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MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, JULY 6, 1869.
NUMBER 49.
BOIGIITON, B4RNES & MOORE,
PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS.
:o:
S. N. BOUGIITON, Editor.
Tor the Federal Union.
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Book and Job Work, of all kinds,
J'UOMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED
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Mlilickcbillc 'Business pivcctoin.
Attorneys at Law:
BRISCOE, L. H., City llali.
HARRIS, IVERSON L, Hancock st-
KKXAX & KENAN, Hancock street.
McADOO. W (», over Stet-on’s Store.
KINLEY, W Si A. over Claik’s Drug Store.
NEWELL Sc WILLIAMSON, Newell s Hall.
SANFORD. DANIEL B.. Granite Front.
WHITE, T. W., Masonic Hall.
Physicians: ^
CASE, G D, office at residence on Wayne st.
EDWARDS, G.. office at residence oil Jefferson st.
HALL. W. H., office at late residence on Hancock st.
HEUTY, J W, office over J M Clark’s Drug Store.
HOLMES, JAS.. Wayne st., north Masonic Hall.
WHITE, S G., office at residence on Jefferson st.
Dentist:
G. W. JONES, office in Darien Bank building.
Dry Goods.
B ARNETT, W., & CO., Hancock, st-
B1SC1IOF, A. Milledgeville Hotel.
JOSEI’II A., Waitzfelder’s Old Stand.
ROSEN FIELD, J. &■ BRO , Milledgeville Hotel.
THOMAS, H. W. Sc CO., under Newell’s Hall.
WINDSOR, T. T. & CO., “ ** “
Di-Ugr Store :
CL VRK, JOHN M., S E cor- Wayne & Hancock sts.
Groceries:
BROOKS, X B Sc CO., Hancock street.
CAKAKfcR. T. A., S W cor Wayne & Hancock sts.
t uMI’IO.V. 1*. M- Sc SONS, Masonic Hall.
COW. W. T., Brown’s New Building.
CUSHING Sc WALLS, Hancock st.
ELLISON, W., Washington Hall.
JOHNSON, J. L. CO, East side Wayne st.
KIDD. S J. Eust side Wayne st.
MUXDAY. C B Sc CO, West side of Wayne st.
PITTMAN & PERRY, West side of Wayne st.
SKINNER F. -V CO., Milledgeville Hotel, (P. O )
STEV.-OX, W S Sc BROS. Granite Front.
TEMPLES, H., Hancock st., opposite Masonic Hali-
WIN DSOR, TT Sc CO., 1st door south Drug Store.
WRIGHT & BROWN, West side Wayne at.
Millinery:
MRS. LEIKENS, N W cor. Wayne & Hancock sts.
MRS. A. P. LINDltUM, Browu’s New Building.
Jewelry :
SUPPLE, JAMES, Waitzfclder’s Building.
WEIDEXMAN, G T, Browu’s New Building.
Warehouse:
JONES. JXO & CO., Hancock st.,(near Jefferson st.)
Bar Rooms:
CALLAWAY. L N, Hancock st.
HOLDER, J H, Washington Hali.
LEWIS. E G.. Mille igeville Hotei.
TOLL & DOERFLINGER, Hancock st.
Confectionery and Toys:
CONN, W T, Brown’s New Building.
Bugwy, Wagon and Furniture Shop.
CARAKEK, W *Se J, Masonic Hall.
Shoes and Leather.
TRICE, E, Washington Hall.
Refreshment Saloon:
LEIKENS, G. N W cor- Wayne and Hancock sts.
Tin. Stoves and. House Furnish tug Goods-
SI ALEV, JOSEPH, West side of Wayne street.
Bakery:
DOERFLINGER, J R, in rear of McComb’sold Hotel
City Government.
Mayor—Cob L. H. Briscoe.
Aldermen.— 1. Joseph Staley; 2. I)r. S. G. White; j
'■< E. Trice; 4. Win. A. Williams; 5. P. T. Taylor,
' Dr. W. H. Hall.
Clerk.—Peter Fair.
Marshal.—John B. Fair.
S- xt< n.—Peter Ferrell.
B1 M\RY E. TUCKER.
’Tis evening, and the shadows fall.
Fall, one by one:
Pale twilight spreads o’er earth her pall,
For day has gone.
The lowing kine forsakes the green
A ltd seeks her young—
The crickets sing in home of sheen
In unknown tongue.
The birdlinps in their downy beds
’Neath mother breast
Nodded their feathery tender heads
And sank t-j rest.
Then opens every incense cup
Of perfumed flowers.
And fairies wake each other up
In syivau bowers.
