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JOURNAL AND MESSENGER ESTABLISHED 1826. THE FAMILY JOURNAL NEWS POLITICS-^LITERATUBK—AGRICULTURE—DOMESTIC NEWS, Etc.-PRICE $2.00 PER ANNUM- —— GEORGIA TEL ATII BUILDING MACON. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. 1881. VOLUME LV-NO. 35 THE Cl'CKOO COUNT. Cuckoo! cuckoo! cuckoo! mysterious falls— Nor mortal ear can tell from where— Whnt time its mystio olfice calls The cuckoo to the Rhineland air. where,alighting on O’Flaherty’s shoulders. | note from Miss Patty begging my ! Congo, of course. He clawed _ fast to I to come without delay. ‘I’ll drive O Flaherty 8 bair with one band and 11 called out to him, plunging into some I drawing-room music room boudoir and plunged the otuer Into the scalding brew, clothes; and in quarter ofan hour we conrcn-ltoT ’^M inSated for our •gS'KSSl "»*** SSSKSu alMooVrow to inclose Cuckoo! cuckoo! cuckoo! ’tia timod As i .iu.-ingly as passing bell; And Rhineland boys believe ’tis chimed : Brock wood windows ‘One!’clanged from the the explosive elements of our party. Blew andl at last walked the Major out through the conserva' >ry on the terrace. Thuir lotted years of life to tell, ’Flaherty’s.languase was forcible; well tall clock tour over our beatS as we pass- i^uTw^toT^TuS^St-SS gbt be. Marilllor apologized in the ed under the echoing archway that iSd to t^T“do befell now andVen-and a dsonsest manner, but the blood 6t the thoblghall. Brockwood was a rambling I ki„,i' n „MMn. takmnt and End; welcome note, with eager cars; Then gloaful shout, to find them mount To numbers meting wealth of years. chattering wratlifully, upset the boiling I had caused the summons, mixture on O’Flaherty’s legs and vanish- Lights were in the Broi ed with a lock cf his hair. as we drove up, O’Flaherty’s,lanr ” 1 * " * * it might be. Mari . , handsomest manner, but the blood 6i the I tho big hall. Brockwood was a rambling I blazin', moon We walked backward and And bushed and awed, they breatlhles3 1 dei-endant of the ‘fightin Flaliertys’ was old red sandstone pile smothered In ivy, forward for a'turn ot two and then lean- —nt | up, and mere words had no power to ap- looking gloomy and ghost-ridden enough balSL. l^Ung at the ex- pease him. . by daylight, but positively gruesome in na nsn^f lawn and shubberv. and the Re demanded the instant execution of the small hours. 1 was left by Parker, who I woods bevon'd alt wonderfully clear and Congo, or the satisfaction of a gentleman, shook his head dolefully when I inquired a!1 j ,ji sl inct >u the white still light Sud- .•inam.r-nalstttnnUMr uk.Rt.rM.mly .M.L. c»rf)e, I. .I toJ^Sir tt,' ed tho Major gravely. spacious vault of a dining-room, surround- W n followed b v a very snbsta ■ 11 ‘They are,’bins; cied .Terence. _ ed by grim portraits or dead and gone I inhoiSfiL . ‘ Tll ? n | accept the latter, said Manllier Corbc ,ts, staring out white from fheir <Cou"o!’ exclaimed Marillier and I sim- unhesitatingly. dingy backgrounds. The gloom and the tSSJm'tiiTrecall"B«1iW™t ‘You’re a gentleman,bedadl’exclaimed stillness grew so appalling that I fairly y ’ D - U “ 1B y S O’Fiaherty, suddenly sobering. ‘And if jumped when the door suddenly opened, 8 ron™ it was H. dodeed Carmodv you think that dirty little beast worth admitting a truly awful apparition—a fig- L-omul and round the fountain, and the/ flghtin’about, Terence O’Flaherty’s not uro withllisheveAled black ringlets in a ^aSSaS^Jsm^f ileasure. I shawl pattern dressinc-crown. carrying a I ra £ ge oflig ’ bte d windows-made for the terrace, came up and over the side in three swarming leaps, chattered a recog nition of his master, and then, to make ail safe, seized a trailing brougli of ivy Cuckoo! cuokool cuckoo! it swells I To fuller pulse the Rhineland air; And Rhineland maidens know it kneels The years they must anwedded fare, And listen with unwilling cars - That wistfully silence wait, Then sum with sighs tho loveless years Tho cruel cuckoo counts their fate. Prophetic promise! Idle threat! The Khi'iolond lads live long, Tis said; And Rhineland moidous listening yet L'fbo cuckoo's count, or wooed or wed 1 —[Springfield Republican. THE MAJOR’S MONKEY. When I, a very young subaltern, first t oluol my regiment, (tho Royal Manx fusiliers) the depot had been for some six months stationed at the delightful town of Ballynoggin, County Longford, lie'and. 1 suppose my br'ther-officens had by that lime contrived b' exhaust all the re sources of the neighborhood in tho way of amusement, for on my arrival I found them reduced to three topics of conver sation. First, snipe-shooting, a bog with | in seeing and being seem My sisters Freda a bird in it lying within reach. Second, I and Gertie trotted mo all over the placo, the man to begrudge yon the pleasure, shawl pattern dressing-grown, carrying a Still, I’d be ready to overlook it, and let bedroom candlestick, bygones bo bygone if you’d give me one ‘Mr. Marillier, I presume,’ I retained single decent reason for keeping the brute.’ I sufficient composure to remark. A pause, during which we all grew I ‘Yes, I’m Mr. Marillier, Miss Corbett’s breathless with excitement. only nephev.. I’ve not the pleasure of I and’swLng^himself »loft“up tothe ~oma- Marilller looked as Imperturbable as your acquaintance, sir, and at any other menUl stone-work above ono of tbo win- ever. ‘If one jreason will afford yon satis-1 time should be happy to make it, but for I Hows faction, Mr. O’Fiaherty, I don’t sco how I a stranger to be here just now is—yon 1 can in fairness refuse yon. I keep tbo I must excuse my saying it—a—a species of beast because—I expect him some day to 1 intrusion.’ be worth X4,000 & year to me.’ j ‘Miss Corbett sent an imperative sum- And that was all wo ever got out of I mons to my father,’ I replie him. I ‘Most extraordinary' I got leave in January, and started I nary proceeding. I home joyfully. I natural guardian ai y My fatl-er had been promoted to a good I nephew. She only living In the country since I left home, I bett with the property, and tho first week of my visit was jpeut | ought to have been Lei ~ be of so much use—such a pity to’ have at this Up came Carmody. ‘It’s the housekeeper’s best bonnet, yer honor! She’s just dancin’ mad after him,’ ho panted. Congo proceeded to dissect a mangled •Hurry, men! Is that all ?” ‘Every bit, sir, except some tom papers and litter.’ \ ‘Send It down.’ Down came an armful of rubbish. Al- tonby kfeke'd it over as It I*y'at his feet in the gutter. ‘Mere family pli% ha! ha 1 ’ and ha picked up a tin floor dr4 battered and rusty. ' ‘What’s this ins! A big envelope fall of papers was doubl up and crushed into it. ‘Family letters! That is my affair, said Jonathan^ ‘Hold the iabtfma, someone.’ They were the envelope, ___ |H getber. Blew lofffcgff over his shoulder. * “Last Will and Testament of he read. 4 think, Hr. Marillier, I had better take charge of that,’ and he drew it without cereuiouy from COL. COUKHILL'S ALLEGED | discoveries: THE 1 SE1TJGHTEE-PEX | A Plsaslaf CsMpiracr <• Haas, Sksst Md Itrtart fiillsaa Be but the President Dies. Special Dispatch to the Xew York If'orld. Philadelphia, August 20.—Colonel .Corkhill, United States district attorney for the District of Columbia, who has been taking a vacation at Cape Hay, left to-day for Washington. Colonel Corkhill Is reported to have said that he 'has been Mr SPOTrsVLVAXIA HOUSE COURT• whom iamiliarity with the place had bred contempt. If inch were the humor of dalr * ' ‘ my genial guide he concealed it with the grace of hie family and led me pleasantly along the crest of the works, which curve to the south and come to an end at last more than a quarter of a mile from the cabin at the apex. Half-way around the horse shoe we saw an old man sitting on a log and picking blackberries, which crew tluckly at his right hand. id discolored bnt I informed of the existence of a secret or-1 atJUy! ed, sUll bung V aUou In Washington wlwee purpose over his shoulder. I *?» in *** event of President Garfield’s I covered with ni “Yes, sir,” be said, In reply to a ques- | tion; “they tuck me right heah at this heah spot. I was with Johnson’s brigade, Ewell’s Co’s, and on the mo’nin’ of the ead, and the woods I twelT of May, sixty-foah, I had my ala ... — gun stickiu’ under this heah very Jog— A Visit to tb« Held ol Use UMdisst ■Irani* on lk« War—rhe Bloody Aaaleaolt How Appease. Old Breaot WSikt-Tbe Volaateera’ Glory. * 'O Kin Philadelphia Time*. SPOTTSTLVAifu. CoCbt-Hous*, Aug. 21. Ot all the struggles of the war this (at * * was perhaps the fiercest and The ground was literally ••j., . , , ... ..... i covered with piles of dead, and the woods death, to break the jail and pat an imme-1 in front of the salient wib one hideoos Gol-1 — ± m ditto end to tho Iifo of GtuteAU* Their I gotbs. I am aware thia language may re* I ^ ngbt hoah* Ib’loug up in Or&oge, desire is to hang Guiteau by slow process, I semble exaggeration, bat I spesk of what 11 * Q d bein’ as I was at Fredericksburg, t» Wiujuuk ceicuiuuv uuin j 0 ‘n " I and in the meantime cacn member ot the | personally aaw. Inthe vicious phraseology thought I’d come over and look at her. than’s hand. ‘Suppose w« go down and I <>rg«nIzation is to be allowed to put a bul-1 oommorfiy employed bjr thoa* who never Damme if ’uint the same olo log-ehe look this over. Bcutlemen ’ 8 let Into Guiteau’s body, taking care not to "dnaased a batU^field pUes of dead” fig- right heah. W.TncSKd"ffi tormCDlora ^ |M.ltoMmI.,lj,lgUnUl .h. lut|I..W?r..C. P li^ With adjust their differences, and descended. p 088 ^ 1 ® moment. The Colonel says he £^ c h, Jc(mbeattested by thousands Jo , hn 1 me * ? TTri . Such a set of dirty, disreputable figures I llas S 0 ^ ^? r tlie l>®Uef that the j who witnessed the ghastly scene.—iSwin- T ™ you .V , K U8ll t’ as the drawing room mirrors reflected, if js a “o»°T the jail, who are all ex-Un on I ton’s Army of the Potomao. . m 1 a T w * y any one had had time to think of it. I soldiers, know or this secret orcanizatlon | No one is apt to thiuk as he rests on the 1,0111 0WW toe mo’nin’ when I see My father started from a quiet nap, and I an< > » ro to sympathy with it. He Is fur- broad bench of the tavern porch, sees the I ? oru0 f * uka * comln ’cross from that stared la amazement at our appearance. I ther reported to have said - that sheep in the field a dozen steps away, I “ ouso thereaway. I picks out a fat Dutch- but stared more when he beheld our plun- j, 1 ,* %, u .. ^ ee “ . ^, ith tb ® hear * the jingUng of cow-bells just down ““ I 'g» of Cal P®P- der. It proved to be, aswe all Bussed. I difficulty that that the warden at the I the rogd, and catches the fragrance blown 5® r, A* y . s , Je rry» mj dear, jes see me pop- ono ofMiss Corbett’s numerous wills, and J aUhas Presented these guards ere this up from the meadow, that here.Grantand d-n Dutch Yank.’ Ipullsaud wonder of wonders! in favor of Gustavns from.finding some excuse for killing Gui- Lee, joining In bloody combat, wrhSlM [ wDfWman drorw, and I starts to bite Adolphus Marillier of H. M.’s 112th Keei- j teau - This, it is alleged, in a measure I for twelve days. Nevertheless, it u~edi I a 1 “J ridge agin, when I hears some ’un i meat (Royal Manx Fnsllcers)! 8 I explains tho encounter which took place I but aglancoinany direction to see evl-1 b ,°d,° “I •. ‘Drop_ that guu 1’ I gave a cheer—I couldn’t help it—so I recently between a guard and Guiteau in I deuces or the struggle. The court house 1 did Allonby; and we rushed at him to 1 0,6 laUer ’ 5 c ® 11, < f ult€au > • “id, still carries its scars, tho heavy columns I looks over my shoulder, and, damme, gentlemen, if tliar wan’t a Yank with his „ . I brought yonr father here at this time of the sayings and doings or the three Mis3 I displaying the church, the cow, the pet I night! And Dr. Burnaby refuses to let McC.-ans; dazzling beauties, daughters of old woman, the sceools, the new ponv- me see uiy aunt. Itboda should have been . oounu sor - x uu , ru luolttvuui . C u...-* wu the local solicitor, who kept a “car’ge” trap, and tlie points of view. They treat- I here, but our baby—our ninth—is only active w.’. an a ladther enough to go up mtiil p.icirlAtl l*i • bItiiwv villa n*!>1i fPect^lL I - j tat. — .naitnM and AAncidAMtinn I frtlir Hava nlr! nr «<fia clmnlil list'anartom. I ^ Cll &tQC 1C lfit ftlOQO tllO IXK)f " ** ‘Aud lanterns?’ Marillier asked. : thought it rather an expenditure of Marillier meauwbllo was talking to Carmody. ‘There they are, ready enough, I’ll be bound, sor,’ I beard the latter reply. ‘Two The snipe became a bore now and then, I be one short week ago in Ballynoggin. I self to sleep in bis arm-chair wheu my one’s interest in Uer’ldine’s bewitching I My mother in the pride of her heart I father entered hastily. Irishisms or Norah’s conquests might even f * “— 1 — —*■ ‘Very well, very well, Major Marillier,’ i . ., said Jonathan’s voice at the window. ‘I’ve conquests might even took me to pay visrls with her all over I Tom, my boy, we want you at once,’ f a sorvanl3 i n now mourning once; flag occasionally, but the mention of Con- the country, so that when the first Sunday I and he hurried me off. ‘Most extraordi- r J be eXD ectcd to replaco your go’s name or his latest Iniquity brought I came round, I felt quite intimate with at j nary freak of the dear old lady’s! She ha3 brute’s—’ ' excitement into our flattest moments di- I least half the congregation. made a new will leaving A20,000 to me! jr ero ms remarks were cutshortby Con- welly. , I ‘Who was the funny old lady in a yel- At least I’m to have the life-interest aud who madc one i eap on to his head, and Congo was a beautiful little creature, low bonnet and furs, sitting under the pul- then it’s to go to f reda! She has taken a ° secon( i inf 0 the room. Marillier sprang with long, soft, fur, dark face and paws, pit?’ I asked after dinner. fancy to her. I can’t witness tho will, of f “ , = ne sped like lif litning through and gentle, mournful oyes, the temper of I ‘Miss Corbett, of Brockwood,’said my I course, so we want you. Tho rest of the the whole suit of rooms, across the haft, a wild cat, aud tho morals of an imp of {mother. ‘You know we called there on | money goes to the county charities, as I I and into the deserted dining room. Here expected. Nothing to tho man down when we came up with him, we found him stairs.’ ravaging the table, bis cheek stuffed with .. -—-■—mt- — a v». —-—• . We entered Miss Corbett’s room. The preserved fruit and nuts. Allonby tried the purpose of secreting bis plunder in the | latest pet, son of Oke Jumbo, lung of | D j d i a jy sa t upright in bed supported by to throw a napkin over him, bnt this only straw, never was found there by any I Bonny. She wanted a heather to con-1 seeping Miss Patty. In the gloom I produced a fierce chatter, and the crca- cuance. [ vert, herself, and the missionaries had no I could just discover a pair of very bright I ture, now, thoroughly scared, kicked over here, Every device that trie mind of man | end of trouble to steal this one for her, as | oytia lookincon* r« C o sur-I the enerenc. raced back as ho had come, could conceive, and Carmody hit npon a she Insisted on his being of s^° a lamily,’ j IuU uueU by voluminous frills. ran, c , “ ” ‘ u, e terrace, up the ivy, appearing fresh one once a week at least, failed to | Gertie explained. and the old l’jusekeeper were present, I for ono moment criiming over tho battle- secure him. He bit through leather and | <she’s wild about pets,’ Freda contmed, I 0U( i ji ie doctor. On the hearth several I i ue nt parapet, tho nevt high on the ridge- rope, untied knots, picked locks, disloca- ‘and she changes them once a fortnight at I sheets of torn blue paper smouldered—the (jlcs or theroof against the sky. ted cliaius and always ended by flying J least. The place was just like the parrto- I previous will I suppose. The new one ‘Shoot him!’shrieked Jonathan, half like a demon-spider, up and down every | bouse at the Zoo once, when we first W itb writing materials was on tho table j f ran tic. ‘He’s got tho nut-cracker. A passage and stair-case in the place—Car- | came, and the next thing that we beard of I near the bed. 1 sovereign to the man who gets a gun and ruody swearing in his wake—til' he gain- her was that Dr. Burnaby was furious at ‘Do just wliat she tells you,’ wblspoied brings him down.’ her to see that the Major was too good a fel- I S re4t c* n W visited on Guiteau he must [ stream, the Po, on the other side tr™ OL ?? r OP TaE V ? LUST “ K . low not to make him some compensation «ee that tho.Uw * obeyed which protects 0 f the battlefield, is like tbo com- l f f®f® ‘ b ® perfect realization for Iris disappointment, if ho gave in u e . Guiteau and secures for him a fair trial moneet of Virginia creeks, and Laurel «‘be glory volunteer, and.he who ceutly. before a jury of his countrymen. He says I Hill, where the action of the 9th occurred, I sUn “ 3 u P° a this ground must perforce pay At last, about midnight, wo quieted u would nov . er , do to 8°f 0 th ® W0 J ld *• thickly timbered as of yore. Mounds ’^ ot . to «rant,nottofiancock,not down, and let Marillier tell us his story. I tb e capIUl of the naUon the officers ot j and rifle-pits are seen at various points, tt 1 *? “My good cousin, the late Miss Corbett I ,aw wer ® un *ble to enforce its mt» | and the place near the Po where some of sack an r.\T e JYhen the Union lines quarreled with me in due course,’ lia date * » nd wer ® at lbe merc y of a mob. Hancock’s men found themselves with a t T av 5 eJ tha day be ^ ore °S, cers 8p ? ke of ’ said,‘the very week atterthowilfwM A!1 that wil1 be necessary to secure the fierce foe in front and a raging wood-fire , tbe “®° “ cowards. The truth was made. Never mind how the dim J 8 ' 1 *»« interference or a mob will be behind yet shows remnanU of 8 bur n t Urn- bat ,‘ b « t® 00 ” „ wer ® at faob « and came about. The new will aud the new 1 6 battery of artillery, and there are now I ber, indicative of the fray. I sought un- L tb ®. men ®}®7 tbe at- - three batteries of artillery stationed at I successfully for the spot where the lion-1 a ?^F, npon this salient was made the the Arsenal in Washington and about 2501 hearted Sedgwick fell. That glorious old 8 ?‘ Jler8 S8W £ bat the right thing had been — —a ai. l I • • . . . . " .. I nTstnnoH and ttian tlmn »»«*«<) in favorite—a very distant cousin—were both on tbe premises, and I was ready to go, when the precious document was missed. Nothing would convince Miss Corbett that I had not purloined it. Why I should do so I can’t conceive. Howev er, I left. I had had some experience of Congo’s doings, and the idea struck me that some day 1 might have the chance of hunting him down and convicting him of tho theft. My chief object was to justify marines at the navy-yard. planned, and then they moved to the THE ALLEGED BIGAMIST AND JFORGEB. warrior’s lines are plainly traceable on i the Alsop farm, and Mr. Alsop thinks that he knows the fatal point—how marked by j a dead oak—but there is no certainty as . „ , . _ ,, „ to tbe place. J ten thousand men of Hancock’s Second at the edge of the AjfOLE. I ™ r P* . ^? und , * b ® ’ night wet and raw. The deputy-sheriff, inn-keeper, andl , ,4 Ibe first gray streak of dawn leading citizen of the settlement, Mr. Ash-1 ? trotc ]. jes »I°mi the sly to the east they by, who is a kinsman ol the brilliant cav-1 *? nn * or the charge, and at half past four alrj ed some coign or vantago whence it was | being seut for one winter niglit to see her | tbe doctor; ‘any discussion nr excitement I •l’^givc ten to any man who can bring impossible to dislodge him. | kangaroos. The climate wasn’t agreeing I may be fatal. She is quite rational; I can bim back alive!’ shouted the Major. To appreciate tho situation one should | with them. She kept tame snakes once | testify to that.’ have kuown the Major. { and they escaped and were never found. «j 3 that your son, Mr. Rivers?’ asked a He was a sedate aud dignified personage, J No one dared cross the park for months high shaky voice from the bed. ‘Then about forty, very quiet and rather precise J after, as they were supposed to be hiding I gi ve me the pen. Quick!’ she gasped a lit- MIlil *0111 fatliiniinr)' In hletcors T aInroce I »Lah.-> 9 I tla (nntnLf ‘•ap Iiptp!’ _ there.’ , . , r , I heard a good deal more about Miss ‘Here you arc, sir!’ sang out tho gar dener’s boy Lurrying forward with a lad der on bis shoulder. , . , He placed it against tbe wall, and up lie . * •« > n.an.nJn «•!tli a lonlppn tie—'quick! ^ee here!’ - went/ Up went Carmody with a lantern | Parker held’be light wldle she made a | swinging in liis teeth. Dji went Major be spent most of his spare time, elabo-.a tniK and revising hlsgreat work on tac tics, of which we wore wont to speak with respectful admiration. Now imagine, over this sc ;ne of peaceful propriety,a four armed fiend rampaging, leaving destnic- uon in lip, train; playing all manner ofim- P-sb pranks, hiding a bottle of ‘Briliian- J oc,’carefully uncorked, in the Major’s boots; swallowing every staff be peases*- tu under the delusion they were bon bons; or bombarding him with freshly corrected proof-shoets crumpled up and chewed Into pe'lcts—and you’ll have some notion of the never-failing zest the existanca of Cocgo gave to life in Ballynoggin. Why d|d he keep it? Some of Congo’s performances turned him livid witli rage, bnt never drove bim to condemning the brute to exile or exc- oatioii. ‘Every man Las his pet extravagance,’ he was wont to say, smiling serenely. ‘I suppose Congo is mine.’ ; i never bnt once saw Major Marillier nearer to being excited than when a xn- tuw that Congo was lost arose. Ue v.-asn’t, the beast; he had as many niding-boles as a magpie. My bed was °u«, and there he was found (in company with Carmody’a blacking-brush, one of the Major’s immaculate gaiters, and the big owl’s head with red ulass eyes that Ui^dto adorn Miss Lavlnla McCran’s hat) just In time to prevent bis master from banting Into tears, or offering A100 re ward, either of which seemed Imminent. *> bat did it mean? c speculated, argued, betted, nearly •ought over it, so ^proportionate grow tue excitement in tbe dull stagnation of our live* in Ballynoggin, and got no near er the truth. Once the solution of tho ® a ‘Sma seemed within onr grasp—thanks 10 Mr. Terence O’Flaheity. . Ue was a local ‘squireen’ proprietor of Jbe before mentioned bog, whom, in do- «»ult of other society, we used to Invito continually to mess. Ue waa heavy enough when sober; later t?» K re *t on Home Rule and the departed | ones of Ireland and his family: ‘The “jutlu’ Flaherty.',’ duellists of note in the brave days of old when Castle Flaherty w« kept up In princely etyle, and ‘the ,, 1 in the cellars would have, flooded U ^ Qr nfilc* round.’ j y f laherty was mixing himself some n ^ and w * ter ona evening befbie de- P 8n >ng, romancing the while gloriously: when suddenly a black figure descended "‘th a swing and a bound from some what an earth are you talking about?’ J man—monkey and all. His affectionate said tha gills together. cousin isn’t overjoyed to have him, but be I explained. When I had done Freda seems a cool hand, says he’ll stay a week, be'’an: ‘That’s the very Major Marillier I and evidently doesn’t mean to bo turned that poor Miss Fatty Payne—Miss Cor- out before he chooses.’ belt’s companion—is always telling me Blew went on to tell me that there bad about. Yes, he’s a cousin, a distant one, | been a careful search made for a will, and four years ago was here on a visit, though too moral certainty none existed Miss Patty goes into wild raptures about Miss Corbett’s ways being well known, bim on small provocation. He was very Mr. Jonathan Marillier took possession kind to her, poor forlo-n little woman, j in due course. Mr. Blew extorted some Miss Corbitt was delighted with him at concessions from him by representing that first, and then quarrelled furiously with bis conduct would be severely criticised him. I believe housed direspectful lan- by the county; and as Jonathan quito in- guage about her monkey.’ | tended starting in life as a local magnate, ‘The monkey!’ I shouted. as soon ‘as Rlioda could travel,’ ho was ‘Why yes, she had one for a pet just I amenable to reason, then, a nasty', thieving, mischievous crea-j He actually asked ns to dimmer one ture. Everyone hated It, and it ended by ood. costing poor Major Marillier Brockwi ft * *• day before Major Marillier departed. I should say that the Major spent a fair Miss Patty doesn’t know exactly what | share of his time at the rectory, and was the quarrel was about—bnt Miss Corbett deeply touched at hearing of Freda’s nar- called him a swindler and a time-serving I row escape of heiress ship, hyprocrlte one day at dinner, and he got We found the party to consist of Mr, up and said good-by to her quite po litcJy, I Blew, tho Marillier cousins, ourselves, and13ft\lie place at once. His ltiggago and Lord Allonby, a big, jovial squire of was sent after liltn—and the monkey. He 1 the old school. The dlnucr was magnifi- left orders with tho butler that if over it cent, worthy of the display of family plate wa3 to be disposed of, he’d like it. Next which attended it. Parker waited—under day Miss Corbett did nothing bnt cry aud protest, in tact it was only out of conslder- moan after him—saying be ~liad deserted I atlon for Major Marillier that lie conde- lier, and that tlie monkey should bo bang- | scended to remain under the same roof ed—so Parker, the butler, took it away, with Mr. Jonathan, he informed mo. It and sent off to Major Marillier without | was a dismal ceremony. The cousins telling her.’ I When Frona stopped, I began my story,' and had tbe satisfaction of seeing aU the family as puzzled as inyself. | were barely on speaking terms. Blew looked bored; Allonby hungry; and the | Major gravo and curiously absent. I Jonathan was captious and argnmenta- a’t boas ^ld argnrH ‘I wish yonr friend could be Induced to | tiva when be wasn’t boastful, talking of make some advances to Miss Corbett,’ | tbe changes that would be made ‘when said my father. the place had a master.’ ‘Wliere’s the pino-apple?’ he suddenly asked. Parker looked slightly confused, bnt replied with dignity, ‘an accident has happened to it, I believe, sir; but I’ll in quire.’ ‘What has become of it? I insist on knowing!’ Parker bad disappeared, but one of the _ ‘I’m sure ho would have a good chance of the succession.’ ‘That Marillier will never do,’ I replied emphatically. ‘He’s not that sort of man.’ «lt’s a shame'.’ said Freda, indignantly. ‘I’ll speak to Miss Corbett myself to-mor row: I know she likes me. No! yon shall go and tell her what a fine fellow her cousin Is. We’ll dri^e over together.’ That interview never came off. Once only in our lives were Miss Corbett and I j footmen replied: destined to meet. From the moment of ‘The monkey sir—’ Mr. Jonathan Marillier’s arrival, all out-1 Til not stand It!’ broko out Jonathan, aiders like ourselves were gently and un- It’s always -‘that monkey,’-* whatever liap- obstruaively kept from approaching the pens! Yesterday It was the sugar-tongs; poor old woman, who looked feobler and old family plate, heirlooms! to-day the shakier every Sunday. Poor Miss Patty’s desse..! How any man can reconcile it eyes and nose bore signs of much weeping, with bis senso ot what is honest—simply aud we'heard of no new pets being adopt- hones.—to lie the means of making away cd. I with another man’s property, I can’t esn- One night came a furious peal at the ceive. bell and a mounted groom delivered nj iSo be fumed—the M^jor tlio while peel- JI1UWUU UJ env " - additional lengths of ladder, stirred by a simultaneous impulse of frolic, to join the mad game of follow my-leader (and that leader Congo) over tbe rooi of Brock- W There can never have been a weirder scene under tlie stars than that monkey hunt. Brockwood looked as big small village by tbe half light. The roof ran up into countless peaks and ridges, now aud then descending sheer into abysses of blackness, now opening into great.wide plan* of and ‘old fashioned’ in his ways. I always suspected that he considered himself „ BTr created by nature to be tlie regularpatteru I Corbett’s eccentricities before long. She | shaky but perfectly legible ‘Annabella.’ I Marillier, shouting, ‘come aloug—someone of the British officer and gentleman, and | bad taken a violent liking to my father, a tap came at tbe door; slie threw the pen Blew or Rivers!’ intended bis dress, demeanor and con-1 and used to send for him constantly, much I down. ‘It’s Jonathan! Keep litm oat! Up went all, followed by two men with venation to be instructive studies for us I to Freda’s disguet, as she had to drive He’ll murder me!’ and then fell back —.i. rfimui ■» » youngsters—each was so perfect in its way. I him to Brockwood—‘the man,’a compound 1 speechless. I can’t imagine why we didn’t detest of gardener, butler and coachman, being j u ivas Mr. Jonathan Marillier. We him. I thiuk we were rather proud of invalided. Tho old lady’s gravest con-1 hustled him out with scant ceremony and him and considered him a credit to the I sideration in life was the disposal ol her | returned to tho bed. Dr. Buniaby shook regiment. He was a thoroughly good, forge property, which was absolutely un- jjfo head—‘It’s equestiou of moments now, kinJ-hcartea fellow 'au fond,’ and it was I dor her control. Her prospective heirs and os he spoke Miss Corbett’s head fell generally understood that he could if he I were as numerous as her pets, and nearly back on the pillow. Miss Patty broke cliose do any thing belter than anybody as often changed. ‘She’ll end by dying j ulo a fit of sobbing; tho unsigned will slip- else. He didn’t often choose and gener-1 intestate or leaving everything to the | ped from the bed aud fell at my feet, a ally held aloof from onr sports and pas- county charities,’ my father used to say | useless heap of waste-paper, and in that times, not only refusing to enter his horse on coming homo from ono of the numer- moment Brockwood and all belonging to for our steeplechases, but actually declin- I ous interviews he had with her on tke sub-1 it passed from tbo old lady’s bands into td to lend him to Miss Norah NcCran for ject. ‘She ought in common decency to the grasp ot Mr. Jonathan Marillier. the same occaston. provide for her faithful old servants and My father behaved splendidly. No al- llis dress was a study of cut and color, that unlucky young African in her life- lusion to ins loss ever passed his lips. He from the parting of bis hair to the ttp of time, and so 1 told her.’ officiated at the funeral, of course. I his boot*; but I think his room impressed Next day it was, ‘Well, I think the old went, and found myself In the same car- me most—*uch a combination ot military fody has made up her mind at last. She riage with a brisk young solicitor from precision with feminine perttineases; tro- sent for her nephew from London—her London, representing the arm employed plies of warlike weapons; lace flounces I natural heir—and made a will in his favor. I by Miss Corbett. to his shleves and chimney-board; tiger- It was all very right and nice. I saw it ‘He’s ca awful cad, that Marillier,’ said skins, crewel-work, antimacassars, mill-1 signed and witnessed, and tbe old one de- Mr. Harry Blew, discussing bis client with tary models aud plans, and old china, stroyed; that is her regular custom before | engaging frankness—‘the meanest little Iiehad«omo valuable engravings and I she signs tlio new one.’ I screw I ever met with. I Lope he’ll with- photograplis about, and over Die lire- ‘What’s the new one like?’ asked Gertie. I draw his bus'ncss from .s, that’s all. place bung a large‘water-color sketch, | ‘Has lie come?’ _ _ _ _ | Think of liis disputing the servants’ claims ‘lilockwood,’ Leicestershire—a maj cent old baronial residence—which, ’ out the slightest foundation for the idea, | his manners ■ t . , , - , we all agreed to be the Major’s birthplace go near Brockwood again during Jona- I can’t stand him much longer. I must or inheritance, of which he bad been than Marillier’s stay.’ I stay down here till things are wound up somewhat wrongfully deprived. I ‘Marillier!’ I exclaimed, 4 thought 11 though. Lucky for me the Major’s come.’ There was also a tig writing-table, had met with Brockwood before, but ‘Mitfor Marillier, from Ireland?’ surrounded byladenbookshelves,at wh'"li' irenldn’t’mrgine where.’ | ‘Yes; didn’t you see him? He’s here, Arrival ol Marvin In Richmond—Hia Changed Appearance—Feara or Be ing Lynched, Etc. _ _ Special to Baltimore Sun. myself with Miss Corbett,' of course, and I Richmond. Va., August 28.—Thomas | aliyman of that name, kindly oflered to I swmly U P ^ 8l0 .P e > to that straw of hope I have clung till her A- Marvin, alias Gen. Morton, the alleged I »bow me what was to be seen, and after W00dB> a oleann B death seemed to have rendered it useless. I bigamist and forger, arrived here this I breakfast we started for whathe called . a “ d j!/},® f t v®, e ,?® my * , Tb 1 y bayonet When I found she had died intestate then morning. The tram was met on the sub-1 the “Horseshoe,” or. as It Is more gener- 5 men , In tne treucbes yon may guess that I thought the chance I mbs by a detachment of city police, and I ally known, the “Bloody Angle.” Driv- aua C * .f®' . 