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sjatoso# dalrchln Journal PUBLISHED KVEKT THURSDAY. rEtt MS— Strictly in ±1 titan re. Three months ? 76 pix months.. 1 26 One year 2 00 7 Advertisers The money for ad ding considered due after first inscr °Advertise3ients inserted at intervals to be ~fr „ e<3 as new each insertion. An additional charge of 10 per cent will ymado on advertisements ordered to be in l, rted on a particular page. Advertisements under the head of “bpe jl Notices” will be inserted for 16 cents ~r line, for the first insertion, and if) cents ler line'foreach subsequent insertion. ' Advertisements in the “ Local Column,” .illbe inserted at 25 cents per line for the j. r6 t and 20cent- per line for each subse quent insertion. All communications or letters on business intended for this office should be addressed “This Dawson Journal” LEGAL ADVERTISING RATES. 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We hereby give final no- I lice that no advertisement of this class wil , he published in the Journal without the fee ispaid in advance, only in cases whpre we have special arrangements to the contrary fvofrtftaixl ®ard. I, It. GUFRRT, JA9. 0. PARKS. GUERRY & PARKS, jlttorpeys aiid Coligelor? at Lain, DAWSON, - GEORGIA. ■ —:o: — 1 PRACTICE in the State and Federal Courts. Collections made a specialty.— Promptness and dispatch guarantied anil insured. Nov ltf Hr. F. SIMMONS, jltt'y at Lai* & Ileal tyate jlg’t, Dawson, Terrell County, Ga. SPE IAL a tention given to collections, conveyancing and investigating titles '6 Real Estate. Oct 18, tf T. H. PICKETT, Att’y & Counselor at Law, OFFICE with Ordinary in Court House. All business entrusted tc his care wil! leeeive prompt and efficient attention. Ja!o •T. J. BECK, Attorney at Law, ’lnigsiii, Cnllioini Comity, Ga. Will practice in the Albay Circuit and e'.se vltere in the State, by Contract, /’rompt at' tention given to all business entrusted to his cire. Collections a specialty. Will also in reßtiirate titles and buv or sell real Estate in dalbaun, Baker aud A?arly Counties, march 21—tf L. G CARTLEDGE, Attorney at Law ’IORGA.y, - - GEORGIA. CHILL give close attention to all busi * * ness entrusted to his cate in Albany circuit. 4-Iy L. C- HOYL Attorney at Law- Dnwoon, Georgiti. I. JANEB. C. A. MCDONALD- Janes & McDonald, Attorneys at Law, DAWSOV, - GEORGIA. Office at the Court House. 7an.V ()tK CATALOGUE for 1878. 'a o| 100 pages, printed on tinted paper, detaining Two Elegitul Colored “liilca and illustrated with a gieat nu ii her °f engravings, giving prices, description cultivation of plants, flower and vegetal * fe seeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, etc., will be ®ii!ed for 10 cents, which we will deduct r °w first order. Mailed free to our regular customers. 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Din/' 1 * for term 9 to agent* of the grand f .,, e emitted “The Illustrated Lord's Jer - H. M. CRIDER, Pub , York, P*. THE DAWSON JOURNAL BY J. r>. HOYL & CO, , Hnw .Joe Weakened. In that great horse shoe Lend of the Little Bear paw Mountain, which catches a great flood of sunshine at noon-day, we had a village. Sixty strong and sturdy meii weie digging into the base ot the black-topped mountain in search of silver. We were not in luck, and though each man was gloomy and discourag ed, there was no excuse for murder. We had banded together toshate and share alike, and if fortune smiled on one all would receive benefit*. One night when the day’s toil of fif'y-seven men yielded an estimate of only SG, the miners cursed and swore and felt like stiiking each other. We were short of provisions, new tools were needed, and the men turned in for the night with a determination to strike fur some other locality if the next day’s wo:k should exhibit like barren results. At midnight there was a great out- I cry. It was not an Indian altack, as ! each miner anticipated when he lush ed out, but a horrible murder had j been committed, and the murderer captured by one of the s ntinels. A miner uamed Joseph Swain, but hard ly known in camp by any other name thin “Joej” occupied a tent in com pany with an old man named Arnold. The two were on good terms, but while Arnold had about &300 in gold coin, acquired in speculations, Swain hadn’t a dollar outside the common land. The gold was buried in the earth under the bed on which the two tdept, and Swuir. could not get at it oy night without arousing his companion. Had he secured it during the day and made off he would have been overhauled very quiukly, and his punishment nothing less than hanging. It could be no more if he added murder to the lobbsry, and that night, when we all felt so