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rHURSDAY, DEC. ytß6l,
NEGRO LABOR PREFERABLE.
We are exceedingly gratified to nee the
cordial endorsement given our views w ith
reference to negro labor for Southern
fanning purposes, l>y our cotemporai iea
au«l correspondents. A communication
upon this subject will be found in another
column of our p iper this morning, from a
gentleman of experience and intelligence.
We call attention to it.
We are confirmed every day, and every
time we think tile matter over, in the opin
ion tiiat negro labor, at present, is much
preferable to any other for our purposes.
To try and get rid of it without fully ami
patiently trying the experiment of utiliz
ing it, would tie worse than folly, i here is
no other nation under the sun that would
he guilty of such impolicy. Suppose the
English landowners were to turn away all
their laborers, and import Germans, or
French, or Russian peasants to fill (heir
places, what would be thought of litem'.’
We are bound, from motives of humanity,
if nothing e) e, to give the negro a tair
chalice upon his merits. He can scarcely
he said to have had it yet, on acountof
the devil's imps of scalawag and carpet
bag emissaries who have poisoned and de
bauched him. He will not be troubled so
much hereafter, we hope, and will listen
more earnestly to the appeals <>t reaso j
and self interest. We have every confi
dence in his capacity, in connection with
the small farm system, to do for the South
what Providence put him here to do! Make
it, under the white man's guidance, liie
abode of a thrift, prosperity and progress
scarcely paralleled in the dreams ot the
euthusiast. At auy rate, we are willing
to live here witii him and risk the upshot
of tiie experiment, let it he what it may.
We shall never desert our country till the
test has b.ett fairly made.
Some people apprehend an insuperable
obstacle to tiie realization of these hopes
and beliefs in the fact that the negro will
vote. Tiiat is what make us doubt, but
we ouly doubt. We are not at all certain
that it will be. We deplore, and condemn,
and despise, and loathe this thing of pn
limited negro suffrage as much as any
living man, but if it can’t he cured, ap
parently, it must he made tiie most of.
We propose to do that very thing by giv
ing the negro a fair chance to make him
self an essential element in the material
wealtii and prosperity of the country.
The more educated and well-to-do he be
comes, the more his power at the ballot
box will cease to he dreaded. It will be
used for the South, and not against it, In
the main. When the negroes know their
real interests —and they will know them
just as soQii as they are educated and be
gin to accumulate property —they will
vote with their white friends. Ten years
from this date, if the South is at all let
alone, she will have the best class of la
borers, and as reliable a voting population
as any in the world. We are willing to
risk our reputation as a prophet upon the
result, at any rate.
<;o to flow ing.
We reiterate ihe advice so sensibly giv
en by our cotemporary of the Southern
Recorder to our planting friends, that if
they have picked out all their cotton, to
turn their attention to breaking up well,
and deeply, their fields. Now is the time
to kill insects, eggs, and worms that bur
row in the ground for protection from the
cold frosts. Turn up your soil, and you
will kill them, and thereby save the an
noyance of cut worms, &c. The rain and
frosts will mellow and manure your lands
and spring will find you in a good condi
tion to put in seed at an early period.
Save your ohi lands, and give them a
passing thought, for it is better to reclaim
than to open lands to Impoverish them.
f|ead our agricultural column, aud learn
the importance of deep plowing. It will
pay, and pay well. We were talking with
an old farmer of Baldwin the other day,
and he remarked : “Don’t tell me about
California or Texas ; I would not give old
Baldwin for any place in the world. All
we have got to do, is to pay attention to
the plowing and manuring of our lands,
aud we can make us much as we want.
We have as good a soil as any farmer
needs; and all that is wanted is careful
and systematic labor. I am just begin
ning to know how to appreciate our old
county and its resources, and how to plant
wisely, though I have been at it all my
life. The destruction of our negro prop
erty will open oureyes to small farms well
cultivated. Before the war, I dashed
along, as did all the rest. Had negroes
and mules plenty, and did not care much
about the soil. Open utw plantations
when I wore out my old; made money,
it is true, but at the expense of good laud
badly abused.”
We agreed with our friend, that we had
as good land as any sensible man needed,
and all that it needed was sensible culture.
Those who have never tried fall plowing
as preparatory to spring planting, if they
will but try it. will ever after make it an
important point to see that their landsare
well broken up in the fall. Old land can
be better recuperated, ami pay better, than
the cutting down and opening of new.
The slumps, roots, &c., will reti rd and
bother, while the oldlaud is free from all
such, and simply wunts a judicious cul
ture to show you what it can do when
planted.
Pollard Responsible.—J. Maishall
Hanna, Pollard’s associate editor of the
Southern Opinion, in a card just published
mak es tire follow ing statement with refer
ence to his connection with the article
that caused Pollard’s death :
“ I was tlie associate editor of the Southern Opin
ion ; as sueli I wrote the most of the articles that
have appeared in its eolnmns. Much 1 wrote of my
owu volition, aud more I wrote by special direction
of the editor -in-chief. 1 pre|>ared that article
which cost the editor liis life. It irm prepared by
his direr turn. Afterwards, convinced that is publi
cation would tie impolitic if not unsafe, I usked
that tiie article might be modified, expunged alto
gether, or the names left blank, or filled with ini
tials that would have left the. ease without ‘ a local
habitation.’ The article hud passed from the con
trol of the associate; it was then the property of
the editor—to print or withhold. Itc was respon
sible, notl ; and no matter how much I had desired
the assumption, U. Hives Pollard always assumed
and never evaded, the responsibility of every line
and paragraph printed in the Opinion. ‘ lan,
jxmtibte " was his invariable response to applicants
for redress.”
—Most of the plauters in Holmes comity,
Mississippi, In anticipation of the tux
being renewed upon cotton, are sowing
wheat.
—A large stove fouudry is to be estab
lished at Borne, Ga
THU \K«R« PREFERABLE, WITH ALL HIS
FAI'LTS.
Messrs. Editors:—! have read every
article in yours and other papers since the
war that I could lay my hands upon, on
the subject of immigration, the proper
management of labor, >tec. We want im
j migration. Wo want Germans for our
; orchards, vineyards, gardens and work
shops. We want English, Irish ami
Welsh for our gold, copper, iron and coal
| mines, railroads, steamboats, &e. We
| want, and will have at some future day,
I African immigration. We want it now;
I the African, or negro, is far more valuable
| to the Houth than any other class of agri
cultural laborers, and 1 would hail with
j delight ihe day when Congress will take
; steps to encourage African immigration to
the South. The observation of the writer,
in this country and in Europe, is that the
negro will do a more faithful day’s work,
lose less time, eat cheaper food, live in
poorer houses, wear cheaper clothes, and
work for less pay than any laborers on
earth, instead of encouraging them to
leave the country, wo should invite them
to come, and when here should preserve
and protect them. If our country to-day
had double its negro population our lands
would tie worth double what they are now.
If there was at Savannah an arrival once
a mouth of a steamer from Africa loaded
with Africans, our people would Hock
there by hundreds to secure them as plan
tatiori laborers Our rich and fertile fields
must tie cultivated; the world requires
and demands it, and the negro must do it,
either as tenant or common laborer. If
our people desire to plant successfully, let
them abandon all these new-fangled ideas
of scattering their negro houses all over
their plantations, and working them In
small squads. Negroes have been accus
tomed to working in gangs. They love
the society of eacli other, and there is less
chance to loiter their time away under the
old system than under the new one, which
has been thrust upon them by men who
felt that with emancipation a radical
change was absolutely necessary. We
have men enough in the South competent
to direct and control our plantations —men
who understand it thorou gtily, and have
been a lifetime learning it. What we
want is capital and African labor.
