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. - .1 --- r.Vrr'A^J JOURNAL ANJ.) MESSENGER. CLISBY & JONES, Proprietors. • \ v > — w- THE FAMILY JOURNAL—NEWS—POLITICS- LITERATURE—AGRICULTUh E—DOMESTIG NEWS, Etc.—PRICE’$2.00 PER ANNUM. GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING ESTABLISHED 1826 MACOK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1880 — —j 1 - -'"if VOLUME NO—LV GRANT ON HANCOCK. A Violent Assault New Yoke, October 5.—The Times publishes the following: The Cincinnati Gazette will print to-morrow the report of an Interview between Rev. C. H. Fowler, D. D., and Gen. Grant, which gives some startling points in connection with the inside history of Hancock’s Order No. 40. Grant talked freely to Fowlir, an«J after the interview gave his written consent to its publication under, certain restrictions as to time. The.conveiisationllook place in Grant’s library at Galena, on the 21st of September. Speaking of Hancock, the ex-President said: '“Down tq.1804, he seemed like a man ambitious to do bis duty as an offi cer; but in 1864, when McClellan was nominated, Hancock received one vote, and that greatly excited and changed him. He was so delighted that he smiled all over. It crazed bird. Before that, we got on well; after thht, he Jvould Hardly speak to me. “I was working to enforce the laws of Congress, and he wa3 working for the presidency. Perhaps he thought I did not praise hi u enough, but anyway ho hardly spoke to me. “It was on my nomination that he was made a brigadier general In the regular army. When 1 was made geueral, Stan ton told me it was a compliment to me, and that I could name men to fill vacant cics in the licntenant generalship and major generalship caused by my promo tion. 1 nominated him for the vacant lniyor generalship jn tho regular army. He acknowledged it manfully. He was a very fair corps commander, but was never thought of for any great place. “When the army of the Potomac was hunting for a commander, it took almost everybody—even came over into the West for officers; but nobody ever even suggested Hancock for the place. “After lie received that vote in 18641X8 had the ‘bee in Ills bonnet* and shaped everything to gain Democratic and South ern favor. He has waited and planned and waited til! at last he ha3 received the Democratic nomination." 1 ' “Do you tiiink, Geueral, that his cele brated Order No. 40 represented the direc tion of his sympathies?” “Well, I will give you a true inner his tory of that Order No. 40. Congress was striving to prevent Andrew Johnson from undoing the reconstruction laws. When ever Congrrss passed a law Johnson bent his energies to defeat its enforcement, and would find pretexts to dodge round it. Then Congress would pass another law to hedge him up there. So it went on till Congress had taken from him all control of the generals commanding the seven districts'of the South except the power to remove them and appoint others in their places. These commanders could remove any civil officer of any grade, judge or governor. When I was made general ami they were determining my powers and duties they gave the general, by accident I think, or without seeing all it involved, co-ordinate power with these district commanders, and as I was the senior it gave me the authority. “Genoml Khoridon inu wui iu ilie DJ* partment of Louisiana, covering Louisiana and Texas. He is very shrewd and very able. He kept his eyes open—learning rapidly men who were not worthy to occupy their places, and discovering com petent and worthy men to put iu their places. The Legislature of Louisiana passed a law authorizing the issue of $7,000,000 of levee bonds—ostensibly for the levees. They conditioned their sale on their bringing to the State not less than 80 per cent, of their face. The Governor and three commissioners were to place these bonds on the market, but they soon found out that the bonds would not bring more than 40 per cent. To avoid the law they invented a plan of borrowing the money and using the bonds as collaterals. They could borrow about 34 or 35 per cent, of the face of the bonds. “Just at this juncture, to prevent these men from defrauding the State, General Sheridan took off the heads of the Govern or and commissioners so quick that they did not know what ailed them, and ap pointed good men in their places. For some reason the removed men were very anxious to be re-appointed. They em» ployed Uevcrdy Johnson and auother law yer to work for them, agreeing to pay them $200,000 if they were reinstated. This is a great deal of money for four men to pay for positions, unless there is some special gain in the case. Reverdy John son came to me, but I was so stupid aud stubborn that I could not be induced to reappoint them. He went to Andrew Johnson and made his case, and Andrew Johnson sent for me and asked me to re instate those men. I refused to do so. Ho said ‘Reinstate them, even if it is only for one day; I will promise that they will resign.’ I thought Johnson might not know of the motive why they were so anxious to be rcimtated, and thinking I would do him a great service in keeping him from a great blunder, I told him that one hour would serve those men as well as one day, and I unfolded their intent; but Johnson lusisted on their being rein- stated. I refused, and excused myself. “Johnson then removed Sheridan and appointed Hancock. He called Hancock to Washington to instruct him in defeat ing the laws of Congress concerning re construction. “As soon as 1 learned that Hancock was in town I called at his hotel, instead of sending for him. I wanted to see him privately m liis own room. I found him in his room, perhaps before he had his breakfast. 1 said: ‘ General, you and I are soldiere—array officers. We have life positions; we serve under successive ad ministrations without regard to party. It is our duty to enforce the laws of Con gress. We arc not responsible for the wisdom of the Jaws; Congress bears that responsibility. We simply enforce them.’ “ He said: ‘Well, I am opposed to nig ger domination.’ «‘ General, it is not a question of nig- S r domination. Four millions of cx- ives, without education or property, can hardly dominate thirty millions of whites with all the education and property. It is a question of doing our sworn duty.* “ne said: ‘Well, I am opposed to nigger domination.’ “I saw that my only chance to influ ence him was by the remnant of author ity left in my hands. He was determined to please the Democratic party and the South. He went South and removed the Governor and commissioners that Gen. Sheridan bad appointed. I instantly tel egraphed him not to appoint to office any men who had been removed, and to give me his reasons by mail for removing the time of established peace; but I can dem onstrate that he did not subject the mill tary power to the civil, but that he used his military power tooverthrow the civil.” In speaking of the Chicago convention. General Grant said: > “There are three reasons why I would have accepted the nomination: First, on account of the character of the men who urged it. I esteem their respect and con fidence more than the nomination. Second, I believe I could have broken up tho solid South. Many life-long Demo crats in the South had given the strongest assurances of their cordial support, believ ing that I could deliver them from solid South. Third, there is another par tial reason: I believetbat I could have induced, from my knowledge jof our con sulates, the enactment of certain laws touching our commerce that would have given us control of much desirable com merce—for instance, in Mexico—instead of dealing with people who use only once slave labor and receive little or nothing but sterling in exchange.” Dr. Fowler, who held the above conver sation with the ex-President, wa3 until recently editor of the Advocate, a leading Methodist paper published in New York. He is now missionary secretary ol the Methodist Episcopal church. Grant Explains and Expounds. Chicago, October 6.—The Inter-Ocean publishes an interview with Gen. Grant, respecting the interview published yester day morning, in which Gen. Grant says: “Thoughjt is in most respects correct, it contains also many mistakes,' and makes me say things in a way not intended, and use some language that I did not employ.” In answer to the question, “Wherein is the statement of Dr. Fowler incorrect ?” Gen. Grant said: “It is incorrect in many respects—for example, in this statement: “ ‘Speaking of Hancock the ex-President said: “Down to 1864, he seemed like a man ambitious to do ids duty as an offi cer; but in 1864, when McClellan was nominated, Hancock received one vote, and that greatly excited and changed him. He was so delighted that he smiled all over. It crazed him. Before that, we got on well; after that, he would hardly speak to me.” ’ “I said, substantially, that up to 18641 didn’t suppose Hancock had thought of the presidency, but at the Democratic convention of that year he got a vote (not one vote, as Dr. Fowler has it—which makes me imply that he got the support of but one delegate), and from that time he bad a presidential bee in his bonnet. When I met him afterwards, his smile was so broad that yon could almost see it when his back was turned. I do not think that I said he thought I did not praise lum enough, though possibly that may be the fact. Hancock is a man who likes to hear himself praised, and sometimes com plained that lie was not complimented highly enough.” He (Grant) also said: “ Dr. i Fowler does not get hold of the points about Or der No. 40 correctly. By the various re construction acts, Congress, for consis tency’s sake, I suppose, stripped me of all authority over the district commanders in a|ipomlmeni u aim e i : twBVa\ r oi , clvl , folficers in the reconstructed States. As I was the enior, my authority was superior to the others. « Dr. Fowler quotes me as saying that the Louisiana Legislature passed a law authorizing the issue of S7,000,000 of levee bonds. This I may have said, but if I did it was a mistake, the amount being four million dollars. “In regard to the statemental so that the Louisiana commissioners agreed to pay Reverdy Johnson and other lawyers two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, I stated what I understood and not a fact within my own personal knowledge. “The next paragraph of Dr. Fowler’s report is wide of the mark. I am made to say that he (President Johnson) called Hancock to Washington to instruct him in defeating the laws of Congress. I, of course, do not know why Johnson called Hancock. I could only surmise. I know Hancock came. “A mistake also occurs in tne following paragraph wherein I am made to say, ‘He (Hancock) went South and removed the governor and commissioners that Gen. Sheridan had appointed; l instantly tele graphed him not to appoint to office any man who had been removed, and to give his reasons by mail'for removing the men.’ When Hancock went South I pub lished an order prohibiting him from appointing anybody to office who had been removed by his predecessor. This I sup pose he did not like, hut my object was to prevent the possibility of men being put in place who had arranged for the negoti ation of those bonds, even for one hour. I had intended to tell Hancock all about it—as I bad Johnson; but seeing, during my interview with him that lie was not disposed to listen to my advice, I did not tell him.” “After he had been South some time he made a pretty clean sweep of tho officers who had beeu appointed by Sheridan. 1 then telegraphed him to suspend his or ders of removal and report to me by mail. “There was an order existing, if I remem ber aright, prohibiting the use of telegraph when the mail could be employed. “He replied in a very long dispatch, costing, if I remember correctly, about $250. I informed him I was not satisfied, hut if he had any further reasons to com municate to do so by mail. He again re plied by telegraph, but gave nothing new, saying simply that his usefulness would be destroyed If he was not left free to act, and that unless he was left free to act he should ask to be relieved. “I ordered him to revoke his order making removals and to make no more. He then asked to be relieved and I re lieved him. “I always regarded his mere declaration in Order No. 40, that the military should be subordinate to the civil power as some thing that everybody accepted and nobody disputed. As officers, we were sworn to obey our superiors. Congress was our superior and had made laws, and these laws made the military subordinate. We were acting under them, but his order made laws subordinate to his own opin- men. . , “He telegraphed in a long reply, cost ing the government two hundred and fifty dollars, his reasons. “I telegraphed that the reasons were not sufficient—to send b7 mail ’other rea sons. “He again telegraphed about the same points, only not quite so long, costing on ly $150. He telegraphed that if he could not have freedom to act, his usefulness would be destroyed, and that he would have to ask to be relieved. I telegraphed hiqa to revoke his erder. He asked John son to relieve him, as no one else could. “That is the inner history and spirit of his celebrated Order No. 40. This order resulted in a loss of many lives. I know of cases, and can give them. His state ment that the civil authorities are su preme U a truth admitted by all, in a “That would be the best course to pur sue, I suppose—I mean to get at the truth.” “If you find that the ex-President has really made assertions derogatory to your character will you make a reply 1” “Yes; if necessary.” “Then I am to understand that if Gen oral Grant has assailed your character, as he is reported to have done, you will make a general denial?” “I will, certainly, deny everything that s’ untrue. After I have sifted the matter o the bottom, and have decided to reply, I will prepare a carefuL and comprehen sive statement for publication.” “How much time will be required for you to hear personally from Gen. Grant in this matter?” “I cannot say, but I shall lose no more time than I can help in getting at the bot tom of the matter.” “What reason have you lor doubting that Gen. Graut has attacked your charac ter?” “In the first place, he lacked good grounds upon which to attack me, and, In the second place, he fa an old soldier and graduate of West Point. As such he could not, It seems to me, so far overstep the bounds of truth and gentlemanly propri ety as to attempt to injure me—even iu a private conversation. ’ “Will your formal reply to Gen. Grant, if you find it necessary to make one, be in the shape of a letter?” “I cannot say at present. That is matter for after consideration.” “What are Gen. Grant’s feelings to wards you personally?” “I have always supposed that he was a man wbo would never allow any ill-will to influence him against me, and I shall not change my opinion unless lam compelled to do so by indisputable evidence.” New York, October 6.