those who held it.
The baneful doctrine of the right of
secession is destroyed in the constitu
tional acknowledgment of Alabama,*
“ There can be no secession of any
State.” The country is one and is a
nation.
The doctrine of State rights and its
corrolary, the right of secession, was first
taught by the politicians of Massachu
setts, and, under different circumstances,
that State might have been the first to
test the practicability of enforcing the
doctrine. Had the constitutional rights
and equality in the Union of her people
been denied as were those of the people
of the South, Massachusetts might have
been the first to demonstrate to the
world that there is really no practical
difference* between the right of se
cession and the right of revolution.
If the war of coercion proved anything,
it proved that in our boasted Republic
constitutions, compacts and solemn
pledgesufford no protection of the weaker
against the stronger party, and that
whatever be the guarantees of the consti
tution, whatever the rights of the indi
vidual States under that instrument,
there is no such remedy for their viola
tion as peaceable secession from the
Union. The editor of the American in
directly admits the injustice which im
pelled the South to seek a severance from
the Union. “There is,” says he “no
manner of doubt that some share of
what the South claimed as State rights,
under the original reservation and con
cession,-is claimed justly. The extreme
doctrine of consolidation was defeated
when asserted by the Federalists. The
question is rather of degree than
of kind. But there is as little doubt that
the definition of these rights should be
judicial; and that their' denial, should
they at any time be improperly withheld,
is to be cured by the Visual legislative
method rather than by civil war. This
was the fundamental error of Calhoun and
all who accepted his doctrine —not that
there are real State rights beyond these
rights granted to the nation, but that
their infringement or denial is sufficient
warrant for civil war.”
The editor confuses the “right of se
cession” claimed by the South with civil
war. There is no affinity between peace
able secession and civil war. On the
contrary they are utterly inconsistent
with each other. The right of secession
implies peaceable secession, for if it is
a “right” it must be peaceable, aud there
fore precludes the idea of civil war,
while civil war equally precludes
the right of secession. Mr. Calhoun
and those who accepted "his doctrines did
not maintain that the infringement or
denial of the constitutional rights of a
State was “sufficient warrant for civil
war.” They maintained that the Union
was a voluntary compact between free,
equal and independent States, formed to
“promote the general welfare and secure
the blessing of liberty ” to the people
and their posterity, and that whenever
the compact was violated, and the stipu
lations upon which it was based were
disregarded so that it ceased to subserve
the ends for which it was made, then, as
a last resort, the States whose rights
were violated, being the judges of their
own grievance, had the right peaceably
to withdraw from the Union. Iu the
concession and maintainance of this
right, they recognized not only the differ
ence between a Republican government
of consent aud a despotic government of
force, but the strongest incentive to mu
tual good faith and fidelity to the con
stitution. There was no civil war in
such a political faith, a faith which —had
it been held in common by all parties to
the compact, would have preserved the
Union and the constitution inviolate and
perpetual for ail time, and thus “pro
moted the general welfare and secured
the blessing of liberty” more effectually ;
than all the blood that has been shed !
and all the treasure that has been ex
pended in the Radical war of coercion.
But the editor of the American flatters
himself that the revolution of the gov
ernment is complete in the acknowledg
ment of Alabama that “from the Federal
Union there can be no secession of any
State.” We attach no such grave impor
tance to the clause in the new constitu
tion of Alabama. It is not a question
for the Alabama Convention to settle;
nor is the constitution of that State the j
place to look for the true and authorita- I
tive interpretation of the constitution of
the Federal Union. It is not to be pre- j
sumed that the authors of this clause j
of the new constitution intended it as j
the recognition of a principle of sov- ;
ereignty inherent in and co-existing with
the constitution of the United States, j
making secession treason. Such an act i
on their part would be the grossest stul
tification, and would stigmatise the mem
ory of thousands of Alabama’s sons who !
fell in the Confederate cause. The clause 1
alluded to has no such significance. It j
is only an admission—albeit out of place
in the organio law of the State—of
the impracticability of peaceable seces
sion of any State from the Union,
while the despotic doctrine of coercion
by the Federal Government is held to
be paramount to the Constitution itself.
It is, so to speak, a constitutional
acquiescence of the people of Alabama,
in “the legitimate results,” so-called, of
the war of coercion. But it neither
changes the Constitution nor the relations
of the States of the Union to the Federal
Government. It creates no new Empire,
uo “Nation;” and even if every State in
the Union were to follow the example of
Alabama, and declare that peaceable se
cession is an impracticable remedy, it
would not change the principles upon
which the Federal compact was founded,
nor establish “ the Nation ” upon the
ruins of the constitutional Union of
States.
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY’, OCTOBER 30, 1875.
Affairs In Georgia.
Mayor W. A. Singleton, of Buena Vista,
is claimed to be the best Mayor in the
State of Georgia.
Macon is crowded with members of the
j press, and the amount of eloquent scrib
j hling that will be done is fearful to con
template.
The gross receipts of the county fair
| j us ! closed at Griffiu, were $2,226.
Rev. Mr. R. T. Foute, formerly of
Christ Church Savannah, now rrctor of
St. Phillips, Atlanta, has declined a very
flattering call to the rectorship of Trinity
Church, New Orleans, much to the grati
fication of his congregation.
The Sandersville Fair, which takes
place on the 28th, 29th and 30th of Oc
tober, promises to be a grand affair. A
large number of entries of stock and
horses have already been made. Our
acknowledgments are returned for an in
vitation to be present.
The North Georgia Conference con
venes in Griffin on the 2d of December
next.
The Atlanta Herald says there were
thirteen babies in one sleeping car, and
eleven in the ladies car, which came
down on the State Road Saturday night,
solos and choruses were doubtless mag
nificent and thrilling.
Mr. M. H. McJunkin has retired from
the editorial chair of the North Georgia
Herald, and has been succeeded by Rev.