We had as well abandon the idea at
once of ever having foreigu whites as ten
ants. They aio never tenants where lands
are cheap, long at a time. Many of them
would make good and useful citizens, I'o
all such we should offer every inducement
to locate among us. Our prosperity de
pends upon our ability to replace in our
fields the lost labor. Many negroes, by
their superior intelligence, have left the
fields. Many others have done so from
their vagabondish proclivities, and gath
ered around our towns, tosteal and starve.
Apply the vagrant laws freely, and re
place them with fresh negroes from Afri
ca, and our wasle places will soon he built
up. Muckalkk.
Amerieu* , Oa., Dec. lsf.
THE BLACKBIRD.
When a blackbird once learns a tunc he
never forget.- any part of it. I once knew
u bird that could whistle “Polly Hopkins”
with wonderful accuracy. His owner sold
him, at the same time making his pur
chaser acquainted With the bird’s favorite
tune. As soon as he got him home, he at
once hung up the blackbird, aud on going
to the piano struck up “Polly Hopkins.”
The bird’s master, however, introduced
parts into the tune that he had never
heard before; so, after listening awhile,
he began hissing, fluttering his wings,
and otherwise signifying his distaste of
the whole performance. Much surprised,
the gentleman let off playing, and then
the blackbird opened his throat, and fa
vored his new master with his version of
“Polly H' pkins,” nor would he ever
listen with any patience to any other ver
sion. This same blackbird, after staying
in the service of the above mentioned
gentleman for two yeais, was adopted by
a serious family, where "Polly Hopkins,”
and all such profanity, were seduously
avoided. Whenever poor “Joe,” (the
blackbird’s name,) attempted to strike up
Hie old tune, a cloth was thrown over the
cage and he was silenced. The lamily
consisted of an old lady aud two daughters,
and every night, at 7 o’clock, prayers were
read, ami the “Evening Hymn” sung;
and Joe, who was an obedient bird, and
anxious to conform with the habits of the
house, speedily learned the tune, and reg
ularly whistled it while the old woman
and her daughters sang it. This went on
for six or seven years, when the mother
died ami the daughters separated, and Joe,
now an ageil blackbird, fell into new
hands; but to his dying day he never
gave up the “Evening Hymn.” Punctual
as the clock struck seven, he tuned up
aud went straight through with it
with the gravity of a parish clerk.—Fee
ton's Home Rein.
—
THE FARMER'S LIFE.
Don Piatt, an Ohio editor, who has been
experimenting with the diversion off rucy
farming aud cultivating his own cabbages,
like Horace Cire ley. writes this beautiful
prai-eof the farmer’s life to theOhioAVafe
Journal :
I admit that this farming is not profita
ble, but it is fascinating. Mark Twain
says that if cabbage heads weresevon dol
lars apiece, Horace Greeley’s model farm
would pay. If that vegetable sold at that
figure, Horace anil I would have to pay
that much more for our cold slaw. But it
is fascinating. The trees audshrubs, and
fields we plant, aud cultivate reward us for
the trouble. There is no ingratitude, no
meanness, no disappointment. Death
comes when expected, iff its season, and
is as precious and beautiful as life. God’s
sunlight falls on us filtered through a pure
atmosphere aud my beautiful Durham
cattle gaze at me honestly out of their soft,
hazel eyes—eyes more beautiful than a
woman's My fleet horses know me, and
my dogs love me, and all is harmony and
peace.
These are all the time wooing the one
discordant clement—that is, your humble
friend —to quiet happiness. They are al
ways the same, unchanging in their sim
ple, loving qualities. The old story of Ad
am and Eve is not read aright. They were
not driven out of Paradise. Paradise is all
about them, but their better part was driv
en out, and vvlrat remains cauuot appreci
ate, love and enjoy the blessings and beau
ties of nature.
I sometimes think of what that old
monk said of the painting of the “Last
Supper," that remained unchanged while
his companions had passed aud he was
passing away, I sometimes, I say, think
of this when looking at the beautiful gar
niture of hills and fields, that has on its
face immortal youth. I hear to-day of the
death of Gov. Todd and James C. Hall,
two intimate and cherished friends, and
the impress of the monk’s thought sinks
deeper:
“ 1 will not say my eyes are dim,
1 will not king the change
That wrought upon inv soul within
Its sadness, still and strange ;
Nor here hy flower, bird and stream
Recall tbe well-worn lay.
How we the fleeting shadows seem,
Immortal substance they.”
Increase in the Public Debt.— The
public debt statement for November will
show an increase. The receipts from cus
toms and internal revenue during the
pres rrt month have been rather small,
while the expenditures of the Govern
ment have been about the same as last
month. It will he remembered that over
twenty-three million dollars in coin were
taken from the vaults of the Treasury on
the Ist instant to pay tbe semi-annual
interest on the five-twenty bonds. The
internal revenue receipts, it is anticipated,
will increase towards the last of the
month, but those from customs will not
l>e so heavy as last mouth.— Charleston
Courier. 'JXth.
bix thousand dollars worth of Confed
erate Btates 8 per cent bonds brought $1 00.
V REMARK-ALE STORY.
A Willow ItarrM to Her Own Brother, \\ liimi she
lluil After Seen.
From the Detroit, Free Press, Nov. 21.
There passed through this city yester
day, en route to Chicago, a iail.v whose his
tory is one of the most remarkable ever
brought to public notice, it has been well
said that truth wasstrauger than fiction,
and lire details of this lady’s history
abundantly verify tiie adage. For reasons
which all will see the propriety of, we
withhold her name, merely relating the
facts as they were communicated to our
reporter by ouewho had heard her"strange,
true story” from her own lips. In 1838
iter parents emigrated to tbis country
from England, leaving behind them an
only sou sonic ten years of age, who had
engaged as cabin-boy on a merchant ves
sel in the East India trade—they landing
in New York, when, a few mouths later,
the subject ol this sketch was horn. '■V bile
she was yet a helpless infant, both her
parents died, and . he was sent to too
Foundling’s Home, where she remained
some time, when she was finally adopted
by a lady and gentleman who then resided
iu dm ha, N. V. Ofcourae she knew noth
ing of her sailor brother, and she grew
up iu the he iel' that she was really the
child of her foster parents. At the age of
18 stie married an industrious young me
chanic, and set out for the gieat West.
After traveling iu various btales, they
finally settled in Missouri, where they
continued prosperous and happy until tiie
storm of war hurst upon the country, i
Then her husband, iu common with the
thousands of misguided countrymen, en
listed in the service of the rebellion, and
was assigned to Gen. Price’s army, lie j
served faithfully duriug the li st eighteen
months of tin* war, but was finally killed
in one of the .Southwester:, engagements
From the breaking out ol the war, the
lady of whom we write, had lost alt truce
of her foster parents, owing to the disturb
ed condition of that portion of the country
in which she resided, and after her hus
band’s deatli she removed to St. Louis,
where she sought to maintain herself by
serving. In 1863, site again married, and
her husband embarked in business iu ist.
Louis This last marriage was a thorough
ly happy one, and iu course of time two
children were horn unto them.
The husband gradually extended his
business operation, so that much of his
time was necessarily spen in traveling
about the country, and during one of his
business tours he visited Uhicago, where
lie became acquainted with u lady and
gentleman, who, by a fortunate chain of
ciicumstunces, he ascertained were the
long-lost foster parents of tits wife. De
lighted at the discovery he had made, aud
pleased no doubt with anticipations of the
joyful surprise he should give his wife, the
husband at once concluded his business
with the intention of returning to St.
