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SOUTHERN BANNER: JANUARY 15, 1878. Hoiimlin ' Ilayes. Scheme*of the Ill'Wtly shirt Fart 1'iM Io Take Ills Scalp—lil sixty IK.ys lie nil) lie a Radical IViMiacriir an Kill(-" Maybe (Irani, Hay* h« Conkling, Hayhr a Dark llnrac In ISSH.” friends in the Senate to prevent such wit*-’ Under instructions, the agent Then Bykor sat <lo.vu awhile and action?” at Austin kept a close espionage on r fleeted, and grow more Litter at ■‘lie has no (rinds thereat all. the depot • Saturday .night he saw the hard times, and grumbled at the Why. Stanley Matthews is only hike- j Henry break in, and tbefote that wor- slow pace which lie was compelled to wann ; and ns tor Hoar and Dawes, thy had had sufficient time to secure keep m is march toward riches. By they won’t he found with the minori-' his booty and[ escape, th* agen:, with and by: he givw sleepy, and he ty—yon may depend on that.” j officers and posse, seized him in the thought he wou'ej go home; iS Washington Special to Cincinnati Enquirer.] There is reason to believe tiiat the radical Republicans who oppose the administration have perfected a plan which will f. >rce Hayes out ol the , . ^ Republican party within sixtv days t t r OI -» ' v *‘° have affaliuted with a ; under hetitious names, they would re- toward his rcs dcn. c nvenes A pr«»m-; mal1 l ^ u * !l beeause h“ di* j main uncalled for, to be eventually j As he tlrew m ‘ vided with d go home; and went “Have you auy hopes for 1880?*’j act o. robbery. The object appeared Fnr.his overcoat and shoes. Sbiiimyay, ‘‘Indeed, we have. Before that! to he to extract the most valuable ar- he didn’t seem to fecol cct anvthiiig time \re will |flaee tb^yj)cina^uc j ti$Je3 from the boxes, nail them up- after that, until ho stepped ptF the party in the light of a party for plan- j again, and. as they had “been ordered * street cars op toM'il' aml tv: Iked away after Congress reconvenes. Apr siient Radical, who was 1 one of the most influential monikers Of the Re publican party during tb- G:ynt reuinic, is authority t«» r the above statement. In conversation to-day, he said: “ Ms. Hayes Iras gone too lhr. If veil will remember, when Mr. Grant first become President he had some such ideas as Mr. Hayes seems to bay . He thought he could run the party, but inside of six months we convinced him that the parly was more powerful than himself. When Haves started oft’ on the same track we said it would take about three months t>> cure him of his tolly ; so we pot up with his ingratitude,and have given him every opportunity to prove to his own satisfaction that he mast obey the party if be is to have any power But he has proved less trac table than Grant. Ho is not a man of any thing !ik • as strong will as Grant had, lint he seems to be com pletely infatuated, with his own in fallibility, and that is the worst sort of a man for liie j*».;y to deal will*. ; Besides he is watched c instantly. Evans and Sehur/. tel! him lie is all rig!,-, and all the while are moulding him like putty, and using him to ad vance ilu ir own political ends.” “ Well, General, what do your people propose to do about it?” queried your correspondent. “ We propose to drive him out of the parly.” “ How are you going to work to do that ? ?: “ Well, I am not at liberty to tell you thai.” “ Are you quite sura you can do I that ?” w • “Yes, indeed ; we hlive no doubt about it.” T “ Has not Mr. Hayes too much strength with the people?” The General, laughingly’—“Well, I suppose he lias a sort of sentimental strength in the groat cities, but you see politics are not managed by sen timciit.” “ But is not there a division amomr your leaders ?” “ Nothing to speak of.” “ Will B nine and Conkling work together?” “Yes, there is a perfect understanding between them, and they are working together to de throne Haves.” “ Is there any truth in the report that a haiujhet is to be given them after Congress reassembles?” “ Where did you hear that ?’’ “ Never mind ; is it true ?” “ Well, I don’L know ns I am at liberty to say yes, but I will not say no.” ‘ Then I an. right in my state ment ?” “ You are not far wrong.” “ Tell me. General, how you are going to work t<> read Ilayes out of the party ?’’ “ As I said before I am not at lib erty to give you details; but the task is not so difficult as you imagine.” “ I suppose you will light bis nomi nations?’’ “ That will depeud. Those we do not like we will either reject or hang up in committee, if vie are not sure of votes enough to reject them; but we will do something more effective than merely to antagonize his nomi nations.” “ What else can yon do?” near his i them. \Y e solidity the j returned to the original shippers, and, ; Bolter was surprised to New York State. The as there would be a deficifrin the con- riage : t his door ami .examination, the loss j collected aroni aliv fall upon the express were carrying a party money question will lie nut of the way in Ohio, and we will carry both States, and Indiana.’’ “ Whom will you run ?” “ Maybe Grant, may lie Conkling, maybe a dark horse. Blaine doesu’t want the nomination in 1*80 ” “ You are hojieful, certainly.” Inside of sixty days you will say we have cause to be Mark my words.’’ A Bold Plan. Robbery of I In- Sunthern Express Company Frns- trat.d—The Uebbrr Arrested, bat Attain at l-arKe. tents upon would uaiuial company. Henry, the escaped thief, is repre- home, ?e a ear- tnd a crowd »uji«L T.wq_jnen lurden of some kind up the s eps, and glancing at the doorway, he saw l.is wife and daugli sen ted to be one of the sharpest men j ter Florence writ ging their hands, ever seen about here. Not long ago and gazing at the moving figures, he came to this city, represented him self to be a Mason uiuluin destitute circumstances ; that he^uot only re ceived substantial aid and letters of: news to him. Bolter darted forward, and in a .Foment was met by -ome of his neig ibors, who broke the painful [M cinphis Ledger, SStli.l Several merchants of this city were surprised and delighted, a few days before Christmas, by receiving large orders for valuable and costly goods, to be sent C. O. D. to stations near Little Rock. Ttie goods were shipped by Byrd & Co, Loyd A Fritz, B. Lowerstine & Bros., Kremer, Herzog & Co. and ethers as ordered. It was stated in the letters that the goods were intended as bridal presents at a big wedding to come of! in the neigh borhood. One ot the houses was to ship to Austin, another to Jackson- port, and another to Bebee^amlfeca- tioos near each other on the Cairo and and Fulton road. The Little Rock Gazette of yesterday tells the story of the attempt to steal these goods, the arrest of one of the robbers and his escape as follows: In the last issue of the Gazette we noted the arrest of a man at Austin, who was captured in the depot in ilie act of robbing 9 package ot jewelry, shipped by J. V. Zimmerman, Esq.,' of this city. The robber proved to be one A. W. Henry, of whom but little is known, he having been in that place only a short time. The theif was brought to this city Christmas day by order of Mr Agee, of the express company. Thinking Henry had ac complices, it was deemed advisable to hold him over here one day, in order to extract iuformatim front him prior to his transfer to the Lonoke jail. Christmas night he was placed in room No. 28 of the Capital Hotel, in com pany with Mr. Connell, detective of the express company; Mr. Salah Ap ple, of Beebe, and another gentleman, who were to act as guards to the pris oner. To make matters more biuding. Mr. Agee secured a pair of handcuffs, and, as Mr. Apple and the prisoner were to sleep in the same bed, the right wrist of one and the left wrist of the other were fastened together by bands of iron, the cuffs being safely locked, and the party retired to bed. Mr. Connell and the other guard oc cupied another bed in the same room. It appears that the guards, having been up the whole of the night pre vious, slept souudly, and during their sleep Ilenry slipped his hand front the bracelet, arose, dressed himself, pulled a table to the doos, placed a chair upon the table, thus reaching the transom, through which he made his exit, walk ing out of the hotel like a gentleman of elegant leisure and unlimit'd liber ty, the same which be enjoys at the present moment. The manner in which the thief was caught is as follows: The agents