—General Han cock, in an interview with an Associated Press reporter this afternoon, stated that he had not yet determined whether to answer himself the recent al leged utterances of Gen. Grant or leave the reply to his friends. In case he an swers, he will give his statements to the Associated Press, New Y^Oaourrft-The Telegram this evening contains a report of an inter view by one of its correspondents with General Hancock, with regard to the statements recently made by General Grant. General Hancock said: “I find it hard to believe that ex-President Grant lias said such bard things about me, “Then you think he never said you were vain, ambitious and weak, and that you have; been crazy to be President for the last sixteen years ?” ’“I have no positive evidence that he has so expressed himself.” “Bat Rev. Dr. C. H. Fowler says the ex-President did make use of sue 1 * ex pressions, and the Chicago Inter-Ocean has published an interview with the ex- President, in which the principal state ments of Rev. Dr. Fowler are confirmed.” “I mean just this: thus far my knowl edge of what General Grant has actually said is confined to what may be called hearsay evidence. I have read what has been attributed to him as his utterances in the newspapers. Now, I shall take pains to ascertain from an authoritative source just what General Grant has said about me.” _ “Will you apply to him personally for information?” The Chesapeake Oyster Trade. The Baltimore Sun says: The trade statistic of the Cheapeake oyster trade, as gathered by the special census officer detailed for that purpose and reported to superintendent Walker, have already been fully resumed in the local columns of the Sun. The great and varied indus try therein displayed, which furnishes a livelihood to 38,600 men iu Maryland and Virginia, and supports altogether at least 120,000 persons, is something which cannot be too carefully nursed and protected from every sort of influence tending to injure it or destroy its impor tance.' The capital invested in this busi ness amounts in the aggregate to $10,000,- 000, and the wages and earnings paid, in cluding $3,820,521 annual earnings of Marylanders, must exceed $5,000,000 a year. The annual demands upon the Chesa peake take over 12,000,000 bushels of oys- tS r ?l)-3tSs‘mcasti?®S'ei§fileen*incli'es' in di ameter by sixteen and a half deep, and that oysters pack much more tightly in bulk than on the beds and bars, the im mense surface which must he scraped over every year to yield 12,000,000 bushels can readily be conceived. According to modes of computation founded on the experience of oystermen, a bushel of mature oysters averages about 150 individuals, and at tached to each bushel pf mature oysters are 225 young ones, which perish when the mature ones are taken. Twelve mill ions of bushels taken, therefore, imply the annual capture and destruction of 4,500,000,000 oysters, 60 per cent, of which are oysters which belong to succeeding crops, and which, if left to mature for two years would have yielded ten times their bulk when actually taken. A more wasteful system than these fig ures imply cannot well be conceived. The oysters annually taken in the Chesapeake bay would fill four times as many eleva tors as Baltimore now has. If their shells averaged three inches in length, the ma ture marketable oysters, placed end to end, would make a belt, ten oystera wide, which would more than go around the earth at the equator. The immense body of food supplied by these oysters costs nothing but the taking. Our other crops must be sowed and plowed and worked throughout. Our poultry, our cattle and hogs must be fed, housed and watched over with daily supervision. But the oyster grows of itself, and is of such wonderful fecundity that nothing can arrest its increase but the most wanton destruction. It feeds itself and requires no care, no labor, no expense for its charge. To produce a given quantity of gold from the earth requires practically the expenditure of ten times its value in labor. But nature doe3 all the work in the production of the oyster. It furnishes the water, the temperature and the food which theffvatcr carries to the bivalve; man has nothing to do but to pluck the mature oyster from the depths, to wrest open its shell and feed upon it. Such a source of food and wealth cannot be too carefully guarded. Baltimore and the Chesapeake shores do not by any means consume all the oysters which our waters supply. In fact, for every oyster which our people consume they sell nine to other parts of the country and the world, and these nine-tenths are a steady and constant source ol wealth which this natural pro duct brings in. This is but another rea son why such a resource should.be hus banded. Of the oysters shipped and sold abroad 2,000,000 bushels are taken in the shell to be planted in other waters. This quantity of oysters thus taken yields a smaller proportionate re turn for the labor engaged in it than any other form of oyster-catching, and it is by far the most destructive pro cess of all. Any legislation which looks to the more effective preservation of our oyster beds should begin right at this Doint, and then should proceed to deal with dredging, with a view to substitute in its stead, except in the deepest waters, the more rational and economical process of catching with the tongs. Most oyster- men are agreed that this process, while a little slower and more costly, is more sat isfactory and economical in the end. J.t takes only the mature oysters; does not destroy the small fry, and does not ex haust the beds, which, with the tongs, may be worked over every year with good results. diana ?” Just there the man alongside the inter rogated negro nudged the latter, and the two began a whispered conversation. The result wa3 that further inquiries from Mr. Mackey proved fruitless. Meanwhile the little bright-eyed colored boy with “Garfield ” on his cap had taken the vacant seat beside Mr. Mackey, who presently began to interrogate him. “Where’s your mother?” asked Mr. Mackey. ‘■‘ To hum,” was the reply, as the boy munched a peanut. “ Where’s that ?” “Wi’min’ton” answered the lad. “So you’re all bound for Indiana ?” The lad nodded and continued munch ing. ■Why don’t your mother go with yon?” was the next question from Mr. Mackey, who had by this time