Louis, aud bunging her to Chicago for the
purpose of re-un ting her w ith her friends,
without having prepared either party for
such an event. On the night of Ida con
templated departure for home, while con
versing with Mr. aud Mrs. , it hap
pened that he was led into a recital of Iris
adventures about the world, and before the
narra'ive was tin isle and his listeners knew
that their adopted daughter had inarri and
her own brother, wiio, lie fore she was
born, had sailed for East India. Horrific 1
beyond expression, the wretched mgu fieri
from the house, aud from that unit- no tid
ings of him have ever readied his friends.
This was in March last, and a few weeks
after the wretched sister wife was render
ed comparatively poor t»y the dealtuction
of a large portion o. the propeity left in
her hands, by lire.
Although written to L> iter stricken
friends, their letters never reached her,
and a few weeks since she started for El
mira, her early home l.'pon her arrival
here she learned the address «>f tier foster
parents, with whom she at once commu
nicated, giving them full details of her ex
perience since she had first bade them
farewell, upon selling out for her Western
home Their answer to her letter contain
ed a statement of the terrible discovery of
the identity of her husband and brother,
together with an affectionate invitation to j
come to them w ith her children ami share
their home.
Heart-broken, and nearly crazed by the
stiHtlge denoument of iter happy married
life, the wietched woman hastened to ac
cept the offer, anil this morning will
doubtless sec her reunited to her earliest
and dearest friends.
THE DEAR POLLARD.
RcNectton* on tbe Late ICJStor ot *outiierti
Opinion.
f From the t numnah t 25M).
The death of H. Hives Pollard by vio- ]
leuce was only a question rs time. He
wus morally certain to come across a man
who would res'mud to his virulence by
shooting him. Pollard was a social porcu
pine, not to he approaches without danger
of a wound from his poisonous quills, he
succeeded better than any man of his time
in nursing quarrels. lie seemed to be
unhappy without from one to a half dozen
upon his hands. If lie could not provoke
them in the community, he stirred them
up in ids sanctuary. To be disagreeable |
himself, and infect others with tiie same
feeling, seemed to tie the ambition of his
life.
In polities lie was specially successful.
When the Confederacy, in whose behalf
he flourished a valiant pen in the face of
the Yankees, was <b facto he railed, like
Thers tes in the Greek camp, at everybody
aud every thing connected with it. Neith
er civil nor military measures seemed to
satisfy him, and when tlie fortunes of the
rebellion began to decline, lie mercilessly
attacked the officers of tiie Government
aud tiie commanders of armies, aud did
as much to demoralize lire cause and sow
dissatisfaction broadcast as it was in tiie
power of a malevolent spirit to do. The
final defeat of the Southern cause did not
sober —it infuriated him, and he went
swaggering about the streets of the pros
trate capital, with shot-guns and revolvers
about him, shooting with the same reck
lessness that a Malay runs auluck, but
killing no one, and wounding nothing,
that we remember, Gut a statute in the
rotunda of the capital. Since then lie lias
been engaged In some scandalous brawls,
that ruined him socially, aud injured what
remained of hi-political reputation. The
Southern Opinion, under his manage
ment, lias been the vehicle of more per
sodhl abuse than Brick Pomeroy’s LaCrosse
Democrat. One purpose, however, he
kept steadily in view: to foster local pride
and prejudice, breed contempt for tiie peo
ple of the North and hatred of the Gener
al Government, and to fan the expiring
hope of an ultimate resurrection of the
Lost Cause. He was the one unsinged
paladin who refused to abandon it, or
drop tiie banner that the bronzed soldiers
had borne in a thick of a hundred con
flicts. He was exceedingly brave after the
battles were over and the bugles had
sounded a long truce to arms. Now he
is gone; the world is not the loser.
Lord Palmerston andtheSouthern
Confederacy.—A contemporary men
tions a fact that is important as part of
the history of European nations with re
gard to the late civil war in America. It
says, in effect, that the late speech of Mr.
Roebuck, declaring that he was in favor
of recognizing tlie Confederate States in
the late war, and that Lord Palmerston
was of his own way of thinking, confirms
a statement by Blackwood's Magazine,
November, 1885. Lord Palmerston is there
represented to have been not only in favor
of recognizing the Confederate States, but
on the Trent affair he made up his mind
to go to war with the United States The
message he prepared to send to Washing
ton at that time, according to Blackwood,
would have required a short and categori
cal answer, “because a fleet, equipped for
action, would have escorted it to the
mouth of tiie Chesapeake.” He was, it is
alleged, in full understanding with tire
French Emperor. But Lord John Russell
and Sir George Cornewell Lewis were
members of his Cabinet, and they refused
to concur in Lord Palmerston’s pro
gramme and threatened to resign. His
lordship was eighty years old, and he
shrank from t«e annoyance of framing a
new Cabinet,and surrendered hisown con
victions. Such is the statement of Black
wood, hut to what degree of credit it is en
titled we are unable to say.
—Messrs. Cohen, Hanckel cfc Cos, bought
a half interest in the Mills House, Charles
ton, on Tuesday, for $35,000.
MACON, (IA„ TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1868.
DRIED FRUIT IN NORTH CAROLINA.
The good people of Stokes, Forsythe,
Guilford and adjoining counties have dis
covered that there are other crops worth
attending to besides the great staple of to
bacco, or even the more necessary articles
of corn and Wheat.
The following statement, furnished me
by a reliable gentleman, W'ell acquainted
with the people aud their industrious, en
terprising, ami go-ahead qualities, will
show your readers what may he done by
those who are determined to avail them
selves of the advantages which a kind
Providence has placed within their reach.
A merchant residing in the small village
of Mount Airy (Burry county, N. has
received into Ids store in less than two
weeks thirty-five thousand poundsofdried
apples. \ firm in lie same place bililt a
large and commodious btick store-house
and paid for it from the profits in the sale
of the dried fruit bought and sold by them
in one season.
One firm in Salem, N. C., (Vogler’s,)
! has sent off this fall eight hundred barrels
of dried blackberries, and will probably
send two hundred barrels more—tiie whole
worth forty thousand dollars. Tiie dried
fruit received and purchased in that small
village tills season will bring one hundred
thousand dollars.
Last year High Point, a village which
has recently sprung up in Guilford county,
and on the Out ml road, snipped largely
over one million pounds of dried fruit,
and will send off a much larger quantity
this seasou.
The village ofKernersville, iu For ytlie
county, with scarcely one hundred Inhab
itants, will aeml North this fall from sixty
to one hundred thousand dollars’ worth of
dried fruit. One house in this village sent
off last Friday thirteen wagon loads (36,-
00;) }tounds) of peacti stones, which cost
fifty cents per bushel; and one lady In the
same place, has collected nearly one bushel
of apple seeds, for which siie is to receive
twenty-live dollars. The two last men
tinned articles are bought <>n commission
for nurseryman in the North.— Exchange.
We see the above going the rounds of the
papers, and we presume the tiguies in our
friend’s ( Mr. Vogler’s) ease to be correct. j
We would be obliged to those other mer
chants of this place w ho have shipped pro
duce direct for the. r figures, to enable us
to give full particulars of the export trade
of our town. —Salem Press.
CONSOLIDATION OF E.VPRESS COMPANIES.
