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BRUNSWICK ADVERTISER.
BRUNSWICK,
GEORGIA.
TIMELY TOPICS.
Bbighah Young has filed his amended
answer to the complaint of Ann Eliza
Young. He says his relations with that,
lady were& t a polygamous nature, and,
therefore, she has no claim on him,
This Is » ■vn.l confession that all his
children are bastards, and his wives by
Mormon marriages oonoubines, whioh
would seem to be the fact.
Reports continue to arrive of the dis
astrous^ effects prodnc9d by the recent
rains throughout the west, and especial
ly in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Iowa.
Whole section* of country are flooded,
and the damage to grain orops not yet
harvested or standing in the shook is
immense. Railroad tracks and fences
are washed away, and in many instances
houses and barns have been destroyed,
The committee appointed to oount
the tnnds in the treasury on the retire
ment of Mr. Spinner are about ready
to make their report. They have been
engaged for the past week in an investi
gation of the $47,000 robbery, and after
taking a mass of testimony without
inculpating any single individual, ex
press the opinion that the money was
taken by an employe of the cash-room
and, further, that it is possible for suoh
robberies to ocour at any time.
As Washington died before the dose
of the administration of John Adams,
there was, of course, no ex-president
living when he wsb gone; tnd now,
again, the death of Andrew Johnson
leaves the country without a living ex
president. Within three poesidential
terms, five presidents—Pierce, Ba-
chanan, Lincoln, Fillmore, and John
son have died. Mrs. Polk, Mrs. Fill
more, Mrs. Tyler, Mrs. Lincoln, and
Mrs. Johnson, the wives of presidents,
are living. But two ex-vice presidents
—Hamlin and Colfax—are living.
What remarkable strides we are mak
ing in the increase of our domestio ex
ports of produoe is shown by a little
statement just issued by the Statistical
bureau. In the fisoal year whioh ended
June 30,1874, the last year of whioh
that bureau has made up full returns,
the domestio exports amounted in speeie
value to over $569,500,000. For the
corresponding fiscal year of the previous
decade, that ending June 30,1864, the
specie value of the exports were but
$143,500,000. Here is an increase of
more than three-fold in ten years.
A commission of the architects of
Chicago has directed, after a dose ex
amination, that the work on the new
custom-house should be resumed, as
they find the foundations strong enough
and the Buena Vista stone good enough,
if carefully selected. Potter, super
vising architect, thought the walls
should oome down, but the Chicago
people want a custom-house, aad are
willing to risk the present foundations.
If demolished, as proposed, it would
oocasion a delay of three years and a
loss of $1,000,000.
Twenty-six crimes of various mag
nitudes, from counterfeiting to wife
murder, are the subject of tweniy-six
special telegrams in a western paper.
There are forgeries, riots, incendiarism,
thefts, murders, embezzlements and
orimes of darker hue. This savory
mess is served up in a column by itself
so that no family need miss it, and is
garnished with startling and imagina
tive headings. With such diet as this
dealt out to the community every day
the Now York Tribune thinks there
need be no wonder if crime "doth make
the meat it feeds .on.”
The Army and Navy Journal, com
menting upon the ravages of the yellow
fever at Pensacola, very sensibly sug
gests that, as the soldiers stationed at
the two forts there are really not needed
in time of peace, the place should be
abandoned in the sickly season and the
troops sent to a healthier locality, thus
avoiding the awful saciifice of human
life whioh has oharaoterized the summer
occupation of the Pensacola station,
and doing away with the danger to the
whole southern country and possibly to
several northern seaports through the
transmssion of the disease.
Speaking of the proposed direct trade
with Brazil, the St. Louis Trade Journal
gives a doleful view of the crops. It
says: "At the present rate wheat suffi
cient to make 10,000 barrels of flour,
suitable in all respeots for the Brazil
trade, could not be gathered together
in this market in three months. This
for the very simple reason that nearly
all the fall wheat now being received is
damp and in other respeots out of con
dition.” The Chicago Times, on the
other hand, says: Throughout Ohio
and Indiana it is now generally con
ceded that the first reports greatly ex
aggerated the damage done, and that,
although both winter and spring wheat
are badly injured, there will be at least
half a crop.”
A TRIBUTE TO VIRGINIA.
[That is a magnificent tribute to Virginia with
which James Russell Lowell closes bis centennial
poem, read at the celebration of the hundredth an
niversary of Washington’s talcing command of the
continental army at Cambridge, Mass.; ana bis
allusion to the restoration of fraternal reeling be
tween tbe north and south, will tbrill the hearts of
men long after the eloquent outbursts of oratory at
Banker HU1 and elsewhere have been forgotten. It
is as follows:]
Virginia gave us this Imperial man
Cast in the mighty mold
Of those bigb-statured ages old
Which into grander forms onr mortal metal ran;
i iisc gave us this unblemished gentleman;
What shall we give her liaek but. love and praise
As in the dear old tinestranged davs
Before the Inevitable wrong began V
Mother of states and undimtn shed men,
Thou gavest ns a country giving tlm.