And I ? I wait in lonely glen
As oft before,
I wait—’tis but a dream of “ then”—
He comes no mote.
Milledgeville. Feb. 22ud, 1869.
‘•Monkey Roost.”—We accidently
overheard a young lady use tiie term
“Monkey roost,” ou the street the
other dav. Ot course we were curious
to know what she meant by it, as we
weie not aware that Monkeys are in
the hahit of roosting. Following
along for a short distance—positively
with jjo intention of eavesdropping—
we learned enough to know that the
young lady applied the term “Monkey
roost” to those street corners, where
young men who are to > lazy to have
anything to do, loaf and watch the
feet of passing ladies. “There they
sit,” she said, “half a dozen of them,
the live iong day, if the sun don’t
shine on their “roost”—six pairs of
hands in kid gioves, six ratans twirl
ing about, six mouths squirting tobac
co juice on the side-walks for our dress
es to drag through, six silk hats on six
heads that have no more brains in them
than a mullet’s, and six pairs of im
pudent eyes ready to gaze at our an
kles when we lift our skirts the least
bit, as we have to do in order to keep
them out of the filth with which they
bespatter the sidewalk? It’s mean!
if one of ’em were to visit me, I
would order all the spittoons in the
house to be placed around his chair,
and then tell him why 1 had done it.”
We heard no more, but passed on
thoughtfully.—Atlanta Era.
The Annexation Feeling IN No-I Correspondence of Ihe N.Y. Democrat.
va Scotia.—I am prepared to prove) thk boston noise.
to any one having a knowledge of No- ! Abom Ihr Firm Bar Of the Prace Jabil«-—
va Scotia that the most intelligent
minds in it have long ago decided in
favor of annexation to the United
States. F*v the “ most intelligent
minds,” I do not mean merely the au
thor and his private friends: I mean
the professional men, the merchants,
the members of the Dominion and lo
cal legislatures, and large class of men
who have had dealings of some sort
with the United States during the
past ten years. The medical profes
HcfDfM anti Such Things in Bnslou.
Boston, June 16, 1869.
Well, here I am in Bosting, in the
midst of the jubilee. I arrived last
night and slept in a refrigerator, the
hotel clerk telling me, as I slung my
carpet-bag over his desk, “All the oth
er beds are full, sir.” I’m cool and
chilly this morning, but the same gen
tlemanly clerk assures me I’ll soon
get over that, so I suppose I will. I
took breakfast at the third table with
sion, most of its members having stud- j ohn Forney and another chap. John
ied in the American colleges, is very j says be was comfortable last night in
deeply tinged with annexation senti
ment. The legal profession contains
many annexationists in its front ranks.
The merchants of Halifax—all of them
who have a thought abovasugar and
rum—are almost unanimous in their
wish for annexation. The members of
the local legislature are in many cases
very outspoken in their wish to annex
the province to the United States ;
and if a motion, such as that made
lately in the New Brunswick legisla
ture, were made in our local house, it
a coal bin, and the other fellow slept
sound under a billiard table, with his
carpet-bag for a pillow. John looks
seedy, but says he never felt better in
his lite. While we were eating, Gil
more’s rehearsal commenced, and all
the waiters ran out to listen. Forney
swore some, and said it was a put up
job to cheat him out of his breakfast,
lie said he’d be—hlowed if he’d stand
it, and he didn’t. I saw that chap put
away two roast chickens, a round of
beef, a loaf of bread and about tour
would not call up even the censure of pounds ot crackers, in his carpet bag,
the speaker, if it was not received with i utH j be wa8 looking for something to
| favor. The counties ot Pictou and i carry coffee in when the waiters came
Richmond in the east, and Dighy and back. As there wasn’t anything left
Yarmouth in the west, are notorious but a piece of codfish-ball, and the
in their desire for annexation: the t U g end of a baked bean, I quit. Got
counties bordering on these have all [ a b 0 y to take me to a restaurant, and
partaken of the feeling in some degree: {finished ihy breakfast on pork and
beans. This is a dish that Bosting
m fine, all the counties which nave
had any dealings with the United
States are fast becoming converts to
the new doctrine. The county of
Halifax even, in whose chief city the
pride, pomp, and circumstance of mil
itary parade are always before our
eyes, with the legislative halls and the
bases its reputation on. A professor
at the college (they have a college
here), told me that pork and heatis
made brains. I asked him, “ Do you
eat 'em.”
“ Me ? Of course I do ! Why *?”
