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The New Orleans Jetties.
There seem* to be some misgiving in
the public mind as to the success of Cap
tain Eads's system of jetties in giving ti.e
required depth of water at the mouth of
the Mississippi. The work seems not to
progressing satisfactorily, and intima
tions of probable failure are thrown out m
the newspapers of New Orleans. A corre
spondent in the Time* of Sunday last says:
“There seems to be an ominous stillness
reigning over the affairs and movements
of this important work, which would
Jisott lead one to'tali eve that somebody
must be ill that is oonnected with it.
About fifteen days ago men were busy
with pile drivers driving piles at the head
of the i asses, to wash away the island in
the centre so as to allow a greater volume
of water to rush through South Pass.
But many s pile driver is there now and
nothing hut the upright heads of thirty
four piles setting out in the river attest
what has been or Is being done. The
first of January is not far distant, and
there are many anxious ship owners
waiting for tweuty feet or more of water
in South Pass, to come in.”
We still hope that the most sanguine
expectations of the people of New Or
leans may bo realized from the successful
prosecution of the jetty system. But
should it fail to give an adequate Gulf
outlet to the immense commerce of tbeir
great river, they may find it to their ad
vantage to oncourage Col. Baiford’s coast
line water route, which would virtually
give to the Mississippi an Atlantic outlet.
In any event we have always be
lieved Col. ltaiford’s plan for cheapening
L transportation and increasing the com-
I tnerciol facilities of the Mississippi
valley should be favored by the people of
New Orleans. The day is not distant
when all the existing mouths of the
Mississippi will not suffice for the com
merce which will seek through its
channel outlet to the Gulf and the At
lantia ocean.
Proposed Visit of English Capitalists.
The Chicago papers are publishing a
circular from the agent of an organiza
tion, the International Chamber of Com
merce aud Mississippi Valley Society of
London, England, which discloses a plan
for gathering information regarding
American securities that is quite inge
nious. 14 is proposed to send out next
year five deputations of prominent capi
talists of Loudon to examine into the
merits of fiuch securities as are now or
may be hereafter offered in the London
market. These deputations will take it
upon themselves to investigate aud report
upon the character and conditions of:
1. Ileal estate loans and investments.
2. Mining and mineral investments. 3.
Public, railway and other corporate
securities. 4. Laws regulating invest
ments. 5. Agriculture and immigration.
6. Direct trade with Europe. It is pro
posed that each deputation be composed
of not less than fifty nor more than one
hundred persons, und that they start,
simultaneously, from New York or Phila
delphia, visiting the various points in the
West aud South. It is expected that
about a month will be consumed by each
deputation, aud, in order to facilitate in
quiry, branch olHcos of the society will
be established prior to the visit in dif
ferent sections of the country. The
committee appointed to arrauge for tho
trip recommend that each deputation
number one hundred, or thereabouts,
which would make up a force of about
five hundred visitors altogether.
The Whiskey Ring in Trouble.
It is said that if ever the inside history
of the whisky ring should bo brought to
light it will be tale of the most thril
ling and startling interest, affecting not
only promiueut people in the great cities
of the West, but also persons moving in
the very highest society of tho capital.
For this very reason it has been strongly
doubted whether the prosecutious would
be pushed in good faith. The late de
velopments are taken now as an evidence
that tliere is to be no relaxation, and
really the matter has now gone so far
that there is no authority high enough to
brave the oonsequeuces of interfering.
After it is all over there are methods
which may be availed of to wreak ven
geance. An interesting incident is known
here in connection with one of the
promiueut parties in St. Louis of whose
indictment the Treasury has been ofli
cially informed. At the time the seizures
were .made last spring this person was
notoriously implicated m the frauds, and
it was supposed that he would be one of
the first to be apprehended. He was uu
touched, however, and the secret of his
immunity would appear to be in the fact
that about that time he purchased for an
immense price a property belonging to
one of the volunteer agents of the govern
ment in exposing the ring.
- The steady and rapid growth of the
wealth of New York has scarcely any
parallel in the history of commerce We
hold the commercial sceptre over 40,000,-
000 people. We are the principal factor
of a oouutry which grows 4,000,000 bales
of cotton, and the quantity is constantly
increasing. It is to a certain extent a
national monopoly. Without it the manu
facturing wealth of Eugland would lan
guish and gradually become almost ex
tinct. —iVeic York World.
And yet, says the Nashville American,
Northern sentiment has tolerated for a
dreary decade, a so-called reconstruction
policy whioh has prostrated and retarded
the commercial and agricultural develop
ment of a country capable of producing
four million bales of cotton —a national
monopoly! Northern sentiment has dis
countenanced every proposition to reclaim
cotton lands of the Mississippi riparian
States the construction of canals thro
the ootton-belt—half or quarter the gov
ernment aid to one trana-oontinental
highway from the ootton-belt west, that
has been lavishly bestowed upon two
through the ice and grasshopper belt
the East “holds the commercial
eoeptre over 40,000,000 ” of agricultural
producers. Why should we wonder at
its desperate struggle to retain the money
monopoly by which it wields its potent
sceptre ? If English capital from this
.should take the hinb—its manufacturing
wealth would not languish while direct
trade was an established fact
Bigelow’s majority in New York city
foota us 30,401.
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J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR,
Senator Gordon on the Political Situa
tion.
On our first page we publish a reported
interview with our distinguished Senator,
General Gordon, in which he gives ex
pression to his views of the political
situation and the policy to be pursued by
the Democracy in making up the issue
with the Republican party in the coming
Presidential contest. It will be seen
that while General Gordon does not con
sider that the currency question, in those
States , ' ! eh it was made the leading
lßAsut late elections, had the
effect of iking the party vote —a
view which U filly sustained by the re
sult in New York, Pennsylvania and Mas
sachusetts, where the question was not in
contest between the parties— he is still of
the opinion that the financial question
should not be brought into the Presiden
tial eanvaas urn.' year. He-maintains
that it is the true policy of the National
Democracy to ignore the ourrency ques
tion as a party issue, and to go before the
country in the Preeidential contest on
the general issue of opposition to the
corruptions and maladministration of the
government by the Republican party.
He would have the Democracy leave the
settlement of the financial question to
the legislation of Congress, irrespective
of party, and confine itself in the coming
canvass “to the work of exposing the ex
travagance, the profiagacy, the gigantic
frauds, the Southern policy of the Itepub
can party, and its efforts to keep alive
for its own purposes the sectional aliena
tion" that has so long distracted the
country. Upon these issues, and these
alone, he thinks the Democracy would
have carried both Ohio and Pennsylva
nia in the late election, and he thinks it
is upon these issues that the people
ought to be asked to expel the Republi
can party from power.
While we concur with Senator Gordon
in his opinion of the influence of the
financial issue in the late State elections)
we are disposed to doubt the expediency
of ignoring an issue which has been
forced upon the country ny the ruinous
policy of the itadical administration in
the interests of the money monopolists
and which in a large portion of the Union
must necessarily be a controlling issue in
the approaching Presidential canvass. It
is true that the financial question is not
as well understood by the people as tho
corruptions, usurpations and maladmin
istration of the Radical party, but the
fearful pressure of the times is forcing
men of all classes and all sections to in
vestigate the subject in which their
vital interests are so immediately in
volved, and when it comes to be
understood in all its bearings it will
exert a powerful, if not a con
troling, influence on the popular mind.