Thomas Crymes, Representative to the
Legislature from Franklin county.
Mr. C. Henry Cohen was admitted to
the Augusta bar on Monday, after a rigid
examination, being especially compli
mented by Judge Hook for the creditable
manner in which he acquitted himself.
Willie Payne, Corporal in Company B,
Macon Volunteers, and an active member
of the rifle team of that corps, was pain
fully injured in both hands, by the ex
plosion of a cartridge while loading his
gun.
Additional information in regard to the
late homicide at Porterville Academy,
near Me Bean station, is to the effect that
Alpheus Tilly killed Morris M. Finley in
self-defense.
There was heavy frost in the vicinity
of Augusta on Sunday right. Cotton
was killed on the highlands, but was
saved by fog in the lowlands. Vegeta
tion generally was wilted.
E. P. Clayton & Cos., of Augusta, will
retain their agency of the London and
Liverpool and Globe Fire Insurance
Company, to which they were appointed
by General Johnston tive years since.
The TOccoa Herald will hereafter be
issued on Tuesday instead of Wednes
day.
Colonel Forsyth, of Rome, has discov
ered in Paulding county a rich copper
mine, which will realize sixty dollars to
the ton.
The American Grocer says that Geor
gia peeled dried peaches continue to ar
rive freely, and sell readily for fifteen
cents for medium and sixteen cents for
prime. Southern sliced apples bring
from nine to thirteen cents, and black
berries about twelve cents a pound.
The local editor of the Toccoa Herald
celebrated his birthday on tbe 12th, and
has done nothing since but sit down and
receive presents. Twenty—some quite
valuable—have been gathered in, and
more precincts are to be heard from.
This was such a success that he proposes
to have another next month.
About four weeks ago a strange cat
astrophe happened in Rome. About that
time a cat owned by Mr. Lansdell gave
birth to three kittens, one of which had
but three legs, two fore legs and one hind
leg. In the place where the leg ought to
f fftov tlxc~rvbore of n stump of aleg 7
about half an inch long. This three
legged kitten hops about as lively as the
others.
Thus the Atlanta Commonwealth :
Our city editor has gone to the Fair, and
the duty of dishing up the town hash
has devolved upon the old man.
A citizen of Thomasville who has a
live-months son, named Jeff Davis, will
enter him for that S3OO sewing machine.
The following we clip from a letter of
Rev. W. N. Chandoin, District Secretary
of the late Baptist Association, to the
Christian Index: “ During my visit to
Georgia I have heard much of Jewell’s
mill, but had no conception of the magni
tude of the enterprise or its importance
to that part of the State. It is one of
the finest private factories aud mills in
the South. The possessions embrace five
miles of land aud a village of seventy-five
or a hundred houses, consisting of a
factory, mills, store, dwellings, academy,
temperance hall, masonic hall, and church
—the latter donated to the Baptist de
nomination here by Mr. Jewell, and bet
ter than all, himself, wife and
family are consecrated to the glory of
God and the good of his community. I
could but be favorably impressed with
the order and system of every depart
ment pertaining to this place. Notwith
standing the house was crowded during
the convention, there was no confusion.
His accomplished daughter, although
just from school, a graduate with two
medals, in honor of being head in her
literary and French classes, considered it
meet to assist her mother, and presided
over the table with that grace that made
all feel at home. Mr. Jewell sells his
fabrics iu Georgia. I noticed several fiae
looking young merchants aiound, in
specting goods, but heard it hinted that
they were looking more at Jewells than
yarn. May be so. All and all, Jewell’s
mill is one of the beauties of Georgia.”
Athens Georgian local paragraph: The
modesty of our editor-in-chief would
deter him from calling attention to his
leader upon the Ohio election, which
appeared in our issue of the 13th, the
morning after the election. This edito
rial was not written until after the full
midnight returns had come in and were
gotten up, set in type, and printed
about three o’clock on the morning of
the 13th. If we remember aright, the
Georgian was the only paper in our
State that had an editorial upon this
election on that day.
Griffin Sunday Press: The visitor to
! this section of Georgia will be impressed
with the marked moral improvement of
her citizens. The financial wreck, and
the political corruption characteristic of
the cotton belt for the first few years
after the war closed, seemed to threaten
the very existence of the morals of
the people. Idleness, despair and
intemperance were prominent, at
least in all the railroad towns, but every
body is busy, most of the people are
hopeful, and intemperance, through the
noble efforts of the United Friends of
Temperance, is but rarely seen. South
west Georgia bids fair to become, at an
early day, the garden spot of the Empire
State of the South.
The Buena Vista Times relates this re
markable coincidence: Rev. J. O.
Branch, of St. Paul’s, Columbus, filled
the pulpit of Rev. D. G. McWilliams on
Sunday last. It is a remarkable coinci
dence that, without any previous inter
change of views, he selected the identi
cal text and pursued in his discourse the
same line of argument and ideas, with
one exception, that Rev. D. G. McWil
liams had mapped out for himself in case
Mr. Branch failed to arrive. Both min
isters had predetermined, without any
knowledge of the other’s intentions what
ever, to preach to the same congregation
from the same text, on the same line of
argument, and at the same time. This
is so unusual that it appears to be almost
the work of Providence.
The Atlanta Board of Trade have in
vited Tom Scott to address them at an
early day on the Southern Pacific Rail
road project.
Mrs. W. W. Flewellen, wife of Dr.
Wm. W. Flewellen, of Columbus, and
daughter of the late CoL Jas. S. Calhoun,
died at her residence in that city on Mon
day night. She was a most estimable
lady, and generally beloved.
®Dr. Joseph Thompson, so well known
to the people of Georgia, is using a
pocket knife which he has carried every
day since 1821.
Col. Lee Jordan, of Macon, Columbus
and Dougherty counties, and the biggest
planter in Georgia, informs the Columbus
Times that there has been about sixty per
cort of a full crop of cotton fifty
p i cent, of corn made in
Georgia tins year.