“Oh! I only asked for information.
residence of the governor in our midst, I j always did think Bosting folks was
with frowning battlements on all sides; f u u ot w i n d and intellect, hut judging
—and, most important of all, with f rom vv hat I’d heard, I didn’t think
about three hundred thousand pounds tba t the upper crust went for beans
a year spent on the troops—is fast he- j anc | sucb like.”
coming as passively disloyal as the j This kind a took the old cuss, and
counties of Pictou or Yarmouth.— | we were as thick as thieves in less than
When Halifax looks towards the Uni
ted States, the province will follow
soon. At present we are of no coun
try, of no allegiance. We are often
told that if we were an independent
province we would be isolated. But
as an unwilling part of this heteroge
neous Dominion we are isolated in
deed. Disgusted with her experience
j of the working of the new adminis
tration, in ill temper with Great Brit-
we
two seconds, and he was explaining
tiiat beans might do for the masses—
(the oi polioi, he called ’em)—when
whiz—bang——tr-r-rump—came in a
burst of artillery, a tooting of ten
thousand fiddles, a squealing of thous
ands of flutes, and a piccolos, and cor
nets, and the Lord only knows what
else, making a noise which„would have
roused the dead in any decent village
but Bosting, and I jumped about four
Just now more important move-1 a j n an( j desirous of changing her alle-' feet from the ground, as scared as a
ments are projected or in progress in- j gfence—restrained on the one side by j n jgrr er when lie sees a crocodile mak-
rended to benefit the trade relations j PIngland and Canada, and in some j U g f or b j ni .
of the world than at any other period j measure repulsed on the other by the | Never mind,” says the professor,
m its history. The Pacific railroad is United States—Nova Scotia looks vain- «. that’s only Gilmore. Y’ou’ll soon get
finished; the Suez canal is rapidly ap- | y ar0 und her for a ruler to reverence,! used to him.”
proacliiiig that point; the tunnel un- a CO nstitutioa to live by, a flag to tight) £ guess 1 will. It’s all Gilmore
Jer the Alps is progressing in a favor- j uri der, as a child who is horn at sea bere) that is, all that ain’t jubilee.
j might gaze round upon the wide waste | p ve got on a Gilmore paper collar, a
of waters, seeking in vain fora land to i Gilmore jubilee neck-tie, and if I stay
call his own—for the green fields and j anot i, er (J ay I will have to have another
shady trees of that haven of rest, his shift, aud that’ll be a jubilee, too. My
home.—Lippincolt's Magazine•
“Direct Trade with Europe.”
J II. ASHBRIDGE,
Of New OrleaUK.
IJ. S. HUTTON,
i Of Macon, Ga.
J. II. ASHBRIDGE A CO.,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
AND
General Purchasing Agents,
ASHBRIDGE, SMITH A €0.,
NEW ORLEANS.
Consignment* solicited.
Particular attention given to the sa c of Southern
lands to European capitalists and intending Iimni-
«r*nta. .
Order- for foreign goods executed on best possible
term*.
Hay 4,1869. 411 G*
Dr. Tail s
Sarsaparilla and Queen’* Delight,
The Great Alterative and Blood Purifier.
Expectorant,
A pleasant and sure cure for Coughs, Asthma, Sec
Vegetable Liver Pills,
Fur Dyspepsia, Biiliousuess, Arc.
Improved Liquid Hair Dye,
Warranted the Dest in use.
For sale in Milledgeville by
L. W. HUNT &
JUy 11, 1869.
■—» A. S
\Y* 4 "V T rii I i IA f SAVE YOUR RAGS AND u-v is
’’ LD! SEND THEM TO THIS shank.
The highest market price paid for clean j
rags! Gather them up and send them POOR
Union Office, Dec. 29
CO.
41 6m
ble manner ; a new line of Ocean
telegraph is about being stretched
from France to the United States; an
American company lias been started to
connect all the leading cities in China
by means of the word speaking wires,
aud a ship canal is in contemplation
across the Isthmus of Darien, by means
of which vessels cart pass backward
aud forward from the Atlantic, and
last in date, hut not least in impor
tance, a proposition is now under con
sideration to sever the isthmus of Cor
inth. This neck of land unites the
Morea with Attica, between the gulfs
of Corinth and Egina. It is narrow,
and the proposed work would be com
paratively easy of accomplishment.
When completed it would facilitate
trade and travel to and in the south ol
Europe, European Turkey, and the
adjacent countries, and the king of
Greece is pressing the enterprise upon
the Legislative Chambers ol his king
dom with great earnestness. This is
the age of commercial progress, ami
we must not he behind in the race.
Thus far we have not.—Age.
