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THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON, FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1809.
Blowing Hot and Cold.
We have noticed the existence of a suit brought
in the Court of Queen’s Bench, London, by the
United States, against Sir Peter Tait, an army
clothier. Sir Peter had received from the
agents of the Confederate Government a large
amount of doth, to be made into dothing for
the Confederate army; but before the contract
could be completed, the surrender occurred,
and the Confederate Government expired.
The United States now brings suit as the suc
cessor of the Confederate Government, for the
value of this property in the hands of Sir Peter,
and by the interesting process of bills and inter
rogatories, is put through a terrible conrso of
sprouts. In a word, she is made to plead in
this Chancery suit for forty thousand pounds
sterling, in reference to the position arid char
acter of the Confederate States as lawful bel
ligerents, precisely as she don’t plead while
combatting for damages from the depredations
of tho Alabama.
We regret to say that the loyal John Bulls
seem to take a malicious pleasure in compelling
Jonathan to tread on his own toes in every sen
tence of his pleadings. They don’t seem to be
so hot after justice as after malicious fun at
the expense of “the old flag.”
The factis, all the finely drawn points of Mr.
Sumner on the Alabama claims controversy are
likely to be officially ignored, abandoned and
negatived by the admissions of the United States
through her attorney, as party to a suit for the
value of second-hand clothing. The tailor’s
needle has let out the gas of Sumner’s rhetoric
and America may yet be saved from blood
and destruction, as Rome once was—by a goose,
although in this case it is the goose of a tailor.
The London Times and the London lawyers are
making merry over the dilemma in which they
have placed the grand republic, and the admin
istration.
“The Hon. Alexander Stone.”
In reference to this “expelled colored member
of the Georgia Legislature,” whom Belcher re
ported as murdered by the Jefferson county reb
els, the Chronicle and Sentinel gives a good ac
count. That paper says that in the early part
of the present year Stone returned to his old
mistress, a widow lady living in Jefferson conn
ty, to whom he belonged before emancipation-
and had begged her to let bim remain and work
upon her place, saying that he was tired and
disgusted with Radicalism and politics of all
kinds, and if eho would permit him to remain
with her, he would never be fool enough to at
tempt being a politician again. His mistress
consented, and he has ever since been conduct,
ing himself in the most humble, discreet and
exemplary manner. Five days after Belcher’s
letter was written, giving an account of his urn
timely “taking off” by the horrid Ku-Klux, Al-
ick was quietly at work on his old mistress’s
plantation, in the upper part of Je fferson county.
Hacon and Brnnswlcfa Railroad.
Wo learn says the Chronicle and Sentinel that
there are over two thousand hands now em
ployed in the construction of this important
Road, and that rapid progress is being made on
the work.
That portion of the line between Brunswick
and tho Gulf road is nearly completed—only a
gap of ten miles remaining to be finished.—
Passengers aro now taken from Savannah to
Brunswick in twelve hours over this route—
the ton miles of unfinished road being accom
plished in comfortable hacks.
There remain to be completed only about
forty miles of the line between Macon and the
Gulf road. Large working parties are engaged
on both ends of this section in pushing the con
struction rapidly forward, and it is believed that
the latter line will be opened in time to meet
the foil trade.
Harder in Brooks County.
The Quitman Banner of Friday says, tjiat
Coroner L. S. Moore of that county, having
been sent out to investigate an alleged murder,
reports substantially as follows: On arriving
at a small creek about seven miles from Quit-
man, he found the body of a negro man lying in
the water. On examination, the body iwas
found to be literally riddled with buckshot;
eleven of which had struck the unfortunate man
in the body and arms. Captain Moore states
that the man must have been dead some hours,
and that he seems to have been killed while
“striking” for fish. .
No clue has been yet found to the perpetra
tors of thin base assassination. We hope that
they will soon be found, and the majesty qf on
outraged law will be speedly vindicated.
From llacon County.
A letter to the Telegraph from Marshalville,
28th, says the last few days of warm weather
’ have made crops look much better, and they are
now in a growing condition. Every thing
qniet, and we ore having peace and a plenty of
other vegetables.
We note in Marshalville a very fine, yonng
vineyard, belonging to M. E. Sperry. Although
just beginning to bear, there are as many as
twenty bunches to the vine.
Colorado Jewett had an interview with the
President on Monday “to do justice to England
and promo to the cause of peace.” He says the
President told him that “ Minister Motley had
received instructions of which the public knew
nothing.” That must have been very satisfac
tory to Mr. Jewett.
There bn been a great “slump’' in Michigan.
A piece of ground about seventy feet in diame
ter sunk to the depth of about eighty feet, leav
ing an opening in the centre through which a
sound comes up os of the rushing of mighty
waters, at least such is tho story told by a local
paper. '
Reduction of Tariff on the Cable.—On and
after June 1st, the tariff from any point in Geor
gia to any point in Great Britain and Ireland,
via the Atlantic Cable, will be $11 SO for the
first fen words, counting address, date, and sig
nature, and $1 15 for each word over ten, inva
riably in gold.
lx is stated as a fact that speculators in 'Wis
consin have sold over and over again, during
the last twenty years, five sections of land whose
location is in Lake Winnebago, under at least
twenty feet of water, and is still in the market.
The price paid on some occasions has been as
high as $10,000.
£ Sudden Death.—Judge Jeremiah Inman died
very suddenly at his residence in Burke county,
on Saturday morning last, of disease of the
heart.
Affairs in Lowndes.—The Valdosta Times of
the 26 says:
Crops etc.—We have heard some rumors of
caterpillar making its appeance not far from
this locality. But we have no definite informa
tion upon which to yely. We are inclined to
think that the worm that has made its appear
ance is not the real cotton caterpillar. Com
crops are promising. Not so much can be said
of cotton. We have had much cold ; after every
rain we have cold. On Snnday and Monday
morning last it was comfortable to sit by the
five, which was in demand.
Attempted Express Robert.—On Monday
night some one bored into the A. &, G. R. B.,
Warehouse, and broke open the money drawer.
Fortunately, all the money of the Railroad /aid
Express Companies was either locked up in the
safo or elsewhere in posessionof the agents, and
the rogue found nothing to steal. *
Brunswick—Harbor and Road.