YV. E. Johnßon, the Postmaster at Co
lumbus, has applied to the Methodist
Church for ajicense to preach th gospel.
It is not stated whether he will resign
his government position or not.
The Atlanta Herald will hit the right
thing after awhile. It has now resumed
the folio form and runs all the reading
columns in long metre.
An enterprising farmer in the neigh
borhood of Titon, on the Western and
Atlantic Railroad, has invented a scheme
by which he gets pay for a fine shoat,
g *at or sheep nearly every, week. He
lives immediately on the railroad, and
every alternate day feeds his stock on
different sides of the road. This gets the
stock confused as to which Side of the
road the com and hay will be distributed,
and, in crossing and recrossing, a train
comes along and some of them are killed.
The road then pays for an imported
sheep or bull, and the thrifty farmer is
happy.
Sheriff Findley, of Hall county, receiv
ed from the Governor on Monday the
reward of $250 for the capture of Sand
ford Parker, charged with the murder of
John C. Strain.
The Thomasville Enterprise remaiks
that “the reason why the Fair next week
will be the biggest Fair ever held
in Thomasville is because the peo
ple have taken hold of the matter. Bos
ton Grange alone will make a bigger
show than our former fairs—what then
shall we say for the three other Granges,
the ho; ! t of Savannah and other mer
chants, for Thomasville and the country
at large ? If you miss seeing this Fair
you will miss seeing the biggest and best
thing of the kind ever gotten up south
of the State Fair, and we expect to rival
that."
Rome is putting out her claims as a cot
ton market, and asserts that the price
paid there is on an average about a quar
ter of a cent higher than in Atlanta or
any other market in that section.
The Enterprise gives a magnificent
wood cut illustration of the terrific com
bat to come off at the Thomasville Fair
between an enormous black bear and a
pack of ferocious dogs.
John Sally, an aged negro, living
in Talbot county, was murdered late
Sunday night by his son-in-law, a boy
about 20 years of age. The negro was
killed while asleep in bed in his house.
His head was split wide open with an
axa, and his body dragged to a ditch
near by and covered with leaves and
straw. A search for the body led to its
recovery, as well as the axe used in the
fearful deed. The young fiend was ar
rested, and is now in jail.
Harris county jail must be a nice in
stitution. When the prisoners get tired
of the place they just pick up their duds
and walk off. Three suddenly departed
on Sunday night.
The farmers in the vicinity of Colum
bus don’t believe in bothering with mag
istrates. When they discover a negro
at night in their fields they go for him
with and furnish the doctors,
instead of the lawyers, with a job.
Rome was thrown into a state of ex
citement on Monday by the arrest of a
gang of six negro burglars who have
been operating in that vicinity. A lot of
stolen property was recovered.
A negro in Columbus, who had just
served eight months on the chain gang
for stealing, was nabbed by the Sheriff
of Chattahoochee county on Monday as
booh an he was released cantered to
jail to await trial for a burglary commit
ted in that county.
Colonel H. Wimbleton Grady, having
returned from his recreating trip, Colonel
Avery has been relieved of his occupancy
of the editorial chair of the Atlanta Her .
aid, and has rambled off to the State Fair
A Deputy United States Marshal is
making it lively in Columbus by
chassezing around with a bundle of war
rants for the arrest of a number of
citizens charged with the offense of
illegal voting at the Alabama election
last year. Among those arrested was
YV. L. Cash. The warrants were sworn
out in Opelika.
Col. J. J. Cohen told the Rome Com
mercial, on Friday, that he was corres
ponding with a German Baron (the gen
tleman who was recently in Savannah
with a party of friends], who, at present,
is in Atlanta, in reference to the settle
ment of a German colony near Rome.
This Baron wishes to get several thous
and acres of land on which he propotes
to settle some twenty or thirty German
families, and thus make a regular perma
nent colony.
Prof. George Little, the State Geolo
gist, will accompany the expedition to
the Okefeenokeo Swamp, now being or
ganized by Messrs. Hemphill & Cos. The
expedition will probably start about the
3d November, from some point on the
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad.
The Hiuesville Gazette says the first
frost of the season came last Saturday
night. A heavy rain on the preceding
night, and a cold wind on Saturday, re
sulted in a heavy frost that night. In
exposed places thin ice was formed.
And the Augusta Constitutionalist will
persist in saying “bursted.”
The Macon Telegraph notes among the
many new inventions displayed at the
State Fair, the “Ham patent wheel.”
This is the invention of Mr. John D.
Ham, a Georgia man—was patented in
1870—and Mr. Ham informs the Tele
graph that the Ham Wheel Company will
shortly commence their manufacture in
Macon. They will put up a manufactory,
with $4,000 capital. The wheel is made
on an iron hub, which is in three pieoes,
the hub beint in two pieces, the box
mailing the third. A spoke can be re
moved and replaced without disturbing
the rim ; and if a box wears out it can
be replaced in a moment by any one who
can take off and replace a tap.
The Survivors Association of Confede
rate Soldiers, now in session at Macon,
wi! be addressed at the close by General
Gordon on the subject, .“The Duties of
Confederate Soldiers in the Present.”
The convention is working harmoniously,
and will send delegates to the Richmond
convention, February 22, 1870.
Irwinton Southerner has this: We
learn from reliable parties who visited
the spot, that on Saturday night last a
Land of disguised men went to the
storehouse of Mr. Robert J. Smith, at
Cool Springs, in Wilkinson county, and
awakening Mr. Willie Smith, the clerk,
ordered him to remove the books and pa
pers of his employer and his own per
sonal effects, as they intended to fire the
house. They then inquired for the bar
rel of kerosene, and, after assisting him
to remove his trunk and the books of
the store, they saturated the building
with oil and applied the torch, and
tbe house and all it contained
was soon a pile of ashes. The house
was the property of the estate of the
late Willis Allen. Mr. Smith was con
st; s- ting a two-story building across the
road from the one he occupied, which
was fired by the djsguised men, and was
alsr consumed. There was also five bales
of cotton outside of the storehouse,
which the clerk begged permission to re
move, but was sternly refused, and it
shared the fate of the storehouses. A
scrupulous regard for the property of
persons not connected with the store
was observable. They carefully removed
to a place of safety the tool chest of Mr.
