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GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
[From the Atlanta Intelligencer.]
Monday, February .8
senate.— The .Senate met pursuant to
aliouriunent, aud was opened with prayer
hy the Kev. Dr. Parker.
The Secretary read the journal of Hatur
ll price’s resolution.
Mr. Hungerford—That the joint resolu
t:oD jn regard to the eligibility of colored
members he taken up.
Mr. Speer—Amends—'That we, the mem
nf both branches of the General As
nembly, pledge ourselves to abide by the
<j<dsiou of tlie Supreme Court. This
amendment was lost.
On rnotiou, shall we concur with the
resolution of the House, passed.
mouse bills on third reading.
To change time of holdiDg Superior
Courts in Cherokee Circuit.
To declare tiie meauing of section 3652
of Irwin’s Code.
To change time of holding Superior
Courts in Johnson, Washington, Eman
uel, and Columbia counties.
Tochauge the county lines of DeKalb
and Clayton.
resolutions.
Mr. Wooten—That after the previous
fjueMion is decided in the negative, the
regular order of business shall go on.
Passed.
Mr. Adkins—To reinstate the colored
members who were deprived of their seats
at the last session.
Amotion to postponeaction indefinitely
was adopted.
Mr Wellborn—That as the Senator from
the l ull Distri >seems to he greatly dis
satisfied with his present associations,
that be be, and lie is hereby authorized to
join that odoriferous body, which, in
taking its departure from the Henate, not
only "left a lasting perfume behind,” hut
at the same time left at least one heart so
bruised and wounded that it can never
recover except under the influence of those
kindred spirits, no longer to he found upon
this floo r.
Ruled out of order.
BILLS ON THIRD READING.
For selection of jurors in this State.—
Laid on the table for the present.
To regulate the duties of employers to
employes in this State. Lost.
To encourage tlie arrest of criminals by
compensation therefor. Lost.
Senate adjourned.
House.—The House met pursuant to ad
journment.
Mr. Hudson moved to reconsider so
much of Saturday’s journal as relates to
tlie hill authorizing the Notaries Public
and Justices of tlie Peace of tlie county
site precincts of this State to appoint at
torneys ut law to prosecute criminal cases,
ami providing pay for the same.
Motion to reconsider prevailed, and tlie
hill was recommitted to the Judiciary
Committee.
Mr. Tunilin moved to reconsider the
printing of tlie report of the Educational
imm it tee. Motion lost.
Mr. McWhorter, Speaker, moved to re
consider tlie hill, lost Saturday, allowing
Elisha Carter, a maimed soldier, of Greene
county, to peddle without license. Motion
to reconsider prevailed.
Rules suspended aud the following hill
read first time:
A bill creating anew judicial circuit, to
be called the Atlanta Circuit. Passed and
transmitted to tlie Senate.
BILLS ON THIRD READING.
A bill defining the meaning of section
2,640 of Irwin’s Code. Lost.
A bill changing the lines between the
counties of Taliaferro aud Hancock.—
Passed.
A bill allowing Sherills in this State to
solemnize marriage. Lost.
.4 bill to protect more effectually per
sonal property. Lost.
.4 bill prohibiting the selling of spiritu
ous liquors on election days. Passed.
A bill to enforce the payment of interest
on money according to coutract.
I’endiug the discussion of this hill, the
hour of adjournment arrived.
Tuesday, February 9th.
Senate.—Senate called to order by the
President.
Prayer by Mr. Hinton.
Journal of proceedings of yesterday read
aud approved.
■'li. Adkins changed liis vote from yea
. nay, on ie adoption of Price’s resolu
tion.
RECONSIDERATION.
-Mr. Merrell moved to reconsider the ac
tion ot the Senate yesterday, referring the
eligibility of colored men to hold office to
tbe Supreme Court.
-Mr. Wooten made a speech in favor of
reconsideration.
-Mr. Burns followed in favor of recon
struction.
•Mr. Candler opposed the motion to re- 1
consider, in a few remarks, aud moved to
jfy ’‘le motion to reconsider on tlie table. '
t tie vote stood: yeas, 13 ; nays, 17. So the
motion io table did not prevail.
-Mr. Candler spok’e in opposition to re
consideration, followed by Mr. Hiutoni in
favor.
-Mr. Brock favored reconsideration, hut
was opposed to the resolutions.
Mr. Wellborn opposed reconsideration.
A message was received from the Gov
ernor, announcing that lie had signed and
approved the resolution appointing a joint
committee on the memorial of JaneL.
Mitchell. ;
A messenger was received from the i
Douse, announcing that that body had
passed several Benate ami House bills.
1 be Judiciary Committee, through Mr
Merrell, Chairman, reported on a large
uuuiher of bills.
Ihe Enrollment Committee reported
several bills duly enrolled.
Senate adjourned.
House.—House met pursautto adjourn
ment.
Prayer by Rev. Mr. Crumley.
Journal read aud approved.
Mr. Carpenter, of Hancock, moved to
reconsider the bill passed yesterday, j
'banging the lines between the counties
■ Hancock and Taliaferro. Motion pre
vailed. *
UNFINISHED BUSINESS.
Ibe bill to euforce the payment of 1
crest, agreed upon, was taken up and
“bussed.
Mr. Hudson moved to indefinitely post
pone this bill. Motion prevailed.
Mr. Tumliu moved to suspend the rules
' take up the bill reducing the tax on
reuses from SIOO to 25. Rules suspended
Q J the bill taken up aud read.
‘, Crawford moved to indefinitely
Postpone this bill. Lost.
Ike previous question was called on the
i of tlie hill, aud the yeas aud nays
W bi c h resulted—yeas 56; uays6B.
l ‘ lr ' Kelly—a bill to ameud the police
P* ®f the city of Savannah.
Rules suspended and the bill read first
,' n motion of Mr. Hall, of Monroe, the
We . re SUs >peuded, and tbe geueral ap
** opri a tion bill read tbe second time, and
' erreii t° tbe Committee on Finance.
tat/‘ Moved to suspend tbe rules to
Up enate bills for third reading.—
Motion prevailed.
? lu l ,t a certain number of tbe
Bavann«V> fire companies of tbe city of
addin., J 1 • fr i! )m J H, ry dut y- Amended by
The Dhow ? lr , e Company, of Home.
A L.,, > as amended, passed.
in Chatham 6 s U * BU M m °ns of witnesses
natuam bupenor Court. Passed.
cultural l) "corporate the Atlanta Agri
pauy. a “P lemeut Manufacturing Corn-
Passed. eud ed by tbe committee and
I-anlfanfi' 3 '^ 1 °- der ° f the being the
U P. and imgratlon bill, it was taken
’ uu being an appropriation bill, tbe
iferafgia Hotifwil awl
House resolved itself into a committee of
the whole to cousider it.
Consideiable discussion ensued on tms
tion to read and acton the bill by sections.
Vote wastakenon motion, and the House
decided to read the bill and act upon the
amendments made thereto. Bill read.
Mr. Saussey moved to amend by locating
the office of Chief Commissioner at any
place to be designated by the commission
ers, other than the Capital, as in the origi
nal bill. B
Mr. Anderson objected to the amend
ment. He said that the friends of this bill
had prepared it carefully, and he hoped it
would pass without amendments.
