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The Greorgia "Weekly Telegraph.
THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON, FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1869.
Comparative Health of the North and
Moutli.
The eensns tables of 1860 are the best answer
to the inquiries of Northern emigrants about
the comparative health of the North and the
South. Let ns see what will be the excess in
the rate of mortality in the Southern States
over that of as many of the oldest and healthiest
among the Northern and Western States. The
census tables show the deaths in the several
States to average one in the numbers opposite
each name of the States as follows:
Alabama 75 Connecticut 74
Florida 79 Illinois *
Georgia 82 Indiana ^
Kentucky 70 Maine
Louisiana 57 Massachusetts oi
Mississippi G4 New Hampshire <2
North Carolina 78 New Jersey ' v '-'
South Carolina 72 New Aork 82
Tennessee 73 Pennsylvania . 96
Virginia 71 Vermont 93
We have selected here the oldest of the East
ern, Middle and Western States to compare with
ten of the Southern States, and the difference
they show is this: A death in the Southern
States to every 72 1-10 of the people, and in tho
Northern States to every 80 7-10. Unquestion
ably when these Southern States, by the pro
gress of population and wealth, are as well
drained and provided with all the sanitary con
ditions as the Northern States named, they will
show a more favorable return than those States.
The South will be eventually the healthiest sec
tion of the Union. Febrile disorders which swell
our bills of mortality will* diminish, while our
more gentle and uniform temperature will al
ways measureably relieve us from that class of
diseases which occasion the greatest mortality
in the States of the North and West.
Mannftectnring Operatives in Rossn*
clmsctts.
General H. R. Oliver has recently made are-
port to the Massachusetts Legislature upon tho
condition of Factory laborers in that State. He
says that certain parties are called the great
manufacturers of New England, and “have been
engaged as such for several generations; yet
the man or the family that has been in their
employ and come out of it with more than enough
for a decent interment is yet to be found.
And again he says: A helpless crowd of
workers, the oppression of low wages, invitable
poverty and a disguised serfdom, a rich master,
a poor servant, and a mean population; such is
the story of manufacturing in Old England and
such is the story of manufacturing in New Eng
land.
Cotton Receipts in Gbiffin.—The Star of
Wednesday says, by examination of the ware
house books, we find that the receipts this sea
son at this point, up to last Friday, were twelve
thousand two hundred and forty four (12,244).
Average receipts per day are not more than ten
bales, s'o our entire receipts will be but little
over 13,000 bales for the season, and it has
brought about one and one-half million dollars.
A few more such seasons will make our people
comfortable, both in town and country.
Important Decision.—We learn from the Sav
annah News of Wednesday that Judge Erskine,
of the United States District Court, affirmed a
dicision of Register Frank S. Hasseltinc, that
the vendor's equitable lien upon land sold is not
discharged by the subsequent taking of a mort
gage upon the same land and takes precedence
over a judgment lieu obtained prior to the said
mortgage.
Emigration feoji Ireland.—Thousands of
young Irish of both sexes are preparing to come
to this country, and the exodus will, it is said,
be as great as it was during any of the years made
notorious by more than the average rate of Irish
exiles. On the 8th there were over 2,000 Irish
emigrants at Queenstown, waiting ship accom
modations to leave for America.
Govebnob Jenkins.—We were pleased to see
on the street yesterday this distinguished and
honored son of the State, looking unusually well
and strong. We trust that he has come to re
main with us permanently. The State cannot
spare such men. We need them all to aid in
the great work of reconstructing society, and
giving peace, order and quiet contentment to
the land.—Avgusta Chronicle.
Time Asked.—-The people of Montana don’t
like the idea of having Ashley (of Ohio) for their
Governor. Already they have held mass meet
ings and requested him not to come into their
territory. The Register suggests that “ they at
least ought to have time to secure their valuables. ”
The suggestion is a good one, but we have no
hopes that evou this favor will be allowed them.
The Race at Brunswick.—The boat race to
take place at Brunswick, on the Cth of May next,
says the Savannah News, promises to be a bril
liant affair. We were shown yesterday tho
prize to be given to the winning crew, pitcher
and two goblets, and was purchased at the jew
elry establishment of Mr. Grosclaude, on Bull
street. It cost $200, and is a prize well worth
competing for.
Cotton.—The A No. 1 ship James Jar dine,
was cleared yesterday for Liverpool by Messrs.
Charles Green, Son & Co. This is the second
trip she has made across the Atlantic ocean this
season; she carries out 2,000 bales upland and
one bag of sea island cotton, weighing 960,953
pounds, valued at $261,077 j she also comes
110,322 feet lumber.
[Savannah News of the 28th.
Farming News.—From all ports of Central
and Southern Georgia, we hear bnt one ac
count It is the best stand of com and cotton,
and the best crop conditions generally, which
have been known since the war.
Evening Readings by Spurgeon, a devo
tional work of tho great preacher, just pub
lished by Sheldon & Co., and sent ns through
J. W. Burke & Co., who have the work for sale.
Greeley Goes Back on Grant.—Ho says:
“We are afraid that the President, like Presi
dents before him, has bestowed most of his
offices as he would give his alms—the beggar
who bawled the loudest, or showed the greatest
number of ‘papers,’ generally being the most
successful.” __
The Southern Cultivator.—The May num
ber of this invaluable journal is at hand and
stored, as usual, with a mass of timely matter
for the Southern planters. Every one of them
should take and read it. Published at Athens,
Georgia, by Wm. & W. L. .Jones, at $2 a year.
No Atlanta New Era came to hand yesterday.
Intelligenotr and Constitution received.
Thublow Weed presented the Baptist church
in Aiken -with a handsome communion Berviee.
A French paper describes Eugenia as hav
ing lately appeared at a ball “in a toilette of
tending yellow, with verdne everywhere, includ-
in small shrubs so that she presented the ap
pearance of an animated flower garden.”—
Now, then, Fifth avenue !
A sugar and com plantation of one hundred
and seventy acres in Louisiana, nearly equally
divided between the two crops, returned a profit
1 ast year of $25,660;
Few travelers are unacquainted with the
* American House, Boston, but they may not be
aware of the many improvements in this popu
lar house. Suites of rooms, vertical railway,
lunch room, billiard halls, etc. >
The Poverty of Georgia.