New York, Nov. 27. —The long pend
ing negotiations in this city resulted to
day in the consolidation of the American
and Merchants’ Union Express Compa
nies. Articles of association have been
formally executed, with the following
Board of Directors: Henry Wells, Elmore
P. Rosa, Wm. G. Fargo, Wm. V. Beard sly,
Edward B. Judsou, Wm. 11. Howard, Jr.J
James C Fargo, John N. Knapp, John
ston Livingston, Clinton F. Backus, Jas.
M. Thompson, '1 bandore M. Pomeroy and
Benj. P. Cheney. At the election of offi
cers held to day the foi owing were cho
sen : President, Wm. G. Fargo; Vice-
Pr*»id*ut, Theodore M Pomeroy; Treas
urer, Elmore I’. Ross; B cretary, John N.
Knapp; General Buperintendent and
Assistant Treasurer, James C. Fargo. The
new arrangement goes into effect nmms
diately, and officers say business will be
adjusted to the new ban- with u the eneu
iug week. The consolidation is said to
have treen made on terms of entire equal
ity between the two companies, but the
details are not announced, though prom
ised at an early day.
New York, Nov. 27.—The terms of con
solidation of the American aud Mer
chants’ Union Express t ompanles are
that the Merchants' Union stock is taken
at two shares for one, making its portion
of capital s9,t*M),oOo
The consolidated company will have a
total capital of $18,000,000, and will ■ n
tinue existing eo-oj>eraiive arrn gein»;,:a
with old companies. The new company
will hear the title of the American Mer
chants’ Union Express Company,
The Commerced sty a the Adams Ex
press Company was not represented at
the meeting. It is opposed to th • ba*i» of
amalgamation, and consequently a re
newal of the Express war is by no means
improbable.
ANOTHER TENNESSEE HORROR.
lluU-ht ry of an Entire Family Near the
Kentucky Harder—Capture of <hc Mur
derer with the Flood Stains Still Upon
Him.
A little over a u eek ago a frightful trage
dy was enacted in Fen ll ess county, Ten
nessee, near the Kentucky line. There
lived in that section a family composed of
an o and lady, some eighty years of age, and j
her three grand children—one a young
lady, am tlier a hoy of twelve, and the;
third a small girl. In the neighborhood j
was a man named Logsdon, ill-favored of
face, and of little character, who in some !
way became cognizant of the fact that the j
old lady had in her possession a consider
able amount of money, the back pay ofj
Irer dead son, who had been a soldier, and
he resolved to secure it at all hazards.
Proceeding one night to the house she j
occupied, Logsdon, with knife and re
volver, murdered the grand mother and i
grand daughter, anil left the hoy for dead
also.
'All the money he found, however, was
$75, and with this lie fled r i he boy, who
fortunately survived, next day told the
tale of the bloody work of the night, and
tire sheriff of Fentress county, a» soon as
he could be notified, started immediately
in pursuit of the murderer, with a war
rant. He passed through Clinton county,
in this State, where lie was joined by the
sheriff of Clinton, and together the two
sheriffs made their vay to Hustonville,
Lincoln county. Here they captured tiie
murdeit r at the house of his fattier, even
before lie had changed the clothing he
wore when he committed the terrible
crime, anil which bore the blood stains of
cruel murder.
It was found that Logsdon, on reaching
his father’s house, had sent for a heavy
lock which lie designed placing on the
door, and that lie had also sent a woman
and a boy for powder, lead and caps.
These parties were detained however. It
was evident he intended making a despe
rate resistance, but tiie ottlcers expe
rienced little or no difficulty iu effecting
his arrest. He was taken back to Fentress
county, where lie will doubtless be made
to suffer the extreme penalty of the law.
[Louisville Courier-Journal, 30<A ult.
The Relief Law.—At the recent term
of the Burke county Superior Court the
defendant, in a suit there pending, which
was brought upon a note for $5,000, given
in February, 1863, for the purchase of a
tract of land in that county containing
one thousand acres of land, plead tbe
scaling ordinance of 1865, and the Relief
laws of the last Legislature.
Under the last plea he gave in evidence
the loss of forty slaves of the average value
of SSOO each, and the loss of other proper
ty to the value of several thousand dollars.
He also proved that the value of his prop
erty, which now consisted of 2,100 acres
of land, including tiie thousand acres for
which tiie said note was given, was about
four or five thousand dollars. It was also
proved hy the defendant that at the date
of the note the relative value of Confeder
ate money and gold was as live to one, aud
that the land for which the note was
given was worth now not more than one
dollar per acre—that at the time of its pur
chase it would have been worth about two
dollars and a half pier acre in good money.
After full argument, the jury returned
a verdict directing the land to be returned
to tiie plaintiff, and allowing him rent at
tlie rale which it was proved to he worth
for the six years that the defendant hail
held aud enjoyed its possession and profits.
[Chronicle and Sentinel, Ist.
An official publication issued from
the Frencli Government gives the follow
ing figures as representing thepresenl an
nual product of tobacco iu tlie world, and
the quantity consumed iu France: Asia,
155,600,(XX) kilogrammes; Europe, 141 O<X),-
000; America, 124,000,000; Africa, 12,000,-
000; and Australia 400,000. The present
aunual consumption in Frauce is: iu
snuff', 7,790,471 kilogrammes; in tobacco
for smoking, 18,440,919; for chewing, 756,-
055. The consumption of cigars is : of
cigars at 20 cents, 28,000 kilogrammes; at
15 cents, 63 000 ; at 10 cents, 178,000; aud
at S ;eut», 2,734,585.
—Washington county mourns the loss
ofoneofher best citizens, Mr. David E,
Gumming, who died on the 24th iust.
NORTHERN PRISON PENS.
Terrible of Die Confederate soldier*
Couflnod at Elmira, New York, During tin- War.
From tin: New York World, Nov. 21st.
Brooklyn, Nov. 10 —I beg herewith
(after having carefully gone through the
various documents iu my possession per
taining to the mutter) to forward you the
following statistics amt facts of the mor
tality of the rebel prisoners iu the North
ern prisons, more particularly at that of
Elmira, New York, where J served as one
i of the medical off!dels for many months.
I found, on the commencement of my
j duties at Elmira, about 11,000 rebel pris
* oners, fully one third of whom were under
j medical tieatment, for diseases principally
: owing to an improper diet, a want of cloth •
iug, necessary shelter, mid bad surround- i
ings ; the diseases were consequently of j
the following nature: Scurvy, diarrtxea,
' pneumonia and the various branches of ;
j typhoid, all supeiinduce i by the causes, ;
i more or lens, aforementioned. The w inter
I ot 1861 5 was an unusually severe and i
j rigid one, and the prisoners arriving from
; the Southern States duriug this season
were mostly old men and lads, clothed
jiu attire suitable only to the genial
climate of the South. i need not
, state to you that this alone was am
ple cause for an utiu-ual mortality
amongst them. The surrounding* were
of UiC following nature, viz: Narrow,
confined limits, but a few acres of ground
in extent, and through which slowly
flowed a turbid stream of water, carrying
along with it all theexcretneuUl filth aud
debris of the camp ; this stream of water,
horrible to relate, was the only source of
supply, f.r an extended period, that the
prisoners could possibly use for the pur
pose of ablu ion, and to slake their thirst
from day to day ; the tents and other shel
ter allotted to tiie camp at Elmira were in- i
sufficient, and crowded to trie Utmost ex
tent; hence, small pox and other skin
diseases raged throughout the camp Here
I may note that, owing to the general or
der of the gov rnmeut, to vaccinate the
prisoners, my opportunities were ample
to observe the effects of spurious and dis
eased m i ter, aud there is no doubt in my
mind but that syphilis was engrafted in
many Instances : ugly and horrible ulcers
aud eruptions of a characteristic nature
were alas! too frequent and obvious to be
mistaken.