7 Mr. O’Neal moved to amend the amend
ment by striking out the word “Capitol”
in tlie hill aud adding "tbe city of Savan
nah” for the location of the Chief Com
missioner.
Mr. Warren, of Quitman, said as the
discussion had gone into the merits of this
bill, he would state his objections to the
hill. He was opposed to the bill from
beginning toend, and thought it was dan
gerous to go to this expense in our present
embarrassed condition. He would not
give one negro laborer for forty such as
this bill would get. It was made for bene
fit of men who wanted easy places, and if
it passed, it would passover bis vote.
Mr. Tweedy moved to strike out to be
elected by the General Assembly and give
the power to the Governor to appoint.
Mr. Harper, of Terrell, said he was op
posed to the bill. We ca,u offer no induce
ments to immigrants at the present time.
We do not know how long it will be before
some General will be upon us with his
bureau, aud the expense to support this
bill is unnecessary at the present time,
and I think Hi is hill should be indefinitely
postponed. This Legislature voted down
an appropriation to bury our dead, a few
days since, and here, some who voted it
down, want to appropriate ten thousand
dollars to assist the very men, or some of
the men who assisted to kill our people,
to come here and live. He was opposed
to it. When we are prepared to offer in
ducements to immigration it will come.
Let us, then, legislate our State into a
condition that we can rid ourselves of our
present burdens, and then we will be pre
pared to go into uew enterprises.
Mr. Phillips moved that tlie committee
rise and report progress and ask leave to
sit again.
Motion prevailed and tlie bill made the
special order for to-morrow, at 11 o’clock.
House adjourned till 10 o’clock to-mor
row
Wednesday, February 10.
Senate. —Tlie Senate met this morning
pursuant to adjournment, and was opened
with prayer by Rev. Dr. Parker.
Roll being called, and quorum present,
tiie Secretary read tlie journal of yester
day.
Tlie question before tiie Senate was to
reconsider Hie action of the Senate on
passing the House resolution of Mr. Price.
Discussed by Messrs. Wellborn, Merrell,
Holcombe and Nuunally.
Mr. Candler called the question—shall
the Senate reconsider its action. Lost.
Yeas—Adkins, Brock, Burns, Coleman,
Dickey, Giguilliat, Griffin, of the 21st ;
Holcombe, Jones, McWhorter, Nuunally,
Shermau, Stringer, Welch, Wooten—ls
Nays Anderson, Candler, Collier,
Fain, Graham, Harris, Hicks, Hunger
ford, Lester, McArthur, Moore, Richard
son, Smith, of the 36th, Wellborn, Winn,
Griffin, of tiie 6th, McCutcheu, Speer—
-18.
HOUSE BILL ON FIRST READING.
An act, to amend an act, relative to
taxes on circuses.
RESOLUTION RECONSIDERED
Mr. Adkins—To reinstate the colored
members who were deprived of their seats
at the last session. Laid on the table.
BILL READ FIRST TIME.
Mr. Nuunally—A bill in relation to the
statutes of limitations aud for other pur
poses, repealing certain acts of the Legis
lature, aud certain acts of tiie Convention
of 1865.
Rules suspended to take up House bill
third time.
Mr. Wooten—A hill to provide juries iu
this State, amended by Judiciary Com
mittee. Passed.
BILL FIRST READING.
Mr. Moore—To create anew circuit, to
be called the Rome Circuit.
Senate adjourned.
House. —House met pursuant to ad
journment, at 10 A. M , aud was opened
with prayer by the Rev. Mr. Crumley.
Journal of yesterday read.
Mr. Crawford moved to reconsider so
much of the journal of yesterday as re
lates to the loss of the bill requiring the
payment of interest on money according
to contract.
A message was received from the Gov
ernor stating that lie had signed the fol
lowing bills: Amending the charter of
tiie Macon aud Western Railroad Com
pany, increasing the capital stock ; a bill
exempting from jury and militia duty
certain persons of Americus ; a bill to con
solidate ami amend tiie several acts incor
porating the towu of Lumpkin, in the
county of Stewart.
Mr Crawford spoke in favor of his mo
tion to reconsider, (there were no ladies in
the gallery), which motion was lost.
Yeas 52 ; nays 58
Mr. Tumlin moved to reconsider so
much of the journal of yesterday as re
lates to the loss of the hill reducing the
tax on circus shows. Motiou to recon
sider prevailed.
Ou motion of Mr. Scott, of Fioyd, the
bill extending State aid to the Georgia
and Memphis Railroad, was taken up aud
referred to the Committee on Finance.
'lhe bill regulating the tax on circus
sh »ws was taken up, and tlie amendment
of Mi. Sissou, making the tax SIOO in
cities having a population of more than
ten thousand; SSO in cities having a popu
lation of more thau five thousand; and $25
in towns of lesser size, was adopted and
the bill passed.
Mr McCombs—A resolution tendering
a seat in the House to Judge Robinson
during his stay in the city. Adopted.
Mr. Ellis, of Spaulding—A hill chang
ing the line between the counties of Henry
and Spalding. Rules suspended, aud bill
read first time.
Mr. Fitzpatrick, Radical, presented a
memorial from theexpelled negroes of the
Legislature, and wished it read. Rules
were not suspended.
Mr. Flournoy'—A resolution authorizing
a loan of the State tax of the county of
Washington to said county. Adopted.
The House went iuto a Committee of
the Whole on the bill to create a Land
and Immigration Bureau for the State of
Georgia
Mr. Hudson, of Harris, in the chair.
After much discussiou, Mr. McWhorter
moved that the Committee of the Whole
arise, report progress, aud beg leave to sit
again, which motion prevailed.
House adjourned
“ THE TRUTH. THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND
NO I RING BUT THE TRUTH.”
This caption admirably fits the follow
ing words from the New Orleans Bulletin.
They embody whole “chuuksof wisdom,”
and ring with a sound that tells of ster
ling metal beneath :
“We have no hesitation iu saying that
he who has built a grain elevator, started
a steam plow, a cheap sugar pan, or a cot
tou mill, has doue more for Southern so
cial prosperity than all the politicians who
have gone, or are going, to bend the knee
at Washington. Such patriots are swift
to make unnecessary concessions of the
Southern past, iu exchange for pardons,
or even offices for themselves. Let every
Southern man vindicate the integrity of
his past opinions by bearing his misfor
tunes aud keeping his parole like a man.
Let the future harmonies of the Union be
based on a mutual respect of all that is
good, aud a thorough contempt of all that
is mean in both sections. Let us demon
strate an honorable community of inter
ests, and unite in all enterprises which
promise mutual good. This policy will
restore the prosperity of the South, per
petuate the Union, and dissolve any ap
prehension that those who once served
shall ever govern us.”
THE BEGINNING OF THE END.
If the amendment to the Constitution
adopted by the Senate, on Thursday, is
agreed to by the House, and is ratified by
two-thirds of the Legislatures of the va
rious States of the Union, the doom of the
Republic is sealed beyond controversy. It
reads as follows:
No discrimination shall be made in the
United States among the citizens of tbe
United States, in the exercise of the elec
tive franchise, or in the right to hold office
in any State on account of race, color,
nativity, property, education or creed.
