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Inlanful '•( orntTH.”
Avery interesting decision has just
been rendered by the Illinois Supreme
Court, which knocks the bottom out of
“corners,” “puts” and “calls.” The case
decided grew out of the famous Chicago
wheat “corner” of August, 1872, and was
appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook
county, which gave judgment for Cul
bertson, Hlair & Cos., in a suit against
John B. Lyon, to recover an option con
tract. The Supreme Court considers the
question whether the rule of the Board of
Trade relative to the enforcement of such
contracts is contrary to the laws of the
and opposed to public policy, and the
ln-ld, the court ruling that the
■contracts are not bona Jide transactions,
ijiam wagers oa the price of grain
on k Rtrenaay in short, a gambling
transactions and hence unlawful. The
practice of making these pretended
purchases and sales, hut in effect nothing
hut wagers, is condemned as illegal and
injurious, and one which require to be
suppressed. The judgj**nt of the court
below is therefore reversed, and the
cause remanded.
The Nashville American thinks if such
a decision as diis wore enforced in New
York, it create a perfect revolu
tion ii>mercantile transactions, since the
grec'-cr part of them are of the “gamb
)ug” character referred to in the Illinois
decision. How would the principle laid
down by the Illinois Judge affect the
business of dealing in cotton futures, as
practiced in our Southern markets?
Tlio Conviction of McKee.
The tuOHt notable triul ho far in con
nection with the whisky ring, as haH al
ready been announced by telegraph,
dosed at 10 o’clock on Monday night, in
Bt. Louis, the jury bringing in a verdict
of guilty in tho case of William McKee,
senior proprietor of the Ht. Louis (Hole-
Democrat. A different verdict was an
ticipated, not only in Bt. Louis, but every
where else, on account of the contradic
tory testimony of witnesses for the prose
cution; but it seems the jury, after mak
ing full allowance for this, still consid
ered tho evidence of guilt strong enough
to justify them in arriving at the decision
they did, which, it was ascertained in
court, was a unanimous one. And then,,
too, the charge of the Judge squinted
just a trifle in tho interest of the defend
ant, making the situation apparently fa
vorable for acquittal, or at least a hung
jury. Conviction in this case will strike
terror into tho hearts of the culprits yet
to be tried Maguire and Babcock. Ap
parently, nothing can save them. It is
about time for President Grant to make
another change of prosecuting attorneys,
TfiT woil'ld Soefff from Hse c'hurAoCCr
of the testimony already developed in
these trials that nothing short of a nol
pros or an executive pardon will prevent
his favorite Babcock from a term in the
penitentiary.
Activity in Lumber at Wilmington,
N. C.—Owing to certain irregularities
that for some time liavo existed at Wil
mington, N. C., in coasting tonnage, and
consequently in freight rates, there have
been considerable shipments of lumber
to the North —a practice which had been
pretty generally discontinued during the
past year. It seems that at present rates
there is more margin for operating upon
with profit for Northern shipment.
Southern Florida is giving Wilmington a
lively competition for the trade of the
We>-t Indies, and even those of the Wil
mington lumbermen who have the best
established reputations in tho islands find
it difficult to compote in the face of suoh
unequal opposition, and no little excite
ment prevails in tho trade. There are
indications of competition betwoen the
two points that will tend to enliven the
trade.
Gen. O. O. Howard, in his official re
port of the condition of Alaska, intimates
that when the ff>ase of that territory was
awarded the Commercial Company, a tre
mendous sum was sacrificed to satisfy
political cormorants, and it is added in
the report that “there is an ugly rumor
that tho brother-iu law of the President,
Mr. Dent, had been made a partner in
the concern at the eleventh hour.” The
number of times rumor has made Mr.
Dent a partner, and tho critical moments
at which the same authentic gossip insists
the transaction is consummated, is calcu
lated to fill the speculative mind with
wonder.
General Wliitthorne’s resolution to
have the division of captured and
abandoned property in the Treasury De
partment investigated was defeated by
the Republicans refusing to vote to
suspend the rules. It has long been well
known that W. E. Chandler, when As
sistant Secretary of the Treasury, ob
t tamed information regarding every claim
l before the department, for cotton cap
; tured, and he has enjoyed a monopoly of
the claim business on that account. As
he is Secretary of the Republican
Committee, his political friends
i\n tie House would not allow any in
vestigation that would reach him.
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Tom Murphy, the President's whilom
confidential adviser, has arrived in Wash
ington, along with other prominent gen
tlemen, a mi friends of the President, and
their pro-' nee there has given rise to
some gossip The wiseacres claim to
know that Murphy is in a precarious
financial condition, and they say that
Grant, too, has been dragged down to a
condition of impecuniositv on account of
certain speculative ventures into which
he was seduced by Murphy aud others.
The New York boulevard scheme is men
tioned as one in which, instead of making
money, as had besn promised, Grant has
been assessed very heavily.
The Cotton Tax Bell. —A Washing
ton dispatch says: “One of the most im
portant measures pending in this Congress
is the bill to refund the illegally exacted
cotton tax, which was considered on
Thursday by the Ways and Means Com
mittee. Whether the bill be just or
generous, it calls for such an extraordi
nary amount of money, some $00,000,000,
that it is not likely to pass, even if it be
favorably reported. The committee did
not reach any conclusion upon the bill
but the opinions of the various members
were such as to indicate an adverse vote
when one is reached.”
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR,
The Centennial “Job’’ No Subsidy.
The Nlacon Telegraph, satisfied, as we
suppose, with the constitutional argu
ment in favor of the centennial bill which
we furnished it, seems no longer to have
any misgivings on that score, and now
not only approves the appropiation but
denies that the contribution of a million
and a half of dollars to the stockholders
of the Philadelphia show is a “subsidy.”
The Telegraph puts the transaction on a
paternal footing, and maintains that Con
gress has as right to vote money
from the public treasury to defray the
r xpense of the “national” jamboree at
Philadelphia, as the bead of the family
has to provide a dinner for his wife and
children. It says:
“Juasmieh as the United States Gov
ernment plays best in this matter, has
stamped it ss a national fete, and invited
the guests, we might ss well say that a
man subsidizes his family when he sends
home his contributions to a family enter
tainment to hi* friends and neighbors.
We dil once ijear of an old hunks boast
ing tint he had sent a barrel of flour to
u poor woman, but the crowd refused to
accept Kj*. an act of benevolence when
Gov.rnnient, after recognizing this Cen
tennial celebration as a national fete and
inviting foreign governments and peoples
to it, could decently have refused to con
tribute to it; and unless such contribu
tion could be shown to be positively un
lawful, the fact of the previous committal
would have been to us an overruling
reason for voting such aid.”
Now, for the life of us, we cannot see
in what light Congress is to be regarded
in the paternal character attributed to it
by our cotemporary. It might do for a
King or an Emperor to assume the pater
nal prerogative which the Telegraph at
tributes to our Republican Congress, but
in a government of limited and defined
powers the relations are reversed, and,
instead of the people being dependent
upon the will of the government, the
government is dependent on the will of
the people. It may be said that Con
gressmen are the representatives of the
people, and that their act, as such, is the
act of the people. But it must be re
membered that Congressmen are the
representatives of the people only for
specific constitutional purposes, and that
beyond the prescribed limitations of their
powers they have no power at all. An
appropriation of the people’s money for
any purpose not authorized by the con
stitution is a robbery of the people; and
if the constitution may be violated to
donate money to a “national fete” in
Philadelphia, it may with equal pro
priety be violated to appropriate millions
of dollars to get up Fourth of July cele
brations in every city and town in the
Union.
But our cotemporary claims that the
Philadelphia Centennial is an exceptional
case—that the government having re
cognized it as a “national fete” by in
viting foreign governments and peoples
to it, Congress cannot with decency re
fuse to contribute to it. This is the
argument of the stockholders in the
speculation. But it is an argument which
exposes their duplicity, and is more
creditable to their cunning than their
candor. When they invited the govern
ment to dignify their projected exposi
tion with its official recognition and
co-operation it was with the assurance
that Congress would not be asked for one
dollar in aid of the scheme, and the gov
ernment recognition of the enterprise was
accompanied with an emphatic declara
tion that it would not be in any degree
pecuniarily responsible. In the face of
this declaration by Congress, the mana
gers of tho joint stock company set to
work to carry out their plans on a scale
of magnificence far beyond their means.