bitter against luck, and when partners felt so much like striking each other, Joe Swain muidered the man who had done eo much for him. He was get ting away with the gold when halt ed, and though he made a sharp fight for liberty he was tied hand aud foot within five minutes aft9r the first alarm. Arnold was dead, stabbed in three or four places, and the gold was found in Joe’s belt. Thore was nj show for I the murderer. Ho could not even plead impulse or heat of parsion. In deed he was not the one to avoid con sequences. He made a statement to the effect that he had deliberately murdered and robbed the goed old man, and added : “Now, boys, there’s no use of a great fuss over this ma'ter. Put a guard over rre, and the rest of you go back to your sleep. You’d hang me, of course, and when morning comes I shall have a request to make. I shan’t try to get away, and I am not going to play the baby when the last bon r comes.” Joe Swain was known among us as a game man. He had fought Mexi cans, trailed Indians and killed three or font wl ite ruffitns who had mi.de themselves a terror to certain locali ties. Armed with his bowie-knife he would have been a match for any four of us, and it was owing to his pres ence more than that of any one else that our village was not troubled with the roughs and gamblers who attach themselves like leeches to other camps. Murder was a crime that could not bo palliated in a mining camp. Had it been anything else the majority of the men would have been in favor of letting Joe jump the diggings and go unpunished. But when they looked in on the white-faced and blood-stain ed cor[ so of the good old man who had been like a father to all of them, each heart hardened against the mur derer, and each man said to the oth. er: “Joe Swain must hang for this !” There was no need of a trial. When he was brought out after breakfast, he sa : “Boys, I don’t want any fuss over ♦his thing. I killed the old man, and t is your duty to swing me up to a limb. I knew what I was up to, and I knew I’d have to stretch a rope if I couldn’t get away. I don’t deserve a kind word L nd I shau’t look for any sympathy. The request that I want to make is that you won’t hang mo till sunset. I know it is bad to have one of these affairs hanging around the camp all day, but yet it won t make no great difference to you as long as you are working for almost I nothing. Now then all in favoi 4 of | waiting till sunset to hang me say aye'” “Aye I” shouted every mau around him. “Those opposed will say no!” Not a voice was heard. “The ayes have it, aud lam to be I hung at sundown,” continued Joe, j“I want to wiite half a dozen letters j and sleep for two or th ee hours and I hope you won’t crowd in on me. Select your tree, get your rope ready and whan the time comes I’ll be on : hand.” If Joe had been o captive in the j hands of the Indians, end was to be burned at the stake at sundown, eve ry miner would have wagered his out fit that Joe would have died game. In this case, where he was to meet a disgraceful death at tho hands of the men who had worked and fought be side him for months, most of the aim ers thought h’d take the noose with out the quiver of a muscle ; but there were two or three who said: “He is a brave man, but when he takes his last look around he will weaken.” Before the day was four hours old there was a st'argo wager between two of our men. It was rifle against rifle that “Joo Swain would show £ woman’s heart before he swimg off. The doomed man was left to himself all day lorg. A strong guard was placed about his tent, but no one en tered it to interrupt the work of his last hours The corpse of his victim was buried at the foot of the lone tree on which Joe was to swing, end as the six men carried the body past near his tent the murderer came out and stool with uucovered head toshow his respect for the dead. He wtote five letters, drew up a brief will, ate a full meal about mid-afterncon, and about half an hour before sundown he was ready. Before starting for the tree, he said ; “After I am eoDo you will find my will. Tne letters in there are to be forwarded as scon es convenient. This is a shabby old suit of clothes to be hung in, but it’s all I had, and I couldn’t go around borrowing. Have you got the rope nnd the barrel ready?” “Yes, everything is all ready,” re p’ied a voice. * That’s right,” said Joe. “Now, then, fotm in procession, give a con spicious place, and we’ll march along.’’ Tne man wasn’t smiling. His face was pale, his eyes had an anxious look, and it was plain that he realiz ed the grimness of his last hour on earth. The procession was formed, and Joe marched away for the tree as steadily as a soldier on parade. His h"ndß and feet were free, and as he halted beside the old barrel, with the noose dangling above his head fie said: “Boys, tie my bands behind my back, and after you lift me up tie my feet together. If you mako a bungle of this you’ll get a bad uame all thr: ugh the diggings.” When Joe stood on the barrel, the noose around his neck, the men fell back a little. He looked from man to man with steady eye, looked up at the limb, and then looked over the heads of the men out upon the green prairie. The sinking sun had filled I the grass with millions of sparkling | jewels. A score of antelope were trot ting along about a mile away; great birds were sailing toward the Rocki es with lazy wing ; the fLwere nover seemed so thick and beautiful as then. For a moment we all looked south watd, and there was something in the vision that softened every heart. When ws looked up at Joe again we hardly knew him. All the hard lines had melted out of his face, his eyes were full of tears, and there was a sob in his throat, as he turned and whispered : “Don’t blame me, boys—it is my last look on earth ! Now, do your du ty !” Not a man moved —not a man could move. Taking a swift glance over the prairie and another up the mountaio aide, Joe softly said: “God forgive me that I was not a better mao—” He fell forwerd eff the barrel, bis own executioner, and no man dared looked up, until the body hung limp and lifeless. DAWSOX, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 18,1878. : Joe had weakened. All those who had bet on his "game” hist. Yet, when we talked it over in low voices at tho camp fire we agreed that brave j Joe’s * ravest act of a lifetime was shown when the tenderness was al lowed to creep into bis heart and his eyes to fill with tears —when he prov ed to us that he had a soul. Whiskey Facts. P T. Barnurn spoke on temperance in New York recently. Speaking of the nutritive qualities in whisky, he said' “There’s some nutrition in a potato, but there’s no mote nutrition in a glass ot whisky than in a pound !of ten penny naifs. Whisky won’t digest. I’ll undertake to say—and I’ll give SI,OOO to this society if my words are not proved true—that if you take blood from the veins of any drinker, even a moderate one, you can distil alcohol from it. The old fasioned doctors used to kuow about this. Whisky makes men mad. It had the same effect in sbakespeare’s time, when they had a bettor article. I picked ut> a book in London which gave recoips for the manufacture of all k'nds of liquors which could be sold at 50 cents a gallon. What do you suppose they usei? Capsicum, litharge, potash, white lead, sulphuiic acid, strichnine, prussich acid, and when the ale was flat, it was to be enlivened with ten pounds of putrid horse flesh.” Snake-Bitten at Second Hand. —A Mr- Bray, who lives at six-mile Can non, left a cane at tho town of Sut.o, and asked a friend who was going to Sutro last Smday to get the cane. Tie fiiond started home with the cane? but on the way came upon a rattle snake. He struck the snake with the cane and broke the cane in two. He then began punching tho snake’s head to pieces with the sf liutered en ’ of the caup, and finally' killed it. When he got home he told Mr. Bray a bout breaking the cane. Bray said he was glad the pieces were brought to him, as he could put them together. He took the two pieces aud fitted them in place and then sat down to his dinner. Ho had a small 6ore on his hand, and soon began to complain of a teriible jumping pain, therein. In a few minutes D became evident that he had gotten some of the poison t.f the snake into the sore by handling the cane. He was put through a regular course of treatment for snake bite, and in about three d-ys came out all right- The poison affected him as though the snake bad bitten his haod.— Virginia City (Eev.) Enter prise. Figlit It out. The following clipped from the Cit izen Soldier, is respectfully recommend ed to the serious consideration of lazy and desponding yourg men : Peter Cooper failed in making hats; failed as a cabinet maker, locomotive builder and grocer, but as often as lie failed he tried again, until lie could stand upon his feet alone, then crown ed his victory by giving a mil lion dollars to help the poor boys fn time to come. Hoiace Greely tried three or four lines of buiness before he fmindod the Tiibune, and made it worth a million dollars. Patuck Henry failed at everything he undertook, until he made him self the ornament of his ago and na tion. The founder of the Nrtc York Her ral kept on failing and sinking his money for ten years, and then made one of the most profitable newspa pers on earth. Stephen A. Douglas made dinner tables and beadsteads