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FROM NEW YORK.
A SAD STORY OP SHIPWRECK.
Details of the Sunnyside Disaster.
New York, December 2.— The details
of the Sunuyaide disaster show that the
mate had not got over fifteen or
twenty feet from the steamer, with his
life boat full of people, before it cap
sized. A terrible scene ensued. There
must have been eighteen persons in the
boat. The mate swam ashore, but the
others that were saved swam, back to
the steamer. In all probability all that
were lost were drowned from the cap
sizing of the life boat. Their shouts
and cries for aid must have been heard
for a long distance. “As quickly as
possible,” says the mate, “I took a boat
from the starboard side, and, with our
head waiter and deck boy, tried to get
around to the people in the water;
but heavy ice prevented. Cries for help
continued. In about ten minutes all was
still. We launched the big "boat
from the upper deck, which was eveu
with the water, the vessel at that time
being two hundred feet from shore. I
took the boat with the second engineer
and finally reached the capsized bout,
tihe was bottom upward, and a man lay
on her on his back, with his feet in the
water and ice, nearly dead. We took
him on board the steamer, put him in
the pilot’s room, and covered him with
blankets. Then I heard a noise on the
outside of our port wheel house, which
was only two feet out of water. VVc
worked the boat through the ice to the
spot where the cries came from, and
found an elderly lady, who groaued out
that she was lying on the ice about five
feet from the wbeel house. Her body
was partly in the water, her arms hold
ing her up. She was still alive. With
great difficulty we got her in the
boat, and took her to the steamer, put
her in the wheel man’s room, and cov
ered her with blaukets, but she died
about two hours'after. We then went
to work to construct a rope ferry from
the steamer to the shore. At this
time at least sixty persons were crowd
ed together on the hurricane deck aft.
The wind was blowing hard,*aad the
air was bitter cold. We got the line
ashore and succeeded in getting all off
in safety. After they had been on the
deck for two hours, we placed them in
the boat and pulled the boat along by
the rope. On reaching the shore they
climbed up the rocks and made their
way to farm houses in the vicinity
where every attention was given them.
Failure —O’Conor’s Condition sup
posed to be Hopeless.
New York, December 2.—P. and B.
Lawrence, stationers, have suspended.
New [Yukk., December 2—O'Conors
condition unchanged. Physicians say
his chances of recovery are small.
Charles O’Conor Sinking—lmportant
Action of the Chamber of Com
merce.
New York, December 2.—Charles
O’Conor is gradually sinking.
The Chamber of Commerce has ap
pointed a committee of five to consider
the effect of a longer continuance of the
Cuban struggle on commerce and
whether the Chamber should memor
alize Congress on the subject.
Horrible Revelations of Turkish Bar
barity—Spain Stirring Up a Hornet’s
Nest. *
New York, December 2. —A private
letter from Ragusa, from a lady who
is an eye witness of the sufferings of
Herzegovinian refugees represents
them as in a condition calling for im
mediate relief. Thousands of them,
she says, must die before help can
come. Her husbaud saw the headless
bodies of Christians in the streets of a
Herzegovinian town, while headless
bodi< s of women were floating in the
river Save, and in the streets oi the
town swine were feeding on the
corpses of Christian women. The writer
makes an earnest appeal for these
Christian refugees, who, she says, were
compelled to flee from their homes on
account of the persecutions of the
Turks.
The following editorial article ap
peared in the Spanish newspaper El
CrouSta, published in this city, on the
3l)th ult.: “We see by the latest news
papers from Madrid that the Council of
State has given its decision in regard to
the capture of the Virginius, declaring
it was a good prize aud that the Gov
ernment had a right to exact the return
of that vessel by the Government of
the United States, and as that could
not be done on account of the vessel
having sunk after it went into the
hands of the American authorities, the
Spanish Government had a right to
claim her value. We believe, In view
of this decision that our Government
will at once claim from the Govern
ment at Washington the value of the
vessel, and that that Government will
hasten to hand it over with the same
alacrity as was shown by us in respect
to the £BO,OOO which was given for the
survivors of the crew of a private
vessel.
FROM CHICAGO.
A Bankrupt Railroad —Mysterious
Discovery.
Chicago, December 2.—The Chicago
and Illinois River Railroad Company
has gone into bankruptcy. Liabilities,
£1,500,000.
A barrel delivered to the United
States Lxpress by an unknown express
man, addressed to Thomas Green &
Cos., lowa, contained the body of a very
handsome woman, twenty-two years of
age, and a still-born child. The truck
man who took the barrel to the express
office has been found. His story is
that he received it from a house in one
of the most aristocratic portions of
Chicago.
Chicago, December 2.—The identity
of the woman packed in a barrel is still
undiscovered. The tiuckman, when
arrested, identified two men who pro
cured his help, who were arrested.
They asserted they had done body
snatching business. The body was
taken from a barn. A ,warrant is out
for Dr. Wilder, who is implicated.
FROM SAN FRANCISCO.
Aii Old Confederate Tabooed by
Colored Royalty.
San Fhancisco, December 2.—Capt.
Waddell, who arrived from New York,
in command of the Pacific mail steamer
City of San Francisco, to take her on
her first trip to Sydney via Honolulu,
being threatened with arrest by the
Hawaiian authorities on a charge of
piracy for the destruction of the
Hawaiian bark Harvest, during his
operations against the Arctic Whaling
Fleet in the Confederate steamer She
nandoah, Capt. Lachlin will take his
place temporarily, pending arraug
nients to secure Waddell’s freedom
from molestation by the Hawaiian au
thorities.
ffl)e Sbwjttgta CoßßiHutiomilisi
Established 1799.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Governor Ames Withholds Credentials
of Congressmen--Naval Appoint
ment-Army Notes—Aid for Liberia—
A Centennial Programme.
Washington, December 2.—lt is stated
that Governor Arnes withholds creden
tials from Mississippi Congressmen.