This measure throws opeu tbe ballot
box, without let cr hindrance, to every
male in the United States —except such as
are disfranchised by State action —no mat
ter where he comes from, what his color,
whether he owns more than the rags that
cover him, or knows even the alphabet.
Such a premium upon ignorance, vice and
worthlessness—such a cheapening and
degradation of what should be the most
prized right of American intelligence aud
worth, has never before degraded the re
cords of American legislation. It will
result, just as sure as it is tried, in the
most fearful anarchy, or a despotism still
more fearful. Still, if tbe North can stand
it, we can. The ballot box down here has
already beeu degraded to the lowest deep.
There is no lower deep for us.
What New York, with her property,
and Massachusetts, with her intelligence
and qualification will say to it, we shall
soon know. Her Senators voted for it,
but the Legislatures may reject it. As
they were not elected with any such issue
entering into the canvass, they may, at
least, decline to act upon it, or if they do
agree to it, the people may condemn their
action when an opportunity offers. \Y T ith
the occurrence of State elections in March
aud April, iu New Hampshire and Con
necticut, we can tell what the people of
those States say to it, at auy rate. If there
are auy lingering, smouldering embers of
the fire of State rights in either, this blast
will surely blow them into a bright flame.
We are glad in oue sense, however,
though sorrowing in another, to see it. It
brings our oppressors face to face with what
they have so remorselessly forced upou
us. We shall see, now, how they writhe
under tortures we have been forced to en
dure, and at which they have alternately
grinned aud sneered. Let the cup he
pressed to their lips. If they drink it,
ruin will come ; hut like Samson and the
Philistines, the falling of the temple will
crush them as well as ourselves. If they
refuse it, they demoralize the organization
that has pushed the country to tlie edge
of the precipice, and open up a prospect
for Hie restoration of our lost rights aud
liberties.
4**
THE LAST DISGRACE.
The scene iu the House of Representa
tives on Wednesday, while the electoral
vote of Georgia was uuder discussiou,
must have been singularly disgusting to
every man who witnessed it, and who still
preserves—a hard matter, we admit—any
respect for the character aud position of
the Nation’s representatives. Such a
scene was never witnessed before, as the
pot house, ruffiauly wrangle between
Wade aud Butler. It belittles not them,
for that were impossible, but the place,
the occasion, aud the American people.
In the days when virtue, honor, and dig
nity were attributes of men holding their
positions, such an occurrence would have
been impossible. Neither in the charac
ter of the men of that day, nor in the
public opinion that, more or less, con
trolled the action of the public’s servants,
was there anything that tolerated such
gross departures from parliamentary law,
such indecent and shameless violations
of legislative decorum.
But the taiutof Radicalism really seems
to spare nothing however grand and dig
nified. It penetrates everywhere, aud
wherever it goes carries with it the poison
of public corruption, private demoraliza
tion, and a brazen contempt, not only for
laws and constitutions, but the amenities
of official and private intercourse. Per
haps siuce the days when the crop-eared,
canting followers of Cromwell defiled the
high places of England with their pres
ence and policy, no set of men have lived
so well qualified to bring the American
character and name into contempt, as the
Roundheads of American politics. They
trample upon law and right, public and
private; rob the treasury; bankrupt the
people; stain and smear the National
fame ; put premiums upon rascality, rob
bery, aud jobbery of every description,
and witkal don’t even know how to be
have themselves. They are Jacobins in
all their greed for blood and plunder, iu
their cold, remorseless vindictiveness,
aud Puritans iu their hate for everything
and everybody who does not conform to
their own ideas of right and wrong; but
they neither have the polish of the one,
nor the respectable fanaticism of the
other.
What will be the destiny of this country
under such guidance, we shudder to think.
If they even knew how, or would try to
cover up some of their deformities, we
should have some hope. While there is a
sense of shame, a chauce remains for
amendment. When that goes, though,
tlie end is plain. Wade and Butler, we
doubt uot, absolutely enjoyed the dis
graceful exhibition in which they were
the actors. Having long since lost all
self-respect, it is not very strange that
they should despise and defy the respect
of others. The pity is that the gentlemen
and statesmen of this country, aud the
National character, itself, should be in
volved in the eyes of the world in the
shame aud disgrace of such conduct.
Fancy the sneer aud shudder of disgust
with which Derby, or Clarendon, or
Bismarck, or auy other gentleman and
public servant in Europe, when reading
the disgusting details!
THE PUBLIC PRINTER——HOW HE WAS
ELECTED.
The Augusta Tress asserts that there
were some very ugly features in the dis
posal of the public printing by the Legis
lature. The editor of the Atlanta Era
was, so far as the public knows to the con
trary, declared duly elected State Priuter,
hut the Press declares that by the terms of
a combination entered into to secure the
printing for the Era, Its editor had to bar
gain away a large part of his expected
profits to secure an election.
The Press further declares that Bryant
and Rice, carpet baggers from Richmond
and Columbia counties, and Prince, a
carpet bagger now in Congress from this
State, were specifically named iu tbe con
tract as the parties to be benefitted by it;
and in less than twenty-four houre after
it was signed, two of the parties voted
money into their own pockets, by voting
for the editor of the Era, and thus elected
themselves !
With the Press, we denounce this con
duct as a disgrace to the State, and as de
serving prompt investigation by the Leg
is’ature. Let this contract be brought to
light, to begin with.
MACON. GA.. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 16. 1869.
“I SHALL DIE ALONE."
When the rich gold and purple of Life** sunset
Lies in its beauty on the silent sea;
When on the shore I see the white-robed angel.
And hear his whisper; “God has called for
thee”—
Eye* lit with love will watch me on the seashore.
Warm human hands will fondly press my own;
But can I bear them with me on my journey
Out through the dimness of the world unknown ?
And this great beauty of the earth and heavens, -
The holy night whose glory fills mv soul,
The softened amethyst of fading twilight,
The gleaming stars on night’s emblazoned
scroll—
The rosy light of morning on the mountains,
The tender purple of the distant sea,
Things I love now, from henceforth all forgotten,
What of their beauty can I bear with me ?
“Alone, alone," sighed gentle-hearted Pascal,
And yet I think that not alone we die;
Though all this earth is dimly fading from us,
Are we alone if one kind Friend is nigh?
One who hath said: “Lo, lam with you always,”
■ The way-worn Man who sat by Galilee,
Speaking good words and healing ail the people,
Who lived and died for love of you and me.
Oh, not alone, for this our Friend and Brother,
Though Heaven’s great angels bow before His
throne, ‘ . >-
Shall stand with us upon the silent seashore, 1
His hand shall guide us to the world unkno m.
TALK WITH AN ENGLISHMAN ABOUT AF
FAIRS AT THE SOUTH, ETU.
“Gath,” writing to the New York Tri
bune, reports the following conversation
with Mr. Everett, of England, whom he
encountered in a railroad car.
THE WAY THE ENGLISH GOT A CONSOLIDA
TED LINE FROM NORFOLK TO MEMPHIS.
