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^TELEGRAPH,
g= g ^^~raiPAY, MAY 7, 18C9.
'inhere the Shoe Pinches.
writes to the Philadelphia Press, one
^two papers, both daily,” from Rich
rf^®V^ er date of April 24th, 1869, the first
0*6 ^0 6een from him daring his present
iP x ^nr. He says: “No Northern man
^ onder the slightest apprehension of
K*® i danger in Virginia. Hois as safe as
in ^* ew Y° r k, New England, or in
^ dr»nh; but he cannot obtain entrance
^ 11 \ f gist families, unless, indeed, he an-
& 3 * jjjs determination to support the ex-
<, b ,,fni theories that produced and
f‘ r ' 1 .^,ithe rebellion.”
R!t y whether Mr. J. W. F. speaks
Vff ^ri«ace or hearsay ; but it is none the
the best families in Virginia,Geor-
*** ,nv other Southern State, are very care-
these d e S enerate times, about taking in
j* w d companions, men from the North,
• ***** they hail from that section. They
Mtttinly required, by our laws of society,to
themselves as gentlemen, during a
% pjebation, before they will be received
!; -"JLnized as such: but the statement that
C n,' required to “ nnnounco their deter-
**•<* to support the exploded and baleful
f 4 that produced and encouraged the re-
U :Z- is not hate ia fact. We demand of no
‘ " tilt he shall think as wo do upon questions
T I'jtitfd economy: but we do demand and
’’ the inalienable right to insist up-
• :• th iSorthem men shall respect our man-
• i’ whenoa onr own ground, and not seek to
reviews upon us, and misrepresent
i s l,use a-* if we ‘ lo not ^iiimgiy accept them,
here > s 'vhere the shoe pinches many
Vonhera men—especially ,of the New England
; Tiitv have so long arrogated to them-
priority, that when they come down
s, — h and wee: with a people who refuse to ac-
•r-i-Vitee such superiority, they not unfre-
'.d T lose their temper and fall to abusing
■ yjsivpresenting that people, and attribute
7 , ^if.respect and dignity of manhood, to a
ri.im disinclination to accept the results of
7„ r . In other words, that every Southern
. j*horefn>ess to accept, willingly, the de-
’ llU .i humiliating terms which are pro-
{0 him V>y Congress, is a morose, snllen
rjij S : ;ch. however, is not the case, Mr.
rjstf.
TiV unit* and will welcome Northern men
p-saw who come as friends and gentlemen,
• ns huiM up onr shattered fortunes and
t!.c great natural and industrial re-
uuv country, and not to assist ingrates
t j *#hirags in degrading the white race of
v vv.li to a l -vcll>cneaththat of their former
. ■.. V.’e only ask Northerners to come in
, ,i filth and as good citizens, and conduct
Urn-circs as sr.ch. and we assure them there is
j t-j»>tr in the South that they may not iden-
•_*-tt:awlves with in a short while. If you
yon claim, our superiors as men, come
c. wore by your acts that you are such, or you
rl*w reich the exalted sphere of society
which you claim to be excluded.
Dcntti of J. IS. Barrick.
I: i, a painful duty, indeed, which we are
c.lhi upon to perform, in announcing the death
o! J. E. Garrick, Esq., the Editor of this paper
t. - niu first establishment, till disease and
jaicriagafew weeks ago compelled him to re-
la-jsl-h it- management.
Boirick was bom in Barren connty, Ken-
lucky, onthe 19tli day of April, 1829, and we
bra been told, was not tho favored child of
Etc. By force of character and strength of
he. he made his way from humble begin-
:::gs into positions of great respectability, in-
&«« and usefulness. Major Barrick was
1 wred by the splendid constituency of his
wo believe, for several terms, with its
.presentation in the Legislature of the State, and
t-uhted the trust with great credit to himself.
:t it was as the man of letters, as scholar and
*t that Major Barrick was most widely and
iraatageondy known to ns with whom he has
- recently cast his lot. He had ready access
> onr sympathy and love from the unselfish
•ri devoted adhesion he gave to the cause of
1-South when to make that choice he added
& bitter pangs of an exile, to the pains of a
iricn: soldiers’ toils and anxieties.
4s an editor, onr readers can well attest his
rated tone and his intelligent appreciation of
• public interest and public honor. Trace his
t nrse throughout the files of Tho Constitution,
in in all the history he has made there, for
:Mren and friends to linger over, the most
Irtish and captious critic can find no word of
! the thousands there recorded that those
Mends would wish to blot. Vice and vicious
*n found in him no abettor, and he descends
his grave a splendid example of the Christian
sntleinan.
We can truly say that in our knowledge of
Iuj. Barrick we do not believe he had a living en-
my, and it was his rare felicity to have that
rid of him without a challenge of the means by
riiieh snch favor was seenred.
lie was in all things upright, and of that gen-
li courtesy which is bom of true chivalry. The
’--Honed sadness of every heart in the com-
■Juuty at his loss is a nobler enlogy than mortal
•at can utter at his departure, and to pray that
«lives and deaths may be like his, is the fit-
tribute we can render him, and the choicest
•■viag we can invoke for ourselves or our coun-
^ain.~Atlunta Constitution.
it causes us much sorrow to read the above
- tice. e should be wanting indeed in onr
t.-i>Kciation of true merit, if we did not, as
. -nalists, bear onr testimony to the many
'•Hues and the rare abilities of one who stood
~Mgst the foremost in onr State, ever ready
"■ tmd example, to elevate the press of
to that level to which it should ever
■ tri ~ a useful and moral preceptor. An in*
acquaintance with Major Barrick placed
, - *li« friendly list without scarcely knowing
• ’ra ^ there. His gentleness of manner
■ *'1 us to admiration of his fine domestic
•Hies, while his highly polished literary
*ere ever welcome to ns, not to be
^ J5 u aside and forgotten, but to be carefully
and remembered. In the demise of
J i° r Barrick, we believe tho people who were
J '■<>** to read his editorials have lost a most
instructor, and tho press generally a
^7 diking, industrious and unsurpassed ad-
—We were pleased to greet OoL
’ • *• &yles, editor of tho Albany News, in
. c 7°- «n yesterday. Ho was on his return
Gnmd Chapter R. A. M., in Augusta,
. Colonel was looking well, arid we
^ * u %ted to find him cheerful and hopeful
ft Mre prospects.
Sow — i »« —
;r . ’ 5 Maoazdte fob May.—In point of lit-
^, tlc *Bence this publication for May will
j^jwably with anything of the kind in the
^ contents sparkle with many gems
^ oture from the pens of some of the best
; South, and all presented to the
(i i Tei y handsome typography. Pnblish-
ln Crew, Atlanta, and edited by
• J. Scott—Terms $4 a year.