Georgia is not extraordinarily “hard np for
cash,” and the poverty we allude to is not,
therefore, impecuniosity. Neither is she
threatened, with famine or. in danger of starva
tion. So long as the railroads hold out, we
shall all be fed. They will bring us bacon,
lard, butter, com and flour from the "West, and
occasionally chickens and beef from Tennessee;
but imagine these lines of communication cut
off and you would soon begin to see the pover
ty we speak jof. Georgia would be, in a few
weeks, in the condition of the rich man wrecked
on a desolate island with a heavy supply of gold
and jewels which he had saved by great labor,
but not a pound of bread and meat.
Probably the State has got a month’s supply
of provisions ahead, and this would take ns in
to blackberry time. Then we might mb along
for a time on roasting ears, peaches, water
melons, etc., but by the time fall sets in, we
should have cleared the products of field, or
chard and garden, and reached the point of
starvation. Then we should begin to feel poor
indeed, although we might have plenty of
greenbacks and bales of cotton. In truth, we
would be glad to swap off the whole of them for
a side of bacon or a bushel of com.
But, asks the philosopher, what is the sense
of all this stuff ? Communication with the out
side world is not going to be cat off, and if we
have that which we can exchange for food, why
are we not as well off as if we produced our own
supplies ? This, in one or more particulars, is
precisely what we want to tell you, and in doing
so indicate in few words what we mean by the
poverty” of Georgia.
It is an irrational idea of wealth that it con
sists in the mere possession of money. Wo have
seen that a man may be starving poor with his
pockets staffed with gold. Money is of no use,
except as it ministers to the comfort and happi
ness of its possessor. A man with a car-load of
it, who cannot procure with money the comforts
and luxuries of life, is but a poor fellow after all.
• Now,that is our case in Georgia ora good part
of it, very frequently during the year. There
is many a time in Macon when a million dollars
would not buy, on two or three hour's notice, as
good a dinner as you could buy in a self-sup
plying country for two or three dollars.
You may exhaust the resources of civilization
in bringing here preserved food of every varie
ty, at vast expense, and still not reach the point
of comfortable and healthy living: because the
chief supplies of a comfortable and nutritious
table mnst, after all, be produced at home. You
must have your fowls in good order—your fat
beef and mutton, eggs, butter, milk, etc., and
where these are not to be had, in abundance, so
far as comfort is concerned it is a poor country,
with all its greenbacks and cotton bales; and
should the foreign supplies be stopped it be
comes a starving country.
Now when we consider that comfort is all
a man can have on earth, at best, it is a wretch
ed bargain to trade off comfort for a few more
bales of cotton, upon the doubtful chance of
getting more money to import the substitutes
for comfortable and nutritious fare from the
ends of the earth instead of producing the gen
uine article at home.
In order to produce abundant food and food
of good quality, the very first condition is the
production of grain and grass. With these we
can have tender, fat and juicy meats; but if
compelled to import oar grain from abroad we,
at the same time, cease to produce wholesome
animal food of any kind. AH perishes out, be
cause nobody is going to buy grain at high
prices and bring it long distances to fatten ani
mals upon.
The consequence, then, of the meagre produc
tion of grain, is the failure of the fundamental
condition of good living. Fresh animal food
becomes scarcer and poorer from year to year,
till it runs out altogether. This is now getting
to be the case in Middle Georgia. The supplies
from abroadbecome more difficult, expensive and
precarious, and very frequently freshmeats, in
wholesome condition, is not to be found at any
price. The eternal round of salted meats then
becomes tiresome, as well as unwholesome, and
the luxury of living is lost.
This is what is making Georgia a poor country
as well as a very costly one to live in. And as
the appetite of man revolts at last from same
ness and mnst have variety, its gratification
must be indulged at yearly increasing cost, till
the very wastefulness of the process will com
pel its own cure, by the stimulation of the grain
culture and the rearing of domestic animals.
That is a rich country which abounds in
healthful food and in all the conditions of com
fortable subsistence; and that is really a poor
country (no matter how much money it may
have), where these things are unattainable ex
cept at unreasonable cost and quest. When com
and wheat in Georgia shall be plenty and cheap,
and the tables of the people be well supplied
with choice meats from barn-yard and pasture,
we shall be really comfortable and rich, though
the cash balance on band be small. But no
bank balance can make a people comfortable or
rich, who draw almost every article of food
from a thousand miles’ distance, and can have
little or nothing in tho way of animal food upon
their tables except what might be fonnd in a
ship’s cabin upon a long voyage.
From Murray County.
Head of Bridle Navigation,)
April 24, 1869. j
Messrs. Editors: This county is all right.
Court just passed off, with a few presentments
by the Grand Jury of the county, meeting with
the approval of his Honor, Judge Parrott, who,
by the way, makes an excellent Judge. It
is true his brain is slightly troubled about the
present Legislature, and did recommend the
Grand Jury to present that body for delay, and
perhaps extravagance; but the Grand Jozy,
being composed of the best and most intelligent
gentlemen of the county, declined to say any
thing about it.
But, Messrs. Editors, I say—and say it with
out the fear of successful contradiction—that
such presentments are not only a shame, but a
burning shame to the good people of Georgia,
and to her present Legislative body. Please
fhinVj when that body first assembled at Atlan
ta, what it was. It was Radical to the core, and
smelt like “niggers at a corn-shucking.” Wit
ness the labor and time it took to remove that
smell, and when it was done, who was it that
did not throw up his beaver and cry joyfully at
the result? All things considered, it is the best
body that has assembled for twenty years, and
a proper consideration by the people of Georgia
will dearly prove it
Agriculture is dearly upon the brain in this
county—it takesprecedence of almost everything
else—and tho farmers are progressing finely.
They are in a better state of forwardness than
they have been for years. Peaches are general
ly killed; wheat very promising; and the
weather quite wet. “Old Sock.”
Telegraph Lise from Darien to Bruns
wick.—The establishment of a telegraph line
between Darien and this city, says the Savan
nah Advertiser, seems to have awakened the
citizens of Brunswick to the importance of
direct telegraphic communication with Darien
and this city. We learn that a line will be
built shortly between Darien and Brunswick,
the citizens of the latter place having already
subscribed twelve hundred dollars towards its
construction.
Probable Marriage of Mrs. Lincoln to a
German Count.—Berlin, April 21.—A German
paper, the Frei Statz, says that the marriage of
Mrs. Lincoln, the widow of the late President
Lincoln, with Count Scbmidtweil, grand cham
berlain of the Duke of Baden, is spoken of in
1 high circles.
Affairs in XiOnisvillc. Kentucky.
Louisville, April 26, 1869.
Editors lelegraph:—Availing myself of a
leisure hour, I again endeavor to transmit to yon,
briefly as possible, some of the items of local
interest occuring in a city which the Cincinnati
Commerdal facetiously styles “that ambitious
little village known as Louisville.”