Iu accepting the new issue, which they
cannot now escape, the Democracy do
not abandon the old issues with Repub
lican usurpation, fraud aud corruption,
nor does it follow that the long catalogue
of wrongs and outrages which make up
the history of that party are to be over
looked or forgotten. In struggling for
the restoration of a healthy financial
system there is no need to abandon
the restoration of honest con
stitutional government; and if the
Democracy is strong irrespective of the
financial issue, there is no reason to ap
prehend that it will be weakened by it
The following from that able and consis
tent Democratic journal, the Columbus
Enquirer , expresses our own views on
this subject. Iu an article entitled “The
Issues of 1875 —6,” the editor says:
“An esteemed correspondent addresses
us on the subject of the late Democratic
reverses and the issues which he thinks
ought and ought not to have been press
ed by our friends in the States that have
lately held elections. It is hardly neces
sary for us to say to our readers that we
agree with him as to the paramount
importance of the great question of
restoring the government to the constitu
tional paths from which it has so
flagrantly digressed in the “reconstruc
tion” of the Southern States. But, as
we have said before, the Radicals
in the late canvass managed to
evade that question, and it was not
in the power of the Democrats to
force it upon them. It is useless to say
that in Ohio and Pennsylvania the Demo
crats themselves set it aside, because we
see that it was no more an issue of the
contest in New York and Massachu
setts, where the two parties did not
differ on the currency, than it was
in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Iu no one of
the States that lately held elections did
the Congressional Reconstruction acts or
the conduct of the Administration in
executing them enter prominently into
the canvass, nor does any paper in those
States, that we have seen, claim that the
pressing of this question would have
affected the result in any perceptible
manner. We may as well admit the whole
truth about this matter. The Northern"
Democrats do not desire to make an issue
upon the reconstruction measures, and
they readily perceive that they cannot
longer effectively press home upon the
Radicals the usurpations and excesses of
Gen. Grant's administration in carrying
them out, now that the administration
professes a change of policy in this re
spect We regret that we did not lay
aside the paper, so that we could quote
from it literally. But the other day we
had a New York paper (either the Herald
or the World) which distinctly made the
admission that the Northern Democrats
would not demand the repeal of the re
construction measures, and that they
could not now successfully mate an issue
at the North on any proceedings con
nected with them.
“It is not an easy matter to force the
issues of a political campaign where the
people have not a lively interest in the
questions raised. At the North, as we
have seen, they felt more interest in the
currency question in those States in
which the two parties were divided upon
it, and in those in which thay were sub
stantially agreed on this question, local
issues took precedence. The currency
question is one that goes home to a man’s
business and pocket interests, and it will
require some issue of pressing concern
and exciting characteristics to shove it
aside. The Democrats of each State may
fairly be presumed to have understood
the strength of the several issues which
they oould make with Radicalism, and to
have given the greatest importance to
those which promised them the best
results.”
Hartranft’s majority in Pennsylvania
will not be over twelve thousand. In
the election for twelve Bute Senators to
fill vacancies, the Dcmoc;ats gained one.
S| ■ | Y \■ ' H H H ■ 1 jagg ■ SB yr |R •'* SB H t 1 ' y
Grant Punishing the Mississippi Re
calcitrants.
A Washington letter represents the
administration smoke-stack as being
prodigiously disgruntled at the Demo
cratic triumph in Mississippi, by which
his pet satrap and brother bummer, Milk
sop Ames, is overthrown. Grant labors
under the impression that there has been
treachery in the Radical camp and is de
termined that the official patronage of the
government shall not be enjoyed by any
one who has contributed, even in a re
mote degree, to the injury of the Re
publican party. Hence the suspension
from office of ex-Senator Pease and
other Mississippi Postmasters, who used
their influence against the Ames faction
during the recent campaign in that State,
and thus assisted, more or less, in the
Democratic success. On Saturday, Bruce^
himself and Ames, asked for the removal
of the offending officials. The reqnest
was promptly granted by the President,
and the Postmaster General was not con
sulted in the matter at all. There is no
question that the course taken by Mr.
Pease and other Federal officials did
much to help the Democracy.
The course of Pease was not influenced
by any love for Democracy, but solely by
his personal antagonism to Ames. At the
last session Pease made a two days’
speech, running over with malignity and
vituperation of the Southern people,
never excelled even by the utterances of
Ben Butler. He and the other Federal
officials acting with him have, however,
by taking an active part against Ames,
been the means of materially assisting in
the redemption of Mississippi from
Radical rule, and this is an unpar
donable sin in the eyes of Grant.
Twelve months since, when Kellogg
wa3 sending his frantic appeals to the
President to keep him in his usurped
chair as Governor of Louisiana, he indited
a private letter to the Executive, calling
his attention to the fact that but three
States of the Southwest yet remained in
the hands of the Republican party.
Those three States were Mississippi,
Arkansas and Louisiana. Arkansas has
gone. They have conceded that Louisi
ana could not be held after the general
election of next year; but Mississippi,
with its immense preponderance of ne
gro voters, was looked upon as secure.
Now Mississippi has gone and cannot be
recovered, It is, therefore, very natural
that the sacrifice of Pease, and the
Federal officials who acted with him
should be demanded. Under the tenure
of-office law the President has not the
power of removal, but can only suspend
the offending officials and report his
action to the Senate. As no charges
have been made against Pease and the
others on the score of discharge of
duties, the question will certainly be an
interesting one when it comes up in the
Senate, and the discussion cannot fail to
be lively. It depends entirely upon the
independent Republicans in that body
whether Grant shall be sustained in his
proscriptive policy.
Cotton Manufactories in India.
Cotton in India had up to 1872
caused the building of 5,111 miles of
railway, and since that time the mileage
has risen to 6,250. But, a large part of
this system was also built for military
reasons, under the government guaran
tees of interest on the capital involved,
and for the same reasons other lines are
to be hereafter built. But, large as the
population of India, the lines do not
pay, and the government liability is
steadily increasing, though the business
done has been augmented by reduced
rates of fare and freight. At consider
able sacrifice the production and export
of Indian cotton have been stimulated,
and the limit of production there has not
yet been reached. The extreme poverty
of the great mass of the people of India
is assigned as the main cause of the rail
ways not paying a profit, and
this being the case, it will be
necessary to improve the condition of
the people before the expensive rail
way system can become remunerative.
British energy has undoubtedly stimu
lated Indian agriculture in every possible
way, and with great results. But, there
as here, agriculture has proven incapable
of the task of furnishing a profitable
main business for railways. The cheap
ness and exhaustless supply of labor in
India has attracted attention to manu
factures, and may make the country a
vast scene of industrial progress. This
is already visible in the spread of cotton
factories, and may extend to other lines
of business. The subject has a general
interest for all communities, but especi
ally for the people of the South, who will
see in the manufacturing history of India
an example worthy of imitation. What
we need at the South is diversified in
vestment and enterprise. Let us grow
less cotton and manufacture more. Then,
come what may, we shall not have all our
eggs in one basket.
The Brooklyn Scandal.
Since Mrs. Moulton’s written charges
against Beecher have been referred to
the Examining Committee of Plymouth
Church, to be acted upon as the com
mittee see fit, considerable speculation
has been created among Beecher’s con
gregation, and the general opinion is
strengthening that the whole scandal
will speedily be revived. It will be sev
eral weeks before the committee begins
its work of investigation. It is learned
that they have been directed to review
all the evidence in the case, both that
which was presented in court and that
which was excluded. This labor will
certainly involve considerable time, and
it may be many months, therefore, be
fore anything like a report is reached.
Loader, now on trial Jon acharge of per
jury. demands that a commission shall
be appointed to go to Montclair, New
Jersey, and take the testimony of Mr.
Joseph Richards and his wife, brother
and sister-in-law of Mrs. Tilton, to whom
the latterjs said to have made a full con
fession of her guilt. Loader main
tains in his affidavit that their
testimony is essential in his case,
as he will be able to establish by
it the truth of his charge against Beecher.
Thus this crowning scandal of the age is
cropping up again in various disgusting
forms. If the press is to be again deluged
with the nauseating flood of filth and
falsehood, it were better that the whole
saintly crowd of them were sunk forty
fathoms deep in the sea. The disclosures
fit Plymouth rottenness that have already
been obtruded upon the public, has done
an amount of harm to society and reli
gion which all the preachings of all the
Beechers, Moodys and Sankeys in chris
tendom cannot undo in a generation.
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1875.
Affairs in Georgia.
Wo hope Commissioner Janes is watfching
the developments. Here is the /wenty
second since the Ist of September: On
Saturday last the gin-house of Mr. James
M. Minar, at No. 121 Central Railroad, was
burned, together with thirty-three bales of
cotton, two giDs and about' three hundred
yards of bagging. This gin-house was one
of the best in Georgia. The loss is estimated
at four thousand dollars.