. ' 11 —Vfe, from wrong information as
^tiens, stated on yesterday, that our
®- Hutton, would leave for Europe
even * n 8* 616 pleased to state
• be some weeks before his departure,
7, th ' ;t Bo will pardon U3 for the many
.H^Be was caused, by onr notice, to
* ’ 111 *Be way of leave-taking.
^aq lntlal Meetin 8 of the American Medical
^ con venes on Tuesday next, 4th inst.,
ik, jj / e ^ s ‘ Hr. Baldwin, of Montgomery,
4,. ^.President and presiding officer of
•' r *M it. n did the deed” has since re-
The I.ate Shooting at Bartlesville
The Man not yet Dead.
Babnesviixi!, May 1, i860.
Editors Telegraph: I’m very sorry yon had
some typographical errors in my last letter,
and would like to correct them. In speaking
of the building of a new Court House at Irwin-
ton, I gave the contractors name as “Mr. P.
"Ward,” and in speaking of the celebrated Pat
rick Henry, I know that I did not mean to write
it “W. P. Henry.” It should have been “Mr.
Patrick Henry.” I don’t care abont the others.
I arrived here yesterday just in time to be
present at tho Magistrate’s Court, where the ex
amination was being held in reference to the
shootingwhich took place last Wednesday (28th).
The names of the parties were Mr. Osborn
Murphey, a white man belonging to a very re
spectable family, and a negro named JohnFam-
brough.
The Jnstices’ names were Judge Hanson and
Justice Fryer, and I believe that I have never
on any such occasion witnessed a more orderly
court of tho same kind. Every person appear
ed to be perfectly calm, and I was astonished to
find the people so perfectly indifferent over so
serious a matter. But who can be astonished
at a man getting shot now-a-days, when the
great majority of people can scarcely go to
their brothers’ or sisters’ houses without taking
a guard along, in the shape of a revolver.
From the testimony, and there were abont
eleven witnesses examined, it appeared that the
facts were these: The wounded man was intox
icated on the day npon which the occurrence
took place, and was rather blustering in his con
duct. He went into the shoe shop of the pris
oner and asked for a pair of hoots which he had
previously left there to be repaired. He was
very violent while there and threatened to shoot
an old negro who was there together with de
fendant. He made several hostile demonstra
tions and at length fired, after which ho was re
plied to by John, who evidently meant business
for he ran after, and fired at him, on the street.
Three shots each, were exchanged by them
which resulted in Mr. Morphy being .wonnded
in one of the lungs and in the side. The physi
cian, Dr. McDowell thinks the condition of the
wounded man very critical, and it is not expected
that be will recover.
The examination lasted several hours and ter
minated in the prisoner being required to give
bonds in the sum of §400 to appear at the next
session of the court. Sixteen negroes became
bondsmen for their “spunky brother,” and, no
donbt, are satisfied that he will uphold the dig
nity and manhood of their race by proving that
the “ colored troops could fight nobly.”
I will conclude by saying that vegetation is
very good in this locality, and that farmers and
planters seem confident of a good crop.
Mac.
Emigration to the South—No. S.
Editors Telegraph: In all probability the gen
eral tenor of these articles will class me as one
entertaining sectional feeling toward the North.
I would be uncandid if I said I heed them. I
once loved the Government of the United States,
loved it for its justice, its freedom, its constitu
tional protection. But these things have passed
away. I feel it now in its exactions, and bur
thens, and am reminded every day of the disa
bilities it has by fundamental law imposed npon
its citizens.
But these are not my motives in writing. I
still love my State—its soil—its climate—its
generous people and beneficent laws; and it is
to arouse their attention to a policy I think ru
inous to her people that I would intrude npon
the public.
We have now a population of over a million in
Georgia, of white and colored—all equally under
the protection of law—all to be fed and clothed,
educated and governed. The first duty of tho
State is to provide for these—to shape her poli
cy to make them a community peaceful, prosper
ous and educated. The groundwork or basis of
this must be cheap and happy homes.
The policy of all wise statesmanship is to lo
cate and attach to the soil those who are the cit
izens of the country over which they rnle. Give
a man a home—a fireside—with a family grow
ing around him, and generally yon make him a
good citizen in peace, and a patriot soldier in
war. This policy has ever been a favorite with
wise governments. Homestead laws have ex.
isted from time immemorial, because it was
found their tendency was to make men peaceful
and law-abiding—the lawless and reckless are
generally found among the rovers and the home
less.
There is an influence springing from the fire
side—the paternal roof—with all the sweet mem
ories of childhood, which tends to make man
better, not only in all the associations of life,
but more faithful as a citizen or subject Hence
wise Governments have ever fostered and cher
ished this feeling by throwing around the home
stead the shield of the law—protecting it alike
against the improvidence of the father and the
rapacity of the creditor.
Make a man a desperate, homeless adventu
rer, and yon fit him for crimes of every grade.
To seenre homesteads, with their attendant
blessings, for her citizens, lands roast be abund
ant and cheap.
If yonr area of territory is limited and lands
high, of course the great mass of your people
are tenants, and homeless in one sense of tho
word—liable to be ejected at the whim of the
landlord—and then you havo a floating, house
less, landless population, who crowd yonr jails,
throng your State prisons, and not unfrequent-
ly hang a burthen in yonr poor houses.
But where lands are abundant and cheap;
where the labor of a few months will enable a
man to procure him a home npon the soil;
where he can rear his own dwelling; plant fruit
and flowers, adorn and embellish it as taste or
fancy may dictate—the moment ho becomes a
proprietor of tho soil, that moment he becomes
interested in tho peace and prosperity of his
State, in good laws, in an honest and an econo
mical administration of its taxes, and in all
those questions that make a good, safe and stable
government.
I might enlarge npon this view, but I deem
it unnecessary. Tho result I arrive at is, to
make' peaceful, law-abiding, prosperous com
munities, yon must have your citizens or the
great of them interested in the soil—pro
prietors, surrounded by homesteads, and the
aweet and peace-bearing influences that spring
from them. Raleigh.
Griffin, Ga. ^
A Good Diyideno.—The Arizona Cotton Fac
tory, established in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana,
since the war, is now paying a net profit of twen
ty-four per cent, per annum. This income is
realized on a capital of §80,000, and with a part
of the machinery counted in the capital not yet
at work.
A Laege Ox.—The Nashville papers allude to
an ox now on exhibition in that city, which is
eighteen hands high and weighs 4,545 pounds.
The animal is six years old, and was bom and
raised in Bourbon county, Kentucky. He is a
a finely formed and imposing looking animal,
and the biggest thing of the kind in the world.