managed to win the boy’s confidence. “Oh, ’taint no use,” said the lad. “We’re goin’ to Richmond to live, but we ain’t goin’ to be gone only two or three weeks. Pop’s got fifty dollars for goin’, but he’s got to share with another man.” “Is your pop a Garfield man ?” “Course he is. Dat’s what he’s goin’ fur.” “Where is Richmond?” “Injinia, of course,” with a look of pity lor the inquisitor's ignorance. “A whole lot more is a-coinin’ on de nex’ train,” ad ded the boy. Upon the arrival of the train at the West Philadelphia depot the whole party of colored men got oil', and most of them scattered through the saloons and else where. It was soon learned that they would start westward on the 11:55 train. None of them were yet provided with tickets and no one bothered himself about iiucn a tning. A few of the men staid in They keep the Mosaic law it}, regard, to a man marrying a deceased brother's wife, vi .. - . . . -- and make a first-rate red wine, which, snore on the seats, and the noYscanr,riiA uroniilOlis; ' * ~ ' THREE-masted scaooners long since ceas ed to attract attention, their usefulness hay ing caused them to multiply since their first introduction into merchant service some years since. A four masted schooner is more of a rarity. One such 13 now at Boston, being the first vessel rigged with lour fore-and-aft sails ever seen there. It appears that she was originally designed to have only three, and the fourth wasan terthought. She was launched last sum mer, and has made but two short voyages thus far; in these, however, she has shown good speed in all styles of sailing. It will be interesting to see whether the general satisfaction with three-masters will prompt an imitation of this four-master. Don*! min your health, and besides, make yourself disagreeable to other peo ple by your continued coughing. A twen ty-five cent bottle of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup will cure you. Sold by all drug- 1 gists. NEGROES FOR INDIANA. •A Wilmington Party Off to Vote. Philadelphia Times, 1 st inst.] five minutes!” wheezed the old man as he hopped around. “I put- up with that,” continued the hoy, , warn] then he said you laid your _ ! pipes for office and got left by a largo ma- Soventeen negroes got aboard the 3:35 jority. I couldn’t stand that father, so I inn from Baltimore at Wilmington, Dele- sailed over the fence and licked him bald- wate, yesterday afternoon. Sixteen of headed in less’u two minutes! Thrash nie them werein various stages of manhood— if you must, father, butlcouldn’tstaud to all robust aud rather shrewd-looking fel- hear you abused by one of the malignant lows. The seventeenth negro was a opposition!” twelve-year-old boy, with big, rolling | “My son,” said the father as he felt for eye3, large, glittering ivories, a counte- ' half a dollar with one hand an wiped hi3 nance full of boyish mischief, and a semi- eyes with the other, “you may go out and military cap, with the name of “Garfield” - buy you two pounds of candy. The Bible stamped in glittering letters on the front says it is wrong to fight, but the Bible of the band. So large a number of col- J must make allowance lor political cam* ored men boarding a train at once and ap- I paigns and the vile slanders of the other parently in a body, could not fail to at- I party. I only brought you out here to talk tract attention. Among the passengers to you, and now you can put on your coat whose curiosity was excited was J. C. and run along.”—Detroit Free Press. Mackey, of this city, whose place of busi ness is at 223 North Ninth street. His first thought wa3 that they were probably going to some political demonstration to be held in the evening somewhere up the road. Leaning over to one of the colored men Mr. Mackey abruptly inquired: “ What are you going up to Philadelphia for to-niglit?” “No; we’se a-gwinefu’ther west,boss,” was the reply. “ That’s right, hoys,” said Mr. Mackey. “Being a Garfield man myself, I’m in A Voice from the South. The speech of Hon. R. E. Kennon, of Georgia, delivered before a large and in telligent audience, iu this city, was one of those plain, straight-forward talks that stamped the speaker with candor and truthfulness. Mr. Kennon is a true type of southern gentleman. He had a flue audi ence, add.the tinost partisan Republican could find no fault with bi3 utterances, and no or.e with a decent regard for liim- with you. How long will you stay in In- se ^' Would question Mr. Kencon’s sin cerity. The condition of affairs, the relation between the races, etc., as represented bi Mr. Kennon, arc far different from whal the partisan press and partisan stump oratorsofthe Republican party wouldhave the people of the north believe. His state ments were but confirmations of what the editor of this paper learned on a recent visit to Georgia. The speech of Mr. Kennon left its good impression, and our people, or such of those who are not blinded to truth by partisan prejudices, were led to believe that a different state of affairs ex isted at the south than that represented from the Republican stump. He brushes away the false idea that there is a con stant conflict going on between the two races in the south, and showed by statis tics and statements that a spirit of recip rocity exists. It is very plain to see why the colored man in the south voluntarily voles the Democrat ticket, and the fact is niade all the plainer by the tacts promul gated by such gentlemen as Mr. Kennon —Ghampagne, Ohio, Democrat. The Lost Tribes. .A Russian traveller professes to have found the ten tribes of Israel, which have not appeared in history for about twenty- five centuries past. He found them in the Caucasus, in the mountains of Daghestan, in a place where travellers never came be fbre. They are warlike, and resemble the Cassacks in appearance, but they follow the old Mosaic law as it existed before the time of Ezra and the second building of. the Temple, without the knowledge of Talmudic traditions and forms, and they claim to have lived where they now are ever since the time- of Psalmonassas. them. The lad seemed to be keeping watch over the luggage of the party, which consisted of seven or eight shabby valises, a salt sack, well filled with something soft—probably clothing—a lot of little bundles, of which big cotton handkerchiefs of mixed red and white colors constituted the wrapping. Presently the boy went to the water cooler for a drink. A man who had been keeping his eye on the party was also there at the same time for a drink. “When do you expect - to get back to your mother in Wilmington, bub?” asked the man. “Few weeks,” was the reply, as tho lad gulped down the icy liquid. “These are all Hancock men, are they not?” he was asked. “Guess not,” said the little fellow, eye ing his questioner suspiciously,- as he turned on his heel and walked off. On the opposite side of Market street, in a saloon, four or five of the colored par ty were drinkiogbeerandrum. Evidently they might have stopped drinking earlier in the evening with advantage to them- The Force op ax Indian* Arrow.