We were gratified on Friday with an in
troduction to Col. N. S. Finney, of Brunswick,
of the firm of N. S. Finney & Co., General Com
mission Merchants, also very heavily engaged
in the manufacture and shipment of yellow-pine
lumber, of which they send off many million
feet in the course of the year. Their timber is
towed up by steamers toBrunswick,frbm whence
it can be shipped for two dollars a thousand
cheaper than it could be from Darien, on ac
count of the greater depth of water and conse
quent convenience of lading. Furthermore, there
are four months in the year when it would be
impossible to ship from Darien at all, on ac
count of the reputed sickliness of the port
"Vessels will not go there - for freight "We are
informed, indeed, that the Messrs. Epping, the
the extensive timber merchants of Darien, send
their largest ships to Brunswick to be loaded.
Messrs. Finney & Co. aro now shipping lumber
for the great suspension bridge over East River,
at New York,and have already dlliverednpwards
of a million of feet Thus the most wonderful
bridge in the world is to be constructed of Geor
gia pine.
We are pleased to learn from CoL Finney,
that the lost rail for the Brunswick road was
discharged at that port last week. The supply
is now made np. It consists of English rails
weighing fifty pounds to the yard.
The vessel which brought the last cargo drew
scant nineteen feet of water—came in without
the smallest difficulty, and discharged every rail
at the wharf.
CoL Finney was a Lieutenant of the United
States Navy, in command of one of the vessels
engaged in the hydrographic survey of Bruns
wick Harbor in 1855, under Captain Trenchard.
He was also of the party which some years
later made thq location of the United States Na
vy Yard at Brunswick—after tho most deliberate
and careful examination and survey of all the
Atlantic harbors below Norfolk. That selec
tion was determined not only by superior depth
of water, but also by every conisderation of pro
tection and safety to shipping and buildings
and the salubrity of the port. In all these par
ticulars Brunswick had greatly the advantage.
As to the actual depth of water at the outer
bar, Colonel Finney found it to be eighteen and
three-quarters feet at mean low water, with on
average tide rise of eight feet—so that upon an
ordinary high tide, vessels drawing twenty-six
feet may pass it with safety, and the same ves
sels, (of which there are few that ever come to
Southern ports) may pass up to the railroad
wharf and roll their freight into the cars, if need
be, without a foot of drayage. And above this
railroad wharf, ontside tho inner bar, there is
space for wharfage say of a third to half a mile
—ample for all the business purposes of the
town.
The inner bar, so called, which here forms
across the river, is a mere mud bank, which, if
necessary, can be removed at small expense
and give twenty-five feet of water to the upper
wharves of the city, which at present can be
reached, at ordinary high tide, with eighteen to
twenty feet of water. But as we have said,
there is no necessity for passing the inner bar,
as there is plenty of wharfage room below it.
Colonel Finney is confident the road will be
finished to Macon by the 1st of November next,
and bo says there shall be no lack of the means
and appliances for a cheap and expeditions
through freighting business to New York. It
will open with a line of first-class sailing pack
ets, and a line of steamships will be established
the first moment it is apparent that they can
pay expenses. He has this guarantee from a
leading shipping house in New York.
Brunswick was waking up and full of hope.
She would be in five hour’s railway communica
tion with Savannah in as many weeks—she was
looking forward to considerable freighting busi
ness with the interior in the falL She is secure
of a large lumber trade so soon as the road
opens, and she was confident of presenting to
the world, in a few months, the picture of an
active sea port—with shipping facilities almost
unequalled—absolutely exempt from malarial
disease—with splendid interior communications,
and in the enjoyment of every condttion of pro
gress and prosperity.
He promised us plenty of fish and oysteis—
of the latter he said there were at least fifty
miles of banks within a short distance of town.
The choicest oysters, however, were found on
trees, a fact which he explained by saying that
numerous prostrate live oaks obstructed some
of the creeks near the town, and the submerged
limb3 of these ancient trees were often encrust
ed with oysters of the largest size and of pecu
liarly delicious flavor.
Tke State Fair.
The President orders the Confederate arsenal
building at Macon, Ga., held by the Fxeedmen’s
Bureau, transfered to the Georgia Agricultural
Society.
The “late so-called” partially constructed, in
and near Macon, an “armory,” designed for the
manufacture of small arms and a “ laboratory,”
to be used for the manufacture of fixed ammu
nition—but no arsenal. The Secretary of the
Georgia Agricultural Society has asked the use
of the latter building and grounds as a place of
exhibition for the Georgia State Fair, and we
presume, from the foregoing dispatch, that he
has obtained it "We hope the mistake in terms
is the press agent’s and not the Secretary’s or
the government’s. In other words we hope it is
a clear grant of the laboratory.
It is a magnificent place for the purpose. The
ground has an area of about 140 acres, level and
abundantly watered with running streams os
well as cisterns. The building is one of the
handsomest in the State, and almost a3 well
adapted to an exhibition of the kind contem
plated as if planned for the purpose. It has a
grand hall up stairs 520 feet long and beautiful
ly lighted and ventillated. It has abundance of
fine" rooms for every purpose of the exhibition
and the entertainment and comfort of visitors.
It will be reached from Macon in five minutes
by half hour trains daring the whole day. The
Macon & Western Railway runs directly by it
and for convenience of access to articles of ex
hibition and to the public, we know of no better
point.
We hope this property may ultimately fall into
the hands of the Georgia Agricultural Society
and be made permanent headquarters, and the
seat of a well endowed Agricultural College and
Experimental Farm. ■* - .
The Revenge* of Time, t y ;
As, a striktng specimen of “time’s revenges”
we have lately had presented to us the colored
men’s appointments to office, at home and
abroad. “Think,” writes one correspondent
antithetically, ' “of Toombs, instead of calling
his slave roll on Bunker TUll, only calling for
bis letters from the colored Postmaster at Ma
con.” Think again of the son of the black
Douglas holding a Government office in the
same city with the son of the white Douglas,
and both supporting the Administration! But
there is another contrast still more remarkable
fn Charleston, where, at this moment, the new
Mayor is said to be a brother of Parker Pills-
bury, the anti-slavery agitator, contemporane
ous with Garrison. Were this relationship all,
under the changed aspect of affairs, doubtless,
this historic comparison would not be more
“odorous,” than the others. But, according to
some of the Southern papers, since Fillsbury’s
inauguration, the chief municipal activity has
been in a scramble for spoils. One of PiUsbu-
ry’s friends used to talk of “plowing up Charles-
tonand sowing it with salt”—but isn’t this last a
worse infliction ?—New York Times.
