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Lo! The Peer Indian.
We are iu receipt of an earnest appeal
from the Ladles’ Indian Treaty-Keeping
___ and Protective Association, requesting us
“rJ, R^^ Rn^ia uToin^r to rdata j to sign and circulate a petition on the
he true story of her escape from the Toil- subject.
^FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1882.
arses.
Vmootnrr Heluslkt (Conservative),
member of Parliament for the North Bid*
DjI of Yorkshire, is dead.
1 an Nebraska woman suffragists claim
nighty of the ninoty.four newspeers of that
BUts os their advocates.
Focb engineers of the Central railroad
have been killed by the Apaches in the
Ctadelario mountains of Mexico.
UrT. .'.la. Davis, who preached at the
Chapol Royal, tit. James’ Palace, on Christ
mas day, said it was to the United States
that tiiu greatness of tbo future of nations
f belongs.
Ir is said that tho old soldier, Eddenfield,
who died in Uih lower part of Henry county,
Alabama, recently, had a certificate that he
was the raau that killed Gen. Paokenhsm
at the battle of New Orleans in 1815.
Toe shovel-makers in the United States
manufacture about 12,000 every week
About one half of them are usod at home
and the othor half are shipped abroad,
moitly lo Panama and South America.
A woman caused a commotion at Wade
na, Miou., by wildly chasing a big dog and
oryiug: ‘‘Stop him! ho hns swallowed
twenty dollar bill.” An obliging butcher
promptly caught the boast, killed him, and
recovered the money.
A roc*o lady who had nn objection to
the revision of tho New Testament writes
to the London Truth to say that tho pbruso
"purple and fine linen" conveys no idea of
luxury to her tnind, and she suggests as an
improvement “sealskin and black velvet.'
'Hi* Italian government is considering
the question of more efficaciously guaran
toeing the liberty and independence of the
1’opo ia homo in order to prevent nil for
eign interference tending to give tho law
of gm-vetees an international character.
A wns in tho Lancet strongly advo-
os.ti.-i open carriages for doctors: “An open
vehicle cnubles the doctor t> purify him
self, e*ea to his hair, after quitting each
•iek room, thus insuring safety not only to
patients, but also to the members of his
family."
Wascinoxon, who became President in
hia fifty-seventh year, selected the youngest
group that over was collected around a
President. Hamilton was thirty-two, Knox
tUirty-uiue, Randolph thirty-six, and Jeffer-
*uj forty-six, the averego being thirty-eight
|x.am of age.
Thk latest issue of Boll’s Life, which has
iu t boon received, says that Gerald has
boon nursing for some days past, and takes
bu‘. quiet uxorciso around the stable-yard.
Noth’ -jg, however, is said to boparticnlariy*
wrm . #ith tho colt. Mistake, also, it i3
asiii. ms lieen added to the list.
The I-oiidon titandard’s correspondent
at lteiliu says: “Emigration in 1382
proinUus to becomo more colossal than
that iu 1881. Fourteen thousand tickets
bare already been taken for transportation
by vessels leaving Bremen for Amorica in
the spring. Almost an equal number of
v ad grouts will go from Hamburg.”
James Gordon Bennett sends dispatches
from Paris to .Secretary Frolinghnysen
staling ids intention to send a special cor-
Mspoiideut to meet tbo roscaed members
of tho Jeannette’s crew on their way home
ward, aud giving assurance that he has al
ready forwarded money to enpply their
present rants.
Nellie Cabtee, 10 years old, was bronght
bsforo Justice Bixby* in tho Tomb3 police
court yesterday and charged with being
drunk. Policeman II envy sides said that a
ciUzsii, who had found the child in South
street, had brought her to thostation house.
Justice tiixby committed her to tho Catho-
Protectory.
A seomon by James A. Garfield, delivored
A Hiram, Ohio, many years ago, on “The
Pulpit—tho Material and Spiritual,” ap
pears iu lust week’s Christian Standard. Its
oloaiug m ntonce is as follows: “The hopes
of the world are false; bat as the vino lives
in the branches, so Christ lives in the Chris-
•tiau, and ho shall never dio. Thecomfortor
Las come, and Christ reigns in the hearts
Of Uleu”
The saying “as rich as a Jow” is com
plained of by the Jewish Messenger as mis
leading at present, even if it ever had justi
fication. The wealth of the Jows of Now
York in greatly overestimated, according to
this authority, for “the vast majority are
!b meliorate circumstances, n few only are
millionaires, and man • thousands are ac
tually dependent i n t ie charity of their
mote foitunate brethion.”
