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LETTER FROM EATOSTON.
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Eatonton, November 14, 187.'.
BAIN : BAIN ! lIAIN !
The present Fall liaw not, up to a
oertain date, been a very dry or a very
wet one. It haa been “just about right.” !
An occasional rain kept the dust down,
but there haa been no severe storm to j
injure the cotton. Light frosts killed
most of the leaves, some time ago, after
which it turned warm, and it aeemed as
if every boll would open. New leaves
put out, new blooms came. But on
Thursday night, the 4th November, it
began to rain, and kept on, with intervals
of cessation, for five or hii days. Part
of the time it was very hard. Wednes
day evening, the 1 Oth, it cleared up, and,
till this morning, we had beautiful
weather, with a white frost every night.
Now, it is raining again, and I don’t see
the end of it, though, as it is only nine
o’clock, a. m., it may be fair before I
drop this letter in the office, which I
shall do about noon, having to go away
for a day or two. The strange thing
about the cotton plant, just now, is that
the young, tender leaves of which I
H]Mke alsjve have not been killed, in
many places, by the very heavy frosts of
the past week.
BUILDINO HERE
begins to grow monotonous, and a little
troublesome, because of the rubbish on
the side-walks. The houses commenced
the latter part of the summer have been
finished, except Hearn’s stores, and
liflverett’a Hall over them. Work on
this was almost suspended for a while,
but now, again, it is going on rapidly, as
it commenced. Spite of the fact that
the bricks, etc., cuinberjthe ground in the
neighborhood, we are ail proud of this
building, which will be the largest of the
kind in the place. The front is of a
beautiful, hard-burnt, bluish-grey—say
nearly granite-colored—brick, made by
Captain Hearn on bis own land, right
here in Putnam. The walls are thick and
substantial from the foundation of the
oellar rooms, up to tho top. Mr. J. (J.
Denham, the builder and owner of
Granite Hall on Mulberry street, in
Macon—always a resident of Putnam,
though—is to come after them all, with a
building right next to Hearn’s. It re
mains to be seen whether he will allow
any of his predecessors to eclipse him.
Mr. C. D. Ijeonard is to put another brick
house, between McDade’s and Sparks’s.
I believe ho has done more building than
any man in Eatonton, since tho war, and
maybe fairly called the champion in this
lino. None of the gentlemen whose
names I have mentioned are mechanics,
or professional builders. I only mean
that they are tho owners of tho houses
spoken of.
COTTON
continuos to pour in. I think some cotnos
from every county contiguous to Put
nam, except, perhaps, one. Eatonton
maintains her proud pre-eminence as the
best market in Middle Georgia. A week
or so ago Madison made a spasmodic
effort to galvanize herself up to our
ataudard, but slio cannot keep it up,
simply because she cannot afford it, on
account of tho difference in freight to tho
seaboard,
THE UEAKON WHY.
It is none of my business, but I think
the reason the Republicans prevailed in
many of the late elections is simply that
Northern people became frightened at
the Democratic success lust year, believ
iug, as they do, that Democratic rule
means a reinauguratiou of the Southern
supremacy in tho councils of the United
{States—the restoration of the anrient.
regime. This they dread worse than any
thing that can happen. RuHrfr than, run
tho risk, they will -uT . the chances off
poverty and starvatio sell themselves
body and soul to the levil that is/the
bondholders. They say “take any y?shc.•
Shape hut this and my firm new./* 1 shall
i-eviirtxuwibjji*-’ sMoi't, they are wil
VAUUg'lo suffer anything rather than give
Honthern intellect fair play.
Deputy K.
“Arc There any Lands for Na’e in
Southern Georgia V*
(I>r. W. 11. Folks, In Valdosta Times. ]
Tlio above question is asked by the
Savannah Mousing N ews. This infor
matiou is sought on Recount of the
numerous inquiries daily received by the
News from Northern people and persons
from u distance who have formed a favor
able opinion of this country, and who
I wish to purchase lands and settle here.
The question can be answered in the
Thousands and millions
oF acres of laud are now lying broad
cast all over Southern Georgia, and
particularly along the lines of the differ
ent railroads, that are offered for sale
cheap, almost at nominal prices, which are
awaiting purchasers, to bo settled and
developed. Lauds that are fertile, well
watered and healthy; lunds that will pro
duce oorn, cotton, oats, sugar caue, peas,
potatoes, garden vegetables, fruits, flow
era, and in fact everything that will grow
or semi-tropical climate,
and that'*’. 11 abundance, well paying the
liusbandmfrtt f° r his labor.
The tier of counties from Savannah to
Thomasville, through which paasea
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad,'"may’Tje men
tioned as presenting unusual inducements
to immigrants who wish to engage in
farming, or tho manufacture of lumber
or naval stores. These lauds are heavily
timbered with ns tine pine timber as is to
lie found in the world, and the lauds fully
tested in an agricultural point of view,
producing in many instances with good
manuring and cultivation, from seventy
flvo to one hundred bushels corn per
acre, and the same iu oats and other field
crops. This is not an overdrawn picture,
but a veritable truth, as much of this
produoe is now in the bams of some of
the best farmers, who produced it. Tho
recent fair of the South Georgia Agri
cultural aud Mechanical Association de
monstrated the fact that Southern Geor
gia was not only equal, but iu advance,
producing a greater variety aud a larger
per acre of all kiuds of field aud
■ garden crops than any other portion of
9 the State -/'"'
Yes, kjr’or-e is plenty o'. ’"nd for side in
just like the lands we
jjave desoribflri-A Colonel H. S. Haines,
GeflPral Supt A. & G. It. 11., issued a
pamphlet last year giving a description
of u portion of these lauds near his road,
lie now extends the invitation to publish
free, iu another pamphlet soon to be is
sued by him, all the lands for sale in
Southern Georgia. Persons owning
lauds aud aro williug to sell them for the
benefit of themselves and tho benefit of
this section of tho country, now have an
opportunity to make it known through
this medium.
A New Poet—Mr. Beecher Aiteal
in to the Postmaster General.— The
Kov. Henry Ward Beecher is iu trouble.
He received a postal card the other day,
on the back of which was the following:
lieory Warti Beecher of Brother Shear
' > A' Co.'s Plymouth Church,Brooklyn:
ahaii not Iwar false witness against thy
City of Chur -lies once sUkkl here.
But Cod's moral law it did not fear;
lie idol was Beecher, its ruler a ring.
That virtue and vice together did thug;
It flourished apace and greatly did grow.
Then down in the dust descended toll low.
Gone to join Sodom and Gomorrah.
Mr. Beecher sent this to the Postmaster
General, and asked whether he could not
be protected from such things. An
elaborate opinion has been sent out by
the department to the effect that, while
the law does not authorize postmasters
to read postal cards, yet, in special eases,
this may be doue. Hereafter, therefore,
tbe postmasters of Brooklyn will prob
ably supervise and suppress a part of
Mr. Beecher's mail. — Bouton Herald.
The New York Tunes, Tribune and
Sun are dead opposed to a third term:
so is the Springfield Republican. The
Chicago Tribune repudiates it with scoru
and the Cincinnati Vommercuil flees from
it as from a spectre, but Grant marches
steadily on toward the desired goal, and
will keep marching on till he reaches the
nomination. Then, says the Philadelphia
Chronicle , the Democrats and Independ
ents propose to move upon his works.
And then, depend upon jt, the Democrats
will find the ranks of the Independents
I grow small by degrees and beautifully
lees.
THE LAND OF FLOWERS.
NUMBER TWO.
Indurruieala tm ImuiliirHnla —A HIM aad
llphliHv < limittc —Qanlilr Bod Price *f
Land*—Adtnntnge* lor llhrmilrd
I'rniMi IHI prat ed Ylnrkrl h'urllllle*.
Correspondence of the Morning New*.]
St. Tames Hotel Jacksonville, £
November 10, 1875. )
A Ml ED AND HEALTHY CLIMATE.
It cannot be itemed that the immigrant
finds hi this Slate the moat delightful aa
well an the healthiest climate in the entire
country. This is siiowu by figure* that can
not lie, and in corroborated by the positive
testimony of eminent medical men. lam
Biw writing in my shirt sleeve*, with doors
and windows open, near midnight, and yet
it is in the middle of November, a season
"ben snow and ice and blazing tire* are to
be found in various portions of the country.
Yesterday the weather was as mild and
beautiful as in a Northern mid-summer, and
following an early morning shower we hare
hail delightful weather again to-day. I
presume this is about a fair sample of the
days that compose our winter mouths. If
1 Dr. Byrne, late of the United States army,
: and formerly stationed here for years, ttstt
, ties correctiv, the winters are usually de-
I lightful, “live days out of six being bright
; and cloudless and of the most agreeable
j temperature." Dr. Lawson, Surgeon Geu
-1 oral of the Army before the war,
| says ‘-the climate of Florida is remarkably
| equable and agreeable, being subject to
j fewer atmospheric variations, and its ther
! ammeter ranging much less than in any
) other part of the United St tes, exeeut a
■ portion of the coast of California. As re
l sp eta health, the climate of l iorida stands
I pre-eminent.” That n peninsula climate
| is “much more salubrious than that of any
| other State in the Union is clearly citah
-1 lished bv the medical statistics of the
Mint." 1 might go on and quote frurn in*
| numerable authorities ou this point, but I
I do not deem it advisable, as I desire to sim
ply state the facts in as tew words as possi
ble. Dr. Byrne, however, explains why
tin re is so little malaria here, and I will
again quote from him. He says: “The
soil of Florida is almost everywhere of so
porous and absorbent a character that mois
ture is seldom long retained on its surface :
its atmosphere is in constant motion, and
there Is more clear sunshine than in the
more Northern States.” Itain is not fre
quent during the winter months, and when
u does come it is in brief showers. The
rainy season, as it is called, occurs in July
and August, just when vegetation needs
frequent and rchcalling raius. In Texas,
and many other .Southern States, the rainy
season is during the winter. Many persons
suppose tha< the heat is very oppressive here
during tho warm summer months, yet Dr.