You have, doubtless, ere this, noted in your
exchanges a detailed account of a most atro
cious and cowardly murder perpetrated in this
city, on last- Friday night 23d inst., which
will have in the courts a full investigation on
Thursday morning next. It is natural that tho
question should be asked somewhat petulantly,
when shall these scenes of horror, of willful and
cowardly murder, cease in communities profess
ing to bo civilized ? It has its solution in the
briefest answer, not untilthe ministers of even-
handed justice do their whole duty under their
solemn obligations. It is true, that we are to
have one pnblic example here on Friday next in
the execution of the negro John Conley; but
such examples come late when criminals, time
and again found guilty of murder in the
first degree by intelligent juries, have still man
aged through the veriest legal quibbling, to be
turned loose upon society, ready upon the
slightest provocation, to strike down some new
victim.
GEORGE D. PRENTICE.
In passing through tho apartments of the
Courier-Journal a few days since, we noticed at
his desk a gentleman of most serious and grave
aspect, whom we were told was the distinguish
ed editor and wit, George D. Prentice, Esq.,
whose mere name is still a tower of strength
among us. He seems to be very feeble and
emaciated in body, though bis friends claim that
his intellectual powers are as bright and vigor
ous as ever. He is an object of great interest
to all visitors to the Courier-Journal, and yet
any one who met Mr. Prentice four or five years
ago, would now fail to recognize him, so com
plete is his metamorphosis. He wears * at the
present time a long, flowing white beard, which,
with his attenuated frame and slow and uncer
tain footstep, awakens in the mind of all who
meet him a feeling of sadness. Alas! we are
admonished that one, whose past brilliant career
is a part of onr national history, will soon dis
appear from our midst and go hence to join the
intellectual host who have already crossed to
the further shore of the gloomy and mystic
river.
Mrs. Lander who has been approved by tho
lovers of the drama as the Ristori of America,
has just ended a very successful engagement at
the Louisville Opera House. To-night the no
torious Leffingwell commences a series of his
laughter provoking personations. His burlesqne
of the Edwin Forest school of acting is said to
be inimitable. He has met with remarkable
success in New York and Philadelphia, and we
perhaps are rather slavishly disposed to regard
that as the touchstone of merit for any or all
aspirants for histrionic honors, that come among
us. This is the season for local concerting, and
we are to have several musical treats in rapid
succession from the various clubs in the city,
which are anticipated with much interest.
The weather for the past few days has been
mild and beautiful, and business in every de
partment is resuming its wonted activity. The
welcome ring of the mason’s trowel; the nervous
stroke of the carpenter's hammer, and the nim
ble brash of the painter, greet the passer-by in
every portion of our growing city. And, with
bright hopes and aspirations for our own per
sonal success we feel as did one of old, that “it
is good to be here.”
A Mr. Trevillick delivered a very telling and
able address before an immense mass meeting
of tho working people here a few nights since,
which I trust will result in much good to those
whose efforts in aiding to build up the city have
heretofore been sadly unappreciated. The
great want here at the present time, especially
among the working classes, is to have a better
understanding and feeling among themselves ;
we need strong union, a more perfect organiza
tion, and until this object is secured, our in
terests must continue to languish under the
overwhelming force of capital arrayed against
us. But the good work has been inaugurated,
the great reform has begun in earnest, and the
hopes of all are growing brighter each day.
Should it meet your approbation, I will con
tinue these hasty and imperfect chronicles of
the chances and changes in our midst, and shall
be happy to hear of your continued success and
prosperity in the enterprizo that has for so long
a time engrossed your attention.
With great respect, yours, etc.,
O. L. S.
English Emigration.
A movement is now on foot which looks to
the transfer in a body to this country, of all the
unemployed in Lancashire, England. The Lon
don Economist vigorously opposes the move
ment, arguing that though w3ges are nominally
higher in the United States than in England,
the prices of rent and food are also much higher.
Per contra, the Pall Mall Gazette observes:—
“Even if a working man is obliged to give fifty
per cent, more for food and clothing in America
than here, he will choose to do it rather than be
dependent for support on a miserable pittance
from a trade union. Whether there is occupa
tion for onr emigrants or not is a point that
ought carefully to be inquired into; we only say
that cotton manufacture is increasing both in
India and America, and apparently declining in
Fhig country. The prospects of unemployed
operatives are likely to be better in America
than in England, especially if they study the
position of the American trade before leaving
ibis country, and endeavor to time their arrival
according to the demand which may exist for
them.”
It has thus far been the experience of all Eu
ropean operatives crossing the ocean, that they
have greatly bettered their condition in the
United States.
Draining the Lakes.
A Lavenworth paper broaches a grand project,
by which Chicago proposes to distance all its
rivals. A ship canal, one thousand feet broad
and sixty feet deep, is to be constructed across
the State of Illinois, to some point on the Mis
sissippi river, enough below the level of lake
Michigan to admit of a steady flow of water into
the Mississippi. The following are the results
to ensue: The river St. Lawrence will become
but a brook. Niagara Falls will stand a damp
wall of rock, if indeed the water does not flow
back over them, forced by the tremendous suc
tion of Chicago. Buffalo, Cleveland, Toledo,
Detroit and wilwaukee will be sixty feet above
the present high water mark, and millions of
new land will appear in the shallows of the lakes.
New York would be nowhere. The largest ves
sels in the world would navigate the Mississippi,
“and steam tugs of extraordinary power”—we
quote the Leavenworth paper—“would bring
sailing vessels from new Orleans to Chicago in
four days.”
This work will cost $84,000,000. The money
is not yet raised, nor is the survey complete, but
as Chicago and Leavenworth have pronounced
in favor of it, it will be accomplished.
Extraordinary Case of Memory.—The Buf
falo Courier recalls an occurrence in the New
York Legislature about eighteen years ago, when
the present Secretary of State was the whig can
didate for the United States Senate in place of
Daniel S. Dickinson. The vote in the Senate
was a tie, but the unexplained absence of a dem
ocratic member gave the whigs a majority, and
Mr. Fish was elected. Strange as it may appear,
a gentleman strongly resembling this absentee
democrat of eighteen years ago turned np in
Washington recently, and, spuming all red tape
circumlocution, had a private audience with the
Secretary of State—the same Mr. Fish—and
soon after reappeared upon Pennsylvania avenue
with the commission for a fat consular general
ship in his breast pocket. This is a remarka
ble case of memory in a politician, whose re
wards as a class are generally actuated by a live
ly sense of favors to come, not past, especially
after so long an interval as eighteen years.
