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Savannah Wecklu llews ATUR*Ir, ÜBCKMBKK -'. IH7& AT POK’ii (iItUK. November, 187 P. Cold i# the pcan honor *Uies, ‘i 1 * 11 ,p tf ,ol 7' icy breath, A ”V P** ttie garland memory brings i o grace the iron doom of death. echoing thunders, long and lon. The pomp of pride that decks the pa .. I be plaodlta of the vacant crowd— One word of love Is wotth them all. With dews of grief our eyes are dim ; Ah, let the tear of sorrow start, And honor, in ourselves and him. The jtt,t and tender human heart. Through many a night of want and woo Ills frenxi<M spirit wandered wild— Till kind disaster laid h m low. And Heaven reclaimed its wayward child, j Through many a year his fame has grown, Like midnight, vast-like starlight, sweet, I Till now his genius fills throne, And nations marvel at i’* feet. Ono meed of justice long delayed, One crowning grace his virtues crave. Ah take, thon great and injured shade. The love that sanctifies the grave! God’s mercy guard, in peaceful sleep, Tlie sacred dust that slumbers here; And while around this tomb we weep, God bless, for ns, the mourner’s tear ! And may bis spirit, hovering nigh, 1 Tierce the donee cloud si darkness througil Ami know, with fame that cannot die, Ami has the world’s aiiection o! WIIMAJI W i> ;eh , The President of the I). P.’s Hole, a Little Boy. Kditor M<rrnin>j Hew*: Upon taking a look around the coat b, after comfortably seating myself for an all-day journey on one of our Georj ia railroad trains, my eyes—for the fi: >t time such a thing had happened in ma y a day—fail to find a familiar face. Not a soul that they had ever rested upon b e fore was on board, and the only obje ot which they found of any interest wht tt ever was a neatly dressed ledy quiet ly and peacefully sleeping on the seat j< mt opposite me. I thought her beautiJ ul until I discovered on the seat iinmed i ately before her—the back of which Lin] been turned over, throwing two seats tio getber for her convenience—a sleeping baby. Then I knew she was married a) and her beauty decreased amazingly. At t!j • very next station, as if sent by propitioi. fate to give me company, came about- ‘ my old-time friend, Colonel Branch, President of our D. P. Club, aril as gay a lark as ever drew a cork or captured a bower. Noble in ini pul < t generous in heart, and hearty in his gen erosity, a Chesterfield in manners, Washington in truth, a model of gal lantry, the very quintessence of good fel lowship and a hearty abominatefr of all babyhood. Big or little, male or female, smiling, frowning, laughing, cryu \ crov eg or jualling, t’was all the uii.e -a u his abomination. After and pen tit! ' ins baggage on the seat in front of the sleeping cherub just mentioned - the being the only vacant seat which was comfortl ho discovered me, and im u Lately nis burly form and beaming face gaw me a pressing against the auto of the coach for the one, find tie jolliest of happy greetings for lint Hirer. I do not think the Colonel a vain mau; indeed, I know him e otherwise, but the best of us Lave mo opinion in regard to our stylo ami in. .its, atidfewofus, if webadbudauy Lan in tbo manufacturing of ourselves, but would liavo made some slight varia tion The Colonel, I think, is perfectly satislied with his entire make-up except b" ad, and he would bo satisfied with that were it not so perfectly bald. ’Tin rm. ho has hair in Abundance below the point of contact between his head and rim of his hat, but all nbove that ot is a burron waste, and, worse than the Colonel is ashamed of it. Bo eh so, in fact, that under any and all circumstances ho will woar liis hat. On this partioulur occasion, though, he wore a “plug" liat, and as he became very sleepy after listening to an hour’s prosy talk from me, and had to nod, said hut would tumble most unceremonious!) around, regardless alike of mashiiif. itself or exposing the Colonel' weak point. After manly efforts to.4n>< t . Mi!tsilrtouh likti ilk-ldr proper place without avail, the Colouel in his despe ration went over to his own seat, put his hat up in the rack prepared for such vessels, propped his knees against the seat in front of him, threw biH head in an easy and graceful position on the hack of his seat, and soon, with tlio jostling of the oars, that polished crown was bob bing and nodding to all the passengers in its rear ; for tho Colonel was very sleepy, aud he had not more than fixed himself before “ColeHtial dreams began to glimmer Through too deepening shades of soft ob livion.” the Colonel don’t like my telling Ht I_ox*)n’t give him any m ire poetry PPfecxt tiniS* f "Write about him. Colonel's “celestial dreams” were just about in a high old way whon those of the sleeping baby—which after wards turned out to be a babbling boy by tho name of Char'.ie —commenced to decline. Tho little fellow moved firs; one foot, then tho other, then rolled a bit and stretched himself to tho utmost tension, finally sat np and rubbed open his eyes sufficiently to see, and the first thing which struck his youthful vision Va? that head of the Colonel's bobbing in all i\s smooth shininess above him. Charley went for it—not gently, but with a vim. Steadying himself by the back if tin a. at, he oanght it between his two bands. Just as he was about to put his mouth to it the coach gave a jolt, aud dowu sat Charlie on tho seat. The Colonel remarked, “Shew!” aud brushed away the imaginary fly. Charlie, noth ing daunted, but with the same shin ing object in view, made another attack, “this time getting a little firmer hold, but hunther jolt sent hipi down again. The Ci ilonei’a murmured remark,as he brushed awa\ hi- fly. was “whyinthetexasdon’t thoyk.-t | il esoutoftrai’—and was off to ■a celestials. Charlie rose again, this Hue with more determination than ever. Hade a frantic grab and got a fine hold, Hit luck was against him. An uncom- Hoiilv hurd jolt once more soated him. Hud while he was engaged in extracting ■tray hairs from between his fingers, the ■lolonol was engaged in extracting com ifort from tho situation by saying some Entirely uncalled for things about inuo cent flies. Charlie got the hairs from be tween his fingers by the time the Colouel was high in his “celestial dreams" ouoe ' 'i,*, ud was ready for another trial, l uis -ime he was more deliberate iu hi-- calculations, consequently more successful thau in his former efforts, he made his grab and captured the object on which he had set bis heart by entohing the Colonel squarely by the ears. No jolting could break his hold thon, and ah ! how he wrestled with that head. 1 watched him with increas ing interest. He would pull himself up to it, put his mouth to it, and dribble on it. I could not tell whether he was try ing to bite or extract the lacteal from it. I only know that lie thought he had something to eat, or, perhaps, to drink. How long this would have continued, 1 don’t know, had pot the Colonel, who had made frequent dives at the fly luring this interesting feature of the case, finally fully aroused him jumped from his seat, aud sent Charlie, surprised to the fullest exteut, into the bosom of his sleeping mother with much more force than diguity. But Charlie kept his eye ou that head. When the Colonel put on his hat, he turned upon the innocent babe one of his inde scribable looks of reproach, scorn and, not to put too fiue a point on it, hate, aud came over aud took his seat by me, The little fellow broke all up and burst out in a series of terrific sobs and yells. Che mother, having been asleep during the interesting portions of the perform ance, but who was fully aroused by the thunderbolt like manner in which her darling had been restored to her bosom, anxi9usly inquired of her son the cause of his sadness. “Dat o-o-01-old m-m-man,” sobbed Charlie. “What did he do to my boy—my sweet Charlie ? What was it, sweet ?” enquired she. Charlie sobbed on. He made various and frantic attempts to tell her, bat sobs choked off his reply. But at last, swal lowing his sobs and controlling his deep heaving chest as well as possible, he burst forth: “I f-found a gr-great big ap-apple and he t-took it away f-from me and p-put it in h-his o-01-oid h-liat.'’ v The boy had actually taken the Colonel’s head -■•: a New York pippin. Blackwell. THE LA\l> OF FLOWERS. Jacksonville to Tnlnikn—The St. John’s River n Chain nr Benntlful Lakes—ln eidenis of tke Corn*.- and Scenes Alone Ike Kfver from Shore to Shore-Palstka kr Gaslight, nod a Fleet of River Steamers. [Spec!