On ! Ladies, Will You Marry ?—
If yea, then here is your chance—a
young gentleman desirous of making
an eligible match. He is young and
handsome (says so himself) has a tal
ent for disbursing money; parts h:s
hair in the middle; can dance the
“ Lancers” South, West and crooked ;
is ‘-..’urn peart” at base ball; can
! ride a velocipede “To Boliinbrack ;”
! can pick the guitar, and outsing the
Boston Peace Jubilee. The lady must
: he a “ self-supporter,” with sufficient
1 additional funds for him to speud the
Summer at the Springs,
l N. B.—He will not insist on her go-
I in<i, if she does not wish to go.
[Columbus Sun.
Young Men Take Notice.—It is
a fact, perhaps not generally known,
hut interesting to young men, that the
| solitary ringlet, which lioats f rom so
many waterfalls, is a notification on
1 the part of the wearers that they are
: not engaged. If it is extremely long,
the wearer is supposed to he very de
sirous of getting spliced at once; it
only moderately long, shows that onl y
good offers will be entertained ; an ex
tremely short, meagre ringlet indicates
that the wearer is very particular as to
whom she accepts.
[Godey's Lady's Book.
' It is reported from Iowa, that Mrs.
Bloomer has gone hack ou her princi
ples, by again donning petticoats.
Perhaps she’s getting old and her
hose is a world too wide tor her shiunk
A Curious Way of Exchanging
Wives in Massachusetts.—A very
curious instance of an exchange ot
wives by parties formerly residing in
Salisbury, in this county, has just
been developed here by the arrest of
two of the offenders. Their names
are George F. and Annie R. Godsoe.
and Charles H. and Sarah Lizzie Low
ell. Lowell was married in 1856, and
Godsoe was married in 1S62. Both
parties resided for some time in Salis
bury, where, in December, 1S6S, each
becoming dissatisfied with their com
panions and their connubial associa
tions, the two husbands with their
wives went to a lawyer
into a written agreement to separate
and not to hereafter interfere with
boT)ts are blacked with jubilee black
ing, and when 1 was shaved this morn
ing at the Parker House, the officiat
ing darkey asked whether I’d have a
common razor or a Gilmore razor. To
he in the fashion I took the latter, and
after leaving some blood on a jubilee
towel, my face was plastered up with
jubilee plaster, so that I now look as
though I’d been tattooed.
The best rig of all is the jubilee
calico, which you see oh all the wo
men, from the wench that brings your
colfee to the lady that does the sopra
no for Gilmore. The pattern is adver
tised as a “ bar of the Star Spangled
looked
when they gave it to me they told me
it was entirely original. They ought
to know, oughtn’t they?”
I dropped the subject. Here was
the first knowledge I gained of Bosting
duplicity.
Gilmore’s mighty proud of that
drum. He sold me its full dimensions
on a printed slip, (price five cents;
everything costs in Boston), but I have
forgotten them. On the right of the
drum and extending nearly a quarter
of a mile across the building is the
battery of one hundred 100 pounders.
The cost of powder debars their use in
ali the choruses, so I see they are only
down for the following selections:
“ The Star Spangled Banner,” (cho
rus of guns in perfect time).
“ The Bay of Biscay O,” and a new
made piece by a Bosting Professor, en
titled
“ The Battle of Prague.”
The artillery accompaniment in the
two last named pieces will be particu
larly grand. The illustrious author
of the “Bay of Biscay, O,” tells us
of lightning and thunder, while the
Battle of Prague is a peculiaily Bos
tonian and noisy production.
The other instruments, such as fid
dles, trombones, E flats, cornets, hand
organs (played by horsepower) hurdv
gurdies, and so on, are on a similar
scale of magnificence. One big base
fiddle is divided in rooms and occupi
ed during the night by a portion of the
orchestra. Ole Bull resides in this
fiddle, which may account for its
dreadful bellowing.
I forgot to say that the big organ
from Music Hall is apart of the Coli
seum furniture. It was moved night
before last, while it was dark, the
vengeance of the people being feared.
Next to pork and beans, the Boston
folks pride themselves on this organ.
It was sent over to them by George
the Third over a century ago. It
works by steam, and takes ten per
formers to play it.
Gilmore don’t consider the first day
a success as to the finances. He had
calculated on having at least 200,000
people present, and was mucii disap
pointed when he found only about
40.000 had come to see his show.
I got my dinner to-day along w’ith
other newspaper men. There were
11.000 of them, which shows how
enterprising American journalists are
when there’s anything to cat. The
dinner was good but rather Yankeeish.