Byrne asserts that “contrary to what might
be expected, the summer weather of East
Florida is much more agreeable, and its heat
baa oppressive than that which is expe
rienced in the Middle States. This is owing
to its being fanned by the breezes of the
Atlantic on the east and those of the Gulf
of Mexico on the west, both of whiuh eau
he distinctly felt in the centre of the State.
Besides this, tho northeast trade wimls play
“over the whole peninsula. The summer
nights are invariably cool, and even the hot
test days are seldom oppressive in tlio shade.
In ihe summer season the mercury rises
higher in ever part of the United States
than it does along the coast of Florida.” I
have uo hesitation, therefore, in recom
mending a permanent residence in this
State to persons ol feeble health, provided
they are able to do light work or to take
proper exercise in the open air. Invalids
who are ho/wlesidy broken down cannot he
revived by ibe balmy breezes of the “Land
of Flowers,” but thousands can come here
and find a now lease of life for themselves,
or renewed health for some feeble members
of their families. Laud is plentiful for easy
farming purposes, aud light employment
ean in many eases bo obtained in the larger
towns and cities.
QUALITY AND PRICE OF LANDS.
lii no Hutto in tlio Union cun the immi
gntnt he more readily suitod in the quality
and price of lauds. I make this assertion
on the ground that there are government
lands and .State lands of the riche-st quality,
in ncaily all parts of Florid*, which can be
had lor the taking, the actual expenses for
Hindi entries being only about fifteen or
twenty dollars for lot:, of ouo hundred and
sixty acres. This puts theso lauds within
reach ol all classes of immigrants, and as
they are located m desirable sections of tho
State, large amounts are daily being taken
up for actual and lmineniate settlement.
Dinnii/ hut two days, near the close of Oo
tolw-, | am told that forty thousand acres of
: ( i inment land were taken up at the
'suited States Land Oilioo at Gainesville.
/, lo se lands are not off in undesirable
places, but can bo found in almost every
county, surrounded by good communities,
and with the advantages of schools and
churches, iiaclt some two or three miles
Irmii ilie lit. John’s river, in tho orange
grove section ot the State, these lands can
he located, and will L>e found as fruitful as
■MJJ ill >Lat As to market facilities,
iu connection with theso lands, the settler
can readily arrange that matter by locating
bis claim and homostead, or making bis pur
chase, on the lino of some railroad or within
reach of daily steamboat communication.
Letters addressed to “United States Land
Agent, Gainesville, Fla.,” enclosing stamp,
will, no doubt, bo promptly and satisfactorily
answered.
As to State lands, tho same rule can be
applied as to quality and location. Home
steads can bo entered ou application to
“lion. Dennis Kagan, Commissioner of
Lands and Immigration, Tallahassee, Fla.,”
or through the “Florida’ Laud Agency,” at
Jacksonville, of which Messrs. Hobinsou &
Whitney aie the managers. These enter
prising gentlemen have published a
pamphlet of one hundred pages, entitled
"Florida: Soil, Climate, Health and Advan
tage*,’’ which contains a very large amount
ot valuable information on these points,
copies of which they will mail to parties de
siring to locate in tins section. I would
suggest, however, that all applicants semi a
dime for postage, as the expense of the pub
lication has been considerable. The “Florida
Land Ageucy” is making largo daily sales of
State lands, tho prices being almost insig
nificant, although tho lands are amongst the
best, m the counties in which they are lo
cated. These prices range from seventy
cents to oue dollar an acre, according to the
quantity purchased, which rises from tweuty
to six hundred acres. For purchases less
than two hundred acres the price is from
one dollar to eighty cents an acre;, for over
two hundred acres, and less than six him*,
dred, seventy-five cents per acre; JtatHSeyoud
six hundred iCSWIhe priCe'ls seventy cents.
FA V.omriy every county in the State,'and in
the immediate vicinity of towns and cities,
improved lands cau be purchased at from
three to ten dollars an acre, for good quali
ty; aud for the best grades, having the ad
vantages of location and high cultivation,
the prices range from twouty-five to one
hundred dollars per acre. Bearing, as
well as new, orange groves are to be
purchased on the St. John’s, aud hotels and
residences are also offered for sale at various
points iu the State. In fact, iu this section,
there is an opportunity for almost any kind
of an investment, from fifty dollars to fifty
thousand.
Tho lands to which I havo referred, owing
to themilduess of thecliniate, are peculiarly
fitted for diversified farming. Of tlieir un
rivalled superiority for “truck farming” and
fruit culture, there cau bo no question. And
while the St. John’s river may appear to
many as the great orange growing section
of the State, I am prepared to believe that
the culture of this fruit, iu suitable quanti
ties for home consumption aud profitable
sale, can he successfully carried on in almost
every portion of Florida. The same can be
said of the banana and other fruits. It is
true that greater care will be required, aud
more labor demanded iu the culture of these
fruits iu the less favored sections of the
State, but all who make the trial in a proper
manner will find their efl'orts rewarded in a
most gratifying display of delicious
oranges and bananas.' These, with
a full supply of fresh vegetables,
will do much to bring health and happiness
to the settler’s family. Free homesteads
for oue thousand families cau be secured in
Orange county, w here Geu. Sanford and
other distinguished gentlemen of large
means are making valuable improvements.
Letters addressed to “Free Homestead
Office, Lock Box llit, Jacksonville, Florida,”
will obtain all the desired information in re
gard to this county, which is noted fir its
fine hammock aud pine lands, and for its
successful culture of orauges aud sugar
caue. The basis of Florida is pine lands
(yellow) divided into first, second and third
classes. There are also high aud low ham
mock lands, swamp lands and savannahs.
Much of the first-class pine land is far supe
rior to any othor soil to be found in the
country, being remarkably- fertile aud easy
of cultivation. I cannot, iu letters of this
character, go into a description of these
lands, but 1 can settle the question of their
desirability with a word. In no State in
the Union can as little really poor land be
found as in Florida, aud of good lauds thou
sauds of acres are offered free to actual
settlers.
ADVANTAGES FOR DIVERSIFIED CROPS.
I have already stated that the health of
Florida aud its climate are superior to those
of any other State, and also that the immi
grant cannot le better suited in the price
and quality of laud for permanent settle
ment. To all this I can add, as a verv im
portant inducement to come to Florida,' that
in no portion of the country can diversified
agricultural labor he made' as profitable as
iu this State, where fertility of soil aud
mildness of climate unite to aid the farmer
in his efforts to win success. Ido not assert
that every man who comes here to plant a
large orauge grove, or to eugage extensively
in “truck fanning” and fruit culture, as a
s}M'culation, will he successful, for I do not
approve of adopting that policy in auv part
of the country. There is real safety aud
assured success only in diversified agricultu
ral labor. I would advise no mac, there
fore, to use all his money or employ all
his labor in the cultivation of or
anges or any other special variety of fruit
or vegetables. Joined to the usual branches
of diversified farm labor, that are always
profitable when properly managed, “truck
farming” and fruit culture can be made per
manently desirable and remunerative.
From Thomasville, Ga., to Savannah, and
on the entire line of the Atlantic and Golf
Railroad in this State, suitable lands and a
+,<xid climate can l* found for this braußh
at industry. The same is true of the Jack
sonville. Pensacola aud Mobile Railroad,
with its numerous branches and connec
tions. Along these hues of travel, or where
there are steamboat connections, immi
grants who desire to engage in “truck farm
ing" arid fruit culture, and who wish gpeedv
amt reliable communication with the mar
kets of the North and West, can enter home
steads or purchase lauds at low prices and
on the most reasonable terms. Letters ad
dressed to Mr. John Evans, General Ticket
Ageut, Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, Savan
nah, Ga., will be promptly attended to ih
regard to lands in Booth Georgia or
Florida. These lands, as I stated iu my
former letter, are capable of yielding the
greatest variety of agricultural products, and
owing to the mildness of the climate and
fertility of tbe soil, can be cultivated near v
ttie entire year. Many families here have
garden vegetable* all through the winter
months, and in this way the expenses of
living are greatly reduced. On the sea
c last, as well as near the inland lakes and
rivers, fi.h and oysters abound, aud with
game of all kinds hear at hand, the cost of
living during the first year's resideuce here
is not a difficult problem to solve.