O. G. McCoy, and a cage and bird belong
ing to the clerk. The loss is estimated at
about $6,000 —no insurance.
Miss Griffin and Miss Irene Steed,
daughter and niece of Rev. W. T. Griffin,
residing $t Hampton, Spaclding county,
were badly injured a few days since
whilst out riding, their horse becoming
frightei ed and running away overturn
ing the buggy.
Mr. John High, formerly of Jasper
county, and well known in that section,
died lately in Morris county, Texas, aged
88 years.
Bishop Beckwith is in Milledgeville.
The CartersviUe Standard and Express
having published a communication
censuring the manner in which the cot
ton business was carried on, five cotton
buyers who were touched on the raw,
considered that they were the parties
aimed at, and ordered their paper stopped.
No names were mentioned in the article,
but the action of these parties leave no
doubt as to who constitute the ring. YVe
are glad to learn that whilst erasing the
names of these tive subscribers from bis
books, the proprietor of the Standard and
Express received a list of double the num
ber of new patrons.
J udge YV. D. Kelley was announced to
address the people of Atlanta last night
on the financial issues of the day.
Mr. S. i. Milligan, an old and respected
citizen of Griffin, died on Tuesday.
In the Methodist conference at Atlanta
on Tuesday, a resolution was introduced
petitioning the General Conference to
create a colored Bishop, but by sharp
parliamentary tactics the resolution failed
to pass.
The Rome Commercial thinks the
present cotton crop may yet fall short of
the big estimate, having received a letter
from an extensive cotton planter in lower
Georgia in which he states that the cot
tou crop in that section is turning out
badly and will fall much below the
estimate made some time since.
The Macon Telegraph remarks that
“when Solon liobinson visited the Geor
gia State Fair in 1869, his patriotism was
shocked because the old flag was not
there. ‘The old flag is not there’ this
time, nor is any other there, albeit the
society owns one, and there are two hun
dred and fifty on the ground ready for use
and belonging to the city.”
The Sandersville Herald has this:
“YVe learn that agents to buy cotton
have been sent by New York and other
houses throughout the entire country.
YV e are informed that one has been sent
to almost every station along the Central
Railroad, and our great staple is being
eagerly sought after. YVhatdoes this'un
usual eagerness to buy cotton mean ?”
YVork has been commenced on the
foundation of the Atlanta Custom
House.
A Georgia Judge instructed a jury the
other day that an officer who shoots a
man whom he is trying to arrest for a
petty offense is guilty of murder.
The increased business of the whole
sale houses in the principal cities of
Georgia is an evidence that the country
merchants are encouraging home trade
more than formerly, which is eminently
right and profitable.
Thus the Rome Commercial: “The
Bank of Rome alone has received through
the Southern Express office, since Sep
tember Ist, SIOO,OOO to pay for cotton.
And yet there is uo money in the com
munity. Because why ? Why, the farm
ers owe it to the merchants and the mer
chants owe it in New York, and so it
finds its way back as fast as it comes. So
goes the world.”
Application was made to the Governor
on Tuesday by the attorney of John Bard
for a longer stay or suspension of the
execution of his sentence, in order to
give his friends time and opportunity to
raise the money and pay the fine ; to
which the Governor replied that, upon
reflection, he was unwilling to interfere
to delay longer the execution of the
judgment of the court, as, in his opinion,
sufficient time had already been allowed
for him to make any arrangements de
sired.
John H. James has agreed for the sum
of SIOO to collect that promised dividend
of $5,000 for the Atlanta negroes who
were swindled by the Freedman’s Sav
ings Bank. ~
The Atlanta nerald, not to be out
done by the Constitution, gushes forth
the announcement in a half column of
leaded matter that the Herald has com
pleted arrangements for a thorough and
penetrative exploration of Ponce De
Leon Spring and the region adjacent.
John Feagan, a worthy member of the
Columbus police force, died on Tuesday
morning, ne came to this country
from Ireland about twenty years ago,
and for sixteen years has been living in
Columbus. During the war he fought
gallantly for his adopted land. He was
a member of Company K, Forty-sixth
Georgia Regiment, commanded by Col.
P. H. Colquitt. He has been on the po
lice force about six years. He leaves a
wife and two children to mourn his loss.
“Dogs ought to be taxed.” So the
members of the Brad well Lyceum, in
Hinesville, after an animated discussion
of several hours, decided at their last
meeting. They might have gone further
and decided that nine-tentlis of them
ought to be killed.
Port Royal Railroad bonds, endorsed
by the Georgia Railroad and Banking
Company, are nearly all withdrawn from
the market, and but few are now offer
ing. It is stated that quite a number have
recently been picked up, privately, on
European account, and are not likely to
return until maturity.
The Greensboro Fair commences on
the 26th instant. It bids fair to eclipse
all former efforts. Hon. B. H. Hill de
livers an address during the week.
The Hamilton Visitor brings us an
amusing commentary on our neglect as a
people to raise our own supplies. It is
contained in Judge Crawford’s recent
charge to the grand jury of Harris coun
ty. “ If,” says the Judge, “by any acci -
dent, there should be a hog in the county,
and if, by still greater accident, it should
stray from the owner and get to a neigh
bor’s without being slaughtered, the jury
should inquire as to the estray law being
complied with.”
There were forty applicants in one day
for the position on the Columbus police
force made vacant by the death of Mr.
Feagan.
The gin house on the plantation of Mr.
YVm. A. Wilson, known as the DerJar
nette place in Lee county, was destroyed
by fire, together with seven bales of cot
ton, on Sunday night. Loss SI,OOO.