The money at their command was ex
pended in the erection of costly build
ings, in extravagant salaries and expen
sive entertainments. Various schemes
were set on foot to raise money by sub
scriptions to the stock, by traveling
drummers and by liberal advertising.
But millions were still needed to com
plete their plans for astonishing the world
and making all Christendom tributary to
Philadelphia, and immediately on the
reassembling of tho anti-subsidy Con
gress the Centennial lobby throng
ed the capitol clamoring for an ap
propriation to “save the nation from dis
grace.” How they plied their arts of
persuasion is known. Ten thousand dol
lars were expended in giving to Congress
and the government officials a free excur
sion to Philadelphia and a banquet. For
weeks the galleries were filled with im
portunate men and women, headed by
that prince of lobbyists, Colonel Tom
Soott, who pressed the passage of the
Centennial appropriation bill to the
exclusion of all other public busi
ness. The amnesty debate, so un
timely sprung by the aspiring Blaine,
for a time diverted the attention of Con
gress, and, as was thought, embarrassed
the prospects of the Centennial bill. But,
strange as it may seem, the storm of
passion proved a favoring breeze to the
Centennial job. It was deemed necessary
to throw a tub to the whale, and Nor
thern Democrats, regardless of their pro
fessions of strict adherence to the letter
and spirit of the constitution and in the
face of their repeated pledges of retrench
ment and reform, relaxed their stern
views of economy, while Southern “paci
ficators,” to demonstrate their “loyalty,”
expended their eloquence, and cast their
votes in support cf the bill, which was
passed as a peace measure, outside of the
constitution.
And so, while a rigid system of curtail
ment iu expenditures is being inaugura
ted iu every department of the govern
ment, a million and a half of the tax-bur
dened people s money goes to aid in
defraying the expenses of the “national
fete in Philadelphia 1 The millions who
will spend their centennial anniversary at
home for lack of means to defray the
expenses of a visit io the centennial jam
boree, are consoled with the assurance
that the money is only loaned “to save
the national honor"—that it is all to be
paid back from the proceeds of the show.
But this assurance, like the pledge to ask
no aid from the government, is a delusion
and a cheat. The money was not
asked for as a loan, and it
will never be returned as a
loan. If Congress had a right to make
such a loan to the Centennial joint stock
company, it has an equal right to make it
a donation; and, adopting the logic of our
Macon cotemporary, it would be indecent
for Congress to refuse to contribute the
million and a half which it has voted.
As well might the “old Hunks" den and
the return of the barrel of flour which
he had sent to his wife. Besides, if
Congress should be indecent enough
to claim a return of the money from
the proceeds of the show, what security
has the government for the claim, J and
how would it go about collecting it? '
The New Tariff Bill.
The new tariff bill introduced by Mr.
Morrison, Chairman of the House Ways
and Means Committee, on Monday, has
been prepared with great care, after con
sultation with the leading men of the
majority, and it is believed that it will be
adopted by the committee with but little
alteration. The bill prescribes an average
reduction of the tariff on wool of 33 per
cent, (a reduction of one-half;, and cot
tons of about 30 per cent., with a sub
stantial redaction on iron, bat not enough
to interfere with the production in this
country. The tariff on liquors remains
untouched, while a tax of ten cents per
pound is levied on tea and three cents on
coffee. Silk goods, except those in which
silk is the principal element, are not
touched, while on fabrics composed
principally of silk the tax is reducedpS
per cent. The tariff on tonacoo not
stemmed is increased four per cent. BUu.
minuoua coal and salt are put or. the ree
list, which is made quite comprehensive,
and will, it ia believed, satisfy the d*
otwes is put on the issv section
of the bill by itself, so as to avoid the
incidents of the fight on the Schenck bill
in 18G!).
The principle of the bill is, in the first
place, to abolish all combined duties,
simplyfying the tariff by fixing a specific
rate of duty, and making that specific
rate a fixed rate, twenty-five or thirty per
oent., ad valorem; and secondly, to re
duce in general the duties on those artic
les the importation of which is now pro
hibited by the high duties that are im
posed upon them.
It places on the free list every article,
with the exception of raw wool, includ
ing dyes, etc., which is used in manufac
turing, the consumption of which now
amounts to .$3,000,000 annually. This
is chiefly in the interest of the manufac
turers.
The duty of four and ten cents im
posed on coffee and tea, it is estimated,
will yield a revenue of $11),000,000 per
annum.
Its most important rates, as fixed by
the bill, are as follows:
Manufactured cottons, not exceeding one
hundred threads to the square inch, 31 cents
per square yard.
Bleached ditto, 3£ cents.
Colored and stained ditto, 3£ cents.
Finer goods, unbleached, 3 cents.
Bleached ditto, 34 cents.
Colored ditto, 4£ cents.
Goods of the same description and lighter,
unbleached, 3 cents.
Bleached ditto, 3£ cents.
Colored ditto, 4£*cents.
Finer goods, not exceeding two hundred
threads to the square inch, unbleached, 4
ceuts.
Bleached ditto, 14 cents.
Colored and printed ditto, 5 cents.
Goods of lighter description, exceeding
two hundred threads, 4£ cents.
Unbleached ditto, 5 cents and 7£ cents.
Yarns, a uniform rate of duty, 10 cents, 20
cents, 30 cents and 40 cents per pound.
Spool thread, 6 cents per dozen and 9
cents per dozen. y
Gimps, galloons and laces, 30 per cent.
Cotton shirts and drawers and hosiery, 30
per cent.
Cotton braids, laces and trimmings, 30
per cent.
Wool of the first quality, 6 cents per
pound and 10 cents per pound.
Wool of the second class, 5 cents per pound
and liw-entH per pound.
Wool of thefmra class, 3 cents per pound.
Woolen cloths and shawls, 70 cents per
pound.
Flannels and woolen fabrics, 20 cents,
30 cents, 40 cents, and 5 cents per pound.
Italian cloths, 9 cents and 15 cents per
square yard.
Carpets, 90 ceuts, G 5 cents and 40 cents
per square yard.
Pig iron, $5 per ton.
Bar iron, 1 cent, £ cent and | cent per
pound.
Wire, 3 cents, 4 cents and 5 cents per
pound.
Sheet iron, 1 cent per pound.
Itailroad iron, $lO per ton.
Steel rails, sls per ton.
Cigars, s3£ per pound.
Leaf tobacco, 40 cents per pound.
Silks, 25, 30 and 40 per cent.
Coffee, 4 ceuts per pound.
Tea, 10 cents per pound.
Gen. A. It. Lawton.
Hon. Pat Walsh, the able liepi.sentative
of Richmond county in the House of
Representatives- 1 , writing to his paper, the
Augusta Chronicle, pays the following
merited tribute to the public services,
exalted character and personal worth of
our distinguished fellow-citizen and Rep
resentative. Speaking of tire passage of
the convention bill, Mr. Walsh says:
“General Lawton, whose convictions
last year were against a convention, on
the ground of expediency alone, pro
posed the compromise. He is one of the
purest and ablest men in the State, and
I could say with truth, in the South.
There is nothing small in the man. He
has neither egotism nor pomposity;
neither assumacy nor servility. Firm in
his convictions, he is candid in the ex
pression of his opinions and always
courteous and dignified. A gentleman
of the most liberal culture, and of the
highest legal attainments, he stands
to-day the peer of any man in
Georgia. There is nothing negative
about him. His views on all questions
are broad and national, and are expressed
with a precision, force and elegance
which always command respect and never
fail of the impression that he is a man of
great strength of character, of spotless
integrity and of superior ability. He is
not only a patriot, but a statesman—a
man who has never sought office, but one
who would do honor to Georgia either as
her Chief Executive officer or as orie of
her representatives in the Senate of the
United States.