— The Indian bows are made of extremely rigid wood, but the power to bend them effectually comes more from practice than mere physical strength. General Brisbiu says: “I have seen light and small white men, too, who can send an arrow as far and as deep a3 an Indian. I once had an offi&r named Belden with me, who had lived twelve years with the Indians, and be could shoot an arrow into _ a buffalo while running, so that the point would come out on the opposite side. He would also plunge an arrow into a beast so that it disappeared, and not even the notch remained visible. .The power of an In dian bow can be better understood when it is known that the most powerful revol ver will not send a ball through a buffalo. Belden said he had seen a bow throw an arrow five hundred yards, and I, myself, have seen one discharged entirely through a board an inch thick. A man’s skull was found in the West transfixed to a tree ju i,ic U.CU...S — — by an arrow, which had gone entirely selves. Two leading spirits were notice- through the bones, and fastened itself so able anioug tbem. These two were evi dently influential over the whole seven teen. One of them strode up and down the bar-room in all the proud consciousness of the superiority at taching to the wearer of a white “stove- ripe,” tall piccadilly, starched shirt-front, reavy goloid watch chain, dark cut-away coat that sat uneasily on its wearer’s back and skin fit trousers, with the vertical stripes that are the joy of the South street sport. When perfectly sob »r, he might be set down as a fellow with his “wits about him.” Perfectly sober now he was not. Awhile stranger strode in a heedless sort of way up to the bar and asked for a glass of beer. He then looked around as if suddenly ascertaining that there were others in the room. He asked “the gentle men” what they would “have,” and threw silver on the bar. “I saw you in the Union Club to-night, didn’t I ?” asked the white stranger of the “swell” colored leader, who, in a maudlin way, proceeded to express the opinion that there wa3 “some misunderstanding.” “Well, no matter; you’re going to do the right thing out in Indiana, ain’t you ? ” “You bet!” was the elegant leader’s hiccoughing response, as the glasses were raised, “and,” he Added, slamming his mug-upon tho bar with emphatic force, “you kin bet, too, that we’ll all get back in time to put in our work at home. There’s (hie) millions in it.” “How many more are coming on tho next train?” was asked. The-“swell” raised his finger, and with a mysterious look, as he held his digit un der the nose of Ills questioner, hiccoughed: ‘Never you mindi”' Word was now passed round that it was time to go for the train, and off all hand3 went into the depot. No tickets were bonght at the depot for the party, but this the ticket agent explained by saying that deep in the wood as to sustain the weight of the head. Tho man most likely had been tied up to tho tree and then shot. • The Chattanooga Times says the Knox ville coal miners and dealers know a thing or two, bet your life they do; and they have just shown their shrewdness by pooling their issues, so to speak, under one management. All the Coal Creek banks are now ostensibly operated by the Kuoxville Iron company. And that al leged proprietor has set up the price of coal to 13 cents per bushel, delivered in this city. The reason for this speck of vj u*, „„ .t „ Knoxvillian sharpness is that the banks He then looked around as in this neighborhood, which produce good grate coals, are overwhelmed with orders from gas works, yards, and for coke, and are far behind with all their customers. The Coal Creekers therefore conclude' that, having a partial monopoly of the grate coal trade, they will make hay while the sup shines. This is all right, but it cannot last, and may react unfavorably for those that play the skin game. Chat tanooga will not, even this winter, pay 18 cents for household coal, and don’t you recollect it, Mr. Knoxville Iron Works. Extending julectric Light in New York.—A wealthy company has just been formed in New York for extending the use of the electric light on Manhattan Island. It is organized under the laws of the State of New York, with a prelimi nary paid up capital of $100,000, but back of this capital, it is understood, are many millions. The company will at once take steps to construct a plant near Madison square. In the building will be placed Corliss steam engines, boilers and five dy namo-electric machines, all of which are already in course of construction. The plant, is expected, will be in full operation _ I _ _ by the first ot November. The selected tickets might have been procured down district embraces thirteen hotels, five club town. However, all hands went off on the 11:55 Pacific express. A Father who Melted. The other evening a citizen of Detroit beckoned to his 12 year old son to follow him to the woodshed, and when they bad arrived there he began: “Now, young man, you have been fight ing again! How many time3 have I told you that it is disgraceful to fight?” “Oh, father, this wasn’t about marbles or anything of the kind,” replied the boy. “1 can’t help it. As a Christian man it is my duty to bring up my children to houses, fifty restanrants, and many large business establishments. Make it a Loan.—Judge Black says that Gen. Garfield agreed to take the Credit Mobilier stock, “and did actually take dividends upon it.” This was the state ment which Gen. Garfield himself made to him. “Fearing that his political friends might influence him to depart from it, I wrote him, beseeching him to stand fast upon the defence he had made to me, hut the party would not let him.” The Republicans have been fond of quoting Judge Black. Will they now pro fear tho Lord. Take off your coat!” j ducc the letter alluded to above ? It is in “But, father, the Doy I was fighting Gen. Garfield’s personal possession, and If with called me names.” j it does not prove that he confessed pri- Can’t help it. Calling names don’t ■ vately facts which he publicly denied un hurt anyone. Off with that'oo*t!” j der oath, he will not be slow in publish- “He said I was a son of a wire-puller.” ■ ing it. “What! what’s that? I — ‘ ~ ‘‘ “And he said you were an office-hunter!” The New York Herald says. “In pop- ..vm m • l—a af..a ' -.1 unto nfVnnr VArlrjfJU “What 1 what loater dared make that! ular estimation the vote ofNew York assertion 1” | determine who is to be the next President, “It made me awful mad, but I didn’t and the Democratic convention at Sara- say anything. Then he called you a hire- ' toga proves that the supporters of Garfield ling.” '! will have a hard battle to fight in this “Called me a hireling! Why I’d like to * great focus of the contest if they expect get my hands on him?” puffed the old ^ to win.” ^“Yes, he said you were a political lick- 1 Spain, with only 17,000,000 of inhabi- spittle 1” tants, turns out yearly _twjce as_ much ‘Lord o’ gracious 1 but wouldn’t J. like wheat as does Italy with 28,000,000 of in to have the training of that boy for about habitants. A Romance on the Pacific Slope.-; - - Horrible if True. Washington, September 22.