It is a nine days’ wonder that Kimball
doesn’t sue Sawyer’ for libel. However, as a
worthy member of Havens’s church, we
suppose Hi exhibits a spirit of Christian for
giveness, or something of that kind.
The Irwinton Southerner says that as Mr.
L. L. Peacock was assisting in loading a
wagon with seed cotton from a pen in his
field he took, up with an armful of cotton
a good sized rattlesnake which he threw in
to the wagon. The cotton became separa
ted and the snake was disclosed with a
mouthful of cotton which he had got hold
of trying to strike while in Mr. Peacock’s
embrace. The wagoner vacated in favor of
the snake, and afterwards killed him with a
pole.
The tame paper slys that Mr. Eli Harrell,
of thisroouDty, has lately erected, and has
in successful operation bn the premises of
Sr. Andrew .T. Muler, a wah r JJU4 which is
the prop'-r-y of Messrs. Rbinhnlser k Mfi
ler. These gentlemen some time ago made
themselves a fish pond to raise fish for home
consumption, and desiring to utilize the
water power thus obtained, engaged Mr.
Harrell to build them a water gin, and they
are now ginning three bales of cotton per
day on it.
An occaaioual wild turkey is killed near
Geneva.
A camp-meeting is going on in Tattnall.
In a difficulty between two negroes near
Warrenton recently, one slaughtered the
other with an axe. It is a question in this
community whether the conquered negro
was struck upon the head. It will
require the affidavit of the coroner to settle
the matter.
Pat Walsh, writing from Washington,
Ga., to the Augusta Chronicle, says that
General Toombs is not a Granger, but he iB
an example for them to follow. He raises
his own wheat, oats, corn, vegetable, and
never buys a pound of bacon or a potind of
fodder, raising everything on his own place
necessary for the support of himself and
family, his hands and his stock.
The colored Baptists, of Macon, are hav
ing a splendid time this season. The lele
graph says that on last Sunday night a
difficulty arose at the church between Isham
Johnson and Frank Harvey, which resulted
in the former being shot by the latter. The
wound was merely in the fleshy part of the
thigh and not likely to culminate in any
danger to the life of the wounded man. The
negro who fired the shot made his escape,
and has not yet been arrested.
We shall never pay our debt to our
Thomasville contemporaries. The Enter
prise adds to it as follows : “On a former
occasion we alluded to the Savannah Mous
ing News as a valuable auxiliary to the local
press in all public local enterprises, and
crediting the News as the first paper in the
State to adopt this liberal, unselfish policy,
we gave it as our opinion that much of its
well-merited popularity in the interior
springs from this source. The truth of this
statement was fully verified during the re
cent Thomasville Fair. The Ngws entered
warmly into the advocacy of the fair and all
its editors and correspondents did yeoman’s
service in the causa of Southwestern
Georrgia. The fair was a great success
and the News helped to make it a great suc
cess.”
When the Irwinton Southerner tells af
story it tells a good one, as witness the onfe
hereunto appended: Deacon Smith, df
Wilkinson county, owns, or did own, k
horse, which one time in its life saved hin\
an incalculable amount of money by its
horse sense. The deacon says himself and
wife, while partaking of their noonday,
meal, wero very much surprised at the
actions of their horse, which was loose in
the road near the house. It would run up
to the gate, neigh vociferously and then run
off again. This was repeated several times,
and the deacon arose from the table to as
certain the cause of its strange conduct.
He reached the door and looked out, and
saw away off in the direction the horse
had ran a dense smoke. He seized his hat
and ran to the place. “Gentlemen,” said
he, “ lightning had struck a tree and set it
on fire, and the flames had communicated
to my fence around mv corn-field containing
about eight hundred bushels of corn. The
fire had consumed about a dozen panels of
fencing, and reached a branch. Mv horse,
when I arrived, was standing in this branch
dipping her tail into the water, and throw
ing the water on tho burning fence.” Tho
crowd looked incredulous, aud the deacon
said, “ Gentlemen, if you don’t believe it,
you ask Mahaly.”
Bill Dent was subjected to an interview
the other day in relation to sheep raising by
Fitch, of the Newnan Star, with the follow
ing results: On his farm in Alabama he
kept one sheep and fourteen hounds, but
for fear the sheep might bite the dogs he
kent it locked up in the smoke house and
fed him on pine leaves. The sheep, says
Bill, can lay more eggs than a dozeu
Shanghai chickens, but mine having horns
turned out to be the wrong kind of a sheep,
whereinjl was swindled by the blasted Yan
kee that I bought him from. However, I
got a fine crop of wool. I sheared half of
him and got a hundred pounds, which was
as much as I needed for my winter
clothing. The other half of the fleece
is still on and grows rapidly. Of cold nights
that sheep lies down on his sheared side
and uses the other for a wrapper. Some
sheep roost very high, and one day when I
accidentally left the smoke house door open,
the hounds stepped down that way and that
sheep broke to keep from biting the dogs.
I heard the rippet and I went out and found
that lovely lamb roosting in the top of one
of my biggest sycamores, and making faces
at the dogs. It made me mad, for I don’t
like to see my dogs insulted. I was about
to get my gun aud pepper him out of his
perch, but I concluded I might want some
more wool next year, so I called off the dogs,
and got a flaxseed poultice and put it on
the back of that sheep’s neck, which
soon drawed him down out of that tree.
Asa fertilizer, said Bill, no animal
equal the sheep. If you will fertilize the
sheep properly, and irrigate him also, there
is no telling how many eggs he wii! produce.
Particular care, however, should be taken
in the laying season not to irritate the ani
mal, as he sometimes becomes very furious
and exceedingly dangerous to children. My
sheep crows for day like a chicken, and when
he has a bad cold the noise he makes is
terrific. Bill entertained us with much more
sheepish talk, and completely satisfied our
mind that every editor ought to be the in
dividual proprietor of a sheep, exempt from
taxation on their giving bond and security
not to let their sheep bite, harm or scare
any cur-dog, bull-dog,mastiff, hound or fice.
Col. C, W. Styles, on Thomasville Fair :
The first objects of interest that attracted
our attention on entering the spacious
grounds were the exhibition halls of the
competing Grangers. On 'he right, the
Ochlockonee.and on the left, the Boston and
Eureka. By the kindness of courteous
brothers we first made a partial examination
of each department in each of these halls,
and were enabled, before looking into the
various other departments on the grounds,
to pronounce the Fair a success, and far ex
ceeding in interest, as a purely agricultural
exhibition, any similar display we had ever
witnessed in Georgia. These Granges exhib
ited no article that was not produced at home
and by their own members, and we speak
within the bounds of truth, when we assert
that they alone entered and displayed a
greater variety and better specimens of
farm, garden and horticultural products,
and female industries and handicraft, than
were exhibited at the State Fair. The field
products were especially superior, and
showed that short of progress in the choice
of seeds and the skill in culture that is
giving Thomas the lead in agriculture, and
redeeming the whole country from the
thraldom of big ideas and little work, broad
acres and ignorande, earth scratching and
idleness. Nearly everything that grows out of
the ground was there in rich abundance and
perfect in kind, and there, too, were the
splendid men and women whose industrious
hands had wrought the achievement. The
domestic departments were none the less
oomplete in variety, and wonderful in quan
tity and quality. Twines, preserves, jellies,
pickles, canned fruits, dairy and garden
products, were there in endless variety and
superior quality, while the products of the
needle were brilliant, beautiful, and remark
able as specimens of skill, patience, toil,
cultivation and refinement. There were
1,002 beautiful quilts, besides several hun
dred curiously wrought and exquisitely fin
ished garments and other articles, in the
department of the Boston Grange,and almost
an equal display in the Ochlockonee. The
Eureka Grange exhibited not go much of
this kind of work, but it showed thirty
three heavy bales of cotton produced on a
three-mule farm, together with many other
similar evidences of the result of industry
and co-operative rivalry. When we had
looked through Boston Grange, we said at
once, Boston will undoubtedly get the pre
mium. We did not believe it possible for
Ochlockonee to win it from her, but when
we had gone through a second time and
examined more minutely and with greater
care, doubts as thick as thistles began to
spring np around us, and after the third
round through both halls, we arrived at the
deliberate and satisfactory conclusion that
no human being on earth could decide the
superiority, except a Fair Ground Com
mittee—the only infallible tribunal now
known among men.
