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All letter* *lionl<l tie addressed to
•f. H. E.STILL, Savannah, Ha.
HI only Shirt Morion.
Hen ft tor Morton still affects to believe !
that the next l'reHidential contest must
lie fought out ou war issues. The bloody
shirt iri the only standard under which be
w ill rally. In an interview with a re
)sorter of tlie Itidinnapolis Journal, the |
other day, he said: “I entertain hut
little apprehension aliont the result of
the next Presidential election. The
i h'Hiocratic party is under the control of
the old anti-war politicians, who syrupa
thi zed with the reliellion, and although
these men are trying to talk loyalty, yet
the people have not forgotten their re
cord, and will not trust them; and I be
lieve that the Union soldiers and the peo<*
pJ.of ike North who took part input
ting down the rebellion will he better
“hit* and against the Democracy than they
have h. on *iuc UW The presence of
het#wi eighty and ninety Confederate
officer* in the next Congress is a fact
the significance of which is not to he
mistaken. The recent demonstrations
throughout the Kouth in favor of Jeff.
Davis and the heroes and principles of
the rebellion have not escupyd the atten
tion and consideration of the people of
the North. In short, lam satisfied that
the people of the United States are not
prepared to trust the administration of
the government, its finances, its honor,
and its prosperity in the hands of its
late enemies, who have for twenty years
shown tlmir incapacity for everything
hut crimes and blunders.”
One might almost suppose, says the
Nashville Anui’hutn, that Shakespeare
had Morton in his mind’s eye when he
wrote:
( Ist Lord Kir, 1 would advise you to shift
Ia shill; the violence of actual hath made you
K reek a* a sacrifice.
■ Cioteu If lev shirt wore bloody, thou to
K khitt it. Have 1 hurt him V
P 2d Lord mi, faith; not so much as lifs
patience.
Oj/mbtliut, Art 1, Scene 3,
'I lie Government Whisky King.
The St. Louis Time* is doing good
work in exposing the rascalities of the
infamous whisky ring, which has brought
ho much of odium upon the “future great
city.” It gives the names of the eleven
conspirators recently indicted by the
grand jury of St. Louis county, as fol -
lows ; William M’Kee, of the Qlobe
ville Orafet, the President’s brother; Col.
Dent, ties President’s brother-in-law;
Sum Casey, another brother in law, and
at the head of the New Orleans Custom
House; Gen. liahoock, the President’s
private secretary ; Judge John F. Long,
Collector of Customs of that port; Judge
0. A. N iweomb, ucting United States
Marshal until his successor shall he ap
pointed ; Judge J. M. Krum ; Win. Pat
rick, late United States District Attorney;
Chester 11. Krum, oouusel for the offi
cials heretofore indicted. Andi (*ut
tion to this list of whiyky worthies, the
Timen asserts, upon the strength of
l something more tin*'* conjecture, that if
fatristow suoceed't 'ts well in the second
K IL|M , ~(■ 1,,* vurfure as ho lms in the first,
4) n , Wllv w .tl tie open for him to inaugur
ate a third stage, which will consist of
, nothing Ihh than the indictment of Or
ville 11. Babcock and the members of the
National Republican executive commit
tee of 1872 ps co-conspirators and re
ceivers of the stolen funds, together with
the possible impeachment of the l’resi
' dent for gm'ity knowledge of the frauds,
if not f ’>■ a criminal participation in their
proceeds. This will be a nice thing to
vegiu the third term canvass upon, and
as it stands forms anything but a very
I hopeful foundation for success. Wo cer
lamp can afford to laugh.
I The New Yo. k Financier.
[ (In name had led us to suppose that
| this was strictly a financial journal, and
L f course free from parti/.uu bias. But
if we are to judge its character by
I such extracts from its columns as
I the following, we must come to
L the conclusion that it is both partisan and
'unscrupulous, and that it is no more re
liable in its political statements than in
[ its tluancial figures. In its issue of the
■ 3:sth the editor says :
L, “Southern politicians, who care not a
V Button for anything but success, would
P liavc shouted themselves hoarse in jov
I mid adulation if the Ohio repudiationists
f Siad triumphed, but, now that Allen has
Been defeated, they speak of the Ohio
l leaders with great contempt and bitter
fd demand that the inflationists
<k seats or be exterminated. This
iirtieularly juot, but justice is the
ing a repudiating domagogue
expect or desire. The knaves
roposed general robbery of
ders have known
they might get office
>,nd (lower if they succeeded, but would
■‘inblv be considered swindlers and
fools as well if they failed. But the
readiness of a certain class of Southern
politicians to agree to anything—hard
money or repudiation, free trade or pro
lection, general jobbery or admiuistra
’i\ reform, provided only they can get
power in the nation, is one of the uu
■ >leu u\i features of the situation.”
The Fimincier't statements in this
paragraph are, in point of truth, below par.
is no such feeling of “contempt
y ;.Yd bitterness " entertained by “Southern
■ loliticiuus" for “the Ohio leaders," who,
Jn their recent conflict with Radicalism,
t truck a blow at its corrupt and ruinous
liuaucial policy. Nor are the “Southern
jioliticiaus" so reckless of principles, of
light and justice, as to willingly sacrifice
• verytliing for power. Asa financial
journal the Financier might at least have
1 irboruo the e\(>ressiou of its sectional
prejudice in this connection.
The connection of McKee, of the St.
3 Amis (H'jt* DetnocnU, with the whisky
lrauds ia said to be as follows; At the
time the ring was formed, the Collector
(■f Internal Revenue at St Louis was
Mr. Ford, a man whom the distillers
i ud corrupt officials did not dare to ap -
1 roach with improper proposals. Mc-
Kee was on very intimate terms with
Mr. Ford, and had great iufluenc.' with
J im. He finally undertook to remove
l.is opposition to their schemes, which
lie did by representing that a large cum-
I sign fund was needed at Washington,
and that the President and other prorni
) ent members of the Republican party
demanded that it be raised. No such
call for money had been made, and the
liug having debauched the Collector,
pocketed the money.
Moody and Sankey refuse to regener
|le Poateu tot the present, \
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR,
Baltimore and the St. Louis f onven
t ion.
The Baltimore Board of Trade, having
imitated the example of Chicago in de
clining to send delegates to the St. Louis
Railroad Convention, the Richmond DU - \
pitch thus expresses its surprise at the j
apathy of the people of Baltimore on the
subject of the proposed Southern Pacific i
Railroad connection. The editor sajs:
“tVe commenced this article to express
our surprise that the Board of Trade of j
Baltimore should decline to send repre- !
sentatives to the convention at St. Louis 1
to consider the subject of the Southern 1
Pac. ic railway. The declination to send ;
such representatives indicates iudiffer
ence, if not hostility, toward such a road, j
And why? Does she not call herself
a Southern city ? If so. how can 1
she oppose the construction of a
Southern road to the Pacific? If
she as umes that she declines to i
appear at St. Louis because of the ap- I
preliended personal bias of the St. Louis {
convention, we would n.k ho.w does- i
tijpore kr <w that that convention will
meet o ißian.’h* aj. partisan tuoi- !
in*-:?'- ; w ~i itefendf unless
she was ar< tfia't- ue could control it?
In such • ea*a she would display the de
sire of that control which the fear that
other# had would keep her away. We
ijnderstand it to be a convention that is
to consider the whole subject and deter
mine what plan or what railroad managers
would be most acceptable in the South.
Why shouldn't Baltimore go to the conven
tion as a Southern city, having a deep in
terest. in a Southern Pacific railroad, and
desiring that it shall take the best course
for the g„od of the South, as well as that
of herself ?
“For ourselves we abhor anything like
partisaury iu this matter, and think all
Southern cities should be represented at
St. Louis. There is but one railway now
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. That
way is subject to such serious climatic
obstructions that great injury is done to
trade and travel between the oceans;
that road having a complete monopoly
between the oceans. And yet, notwith
standing the obstructions to which we
refer, the exactions of the monopoly im
posed upon trade and travel are imposing
the most oppressive tariffs upon
both freights aud travel. The cry
for relief begins in’ the Missis
sippi Valley, aud it should be shouted
back from the Atlantic, especially by all
Southern towns, which derive no benefit
from the present route to California. It
is to get this relief from monopoly and
to equalize the favors of the Federal
Government to the sections that the
movement is now to he made at St. Louis
demanding a route along a Southern lati
tudinous line to the Pacific. We here
want it, Baltimore ns a Southern city
wants it, the Union wants it as a matter
indispensable to the sacred rights of the
sections to equality, without which there
can he neithor peace nor justice.