Pbof. it. Agassiz, tho well-known Naturalist
and Geologist, whose name is a household word
in every college and institution of learning in the
country, as on a visit to Charleston, S. C. Come
this way, Professor, and tell ns some of your
gorilla yams and hair-breadth ’scapes.
____ Judge Feathebston has become a citizen of
Newnan* Ga., and the Herald says he be has
opened an office in that place.
BY TELEGRAPH,
Washkgtoh, April 30.—Bontwell has returned.
There was a full Cabinet to-day except Cress well.
The monitor Sangae, goes on the dry docks at
Norfolk, on Tuesday, and then joinB the gulf squad
ron.
The President has appointed Alfred Sanford, Su
pervising Inspector of steamboats in the Fourth
District.
The last spike on the Pacific Railroad will be driv
en on Monday. The blows of the sledge will be re
corded by every telegraph office throughout the
country.
Dr. Brink delivered his Mexican dispatches to the
President yesterday. They were considered in Cab
inet to-day. The u tmost secrecy is observed regard
ing their character.
In tho appeal of Clarke, Dodge & Co., against
the decision of Assessor "Webster, the Commissioner
virtually sustains Webster. This decision increases
tho yearly tax of New York abont ten millions.
The Cabinet considered the Southern elections to
day. Nothing transpired.
Washington, May 1.—Gen. Leo, accompanied by
Mr. and Mrs. Taggart, of Baltimore, visited Pres
ident Grant this morning,
Gen. Grant intimated to Gen. Lee that Grant de
sired the visit.
The Secretary of War will bo absent till Tuesday.
The Attorney General will be absent ten days.
Sawyer and Ficklin are the mail contractors over
the Southern Pacific mail route. They have enter
ed into a contract to transport two millions of bul
lion, annually, from Chihuahua to New York. The
bnllion from that section has hitherto been sent to
San Francisco and thence to England.
The Debt Statement shows a total, principal and
interest, of $2,635,032,888. Amount in Treasury:
Coin $92,031,732 96; certificates of deposit $16,307,-
200; currency 7,896,564 07; total $116,235,499 03.
Public debt, less cash in Treasuiy, $2,518,707,391 ;
decrease during the month $6,399,070. $30,000,000
in coin lias been disbursed for interest, the larger
proportion for Europe.
Hie Express says the English Minister denies that
Great Britain has had under consideration the ques
tion of the Cuban insurrection, and declares pre
posterous the report that it was ever designed to
recognize the insurgents as belligerents, and says
the Government has not even been informed of the
existence of a provisional govemmant on the island.
He represents the relations of Spain with her Maj
esty’s Government as highly friendly, and regards
the report hereby contradicted as intended to embit
ter the relations between the United States and
Great Britain.
LEE'S INTERVIEW WITH GRANT.
The interview between Gen. Lee and tho Pres
ident this morning, was marked by great courtesy.
When Gen. Lee was ushered into the Executive Of
fice, minister Motley was present. The latter, how
ever, after a moment retired, thinking, perhaps, the
interview between Grant and Lee bad reference to
national matters. It did not, however—being con
fined to mere formal greeting between the two.
Gen. Lee is stopping in Georgetown and keeps en
tirely aloof from public observation. His visit to
the White House this morning was the occasion of
great interest. No other interviews were had with
the President by any one after Lee retired.
England on the Alabama Claims.
London, May 2.—Sumner’s speech creates im
mense excitement in political circles hero. At a
Cabinet meeting the subject was informally dis
cussed.
Bright declared that the embarrassment which its
publication produced, served England very proper
ly; but he agreed not to consent to entertain the
terms of settlement foreshadowed by Sumner. Lord
Clarendon expressed the belief that actual negotia
tions on the subject in progress, between the two
countries, were of a far less extreme character than
the speeches of American Senators or tho articles
in the press. The present administration was eager
for a lasting continuance of the friendly relations
with the United States.
Gladstone professed to have good assurances from
reliable quarters, that the recent rejection of the
Alabama treaty hv the American Senate was purely
a political movement. The present Administration
will endeavor to settle the Alabama question on lib
eral and honorable terms outside.
The tone of the English people is anti-American,
and more so in consequence of having read only a
part of the publication of Sumner’s argument.
The London Star asserts that Sumner’s demands
are new and startling, and must be regarded mere
ly as enormous; and if only the shadow of instruc
tions are given to Mr. Motley, that gentleman will
stand in a very different position from that occupied
by Mr. Johnson. Mr. Motley’s rejection as the
Atuprican Minister at the Court of St James is
threatened, in case liis instructions nearly coincide
with the expressions of Sumner. Such demands
are utterly untenable, and her Majesty's Ministers
must bo careful in entertaining them.
The London Times breathes forth tho spirit of
war in defence of the Treasuiy, claiming that Sum
ner’s money estimate of damages is portentous and
enormous; adding that, although his address is
worthy of attentive consideration, no contrition or
humiliation should either bo expressed or endured
by England; for, if votes were to be taken, the case
would be prejudiced against her, and any project of
an equitable settlement would be defeated.
The Standard, a Tory organ, exhibits a spirit of
defiance towards the American people and will re
sist to the last any capitulation by England. This
position is combatted by the Liverpool Post, which
says that England cannot afford a quarrel, large or
small, with America.
From Alabama—Destructive Rains.
Montgomeey, May 1.—The members of the Illi
nois Press Association who hava for some days
been the guests of tho city, left here on a steamer
for Selma at 10 o’clock to-day. They wero much
pleased with the visit and received much courtesy
and attention. They go from Selma to Columbus
Miss., and thence to their homes.
Tho streams in this vicinity are all out of their
banks and much cotton and com has been damaged.
Farmers are much depressed in consequence. Tho
rain still continues.
Milton J. Saffold Internal Bevenuo Supervisor for
the States of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, has
resigned, to take effect to-day.
General News.
WnanNGTON, April 30.—Henry V. Clinton, alias
W. Bentley, arrested in this city some time ago, for
forgery has been recognized as an old forger by de
tective John F. Ryttenhouse, and was surrendered to
the latter on tho requisition of tho Governor of Illi
nois on tho Governor of this State. Bentley will bo
carried to Champagne City, Illinois, the scene of
his crime, for trial.
Philadelphia, April 30.—Just after tho velocipede
race to-day, Bace Street Bink, capable of accommo
dating 3,000 skaters, was burned, with thirty-three
velocipedes. Fire accidental.
Colltibus, Ohio, April 30.—The Legislature pass
ed a bill, authorizing Cincinnati to lend ten million
dollars to connect Cincinnati with Southern Bail-
roads, centering at Chattanooga.
NewYobk, May 1—Tho Alaska has arrived with
six hundred thousand in treasure. Tho steamer
America from San Francisco was burned. Four
drunken British sailors from the ship Kensington,
were murdered by tho Aspinwall police.