JBY TELEGRAPH.
From Virginia.
r.icmioxD, April 29.—The Conservative Conven
tion assembled morning, and the minority re
port was withdrawn, to make way for a resolution to
adjourn till ten days after Grant’s proclamation for
a State election. This resolution was defeated by a
majority of two-thirds. The majority report was
then adopted with few dissenting voices. The de
bate pointed unmistakably to Walker, the conserva
tive Republican, as the person to be supported by
the Conservatives for Governor.
Resolutions were adopted for a better organiza
tion, and for appointing a committee to wait on
President Grant, relative to tho submission of tho
Constitution to a vote, and also to Gen. Canby.
Adjourned sine die.
Press representatives of all parties were admitted
to-day.
The spirit of the debate in the Convention this
morning by those who favored tho minority report,
urging the people to vote down tho Constitution,
was: that while negro suffvago might bo forced on
tho peoplo by tho Government, yet 'Virginians
should not themselves assist in the degradation.
Those who favored the majority report, urged
that that sort of argument was a thing of the
past. Negro suffrage was an accomplishedCfact,
and the white people of tho State, instead of sullen
ly resisting the General Government, which is
our Government, should carry out reconstruction
in honesty and good faith; accepting what the
Government gives us and making the best of it. It
was urged that the election of Gilbert C. Walker, a
Northern Republican and administration supporter,
for Governor, would give the peoplo of tho North
confidence in our professions, and induce immigra
tion to the State.
The minority report was advocated by ex-Gov.
Wm. Smith, and the majority report by John B.
Baldwin and John R. Edwards.
Gen. Sherman arrived to-day from Fortress Mon
roe, and left to-night for Washington. A number of
citizens called on him while here.
From Washington.
Washington, April 29. — Coin in the Treasury
$111,000,000.
Tho Bureau of Military Justice is dissolved. Its
functionaries are variously assigned: Major Clin
ton, Judge Advocate Department South: Major
Burnham, Judge Advocate First Military District;
Major Goodfellow, Judge Advocate Fifth Military
District; General Holt, Judge Advocate at Head
quarters of the Army.
General News.
Key West, April 29.—A report has reached here
from Cuba that the Commandant of tho Depart
ment decrees death to males over fifteen years who
are absent from their homes without sufficient
cause, and dwellings without a white flag are to bo
burned.
New Orleans, April 29.—A portion of the Illinois
Press Delegation are enjoying the hospitalities of
St. Charles Hotel, as guests of the city. They were
met at Mobile wharf by the Mayor and delegations
from the City Council and Chamber of Commerce,
with an address of welcome. The party numbers
about eighty ladies and gentlemen. After an excur
sion upon the river and a complimentary dinner to
morrow, they go hence to Cairo.
Savannah, April 29.—Tho iron ship Sussex, from
Mobile to Liverpool, was towed into the Tybee last
night. On the 27th fire was discovered in her hold
amidship, when the hatchets were closed and venti
lation shut off. A board of survey was held to-day.
who have ordered her to be towed to safe anchorage
at Venus Point, for farther investigation to-mor
row. A steam fire engine remains alongside of
her to-night. The steamer Princess went down this
morning to render assistance, if required. The
cargo consists of 2,700 bales of cotton, 517 tons of
com and 100 tons of oil cake.
Foreign News.
Madrid, April 29 Tho President of the Cortes
checked a Republican who spoke scandalously of the
Christian religion. The Republicans left the Cham
ber and afterwards returning proposed a resolution
censuring tho President, which, after a heated de
bate, was withdrawn. An amendment, however,
favoring the dominance of the Catholic religion in
Spain was rejected.
From Cuba.
Havana, April 29.—Tho Catalaman volunteers
marched on the 26th, to raise the seige of Puerto
Principe. The forces reached San Antonio without
opposition. The Insurgents have again destroyed
the Sagua Railroad. It is rumored that the monitor
sunk one and captured a another of the Spanish
war vessels.
—
Marine News.
Savannah, April 29.—Cleared, steamship General
Rames, New York; America, Baltimore: bark Alamo,
Liverpool: Architect, New York.
The man who “retailed slander” has gone in
to wholesale lying.
The llontagues anil Capnlcls of Rhode
Island.
Win. Sprague and the Spragues—Brown <£•
Toes—Senator Anthony and His Party—The
Secret Springs of Senator Sprague’s Late
Speeches.
Correspondence Sea York Tribune.']
Providence, April 16, 1869.
On the railroad cars going out and coming
into this city, in the street cars, in the streets,
and on the street comers, wherever men meet
and exchange greetings, the only general topic
of conversation just now is the recent action of
Senator Sprague. On the Providence and
Stonington Road this morning I heard men all
around me say, “Sprague has hurt himself all
over this country,” “Sprague has disgraced
himself,” Sprague is a disgrace to the State,”
* ‘What does he mean ?” “I do not understand it,
bnt Sprague knows what he is about.” “Sprague
always comes out all right. ” * ‘There are going
to be lively times in Rhode Island about this
time,” was chimed from the other side, until I
was sorely perplexed to know who was in the
right, or who the most in earnest. A good
Methodist clergyman heard it all, and was
quite ns much perplexed ns I was, but ho valor-
ously whispered to his wife, whom be had only
married tho day before, “It’s all sbout a speech
Sprague made in the Senate—or, I should say,
in the House of Representatives.” That was
the way he understood it; bnt the truth is times
are lively here already, and some night, no
body knows when, Sprague will come tumbling
down from Washington, and make them livelier
still. So far, he has not deigned to make any
explanation of his course, but some day before
long, the explanation and the intrepid young
Senator will come before the people of Rhode
Island together. Then we shall hear what he
has to say about Rhode Island’s honor, and
there will be, no doubt, fresh “aspersions” to
ho accounted for, and reimbittered attacks upon
the great family whom he has typified by the
splendid figure, “A million dollars.’
Two households, both alike in dignity, from
ancient grudge break to new mutiny, was said of
old; but now, instead of Verona, the scene is
laid among the looms and spindles of little
Rhody, and, as befits the spirit of this manufac
turing and commercial ago, it is the house of
Spraguo against the house of Brown & Ives. Of
these two gTeat houses, the Spragues are the
youngest and the most energetic, if not the
richest; Brown «fc Ives the oldest and mbst aris
tocratic, the proudest of their birth and breed
ing, their wealth and cultnre, and these who are
exclusive in matters pertaining to their personal
affiliation and social recognitions.