We nil should oppose the thirty fifth
parallel ns the lino of the roail, because
that is not —<*ut eliao.i-n..u, nn it
v/uiu utterly deprive the South of
equality iu routes to the Pacific.
“Every truly Southern community
should he represented at St. Louis.
That convention should be a truly
Southern body, as the best gmirantee for
the maintenance of the rights and inter
ests of the South—the best guarantee for
the establishment of equality in the
favors and tlio material aid of the Fede
ral Government in building the grand
trails continental highways which have
such powerful bearing upon the com
merce of the nation.
The Whisky King and the Presidential
' Household.
It is estimated that the government
will recove $1,500,000 by the raid on
tl * whisky thieves, or about
or of what has been stolen there
in taw nuu three years. The Treasury
otllciuls, it is said, feel confident of equal
success in Chicago, Milwaukee, and other
places, and hope to recover something
like three million dollars before they get
through, By the way, the last of the
indicted distillers at St. Louis, \V. P.
Jouett, was a partuer of brother-in-law
Casey, a fact which again brings up the
suspicions in connection with the Presi
dential household. And speaking on
this subject, the St. Louis Times has a
word to say, which does not lack either
point or relevancy.
It remarks : “Oorbiu sold to Jim Fisk
and Jay Gould the secrets of the govern
eminent which led to Black Friday and
its widespread disasters. Another Presi
dential brother-in-law, Colonel Dent,
procured the appointment of ‘Poor
Henry’ Clews as Financial Agent of the
Government, and the dismissal of the
Barings, which led to the loss of as yet
undiscovered millions, and now we are
askcdHo reseut, as a suspicion too horri
ble to be entertained for a moment, the
charge that Orville Grant was a member
of the St. Louis Whisky lviug. As our
judgment has not been carped by much
government advertising, we shall be
obliged to think in accordance with the
fituess of things the charge is quite
likely to be true.’’
Deviation of the Earth's Orbit.—
According to a writer in one of the
French astronomical journals, the
greatest deviation of the plane of the
earth's orbit from the position it occu
| pied in 1 MX) is four degrees and fifty
' minutes, and this result is not liable to
j an uncertainty of more than five or sis
! minutes. He states that there isap
i parently nothing to prevent the earth's
orbit becoming for a time sensibly circu
lar ; but those geologists who attribute
the changes of climate, which have taken
place iu different sections of the globe,
to a variation in the obliquity of the
ecliptic, are in error. A change of such
magnitude as would lead to a subversion
of the present order of things, this
writer asserts, can never arise. There
are some geologists, too, who declare
that the earth was once a mass of fire,
and that its surface has gone through
various degrees of temperature in cool
ing, sufficient to give a tropical climate
to those parts of the globe which are
now permanently covered with snows;
but of this theory, it must at least be
said that it is destitute of complete re
liance.
Active preparations are being made for
the reception of Moody and Sankey in
Philadelphia. The o'.d freight depot,
formerly used by the Pennsylvania iiail
road Company, at the corner of Thirteenth
and Market streets, has been secured and
fitted for the accommodation of the pub
lic. Ten thousand chairs have been
placed in the building, and a reserve
supply of two thousand extra ones laid
jn for # %
Affairs in Georgia.
An Atlanta man who haan’t had the itch
isn't admitted into good society.
Mr. George P. Cornell, of Macon, was
married recently to Mias Lucine Elder, of ;
Indian Sprint:, one of the most beautiful 1
and accomplished young ladies of Middle
Georgia.
Mr. Stephen D. Heard, of Augusta, is se
riously ill.
The bold aud busy burglar is burgling in
Macon.
J. J. Clay tailed the fox in the recent
chase in Joues county.
The Count Johannes B. Gormane is en
gaged iu the plebeian vocation of gathering
his rice crop. If this continues all taint of
the fast society in Europe and other French
town* will hood be eliminated.
Kiuce the editor of the Talbotton Standard
has married, he has discovered that the
modern pin-back is a mere skeleton, so to
-jieak. Tins is cauilid, hanged if it isn’t.
Sawyer says he doesn’t get anything but
good words from the people. We trust,
however, thkt this is exaggeration. At any
rate, we bespeak for the Commonwealth sub
scribers without end. . . '
In Forsyth, where such things are done
to per fection, the ladies propose to give an
entertainment on the 26tb, for the benefit
of the Baptist Church. > |p
Governor Smith has required Treasurer
Jones to file anew bond, h old one, onac
count of the death of General Berming and
wPiNCfcaftrica (.f hi cU*.
' .. ***EiW ii&v MtseTTO
tersrilie the other daw
Mr. Marschalk, of Cartersville, proposes
to devote his leisure hours hereafter to
fighting a cottoa ring.
A couple of female tiddlers enlivened At
lanta the other day. They were on their
wav to the Southern cemetery known as
Texas.
The Cartersville Standard thoughtlessly
accuses Fitch, of the Newuan Star, of
tonching too much of the rosy. This is not
true. Colonel Fitch is not only the proprie
tor of a hydraulic ram, but is the regularly
authorized chaplain of a cold water so
ciety.
A female negro woman razored a rival in
Columbus the other night.
It is said that Joey Brown will soon pro
test against the extravagance indulged in
by the, State University students in lather
ing their fritters with New Orleans syrup.
We hope tlie Trustees will proscribe sor
ghum.
Dr. J. G. Thomas, of this city, has been
appointed a delegria to the International
Medical Congress to he held in Philadelphia
in September, 1876.
A Fulton county negro, after firing his
pistol at a constable, threw a stone aud then
took to his heels. This is all that saved
him.
In Marion county recently the negroes
buried one of their number iu the space al
lotted to tlie white people. Much indigna
tion is manifested thereat.
The Atlanta Constitution learns from re
liable sources that the houses of Lowry &
Eason and D. E. Allen, of Dalton, have fail
ed and gone into bankruptcy. The first kept
a general supply house, and the last a dry
goods store. Ills reported that the liabil
ities of the first will reach $40,000, while
their assets will more than cover it. Of the
extent of either, however, not much is de
finitely known. They were indebted to At
lanta merchants between $6,000 aud SB,OOO.
It is said that they have about $20,000 iu
notes and accounts, SIO,OOO or $12,000 iu
goods, in addition to the storehouse and
two plantations.
The Enquirer says all the oranges brought
to Columbus are from Florida. East season
Columbus received 1,500 boxes, containing
about 525,000 oranges, which were sold for
$11,250. This year the business is expected
to largely increase. There are many mer
chants who will pay freight on all the peo
ple of Florida may send. They can find a
market at remunerative prices for all that
may he sent.
The Forsyth Advertiser says that a young
man named Clayton Coody, son of F. M.
Goody, of Butts county, was shot and badly
wounded whilst coining from his home to
i’ornytU on Saturday morning last. He was
a short distance on this side of the residence
of Mr. Clint Ham, near the place formerly
anowii .a Praetor's Stpr'’> 'nen he wao
fired at by some o"* * u the woods. As soon
as the shootmg was done the would-be
assassin fled, and young Coody failed to re
cognize him. He saw him distinctly enough
to know that he was a white man. Coody
was on horseback, and came to town as
rapidly as possible and had the ball, which
entered the lower portion of the body, ex
tracted by Dr. L. 15. Alexander. It is quite
likely that the motive was money, as it was
supposed that Coody had some money
winch ho was bringing to town to pay a
debt. The wound, while painful, is not
considered by Dr. A. as dangerous.
The same papor says that although in
many sections of the country the price of
real estate has declined a great deal and it
is next to impossible to sell for any price,
it is not so in Monroe county. Last week
Mr. T. J. Choves sold his farm seven or
eight miles from Forsyth, containing 400
acres, to Mr. lticks ltutland for $5,000. The
money is to be paid cash. Whilst this is
not an extraordinary price, yet we believe it
is more than laud will bring iu any of the
agricultural sections of the State.
Thus the sarcastic demon of the Ge
neva Lamp : The Lamp is offered for sale,
i’o an enterprising, intelligent, industrious
printer, this is a favorable opportunity to
lav the foundation of a future competency.
Wo would not offer our paper at such a
sacrifice, but we think it our duty to go to
Columbus and publish a daily that would
not. be too picavunish to oxchauge with the
surrounding country press. Price, $3,000
cash.