The legislature of Colombia has passed a resolu
tion impeaching tho President and four of his Min
isters.
The fever still rages in Pern.
Philadelphia, May 1.—Tho Cuban meeting last
night was an immense success—all political parties
participating. A permanent committee of thirteen
were appointed to consult and act with tho Cuban
Jnnta. The resolutions are very strong and urge
recognition and an extra session of Congress.
Prom Virginia.
Richmond, May 1.—Tho Southern Opinion an
nounces its last publication this morning. Tho ed
itor says that he has for some time thought that,
perhaps, the mission of the Southern Opinion had
been fulfilled, and adds: “That the distinct South
ern principles, upon which the paper was founded,
are dead in the hearts of the people, is another fact
which we cannot but recognize. No cauae, however
just and good, can long outlive defeat.”
From Atlanta.
Atlanta, May X—Cob Hulsey, Mayor of Atlanta,
and Chief Tom Haney, of the Fire Department, ex
tend a cordial invitation to the press of Georgia, to
attend the fireman’s entertainment in this city on
Monday, the 3d instant.
From Louisiana.
New Orleans, May 1.—There was a severe wes
terly gale yesterday at the month of the Mississippi,
which swept away the galleries of the light-house
and the light keeper’s dwelling at Southwest Pass,
and destroyed the light-house boats. It blew five
feet of water into the light-house, and the dwelling
buildings settled one foot. The storm damaged tho
rigging of vessels at the Pass.
A warrant for the arrest of J. C. Forbes, of the
brig Colson fraud frame, has been issued upon the
affidavit of supervisor of Creecy. Ho is charged
with fraudulently branding three thousand boxes of
tobacco. Creecy also seized one hundred and three
boxes of tobacco to-day, shipped from Augusta, Ga.
Creecy left for Mississippi to-night to examine into
other alleged irregularities.
From Texas.
Galveston. April 80—To-day an attempt, by an
armed mass, was made to break up a colored Meth
odist quarterly meeting at Columbia, Texas. It
was promtly suppressed by the citizens, who pro
tected the minister and congregation.
A Republican Convention has been called at
Houston on the 4th Monday in May, to harmonize,
if possible, the two wings of that party, and nomi
nate candidates for State officers.
Foreign News.
Paris, May 1—The protocol for a conference be
tween France and Belgium has been signed.
Madrid, May 1.—In the Cortes tho amendment
abolishing the prerogatives of the Crown in ecclesi
astical matters was rejected.
The limitation of tho spiritual jurisdiction of the
Church was discussed to adjournment.
Canada and the United States—Mr.
Chaudler’s Late Speech Criticised.
A dispatch, dated Ottawa, Canada, the 26th
nit. says:
In the House of Commons this afternoon,
Hon. Mr. Galt introduced his motion respecting
the Penian raids as giving ground for a claim
by Canada against the United States, and spoke
for an hour in its support. He did not believe
Sir. Chandler, in his recent speech, reflected
the sentiment of the people of America. If
England could for an instant entertain snch
a monstrous proposition as to transfer the Do
minion to the United States, he thought he
could be perfectly justified in saying, in behalf
of that house and the people of Canada, they
would be no parties to such transfer. [Loud
cheers.
He regretted that the United States Senate
did not adopt the Alabama treaty, which would
have settled the whole business. He asserted
that Canada did her duty during the late civil
war in America, and might be proud of her rec
ord as good neighbors. Forty thousand Canad
ians served in the army of the Union. He de
fended the course of Canadian officials in the
St. Alban’s raid; by reason of the American war
the Canadian war expenses swelled from §80,-
000 to §500,000. He concluded as follows:
Looking now at the other side of the picture,
he would ask what was the course of the United
States toward Canada ? He was sorry to say
that any one, inferring from the tone held by
their press and public men during the period
he referred to, would have to acknowledge that
it was most severe and unwarranted. They
threatened Canada with retaliation for acts
which she never committed.
Early in the war our intercourse and trade
relations becoming embarrassed and hampered
by consuls’ certificates, and a variety of other
forms tending to make tho interchange of per
sons and property with the United States expen
sive and difficult, when the war was ended, from
one end of the United States to the other, in
all the principal cities, armed men were public
ly drilled and organized, with the avowed object
of capturing Canada. It was not discounten
anced by the United States Government, as
might have been expected. It was a fact that
for months, aye years, an organization of the
most formidable character was in the States,
armed, he would not say from the arsenals of
the United States, but certainly having United
States arms, and dialled by United States officers,
held public meetings, in which they stated their
object to be the invasion and conquering of
Canada. They entered the province in armed
bands by thousands, and not from any want of
will on their part, but simply want of power,
they failed to deluge the western peninsula with
blood.
The course of the United States Government
appeared to bo dictated by the desire to bring
abont the humiliation of England through her
dependencies on tins continent; but he did not
believe the plan would succeed. England would
not for a moment give way, and the people of
Canada would sustain her to a man, having re
pudiated the idea that the policy of Great Brit
ain toward the* Dominion was one of abandon
ment. Mr. Galt closed amid loud cheers.
Western Dispatches.
Cincinnati, April 29.—Both Houses of the
Ohio Legislature passed a bill giving the city of
Cincinnati authority to use ten millions of dol
lars for the purpose of building a short line of
railroad through Kentucky, to connect with
the Southern system of railroads at Chatta
nooga. The work will be undertaken at once
and rushed forward vigorously. Our citizens:
are almost unanimously in favor of the proposed
enterprise. It is to be appointed by the Judges
of the Supreme Court, which will insure first
class men.
Tte United States Grand Jury found fifty-two
indictments, mostly against whisky dealers, for
defrauding the revenue. The parties mostly
live here and at Dayton. There are some big
fish in the net. One of the whisky ring made a
confession. No names are published as yet.
Washington, April 29.—At Walker’s Station,
on the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad, at six
o’clock Last night, there was a destructive tor
nado. The depot was demolished and several
houses blown down or unroofed. Forests were
blown down. The tornado lasted about twenty
minutes.
The Waterbary (Connecticut) American states
that a couple of 'its townsmen have just return
ed from a tour through Virginia, and as far
South as Selma, Alabama. They report the
country looking well as far as natural advantages
go, but that there is a sad lack of industry and
enterprise among the inhabitants, which might
be supplied by an infusion of Northern pluck,
energy and ingenuity.
The Herald states that the delay in issuing the
orders to the military commanders at tho South
for holding elections in the States remaining un
reconstructed, is caused by a want of agreement
among the leading men of those States as to
when tho elections should be held. What is
known as the conservative element is in favor
of having tho elecions take place at once. The
Radical leaders want it postponed until after tho
planting season, and some of them are opposed
to holding it until late in the folL The Pres
ident is consulting leading men of the South on
the subject, and as soon as the time is settled
npon, tho order for holding the elections will bo
issued in accordance with the Virginia, Missis
sippi and Texas reconstruction act.