The first course was bean soup; then
came codfish balls, pork and beans,
stewed apples, doughnuts, peauuts,
fried pork, and apple dumplings, all
washed nown with plenty of hard ci
der. Gilmore was going to open a
bottle of wine, but the Bosting police
interferred.
I shall come home to-morrow. I
can’t stand the awful hub-bub. Every
man I meet in the street is a fiddler or
a horn-blower, or some other kind of
a musical nuisance, and each one saws
and toots away at his instrument as he
marches through the street, while the
women yell and screech as though go
ing through a surgical operation.
Oakey Twiggs.
Banner,” but all I saw of it
: wku uie<r I jibe a picture of little niggers climbing
ami entered | ovcr / railfence T# £ , ure t ^
read music, but then the idea of inno-
, * , t> . cent little darkeys climbing over the
each other lhcy then went to I orts-1 of Bosti ,^ s bel | e8 , struck me
mouth, N. H., where Mr. Godsoe was , & beautitu „ appropriate one, and
married to Mrs Lowell, and Mr Low- gtuck to too . They may tell me
e l to Mrs. Godsoe, since which time jg musj but j doQ , t be li e ve it. That
they have been living together m the; woul[j taRe the whole romance out of
conjugal relations, j the thing, and what would Bosting be
without romance ? As I said before,
the idea of having the dear little dar
ing what may he termed the process
of “simple divorce” which took place
at Salisbury. Mr. Godsoe and his
paramour, Mrs. Lowell, having become
residents here, were complained of by
parties knowing the circumstances, for
their illegal connection, and were ar
raigned before Judge Carter, to an
swer to the charge of bigamy. Low
ell and his companion, Mrs. Godsoe,
residing in Amesburv, were also ar
raigned, and each bound over in the
sum ol $-500 for their appearance at
the October term of Court. Failing
to obtain sureties, the parties are in
custody. There was no evidence, we
believe, that the new and somewhat
peculiar arrangements were otherwise
than pleasant, hut the moral aspect of
the case was offensive.—Boston Trav
eler.
keys always close at hand to remind
you of what Bosting’s peculiar doc
trines have clone for the country is as
touching as the funeral of a New York
Alderman.
The only distinguished men in town
that I’ve heard of to-day are John
Forney and his pal. and Useless Grant
and myself. Grant’s position gives
him some advantage over us poor
devils, who don’t give away offices for
“ consideration,” as I understand he
has a room all to himself. Borie, the
youthful beau of the Navy Depart
ment, is here, and is stopping on board
a gunboat in the harbor. He says it’s
better to be always sea-sick than to
trust to Bosting hospitality. To set
with his
im rolling up Main street,
A Burning Sea of Naptiia.—The [jaunty tarpaulin hat, his natty jacket
Pall Mall Gazette mentions the occur-j 0 t' blue, his tight-and-loose sailor trous-
rence of an extraordinary phenomenon j ers, his polished pumps, is a sight
recorded by Heroditus us having been j worth more than double the cost of
observed in remote times by the tribes j coming to Bosting. The old chap
hitches up his trousers in the regular
stage fashion, and as he passes along
C 1- * - ADKIFTi Or. The
Tr
Girls.—Massachusetts
53,001) more women than men.
has
No
\f ia a deeply iuteresliug
OoiGLA?,ju>i begun m that first i
o Tide of Faie.— wonder the unprotected females are
Novelet, hy Amanda
Srst class vveekiy, the always on the rampage.
Saturday Evening Post.
, . , , Beecher’s Salary.—Beecher’s sal-
*>endfor a Sample Number, containing the firstpor- CIO HOD
ti°n of the story, which will be furnished gratis. t>o afV liiSt VCBr amounted tO b iO.UU .
>e" delay, or they will be eiliausted Tenns of The p nreachin" he received §12,000
**»»«. $-’5() 8 year (with a beautiful Premium En- 1 Or prtaClllUj, uu ly ’
graving 1,6 copies l ur §8. Address H. PETERSON and for bis books, WPltlDgS, OCC., §~Sr
V : *19 Walnut St., Philadelphia- 12 tf. ,
Dr,„ id ;.w«j 1 red ; uu * ——
The highest market price will be paid for DliY [ The rose has its tbomS, the diamond
111 D E S at the Family Grocery Store of Jfc S p eC k8, and the best man His fail-
T. A. CARAKER, Agent.
Milledgeville, April 6th, 1869. 36 tf
ing.
inhabiting the shores of the Caspian
8ea. That huge salt lake is dotted
with islands from which enormous
quantities of naptha are yearly taken.