No insurance. A few nights previous a
negro cotton thief was chased from the
place, and it is supposed that it was he
who sought this mode of revenge.
A census just completed shows that the
population of Columbus and its suburban
settlements is 13,500, which, says the
Enquirer, makes it the fourth city in the
State as to population, and it is certainly
the first in the extent of its manufac
tures. Its great industries, too, give it a
source of stable prosperity of which few
Southern cities can boast.
Columbus will soon have a bagging fac
tory and a broom factory, the enterprises
of Northern capitalists whose attention
had been directed to its advantages.
On Sunday evening a discussion arose
between Gabriel Green, the fastidious
choir leader of the colored church at
Travelers’ Rest, near Montezuma, and
Hall Turner, of the copper cast of
features, which resulted to the disad
vantage of Hall. The simple proposi
tion of Hall to prove that Green’s skin
was as black as his broadcloth suit did
not meet the latter’s notions as a fair
argument; hence he went for Hall,
armed with a clock-weight, knife ami
fence rail, and manoeuvered so well as to
cripple his enemy with the use only of a
clock weight.
Thus the Augusta Constitutionalist:
“The policy shop organ at Charleston--
said to be Ben Wood’s own—thus speaks,
in its issue of yesterday, anent municipal
affairs in this city : ‘The Constitutional
ist is not dead, nor deaf, nor dumb, but j
breathes and burns for Estes. This is
the poetry of journalism, especially as }
one of the stockholders of the Constitu
tionalist is a canal contractor under Mayor
Estes.’ Any intimation that the stock
holder of the Constitutionalist, who ‘is a
canal contractor under Mayor Estes.’ ever
by word or deed attempted to influence
this paper on that subject is a lie —and
we so nail it.”
The buildings and ground at Stone
mountain, which cost $30,000, have been
tendereckfor the State Baptist Female
University.
Miss Sarah Appleyard. daughter of Mr.
John Appleyard, of Columbus, was en
gaged with her sister in making soap in
the back yard of her father’s premises.
The younger sister was called off, leaving
Miss Sarah alone at the soap boiling.
In a few minutes after the attention of
a neighbor, Mr. Reaves, was attracted by
screams proceeding from Mr. Appleyard's
yard, aud upon hastening to the door,
he discovered a heart rending sight.
Miss Sarah Appleyard was lying in the
fire, her clothing burning rapidly, and
was unconscious. It is supposed that as
soon as her dress caught fire she became
so badly frightened that she fainted and
fell in the fire, inhaling the flame. It
was the work of an instant to throw a
bed quilt upon the form of Miss Apple
yard and drawing her out, to extinguish
the flames, but the youug life was
doomed. After excrutiating agony, last
ing several hours, the unfortunate youug
lady expired at 7 o’clock p. m. She was
twenty-eight years of age.
On Tuesday last a countryman brought
to Columbus ou his wagon a bale of cot
ton, and between the suburbs and the
warehouse he was asked to sell by no
less thau twenty cotton buyers, mer
chants and others. It is sad to state that
the cotton had been sold a month be
fore.
It is reliably stated that arrangements
are being made by a number of Western
railroads, iu connection with the Mont
gomery and Eufaula road, to immediately
build aud put on the Chattahoochee river
three first-class steamboats to run from
Columbus to Apalachicola.
The Columbus Enquirer has this : YVe
learned Tuesday for the first time that
there is a line of lightning rods extend
ing the whole length of the Western
Railroad of Alabama. These rods, which
extend over the tops of the poles only a
few inches, are placed on every tenth
pole, aud in seme sections on every fifth
pole. They have been in position on that
road for five or six months, and a con
ductor informs us that he does not know
of an instance in which any pole has
been struck by lightning since the rods
were erected. He is certain that they
are not struck near so often as they were
formerly.
Thus the New York Grocer of the 9tb:
“Our good friend Estill, of the Savannah
News, is one of the livest newspaper
men in the country, and the journal he
conducts one of the best outside of New
York. And now he has bought up the
Advertiser he has the field all to himself,
and he very worthily fills it. Amalgama
tion seems the order of the day and the
strongest only survives. However dis
couraging this may be to the juniors and
cadets of the profession, we cannot re
gret to see one truly representative news
paper take the place of two or three un
happy looking sheets that have only pro
longed a hopeless struggle. These
chaages do much to elevate the journal
ism of the country. Perhaps we cun
hardly hope to see the News much better
than it is already, but we wish it suc
cess. ”
Florida Affairs.
Some lunatic endeavored to create a
sensation in Live Oak by circulating a
report that the negroes would burn the
town orf Friday, but the people didn’t
bother worth a cent, and the poor fool
went off in disgust and got drunk.
There will be a mammoth camp meet
ing near Pine Grove Church, Suwannee
county on the 12ih November.
Madison is reported to be the busiest
town in Florida.
Fernandina was excited on Saturday by
a conflagration at the old Fernandez man
sion. Prompt action prevented any se
rious damage.
Tlie Dive Oak Timss plants itself thus
squarely in regard to the Hicks affair in
the following language: “Some evil
minded persons having reported that we
have made a retraction of the statement
made in our paper of July 14, regarding
the conduct of Dr. YV. YV. Hicks, we say
that the persons who originated such re
ports are low, cowardly liars. YVe have
not retracted anything that appeared in
our paper, neither do we intend doing
so. YVe have no personal quarrel with
Dr. Hicks, but it appears that some who
pretend freindship for him are de
termined to keep him in hot water. If
any doubting Thomas will take the trou
ble to step into-the office of the County
Clerk he can easily ascertain our position.
YVe have told the truth, and will stick to
it; and we ask our friends to flatly con
tradict any report that we have, or will
retract what we have said about Dr.
Hicks. Soon as we can find them out,
we intend to publish the names of the
sneaking backbiters who originated these
lies.”