Why call these “revenges of time," when they
are simply the revenges of Radicalism ? Time
is no more responsible for them than it was for
the murder of AbeL The Northern Abolition
ists, having pursued the South to ruin and sub
jugation, in order to enforce their notions in re
lation to slavery, very naturally delight to
amuse themselves with the miseries of their de
fenceless victims.
It is an animal interest which they share with
many of the lower orders of creation, and have
not learned to restrain by those benevolent im
pulses and moral precepts which forbid ns to
rejoice over the humiliations and sufferings of
the distressed and the defenceless.
Tho sense of power to inflict suffering is a
temptation to use it too strongwitb, perhaps,
the most of men, to be easily resisted, and
hence we have seen in the legislation of Con
gress and the general course of the Northern
press, a manifest and constant delight in what
ever they suppose will most deeply wound tho
pride, and (what they consider) the prejudices
of the conquered South; and, to them, the most
delightful part of the business is that if they
can taunt ns into retort they can answer
our grassy missiles with the solid brickbats and
stones of additional proscription and infliction.
Well, how long will it be necessary to prose
cute these so-called “revenges of time," to con
ciliate the South? Through how many genera
tions do the North desire to push the iron of a
contemptuous, irritating and inflictive policy?
Are the “revenges of time” always to be one
sided, and is, the North qnito sure she can al
ways wipe her shoes upon the Southern whites
with impunity?
Immigration.
Colafabchee, May 28, 1769.
Editors Telegraph: “Raleigh”has express
ed, to a great extent, the will of our people up
on the subject of immigration. We do not wish
our country “stocked with a horde” of restless
adventures. We have crime enough here now,
without inviting such a cla9s in our midst. Let
us invite all who are willing to cast their lot
with us, and assist in throwing off the yoke of
tyranny, but no others. We are not under ob
ligation to the hordes who swept over our lands,
deluging it in blood and laying waste over our
once prosperous country; to invite them back
now to degrade us more. We never want to
see such characters again. Let ns, then, ex
tend an invitation to those who will be one with
us, to aid in throwing off the radical yoke; hut
never welcome any others. This is the sound
doctrine—any other is incorrect in theory, and
will prove so in practice. S.
Yes! throw the doors wide open to all who
will come, buy land and settle down among us.
Every man who identifies his interests with
ours, gives security for his good behavior and
substantial sympathy with the State and people.
M A Xon-Seqnttur. — 1
The leading article in the Imperialist is a
high tribnte to the character and talents of
Robert E. Lee, and attempts to use the influ
ence of his great name in aid of the empire
project, because, says the Imperialist—
“ That General Lee has no very high opinion
of our existing institutions must be evident to
all who have watched his course, nor can even
the most rabid idolater of the caucus form of
government blame him if he refuses to shut his
eyes to the hope of better things which is held
out to him by the greater national strength and
industrial freedom which the empire will guar
antee." I
Non sequitur, that Lee is an Imperialist be
cause the Northern Radicals have debased and
ruined the “existing institutions” of the coun
try. If a rascal defiles my honse, does that
prove to me I ought to take to a tree ? The Im
perialist’s adroit “if” is a slanderous insinua
tion against the great Virginian.
From Meriwether County.
State of Society in Georgia; in Meriwether
County—Crop Prospects.
Meriwether COUNTY, Ga.,)
May 25, 18C9. J
Editors Telegraph: There is unquestionably
a spirit of lawlessness throughout our State.
Almost every newspaper gives an account of a
homicide, a burglary, of a larceny, or of a rape
committed somewhere in the State. Violations
of the law are not confined to either race, or
perpetrated against the persons or property of
either race exclusively. Crimea, in our State,
are not attributable—as many would have the
world believe—mainly to political differences,
but to demoralized feelings, traceable, directly or
indirectly, to the war. It is the solemn duty of
every good citizen to aid, to the utmost of his
power, in protecting society against this evil.
It can be done only by rigidly enforcing the
law—if it is not done, Georgia will find herself,
at no distant day, under the iron heel of a dic
tator.
I am rejoiced to know that here in Meri-
weatber County, the people are orderly, quiet,
industrious and law abiding—were never more
so before the war. Persons, property, and re
putation are as secure here as they are in any
county, in any State in the Union. This is atr
tributable in no small degree to the influence
and example of our oldest and most substantial
citizens. . , " •
The spring has been ‘unfavorable to cotton.
Mornings are still quite cool, yet the weed looks
tolerably well, the stand is generally good—the
high prices are stimulating our people to extra
ordinary efforts to make the staple, and a larger
area is planted this year than last. Still com
enough is planted, which looks well, with a mod
erate yield to meet the wants of the people.
From Randolph County.
The Cnthbert Appeal, of Thursday, has the
following:
The Vert Latest Crop News,—We have just
returned from a survey of the cotton fields in
thin vicinity, and feel constrained to announce
that the prospect continues gloomy in the ex
treme. -
Though small in size, on the stiff clay lands
the stands are tolerably fair and healthy. But
even in the richest gray and sandy loams, usually
good for a heavy yield, the weed is yellow,
lousy, and with that hard, woody appearance
in the stalk, which shows that the growth is al
most stationary.
The plant is still dying also, and will continue
to perish, until warm nights and gentle showers
take the place of the present strangely cool sea
son with its blighting, blustering winds. It
will require weeks of careful nursing, and the
most favorable weather, to overcome the unfor
tunate backset which has befallen the entire
crop.
The guanoed spots are the best, and the re
port generally from those using fertilizers is sat
isfactory.
Com is universally promising, and a fair
breadth of soil seems to have been devoted to
the cereals.
Labor is in demand to chop out and clean.the
sickly stands of cotton ns quickly as possible,
that air and circulation may be afforded to the
drooping plants. . , .,.. , . .
Last Saturday a heavy hail storm was experi-
encee a few miles south of’ this, which will ac
count in part for the narrow escape from frost
on the succeeding two nights. . ■
Tho farmers are still hopeful and resolute,
and the work of the season is fairly advanced.
In New York the largest theatre receipts re
ported during April were Booth's Theatre $44,-
000; Niblo's, $38,000, and Wallack’s, $35,000.
Canada has doubled her population once
every eighteen years since I ECO.