The house of Sprague started with Amasa
Sprague, the grandfather of Amasa and Wil
liam, the present representatives of the house.
He was succeeded by his sons Amasa and Wil
liam, and thus the firm of A. & W, Sprague
came into existence. At the death of the “Old
Governor,” as William Sprague, the uncle of the
“twoboys”whonow control the house of A. & W.
Sprague, is generally called even now, its busi
ness had not yet assumed anything like the pres
ent giant proportions. That event occurred in
1856, and there were at that time only six calico
printing machines in. the print work at Cran
ston. Since then, however, not only has addi
tion after addition and extension after exten-
tion been put to the works, until the mills form
an extensive village in themselves, but every
species of improved machinery has also been
procured and set in motion. Instead of six-
color 'machines, the highest number any ma
chine was capable of printing at the death of
the “Old Governor,” there are in the works at
Cranston to-day machines which print twelve.
There are now thirty machines in the works,
and'fifty thousand pieces of cloth can be print
ed and finished in a week. This immense es
tablishment is driven by six engines, varying
from 10 to 300 horse power, and the consump
tion of coal per day is not short of 100 tons.
Twenty-five donkey engines are scattered over
the establishment, to do special duty wherever
needed. Trimming machines, dyeing apparatus,
engraving machines, all the immense and com
plicated machinery necessary to the manufac
ture of the material for a new dress. The vil
lage where the operatives reside is built after a
uniform model, and consists of story and a half
double houses. In the store at Cranston an im
mense business is done. The Spragues do their
own slaughtering, and kill about twenty-five
head of cattle per week, and sheep and hogs in
proportion. The meat is furnished to their op
eratives 4 and 5 cents per pound cheaper than
it can be bought in the Providence market, and
the “store” sells goods of every kind -at a pro
portionately low figure, the sales in a single year
amounting to $400,000.
Amasa Sprague resides at Cranston, about one
mile from the city of Providence, and William
lives with his mother in the city of Pro
vidence. What this woman has had to do with
building up an immense business, the influence
of which is felt everywhere in the country, has
never been told. “The boys” habitually resort
to her for advice; and the “old Governor” was
accustomed to hold her judgment in the highest
esteem. Her counsels to the old firm of A. &.
W. Sprague have been transferred to the new
house, and have proved as beneficial to her sons
as to their father and to their uncle. She is
now an old lady of seventy years, but her facul
ties are as vigorous as ever.
The Sprauges have mills at other places be
sides Providence, even a3 far away as Augusta,
Me. Their “Baltic” mills are an immense af
fair, ns are also the “Quidnick,” “Natick,”
“Arctic,” and “Central Falls.” They have be
sides many outside interests. Their farm at
Cranston alone contains, 2,000 acres of land,
worth from $200 to $300 per acre, and in all
the following companies they have a controlling
or a very large interest:
Rhode Island Locomotive Works, Perkins’
Sheet Iron Company, Phoenix Iron Foundry,
Comstock Foundry, Rhode Island Horse Shoe
Company, American Horse Nail Company,
Nicholson File Company, Boston Wheat and
Bread Company, United States Flax Manufactu-
ringCompany, Providence and New York Steam
ship Company. This view scarcely gives an idea
of the immensity of the enterprises, into many
of which they became engaged by taking hold
of the failing enterprises of others. The immen
sity of the whole can only be judged from the im
mensity of any one of the undertakings named
in the foregoing list. All are so great in them
selves that the successful conduct of any of
them would stamp a man as eminently success
ful in business, and give him the prestige and
social influence of great wealth. •
The House of Brown & Ives antedates the
Revolutionary war. It began as a commercial
house long before cotton-spinning was thought
of, much less had become a staple manufacture
and the source of wealth and power. Always
eminently conservative the house have adhered
to old customs and ways to a remarkable degree,
and to this day the account books which contain
the record of their business, are marked, “The
Colony of Rhode Island;” and the style of the
house has been Brown & Ives for so long a time
that the memory of man runneth not to the con
trary. Forty years ago, Nicholas Brown and
Thomas Boynton Ives composed the firm. They
were succeeded in the business by their sons,
John Carter Brown and Robert H. Ives, the
present members of the house, and as they
signed themselves the other day, “sole partners. ”
Mr. Brown is a man of abont seventy years of
age, and Mr. Ives may be perhaps five years
younger. They are both gentlemen of re
fined tastes and cultivated intellects—high
ly respectable but eminently conservative,
they say here in Rhode Island; and as
an evidence of this, I may say that Mr. Brown’s
private library contains probably the richest
collection of MSS., and of rare and curious
books relating to America, to be found any
where among the collectors of this speciality.
Their print works are at Londsdale, where they
have also a largo mill and village. There they
have the “Hope” mill, called after the maternal
branch of the Ives family, at Phoenix, on the
Pawtuxet, and the “Ashton” mill, on the line
of the Providence and Worcester railroad, in
th9 valley of Blackstone. They have also a
large interest in the Blackstone Manufacturing
Company, Mr. Alexander Duncan, the father of
William Duncan, of Duncan, Sherman & Co.,
being tho other member. This establishment
was built up by the old firm of Brown & Iveg,
and Mr. Butler, the father of Mrs. Duncan.—
These embrace all the great mills of Brown &
Ives, and employ about 1,500 persons. The
number spindles may be approximately esti
mated at 150,000.
Thus I have sketched, with as much precision
as I was able, the history and character of these
two houses—the Montagues and Capulets of
Rhode Island—that the feuds which nave dis
tracted them may be the better understood.—
They are both families of great respectability at
home, and are well known out of their own
State as well as in it. Th6ir influence in Rhode
Island is as great as their antagnoisms are bit
ter. 'When Brown & Ives sneeze, Sprague says
there is a general sneeze, and the retort with
sarcastic allusions to “Sprague’s Rhode Island
ers.” They are at war, and there is no peace
anywhere near them. From Sprague came the
first onset, but Brown and Ives have parried his
blows by denying at least one of his accusations.
Which party is most embittered it were difficult
to say. “Sprague is mad,” is heard there a
hundred times a day. If the Journal can be
taken as an index of the feeling of Brown and
Ives, and the conduct of young Frank Goddard
in getting up an “ovation’’ to Burnside is a sure
indication that it can, aside from every other
consideration in relation to the course of that
newspaper—the “milliondollars” are inno very
agreeable mood. Mr. Ives, I hear, bnt can
trace it to no trustwhorthy source, is anxious to
keep up, or perhaps rather to get up, amity
of feeling, in a business way, between the two
houses; but while Amasa don't care a fig for po
litics or political interests, William would, I
think, say “No!” in that emphatic way so char
acteristic of the Spragues.