Mr. T. R. Lombard writes as follows to
Captain J. It. King, Lumpkin county: The
ore and saud from the Etowah mine whioh
you sent me to test, turned out much better
than I expected considering the disad
vantage of working soft ore iu a mill using
stamps of seven hundred and fifty pounds
weigfit. From the five tons sent I obtained
twenty-two and a half pennyweights of hard
ama gum, which, when burnt off, will
make at least twelve •pennyweights of pure
gold. The mill had been lying idle so
long that I wasted more gold than I other
wise would. One hundred tons would in
this mill yield threo hundred pennyweights
of gold, aud iu a mill of three hundred
pounds stamp, would, no doubt, double
more than that amount. If you wish to
make a further test at my mill with a larger
quantity of ore, I shall be happy to accom
modate you. A twenty stamp mill on your
mine, of proper weight, etc., for working
such ore, will make it the best payiug mine
in the country.
At anta (Jonetitulion: We are indebted to
Dr. T. P. Janes, Commissioner of Agricul
ture, for the following copy of a letter from
a distinguished planter of Liberty county,
Georgia, to him: “Just after the war, about
1808, two negroes raised in this county
la.ught an improved place of forty-acres,
lying midway between stations 2 and 3 of
the Allautic aud Gulf K&ilroad, remote
about four miles from the road. They
planted, after the usual manner, corn, cot
ton, rice, peas and, I think, oats. They
cropped thus for three years, the laud
gradually degenerating, only such portions
of it as they were able to manure. During
the spring of It 71 they noticed a strange weed
growing in the fields and coming up thickly
after the crops were laid by. It continued
to spread and grow thicker all over the field
until every foot of ground, if left uncultiva
ted, would be covered by it. It was soon
discovered that it rooted out the common
grasses aud weeds, taking entire possession.
It was feared that it would be a worse enemy
than Bermuda or nut grasses, but it is now
known not to be an enemy, but a bles-dng
providential, for the reclaiming of this poor
old worn out section of the State. Since
its first appearance on this one place four
years ago, it has spread to other places,
so that fields several miles distant
have now become covered with it. It
seeds heavily, the seed remaining in the
ground all winter and coming up m spring.
Like seed of crab grass, it makes no dif
ference how deep they are buried, thev do
not rot, but will come’ up, eveu late in*the
fall. It is not au early grower, and hence
never gets in the way of young crops, rarely
getting up before May or June. The first
light tr ists of tall almost always kills it.
While cattle aud horses eat it with great rel
ish, botfi green and cured, there may
be some objection to it as a forage plant
from the tact that after it is cured, if
roughly handled, it loses its leaveg. This
may be remedied in the •curing. The vines
contain so much moisture it is liable to mold
if packed in bulk. Asa fertilizer it is nn
*rpassed. On one of the places where it
grows it was turned uuder in its green state
last fall on about two acres. On an adjoin
ing two acres it was allowed to stand and
die, the grouud being broken this past
spring, aud fertilized with stable manure.
The four acres were planted in corn, culti
vated ail over alike, and when gathered
the green soil manure yielded two
bushels to ooe of the stable manure.
The dry season, however, prevented
the stable manure from having its full effect.
In land that is at aLI “ lively" in plowing it
it is necessary to use a good plow with a
“sword” attachment, or it will choke every
five feet. The plant somewhat resembles
the pea vine , the leaves differ, as aiso do
the seed pods. When thickly set, its branches
grow up ; when thinly set’ they spread out
on the ground. There is bat one main root;
it does not send down roots from the joints,
no matter how long the vines may he.
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1875.
A turpentine distillery is shorffy to be
established at No. 3, Atlantic and Gulf Rail
road.
Here’s our man for Governor. The R ime
Courier says Mr. John Aired, of that county,
paid his State and county tax to Captain S.
C. Trout, tax collector, yesterday, and re
marked : “1 am fifty-two years old and
don’t owe a dollar ; haven’t bought a bushel
of corn or a pound of meat since the war ;
never had a cross word with a neighbor in
my life, aud never swore an oath : never buy
any clothing—have them spun, wove and
made at home ; never bad a lawsuit with
any one, aud never was a witness in
court.”
It is impossible in these days to gain any
information unless you ask for it. Conse
quently. we respectfully propound this:
What does the Atlanta 'Constitution mean,
in its remarks regarding the intention of
the Governor to require anew bond from
Treasurer Jones, by the following? “Hence
it is that in the present emergency the
Governor has felt called upon to enter into
such proceedings as would protect the peo
ple of the State from loss in the premises.
After due consultation over the matters in
hand, and the additional incentive of a
good notice, tell all you know.” The “addi
tional incentive of a good notice” is rather
funny.
Dr. Y. F. Gray, of Spalding county, is
dead a*
& The daily*edition of the Athens Georgian
has bofu discontinued. It was good while
-i :”,q t> J.lr o a vnr
- J ~ s f v, .' * (I| C
oc ■ f Dr. Fatiitb, of Dougherty county,
was burned last week, together with twelve
baies of cotton. The fire originated iu the
lint room, and was accidental.
A stranger committed suicide in Macon
on Tuesday.
The bold burglar is still operating in
Macon.
Rex, of Atlanta, has sent us letters patent
attested by Hijim, appointing us Count of
Chatham. A regularly ordained Count in
these times ought to have a mule and a shot
gun, and as these haven’t come to hand, we
suspect that the whole affair is one of Miles
Turpin’s jokes.
In Atlanta the .people make nothing ef
falling through the bridge over the railroad.
Major James F. Smyth, of Washington
county, was married recently in Jacksou
county to Mrs. Maggie F. Meitz, formerly
of Thomasville.
A negro woman dropped dead in Americus
the other day. Disease of the heart.
A Fulton county man, iu a fit of drunken
frenzy the other night, endeavored to kill
his wife, aud nearly succeeded. He broke
her arm, knocked her shoulder out of place,
and then ripped opeu a feather bed. This,
as you may well suppose, occurred in the
neighborhood of Atlanta.
Mr. Fleming Mobley, of Griffin, is dead.
Young Toombs Wright, oi xiome, has had
one ot bis arms broken three or four times.
He seems to have got in the habit of it.
Numerous tine specimens of copper ore
have recently been found in Haralson
county.
Mr. Edward Ilett, the pressman of the
Augusta Chronicle, has never lost a day in
nineteen years, until last Tuesday, when
he followed a brass hand off to South
Carolina.
Mr. George L. Mason, of Macon, has been
admitted to the bar.
Macon has already had her first shad.
The farmers of Baldwin are planting
largely of oats.
The Sandersville Georgian says ; Farm
ers tell us that much of the “top crop” of
cotton will not open. Mr. T. E. Brown re
ports enough on thirty acres of land to
make five or six halos, not a boll of which
will ever open. He laid upon our tablo
about a foot of the top of a stalk contain
ing seven bolls, large and fine, but looking
as if glued together. The cotton grew af
ter the rains set in—too late to perfectly
mature.
Montezuma has a sausage factory. It is
said that when a dog is ground up you can’t
tell the meat from genuine pork. That fact
is calculated to disarm popular prejudice
and reconcile tfie gaueial public.
Two moro i burglaries have occurred in
Macon. <* t,J Col. Jonw na., lacked and barred
ms pantry.
Tbe post-bellum experience of Col. Jones,
of the Macon Telegraph, has been some
what unfortunate. Since the war, while a
resident of Cutlibort, liis horse was stolen
from the stable aud never recovered. Iu a
single night he lost every turkey, duck and
cliickeu on his promises ; had a valuable
milch cow, just about to calve, killed and
butchered within fifty rods of tbe settlement
on his farm ; had a cliost iu his own bed
chamber, containing thirty dollars in specie,
opened aud rifled ; Ins corn-crib robbed of a
large amount of grain ; gin-house entered
and five hundred pounds of cotton stolen,
the thieves and their plunder being captured
within a few paces of the building ; had liis
garden fence torn down and a whole wagon
load of ru'a-baga turnips carried off—three
bales of packed cotton and a valuable mule
spirited away to Florida from his Baker
county plantation— -forty head of sheep, and
all save, five of two hundred head of hogs,
stolen from the same place ; and, finally,
bis store, printing office, aud merchandise
worth $7,000, burnt by a negro for plunder,
who was afterwards arrested near Columbus.
Hinesvillo Gazette: Last Thursday a little
son of Dr. A. I. Hendry, of Taylor’s Creek,
while eating persimmons, and* laughing at
the same time, swallowed a seed, which
lodged in his wind-pipe. All efforts to eject
it were in vain; and, after the little boy bad
suffered great agony, liis father made an
opening iu the throat, and succeeded in re
moving the seed. On yesterday the little
sufferer was doing well, and no doubt of his
recovery is now entertained.