They will participate in the caucus, but
cannot act in the House without them.
Commander George C. Retney has
been assigned to the command of the
naval forces on the Rio Grande.
The steamship Alaska will probably
be ordered to the coast of Liberia.
Wm. M. Evarts, as orator, and If. W.
Longfellow, as poet, have been selected
for opening the Centennial. A grand
son of Richard H. Lee, of Virginia, will
reud the Declaration of Independence.
Maj. Jas. Belger, Quartermaster, has
been relieved of duty in the Depart
ment of the Gulf and ordered to report
to the Commanding General of the De
partment of the South for duty as Post
Quartermaster at Atlanta, Ga. Capt.
G. C. Smith Assistant Quartermaster
has been relieved from the Department
of Texas and ordered to Arizona.—
Capt. C. Comly has been ordered to the
Department of Texas as Chief of Ordi
nance. Capt. H. P. Phipps has been
ordered to the Department of the Gulf
as Chief of Ordinance. It is now stated
that the Indian Commissionship has
been tendered Marcus L. Ward, of New
Jersey.
Gen. Babcock Wants to be Investi
gated.
Washington, December 2.—Gen. Bab
cock had a lengthy interview to-day
with Attorney General Pierrepont with
reference to the associatian of his
(Gen. Babcock’s) name with the pend
ing trials in St. Louis. His object is to
endeavor to have an opportunity given
him to be heard before the grand jury,
or in some way to confront the charges
that have been made, and he therefore j
appealed to Judge Pierrepont, as the;
representative of the prosecution in
these cases, to consummate such a
plan. The Attorney General has re
ferred the subject of Gen. Babcock’s
request, by telegraph, to the U. S. At
torney at St. Louis.
A letter from Gen. Babcock to the
President, after a statement of circum
stances already telegraphed, concludes; !
“I respectfully demand a court of in
quiry, and request that an immediate
investigation be ordered.”
Kerr and Lamar.
It is generally remarked, in connec
tion with the chairmanship of the
Democratic caucus, that the selection
of Col.' Lamar for that position was
made at the suggestion of Mr. Kerr,
though he knew at the time that the
proposed President had committed
himself to Mr. Raudall. The spirit of
fairness -aud generosity exhibited by
Mr. Kerr in this matter but typifies the
elevated character of the man.
Gambling Over the Speakership—La
mar President of the Caucus.
Washington, December 2.—Pools to
night—First, Randall, $10; the field, $5.
Second—Randall, $18; field, $lO. Third
—Randall sl2; field $lO.
There were not over two hundred
people at the pool selling. They are
mere nibblers. Pools sell—Raudall,s3o;
field, S2O and Randall S2O; field, S3O. One
pool sold—Kerr, Ist choice, $6; Cox, 2d
choice, $10; the field with Randall on it, i
sls. A few pools sold for Clerk, Banks,
$5; the field, $3. The selling may be
come hotter and indicate something as
the night progresses. Hotel corridors
are almost impossible.
Col. Lamar, of Misfissippi, was select
ed to preside at the Democratic caucus.
He stated that he had uot received his
credentials, but has a telegram from the
Secretary of the State of Mississippi
that they will be sent to him here.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Perils of the Sea—Fatal Railway Ac
cident.
Oswego, December 2.—lt is ascer
tained that the schooner J. G. Jenkins
foundered Monday uTght in a gale. All
were lost.
Buffalo, December 2. —The eastward
Atlantic express, hence at 1:50 yester
day afternoon, collided with a freight
train. Two persons were killed and
one fatally wounded, aud many were
seriously hurt. The fast mail was de
layed two hours. The engineer suc
ceeded in stopping his train only fif
teen feet from the wreck.
Havana, Jieoember 2.—The steamer
Ambora, from Galveston and bound
for Liverpool, is here in distress. The
nature of her trouble is uot stated.
Wrecked Steamers —Fatal Boiler Ex
plosion —Bursting of a Water Pipe-
Wreck of a Schooner—Burning of a
Church.
Detroit, December 2. —The steamer
Jackki and her consort are reported
ashore on Lake Michigan.
New Harmony, Ind. —A portable
engine boiler exploded, killing Wilson,
the engineer, Solomon Enlow, a law
yer, and badly scalding several per
sons.
Brooklyn, December 2.—The Ridge
wood water-main burst this morning.
Gobble stones and earth were thrown
to an immeuse height. A horse car
sunk in the excavation caused by the
rush of water. The passengers and
horses were rescued. The accident
was caused by frost.
Boston, December 2.—The steamer
Allentown wont to the rescue of the
schooner Frederick Warren Chase. —
The crew represented her perilous
condition, and wanted to be taken off.
The Allentown anchored close by, but
the schooner disappeared, and it is
feared she foundered at night.
Louisville, December 2.—The Broad
way Baptist Church was nearly ruined
by fire. .Loss, $70,000. The pastor’s
library, valued at $7,000, was de
stroyed.
A Dreadful Outrage—Purloining of
tlie Oldest American 800k —An An
gry Husband Burns His Wife to
Death.
Milford, Pa., December 2.—Chas. D.
Whetmore has been arrested on a
charge of incest.
Boston, December 2. —The sale of
the Bay Psalm Book was enjoined by
the Old South Church, who claim it. It
mysteriously disappeared from their
library. It was the first book publish
ed in this country.
New York, December 2. —Patrick
Tooley, angry with his wife about cook
ing a steak, poured a can of kerosene
over her, lit a match, and set her afire.
The woman is dead.
Philadelphia, December 2.—Presi
dent Soott, of the Pennsylvania Rail
road, admitted to-night that the com
pany had purchased the old navy yard
property and that it would be utilized
as much as possible for railroad pur
poses; that it was not only valuable
for that, but could be used for com
mercial purposes. Just what would be
done with it has not yet been deter
mined by the company.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Marine Disaster—The Eastern Ques
tion—Spain’s Reply' to the American
Note—Failures in London.