Bmall pox cases were crowded in such a
manner that t was a matter of impossi
bility for tiie surg -on to tr*-at hi* patients
| individually ; they actually laid »o u-ija
cent that the simple movem nt of out- of
i them would cause his lie'ghbor to cry out
iu an agony of pain. The confluent aud
j malignant type prevailed to such an ex
tent and of such a nature, that the body
woul 1 frequently he found one c itifioiious
scab. The diet and other allowance* l>y
j the Government for the u-e of the prison
: ers wer>- ample, yet the poor uufnrtuna'es
were allowed to starve; but why, is a
query which I will allow your readers to
infer, and to draw conclusions therefrom.
Out of the number of prisoners, as before
mentioned, over three thousand of them
j now iav buried in the cemetery i rented
: near tiie camp for the puf)*>»*'; a mortal
ity equal, if not greater, than that o; any
1 prison in the South. At Andeis invilJe,
a- i am well informed hy brother officer*
who endured confinement there, a-, w-ll
ashy the r-oords at Washington, tiie
mortality was twelve thousand out ol -ay
about forty thousand prisoners, lienee it
is readi y to be seen that tin* range of mor
tality was not less at Elmira than at An
derson villa.
At Anderson ville there was actually
nothing to feed or clothe the prisoners
with, their own soldiers faring but li'tle
better than their prisoners. This togeth
er with a torrid sun aud an impo-.- imiity
of exchange, was abundant cause ihrtneir
mortality. Witii our prisoners at Elmira
no sucii necessity should honestly have
existed, a* our Government had actually,
us I have sia-ed, most bountifully made
provision for the wants of a I detained,
both of officers and men. B ddiers who
have been prisoner* at Anderson ville, ami
have done duly nt Elmira, confirm tnia
statement, and which is in no w ise iu one
pirtieular exaggerated; also, tiie same
may he told of other prisoners managed in
a similarly terrible manner. 1 allude to
Sandusky, Fort Delaware, and others. I
do not say that all prisoners in the North
suffered and endured the terrors and the
cupidity of venal sub-otficials; on the con
trary, at the camps in the harbor of New
York and a! Foi it t Lookout, and at other
camps when* uiy official duties from time
to lime have called me, the prisoners iu all
respects have fared us our Government in- *
tended and designated they should.
Throughout Texas, where foist and the
necessaries of life were plentiful, I found
our own soldiers faring well, and to a cer
tain extent contented, so far, at least, as
prisoners of wur could reasonably expect
to he.
Our Government allowed tiie prisoner
of war the following rations (vide Regu
lations p. 224. Articles 1, 190, 1, 191); 12
i.z pork or bacon, or 1 lb salt or fresh beef ;
1 lb 6oz soft bread or flour, or 1 lb corn
meal; and to every HXJ rations, 15 lbs
beans or pens and 10 lbs rice or hominy,
10 lbs gret-u coffee or 8 lbs roasted do . or
1 lb S oz ti a, 15 lbs sugar, 4 qts vinegar.
30 lbs potatoes, and, if fresh potatoes can
not he obtained, canned vegetables were
allowed. Page 107, Article 746, U.S. Army
Regulations— Prisoners of war will receive
for subsistence one ratiou each wit hout re
gard to rank, their private property will be
duly respected, and each shall be treated
with regard to his rank, and the wounded
are to he treated w ith ttie same care as the
wounded of our army.
How faithfully these regulations were
carried outat Elmira, is shown by the fol
lowing statement of facts: The sick in
hospital were curtailed in every respect;
fresh vegetables and other auti-scorbutics
were dropped from tbe lisi; the food was
scant, crude and unfit; medicines so badly
dispensed that it was a farce for the medi
cal man to prescribe. At large in the
camp the prisoner faredstili worse; a slice
of bread and salt meat was viven him for
his breakfast, a poor, hatched up, concoct
ed cup of soup, so called, ami a slice of
miserable bread, wasall he could obtain for
his evening meal ; and hundreds of sick,
who could in no wise obtain medical aid,
died, “uuknelled, uncotfitied and un
known.” I have in no wise drawn on im
agination, anil the facts stated can be at
tested by the staff' of medical officers who
labored at the Elmira prison for the rebel
soldiers.
Ex Medical Officer, U. S. A.
Personal. —YVe have no answer to tire
language used toward the editor of this
paper by the drunken Sing-Sing black
guard who presides over that “common
sewer of filth and falsehood,” the Atlanta
New Era. He is worthy personally of the
infamous party he represents, anil being
wholly irresponsible in every sense of the
term, and without the first instinct of a
gentleman, we dismiss him and his paper
forever, and only regret that a creature so
destitute of every sense of moral obliga
tion and decency should have found his
way into the journalism of Georgia. Such
a man is a disgrace to humanity, much
less to the ranks of an honorable profes
sion. In all bis wanderings lie lias never
yet found a community so corrupt that it
did not spew biin forth. Is Georgia to be
the exception I—Sav. Republican, 29f/r.
Conservative Sentiments. —The Con
stitutionalUt, of Tuesday, in a notice of a
Radical meeting at that place the night
before, has this to say of one of the speeches
by a well known incendiary of this city :
The first speaker was H. M. Turner (negro),
whose most important expression was, that he
wished the most glorious of all Congre ses, the Re
publican Congress, to declare the immortal Gov.
Bullock dictator of Georgia, and that “colored
troops would be sent to the State, who would hang
every Democrat who winked his eye.”
E. A. Pollard.— General D. H. Hill,
iu his splendid magazine, “The Land YVe
Love,” for December, speaking of Pol
lard’s pretended history of the war, says :
“There was not a drummer or colored ser
vant in Lee’s army, who had not more ac
curate knowlede of the battles of the late
war than the bomb-proof penny-a-liner,
who set himself up as their chronicle.”
—Three gentlemen have planted two
hundred thousand peach trees on two
thousand acres of land at Ridgeway,N.U.,
which they claim to be the largest orchard
of the kind, if not of any kind, in the
world.
GONE BEFORE.
! There’s a beautiful face In the silent air,
Which follows me ever and ic-ar,
j With smiling eyes uml amber hair.
With voiceless lips, yet with breath of prayer
; That I fuel, but cannot hear.
The dimpled hand amt the ringlet of gold
Lie low in a marble sleep;
I stretch my arms for the clasp of old,
But the empty air is strangely cold,
And my vigil alone 1 keep/
There’s a sinless brow witii a radiant crown
And a cross laid down in the dust;
There’s a smile where never a shade coiues now.
And tears no more from those dear eyes Ib,w,
8o sweet iu their Innocent thist.
Ah, well! and summer is homing again,
Singing her same old song,
But, oh ! it sounds like a aob of pain,
As it lloats in tin: sunshine and the rain,
O’er hearts of the world’s great throng.
There’s a beautiful region alxtve the skies,
And 1 long to reach its shore,
For I know 1 shall lind my treasure there.
The laughing eye* and amber hair
Os the loved one gone before.
A NOBLE RECLUSE.
The Duke of Portland is in bis sixty
itinlh year. He is tiie oldest brother of
the late Lord George Bentwick and tiie
owner of magnificent estates in England
and in Scotland. A tier vvbat the French
delicately term a “stormy youth,” tie be
came, in bis father's lifetime, a recluse.