“1 have deemed this due to the exalted
character of the distinguished member
from Chatham. To him is due the o-'lit
of the measure which harmonized the
conflicting views of the friends of a con
vention. With such mem in a convention
to frame the organic law, the people
need have no apprehensions as to the
result. The right 6of all persons will be
preserved under the new Constitution,
and the best interests of the State will be
übserved.”
Anotheb Civil Rights Case. —An in
teresting case under the Civil Rights act
was tried in the United States Circuit
Court at San Francisco last week before
Judge Sawyer. It was a case in which a
colored man sought a remedy for having
been excluded from a theatre. There
was some strong swearing on one side or
the other, for the testimony was very
contradictory on the simple fact3, and it
was charged by the Judge that in the ab
sence of any rule of the theatre that
“negroes should be excluded,” there was
no evidence to show that the man was
excluded on account of color, and that
he might have been excluded for some
other reason. Under this charge of the
Judge, the jury found a verdict in favor
of the manager without leaving their
seats.
A Herald special cable dispatch says
the Prince of Wales has a strong party
engaged in advocating, directly and indi
rectly, his mother’s abdication of the
throne.
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1876.
Affa ! rs in Georgia.
in Oglethorpe county is too far ad
vanced for the season. Flour, however, is
stationary.
The Athens Georgian nominates ns as the
“agricultural candidate for Governor.”
This, it seems to us, is “a good nomination.”
It would be a good plan to vote for no candi
date who has no strawberry mark on his left
side. This is the only plan to get good men in
office.
Wild turkeys are plentiful in Oglethorpe
connty.
Th£ Forsyth Advertiser says that Mr. P.
J. Howard, of Monroe county, shipped up
wards of fifty bales of cotton to Savannah
last week, after having sold daring the
early part of the season several bales at
, home. Mr. H. once before shipped a large
lot of cotton to Savannah whicb was “non
come&tible” when he wanted it. He will
take care that this lot will come out when
he wants it.
/ Mrs. Elizabeth Mays, of Monroe county, a
mother in Israel, is dead.
/ W e have received the first number of the
•Southeast Georgian, published at Black
shear, and edited by Mr. Henry M. Mcln
msh, well known as a successful journalist.
His salutatory is exceedingly well written.
He is assisted by Mr. W. E.'Myers, who is
not only a graceful and vigorous writer in
prose, but a verse-builder of no ordinary
merits.
, Various and numerous Georgia idiots are
ygAributiug t j the intellectual to
Ode of the very best men in the Georgia
Legislature is Hon. Charles C. Kibbee. He
is a worker rather than a speaker, although
he is never at a loss for words or arguments
when advocating a measure. He is a rising
young man of the State, aDd one of the most
promising.
The bold burglar is boring about Black
shear,
They arrest negroes on suspicion in Co
lumbus, and rarely ever make a*mistake.
The Blackshear Georgian comes out for
Hardeman for Governor.
Augusta is thinking about building anew
theatre.
Rev. Father Prendergast, formerly of this
city, is seriously ill in Augusta.
J. J. Simons, of Macon, is dead.
Macon had a two hundred dollar fire the
other day.
Crawford, in Oglethorpe countv, is think
ing about starting a gin factory.’
The belle of Savannah says that the best
buttermilk grown is raised in Habersham
county.
The Rome Courier remarks, with some
truthfulness : “The Atlanta Herald says
Atlanta cannot do without Kimball. If that
be so, we are in favor of removing the capi
ta) to a place that can. What say the voters
of North Georgia to it ?”
A negro at Tilton got to fooling with a
circular saw the other day. He and dn’ have
time to explain that he was joking.
The family of Mr. Thomas J. Seats, of
Harris county, are supposed to have been
poisoned recently.
Mr. J.C.Cook, of Muscogee county, seems
to be the victim of incendiaries. The third
tiro on h:s premises occurred the other day,
when a corn-crib was buried.
Rev. G. J. Pearce, a Methodist preacher,
died recently in Decatur.
We have received the first number of the
Wad ley Enterprise , a paper recently estab
lished at Wadley (or Bethany) on the Cen
tral Railroad. It is edited and published by
Messrs. McLeod, Toole & Cos., and, for a
first issue, makes quite a creditable appear
ance.
The ladies of Athens will shortly give an
entertainment in aid of the family of Stone
wall Jackson.
From an incendiary fire at Bethany, on
the Central Railroad, Mr. S. B. Strauss lost
between six and seven thousand dollars.
Dr. J. B. Randall also lost a considerable
amount.
A little son of Mr. Brockston, of Atlanta,
was accidentally drowned in a well the
other day.
The murder of citizens of North Georgia
by the Federal authorities has become so
frequent tht recently two United States
soid.ers were arrested and confined mllie
Fulton county jail. They were, however,
turned over to the United States courts
under writs of habeas corpus.
There are many curious things in this
world. One of them is why wagon wheels
should be greased, and the other is why,
when a mgger is frost-bitten by a muie’s
hind-foot, he rarely recovers. Where are
Tyndall, and Proctor, and those fellows?
However, wo suppose that at this time of
day (2 a. m.) they are in bed, at any rate
they ought to be.
Thus the New York Express: “It is an
nounced that the lady to whom Henry Wil
son was engaged at the time of his death
had written a memorial sketch of him, since
published iu the Atlanta, Ga., Sunny South.
A writer in the Independent alleges, and
shows by parallel quotations, that one-fourth
of the pretended original matter of the arti
cle is an almost verbatim transcript from
Macaulay’s essay ou John Hampden*.” This
is very likely; but whether the sketch was
stolen or not, we are certainly very sure
that Its publication in a Southern newspaper
was in wretched taste. The prominence
and notoriety which Mr. Wilson achieved
(he had no fame) were entirely due to the
malignity and bitterness with which he per
secuted the South.
Mr. George W. Adams, member from
Monroe county, says the present State con
stitution is the best we have had in forty
years. The honorable gentleman is entitled
to his opinion, and we merely write this
paragraph as a piece of curious information.
The Constitutionalist says: A bill passed
the Senate of Georgia recently exempting
lawyers, physicians, dentists and photo
graphers from ail taxes, save the tax levied
by the State. If we are not grievously mis
taken, this is a singular piece of legislation.
We have not seen the bill, but understand
that the gist of the matter is as we have
stated it. Now, what reasons exist for ex
empting lawyers, physicians, dentists and
photographers, from any burden of taxation
that does not apply with equal force to mer
chants and farmers, not to speak of other
people who constitute the body politic? We
should be thankfh! f or light c* this subject.
Camilla Enterprise: A few weeks since
Messis. Joseph Ellis and Thomas Palmer,
of this place, bought out the stock of mer
chandise, stand, etc., of Messrs. J. A. Jones
& Cos., in this city. Only a few weeks
elapsed, and Messrs. J. A. Jones & Cos.
opened another store two doors away from
their old stand, and began merchandising
again. Whereupon Messrs. Ellis & Palmer,
by their attorney, J. H. Spence, file their
bill praying for an injunction restraining
Messrs. J. A. Jones '& Cos. from opening
another store in Camilla, alleging, among
other things, that said J. A. Jones & Cos.
did agree to leave off selling goods in said
town, saying that they were going to move
a vay from the place if they sold out. The
case will come on to be heard at chambers
on Friday, the 28th instant, before Judge
Wright. Messrs. Davis & Lyon represent
the respond ents. There is but one case re
ported in the books of a similar nature, and
this case will doubtless go to the Supreme
Court for final adjudication.
Harris county correspondence Columbus
Enquirer : It is our painful duty to chroni
cle the sad and terrible death of one of our
best citizens. On Saturday night last, about
nine o’clock, Mr. Richard Cardwell and oth
ers went to the house of on s Henry Ken
non (or White), a freedman who formerly
belonged to Richard E. Kennon, Esq., to
drive him. from the county for some ffen
sive conduct. The freedman had been
warned before to leave the county in two
weeks. The negro lived for the last eight
years on the premises belonging to old
“Uncle Jimmie Castles.” It is general gos
sip that Uncle Jimmie gave the negro
a gun some time ago and told him to “use
it.” The party was met by the negro with
gun in hand, and after some words the
negro shot Mr. Cardwell with buck-shot in
the breast at very close quarters. Mr. C.
fell back, saying, “I am shot; kill this negro;
lam dying,” and then expired. Mr. C. was
a young man about thirty vears old, mar
ried, without children, and "a son of Mr.