Paris, December 2. — The steamer
Pauline Virginie Dejazet, reported
that the steamer Amarazee was seen
off the coast of Sicily. A tug has been
sent to search for her.
Berlin, December 2. — lt is reported
that Austria has sent a draught of
reforms to be recommended to the
Porte. Russia will reply on Gort
achakoff’s return from St. Petersburg.
London, December 2.—The Daily
News’ special from Madrid gives the
contents of a recent Spanish ‘note to
the United States: “Spain promises
gradual emancipation of the slaves in
Cuba, increased freedom of commerce,
besides foreigners, when arrested, shall
have an immediate hearing and legal
redress shall be obtained for past in
justice.” Another special to the same
journal says that great aDxiety exists
in Madrid regarding the reception of
the note at Washington, as it embodies
Spain’s ultimatum.
Yesterday was settling day at the
Stock Exchange. There were rather
more failures than usual. The largest
was that of Braggiotti Bros., stock and
share brokers, whose liabilities are
estimated at $350,000. There were also
five other failures of less importance.
Success of Egyptian Troops—The War
in Spain—Surrender of a Turkish
Garrison—Montenegro Warned.
Aden, December 2.— Egyptian troops
occupied the districts of Juba and Kis
mays, disarmed the Zanzibar forces
and hoisted the Turkish flag.
Madrid, December 2.—A Cabinet
council decided upon the formation of
two armies, five divisions each—one in
Navarre, under Gen. Martirez; the
other in the Basque provinces, under
Gen. Quesada,
Vienna, December 2. —The Sclavonian
states that the Turkish garrison at Ga
ranako, consisting of two battalions,
had surrendered.
Berlin, December 2. — lt is stated that
Turkey protests energetically to Mon
tenegro against Montenegrins takiug
part with Herzegovina, and the Powers
support the protest.
London, December 2. —The weather
this vicinity is cold and snowy.
CROOKED WHISKEY.
Developments in the Trials—How Re
venue Marks Can be Obliterated.
Milwaukee, December 2. — The de
fence in the case of Taft and Weirner
introduced testimony, designed to show
that stamps could be removed from
packages aud figures representing the j
number of gallons altered. A Bode, a I
chemist, and others swore that there j
are preparations by which ink can be !
removed from paper without disfigur- j
iug. A keg or high wines that had ;
been stamped an hour before was
brought into court and a man pulled j
out the tacks, removed the stamps, and !
took out the ink marks that had been
made by gaugers.
More Lame Ducks—Startling Devel
opments -Expected.
Indianapolis, December 2.—John W.
Bingham was in court, in charge of the
St. Louis Marshal. The forfeiture of
his bail was remitted. Bingham then
entered a plea of guilty to all of the
live indictments, and was released on
his own recognizance to await sentence.
Gordon Bingham is critically sick. Hi
ram B. Snyder also plead guilty. It is
supposed they will make full disclos
ures, aud startling developments are
expected.
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
Statement of a Broken Bank.
New Orleans, December 2.—Official
statement of the Bank of America: As
sets, sol9,ooo;'liabilities. $338,000. The
liabilities include SIBB,OOO due deposit
ors, and $50,000 due the Importers and ;
Traders National Bank of New York, j
It is estimated that the assets will !
yield from ten to twenty-five cents on |
the dollar.
Minor Telegrams.
Albany, New York, December 2
Hon. Ira Harris is dead.
Syracuse, New York, December 2.
Reuben W. Stroud, Canal-Commission
er, is dead.
Philadelphia, December 2.— The old
navy yard here has been sold for a
million of dollars. The purchaser is
supposed to be interested in the Penn.
Central Road, but declined to say.
Atlanta, December 2. — Brinkley, the
wife murderer, was respited to-day
till March 31st, 1876.
Her Three Beaux,
|Toronto Globe ]
A good-looking servant girl of Win
nipeg had three beaux to her striug,
viz: A military man, policeman and an
ordinary white man. She had arranged
matters so that separate evenings were
set aside for each of the ardent young
suitors, and three different courses of
love ran quite smoothly. Ono unlucky
evening, however, all three suitors
chanced to drop ia one after another.
An interval of very desultory conver
sation and embarrassing phrases ter
minated by the pattering of a female
foot on the stairs. “Here’s missis,”
exclaimed the girl, and the three gen
tlemen bolted into three adjoining
rooms, and all was supposed to be well.
But "the missis” happened to want
something in the room where the ordi
nary citizen was, and she encountered
Mr. Citizen right there. “What are
you doing here? What do you
mean by being in this room ?” indig
nantly inquired the missis, and she
superadded the threat, “I’ll send for
the police.” Mr. Citizen, calmly point
ing to another door, remarked ; -‘lf
you want the police he is in there.”—
The missis flew to the other door,
found the policeman, and poured out
the second vial of wrath upon him,
thus : “You’re a nice policeman, ain’t
you? What do you mean by this con
duct? I declare I will send for the
military.” “Madam,” retorted the po
liceman, “nothing is easier; if you
want the military you will find him in
there,” pointing to the third door.
Military didn’t wait to be unearthed;
he promptly came forth and saluted.-
There was a slight scream and a pat
tering of the female ascending foot on
the kitchen stairway. The three suit
ors came away without the usual cere
monies at the gate.
Seven women in Buffalo, who started
out on a crusade among the saloons,
report no gain for the temperance
cause. “We are sent here by Jesus,”
the leader said to the first bar-keeper
encountered; and he smilingly re
plied, “The introduction is satisfactory,
make yourselves at home.” In another
place, after praying, they were invited
to drink.
AUGUSTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1875.
RADICAL RULE IN SOUTH
CAROLINA.
The City of Columbia—lllustrious
Post Bellum Ex-Governors—Moses
and “Pharaoh” —A Talk with Gov.