The same paper has this: Through the
columns of the Mousing News we see that
Superintendent Haines is preparing, under
the auspices of tbe Atlantic and Gulf Rail
road, to issue another pamphlet descriptive
of the lauds in Southern Georgia and Florida.
This pamphlet will be distributed through
out the Northern States, and will fall into
the nands of many who are contemplating
moving South. No better means of impart
ing the requisite information about our
lauds could be adopted than this. And it
will influence that class of immigrants we
desire to see settled among ns—men with
some capital, who will come here to live aud
die among us. What they require is relia
ble information as to climate, soil aud pro
ductions, together with the growth, quantity
and locati >n of the lands. There are thou
sands of acres of lands which lie along the
A. & G. R. li. that the owners are anxious to
sell. Here is au excellent opportunity to
let it be known. We advise all who live in
this section, that are in possession of more
land than, they wish to retain, to communi
cate with the authorities of the A. & G. R. R.
The Americus liepublican has a duck and
snake story. A few nights ago a gentleman
by the name of Williams, .viug near that
place, hearing one of his wife’s ducks mak
ing a noise as if alarmed, got out of bed
and went to whore she was, but could not
see or hear anything. He went the second
time, but with the same result. He told his
wife he guessed the ducks had gone crazy
and again retired to bed. The next morn
ing Mr. Williams went to where the old
duck was sitting on her eggs, under a brush
pile, and, to liis astonishment, ho saw a
large black snake coiled up under the fowl,
the snake having swallowed twelve of tbe
eggs. Mr. Williams shot his suakeship’s
head off, cat him open, took the eggs out
and placed them under the duck, and
eleven of the dozen eggs hatched.
“Halifax," writing from Atlanta to the
Augusta Chronicle, says: Treasurer Jones
yesterday expressed to a Constitution re
porter the belief that he would arrange Lis
bond without difficulty. I understand, how
ever, to-day that he is not so sanguine. In
deed, it is beieved by some that he will
makeffio strenuous efforts to make anew
bond. The duties ami cares of the office,
they say, during tiie past year have caused
him so much anxiety and solicitude that
they believe he will voluntarily retire from
the position. During their visit to New
York Attorney General Hammond, Senator
Kibbee and Dr. James F. Bozeman ascer
tained beyond peradveuture that Treasurer
Jones had paid $150,006 of State bonds
twice, and the opinion seems to prevail that
Treasurer Jones, jointly with bis securities,
are liable for this deficiency. Shouid the
Treasurer resign it is predicted that Dr.
James F. Bozeman will be appointed to the
position temporarily until the Legislature
assembles in January.
Atlanta Constitution : At the recent term
of the United States Circuit Court here, tfie
case of J. Nelson Tap >au, trustee of Henrv
Clews & Cos., vs. John W. Wofford, the
Cherokee Railroad Coiupauv et ah, reached
its final trial. After a full argument of the
case the court rendered a decree in favor of
the complainants, supporting the report of
the master in clianeerv, Mr. Whittle, and
ordering the sale of the road. The defend
ants, through their attorney, Mr. B. H. Hill,
gave notice of their intention to appeal the
case to the Supreme Court of the United
States, and the court fixed the appeal bond
in the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, giv
ing them thirty days from the adjournment
of court to raise the security. Yesterdav
this bond was filed with tl e Clerk of the
court, and approved by him. The securi
ties are Alfred Austell, Samuel M. Inman
and Walker P. Inman. The condition is
that they pay complainants all damages
they may suffer and interest that may accrue
by reason of defendant’s carrying the case
The death of Col. A. P. Rood, one of the
largest landowners in Stewart county, is
aunouGced.
Macon Telegraph: The Timber Gazette,
published in Darien, Georgia, by Richard
W. Grubb, is a well conducted weekly, evinc
ing in its editorials and selections much
good sense and industry. Darien is on ris
ing i round once morej after experiencing
as many “casualties” as ever befel any place
on the continent. Desolated and burnt by
the Yankees, again partially rebuilt, but to
be revisited by the five fiend, domineered
over for a long time by that old sanctimoni
ous hypocrite, Tunis Campbell, swept many/
years since by yellow fever, insalubrious!;*
though beautifully located, her citizens be
ing forced to retire to the salts for health at
night in the sickly season, yet she has proven
herself a regular pbo-nix "%®gfgy and
powers of recuperation. This port Is one
of the most important lumber outlets on.
the Atlantic coast. Every timber raft on
the bosom of the Altamaha and her t#o.
tributaries, the. OcnSuigee and Oconefe.ds
wafted to her wharves, aud not nnfj'equently
a fleet of vessels may he semi lying; in the
Doboy roadstead loading for Northern ports.
Sandersville Herald:: Shade the late grand
display and aid'st successful fair of the
Washington Cqunty.AgrienlluXai Society, it
is gratifying to see turf-gfea'tly increased
interest manifested .Ly 'planters who have
never before aideddu asy whatever.
Now, come up man
fully to the work, hv'fwa: m. ans, influence,
etc , we will have ;.w * fall such as
hm never boon ip Georgia before.
•‘.-nter who ,bl< will take only
•if the atoc'-’k ; ■ company, the
society will have me? * sufficient for all
practical purposes. Again we urge the early
action of tho society in regard to making it
a district fair. Let’s get all the connties
around us deeply interested, aud show the
world at large what a wonderful country we
have around us Wr diversity of productions,
etc. Move, gentlemen, at once, and have
your premiums for field crops, so that plan
ters may make early arrangements for com
peting. In the mean time let premium
acres for wheat, oats, rye, etc., be prepared
aud planted by as many as possible. All
cannot get premiums, but the planter gets ■
pay anyhow in his increased crop.
The following is published in the Atlanta
papers :
Executive Department, 1
State or Georgia, >
Atlanta, Ga., November 15, 1875. J
Whekeas, The examination of the
condition of the treasury thus far
made under direction of the Gov
ernor by joint resolution of the General
Assembly, ny James F. Bozeman, assisted
by Janies W. Warren, Secretary of the Ex
ecutive Department, discloses a state of
things which excites grave apprehensions
that the public interests may suffer injury
from the failure of the Treasurer to account
fully aud satisfactorily for the public money
which has gone into his hands since he
came into office ; and whereas, it has come
to the knowledge of the Governor that two
of the sureties upon the official bond of the
Treasurer deny their liability thereon ; and
whereas, information has come to the Gov
ernor that another one of the sureties has
departed this life, aud his estate will
soon have beeu fully administered, upon,
and that still another of said sureties has
become financially embarrassed; and
whereas the examination of the tax
digest iu the office of the Comp
troller General discloses the fact -that
the remaining sureties on tho bond of the
Treasurer do not return taxable property in
value to the amount of said bond; and
whereas, by section 170 Of the last revised
cede of Georgia, it is made the duty of the
Governor when surety to any bond given by
any officer for the performance of any
public duty shall, in the opinion of the
Governor, formed upon satisfactory evi
dence, become insufficient, to require of
such officer & new boud and surety; and
whereas it is the opinion of the Governor,
formed as aforesaid, that the surety upon
the bonds of the Treasurer has become in
sufficient, and that the Treasurer should not
be allowed to receive, have possession of
aud disburse public money of the State
without giving new bond and surety iu the
terms of the law ; it is, therefore, ordered,
That John Jones, State Treasurer, do exe
cute anew bond with sufficient surety in
terms of the law in such cases made and
provided. Given uiidot mflEaud aud seal
of the executive department, at the capitol,
in Atlanta, the day aud year above written.
Dieal.l James M. Smith,
Governor.
By the Governor:
J. W. Warren, Sec. Ex. Department.
Florida Affairs.
The politicians think Purmau is asleep,
but l’urman is already organizing a baud
wagon for the next campaign—aud, as
against Stearns, we are betting on him, al
though, according to an old Scotch proverb,
it is “whistle, Johnnie, shut your eyes, aud
choose the meanest.”
Hicks’s paper prints the presentments of
the grand jury of Nassau county. Are not
three true bills for perjury omitted from
that document ? If so, wherefore ?
In the vicinity of Concord, on the night of
the 12th inst., William Lott’s gin-house, to
gether with fourteen bales of cotton, was
burned. It tvas 'the work of an incendiary.