of I the express company noted shipments recommendation from prominent citt- i His only son, Paul, his pride, his zens, but was passed to Austin, the I hope, oil whose life centered his am- scene of his attempted - robbery, gra ! bition, had been thrown from a m»v- tuitously. Henry is ajisraail tuan, i ing train, and fearfully mangled. Life probably thirty five years of age, sal- • was not extinct, but the breath came low complexion, hazel eyes, dark mas- slow and painful, and the end was tache and chin whiskers; talks slowly, and, being well educated, uses good language. He is well educated, wore dark clothes, a Masonic badge, aud had a ring with an onyx set, upon which WH3 cut a cross.^He claims at one time to have been traveling agent for Win. Giles & Co , Maynard A Co. and Wornier & Co., St. Louis firms. nigh. They laid the bruised form on the snowy bed, an 1 Bolter threw himself on lus knees beside it in liclpluss agony. The physicians came and looked and turned away. There were whis pers in the parlor, in the corridor, sadness everywhere, for there was no Henry, in making hiseescape, car- j hope, ried with him the warrant upon which he was arrested, and also the mittimus for his committal to jail, and it is very likely that he will try^to make his way through the country, personating an officer in search of"a criminal or fugitive. Mr. Bolter’s Thanksgiving. “ I’ll be blamed if I have anything to be thankful for,” said Mr. Bolter. “ You can all go borne aud chaw away at your gobblejK'Tjdsinghymns ifycjn want to* tlferj&elp nothing to do in the store any4&y. Every body’ll have to stuff themselves to day, and of course business must stop. I wish the man that invented Thanks giving day had a turkey gobbler tied round his neck, and had to sleep aud eat with it.” And then Mr. Benjamin Bolter, merchant, kicked over a stool, and yelled at Peter, the office man, to look to the fires and close up for the day. The six men employed about the establishment silently left, except Peter, and while the latter silently carried out his employer’s instructions, Bolter sat down and thought it over. “ Such an idiotic custom,” said he to himself. “ It don’t matter a cent’s worth what the times have been, we’ve got to ha\ • ti ank giving reg’li r, and go on pretending we’ve been blessed, no matter how we have been persecuted. The whole country might be on the verge of starvation, and, d—11 it, they’d appoint one day in which the provisions should be all eaten up.’’ “This year has been the hardest one I’ve known. Everything’s shrunk. I’ve worked day and night, and if I get through and make both ends meet at the < nd of tlio 1 year. I’ll be lucky. Yet, they talk about thanks giving !” And then Mr. Bolter got up and paced about for a moment, and saw “Save him!” cried Bolt-r, my son, and take all I have—every thing, everything!” But tho doctors only told him to bear it man nlly, and shook their heads. “ Dead!” Bolter never realized how much t at word signified until he stood there and gazed into the face of his earthly idol. All night he sat half dazed; nor could be be induced to leave the room. Morning cy ne, and be walked be wildored :»U.m the house, noticing here and there the preparations for the fen oral. He opened a closet and and saw before him a coat worn by the boy, and then he broke down again and wept until the tears would no longer come. The next day eatne, aud the funeral service was read. Old Peter was there, bis sober, solemn face framed between others front the store, but looking out always pitifully at bis grief-stricken j but at master. At last came the lowering of the coffin, the fall of the clods, and the old, old words, “ Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.” Bolter stood till the last clod fell, and then followed the others away, back to the silent borne, back to com munion with his bruised heart, back to the weary round of existence. Ilis wife and daughter were left him, the former a patient, noble woman; the latter a sweet, modest girl, but the idol of bis heart was gone, and lie seemed to have little to live for now. “ I do not care to get rich,’’ he sa d to himself time and again, “now that he is gone. Business may take care of itself. No misfortune that can befall will affect me now.” But Bolter was mistaken. There came sudden reverses. At first lie almost smiled at them, but then came Wc can dictate almost every act j of goods “ C. O. D.” to parties at of his administration. If lie declines to accept our dictation, we can de* feat every measure that he proposes, unless the Democrats come solidly to his support; and whatever they carry through for him wc can, of course, denounce as a party, on the ground that it is no Republican doctrine.” “That would seem to imply de nunciation of the author of the doc trine ?’’ “ Of course.’’ “ Has not the President too many Austin from Byrd & Co, Memphis, to the amount of about three thousand dollars, and from Mr. Zimmerman, of this city, to the amount of three hun dred dollars. Knowing this to be an unsual order for a country town, more than an ordinary look-out was kept upon the goods, which were composed of quantities of silver ware, gold watches and other jewelry, but ordered in such bulk as to make the boxes or Peter standing by the stove. “ What are you standing there others, and he grew anxious, for?” said Bolter. “ I’ve closed up,” responded Peter. “Well!*’ exclaimed Bolter. “ If you haint got no more for me to do,’’ said Peter, “ I’d like to get off.” Oh, you would!’’ replied Bolter. “ I ’spose you’ve got a turkey to eat, too, and thanks to give ?” “ Not turkey, ’zactly,” said Peter, scratching his head, “ but we has a pigeon or two, sir.’’ “ Humph!” growled Boiler. “ Well, go on; but mind you, you be back bright and early in the morning, and ready for hard work.” “ Yes, sir,” said Peter, and slipped packages too large to admit of the lightly out the back door, and went local express agent locking them in his 1 on his way cheerily. Finally affairs became desperate, and he thoroughly roused niinself. But it was idle. His goods were seized and sold ; his very home was levied upon and soon passed from his possession. He gathered the little remnants of property he had saved, and moved his family into modest quarters. Soon ho was forced to leave these for humbler rooms, and necessity at last drove him to the filth floor of a tenement house, and started him out on the streets in search of work enough to save him self and family from starvation. Oh, how he looked back then to the bright days when he had abun dance, a cheerful home, a happy family, aud how he wondered that lie c uhl liave reputed at such a lot. , So the days went by ; and another j Thanksgiving day cs£|e around. Sit- t ng by the dying tynbers in his bleak quarters looking upon the pinched faces and shivering forms of his wife anil daughter; seeing no hope for the morrow, the strong man broke down completely, and drew himself on his coarse bed In utter despair. Laying there, convulsed with the great sobs which shook his frame, lie heard footsteps on the stairs, and then there came a knock at his door. His wife open'd it. and there stood old Peter, with a basket «>i v .-getaides on his arm, and in his hand a brace of very fat fowls. Peter took off his hat in the old fashion, and stammeringly said : “It huin’t turkey, ’zactly, yon see, Missus, but it’s a pigeon or two for Thanks giving.” Almost his wry words of a year before, and Bolter hushed his breath ing as he listened. “ You see,” continued Peter, “ I got a little work to do tills week, and bein’ as to-morrow was Thanksgivin,’ I thought I’d bring ’em around ” “ Bless bis noble soul,’’ thought Bolter. “ Could I speak to the boss a min ute?” said Peter, glancing toward the lied. i “ He’s asleep, poor man, returned j Mrs. Bo!tor. 1 *' Well, then you can teP him i when he wakes up,” said Peter, “that save there’s a good place open for him now in Carson’s warerooms, and they told me I might call around and say he could begin right away.” Mrs. Uniter caught Peter’s hands in hers, Florence began to cry, and Bolter lay perfectly still a minnte, almost airaid to breathe, but thinking that to-morrow would be, after all, the happiest Thanksgiving he had ever seen. Then he sat up on the bed, and, with the tears streaming down his face, held out Ids hands to Peter, and said, “God bless you, my faithful *riend,"€rod bk$p ydu !