0E f. tb ° U3and “ eu * too valuable to miss, and bavo kept Car- I the prisoner was taken out, placed in a | iug northward on the level Brock road for I ° IVE AS , X> T r? E ’ . mody on the alert ever since my arrival I close carriage and carried to the station-1 less than half a mile, we wheeled abruptly a ,„ i or J? 00a ” *** wlt “ «P»de and (house. In tbe carriage were two police-j info a by-way tothe right and basanto 1 IPiP hold what they hswpleid, Tb> Pinkerton, of New I P*»s through a thicket of small pines. I i.®, „ “ Dorps, **w lorkers, Pennsyl- vanlans, Green Mountain boys, men from So tbe mystery was cleared, and my I men and Detective Pinkerton, of New | pass through a thicket of small pines. story ends. People who like to hear the York, by whom Marvin was brought here These evergreens, which have grown on ■ ; tt 7- very last of everything may care to know | from Lynn, Mass., on a requisition. Th* j the margin of the McCool farm since the l a °^ themselves around the augle he realized ideal of the English I ney. These two officials, with Mr. A. W. I more like a bridle-path than a place for id umi.rjr »~—Tfc ---u (Brownell, the brother-in-law of Miss I wheels; bat, heedless of the ends of limbs pi\se« treacherous pitfalls of skylights, great stacks of chimneys cast shadows acoss our way; an owl flapped out at us; IfobU began to flit about excitedly In tlie windows that overlooked our course; the servants turned out on tho watch lor Con go’s descent, anit wc four lunatics in oven in" dress, ran halloaed, slipped, scram- b,ed and perilled onr necks mote limes than we cared to count without tlie small est chance of ever coming up with our quarry unless by bis own good pleasure. Carmody, in good training from long practice, kept well up; then the boy, au ex-slater it appeared; theu we four at various dibtauccs* Jonathan Marillier had taken heart of grace, and ascended, but contented himself with surveying us from a distance. Congo took it easy; now and then dis appearing entirely Into some hiding hole amongst the chimneys. When he did so I noticed that Carmody marked the placo bef re dislodging him. At last, altera steady run or fifteen minutes, he seemed to concludo that it was time to dispense with our attendance, and accordingly made for ‘home.’ We could hardly keep him in view as he flow up to a higher level and round to the front of tho house, then up the steep slant of tho roof or the big hall, and with a mighty leap gained an arched opening at the top of the clock tower. Carmody gave a wild ‘Hurroo’ of tri umph and was after him like a cat. Con go danced and defied him madly. Ho was safo until wo could get the fodder up. At last they came, also Jonathan. Tho gardener’s boy swarmed up first, but re treated in dismay from a vigorous on slaught of Congo’s. .... ‘Never mind the monkey 1’ shouted the ajor; ‘turn out his hiding place.’ I looked at Marillier iu amaze. His voice was cracked and shaky with excite ment, his face deathly with a grim, des perate look about It- In bis disordered dress and tangled hair no ono could have recognized him as the staudard of milita ry propriety so well known toBallyuog- gin. Then followed a queer scene. We all got as close under the tower as we could. Some one sont ns . more lanterns and a clothes basket, into which the contents of poor Congo’s treasure-house was flung, ho meanwhile lamenting piteously or grimac ing with impotent wrath from tbe top of *•-0 toworl First the sugar-toDgs, also the crown of tlio missing pineapple; next my father’s gold eyeglasses missing since tho funeral, and one of l’arkers’s shoes, also, a ‘handful of. livery huttohs, apparently wrenched off. That seemed tho total of his recent pil- feringg; but under a foyer of rubbish came a collection evidently dating from his earlier days at Brockwood; a faded and battered work-basket onco brilliant with satin and beads; a gold-topped smelliiig-bot'.ie; a set of kitchen skewers; a prayer book and an evil-smelling mass which, on Investigation, proved tchave been once a tongue highly decorated and frilled with lace paper. We got quite ex cited at first, but it began to feel chilly and we made a movement toward a friendly attic window opened for onr de scent. .. g'Stop, please,’ Implored the Major; ‘only a moment longer 1’ His voice was husky and queer, and his band, laid on my arm, trembled violently. squire and characters l __ sistent with old bachelorhood, and Fre-1 V . 1CC1 “’ B 011 '~r'- v-i.oi'k aHtnb-r.s *—r 1 ™T ". j” n f7)m hm-ert-” da’s unpaid legacy still being a small the officers with the prisone Ao tne station-] nst J^ 8 ‘ d ! 80 ^®bug^ grievance witn him, I have a strong idea bouse..Upon the arrival oT 1the party !« that he Intends to discharge all his obli- there Marvin was taken out, brushed off }f b?"?®*-. 1 ™?. -. cations with one graceful act, and prevail his seedy lmen duster, and was taken up is one of grim fame and lasting history, on her to accept Brockwood-plSs the to the office, when he gave, stutleringly, for in the woods hereabout death’s maw master. I hope so, at least. Any more ? his age at somewhere between 65 and 60. J “i,*nd combat kimirnint*" The little black prince-not much con- He was then committed to a cell. 1 |jcrt to man, verted, ,I’m afraid—shivered miserably He was visited to-day by hundreds oi I 18 * through a few more months of England, jfeople, several of whom recognized hrth® weatherv^^n ri^etys^ct^ that aud then, at his own earnest petition, was bowed-down and broken old manThos. devlsJhas been throtigb Ithe m Ha. At dispatched, in care of a party of mission- A. Marvin, tho man who betrayed Mias j the Um e of the ^ttle the dwelling was aries from Liverpool, back to bis own Turpin into a marriage with him. Hie «*“P ied hf Ftoner McObri, bacBelor, CoDgo wilh I I ^ ^ perate purpose time and again he hurls tbe if his vet ms^m from a on HeBat Ohio widower a few weeks ago has un-1 grew hot and deafening all around the dergone a wonderful change. Then he I lamily went into the cellar, and there bore himself like a perfect man of the | Miss Millie, sitting by the side of her sick world, self-possessed, calm and ready to | sister, wrote the following note: converse with anyone. To-day, as he sat I “Guaxt, Gxxebxl, Sib: I desire that in his cell in the station, he appeared a I yon stop this nasty fighting. There is a ... „ , man of 65, his hair while, a stubble beard (sick fody in the house. — Chronicle and ConstUutlomliat,Augwita, a wee t old upon his face, and his limbs I “Mildbkd McCool.” An editorial in your I appeared cramped and stiff with age or I A trembling courier in the person of a Issue of the -Jd,__ to which my attention | disease. He waa in his shirtsleeves, with I black boy succeeded in delivering the A “Sockdolager' Atlanta, Ga., August 25,*1881. Messrs. Walsh «fc Wright, Editors lias just been called, has suggested aLew head bent over, the very picture of de-| note within the Union lines, but oddly uuobtrusivo remarks, which I hope, in I spair. He declined to talk witli any one, * ‘ ' justice to myself, you will publish. It does seem to me that a man may honestly differ with even so great a rail road genius as Col. E. W. Cole, and be spair. He declined to talk with any one, | enough the battle was allowed to contin- and stammeringly remarked to an officer I ue. ' , who stood near that people seemed to I “And would you believe it 1” Miss Mil- have a great curiosity to see him, for what j lie was vfont to exclaim iu chats with her . 