Chamberlain—What He has Done
and Is Doing for the State—The
Legislature—lts Personnel —T li e
Congo and the Octoroon—Charcoal
Sketches-The Tax Bill.
(Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.]
Columbia, S. C., December 1, 1875.
A pleasant run of eighty-five miles,
and in five hours’ time, brought me
from Augusta to Columbia, the capital
of South Carolina. It is charmingly
situated on the Congaree river, in the
heart of the upland country, lias wide
streets, beautiful drives, aud in spite
of the torch of Sherman and the still
more terrible army of carpet-baggers
which followed him and native rogues
whom they called up, still boasts of
handsome homes, beariug external evi
dences of a high grade of civilization.
But a stranger cannot help suspectiDg
that each gilded cage he passes per
haps contains unclean birds, hatched
by the administrations of Scott or
Moses. Be this as it may, the city bears
unerring marks of solid advancement
since my visit to it nearly two years
ago.
It will perhaps interest Gee. Tecurn
seh Sherman to learn that Main street
has been built up much finer than be
fore he burned it, from end to end. In
place of the low one aud two-story
houses which supplied material for his
incendiary torch, there are now blocks
of three and four-story houses. Much
of the money filched from the Treasury
of the State was invested in real estate
in Columbia, and hence no mean paral
lel can be drawn between its fortunes
and Atlanta.
south Carolina’s illustrious post bel
lum EX-GOVERNORS.
There are two of _these —Scott and
Moses. Scott came out of office with
enough cash and property to keep his
head above water. He still lives in Co
lumbia, is a gentleman of leisure, with
the consciousness that his administra
tion has faded too far out of sight for
investigating.committees to get hold of
enough facts to disturb him in his
peaceful walks.
When F. J. Moses, his successor, re
tired from the Gubernatorial chair,
once occupied by McDuffie, Hayneaud
Pickens, he started a billiard saloon
aud faro bank. But a man may be com
petent to successfully run a State gov
ernment aud prove a disastrous failure
as a faro dealer. So it was with
Moses. Asa “Pharoah engineer” he
is said 1o be a teetotai failure. He
still lives in the elegant Preston or
Hampton Mansion, for which he agreed
to pay $40,000, but failed to ante but
$15,000, and which is now drawing
nigh unto the sheriff’s hammer for this
aud other debts. Among the “other
debts” is a small item of say $21,000 to a
Philadelphia furniture dealer, who had
the distinguished honor of supplying
his Excellency with a complete outfit
of household and kitchen plush velvets,
mahogany pots and skillets. I
uot met His Excellency— indeed, h<uT>
not been looking for bim this time, as I
once did, and hence he has not told me
all these things, but his neighbors are
brimful of stories about: his financial,
carnal and moral affairs.: And there is
SENATOR PATTERSON,
just sold out by the Sheriff, aud Ncagle
in sore straits. Both of whom hav
ing failed to raise the wind since Cbam
berlaiu was elected Governor, are not
getting along as swimmingly as they 1
once did ; aud I am told a whoie raft of
magnificent dead-beats “ whose eyes
stuck out with fatness,” a few years
ago, can be pointed out looking lean,
lank and hungry, and heartily wishing
Chamberlain in h—l!. With Missis
sippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and Ala
bama closed against them, and the
opportunity gone in South Carolina,
there is the greatest danger that they
will have to go to some honest employ
ment.
GOV. D, H. CHAMBERLAIN.
I called upon the Governor this
morning, and was most courteously and
politely received. Whatever else may
be thought and said of him, he has the
manner of a born gentleman, and will
quickly convince you that he is of
superior education. A native of Mas
sachusetts, if he ever had Puritan
blood it has been destroyed in his
countenance at least by enlightenment.
Sitting there before me, I found a man
of perhaps forty-eight or titty, with a
good head, slightly bald, a prominent
though frank and open countenance,
and dressed with scrupulous neatness.
To the whole State, Radicals and
Democrats, be is a very Mephistopheles.
The more rabid Radicals, especially
those who regard him as in their way
to preferment or the State Treasury,
denounce him as a traitor to their
party. The balance of that party say,
“Well, all you assert may turn out
true, but let us wait and see.” The
Democrats, knowing he was Attorney
General under Gov. Scott, when the
grandest, roguery was committed in
the annals of civilization, can’t, or
won’t, or don’t understand why all
these professions, and not only profes
sions, but acts of honesty of his. They
admit that he has been a wonderful
disappointment—that he has, from the
beginning of his administration, dis
countenanced and vetoed every meas
ure of rascality started by his
party, and that he has so far made
as good a Governor as could possibly
have been chosen from ,the ranks of
the old native population. For all
this, many of them think that it is the
cat playing with the mouse, fearing
that he is playing some deep game
which they do not understand. It is
hard to think, however, that he wishes
to leave the office of Governor and
sink into ignominy and shame like his
immediate predecessors. He is too
great a man for that.
Chamberlain foresaw, when Moses
was Governor, that reform : in South
Carolina was necessary or existence
here impossible. The State had be
come a scandal to the family of States.
From one of the most virtuous and
purest it was a fallen daughter. The
whole family demanded that she quit
her ways of sin and return to the
walks of virtue. It was determined
that she should, whether she wanted
to or not. The opportunity was given
the Radicals to thus reclaim her, and
they were plainly told, if t oey declined
the task, they would be made to give
way to the Democracy.