I do nut mean to say, however, that
Florida is a good place for lazy people and
snoba. Much of tbe territory is ne.w land,
and men of energy and experience are
needed to put it UDder good cultivation,
there are also, in some sections, the usual
hardships of a pioueer life, and women and
children going to such portions of tbe
State must not expect to lie on “beds of
roses” or be fanned by tbe fragrant breezes
of the orange proves. Bananas do not
grow wild ou pine trees, nor can orange*
be pioked from live nak trees in
tbe forest. Everything here in this
beautiful semi-tropical “ Land of
Flowers” is the product of labor—
is the result of some kind of effort. Tbe
sun's rays warm tbe earth and make it
fruitful; tbe rains descend and moisten
vegetation; tbe breezes from the oceau
purify the atmosphere; the beautiful flow, is
send out their ricn perfume; tho leafy trees
spread their shady branches over the
p*robed earth; the rivers go rolling to tbe
ocean, cheerfully performing their daily
mission. The winter tourist may spend a
few months leisurely viewing tLe msuv at
tractions of this 'wonderfully attractive
region ot country, but to tbe actual settler
idleness is not an inducement for perma
nently locating even on tbe charming bauks
of the St. John's river. Anv Northern or
Western farmer who has had experience in
raising diversified crops, and who ia not
afraid to work, can find iu Florida a much
wider and more profitable field for agri
cultural pursuits. In addition to other
products, he can soon learn to add a little
cotton to bis crop and thereby bring under
bis culture tbe greatest possible variety of
farm productions. Work will be required to
accomplish this object, but it will be
performed under the most favorable con
ditions; and for his le sure hours, which he
will always have In due proportion, fishing,
hunting and a hundred other enjoyable
pleasures will be bountifully provided."
IMPROVED MARKEA FACILITIES.
To some extent, in certain sections, com
plaint has heretofore been made in regard
to the unreliable character of the facilities
for reachiug Northern and Western markets
with early vegetables and fruits from Flor
ida. Iu the future, however, there will be
little, if any, cause to complain of the facil
ities which will be offered producers for
putting their fruit and vegetables into the
best markets, and in tho quickest possible
timo. The growing importance of this
traffic, uot to speak of its great influence in
bringing new tides of immigration to the
State, has aroused the managers of the rail
road and steamboat lines to a full compre
hension of their duty in regard to fostering
and developing this branch of industry and
commerce. From this about evory portion
of Florida early vegetables c m be sent for
ward to less favored sections of the
country considerably in advance of
consigiiinena from nearly all the
other Southern States, except, perhaps, trora
South Georgia. Irish potatoes are really
for the market by tbe first of Audi, water
melons, roasting ear corn, cucumbers and
some other vegetables cultivated m the
open air, are generally shipped before the
first of May. Many persons have their fall,
winter and spring' gardens, as they finiiit
possible and profitable to diversify the pro
ducts of the soil, as the climate may permit,
under proper fertilization. Fresh “garden
sais” is a common thing here even in win
ter. The great, question is settled, there
fore, in reg rd to what can be done here in
the way of “truck farming." The only point
now under discussion, and the one which is
to seriously affect the prosperity aud growth
of the State, lias to do chiefly with ample
aud expeditious means for reaching the best
>nd most reliable markets, North and West,
with the early products of this highly fa
vored region. There is no demand lor such
products within immediate reach of the
producers, except for a very limited and
unprofitable quantity, and without the most
reliable aud ample railroad aud steamboat
facilities for reaching oti.er and larger mar
kets, it would bo simply ruinous for nton to
come here aud engage largely in the culture
of fruit, aud vegetables. With these facili
ties, and by properly diversifying tlio pro
ducts of the soil, no competent farmer can
fail to do well in the business of “truck
farming.” i’rudeuce, economy and energy
are the only qualities needed in addition to
a knowledge of how to cultivate tho most
marketable fruit and vegetables.
But 1 am now writing of railroad aud
steamboat lacilities, as inseparable from tbe
prosperitvjof “truck fanning.” Heretofore
these lacilities liavo not been amplo, nor iu
all c.ises as reliable as could have been de
sired. But now there is no way to osoape
the demands which this branch of commerce
is making for culaiged and better facilities.
Bo great lias become the traffic, and so thor
oughly satisfied are the people of both sec
tions of the country as to its profitableness
and importance, that every railroad and
steamboat lino interested in tho. mat
ter is just now alive to the
conviction that its claims cannot
longer be overlooked or Bet, aside. The
Superintendent of the Atlantic am I Gulf
Railroad, Colonel 11. S. Haines, with his
accustomed promptness and euergy, has set
tbe ball in motion, and addressed a circular
to the “Vegetable aud Fruit Growers of
Southern Georgia aud Florida,” in which he
informs them of the character of his excel
lent plan to facilitate their traffic. Much
of the trouble in tbe past, in finding ready
sale for vegetables and fruit, has arisen
from an often over-stocked market. Tho
burden of consignments being sent to one
particular Northern or Western city, of
course produced a decline in prices, and
uot unfrequeutly made the supply %q m
excess of the d“vri?cati that many of tho con
signjErefits became a “dead loss” in the
hands of the commission merchant or pro
duce broker. Yet, at the same time,.by a
proper division of these consignments
auioug other cities, where there was such a
demand that no ordinary supply could have
overstocked the market, a ready sale and
remunerative prices could have been
promptly secured.
The officers specially in charge of the
fruit and vegetable business of the Atlantic
and Gulf Railroad have devised a plan by
which they tliiok this evil can be remedied.
In future, with the consent of the producers
consignments of fruit and vegetables will be
sent forward under the special supervision
of the company, whose officers, guided by
the latest special telegraphic market re
ports, will send these consignments to such
points as they are assured by telegraph can
furnish a ready and profitable market. Sa
vannah, now the headquarters of Mr. D. H.
Elliott, Special Agent for this department,
is to be the chief point of operations, and
all orders directing the disposition and sale
of consignments of fruit or vegetables will
be made from that city. Statiou agents and
other parties on the various lines of com
munication with the Atlantic and Gulf Rail
road, by telegraphing to the Savauuab office,
will be instructed daily as to what point
their shipments are to be made. 11 pro
ducers and shippers become satisfiea of the
desirableness of this plan, as securing
prompt sales and good prices for their farm
products, its feasibility will soon be fully
tested. Should it be found successful, as
many prophecy it will, anew impulse will
be given to this already important branch
of agricultural labor.
Beyond the exercise of due caution in
selecting “apparentlv reliable” commission
merchants and produce brokers to make
sales of consiguments, the Atlantic and
Gulf Railroad Company assumes no respon
sibility, although remittances, accompanied
by account of sales, will be made through
it's officials, who will reserve ten per cent,
to cover the expenses of forwarding and
sale, “including brokers’ commission.” In
other words, the company will use every
effort to ascertain by telegraph, at the latest
possible moment, the best markets to which
consignments can be shipped ; it will em
ploy the most energetic and reliable pro
duce brokers to make sales on arrival; it
will act as a medium of communication in
putting tbe proceeds of sales into the hands
of the producers here at home ; but it will
not promise infallibility of judgment in all
cases, nor guarantee the sale of every con
signment shipped undor its direction ;
neither will it be responsible for the pay
ments until tbev shall have been made to its
officers by the produce brokers. Tue com
pany will do all in its power to save its
patrous from loss, but cannot promise them
that deficiencies may uot, in unforeseen
cases, be looked for, as all human transac
tions are based upon a mutual confidence
that is too frequently betrayed under tbe
most favorable circumstances. As the At
lantic and Gulf Railroad is the chief “all
rail” outlet for fast freight from all parts of
the State where “truck farming” and fruit
culture are made a specialty, the importance
and magnitude of this proposed new ar
rangement can be readily understood. And
in additiou, tbe company is constrnctiug
the most approved pattern of ventilating
fruit cars by which fruit and vegetables can
be kept per'fecdy cool and fresh, and at the
same time fully" protected from rain and
dost during the time of transportation. A
new era, therefore, may be said to have
dawned upon this branch of business in the
“Laud of Flowers,” aDd it is hard to
prophesy to what proportions it may yet be
developed. Time alone can solve the
problem. Sidney Herbert.
Some of the Detroit street-car lines
have posted notices in their cars reading:
“Counterfeit nickels not taken for fare.”
When a corporation gets so particular as
this, it is time that people save their
counterfeit currency to patronize the
circuses.
TWO FLORIDA MURDERS.
An Arraignment of Mnreellu* >trnrn<i—
A Uiuli.nl Hypoi-rile Shown in Hi*
True Color*— l.nn* nml .Itihnwou—A
Parallel—A Peaceful Citizen Done to
Death— And the Krnult.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning N ewe. J
South Florida. November 2.
There is a moment of difficulty and danger, at
whj’di flwttery a <1 lalseho “J ■ an no longer de
ceive, soil rim ;>| city itself ran do longer be
misled. Jcn irs.
homebody lias said, that only attenuated
and bilious persons start newspaper com
munications with a text. I don’t know
if these conditions belong to our worthy
Secretary of Sc.ite, but I <lo know that it
is a custom of his to head his adulatory
articles in behalf of the Stearns adminis
tration with all sorts of quaint quota
tions from the Scriptures aud Shakes
peare. And, at-all events, as it is some
thing of this administration thxt I wish
to write, though by a different iamp, I
may follow the example of Mr. MeLin to
the extent of using a preface, without
falling under the ban of
LEANNESS AND A BAD LIVER.
Aside from this. I wish to indicate that
the criminal carelessness and hypocrisy
of the executive adventurer at Tallahas
see is sometimes more deserving of such
denunciation as Junius wielded against
vilianv than of such condemnation as I
am able to write against it. The com
plaint. Mr. Editor, that I am troubling
you to publish against Marcellus Stearns
is not without its kindred. Recently a
similar one has been urged by the editor
of the Jacksonville Proa, and others of
less prominence have been suffered to
pass without public comment It is in
the matter of offering rewards for the
apprehension of murderers. To make
what I charge plain, I desire to place in
juxtaposition the particulars of
two murders
committed iu this State, and Steams’
actiou iu connection therewith. Iu Feb
ruary, 1874. there lived on the St. Lucie
river, in Brevard county, a citizen of
German birth named L ing. He was a
man of scientific attainments. Mr, Lang
lived alone with his wife, aud he was
known as a man who devoted himself to
his own home, his fruit trees and his
fl >wers. He went once a week to the
post office for his paper, the Savannah
MoßNitfti News, aud never engaged in
excitable discussion with those he
met. He was iu daily expectation
of the advent of a little being that
would add new charms to his life,
when one day two men—Paget and
Drawdy—tbe first an acquaintance, the
other unknown to him, stopped at his
house aud asked him to put them across
the river in his boat, as their horses had
escaped from them. Lang assured them
of his readiness to do so, aud alter they
had eaten at his board and rested them
selves, while he read to them from his
paper, all three proceeded to the river,
some three hundred yards distant.