At swell F. Cardwell, of Harris. The negro
ran off. This will be sad news to the many
friends of Mr. C.
The Columbus Enquirer says that the
number of people who have left that section
since the first of last December has been
astonishing. In round numbers the Western
Railroad office in Columbus has sold one
thousand six hundred tickets to emigrants
tor the canebrake region of Alabama, and
for Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. In
addition, the Mobile and Girard Railroad
has sold one hundred and fifty. Of this
large number about two hundred were
whites. The vast majority of the negroes
have gone to Louisiana. The Enquirer
says that this emigration has really been a
providential deliverance to that section. It
will enable the year’s supply of small
grain to extend'until the next crop is
gathered,and relieved the country of surplus
labor. It will also be the means "of employ
ing hundreds of whites in the fields, and
enforce more farming and less planting.
Land will be better cultivated than before,
because there will be less which oaa be
cared for. The negroes that have left will
not balance the number of those that were
run there at the approach of the Federal
troops and subsequently treed by the United
States Government. There is an abundance
left, and more than is required to cultivate
all the land that can be successfully planted
in this region.
Hot corn dodgers and fresh buttermilk
are peculiar to Georgia and are good for tke
blues.
The editor of the Talbotton Standard
seems to take our criticism of bis wholesale
arraignment of the State administration
sadly to heart. Well, we are sorry we wrote
it. There is not a more promising young
journalist in the country thtn our friend,
and our remarks were made in the hope
that we could prevail upon him to leave
hyperbole, or whatever you call it, to those
who know no better. Asa beginning we
advise him to study carefully the report of
the Commissioners ot the State Board of
Health, a copy of which will doubtless be
sent him.
When an Atlanta grammarian makes an
onslaught on the Queen’s English, he gen
erally makes the fur fly.
We are indei to a dear little friend in
Blackshear for a most exquisite collection
of pansies.
Colonel H. H. Jones is now in Atlanta,
dining at the Kimball House. The reason
he dines at tiv Kimball House is because
he is hungry. When he gets really hungry,
it requires the foreman of tfie iinen-roo’m
and twenty-two copper-colored waiters to
keep him from starving.
Grass is still blooming in Dalton. TMb is
probably one of the reasons wly we have
had no snow in Savannah.
We are banting for the paity who fur
nished the Columbus paper with a telegram
iu regard to the small-pox in this city. We
wantUi have Him '■-accinated.
Akhem, v ha. *cr^r- tIJC ma
cuiueTV of J saw-min at Kea uay gome time
ago, came in contact with the saw aud was
cut in two across the chest.
Mr. A. B. Woodward, the bminess mana
ger of the Atlanta Herald, was married the
other day to Miss Kate S. Hovell.
Thus the Fort Valley Mirror : “You know
Atlanta isn’t much of a Toombs man.”
The colored Arkansas Travellers general
ly manage to steal everything they can be
fore leaving Georgia.
Thomasvillo has had the worst kind of a
leap year party.
The Talbotton Standard asks the follow
ing question: “Which deserves the greater
condemnation from an injured people—the
imprudent man, guilty cf .before
a moderate crowd, or the newspaper that
publishes his talk to the world ?”
The editor of the Geneva Lamp very ap
propriately calls himself the Lighter. He
is also writing a novel entitled “What?”
Sometimes there is pistol-shooting in the
streets of Talbotton.
Quite recently Mr. Hiram McDaniel, of
Talbot county, has trapped s& beavers.
Sumter county seems to be mourning the
decease of her agricultural society.
The thieves around Thomasville seem to
have a decided partiality for smoke houses.
The editor of the Talbotton Standard
doesn’t seem the compliment
we paid him when we called him youthful.
He will bj sorry for this some day.
The Constitution heads the rumor that
Mephistopheles Morton will probably visit
Atlauta shortly, with “Him and His Shirt.”
If Sam Small is tho author of this, we ad
mire it; otherwise not.
The warehouse of General Anderson, in
Fort Valley, was burned the other day. The
Mirror says it contained forty bales of cot
ton, three or four bales of hay, a bale of
fodder, a buggy and a two-horse dray. Nine
teen bales of cotton were saved in a badly
damaged condition. It was either the work
of an incendiary or caused by rats and
matches. The boobs were lost. Cotton un
insured; warehouse insured for SSOO.
The Atlanta Herald says that while Dr.
Bozeman and the Treasury Committee were
in New York, they wanted some informa
tion in the possession of ex-Governor Bul
lock. Accordingly that gentleman was sent
for, and came without reluctance, giving all
the aid he could to the investigation. He
talked freely about matters in Georgia dur
ing his regime, though we do not feel at
liberty to publish his conversation in this
regard, as reported to us. He was with the
commutes in New Y’ork a week or ten days,
and exhibited signs of straightened circum
stances. It said that he had just applied
foracerksh.p on the Erie road, and was
anxious to get it. Ho still calls Georgia his
Lotnfc v n > . ,-a
tfiruAo it. He says that Blodgett was “the
foxy little fellow” of his administration.
He is not living in New York city, but in
the centra' portion of the State. He says
he frequently meets Georgians, and gener
ally taker occasion to call upon them when
he hears they are iu the city.
The Macon Telegraph says that Mr. S. A.
Atkinson, well known in Georgia through
his long connection with the press in Au
gusta aud elsewhere, and who, for two or
three years past, has been connected with
the New York Forest and Stream, haß fallen
iu with the popular current, aud has drifted
to the centennial centre of the continent.
Ho has purchased a large interest in the
Manufacturers’ Trade Journal, a large and
old established weekly published in Phila
delphia, aud assumed entire editorial con
trol of it. Mr. Atkinson is a journalist of
large experience and fine reputation. He is
a good writer, and is as industrious as a jig
saw under a full head of steam. We hope
he wdl succeed well in Centennialphia, and
will succeed in making his paper welcome
and useful to a large number of subscribers.
Under date of the 31st, our Atlanta cor
respondent writes: Ou yesterday the Dis
trict Grand Lodge of the Independent Or
der of B’Nai B’rith, for District No. 5, met
at the new and elegant lodge room now
occupied by the Gate City Lodge, to hold
its annual convocation. This district em
braces Maryland, District of Columbia, Vir
ginia, North and South Carolina and
Georgia, with thirty-two subordinate Lodges
and a membership of about two thousand.
Ten of these Lodges are in this State,
two being located in Savannah, and
the others in Thomasville, Bainbridge,
Albaqy, Americus, Augusta, Macon, Colum
bus and Atlanta. The District Grand Lodge
pays mileage for one delegate from each
subordinate lodge, all other delegates paying
their own transportation. Savannah is repre
sented in a most creditable manner by J.
M. Solomon, A. Mohr aud S. E. Byck, of
Joseph Lodge, aud J. A. Einstein, of Savan
nah Lodge. The first named is one of the
most popular and efficient working mem
bers, while the latter is among the very
handsomest of the handsome delegates, and
will prove quite an attractive feature in the
grand banquet and ball to be given the dele
gates to-nigbt at the Markham House by
the Gate City Lodge. Thomasville is
not represented, but Bainbridge sends
J. M.. Rosenfield, Albany, S. Cas
per and Charles Wessalowsky,
and Americus M. Lazaron and M. Barrald.
There arc fifty-three delegates present, and,
as a general thing, they are pretty fine look
ing men, and do credit to the order to which
they are attached. Hon. Simon Wolf, of
Washington, is an ex-member of Congress;
Hon. Wm. Lorenstein, of Richmond, is a
member of the Virginia Legislature, and
Hon. Cbas. Wessalowsky, of Albany, is a
member of the Georgia Legislature. The
following are the officers elected yesterday
for the present year : President, M. Em
rich, Baltimore, Md.; First Vice-President,
A. Hass, Atlanta; Second Vice President, M.
Hertzler, Richmond Va.; Treasurer, A.
Goodman, Baltimore; Secretary, S. B.
Gump, Baltimore; Sergeant-at-Arms, A.
Brun, Charlottsville, Va.