It was the late Duke's fancy that there
was going to be a scarcity of oak—be did
not foresee tbe iron age—ami be planted a
tree wherever be could, until bis park at
VVfellbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire, was
almost a plantation when be died,iu 18-54.
Tbe present Duke took tip bis residence at
Welibeck, denied himself almost every
one, atnl proceeded to improve the estate,
cut down tbe superfluous timber, ami laid
out the park on trie most improved prin
cioles of scientific gardening ; constructed
one of tbe most perfect series of kitchen
gardens iu the kingdom, witii hot, fruit
and forcing house* on a magnificent scale;
built stables and coach-houses fit for a
prince, and much liner than any English
prince possesses. In fact, tbe Duke de
voted aud devotes bis t ime and a large part
of his income to putting nis seat in the
most perfect order lor receiving atnl en
lertaining in ducal style But be does not
keep any company, gives no entenaiu
aieiits on auy occasion, aud ia fact lived
aud lives the iife of a monk of La Trappe.
He has for some time been endeavoring to
convert a stiesui through his park iuto a
lake six miles long.
Hundreds of laborers are employed ou
Ibis ami other woi k on the Ml» e in liami
at go*ni wag- -., hut on <ue condition —uo
one its to speak to liitu or salute turn. The
man who touches his hat is at once dis
charged The village doctor and the par
sou nave the same orders. The tenants
are informed of the Duke’s wishes; if they
meet him they are to pass him “as i he
were a tree.” Yet he is constantly about
his domain planning an 1 superintending
improvements. He is a capital landlord,
noth in England and Scotland—drains,
builds, and puls farms in excellent condi
tion. He never shoots, ami never allows
hi> English farmers to have the game,
even on pay merit. To verv useful enuu
ty work and every charity he is ready to
subscribe. Komis, churches, schools, ail
are iu excellent condition on file Portland
istatea. He breeds horses, and spares no
expense in hires ami mares; but if the
produce docs not come tip to the ideal, he
shoots them —never sells an luierior horse,
fouieliniea a cart load of well-bred co.ts
and tlllies arc sent to feed the Kullhrd
hounds.
A.v t;x< t.u,E\r stuu. stout.
A frieud of ours iu Benton County, not
more than a hundred miles from Pond
Grove is exceedingly fond <ngening a joke
upon bis neighhms, ulu enjoys a laugh
even at Ids ow n expense, ihe tables
were lately turned so uioey upon him,
however, that we doubt whether he will
try nw hand at a joke again for along
lime. He was lately crossing a field ou
his premises when he (elt a peculiar sen
sation in nis trousers’leg,and iu an instant
the terrible suspicion f .stench upon him
that there was a snake there. Putting out
iiis hand to ascertain, it came iu contact
with what he supposed to he liie head of
the reptile. It llasiicd across his mind at
once that the only hope of ins life lay in
hi# ability to grasp and liruity hold the
head until he could obtain assistance and
extricate himself fr in i.is unpleasant pre
dicament. Seizing it, there.'ore, with one
hand, he started at full lilt for the bouse,
about half a mile distant. As ho run he
could feel the reptile wriggling around his
leg. He was fairly bathed in a cold sweat
at the thought that it might free itself
from Ills grasp and give him the fatal
blow while far away from help, and fear
lent wings to his feel.
As he approached the barn where his
wife was at work, he became fearful of the
terrible effect it might have upon her to
reveal Ins dangerous situation, anti fie
therefore slipped slyly in at the back door.
Going into one corner, he divested himself
of his clothing (lie had kicked off his
boots ou tile way), drew forth the cause of
his terror, and with a sense of relief hurled
it violently from him. It struck the raft
ers, and then fell to the floor and revealed
to his astonished gaze—an old piece of
rope, which tie put, as he supposed, into
his pocket, but which slipped down his
trousers leg. The movement of walking
had produced the wriggling which had
first attracted his attention. As he ran,
of eourse, the motions became more vio
lent. A knot on one end he had mistaken
for the head and had beeu holding it as
with the grasp of death.
His wife, good soul, was at first nearly
frightened to death, then almost laughed
herself to death. The story was too good
to keep, and soon his neighbors were
anxiously inquiring regarding his recove
ry from the "snake bite.” We have often
heard of persons having “snakes iu their
boots,” but never in that way before.
[Lafayette { lad.) Courier.
- *>■ «s-
The Scientific American cautions the
public against the use of adulterated vine
gar. The heavy Government tax on alco
hol has raised the price so much that re
sort is had to a eheuper substauce to give
the required acidity to vinegar. For this
purpose, sulphuric acid, and hydrocloric
acids are all used ; though sulphuric acid,
as the cheapest and surest thing that can
be fouud, is chiefly used. This, however,
is very destructive to pickles, and what
ever is placed in it for preservation, and
very injurious to the health of those who
use the vinegar made of it. A gallon of
the stufl called vinegar can be made for a
cent or two from sulphuric acid and water,
with some coloring matter. To detect the
presence of sulphuric acid, take a small
quantity of the vinegar in aclear glass and
drop a few drops of the chloride of ba
rium into it, or the nitrate of baryta. If
the liquid presents a cloudy appeaiance
tiiere is sulphuric acid in it, and it all
should be returned to the manufacturer or
turned into the gutter.
At one time a woman could hardly
walk through the streets of Sau Francisco
without having every one pause to gaze on
her, and a child was so rare, that once in
a theatre in the same city, where a wo
man bad taken lo r infant, when it began
to cry, just as the orchestra commenced to
play, a man in the pit cried out, “Stop
those fiddles and let the baby cry. I
haven’t heard such a sound for ten years.”
The audience applauded this sentiment,
the orchestra stopped, and the baby con
tinued its performance amid unbounded
enthusiasm.
Novel Furniture.—A great novelty
is photographs on silk for medallions ou
sofas, armchairs and cushions. It will be
quite a suggestive idea for a grand daugh
ter to give her sire a bolster with her
sweet rounded features upon it, and ten
to one the old gentleman would sleep all
the better with her cheek next to his, but
it will not be agreeable to have a drawing
set of faces on the hacks of all the chairs.
Rome men are obliged to be photographed
in spectacles, too, which will add a nerv
ously argus feeling to ladies in panniers
every time they sit down.— Paris Cor.
A Tennessee dentist recently advertis
ed to put in a full set of false teeth for $lO,
to be paid when the original grinders were
extracted. Many accepted the offer, paid
the money, and had their old stumps
drawn out. But when their gums healed
and they called for the new set, the den
i tlst was missing, and now they gnash their
gums at his rascality.
THE STORY OF BLUE HEARD.
By lie* “ Fitt L'uiitribulor.*’
A long time ago, before ihe invention of
, hair dye, when a man bad to wear his
beard ttjecoinr that nature made it, wheth
! er he would or not, there was a man who
had made himself enormously rich as a
whiskey inspector, or something of that
sort. 1 don’t know precisely where lie
lived, but think he lived mostly iu the
imagination.
tie run a great castle, on the European
l>lan, had horses aud run them, and in
fact ru.i about every thing iu his neighbor
hood, including running for office aud
with tbe girls, for at the time of which I
write he was a gay widower. He had
greatquantitiesof greenbacks, corner lots,
oil stock, bonds, and things, hut he was
hideously tag y, and had withal an enor
mous blue beard, frightful to contemplate,
which gave to him the cognomen of Blue
Beard, by which lie was known to the
country round about, as well as to the
country that had laid off its round-about,
and consequently was iu its shirt sleeves.