San Mateo has a hotel. At least, that is
the rumor.
They are going to organize a Fruit
Growers’ Association at Bronson to-day.
One of the liveliest men in Jacksonville,
Fla., just now is Colonel Wm. M. Nicholls,
of New Holland Springs, who is hard at
work getting the Nicholls House ready for
the reception of guests. He hopes to be
able to open within a month, and we can
assure the traveling public that his new
hotel will be found one of the most delight
ful winter resorts in East Florida, as it is
located in a most desirable part of Jackson
ville, and near the railroad depot and
steamboat landings.
The Floridian says that Justice Westcott,
in an advisory opinion transmitted to the
Governor, holds that by the recent amend
ment to the Constitution the tenure of office
of justices of the peace is changed to four
years, as by the terms of the amendment,
and that this time must relate back and run
from the date of the commission of each
justice. So that such justices as had been
in office four years or more at the time of
the adoption of the amendment were legis
lated out of office by that amendment, and
all others may hold for four years from the
time of their appointment.
Tampa has already shipped one hundred
thousand oranges of the new crop.
Jacksonville is protesting against the
presence of the gay gamboliers.
Thus the Lake City HeporltT : We have
to admit the greatness of Governor Stearns.
He displayed his greatness and power in
our county about one year ago. When find
ing that E. G. Johnson hau been defeated
at the polls he, as Governor, removed every
justice of the peace in the county (by tele
graph) whom he believed would not lend
themselves to perpetrating the fraud of de
claring Johnson elected over Weeks. Our
people can never forget the men who con
ducted that canvass, nor the Governor who
put himself to such meanness.
The Constitution says that a negro was
arrested and brought before Judge Bell,
one day last week, charged with arson.
Soon after the July tire in Monticello he
was heard to tell another negro that he
caused the fire by pouring kerosene on Mr.
Folsom’s ' "ilding and setting fire to the
same. A e man, Mr. James Lindsey,
overheard the confession and testified to
the same, but the negro to whom it was
made is now living in Georgia. A further
investigation of the case has been post
poned until the evidence of said witness can
be procured.
Stearns and his wretched coadjutors are
showing their teeth to the Morning News.
Well, if we don’t extract those teeih, there’s
no virtue in forceps. Wait a little and be
hold the spectacle. There’s fun ahead.
Brother Sawyer, of the Jacksonville
Union, is a regular Ku-Klux. He says that
“Purman is a disturber of the public peace,
and should be indicted as & public nuisance;
and for the good of the country at large,
and the Republican party in particular, and
of the Sentinel especially, he should be got
rid of at once. No $l,(X>O will be offered as
a reward for the. catchiDg of the man who
will do the ‘taking off.’ No word would be
heralded abroad that it is a political murder,
even if a Democrat Bhould be the assassin;
no one, not even the worst kind of an
office seeker, contriving ways and means to
find avenues to the publje treasury and the
soft aide of distributors of public offices,
would in such a case, send abroad the dis
graceful story of a political murder! No,
no, Purman henceforth is an outlaw, and
tree game for any Ku-Klux or anybody else
full of diabolical purposes.”
Some of our Conservative contemporaries,
says the Horidinn, are calling for action by
the State Central Committee looking to an
organization of the Conservative masses
throughout the State. The State Commit
tee is powerless By a singular fatality that
committee was selected from the St. John's
to the Perdido, and from the Georgia line to
Key West. The chairman, the late Captain
Brokaw, never could get a quorum present.
Besides, the committee, could it be convened,
would have no power to appoint county
committees. This is a matter belonging
solely to the several counties. The county
committees last appointed are still in office,
and they shouid move towards organizing.
When the State committee meets next year
it will take care not to repeat the folly of
1872, but will so arrange the State commit
tee as to place a quorum within easy and
inexpensive reach of each other. To select
committee men hundreds of miles apart is
simply absurd.
Thus the Monticello Constitution : “That
fellow don't advertise—he must be broke,”
was the remark of a gentleman the other
day, whilst looking over a Savannah paper
to ascertain the place of business of a cer
tain merchant. And this is the usual con
clusion, and almost invariably correct.
The same paper says that Mr. S. A. Palmer
has a japonic* busk on his plantation, a few
miles from town, for which he has refused
fifty dollars.
Mr. Thomas J. Moore, of Wankeenah,
sends the Monticello Constitution two mam
moth sweet potatoes, which were raised by
Mr. E. P. Barrington, who lives on the
southern slope of this county, in full view
t of the “Florida Volcano.” These two pota
toes weigh a little over eleven pounds, and
are fair samples from a one-ami-a-half acre
patch. In fact, a responsible gentleman
■says that Mr. B. has one hundred bushels of
potatoes equally as large as the couple
sent.
Here is a paragraph from the same source:
The local of the Union makes a startling
announcement. He says that he actually
eats ‘'victuals,” Well, the neighbors are
really kind.
The Constitution has the particulars of
one of the most shocking crimes of which
we have ever heard. It appears that a
white girl between fourteen and fifteen years
of age, and unmarried, gave birth to a child
after dark, in the open air, a few yards from
her parents house, and unattended; that
afterwards the young mother was carried into
the house aud her offspring neglected ! The
following morning a colored man passing
the house discovered the child, with both
legs eaten off by a hog, and the hog still
feasting on the body. The hog was driven
off and the negro wont to the house, and
calling the brother of the unfortunate girl,
showed him the horrible spectacle. He gazed
on the mutilated body with apparent indiffer-
and advised the colored man to say
nothing about it. Whilst the brother of the
mother of this mutilated child was looking
upon it, the negro says that the hog return
ed and commenced again to eat the body—
and the monster did not even drive it away.
What finally became of the remnant of the
body we kuow not—it may have been com
pletely consumed by hogs. The colored
man agreed to not say anything about what
he had witnessed ; but the affair was so hor
rible and contrary to nature that he
could not restrain his feelings, and re
ported the occurrence to a magistrate, and
the case was transferred to Judge Bell.
Some of the parties interested were brought
before Judge Bell on Wednesday, and a par
tial investigation instituted, but owing to
the inability of the young mother of the
child to put in an appearance, the case was
continued—the young man only being placed
uuder bonds. We merely give an outline of
this terrible case, for the details are too
horrible for publication. The parents and
other relatives, we understand, plead ignor
ance of the girl’s condition, and protend
they know nothing of the birth of a child.
This is absurd. Wo trust that if thero is
auy law to meet the case, that its extremo
penalty will bo meted out to these worse
than brute t—for brutes will take care of and
protoct their oftspriug.
The same paper has this : “Suppose I
am nominated lor Governor, what course
will the Democratic party take? Of course the
party will oppose me, but what will some of
my personal friends do? You know I wouldn’t
waul to be beateu. It seems to me if Pur
man works square, and I am inclined to be
lieve he will, I can get the nomination, and
I thinks Walls will favor me. Still, Purmau
and I ought to make it anyhow.” The
foregoing is an extract from what
purports to be a private letter from
Seuator Conover to Mr. Dyke, of the
Floridian, and published in the list
Fernaudina Observer. We waive all com
ment as to the propriety of a ltadical Seua
tor thus addressing the leading Democratic
editor of the State, for beyoud doubt our
brother Dyke can make a satisfactory expla
nation. But in rcspouse to the query as to
what the Democratic party will do iu the
event of the nomination of Senator Conover,
we have this to say, and we believe we but
echo the sentiment of every honest Demo
crat in the State : Every effort will bo made
to accomplish his defeat. We look upon
him as one of the most corrupt and unscru
pulous mountebanks that ever disgraced this
State by his presence, and no greater mis
fortune could possibly be infiicted upon the
people than his installation as the Chief
Executive. If he Has personal friends in
the ranks of the Democracy who would
give to him support in the event of his
nomination for Governor by the ltadical
party, our opinion is that all such personal
friends are devoid of honor. If they would
sacrifice principles on the altar of perhaps
a purchased friendship, and thereby assist
in the elevation of an unprincipled adven
turer as ruler over a long suffering, liberty
loving and honorable people, they would
merit the scorn and contempt of ail honest
men. Enough for the present, however.
We merely desired to inform the presump
tuous Senator what he may expect from the
Democracy in the event of his nomination.
It will be stern, uncompromising and bitter
warfare.