The Dunkabds—Texir Customs—Kissing on
a General Scale.—-Xt is equally impossible to
describe the great multitude and variety of the
kisses of charity which take place on the occa
sion, for with the meeting kieses, and parting
kisses, and the kisses that transpire during the
various religious services, it is hardly extrava
gant to say that the woods-and fields are vocal-
with the notes of osculation—some so faint as
hardly to be perceived, some a.little more ex
pressive, and some demonstrative and prolonged.
This ceremony is strictly confined to the sexes
to which the participants belong, men kissing
men and women kissing women.—Richmond
BY TELEGBAPH.
I From Washington.
Washington, May 29.—No political or govern
ment business to-day on account of the decoration
of the soldiers’graves. - ■ ■ ‘
It is understood that the directors of the Chesa
peake and Ohio Railroad have arranged with North
ern capitalists for the completion of the road to the
Ohio. ,
The Government has notified Gov. Bowie that the
artillery.for the Maryland National Guard is subject
to his orders. This is interesting in connection with
the past Congressional and personal hostility to the
Maryland militia organizations.
The Central Pacific Railroad has deposited four
million dollars as security for bringing the Road to
first class.
Lake Sibley advices state that the Indians at
tacked & Scandinavian colony near that place,
killing five. Several settlers were killed on Repub
lican river.
London, May 29.—A heavy storm is raging at
Queenstown.
Motley has arrived out.
Peabody has departed for America
From Atlanta.
DAVIS’ THEATRE BURNED.
Atlanta, May 29.—Miss Penelope Adams, daugh
ter of the late Senator Adkins, publishes an appeal
for justice, in which, spealing of the reports rela
tive to her father, she eaje: “ I hurl back the in
famous charges they allege against my deceased
father. The charges comist altogether of vague
rumors. If they have proof of dissolute conduct
against him, sufficient to justify murder for person
al causes, let it be produced. They are well aware
that no private injury to his assassin caused his
murder. They know and feel in their hearts that
he was killed on account of Ms politics alone, solely
because lie was a Republican. The murderers are
well known and can be named; yet no steps have
been taken to bring them to justice. I have no re
course hut to appeal to the people of Georgia, and
of the nation, for retribution upon them and their
secret clan of assassins. Such an appeal I hereby
solemnly make.”
Davis’ theatre was destroyed by fire last night.
Loss $75,000. No insurance.
Atlanta, May 28 Judge Bingham, Mr. Laugh-
ridge and Mr. Eldridge, of the Judiciary Committee
of Congress, en route to Montgomery, arrived this
morning and were entertained to-day by Gov. Bol
lock. They spend this evening with Judge Erekine
of the United States District Court, and leave in
the morning for their destination.
From Texas.
New Orleans, May 29.—A dispatch from Jeffer
son, Texas, says tho proceedings of the military
commission engaged in a trial of citizens charged
with tho murder of George W. Smith, 60 far, have
been confined to an examination of Major Curtis,
who was in command of tho post at the timo of the
killing, Lieut. Dubois, and tho two freedmen who
escaped. The evidence of the officers and the freed-
men conflict badly. The officers both swear that
all the parties engaged were disguised. The ne
groes swear exactly tho opposite. ' The testimony
of the two negroes conflicts with each other. A large
crowd is in attendance, and great interest is manl*
fested. Over one hundred witnesses are summoned
for June 7th.
From Bichmond,
Richmond, May 29.—Albert Tyler, colored, was
executed at noon to-day, for poisoning Pauline Hub
bard, also colored, whose cMld Tyler had attempted
to outrage, and who had threatened to have Mm ar
rested. Tyler, who seemed little better than a
brute in intelligence, confessed the crime on the
scaffold. A large crowd were present. Tyler died
instantly.
The decorating of the Union soldiers’ graves took
place to-day. A large crowd of wMte and colored
visitors were at the National Cemetery. The 17th
Infantry wero marched to the cemetery and partici
pated in the proceedings.
Be-Union of the Northern Presbyterians.
New York, May 23.—The Old and New School
Presbyterians have adopted a plan of union pro
posed by their committees—New School unanimous
ly ; Oid School seven dissenting. The plan of re
union involves the acceptance of the Church stan
dards pure and simple.
The Rev. Dr. Howard (New Sehool)opposing haste,
hoped a judicious delay would secure a union with
the Southern Preeb’ ’ ’rian Church.
This action of the .semblies requires an endorse
ment by the Presbyteries before its consummation.
From Cuba.
Havana, May 29.—Dulce telegraphs to be re
lieved. 1
Havana, via Key Vest, May 28.—Captain Gene
ral Dulce is sick, and his death is daily expected.
The garrison of Fort Cubanas rioted during tho
debarkation for Spain of tho Galvasso prisoners.
The volunteers tried to stop tho debarkation. Da
ring tho melee loud cries were heard of “death to
Dulce!” The rioters yielded to tho supplications of
the Governor of the Fort. The prisoners wero al
lowed to embark.
A Spanish steamer in the bay of Nipe fired by
mistake on the Spanish troops, killing forty.
General News.
New York, May 28.—A number of influential gen
tlemen of this city have organized themselves into
a Southern Land Company, under a Charter from
the North Carolina Legislature, with a capital of a
quarter of a million.
Louisville, May 28.—CoL W. O. Breckenridgo de
livered an oration at Battle Grove Cemetery, Cyn-
thiana, Kv., on an occasion of tho unveiling of tho
monument erected to tho Confederate dead.
From Wilkinson County.
Messrs. Editors:—I notice in the columns of
your celebrated daily, various accounts relative
to the agricultural and financial status of tho dif
ferent counties, and I think that Wilkinson can
compare favorably with tho best in this line.
Especially when wo take a retrospective view of
the past, and remember the heavy debts that
have hung over her for many years wMch her in
solvency allowed to grow with time. She now
stands free of these heavy burdens, and com
mands in the treasury much over $5000.
Owing to the many sudden freaks of weather
during this Spring, onr farmers have hitherto
had but little promise in the growing of cotton,
bnt at present the chilling blasts have ceased,
and prospects bid fair in this section for a good
cotton crop. All seem to be confident that good
crops of com will bo made.
Messrs. Ward & Co. are making rapid pro
gress in erecting a Court-house of brick, which
will be an ornament to, and advance the inter
ests of the county. -1
The citizens of the flourishing little village
of Irwinton, in order to preserve decorum, and
maintain the high position which she holds
among other villages of the State, avail them
selves of the advantages granted by an act of
the Legislatnre incorporating the same.