many a long year before he made himself a giant on the floor of Congress. Abraham Lincoln failed to make both ends meet by chopping wcL>d ; to earn his salt in the galley slave life of a Mississippi flat boatman; be had not even wit enough to run a grocery, and yet he made himself a grand character of the niu6teeuth century. General Grant failed in everything except in smoking cigars ; he learned to tan hides but could not sell hides enough to buy him a pair of breech es. He “brought up” on tep of a wood pile, teaming it to town tor S4O a month, and yet Le rose to the presi dency. THE RARE OLD DAYS. “Bill Arp” In His Oltl lluunts Again. Special Correspondence Constitution. Gainesville, Ga., June ‘29 Mr. Editur: — I have taken a re cess, and m now luxuiiatin’ in and abi ut the scenes of my cbilhood.— Half a century ago the family doc‘or found me not far from this place, one lovely morning iu June. Considerin’ our present sta'us and the amount of devilment done in by-gone years, it is right hard to imagine that you and me were once dear little sweet inno cent Labes, aint it? Sometimes I think it would have been better had we been Ooru little cusses and got bol ter instead of worse as we grew up to manhood. My fond mother always said I was a promising child, and firmly believed I would some-day be either a preacher or a presodent. I don’t know that she lias altogether givon it up yet, but everybody else has- “Twas in this salubrious region I got my educa'io'i, at a manual labor school, and by wot kin’ 3 hours a day on the farm, ballanced off for my board. The ludiments of farmin’was there instilled iuto about a hundred of us congregated from all parts of the state and myself excepted, embra ced the wealtheß*, lazyest, and mis cheivous set of devils ever pened up ogether. I have never forgotton those rudiments which were mainly labor-savin' devices, such ass ippir > the line’.-pins out of toe wagons, hiding the breast ebanes. tying tom cats to the cows’ tail puttin’ bee-gums in the recitation rooms and ptovin up yaller j tekots’nests just to see the horses runaway. It wag in thesa parto I first tasted the heavenly juice in achool-girlß lips I felt like Isac when he kissed Rebec ca and lifted up his voice and wept and I can almost weep now athiukin’ about it. Oh, tuemmory -sweet mm mory—what would I give for power to recall the blessedness of that mo ment', and kiss that girl again. It was nut far from here that I first found out it was not good for a man to live alone, and alter a brief ooartship the love ot my youth took me up as tenderly as Mary took up her little pet lamb. She gently put on the bridal and the gear, and I’ve been workin’ in single harness ever since. Oh, blessed chains—delightful Sing Si^g—when a man gits used to it he (eels like it is the only life that wi 1 fit him for heaven. Thero was no special fuss made over our nup" tial—no dietnon rings—no fancy trusso froii New York —no long ga 'axy of attendance —but there was a preacher and a license—a brief cer;- rnony that I didont hear afw prom, isos that I assented to and which have ever since been kept fresh and green in my roemnrtoiy. We made no wedding tour to Niagara or New York, for the prudent old folks, of blessed inetnmory thought a ride to Gainesville would do as well, and so it was here that we sought the Elysiac fields and found them. Well as to that we would have found them any where considerin’ our frame of mind Flue Giz/ard, Shake Rag, Clinches Pop Skull, Wolf Skin, or any other precinct in the county would have seemed as lovely as a paradice. I well remruember the old family carriage we traveled in --with its stair-case steps that led down to the ground and folded up in tho door like a pock et-book- -the cupalo seat for the dri ver and the venerable darkey who filled it, drtssed up iu old military coat with brass buttons all over it, and wearing a bell-crowned hat about fif ty years old and when so arayed he was as happy as a king. Peace to thy ashes, old Yngih If there be horses and chariots in heaven, may be thiiu art happy still. And now, when I recall the congen trated bliss of that delightful tour I say, young man if you can find a ! pretty girl built up from the ground ] all right, and standing rquar on her | paster joints, go take her and be happy —that is if you can get her, but ! don’t marry a tiusso with the girl thiowd to. ’There is trouble in this political camp. The pot is biliu. Four men in the field and more a waitin. Three of my’fiiends look mity serious, and told me in confidence there was no salva tion hut harmonize on some good man. I think any one of them could be persuaded to make the sscrafico for the good of the party. The lon- VOL 14 -isro. 20. ger I live the better I am satisfie 1 there is such a thing as disinterested I benevolence. Willingham told me j that if the worst came to the j worrt they would take up ao Atlanta man who had bought a lot in Buford. He said that made him eligible. I've a strong notion to bum a lot in Bu ford my,-elf. In haste Bu,t A nr. P. S.