*. Correspondence of the Morning New* ] Palatka, November 19, 1875. To visit Florida without taking a trip on the St. John's river is like seeing the play of Hamlet with the character of the Prince of Denmark left out. This is not, by any means, an original expres sion ; still, it can be used in this con nection with considerable force and a peculiar appropriateness. Unlike any other large stream of water on the American continent, and running in a direct northerly course for several hundred miles, the Bt. John’s has be come famous the world fiver for its many peculiar attractions for tourists and invalids. From Jacksonville to Palat ka it is but a constant succes sion of small lakes, so closely commingled that it is almost impossible, except by the channel buoys, to outline anything like a river running through them. There is scarcely a place where two points of the opposite banks come near each other, or where the distance across the stream is not over two miles. On one side a sharp point of land comes out near the steamboat channel, but on the other side a stretch of five or six miles of water, generally about the same distance in width from its widest pointp, is to be seen. Those large coves or small bays alternate from one side of the river to the other, and in many places are di rectly opposite each other, making a stretch of eight or ten miles of water. There are, in fact, no symmetrical or regular outlines to this grand old stream, and to a Northern or Western man it ap i pears like anything but his idea of a river. The Indians were correct | in their expression of its true character, ' for they called it “Welaka,” which signifies a succession of lakes closely Hrung together. The early Spanish voy i agers who chanced to discover this stream cm St. John’s day, gave that name to the river, and it Las been retained to the present time, although the appropriate ness of the original Indian name becomes more apparent every day. In a poem entitled “Tbs Glories of the Bt. John’s,” Solon Robinson touches up this matter In a few pointed rhymes : Welaka’ stream ! I sing of thee 1 St. John's old Indian name! •t. John’s the Spaniards gave, and stole thy hon est fame; Hobblin' the stream of all significance it gave; ‘A struam of lakes,’ Welaka means; a river brave.” FROM JACKSONVILLE TO I'ALATKA. To know anything of the St. John’s river is to know something of “Brock’s line of steamers,” from which John Rob inson's circus Las not wholly stolen the igniticauce of the trade mark of the line, “The Old Reliable;” lor these steamers are both reliable and desirable to the tourist and the traveller on the river. There are other boats and other lines, but this is the mail and express line, and therefore runs with marked re gularity and reliability from Jacksonville to Enterprise, stopping, as a general thing, over night at Palatka. When this is dono the passengers have an oppor tunity to see the river by daylight for nearly the entire distance, which is seventy-five miles to Pulatka, or two hundred and eleven miles to Enterprise. Palatka is frequently reached just after dusk, and when camp fires are to be seen on the shores, and the wharves are alive with lights and people, an additional charm is added (o the approach to this important inland port. Tne charges on the boats seem to be very moderate, only two dollars being the rate from Jackson ville to Palatka for cabin passage, and one dollar for second class. Dinner is one dollar, aud breakfast and supper seventy-five cents each. The accom modations and menls are good, and the officers of the boats almost invariably polite and attentive to the wants and comfort of their passengers. These boats make daily trips, leaving Jacksonville immediately after the arrival train on the 9 o’clock in ~u3S morning. It was my good fortune to take passage ou the “Rockaway,” a small boat chartered for the line for a mouth, but officered by a very jovial and pleasant set of men. They wore: Cap.ain, John Fitzgerald, brother of Captain Fitz gerald, of tho “City Point;” Purser, Charles Ellis, one of the oldest on the river; engineer, Ilarvey Toombs, from whom no “doleful sound" came; mail agent, G. L. Fox, in sorno respectß equal to the veritable “Humpty Dumpty.” During the entire trip, except when en gaged in duties elsewhere, we formed a very sociable group about the pilot house and made the hours pass with “flying feet.” There is but very little to be seen aloug the river that is attractive, except at several of the more important land ings, as the constant succession of bays throws the shore too far away to be clearly visible to the naked eye, and save through a marine glass there is only an occasional object of interest to break the monotony. The chief attractions are in the broad expanse of water, the cool breezo, and the beautiful scenery about Mandarin, Magnolia, Green Cove Springs aud Orange Mills. I have already stated that there are numerous independent boats and other regular lines ou the river in addition to Brock’s. This will be made manifest when I state that passing over from Mulberry Grove to Mandarin we met the pretty little stoamer “Mary Draper,” owned by Thomas Arkwright, Esq., of Savannah, which runs daily from Green Cove Springs to Jacksonville. Near Hibernia wo met the “Hattie,” of Brock’s lino, from Enterprise. At Green Cove Springs we saw the elegant steamer “Pastime,” whioh is soon to bo put on the river. Crossing from that point to Remington’s, we met the “ Hattie Barker,” independent boat, from Mellon ville. Above Hogarth's we mot the “Volusia,” which runs to -the Indian river on the Upper St. John's. Not far from this point I chanced to turn my marine glass down the river and was surprised to see a fleet of steamers of all sizes following us. These I learned were the “Lollie Boy," from Jacksonville to the Upper St. John’s; the “City Point,’’ from Charleston to Palatka; the “Tus kawilla,” (mail steamer) for the Ockla waha river; the “Okahumpka,” inde pendent boat, for the same route. This -t ill give some idea of the daily steambort business on the St. John’s river even be fore the groat tides of travel set in. LANDINGS AND POINTS OF INTEREST. Sailing cut from Jacksonville, which is located in a broad curve of the river, on the right bank, the first object that attracts attention is Littlefield’s big house and expensive private landing, on the same site and about a mile from the city. As seen from a steamer it presents no points of real beauty, although large amounts of money have been spent on the place. A mile beyond, on the left bank, is the beautiful wiuter residence of Mrs. Col. Mitchell, wife of the Milwaukee railroad millionaire. The tourist hardly gets a glimpse of this charming rural re treat, and is compelled to seek particulars from the officers of the boat. The first landing is Black Point, then Mulberry Grove, just beyond, both on the right bank. Making a wide sweep from there across a beautiful bay, the boat touches at Mandarin, n very prettily located little village, fifteen miles from Jacksonville, where Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has quite an attractive cottage snugly hid away iu the midst of a fruitful but not extensive orange grove, and well shaded by several towering and wide spreading live oak trees. Mandarin is on a bold point of land, and faces down the river, with a broad and beautiful bay stretching out in front of its numerous residences. At the extreme end of the point I noticed a sugar cane plantation, and around on the upper side of the point were many hand- Bome places. The soil must be good in that section, as everything along the shore seemed to be growing finely. I presume persons desirous of settling in that vicinity would find no difficulty in pur chasing lands there. And just here I may as well state, to meet an inquiry that will naturally arise, that there are com paratively few places under cultivation along the river, except at sueh points as have been selected for towns or public buildings. The river banks—which really are not banks —being almost on a level with the water, and seldom rising more than a few feet higher, are not suited to cultivation, and hence are covered with a heavy growth of pine, oak or palmetto. The pine trees are valuable, as large quantities are cut and sent down tbs river in rafts to the steam saw mills at Jacksonville. From five to ten miles apart, and sometimes even for a less dis tance, settlements can be found on the river. At many of these are to be seen thrifty orange groves and profitable sugar cane patches. Back from these landings there are orange groves and small farms in abundance, cultivated in most cases by Northern and Western people who have sought new homes here in Florida. Every immigrant coming here has bis own peculiar views as to what quality of soil he wants to work, what kind of a location will suit him best, and what rail road or steamboat facilities he will prefer for market purposes, if he proposes to go into extensive operations. Nothing that I can sav could satisfy him so well as a trip up the St. John’s and a survey of the country with his own eyes. To show how men differ in this respect, I will state that, as we passed an orange grove admirably situated upon a rather high point, a passenger observed that he would not take that place for the gift of it, and live there, although a very hand some cottage was on the hill, prettily shaded by orange trees. To this remark a gentleman replied, stating that the same place had but recently sold for nine thousand dollars. What I might think desirable, therefore, others might not wish to purchase for a winter home or for agricultural purposes. Land of all kinds—State and government lands -for homesteads, or improved or wild lands, can be taken up or purchased at almost any point between Jacksonville and Pa latka, and on either side of the river. And as to this latter selection, there is but very little choice indeed. On each shore the average bank rises but a few feet, if any, above the water, and good town sites are already established on both sides, with daily steamboat communica tion each way. Crossing the river again, twenty-three miles from Jacksonville, we made a land ing at Hibernia, where Mrs. Fleming has a most attractive and popular boarding house for invalids, with grounds very handsomely laid out. Five miles beyond is the prettiest place on the river, as a winter resort for very wealthy people. There is a magnificent hotel, the Magno lia, and two-story cottages for guests are scattered about the profusely adorned and shaded grounds. Magnolia Point, one of the highest between Palatka and Jacksonville, is located near this hotel. Magnolia is but a hotel landing, as Green Cove, a beautiful and flourishing town, is hardly two miles further up the shore. There are. several first-class hotels and boarding houses at this place, where sul phur springs, attractive scenery and re fined society make up the great charms of one of the most popular resorts on the St. John’s. Re-crossing the river, wo stopped at Remington’s for the mail, passed on around the point to Hogarth’s, where we took on wood, and then steamed ahead to the once famous Picolata, forty-four miles from Jacksonville, on the east bank, and formerly the landing at which freight and passengers were transferred for St Augus tine. Two or three centuries ago this now almost insignificant place was an import ant