Tho following named officers are relieved
from dnty in the Freedmen’s Bureau. They
are all Assistant Commissioners for the States
opposite their names:
Brevet Major General J. J. Reynolds, Texas;
Charles H. Smith, Arkansas; A. Ames, Missis
sippi ; Brevet Colonel John R. Ely, South Car
olina ; Lieutenant Colonel E. Compton, North
Carolina; James Thompson, Tennessee.
Hon. G. W. Paschall has published pamphlot
addresses to the people of Texas, announcing
himself a candidate for the United States Senate.
Among other things he declares in favor of the
ratification of the new Constitution by the peo
ple, the election of none bnt Republicans to
State offices and to Congress, the election An-
of drew J. Hamilton as Governor, and removal
of the disabilities of every friend of the gener
al Government.
The reasons assigned by army officers for the
reopening of recruiting offices is that the actual
personnel has been ascertained to be under the
contemplated minimum.
Men say women can’t keep a secret. It is
just the reverse—women can, men can’t, wo
men carry with them to their graves secrets
that would kill any man. Woman never tells;
man always does. Woman suffers and dies;
man blabs and lives. Man cannot keep a se
cret; woman cannot make it known. What is [ „
sport to tho man is death to the woman. Adam jn public; and right well he bore his part,
was a sneak. Eve would have kept the apple ■
secret. Be ye fruitfuL Who ever heard a wo
man talk about her love fiascos?. Everybody
has heard a man gossip. Man delights in tell
ing of his illicit conquests; woman would cut
out her tongue first. Men are coarse, in their
club room talk; women refined in their parlor
conversation. Who ever heard a woman tell of
her lovers? Who has not listened to the dissi
pation of the men ? Men boast; women don’t.
Women n6ver .tell tales out of school; men are
always blabbing. 8o down with another old ad
age. Women can keep a secret.
Tobacco Defended.
From the New York Commercial Advertieeri]
One of the most eminent members of the
medical profession in this country, Dr. W. A.
Hammond, contributes to the April number of
the North American Review a paper on “The
Sanitary and Physiological Relations of Tobac
co,” in which he concludes that there are “no
grounds for the apprehensions whioh have been
expressed relative to the deleterious influence
of tobacco, when not used in excess.” This is
the paper of a scientific man, a cautions and
thoughtful observer, trained to the best me
thods, and a seeker after truth, rather than an
advocate of a theory. What Trask will do with
his “gentian root,” and Parton with his “com
ing man,” after Dr. Hammond’s investigation
and exposition, remains to be seem But the
‘‘coming man” will, to onr thinking, smoke, as
his predecessors have, and smoke tobacco, and
not the poor substitute that Trask recommends.
Dr. Hammond was not a user of tobacco, un
til be began the practice of experiments npon
himself, which are recorded in the paper re
ferred to, and which experiments would have in
duced the “gentle Ella” to utter a new poem in
praise of his favorite weed. Dr. Hammond
commences his paper by remarking that those
■who inveigh against tobacco most strongly be
long to a class of reformers who attack every
habit and customs which results from civiliza
tion. They appeal to statistics, too, and in
their zeal, after a visit to prisons, asylums, eto.,
conclude that smoking makes panpers, crimin
als, and lunatics. Others find a special disease
in a smoker and conclude that tobacco is tho
cause of that disease.
On this the Doctor says: “While it is doubt
less true that the excessive use of tobacco may
occasionly give rise to disease, it has never
been shown that this substance, when used with
becoming moderation, causes any serions de
rangement of the mental or physical organiza
tion.” There are people who cannot smoke
without the unstringing of their nervous system
for days, and there are those who cannot eat
strawberries, or shell fish, or smell roses with
out positive sickness. He remarks that those
who use tea and coffee obey the same instinct
that prompts others to smoke, and that both of
these beverages have quite as bad a name
among superficial observers as tobacco has,
and the Doctor adds that it is proved “by tho
experience of every physician in active prac
tice, that there are as many persons to whom tea
and coffee are injurious as there are persons
who are harmed by the moderate use of to
bacco.”
Dr. Hammond does not propose to take up
the recent strictures on tobacco, seriatim, which
ho regards as characterized by incorrect asser
tion, bad reasoning, and deplorable ignorance;
but to point out the sanitaiy and physiological
relations of a substance which has played so im
portant a part in the physical and intellectual
development of mankind. He passes in review
the observations made by former writers in the
medical profession; and especially notes tho fact
that workers in tobacco are as healthy in ap
pearance and in fact as other laborers, that they
do not become liable to any special diseases, and
that they live as long as other people. He de
scribes a visit to the Lorillard tobacco factory
in tins city. We copy a few sentences:
In the snuff room were two men who had
worked, one of them sixteen, and the other for
ty-two years. The latter stated that he had nev
er taken a dose of medicine in his life. All the
operatives were of healthy appearance.
The next room visited was in a cellar. Here
the snuff is packed in bladders. Three men
were employed at this work. The atmosphere
was literally loaded with tobacco in fine powder.
No miller was ever more thoroughly covered
with flour than were these men with tobacco
dust. It was in their hair, their eyes, their
ears, their mouths, and entered the lung3 with
every inspiration. One of them had worked
seventeen years. He was large, well-formed,
and of remarkably healthy appearance. Another
was sixty-three years old, and had been forty-
five years engaged in this work. His face was
covered with tobacco dust, his nostrils were full
of it, and even his teeth and gums showed its
presence in large quantity. In answer fo my
inquiries, ho informed me that he had always
enjoyed good health, but occasionally had nerv
ous twitchings of his face. It is impossible to
conceive of any situation in which greater ex
posure to the influence of tobacco conld exist
than in this room.
With such surroundings, the workmen wero
found to be healthy, and the Superintendent had
never beard of any diseases being induced in
those who work in tobacco factories.
Dr. Hammond says that tobacco retards the
regressive or destructive metamorphosis of the
tissues. “In other words, it enables an individ
ual to save his body-capital.” He supposes the
case of a ploughman, who has a certain amount
of work to do, and has a certain amount
of food, but the food is insufficient, and so he
loses weight. The Doctor says: “Let him
smoke two or three pipes of tobacco daily, and
he will ascertain that be ceases to lose weight,
though he has not diminished the amount of his
labor or increased the quantity of his food.
The tobacco has enabled him to do the same
work with a less expenditure of material, and
has therefore retarded the destructive metamor
phosis of his tissues.”