—l met Harris at the Kim ball and he wouldn’t eat nothing hut fish. He said it was brain food, and if he didn’t eat slieephenda twice a day he couldcnt nigh get up them brilliant paragraphs. I thought I discivered sheeephead iu ern. Do keep him in fish. B A. How l>ixie Became a Nation al Air. In 1857, when 0 irnphcU'a Minstrels weie at Mobile, Dan Emmet, one of the members of the company, hea'd the negroes sing an air ami chorus while rolling cotton on the levee. He '.nought it good, so by a little alteration he arranged it into what is called a “walk around,” which always winds up the entertainment of au Ethiopian concert. It was a success. In the spring of 1801, when the war broke out, Mrs. John Wood came to New Orleans to play an engagement at the old Varieties Theatie. She produced ‘Pocahontas.” Near the close ot tha second act there is a zou ave march by the ladies of the “corps de ballefte.” At tiie rehearsal of the piece, the leader of the orcheetra w s in a quandary as to what music they would hava. Carlo Patti could not select anything that would sait. the stage manager, T. B. McDonough, and the cousequence was the rehear sal came to a standstill. At length Patti struck up “Dixie.” It suited and was ad >ptod and played with a chorus to the sine air. “Dix ie” took the town by storm; the pi anos rang with i'; the boys sang it and the negroes whistled it. A man sician by the name of Romeo Miners arranged it for a inarch for the Wash ington Artillery. Bit ery, and bom that liourall Southern in m and wo men hailed it with delight. Cold must he the Southern head that dues notg'ow with delight at the sound of our dear “Dixie.” But the composer, Dan Eiume , what of him? Why, he can be found in a very common rarie'y saloon in Chicago now, play ing on his fiddle for a mete pittance, eking out a miserable existence by playing “Dixie” tu an admirin { crowd of uewpaper boys, roughs au i boer jerkers. .Snuff Dipping. Sunrnj Soil h ; It is not generally known to what extent this prac'icr of dipping snuti' trued in some sec tions of our fair S. nth, nor how mi’- rons and young girls of inteligence and high social standing are slaves to a habit that gradually undermines their health, shatters their nerves and too oftbn insidiously opens the doors to the teirihle opium habit. Snuff dipping is demoralizing in the first instance, because in most ca ses it fosters concealment and deceit The habit is kej t secret from parents aud friends We know daughters whoso snuff bottles are concealed in their rooms, whore they iue it constantly without the_know'edge*uf their parents. We have seen at hoarding sci ols, girls go into hysterics when deprived of then snuif and borrow tobacco from the servants, as a substitute until they could obtain their nsua! stimulaut of Sto'ch and Macoaboy; and we are are well at quanted with throe—beau tiful young girls weie it not for the sallow hue tarnishing their curnplee tions—who are at present under ruod ical treatment lor derangec entof the nervous system and digestive organs arising from the constant use of suuff. Their physicians have assured them that it was the cause of the disease thus blighted their, young lives, and that medicine must be in vain as long as the rrac ice was continued and still they cling to their snuff bot tles as persis'eutly as the toper to his demijohn Aud this when they know that this vile poison nourishes the worm disease at the root of life, si leutly, slowly, but surely destroying it ere its ptime; for aside from the filthi ness of this habit, the constant drain of the salivary glands, produced by frequent spitting and the na'cotine poison of the weed itself, throw the pelicately balanced svs'em out of or der aud bring a train of diseases to render life insupportab'y burdensome. Don’t rely upon friends—dor.'t rely upon the Dame of your ances'ors. Thousands have spent the prune of life in vain hope of help frum those they call friends, and many thous ands have starved because they had rich fathers. Rly upon the good n ime which ij made by your own ex eitions, and know that betlertlian the best friend you have is unques fiona ble determination, united with decis jin of character. Our Senator at Botnfe. j** * * * Iu tho afternoon of the sims lay a large au fence assetnVeJ iu the col lege.chapel fo hear the address to the graduating class, delivered by Judge I Clarke. Those who have had the, privilege of houring this distinguished Georgian are aware of his power.