Spanish city, with its fine churches, monasteries, forts, and large plantation trade. Ruins of one old fort may yei be seen, and recently the foundation of another has been discovered under water. Five miles beyond is Tocoi, the new transfer depot for St. Augustine. This little town will never be forgotten by passengers to or from the ancient Span ish city, who are compelled to stay over night or remain all day waiting for a train one way, or a steamer the other. A narrow gauge railroad, with steam power, has superceded the old horse cars, and the trip is now made to St. Augustine, fifteen miles distant, in less than an hour. Ten miles above Tocoi is Federal Point, where the finest strawberries are grown from January to April. From this place to Dancy’s are many quite attractive resi dences and thrifty orange groves. Af Orange Mills (named from an old mill now in ruins) are several elegant places, prominent among which I noticed the beautiful residence and fine orange grove of Gol. Archie H. Cole, of Savannah, which are among the most attractive that I have yet seen in Florida. Leaving Dancy’s Landing (the mail station for Orange Mills) and its fine orange groves behind, we passed along the east bank for about ten miles, and then crossed over to the lively and growing town of Palatka, the head of river navigation fo* ocean steamers. Of this town I shall speak in a subsequent letter. The voyage from Jacksonville to Pa latka, a distance of seventy-five miles, was made between the hours of 9:30 a. m. and G:3O p. m. A person who has never been up this river can form no idea of the snake-like course a mail steamer is compelled to follow. On the east bank a landing is made, and then the boat is run almost directly across one of the bays to which I have already referred, a dis tance of from three to five miles, to the west bank, where another landing is effected, and a similar return made to the east bank, some few miles further up the river. From Mulberry Grove to Mandarin, thence to Green Cove Springs, and then back to Hogarth’s Landing is about as circuitous a route as a river steamer could well be expected to make, and yet these places, on opposite and extreme banks of the St. John’s, are reg ular landings for the daily mail boats. We were seldom near enough the shore, except when approaching the wharves, to see alligators, but wild ducks and other kinds of game were plentiful all along the river. The day was bright and beautiful, with a stiff breeze blowing, yet we did not put on our overcoat until nearly five o’clock in the afternoon. Some of the passengers were invalids and did not leave the cabin during the day, but the majority Were people who are here to settle down permanently in agricultural or business pursuits. But few immi grants decide upon a location before they have made a trip up the St. John’s, as the expense is not large for an economi cal man during a journey of five or six days. HUMOROUS INCIDENTS OF THE VOYAGE. Capt. Fitzgerald, Purser Ellis, Mail Agent Fox, Mr. S. F. Mcßride, of Cum berland, Md., R. Kelly Styles, Esq., of New York city, and myself formed a very pleasant little party about the pilot-house on the upper deck, and many were the amusing stories told and laughable jokes perpetrated duriug our delightful trip. I hardly know which of the party bore off the honors of the day, as all are experts in the business. Just above Tocoi I noticed a singular looking piece of newly taken-up land cov ered with palmetto scrub (of which I then knew nothing), and I asked Capt. Fitz gerald what kind of land that was. He replied very quietly that it was “ —n poor land.” “But,” I added, “can’t they clear off that scrub growth?” “Oh,”siidhe, “ask me an easier question;” which I did, and was informed that it would cost about a hundred dollars an acre to clear that kind of palmetto scrub land. Crossing over from Green Cove Springs to Hogarth’s Landing, I raised my marine glass and took a survey of the poorest looking point that I had noticed during the trip. “What place is that?" I said to Mail Agent Fox. “That,” he replied, “is the place selected by a man who exclaimed, when he first saw it, ‘this is the spot I have been looking for all my life. I have not long to live, and I desire to settle in a place that I can leave without a single regret when I come to die.’ That’s the kind of a place that is.” And when the boat reached the wharf I became fully satisfied that death could not be unwelcome to any man who was doomed to live on that point all his life. Near Orange Mills Landing Styles and I, with our glasses, discovered immense lines of wild ducks stretched across the wide expanse of water at this point. Calling the attention of the officers of the boat to what we considered a very re markable sight, Purser Ellis quite coolly remarked: “Oh, that's nothing to what we sometimes see.” Styles, with a merry twinkle in his bright eye, quickly re plied : “Ah, when is your duck day?” This happy hit “brought the houae down,” and during the remainder of the trip, whenever a rather incredible story was told by any of the officers of the boat, Mcßride, Styles or myself would smil ingly remark : “Ah! when is your duck day ?” and it generally had the desired effect. I shall sadly miss this pleasant party of genial friends daring my trip on the Upper St. John’s, where their sharp wit would greatly enliven the otherwise tedious business of watching for alli gators as the steamer passes through the narrow stretches of the river. Sidney Herbert. The original hemlock log foundations of Long Wharf, at Boston, were un earthed a few days ago, and found to be as solid as when put down, 164 years ago; LETTER FROM JACKSONVILLE. The Pleasure* ot Cheating and of Being Cheated—A High-minded Functionary— A Crlrket in Dintrenn Rest Inr the Weary—A Glorlons Outlook —General Item*. [Special Correspondence of the Morning News.] Jacksonville, November 23, 1875. friends of the stranger. The agitation consequent upon the in cursion into this delightful region of three notorious scamp?, who eked out a liveli hood here last winter by duping unwary visitors into the mysteries of a fascinat ing device known as Bunko, is intense, and the credulous denizens of this city have expended much righteous indigna ion, on paper, concerning those repre hensible gamblers. But it is barely pos sible that the efforts to force these wretenes to seek other scenes may prove utterly abortive. Some unsophisticated gentlemen have so far forgotten them selves as to make suggestive references to certain laws relative to gaming, but a celebrated jurist once ob served that no law was ever framed that some adroit individual could not discover an evasion for it immediately, and the saw contains as much wisdom now as it did in days of yore. So long as the constituted authorities connive at , the doings of these blacklegs for a con i sideration, all laws must of necessity be merely nugatory,and just so long as we are cursed with a Radical Mayor will this man ner of dealing with adventurers prevail. His Honor s predilections are all in favor of disreputable characters, and doubly so when they pay him. He is known to have been the flourishing proprietor of a hell in Charleston not long since, and I am assured by parties entirely worthy of credence that no one could enter the “Live Oak House” and escape with his pocketbook intact. His Honor is known also to have winked at the manoeuvres of the pickpockets during last winter, and it is susceptible of proof that this luminous representative of the dominant clique was directly and pecu niarily interested in a number of bagnios that held high carnival here. The only remedy that it is feasible for strangers to adopt is, if they are silly enough to be inveigled into a gambling hell, to fight their way out, for that sucb institutions will exist admits of no reasonable doubt, in view of the present moral calibre of Jacksonville’s chief magistrate. GAB. About the middle of May last the “Citizens’ Gas Light Company” was lightly organized in the teeth of the then existing monopoly, and trumpeted the astounding information that they would furnish the inhabitants and natives with superior illumination at an extraordi narily inferior figure. The company battled bravely against mandamuses and injunctions from the opposition, and emerged from the conflict undaunted. It was a happy notion to choose the name of “citizens,” for it is their’s literally and not figuratively. The upshot of all these dazzling speculations is an indescribable article possessing the illuminating power of about three splinters of the most infin itesimal dimensions. It .flickers wanly, and forcibly reminds one of the grave yard scene in Hamlet, or the phospho rescent glare of a moist friction match. Unless the Citizens’ Light Gas Company improves rapidly it is in serious danger of being voted a complete fiasco. a projected hotel. Messrs. Geo. Davenal and D. Crosby Stinson, of Haverhill, Mass., have just concluded the purchase of a vacant lot on the corner of Bay and Market streets, and will proceed to erect a handsome modern brick structure, four stories in height, with all of the improvements, ac cessories and appurtenances of a first class hotel. The lot has a frontage of ono hundred and thirty-nine feet on Bay street by one hundred and five feet on Market street, and the terms of sale were nine thousand dollars cash. The new house will be supplied with elevators and all conveniences, and the owners are now making arrangements for the mate rials, with a view to its early comple tion. THE OFF-COLORED NIGUEL, who rejoices in the titular appellation of Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit, having finally awakened to a sense of his unpardonable ignorance of all law, has set up for a wit with the assistance of some numbskull, and has managed to make a most melancholy failure of that. He inflicts upon the four subscribers of a certain weekly receptacle for slops, a