Paget aud Drawdy carried guns, but the
German in his innocence was free from
suspicion. The boat had hardly touched
the bank on the opposite side of the
stream, when these two
DEVILS IN HUMAN FORM,
leap, and out upon the shore, aud turning
upou the defenceless man who had given
them food, shelter and service—without
pity for a wife in the most delicate stage
of her existence, or mercy for their
weaponless victim —riddled him with
buckshot. Afterward they cut his body
to pieces aud hid it away iu a hole in the
river bank. Mrs. Lang hearing the guns
and finding that her husband did not re
turn, fled in terror to the woods, and tier
home was plundered. Robbery was, be
yond all question, the object of this mur
der. Of its commission and the
diabolical circumstances connected with
it, Governor Stearns was properly in
formed, and urged to offer a reward for
the apprehension of the perpetrators,
hut he declined on the ground that the
State had no money. Since then these
miscreants, and their equally guilty con
.federates, have lived in armed defiauee
of the law, and have menaced the lives
of citizens who asserted its supremacy.
It' cently one of them -was caught aud
is serving a puny term in the
tiary, but this has only served to aug
ment the insolence of the others. This
state of things has all along been repre
sented to Governor Stearns, but he would
neither see to it that the law was exe
cuted or offer rewards because of the
alleged
“emptiness of the treasury.”
The enthusiasm of McLin himself will
hardly be able to defend the conduct of
his master in this case. Now for the
others. Some two months or so ago,
Senator Johnson was shot at Hart’s road,
near Fernandina, and Gov. Stearns, for
getting the poverty of the State and
suddenly aroused in the interest of law,
offers by proclamation one thousand
dollars for the arrest of the man who
killed him, almost before the rumor of
the tragedy is confirmed. Thus, ex
pense in pursuit of Johnson’s slayer
shall be of small account, while justice
was poor and weak in the case of Lang. I
have said that Mr. Lang was an honest
and accomplished man, and a worthy
citizen. Who was E. G. Johnson that he
should stand so much higher in his Ex
cellency’s mind, where a matter of com
mon justice is concerned '( l)e, m&rtuisnil
'nisi borium, is a time-honored apothegm,
but justice should be done, and it is
but just to say that this Johnson was the
author of mischief that it will take Co
lumbia county and the State a long time
to get well of. He kept his place in the
Senate by disgraceful frauds, aud he was
a pillar on whom Stearns relied for sup
port. He hated his own countrymen
with an unnatural malignity that knew no
bounds, and he persecuted the chivalrous
sons of Columbia county till he openly
boasted of having broken their spirit. He
was a refugee from the vengeance of men
whom he had driven by injuries to des
peration, and he was
THE WORKER OUT OF HIS OWN DOOM.
Lang, to end the comparison, lived a
godly life, while Johnson violated both
tbe laws of God and man, iu that he
brought a woman to death in an attempt
to do abortion, and brought the families
of his own kith to distress iu attempts to
ruin their protectors. Now, what does
this indifference on the part of Governor
Stearns and his counsellors in the case of
Lang, a private citizen, and this eager
ness, even to the violation of the liberty
of an innocent citizen, in the case of
Johnson, a corrupt coadjutor, indicate?
It betokens that the Stearns adminis
tration, in all ’its ramifications,
from the paltering Executive at Talla
hassee to the ermined cartiff in Jackson
ville, who gave his judicial countenance
to the exasperating tyranny of his master,
is reeking with rottenness. Stearns has
professed a love for Floridians, and in
doing so he has wrought
A LIE THAT HELL WOULD BLUSH AT.
By seemiDg to forward the election of
Senator Jones he flattered their simplicity
almost to the extent of a bestowal of con
fidence upon him, but they know him
now as an Iscariot, ready to betray them
for the pieces of silver. The people at
large were on the verge of believing he
took a citizen’s interest in the State;
now they kuow him as aj vile,
cajoling hypocrite too false to be honest
with his own kit.
The turn of events Junius describes is
at hand, and the issue is opportune, for
the throng of good people who have come
among us since 1872 will give a strength
to the true men of Florida that should
enable them to stay the evil tide which
foists such promisers and pretenders as
Steams upon them.
Seminole.
Row in a Negro Church. —A special to
the Louisville Courier-Journal from Lex
ington, Ky., says a serious affray oc
curred Sunday night at Pleasant Green
colored church, which is noted for rows.
The fight was among the negroes. Offi
cers Hall and Dillon went there and ar
rested the ringleader, hand-cuffed him
and started to the watch house. A crowd
of negroes attacked them, shot Officer
Hall in the head and showered brick-bats
on to him. Dillon empted a revolver into
the crowd, rapidly dispersing them. He
rescued Hall and carried off the prisoner.
Hall was dangerously wounded. It is not
known if any negroes are wounded.
In England they are going to give a
married woman her own property, and.
as an offset, make her responsible for her
own debts.
The whites in South Africa cry for a
Civil rights bilk
SUICIDE OF A COURTEZAN.
Lewd Mf* in Mew York—Funeral Honor*
nud .Modern Sentfmentnll*in.
The New Y’ork papers a few days since
gave the particulars of a suicide of a
young woman, the mistress of a “fast”
young mau oft Lat city, by the name of
Thomas Whitney. From the evidence
before the coroner’s jury, it seems
that the girl, apprehending desertion
by Whitney, shot herself with a pistol
in her room, while he lay asleep in the
same apartment. Whitney, who was
wealthy, nod kept her in great luxury,
and she was devotedly attached to him.
She was of a very excitable nature, and
had often declared that she could not
survive the negiect of her lover.
Having some reason to doubt his
fidelity, she sought ou the even
ing of the suicide to draw from him as
surances of his continued devotion. He
repulsed her and giving her uo satisfac
tion, showed his indifference by going
to sleep. In her despair she took from
her wardrobe put on a silk wrapper
which Whitney had brought from Tur
key. and attired in which, he had often
informed her, she appeared to most ad
vantage. She then dressed her hair in a
fashion most admired by her lover, aud
lying down on the lounge shot herself
through the waist.
A Richmond paper gives the following
history of the suicide : “The proper
name of the unfortunate girl who com
mitted suicide at No. ISO Fifth avenue.
New Y'ork, was Minnie Roane: She was
a native of King William county, in this
State, aud belonged to one of tbe most
noted F. F. Y.’s. Her parents were re
lated closely to the family of Hon. Wil
liam Roane, a former Governor of Vir
ginia, and her grand uncle was a Judge
of the State Court of Appeals, and at
one time a United States Senator. Her
mother died while herself and sister
named Bell were yet quite young,
to which may probably be at
tributed the cause of their misfortunes
and terrible fates. About six years
ago these tw,o girls, Minnie and Bell,
ran away from their home in King Wil
liam county, with the avowed purpose of
beginning a life of shame and misery.
They were pursued, however, and, with
the aid of some distant relatives, living
in this city, were captured and returned
to their home, where, for a time, they
were kept under the strictest surveil
lance. As soon as this was relaxed they
escaped again, and bent upon leading a
life of sin they entered houses of ill fame
in this city. Minnie left here nearly
three years ago aud went to St. Louis,
and from thence to New York, where her
history since is well known; her sister
went to Baltimore aud threw herselt
from the window of a hospital in that
city aud was instantly killed.
The New Y'ork Times of Thursday
says ;
The funeral services over the remains
of Elizabeth G. Roane, the unfortunate
young woman committed suicide ou
Tuesday night by shooting herself with
her lover’s revolver, in their rooms at No.
180 Fifth avenue, were conducted at an
undertaker’s establishment in Sixth ave -
nue yesterday afternoon. The object of
choosing the place was undoubtedly to
secure as strict privacy as possible, for
tho rooms in which she had lived
were in a very public place, and there
were hosts of her friends who were
as anxious to attend her funeral as Mr.
Whitney was to avoid their presence.
Early iu the day the intelligence of the
locality had spread, and great numbers
of anxious inquirers, mostly women,
questioned the undertaker about the time
of the services. He, however, acting
under strict orders, gave definite infor
mation to no one, and only Mr. Whit
ney’s friends were admitted to the room
where the corpse lay. Iu the afternoon
the street was lined with curious lookers
on, among whom were many evidently
mourners, who had drawn up in
elegaut coaches, and whose dress
indicated luxury and extravagance.
About three o’clock the services Yvere be
gun. The body lay in an elegant and
costly casket, heavily trimmed with sil
ver, and bearing a silver plate with the
inscription: “Minnie Roane, died Nov.
It, 1875, aged twenty-one years." Around
the room were arranged so many floral
tributes, columns, crosses, cushions, an
chors, etc., that when they were takeu
away they filled three carriages. The
coffin wee also covered, and the face of
the dead auriv>u.mled with flowers. The
cards accomjmuying the flowers sent in
bore many female names, and many
of the names of Mr. Thos. Whit
ney’s friends. Mr. Whitney, his father,
and perhaps a dozen frieuds made up the
party of mourners. Rev. Dr. N. VV.