I have recently made a gratifying trip
through the South, investing some money,
aud proposing to investigate more, in the
Mobile & Ohio, and the (Selma & Dalton
Railroads. I was almost thrilled, if an
Englishman can say so extravagautly,
with the beautiful lands of Alabama aud
Mississippi; noble prairie, capable of
raising graiu, tobacco or cotton equally
well, aud as I rode in a special train fioin
Chicago to Mobile, I met the leading peo
ple of the country, wearing that incon
solable look of despair which has been im
pressed upon them by defeat, the loss of
their slaves, and consequent poverty.
"Great heavens, gentlemen!” 1 9aid,
“you will make me sour as yourselves, if
you dwell thus persistently upon your
calamities. A people have uo business to
concern themselves iu politics to the en
tire exclu-iou of their private concerns. I
have beeu an associate iu England cf
Cobden and those w ; ho strove to release
trade from imposition, and the work was
earnest and enthusiastic with me; hut I
would have been a fool to have engulfed
in it all my private fortune, ceased my
private endeavors, aud become the victim
so set of politicians, such as excite you
now to make politics yourentire subject of
grief aud agitation. Go to work! Set
your affairs right, and a happier politics
will come. See what you are doing—pay
ing in Illinois a dollar aud a quarter a
bushel for grain and growing none your
selves, though with land fully as excel
lent. If you cannot cultivate all your
estate, cultivate a part—certainly enough
to raise food to eat. Keep every cent be
side you and put it into railways. Estab
lish for yourselves a consolidated line from
the Mississippi to the Atlantic,so that you
can send cotton and tobacco without tran
shipment straight to Liverpool. The true
theory of wise commerce is to buy iu the
cheapest markets aud sell iu the dearest.
Raise corn at home, instead of buying it
where it is dear. Sell your products, not
by hypothecation to New York, as you
used to do, dealing like a bankrupt wiih a
pawnbroker, but sell them in Liverpool.”
“How?” they said vacantly. “Nobody
will lend us money. The low tariff rate
of freights between us and Norfolk cannot
be attained. The Baltimore and Ohio
Railway controls a small piece of the line
between us and Norfolk, and keeps up tho
rates and prevents oon-olidation.”
“Will you help yourselves if I help
you ?”
“Yes, anything ; but how ?”
“Raise money. Sell everything you
have to spare, from a sauce pan up. There
is a fine harbor, I am told, at Norfolk.
The Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad’s steam
ships to Liverpool stop there for freights
Accomplish this consolidation and secure
the low tariff’ by rail, and, mark my
words, the Baltimore and Ohio will
take off its Norfolk steamships.
“ They promised to do their best, and
asked me to go to New Orleans and Mobile
and encourage the people in tlie same
way. I addressed large meetings iu both
cities. They cast off their grave looks
aud became cheerful. Then I hastened to
General Mahone, at Norfolk, who is at
this moment, without approximation, the
biggest, roundest and greatest man iu the
Southern States. Personally, he is a lit
tle, bullet-headed, black-eyed, sun-burnt
fellow—a fighting tiger he was as a rebel
general.”
(“ They tell me,” Isaid, “ that he is now
a half Radical.”
“ I believe my soul,” he said, “ that he
is mor? than three-quarters a Radical!”)
“ To General Mahone I confided my de
signs. He threw himself in my arms.
“ ‘ God bless you !” hesaid. ‘you are the
man I have been looking for!’"
“ I found that the obstinate pieefe of
road was that short connection between
Knoxville, in East Tennessee, and Bris
tol, on the Virginia line.
“Will you raise half a million dollars if
I raise half a million to buy this piece of
road?” I said to Mahone; “a million will
buy it.”
“Yes!”
“Give it to me in bond.”
He did so promptly. With this I
hastened to Knoxville and had an inter
view with the President of the obstinate
line
“Js it rough or smooth ?” I said to him ;
for this is the term used by a London po
liceman arresting a thief, meauing Mo you
fight or give in?’ Put down your rates,
according to this consolidated schedule, or
twenty-four hours your road passes out of
your hands. Your stock is ou tlie market!
I bold the money to buy it in.” He made
it smooth ; tbe consolidation on the low
tariff principle was a thing de facto, and
iu the space of a few weeks there passed
between Memphis and Norfolk 150,000
bales of cottou. As I prophesied, the
Baltimore aud Ohio road took offitsships.”
“Now,” said I, “we must have a Norfolk
aud Liverpool direct line—steamers of tbe
size of the Terifa. I have asked what you
would do to save yourselves. Respond, not
by promises, but in realities.”
“Sir,” said Mr. Everett "they have
produced SIBO,OOO. The steamers betwixt
Norfolk aud Liverpool are being negotia
ted for. We have made a certainty of the
experiment of low speed and cheap rates.
I have invested for myself and my prin
cipals one million dollars in the Dalton
and Selma road. The Vicksburg people
are stirring themselves. In President
Murdock, of the Mobile and Ohio Rail
road. I find a worthy associate to Mahone,
We mean to make Norfolk a permanent j
shipping point, and tlie rentiezyous of tiie
Southern railways. Our steamers will
shortly be ready, and with them we will
iudoctriuute the system of low rates of
speed aud cheap rates of freight.”
AN ENGLISHMAN’S RESUME OF THE
TARIFF.
“Do you think, Mr. Everett, that with
the introduction of this system of low
tariff'd' freights, the intere.-ts ofthe coun
try will be developed toward ultimate or ,
immediate low tariff' of duties?”
“Yts, sir. What this country wants is
not tariff, but transit. Leavi g out your
bounty, tiie cost of making iron in Amer
ica is about that of making it in England.
You are already the equals of Englaud at i
the manufactory. The limited area of
our island and the cheapness of sea tran- i
sit are all that is in our favor. We have
no such conglomerate mountains of lime,
iron and coal as you have. Our materials
for smelting are brought from different
localities, at separate expenses. We de
scend hundreds and thousands of feet into
the earth for coal. You dig it from the
hill sides. Your ores are generally better
than ours. It is transit, 9ir, that makes
cheapness or dearness. Transit i9 tariff,
or free trade. American coal at the mine’s
mouth is as cheap as English coal at the
mine’s mouth. Freightage makes the dis-
ference in cost between coal London
and coal in New York. We lay extra
rails on our railroads to accommodate and
cheapen freight. Many of our railroads
have quadruple tracks.
“As your excellent commissioner, David
A. Wells, has shown, that by reducing
duties the poor will be better off—so by
reducing freights I claim that your pro
ducers and consumers will be better off.
As he has shown that by reducing the
whisky rax from two dollars to half a dol
lar, more duty can be collected—so I claim
that by reducing freights and running
frequent slow trains, more freights can be
collected, and both railways and shippers
be better off.”
“Ah, sir,” I said, “when we hint toward
free trade,or even toward reduced duty in
this country, the answer is that Euglaud
got all her independence from protection,
aud that only now, having duly protected
herself, is she able to proclaim free trade.”
“Ah, sir,” again said the British gentle
man, "look at our sufferings under the
dynasty of duties Famines, bread riots,
the broad road of penance. We look back
and see it all now, how blind and bigoted
we were ; how, in the words of your
revenue commissioner, the rich were ever
growing richer and the poor poorer.”