transcendent mass of verbosity andpueril ity and rounds oil the barbarous butch ery with the sententious words, “we rest.” Observe the magnitudinous le gality of that phrase. If Archibald had bsen born with discrimination sufficient to enable him to have rested before he conspired against a fellow-being’s exist ence, it might have been better for him. Even after he colleagued with niggers, he had but one step to make in order to reach the lowest depth of degredation and become absolutely irredeemable. In affiliating with a nest of political preach ers he has taken that leap, and there let him fester ad nauseam. He affords a striking evidence of the fact that idiots and fanatics should be kept from blunt type. ACTORS IN LIMBO. A company of actors from abroad be gan an engagement here about twenty days since, and their audiences did not at all compensate for the trouble they went to. In fact, the houses they drew were rather remarkable for the scarcity of noses, and when, to cap the climax, the manager absconded with the funds accu mulated during their stay, the troupe was plunged into a state of embarrassment that it seemed impossible to extricate them from. However, they went to work with commendable zeal and announced a benefit at Polk’s Hall, for last evening, for the purpose of enabling them to raise means and proceed on their way. The play was “Fanchon,” but as the inexora ble hotel proprietor held their baggage for a board bill due by the manager, the performers were compelled to ap pear in their ordinary costumes. The representation was keenly novel under the circumstances, and a decided innova tion on “Fanchon” as generally repre sented. It was, however, relished the more on account of this very peculiarity. There seems to be a fatality pursuing all theatrical companies which visit this place that almost invariably bankrupts them. KEROSENE. A small boy residing in La Villa, while attempting to blow up a fire, a few days ago, was himself blown up, and has been down in bed ever since, but is doing well. He produced the concussion with kero sene oil. It is is one of the singular fea tures of that liquid that it shall make a victim every now and then. CONOVER. Canover was in the city on Monday, and departed up the river to return at the end of the week. He is moving around in an exceedingly picturesque and attrac tive style, trying to upset the Radical Executive Committee. They don’t seem to desire anything of the kind, however, unless Conover will set a few of them up. BENJAMIN. Ben. Butler’s steam yacht America will arrive at Fernandina shortly, there not bemg a sufficient depth of water on St. John’s bar to allow her to enter. It is rumored that Ben. has his single eye upon the Agricultural College at Eau Gallie. A NEW HOTEL. A couple of Western gentlemen have bought a lot one hundred and five feet square, at Palatka, from the Parkhurst estate, for sixty-five hundred dollars, and will construct a caravansary forthwith. It is to be an elegant affair. IMMIGRANTS. The greater portion of the arrivals at present are people seeking permanent homes. The pleasure seekers will begin to arrive in full force by the middle of next month. THE GRAND NATIONAL. McGinley will reopen the Grand Na tional Hotel about the first proximo. OVERDUE. The steamer General Sedgewick, from New York, has been for some days over due. She is to ply between this place and Palatka. THE WEATHER. Weather dull, damp, dismal, detestable and alliteratively dirty. Adeianus. ► ♦ < The modest Committee on Fine Arts at Lyons has ordered the nnde statues to be partially draped with flannel. THfc WHISKY FRAUDS. 3S*daa O- ra-idi of the Swindle. St. Lons, Mo., November 18, 1875. — The proceedings of to-day in the trial of ex-Supervisor McDonald have excited an extraordinary interest, and ihe general opinion is that the bottom of the official corruptipn and private rascality involved in the monstrous ring has not been reached and that more startling develop ments are yet to come. The testimony elicited to -day involves a number of in dividuals not heretofore implicated. A great sensation was created by the testi mony of Engelke that Colonel William Grosvenor received SI,OOO, while editor of the Democrat, for suppressing articles against Con. McGuire, who was then the Republican nominee for Mayor. This, taken with Colonel Grosvenor’s history of the ring, excites curious com ment Another sensation was created by the testimony involving Stilson Hutchins, a well known Democratic poliiician and member of the Legislature. Hutchins is also editor of the Times, a paper which has lately made open and bitter war on the ring. Pubiic excitement was never so great, and there is a perfect rush for seats in the court room, so eager are the people. The most important evidence adduced to-day wa3 that of Barnet H. Eugelke, one of the wealthiest rectifiers in the West. A synopsis of the most important passages is appended. He testified : ENGELSES TESTIMONY. I have resided in St. Louis for ten years; my business has been that of rectifier since 1870; our establishment was closed for us on the 10th of last May; I know McDonald, C. D. Megrue and Joyce; we did a rectifying business of a half million dollars per year; I had several conversations with Joyce in 1871 relative to our handling of illicit spirits; I proposed to go out of business at one time; some officers were expected and my partners weakened somewhat; I went to Leavenworth and he sent me to Joyce, who assured me that no harm could come to us, as we were safe; I told him I did not want to take any risk un less I saw my way clear; he told me that we would be protected on all sides; if I sold a barrel containing forty gallons, the stamp would be madeout for that amount, while the stub would only show one-half a barrel sold oi made: thus the gauger would do what we termed covering the crooked; in 1873 we had some trouble in making the crooked; Joyce told me the reason that Curran should not run crook ed was that he (Curran) had been steal ing from the ring; Curran’s distillery got started again in 1874 and ran for five or six weeks; he made a few barrels, but he had to shut dowD; not being in the ring then, he could not make money; during that year there was so little crook ed made that it was hard to get; I bought some that year from Thompson; it was generally understood things were running straight; in 1874 all the distilleries were running; I spoke with Joyce frequently during the years 1873-4-5 in reference to the business; he would sometimes advise to branch out and get more crooked; he told me to take all I could from Ulrici and Busby, but to go light on Chouteau and Jouett; he said he did not want them to make much; Woods, an agent, was here, I think, in 1871; he was followed by other revenue men at divers times; Parsons, an employe of Spalding & Downs, notified me that Woods would visit my place; Leavenworth notified me of the coming of Brasher and told me to straighten uy>; I knew Hogue was com ing; Barton, of Bingham Brothers, and Fitzroy told me of his coming; other par ties also advised me. POSTED BY OFFICIALS. Whenever any one was coming from Washington to examine the distilleries we were always posted about it in ad vance by some of the St. Louis officials ; the substance of these intimations was to straighten up, get the house in order, to be prepared to receive company, etc.; Joyce said to me one time, “My friend Babcock writes me and there is hell to pay; we are in a scrape and must get out of it.” Avery used to lend the ring informa tion of any movement that looked dan geroul ; I paid my quota of the money raised for Hogue, also paid my share ot the wiping out fund; this fund was to stop any proceedings against us previous to 1874 and wipe out the past; the money was paid to Fraser; he gave it to Fitz roy and he handed it to Joyce or McDon ald, whichever man was going to Wash ington; when we were told to raise money there was little satisfaction given us for the request; we were told to do it and it had to be done; I paid twice to Leavenworth for what he called the cam paign fund in 1872 : I paid SIOO for the Hutchins’ Sixth ward fund and $250 for the general State fund; the Hutchins’ fund, I understood, reached $3,000 and we were all re.-nred to contribute to it. In 1871 and 1872 THE MEMBERS OF THE RING were Megrue, McDonald, Joyce,* McKee and Ford; that’s all I know of as living here; this information of the coming of agents was generally correct; in 1872, 1873, 1874 and 1875 the ring was com posed of McDonald, Joyce, Fitzroy, Mc- Kee, Maguire, Patrick Newcomb and Grosvenor, of the Democrat; Grosvenor got SI,OOO to let up on Maguire; Joyce handed him the money, and I think he let up; don’t know McDonald’s share of the money during these years; the gaugers and storekeepers got their shares at the distilleries; I think Grosvenor only got $1,000; in 1871 and 1872 the heavier members of the ring received five cents a gallon as their shares. COMPLICITY OF THE GAUGERS. Leavenworth, Chat, Hardaway, War ner, Kellam, MeFall, Howard, Everist and Kinnear were gaugers at various times; they all knew what was going on; had a talk with McKee in the fall of 1871 about these matters; at the time of the seizure in 1871 I asked Concannon about the reason; he sent me to Joyce, and I was eventually sent back to Concannon ; he told me to pay and the matter would be settled; McDonald told me to pay one thousand dollars, but I refused, and went to Ford ; he advised me to pay it, and, after some parleying, I finally did pay five hundred dollars to Major Me grue, who was a revenue agent; never went to the Assessor’s office in relation to the matter. Engelke was followed by John F. Sied enkopf, foreman of the extensive distil lery of Rudolph Ulrici. His testimony was fully corroborative of Engelke’s and the witnesses who testified yesterday con cerning the modus operandi by which crooked business was conducted. The Bootblack’s Story. [From the