No account of the feud between these two
great families would be complete without some
revelation of the hidden springs which prompt
ed Senator Sprague’s remarkable action. These
things are essentially secrets, and, what is
worse, family secrets. But they are secrets
about which, if nobody absolutely knows any
thing, neither can anybody be said to be entire
ly ignorant Sprague himself hinted at them
very broadly, but he did little more than hint
His hints were merely an “illustration” drawn
from one great family typified by a “million
dollars,” bnt his illustration was made, he him
self says, “with a purpose.” That purpose may
be in one respect to break down the great
family—the Capulets in this quarrel—and dissi-
pato the influence of tho million dollars. It
may have been, and undoubtedly was, his inten
tion—for nobody here donbis his sincerity—to
break down a noxious system which leaves
large capitalists with the whole capital of the
country, and prevents small manufacturers
from competing with moneyed men armed with
the power and disposition to crush them.
I cannot mako out how much jealousy that is
merely personal and not political there may be
between these two great families. The Brown
University matter seems to be one of these. To
make a long story short, and not consider it in
its political aspects, if it has any, the whole
matter is that he thinks Brown and Ives own the
lands in Kansas given by the United StatC3 to
the University, and that they acquired them
through the agency of the Rev. Mr. Love, the
University agent and their creature. Mr. Love
is the ostensible owner of the property, now
worth nearly a million of dollars, having pur
chased it for $50,000. He has paid the Univer
sity nothing, but has secured that institution by
a deposit of United States bonds to the foil
amount of the purchase money.
In relation to the denial of Brown & Ives that
they approached Sprague, in 1857, with a prop
osition to break down the small manufactures
in the State, nobody here, not unfriendly to
Sprague, appears to think it will in any way im
peach his veracity. Tho peculiarity of the sig
nature to the denial, “Brown & Ives, by John
Garter Brown and Robert H. Ives, sole part
ners,” is pointed to as evidence of this. It is
confidently asserted that the proposition was act
ually made by one of the Goddards; and if this
should prove*to be the case, it would be difficult
to convince the people of this State that it was
not the proposition of Brown & Ives.
Thus ends this history of one of the most re
markable episodes in American politics. Many
opinions adverse to Sprague, hastily formed and
incautiously uttered, were expressed by politi
cians and men all over the country. Even here
some people affected to think he was either
drank or crazed. He vigorously asserts that he
was neither, and his worn can be trusted.
°* °’ 8 ’
Velocipede Race Extoaobdinaby.—At last
the challenge of Fred Hanlon to the velocipede
riders of this country has been accepted by Mr.
Frank Swift, a young gentleman who is said to
possess a name well according with his perform
ance on the uncertain bycycle. The race will
take place on the 29 th of June, , over a course
one mile long, for $1,000. A forfeit of $100
was deposited by either party yesterday.—N.
Y. Commercial.
A Whited Sepulchre.
[Front the Chicago limes.
The proceedings of the convention of Work
ing-women, held in Boston last week, reads mote
like some hideous invention than like facts of the
nineteenth century, having existence in the
modem Athens of the new world.
Said a Mrs. Warner; “ I have canvassed fif
teen cities of the United States, aud have not,
in any of them, found the condition of women
so deplorable as in the city of Boston.”
How deplorable this condition is, was abund
antly shown. Miss Phelps said there are 2,000
needle-women in Boston who get only 25 cents,
a day, at the most. One woman presented a
sack full of shirts which the Provident Aid So
ciety had given her to be entirely made by hand,
to be hemmed, gusseted, felled, and button
holed, for 45 cents each. Dr. Dio Lewis said
there are 20,000 women in Boston who earn
their living by the needle.
Mrs. Houghton knew of the cases of women
who make shirts at 50 cents a dozen!
Mrs. Warner took the liberty to remark that,
in the cases of many well-dressed ladies pres
ent, “ Each costly dress makes three prosti
tutes.’’
These revelations are a few specimens of a
multiplicity made during the convention. In
considering them, two views of ihe subject nat
urally present themselves. One of these is the
case with reference to Boston, and the other
the case with reference to working-women gen
erally.
In respect to the first division, it must bo said
that the exhibition of Boston philanthropy, given
during the convention, is of the most execrable
character. The assertion of Airs. Warner that
Boston was tho worst of tho fifteen cities whose
cases she had examined, proves that Boston is
responsible for the condition of these women, to
the extent that their condition is worse than in
other cities. One reason why it is worse is, that
the modem Athens devotes its munificent chari
ties, and its exquisite sympathies for suffering,
to remote objects. When the Cretans were in
rebellion against a legitimate government, the
Bostonians founded a society and a periodical
in their interest, and forwarded them money
enough to have raised above the level of star
vation, for a half-dozen of years, every one of
the 8000 needle-women who are working for 25
cents a day.
In the matter of down-trodden Africans, living
comfortably at Government expense, these same
Bostonians have been unusually liberal. They
have spent tens of thousands of dollars annually
in sending supplies to negroes who did not need
them; and in affording them spelling-books and
teachers, when thousands of their own women
were on the verge of starvation, and had no
choice between a death from hunger or a life of
infamy. What sort of a record is this for a city
which boasts of being the most enlightened in
existence, which is the head-centre of missionary
enterprises, negrophilist organizations, women’s
rights societies, and all other bodies having be
nevolent, philanthropical and charitable objects
as the base of their formation? Despite this,
its record of crime, suffering, destitution and
oppression is worse than that of any city in
America. It is the precise whited sepulchre
whose externals are beautiful, but whose inte
rior is filled with decay and dead men’s bones.
In a general sense, the condition of a large
percentage of working-women is worse than it
should be in a country in which tho government
is—comparatively and generally—so free, land
so abundant, and labor so much in demand. So
long as there are millions of acres of the public
domain unoccupied, there should not be a single
case of starvation, unless under such exceptional
circumstansces as ill-health, or some other ab
normal condition. Hence, one remedy should
be, the more equal distribution of population.
They should be taken from crowded centres,
where competition has reduced the price of la
bor, and distributed over areas that are sparsely
or not at all settled. To secure this distribution,
Boston should employ some of the funds which
it raises for the relief of Cretans, the Hottentots,
and the sonthem Africans.