The headquarters of the Grand Lodge of
this district are at Baltimore, which ex
plains why so many of the officers are
elected from that city, but the annual meet
ings are held at such points as the dele
gates may agree upon in council. The next
annual meeting will be held at Washington,
D. C. The chief objects of the order are to
unite the sons of Israel in the sacred work
of promoting the highest interests of hu
manity, developing aud elevating the mental
aud moral charactt r ot their race, and pro
mulgating the sublime doctrines of Judaism
among its professors. The poor and the
afflicted are to be cared for, the dead given
the solemn rites of burial, the living edu
cated to become useful and virtuous citi
zens, and the faith of the fathers transmit
ted to their posterity. On the death of any
member one thousand dollars is paid to his
family. This amount is raised by a small
assessment upon the membership. These
assessments generally amount to about
fifty cep’s to each member. There have
been fifteen deaths during .the past year,
which required the paa ment of seven dol
lars and a half by esch*member. Two of
the deaths were in Savannah—C. E. Byck
and D. Hirsh. The order in this State num
bers abon’ five hundred members. The
Grand Lodge of the District lias about
twenty thousand dollars in the treasury, and
a committee has been appointed to establish
at Baltimore or Washington a Home for
Widows and Orphans. There are seven
District Grand Lodges, which compose the
Grand Lodge, having its headquarters at
New York, which meets every five years. 1
learn that the Order of B’nai B'rith have
now in progress of completion, in Italy, a
monument commemorative of religious lib
erty in America, which will be first unveiled
at "the centennial, and then erected per
manently at the capital of the nation. This
will be a most beautiful tribute from the
sons of Israel to the grand principle of re
ligious liberty upon which this government
was founded,
*■ —; mt i —•
“John Henry,” said his wife, with
stony severity, “I saw you coming out of
a saloon this afternoon.” “Well,
madame,” replied the obdurate John,
“you wouldn’t have me stay in there,
would you ?” —Chicago Triburte.
Florida Affairs.
It seems that Purman hasn’t got his band
wagon in tune yet. Is it possible that the
harness has broke ?
Some of the papers are after the Consti
tution, of Monticello, because the editor
wants to make a straight-out fight in the
next campaign. Fddes always would have
his own way, and this time' the Moaxixa
News will help him.
We are continually receiving postal cards
inquiring as to the identity of “Adrianas.”
In reply to all of these we would say he is a
third cousin of Colonel Thomas A. Britt, of
Jacksonville, and seems to be a right lively
young man.
A bucket fell on a colored man in a well,
near Monticello, the other day. Fate seems
to be unkind. Why doesn’t' a bucket, or
something of that kind, fall on Stearns?
It is estimated that the value of exports
from Key West during the mouth endiug
January 1, 1876, amounted to two huudred
aud sixty thousand dollars ; imports during
the same period, two hundred and forty-five
thousand dollars.
Base] ball clubs are again organizing in
Florida.
The Tallahassee Sentinel understands that
some of the recent Northern settlers in that
section are making preparations for raisiug
large numbers of watermelons the coming
season, for Northern shipment—one gentle
man alone contemplating the planting of
seven acres. This is just what shoulu be
done, and we admire tneir pluck.
Thus the Jacksonville Union: On the
wharf of the Jacksonville, Pensacola and
Mobile Railroad can be seen a long, yellow
car, one of the new inventions for' carrying
fruit and vegetables. On the outside is
painted “Florida Dispatch Lino,” “Office
General Agent.” Ihe inside is kitchen,
bed-room aud parlor combined—ail fitted
up with real comfort. This is the residence
°f D. H. Elliott, General Agent of the
Florida Dispatch Line, who is doing some
noble work for us by opening new markets
for our fruit and vegetables, and arranging
for their rapid aud cheap transportation to
those markets.
The Monticello Constitution, one of the
best of our Florida exchanges, has ended
its second volume. We trust the third may
bring increased prosperity.
The satne paper says that Mr. John A.
Henderson, late Democratic candidate for
Congress from the First District, has inst
received a contract through the Surveyor
General’s office in this city for surveying a
large tract of land south of the Witlilacoo
chee river. Mr. Henderson started off yes
terday with a small party of assistants, aud
will be engaged in surveying for about
three months. The contract amounts to
$7,500.
An attempt was made the other night to
rob the house of a negro in Tallahassee.
The perpetrators were Radicals, of course.
No one but a Radical would ever think of
robbing a negro.
The census of Columbia county shows a
population of 5,035, of which 2,677 are col
ored and 2,358 are white. The returns of
voters shows a total of 1,454, of whom 760
are colored and 690 are white.
Lake City is to have anew Court House.
The Reporter says it is estimated that fully
four hundred acres will be planted in vege
tables in the vicinity of Lake City.
Orange trees are budding around Lake
City.
The Tallahassee Sentinel says that a few
days ago Mr. F. B. Papy, General Ticket
Agent of the Jacksonville, Pensacola and
Mobile Railroad, of this city, expressed a
large package of railroad tickets—about
eight thousand in all—from the general
ticket office here to St. Augustine, whero
they were to be sold to travelers going North.
While en route between Jacksonville and
that city some light lingered rascal suc
ceeded in capturing them, and they hawe
not since been found. Circulars describing
the different lots of tickets have been is
sued, and every exertion is being made to
ferret QUt the thief. We have no doubt
numbers of these tickets will bo offered for
sale tqstrangers, whom we advise to look
sharp or tebj wiiUie-takon in. -
•-'Lake City has a crate manufactory.
The editor of the Live Oak Times has
•-•"-•* tiring Want. cartridges at ohicken
thieves.
Orange trees are budding in Columbia
county.
Cheney and McLin, two lovely Christians,
are now engaged in peppering Purman.
By-the-by, where is Purman ?
Thus the Jacksonville Sun: “Brother John
Tyler, sometimes called General, but of
late, by some strange concentration of
events, dubbed Reverend, was one day last
week going about tbe streets of Fernandina
with a shot gun on his shoulder, (so says a
correspondent of the Union) ready to shoot
any one that called in question his state
ments. We once had great respect for min
isters, and through our early training
had come to think this class a little
better than common mortals, but the
recent exhibitions of the Rev. General
Tyler and the Hon. Rev. Doctor Hicks*
shows us that it takes but precious little of
good sense or good character to get a roving
commission to preach in these latter days.
What a burlesque on religion, and even de
cency. Who is to blame for this ?” To
which the Cedar Key Journal adds : “Do
not be so hard on the ministers, Bro. Saw
yer, for there are yet some' good and true
men loft, but it does seem as if the devil has
claim on many of them, Tyler and Hicks in
cluded. Don’t get scared about that shot
gun, for no doubt the brave Smeral has ere
now ‘spouted’ it for whisky.”
Monticello Constitution : The Jacksonville
Press, & sterling Democratic journal, has
been doing yeoman service for twelve
months, and has just entered upon the
second year of its existence. It is ably ed
ited by Mr. McCallum and Dr. Babcock, and
to ail who desire to read a straightout Dem
ocratic journal from Jacksonville, which is
also always crowded with news, we com
mend to them the Press. In a recent issue
the editors say: “We do not advocate a
milk and water policy ; we are for strict
adherence to principle, and a manly,
straightforward utterance of the principles
we hold, and we like, too, to call things by
their proper names, and since there are but
two parties in this country—the Democratic
and R publican—we prefer to call the one
with which we affiliate the Democratic
rather than the Conservative party. Liber
al Republicans are generally men of inde
pendent thought and action, and are not to
be caught by a name; let us give them what
they really want—men of known ability and
undoubted integrity, and with moderate and
just views—and they will act with us in the
great work of the State’s redemption.”
Tallahassee Floridian: We desire to pro
pound a tew questions to Governor Stearns:
1. If you never questioned the validity of
these bonds, “why did you, a few years ago,
as a member of the Legislature, vote with
all the members of the Assembly to impeach
Governor Eeed for issuing them illegally?”