Detroit Free Press.] When a dozen newsboys and boot blacks had collected on the Custom House stairs yesterday, and when each one had grown tiled of jaw-breakers and popcorn balls, “Little English” remarked: “Sposen Jim Cocoanut tells us a story.” “Sposen,” remarked all the others. “Well, gentlemen,” remarked Jim,after a few digs at his head, “I will tell you a true story about a girl. Her name was Marier, and she had yaller hair, blue eyes, small feet, and she was. worth a million dollars.” “ In stamps?” asked Cross-Eyed Dick. “ In clean cash, right in the savings bank,” answered Jim. “This girl was an orphan, with no one to boss her around, and if she wanted to be out till eleven o’clock at night she could. There were piles of fellers after her to marry her, but she stuck up her nose at the hull caboodle.” “What fur?” anxiously inquired Fire cracker Tom. “What fur ? Why, she knew they loved her money instead of herself She wanted someone to love her earnestly and like gosh. Well, one day when she was going down to the Post Office to see if there was ary mail, a runaway horse came along. Marier fainted away and sat down in the road, and she’d have been broken all to pieces if it hadn’t been for a bootblack ’bout my size. He pulled her into a shooting galiery, brought her to, and then hired a hull omnibus and took her home. ” “And they fell in love and were finally married,” remarked Suspender Johnson. “No, my fellow-countrymen,” sadly re plied Jim; “giu him ten cents !” “And is that all?” exclaimed three or four voices. “All she gave him, and that turned out to be counterfeit!” There was a long period of silence, and then Cocoanut Jim continued: “Which is a lesson to us never to marry a girl wortii a million dollars.” “And we never shallthey solemnly replied. SANITARY SCIENCE. Hon- Can the Pnblic Health be Pre served * [Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.] Of the many interesting problems which are now engagiug the attention of men of science, the foremost place most unquestionably must be given to those which relate to the public health. It is astonishing, when we consider the won derful progress which has been made of late years in the department of scientific study, how little attention has been paid to those most vital of all vital questions. Most assuredly it is of some consequence to us that life should not be unduly short ened ; that it should be a delight rather than a burden; that our homes should be scenes, not of sickness and sorrow, but of health and happineas ; that pestilence should not walk in the darkness, nor de struction waste at noonday. In this di rection, however, science has moved, not only slowly, but apparently with indiffer ence. It is our habit to boast of what we call modern civilization; but in some important particulars our sanitary arrangements are less perfect than were those of the ancients. Sanitary science in truth, is as yet only in its infancy. It is gratifying, however, to ‘know that to the importance of this branch of applied knowledge there is on the part of the scientific mind a general awaken ing. It is significant, and illustrative of the tendency of scientific thought, that in the different nations of the continent of Europe, in the British isles, as well as among ourselves, sanitary questions are engaging the attention of professional and practical men, and, to a very con siderable extent, occupying the public mind. At the late meeting of the Social Science Association, at Brighton, Eng land, there were read on sanitary reform some remarkably able papers, prominent among which was an address by Dr. B. W. Richardson, descriptive of an imagi nary city, which he called Hygeia, or the City of Health. This paper is full of admirable suggestions. It presents to us the ideal of a perfect city—a city the creation of which is not beyond the power of science skillfully applied, and the ac tual existence of which may be one of the featutes of the not distant future. It is to be hoped that Dr. Richardson’s essay will be reproduced here. The Public Health Convention, held last week at Baltimore, was one of the most interest ing and important meetings of the kind ever held in this country. It gave proof that we have scientific men among us second to none in Europe. The papers read were admirable ; and it is especially to be hoped that the facts brought out, and the suggestions made by Dr. Billings, by Dr. Hunt, and by General Viele, will awaken public interest insanitary mat ters, and lead to some satisfactory, prac tical results. A careful study of the past has clearly proved that in proportion as drainage and ventilation and water supply in great cities have been cared for, so has mor tality decreased. In England, from 1790 to 1810, the mortality is known to have diminished one-fourth. In France, during the same period, the results were the same. In 1780 the deaths in France were in proportion of Ito 30. During the eleven years, from 1817 to 1828, the proportion was 1 to 40, or a fourth less. In 1780, out of 100 infants in France, 50 died in the first two years: in the later period, from 1817 to 1828, only 38 of the same age died —an augmentation of in fant life equal to 25 per cent. In 1780, as many as 55 per cent, died before reach ing the age of ten years; m the later pe riod 43, or about a fifth less. In 1780 only 21 per cent, reached the age of 50 years; in the later period, 32, or eleven more, reached that age. In 1780 only 15 persons arrived at 60 years; in the later period, 24 reached that term. Then again, it is found that, with the progress of civilization, the actual organic strength and build of the man and woman increase. Peron discovered by the dynameter that the strength of limb of the natives of New Holland was as 50 degrees of power, while that of the Englishman was 71. And it is well known that the armor of the heroes of old is too small for the average man of the present day. In addition to all this, there has been a wonderful development of vital power and life-tenacity during the progress of the years. We have no such pestilences as that which in former times ileoimattd populations, a ail lever has disappeared; the Black Death is un known; cholera has ceased to have ter rors for us; and yellow fever has become, in these parts at least, comparatively in nocuous. Such are some of the results achieved by the slowly made improvements of the past. How much greater the results would have been if the improvements had been made on a grander scale and been pushed with becoming energy and activ ity! From what has been done, how ever, we can easily infer what may be accomplished in the future. It requires but the vigorous application of a knowl edge already possessed to almost recreate the race and reduce the rate of mortality to a very low figure. “Utopia,” says Dr. Richardson, “is but another word for time.” The apparently impossible of the present will be the fact of the future. Of all the reformers now working in the midst of us, the Sanitary reformers are most entitled to public encouragement and support. COTTON FIGURES. From the New York Financial Chronicle of the 20th, we learn that for the week end ing Friday evening, the total receipts have reached 186,135 bales, against 149,474 bales last week, 175,244 bales the previous week, and 170,645 bales three weeks since, making the total receipts since the Ist of Septem ber, 1875,1,249,941 bales, against 1,113,044 bales for the same period of 1874, showing an increase since September 1, 1875, of 136,- 887 bales. The exports for the week ending Friday evening reached a total of 108,133 bales, of which 68,997 were to Great Britain, 19,088 to France, and 20,048 to rest of Continent, while the stocks as made up that evening are now 573,893 bales. The telegram received from New Orleans Friday night shows that besides the above exports the amount of cotton on shipboard and engaged for shipment at that port is as follows: For Liverpool, 36,000 bales; for Havre, 32,000 bales; for the Continent, 18,000 bales; for coastwise ports, 1,500 bales; total, 87,500 bales; which, if deducted from the stock, would leave 81,000 bales repre senting the quantity at the landing and in presses unsold or awaiting orders. From the foregoing statement it will be seen that, compared with the corresponding week of last season, there is an increase in the exports this week of 9,121 bales, while the stocks on Friday night are 73,795 bales more than they were at this time a year ago. These figures indicate an increase in the cotton in sight Friday night of 59,180 bales as compared with the same date of 1874, an increase of 282,600 bales as compared with the corresponding date of 1873, and an in crease of 184,002 bales as compared with 1872. The totals show that the old interior stocks have increased during the week 1,558 bales, and were Friday night 12,115 bales less than at the same period last year. The receipts have been 6,975 bales more than the same week last year. According to the cable dispatch received Friday, there have been 6,000 bales shipped from Bombay to Great Britain the past two weeks, and 10,000 bales to the Continent; while the receipts at Bombay during the same time have been 11,000 bales. It would appear that, compared with last year, there is a decrease of 14,000 bales this year in the week’s shipments from Bombay to Europe, and that the total move ment since January Ist shows an increase in shipments of 28,000 bales compared with the corresponding period of 1874. Brooklyn Argus: Just as we supposed —Robert Browning has executed his threat of publishing another “poem.” He did it in the Times of yesterday. It is a noble production, but we have space only for the opening stanzas: The oblong book's the cook’s; shove it along. Precisely! page on page of gratitude For fricassee, ragout, broil, soup and roast, I praise the cook; they splatter grease, And margin leave for hair in hash. Salmi of fried eels glares ferox, But ah, the