Judge James C. Bower, Thomas O. Beall,
Alexander Baum, J. D. Jones and F. Chambers,
were elected as the Board of Officers in charge.
Captain George Bishop was elected by the Board
as Marshal, with our young friend, John Metli-
vin, as Treasurer and Clerk.
"With these firm, responsible men at the head
of affairs, all are confident that the peace, pros
perity and good order of the town will bo main
tained with dignity. Subscriber.
Wonderful Spectacle in Connecticut.
Ten thousand calcium lights could not have
made surrounding objects as distinct. Looking
ont into the street, it was as if thousands of tons
of gunpowder had exploded in some building;
following it closely came a loud rumbling sound
from the South, as of some mighty wave break
ing on the beach. The people in the vicinity Of
the plain say that a trembling of the earth
was at this time perceptible. Many were of the
opinion that an earthquake was about to visit
us. No pen can describe the magnificence of
this brilliant phenomenon. Nothing similar to
it has been seen that we have a record of for
centuries. Monstrous meteors have flashed
aoross the heavens frequently and other terial
phenomena have been visible at times, but
nothing has been seen so peculiar in shape, so
beautiful in its effect as this. To the astrono
mer the cause will be easily manifest; to the
superstitious it will be the premonitor of some
disaster, a war or pestilence to the nation; to
all it will tell of the omniptence, the wonderful
ways of the Ruler of the heavens, the earth and
the sea.
A correspondent at Meriden writeB:
The meteor seemed to strike somewhere in
this,cityfollowed by a lew. rambling zquML
[For the Macon Daily Telegraph.]
Thorns.
. „ BT E. B. C.
“And thorns must grow as well as roses.”
Far out upon a lonely, hoary rock.
’Midst tangled, matted weeds, there bloomed and
smiled,
And looked up to the glad, bright, shining sun,
A lovely, blushing, tender flower wild.
And gently through the Btrong, rough weeds it crept,
And found its sweet way to the open day;
There, basking, smiling, thanking that kind orb
That gave it nursing with Ms glorious ray.
I—leaning o’er that tender orphan rose,
Caressing with my hand its blushing face—
Sighed, as I thought, ere many suns should set,
It, too, would be an emblem of life's race.
The bee which woo’d you, flower, but yesternoon,
To-morrow comes to find your sweetness gone;
Your pink and scented bosom wMte with age.
Then come!—Ah, rose! you’ve, too, a cruel thorn.
I’ve heard that hearts the soonest ’wake to flowers
Are ever first to feel the cruel thorn;
But, littlo stranger, in my happier hours,
I’ve said “and of tho thorns are roses bom.”
Indeed an emblem! modest little flower
As Md among your ehining, sheltering leaves,
(Whose odorous breath floats on the summer gale,)
Is found a thorn for Mm who yet believes.
He, in His wisdom, has affixed some sting
To ail that sweet and fair upon us dawns;
I know that in Fate’s Lexicon there stands
’Gainst suffering woman’s name “thorns, cruel
thorns.” '
Macon, Mag 25,1868.
Cnba—TheRebels Rising.
The New York Tribune of Thursday eaya:
Private and credible news reaches us from
Cuba, corroborating the late reports said to
have been officially received from Cespedes.
Our informant was an eye-witness of the four
engagements fought by the Cabans under Que-
sada between Nuevitas and Puerto-Principe,
and avouches that their victories were not sup
posititious or trifling. In these hot contests the
Cubans were generally tho winners. Lesca was
defeated at Las Tunas, and at Sabana Nueva the
Spaniards were routed. We have another pri
vate report, that of the eight hundred men un
der Lesca, when attacked in front and rear on
the road from San Miguel de Nuevitas by the
Cuban gueriUeros, half were lost. The leader
of the gueriUeros was Agramonte, a younger
brother of one of the Cabinet of President
Cespedes, and some time ago the subject of
lamentation and eulogy in the Spanish press.
Such battles, though smaU, attain a respectable
size when counted as victories.
These facts ascertained, a turning point of
success has come to the Cuban cause. The pa
triots still wont more arms, but, thanks to their
friends in the United States, are being sup
plied. The atrocious order of Valmaseda has
only had the effect of uniting the patriots more
intensely, and Cespedes and Quesada are work
ing manfully together. There ought to be no
inseparable difficulty in supplying them with
men and arms. The Cuban coast is admirably
adapted to purposes of clandestine aid and com
fort. Spite of the Spanish navy and its accus
tomed vigilance, we should think experienced
seamen and old blockade runners might readily
pierce the coast and land their cargoes. The
chief danger encountered by them has been in
the Bahamas, and the principal aid received for
the Spaniards has come from the British au
thorities in that quarter. We refer, of course,
to such captures as that of the brig Mary Lo-
welL
‘ Macon andBrusswickRailroad.— 1 The steam
er Charles S. Hardee, Captam Isaac Henry,
brought down on her last trip and landed at
Lumber City a locomotive and two platform corn-
cars and on the .previous trip brought the same
plement for the opposite end of the Road, now
in running order from I. Cook’s Landing to
Doctortown. The locomotives were the George
Walker and Governor Crawford, both of which
have performed more service in the extension
and building of railroads in the South than al
most any engines now in use. The services
of the Walker have been employed in the build
ing and extension of over five thousand miles of
track. No definite time can be named as to
when the road will be completed, but some time
within two months is the estimate of the con
tractors, who were busily employed on the va]
rious sections and are rapidly pushing the work
forward. The work is being prosecuted from
six different points, as follows:
One gang aro at work from Hawkinsville to
Lumber City, one from Lumber City to Hawk-,
insvilie, one from I. Cook’s Landing towards
the Gulf road, one from the Gulf road towards
I. Cook’s Landing, and two gangs working from
the Gulf road towards and from Brunswick. In
order that there shall be no lack of force on ei
ther section of the road, the Hardee will take up
from this city on her next trip, in addition to
working material, a large number of bands who
have been engaged for the purpose of working
tho road.—Sav. Ado. 26th.