In relation to the letter written by Cono
ver to Captain E. C. Dyke, and printed in
the Fernandina Observer, we asked where
Hicks obtained it. Upon this point Dyke is
explicit, as witness : “This letter was stolen,
while uuder lock and key, from the sleeping
room of the person to wuom it was address
ed some two or three weeks ago. The thief
undoubtedly carried it to Governor Stearns,
Cheney aud the Sentinel set, as the persons
most likely to be interested in and to profit
by and to gloat over it, as we bad intima
tions soon after the theft that “they,” mean
ing probably no one in particular, had a let
ter from Conover of a supposed damaging
character which would soon appear in print.
No one will dispute that if the parties into
whose hands the letter fell, whoever they
may have been, had possessed the in
stincts of gentlemen, they knowing it
to be another’s property aud that it had
necessarily been stolen, no matter by whom,
would have returned it to him. The fact
that they did not do so, but procured it to
to be published in a newspaper whose edi
tors are pronounced by themselves to be fit
subjects lor a commission de lunatico inquir
endo, is the most conclusive evidence they
can possibly give of their utter ignorance
of the decent courtesies of life and of what
constitutes gentlemanly conduct. We warn
the good people of this community to guard
well their private papers and other valua
bles. Persons who aro the receivers of
stolen goods are in law regarded as no bet
ter than the thieves, aud the wretches who
have made themselves parties to this infa
mous proceeding proclaim themselves as no
better tkau./e/ices, aud should be avoided
with the same care as oue would shun a
pickpocket or thief.”
South Carolina Affairs.
Last week Mr. A. D. Strobhart was shot
and killed by Thaddeus Orr, near Graham
ville. The shot took effect in his head and
face. Orr has given himself up. A man
named Bichard Black, who was in company
with Orr, has been arrested.
Walhalla has a debating society, with a
membership of one hundred and nine.
An old man named Gabe Moultrie, living
near Walterboro, while sleeping near tho
fire in his house, caught fire, and was so
severely burned that he died a few days af
terwards.
The river bridge near Orangeburg is soon
to be built anew.
Dr. Richard E. Wylie, of Lancaster, was
stricken with paralysis in the left side on
the morning of the 2d inst. But little hopes
are entertained of his recovery.
A party of hunters near Jacksonboro
killed four deer one day last week.
J. E. Potter, a very intelligent colored
man from New York, has been employed as
principal of the school for the colored
children of Darlington township.
The southern bound freight train killed
a cow belonging to Mrs. B. 8. Ketchin, near
the freight depot at Winnsboro on Friday.
The Orangeburg Free Citizen says : “The
work on the new Court House is progress
ing finely. The corner stone will be laid,
with Masonic ceremony, on Thanksgiving
Day, the 25th inst.”
The Sumter merchants have taken the
example set by the Anderson merchants .
and will not buy cotton after 8 o’clock at
night.
B. B. Grandison was drowned near White
Hall, Colleton county, on Thursday of last
week. He was in a small boat, shooting
ducks, when the boat capsized.
Murder fob a Nickel. —In New Or
leans, on Monday night last, a man by
the name of John J. Dowling entered a
street car driven by John McNamara and
refused to pay his fare. The driver, Mc-
Namara, slackened the gait of his mule,
demanding the payment of the nickel.
Upon the arrival of the car at the stable,
on Chippewa, between Soraparu and
Philip streets, Dowling called the hitcher,
Logan, and told him he had a complaint
to make about the driver, who turned
around and told him if he did not pay his
fare he would put him out. Where
upon Dowling answered, “Do not lay
hands on me, or I will shoot you.” The
driver answered that he would run the
chance, and going into the car from the
platform, pushed Dowling out. As he
cleared the car Dowling staggered and
fell, but soon got up, and drawing his
revolver fired the fatal shot, killing the
driver instantly. When taken to the
station he was so intoxicated that he could
give no account of the affair.
THE OKEFENOKEE—WITHIS AM)
WITHOUT.
Sketches of Incident and Adventure.
BY M. B. GRANT, (r.ATTL TRANSIT). CIVIL EN
GINEER.
PART I.
Knowing the interest manifested by
the public generally iu regard to the Oke
fenokee Swamp —that laud incognito to
all but the aborigines who occupied it,
aud in pursuit of whom General Floyd
traversed it partially in 183(5-7—1 pro
pose giving a brief account of the opera
tions, incidents and adventures that oc
curred during the survey and exploration
of the swamp in the winter of 1850-7.
Pursuant to an act passed by the Legis
lature of Georgia in 185(5, providing that
a survey aud exploration of tho swamp
should be made, to ascertain the extent
aud character of the immense body of
laud contained within its precincts, and
also to ascertain the practicability
and utility of the drainage of the same,
for the benefit of the State and her citi
zens, Governor Herschel V. Johnson ap
pointed an efficient engineer to perform
this arduous duty. A corps of engineers
was thereupon organized to accomplish
the surveys aud ex; lorations, aud of this
corps I had the honor of being a mem
ber, aud the consequent opportunity of
becoming acquainted with the denizens
of the swamp—bears, alligators, owls and
rattlesnakes—and by contiguity aud close
observation, the opportunity of studying
their habits and customs, as well as their
mauuer of receiving visitors, upon all of
which I propose to enlighten my readers.
I deem it necessary to the elucidation
of my sketches, and the ability intelli
gibly to follow our wanderings, to give a
general introduction to those who aided
in the surveys—white, colored and ca
nine—so here they come, each depicted
faithfully, as, perchance, all unwittingly,
their true characters were developed iu
concert of action on this memorable aud
trying expedition. First, our gallaut
guide and leader, Colonel Watchoverall.
Green and fresh in each heart is cherish
ed the recollections of his manly deport
ment and gentle bearing. Now encour
aging or gently warning us, as circum
stances required. Iu our journey through
life, iu our pleasureable moments here
after, will w r e recall his image as well as
his violin, whose enlivening tones, after
many a weary tramp, have restrung to
life and duty our jarred nerves and re -
freshed our jaded spirits.
Modesty forbids the author’s portrait,
except his bodily presence, in the sketch
before you. His moral aud mental tran
script must be judged of, as, thrown in
concert of action with the rest of the
party, his character is developed.
Beau Level—our worthy “leveler”—
admirer and confessed adorer of the fair
sex, who, notwithstanding that his
tastes, both natural aud cultivated,
inclined him to a high appreciation of
the refinements and luxuries of life, had
the happy faculty of adapting himself to
circumstances. His agreeable manner of
submitting w ith a good grace to unavoid
able hardships, and his ready apprecia
tion of a good joke, had a most happy
effect on the rest of the party. The
notes which he could at will evoke from
a fiue Cremona, ever well played, added
much to the enjoyment of our long
winter evenings iu camp. He was also a
splendid performer on the Saxe horn,
which must also be remembered among
his many and varied accomplishments.
His contented and cheerful disposition
enabled him to endure without murmur
ing discomforts and annoyances that
would have proved torture to another.
Kildare Langhorn, Esq., lawyer by pro
fession, and rodman for his health—who
never lost au opportunity to improve his
future expectancy (legally), deliberately
mounting every convenient stump, and
declaiming vehemently on some grave or
gracious subject to tho sapient uuditors
of woods, bushes and stumps, for whom
at least could be claimed one attribute of
good listeners —stillness.
Ned Lucknow-.rodman No. 2--wko liked
engineering, but despised driving pegs;
who never lost an opportunity to have a
hunt, tree a coon, take a gum, or scare
any small game unsuccessfully—a noble,
manly fellow, who always gave a helping
hand, and who never said stop when there
was anything to be accomplished.
And there was Roderick Hover, who
took the position as chairman on this
survey, hoping at odd times to be able to
indulge his passion for hunting and fish
ing, and other field sports generally.
Notwithstanding my apprehension of
tiring the reader’s patience, I cannot
omit honorable mention of the colored
members of the party, who on occasions
of this kind, when in their proper places,
are able and willing coadjutors in their
respective spheres, and who, under cir
cumstances like these, develop the char
acteristics of their race with all the
variations, frequently to our benefit,
sometimes to our inconvenience and an
noyance, but oftener to our amusement.
We were fortunate iu the variety and
capability of those who accompanied us.