The merchants of Lake City amuse
themselves when business is dull by
“putting on the gloves” and mauling one
another.
At Jacksonville the other day Mr. YVm.
Spaulding ordered a negro to remove his
feet from the painted guards of his little
steamer Magnet, when the black villain
seized a piece of wood and struck Mr.
Spaulding on the head, knocking him
insensible and then escaped.
A large number of colonists from Jas
per, Miss., have located ’in Manatee
county. G. H. Houze is the pioneer of
the movement.
Mr. YV. G. Dunham, of Monticello, tho
taxidermist and hunter, has arranged
with Mr. Grant, of Jacksonville, to ex -
hibit his fine collection of birds, fish and
animalsj in the National Hall during the
winter. The collection now numbers over
three hundred specimens.
The Live Oak Times eloquently ob
serves : ‘ 1 Col. R. L. Gentry, general
traveling agent for the Savannah Mokn
ino News, was in town last Thursday and
yesterday. Col. Gentry is a live man,
and represents the best paper in the
South.”
The Lake City Reporter says: “Our
farmers are preparing to enter largely
into the business of market gardening
for Northern markets. The inducements
for shipping which are being offered by
the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad will great
ly benefit those who raise produce for
shipment. ’’
The Madison Recorder learns that in
consequence of a cheapness of goods
in that place, and the high prices paid
for cotton, that a great deal of cotton
which has heretofore found its way into
Georgia, is now offered and bought in
that market.
Jacksonville anticipates a brilliant
theatrical season the coming winter, ap
plications for the Togni Hall having been
received from a number of companies.
YVilliam Shay, a young man from Chi
cago, apparently about twenty-one years
of age, who had been stopping for sev
eral days at Mrs. DeCortes’s boarding
house, Jacksonville, committed suicide
last week by shooting himself in the
head with a pistoL The act was evident
ly premeditated, as he had packed his ef
fects carefully, and laid out clean cloth
ing before committing the fatal act. The
firm in Chicago with which it appears he
was connected were telegraphed to.
Pensacola Gazette has this: Recent
shipping intelligence reported the pres
ence in the harbor of Cadiz, SpaiD, of
the Spanish ship “Panzacolina,” lately
arrived from a voyage, and to clear on
another. The “Panzacolina” is a native
of Pensacola, and is all of Florida wood.
She was built by workmen sent out from
Spain, in Navy Cove, opposite the city,
and was launched in 1808. Her burthen
is four hundred and fifty tens—at the
registration of the time —and she was
quite a large ship for those days. Her
cost was some $44,000 (Spanish gold, of
course), and that she was thoroughly
built of good material, the long record of
her service attests. She has been on
duty for sixty-seven years. Her frame
is of Florida live oak and her top work is
of Florida red cedar. Persons are now
living in the city who saw the “Panzaco
lina” launched. The name of this old
ship is sometimes reported “Panzacola”
also “Pensacola.”
The Fruit Growers’ Convention meets
in Fernandina on the first Wednesday in
November.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Palatka Herald thus remarks: “Nearly
every shrewd man that visits Palatka
says this is a remarkably fine place, a
place that is bound to come up, and all
that. But kind words and good wishes
don’t build up a town. The value of
town lots increase in valuh every year, so
say the owners, but the business does
not keep pace with all this estimated
value of town property. Where is the
point ?”
J. L. Demilly, Treasurer of Leon
county, was robbed on Monday last of
one thousand dollars worth of green
backs, greenback scrip and county war
rants. The portfolio containing the
money was placed in the safe of Mr.
Megiuniss, a merchant on Mam street!
and while it was open the thief found an
opportunity to secure the portfolio and
its contents. No clue was obtained to
the robbery until Wednesday, when, savs
the Sentinel, the portfolio was discovered
in the rear of Mr. Meginmss's store, in a
place designed for the foundation of a
house, and which had filled up with
water. All the county orders, nud a
Comptroller’s warrant for one hundred
and fifty-four dollars, together with sixty
dollars in greenbacks, were found in the
portfolio. It is supposed that the thief
had to do his work in a hurry, and grab
ging the greenback scrip and United
States currency, which he saw on open
ing the portfolio, tossed the remainder
into the place above mentioned. An old
offender named Parsons is suspected of
the robbery, and he was arrested. Two
hundred dollars of the greenback scrip
were secured.
James E. Drake, E*q., President of
the St. John’s, Lake Eustice and Gulf
Railroad Company, was in Jacksonville
Friday, Saturday and Sunday. He states
that work has already commenced on the
road, which he expected to have finished
in twelve months.
The Monticello Constitution says that
Col. Simkins has in his garden in Mon
ticello a hundred stalks or more of (he
finest cotton we ever laid eyes on. It is
of the “Cheatham” variety, and the
stalks, which send forth numerous
branches, are literally covered with bolls.
We are honestly of the opinion that an
acre of this cotton would yield at least
five ordinary bales. We covered nine
full grown bolls with the palm of our
hand. No doubt this variety of cotton
will prove the most profitable to our
planters.
The Monticello Constitution tells of a
petit jury who had under consideration
a case of assault and battery with intent
to kill, was locked up for twenty-four
hours on last Friday night and Saturday,
aud were finally discharged without ren
dering a verdict. The jury stood eleven
to one for conviction.
There are twenty prisoners in the
county jail at Tallahassee, eighteon of
whom are negroes, the majority boys.
The Live Oak Times announces, “we
want some of those who owe us to send
us some cow feed.” Why not go the
whole cow instead of the feed ?
It is proposed at Key West to restore
the Sunday bull fights, which pastime
ceased when Spain delivered Florida to
the United States. A paper of that city
remarks: “Won’t that be jolly for our
sports.”
The Mellonville Advertiser says that
Rev. F. R. Haleman will return to
Florida from Louisville, Kentucky, with
a colony for Orange county.