And we owe alway what we owed thee then;
The boon thou wouldst have snatched from ns agen
Shines as before with no abatement dim.
A great man’s memory is tbe only thing
With influence to ontlast the present whim
And bind us as when here he knit our golden ring.
All of him that was subject to the bouis
L1o3 in thy soil and makes it part of ours;
Across more recent graves,
Where nnnsentful nstnre waves
Her pennons o’er the shot-plowed sod,
Proclaiming tbo sweet trnce of God,
We from this consecrated plain stretch out
Onr bands as free from afterthought or doubt
As here the united north
Poured her embrowned manhood forth
In welcome of our savior and (by son.
Through the battle we have better learned tby
worth.
The deep-set courage and nndannted will,
Which, like bis own, tbo day’s disaster done,
Could, safe in manhood, suffer and be still,
Both tbine and ours tbo victory hardly won ;
If ever with distempered voice or pen I
We have mif deemed tbee, here we take It back -
And for the dead of both don oommon black.
Be to ub evermore as thou wast then,
As we forget thou hast not always bsen.
Mother of states and unpolluted men.
Virginia, fitly named for England’s manly queen.
HIS EARLY LIFE.
The Ohineso are going to engage in
tbe foolish business of making war on
Kashgar. Tbe dispatch states that
this movement is on acconnt of "the
alleged discovery that the rnlers of
that tributary state are preparing to
revolt against the Chinese authority.
The Chinese conquered Kashgar, in
eastern Turkiatan, about the year 1750
from the Tartars. In 1863 the Tartars
revolted, and under Mahommes Yakub
Beg drove the Chinese out, bag and
age. Yakub Beg has been ac
knowledged as the ruler of Kashgar by
Russia, to whom he pays tribute. The
Chinese may collect some tribute there,
but Kashgar is quite an independent
state and Yabug Beg is a brave and
dashing warrior, who will doubtless
whip the Celestials again if they under
take to ooeroe him.
An almost inoredible story of cruel,
ties to prisoners in the Texas Peniten
tiary is verified by a report to the wax
department. A variety of tortures
worthy of the fiendish ingenuity of the
middle ages has been inflicted upon the
unhappy inmates. Those selected espe
cially to undergo suoh treatment were
I mostly oonviotB who had been employed
l by contractors for railroad building,
The English having loaned the Turk-1 and by owners of plantations who were
iah government several hundred millions
of dollars for the purpose of affbeting
“ internal improvements,” are now get
ting somewhat alarmed when they find
the sultan spending the greater part cf
the money on personal luxuries. The
Bultan in fact has entirely too much fam-
ly, his wives numbering eight hnndred
and the household expenses alone
amounting to $10,000,000. This item
■alone keeps him "sick,” and the sooner
England can induce him to settle down
with one wife the better it will be for
all parties concerned.
also lessees of the penitentiary. The
crime of the unfortunates was their in
ability to endure overwork, hardship,
and bad food. The result of the oruel-
ties and the general bad management
was a large proportion of deaths among
the convicts. The oiroumstance that
oome United States prisoners were con
fined in the Penitentiary has served to
bring to light the horrible faots, but
there is reason to fear that no change
has been made in the system, and the
cruelties are continued at the present
hour.
Biographical Reminiscences of the Late Andrew
Johnson.
The Greenville Intelligencer of Fri
day, of whioh Andrew Johnson, Jr., son
of the late President, is the editor,
contains a lengthy biographical sketch
of Mr. Johnson, written by Mr. Sam
W. Small. It contains some interest
ing faots connected with the private
life of Andrew Johnson, and corrects
some in accuracies of previously written
biographies, which we copy:
HIS FIBST LOVE AFFAIB.
In John Savage’s "Life of Andrew
Johnson,” the reader is given the belief
that Mr. Johnson loved and was dis
appointed in his affeotions by their
object. Such is not the ease, so far as
the conclusion is stated. He did fall
in love with a yonng lady of good
family and estimable character. She
responded in the fullest degree, and
both anticipated great felicity in a
future life together. The parents of
the young lady, however, objected to
the marriage upon the grounds of Mr.
Johnson’s youth (he was yet in his
mkior years) and lack of means. Upon
hearing this, Mr. Johnson sought an
interview with the young lady, told her
of the decision of her parents and of
the oourse he himself had resovled
upon. With his native high principle
he said there was nothing left to them
but to part and forget what they had
been to each other. The lady felt
otherwise, and frankly told him she
would go with him wherever he might
lead, and that she would not hesitate to
trust her life and its keeping into his
hands. The strong pride and love of
fair dealing of Mr. Johnson could not
permit this, and, notwithstanding his
love, he denied the proposition and left
the place, only returning long years
after, when the lady was married and
the mother of a family. Thus, it will
be understood, that the lady did not
prove faithless and cause any wounded
feelings to the subject of this sketch.