Early last month owing to subterra
nean disturbances, the naptha wells on
these islands overflowed, and the in
flammable substance spread over the
entire surface of the lake. It acci
dently took tire, and for 48 hours burn
ed furiously ovej a surface of many
thousand square miles, presenting a
magnificent hut terrifying spectacle to
the inhabitants of the surrounding
country, who imagined the end of the
world was at hand. The fish in the
lake were entirely destroyed, and for
miles around vegetation was parched
and the country made like a desert.
A S5,000 monument is to be erect
ed over Sam Houston’s grave, at Hous
ton, Texas.
The apple yield of Pennsylvania is
expected to be the largest for many
years. -
bowing here and there, you can almost
make up your mind that he is prac
ticing for admission to the Tammany
bahet. Borie is a right good fellow,
hut something ales him. He is al
ways under the influence of Porter.
I went to the grand rehearse! this
evening (this is supplementary to the
rehearsal) and was presented to Gil
more. lie was standing on the third
floor of the scaffolding which sustains
the three hundred performers on the
big bass drum, but as soon as he saw
us he descended with great alacrity
ai.d showed us around the Coliseum.
I asked him why he called it the Coli
seum instead of the Musicarium, or
or trombonisticom, or something ori
ginal.
“ Why, God bless your innocent
soul, young man, do you mean to say
that name ain’t original f Why I had _
the whole faculty of the college at &
,work for a week ou it, and finally 1
The Cause of the Death of the
Hon. Henry J. Raymond.—A New
York letter says:
The story of the sudden death of
Mr. Raymond, of the Times, is but a
repetition of that told of the quick-
ending of the lives of many men, and
not a few of note, in this great city,
during the past few months. “Appar
ently in perfect health he dropped
dead.” Study the New York papers
from day to day, and you will remark
the alarming frequency of this sentence
in their local columns. Why is it that
sudden deaths occur so often here ? Is
it because life is so terribly earnest in
New York? Perhaps so. Men who
are “ in the harness” here never rest.
Men who keep even pace with the
world of New York are forever work
ing. Men like Mr. Raymond who
lead New York, journalists who direct
public opinion here, man the helm and
keep a perpetual lookout for breakers
ahead, never take the harness oft'. Their
brains are ever active. They are for
ever driving; forever overtaxing their
energies.
As I stated in my dispatch, no one
of Mr. Raymond’s associates for a mo
ment dreamed that he would die as he
did ; and when the news of his death
came they could not reconcile them
selves to it or understand it at all.
But now an explanation is given. Last
winter when in Washington on a brief
visit, just before the inauguration, I
believe he met with a severe fall which
injured him about the head and shoul
ders so much that he was obliged to
keep his bed for several days. The
physicians now say that in this fall
'the sensitive veins connecting with his
brain were hurt much more seriously
than was thought at the time. Aud
their theory ol his death is this: That
through the constant working ot his
brain since then these injured veins
had gradually become more and more
delicate, thinner and thinner, until the
quick rush of blood to his head, when
he leaned over to fix the lower bolt on
the door of his house on that Thursday
night, burst them, aud caused his sud
den death.
TWILIGHT THOUGHTS.
The god of day has vanished.
The light from the hills has fled.
And the hand of an unseeu artist
Is painting the west all red. •
All threaded with geld and crimson.
And burnished with amber dye,
And tipped with purple shadows.
The glory flameth high.
Fair beautiful world of ours !
Fair beautiful world! but. oh !
How darkened by poison and sorrow.
How blackened by sin and woe !
The splendor pales in the lieivens.
And dies in a golden glean.,
And alone in the hush of twdight
I sit in a checkered drearn-
I think of the souls that are straying
In shadows black as night;
Of hands that are groping blindly
la search of the shining light;
Of hearts that are mutely eryit g,
And praying for just one ray
To lead them out of the shadows
Into the better way.
And I think of the Father's children,
Who are trying to walk alone.
Who have dropped the hand of the Parent,
And wander in ways unknown.
Oh. the paths are rough and thorny,
And I know they cannot stand—
They "'ill faint and fall by the way-side,
Unguided by God’s right hand.
And I think of the souls that are yearning
To follow the good and true—
Tiiat are striving to live unsullied,
Yet know not what to do.
And I wonder when God the Master
Shall end this weary strife.
Aud lead us out of tiie shadows,
Into the deathless life.
San Francisco Correspondence St. Lotiis Democrat
Hit: JAPANESE IN CALIFORNIA.