It is fondly supposed that Colonel Clarke,
of the Atlanta Constitution, is now immersed
in the Okefenokee swamp.
The sorgbam crop of Bartow counta.*/*
unastucfiS- large this year. This accounts
for the frequent presence it Henry and Wil
liam Grady in that neighborhood.
Dr. W. T. Rodgers killed a negro in Ran
dolph countv the other day. The physician
used a pistol and not a prescription.
Somebody is shipping Texas ponies
through Georgia into Florida.
It is said that Colonel Samuel Small, of
the Atlanta Constitution, is accused of wear
ing out his finger nails against his front
teeth. This is a Texas habit.
Henry W. Grady, who figures as “John,
Jr.,” has a very neat little sketch in the
Herald of Tuesday.
Prof. T. J. McVeigh, principal of the
Masonic High School at Spring Place, Mur
ray county, is dead.
The Hinesville Gazette says the oat crop
of TatnaU county will be" twenty-five per
cent, greater next season than it was last.
The farmers are sowing every available spot
of land.
We were pleased to meet in the city yes
terday Cos!. E. W. Clarke, who is now ex
ploring Oaefenokee swamp. The Colonel
oapie op to saj good-bye Wt lafty friend.
a girl and sits up late he has to “put up” for
the Kerosene.
During September and Oetober 2,681 bales
of cotton wore shipped from Forsyth.
The new gin-house of Mr. John Stallings,
of Monroe county, was burned on Saturday
last, making the twenty-third this season.
The Rome Courier says that J. H. Camp,
whose farm is two and a half miles above
that city, on the Etowah river, made thirty
six bales of cotton this season on forty-two
acres, thirty acres of which made a bale to
the acre. He also made thirty-eight bushels
of corn to the acre on forty acres, and
twenty-four and a half bushels of wheat to
the acre. The only fertilizer he used was
barn yard, produced on his own farm.
The dwelling-house of Mr. Geo. H. Win
ston, near West Point,was burned last week.
The dwelling-house and kitchen occupied
by Mr. E. G. Lewis, of Milledgeville, was
burned last Friday.
A man named Seals was found shot
through the heart in Douglas county on
Sunday. James Clinton has been arrested
as the murderer.
Col. Tom. Howard, of Kirkwood, says that
he has crab grass on his place so obstinate
that a bull elephant couldn’t pull a lancet
through it.
In Atlanta the burglars still burgle.
Colonel Clarke, of the Okefenokee Con
stitution, wants to be swallowed, but not by
an alligator. He will remain in Savannah
several hours, or until he settles matters.
His case is desperate.
Colonel Clarke, of the Okefenokee Consti
tution, refused to remain in the city yester
day.
Four hundred acres of land in Taylor
county were sold for twelve thousand "dol
lars the other day.
A wild eat was captured in the jungles of
Emanuel county recently.
The gin house of Mr. Benjamin F. Lanier
was burned in Emanuel county recently,
together with six bales of cotton and a
quantity of oats. We are under the im
pression that we have already .counted this
conflagration. At any rate, Wte won’t num
ber it now, whereby we will preserve our
accuracy, and .at the same time allow the
CTpmrnssioner of Agriculture to straighten
out his tally sheets.
The last number of the Okefenokee Con
stitution had telegrams from Billy's Is aud.
At the time these dispatches w< re seut Col.!
Clarke, the leader of the expedition, was in
-Savannah flirting around among the girls.
Fort Valley had six cases of burglary' last
■Week. /
The first thing you know someone of
those “two thousand” citizens of Atlanta
will nominate Hi Kimball for Governor. In
case of his election, he would doubtless ap
point Havens chaplain for thestate at large
You wouldn’t believe, from the dearth of
stirring items in that neighborhood, that
Columbus has a kerosene factory in full
blast.
Columbus had a slight alarm of fire the
other day, and the newspaper reporters are
still excited.
Thirty passengers for Florida passed
through Atlanta the other day.
A “noted colored woman” in Atlanta pos
sess tho remarkable faculty of having
spasms.
Augusta Chronicle: Yesterday afternoon
a horse attached to a dray became
frightened, on Campbell street, and dashed
off in the direction of the Union Depot.
When it reached the latter it turned to the
right aud ran with breakneck speed along
the track toward Ko.lock street, the dray
banging at his heels, over the cross ties.
Across the canal, where the railroad passes,
is a culvert, built as such structures usnally
are, aud witn two planks placed together
between the rails for the convenience of
parties on foot. Over this the frightened
horse sped, the dray bouncing up a foot or
two at every jump. Strange to say the
passage was accomplished in safety. One
false step or a lurch of the dray to oue side
and both horse and vehicle would have been
precipitated into the canal.
Gainesville Southron: On Friday evening,
about 6:30 o’clock, the usual quiet of the
city was disturbed by the report that a mur
der had been committed on Athens street.
A Southron reporter immediately repaired
to the spot, and found Jerry Smith, a crip
pled colored man, dead as a mackerel, hav
ing been stabbed in the left breast with a
jack knife in the hands of Henry Winter,
another negro. Both are men of families,
and each are about 35 years old. The diffi
culty grew out of a dispute between Jerry
aud Henry’s wife, who were gambling, over
fifty cents and a quantity of mean whisky,
mixed up with a deck of cards—just the
articles, with a jack knife and an old pistol
thrown in, that causes nmre difficulty among
the negroes than everything else combined.
Newnan Star : The opinion is very preva
lent in this county that money is being lav
ishly used among the Governor’s friends to
induce him to commute the sentence of
Brinkley, the murderer. There is no doubt
that heavy fees have been paid since the
trial for insanity, to work np the papers and
present the case to the Executive in tho
strongest light in favor of the criminal, but
nobody who knows Milt Smith can believe
that he would be influenced by corrupt mo
tives. The strong efforts being made will un
doubtedly have the effect to make the Gover
nor examine the case more critically,and the
Brinkley money caused these efforts to be
made. So that if he is saved from the gal
lows it can truly be said his brother’s money
did it. But this may be said without im
puting bad motives to the Executive. We
doubt not Gov. Smith will do what he thiuks
is right, but if he does spare Brinkley we
can safely say there will be no more children
iu this county named Milt Sn h during
this generation.
Dr. T. 8. Hopkins, of Thomasville, Presi
dent of the South Georgia Medical Associa
tion, publishes the following card in tho
Enterprise to all physicians of Southern
Georgia: The next meeting of the South
Georgia Medical Society will be held at Al
bany on the second Tuesday of December
next. lam informed by the chairman of
the committee of arrangements that a large
number of the physicians from the counties
west of the Flint river and several promi
nent members of tho State Board of Health
will be present. I have seen fit to invite
from Atlanta the leading men of the pro
fession to meet with us, and expect
them. The object of the society is the
promotion and advancement of medical
science and literature, and the development
of the climatic advantages of Southern and
Southwest Georgia, and I cordially invite
and earnestly hope that every regular prac
titioner of medicine in the section of coun
try named, having at heart the interest and
welfare of the profession and country, will
make it convenient to be present. One fare
only will be required by the railroad. The
meeting will adjourn in time to leave on the
three o’clock train on Wednesday. All
papers in Southern Georgia are respectfully
requested to copy this notice.