*’ And Peter grasped the profferfcd hand, but in a moment more began shaking him most vigorously, and crying out: “ Rouse up, sir; rouse t up! What can be the matter with you ?” Then his wile and Florence came, and tliei e was more shaking, and at last Mr. Bolter stood up and gazed, in a tlupified way, around, not at shabby tenement rooms, not at dying embers, not at Peter’s two pigeon’s, three astonished, though lattghing,faces, and at the well-fur nished office of his own store. “Why will you never wake up?” I said Mrs. Bolter. “ Here Peter has J been for five minutes trying to rou>c j you, and tho dinner will be cold, j We came alter you, fearing you would be late, and Paul is waiting in the carriage for us.” “ Paul!’’ exclaimed Mr. Bolter, “ Paul!” “ Yes, Pau’ ; but we should never have found you if old Peter hadn’t been going past with his pigeons and let us in. Come 1” Aud was this indeed alia dream? Was Paul spared to him as well as his home aud his business ? Mr. Bolter sat down in bis chair once more, and buried bis face in his hands. “ I thank God,” he said, “ that all these blessi gs, so undeserved and hitherto so unrecognized, have been spared to me. This shall be a day of thanksgiving, indeed, for me.” This is not a true story, but it ought to be, it may be yet to some who read it, and it will not be amiss to repeat the pray or of Bolter, and say: “ Thank God that all these bless ings, so undeserved and hitherto un recognized, have been spared to me.” Ahead of All COMPETITION u 0. ROBINSON' H as jsut returned from a visit amon trthe Principal PIANO and ORGAN factories iu Now York, Boston and other citics- having arranged for the Largest and moat coni, plcto assortment iver offered South, at prices ABSOLUTELY BEYOND COMPETITION! U Pm .* * Q™ Instruments OF EVERY VARIETY. Sheet Music and Music Boob, » THE LATEST PUBLICATIONS. Musical Merchandise, A d everything pertaining to a First Class Music House. TUNING .AND REPAIRING, PIANOS, Church, Pipe and Reed Organs, and all kinds of Musical Instruments Tuned and Repaired by Mr. C. II. Taylor, the beat skilled and one cd the most thorough workmen South. Mr. Taylor devoted nearly fifteen years in the construction of instruments in some of the best factories in this countrv, and is the anW authorized tuner for the AUGUSTA MUSIC HOUSE. G. O. ROBINSON & CO., ‘2S3 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. C. YV. LONG. E. C. LONG. C. i. long § Co., x> ‘crcsxsTS, ATHENS. GEORGIA. Wc offer a large aud welt .-elected stock of Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Varnishes, Oils, Anilines, Dyes, Patent Medicines, Hair and Tooth Brushes, Perfumery, Lily white Rouges, Colognes, Extracts, etc., Pox Sa.13 Very Cheap FOR CASH, Either at Wholesale Gf Retail. We call your atttention to cur COLOGNES, BAY RUM, I1A1R OIL, ETC sapU-ly No.w and Then.—It is only now and then that such men as Hon. Alex. II. Stephens, Ex-Gov. Smith and Ex-Gov. Brown of Ga., endorse a medicine for the throat and iungs, and when they ko it is pretty good evidence that the remedy must be good for the cure of coughs, colds and lung affee- tions. They recommend the Globe Flower Cough Syrup, and their testimonials are to be seen round the ten cent sample bottles of the Globe Flow*** Syrup, for sale by. Dr. C. W. Long & Co./ Athens, Ga. THE SOUTHERN MUTUAL KT'Sr, ATHENS, GEORGIA. YOUNG L. G. HARRIS, President STEVEN'S THOMAS, Secretary. Groa* Assets, April I. tSTJ, • • J7St.;,.i; u; Resident Directors. Youno L. G. Harris, John II. Newton, Dr. Henry Hull, Albin P. Hearing, Col. Robert Tuomas. iu>-22-wly Stevens Thomas, Eliza L. Newton, (Febdinano I’iiini:.r 1>r. R. M. Smith, John W. Nicholson, Meriwether <& Few, BLACKSMITH’S TWO SHOPS FOR 1877. One at the old stand in front ot Messrs. GANN & REAVES, The other ou the road to the upper bridge ani opposite Mr. JOHN Z. COOPER’S, Livery Stable. We have first class workmen HORSE SHOEING of every description, Plating and Concave Shoes Manufactured to order. WAGONS, BUGGIES, CARRIAGES, And all kinds of ’ '• Machines and Im plemenls repaired on short notice. jan'J-tf. J OB WORK OF ALL DESCRIP tior ~“utlv done at tl'ts offiep.