The Lake City Reporter suggests either
J. T. Wofford or W. J. Barnett as a
candidate for the vacant State Senator
ship from that district.
The Tallahassee Floridian gives the
particulars of a gross outrage which oc
curred on Monday at the store of W. S.
Robjnson, on the Kirksey place. A piuiife
of ton or twolv * oolr^***"—nv rmm2
armed, went to the store and demanded
the surrender of the clerk, a young Mr.
Johnson, for the purpose of taking his
life. Johnson sent for Mr. Robinson, who
came to the store at once and talked loug
and earnestly with the men to prevail
upon them to go off peaceably. Finally
they agreed to forbear taking Johnson’s
life if he would pay them twenty dollars.
After considerable remonstrance the
amount was paid and a receipt taken with
the names of all the armed men at
tached. Among the names appear those
of Arch Crowell, Homedy Henderson,
Miles Hunter, Stepney Comet, Elias Hen
derson, Squire Henderson and Demps
Irvin. Crowell, we are told, seemed to
be the leader and did most of the talk
ing. He was very violent in his expres
sions and connected the Governor of
the State with them as being at his back,
He said that they were going to set
things to rights her e, remove all the magu
trates and do a good many other things.
The only cause of offense against young
Johnson, so far as known, was that the
night before, at one of the colored
churches, he had punched up the fire
with his foot, and some sparks flew ou a
colored boy, who got very angry and
said if he had his pistol he would shoot
him, after Johnson had apologised for
the accident.
The people of Ocala have come to the
conclusion that Guinea grass is the most
profitable that can be grown in that sec
tion of the State.
Lake City claims the facilities for en
tertaining one hundred and thirty North
ern tourists. Whereupon Monticello steps
to the front and says she will see those
one hundred and thirty and raise to three
hundred with splendid accommodations.
The editor of the Ocala Ranner has
commenced a criminal prosecution against
W. H. LeCain for alleged libellous state
ments in an article published in the last
issue of the Cedar Key Journal. LeCain
was bound in the sum of three hundred
dollars to answer at the next term of the
City Court, but subsequently his bonds
men delivered him up in open court, and
on Thursday he was committed to the
common jail of the county.
The editor of the Key West Dispatch
ie in clover. Hear him prate of his nap
piness. “Potatoes are cheap now. We
can afford to keep a barrel on hand in
our storeroom, and the Valley City can
go to the and .”
A “White Man’s Barber Shop” has
been opened in Jacksonville.
The Jacksonville Press says that a
colored individual of the feminine gender
entered one of the fashionable shoe stores
last Saturday night in quest of a pair of
hio. 10 gaiters. A boy was summoned by
the proprietor, and told to “find a pair
of shoes for that woman.” The remork
reached the ears of the ebony damsel,
who swelled up with suppressed indigna
tion, and flounced out with the irate re
mark, “I jess want you to know I ain’t a
woman, I’s a lady.”
The Floridian says that beds of pep
permint grow luxuriantly on the Hills
borough river, near Tampa. They flour
ish without the least care. In some of
the States peppermint is grown as an
article of trade, and is usually cut three
times from one planting.
The Jacksonville New South asserts
that Tim Murphy, of that place, has now
running in his machine shop the oldest
steam engine in Florida still in service.
We are not possessed of sufficient tech
nical knowledge to describe this old and
faithful servant, but will say that it is the
simplest form of high-pressure engine,
with small cylinder and very long stroke.
Tim says it is good for many years yet,
and runs his lathes just as well as one of
more modern make.
A military company, numbering thir
ty-six, was recently organized at Double
Bridges, six Jacksonville. H.
T. Tompkins is Captain.
Monticello complains of stagnation in
business, notwithstanding the merchants
have in store magnificent stocks of sea
sonable goods.
Monticello is a nice town, but is evi
dently afflicted with a kleptomania epi
demic, judging from the observation of
the Constitution that “the only article
that "an be permitted to remain from
under jock and key at night, in that
town, with any degree of safety, is a
wash pot. They generally weigh so
much that an ordinary Florida thief is
too lazy or delicate to steal it,”
On the premises of Mrs. Fatlo, At May
port, there are two moderately sized fig
trees that are curiosities in their way,
and which month after month have sup!
plied her table with the most delicious
fruit. Beginning very early in the sea
son, they continue to bear rich crops of
luscious fruit.
The Constitution ventures to remark
that there is not another town in the
State that can boast of so many cotton
buyers as Monticello; and they are pay
ing equally as good if not better prices
for cotton than any of our sister towns,
either in this State or across the line.
The Monticello Constitution of the 21st
has information from private sources to
the effect that a man by the name of
James Maulden was killed by a young
man named Joseph Tillman, about
eighteen years of age (a nephew of Judge
Joseph Tillman), at Tillman’s Store, near
Cherry Lake, some nine miles north of
Madison Court House, at about 9 o’clock
ou Saturday night. It appears that Mr.
Maulden was the proprietor of a store
(cotton trap) some two miles west of
Judge Tillman’s, whose store was on or
near his plantation, and the young man
who did the killing was clerking for his
uncle. On Saturday night Maulden got
drunk, and, in' company with a negro,
visited Tillman's store, where he be
came very insulting and created a
disturbance, whereupon a gun was pro
cured by direction of and from the senior
Tillman’s residence close by, when the
young man shot Maulden in the head,
killing him instantly. We have no par
ticulars of the extent of the offense
given by the deceased to Judge Tillman
or his nephew, but presume that their
lives must have been seriously en
dangered to influenoe theiu to kill the
intoxicated man. The courts, however,
it is presumed, will thoroughly investi
gate all the circumstances connected
with the homicide, although, it is said,
the young man has made his escape. The
deceased, Mr. Maulden, formerly lived in
Brooks county, Ga., but has been doing
business in Madison county for the past
eighteen months.