Blue Beard grew weary of living in soli
tary magnificence iu his lofty castle, and
finding that he was getting bluer and
bluer every day, tie determined to marry.
Having been married half a dozen times
—taken half a dozen raw ones, as one
might say—lie was naturally quite misera
ble when of tbegentle Influences
or the sex for any length of time.
One of his neighbors was a widow lady,
who had two very beautiful and highly
accomplished daughters. They could
play the piano, harp, anil seven up, and
work embroidery aud plaucbette ele
gantly.
To this widow lady Blue Beard applied
for the hand and general anatomy of one
of her daughters, leaving her to decide
which one she would give him. Although
the “stamps” he had pleaded loudly in bis
favor, u-i they do yet, although this was a
great many years ago, yet that dreadful
beard was against him, and neither of the
young women desired to have it against
her. Blue wasn’t fashionable for beards ;
if it had been it might have been differ
ent. One of them wept bitterly because it
would be several hundred years yet before
hair dye would be discovered, so that
he could have his whiskers colored.
Another circumstance rendered them
shy of him He was having a wedding
every once in a while at the ca-dle, hut no
funerals l Wedding cake had been order
ed from the confectioners several times,
but no undertaker had had a job there
yet No matter how many times a man is
left a widower, if, he correspondingly pat
ronizes some respectable owner of a hearse, :
but repeated wedlock without funerals is
certainly a suspicious circumstance.
Blue Beard cunningly invited the family <
and tbe r friends to the castle, where they }
passed the week so delightfully that the j
youngest daughter began to think blue 1
was a pretty good color for whiskers after I
all, particularly when their possessor I
could keep up s.ieh an estatdishmeut as j
that, where they had three meals a day,
besides a lunch evviy morning from 10 {
o'c'ock until 11. She looked with con- i
tempt on a red-whiskered beau of her’* !
she used to think “perfectly splendid,”
and actua ly asked him why lie didn’t
“rub iiuiigo into ’em !” Tbe upshot o the
business was. siie c -useuted to become
Mrs. B. Beard, and the wedding was cele
brated with great eciat.
At the expiration of Ihe honeymoon,
Blue Beard pretended to his wife that busi
ness of importance called him away to a
distant city. He would be absent for sev- ,
eral weeks, and in tiie meantime she could
invite company and enjoy herself as much
as possible. He gave her u bunch of keys, '
enabling her at auy time to open bis safe,
and feast her ejys u|*»n the diamonds ihe
loaned money on “collateral,” sometimes,)
greenbacks, seven-thirties, reveuuestamps
aud receipted gas bill* des>osited there— 1
also giving access to tiie wine cellar, store
room, picture gallery, billiard room, ten
pin alley, corn house, etc., etc. Bui one
little key tijiened a room in the basement
that she must not approach save up -u hrr *
peril, f-.lie promised, and he took a street
car for the depot.
From the time that Mother Eve disre
garded the injunction against a certain tree
in Eden's an.' and partook of a Rhode
Island pippin, thereby introducing various
things into tbe woria never before dream
ed of,curiosity has been an absorbing pas
sion with the fair sex, and we teed hardiv
inform the into ligent reader that her hus
band w as scarcely out of sight before Mrs.
11. 11. had unlocked the door of the forbid
den room.
Hut what a spectacle met her affrighted
gaze! There, suspended ou I looks like so
many gowns in a clothespress, were the
bodies of the murdered Mrs. Blue Beards,
whose funerals had been indefinitely post
poned, while the floor was clotted with
their blood. She would have swooned,
but the phrase wasn't known at the time.
Terribly agitated, she dropped the key ou
the floor, staining it with blood, which she
was afterward unable to wash out, even
with the aid of a patent wringer.
Blue Beard returned uuevpectttdly, as
every body might have expected, anil the
blood upon the key told the st .ry of his
wife’s disobedience; for blood, you know
“ will tell.”
“ Must I," he cried, wringing his hands
in anguish, “ must I agaiu become a wid
ower, and so soon ? After one short mouth
of wredded bliss (drawing his eimeter and
carefully feeliug its edge) must this latest
and dearest one be torn from my arms,
aud I left alone—alone? 80-ho-ho-Loo!”
“Not if J can help it,” remarked Mrs.
B to herself.
“I never nursed a dear gazelle,” Blue
Beard blubbered, as be proceeded to whet
his scythe on tbe stove hearth, “to glad
me with its soft black eye, but whtn it
came to know me well—”
“Now, Biue Beard, I don’t want to die.”
“Prepare !" yelled Blue Beard, enraged
that she did not at once aecept the situa
tion.
“Since I must die,” said she, “grant me
a quarter of an hour in which to write a
farewell letter to the press.”
He could not refuse so reasonable a re
quest, so he granted it, although he was
not originally a Grant man. Going to her
room she told tier sister Anna to ascend to
the top of the tower and see it her brothers
(who, supposing Blue Beard was away,
were coming to smoke his cigars and
drink up his whiskey,) were yet in sight.
There was a cloud of dust i u the road, but
it was only a flock of sheep ou their way
to the State Fair.
“Time’s uj»! shouted Blue Beard, who
didn’t think much of writing letters to
newspapers, anyhow.
“Only one moment more. Anna, oh,
Aima!” she softiy cried, “do you see any
body coming down now ?”
“I see two horsemen. They see me
wave my handkerchief. It is—it is Sam
aud Bill!”
Then Blue Beard rushed in with his
drawn sword (he bad drawn it at a gift
show,) and was about to dispatch her to
the happy crokaying grounds of iter sex,
when her brothers Sam and Bill drove in
and blew old Blue Beard’s brains out with
double-barreled bowie knives.
The widow B. inherited his money, to
gether with the remains of his other wives,
with which she was enabled to set up a
Museum of Anatomy, finally marrying a
side showman. Her sister Anna was
united to a gentleman by the name of
Domiuy, becoming Anna hominy, though
what year this was I cannot say. Blue
Beards went out with the eminent and ex
cessive widower of that name, and haven’t
been in since to my knowledge.
Death of a Distinguished Native Georgian.
—The Memphis papers announce the death, in
that city, on the Stith ult., of Judge Win. L. Harris,
a uative of this State, hut long a resident of the
State of Mississippi. Judge Harris was one of the
ablest, purest and most influential men iu the State
of his adoption. He served with great distinction
upon the Circuit and Supreme Benches of Missis
sippi, aud stood iu the front rank of her many able
jurists and lawyers. lie shunned politics, a field
in which his admirable talents would have ensured
him speedy and high promotion and refused a scat
on the Supreme bench of the United States to link
his own fortunes and destinies with those of the
South. Scorning to hold a judicial position, sub
ordinate to the sword when his State wu» put under
military rule, lie resigned liis judgeship aud went to
the bar in Memphis, where he died in the sixtv
tirstyearof hia age. — Columbus Sun, U/I.
If we are uot mistaken, Judge Harris
was a son of the late Geu. Jeptha Harris,
of Athens, and was probably a native of
Elbert county, removing, however, to
Mississippi from Athens.
—Four negroes are on tne Grand Jury
of the United States Circuit Court, now in
session in Richmond, and six on the list
of petit jurors.
VOL. LX., XO. 3S
THE EI.EIITIOV 1% tlntsTt.
THE EVE OF THE ELECTION.