Stepney—in his own opinion, by all
odds the greatest man in the party, ex
cepting the Colonel, and really, in our
estimation, a first-rate fellow, we “might
have spared a better man.” Well
might you be astounded at his “get up,”
particularly his liuir, which was combed
out in ev6ry direction, five or six
inches from his head, upon which stood
his distended hat, broadcloth coat, claw
hammer pattern, white satin vest of
ancient make and dismal hue, patent
leather shoes —in fact, the lame and im
potent conclusion of a most gorgeous es
tablishment, all of which he discovered,
much to his sorrow and discomfiture, was
not a requisite nor in keeping with the
duties he had to perform. On receiving
notice that he was to accompany the
party, he had set himself dili
gently at work collecting innumer
able articles of cast-off clothing, gew
gaws, trinkets, etc., which he fondly ex
pected to take with him, and to trade off
to the natives, as we wended our devious
way through unknown regions. He had
two large chests filled, and great was his
disappointment and sudden the termina
tion of his speculations when informed
that he could nr t take them—that even
the white gentlemen were only
allowed to take a small valise
and one blauket each. But Step
ney was not one to remain
long discomfitted. He soon regained
his wonted good nature and began early
to develop the humorous side of his
character, which in after days added not
a little to our amusement and entertain
ment.
Jeff, the cook —He did cook well and
was clean in his culinary operations and
deserved the highest praise; but how
he did despise, abhor and elude the
swamp! and managed, artfully (as so
many of them can do), without its ap
pearing, to compass their own ends,
“massa” or “boss” to the contrary not
withstanding.
Jeff, for a long while evaded this part
of his duty. Trowserless, pantless, lame
legged, aching head, and all manner of
excuses, succeeded for a time; but ere
the completion of the survey, finding it
inevitable, he yielded cheerfully and bore
his share of the explorating hardships.
Orange—faithful to his duty, so quiet,
little to say, but ever ready to do and do
well.
Brahma—who liked the cook’s tent
better than his work, potatoes better
than his wife ; but, ah ! how inexpressi
bly dear became those absent objects of
his affections, “wife, children and
friends,” when the dismal project of
plodding through the swamp was pro
posed. The dread of leaving these help
less orphans enabled him, like Jeff, for
some time to be successful in devices to
escape this onerous duty.
Old Adam —teamster, attentive to his
duty, and devoted to his cattle, but a
bitter enemy to hogs that came around
his horses. Several very savory dishes
of pork, produced in various forms
by Jeff’s ingenuity, mysteriously ap
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peired in times of our direst need
upon our mess table, and with what
joy greeted by us may be imagined. Our
conscientious Colonel, however, had his
participation in tho gracious boon sadly
interfered with until he could account for
its unexpected appearance on our board.
Now, old Adam was one of the quiet sort,
aud rarely proffered news uuless interro
gated. When questioned, it appeared
that he had in his own right, without
“by your leave,” valiantly done unto
death an occasional hog that had un
knowingly trespassed on his bounds;
that is, the wide space where he chose to
tie up his horses, and he generously
shared his spoils with his betters.
PART 11.
Everything being prepared, on the
3d of December we left Miliodgeville for
the swamp, amid the prognostications of
our numerous friends for good aud evil,
in anticipation of hair-breAdth escapes,
renoounters with boars aud alligators and
unnumbered other “varmints,” and, d*s
some suggested, to be scalped by Indians. x
An amusing appearance our party must
have presented, equipped as we were—
the Colonel mouuted and the rest of us
walking, all arrayed in red flannel shirts,
with high-top boots over our pants,
glazed caps, and by way of ornament pis
tols and Bowie knives attached to our
belts, which latter adornment to our per
sonal appearance our vauity induced us
to display at the outset. We were
strongly urged to make n requisition
upon the Governor for arms, but we con
sidered ourselves sufficiently armed and
equipped, and ready for any emergency.
An inventory of the guns, rifles and
pistols, belonging to the members of the
party, showed a pretty heavy armament.
By agreement, we called for Stepney, and
found him awaiting us in front of his
house, standing beside the chests previ
ously referred to.
“ Well, Stepney,” said the Colonel,
“ what have you got there ?”
“ My chist, sar.”
“ For what ?”
“To carry to de swamp, sar.”
“Why, man ! none of us have more
than a valise with a few changes of
clothing aud one blauket each. Impos
sible ! you can’t take those.”
“Wal, de blessed Lord ! All my trouble
for nuthiu. For six weeks I been collect
in’ ob dese tings to take to de swamp,
expectin’ to trade dem off. Now my
spectatious is all gone. Well, well, here
goes!” and suiting the action to
the word, he commenced unloading
this huge receptacle of old clothes, hats,
shoes, trinkets, beads, jewsharps, in
fact, a little of any and everything—
such a collection as would have put to
the blush the ingenuity and tact of tjie
most consummate pedlar. A perfect
mania had this fellow Stepney for spec
ulation, and, though deprived at the
start of his stock-in -trade, he neverthe
less managed, throughout the survey, to
indulge his fancy for trading, and where
there were no outsiders to prey upon, he
managed very successfully to victimize
the members of the party. He was very
shrewd in a trade, and seldom came out
second best.
Stepney’s traps having been arranged,
we again took up our hue of march, and
at sundown, having traveled thirty miles,
we halted and prepared to pitch camp.
In a short time our tents were up,
wagons unloaded, fires made, and cooking
operations commenced by Jeff. Never
shall I forget thisv first night in camp.
To the Colonel, Beaißand myself, it was]
but a recurrence of olcTand
scenes, a return to camp life,
but to our tyros, our un
fledged braves, Langhorn, Lucknow
and Rover, all was new, and as we sat or
lounged around the blazing lightwood
fire, in attitude and limb as best suited
furniture and feeling, I know that mem
ory was busy with our young friends, re
calling home scenes, familiar faces and
surroundings. Visions of cosy beds and
other home comforts were dancing
through memory’s halls, in striking con
trast to our surroundings, and I doubt
not they contemplated with serious mis
givings the prospect before them, aud
the time that must elapse before they
would again see home and sweethearts.
After a hearty supper, to which all did
full justice, and to which our day’s pe
destrian efforts gave additional zest, we
again collected around the fire and whiled
away the hours until bed time, with con
verse of past, present and future—our
hopes and fears.
It was astonishing how soon Stepney’s
originality began to display itself, and
with what confidence he assumed the
role of valet de ciuiml/re and chief of the
waiters. Stepney could not resist the
opportunity for a little fun at the ex
pense of our tyros, even on this first
night in camp.
“Stepney,” said the Colonel, “are the
beds and blankets down ? The young
gentlemen are tired after their day's
tramp, and wish to retire.”
“Yas, sar. Massa Ned, when you git
into bed, you’l find a pretty sizeable pud
dle of water at de head ob it, so when
you git up in de mornin’, you kin wash
your face beedout leaben de tent; and,
Mass Kildare, you’l find a stump under
your bed, but if you sorter scrough
around arter you git in, you’l miss um.
It ain’t berry sharp oh de pint, dough it
might do some damage.”
“Stepney,” said the Colonel, “you
should be ashamed of yourself. Could
you not find a smooth place and a dry
one to lay the beds on ?”
“Trute ob it, mass Colonel, I mught a
done so, but den dey might as well git
used to it from de fust. From all ac
counts dey got to rough it anyhow.”
The absence of any light in our tent
prevented my seeing the expression on
Langhorn and Lucknow’s faces, which,
under more favorable circumstances, I
doubt not, could have been distin
guished as decidedly blue. As my eyelids
closed in heavy slumber, I heard Step
ney’s salutation:
“Well, boys, we might jes as well git
seasoned to it fum de jump, and if dem
white gentlemen can stan’ it I reckon we
kin. So let’s hab de melancholy cho
rus.”
It would be unnecessary to recount
each day's journey towards the swamp,
passing in succession without anything
to vary the monotony, except the memor
able day on which, for tho sum of one
dollar, hard cash, we added to our party
our canine copartner, yclept Boots—with
a surname. No dog of whatever blood or
training, New Foundland, St. Bernard,
Blenheim, terrier, pointer or setter,
could have stood us in such good dog
stead as our poor, foolish Boots. Boots,
old fellow, it was neither thy blood, nor
thy pedigree, nor any boasted dog learn
ing that rendered us such signal service.
It was thy immaculate folly, thy intracta
bleness, thy indiscretion, which led thee
into so many unfortunate and inimitable
scrapes as to engage our sympathies and
endear you to our hearts. Had Boots, in
his dog folly, been less like men in theirs,
he would have profited by experience.
But, alas ! poor Boots, so far from gain
ing wisdom by his sad mishaps, only
augmented his misfortunes by his im
petuosity and indiscretion on every occa
sion.
Besides all this, gentle reader, Boots
was a most egregrious liar. A dog lie ?