You were then acting under oath ash, mem
ber of the Legislature. 2. If you never
doubted the validity of said bonds, did you
not violate your oath when you voted that
Reed should be impeached for illegally is
suing them? 3. If “the
licularly desired that the constitutionality of
these bonds should not be decided,” why did
the administration take particular pains in
the Supreme Court of the United States
to assert the validity of the bonds and thus
directly bring up the question ? 4. Does it
not look as though you wanted to find out
which way the question would be decided
before you became particularly anxious that
it should not be decided at all? 5. Was it
not your sworn duty as Governor and pro
tector of the people, after the Assembly had
unanimously voted the bonds invalid, and
your own Attorney General had told vou so,
to deny the validity of the bonds until the
contrary should be established by the courts
instead of being the first to rush into the
courts with the declaration that they were
valid, and that no one should be allowed to
raise any objections to them ?
Live Oak Times: A few nights ago we
were at the town of Aspalaga, on the Apa
lachicola river, and stepped on board the
Julia St. Clair, one of the Central Line
steamers. Handing the lad we saw in the
office one dollar, we asked for a ticket to
Chattahoochee, distant eight miles. The
young gefit took a good look at us, and, af
ter stroking the down upon his lip a few mo
ments, observed: “Two dollars to Chatta
hoochee.” In no pleasant mood we scraped
UP our dollar, and after giving the youth our
ideas of his way of imposing upon travelers,
left the boat and hired a colored man to
row us in our own boat to Chattahoochee.
While we were there a young lady arrived
from Bainbridge, w'ho stated that
having taken passage on the boat at an
early hour, ghe desired the stewardess
to show her to a stateroom so that she
could arrange her toilet, but was answered
that none but through passengers were al
lowed staterooms. This is a queer way to
make a boat popular, and we are not at all
surprised to hear how loud the people are in
their praise of the Big Foot and her officers,
who live along the river and abuse the Cen
tral Line. As for ourself, we expect to make
our home, gome time in the future, at As
palaga, being the principal owner of that
beautiful town, and we will endeavor to use
our influence against any set of men who
are so unseiupulous as to charge two dollars
for carrying a passenger eight miles, and too
unaccommodating to give a sick lady a state
room after charging her five dollars for rid
ing eighteen miles on their boat. We think
there are some very small fry od that boat.
BEECHER'S NEW PARISHIONER.
A Glimpse Into the Future, and wlmt
Strange Things it Reveals.
[From the New York Sun.]
When the annual auction sale of Ply
mouth pews came round in January, 1877,
there was much anxiety among the re
maining brethren. Church affairs were
not entirely prosperous. The decision of
the great council called by Dr. Budington
and Dr. Storrs in the summer of the
Centennial year, declaring Plymouth
Church outside the pale of Congregation
alism, had been followed by the secession
of more than half of the members of ihe
ex-communicated society. It is true that
the church was still crowded every Sun
day morning aud night, aud the lecture
room filled to overflowing every Friday
evening prayer meeting. But the crowd's
were no longer crowds of admiring parti
sans. People now only went to laugh at
the jests and buffoonery of the capital
mimic—jests aud buffoonery now grown
positively coarse where before they had
been merely audacious. Aud curious
folks went to behold the completest wreck
of the century.
The fears of the brethren were realized
at the sale. The bidding was not lively,
although the preacher had prefaced it
with a speech of unusual jollity, and al
though the auctioneer surpassed himself
in cheerful rapidity of utterance. Gloom
hung over the little kuot of still faithful
brethren. Brother Shearman’s sobs al
ternated with the patter, patter of the
big drops that fell from his overfull eyes.
He was a Niobe in breeches, surrounded
by a grieving group.
Brother Ross Raymond bid seventeen
hundred and fifty-four dollars for a pew.
This brought no joy to the mourners!
They knew too well that Brother Ross
had not seventeen hundred and fifty-four
cents to hire his pew with.
A pew was knocked down to Brother
Bob Raymond for eleven hundred and
sixteen dollars. The brethren smiled
not. They knew that Brother Bob was,
in the language of the unregenerate, a
capper or roper-in, for they had put up
the job themselves.
Pastoral Helper Halliday secured a pew
at the nominal price of forty-seven hun
dred dollars. They also knew that Pas
toral Helper Halliday was a capper in a
white neckcloth.
The auctioneer had been busy for two
hours, and no bona fide bids so far.
But what was this? Why did the
brethren arouse themselves from dolor
ous inattention and open eyes and perk
ears ? Why did Brother Shearman cease
to sob and weep and begin to assume the
slippery smile by which you may. know
the highly pious lawyer in his lighter
moods ?
A stranger, up to that time unnoticed
by the brethren, had come forward, and
was actually bidding against ex-Brother
Joe Howard.
“Twenty-one hundred dollars,” said the
stranger.
“Twenty-one hundred and fifty,” said
the artful ex-brother.
“Twenty-one thousand,” added the
stranger, quietly.
The ex-brother sat down, and invaria
bly industrious, began to scribble a scene
for a now' American drama on tho flyleaf
of a hymn book.
“Name?” said the auctioneer to the
stranger, while the brethren whispered
among themselves.
“You may put it down ‘Cash,’ ” said the
stranger, advancing to the desk and count
ing out forty-two crisp new greenbacks of
SSOO each.
wlnspered Usher MuV“v to Usher Cald
ywd ’> , n
“Or . a Soiii Usher
Caldwell to
“Or Bill Sharon or Nevada,’ added ex-
Brother Joe Howard, looking u a > from
his literary labors.
“Hallelujah !” ejaculated Pastoral Help
er Halliday, fervently/
“Is the money good money ?” asked
the cautious Shearman, w’ho always keeps
one eye peeled for the wiles of the
wicked.
Each note was carefully examined.
Each note bore the autograph of Mr.
New, formerly of Indianapolis. Each
note was worth its face value in gold,
barring the premium.
Mr. Beecher’s new and liberal parishion
er picked out his pew and then left the
church. He was a tall, dark person of
quiet and gentlemanly demeanor. He
wore an ulster overcoat which reached
down to his heels, and a wide, queer
shaped velvet skull-cap, quite different
from ex-Brother Jos Howard’s. His
cheek bones were high, his beard pointed,
and his moustaches fierce and horizontal.
Most of the brethren agreed in pronounc
ing him a foreigner. At all events he
was an acquisition,
Before long it was evident to the
brethren that this new parishioner was a
very eccentric person. His regularity at
service won him much approbation. He
always entered the church door punctu
ally at ten minutes before the opening
exercise, and walked decorously up the
aisle to his pew. Yet nobody could be
found who had seen him outside the tab
ernacle, either approaching or going
away. Brother Shearman put a private
detective on his track, but the private
detective failed to learn whence the
stranger came or whither he went. He
invariably attended the Friday evening
prayer meetings, coming and going in
the same mysterious manner.
The new parishioner paid his pew rent
regularly, and responded with great
liberality to all calls for charitable dona
tions, paying cash down always, and
always in clean new greenbacks. He
could always be distinguished from the
rest of the congregation by two circum
stances: He never took his ulster and
his queer-shaped skull-cap off during ser
vice; and he never took his eyes off Mr.
Beecher while that divine was preaching
or praying. Indeed, he paid such close
and flattering attention, that Mr. Beecher
got into the habit of addressing his re
marks directly to the new parishioner,
and it came to be a saying in the congre
gation that the Plymouth pastor no longer
preached to Plymouth Church, but ex
clusively to pew 49.
At last Henry Ward Beecher and
Brother Shearman privately put their
heads together to determine some means
of ascertaining who this singular brother
was and why he chose to sit under Ply
mouth preaching. “It might be a trick
of Frank Moulton’s,” suggested the wary
lawyer.
“It may be ; it may be,’' said Beecher.
“I feel that I am on the brink of a moral
Passaic Falls. We must capture the
secret of his attendance; eh, Shear
man ?”
So one Friday evening the sly at
torney brought a gimlet, a screw driver,
and a few inch screws with him to prayer
meeting. He seated himself immediately
behind the mysterious parishioner, and,
while the congregation was employed at
devotions, craftily screwed the hem of
the stranger’s ulster to the back of the
bench on which he sat. A couple of
points in geometry fix a parallel. A
couple of screws in Plymouth lecture
room fixed the mysterious parishioner.