The experiments the Doctor made npon him
self he made at several different times, and al
ways with like results. He carefully took ac
count of the food taken and of his excretions.
He says:
From the whole of the experiments I con
cluded :
1st. That tobacco does not materially affect
the excretion of carbonic acid through the
lungs.
2d. That it lessens the amount of aqueous va
por given off in respiration.
3d. That it diminishes the amount of tho in
testine excretion.
4th. That it lessens the quantity of the renal
excretion, and the amount cf its urea and chlo
rides.
5th. That it increases tho amount of free acid,
nrio acid and sulphuric and phosphoric acids
eliminated through the kidneys.
It was ascertained that tobacco in moderation
lessens the destruction of the tissues as a whole,
and especially diminishes the wear and tear of
tho nervous system. The question, therefore,
scarcely admits of a doubt, that, other things
being equal, a person can do more mental and
physical labor, and with less fatigue, under the
moderate use of tobacco than without it. The
excessive use may be injurious, just as may be
the excessive use of almost any substance taken
as food or drink. Another important physiolog
ical effect of tobacco is seen m its action pgon
the stomach, as increasing the secretion of gas-
trtc juice, and thus promoting digestion-
Tobacco, tho Doctor says, enables man to sup
port the effects of hunger with less loss of
strength and less bodily and mental fatigue than
would otherwise result. It affects the brain and
nervous system favorably, audit is for this pur
pose that it is used. Civilization increases the
wear and tear of the nerve tissue. We look
about us for somo means capable of lessening
the ill effects which are produced by the labors,
the anxieties, the sorrows, the troubles, of
whioh every man who keeps up with the world
must expect to bear a largo share, and which
cannot be altogether avoided by persons of the
most quiet pursuits. The Doctor adds:
Among the substances which man has been
led to use, in order to bring abont this result,
tobacco is one of the most efficacious, as it is
the least harmful. As a soother to tho nervous
system, and a promoter of reflection, it acts
with a degree of certainty and yet of mildness,
whioh places it far above all its congeners. Un
der its influence the nervous substance, espe
cially that of the brain and sympathetic system,
is preserved from the inroads to which it would
otherwise be subjected. The ability to compre
hend is increased, the judgment is rendered
clearer, the power of the will is augmented and
all this without the degree of exhaustion which
otherwise follows every prolonged mental effort.
The greatest men the world has ever seen used
tobacco, and men, both great and commonplace,
will continue to nse it till they get something
bettor.
In 18G-, a young man by the name of Sharpe
—Jacob Sharpe—afterwards of Columbus,Miss.,
was reading law with Stephen F. Hale, in Eu-
taw. Just after he had finished his course and
been admitted to the bar, be fell a victim to a
severe revival that occurred in the Methodist
Church of the town aforesaid. Being a young
man of brilliant parts and zealous in the work,
the work was not over before the older members
had Jake well broken in. Scarcely a meeting
passed at which Jake was not called on to pray
in public; and right well he bore his part. One
evening, when the interest was at fever heat,-
and the tears and groans of the mourning multi
tude could be soen and heard on every hand,
Jake was asked to “lead in prayer.” He com
plied, of course; and in the midst of his petition,
vociferated: “Ob, Lord! call back thy wander
ing sheep. Inspire sinners with a horror of sin.
Enable them, we pray, Thee, to present their
petitions at the Throne of Grace before they are
forever barred by the statute of limitation 1"
It was sometime afterward ere Jake had heard , . . .
the last of pleading the statute of limitation ! Tlslt > 9* 01011 V 1 *” 0 ; , ... , ,
against the sinner.—Marion Commonwealth. j ' ' vtHttannim JftpmoaCmSfc;
The Heroine of Lake Erie.
BY JOHN G. WHITTIER.
The dark, stormy dose of November, 1854,
found many vessels on Lake Erie, bnt the for
tunes of hope alone have special interest for ns.
Abont that time the schooner Conductor, owned
by John McLeod, of the Provincial Parliament,
resident of Amherstbnrg, at the month of the
Detroit river, entered the lake from that river,
bound for Fort Dalhonsie, at the month of the
Welland canaL She was heavily loaded with
grain. Her crow consisted of Capt. Hackett, a
Highlander by birth, and a skillful and experi
enced navigator, and six sailors. At nightfall,
shortly after leaving the head of the lakeToneof
those terrific storms, with which the late autum
nal navigators of that “Sea of Woods,” are all
too familiar, overtook them. The weather was
intensely cold for the season; the air was filled
with snow and sleet; tho chilled water made ice
rapidly, encumbering the schooner and loading
down her decks and rigging. As the gale in
creased, the tops of the waves were shorn off by
the fierce blasts, clouding the whole atmosphere
with frozen spray, or what the sailors call
“spoondrift,” rendering it impossible to see any
object a few rods distant Driving- helplessly
before the wind, yet in the direction of its place
of destination, the schooner sped through the
darkness. At last, near midnight, running
closer than her crew supposed to the Canadian
shore, she struck on the outer bar of Long Point
Island, beat heavily across it, and sunk in the
waterbetweenitand the inner bar. The hull
was entirely submerged, the waves rolling in
heavily, and dashing over the rigging, to which
the crew betook themselves. Lashed there,
numb with cold, drenched by the pitiless waves,
and scourged by the showers of sleet driven be
fore the wind, they waited for morning. The
slow, dreadful hours wore away, and, at length,
tho dubious and doubtful gray of a morning of
tempest succeeded to the utter darkness of
night.
Abigail Becker chanced at that time to be in
her hut with none but her young children. Her
husband was absent on the Canada shore, and
she was left the sole adult occupant of the island,
save the light keeper at its lower end, some fif
teen miles off. Looking out at daylight on the
beach in front of her door, she saw the shattered
boat of the Conductor cast up by the waves.
Her experience of storm and disaster on that
dangerous coast, needed nothing more to con
vince her that somewhere in the neighborhood
human life had been, or still was, in periL She
followed the southwestemly bend of the island
for a little distance, and peering through the
gloom of tho stormy morning, discerned the
spars of the sunken schooner, with what seemed
to be human forms clinging to the rigging. The
heart of the strong woman sunk within her, as
she gazed upon those helpless fellow-creatures
so near, yet so unapproachable. She had no
boat, and none could have lived on that wild
water. After a moment's reflection she went
back to her dwelling, put the smaller children
in charge of the eldest, took an iron kettle, tin
teapot, and matches, and returned to the beach,
at the nearest point to the vessel; and, gather-
ing up the logs and drift wood, always abundant
on the coast, kindled a great fire, and, constant
ly walking back and forth between it and the
water, strove to imitate to the supers that they
were at least beyond human sympathy. As the
wrecked sailors looked shoreward, and saw
through the thick haze of snow and sleet, the
red light of the fire, and the tall figure of the
woman passing to and fro before it, a faint hope
took the place of the utter despair which had
prompted them to let go their hold, and drop
into the seething waters, that opened and closed
about them like the jaws of death. But the
day wore on, bringing no abatement of the
storm that tore through the frail spars, and
clutched at and tossed them as it passed, and
drenched them with ice-cold spray—a pitiless,
unrelenting horror of sight, sound and touch!