—The Treasnry Department was in the receipt sometime since of a communication from the chief of the detective corps of San Francisco containing statements which read like a highly wrought-up romance, embracing (he crimes of murder, robbery and marital infidelity. The story, in brief is as follows:''Two gentlemen, friends of ehth other, with their wires, were travel ing in California. One of them had in his possession a number of registered United States bonds. The sight of the bonds excited the cupidity of his friend, who also coveted his neighbor’s wife. The two men walked out together one after noon to view the mountain scenery. The owner of the bonds wa3 never seen again, and his companion, reported that he had accidentally tumbled down frightful precipice. Subsequently, while in there ceases of a vast forest, the man tied bis own wife aud burned her to death. Then, ip company with the wife of the missing men, he made liis way back to San Francisco, and with her connivance personated tho' .owner of the bonds and endeavored to negotiate the sale of them. The two were shadowed and found to be living as husband and wife, the man as suming the name.of the friend whom he was believed to have murdered. Such is the outline of the detective’s story, and as may readily be Imagined the treasuiy of ficials were on the qui vive fop any appli cation which might come for the transfer of the bonds to another party. Nothing was heard until quite recently, when a letter wa3 received from the at torneys cf a lady living in Kansas City asking'the transfer of the bonds to her name. .The lady states that she is the widow Of the person in whoso name the bonds now stand registered. An account is then given of his murder,’ or supposed murdciVby the false friend, whom, it is stated, obtained possession of the bonds, but there is‘ nothing to ‘indicate thatshe was an 4ccessory, , cr that she bad any subt sequent knowledge of the movements of the murderer. The first comptroller has decided that before the bonds can be trans ferred to her on the books ol the treasury she must furnish further aud fuller proof of her identity, etc. In the meantime thq' chief Of the San Francisco detectives has beeu'written to for any additional inform ation which he may have on the subject. should doit for. They waste their time, energies, and little earnings in endless; changes and wanderings. They hare not the stimulus ot a fixed object to fasten their attention and awa ken their energies; net a known prize to win. They wish for good tilings, butbare no way to attain them, desire to be use ful, but little means tor being so. They lay plans, invent schemes, form theories, build castles, but never stop to execute and realize them. Poor creatures! All that ails them is the want of an object—a single object. They look at a hundred and see nothing. If tb4y should ’look steadily at one, they would see it distinctly. They grasp at random at a hundred things and catch nothing. It is like shooting among a scat tered flock of pigeons— the chances are doubtful. This will never do—no, never. Success, respectability and happiness are found in a permanent business. An early choice of soma business, devotion to it, and preparation for It, should be made by every youth. , • • -v.n ■ r *m Trouble in Norway. A dispatch from .Copenhagen says that some of the citizens of Norway are agi tating lor a.repeal of the union with Sweden and the establishment of a Nor wegian republic. The Swedish j mruals favor strong measures.. to counteract this agitation, and the veto question is once more a source of difficulty between King Oscar and the Norwewegiau Storthing, or Parliament. ; This trouble i3 likely to bo augmented. The peasantry in Norway, who make the bulk of the population, are Democratic in feeling and tendency; they have a.yory liberal constitution and .one which protects their rights so jealously that- the King of Sweden cannot resort to coer- lUftitniw cxcpnl bv.a coup ill el at. mon guard the autonomy ol Nor 4 - way very scrupulously. The king dom has its own courts and its own par liament; the Swedish army cannot enter it unless invited by the Storthing, and the king’s power of veto is nullified if the act vetoed be passed by three successive par liaments. The union, in fact, is little more than an alliance, offensive and de fensive, or two kingdoms under one mon arch, and the Norwegians are not very fond of the union, which is only sixty-six years old, and was forcibly procured. Norway was part of Denmark, but in the swapping of kingdoms that occurred dur ing and after Napoleon’s wars, Russia took Finland from Sweden and gave Nor way to Bernadotte in exchange. France and England ratified this enforced union, which cost some bloodshed, and in 1855 guaranteed the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom against Russian encroach ment. If the union should be broken this guaranty would cease, and thereby also bangs a tale which may account in part for the present vgitations in Norway. Russia wants very badly two or three fine harbors in Norwegian Lapland, which, although within the Arctic circle, are never frozen up all the year round, and which, with railroad communications, ynight be Converted into great naval de pots. One of these is Tromso, a station f great value. So long as the union lasts tussia cannot hope to acquire this terri- ory, but she might easily do so from an independent Storthing of a republican Norway. Habit or Untruth.—Some men seem 'to liavA a constitutional inability to tell the simple truth. They may not mean to lie, or to tell an untruth. But they are careless—careless in hearing, careless in understanding, careless in repeating what is said to them. These well-meaning but reckless people do more mischief than those who intentionally foment strife by ;deilborate falsehood. There is no fire brand like your well-meaning busybody, 'who is continually in search of scandal, and by sheer habit misquotes everybody’s {statements This carelessness is a sin of no small magnitude. A man’s duty to God and to bis fellows requires him to be careful—for what else were brains and common sense given him? Of course that other class, the malignant scandal mongers who take a fiendish pleasure in promoting strife, who deliberately garble men’s words and twist ;their 'sentiments, is in the minority, and >eople have a very decided opinion regaini ng them. Most men misrepresent because they don’t seem to think that care in speak* ing the truth is a pre-eminent duty. The effects of this careless misrepresent ing of others are seen everywhere. Its ef fect on the individual is to confirm him in a habit of loose, distorted aud exaggerated statement, until telling the truth becomes amoral impossibility, No other thing causes so many long standing friendships to be broken, so many dissensions in churches, so much bitterness iu communities, and so much evil everywhere. It is an abuse that calls for the rebuke of every honorable man—a rebuke that shall be given not only in words whenever occasion demands, but by example. The Persians were said to to teach their youth three things; to ride, to draw the bow, and to speak the truth. A little more instruction on this latter head would do no harm to our “advanc ed civilzation.