He was thus fairly caught in the toils,
and, while he was endeavoring to extri
cate himself at the close of the meeting,
Mr. Beecher came down and confronted
him, while the agile Shearman locked
the doors after the retreating congrega
tion. The stranger was a prisoner in the
hands of the pastor and the Weeper.
Alas! The conspirators, like Benault
in “Venice Preserved,” had conspired
too much. They had planneu a trap and
caught a Tartar.
Mr. Beecher advanced with a friendly
smile on his face and an extended hand.
“We ought to know each other better,
sir,” said he.
‘‘Ve shall,” said the stranger, taking
Mr. Beecher’s hand and giving it a grip
that left five red spots where the end of
hisfiigers and thumb had been, “We
shall know each other better, Mr.
Beecher.”
“I have remarked your regularity at
meeting and commendable attention to
my sermons, ’ continued Mr. Beecher.
“It is pleasant, in these days, to see such
true piety.*
ESTABLISHED 1850.
“Thanks.” said the stranger, “don’t
mention it.”
“ This is Brother Shearman,” said Mr.
Beecher,indicating the Centennial Weeper
with a graceful sweep of his arm.
“ Happy to know him ; happy to know
him, ’ said the mysterious parishouer
with great politeness. “ Col. Jim Fisk,
Jr., has often spoken to me of Hr. Shear
man.”
“ I beg your pardou, sir,” insinuated
Beecher, “ but hotv shall I address you ?
I do not remember hearing you mention
your name.”
“ What a noble neck and line head,”
said the S.ranger, not to Mr. Beecher,
but as if in soliloquy.
“Do you reside in Brooklyn, sir?”
persisted the pastor.
“ How beautifully is the intellectual
balanced by the animal! ” went on the
strr 'ger, still in soliloquy.
“1 should be pleased to call upon you,
Hr. ?” said Beecher.
“And I should be happy to serve you
with legal advice at any time. Terms
reasonable and business conducted with
despatch, and almost invariable success,
Hr. ?” said Shearman, handing his
professional card to the new parishioner.
“And the massive, leonine features,”
continued the stranger, rubbing his hands
with glee. “And the true piety of the
lines about the lips and under the eyes.
O, this is a manly fellow: this is rare
game. ”
“Who the devil is he?” thought Mr.
Beecher, but he did not say it.
“Who the devil is he?” thought Shear
man also.
“Precisely, gentlemen, precisely !” ex
claimed the stranger, answering the
thoughts that had not been expressed in
words.
Then the stranger slowly unbuttoned
his ulster and stood up, leaving the over
coat fastened to the bench by the wily
Shearman’s two screws. Theu he tapped
the floor triumphantly with his cloven
foot and whisked about a tail nearly as long
as Mr. Evart’s speech. Then he took off
his queer shaped skull cap and revealed
two horns as appalling to Mr. Beecher as
the horns of his own dilemma. Then he
smiled serenely upon the astonished pas
tor and the confounded Weeper.
“Gentlemen,” began the no longer
nameless parishioner, “it is a long time
since I have been a regular attendant be
fore at church and prayer meetings. I
haven’t exactly liked the style of pulpit
talk, you know, and Martin Luther and
Thomas Knox and some others I might
mention have used me pretty roughly in
their time. But since I read the report
of the great trial in the Tribune —a paper,
by the way, which I have perused with
infinite pleasure ever since Jay Gould
bought it —I have taken a strong fancy to
you, Mr. Beecher, and to the Plymouth
style of religion. You are a manly fel
low, sir; a man after my own heart, sir.
Your adultery was a fine stroke, an
artistic stroke, egad. I can’t show any—
thing prettier on my books. Your per
jury, too, was delicious. Couldn’t have
done better on the witness stand myself.
I assure you it made a great sensation in
hell. It revived interest there in church
matters to an amazing degree. In fact,
Mr. Beecher, we got up a little church of
our own and voted unanimously to give
you a call. No denominational connec
tions ; work light and agreeable; total
freedom in your personal relations ; no
illiberal theology to hamper you; cli
mate warm, and salary SIOO,OOO every
year. I’ve fixed up a nice little parsonage
(unmortgaged) for you in the cellar under
the bottomless pit.” And the devil stood
patiently awaiting an answer, and scratch
ing his left ear with the sharp end of his
tail.
“But,” cried Mr. Beecher, “this is very
sudden ! This is very”
1 * be
like now. sheep
Brother Shearman threw up a window
sash, jumped out, and rushed away in
breathless haste.
“I am afraid I must decline,” said Mr.
Beecher. “I fear the climate isn’t good
for the hay fever.”
“Come!" shouted the devil a third time.
“You might as well try to row up Niag
• ara in a peanut shell as to pull against my
wishes.”
Meanwhile Shearman had returned,
and was flourishing documents under the
devil’s nose.
“Hold on!” yelled the lawyer, “you
mustn t take him. I’ve got an injunc
tion here.”
“Not good,” said Satan. “Your courts
have no jurisdiction in my cases.”
“And got a quo warranto writ,”
continued Shearman, waving a seoond
document.
“No jurisdiction, I repeat,” said the
devil, calmly. “I assure you upon my
professional honor, your quo warranto
won’t hold water. Come! Henry Ward
Beecher.”
“Then take me too!” exclaimed the
biflhly pious lawyer, his eyes brimming
with brine. “You will not part me from
my pastor? I love him better than
aught of earth beside. Better than my
own wife—yea, than many wives.
Whither he goest there goest I also.
Take me along with Henry Ward
Beecher!”
“Pardon me,” said the devil politely,
but firmly. “I mean no offence, for I
regard you as a very valuable person—on
earth. But you are altogether too watery
for our latitude. I wouldn’t have you in
hell at any price. You oould put out all
my fires with half an eye. Really, now,
you'll have to excuse me for the present.
By and by you will be better prepared.”
“Take me! take me!” pleaded Shear
man, bursting into tears. “You take
Henry Ward Beecher, why not take me?”
“Excuse me,” said tbe devil again, with
a low bow and sardonic grin. “You re
member what Sir Joseph Banks remarked
just after his famous experiment with the
lobsters and fleas in the kettle ?”
“Nij(” said Shearman, “What was it?”
“Pleas are not lobsters, d—n their
souls,” whispered the devil in a low, sweet
voice, as he vanished in a cloud of sul
phurous smoke with Henry Ward Beech
er under his arm.
Oun Indian Policy. —This has long
been bad, but Professor Seelye, member
of Congress, of Massachusetts, has sub
mitted a proposition for the disposition
of the Indians, which is more sensible and
worthy of our white civilisation than any
thing that has yet prevailed. It is partly
in accordance with the views we have
heretofore contended for. He would
have all the civilized Indians turned over
to the care of the States where they re
side, to become owners of the soil and
citizens, the same as other men. In New
York, Michigan, Wisconsin and North
Carolina there are communities of Indi
ans engaged in agricultural, mechanical
or commercial pursuits, and in all essen
tial respects comporting themselves like
other people; and it is, therefore, urged
that they should not be treated as wards
of the government, unless neees°ary to
carry out existing treaties. It is urged
that tbe tame Indians be turned over to
the States and the wild ones to the army.
—Baltimore Sun.
Cheap Selves.— A California paper
estimates that the two great mines of the
Pacific slope, the Consolidated Virginia
and California, can be made to yield
#6,000,000 of gold and silver a month,
and all other mines on that coast an equal
amount—making a total of $144,000,000
a year; and in view of this abundance of
gold and silver, it wants to know how long
it will be before silver‘must be regarded
as a uase metal and discarded from the
monetary system. In some parts of the
world it is already a dr,\g, Germany is
discarding it, and Li Ban Francisco it is
received with manifest reluctance. The
San Francisco banks will receive five
dollars’ worth of silver with eaoh gold
deposit from their customers, but they
fio not like it, and attempt to discourage
its use,
A man who ten years ago was known
all over the United States as one of the
most promising of base ball players liv
ing, has for a few days past been peddling
onions and potatoes about the streets of
Elizabeth, unnoticed and unknown. And
even this is a better business than catch
ing dies.
The Philosophy or Hate.