At last the deepening gloom told them that night
was approaching, and night, under such circum
stances, was death.
All day long Abigail Becker had fed her fire,
and sought to induce the sailors by signals—for
even her strong voice could not reach them—to
throw themselves into the surf, and trust to
Providence and for her succor: In anticipation
of this she had her kettle boiling over the drift
wood, and her tea ready made for restoring
warmth and life to the half-frozen survivors.
But either they did not understand her, or the
chance of rescue seemed too small to induce
them to abandon the safety of the wreck. They
clung to it with the desperate instinct of life
brought face to face with death. Just at night
fall there was a slight break in the west; a red
light glared across the thick air, as if for one
instant the eye of the storm looked out upon
the rain it had wrought, and closed again under
lids of cloud. Taking advantage of this, tho
solitary watcher ashore made one more effort.
She waded out into the water, every drop of
which, as it struck the beach, became a particle
of ice, and stretching out and drawing in her
arms, invited, by her gestures, the sailors to
throw themselves into the waves and strive to
reach her. Captain Hackett understood her.
He called to his mate in the rigging of the other
mast: “It is onr last chance. I will try! If I
live, follow me; if I drown, stay where you
are!” With a great effort he got off his stiffly
frozen overcoat, paused for one moment in
silent commendation of his soul to God, and,
throwing himself into the waves, struck out for
the shore. Abigail Becker, breast deep in the
surf, awaited him. Ho was almost within her
reach when the undertow swept him back. By
a raigbty exertion she caught hold of him, bore
him in her strong arms out of the water, and,
laying him down by her fire, wanned his chilled
blood with copious draughts of hot tea. The
mate, who had watched the rescue, now follow
ed, and the captain, partially restored, insisted
upon aiding him. As the former neared the
shore, the recoiling water baffled him. Captain
Hackett caught hold of him, but the undertow
swept them both away, locked in each other’s
arms. The brave woman plunged nfter them,
and, with the strength of a giantess, bore them,
clinging to each other, to the shore, and up to
her fire. The five sailors followed in succes
sion, and were all rescued in the same way.
A few days after. Captain Hackett and his
crew were taken off Long Point by a passing ves
sel : and Abigal Becker resumed her simple daily
duties without dreaming that she had done any
thing extraordinary enough to win for her the
world’s notice. In her straggle every day for
food and warmth for her cmldren, she had no
leisure for the indulgence of self-congratulation.
Like the woman of Scripture, she had only
“ done what she conld” in tho terrible exigency
that had broken the dreary monotony of her
life.—Atlantic Monthly for May.
Death from Hydrophobia.
Chicago, April 28.—A horrible death from
hydrophobia occurred here to-day. The victim
was a young man, twenty-five years old, named
Wm. Goodwillie, foreman in a box manufactory
on North Pier. Nine weeks ago a friend brought
into the shop alittle dog pickedup in the street.
Goodwillie, in fondling it, was bitten on the
thumb. little notice was taken of the wound,
and it apparently healed over. The first symp
toms of hydrophobia appeared yesterday morn
ing, when he arose and attempted to wash him
self. The sight of water threw him into
paroxysms. Medical aid was summoned, but
the malady increased during the day, and at
night he foamed at the mouth, snapped at the
members of his family, and was seized with
convulsions every few minutes. He realized,
during his lucid intervals, his situation, and
begged his friends to keep away for safety.
This afternoon it was determined to try the
effect of a sulphur vapor bath. The patient
was handcuffed in a batn for half an hour, at a
temperature of 136 degrees. "When taken out
and laid on a lounge he at first seemed better,
bnt fifteen minutes after expired in horrible
spasms. He leaves a wife and children. The
deceased was much esteemed.
From Washington.
Washington, April 28.—General Sherman has
issued an order for the resumption of recruiting,
to be conducted under the direction of regiment
al commanders. The general service to be con
dneted at New York, Cincinnati, St. Louis and
San Francisco; the depots for collection and in
struction of recruits being Governor’s Island, in
New York Harbor; Newport Barracks, Ken
tucky; Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and Benicia,
California. General superintendents are to re
port direct to the Adjutant General of the army
and receive all orders from him. Carlisle Bar
racks and "Fort Leavenworth are named as de
pots for collection and instruction of cavalry and
light artillery reoraita.
President Grant, acoompanied by Secretary
Borie and others, contemplates a short cruise
down the Potomac River to-morrow in the Uni
ted States steamer Tallahassee, now at the
Washington Navy Yard.
Visitors.—Mr. John W. Forney and his party
of tourists from the North, arrived hen last
night from Charleston by the ateames-Pflot
Boy, and took rooms at the Screven House.
We are not advised either at to the duration of
The President M fc Bta. j
Washington Correspondence of the Jt, Y. 1form '
There ia no doubt that President Grant among
men of sensibility of both parties is more an
object of sympathy than criticism at blame.
The quotations above given are not only an ex
hibit of the estimate in which the Republican
leaders regard him, but they are evidence of
the sort of war he does encounter, jg bound
to encounter more and more every day. For
instance, to show how petty and peranmd jg this
war: Last Monday some of Mr. Waahbnrne’s
friends reached this city from New York, where
they had spent Sunday with him. They brought
to the capital the statement that on the previous
Saturday General Grant waa grossly under the
influence of liquor; they said that parties who
left Washington on Saturday night came to
Washburne in New York on Sunday and told
him that the President (whom they had soon
that Saturday) was maudlin and drank, so much
so that the White House was closed at 2 p. it.
by order of the staff of generals who surround
the Executive, and also by order of Doorkeeper
Dent, his poor relation. Forthwith, Washburae's
emissaries brought the news back to Washing
ton, and told it to more than one Democratic
correspondent here in hopes they would tele
graph it. They all knew it a lie, because till 4 p.