Another means of relief should be organized
among well-to-do women themselves. The
Stantons and Dickinsons who are making for
tunes in shrilly clamoring for the privilege of
jostling with loafers at the polls; the Liver-
mores and Hoges who have such admirable ex
ecutive ability in the conduct of great eleemo
synary operations; tho unsexed Bloomers and
others of the same sort—might turn their talent
and give their time to ameliorating the absolute
suffering among women who make shirts for,
and support families upon fifty cents a dozen.
Finally, and as an immediate measure of re
lief, we invite the people of. Chicago to contrib
ute toward a fund for the suffering needle-women
of Boston. It is the more necessary to do some
thing, that Boston, absorbed in the sublime duty
of clothing well-clad, and feeding well-fed, Afri
cans, has neither time nor money to care for
its own starving women. Let Chicago do some
thing for Boston.
A Pile of Green bucks Ground Up.
A few day ago, when one of the employees of
Clark & Co.’s paper mill, near the acqueduct,
was engaged in running through the “ rag-pick
er” a Jot of old clothing, his attention was at
tracted to some bitsof greenish paper which had
gone through the machine. On closer inspection
they proved to be scraps of greenbacks which
had been clipped into pieces by the knives in
the “picker." The man found a hat full of
these old scraps, and instead of gathering them
np carefully, and devoting a portion of his valu
able time in fitting the 3craps together, he picked
up a portion of the valuable debris, and gave
them to friends as evidences of a curious dis
covery he had mado of a fortune which had
been run through a mill! The scraps are of
bills of the denomination of $5, $10, $20, $50,
and $100, and an estimate made from the quan
tity of pieces found indicates that not less than
$3000 was in the package which was ground up
in the “rag-picker.” In a small bunch of the
debris taken up without regard to the contents,
there were twenty pieces with $100 on them.
Now that it is too late to effect anything of
consequence in the matter, we learn that the
finder of those greenback scraps intends to try
and make a collection of them and fit the pieces
together. The money, however, has been
“funded,” and is out of circulation.. The theo
ry of the money getting into the picker, is that
the coat which contained the money was one of
a lot of soldiers’ blouses which were collected at
different points, and that the money was sewed
in the breast of a blouse which belonged to an
officer who had died in a hospital, and the secret
of the greenbacks died with him. Doubtless the
poor fellow’s family often wondered what be
came of his money, and the rag-picker has solved
the mystery—-but unfortunately to no good pur
pose.—Dayton ( Ohio) Journal.
Tho Eight-Hour Law.
"Washington, April 27.—The Cabinet meeting
to-day had np the eight-hour matter and dis
cussed it in some of its bearings, bnt did not
come to any conclusion. The disposition
seemed to be to let the troubles drift over until
the meeting of Congress, when the inconsistency
which exists between the eight-hour law and the
act of 1862 can be arranged. The latter act
provides that the Government shall pay no
higher wages for work than is paid for similar
service by outside parties. The "War and Navy
Secretaries have received letters from various
portions of the country stating that tho laborers
on Government work are demanding ten hoar’s
pay for eight hours’ work.
Happiness.
Reader, did you ever land a trout ? I do not
ask if you ever jerked some poor little fellow
out of a brook three feet across, with a pole six
inches around at the butt, and so heavy as to
require both hands and feet well braced to hold
it out. No, that's not landing a trout. But
did you ever sit in a boat, with nine ounces of
lance-wood for a rod, and two hundred feet of
braided silk in your double-acting reel, and
hook a trout whose strain brought tip and butt
together as you cheeked him in some wild
flight, and tested your quivering line from gut
to reel-knot? No one knows what game there
is in a trout, unless he has fought it oat, match
ing such a rod against a three pound fish, with
forty feet of water underneath, and a dear, un
impeded sweep around him ! Ah, then it is that
one discovers what will and energy lie within
the mottled skin of a trout, and what a miracle
of velocity he is when roused. I love the rifle,
and I have looked along the sights and held the
leaping blood back by an effort of wiU, steady
ing myself for the shot, when my veins fairly
tingled with the exhilarating excitement of the
moment; but one should ask me what is my
oonoeption of pure physical happiness, I should
assure him that the highest bodily beatitude I
ever expect to reach is, on some future day,
when the dear sun is occasionally veiled by
clouds, to sit in a boat once more upon that lit
tle lake, with John at the paddle, and match
again a Conroy rod against a three pound trout.
That’s what I call happiness 1—Adventures in
the Wilderness, by W. H. i£ Murray.
The Catholic Itqirfti
The Provincial Council of i<iaiarc—lmprrn,
ice Ceremonies at the Cathedrals-The p r ~
Uit.es—'The Profession—Pontifical Mask— pf.
Sermon—The Music—Officers Tf the Coyne?
Etc. T
Repo, ted for the Baltimore 9u».l
The tenth Provisional bouncil of the Roman
Catholic Church In the province of Baltimore
under the jurisdiction of the Most Rev. Arch!
bishop SpaldiDg, was opened yesterday I'ft*
fourth Sunday after Trinity) with imposing cer
emonies at the Cathedral, and will be closed on
next Sunday, May 2d. J
The following is a list of the prelates in at.
tendance, comprising mostly Bishops: Most
Rev. Martin J. Spalding, D. D., Archbishop 0 f
Baltimore, Md.; Right Her. Richard V. Whelan
D. D., Senior Prelate and Bishop of WhefeUm.’
West Ya.; Right Rev. John McGill, D, j.
Bishop of Richmond, Ya. ; 'Right Rev. P.V
Lynch, D. D.. Bishop of Charleston, S. C •
Right Rev. James F. Wood, D. D., Bishop rf
Philadelphia, Pa.; Right Rev. Michael Domini-*
D. D., Bishop of Pittsburg, Pa.: Right Eey
Augustine Yerot, D. D., Bishop of Savannah!
Right Rev. William O’Hara. D. D., Bishop 0 f
Scranton, Pa,; Right Rev. Jeremiah F. Shaa*.
han, D. D., Bishop of Harrisburg, Pa.; Ri„u
Rev. Tobias Mullin, D. D., Bishop of Erie-
Right Rev. Thomas A. Becker, D. D., Bishop of
Wilmington, Del.; Right Rev. James Gibbon^
D. D., Bishop of Adramythim, in part, and Vi!
car Apostolic of North Carolina: Right Rev. la.
natius Persico, D. D., Bishop of Gratianopol-f
in part. Inf. et Miss; Right Rev. Abbas Bomfj’
cius Wimmer, Abbot of the Order of St Bens!
diet.
THE PROCESSION.