A Compliment to the Chinese.—We believe
it is now generally conceded that the work on
the California end of the Pacific railroad has
been conducted with far more regularity and
good order, if not dispatch, than on the Union
Pacific. The feat of laying down ten miles of
rail in one day, last week astonished the Union
Pacific managers, It is also a fact that the la
borers on IMs end have been much better be
haved and disciplined than on the other end of
the road. We do not now call to mind a single
death by wanton violence on the line of the Cen
tral Pacific during the past year, wMle hardly a
day has passed on the other end of the road,
without some act of murder or other atrocity.—
We think a great deal of this good order and
absence of violence is fairly attributable to the
natural docility of the Chinse race, who have
composed a great part of the force on the Cen
tral Pacific. Doubtless, much of it is due to the
rulo which excluded ardent spirits; but not all.
They have honestly won a compliment for
good order, sobriety and good work which ought
to shame those white ruffians who are in the ha
bit of traducing their morals at the same time
they are murdering each other.—Sacramento
Union.
Mobile and New Orleans.—We are permit-
ed to make the following extract from a private
letters
‘The Road from Mobile to New Orleans will
be completed by the early spring. Mobile has
waked up, and will build from Mobile to Selma
a grand trunk one hundred and fifty miles, in
eighteen months. Mobile city gives $500,000—
counties $500,000, and the State indorses $2,-
400,000, in all $4,900,000. Twenty miles to be
bnilt in four months, and the balance rnshed
through faster than ever done before. The
woods are on fire, and Alabama will, in a few
years, Lave 2,500 miles of Railroad finished, and
be on tho high road to prosperity."
Tho above connections will be very beneficial
to Romo, and will be tho nearest all rail route
between this place and New Orleans.—Rome
Commercial
Of tho children bom in Paris one-fourth aro
illegitimate, and one-third die before attaining
tho age of five years. Two deaths occur among
tho illegitimate infants to one among the legit
imate. The native population of the city dimin
ishes by two-fifths in each generation, so that,
but for replenishment from without, the city
would be depopulated in less than three genera
tions. .
A male infant was recently found in a wood
in the vicinity of Paris by two men, one of whom
made a declaration to the Mayor that ho would
adopt it. When all the arrangements were
made, what was the man’s astonishment at find
ing 20,000 francs,, in bank notes, attached to its
chemise, with a note that other presents would
follow until the child attained the age of twenty.
In Pittsburg, on Sunday last, a boy of thirteen
was stabbed and fatally injured by a child of
nine years, whose feelings he had in some way
outraged three days before, and who planned
the murder as calmly and successfully as could
any . older villain.
A young lady in Jefferson, Ohio, mistook a
bottle of violet ink for perfumery, in the dark
ness the other evening, and put some upon her
handkerchief which she used to wipe her face,
and, hastening to church immediately after, she
created an immense sensation..
A man in Newport, Mass., has ten acre’s of-
land in onions. The ten aores gives eighty
miles of onions, and in planting, hoing, weed
ing and gathering require a thousand miles'
travel. '■ ' •■;r-KvVj ; "
The crevasse below New Orleans is increas
ing, and a new channel is said to Be forming
from the river to the lake. The levees above
the city are also reported to be in a t precarious
condition. 1 '
PICTURE-BOOK WITHOUT PICTURES,
BX HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.
Translated from the German for the. Macon Daily
Telegraph.
[continued.]
FIFTH EVENING.
“Yesterday,” the Moon began, “I looked
down upon busy Paris ; my eye penetrated into
the chambers of the Louvre. An old grand
mother, poorly clad—she belonged to the lower
classes—followed one of the subordinate lackeys
into the large, empty throne room; this it was,
which, she would, she must see; it had cost
her many a little sacrifice, many words, before
she could be admitted there. She clasped her
her thin hands and looked devoutly around, as
if she were in a house of God.
‘ “ Here it was,” said she, “here,” approach
ing the throne from which the red velvet trim
med with golden fringes was hanging down.
“.There,” she exclaimed, “there,” kneeling
down and kissing the crimson velvet—I think
she wept. “It was, however, not this velvet,"
said the lackey, while a smile played around his
month. “ Yet it was here,” repliedthe woman,
“it looked just so.” “So, and yet not so," he
answered; “the windows were burst open, the
doors unhinged, there was blood flowing on the
floor! You can say at least: ‘My grandson died
on the throne of fame.’” “Dieid!” repeated
the old woman. I do not think that anything
more was spoken, both leaving the hall very
soon after.
The twilight faded away, and my light
streamed doubly bright on the rich velvet on
the throne of France. For whom doest thou
take the old woman ? I will tell thee a tale.
It happened in the July revolution, on the even
ing of the most brilliant day of victory, when
every house was a fortress, every window a re
doubt ; the people were storming the Tuilleries.
Even.women and children were among the com
batants ; they entered the rooms and halls of
the Castle. A poor half-grown boy, in tatters,
fought courageously among the older warriors;
deadly wounded by Beveral thrusts of bayonets
he sank to the ground. This happened in the
throne-room; they laid the bleeding boy on the
throne of France and dressed Ian wounds with
the velvet, while his blood wrb streaming on the
royal purple. That was a picture! The mag
nificent hall; the fighting groups! A broken
standard was lying on the floor, the tri-colored
flag was waving above the bayonets, and on
the throne the poor boy, with the pale, serene
face, his eyes turned heavenwards, wMlehis
limbs shook in the agony of death; his naked
breast, his scanty dress, half covered by the
rich velvet embroidered with silver-lilies. It
was prophesied at the boy’s cradle: “ On the
throne of France he will die!”
The maternal heart dreamed of a second
Napoleon. My beams have kissed the garland
of evergreens on his grave, my beams have
kissed the forehead of the old grandmother this
night, while she beheld in her dreams the pic
ture that thou canst draw here: “The poor
boy on the throne of France.”
SIXTH EVENING.
“ I have been to Upsala,” said the Moon. “I
looked down upon the large plain with the scan
ty grass and the barren fields. I mirrored my
self in the Fyris river, while the steamboat drove
the fishes into the reeds. Beneath me careered
the clouds, casting long shades across the re
puted graves of Odin, Thor and Freya. There
are names traced in the scanty turf, that covered
the hills. There is no monumental stone here,
in wMch the traveler could have his name cut,
no shelves of rock on which he could have it
painted, therefore the visitor causes the turf to
be dug out. The naked ground stares in large
letters and names; they form a net over the
large hills; an immortality which a fresh growth
of turf soon destroys! High on the hill there
stood a man, a bard; he emptied a horn with a
broadsilver brim,filled withmead,lispinga name;
ho begged the winds not to betray it; bnt I heard
the name—I knewit—a count’s coronet sparkling
above it; he did not name it aloud. 1 smiled,
for a poet’s crown adorns his! The noble name
of Eleanora d’ Este is linked to Tasso’s name. I
know also, where the beauty’s rose is blooming! ”
So spoke the Moon, and there came a cloud be
tween us. May no clouds separate the poet
from the rose.