The Thomasville Enterprise has this
Captain E. T. Davis, President of the Fair
Association, is entitled to the highest
credit for the comprehensive views he car
ried out with such masterly energy in the
recent exhibition. It was he who induced
the Granges to appear in the exhibition,
thereby adding immensely to the general
display as well as to the general interest
felt by the public, and it was his inde
fatigable exer'ions, by correspondence and
personal interviews, which induced the
presence of so many exhibitors from
abroad. The Captain belongs to the
Boston Grange, and if that Grange
did not succeed in bearing off the
first premium, they should be consoled
in having famished the executive
ability which brought about such splendid
results. Secretary HanselL, too, deserves
the highest praise for the able manner in
which he discharged the duties of his office,
for we noticed that, although he was effi
ciently aided by Messrs. McLean, McSwain
and (taulden, he still had his hands full
throughout the Fair. Messrs. 8. R. Robi
son and T. N. Hopkins served efficiently atr
the tioket office, and Mr. J. fats served with
distinguished ability as cashier. The affa
bility and politeness of all these gentlemen
sent abroad a good report of the manage
ment of “ our Fair.” >
/Mr. Eli McDaniel, of Gwinnett county,
made one hundred and fifty bushels of corn
/ ou a little more than one acre of ground.
This, fellow-citizen-, is business.
The editor of the Columbus Times is suf
fering martyrdom of the most exquisite
kind. In alluding recently to a project ad
vocated by Mrs. Maria J. Westmoreland, of
Atlanta, he boldly announced that she was
“on the night hook.” He now announces,
with some show of humility, that he wrote
she was “on the right track.” The Intelli
gent Compositor knows how to bring the
Intellectual Editor to his knees.
The editor of the Thomson Journal has
crawled around a turnip weighing seven and
a half pounds. Writing to a friend he states
that there is material enough in one turnip of
this variety for three tornadoes and two cy
clones. These are scientific times, hanged
if they ain’t.
A negro child was burned to death in
Polk county last week.
Judge Tompkins has hurt the feelings of
the superstitious by sentencing a negro to
be hanged in Effingham county on Monday.
Those who believe that hangings should
take place on Fridays, also have a suspicion
that jay-birds carry sand to Satan on the
same day. It is very naughty of the Judge
to unprejudice the prejudiced.
A colored youth living near Prior’s sta
tion perforated his grandmother with a shot
gun the other day. He expresses great
regret at the occurrence.
The dwelling-house of Mr. A. E. Sturgis,
in McDuffie county, was burned last week,
making the fourth loss of the kind this gen
tleman has sustained during the past four
years.
A negro baby fell into a well in Richmond
county the other day, and was drowned.
The epizootic is raging in Gwinnett
county.
The Columbus Times says that the follow
ing case was decided in ’Muscogee County
Superior Court on Tuesday: On the last day
of April, 1873, James Tune, a customer of
John McGough & Cos., left with the firm his
cotton receipts for eighteen bales of cotton,
and requested Mr. G. L. McGough to sell
his cotton for him, and let him know when
it was sold. Tune told McGough to act in
the matter just as he had done before for
him, and that he would be satisfied with what
he did. McGough was to sell it for accom
modation, and not in any way to receive any
benefit from the sale. McGough has sold
cotton for Tune for several years, and
would deposit the money in John King’s
bank to the credit of John McGough & Cos.
and give Tune a check for it. McGough
sold the cotton on the 2d of May and
immediately wrote to Tune advising
him of the sale. The money was de
posited with John King to the credit of
John McGough & Cos., with their own
money, and it remained there without
having been used by McGough, and without
being of any benefit to them, until the 7th
of May, when King failed. Tune came up
in a few days after the failure of King, when
McGough told him all about the facts. Mc-
Gough proved the whole debt in bankrupt
cy, and paid the first dividend of 20 per cent,
to Tune as his money. Afterwards Tune re
fused to accept any dividend, unless Mc-
Gough would recognize it as a debt due by
them. The jury found a verdict for defen
dants—McCough & Cos.
Florida Affairs.
The Florida Radical cabal evidently think
they are making capital by the prosecution
of Harney Richard—but are they ? That’s
the question.
They say Archibald is a young man. We
knew from his recent decisions that some
thing was the matter with him.
Notwithstanding that the hind-feet of the
cream-colored mare are muzzled, the Radi
cal politicians of Fernandina never venture
out of doors after dark. These things are
calcinated to amuse as well as instruct.
There seems to be a little fuss browing
between Captain Dyke and the Rev. John
Tyler. If the Floridian has a larger font
of italic than Tyler can command, then
Dyke’s case is not altogether hopeless.
It is darkly hinted that McMurray has
Gubernatorial aspirations. Stearns should
weigh these rumors before paying the re
ward offered for the assassin of Dr. John
son.
Anew post office has been established at
Oakwood, Dunn’s Lake, with Hr. Charles
Hutchinsbn as postmaster.
Purman is also laying very low.
Three schooners arel oading at Jackson
ville for Indian River. This is thought to
be ominous.
The Tallahassee Sentinel says that on
Thursday last a colony of immigrants passed
through that city on their way to Marion
county. Tho colony was made up of seven
families, all from Geneva county, Alabama.
Three of four young men accompanied the
colony for the purpose of prospecting, and
if they make a favorable report there will
be a large influx of immigrants from various
parts of Alabama.
The Jacksonville Press says the grand
jury of Nassau county, in their general pre
sentments, spokeof Harney Richard as being
unfortunate in falling under the suspicion
of being the murderer of Dr. Johnson, and
asked the court to give him a speedy trial
or admit him to bail—and we are informed
that, Judge Archibald has consented to give
bail upon execution of a bond of $25,000.
McMurray was seen astraddle of the
cream-colored mare in Jacksonville the
other day. She is not the animal we took
her to be.
Two hundred and fifty visitors have land
ed at Mellonville since the first of Septem
ber.
D. Y. Russell was held to bail in ten Ihou
sand dollars the other day, tor raising a five
dollar note to fifteen.
Mr. E. J. Harris, of Ocala, is experiment
ing with Guinea grass, E. J. will fool with
these things,
Lake City is rastling with an unfledged
Thespian corps,
It only costs a man five cents and costs—
which must be more than five cents—to
steal in Tallahassee.
Thus the Floridian : “ Can you calculate
interest ?” asked the Judge of a person
called as a juror in the Circuit Court last
week. The juror very innocently replied :
“ Yes, sir ; I think I can when I hear the
evidence.” He was a little nonplussed on
being asked to stand aside.
Key West is supposed to pay $40,000 an
nually for imported fruit. Impossible !
The ship “Missouri” is wrecked at Matan
zas and will prove a total loss.
Falatka is slowly but surely improving.
The Marshal of Orlando, who was recently
shot by a drunken desperado named Roberts,
is gradually recovering.
Mr. Fred Lamer, of Key West, was ac
cidentally drowned the other day. He
leaves a large family.
The Key Weet Fey of the Gulf says that
Eugene Duminil, the charcoal burner, whose
narrow escape from being murdered was
chronicled a few weeks ago, has been miss
ing since September 20th. His camp, cloth
ing and tools are on Pine Key, where he was
last seen, but he is nowhere to be found.
The Marianna Courier says that the cor
porators of the West Florida Railroad Com
pany have filed the articles of incorpora
tion, and subscriptions are already being
taken, which indicates that the people are
alive to the importance of an early com
mencement of the work of connection with
the commercial world.
Another Ku-Klux story is contradicted.
The Sentinel is informed by one of the offi
cers of the Circuit Court of * Wakulla county
that the grand jury, after three days’ inves
tigation, indicted a colored man named
Walker as accessory before the fact to the
murder of Jackson, committed by someone
unknown to the jury. From the same
source it is learned that the evidence against
Allen was not sufficient to implicate him in
the murder. The track was larger tl}an that
made bv Allen’s shoe, and it is said that
when Allen drew his pistol to shoot Jackson
he did it to defend himself from an assault
made upon him by Jackson.
Pensacola had a small fire the other day,
destroying the grocery store of Mr. Charles
Peterson.
The Marianna Courier learns that A. H.
Whorley, a colored man, living near Green
wood, engaged in seed cotton traffic, was
shot by some person or persons unknown,
one night very recently. His wounds are
severe and very painful, but not considered
so dangerous as to render his recovery
doubtful.