Cedar Keys Journal has this: “ A lot
of young bloods, okl bloods, aud all sorts
of bloods, paid their respects to a newly
married couple on Atseua Otis, one night
recently, in the usual manner of doing up
such things. The gentle female with all
the tender gush peculiar to her sex,
looked out the window, and, recognizing
an old friend, pathetically remarked,
“N >w, S y, I didn’t think you’d do
me so.”
Madison Recorder: While Deputy
Sheriff Coleman had George Harrison,
colored, out in tlio court house yard, on
last Friday, he jumped the fence with the
agility of a squirrel, and made his escape
from Coleman. He fired two shots at
Harrison without effect. Henry Allen,
colored, oomiug up the street headed
him off, and Harrison was taken back to
jail and locked up again.
St. Au ustine Press: On Tuesday last Juo.
Roberts and Tom Davis, both colored,
employees in Nutter’s mill, endeavored to
settle a previous difficulty by having a
regular ring fight, which ended in the
discomfiture of the latter. This result
was unsatisfactory, and Davis pursued
his antagonist with a loaded caue with
the intention of braining him, but was
checked in bis onslaught by a ball from
Roberts’s pistol.* The wound, though
severe, is not dangerous. After a pre
liminary examiuation before Justice
Westervelt, the prisoner was bound over
to appear at the Circuit Court.
Carl Schurzon the Ohio Election.
The Hon. Carl Schurz is on a visit to
New York, and in conversation on Friday
with some friends was asked whether he
thought the vote iu Ohio aud the defeat
iliere of the inflation movement wouliff
have such an effect in the West as to
definitely put that issue out of our
politics for the next year, in reply to
which he said it- was very questionable.
Inflation is very strong in the West, and
it commands a large majority of the
Democratic party in that region, except
ing, perhaps, in the extreme North
western States, including Illinois. If
the inflationists had been beaten by a
very large majority iu Ohio the result
would probably have discouraged them
so much as to induce them to give
it up ; but the majority being
small, they may feel warranted in
trying again, and go on with the
organization of legal-tender clubs, which
they have already begun, and which they
intend to establish on a large scale. Be-
Miles, * h o Ohio election returns show
that while a sffc.-Jl number ofliard-money
Democrats voted" against Allen, a much
larger number of soft-money Republicans
voted for him. Whilst be did not look
upon the election as decisive, it was an
exceedingly important one, inasmuch as
it showed the inability of the inflationists
to drive everything before them with the
cry of more money on their own chosen
field. It certainly has saved the country
from an immediate danger. He believes
that the inflation Democrats in the West,
sore over their defeat, may strive to
revenge themselves upon the sound
currency Democrats of the East, and
make trouble within the party,
and he is apprehensive lest they
may receive help from the Southern
Democrats. As to the future, he holds
himself independent of party ties and
influences, and prefers to leave the door
open to act with that one of the two
parties which, as be persistently re
marks, shall rise farthest above its old
record and its dangerous and merely sel
fish element. While ho regirds the
financial issue as of great importance,
he thinks that some other reforms are
also demanded, and is evidently ■ A in
clined to see the currency question made
the sole one next year. He believes-that
party will have the best chance next
year which lifts itself highest above its
selfish partisan impulses and above its
own record, and thinks the country will
be best served if the political parties are
not both as bad, but both as good as
possible; and that each will improve
the other by improving itself.
The Tartarian Lamb.
For many years there has existed a tra
dition that on the steppes of Tartary
there grew a vegetable more curious in
its structure and habits than even the in
sectiverous plants of latter-day notoriety.
It was supposed to spring from the
ground after the manner of a vegetable,
but, on developing, a distinctly formed
lamb, having feet, head, tail, and,
furthermore, eyes and ears of perfect
shape, would appear swinging upon a
stalk three feet long, the point of attach
ment being in the centre of the creature’s
abdomen. This strange quadruped was
covered with dense yellow wool, and, as
it swayed about, bending and rising above
the weeds and grass that grew at its feet,
i t was said to feed upon the herbage its
cattle do, and that when the pasturage in
the fields withered from drought it pined
away and perished.
This fabulous story has found a rational
explanation through the researches of
botanists. The plant is a fern, called in
the Tartar language BaromeU, which
signifies a red dog, and in the language
of science, Oibotium barometz, or C. ylaie
rMcerw. The rhizome or root stock is
covered with fine, flossy down, that
might easily pass for wool, and, when
denuded of the leaves or fronds, 1 ears a
remote resemblance in shape to lam-/
It is pushed out of the ground by tin.
roots growing beneath it, and rest u- ,
horizontal position, with the underlying
roots looking not unlike legs sustaining
it. When other vegetation dies at the
setting in of the dry season it likewise
perishes from lack of moisture. The
plant has been introduced into English
conservatories and is prized for the
decoration of apartments, but it is re -
marked that under cultivation -JKiany
years are required to develop tiie iarno
in perfection.
In a correspondence in Land and
Water with reference to this singular
vegetable, several allusions to it were
quoted from old authors. A description
of it occurs in Darwin’s “Loves of the
PJants,” Dr. dela Croix’s “Connubia Flo
rum,” and in various sermons and poems
by French writers. We quote Darwin’s
pretty lines :
Cradled in snow, and fanned by Arctic air,
Shines, gentle Barometz, thy golden hair.
Booted in earth, each cloven hoof descends,
And round and round her flexile neck she bends,
Crops the gray coral mo*s and hoary thime,
Or laps, with rosy tongue, the melting rime.
Eyes with mute tenderness her distant dam,
Or seems to bleat—a vegetable lamb. '" ' '
The down of the Barometz is said to
be an excellent styptic. It is much used *
for stanching blood by the Chinese and
by surgeons who, in its native country,
have become acquainted with its quali
ties.
On Hang, of North Adams, sings of
Mary and her little lamb :
Was gal name Moll had lam,
Fleas all same white sno,
Evly place Moll gal walkee \
Ba, Ba, hoppee long too. ,