The weather yesterday was bright and bean,
tiful, and the streets in the vicinity of [Cj
Cathedral were early crowded with persons to
witness the ecclesiastical display. The doors
and windows of the dwelling houses in ftp
neighborhood were also filled with spectators of
the scene. At 10 o’clock a. m. the procession
moved from the front of the Archbishop’s resi.
dence, in Charles street, passing round into
Mulbury street, and thence to the front entrance
of the Cathedral, the bells of tho church ringing
continuously, and the clergy singing psalms and
chanting antiphonally. The Young Catholics’
Friend Society of Baltimore, underthe.direetion
of their President, Mr. Alex. J. Bland, number,
ing about 200 members, acted as a guard of hoi.
or. The procession moved in the follmuin
order:
The censer bearer and second master of cer
emonies ; the cross bearer with a large golden
crucifix, between the' acolytes, carrying candle,
sticks; the seminarians and choristers, theoio-
gians, priests, etc., of the city and province—
those in second orders in dalmatics, and the
priests in chesubles; the twelve bishops of the
province of Baltimore in mitre and cope, ac
cording to the time of their consecration, with
croziers in hand, each followed by two boys as
train-bearers; the senior bishop, Rt. Rev. Dr.
Whelan, pontifically dressed to celebrate mass,
preceded by his assistant priests, and between
the deacon and sub-deacon; the archbishop's
cross; the Archbishop, between the very Rev.
H. B. Coskery, Vicar-General, and the very
Rev. Thomas Foley, Chancellor, followed by
the Archbishop’s Secretary and corzier and mitre-
bearers. The rich vestments of the bishops asl
their emblems of rank and authority, had a
brilliant effect in the bright snnlight.
The church, at an early hour, was filled in ev
ery part, except the centre aisle.
As the procession, which numbered over one
hundred eclesiastics, entered tho Cathedral a
grand march, composed by Prof. Linhard, the
organist, was performed with a full, orchestra.
The procession passed slowly up the centre
aisle to the altar, where the bishops and their
attendants took the places prescribed for them,
and remained standing until the Archbishop
arrived at his seat, when all then became seated
the clergy and others being seated in front of
the altar railing.
pontifical HASS.
Grand Pontifical High Mass was then celebra
ted by theRightRev. Bishop Wheelan. Haydn's
sixteenth mass was sung by the full choir, under
the directien of Professor Gegan. Before the
sermon the Veni Sanctus Spiritus, by Dietsch,
was sung by the choir.
The sermon was preached by Right Reverend
Bishop McGill, from the 14th chapter of St.
John, in which Christ comfortetli his disciples,
“Let not your heart be troubled, ye believe in
God, believe, also in me,” etc. The discourse
was listened to with much interest. At the
effertoiy, Hummel’s Alma. Virgo was sung by
the choir.
opening of the peovtscial council.
After the close of the morning service, the
Archbishop moved to the front of the altar,
when the opening of the session of the Provin-
cialCouncil was commenced—all the proceedings
being in Latin. The reading of the 68th Psaln
was followed by a prayer addressed to the Vir
gin, invoking the light and grace of the Holy
Ghost upon the proceedings of the council
The litany of the Saints was then recited, the
responses being made by the’ full voices of sH
present with unusual effect. A portion of the
ninth chapter of St. Luke was read, “And he
sent them to preach the'kingdom of God cni
heal the sick,” &e.
The Veni Creator Spiritus was then sung by
tho priests. The Archbishop made a short ad
dress to the prelates and clergy concerning nut
ters to be treated in the council. A profession
of faith was then made by all the prelates and
officials of the council. The decrees of ths
Council of Trent, de resident iu de profamv
fidei, were, as also the list of the officers of the
Provincial Council, of which the Most Rev
Archbishop is the presiding officer.
A Gran Living Without Food.—A little gi~
at Llanfihangel-yr-Arth, Wales, is said to have
lived since the 10th of October, 1867, without
food. A Committee of respectable men I
formed some time ago to inquire into the case-
and three gentlemen were requested to watch
the girl. These gentlemen, one of whom is a
medical student from Llandyssul, another a |
scholar of St David’s College, Lampeter,'an:
the third a medical assistant, watched the pn |
continuously from March 22d to April 5th, and i
they state that nothing whatever was giventa
her during that time. So the story rests, incred
ible it is true, but supported by evidence IP [
it is difficult to disbelieve.
A subscbtption paper, circulated for sPJ I
charitable purpose, was presented to a weth-J
French manufacturer,- who subscribed twer-J
francs. ‘-Twenty francs?” said the l»dy™*
presented the list to him; “ why, you ought u
be ashamed of yourself. Your sou has
scribed fifty francs.” “That’s all very**
replied the manufacturer, “my son lias a
father and can afford to give more than I, [
shall not inherit anything.”
An Omission.
John G., whom everybody in Pike ,
tells a good thing on Judge W., whom e&S'
body else in Pike knows. It runs thus:
Judge W. had his law office close to a cere 1 -1
doctor—in fact, they were separated onlv ^
plank partition with a door in it. The We
was at his table, busy with briefs nrul bi*J?
chancery. The doctor was writing a letter, |
pausing for a moment, called out: . .
“Judge, isn’t e-q-u-i, the way to spell tip
nomical?”
“Yes, I think it is,” said tho Judge:
here’s Webster’s dictionary—I can soon to |
you.”
He opens the book and turns over the letfp
repeating aloud “e-quinomical—e-quiiwuuC' 3
Finding the proper place, ho runs hisoj**j
finger up and down the column two or tit*
times, until he is thoroughly satisfied that
word in question was not there. Closing “
book with a slam, the Judge lays his spes
the table, and rising slowly breaks forth—
“ Well, sir, I’ve always been a Daniel IWrj
man ; and I voted for him for President;
any man that will write as big a dictionary
this, and not put ns common a word ns H .
nomical in it, can’t get my vote for anytn^
hereafter!” ^
The Judge denies the story, and s *£ s L
John G. is an outrageous prevarioator. Here |
end the tale, without expressing an opinion-..
[Montgomery A" 1 '
Lee and Gbant.—The New York Day J
tells the following, which, if it be a story,
nevertheless a deep moral in it: ,
Lingard, at his theatre on Broadway, is
habit of personating the character of living
of note. The other night he came out in.^ |
character of General Lee, looking, it is fl e
perfectly like that distinguished hero, ouu
whole audience responded with loud ana P
longed applause. But hie next character, ,
mediately following that of, Lee, was ^
Grant, which caused only the faintest res P%
from four or five individuals. We have no a i
that this inoident reflect* very faithfully. 1 m®
ative popularity of Lee and Grant in
New York needs reconstructing more than - j
Orleans, proven Richmond.