Oonkliug, Fastor of the Rutgers Presby
terian Church, conducted the services.
After reading the Scriptures he made a
brief address, dwelling chiefly on the
terrible lesson conveyed by death and the
warning that should be conveyed by so
sudden a death to those who survived.
A touching prayer concluded the brief
ceremonies, and the funeral cortege
slowly wended its way to Greenwood
Cemetery. A dispatch announcing her
sad fate was sent to her relatives imme
diately after her death, but up to last
eight no answer had been received.
HIGH LIFE WAYS.
\ Miort Heiuanee of a SniiiKßler’s Dana li
ter—How Nir I le<l worth VVilliaAimon,
Bart., Has Involved Himself. r
Around the whole Tfick bound coast of
England tberif- is no more romantic spot
than iviuis&sn ltock. It is a marine re
sort that attracts thousands of picnicers
during the summer, while in winter it is
the scene of. the wildest storms. There
is no house at the place—when the word
“house” is used in the ordinary human
acceptation. But there is a mansion cav
erned out of the solid limestone cliff,
with its drawing rooms, ball rooms, re
tiring rooms, and sleeping rooms, which
for half a century has won the admira
tion of ail beholders. Peter Allen, a
bold and daring smuggler, sought sanc
tuary here in the early part of the century.
With the assistance of some of his
human tools he caverned his mansion in
the rocks, and when the work was half
completed, he brought home a bride.
No one knew whence she came or who
she was. But everybody saw that she
was a singularly handsome woman. When
the smuggling business ceased to be safe
or profitable, Peter Allen devoted bis
energies to tbe establishment of bis sea
cavern as a summer hotel. Everything
he touched became gold. He educated a
pig aud two ravens, and when he went to
market the pig followed him through the
streets, and the ravens perched on his
shoulders at his back or went thieving at
the fruiterers’ stalls. The man knew the
secret of advertising, and his summer
hotel became renowned all over the land.
In the process of time he had two
daughters. Lizzie was a renowned rifle
shot, and at one hundred yards could
knock the bottom out of a bottle through
the neck. A gun manufacturer of Man
chester saw her perform the feat, and he
presented her with a gold-mounted rifle,
which she retains up to the present hour.
Lizzie was a brunette of tbe magnificent
order, and in some respects resembled
her father. From the time she
was sixteen she had • scores of
lovers, and more than one aristocrat
offered his hand and fortune. Like
many women with dazzling opportuni
ties,she married beneath her and has
since figured in the London divorce
courts. Polly was a beautiful blonde,
proud and pretty as a picture. Local
poets of Newcastle, Sunderland and
Shields drifted into doggerel over her,
and Sir Hedworth Williamson, bart., of
Cieadon hall, felt it impossible to keep
his son at Cambridge University on ac
count of the magnetism of Polly’s beauty.
The young nobleman spent days and
nights at Marsden unknown to his
parents ; and in the summer of 1805
Polly and he were missing six weeks.
Soon after his father died, and the young
man inherited the baronetage and became
a member of Parliament for North Dur
ham. He married a daughter of the
Duke of Newcastle, and at the present
time has two daughters. Miss Polly Al
len never married, but sbe likewise has
two daughters. The daughters are said
to be Sir Hep worth Williamson’s
Mother aud children have lived in com
parative luxury until a month since,
when Lady Williamson met Polly and
her daughters at Marsden. There was
an instantaneons recognition by the two
women of each other's children. Words
and explanations followed; with the se
quel that Poll" claims to be Sir Hep
worth’s wife .nd now there promises to
be a scandalous case of bigamy in high
life.
1 I S 4 '' —‘
A Duluth girl married a young man be
cause he lifted his hat so beautifully as
he passed her. She got a divorce because
he lifted the table so beautifully when the
dinner didn’t suit him.
THINGS ARE WORKING.
A- lmprtuv to the Third Term Morr
inrm— Si*nificnt Grinding from a
Grunt Ornao.
[Washington Special (Not. 14) to the Cincinnati
Commercial.]
The sudden impetus that the third
term movement has received since the
fall elections has been commented upon.
There re ten open and avowed advocates
of the project to be met with now, where
there was one prior to the elections.
Man\ Republicans apparently accept the
result as indisputably establishing the
fact that the party cannot be successful
next year if Grant is not their candidate
for President, and among those who are
most positive in this belief is General
Grant himself. There is solid founda
tion for the statement. In the Sunday
Gazette of to day it is asserted that For
ney s SuneUiy ( hronide has been bought
by Secretary Chandler, to be used as°au
official third-term organ.
As if confirming the truth of this state
ment, a long article in Forney's Chroni
cle to-day is devoted to advertising
Grant’s renomiuation. The following
extracts show the drift of the argument:
"If the Democracy deem it no wrong
to history, no injustice to the govern
ment, to elect unrepentant traitors to
high places in official life, what, we ask,
eau or dare be said of the Republican
party if it concludes to accept Gen. Grant
as a candidate for a third term ? Would
that be more impolite than sending the
rebel Vice President to Congress, or elect
ing a number of ex-rebel Generals to the
same body ? The calm view of this ques
tion, w hen put in this light, divests it of
much of the repugnance with which the
sensation press has surrounded it; and
now that it is evident that the old issues
of the late war, and the new issues about
to be forced upon us by an oligarchy as
intolerant as that of slavery, command
popular attention, we are compelled can
didly to admit that we can not see how
the Republican party can secure victory
next year without Grant as a candidate
for re election.”
In speaking of Grant’s cnd|fecy in
1868 and 1872, the Chronicle
“That if he had not been the candidate
of the Republican party it would have
been defeated,” and continues :
“He saved it on two occasions, and
what is most singular is, that the men
from whose base machinations he rescued
it are now the most blatant opponents of
his third nomination. Look over the
first eight years for the corroboration of
what we assert. We are now inditing
history—not a puff of the President.
Here we are again in precisely a condition
similar to that in which the Republican
party was placed eight and four years
ago. It needs to be saved. It can only
win a great victory on the personal mer
its of its candidate for President.
It could not win with Gen
eral • Sherman, because his Ro
man Catholic identities are against
him. It cannot nominate Sheridan
because his foreign birth excludes him.
It has not got a civilian who could carry
Pennsylvania, Ohio or New York. Charles
Francis Adams is the only civilian who
has anything like a clear record and a
personal or historical prestige to help in
case he were nominated. Rut he couid
arouse no enthusiasm, and would be as
dead a weight to carry as was Judge
Pershing, the Democratic candidate for
Governor of Pennsylvania. There is no
escape from this view of the question of
electing a President, aDd the masses of
the Republican party, no longer affrighted
with the absurd cry of Cmsarism, are now
lookiug to Grant as confidently as they ever
regarded him. Indeed the Democracy in
Ohio and Pennsylvania actually made a
third term an issue against the Republi
cans, but it failed to excite the repug
nance it was calculated it would arouse,
while without a doubt the position of
Grant on the educational question aided
the Republican party in securing victory.
Gov. Hayes, after the campaign was over
iu Ohio, stated in the Executive Mansion
in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, while a
guest of Gov. Ilartranft, that the educa
tional question had given the Republi
cans the victory in the Buckeye State. It
was Grant who made that question a
Republican issue, in a speech delivered a
few weeks previous to the Ohio election.”
The last two sentences are printed in
italics and capital letters. It is known
that the article in question was inspired
by a promiuent Republican politician,
whose home is in the vicinity of Harris
burg. It is noticeable, in this connec
tion, that John S. Mosby has recenty
moved here from Virginia, and appears
to be at the head of a number of' third
termers from the South, who are busily
engaged in pulliug wires to secure the
consummation they so ardently dfisire.
Mosby is known as the original /third
termer. r.
Are We Safe in the Streets ?
Great and well-founded aiixje'fy is felt
in very respectable circles in/this city as
to the fate of Mr. George/Griswold, a
gentleman of mature year*', of easy for
tune and of an excellent social position,
who has been missuSg ever since 10
o’clock on Saturday/evening of last week,
at which time he y-'as left standing at the
corner of Washington square and Uni
versity Place by some friends who had
driven up to that point with him from a
dinner- down town. At this place he
>:4s within two or three doors of the resi
dence of a member of his family where
he proposed to pass the night. No cause
whatever is known which could account
for his voluntary disappearance. lie had
about his person one or two personal
ornaments of great value, and a con
siderable sum of money drawn by him
that day for expenses to be incurred be
fore sailing on Wednesday last for Europe.
He was in good spirits when his friends
parted with him, and had agreed to meet
one of them early the next morning.
It is well known that the .vicinity of
Washington square south is infested
with haunts of vice of a deplorable
and dangerous character. But there
is a police station and court in the
immediate neighborhood, and the north
ern side of the square is well lighted,
more than commonly well protected by
the police, and frequented till late in the
night by an excellent class of citizens,
many of whom reside in the square it
self and in the streets adjoining it. A
more painful and mysterious case, or one
provoking more searching and unpleasant
questions as to the condition of our
thoroughfares and the prospect before us
during the severe season now just begin
ning, can hardly be imagined. It is to be
hoped that some relatively satisfactory
solution of the mystery may soon be
reached; but if this does not come to
pass the so-called guardians of the
public peace ought to find ' themselves
confronted with a storm of public in
dignation the like of which has not yet
been aroused in this long suffering city.