SEVENTH EVENING.
Along the beach there extends a forest of firs
and beeches, so fresh, so fragrant. Hundreds
of nightingales visit it every spring. Close by
is the sea, and between them there runs the
broad highway. On? carriage after another
rolls over it; Idid not follow them; my eye
likes most to dwell on one point. There is a
giant's grave. Brambles and white-thorns grow
luxuriantly between the stones. Here is poesy
in nature. How dost thou think, that people
can appreciate tMs? I will tell thee what I
heard there last evening and in the night. At
first two rich landed proprietors drove np.
“These are magnificent trees,” said the one.
“Each of them will give ten loads of fire-wood,”
replied the other. ‘Winter will be very severe;
last year we got fourteen thalers for the load"—
and off they were. “The road is miserable
here,” said another driver.
“It is the fault of these d—d trees,” replied
his neighbor, “there is no circulation of the air
here, for the wind can only come here from the
sea side”—and they rolled away. Also tho
stage coach passed by. All the passengers were
sleeping at this beautiful point; the postillion
blew Ms horn, while he was thinking: “I blow
it capitally ; it re-echoes right prettily here; I
wonder if*they like it inside ?”—and off was the
stage coach. Then two young fellows on horse
back came galloping.
There is youth and champagne circulating in
their blood, thought I; they looked smiling
towards the moss-grown hill and the dense
green thicket. “Here I should like to take a
little walk with the miller’s Christina,” said the
one—and gone they were.
The flowers sent forth a strong fragrance;
every breath of air was slumbering; it was as
though the sea was part of the sky that stretched
across the valley. A carriage passed by; there
were six people sitting inside; four were sleep
ing, the fifth was thinking of his new summer
coat that ought to be very becoming to him, the
sixth turned to the coachman, asking whether
there was anything remarkable in connection
with the pile of stones.
“No,” answered the coachman, “it is only a
pile of stones, but the trees are remarkable.”
“How so?”
“Well, that I will tell you, they are very re
markable.” Do you see, when in winter the
snow is lying very deep, when everything is
covered with snow and no way to be seen, these
trees serve me as marks. I am gnided by them
not to drive into the sea, do yon see, therefore
he trees are remarkable.
• Now there came a painter; his eye sparkling;
he said no word, but whistled; the nightingales
sang louder than before. “Hold your tongue,”
he cried, and noted down quite minutely all col
ors and tints: blue, lilac, dark-brown. It may
prove a fine painting. He caught it as a mirror
does a picture, whistling all the while a march
of Rossini’s. At last there came a poor girl;
she rested on the giant’s grave, laying down her
load; the fair, pale face bent listening towards
the forest; her eyes sparkled; she looked across
the sea and the sky, her hands clasped each oth
er. I think she was praying the Lord’s Prayer.
She did not understand herself the feeling that
thrilled her, bat I know that still after years
tMs minute and the nature around will linger
in her remembrance far more beautifully, aye,
far more faithfully, than the painter fixed them
on the paper. My be ams followed her nntil the
red of morning kissed her forehead.
EIGHTH EVENING.
There were heavy clouds hovering in the skj^
the moon did not make her appearance at ail.
I was standing doubly alone in my little room and
looked forth into the air where she ought to
have appeared. My thoughts flew far away,
above to my great friend, who told me such
pretty tales every evening. Yes, what has she
not seen ? She glided over the deluge, smiled
just as she looked down upon me,on Noah’s ark
bringing comfort and tiding from a new world,
that would bloom forth again. ’When the peo
ple of Israel stood weeping on Babylon’s river,
she looked sadly towards willow trees on which
the harps were hanging. "When Romeo climbed
np the balcony and Love’s sacred kiss rose to
heaven like a cherub, the round Moon hovered
in the transparent sky, half concealed between
dark cypresses. She has beheld the hero on St.
Helena, when he looked from the lonely rock
across the main sea, while great thoughts were
storming in Ms breast. Yes, what can the Moon
not relate ? The life of the world is a fairy
tales for her.
TMs evening I do not see thee again, my old
friend! TMs evening I can draw no picture in
remembrance of thy visit! And as I looked
dreamily towards the clouds, light shone forth
it was a imam of the moon, bnt it .disappeared
again; dark clouds passed by, yet it. was a
greeting, a friendly evening-greeting wMch the
moon offered to me. Jakno.
[to be continued.]
Senator Si
and the
Iprague on the Cotton
Condition of the Country.
On Wednesday 19th Senator Sprague delivered
an address the to Memphis Commercial Con-ren!
tion, from wMeh we take the following extinct ■
“ I stated in my place in Congress, wheatK,"
tax was on cotton, that if it waa not taken off it
would drive Sea Island cotton out of the mark*
entirely in a couple of years. I tell yon JZ
Southern friends, that if yon don’t come to tho
rescue soon, cotton will cease to be a profitabu
rrtide of produce. England is doubling her
product of cotton in her Indian possessions and
with France, is co-operating with the Kimjrf
Egypt to raise a large supply of cotton in that
country, wMch is said to be a better staple than
the best ever sold in the New Orleans mark*
In Brazil they occupy the same position; so that
we are to have many competitors in the raiaim,
of cotton. We must, therefore, increase th»
produce of our lands so as to successfully caa
pete with these countries. 'Die position is alana"
mg, but if I shall succeed in urging you to tak*
some steps in this important matter, I will U
repaid for my coming to Memphis. The conn
try at the present time is like Spain before
falL It had been a powerful nation, and had
complete power of all the West Indiess;
where is she now ? Let those who read historv
answer the question. TMs may also become
the condition of the United States, if you do not
exercise more self-dependence. Yon imagin*
that by your own strength of arm yon mayand
can maintain the situation and avert all this-
but I tell you there is a pAwer you cannot con!
trol unless you bring a power of sufficient W
and strength against it, and that is the money
capital which is working night and day. It ^
this that has made England and France power.
fuL Before England controlled tMs vast capj*.
tal power, she was torn nearly asunder by dii
sensions. Disturbances were frequent, andshe
was always in a state of revolution. The mo
nopoly was broken np, and the money is EOw
used for the furtherance of industrial objects.