ERI ATORIALAFRIC A.
\ Lecture by Mr. P. B. Du Chaillu.
~i Mr. Paul B. Du Chaillu, the celebrated
!lave!er, the first and as yet known tbe
only explorer of Equatorial Africa, de
livered one of his popular lectures last
evening at the rooms of the American
Geographical and Statistical Society,
Cooper Institute, before a very large au
dience, the lecture room being filled to
overflowing, and the ante-room having
many occupants straining to hear the
words of the lecturer. The occasion was
the monthly meeting of the society, Mr.
Du Chaillu, at the invitation of the socie
ty. having specially traveled from Boston,
where he is engaged in delivering a course
of lectures, to be present to read before the
society liis paper ou "Equatorial Africa.”
J udge Daly, the President of the society,
presided.
The subject of the lecture was “Equato
rial Afri* a, with an Account of the Race
of Pigmies aud ofthe Cannibal Tribes.”
Mr. Du Chaillu gave a brief description of
his early desires to travel and i.is first
start towards their accomplishment.
After some time he reached the country of
the Ashmangoes, an extensive and well
peopled country in Equatorial Africa.
■ Here he became very intimate with the
; Kiug, who was exceedingly friendly to
the young European, the first who had
; visited his country in the memory of the
I oldest inhabitant. This was his point
! d’appui, from whence lie made frequent
; excursions in tlie surrounding country.
Far to the eastward he came upon the
: Bougauhoes—a people of very diininu'ive
i stature, leading a gypsy life and living
upon u erpents, mice and tlie berries of the
forest. '1 hese people lived apart from all
communication with the surrounding
tribes, marrying within themselves, and
moving from place to place as whim aud
fancy directed. They are most expert
trappers of the wild animals that roamed
in vast numbers through the impenetra
ble forests that stretched unexplored dis
tances to the eastward.
Ou the appearance at anytime of the
people of other tribes these pigmies im
mediately fled to the fastnesses and coverts
of the forest, where it was exceedingly
dangerous to pursue them on account of
the innumerable number of traps set by
them for the capture of game, from the
elephant to the wild boar. He was very
anxious to learn something of those peo
ple, and though his friend, the King of
tlie Ash mangoes, had doue everything to
dissuade him from tiie attempt, he was
not to be led from accomplishing liis pur
poses. Seeing this, the King furnished
him with some guides, and, attended by
his seven followers from llie coast, he
started on his journey. After sometime
traveling to the eastward from the coun
try of tlie Ashmangoes, he at last came
unon oue of the temporary settlements of
the Bougauboe pigmies. Upou the ap
proach of himself and party,'however, the
whole settlement fled, he pursuing. But
they had got too good a start of him, aud
they were in too close proximity to their
safe and impenetrable retreats iu the
dense forest, into which he could not pur
sue them, and they got safely away. For
tunately, however, a party of seven
women and a man were not so quick as
the rest of the tribe, or had not received
the warning to flee in time, and before
these could reach the forest they were
overtaken and captured.
From these specimens it was very easy
to judge of tiie whole tribe. These people
lived in huts made by tlie brauches of
trees, one end of a branch not more than
six feet loner stuck in the ground, and then
beut over till the other end could be stuck
in the ground in the same way. Other
branches were fixed iu the same way, and
over these were laid branches, and this
formed their huts. He measured the
women who had failed to escape, and he
found their height to be four feet four
inches to four feet seven inches, and one,
a perfect giantess among them, measured
five feet aud a quarter. Their heads mea
sured from twenty-one and a quarter
inches to twenty-two and a quarter inches
around. These people were not at all as
he expected they would he, apish in form
and make. On tiie contrary they all pre
sented the appearance of symmetrical,
well built people, like such as lived such
a life as theirs—the lives of gypsies. Their
heads and parts of their bodies were cover
ed with tufts of hair iu spots here and
there, with no spread of growth. They
lived ou serpents, mice anil the nuts and
berries of the forest, aud the game they
sold to tbe Ashangoes.
They knew nothing of the marriage re
lation, the sexes living promiscuously—
the women being entirely independent
and untrammelled in their choice or fancy.
They had a curious custom with relation
to the interment of their dead. When
ever they buried auy of the tribe they
would go to a stream, divert it from its
course for a short distance, dig a grave
deep in the bed of the river, then return
the stream to its proper course. He did
not remain long among these people, for
he found it impossible to lure them back 'o
the village while he remained, and as he
beard of a gr> at tribe or a people of canni
bals to tiie Northward he determined on
visiting them. Here he found a race of
very tall men. As he entered their vil
lages be beheld numerous upright posts
surmounted with skulls, and as he enter
ed the vill ae the street was covered with
skulls. The streets were very wide, 15d
teet in width, aud from a mile to a mile
and a half in length.
These people were great warriors, hut
greater cauuibals, the dead not being
sacred fr<>m their ravenous maw. It was
not considered right among them to eat
tbe dead of their own family, hut a little
subterfuge was resorted to by them to get
over this little restriction. The liviug
having a dead relative would go to a
neighbor an I agree to leave their dead
friend ou the table if the party would agree
to return tbe favor the first time one of
their friends diei. These manufactured
the most splendid weapons—spears, ar
rows, knives, axes and tomahawks, sharp
ened like razors. They were a very for
midable people and a terror to the tribes
the most remote from them and the most
difficult to reach.
Dr. Du Chaillu kept the interest of his
hearers alive to the end, and when he bad
concluded a vote of thanks through the
president was awarded him. — New York
World , sth.
Horrible Results of Religious In
sanity.—St. Loui6,Februarg 6 th. —A man
named Hoefer, living in the outskirts of
Hannible, Missouri, murdered his daugh
ter, ten yers old, yesterday. He first
strangled her with a strap, then cut her
body in two with ashoe knife, after which
he tore her heart out, cut it open with his
knife and swallowed the blood. He was
arrested, and when asked why he commit
ted the horrible deed, he replied that Christ
died, that Christ was killed, and it was no
worse for his Child todie than Christ; that
he offered her as a sacrifice to Christ. Itis
said that the man is insane on religious
subjects.
Big Damages.—A buck negro, named
McCarthy, at New Orleaus, has just sued
the Opera House in that city for $1,500 for
being ejected therefrom. Just about his
value before the war as a field hand.
A REMINISCENCE.
Col. Don Piatt, in a letter to the Cincin
nati Commercial, humorously touches up
a little incident which occurred in Wash
ington when Col. Allen represented Ohio
in tlie Senate. It is so readable that we
publish k:
I am under everlasting obligation to
oue fair daughter of the house of Wood
bury. I have acknowledged this before.
Let me repeat my thanks.
The undersigned found his way to
Washington wlieu, fresh from school, a
green, awkward youth, sadly annoyed by
feet that seemed to have a malignant en
largement, aed hands that were luggage
on a railroad, “at tiie risk of the owner.”
Bodisco, the funny old Russian Minis
ter. who had fallen in love with, and mar
ried, a sweet little Georgetown school-girl,
made himself popular by brilliant parties,
and one of these was about to come off
when your neophyte to fashion fell into
the bauds of (Senator Allen. The good
hearted (Senator took his uonstitueut to
the birth-night party.