¥. 7. World. _
How a Woman Made a Fortune.
[From the Laramie Sentinel.]
Six years ago Mrs. Mary Ahart was liv
ing in a little tent on the edge of town.
Her whole worldly possessions consisted
of this tent, a straw bed, two or three
boxes which served?as chairs and table,
a little seven or eight-year-old girl, and
two cows and calves. She sold the spare
milk of these two cows, carrying it
around town with a tin pail, and with
the product, and from work which she
did for her neighbors, supported her
self and child. When she could get $3
or $5 ahead she would buy another calf
or yearling. It is not our pur
pose, adds the Sentinel , to trace her pro
gress up to the present time minutely,
but the result is she now, in less than
seven years, has several hundred head of
cattle, a fine farm with nice buildings
and improvements, a comfortable, even
luxuriant home —and, instead of carrying
milk around by hand, rides in her own
carriage. Her daughter is a young lady,
educated and accomplished. To-day
Mrs. Ahart’s property is valued at from
$40,000 to $.50,000. And she has made
it all by honest industry and good man
agement. She has had no outside help.
She never had a government contract or
fell heir to any property.
In the celebrated cases now pending
before the United States Supreme Court,
involving the question of tfie constitu
tionality of the laws passed in many of
the Western States, fixing the rates of
tariff for freight and passengers on rail
roads, the court will not decide the ques
tion until after the Ist of January, there
being a case pending from the State of
lowa, involving the same questions, and
upon which the attorneys have asked to
be heard before the final adjudication.
The decision is looked for with great
anxiety by both the public and the cor
porations interested.
It is estimated that the amount of
money paid for fruit in Niagara county,
New York, during the present season will
be about $1,000,000,
THE CHIEF OF THE SMUGGLERS.
A Prison Looming I p Before Oncol Gen.
Banks's Stall Otticors.
[New York Sun.]
The trial of Col. Robert Dos Auges
was concluded Thursday with a verdict"of
guilty on all the counts of the indict
ment. A motion for anew trial was
made, ami Des Anges was remanded for
sentence. The extreme penalty for com
plicity in smuggling is a fine of *IO,OOO
or imprisonment for two years on each
count, or both. Col. Des Anges, when
he was an officer in the custom house
was esteemed by his fellow officers as a
soldier of fortune. He wore several
medals that he was supposed to have re
ceived for meritorious conduct in the
Crimean ami the Algerian campaigns, and
iu the Italian war of independence. De
tectives who have inquired into his his
tory say that his full name is Robert
Bruce Des Anges.
Des Anges is an Englishman of Hugue
not descent. His father is an English baro
net, and his uncle is a wealthy land
owner. They say that Des Auges has not
done service in auy European war. He
was discarded by his relatives for youth
ful follies and a commission ns Assistant
Paymaster was purchased for him in the
British army. He defaulted with i’2.(X)O
aud tied to America at the outbreak of the
rebellion, leaving his wife in London.
He obtained a co/nmission in the United
States Army in 1862, and commanded
colored troops iu the Department of the
Gulf for a short time, and was nftt rward
appointed on Gen. Banks's staff with the
rank of Colonel. After the war Gen.
Banks got a position for him in the Bos
ton Custom House, aud he was made nil
inspector of customs iu this city in 1870
through the same influence. He was
made chief clerk iu the Third Division in
1871, and was pronounced to be Deputy-
Collector iu 187;'> to succeed Postmaster
James.
Mrs. Moulton’s Appeal.
Mrs. Emma C. Moulton last evening
paused to be delivered to Mr. Thomas G.
Shearman, clerk of the Plymouth Church,
the following letter, in which she asks
the church to joiu with her in requesting
a Congregational Council to review the
recent action of the church in dropping
her name from the roll of members :
Brooklyn, November, 12, 1875.
To the Members of Plymouth Church ■
Brethren —Having been summoned by
the examining committee to meet the
church on the evening of November 4, at
which meeting the committee notified me
that they should present a recommenda
tion to the church to drop my
name from the roll of members
ou account of absence from the services
of the church, I appeared accordingly
and presented my protest against any
such action. In this I declared what I
now repeat, that “I am not an absentee
in auy proper sense of that word, nor
does the rule of the church in regard to
absentees contemplate auy such case as
mine. My absence is an enforced one,
and is caused by the crime of adultery
committed by Henry Ward Beecher, pas
tor of this church, with one of his par
ishioners, which I know to be a fact
through Mr. Beecher’s confessions to me,
and through the confessions of Mrs. Til
ton, and through conclusive evidence of
the crime from other sources. I appeared
before the church in loyal obedience
to the summons which I have received,
and I hereby declare my disposition and
desire to discharge all the duties devolv
ing ou me as a member that are consist
ent with my knowledge of the adultery
of the pastor aud his false swearing with
regard to it.” Notwithstanding this pro
test and after it had been read, the mem
bers of the church present adopted the
recommendation of the committee and
dropped my name from the church roll
without considering the sufficiency of my
reasons for being absent from the
sacraments, without arraigning me
for any unjust accusations against
the pastor and without giving me
a dismission to any other church.
I am, therefore, so far as your action can
do it, deprived of a standing in the
Church of Christ, ns it seems to me,
without fault on rny part, and certainly
without any proper trial by you. 1 cannot
feel that this is right, and I ask you to
join with me in calling a couucil of
churches, before which you may state.
your re||.flOll for yon r notion vowl r mny
state mine, and which shall impartially
judge between us. I am one, and you
fire many. But I believe in God and His
justice, in Christ aud His kingdom. I
am quite ready to be properly rebuked by
such a council, if I ought to be, for not
attending your services and sacra
ments ; while. I certainly desire
that my Christian character and
standing in the church should be vindi
cated and restored, if that is right. If
you do not notify me of your consent to
join with me in calling such a council
within four weeks, I shall understand
that you decline to do so, and that I
must proceed to ask a council myself to
consider these matters, which are of such
great importance to iue and to those to
whom my good name is dear. But it
would be far more agreeable to me to
have you join me as one who has
anxiously tried to do her duty as well as
she could amid great difficulties iu refer
ing the whole case between us to a com
mon tribunal. Respectfully yours,
Emma 0. Moulton.
lotion Figures*
The New York financial Chronicle of the
13th inst., has information by telegraphic
dispatches to the effect that the receipts for
the week ending Friday night, the 12t.h
inst., have reached 149,474 bales, against
175,244 bales last week, 170,045 bales tbe
previous week, a’nd 147,345 bales three
weeks since, making the total receipts
since the Ist of September, 1375, 1,005,218
bales, against 900,238 hales for the same
period of 1874, showiug an increase since
September 1, 1875, of 104,980 bales.
The exports for the week ending
the same date roach a total of 80,319
bales, of which 50,084 were to Great
Britain, 15,809 to France, and 13,820 to rest
of the Continent, while the stocks as made
up to Friday evening are now 520,447 bales.
[The Chronicle's telegram from New Or- f
loans on Friday shows that, besides the
above exports the amount of cotton on ship
board, and engaged for shipment at that
port, is as follows : For Liverpool, 25,000
bales; for Havre, 25,000 bales; for Continent,
10.000 bales; for coastwise ports, 3,000 bales;
total, 09,000 bales; which, if deducted from
the stock, would leave 73,000 bales repre
senting the quantity at the landing and in
presses unsold or awaiting orders.]
From this statennaut it win no seen that,
compared with the corresponding week of
last season, there is a decrease in the ex
ports the past week of 20,457 bales, while
the stocks Friday night arc 60,004 halesmore
than they were at this time a year ago.
The visible supply of cotton as made np
by cable and telegraph indicates an increase
of cotton in sight of 7,414 bales as compared
with the same date of 1874; an increase of
223,711 hales as compared with the corre
sponding date of 1873, and an increase of
100,217 hales as compared with 18 2.
The totals show that the old interior
stocks have increased during the week 6,324
bales, and were on Friday night 2,940 hales
less than at the same period last year. The
receipts have been 3,227 bales more than at
the same period last year.
The market for cotton on the spot has
ruled quiet tbe past week. There has been
but a limited demand alike for export and
consumption, and the speculative movement
has also been quite unimportant. Quotations
remained nominally unchanged at 1351Gc.
for Middling Uplands utitii yesterday, when
they were advanced to 13*c. No very active
influences have been at ivork. Liverpool
was until yesterday reported dull, and on
Wednesday the quotation for Middling Up
lands was reduced to Old. Receipts at the
ports, however, have been smaller than last
week, and some days smaller even than the
corresponding days of last year. A severe
storm has also passed over a portion of the
South, which is believed to have done more
or less injury. On the other hand gold has
declined, and there has not been the im
provement in exchange which has hereto
fore compensated lor the lower premium.
Friday the market continued quiet and
prices weak. For future delivery the week
opened with a hardening tendency, predicat
ed mainly on the reported bad weather at the
South and the expectation of smaller receipts
at the ports, and feat this, with the clear
ance of large quantities of cotton on ship
board, would check ttpq accumulation of
stocks on hand. Some relation was caused
by the large receipts for Monday, but on the
whole there had been established last even
ing an advance of tg.s 32c. fVmthern par
ties, consigning cottou to this libtrket, have
made an effort to protect therifcelves, by
Bupjorting prices, but at no tuna has the
demand been active. There is a fcoticeable
absence of speculative tone among opera
tors. Friday at the opening prices were
steady, but weakness followed, and tfce close
was l-16c. lower, for the early months, and
jc. for the later months. After ’Change
sales were made at 13 7-32 c. for January,
13 15-32 c. for March, and 13 21-32 c. for April.