Chamberlain’s first task was to
crush and put that knavish little
rascal, Moses, out of office. He had
little trouble in doing so. and getting
the place of Governor. Stepping into
the elevated place, he saw the most
disgusting sight ever witnessed by an
American Executive, or perhaps ever
witnessed since Caligula installed his
horse Consul of Rome. Corruption
most foul and putrid permeated every
department of State, county and mu
nicipal governments. Common thieves
filled every office. The Legislature
was composed of such birds as fill the
jails and penitentiaries of the world,
aud more still the Judiciary, from the
Supreme Court to magistrates, was no
better. Judges, juries, attorneys for
the State everywhere stood ready to
accept bribes and make decisions ac
cordingly. There was scarcely a mem
ber of the Legislature or an officer of
the State government who could not
have been convicted and sent to the
State prison for from three to twenty
years. They openly boasted of their
villainies, and came up to Columbia
under the new Govenor they had elec
ted, and whom they all supposed to be
one of them, expecting to continue their
old avocations, and were dumbfounded
to hear him say after he was inaugu
rated. “I was in dead earnest when I
told you during the campaign that I
intended reform ! The days of your
wholesale and retail plundering of this
people are over.” It is said that they
have tempted him in evey way, offer
ing any per centage of plunder he
might name. But he has sternly re
fused, and most religiously stuck to
what he told them at the beginning.
Up to this hour, with the aid of the
handful of Conservatives in the Legis
lature, and a handful of honest Radicals,
he has defeated every scheme of ras
cality which has been started, and in
the counties they have felt him none
the less.
The result is plainly perceptible. The
State has risen from utter despair to
the brightest hope. When Moses re
tired, she could not borrow five dollars
upon a million bond. There is now a
market for her securities, and a portion
of her taxes is devoted to the payment
of honest debts which before was not
the case. This is in all truth what p.
H. Chateberlain, the carpet-bagger
from Massachusetts, has done and is
doing for the Prostrate State. I think
it nothing wrong for us Democrats to
give him due credit for it. It would
have been impossible for even Wade
Hampton or Gen. Kershaw to have ac
complished more. And could either
have controlled the overwhelming rab
ble majority against them so success
fully ? I doubt it.
THE LEGISLATURE —WHAT IT IS COMPOSED
OF.
On Monday, of last week, the regu
lar Winter session of the South Caro
lina Legislature commenced. After
leaving the Governor, this morning, I
w’ent up stairs, and, turning to the
right, presented my card to a coal
black, corn field negro, who said he
was the door-keeper. “ Give that, to
the Speaker, and tell him I want a
pass.” “ Jis walk right in. Long is I
is here you don’t need no udder pass
dan dat kard.” All right, much ob
liged,” and in I walked to a really mag
nificent chamber, luxuriantly furnished
with three-ply Brussels carpets, black
walnut furniture, six dollar china spit
toons, and so on. On the right, up the
centre, and blending with the left, was
a great cloud of black Representatives,
with perhaps thirty per cent of mulat
toos and octoroons, some of the latter
assimilating so nearly to the pure Cau
casian color that you had to look
closely or inquire of a member who
they were. Just here I will remark
there is a deep prejudice and bitter
antagonism, as in Sau Domingo before
the massacre, growing up between the
free Congo and the mulattoes.
The House is composed of one hun
dred and twenty-six members. Of this
number thirty-five are white and
seventy-two colored. The white Re
presentatives are mostly from the hill
country, with a few exceptions. There
are one or two white members from
Charleston, among them George A.
Trenholm, who has a wonderful influ
ence over the Radicals. There are
seven white men in the Senate.
THE OFFICERS OF THE HOUSE.
The Speaker is black, the Clerk is
black, my friend the doorkeeper is
black, the pages are black, the super
numeraries are black ; indeed, every
officer and employe of the House, with
the exception of one or two sub-clerks
who work under negro bosses, are
black. The complexion of R. B. Elliott,
the Speaker, would make charcoal
blush. The President of the Senate,
Lieutenant Governor Gleaves, is a ne
gro, and the leader of the whole Legis
lature, Senator Beverly Nash, must
Lave been dipped seven times in tar.
So that tho so-called war of races is
not strictly confined to the Caucasian
and the African.
THE WHITE MEMBERS
Occupy the extreme left of the Cham
ber looking from the door. They are
a line looking body of men, and seem
to Le, to a very great extent, true re
presentative Carolinians. I was glad
to learn and to see that they no longer
look on in silence, as they did a few
years ago, but take a lively interest In
eTcry measure, and when schemes of
plunder are sprung, as they are every
hour in the day, light them at every
step, and when failing, rush to the
Governor and ask for a veto, which they
aie certain to get.
The tax bill was up to-day, and six
sestions wore passed, It provides for
the levying of 10)£ mills for present
State and county purposes, and 2 mills,
making Y 2% in all, for paying some of
the bills incurred by Gov. Moses, or
rather 4 mills collectable in two years
in equal installments. The bill will
pass to-day and go to the Governor.
I think he will veto it, as he did a sim
ilar bill the other day, containing really
less objectionable features than this
one. Jean Yaljean.
Eow a Dead Hog Killed a Man.—
The Pensacola (Fla.) Gazette says : “A
negro man in the adjoining county of
Baldwin killed a large hog in the woods.
He opened the animal, removed the
entrails and devised a method of car-
the pork which was altogether
sui generis. This manner of transpor
tation was effected by tying the hind
legs together, passing his head between
them, and, the heavy carcass being in
front, easing the weight on his neck by
lifting the fore legs with his hands. It
is presumed that he got along remark
ably well until a rail fence got In his’
way, and in order to climb this he
needed his hands. Accordingly he re
lieved them by lifting the hog over the
top rail and letting it drop on the other
side. It is presumed that he proposed
to follow the hog, but he didn’t. A few
days since a congregation of buzzards
attracted attention to the locality,
where the negro man was found hang
ing on one side of a rail fence and the
hog on the other, the weight of the
animal evidently having pressed his
neck down on the rail until he was
choked to death.”
“I don’t know,” said a young lady
meditatively, as she glanced at an ele
gantly dressed rival who was sailing
out of church Sunday morning with all
the airs of an empress, “I dpn’t know,
but it seems to me that every time she
gets anew stuffin’ for her bustle, she
sorter acts as if sorrer oouldn’t hurt
her.”