—Examiner and Chronicle. RanAvalomanjaka, the Queen of Madagascar, has - ho idea of having her nice new church some of these days taken for a theatre, a dance house or a stable. She has issued a proclamation which ought to preserve the building forever in tact: “By the power of God and the grace of the Jus its Christ, I, Ranovalona, Queen,- -ruler of Madagascar, laid the foundation itone of this house of prayer on July 20, in tho year of Jesus Christ, our Lord, 1869, to be a house of prayer and praise and sevice to God, the King of kings and the Lord of lords, according to the words ofthe sacred Scripture, in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord, who died for the sins of ail people, and rose again for the justification and salvation of all who believe In and love Him: therefore no one shall be at liberty to destroy this stone house, which’I build as a house of prayer^ whoever may reign in this land of mine forever andoVerjfor if any one des troy this 'house of prayer to God which I build;-then he cannot be sovereign in this; myiand of Madagascar.” 1 The build ing, which Was a-ffew'months ago finished and dedicated/ is thronged every Sunday, and ber’M^jesty Ranavalomanjaka is one ofthe most regular anddevout worshipers. Thirst Worse Than Hunger.—That disturbance of the general system which is known under the name of Raging Thirst is far more terrible than that of starvation, and for this reason: During abstinence from food the organ can still live upon its own substance, ’which furnishes all the necessary material; but during abstinence from liquid, the organism lias no such source of supply within itself. Men have been known to endure absolute privation of food for some weeks, but three days of absolute privation of drink {unless in a moist atmosphere) is'perhaps the'limit of endurance. Thirst is the most atrocious torture ever invented by Oriental tyrants. It is that which most effectually tames animals: Mr; Astley, when he had a re fractory horse, always used thirst as the most effective power of coercion, giving a little water a3 the toward for every act of obedience^ The histories of shipwreck palling cases known is thO celebrated ‘im prisonment of one hundred and forty-six men in the Black Hole at Calcutta. The “Eastern’s” Trip to New Or leans.—We read as follows in the New Orleans Price Current: “The inquiry made by interested parties in England whether, if the “Great Eastern” were sent here for a cargo of cattle, both live and slaughtered, she would meet with such reduction of wharfage dues and facili ties for slaughtering cattle on board as would be necessary to make the trip a suc cess, has been answered in the most fa vorable manner, for, although the wharf lessees do not choose to make a re duction in dues, they started a subscrip tion to aid in defraying the expenses, heading the list with $1,500, Captain Eads agreeing to give the balance neces- ry to pay the wharf dues. The Slaughter House Company have also expressed their willingness not to hinder the slaugh tering of cattle on board the vessel, but promise to grant all possible facilities, while the Morgan railroad offer their largo pier at Westwego free of charge, and guarantee to deliver500 cattle par day.” Boy3 and Small Fruits.—Bovs on farms, like boys in other places, want spending money, and are often sorely troubled to obtain it. They scarcely like to ask their parents for'money to buy arti cles that please their fancy, and they have few opportunities of Work out, for when neighboring farmers wish to hire help, there is plenty of work on the farms where they belong. Their best chance to earn money appears to be in cultivating some crop at home that requires small capital to engage in, a small amount of land for its production, but which produ ces a considerable sum of money. The small fruits are excellent in these res pects. They may be set out at times when the soil is too wet to be of good advantage, and may be cultivated at odd houis when there is little to do in the fields. They require but a small amount of land, and produce more money from an acre than any farm crop. Facts for Farmers to Put ia their Pipe* and Smoke. According to our last census there were 6,000,000 of agriculturists in the United States, and by this time, as the new cen sus will doubtless show; there must be at least 7,000/300, with their , families. The annual expenditure of each of these fam ilies for. articles on which a “protective” tariff is laid is estimated from careful fig ures at $200. The articles for which this $200 is expended are wearing apparel and household articles, iron work and farm ing implements,.earthenware and all the multitude of. tiiiugs which go to keep a family aud provide means for wonting the land. This is a small average, as It includes many well-to-do families. Two hundred dollars each for 7,000,000 families is $1,400,000,000 in .the aggre gate, expended upon goods which are “protected” by the tariff. The average amount of this protection is; to put the figures so low that there can be no dis pute, forty percent. That is to say, that, they pay for the necessaries of life, ex cepting food, forty per cent, more than they would have to pay if there were ho protective tariff and they were'allowed to buy in the cheapest market they could find. And if they could buy for $100 what they now pay $140 for, it is evident that they would save $400,000,000 every year~ This vast amount, $400,000,000, is what the single class of American agricul turists pay every year for the sake of “pro tecting” certain interests. Now, compare this with what the gov ernment receives from the duties placed on imports. Last year the total receipts from customs were $137,250,047. This Is a. little more than one-third what a single interest—the agricultural—paid out above the normal price .for tho necessaries of existence and of labor. There is an enor mous discrepancy here, as everyone can see; an immense expenditure of money, which seems to vanish as it passes from tli& hands of the farmers under the man date of the government. But all this $137,250,047 does not come from the fanners. Aa nearly as can be estimated not more than $00,000,000 of the excess of $400,000,000 which they pay for “protection” goes to the government, and the sum which they see vanish from their bauds to the profit of nobody la about $340,000,000 a year. Effects of Colorado Climate; It is a singular fact that almost every body loses flesh on coming here from the East. The average loss, of weight susj tained is about one-eighth. For instance^ in the course of two or three months a 200 pound man loses twenty-five pounds, and becomes a 175 pounder. This is due to the high altitude of Denver—a mile above the sea—to the dry and light at mosphere, to the scarcity of vegetation and to the comparative abundance of oxy gen, which consumes the' tissues and taxes the vital'functions to a‘greater ex tent than on lower altitudes. Higher up it