The total sales tor the forward delivery fflr
the week are 126,700 bales. For irnmi?diate
delivery the total sales foot up this week
7,552 bales, including 3,019 for export, 4,186
for consumption, 347 for speculation.) Of
the above, 600 bales were to arrive.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Summitry of ike Week’s Dispatches
A GHOST LAID.
Montheu,, November 16.—The military
program me was carried out. By half-past 8
o clock the streets were crowded with spec
tators The grave was prepared at the
Catholic Cemetery in the presence of a
couple of boys, the police aud sextons. At
10 o clock the soldiers and members of the
Institute approached to the Protestant
Cemetery, the soldiers forming a hollow
square and. the Inends of the de
ceased entering. The coffin containing
the remains was brought out. The
troops shouldered arms aud the fuueral
j procession started, which at that tinie cou
: sisted of two carriages. The police were
tLie sole guard. The military was far
behind, but the streets was crowded with
people of all clas-es, and cabs aud carts.
Great quiet prevailed. W hen iho procession
entered the Catholic cemetery, a crowd
1 dame from all directions, and ran up
all the avenues to the grave. The soldiers
did not enter the yard. The police formed
a-large square around the grave anil kept
the crowd back, while the eoliiu was Luought
from the hoarse, looking somewhat dilapi
dated. It was bourne by four men ad
placed in a bed of c> m nt, aud the
grave filled up. Some remarks were
made by the friends of the deceased, which
were hooted by some roughs. Nothing was
said on tho side of the Canadi in Institute.
Threats to dig the body out of the grave, if
occasion offered, were so freely made that
the l'r-sideut of the Institute asked a guard
over the grave for twenty-four Hours, until
the ceiueut hardened. A cold ram hurried
the crowd away.
THE WHISKY FRAUDS.
! St. Louis, November 17.—1 u the McDon
ald trial, L. B. I razor, of the firm of Bevisf
A Frazer, testified that the distillers were
raising money for the revenue officers. They
! gave Joyce $5,000, which Joyce said must be
raised. In 1875 five thousaud dollars was
paid at the suggestion of Fitzroy, chief
clerk of the revenue office, to prevent the
seizure of whisky subsequently seized. Fitz
roy refused to refund, aud never paid the
money to McDonald, but I did. Joyce
raised the money for Revenue Agent Hague,
who was here in 1874. Joyce repeatedly
told witness that everything was all right
and to go ahead, that ho would have ad
vices from Washington if •there was any
trouble aln*ad. McDonald told witness that
Fitzroy should not he blamed tor the $5,000,
ns it had given the diuullors time to get
rid of their surplus.
Andrew McGrue, cousin of C. S. Me-
Grue, testified that McDonald came to
tlie distillery two or three times, and asked
how we were getting along, and said :
“Damn it, man, tins thing ain't paying ; we
must make more.”
Randolph \V. Ulric, one of the most promi
nent distillers, testified that he iml several
talks with Joyce in 1871 about making
crooked whisky, but declined to enter into
any arrangement. He subsequently went
in and stayed in till October, 1872. He
reported the crooked whisky to Fitzroy.
He did not know nor care where the monev
went.
THE WHISKY FRAUDS.
St. Louis, November IS.—The McDonald
trial is stall progressing and there is great
excitement. The first witness, 11. H. Eti
gelke, rectifier, testified tliat lie was urged
by Joyce to purchase crooked whisky and
always received advance notice of
the agents coming from Washington,
and that Avery used to soud the
ring information of any danger. Wit
ness testified to paviug money for
what was called the campaign fund from
1872 to 1875. The ring was composed of
McDonahl, Joyce, Fitzroy, McKee, Maguire,
Patrick, Newcomb and (irosrenor, of the
Democrat; the latter got SI,OOO to let up on
Maguire when the lat ter was seeking the
nomination for Mayor of the city. Joyce
once said to witness: “My friend llabcock
writes mo there is hell to pay.
We are are in a scrape and must get out of
it. -Witness admitted to being a party to
several indictments here and lnd pleaded
guilty to some of them, but had not con
sidered and did not know what effect his
testimony to-day would have upon the in
dictments still pending. Another witness
testiiied to Joyce’s industry in collecting
money for the ring.
OKOCKED WHISKY.
St. Louis, November 18.—James Fitzroy,
chief clerk in the Assessor’s office, testified
that he know of the coming of Agents
Brooks, Brasher, Gargati and Ja
vitt some days before their ar
rival. Ho informed the distilers;
told them to strengthen up under* orders
from Joyce. Witness had a conversation
■with McDonald at the Planters’ House, in
which McDonald said he wanted $5,000
to remunerate some parti s in Wash
ington for information received from
thorn. Witness raised the monev
and threw it over the transom
of the door of McDonald’s room, aH agreed
upon with him. Witness was present when
SI,BOO was given by Joyce to McKee at the
Globe office. McKee said to witness: “Fitz
roy, this js a sacred tiling. You must
keep it. secret.” Witness replied that
no woiiiH do oothirig to injure himself.
THE KAILWAY ACCIDdmo*
Augusta, November 18. — ’There was out
one death from the railroad accident. Mrs.
Hegesheimor, who was in the hack part of
the ladies’ car at the time the engine ran
into it, found herself after the accident sit
ting on the cow-catcher midway in the
wrecked car. Her infant son was found
under one of the seats, close to the
engine, badly burned, but not danger
ously injured. The engineer and conductor
of tbe extra train, who are responsible for
the collision, have not reported to the offi
cials of the road. The passengers report
that they were alarmed several times before
the aceideut by the extra train running up
close to the regular passenger train.
the letter of don caiilos.
Madrid, November 17.— The C'ronlsla,
ministerial organ, states, in reference to the
reported letter of Don Carlos to King Al
fonso : “Wo believe Don Carlos is more un
compromising than any of his partisans.”
The Oronisla also says : “We are at the be
ginning of the end. The war will be speed
ily terminated either by the submission or
the overwhelming of the Carlists.” The
Correspondencia -says the pretensions of
Don Carlos are exaggerated and inadmissi
ble. The royal army in the field will be
300,000 strong by tlie Ist of December.
The Temps hails the action of Don Carlos
as the harbinger of peace. The present
Minister of Justice will be appointed am
bassador to the Vatican,
A DEMOCRATIC VICTORY.
Nashville, November 18. — A special from
Chattanooga announces tbe election of Mr.
Fort, Dem., for Mayor, over Mr. James,
Rep., the pres-nt incumbent. Tbe Demo
crats also elected the city marshal and half
the aldermen. The contest was very excit
ing, and there is great enthusiasm and
burning of bonfires, while the Mayer elect
is being hauled over the city on a hose car
riage by the enthusiastic firemen.
THE ALABAMA CONSTITUTION.
Montgomery, November 16. — Enough
nows has been received here to warrant the
statement that the new constitution is rati
fied by a large majority. Ferry county, a
large negro county and Republican gene
rally by 3,00# mojoritv, gives 1,000 majority
for ratification. The constitution was gene
rally acceptable to both parties, and tlie
Custom House and Federal officials generally
failed in their efforts.
AN OUTRAGE.
St. Albans, November 18. — Mis-- ®iizi
beth Story, a highly respecta)* 1 - young lady
of" Fairf. x waa i, i -. 1 . i.. n. s.e >.u i ted this lere
.—„,i while walking to tee railroad station,
by a negro tramp, who nad very nea .ie
complished his purpose, when ir'f. j. '-hor
came up ami tlie negro lied/ Mi Lory is
not seriously injured. The Citizens are
pursuing.
from fall^iveb.
Fall River, Novcmbttlfi. — Owing to the
falling off in tho of print cloths,
nearly seven cents since Septem
ber 5, the maiuifaotuMWiave appointed a
committee to visit Expand to arrange for
the exportation of fabrics. Another reduc
tion of ten per cent, in wages was voted.
GERMANY AND THE POPE.
London, November 18. — A special to the
Dali Malt Gazette from Beilin, slates that
the Brussian Government is preparing pro
ceedings before the Ecclesiastical Court
against tho Archbishop of Cologne and the
Bishop of Treves. The object is to depose
them.
THE WISCONSIN ELECTION.
Milwaukee, Wis., November 18. — The
official count shows that Haddington, liep.,
for Governor, lias a majority of 811; Barker,
Lieutenant Governor, Dem., 1,201. i’he
Democrats elect the balance of the State
ticket.
FATAL FIRE.
Cuaigvale, Ont., November 18.—Dennis
Cunningham's house was burned last, niglit,
and four children perished in the Aimes.
Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham narrowly es
caped.
FOR LIVERPOOL.
Philadelphia, November 18. — The steam
er Illinois took a quantiiy of dressed beeves,
sheep, poultry and oysters, which she pro
poses to deliver fresh in Liverpool by means
of the refrigerating apparatus.
TWEED.
Alb ary, N. Y., November 16.—The Court
of A peals dismissed Tweed’s appeals. He
gets neither a reduction ot bail nor a bill of
particulars.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
Providence, R. 1., November 16.—Joint
Powers, a printer, arrested f <r shooting at
bis wife, attempted suicide by cutting his
throat.
FOUND DEAD.
Boston, November 16 —Orrin Marshall,
who shot his wife on Saturday, was found
dead. He left a letter alluding bitterly to
his wife’s frailty.
BURNED TO DEATH.
Tuov, N. Y., November 16.—Jane Castello
died from her burns. Her drunken husband
threw a kerosene lamp at her.
BUELL.