Through this means England has been en.
abled to control one-third of the trade of the
globe. In England anarchy is bnt a name, and
file House of Lords, although hereditary, is also
but a name, and tbe same may be said of the
nobility of the country. The people, from the
time I have referred to, have prospered anti
the want of it gave ns our civil war. If Toa
had had the power I have alluded to, you could
hold slavery, but the money power would have
been in the masses. They would have been
found mutually aiding each other, while the
black man would have been held in proper subl
ordination. What, however, has been the
consequence I need not tell you—you all know.
We took our law from the fatherlands, bnt in
doing so we turned the money leaf down. Those
of you who have read history know that I am
telling you what is now a portion of history. I
did not intend to make a speech to you when I
arose. It was only my intention to thank you
for the very cordial reception you have given
me, and to express the hope that -the greatest
harmony would characterize all your delibera
tions. I will again say that the money capital
ought to be used for promoting the best inter
ests of the country; for carrying on the trade.
and building np the country, instead of keeping
it concentrated and centralized. There is dan-
gone.
That night Jack knew of it, and as he read the
nice little note that bade Mm “coma over and
stay nntil mother comes home, and what a
splendid time we will have,” he smiled, knock
ed the ashes off Ms cigar, and resolved of
course he would.
Jack went over, but there is no eartMy use in
our attempting to describe'the delectable things
he enjoyed; it was a sugar season at that plan-
tation, sure.
Just before dusk, while Jack was ranting
overfull of the occasion, in rushes Laura’s wait
ing woman with,
“Lor bres8 me, cMl’n, ef yer ain’t missis at
degate.”
“My God! Dinah, what shall we do with
Jack?”
“Pop Mm in de closet, Miss Laura,' ana
Jack was popped in the closet in a twinkling.
In stalked the old lady, who, sharply scrutin
izing the disconcerted and blushing countenance
of Laura, felt sure that Jack had been there.
“Game here, Laura. Now yon can’t deceive
me. That abominable Plaine has been here,
and yon and he have fixed upon a runaway match,
to come off to-night; I know, you see.”
Laura was silent, and the old lady eonfinned.
“But you’ll find that your mother is no fool, I
and too sharp for you my lady. Sooner than
you should marry that miserable Jack Plaine.
I d see you laid in your grave. He is not going |
to squander my money I assure you.”
The old lady rose, and going to a clothes press
returned with several comforters and a phlox.
Then walking up to the closet where Jack was
concealed, threw them in and said to Laura.
“Now march in here Miss, step along; H
look out that you don’t see that low bom me
chanic this night.”
Laura protested that she didn’t want to, &
daring that her mother might be sorry for»
some day.
But, without paying any attention, her meti
er gave her a push, shut the door and locked A
put the key in her pocket and went to bed.
Early in the morning the old lady arose, s
without waiting to dress took the key from to
pocket, and opened the doset door to bid M-’ 3
pnrwn f/ivHi nro 7cd wnldltr on incfflTlf. filld
come forth, gazed wildly for an instant and i
tered a most piercing scream.
Recovering very rapidly, she started
from the door and called faintly to Laura:
“Laura, dear, go into the kitchen and *
about breakfast.”
Then presently:
“Jack, I say Jack.” . .
Jack came forth with a son-in-law looking a-
and answered:
“Well, madame, what is it ?” raM
“Do you know anything about a farm-' »
she.
“Nothing to brag of, ma’am,” said Jack t® 1 ’
bly. r .
“Well, at any rate, Jack, I think that
breakfast you and Laura may as well g? j’’'-
to the city and get married, ’ for I am tired -
watching yon, that’s a fact.”
Horace Greeley’s Advice to the
cals of West Virginia.
New York Tamcsf -
New York, November 18, l ttN _
My Rear Sir—I have yours of the ,
leading positions have long been nndersto 0 * 1
appreciated in this quarter. Now hear mt'-
Every year one thousand of your rebel 5 ^
and one thousand (or more) of their sons beco
of age. You can't disfranchise them. \
have now five thousand majority. Si*
furthest will convert this into a rebel m*l ''
of one thousand. Then the rebels will
francMsed in spite of you, and the blacks '
be left under foot—and you under esam*
these at two thousand. . ,v;
Go your own way, and see if the rebels
have yon under foot in less than six years.
I speak from a wide experience when j, I
you that your honse is bnilt on the sana. i
cannot stand. Every year wifi see the P as * ^ |
of the war cool and the demand fet I
strengthened. Now you can amnesty the w - I
Soon the question will be, shall they I
you ? Look at Kentucky and Mary* anfl ’ |
read vour certain fate in theirs. Yours,
Horace Gbb2L»i-
To the Editor of the Wheeling Intelligencer.
he
The Peace Jubilee Chorus, over three thous
and in number, had a rehearsal in Boston on
Wedaf-'d-’T oveniag. which was pronounced a
t—- *-».“**•
Joe Adkins was killed, not because J
Radical, but because he had insulted » |
able young lady by making the most bp ^ I
infamous proposals to .her. (The ongin* 1 ^
ter containing these vile propositions rw ^ o
be given to the public) The same ^
have befell any person in the city «•
der the same circumstances,
minded, father and brother us»fid “ aT * *
nounoed it right— Wairenton; Clipper- ■
NrabLy four thousand! persons ate said* 5 j
starved to in London lest year.
ger to onr financial institutions from tMs source,
and it is well known to me that those capitalists
who control the money are anxious to. get a
stronger Government than they imagine tke
present one to be, as they wish to protect them-
selves and their ill-gotten gains from the
people whom they have crushed. We have even
now in New York a paper called the Imperial-
ist, established for the purpose of openly argn-
ing in favor of an empire. They wish to
strengthen their ill-gotten power and control,
as they are now doing, business, society and
the Government,whom they have as completely
under subjection as ever a domestic negro wasin
a wMte family previous to the war.
An Awkward Predicament.
Out in Missouri lives a Mrs. Hempdale, who
has or had a daughter named Laura, who loved
a man named Jack. This man Jack she didn't
like, bnt she was informed by a neighbor that
Jack and Laura had arranged a plan of elope
ment.
Her mind was quickly made np. She an
nounced to Laura the next morning that she
was going to Bellville on a visit, to be gone
three days, and that die must be a good girl,
and not tear the honse down while she was