[From the Baltimore Gazette.]
Mr. George William Curtis,’ the editor
of Harper's Weekly, has roeently„deelared
that he will not support Grant,Mf nomi
nated for a third term. This jls so fair
an utterance, considering the source, that
it inclines one to read with greater re
spect what he has to say on kindred sub
jects. In a recent article his
reasons why “the North” should con
tinue to have control of the government.
It is plausibly put, so as to conoeal the
obv.ous objections to it, and itjis dexter -
ously put to keep awake the distrust and
ill-will of North for South, which every
body knows is the main prop ofjthe iie
publican party. The only arguments
they want are justifications of the policy
of hate already decided on:
The South was brave, persistent, daring.
It mi fibred in vain. It bled at every pore.
Families wero desolated. Fortunes were
ruiued. During four years every energy
and re; mice was strained to the utmost,
and !h< South yielded only when it could
fit'lli no longer. It yielded, and turned
from the battle field to find its social and
indu-uial system subverted, its industry
parabzod, its former slaves, whom to keep
emd vt and it had degraded and dehumanized,
now become fellow-citizes and equal voters.
The barbariauism which I had fostered had
terribly recoiled upon itself. This is not an
ancient history. It is the familiar tale of
yosteiday and the day before. The North
and t he South of the fiery quarrel and of the
war a'-e the living, acting North and Sonth
of to-day. And the great question of the
centennial year is whether that North or
that South shall coutrol the government.
We yield to none in our sympathy with every
sincero desire and effort to heal the wonnds
of civil war. We hear with pleasure the elo
quent tribute of Mr. Lamar over the
dead body of Charlos Sumner. We
hail the genorous words spoken
at Buuker Hill, and the pretty
chivalry of Southern soldiers in Boston.
We can understand the South Carolinian
who said to the Bostonian: “If we hadknown
what von really were we not have
wished to fight you.” Every such friendly
token of better understanding every honor
able man gladly receives and reciprocates.
But the question remains. The South is
again a unit for the Democratic party. The
North 13 virtually Republican, it is vain to
deplore “sectionalism.” It is often unfortu
uate, but the sectional division of our poli
tics are evident, and they cannot be winked
out of sight. The Democratic party, who
ever may be its candidate, fs the party of
those whom wo have described as the South.
Is it probable that people bred under the
conditions that we have mentioned, then
beaten in war, and at its end encountering
the situation which wo all know, havo essen
tially changed? Have wo at the North es
sentially changed? If we had been beaten
and the South had decided to maintain the
Union upon its own conditions, would it
have been wiso for it to entrust the govern
meut to us?
“The great question of the Centennial
year ’ is not “whether the | North or
South shall control the government,” it
is whether rascality shall continue to
“run the government” or whether honesty
shall cleanse it. Mr. Curtis speaks as
though there were two parties the North
ern and Southern ; but ;ha knows
very well that the strength of the Repub
lican party in the coming nominating
convention will be from the South. By
an inversion of parties the North
is now Democratic, and it is the
Southern carpet-bag States that are now
Republican. When he says, therefore,
that “the South is a unit for the Demo
cratic party, he means that the intelli
gence and respectability of the South are
Democratic; and this is true. When he
says that the North is virtually Republi
can, he says what is not true. The North
is perhaps not pronouncedly Democratic,
but it is strougly anti-Republican in the
sense that Mr. Curtis uses tho word. The
“tidal wave” aud the subsequent reaction
against it, both show that the parties are
disintegrated and formless, and that the
Republican leaders are largely loathed
and distrusted. Again he says;
Tho peril of this country since the war
has been that in the natural magnanimity
toward a defeated enemy, and the equally
natural wish that the war should be as if it
had not been, tho necessary facts of the
situation would bo forgotteu. and the essen
tial gains of the strugglo risked. A contest
so vast and radical does not pass like a
summer shower. It is not vindictiveness
or sectionalism, nor hostility to a real return
of good feeling, but common sense and wise
statesmanship which demands that the
convictions and principles and policy which
triumphed should control the national ad
ministration—to control it not for a sec
tional or partisan advantage, bn*, justly
firmly aud generously for the common wel
fare.
This perilous magnanimity—where and
when bus it been shown ? And who is
breached the direct r jj|#V of it’-”
Weekly, by the Offings of Curtis
aha the drawings of Nast, has done more
to oalumniate and misrepres
Houth than any other Ringle thiug. Tin
typical Southerner has been there repre
sented as a Ku-Klux assassin, a bloody ,
murderous, drunken ruffian. Grant has
always been presented as a noble, pure
minded statesman, thwarting, by the
strong hand of godlike power their
malignant designs. This is the peril
ous magnanimity that Harper's Week
ly has shown. Its whole career
has been a cruel, revengeful, oowardly,
deliberate fie about the South—a lie carol
fully planned and executed to keep alive
a fierce hatred of the South in the North;
for Mr. Curtis knows very well that bate
and not theories are the “republican
principles.” That party is divided on
finance, free trade, protection, taxation,
foreign policy, resumption, inflation—tli
vided on all subjects of opinion, and can
only be united in a common hatred.
Blaine appeals to it on “Andersonville;”
Morton on tho “Southern outrage;” but
Nast, who is the real force of Harper's
Weekly, draws, in a clever, popular way,
and with a keen wit, the malignant, bitter
lies that stir upthe North against the South.
The function of Mr, Curtis is to sicklv
this over with the pale cast of thought.
No, Mr. Curtis! the question is not
whether North or South shall control the
government, but whether North aud
South once again shall control it. The
question is whether the loathsome
putrescence that now goes by the name
of the “Republican party,” whether
under the third term, or under Morton,
or Blaine or Conkling, shall be dumpuf
down once again into the halls of 'state/
or whether honesty and decency of NortL
and South shall wipe it out of existence
once for all. This is the business of the
centennial year.
What Befell Three Happy Faces in
a WiNrow.—The Currie family, living at
Crescent City, lowa, had a jubilee of dis
aster end terror the other day. It was
all occasioned by a gun in a boy’s hand,
too. Johnnie Currie is a foui iaen-year
old and can shoot. A hungry crow came
and sat upon the family door-yard fence.
Johnnie got a carbine loaded with shot,
and stepped out a few paces into the
yard to shoot the bird. Josie Currie, a
nine-year-old brother, a seven-year-old
sister and a fourteen-months child the
whole family ol youngsters—crowded
into the front window to see the young
marksman bring down the crow. John
nio had taken aim, but just a.-, he
about ready to shoot the orow flopped hi-;
wings and flew away. Johnnie, in drop
ping bis gun to let down the hammer,
wheeled towards the window. The
spring of the lock appears to have been
too strong for hjs hold, and the carbine
was discharged—directly into the window
as a matter of course. All the children
were hit and lacerated with shot and
broken glass. Josie Currie staggered
from the window and was caught b’, hi ,
father. He said: “I’m shot through the
heart,” which was a fact. Several of
shot had penetrated the heart, and he
died in a few moments. The little girl
received several shot in her shoulders aceU
neck, but these were picked out, and the
baby was cut a good deal, but its skin
will heal up again in time.— St. Lou
liepnxbliraTu.
Houghs in a New Orleans Street
Car.— The New Orleans Picayune says :
About eight or nine o'clock Sunday night
car No. 43 of the Annunciation and Chip
pewa line was entered by three roughs on
Chippewa street, between Sixth and Sev
enth streets. There were in the car two
men and a young lady. The roughs, af
ter entering the car, commenced grossly
insulting the lady by words and actions.
The ear driver attempted to protect her.
but the roughs drew their pistols and as
saulted him. Fearing that his life was in
danger the driver deseited his car and ran
off. The roughs then took charge of
the vehicle, ar and after driving it off a short
distance, jumped off and ran away.
When the pistols were drawn by these
ruffians, the two male passengers, who
are reported to have witnessed this scene
without interfering in behalf of the lady*
left the car the same time she did.
— ■<. ■—
Mabdi GbaA—The city of New Orleans
is now under the absolute rule of King
Carnival. Having ordered the Post Office
to be closed on February 29, mardi gran,
the Postmaster announces that the order
shall be obeyed.