Yes ; believe it or not, he did lie. At
one time he would arouse us all from
sleep, to find that he was barking at the
moon; at another time he would be
barking at his shadow, and on numerous
other occasions giving false alarms and
creating disturbances in camp; but, like
the boy who cried “wolf,” we learned his
failing, and frequently left him to his fate.
We continued our journey towards the
swamp without interruption, and, on the
12th of December, arrived at Waresboro,
the county site of Ware county. Here
we halted for dinner, and immediately
after resumed our line of march. By
night we had reached the residence of Dr.
liandall McDonald, an old and highly
esteemed citizen of that section, who
had been residing here for years, and
who was surrounded by a numerous
progeny of children and grand-children.
We fonntLin Dr. McDonald an intelligent
and iojr Tspitable gentleman, who,
during our brief stay in his neighbor
hood, Bhowed us every kindness. We
here met in camp a corps of engineers
who were engaged in the preliminary sur
vey of the Brunswick and Albany Rail
road, and together we had just such a
jollification as only engineers do have
when they meet under similar circum
stances in the wild woods, “with nary
soul to hinder.”
After a night and day most agreeably
spent at Dr. McDonald’s, we again push
ed on to the goal of our expectations, the
Okefenokee. On tho evening of the suc
ceeding day wo landed on the borders of
the swamp, in what is known as the “Cow
House,” situated in tho northeastern por
tion of the swamp, this having been
previously determined on as the best
point from which to commence our opera
tions. This “Cow House” is a body of
pine laud, almost surrounded by an arm
of the swamp. It is about seven miles long
and averages a mile iu width, but is not
over one hundred yards iu width at the
entrance or mouth where the arm of tie
swamp approaches very near the main
body. It derives its name from the fact
that the Indians, during their occupancy
of it, were in the habit of stealing cattle
from the whites, driving thorn into tin
natural enclosure, and there securely
holding them by simply guarding the en
trance. Upon our arrival in the “Cow
House,” we made the acquaintance of a
Mr. Short and family, near whose house,
or cabin, we encamped.
It did not take us long to pitch camp,
and after a hearty supper, we settled on r
selves around our accustomed fire, for a
most enjoyable smoke —and where, may
I ask, is a smoke more glorious than be
side a lightwood fire in the wild- woods .
So here we were, actually at the Okefe
nokee, the veritable spot which we had
conjured up in our childish imaginations
as the abode of every dreadful creeping
thing, with the stealthy Indian prowling
through its nvrky mazes—this tho Okc
\fenokee, w'hich, upon our geographies.
Occupied so large a territory, and V ■
uiijirouounooable name had taxed the in
genuity of many a boyish brain. Yes!
here Wm wore at the Okefenokee and soon
to enter it. But I must not anticipate.
During 1 Hie evening Mr. Short called to
pay his respects, and to extend a welcome
to the “strangers” upon their arrival at
the “Cow House.” Now, Mr. Short and
his family, which cousisted of his wife
aud three grown daughters, were the sole
occupants of the “Cow House,” and were,
to all intents and purposes, isolated from
tho world, of which fact they seemed
proud, aud in truth they could well
have claimed to be “exclusive,” and under
the cireuinstanees they should be excused
for being so.
Mr. Short was a veritable specimen of
unadorned humanity, standing six feet
two inches in his bare feet, with dark
B baggy hair and beard, and an old
slouched hat drawn down over his face.
His pants, or what was left of
seemed as if they had clung to his
limbs from boyhood, and his coat gave
evidence of a tenacity bordering on the
miraculous. He had a tremendous stride,
and when he slung his arms around in
gesticulating, we were geutly reminded
to “stand from under.” Upon a better
acquaintance, he improved considerably,
and before we left tho “Cow House” we
discovered a degroe of good nature and
originality about him that was very en -
tertaining.
As ho approached us on this first night
of his visitation, Langhorn incontinently
exclaimed:
“ What hempen homespun have wo
swaggering here ?”
“Good evening, strangers.’’
“Good evening, sir. Won’t you bavo
a seat ?”
“I wouldn’t choose any; I’ll stand
around awhile.”
“You livo in a secluded spot, Mr.
Short. We found some difficulty in
reaching the Cow House.”
“Not so powerful to them that’s
’quainted. I know every pig track in this
range.”
“Have you been living here long?”
“Nigh unto ten years or tharabouts.”
“Do you go into the swamp often ?”
“Not particular. Sometimes I goes in
after bars that’s been arter my hogs.”
“Who is your nearest neighbor, Mr.
Short?”
“Why, Stog Morris. ”
i “Where does he live?”
at home with tho old ’oman,
he orter, and if you want to
knovWmy-iWAire you better go ami ax
him; aud I iesVfai7 VOn nni- Cxrm#— yj yin
gers—old Stog Morris kiu roll more logs,
drink more whisky, and outihldle auy
man in Georgia.” Whereupon we all
gave three cheers for Stog Morris.
The Colonel informed Mr. Short that
early in the following week he proposed
making an exploration into the swamp,
and expressed a wish that he should ac
company us, to which he assented.
The day succeeding our arrival in the
“Cow House” being Sunday we literally
made it a day of rest and remained in
camp, that we might be prepared for
active operations the following week.
Our experience up to this time had been
of a very agreeable and entertaining
character, but we were on the eve of v
very decided change iu this particular, as ’
subsequent events will show.
Married In the Snow.
A writer tells a story of a runaway
couple who reached the parson’s house in
the dead of night, when the snow lay on
the ground and the winter winds howled
an anthem for the wedding march. They
succeeded in arousing the parson, who
had been snugly tucked in his waAtibed
for several hours. The good majS relucT'—
tantly raised the window and apked “who
was there?” With chattering teeth tho
would-be-bridegroom announced his er
rand. Not even the piety of the parson
prevented him from uttering a few im
patient growls at this unreasonable in
torruption of his dreams. He did not
tarry to put on the wedding or
any other garment, but in thun
dering tones ordered the shivering
couple to stand well off in the moon
light and clasp hands. Then he de
manded their names. “John Williams,”
he said, “do you swear in the presence
of God, as you will answer in the day of
judgment, that you will take Eliza Cathe
rine to be your own, your only and true
wife, and that you will freeze to her so
long as you both shall live ?” The prom
ise was given, but the cold way growing
so intense that the lady was spared the
question that had been given to the man.
“I pronounce you man and wife, and the
biggest fools I ever met,” concluded this
brief and all-sufficient ceremony. Tho
banging of the closing windows intimated
to the loving pair that they had nothing
more to expect from that quarter, and
they soon disappeared, wondering at the J
strangeness of the situation, and
ful if they wore as much married as they
might have been under more favorable
circumstances.
The latest European mails represent
the commercial and financial depression
in Germany as exceeding that which ex
ists in Austria, which is generally known
to be bad enough. A Vienna correspon
dent of the London Economist states that
a list of priees of “the safest railway
and bank shares and debentures” shows
a loss of S!)O,<XX),<XX). since January Ist.
When to this is added the heavy losses on
Turkish and Egyptian investments, in
which some of the German bourses share,
it is not difficult to understand the uneasi
ness felt at London about the possibility
of trouble in the Continental money
markets. Dispatches received on Satur
day reported that, so far, there have
been no failures of important houses '{
which is in some measure assuring. It
is to be hoped, under these circumstan
ces, that nothing further of a serious
nature may arise out of the “Eastern
questionas the European money mar
kets are in an exceptionnlly exposed con
dition as against a shock from influences
of that character. — New York Bulletin.
The Days of the Week. — According to
the ancient Egyptian astronomy there
were seven planets —two, the sun and
moon, circling around the earth, the rest
circling round the sun. These planets
they arranged in order (beginning with
the planet of the longest period), as fol
lows: 1, Saturn; 2, Jupiter; 3, Mars; (,
the Sun; 5, Venus; *l, Mercury; 7, Moon.
The seven days in order were assigned
to the planet which ruled the first hour,
and thus the days were named as fol
lows : The Sun’s day (Sunday): the
Moon’s day (Monday, Lundi); Mars' day
(Tuesday, Mardi); Mercury’s day (Wed
nesday, Mercredi); Jupiter’s day (Thurs
day, Jeudi); Venus’s day (Friday, Veneris
dies, Vendredi); Saturn’s day v Saturday,
Italian II Sabbato). Dion Cassius, who
wrote in the third century of our era,
gives this explanation of the nature of
the Egyptian week, and of the method
in which the arrangement was derived
from their system of astronomy.
The fashionable drink in ’Frisco is the
resumption cocktail.