— Peisonallya strangir to this communi ty, his reputation ga’hered for him a largo audience though tha hour was very unseasonable. His theme was ' discussed in a most scholarly manner, j From the beginning to the end the ex quisite taste of tho diction, the grand eur of the sentiments, and the iointi ! table grace of the orator held the at tention of tho assembly in profound silence. Judge Clarke is the Benator elect of the 11th district of Georgia.— His ta'ents, which have always plac id him in the front rank of his peers, will certainly make him prominent in ■ our next General Assembly.— Tufa* graph §' Messenger. Good Digestion. “Give u3 this day our daily bread” and good medicine to digest it, is both reverent and human. The human etoniach and liver are fruitful sources of life’s comforts; or, disordered and diseased, they tingle misery along every nerve and t'nrougheveiy artery. Tho man or woman withyoorf digestion. seen beauty as they walk, anrl overcome obstacles they meet in the rotine of life, where the dyspeptic sees only gloom and stumbles and growls at every imaginary object. The world still needs two or three new kinds of medicine before death can be perfect ly abolished ; but that many lives havo been prolonged, end many sufferers from Liver disease, Dispepsia and Headache, have been curod Mkhhku.’s Hnr.VTi.vn, is no longer a doubt. It cures Headache ia twenty minutes, and there is no question but n bat it is the most wonderful discovery yetmado in medical science. Those afflicted with Biliousness aud L’ver Complaint should use Mbkkkll’s Uki’atine. It can be bad at Du. J. R Jaxes. There are seventy-six members of the Bonate, aud it costs $209,235 tt year for one hun Ired anl tweuty-ono employes in salaries. There are two hundred and ninety-three Representa tives aud eight doingites from Terri tories in the House, and it costs $225,- 165 for,salaries of employes Tho Senate clerks are paid about twenty five pur cent, more than those of the House. At those rates the clerks of the Senate averageeacli Senator about $2 753, while those of the House av erage each Representative about $7lB. The Senate has obstinatoly re sisted all attempts to make the ecus pensatiou of is employes correspond with that of tha employes of the Douse. A lad, ratlior small for his years, work- in an office as errand boy for four gentlonu-n. One day the gen tlemen were chaffing him about be ginning so small, and said to him: ‘ You never will amount to much ; you never can do much business; you are toe small.” The httlp fellow look ed at them. “Well,” said he, “as small a? I am, I can do something which uone of you four men can do.” “All! what is that! said they. “I can keep from swearing!” said the little fellow. There was some blushes on four manly faces, and there seemed to be very little anxiety for further information on that poiut. He sot him down on the steps that had been newly painted—and when he riz to travel home—That gal of his —she fainted. Sombny has taken trouble to write a book about “How to Find the Stars.” Don’t want to read it—step on a bit of orang • peel. > —— A Cincinnatti piper say*: “The lat est thing in hose—the fee:.” Does the man put on his stocking over nis head '! A knock dowu argument is usually propounded. The Houston Telegram says there is a paper at Brownsville, T *xas,print ed one half in Spanish and the other in Josh Billings. In making a strawberry short-cake core should tie taken to have the ber ries in excess of the saleratus. When he was a young man ho rushed into a burning building and gallantly dragged her out by the hair of the head. They were married the next winter, and now she rushes in and drags him out by the hair of the head whenever she foal like if. Such is true love. A Steam Carriage. Whilst driving on the Champa E'ysees, says a recent Paris letter, we had a view of a very neat vehicle dri ve n by steam, which was being test ed on a sidestreat running parrallel with the main drive. It moved along steaddy over the stone pavement ai the rate of about six miles an hour stopped in an instant, when required and when it reached the end of the rquar turner! around with all the ease that a carriage and pair of horsco could be turned, and requiring hard ly as much space. It was very neat and compact, and male no noise. Very liltie smoke coming cut of a funnel in the top, which was net mue than ten inches high. The whole vehicle was not more than twelve feet long, and there were seats for about sixteen passengers. It had something of the appearence of a handsome omnibus moving along without horses.