ar. of that day the President received callers with
perfect propriety, and then rode out with his
wife and children in an open carriage, entirely
sober and only tired. This incident shows the
animus of the politicians of his own party to
wards the President. This report, too, was for
tified with all the circumstances calculated to
make it appear true. Men came and said that
they had seen the facts which they fabricat
ed. What I have quoted from the leading Re
publicans as indicative of their opinion of
General Grant’s action in appointments and
of _ the appointments themselves, and what
animus this incident betokens—an incident
which 1 have reason to believe was invent
ed by Washburne liimself out of his knowl
edge of its possibility in the case of Grant—
both go to show the intensity and unscrapulous-
ness of the war to be waged on the President
by his own party. The most trustworthy ad
vices are to the effect that these attacks on the
Executive oro telling on the man. He is be
coming ernsty, suspicions, morose, and chronic
ally unhappy. His body and mind are both
suffering. He finds the Presidency too largo
for him. That is the whole matter. His health
is not good. He has had to shnt up shop six
times already in as many weeks. He is losing
flesh. Visitors complain of his ‘brasqneness,
and many of them of his temper. Every day, at
4 o’clock, he runs off ■ for a ride and a smoke,
and he has wholly stopped receiving visitors
nights. These he spends with his household in
the private family rooms of the Executive Man
sion. The few admitted there speak of him as
giving the appearance of being thoroughly
fagged ont by each day’s round of work. He
smokes incessantly, and sits for hours with his
little girl’s hand in his own, not saying a word,
and never rallying except his wife makes it a
point that he shall. Mrs. Grant is universally
regarded as a sweet, plain, dutiful woman, whose
head hasn’t been a bit turned. She is widely
respected, and can certainly do more with her
husband than any one else.
ahead.
And now for four years the President is faced
by the distrusts, the jealousies, and the hates
which his mingled policy of nepotism and neg
lect in regard to appointments has sown. Will
ho stand it ? That is a question which every one
asks hero and nobody answers. There is no
question, however, that no one hearing the
abuse and seeing the work which are heaped
upon him can fail to pity and not envy his lot
He is credited with a gigantic policy of annex
ation and aggression, and, at least, a couple of
foreign wars are laid to his intentions. I have
reason to believe that there are people officially
“near” to him who entertain these designs, and
that he is fond of them too, and would at once
consider them, if his entire lack of civil courage,
and his daily crashing cross of civil labor al
lowed him time. But it is certain that he finds
the toil and trouble of affairs, as they now stand
and as they hourly complicate, too mnch for
him. Congress gone and nominations over, he
may be less hampered or at least less exposed
to toe literal war of remonstrance and solicita
tion which has been waged npon him. But this
is mere conjecture and is not borne ont by the
late President. Andrew Johnson found that a
recess of Congress gave him jost as much
to do and to bear as its session, banded against
him as it was. And, too, General Grant is
evidently not a man of affairs. He buckles
down a single work with a will, and' he
directed the army and ran the "War Department
with emphasis and vim. For toe more ramified
duties^ toe varied, diffusa and often conflicting
considerations of toe Presidency, he betrays
neither aptitude nor capacity. Indeed, he is
known to be bored by every application or re
quest which relates specially to any one of toe
departments. He refers such applicants curtly
and instantly to “Mr. Fish,” “Mir. Cresswell,”
or any other Mr. Secretary, frequently naively .
adding, “I know nothing of these things ; you.
must go to the department.” Far from finding
the President a man of purpose toe Cabinet
know him to bo ono of toe most plastic of men.
He seems to have exercised his own unaided
judgment exclusively in toe selection of his
Cabinet at first. That went to pieces so fast
that he has always, ever since leaned on others.
“His Cabinet run Mm,” is the common saying
here, and they might hatch a conspiracy under
his very nose and he would be none toe wiser
till he had road it in the newspapers. For ev-
erytMng of a startling kind wMch will occur
during toe coming years, the men around him,
not the President Mmself, will be, most likely,
chargeable for toe origin and the prosecution.
He has already been cowed down into a jelly of
acquiesence. If he arouses and shakes off the
trammels, he will do it onlyfor a short time, and
he will soon fall back again. A civil adminis
tration no more calls ont those qualities of sto
lidity and self-independence, wMch were said to
have characterized him in uniform than did the
tannery business. If we have a war, however,
he is not unlikely to welcome in toe congenial
duties of toe camps a relief from those burdens
which require mind, not mere endurance—bur
dens wMch he now finds himself neither able to
discharge nor understand. McK.
A Classic Brick-Mark Twain and the
Greek Professor.
We had an ancient Greek Professor among
our instructors. I am not sure about Ms age
within a century or two, bnt I am prepared to
solemnly affirm—being of Quaker proclivities
that he had taught Greek for at lqast sixty
years.
This aged Brick was the sweetest tempered
old soul toat ever lived. NotMng could disturb
Ms serenity. A whole pack of fire-craekera tied
under Ms chair and lighted with a slow match
didn’t move him a hair’s breadth. We tried it
once, and until Ms coat-tail took fire and blazed
up he never moved a muscle. Even then he
only said: “F. Emeral will put me ont while
toe class goes on with the recitation.” I must
confess toat I was so touched by the old boy's
gentle ways, that I kept the silver snuff-box,
that fell from his pocket before I had thorougMy
extinguished him, as a souvenir.
But wasn’t he up in Greek, though"? He
couldn’t talk or think about anytMng else. I
remember that once we had a scarcity of clergy
men in the village. The Aged Brick, who had
been educated as a clergyman, was called on to
supply toe vacancy. He got Mmself into diffi
culties, though, for he had no sooner taken Ms
text than he wandered off into an account of
the second Peleponnessian war, and so entirely
forgot where he was that at the end of the ser
mon he announced that “he would request those
present to hand in written synopyses of his lec
ture to-morrow; and would now pass on to toe
lesson of toe day, wMch was the eighth, ninth
and tenth sections of toe second book of Thucy
dides.” The two deacons carried him ont of
church immediately, and he was afterwards re
garded by half of toe congregation as an infidel
joker.
As for conversation, the Aged Brick couldn’t
talk with man, woman, cMld or member of the
Sorosis, more than two consecutive minutes,
without bringing in something about toe Greeks.
The way he would sling Greek names at Ms
listeners was adapted to utterly confound and
stun any ordinary mind. The names of Pelopi-
das, and Agamemnon, and Methusaleh, and
Emmett, and "Wolf Tone, and Confucius, and
Herod, and all the rest of toe Greeks mentioned
by Homer and contemporary old files, would be
slung around wi to the most profuse recklessness.
And he hadn’t any idea of time either, had
this Aged Brick. I re known him to take a fel
low by the buttonhole, on some Saturday morn
ing, when the unhappy victim had intended to
celebrate a jolly holiday by going to a picnic,
or to his maiden aunt’s funeral, or to soma
other merry-making, and to entertain him with
a new theory of the A mphictyonio Council, un
til the church bells rang for morning servioe
toe next day.
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Mbs. Fanny Downing, formerly ' Florida,
has been appointed a General 6 i acftijj& Agent
for toe Piedmont life Insaranoe On*p—y, In
NorthOarolfeMk', _ t&t"
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