Our new Japanese immigrants, men
tioned in a previous letter, have found
a locality to suit them. Messrs. Sclinel 1
and Bennett, the “ white” agents for
those of our new visitors already here
and for those on the way, have pur
chased a rancho or farm near Grand
Hill, El Dorado county, for S-5,000,
and intend extending their pur
chases till they have obtained at least
two thousand acres. The county is
hilly—just what they require—espe
cially for tea culture. They assert
that" large parts of California are as
well adapted for tea plantations, as is
China or Japan. Here is a new re
source added to the thousand aifd one
of which we justly boast. No longer
will the citizens of “ the East,” or Eu
rope need indulge in decoctions of sloe
or birch. California tea will be in the
market in a few years. It has been
often asserted that it is common in
cities lor the servants in large hotels
or private establishments to sell the
tea leaves after they are done with,
which are then recolored, dried, doc
tored and put on the market a second
time by scoundrelly dealers. This is
well known to be done in London,
England. Their establishments are
known as “ rag and bone” shops—fa
miliar to every reader of Dickens—
arc the reef iving houses for servants
“ perquisites,” and otter a definite,
though not gigantic, price for old tea
leaves. Success, then, to our Califor
nia tea ! It will probably be possible
to sell it at such prices that the genuine
article will be as cheap or cheaper than
the fictitious.
Our new Japanese settlers are of a
superior class. Herr Schnell, their
piotector, understands the language
perfectly, having been a resident iu the
country many years, and has married
a Japanese lady, who accompanies
him to our golden State. She is an
admirable artist. It is quite certain
that the Japanese will hold a much
better position in the country than that
usually accorded to “ John Chinaman.”
Two well known facts illustrate the
difference between these two people.
When the first steamboat arrived in a
Chinese port, the people flocked around
it in their boats and peered curiously
into the port holes. In a few weeks
they had constructed a model steamer,
complete in every particular, paddle
wheels, paddle box and bridge, all was
there. But there was one trifling
omission—the engines were left out.
Nor could they find any better mode
of working it than hy arranging a kind
of tread-mill inside to turn the pad
dles and propel the boat. They very
early appreciated the importance of
American and European machinery,
and machine shops were therefore
started in Yokohama and elsewhere,
under the superintendence, and indeed
mainly run by European mechanics.—
In a year or two the Japanese had
mastered every detail, and the larger
•part of the white workmen were dis-
harged. Providing our new immigrants
will discard the use of the two handled
sword, i:i the handling of which they
are said to be unpleasantly proficient,
they will be a real acquisition to the
.State.
Our Minister to France.—During
the height of the war, Messrs. Micajah
Y. Johnson and David Sheean were
suddenly arrested at Galena, at the in
stance of Messrs. E. B. Wasnburne and
J. Russell Jones, and hurried off to
Fort Lafayette. They remained in
the latter 1ort for some months; Mr.
Johnson—leaving his companion be
hind—being finally transferred to Fort
Lafayette at the time when Judge
Carmichael was incarsernated there.—
Both these victims of Radical tyranny
were Democrats; both occupied a
prominent position at the Galena bar,
and no accusation was preferred against
either, except the vague but conven
ient charge of “ disloyalty.” To add
to the infamy of the transaction, Mr.
Johnson was arrested in court, whilst
the midst of a murder case, aud
with Mr. Sheean was sent rapidly, un
der guard, to the East, and lodged so
secretly in Fort Lafayette that, for a
time their friends did not know to what
place they had been spirited away.—
The manly protests made to the State
Department by Mr. Johnson, during
his imprisonment, were wholly unheed
ed ; and so they both lingered on, until
ultimately, after being arrested with
out cause, they were released without
explanation. At the termination of
the war, Mr. Johnson brought suit
against E. B. Washburne and J. Rus
sell Jones for false imprisonment. In
their answer to the suit, the defend
ants pleaded in the first instance, jus-
to be mulcted ir. h°avy damages, they
subsequently withdrew the pleas they
had first put in, and to conciliate the
man whom they had so grievously
wronged, they signed their names to
the following most degrading confes
sion. They acknowledge :
“ That the said pleas, heretofore filed
bv them in said case, and the matters
and things therein set forth against said
plaintiff', are untrue in substance and
in fact. And the said defendants fur
ther confess the wrongful trespass and
imprisonment set forth in said declara
tion, and that the said defendants are
guilty iu manner and form as therein
stated and set forth, and said plaintiff
has sustained great damage thereby, as
is alleged in said declaration, and said
defendants further confess that the said
seizure and imprisonment ■ was wrongful',
unjustifiable and without cause, and that
said plaintiff was innocent of the vio
lation of any law, or of doing any act
inimical to the Government of the
United States, and that said plaintiff
did no act and uttered no expression, or
exercised any influence, to the knowledge
of said defendants, that was not in support
of the Government of tiie United
States, its Constitution and its laws.’,’
It will thus be seen that Mr. Elihu
B. Washburne, the prime mover in this
shameful transaction, now confesses
that lie had no just grounds for acting
as he did, and also that the pleas here
tofore filed hy him in defence of his
conduct, were “ untrue in substance
and in ‘fact.’” In short, he first
perpetrates a flagrant outrage, and next
endeavors to evade the consequences by
downright lying. Finding this of no avail
lie throws himself upon the mercy of Mr.