•
The same paper says that on last Satur
day morning, Robert Hartsfield, a lad aged
about fifteen years, and son of Mrs. F. E.
Hartsfield, a widow lady, residing eight
miles from town, lost his life by the acci
dental discharge of a gun held m bis own
hands. He was out gunning with a young
companion, and seeing a locust tree, the
fruit of which was beyond his reach, he en
deavored to draw the limbs towards him
with his gun. The muzzle of the gun being
toward him, upon the explosion the whole
load entered the stomach. He lived but a
few hours, and died during the night after
the wounds were received.
Mellonville Advertiser: We would say to
land agents, colonists and others, that
Count Wassillieff hasvery generously offered
to act as interpreter in any business transac
tions occurring in this county, which are
embarrassed by the inability of one party to
speak English. Our friend is master of five
languages besides his own: French, Spanish,
German, Italian and Russian, and is only
anxious to serve our people with his gifts
and attainments as a linguist.
The Sentinel says that a few weeks ago an
investigation was ordered of the affairs in
the clerk's and sheriffs offices of Hamilton
county, and the committee of investigation
were presented with an order on the treas
urer of the county for one hundred dolla; s,
which was said to be fraudulently issued,
and which was presented as evidence that
matters were not right in the offices of the
clerk and sheriff. Upon this evidence the
clerk and sheriff were arrested, audare now
under bonds to auswer. Since their arrest,
however, it has transpired that the order
was forged by one Bryant. He went into
the clerk’s office, procured a blank order,
forged the clerk’s name to it, and went out
and sold it for ten dollars. We are told
that Bryant has confessed the forgerv, and
says that he only did it to play a trick'ou ti e
clerk. Jackson and Lee* the clerk and
sheriff, have been at variance with some J
the Representatives from that county, acd
it is said that this was done to injure the u
and get them into trouble. Bryant is said
to be a relative of W. J. J. Duncan.
Conover is not making himself conspicu
ous now.
Jacksonville Press : An old resident of
Columbia county has handed us a curios: v,
which can be inspected in our office. It is
certainly very curious. A large trout was
caught from a lake, where he lived in an old
pine top which had fallen into the water.
The lining cf what is called his “swimmer”
(air bladder), was stretched upon a piece of
wbite paper and a perfect picture of the
pine top iu which he lived was indelibly
stamped upon the paper. And it is said this
result always follows, no matter whether
the fish lires iu the grass or in an oak, piue
or cypress top, a picture of his homo c.i n
always bo had by the above process. This
is certainly a curious freak of nature, and
the most remarkable thing about it is that
the picture is of a cream-color.
The same paper says : The alarm of fire
at 3 a. m., Wednesday morning, was found
to proceed from the grocery store of C.
Meyer, on the - corner of Pine and Ashly
streets. The building with the adjoining
dwelling house of Thomas Lancaster, col
ored, were quickly destroyed. Mr. Meyer’s
stock was insured for $1,500, and the build
ing for S3OO, iu the insurance company of
North America, Philadelphia, Mr. Schnabel,
agent. Mr. Meyer values his stock at $4,000,
and building at SSOO. There
was a risk of S2OO upon the bouse
of Tbos. Lancaster, in the Hartford Fire
Company, J. H. Norton, agent. It is not
known how the fire originated. The Me
chanics fire engine and hose companies
were on the ground, but rendered no assist
ance until the fire was almost extinguished.
After a long delay, water was obtained from
Hogan’s creek. Some means must be de
vised for the better supply of water. As it
is, the fire department is* almost a nullity
when a fire occurs iu any portion of the city
remote from the creek or river. We shall
be painfully reminded of this necessity, we
fear, on some future occasion,
Conover was in Tallahassee at last ac
counts. It strikes us that this is about the
right season of the year for him to walk
over to tho Conservative side.
The Union pretends to be troubled by an
exchange fiend. If this is the case there is
no remedy.
The mullot at Key West are fuli-roed.
Six hundred tons of mahogany from tLo
bark “Nord Kyng” sold at a Key West auc
tion on the 18th ult. for $3,905.
The Union remarks: The glory has de
parted from the legend of William Tell. He
only shot the apple from his offspring’s head.
A Polk county marksman shot the apple
from a fellow mortal’s-eye.
The steamship Margaret, from New Or
leans for Key West, collided when off Pen
sacola, about 2 a. m. on the 21st ult., with a
large vessel, lost her mainmast with all its
rigging, and narrowly escaped sinking. The
night was dark ana no lights wore visible
on board the vessel,
Brigudier-General-Adjutant Yarnum has
returned from Oh Golly. The oorner-stone
of the new college has been suooessfullv in
terred.
Sugar boilings are frequent in Columbia
oounty.
The Floridian says that the Presbytery of
Florida, holding its regular fall session at
Monticello, adjourned to meet in the Pres
byterian Church in Tallahassee, to ordain
and install Rev. N. M. Long, pastor of the
Presbyterian Church there. Pursuant to
adjournment, the Presbytery met there on
Monday morning at 10 o’clock, and pro
ceeded with their business. Rev. Mr. Lit
tle, of Quincy, preached the ordination ser
mon; Rev. Mr. Dodge, of Jacksonville, pro
pounded tho constitutional questions ; Rev.
Mr. Preston, of Fernandina, delivered the
charge to the pastor, and Rev. Mr. Groe, of
Lake City, the charge to tho people. The
services were very solemn and impressive.
Three colored cattle-stealers are in jail in
Lake City,
Captain C. R. King has established an
orange nursery in Columbia county.
An orange tree in Monticello has yielded
a barrel of .oranges this season.
Fildes predicts that before many yeai s
middle Florida will fie the orange-growing
section of the State.
The Floridian suggests that a convention
of the land-owners of Middle Florida be
held in Tallahassee, on Wednesday, Decem
ber 1, 1875, at 10 a. m., to devise ways and
means to secure an intelligent immigration,
and to promote the agricultural and com
mercial interests of this portion of the State.
The Union says that Mr. Damon Green
leaf has added a handsome otter to his list
of Florida curiosities, and is really worth
visiting. He reioices in tho name of Jack,
and is as playful as any young kitten, and
the way he frolics about, in and out of the
water tank in which he is kept, shows that
he enjoys tfie fun hugely. Possessed of an
excellent appetite, he devours his food with
a positive relish, and seems eager to make
the acquaintance qf all who may visit him.
Mr. J. 8. Adams, editor of the Few South,
is still seriously sick,
A colored chicken thief is in jail In Monti
collo.
The Lake City Reporter says that a lady,
while working in her garden in that place,
between one and two o’clock p. m. on Fri
day last, heard a rushing noise overhead,
and at first supposed it to be a flock of wild
flow), but on looking up could see nothing
but the clouds flying hastily toward the
South. It has been suggested that this was
probably the cyclone that devastated Wel
born, as it is well known that they do rise
and fall in this manner. Fortuoately for
Lake City it was too high to do any damage.
Alluding to the manner in which Harney
Richard was indicted, the Menticello Con
stitution says: It is needless to say that in
our opinion a more flagrant judicial outrage
was never perpetrated in the courts of any
State. Richard demonstrated, beyond the
possibility of a doubt, at the committal
trial, that he was innocent of the murder of
Johnson; the grand jury of Nassau oounty,
after carefully considering the evidenoe in
the case presented by the State, on their
oaths affirmed the innocence of the man,
and were afterwards, by threats of persecu
tion and imprisonment from the presiding
Judge, forced to render a “true bill.” Com
ment is unnecessary. If the judiciary is
thus to be made the instrument of personal
and political vengeance, it is high time the
people arose in the majesty of their might
and swept from place and power the vile
miscreants, who, in defiance of every prin
ciple of justice, drag an innocent citizen be
fore a politico-judicial tribunal, directed to
convict. If Harney Richard can thus be
arrested, tried, convicted and, perhaps,
sentenced to the gibbet, who among the
thousands in this State is safe from a simi
lar fate ?
South Carolina Affairs.