Tuesday evening there was a vast deal
of hurrahing for the rival candidates and
a considerable amount of ele* ioneerinc
on both sid s. A parly of IT. s. soldiers
and some of the hoys got up a liontin- in
Broad street, and had some little excit**-
ment, all for their own amusement, hur
railing for Russell and the Democracy.
THE DAY OF ELECTION.
Yesterday morniug the sun rose clear
and blight, auspicious of the glorious re
sult which marked the close of the day.
The stores and places of business tvere
very generally clo-ed, and everybody de
voted themselves to the work of election.
The great bulk of the voting was doue
early, aud everything was peaceably and
quietly conducted. 1 here will, n doubt,
be charges of intimidation by tin- defeat
ed party, but we pronounce them false in
advance. Every facility was offered to
the colored voters ; and we are proud to
say that hundreds of them voted for the
People’s Ticket. They did so boldly and
openly, voting, iu most eases, open tickets.
Numbers of white ayd colored meu who
have gone with Blodgett for years desert
ed hint at this election, aligning them
selves with their fellow-citizens in the
hour of the city’s trial.
We gathered up such items and inci
dents as we could, and give them here :
WARD NO. 1.
In this Ward, the total number of reg
istered voters was I,oll—whitess2s; blacks
488. Tne vote was, for Russell, 500
Blodgett, 342. Everybody was in a good
humor, and everything passed off quietly.
The voting took place at the .Scale House.
Some gentleman asked the crowd if “they
were voting on a large male t” “ Yes,’’
was the reply, “ we are having our weigh
down here!” Oh!” said a thirJ, “get
out of the way; Jet us TiuaseU around and
get some more voters!” A large number
of colored men voted for the Peop.e’s
Ticket iu this Ward.
WARD no. 2.
The number of registered voters in this
Ward was 616 —whiles, 322; blacks, “04.
The vote was, for Russell, 321; Blodgett,
187. There was little of public interest
here. There was a good feeling on the
part of all present, and everything passed
off without trouble. Several colored meu
whom Blodgett counted uj>ou, left him
aud supported the People's Ticket.
Judge Gibson, who had been announced
as a candidate on the Radical Ticket,
withdrew bis name and supported our
ticket.
One of the candidates on the Radical
Ticket in this Ward voted only for
Blodgett, saying his ticket w as defeated.
ward no. 3.
The number of registered voters in this
Ward was 884—whites, 374; blacks, 290.
The vote was for Russell, 400 ; Blodgett
131. 6 ’
WARD NO. 4.
In this Ward, the number of registered
voters was I,s37—whites, 745; blacks, 6l“.
The vote was for Russel! 784; Blodgett
-14. At any early hour Judges Davis ami
Reynolds, ou the Radical ticket, an
nounced their withdrawal from the can
didacy on that ticket. Soon afterward,
ilr. Baker, the remaining candidate, also
came down, leaving the field to the Dem
ocratic candidates. This news spread like
wildfire to the other polls, and completely
demoraliz'd the Radicals, who hardly
kuew what to do. They were completely
at sea without rudder or compass, but did
the best they could under the circum
stances, and endeavored to retrieve the
lost fortunes of the day, hut all iu vain;
the Democracy were too vigilant and
active, and ha*t resolved to fairly and hon
estly win a triumph ou this day—and win
it they nobly diu.
At this poll there was one shooting
scrape—between two colored men, but no
damage done. Otherwise everything was
peaceable and quiet enough.
To show that everything was laiilv con
ducted, ttp will here mention a<• uple of
littie incidents:
Over the window of the polling house iu
this ward was a large placard anuouncin g
“Justice to all-white and colored n.nZf
he allowed to vote, no matter what their
politics!” and signed “H. F. It: - ’’
A gentleman—a Democrat—ask/d a ne
gro to come up and vote, lhe negro said
that the Democrats had never done any
thing for him—not even given him a pair
of shoes. This gentleman asked him
“who he wanted to vote for?” “For
Blodgett,” he replied. Thereupon, tiie
gentleman took lnm up to the polls, saw
him vote for Blodgett, and then gave him
a pair of good new bhoes. —Chronicle and
Sentinel.
ENGLISH MORALS.
It would be hard, indeed, to fiud much
subject for boasting in any phase of pub
lic or social life iu these days. The stand
ard of statesmanship has immeasurably
falieu, aud he whom the journals of the
day call the greatest leader of tbe age lias
nothing better to offer the public than
petty truisms and sorry recriminations
of his adversaries. Go tiirough the prin
cipal streets aud you will see that humbug
and imposture prevails no less in private
life. Everywhere one portrait now strikes
the eye. It is tiiat of a beautiful young
girl, fair and modest to all appearance,
aud evidently occupying a high position.
6be is in half the albums one opens, and
soon will be in the other half—so rapidly
is she becoming the vogue. Underneath
the portrait you will "find written the
name of “Mabel Grey.” And who is Ma
bel Grey? Some young lady who has dis
tinguished herself? Yes, truly—but not
in the way that honest women could bear
to tbiuk of. Mabel Grey is the present
queen of tbe demi-monde, hhe holds a
sort of official drawing-room every night
at a casiuo in PF iborn, and thither richly
dressed women flock to pay her court, and
euvy her. The death of Mabel Grey’s
predecessor iu Paris is announced—and
now tbe new “Auonyma” is installed.
You go to a theatre, and there in a private
box, accompanied by men who keep iu
the background, is a young lady attired iu
a magnificent dress, and covered with dia
monds. Her necklace might constitute a
King’s ransom—there are rings enough
on her fingers to purchase a princely
estate. The face is beautiful and intelli
gent. This is Mabel Grey,over whose por
trait half England is going crazy.
The thing takes, and now by the side
of Mabel Grey there appears another face,
scarcely less beautiful, and this is known
as “Marion Lee.” As Igo home through
Kensiugton, it happens to me very fre
quently to meet tbe young person of fault
less figure, though short in stature, riding
from the Park. Her gfoorn follows on a
perfect bit of horse-flesh. Then if I chauce
to take a stroll in the Burlington Arcade
in the afternoon, (of course on my way to
a club) I see the same young person,
dressed in velvet and Russian sables, and
with one or two cavaliers by her side, tshe
is not yet quite the rage of the town, but
“Marion Lee” is on the high road to
“splendid infamy.” You will see her por
trait side by side in every lady’s album.
Their brothers attend her '“drawing
rooms” at a different saloon. Will any
one say, then, that religiou, morality,
and social progress are not prospering
more thau ever in the midst of this vast
aud ever-growing city ? L.
Officers in Bankruptcy.—Charles
McKinley, Esq., Register in Bankruptcy
for the Third Tistrict, died a few days
since. We learn that Judge Erskine will
select Lawson Black, Esq., Register iu
Bankruptcy in the Seventh District, to
wind up the unfinished business left by
McKinley, and will also instruct the
clerks to refer cases which may hereafter
arise in the Third District to Mr. Black
for adjudication.
Owing to the promotion of Garnett Au
drews, Esq., to be a Judge of the Superior
Court, Mr. Register Foster, we hear, lias
been selected to attend to the business in
Judge Andrews’ late District.
Mr. Register Hesseltine, of tlie Second
District, atteuds to the Bankruptcy busi
ness in the first District, which was the
District of Hon. Joshua Hill, lately elec
ted a member of the United States Senntt,
Sav. Republican,'2d.
Andrew Howard, negro, convicted on
i Tuesday, at Columbus, of keeping a disor
derly house, approached Judge Worrill
and begged to have the traditional thirty
nine lashes administered, and be let off,
without more ado.