Johnson and consents to “eat dirt.”. And
this man is now United States Minister
to France.—Balt. Gazette.
The Prince or Wales.—A Lon
don letter in the Chicago Journal says :
“ The Prince of Wales is hack among
his old haunts, and of course went in
state to the Derby. I mentioned some
time ago that it was rumored that
Parliament would he asked to increase
his annual income. The habits of the
Prince are so well known to the public
that they would have risen in a body
against such a proposition, and after
due consideration the Queen has been
advised that it would be useless to
submit the proposition to the House of
Commons, where it would be impossi
ble to prevent some of the Radical
members from exposing the whole re
cent career of the Prince. The result
is that the Queen is to increase his in
come from her private purse. This,
of course, is only a roundabout way of
accomplishing the matter, and the
amount she thus furnishes will yet
come out of the pockets of the peo
ple in some way unknown to them at
the moment. The figures are rather
startling. The present annual income
of the Prince, from his Parliamentary
allowance and the revenues of the
Duchy of Cornwall, amounts to no less
than ,£120,000 sterling, or $600,000
in gold, and yet he is at this moment
not only bankrupt but heels over head
in debt. The Queen will add, it is
said, some £30,000 or £40,000 more,
bringing his income to at least three
quarters of a million of dollars. (And
this is only one Prince out of the lot—
and you think you do wonders when
you give your President $25,000 per
annum ! Are you not ashamed of your
selves ?) The public explanation giv
en is that the expenses of the Prince
are greatly increased hy reason of his
holding the levees, &c., on behalf of
his mother. But this is the purest
nonsense. I do not suppose that his
expenses are increased from that cause
a single farthing; at all events,acouple
of hundred pounds would cover them.
The whole affair is a mistake, and
it would be wisdom on the part of the
Queen to withhold her hand. The
sooner this reckless young man learns
that he cannot dip his hand at pleasure
in the pu hlic purse the better.”
H. M. Turner, the newly appointed
negro postmaster at Macon, arriyed in
chat city from Washington, on Satur
day last, with his commission. He
will take possession of the office
on Thursday next, July 1st. This ap
pointment, made against the protests
of the entire respectable white com
munity of Macon, without distinction
of party, plainly shows what Grant
meant, when he said in his acceptance
of the nomination—“ Let us have
peace.” We learn from the Messen
ger, that Turner brought on with him —— r -
Boston mulatto, as principal clerk, tification. Finding they had no ground
, f v i stend on , ftod ^ tbe y were liable 1 Wisconsin next lau.
[Columbus Sun, June 29,
Imperial Government.—It will
not do to treat this subject as a mere
bagatelle. Of course no one believes
that a majority of tiie people are yet
prepared to establish either an elective
or hereditary Monarchy, in this coun
try. For some years past, however,
they have tacitly consented to the un
restrained rule of an Oligarchy of Con
gressional politicians, and the princi
ple of absolute government having
thus been practically admitted, it will
be a comparatively easy matter to shift
the present Imperialism, wielded by
the Congress into the hands of the
Chief of the Executive Department
of the Government. There is one
paper ably edited and published in
New York City, and called The Impe
rialist, openly devoted to the advocacy
of Imperial ideas. There are numer
ous other journals, not quite so undis
guised and open in their views, but
which are inclined to do whatever they
think may be safely done underpresent
circumstances to forward the same
general result. Among these the Cin
cinnati Commercial is conspicuous iu
the V\ est, and the Mobile Tribune in
the South.
For ourselves we have already pro
claimed the position we occupy in ref
erence to this question of Imperialism
in the United States. We desire and
hope yet to see the people rally in their
irresistible might for the restoration of
a true Representative Republican sys
tem of Government; but if they should
prove weak-hearted or indifferent to
their freedom and rights, and the issue
be really between Congress aod the
Executive, as to which of the two de
partments of the Government shall
rule with an Imperial sceptre, we are
for the Dictator in preference to the
reign of the “ Thirty Tyrants.”
Montgomery Advertiser.
Brick Pomeroy is proposed as a
Democratic candidate for Governor <rf