It was to be expected that the awkward
youth would fall iuto a daze before the
flashing lights that lined the street, aud
grow confused amid the crash of carriages
aud the cries of the colored servauts, who,
the Africans I mean, make themselves
heard ou such occasions. Be that as it
may, was being pushed iu by the toll
Senatorial representative of Ohio, when
lie came to a full stop iu the presence of
two elongated specimens of the human
species, done up and decorated like Brig
adier Generals on a general muster. Our
youthful hero, deeply impressed, bowed
profouudly, and the decorated specimens,
looking somewhat puzzled, returned the
politeness.
“Don’t bow to these flunkeys,” snorted
the Senator; “give them your cloak.”
He had no time to obey this order, for
tlie crowd pushed him ou, still clinging to
his cloak At the door of the drawing
room heencouutered a fat gentleman, also
decorated, hut nothiug like the tali speci
mens lately passed, and, determined not
to he in the wrong again over the head,
arms and body of Corpulence, tlie youth
flung his cloak. Ttieu followed some
smothered curses in French, English and
Russian, as tiie gentleman thus assaulted,
threw the cloak off', and a general, hearty,
American laugh rang out from the crowd,
who regarded thisaituck ou tlie diplomatic
representative as coming from someone
very drunk and disorderly.
Senator Alleu was alarmed. He did not
kuow what liis infernal youthful protege
would do next, and so for hours shunned
him as theeloquent Solon from Obioought
to shun evil. He gave his young friend a
wide berth. The poor fellow wandered
about disconsolate turning over iu his
mind the hope tiiatsomeday an lugeuious
Yaukee would invent some heautifil arti
ficial feet, so that tiie legs of very young
men could he amputated, and thus relieved
of a fearful burden. At last lie seized the
reluctant aud alarmed Senator by the but
ton. “I say,” he petitioned, “do introduce
me to some of these girls.”
The senator took liis young friend by
the arm, and in desperation pushed him
through the brilliant crowd and presented
him to a young lady surrounded by ad
mirers. Ihe presentation over, the poor
fellow found himself unnoticed in a circle
of gentlemen, kid-gloved, moustached,
and at ease, who surrounded the belle.
While thus engaged, more miserable than
ever, a hluejay iu brass buttons, hurried
up and said:
“M iss Woodbury, permit me to tell you
the joke of tiie season ;” aud to our hero’s
horror, began telling of a drunken fellow’s
attempt to suffocate the Russiau Minister.
He listened for a moment in alarm and
perspiration, aud desperately broke out:
“I beg your pardon, sir, for the interrup
tion ; but no one can tell that adventure so
wellaslcm. lain tlie author ofthatin
famou9 outrage. I was not drunk, but I
was desperate. I assaulted tlie Russian
under a misapprehension. I mistook his
diplomatic excellency for the custodian of
cloaks; aud so continuing, he related his
adventure. The fair Woodbury’s laugh
“like silvercoms dropped down a
many-fathomed well.”
“Come,” she cried, “I must take you
under my especial protection, or you will
do some one—or, what would be worse—
do yourself a mischief. Give me your
arm, and we will explain to tlie alarmed
minister that uo one attempted liis assas
sination, and save liis master a long dis
patch, aud perhaps a recall.”
SMALL POX.
A Ualirornia Town Decimated.
(From the Correspondence of the New York Sun. |
San Francisco, January 12.— Early In
December the small pox broke out iu this
city. At first hut little attention wa3 paid
to it beyond the ordinary course of vacci
nation. But the disease grew virulent,
and many deaths occurred. Through
some fearful mistake, numbers of persons
were vaccinated with impure matter, aud
the ordinary medical treatment seemed
to have scarcely auy effect upou the dis
ease. So fatal were its ravages that public
attention was immediately drawn to it.
The people became excited, and a large
meeting was held to devise means to stop
the spread of thecontagion. Tbe proceed
ings of this meeting were published in the
San Francisco journals, but they were
toned down to a moderate degree, through
fear of affecting the usual winter and
spring tide of immigration. People seem
disposed to cover up tlie fearful ravages of
the disease and to conceal its deadly char
acter. Tlie streets are filled with funerals,
aud the grave digger has his hands and
graves full. In some cases burials are
made by night.
Despite every precaution, the contagion
remains as deadly as ever, and, though it
can scarcely lie said to be increasing, its
decline is hardly peree; tihle. All the
pest houses are full. Fathers and chil
dren, mothers brothers and sisters expire
daily, and nearly every person in the city
has lost some acquaintance or relative.
I he Chinese have suffered terribly. Their
native doctors have neither experience
nor common sense in the treatmen of tiie
small pox, and as a natural consequence
three out of every five of their patients run
into eternity.
But the ravages of the epidemic are not
confined to San Francisco. Nearly the
who e State is infected and some towns
have been decimated by the pestilence
Thus far Sacramento, Marysville, and
Stockton have escaped the malignant iype
of the disorder, hut it has run through tlie
lower countie-* of the State like a murrain
In Gilroy aud Los Angeles tiie disease has
been fatal beyond precedent, aud San
Francisco can be called reasonably healthy
when its death rate is compared with
those of tbe former towns. Some of those
affected appeared to rot by inches, in spite
of every available prescription. The phy
sicians stand aghast. In some cases vac
cination seems to have entirely lost its
power, and men, women and children,
with vaccine scars on their arms as large
as twenty shilling pieces, have fallen vic
tims to the epidemic. Hospitals have
been hastily furnished, and every effort
has been made in these towns to stay the
progress of tiie disease, aud thus far with
but little effect. Whole families have
died. In one instance, a father and four
children died within twenty-four hours,
and in a hotel at Los Angeles nine per
sons were buried within a week.
But the plague-spot of the State thus
far ha3 been the town of San Juan, in
Monterey county, someone hundred miles
from San Francisco. The town contains
about a thousand persons. The alarming
accounts of the mortality in San Francisco
and Gilroy excited some apprehension,
and an effort was made to- prevent the
appearance of the epidemic in San Juan.
A man came down from the grape-grow
ing district of Sonoma county, and regis
tered his name in the hotel. "When ques
tioned concerning the small-pox in the
North, be acknowledged its fatal virulence,
and said that, fearing he might catch it,
he had taken the precaution to be vaccin
ated before leaving home. In twenty-four
hours his arm swelled to the size of his
body, and was covered with gangrenous
sores. An examination by the physicians
resulted in the discovery of the fact that
tbe man had actually been inoculated with
the most malignant type of the small-pox.
He died, a sickening mass of putrefac
tion, within forty-eight hours, and was
buried at midnight. Steps were taken on
the instant to prevent tbe spread of the
disease. The dead man’s blankets, under-
clothes, and outer garments were burned ;
but unfortunately some school children
j discovered the half-burued rags, and
! caught the infection. In oue week num
bers ot them died, and the epidemic ob
tained a firm foothold in San Juau. Out
i °f a population of oue thousand, four hun
dred were taken down with small-pox,
and of these four hundred persous oue
hundred and sixty died.