is much worse than here. At Lead- ville,' tor instance, which is two miles above the sea level, the diminution in. weight does not generally 1 fall short fi'ere. ~jlutrail' «ign ncwcaAfe, diseases, such as pneumonia, very fre quently set m, and they prove fatal in. about thirty per centum of the cases at tacked. But very few dogs, except hounds, can live in Leadville, and, no cats survive there. In Denver, however, we have a multitude of both dogs and cats, and they appear to experience no special dif ficulty about living and getting fat. Yet it i3 a noticeable fact that animals and men lose a share of their strength after coming here. Afte - being here two or three months their must liar power is not near so great as Ln the East. Nor can they en dure so much hard work. Eight hours of continuous labor does more to .exhaust and prostrate a man here than ten hours in Illinois or Wisconsin. And when worn out and prostrated a feeling of lassitude and drowsiness that is very difficult to dis- iel comes ever one. In such instances many lours of rest are requisite to restore and rebuild the wasted energies. Mental la bor is even more exhausting than physi cal. A healthy man may do manual la? bor for eight or ten houis a day, and ex perience therefrom no specially evil ef fects; hut let mental labor be pursued with the like assiduity, and the nervous system becomes weakened and irritable. In time the physical powers become dis ordered and weakened by sympathy and by the strain upon them to supply the brain waste. These facts are more no ticeable in the case of new-comers than of those who have lived for a year, or more at high altitudes. Persons and animals thoroughly acclimated do not experience these drawbacks. Indeed these could not look bettor anywhere than they ap pear here. The great difficulty is in get ting acclimated.—Denver Great West. The Liveliest Sort op a Corpse.— The down-trodden black man of the South, daily shot in liis tracks for assert ing his Republicanism, bunted at night by bands of masked men, tied to logs with his throat cut and sent floating down ob scure streams of unpronounceable coun ties, appears to be the liveliest sort of a. corpse. In his dying and mutilated con dition he ba3 managed to make a cotton crop of nearly 6,000,000 bales, to tie which will require 75,000 miles of hoop iron, enough to encircle the round globe three times. To hoop the cotton ciop will re quire 36,000,000 bands, or six to each bale. These bauds measure eleven feet each, and 1,200 ot them weigh a ton. Thus it will take 30,000 tons of iron to bind the cotton crop which the freedmanhas, under so many discouragements, managed to make.—Boston Herald. Nothing to Do.—Men and women with no business, nothing to do, are abso lute pests to society. They are thieves, stealing that which is not theirs; beggars, eating that which they have not earued; drones, wasting the fruits of others’indus try; leeches, sucking the blood of others; evil-doers, setting an examdle of idleness and dishonest living; vampires, eating out the life of the community. Many of our most interesting youth waste a great portion of their early life in fruitless endeavors at nothing. They have no trade, uo profession; no object before tbem, nothing to do; and yet have a great desire to do something, and something worthy of themselves. They try this ana that, and the other; offer themselves to do any thing and every thing, and yet know how to do nothing. Educate themselves they cannot, for they know not what they John Moran was under engagement to marry Lottie Church, atSandy Lane, Ala. He deserted her aud went to live in an adjoining county. When told of his per fidy, she prayed that he might be pun ished by instant death. It cnanced that at exactly that hour he was killed by the fall of a tree. Lottie believes that her prayer caused his death, and is crazed by remorse. A Woman was murderously assailed in Clinton County, Kansas, and a lynching party was soqn formed to hunt the villain. Henry Bird joined the mob and was fore most in the search. At length a scratch on his neck drew attention, and other evidence convinced his companions that he was the man whom they sought. They hanged him promptly. Children’s shoes are wem through at; the toes while the balance of the shoe is perfectly good. Parents who have submit- ted to this rather than have them wear the metal tips, should try the A. S. T. Co.’s Black Tip, which perfectly protects the toe, and adds to the beauty of tho shoe. See advertisement in another col umn. lw Speaker Randall has gone West to participate in the political canvass In Ohio and Indiana. Eating Lemons. The Wilmington Review says: “A good deal lias been said through the papers lately about the healthfulness of lemons. The latest advice as to how to use them so they will do the most good runs as fol lows: Most people know the benefit of lemonade before breakfast but idw know how it is more'than doubled by' taking another at night also. The way to get the better of a bilious system without blue pills or quinine, is to take the juice of one, two or three lemons, as the appetite craves, in as much ice water as makes it pleasant to drink, without sugar, ^efore going to bed. In the morning on rising, or at least half an hour before breakfast, take the one lemon in & goblet of water. That will clear the system of humors and bile, with mild efficacy, without any of the weaken; ing effects of calomel or congress water. People should not irritate the stomach by eating lemons clear; the powerful acid juice, which is almost corrosive, infallibly produces inflammation after a while, but properly diluted, so that it does not bum or draw the throat, does its full medicinal work wittout harm, and when the stomj ach is clear of food, has abundant oppor tunity to work on the system thoroughly.” Desperate Work in Indiana.—The New York Sun says some Republican dev iltry is concocting for Indiana. Two par tisan detectives of the regular police force here were sent on a secret mission to In dianapolis last night. They are capable of any work that may be assigned to them and belong to a class corresponding to that which assisted in the safe burglary. These detectives are paid by Coagress and the district. They could not be absent from duty without the consent of the com missioners, who thus become responsible for the delinquency, and will be held to account next winter. Don Cameron has gone to Indiana to see certain parties with prejudices to conquer, and abundantly provided with sinews of war for every emergency. He believes in direct trading as preferable to tbe mediation ol commit tees, where money always sticks. He saved Ohio to Hayes in 1876 by a timely contribution of $20,000 at tbe last pinch, and will now try bis hand in Indiana. The Democrats of Columbus, Ohio, an nounce that Hon. Samnel J. Tilden has accepted an invitation to attend the great State mass-meeting there on the 0th of October. Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks Senators Pendleton and Thurman, Speak er Randall, and R. T. Merrick, of Wash ington, will also be present.