HIS MARRIAGE,
After a time Mr. Johnson went to
Rutledge, in Grainger county, and re
mained there some six months. Before
leaving and while absent, Mr. Johnson
was paying his addresses to a young
lady who possessed a warm heart, strong
intellect, fair education and large indi
viduality and strength of character.
Mr. John Brown, who was then post
master, remembers that letters passed
between thorn during Mr. Johuson’3 stay
in Rutledge,his being written for him by
some friend, they must have been. Her
name was Miss Eliza MeGardell, and, up
on Mr. Johnson’s return, they were mar
ried, at Warrensburg, 17 miles -below
here. He brought his wife to Green
ville and rented a house which stood
upon the site of Mr. Brown’s present
store, putting his family into the rear
portion and converting the front into
a tailor shop, to be conducted by him
self and Hentle W. Adkinson, his
partner.
PROGRESS IN LETTERS.
Mr. Johnson was a hard student, and
every moment spared from his work was
given to his search into books. After
the day’s work was finished he would sit
until late in the night reading and
stndying.
It has been stated and generally believ
ed that his wife taught him how to read.
This is not the correct report. He bad
learned how to read, but in learning to
write, to make calculations and properly
use language, she indeed gave him much
assistance, and she became to him a
person of reference when he could not
comprehend some of the huiuei luutine
matters in hand at the time. Mrs.
Johnson’s education and sympathy with
him were great aids to him, and he
always referred to his early struggles
after learning with evident gratitnde
for the part she assumed.
HIS FIRST CANVASS.
In 1835, Maj. James Britton, father of
David Britton, present clerk of cur cir
cuit court, announced himself a candi
date for the legislature. The counties
of Greene and Washington were then .
entitled to one representative-a floater
—and Britton went to Jonesboro to open
the canvass. Mr. Johnson quietly took
horse for the point. Britton made bis
speeob, with evidentsnccsss. Matthew
Stevenson, the then floater, aleo made a
speech, announcing himself for re-elec
tion. Mr. Johnson then took the stand,
and to tho surprise of the crowd, an
nounced his candidacy for the position
and made a strong speech, full of native-
sense and rugged eloquence, in which
he completely used up his opponents.
The crowd ware carried with him irre
sistibly, and when he concluded, the
people wont wild with enthusiasm, and
shouted lustily for " the speaking tail
or.” Britton withdrew from the race,
and Mr. Johnson heat Mr. Stevenson
with a large majority.
A New Era for the South.
A new and promising era has dawned
upon the States where once KingOotton
held undisputed sway. Southern plant
ers have experimented in the way of di
versity of products, and the experiment
has proved a wonderful success. If it
had been predicted ten years ago that
any of the cotton-raising States would
in the year 1875 have a surplus of cereals,
the existing facts and prospeots of the
times would hardly have borne oat the
prophesy. Yet such is the fact. The
States of Tennessee, Arkansas, Missis
sippi, and Alabama will this year have
enough and to spare, and the southern
farmers are proud and happy. In addi
tion to this unprecedented grain yield,
the old staple, though reduced iu acre
age, has by a more thorough system of.
cultivation rewarded the planters as'
never before, and they boast of an inde-
E endence that has heretofore been un-
nown to that portion of the country.
They olaim that with their surplus of
breadstuffs they can obtain the means
by whioh they will be enabled to hold
their cotton, take advantage of the mar
ket, and cell for cash instead of follow
ing the practice that has almost univer-
sallyjobtained of mortgaging their crops
early in the season at ruinous figures.
How far this state of faots will influ
ence the prioes of grain in the West re
mains to be seen.—Chicago Tribune.
Steel Direct fbom Iron Obb.—M.
Ponsard’s apparatus for producing steel
direot from the iron ore, as described
in La Metallungie, consists principally
of an arrangement for transforming tho
fuel in a series of large chambers, and
of an apparatus in briok oalled tho re-
ouperator of heat, whioh receives the
flames from the furnace, and restores
the caloric in the form of hot air. The
compartments of the furnace serve suc
cessively for the reduction of the ore,
for the reactions whioh are effected,
and, finally, for the fusion of the whole
charge in such a manner that the
separation of tlm component parts is
effected by the uiuereuue ui ueututy.
These various phases of the operation
require very different temperatures,
and the production ef these is the
special object of the apparatus. On
the side of the furnace doors the tem
perature is only that of red heat,
while beyond the heat is so great that
the eye is unable to support the. inten
sity of the glow—this extraordinary
heat being estimated, in fact, at not
less than 3,632 degrees Fahrenheit.
The result obtained by means of thin
process is considered to demonstrate
possibility of producing steel direot
from the ore without any of the trans
formation necessary under existing sys
tems.