STRANGER THAN FICTION.
— + —
The Connubial Infelicities of a Re
surrected Wife—The Extraordinary
Death, Burial and Exhumation of
Mrs. Robinson.
[New York Mercury ]
The other afternoon, a handsomely
dressed lady, accompanied by a gentle
man, stepped into a lawyer’s office on
Warren street. The lady might be
slightly on the shady side of thirty, and
her appearance betokened conscienti
ous attention to the table in an excellent
boarding-house. She had fair hair,
blue eyes, a delicious mouth and perfect
teeth. Her companion had a slight
stoop in the shoulders, mutton-chop
whiskers, a delicate nose, gray eyes,
and hands like a shoulder of lamb. He
was excessively modest, and the lady
did the interviewing. “I come,” she
began, “to see if I can quietly get rid
of my husband. “I don’t want no noise
about it, but 1 want to have it done
quick, and to pay a fair price for it—
none o’ them extras and unforeseen ex
penses, you know,” and she smiled
mysteriously. “Is this gentleman your
husband ?” asked the lawyer, looking at
the drooping masculine. “No,” not “ex
actly,” said the lady, “but he hopes to be
when he has a right to marry me. He
is going to pay for thejdecree.” “Where
is your husbaud—does he object?”
queried the lawyer. “O, he’s in the
city, and he does’nt object,” in confir
mation of which the lady produced a
sheet of paper attested by a notary pub
lic, setting forth that George Robinson,
being unable to live longer in harmony
with his wife, agreed to a divorce, etc.,
etc. The lawyer was amused with the
case, and by judicious questioning, ob
tained from the lady the history of her
married life. Miss Margaret Hardy
was, seven years since, one of the belles
of Rugby, in Western Yorkshire, Eng
land. The maiden’s affections were
concentrated upon one George Robin
son, and to him, with the full approval
of her parents, she was married on
Christmas day, 1869. The first year
of matrimonial life was one of uninter
rupted happiness, and in the course
of the moons a son and heir wae
born to the Robinsons. Alas! the
tiny stranger did not take kindly to
existence, but sickened and died, leav
ing the poor mother paralyzed with
grief. She took to her bed, aud re
fused to be comforted. She would
neither eat nor drink, and in a short
time became a living skeleton. Finally,
she, to ail appearances, died. The
poor young creature was by the ex
press command of her father interred
with her rings upon tier hands, and
there was a good deal of unfavorable
comment among the town’s people on
this “criminal waste.” The jewelry
particularly excited the cupidity of the
parish clerk, and he made minute in
quiries concerning the probable value
of the buried rings. Finally, three
days after the funeral, at the lone
hour of midnight, he crept cautiously
to the new-made grave. Having re
moved the earth and unscrewed the
coffin, he proceeded to take off the
rings, but from the contracted state of
the lingers was uable to effect his
felonious purpose. Thereupon, with
his pocket-knife, he commenced
to amputate tho fingers, but
he had scarcely reached the
bone of the wedding-ring finger
when, to his astonishment aud horror,
tho corpse bolted nearly upright in the
coffin, at the same time uttering a wild
and dismal scream. The clerk imme
diately started homeward with his hair
bristling on end. Meantime the poor
woman, who had been unconsciously
buried in a death-like trance, alarmed
at her extraordinary situation, direct
ed her steps to her husband’s resi
dence, and knocked loudly at the door.
Robinson’s consternation, when he be
held his wife in her shroud aud grave
clothes may be imagined. He howled
"murder” and “police,” attracting a
startled crowd to his residence. Then
it became evident that Maggie Robin
son had indeed returned from the cold,
damp grave in veritable living flesh
and blood. Afterwards the Injured
finger and the state of the grave
pointed suspicion to the parish clerk;
but, having saved the woman’s life, he
was allowed to go unpunished, and the
matter was permitted to rest.
Finally Mrs. Robinson, to escape
morbid curiosity, implored her hus
band to emigrate—a step he was very
unwilling to take, because, as Mrs.
Robinson avers, he was over heard-aud
ears with another young woman in the
place.” Ultimately the wife’s importu
nities prevailed, aud tho couple came
to this city in the summer of 1872.
George has earned a respectable liv
ing, and his wife and he occupied, up
to a few weeks since, a commodious
floor on Sixteenth street. It appears,
however, that he has been becoming
gradually estranged from his wife, and
Maggie felt that there was a “woman
in the case.” Recently he was sick for
a fortnight, and she intercepted the
following letter from his whilom flame
in England:
Yarm, October 9, 1875. —Dearest,
Dearest George : I rite this to enform
you that I wud ha thote you wud ha
goten ridd of her long before this. I
wud come to you my darling rite away
but who shud I bee, nothin whatsum
ever neither tfife nor and dear
George you wud not like to see me that
an her alive. Oh George it was a
misserable day when old Jack Hall [the
avaricious sexton.—Ed.] dug her up,
how happy we mite a been; but I will
cum out if you say so for oh dear
George I love you very much as you
know, tom Darnton has offer’d twice to
wed me but oh dear George I don’t
love him like you. I have saved twonty
five pounds, but I hope you send the
money for me to come then I know you
mean what you say. Broder Jack has
had measles a second time and I am first
rate and stouter and oh George how
happy I wud be if we were together
one heart one home. I (am) sure I wud
like the voyage for I been on the sea
and liked it first rate, but I wud come
anyhow if you get ridd of her. Oh
dearest George do rite soon and tell me
all as I am so unsettled in my mind.
Yours sincearly Annie Stewart.