On the 29th ult., the store of Messrs. Kil
ter & Rooker, of Aiken county, on the Port
Royal Railroad, was broken into by a party
of five colored men and rohbed, after which
they fired the building, and burned over twr
thousand five hundred dollars’ worth of
goods, and four bales of cotton.
Mr. Robert Brice, of Camden, was in
jured on last Wednesday by a buggy acci
dent.
Mr. G. A. Cromer’s barn, in Abbeville,
was burned, together with its contents, on
last Sunday night. The fire was the work
of an incendiary, and there is strong sus
picion as to the guilty party.
Mr. Cahill, a former citizen of Spartan
burg, is now superintendent of streets in
Greenville.
For several days a terrific fire has been
raging in the woods east of the village of
Lancaster. It is stated that a large area
has been burned over and several thousand
pannels of fence destroyed.
Mr. and Mrs. W. 8. Dellinger, of Camden,
were injured on Friday last, by being
dashed out of a wagon.
The house of Allman Danner, colored,
near Neyle’s Cross Roads. Colleton county,
was burned last week, and his two children
perished in the flames. His wife was some
what injured.
Mrs. S. A. Owens, wife of A. Singleton
Owens, died at her residence in Laurens
county on the 28th ult.
The gin-house of Mr. H. A. McCullough,
of Cedar Swamp, Williamsburg county, was
burned on last Friday night, with a consid
erable amount of cotton. It was supposed
to have been set on fire.
Cotton stealing is going on in Lauren
county, to the alarm ot the people. Send up
Judge Mackey.
The Laurens Railroad has been completed
to the Tiron, or to a point within about
eleven miles of Laurens.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Miss Nellie Kennedy, daughter of W. G.
Kennedy, of Sumter, and a pupil of the
Ursulitie Institute at Valle Crucis, near Co
lumbia, received a premium at the late Dar
lington fair for a handsome tidy, which she
knitted before slie attained the age of twelve
years. She consumed over three thousand
two hundred yards of fine spool cotton in
its manufacture.
Captain Albert Dial, of Laurens, a day or
two since, discovered that two bales of cot
ton were missing from his premises, and
apprehending that the cotton had been
stolen, started immediately in pursuit. He
soon got on the right, track, which he dilli
gently followed, and finally found the cotton
iu a t'wo-horse wagon, property of one Joe
Sullivan, colored, an old penitentiary bird.
The cotton was found in the woods about
one mile from Tumbling Shoals, on last
Wednesday.
The Lancaster Ledger eays that, on last
Thursday night, the cotton house of Mr. T.
J. Josey, who lives about six miles south of
Camden, was entered by thieves and robbed
of several hundred pouuds of seed cottOD.
Mr. Alexander McLeod, living about four
teen miles east of Csmden, was also robl od
of several hundred pounds of the same arti
cle, last Saturday night, by persons who
broke into his gin house.
THE FLORIDA CYCLONE.
Its Effects in Gainesville —A Graphic Ac*
count of its Passage over the Town—
Some Idea of the Power of the Wind—
llow an Infnnt wns Saved.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.
Gainesville, Fla, November 9, 1875.
On Friday, the sth inst., the people of
Gainesville were startled from their after
dinner quiet by a roaring, rushing,
crackling sound, as if of
A MIGHTY CONFLAGRATION.
Hardly had the look of surprise had time
to dawn on the face when it was suddenly
changed to one of fear, for the cyclone
was upon the town. Then ensued a
scene of confusion and terror indescrib
able. Men, women and children seeking
safety iu flight. Here were seen women
with infants in their arms without pro
tection from the pelting rain, children
clinging to their mothers’ skirts, men
hatless and coatless, some leading horses,
which their fear prevented their mount
ing; all one pale, breathless throng.
Houses were left without bolt or bar;
merchants left their money-drawers open
and unguarded; farmers left their teams
and wagonsuncarod for—every one with
in hearing of the tempest infected with a
common terror. Persons who had only
heard or read of it recognized the portent,
and “The cyclone! The cyclone!” was
heard from all sides. Iu far less time
than it has taken to write or even to read
this there succeeded
A STILLNESS IN THE ATMOSPHERE
so great as to be almost as fearful as the
storm, and distended eyes look askance
as if with the enquiry, “What next?”
A visit to the path of the storm
showed that there was no need
of any next. Great trees rooted
up; trunks twisted ofl; fences thrown
down; rails scattered over the cultivated
ground; houses thrown from their pillars
and scattered over the earth iu indistin
guishable masses of ruins, while sympa
thising hearts urged on strong arms to
the labor of extricating those of the in
habitants to whom the warning sound
came too late for '(hem to make their
escape. "J r
Now that we have had time to breathe
and to take in the extent of the danger
to which we were exposed, there cannot
but arise a feeling of thankfulness that
there was not
A GREATER LOSS OF LIFE
than there has been. So far as has been
learned at this moment there is no sign
of the oyclone west of Gainesville,
though it is reported to have come roar
ing over Ramsey’s Station, about a half
mile in the air. It first made its mark iu
the hammock near the western limits of
the town, with a direction almost due
east. Everything was cleared away as it
went. Reaching the first farm of Dr.
W. Porter, it took down paling fences
and farm houses as if they had been
straws. The occupants of the houses
escaped with only bruises that time wiil
cure. Next in its path was the house of
W. K Cessna, Esq. The main building
being long, low and rather strongly built
was simply pushed from its pillars, com
ing to the ground with sufficient force to
make it unfit for future habitation.
And here occurred one of those
BEMABKABLE OIECUMSTANOES
which attest the Providence that watches
over children. An infant child was sleep
ing in its cradle near the chimney, and
in the midst of the sho\yer of bricks,
rocks and mortar by which the cradle
was deluged, a single plank falling over
the space occupied by the child kept it
unharmed. All the other buildings on
Mr. O.’s pilaoe were utterly ruined. The
residence of Mr. W. C. Matheson was
torn to pieces, and Mrs. M , in making
her escape, received some severe blows
from flying timbers. She is not seriously
injured, however. The kitchen of Oak
Hall seemed to be in the path
of the left side of the whirl, and
while the main building was unin
jured, the kitchen was entirely destroyed;
and here occurred the only mortality
connected with the cyclone in Gaines
ville. The gardener, a colored man by
the name of Davis, was sitting at his
dinner with a fellow-servant when the
building fell,
CBUSHING HIM TO HEATH.
The other barely escaped. Mrs. Wilson,
the proprietress' of Oak Hall, was se
verely injured by a beam falling across
her back. It is hoped that she will soon
recover. Two houses on the opposite
side of the street were demolished in the
twinkling of an eye. One of them, the
residence of J. B. Coker, Esq., falling over
his wife and daughter, and also over a
colored woman who was employed on the
place. Wonderful to tell, Mrs. and Miss
Coker escaped from the ruins of a two
story house with no injuries further than
a few painful bruises. From this to the
house of the Rev. Mr. Tomkies, was a
fair open space—the valley of Sweet
water branch. Mr. Tomkies’ house now
sits flat on the ground, wrenched over
askew, with its roof collapsed, a suffic
iently strong indication of
THE POWEB OF THE WIND.
The family of this gentleman escaped
without injury. The house, kitchen and
stable of Mr. Edmund Jones were anni
hilated, the latter being removed from
over his horse without injuring him.
Some damage was caused by the
violence of the wind rushing into the
whirling centre. The frames of several
buildings were thrown down by them,
and we hear of one little boy who was
carried nearly fifty yards before he could
bring up. It will take time for the effect
to wear off the community. Even now,
forty-eight hours after the disaster, a rise
in the wind dilates the pupils of the eyes,
parts the lips and pales the cheek. But
sober reflection brings with it the conso
lation that calamities like this rarely go
in pairs, and that we may build our
houses now more lightly and loftily than
before. The shape of the
PATH *tJBSPEI> BY THE CYCLONE
must be ascertained from future develop
ments. At this place its direction was
first almost due east, and then east by
northeast. His presence of mind did
not desert your correspondent to such an
extent as to prevent his ascertaining that
the direction of the whirl was according
to the method established by the cyclone;
that is, from west round by south, then
east, north, to west again. This could
be discovered by the cloud of debris,
which was ■ whirling with inconceivable
rapidity in the air. There are various
reports; current as to the effects of the
storm in other places, but they are only
verbal here as yet, and while they are
sufficiently dreadful, we tremble lacs
further accounts may reveal fresh hor
rors. W..