This is a fearful rate of mortality, and I
doubt whether the annals of this loath
some disease can surpass it. In some
country towus, away from the reach of
skillful doctors, and where tlie proper
medicines are scarce, two-thirds of the
: cases prove fatal. Throughout the State
; the mortality has been unprecedented.
I have thought it ray duty to give your
readers this information, because of the
disposition throughout California to keep
the whole thing as quiet as possible. It is
proper that people intending to come to
l California from other (Stales should he
made acquainted with the facts, aud 9eud
them to you earnestly hoping that you will
place them before your readers. The truth
has beeu too long conceded.
REMARKABLE CASES.
| From the San Francisco Times. J
We heard yesterday for the first time
that post mortem examinations of bodies
of patients who have died of small pox
have beeu made with the view to ascer
, taining the character of the disease aud
■ its effects upon the internal orgaus and
1 membranes. Hitherto, during the recent
epidemic, physicians have had only symp
toms for their guidance In making their
diagnoses. The autopsies spoken of have
been made during tlie past few days by
Dr. Howell, Health Officer, assisted by
Dr. Johuson, resident physician of the
j small pox hospital. The cases examined
, were of patients who had died of the most
| malignant form of tiie disease. It was
; found, on examination of the brain, that
pustules, well filled with matter, com
pletely studded the coronal portion of the
dura mater, the outer membrane of the
hraiu. In several instances, the suppura
tiou was of such a cliatacter as to and stroy
tin? membrane where the pustules existed.
Further examination repealed tiie fact 1
that these pustules existed on the mucous
membrane of the mouth, sauces, trachea
and oes iphagne. Iu the trachea tlie pus
tules were found to-extend down the bifur
cation, and not to the bodies ol the luugs.
'ln the oesophagus the pustules did *ot
■ exttnd iuto the stomach. Thesame char
i acler of pustules had formed in the bind
derand the low portion of tlie intestines
In these cases, wuiie tlie patient was liv- |
irig, he or she became insane from absorb- j
tion of pus (p)semia.)
Following is a case, one of tlie most
virulent which has occurred iu this city,
which was seen by our reporter in com
pany with Dr. Rowed. A strong, middle
aged working mau, vacciuated in youth,
revacciuaied recently, with slight local
results, was taken sick on Friday, with
pains in the back and head ; worked all
day ; worked till noon on Saturday ; when
pains in the back and head compelled
him to go to liis hoarding house; skin be
came dry and harsh ; called a physician!
on Sunday, who diagnosed tlie case as
bilious remittent fever ; Monday, uneven
! and unnatural feel of the skin, witli ele
i vations at points not sufficient to warrant
a diagnosis of suiall-pox. Dr. Rowell
was notified four hours after tiie physi
cian’s call, and on visiting tlie natient
found him covered wiUi dark livid spots,
almost black ; lungs badly congested,
with oppressive breathing aud spitting of
blood ; involuntary evacuations from tlie
bowels, that which passed being almost
entirely blood; same in regard to the
bladder ; violent retelling and vomiting
of blood ; the patient soon became pulse
less ; extremities cold; stimulants given
freely, but they had no effect ; patient
died in about five hours from the time Dr.
Rowell was called.
Dr. Rowell reports another very im
portant case of a man who was frightful
ly pitted by the small-pox which he had
several years ago. This man was present
iu the Doctor’s office when several per
sons were being vaccinated, and for the
novelty of the thing he had the doctor
| vaccinate him. The* vaccination, to the |
I astonishment of all who heard of the case i
was a complete success, accompanied by
all the local and constitutional symptoms
of thegeuuine vaccine disease ; he had
entirely recovered, the mark left was
what physicians call “splendid.” About
a month or more after, the man was again
taken sick with tlie small pox aud carried
to the small-pox hospital. The disease j
assumed the confluent type, aud the man
died in a few days after being admitted to
the hospital.
TO TIIE RESCUE.
A Word Iu Favor of Other “Girls of the Period.” I
BV FANNY FERN.
I am inclined to believe that there are
a great many kinds of women, both in !
England aud America. This idea seems i
to be lost sight of by the writers of botli
nations, who have undertaken to describe j
the feminine elements, under such titles *
as “The Girl of the Period,” or “Tlie Wo- |
man of tlie Time presenting to our view
monstrosities, which no doubt exist, but 1
which are no more to be taken as speci |
mens of the whole, than is tlie Bearded
Woman or the Mammoth Fat Girl.
New York, for instance, is not wholly
giver over to the feminine devil. Angels !
walk our streets, discernable to eyes that
wish to see. Noble, thoughtful, earnest
women; sick of shams and pretense;
striving each, so far as in her lies, to abate
both and to diminish the amount of phys
ical and moral suffering Then, I never
go into tiie country for a few weeks sum
mer holiday, that I do not find large
hearted, large-brained Women, stowed
away among .he green bill-, in little cot
tages, which are glorified inside ami out
by their prese ce; women w in*, amid the
press of tiou.ve ami garden work, find lime
for mental culture; whose litue book
shelves hold well read copies ol our best
authors W m-u—sound physically men !
tally, morally; women, whom the Man of
the Period, who most suiely exists. hu»
never found Now and theu, some mao, |
fit to be her mate, in hi* rambles m ihe *
sweet summer time, is struck a-* I am by i
the.»e gems hidden atnin the green hills
and appropriates them for his own. But
for the un.si part, the more -eligible a mao
is, the bigger fool lie marries. This is
especially true of hiogiaphers!
What a wrong, then, to the great army
of sensible, earnest women in either coun
try to pick out a butterfly as the national
type. Because a few men in New York
and London ami Paris wear corsets—and
dye their whiskers aud hair, and pan out
their hollow cheeks aud shrunken calves,
it does not follow that Victor Hugo, and
John Bright and tlie great array of brave
men who won our iate victory, are all
popinjays. For every female tool I will
find you a male mate. Bo when the in
ventory of the former is taken, the roll
call of the latter might as well be voiced
Are women so “fond of gossip?” Pray,
what is the staple of after-dinner conver
sation when the wine comes on aud the
women go off? Do women “lavish money
on personal adornment?” How many
men are there who would be willing to
tell on what, and on whom, their money
was worse than lavished? Do women
“leave their nursery altogether to hire
lings?” How many corresponding men
are there, whose own children uuder their
own roofs, are almost strangers to their
club-frequenting fathers? And yet what
good, notable men are to be seen for the
looking ? Faithful to their trusts, faithful
to themselves, unmoved by the waves of
folly and sin that dash around them, as
the rock of Gibraltar.
I claim that justice be done by these
writers on both sides of the water, to both
sexes. Fools, like the poor, we shall
always have with us ; but, thank God, the
“just” man and the “just” woman “still
live” to redeem the race. Men worthy to
be fathers, aud large-brained women, who
do not even in this degenerate day, disdain
to look well after their own households.
+ » »-■ ■- -
Poor Carlotta !— Those who have re
cently seen this interesting young widow
says that she never was better looking
than at the present time. To all appear
ance, she is scarcely twenty-five years old, j
her complexion is very clear, and her
eyes are unnaturally brilliant. Bhe her
self seems to be aware that she is very
good looking, for she spends by far more
time in dressing than she used to do. “f’an
It be—eh ?”