Mr. Frank Bronson, Mrs. Robinson’s
boarder, became speedily acquainted
with the contents of the letter, making
only the brief comment, “Well, let him
get rid of you, and then I have no ob
jections to occupy his place.” There
was an angry consultation, to the con
clusion of which the boarder was sum
moned to assist. The result is as has
been described. A quiet decree will be
forthcoming, and no doubt four people
will be thereby licensed to become
happy. _
When a man in the act of showing off
a thoroughbred mule to a party of ad
miring friends, is persuaded by the
sudden movement of the animal’s hind
legs to describe a series of somersaults
through the air, it is always a subject
of lively interest to the spectator how
he will avoid the absurdity of landing
on bis head,
New Series —Vol. 28, No. 102
ONE RIGHT OF A WIFE.
“John,” said I, one night, to my hus
band, as I put my basket of sewing
away preparatory to retiring, “John,
as you go down, to-morrow morning, I
wish you would stop at Mrs. West’s
door and leave her §5 from me.”
“Five dollars !” and my lord looked
up quite astonished. “For what ?”
“Why, she is collecting money to aid
that society she is secretary of, and as
I always felt interested in it, I told her
I would give her $5.”
I said this with quite a show of as
surance, though I really felt quite
uneasy as to the reception of my re
quest, for John is rather notional in
some of his ways; however, I had
been cogitating some matters, lately,
in my own mind, and determined to
make a bold stand.
“Well, Sarah,” at length came the
reply, “you need net count on my
doing any such thing. I don’t approve
of that society at at all, and not one
cent of my money shall go to help it.”
“I give it out of my money,” said I,
growiug bolder; “I only ask you to
leave it at her door for me.”
“Your money ! What do you mean?”
“I mean what I say—my money.
Have I no right to spend money as
well as you? I don’t approve of the
Masons, but that does not hinder you
from spending money and time for
them as much as you have a mind.”
John looked at me quite amazed at
my sudden outbreak. You see, I had
always been the most amiable of wives.
Then he broke out quite triumphantly.
“Gome, now who earns the money that
maintains this family?”
“You and I together,” said I.
“Together. Well, I should liko to
see the first cent you have earned in the
seven years we have been married.
Together! Well, I call that pretty
rich.”
My spirits were visibly declining
under his ridicule, but I kept on as
boldly as I could.
“When we were married you thought,
or pretended to think, yourself very
happy in assuming the care of board
and wardrobe. I didn’t ask it of you.
You asked me to be your wife, know
ing well all that meant.”
“As nearly as I remember,” inter
rupted John, “you were mighty ready
to accept me.”
“Granted—to save argument,” said
I, coloring.
“Well, we stood up in church togeth
er, and you promised to love, cherish,
etc., and so did I.”
“And obey, too,” said I, “but you, in
return endowed me with all your world
ly goods, and the minister pronounced
us man and wife; and so we have
lived.”
“Yes,” said John complacently; “and
as I look back over the time, I think I
have done what I agreed, and made a
pretty good husband, I really think
you ought to be thankful when you
see how some wives live.”
“Well,” said I, “I think I have been
a domestic, prudent wife, and I don’t
feel one atom more of gratitude to you
for being a decent husband than you
ought to feel to me for being a decent
wife. Is it any more merit that you
keep your marriage promise than that
I keep mine.?”
“Sarah, you positively are very acri
monious to-night. Don’t you think we
had better go to bed?”
“No, sir. Well, meantime, we have
laid by money enough to buy this
house and still have some in the bank.”
“Thanks to my hard work !” chimed
in John.
“More thanks,” said I, “to the perfect
good health we have always had. We
made all those promises for better or
for worse. Now, it has been better
with us all the time. Had you been
sick or honest misfortune befallen you,
I should have managed some way to
reduce our expenses so that you would
feel the burden as light as might be.
Had I been sick, more care would have
fallen on you. But we helped each
other save, and now I claim an equal
right with you in spending money.”
“Whew. Why, that is treason. But
go on.”
“If wo occupied the respective po
sitions of superior and subordinate, I
should do what I do for you for a fixed
stipend, and no questions should be
asked as to the use made of it. Being
equals, I will not ask compensation as
a servant; but because the contract
we have made is lifelong and not easily
broken, I do not therefore call it very
magnanimous in a prosperous man to
accept these services and render in
turn only my board and the least
amount that will creditably clothe me.”
You see I was growing irate. John’s
temper, too, was evidently on the rise.
“What do you mean by services?
Housework? lam sure a home is as
much for your satisfaction as for mine;
and I am sure the tailor does not
leave much of my sewing for you
to do.”
“I don’t complain of housework nor
of doing your sewing, but I do think
the burden of little Johnny has fallen
on me.”
“It strikes me,” said he, with a pro
voking complacency of tone, “that
if you earned his living you would have
less to say about the burden falling on
you.”
“John,” said I, “answer me hon
estly. Do you work any harder or any
longer now than you did before he was
born?”
“I don’t know as I do,” said he; “I
always worked hard enough.”
“Well, and so do I. But now as to
Johnny. I presume you will allow
yourself haif owner of him, as the law
allows you entire control over him.
How much do you do for him?”
“I maintain him. I do my part.”
“No, John, you are wrong; you don’t
do your part. From the first, you
never have. Did not weary months go
by in which you bore no part whatever
of the burden ? ”
“ Well, that is curious complaining ;
what would you have me do ? ”
“ You might have got a servant, in
stead of letting all the housework fall
on me; or you might have kept a horse
so that I could ride out and enjoy fine
weather; but that is all past now.”
“ I should say that it cost me enough
for the doctor, nurse, etc., without
talking about keeping a horse.”
“ True, it cost enough; but I am
talking about the division of the bur
den. Was the part you bore in the
payment of those bills equal to my
part in the matter ? Would you have
taken my place for that money if it
were to have been paid to you, instead
of those who eared for you ? I think
not.”
“ Didn’t I have all his clothes to
buy ? ”
“No, sir. I went without new clothes
of any sort for a season, and the money
saved from my wardrobe supplied all
that was needed; and I might add that
all his other clothes have been got in
the same way.”
“Well, really, I had no idea how
much of a martyr you were. Next you
wiU be clothing me in the same way,
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He w thankful I ought to be for so cal
culating a wife!”