-m• • i m
The failing eye-sight of a New Bed
ford man has been restored by the falling
of a heavy weight on his head. |
The Clews-Cheerer Mystery.
[From the Baltimore Gazette.]
Poor typical cases of Republican fraud
and peculation are just now prominently
before the public—the Clews-Cheever
case, the St. Louis whisky frauds, the
Freedman’s Bank swindle, and the Freed
man’s Bureau frauds. The developments
in these oases ought to condemn any
political party, and disgust honest people
with the administration of General Grant,
even if previous investigations by Con
gress had not revealed a long series of
other and equally astounding rascalities.
Taking the cases we have particularly
specified in their order, we propoee from
time to time to say a few words abont
each of them. We begin with that of
Clews- —going somewhat over old ground.
The Barings of London were the finan
cial agents of the United States Govern
ment for nearly three-quarters of a cen
tury. For every dollar they disbursed
during that period they accounted hon
estly.
Their financial standing was of the
best, and time drafts, drawn upon them
by United States officials in distant ports,
found ready sale at a discount of three
per cent. Sight drafts were invariably
paid by them promptly on demand. Iu
no case did they ever fail to uphold the
credit of the United States from their
own means, when the money on hand to
the credit of the government was not
sufficient to meet the emergency. With
out forewarning, and without cause,
the financial agency so long held
by them was taken away, and divided
between the new firm of Cooke, Mc-
Culloch & Cos. aud Clews >fc Habicht—
the naval financial agency being given to
the former, the diplomatic and oonsular
to the latter. By what means Cooke,
McCulloch <fc Cos. got their appointment
is one of the mysteries that time has yet
to unravel. How Clews & Habieht
obtained theirs, we have recently been
told by Mr. H. B. Oheever, a notorious
lobbyist of Washington. Our readers
are aware that Clews & Habicht are
bankrupt, and that Cheover has put in
a claim for one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars, being the one-fourth
part of the profits of the financial
agency alleged to have been procured by
him. The examination of Cheever be
fore the trustee developed the significant
and suggestive fact that five parties were
interested in the profits of the Clews
agency, but by a subsequent arrangement,
of which we shall speak presently, the
number was reduced to four. Clews <fc
Habicht were each to retain a fourth
part of the profit; one James Van Buren
another fourth, and the remaining fourth
was to be divided between Cheever and
Judge Louis Dent, the brother-in-law of
Geueral Grant.
All this has been stated before, but the
recapitulation is necessary in order to
understand the sequel.' The one-half of
Cheever's fourth, assigned to DeDt, was,
by a subsequent agreement between
Clews and Dent, cancelled—tho latter re
ceiving instead fifteen thousand dollars
in cash and the lucrative position of at
torney for the firm of Clews & Habicht. '
The claim of Cheever and Dent to be
sharers in the profits of the agency rests
upon the same basis—the influence they are
said to hnve exerted in obtaining the agen
cy for Clews. As Secretary Fish and Mr.
Boutwell both disavow all responsibility
in the matter, it is not difficult to surmise
by what paramount authority the trans -
fer was made. The dark shadow of sus
picion is thrown directly across the
threshold of the White House.
And just here we reach the most mys
terious part of the Clews-Cheever com
pact. The written agreement shows that
one-half of the profits of the agency was
to go to Clews & Habicht, the other half
to James Van Buren and Cheever, with
the understanding that Cheever was to
divide his share with Judge Dent. Now
Clews & Habicht we know, and Cheever
and Dont are also known, but James Van
Buren is one of those mysterious persons
of whom Cheever himself professes to
know nothing. If Cheever’s share of the
profits was one hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars, James Van Buren was enti
tled to a similar sum. Yet he has put in
no claim, and nobody seems to know who
he is, or what he is, or where he is to be
found.
Here again we touch upon a strangely
suggestive point. When the search for
the children Sfty who play ut. ‘‘hide and
soek”—the exarnksttblT'Or' Cheever be
- the trustee was postponed until tho
20th of November. It was intimated by
Cheever himself that when the examina
tion was resumed the mystory about
James Van Buren would be disclosed.
Well, the 20th of November came, and
another postponement was had, and now
the public is informed that Cheever will
not be called upon to testify again, “his
claim having been settled out of court.”
On the other hand, the trustee of Clews
&. Cos. asserts that the investigation will
go on, and an attempt to be made to hold
Cheever responsible to the creditors of
Clews & Cos. as one of the partners of the
firm.
. We do not believe that anything of the
kind will be done, for at the back of Oheo
ver stands that mysterious personage,
James Van Buren, and it must be evident
to everybody that the reasons that im
pelled Cheever to drop his suit were rea
sons that were vital to tho preservation
of the incognito of James Van Buren.
If the trustee of Clews <fc Habicht finds
himself unable to do anything, as he
surely will, it will remain for a Demo
cratic Congress to strip off the mask. Wq
hope it will be done effectually.
The Egg-Dance In India.
IScrihner’s Monthly.]
A much more pleasing performance,
and one which might perhaps better have
been mentioned in connection with the
exploits of the jugglers, is the “egg
dance.” This is not as one might expect
from the name given it, a dance with
these fragile objects. It is executed in
this wise: The dancer, dressed in a cor
sage and very short skirt, carries a willow
wheel of moderate diameter fastened
horizontally upon the top of her head.
Around this wheel threads are fastened,
equally distant from each other, and at
the end of each of these threads is a slip
noose, which is kept open by a glass bead.
Thus equipped, the young girl comes
toward the spectators with a basket
full of eggs, which she passes
around for inspection to prove that they
are real, and not imitations. The music
strikes up a jerky, monotonous strain,
and the dancer begins to whirl around
with great rapidity. Then, seizing an
egg, she puts it in one of the slip nooses,
and, with a quick motion, throws it from
her in such a way as to draw the knot
tight. The swift turning of the dafir.er
produces a centrifugal’ force which
stretches the thread out straight, like a
ray shooting from the circumference of
the circle. One after another the eggs
are thrown out into these slip nooses un
til they make a horizontal aure
ole or halo about the dancer’s head.
Then the dance becomes still more rapid
—so rapid, in faot, that it is difficult to
distinguish the features of the girl; the
moment is critical; the least false
step, the least irregularity in time,
and the eggs dash against each other
But how can the dance be stopped?
There is but one way—that Is to remove
the eggs in the way in which they have
been put in place. This operation is by
far the more delicate of the two. It is
necessary that the danoer, by a single
motion, exact and unerring, should take
hold of the egg, and remove it from the
noose. A single false motion of the hand,
the least interference with one of the
threads, and the general arrangement is
suddenly broken, and the whole perform
ance disastrously ended. At last all the
eggs are successfully removed; the
dancer suddenly stops, and, without
seeming in the least dizzied by this dance
of twenty-five or thirty minqtes, she ad
vances to the spectators with a firm step,
and presents them with the eggs, which
are immediately broken in a flat dish to
prove that there is no trick about tha
performance.
A Snake in Ibeland. —A snake has at
last been found in Ireland, and much
excited speculation is indulged as to how
the reptile came upon the island. A
gardener in Baltinglass, Wicklow county,
discovered the snake on his premises and
killed it. It measured five feet in length,
was black on the back and yellow under
neath. It appears on investigation that
a gentleman brought two snakes from
India to Ballinrodan, both of which
escaped six or seven years ago. One of
these was destroyed by a pig, but th®
other was never found. It is considered
probable that the snake recently killed at
Baltinglass is identical with the one
which escaped from its custodian at
Ballinrodan.
A private palace car has just been built
at Wilmington, Delaware, for^^jU
Francisco gentleman.
dining and sleepin^M
fitted apw&|