VOL. LX., NO IS.
Or. Altah Blaixirll.
This name will be recollected by most
I of our old citizens, as a resident here from
about the year 1858 to 1862, practising
dentistry; also in Taylor, Wilkinson, and
perhaps other couuties. To correct an
error in a brief “local” of yesterday, in
which his name was omitted, we will add
some further particulars of his present
position and destiued locality for the next
three years, with the loweringcloud of five
more convictions hanging over him. Hut
this will not disappoint any of our readers
who have known him. When he came
here, he hailed from New York city
brought a Masonic diploma from Arcana
Lodge, No. —, and united with Macon
Lodge,No. 5, in 1859. From this Lodge he
was expelled in 1562, for lyiug, swindling
and rascality generally. He was also a
member of one of our churches. He ascer
tained that the reputation he had left be
hind him at home had followed him here,
as being deeply involved in the celebrated
murder case of Dr. Burdell, and the widow
Cunninghum, and concluded best to leave,
after receiving a very uncomfortable ride
on a rail by the citizens of Wilkinson
county, for good reasons not now recol
lected.
He next turns up in Cincinnati, and
had a long narrative published of his per
secutions in Georgia, on account of his
free-soil principles, aud that he had a tine
plantation and negroes, which he was
oompelled to abandon on account of them.
The fact was that he never owned an acre
of land ora negro, and the gentleman who
gives us these facts says he could only col
lect a debt from him by garnishment.
In the New York Police Gazette, of the
6th iust., his full length portrait appears,
as he stauds up, with his associate in
crime (Eckel) to receive sentence by the
Judge, which ail old acquaintances will
recognize.
We appeud the following particulars
from that Gazette:
WHISKY THIEVES AND THEIK CONDEMNA
TION.
On Friday, the 23d ult., two men con
spicuously connected with the notorious
array of whisky thieves, were convicted
l>y a jury of the United Mates District
Court of this city. The names of these
distinguished personages are Dr. Aivah
Blaisdell and John J Eckel. Their
oHence was of the most aggravating char
acter, and they had prosecuted tiieir vil
lanies in the most impudent spirit. Hut
ttiese men have another history apart
from their whisky rascalities. They were
painfully and susjnciously associated witii
the famed Dr. liurdell murder, and with
the trial for that startling homicide,
which took place in the early part of the
year 1857, and though they were finally
discharged from all other threatening
penalties, yet in the public memory they
are distinctly branded as being somehow
involved in that murder. The murder
was committed on the 30th of January,
1857. The following is the substance ot
the testimony elicited.
At the Coroner’s inquest, held at No. 31
Bond street, on the 31st of January, John
J. Eckel, who had been arrested on sus
picion, testified that he had a room in the
house in which the crime was committed,
and occasio tally took his meals there ; lie
knew Dr. Burdell by sight, and was not
aware that any ill-feeling had existed be
tween Dr. Burdell aud Mrs. Cunningham.
Other witnesses proved the existence of a
criminal intimacy between Eckel and the
woman Cunningham, and that Burdell
was very jealous of his rival. Aivah
Blaisdell’s testimony was to the effect
that he had been intimate with Burdell,
and been asked by him to remain at his
(Burdell’s) house on the evening on which
the murder occurred. The Doctor ex
plained that he made the request because
he was in bodily fear of Mrs. Cunningham
and Eckel, and others in the house ; they
have used threats to him. Blaisdell prom
ised to spend the night with the Doctor,
but failed to do so.
Subsequently a remarkable bit of testi
mony was elicited, which cannot fail to
be remembered by all New Yorkers, with
regard to Blaisdell and Eckel.
’file foregoing reminiscences are irre
sistibly recalled on the re-indictment and
trial of these same men, this time for
wholesale frauds on the public revenue.
The justice that failed before, it seems,
nevertheless has not slumbered. The
culprits have been tracked through all
their villainous winding, and at last have
been overtaken, though with a milder
penalty than that affixed to the crime of
murder. On Monday of last week the
condemned were arraigned before the
Court, his Honor, Judge Blatciiford, pre
siding ; and after a persistent yet abortive
effort by the counsel for the accused to
stave off immediate action, the defend
ants, Including McLaren, their poor dupe
and accessory, werecalled up for sentence,
and Judge Blatcbford said :
Aivah Blaisdell and John J. Eckel, you
have been con victed, after a very fair and
full trial by an impartial jury, upon testi
mony that both jury and Court consider
conclusive of your guilt. You have been
couvicted on three counts for each offence
of two different offences, and the circum
stances as developed on the trial, show
your case to be a peculiarly aggravated
"tie. After the first seizure anil sale by
the Government, you became again inter
ested in some manner with the distilling,
and continued to illicitly remove spirits.
The Court then went over the law de
finii g the punishment for tue offences
committed. Blaisdell was then sentenced
to time years’imprisonment in .Sing fSing
on the first count of the indictment, aud
-elite ce was suspended on Lite other five
counts until he had served out his lime
under this sentence. PJckel was sentenced
in precisely the same manner aud for the
same period, to imprisonment in the Al
bany Penitentiary. McLaren, wbo bad
been convicted on one count only, of sim
ply aiding and abetting in tbe removal of
whisky, and who bad been strongly re
commended to mercy by the jury, wan sen
tenced to four mouths’ imprisonment in
tbe county jail.
Tbe chief conspirators were awarded the
highest sentence allowed by the law un
uer which they were convicted. “Thus
does the whirigig of time briog its re
veuges.”
A Hard Hit.—A few evenings since,
hh one of tlie up town cars, pretty well
filled—Gov Warmotb and “Col. Dean, of
my staff,” being occupants—a ferna e in
dividual of bright yellowish color hailed
it and entered. Depositing her fare in the
itox, she looked around for a seat, but
found none. The gentlemen in the car
did not see her, and not a woman would
budge an inch to aecommodaie her; so
sbe^ stood there looking and biting her
lips' for vexation. Finally she said, in a
sharp, snappish way, “Isn’t someone go
ing to give me a seat?” No answer from
the passengers. The Governor was very
busy conversing with a friend, and the
otiier passengers seemed absolutely deaf
and blind. “It is my opinion,” said the
mulatto, ‘‘that no gentleman would ’low
a lady to stand up in a car.” “Madam,”
said a person who was suspended from a
strap, “here) is your Governor, I am quite
sure he will give you his seat, for he owes
his election to men of your race.” The
Governor glanced up hastily, and an
angry gleam for a moment was detected
in. his eye ; hut he continued his chat, and
the woman stood up till someone getting
out made room for her. — N. O. Picayune.
A Puff for Smokers.—Those of our
fellow-pullers at pipe stems who are
curious In such matters, may be lnter
* ted in knowing that different kinds of
tabacco contain very different amounts of
nicotine. In that of Turkey, Greece and
H„nrarv there is scarcely a trace of
poison. In that of Brazil, Havana and
Paraguay, the amount is two per cent. In
that of Maryland 2.29; of Alsace 3.21 ; of
Kentucky 8; of Virginia 6 87, and of
France 7.30 cent.
IK you don’t want your widow to marry
get your life insured for such an amount
that she can afford to live single.