“Now, in these two years,” said I,
continuing in the face of his sneer, “all
the care and confinement consequent
on attending the child have fallen on
me. I have managed some way to ac
complish my housework and sewing as
I used. I cau hardly think how it has
been done. Did it ever occur to you to
think how many times I have been tc
church since he was born ?”
“You wouldn’t expect a man to take
care of a baby, would you ? That isn’t
a man’s work.”
“Isn’t it?” said I bitterly; “then I
wouldn’t have a baby. I have been to
church just four times, and then some
visitor had stayed with Johnnie. How
many times did you ever get up in the
night to soothe him when he has been
sick and fretful?”
“How do you suppose,” said he, “I
could work by day if I didn’t get my
nigiiit’s sleep.”
“Just the same way that I do when
my night is broken, exactly.”
“Well, Sarah, what is the drift of nil
this talk, anyway? for I don’t see any
use in prolonging it.”
“Well, then it is my original state
ment —that as I did my part o? the
family labor and took all the care of
Johnny, and you are a man in prosper
ous circumstances, I am entitled to as
much money for that as if I were em
ployed and paid by the month for the
same work and I have a right to spend
money for things that don’t suit you, if
I please, to do so; and I may add,” I
said, with a sudden vehemence, “that
it is mean and contemptible in you to
try to oppose or forbid my doing so.”
John said no more. I saw by the
look in his eyes that he was quite
angry, and so was I. That was the
first time in our married life that we
failed to kiss each other good-night.
Indeed, I felt guilty, though I hardly
know why, but it was late before I fell
asleep.
The next morning all was serene.
No trace remained of the evening’s
storm, but nothing was said about the
obnoxious subscriptions. Next day I
met Mrs. West, and she thanked me
very much for doubling my money.
Dear John ! He diu’t mean to be un
kind, but be had never stopped to
think about such things. When his
next settlement came, and he slipped a
§2O hill into my hand and said, “That
is for your private purse,” I really
thought he was the best husband in
the world.
GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS.
Savannah is trying to rival Macon In
the number of burglaries reported.
No arrests have been made.
Mrs. Harrell, of Columbus, who was
shot at by a negro, it is reported, com
promised the case for twenty-five dol
lars.
Some of the hangers on In tho Savan
nah custom house, are to be “reduced”
to tho rank of private citizens. No
doubt they could easily be spared.
Atlanta elected a straight out Demo
cratic set of Councilmen on Wednes
day, thus checkmating the Indepeu
ents and Radicals.
The Griffin News gives tho latest
“society” news. It says : “The colored
bon tons are excited over the approach
ing nuptials of Hunchback Jake and
Sally Bradfleld.”
Nichols Weigers applied to magis
trate Russell, in Savannah, on Tues
day, for a marriage license. The fel
low wished to marry a negress, and the
coveted document was denied him.
The would-be miseegenationist could
not be made to understand why the
law should prevent him from marrying
whom he pleased.
Dr. Bowen, an inmate of the Mil
ledgeville Asylum, died recently. Ho
has been an inmate of the asylum for
several years. Before he became in
sane he was a missionary to Africa,
and published a book on that country.
He was a gentleman of and
au author of some distinction.
. The Columbus Times, in reporting
several eases of burglary which hap
pened recently, says ; Everybody |had
better lock up, and keep a watch—for
burglars and thieves are lurking about
the city. Macon, Augusta and Mont
gomery come in for their share, and we
cannot expect to escape their visits.—
There Is a slight mistake madein in elud
ing Augusta, as we haven’t had a bur
glary in a month.
Mount Moriah and St. Augustino
Lodges, (colored,) of Savannah, work
ing under the Grand Lodge, of which
J. R. Love is Grand Master, have dis
solved all Connection with said Love’s
Grand Lodge, and have united them
selves with the Grand Lodge for Geor
gia, ol! which John H. Deveaux is
Grand Master, and was dispensated by
said Grand Lodge on Tuesday evening
last.
The Monroe Advertiser, under the
caption of “Cheeky,” gives the news
papers in Atlanta a “sidewinder.” It
says: “Judge Hopkins, of the Atlanta
circuit, a few days since, intimated a
desire to give up his office on account
of ill health. Scarcely had the words
‘died upon the breeze’ when the Atlanta
dailies gave the position to Solicitor
General Thomas Glenn, and the Solici
tor’s office to Mr. Van Epps; and this
was done without consulting the Gov
ernor, who, according to the old fash
ioned rule, had the power of appointing
officers. Really, gentlemen, we do not
see any need of a Gubernatorial Con
vention next year. Just name your
man for Governor and settle the ques
tion.”
The Junction Branch Road, connect
ing Savannah and Charleston, known
as the Junction Branch Road—the line
connecting the Atlantic and Gulf and
Savannah and Charleston Railroads,
thus securing a through connection
with the North via Charleston and the
Northeastern Railroad, and to the
Southwest via Port Royal aud Augusta
Railroad and Georgia Railroad to At
lanta, was opened on Tuesday.
The road is four and six-lengths
of a mile in length, and skirts
the city of Savannah on its western
boundary, tapping the Atlantic aud
Gulf Railroad, about two'miles from
its depot. It ts laid with rails from the
Bethlehem Works, Pennsylvania—the
very best class of iron rails, fifty pounds
to the yard, and with fish bar joints.
The route crosses the Ogeeehee Canal,
Sabine Fields (Telfair estate), the lands
of Minis, Sloan, Groover aud others.
Notwithstanding the fact that the en
tire line has been graded and laid
within the short space of five weeks—
probably the shortest time in which the
same length of railroad has been laid
in tbe South, the work has been thor
oughly and efficiently done.
A Cincinnati editor has had a Bible
on his shelf for seventeen years, aud
during the entire period he never sus
pected that it was anything else than
an old copy of Johuson’s Dictionary,