sense, ye gods ? Who cares ? Throw ope the sash 1 Sun-tipped and diamond beaded Billows of auroral mist boom in! Don’t trouble Guiliim. Declare the prospect Quite a Corot. Who hooked the salmon ? Far to the South bestir the tree-tops Clash wave with rock, like cymbals on the beach. It is the Inn ' Perchance it is the Out! What of it? A sailor’s wife had chesnuts in her lap. Wherever bums a Place there must be fire. Dark >ox, avaunt! Peel off the black rind of the night, And let the yellow day god toot. Then down he sets him; rubs out figures in the book, Adds, multiplies, divides, extracts cube root, “Hi daddy’’ cries, throws up his heels And sloshes wildly in the foam and sand. Californians say they can tell an Eastern man as soon as he makes a purchase. If there’s two cents change coming to him h wants it. CITY AFFAIRS. Central Railroad. Editor Mominq flews : Certain stockholders of the Ceutral Rail road seem determined to briug all the pres sure in their power to bear towards a divi dend in December ; and, as they have been allowed their say, I beg permission to put in a word or two in favor of the other side of the question. According to the statement made by your correspondent “Stockholder,” (who’seems to be accurately posted as to the earnings and expenses of the road.) some $1,399,- 833 53 have been earned during the last two years, over and above expenses, interest, etc. Now, would it not be wise on the part of the directors to devote this surplus towards reducing the five millions of bonds for which the three roads (Ceutral, Macon and Western, and Southwestern) stand liable ? Particularly as in addition to this large sum the Central will eventually have to pay the first and second mortgage' bonds o f ' the Western Railroad of Alabama, or at least one-half of the obligations of this road. Let the Ceutral agree to retire $500,000 of these bonds yearly and then if there should be still left a sufficient surplus let it be divided among the stockholders. It is duo to the bondholders that they be made to feel safe as to the prompt payment of their bonds at maturity, and the policy above suggested would not only insure this, but would, in a few years, greatly strengthen the capital stook. Very respectfully, Bondholder. Savannah, November 23, 1875. Postal Dots. Mailable matter is divided into three clas ses, viz: 1. Letters. 2. Regular printed matter. 3. Miscellaneous matter. First class.—This class embraces all cor respondence, wholly or partly iu writing, ex cept boo P-manuscript and corrected proof sheets passing between authors and pub lishers ; legal or drop letters and United States postal cards. Rates of postage on this matter three cents for each pound or fraction thereof. Second class.— This class embraces all matter exclusively in print, and regularly issued at stated periods from a known office of publication, without addition by writing, mark or sign. Postage on all newspapers and periodicals issued weekly or oftener two cents a pound or fraction thereof; postage on all newspapers and periodicals issued less frequently than once a week three cents a pound or fraction thereof, must he mailed from a known office of publication or news agents to regular subscribers or news agents. Third class.—This class embraces all pamphlets, occasional publications, tran sient newspapers, magazines, handbills, posters, unsealed circulars, books, book manuscript, proof sheets, corrected proof sheets, maps, prints, engravings, blanks, flexible patterns, articles of merchandise, phonographic papers, letter envelopes, seeds, euttings, bulbs, roots, scions and all other matter which may bo declared maila ble by law, and all other articles not above the weight prescribed by law, which are not, from their form or nature, iiable to de stroy, deface or otherwise injure the con tents of the mail bag, or the person of any one engaged in the postal service. Post age, one cent for each ounce or fraction thereof. All packages mailed at less than letter rates of postage should bo wrapped so that their contents can be readily examined without destroying the wrapper. Matter contained in sealed envelopes, notched at the ends, defeats the object of the law and is therefore made subject to letter postage. The weight of packages of the first and third class matter is limited to four pounds. There is no provision in the postal law for the return of third-class matter by mail to the mailing party, except that the’p >st rnaßter at the office where the same may remain uncalled for should bo furnished with a sufficient amount of postage, at the transient rate, for such purpose. THE ATTRACTIONS OF FLORIDA. Where to Go and When to Settle. [From the Jacksonville Press.] We have recently made a number of visits to different sections of our State, and will jot down a few observations which may be advantageous to those who may be asking themselves the question, where is the best place in Florida to settle? For GENERAL FARMING purposes, that section of the State from Lake City south, via Newnansville, Gaines ville, Ocala, and on down to Brooksville is undoubtedly the best. The quality of the lands throughout this regii m are of course very various, but much of it is first-class, well timbered pine and ham mock. The richest lands we have seen ill lilt* t3l&Lc? ar6 iu Llio of I^UVV-. nausville, but we are more familiar with the lands in that section, and wo doubt” not that along the whole length of this “back bone of the peninsula” are lands equally good. These lands produce corn, cotton, sugar cane, oats, potatoes, pinders and all kinds of vegetables in abundance. With an intelligent use of the beggar lice, which we think can be made as advantageous to Florida as clover is to the North and West, the lands of this section could, at small expense, be indefinitely fertilized. In our opinion, the time is not far distant, when farming in this belt will be more profitable than anywhere else in the Union. Through this section lie most of the large plantations of East Florida, where the culture of our great staple was so profitable before the war. Under the present system, these plantations cannot be successfully cultivated on a large scale, and many, therefore, are now lying waste. These afford the best op portunities for colonies. The lands are already cleared, and in many instances fenced, and can be bought for less than it would cost to clear and fence it. We know one plantation of twelve hundred acres, which cost before the war, if we do not misremember, seventeen thou sand dollars. One half of it, on which is a tolerable farm dwelling house and a good mill site, with some twer hundred acres ot first-class land under fence, the whole of which could, we think, be bought for less than eight dollars per acre. We know other good places which could be bought for much less. In our opinion, those who come to Florida to engage in general farming, will do well to visit this section. Splendid farming lands can also be had at low prices in Middle and West Florida. Jackson, Gadsden, Leon, Jefferson and Madison are the best cotton counties, and to look upon are the most picturesque and beau tiful, and particularly is this the case with Gadsden and Leon. We never ap proach Tallahassee but our mind, from a similarity in the scenes, runs back to the lovely valleys and grassy meadows of Tennessee or Kentucky. This section, we should think, would have peculiar charms for Western men. ORANGE CULTURE. For oranges, south Florida is undoubt edly the best. The St. John’s in the vicinity of Palatka and southward—the Indian and Halifax rivers—the Ocklawaha and Orange Lake sections, as well as the Gulf coast, are all excellent for oranges. Orange county seems to be the favored section, the El Dorado of the orange grove hunter. Volusia and Putnam have also large bodies of fine orange land, which can be had at government price. Sumter, Marion, Hillsboro and Polk, are all excellent orange counties. SANTA FE LAKE. The region contiguous to this lake, which is upon the highest land in East Florida, is excellent orange land, as is proved by the many flourishing trees to be found at Waldo and southward. The inhabitants in this section are mostly white, and very peaceable, indus trious and honest. Rev. Wm. Johnson, residing near Morrison’s mills, has a grove not inferior to any one of the same age which we have seen on the St. John’s river. THE FINEST FLAVORED OEANGES we have ever tried, not excepting those from Indian river, we recently plucked from a tree in the yard of Mr. Limbo,who resides some fifteen miles south of Starke. These oranges were just beginning to turn yellow, but were perfectly sweet, scarcely a trace of tartness being discov erable. We do not know whether all of Mr. Limbo’s orange trees bear equally good fruit, but this one certainly bears as fine fruit as can be found. There is also a section of Levy county, between Levyville and the Suwannee river, which is a fine, high, rolling coun try, of excellent quality of pine land, with clay sub-soil. This land bears good crops, and much of it, we were told, is subject to homestead entry, or could be purchased of the State at -*1 25 per acre. Tit for tat: At St. Louis the editor of the Globe-Democrat, who is connected with the whiskey ring more or less directly, made some severe reflections on Theodore Tilton before his appearance there last week. Mr. Tilton, at the beginning of his lecture, referred to the matter and remarked that the criticisms of the Globe-Democrat's editor might “have come with better grace from some public censorJiot under criminal indict ment.” Tumultuous applause greeted I the retort. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. Summary of the Week’s Diapatrhea TOM SCOTT’S RAILWAY. St. Louis, November 24 The following resolutions were introduced : This convention of delegates, duly ap pointed from thirty-one States ami territo ries, many cities and hoards of trade, mer chants’ exchanges and other commercial bodies, constituting a body of eight hundred and sixty-nine delegates, representing not only a large proportion of the people of the United States, but ot tho active producing business capital of the country, and now assembled to take action upon the construc tion of a Southern lino of railroad to the Pacific, do respectfully represent to the Sen ate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled, that a Southern trans-Continental Railroad from the waters of the Mississippi via El Paso to the Pacific ocean, on or near the thirty-sec ond parallel of latitude is imperatively de manded. First. Asa measure of sound statesman ship, because it is only by constant inter course, business and social, that the great States now growing on the Pacific slope can be permanently hound in a common inter est with our Eastern and Southern commu nities, it is therefore sound policy and wise foresight to promote the most intimate re lations between all sections of our com mon country; a necessity, already recog nized by the government in its grant of bonds and lands to the Union and Central and Kansas Pacific Roads and lands to other trans-coutiuental lines on the thirty-second, thirty-fifth and fortv-seventl parallels, under the belief that private capi tal would furnish the needful.funds to com plete these highways; hut owing to the great commercial depression they cannot he built by individual capitalists. The respon sibility still rests upon the government to secure the completion of at least one addi tional trans-continental line. Second. Asa moans of national defense, because it is the duty of the government to havo a line to tho Pacific unobstructed at all seasons of the year for the prompt trans portation of troops and supplies, and should trouble arise with any foreign country and the ports and countries of the Pacific ooast be exposed to insult and attack, such a line to be sufficiently removed from our border to enable it to he fully protected against the movements of hostile forces. Third. Asa local military necessity, be cause the i xperience of the nation in the Central Union and Kansas Pacific Road has proven that the rails and telegraph facilities thereby provided furnish tho only sure means of intercepting and punishing hos tile Indians, and unmistakably indicates tho adoption of some method to prevent tho constant depredations in Western Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, and make lifo and property secure, and establish there the same law and order which prevail along the present Pacific line. Fourth. Asa measure of politicaloconomv —because, as already shown by the experi ence of the Pacific Road, the expense of maintaining a military establishment for protection in the Southern territory against Indian depredations, will be largely reduced by enabling tho government to transport troops and supplies at oue-fifth the presout cost, and by enabling it to dispense with two-tliirds of the present force through the facilities offered for the transportation and movement of troops, and thereby save from eight to ten millions of dollars per annum, and at the same time provide more efficiently and economically for the care and maintain ance of the Indian tribes under charge of the government. Fifth. Asa commercial necessity to twelvo millions of people inhabiting a bolt of coun try from four hundred to seven hundred milos in width, and stretching along the entire South Atlantic coast, Gulf of Mexico and old Mexico to the Pacific ocean, who, by reason of their geographical position, cannot share in tho benefits conferred by the present Pacific line. Sixth. Asa direct saving to tho people of the entire oountry, because it will givo a competing line hetwoon the two oceans, both for large local and through traffic iu this country, and for tho great through traffic with the Sandwich Islands, India, Japan, Australia, and West and South America, thereby confirming the substantial benefit to the entire nation, because in this manner the people of tlieso United States will be best protected against a monopoly to whom they have loaned $55,000,000 of six percent, governmentbonds.and made large grants of land to build tho present Pacific line, and for whose benefit the government is now paying yearly upwards of $3,000,000 ad ditional out of the Treasury to a corpora tion that has established arbitrary rates of transportation and is now seeking to per petuate itself as a close corporation and con trol lines and such as it may hereafter build in its own exclusive interest, instead of making them an open highway such as the people of this country havo a right to de mand. Seventh. Because communication thus es tablished with the rich and productive State of old Mexico, we would secure the large and lucrative traffic now diverted to other countries, and would thereby increase the revenues of tho government, wliilo at the same time the connections made with tho fines now projectea non. ital of Mexico to its northern bolder would stimu late and develop this trade aud enrich tho citizens of our country by tho exchange of our manufactured goods for the products of her soil and mines. Eighth. Because it is the duty of govern ment to protect citizens whose guardianship it assumes under a ireaty of acquisition of the Mexican territory, in which wore resi dent and all other citizens who have been’ inducod by grants made by the government to aid the building of railroads, and to set tle in the territories which those roads arc intended to develop. Ninth. Asa prudential and proper act to encourage the peoplo South, who may very justly aud with great force urge that, while $175,000,000 of the public money have been appropriated in the Northern States and Territories since the organization of the government, tliero have been but $19,000,- 000 spent in the Southern States and Torn- tories. Because not only will the road, as a means of national defense, strengthen the military arm of the government, and at all times perfect the security of our Pacific coast against attack by foreign powers, re duce the exponsos of its local administra tion, bind our country more closely together, facilitate communication between the Paci fic and old Mexico, develop new traffic and agricultural products and tho groat mineral wealth of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, but also, by the demand for the manufac tures and productions of every descrip tion, including iron, steel, cotton, wool, timber, and other material needed in tho construction of engines, cars, bridges, ma chinery, buildings, etc., for the use of tho road, and by tho laborers employed in build ing and maintaining; give employment to furnaces, mills and machine, shops of tho country, and once more revive and stimu late the depressed industries of all sections, and, whereas, to secure to tho government and people these several advantages, and, in addition thereto, to securo a return to the people of thirty millions of acres of land heretofore granted to build tho thirtieth parallel line, and save the building of one thousand and five hundred miles of roads, it is the judgment of this Convention, that it is not only right, but tho duty of the National Government to render such aid, properly secured, restricted and guarded, as will secure the prompt completion of the line referred to and such extensions as will give to all sections tho advantages resulting therefrom. Now, be it resolved, First. That a Southern line to the Pacific Ocean should be built on or near the thirty second parallel from Shreveport via El Paso to San Diego, where it will make connection with the waters of the Pacific in a safe and excellent harbor, and connect also with the railroad linep now building from San Francisco to the southern part of California, thus securing a continuous line to that great city and port. Second. That there should also be con structed extensions from the most eligible parts of the Texas and Pacific Itoad to New Orleans, Memphis and Vicksburg, and from a point near the 103d meridian to Vinita, in order to reach the Mississippi river, to con nect with every road and harbor of the At lantic coast, and with every railway east of the Rock} Mountain slope. Third. That to insure to the nation the greatest benefits from this line of road, and to prevent its being controlled in the inter est of any one part or section of the coun try, there should Vie established such regu lations as wili maintain the road from Shreveport to the Pacific as an open high way and as a competing line to all trans-con tinental railroads, to be used on equal terms by all Connecting roads which are now or may hereafter be built—similar regulations to be applied to branches receiving similar aid to the Texas and Pacific trunk line. Fourth. That it should be built at the lowest possible cash cost, in order that the people shall be protected against undue or oppressive charges, and shall be secured in its use at the lowest possible rates required to protect the comparatively small capital actually expended on its construction, a*e sult which can be greatly aided by its construction at this time, when ma terial and labor can be secured at prices much below those that have prevai'ed for many years past, and that Congress shall at all times reserve the power to protect the people against speculation and oppression in the use of this national highway. Fifth. That the building of tho main line should proceed under such regulations as will insure the construction of the road continuously from the point of its present completion in Texas to San Diego in Cali fornia. or until it meets an extension of the same line from San Diego. Sixth. That the construction of such a line and branches can be best secured by the extension of government aid to the line and branches heretofore mentioned in these resolutions, in the form of a guarantee of interest (not principal) on a limited amount of five per cent, construction bonds, paya ble