Washington, November 17—A. C. Buell,
indicted long ago for alleged criminal libel
on Chandler, has been bailed in 42,000,
A FRIGHTFUL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
Augusta, Ga., November 18.—A frightful
accident occurred last night on tho Cbar
lotte. Cdumbia and Augusta Railroad, real
Fine House about twenty two miles from
i i*' . • • r f 16 r,! K ul >tr passenger train
left Columbia yesterday afternoon for Au
gusta it was followed by a train of empty
car:* lor Augusta. Tiio two train# roiie<l
along at tbe rate of twenty miles
au hour, one following closely on the other
The passenger train h.ul just reached a
sideling, ami was about to stop, when the
second tiain came rushing along, and ti•!.
engine telescoped the ladies'passon-er ear
throwing it and tbe smoking car iron, the
track. A terrible scene followed. The : .
dies’ car was filled with passengers, ami
men, women and children were js7um. il *
getlur, wounded, crushed and h eeding. Al
ter a tew minutes of confusion, tin* wiudon -
and doors were broken open to aid tln> * '
sengers to emerge from the wreck. It
discovered that while main wer, brut
seriously, but one life was'lost—that of t
Charlie Nightingale, a bright aud loveable
child, about six years old, a soil of William
Nightingale, of Brunswick, Georgia. The
chlid had but a slight wound on' the head
aud seemed to have been steamed to and, a:,.
The son of M. llegeslieimer, <*f the U. s’
Coast Survey, who was m the smoking Jar"
was seriously injured, and will probably
lose an eye. Mr. Diekcuan, of Baltimore.’;,
commercial traveler, was cut in the aim ;t ti,l
bled a gloat deal, and se me 1 badly iv.*une
ed. As soon as possible tiio in,
sengers were rescued from
wreck. At last every passenger was
brought, from tbe train i vvpt the noor bov
wliose untimely death is above recorded!
A tew hours later the outward train reached
tho spot, and being unable to puss brough;
the passengers of the wrecked train to Au
gusta, reaching the city about half-past"h a
o’clock. The following i„ a dst. of pas- ■ -
gel's: .Mrs. F. T. Weston, of New Yo:l>; \ii--
Kosa Walfolk and Miss Annie Watson of
Rahway, -X. J.; Miss Coyle, ol Thoiuasvi’ii,.
Ga.; Mr. llattie, of Baltimore; J. Margen
toff, of Aiken, S. I'.; /. Jacobus ol N. w
Yolk; E. H. Engel, of Macon, Ga.; It, 11,, jv,.
of Washington, D. C.; J. L. Atkins and w’
H. Douglas, of Now York; Walter l’ow, 11, „i
Augusta; Dishiqau, of Baltimore; Mrs i\
M. Mebaue, of Ga.; T. Bell, of Darlington’
8. C.; Mrs. and tho Misses Nightingale, <,i
Brunswick, Ga.; Miss Fowler, ot Riclinm id-
Hills, of Long Island; Mr. and .Mrs. li ; J
heinier, United tstaies Coast Survey ti e
Jordan, of Aiken. 8. O.; T. N. Pushkin!
Hardy Crouch, of Johnston county; (| )v !
Chamberlin, of Columbia, South' t aro!
liua; A. lv. Groover, of New Vuh-
Dr. Deboit, of Philadelphia; and W. T.’
Sprinkle, conductor. The passenger train
is not to bis mo, but there is gnat feciing
against the men on the other train for
criminal carelessness. The passengers re-|
port that tho engineer and conductor cmildl
not be found after the accident. Tliol
passengers arrived at eleven o’clocJ
last night, and every attention was given
the wounded. The body of little Chamßj
Nightingale was carried to Brunswick t flii#
morning. Mr. Dishman, of Baltimore.* is
doing well, and so is tile sou of
Mr. llegeslieimer. All the other passengers
escaped, some without a scratch and olners
with slight bruises. It is almost a miracle,
under the circumstances, how any of them
escaped, as the engine telescoped right into
tho passenger cars.
THE PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY.
Louisville, Novomb t 18.— The report of
the Executive Committee was discussed
iu regard to the business of tho dit
ereut agencies. The report says some
cities are doing a very large business,
and have in the aggregate millions of
dollars, while iu other respects they
are unsatisfactory and fall short of the
benefits which ought to be read zed. The
commission system of tho Order is said to
be false iu theory and unjust to members
aud therefore in the minds of the commit
tee another method ol selling is deemed
necessary for the good ot the Order. Nucli
a system, tho committee beg leave to sub
mit the plans of at a future day, and is satis
fied will meet with general approval. In
conclusion, the committee recommends tho
employment of lecturers to canvass the
country and make known the true aim and
objects of tho Order, thereby correcting the
wrong impressions which now ex st in the
minds of rnauy worthy people concerning
tho Patrons of Husbandry.
II DIDN’T WORK.
How Mrs. Siiilllt-H Tried |o Solo i
Lye ii r tins.
[Brunswick (Maine) News.]
Mrs. Sniffles Ims lmd more trouble with
Lycurgus, end has been strengthened in
the belief that he is totally unlike other
men; in fact, teetotally unlike many of
them. He had been on a long sober
strelch up to a couple of weeks
ago. About that time he learned that
his only aunt, a rich old lady in St.
Louis, had died and left him an inum ■ n
fortune—to get, if he could. This was
a sore disappointment to our fia. mi , r
he had expected to be made a rich imnt
by the death of Ibis (nucc reaper* ,!
relative. Never was the nows of an
aunt’s death read with more poignant
grief by surviving kin. A postscript to
the letter conveying the sad intelligence
stated that the good olrt otil hi<i fie
queathed her eutiro wealth to a i,. V( ,_
lent institution. This was the rusty rod
of iron that pierced his soul, and made
murky the fountain of hope, lie tore
the letter to pieces, and bent his falter
ing steps to the nearest saloon. He
drank—he fell. * * * *
| I’hoso stars represent drinks foriv
drinks to the star |
Mrs. S. was iu despair. She hail
thought liis reformation was complete,
and now “the old man was drunk again,”
with no.sign of ever letting up. Finally
she bethought her of the system lii
vogue at certain inebriate asylums that
of mixing liquor wilh every article of
food until tho patient acquires a lasting
distaste for alcohol. She determined to
try that plan on Lycurgus.
She procured a gallon of the worst
whiskey to lie had, and put some of it in
the old man’s coffee, to begin with, it
has been his unvarying custom to drink
but one cup at a meal. That night, he
passed his cup back to be refilled, s tying
as lie smacked his lips:
“Better coffe ’n usual, ole gal.”
Next morning she increased the dose.
He drank three cups, and fell from his
chair as- lie was reaching for a fourth.
He slept until noon, and went out to
dinner. There was beef soup and
whisky—half and half. Snifflesate it all,/
and said, as he wiped his mouth:
“You’re git’u to be a better cook’n nfi
body, ru’dear. But yer didn’t make s/‘B
nulf.” |
At supper everything was satj/ated |
with wbisky, and Sniffles ate untipuc be- \
came helpless, and his wife liaoKto drag
him to bed.
The gallon of whisky was /non gone,
and tbe only change that M/>- S. notice; 1
in her husband was tied * Inle it IftkV-d
he came to his meals w iji r< a ter ,'egu
larily than usual.
She is not the woman to .'gve P'any
thing without a fsii trial. She got an
.jotier gallon, and came near Moving her
self to death while she <• and ■ o Snillh sin
everything that he ate mu drank. His
appetite increased nt a fearful rate, and
he complimented her -cry -day on Ler
newly acquired skill in nuking.
Tee second gallon son went the wav
• A the first, and ait* fWTWor three m< ,i]‘!l
had passed without th seasoning of which *
Sniffles Lad become so fond, m said n
tones which wouldLuv*. **>••• o n 11. ”,
of a tax collectoi :
“Mirander, dear; the. victuals don’t
taste as good as they used ter. Seems to
bo somethin’ or Luther missing.”
Is it any wonder that the poor woman
gave up in despair?
The Southern I’acilic Again.
The session of Congress being close at
hand, it appears that “Colonel” ’Torn
Scott is becoming more active in iiis as
saults upon the virtue or intelligence of
Southern members of Congress, and will
also use his influence upon such State
Legislatures as may be in session. Our
own Legislature not being in session he
has nothing to work upon iu that way.
But we would remind our members of
Congress, who will no doubt be ap
proached, of t’ne cold favor extended to
the scheme by the Legislature last win
ter, and warn them that any countenance
given to Scott’s scheme is against the
voice of the representatives of the people
and hostile to the best interests of the
whole South.
The Petersburg Index and Appeal has
a long, lucid and forcible article re
viewing the whole scheme, and exposing
all its fallacies as a Southern enterprise,
which we have not yet had room for in
our columns. It ought to be republished
in every journal in the South, for though
intended for the warning and guidance of
Virginia, its reasoning is applicable to
every other Southern State, all of whom
must make common cause in the matter.
The Richmond Whig, in its comments
upon the consummation referred to, says :
“It is a snare that had better be avoided.
It is worse than a wolf in sheep’s cloth
ing. It is an adder coiled in the hand
that is held out to us—a serpent we are
asked to warm in our bosom a deadly
serpent under the roses that strew the
feast to which we r invited.’
Beware of it I— Raleigh (N. O.) News.
Capt, E. W. Kennedy, a prominent
merchant of Louisville, Ky., and well
known throughout the South and West,
was found dead in bed at the Galt House
on Monday. Verdict of the coroner’**
jury: died of heart disease.