7 -7. 1 reason he could not imagine. When he I neighbors many & year thereafter, “and entitled to Christian burial In the event I wa3 searched by the officer in charge of | would you really believe it! the Yankee or an demise, in tne latter part of the [ the station the only money found upon | general wasn’t gentleman enough to grant sixteenth century, during the days of the Marvin was one dollar and a quarter. I a lady’s request.” Inquisition, this sort or doctrine might The chauge wrought in the prisoner’s ap-1 “Shame! shame 1” would come in cho- liave resulted In an auto-da fe. But in I pe ara nce, Detective Pinkerton says,Ts all | rus, and Miss Millie’s ancient rocklng- this nineteenth ccntuiy 8Urely public I assumed. He has permitted his beard to | chair wonld stand still from the very opinion, so put it muaiy, win wink at one grow and distorted his limbs and features | amazement of the good woman between who dares express his lionest convictions, I f n order to prevent identification by those I Its arms. And to this day Giant is held even though tliey no not coincide I fiere whom he has wronged. (up by Miss Millie’s friends as a person entirely with tbos 0O ‘ great .lights ofl During his journey and soon after his | who Is “no gentleman.” One morning, the day, particular 1 ? when tbpse expres- I arrival here Marviu expressed great iear | tw.o days afterward, it was so quiet that sions are given at t“® earnest request of ft 1 0 f being lynched by a mob. He was as-1 the occupants of the cellar concluded that member of tho Legt*‘*ture. It strikes me {sured, however, that no one wonld inter-1 the storm had swept over and Farmer as only fair that the members of the Leg- J f ere w jth him. His arrival was known to | McCool cautiously thrust his head up islaturo should have a right to listen to | bnt to few, and. he was driven through I from below. A Union soldier who saw both sides of any question before them, I tbe streets from the train without attract-1 the head grabbed it and the old man e\ en though ono side be all wrong and tbe lug any attention. Since bis commitment' I ducked down, leaving tbe wig in posses- otber all right. No one in this enlighten-1 he seems to have become satisfied that no I aion of the fougbing s'- -.rp hooters, ed age presumes to doubt that one news- violence will be attempted towards bim. I “the slacghteb-pex.” paper editor knows more about railroad He will have a hearing before the police I Such incidents were pleasant to hear as combinations and their effects on other (justice to-morrow morning. A strong po-1 we left the house, went out at.a farm railroads and the public than all the rail-1 lice force will accompany him to prevent I gate at the foot of the hillside lawn, and road men in the country. Bnt for all that, I any attempt to lynch the accused, should I drove through a belt of ancient and tow- railroad men stHlhave tho ^ same right of | such a thing be contemplated. The first | ering oaks to the Bloody Angle. We i H H ■** *■ ^b * ‘ “* ift free thought and free speech, charge he will be tried on will be grand | struck thq apex at a point where the CoW views,answer them, but do not annihilate I Marviu started on his wedding tour from | along tlie edge Inin personally. He has not attacked Cob | here. . n r —. | the left directly into the depth of a mass Cole. And if my letter was.a weak one, I The niast intense interest is manifested I of scrub oaks and pities. In front of us annihilate it, but pleaso let the author j in Marvin’s case by the Richmond people. J ten yards away was a little yellowish, live. Itwasnot written to be read Itefore | When he Is arraigned before the police | clay-plastered house, recently built. Ba the Legislature, but at the earnest solid- (justice to-morrow the room and streets in | yond was a field of corn, and down the tatlou of a personal frlcad, In reply to | the nelgbBorbood will be thronged. Hun-1 V-shaped clearing, at the point of which certain questions propounded by another, | dreds are anxious to catch a glimpse of | we were, could be seen tho Landrum who was a member of the Legislature. | him, men being more eager than many of | House, a quarter of a mile away. Walk- Aud it was with extreme reluctance that J the fair sex, An enterprising man offers J iug along the line of earthworks to the I consented for It to be read. I explained | six hundred dollars for tbe privilege of | left, we found little except a continuous mlly to the gentleman to whom the letter | exhibiting Marvin for one night. Of coarse | low mound, topped by trees of recent such a thing will not be permitted was addressed that I was not opposed to tbe building of the Atlanta and Rome railroad, bnt was personally in favor of it. There are several gravo errors in yonr editorial in regard to Colonel Cole’s past record and present position. Bnt, as I said before, 1 am not opposed to. Colonel Cole’s system or .to Col. Cole himself,and, therefore, donotcaro to enter into a dis cussion of yonr statements. The fact that my letter “had no weight with the house” is more gratifying to mo than otherwise, as I have the satisfaction offecllngthatldld my duty aud Injured no one. The intimation that its want of weight was due to the fact that any Iqjury the State road might sustain by tbe building of tbe Atlanta and Rome road would fall upon the lessees of tbo State road, and not upon tlie State, la rather a doubtful compliment to the members of the House. Tbe gentlemen who leased tho State road did it in good faith and certainly expected that tho State, the other party to the con tract, would deal with like faith aiid hon or, and protect tbeir interests as earnestly as it would protect Us own. Respectfully, ffu. McRae. Kn. Ga rile Id's Fubikta Faith. I0 i Waekington Star. Last Saturday there was a little conversa tion between Mrs. Garfield and one or two of the physicians, who told her that there j seemed to,be no chance for the President’s, j recovery. Mrs. Garfield replied that the President was not going to die and she did not want to hear any one say that be was. She requested that they wonld never tell her that there would be death until the President had ceased to live. Mrs. Gar field held that the President would tell her if he felttbat he was going to die. I It Waa Kyrid. Button Pott. “You make me thiuk,” John Williams said, dropping on a sofa beside a pretty girt last Sunday evening, “of a bank whereon the wild thyme grows.” “Do I?” she murmured; “it is so nice; but that is pa’s step out in the hall, and unless yon can dropout Of tha front window before I cease speaking, you’ll have a wild time with him, my own, for -he loves you not.’ His descent was rapid. Gen. Wlekhaai’a Protest. .Chicago Timet: ; '**J ■hoveling ■•My Into their Barrels Washington Star. All winds that btow'seem to waft pros- Wiokham, of Virginia, fa no patriot. He w and let Mahone skin him pedty to tb* sleeping car monopolies.' To them’ tne recent cutting of railway ptasen- won’t lie easy alive preparatory to swallowing him, Just as he lias swallowed the bulk of the Repub lican party in Virginia. Wickham protesta that he is able to take care of himself, and sorves notice upon tha country that he isn’t in Billy the Kid’s stomach. ger rates by the trank lines proved to be a fegult * * s gener . _ increased about four fold by the cheapness of fares. Of this great increase the parlor and sleeping cars of course got their full proportion, and, as their prioes hadn’t been lowered, it was Just like shoveling money into their battels. growth, and we were soon tired of the sameness Of the thing. Then we returned by the same earthw orks, being on teh line ofan obtuse angle, and again reached the apex near Sett’s log cabin. The other side of tbe angle is much more in teresting. .the parapet is high. It ii easy to tee that tlie breastworks, up to my chiu in many places, were turned, for there are ditches on each side of the long line. The yellow, mouldering trunks of trees, rotting stumps, logs full of bnllet-holea that look aa though the* were worm-holes, hundreds upon hundreds of rusty canteen*, pieces ot shoe leather, remnants of rubber blankets, bits of car tridge boxes, aud here and there a small bone are tcattered everywhere along the line. Com grows in a part of the space over which Hancock charged up to the works; but on the other side, whence came Lee’s assaults, is what is left of the old growth of oak, together with a dense thicket of young dogwood, sprung np within the last fifteen years. THE OAK mum BY BULLETS. These sights made nye feel more forci bly than ever before that I was Indeed at the heart of a battle field. I wanted to stop at every stump to pick for bullets, forgetting that such a precious thing as lead must have been borne away long ago. I was of the mind to kick tbe dead leaves from every rifle-pit, of which there were scores. I even searched for the spot whence had been drawn tbe stump of the red oak that was backed down by minie balls, and no dopbi in the eagerness of the boar I made myself an object of *u;v pick or his veteran host savagely 4c into the woods. On one side of the bank of earth floats the flag, bullet-spotted and iu shred> auu and on the csOtfcn. ' 1r M»»,iti«u£9ru__b&uner of the filled with Union dead, and on tho olmu are heaps of rebel slain. Trees as thick as a man's body arc torn down iu tho ter rific storm of shot, rain falls in torrents, and thousands of mud-covered felloe.,, with guns that almost refuse the powder, wrestle baud to hand, without rest, from sunrise until long alter dark. Such was the struggle at Bloody Angle; “The Slaughter-Pen” of veteran memory—an alt-day combat of unparalleled ferocity and awfnl sacrifice. r Tbe Immigration lor Joly Mr. T. N. Whitney, acting chief of the Bureau of Statistics, Treasury Depart ment, has prepared an advance state ment of Immigration into tbe United States daring the month of July, 1881, as compared with that of the same month in 1SS0: During the month of-July, 1SS1, there arrived in the customs districts of Balti more, Boston, Detroit, Huron, Minnesota, New Orleans, New York, Passamaquod- dy, Philadelphia and San Francisco, 6^587 passengers. Ot that number 56,007 were immigrants; 3,850 citizens of tbe United States return'd from abroad, and 2,123 aliens not intend- to remain in the United States. Of this total number of immigrants, there arrived from England and Wales, 6,803; Ireland, 5,337; Scotland, 1,320; Austria, 1,941; Belgium, 120; Denmark, 744; France, 3S2; Germany, 20,374; Hungary, 225; Italy, 675; Netherlands, 889; Nor way, 2,905; Poland, 250; Russia, 793; Sweden, 6,067; Switzerland, 558; Domin ion of Canada, 4,790; China, 2,046, and from all other countries, 398. The total numberofimmlgrants arrived in the above-named customs districts from tbe principal foreign countries daring the mouth of July, 1831, as compared with the same month of the previous fiscal year, was as follows: July- 1881. I860 England and Wales.. Ireland .. G,C93 .. 5,337 5,429 6,067 Scotland . 1,320 1,251 Austria .. 1,041 2,006 Germany . .20,374 11,275 Norway .. 2.905 1,743 Sweden...' .. 5,0C7 8,677 11,716 Dominion of Canada .. 4.S90 China .. 2,040 865 AU other countries... .. 5,034 4,714 Total ..56,607 49,855 Jackson, Miss., August 24—The con vention of Greenbackers and Independ ents assembled here to-day, with about 150 delegates present, about thirty of whom were colored. Mr. Wimberly, chairman of tbe executive committee, called tbe meeting to order, and General Griffin J; Chickasaw was made perma nent chairman, aud Charles Hall, of Hines county, secretary. After tbe usual business and the appointment of a com mittee, Col. Ben J. King was nominated for Governor. Tbe convention then ad journed until to-morrow, when the re mainder of the ticket will be nominated. The Republican State convention will meet here to-morrow. pressed merriment to Mr. Ashby, Panama, August 16. — The South American mail steamer brings advices from Lima up to August 2d. General Hurlbert, the newly-appointed represen tative of tbe United States, presented his credentials to the provisional president of Peru on July 26. At tbe same audience, Mr. Christiancy, the retiring minister, officially announced his approaching de parture. The country is In a fearful state. A band of Montonoros are ravag ing the country to such a degree that tlie • inhabitants implore the Chilian troops to protect them. It is renorted that a baud of fifty recently attacked the little village o! Mirabenanca. Foremost among the defenders were the governor and curate. So when tbe Moutonoros took the town they made these two prisoner*. The unfortunate men were kept in goal three days and then taken out and rudely beheaded In tbo square, tbeir beads being stuck on poles exacted for the purpose in the square. Bands of these Montonoros are prowling about between twenty and thirty miles of Lima, aud they occupy and devastate every place tram which Chilians withdraw. tha