in fifty years, so that the entire liability assumed . shall not in any event exceed two thousand dollars per mile per annum, nor the interest on the actual cost of the line and said branches, such liability to be secured by a first mort gage upon all the railway property and fran chises of the companies, and unon the bonds granted by the United States' and any de ficiency in the earnings of the line and branches, to meet the interest maturing on these bonds while the road is in course of construction, to bo met by the de posit in the United States Treasury of one-eighth of the whole authorized is sued, and the sale of the same, if it becomes necessary, after applying the net earnings and the proceeds of lands, and the sums due for government transportation of mails and telegraph service, to meet the interest so maturing as aforesaid, so that there shall bo no outlay by the governraent-these bonds to be issued only to tho actual amount of cash expended upon road and branch s, and upon the certificate of sworn commissioners appointed by the government to supervise the building of the line and branches, aud their redemD tion at maturity to be assured to purchasers and holders by providing a sinking fund out of the revenues of tho road and branches to be paid by the companies into the Trea sury of the United States, of such amount as may be sufficient to pay off and dis charge the entire banded obligations of the companies on which tho government has guaranteed the interest. Seventh—That the President of the Convention be requested to pre pare an address to the people of the United States, embodying tho views get forth in the preamble and resolu tions adopted by this Conveuton, and that ho be authorized to appoiut a committee of thirteen, who, with tho President of the Convention, shall present an engrossod copy of the proceedings of this Con vention, together with an address, to the President of the United States, the presiding officer of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives and to take such further action an in their judgment may bo deemed host, to further the objects aud purposes of this Conven tion. Other resolutions, providing that copies of these resolutions bo furnished to the Governors of the States, the Mayors of cities aud the commercial and other bodies repre sented iu the Convention, aud that the Sec retary have the proceedings of tho Conven tion published in pamphlet form, were adopted. Au amendment to the report, providing for a branch from some ] oint on the Texas and Pacific Railroad to tho Gulf coast at Galveston or some other point, was offered aud occasioned considerable debate, hut it was liually rejected, and the resolutions, as reported by tho committee, were unani mously adopted. Brief and congratulatory speeches were then made by invitation of tho convention & H°n. R. W. Thompson, of Indiana, Gen. William Preston, of Iveutuckv, aud Judge Matthews, tho President, after which the convention adjourned sine die. A SORRY STORY. San Francisco, November 24.—One of tho crew of the ship Orpheus made a sworn statement before a notary public at Port Townsend, in whicn he charges the Captain of tho Orpheus with having been the csubo ot the disaster. Ho says that ou raising the light of tho Pacitic, ho was ordered by the second mato to head for them. In a lew minutes alter the Captain came on deck and ordered him again to put the ship ou her course. About throe minutes afterward he was ordered by the Captain to let her luff which he did. After this the Captain sig nified his intention to B peak the steamer for which purpose tho lights of the steamer were kept dead ahead until tho two vessels came in collision. Then the steamer fol lowed the ship, and tho people ou board tho steamer shouted and called upon tho Cap tain of the Orpheus to stop and rescue them but he did not heed their cries and kept orl his course, and the steamer was soon lost to view. THE WHISKY FRAUDS. St. Louis, November 25. —McGruo re peated the most of his ovidencein the Mc- Donald trial against Avery. “Packages were marked for Avery and given to Jovce. I saw Avery in Washington, at Brasher’s request, and told Avery it was a foolish fight. Brasher, Avery and him self had received money for crook ed whisky, and if Avery fought Brasher all would ho found out. Avery said he was not fighting Brasher. Avery took sides with McDonald and Joyce, keeping Biasher fiom bt. Louis. Ho visited Avery at his house in Washington in 1874, to purnp him as to whether he was still giving in formation to the ring here. He did not or der me out of the house, nor did I shako my fist at him, nor say I would get even with him. Wo parted iu a friendly manner shaking hands.” MORE FAILURES. Boston, November 25.—Royal, Gilkoy & Cos., extensive coal aud lumbor dealers iu Watertown, have failed. Their liabilities are estimated at $250,000. The failure was caused by the inability to collect from a large number of master builders aud car penters indebted to them. Montreal, November 25.—Baldwin & bleeper, of the Coaticooke Mills Company, have failed. Their liabilities are between $40,000 and $50,000. Ono hundred skilled artizans and laborers are thrown out. ON THE TRAPEZE. Cleveland, 0., November 25.— A bof named Lazette, aged eight years, wliilo performing at tho Theatre Comiquo last night made a leap from the trapeze aud struck ou a carpet held by attendants. In some way the carpet slipped from their hands, throwing tho boy on the stage, and so severely injuring him that ho is not ox pocted to live. FREAK OF A LUNATIC. Gettysburg, Pa., November 25.—A lunatic named Hile, at tho county hospital killed a woman named Beatty, who wont into his room to clean it. He choked her until insensible aud then drove tho small end of a broomstick into her brain. She had been repeatedly forbidden to go into his room without one of the keepers. THE TEXAN TROUBLES. Brownsville, November 23.—A1l is quiet on the Texan border. Captain McNally commanding the State troops, who had in trenched himself on tho Mexican side of tho Rio Grande, lias recroasod, having obtained a promise from tho Mexican authorities to deliver the stolon cattle and thieves if caught. Subsequently seventy-five head were delivered at Ringgold Barracks. Bullock and Blodgett— I Two Georgia Exiles. [Nashville American.] In the days when most of the Southern States were under the control of carpet baggers, and it was the fashion to steal and plunder under the guise of official sanction, two pplitical buccaneers, Bul lock and Blodgett, held high carnival in Georgia. The former was Governor of the State and the latter Treasurer, and between them they robbed the people at will, until finally one of them, Bullock, fled to escape merited pun ishment, and the other, although con victed, was pardoned by Governor Conley. Latterly the press of Georgia have been discussing whether it would not be doing the proper thing to have the pair brought back and tried for their rascalities, it be ing claimed that the pardon of Blodgett could not stand. The Home Courier , re flecting the sentiments of other Georgia journals, pointedly asks: “ Bullock and Blodgett are still refugees from justice, and their whereabouts are well known. If they are guilty of fraud and pecula tions, and have robbed the State, why do not the State authorities bring them to justice ? If they are innocent, why don’t they voluntarily return and de mand investigation, and save their repu tation from unjust obloquy? If these men are guilty of rascality, why,weaskin all honesty and justice to the State and people of Georgia, are they not brought from their refuge homes to answer for crimes they are daily charged with hav ing committed ? Is it not the Govern or’s duty to take the necessary steps to have these men brought to the bar of justice ? Is it not due to their reputa tion? And if they are innocent they ought to do so.” The attention of Governor Smith, the present Executive, was recently called to the matter, but while he was not very enthusiastic about putting forth efforts looking to the capture of the culprits, he was still willing to issue c. requisition for their arrest if it were applied for. Said he : ‘‘l am ready to make a requisition at any time for Blodgett, if any one should make application for me to do so. There are reasons which, to my mind, are good for resting the matter as it stands. I will make the requisition when it is applied for. I tried to get Bullock, and at a cost of some $1,200 to the State; the effort was unsuccessful. I do not know where Bullock is now. It is said he is at Albion, New York. Where he might be found is another question.” What the Governor’s reasons are for resting the matter as it stands we are unable to divine. Probably he thinks the game of capturing and trying the two exiles would not be worth the candle. This is doubtless his view of the matter, as a prominent Atlanta lawyer, in an in terview with a reporter, expressed about the same opinion. There was no doubt, he said, that Bullock and Blodgett were guilty of the grossest frauds upon the State. There might, however, be some difficulty in convicting Bullock. While every honest Georgian felt fully persuaded in his own mind that he had been impli cated in the most outrageous transac tions, the law cannot convict upon pre sumption, and full legal evidence'might not be attainable in the case. He did not suppose the Governor knew where Bullock was. When the requisition was made before, it was known when the detective started from Atlanta. / Bullock was kept informed of every stage of the negotiations between Governors Smith and Hoffman, and when at last the officer went to the place Bullock was supposed to be, there was no Bullock there. On the whole, we should judge that the contingency is very remote when Bullock and Blodgett will, be brought back to Georgia and punished for their misdeeds. Epaulets of vulcanized India rubber have been introduced into the French army.