Gov. CnuEcnntii, of Arkansas, was State
tret.aj.-er before his election to his present
puuti>a. A committee appointed by the
last legislature to oxomina the auditor's and
treasurer's books has reported an apparent
deficit of 81(11,000 in the late treasurer’s ac
count.-* The Gorornor says thst he can
uatisfactorily explain the seeming deficit
-and will appear before the cotnmiPee on
Tuesday and submit his proofs.
Some one who has been making a oritical
analysis of me membership of the Hcn?e
coounittejs discovers that tbo members
from tbo*. Statoi which made Mr. Keifer
Speaker have keen given the cbirmanships
of Unity-five of the fifty-one committees.
In these ihirty-five all or nearly all tha im
portant committees are mclndtd. This
ahoiis that Mr. Keifer is one of tlioso men
mo difficult to find in those days whs docs
no*, forgst his friends.
Tojuudden ground: Ho had been intro
duced to a girl from Boston, and together
they pawed aimlessly through a brokec-
backed allium. “And shall yon hang up
poor stocking!” he inqnireJ, as they talked
of Christmas. “Sir!” exclaimed the Bus-
Ion girl, drawing herself up prondly and
fixing her quivering glasses firmly on her
nose, “let me never hear you speak to me
again.” And she swept grandly out of tho
toon* .vhilo the young man went and laid
iiis astonished head rgainst the frosty win
dow pane.— [Rockland Courier.
Mb. G. 5. Denny, United States consul-
gener-’i at Shanghai, has sent to a friend in
California, for distribution throughout the
State, a package of the 6ceds of the “tallow
tree,” which he thiuks will flourish there,
with the following interesting description
of the process by which its fruit is prey ored
for use: “Hie nuts grow iu clusters and
ace gat tiered in November. When ripe, the
cspmto divides and discloses, usually, about
kriD kernels, covered wit— pure, hard,
white tallow. In preparing the tallow the
npeuntsateput into a wooden cylinder
with u perforated bottom, and, after ten or
fifteen minutes’ steaming, tho tallow be-
oonji..” so soft that it is easily dotached from
the albumen of tho soods by breakingthom
with mallets. It is then separated from the
needs by sifting it through hot sieves, but
of coarse, it is discolored from mixtures
with the brown testa of the seeds, and in
order to stiain it and make it perfectly
pore and whits, it is pourod into a cylinder
made unfit rings of straw placed one on
top of the othor, thon pnt into n rndopress,
Unfortunately for us and our peo
ple, we have so long been defending
ourselves against the very people who
plunder the Indian and then murder him
if he complains that we have not time to
devote to this philanthropic enterprise.
The government should keep Us plight
ed faith to the Indian tribes. The Indian
should have the last dollar in full which
it has been agreed to pay him, and he
should be protected from thieving white
men. We would suggest to the ladies who
propose to take charge of this matter, that
the first step in reform would be to catch
anffbang all of the Indian agents. Then
let them proceed to use their influence to
-induce Congress to turn over to the War
Department, where it was formerly lodged
and where it properly belongs, the control
of the Indian Bureau. We have quite a
large army which has nothing to do, since
its presence at the polling places at the
South has been dispensed with. It is
mostly quartered in elegant barracks, near
some city of fine social advantages.
The officers play cards, smoke,
shoot and fish, while the privates who do
not generally desert keep drank and in
the guard bouse. For these pleasures the
people pay very heavily. Let this army
be sent out to the Indian conntry to see
that the Indian remains on his reserve
tion and keeps the peace. The white man
has to work for a living, and if our va
grant laws were enforced the colored man
would be compelled to follow his exam
ple. There is no reason why the Indian
should be excused from this lot common
to humanity. A man that is able to
mount a mustang aud ride hundreds ot
miles on a marauding and murdering ex
pedition, is quite competent to plow corn
and hoe potatoes. r
We must dismiss ail that romance from
our minds which transforms a drunken
pigeon-toed thief and loafer into a prince
of the forests. The facility with which
the Indian has learned from tho white
man how to handle a rifle, and to con
sume large quantities of fire water, is proof
sufficient that under proper care and dis
cipline he could be learned the peaceful
arts of agriculture. If be will not learn,
but will persist in sticking red feathers in
bis head, stealing cattlo and scalping de
fenseless women and children on the
frontier, then it becomes the plain duty of
the government to take him in hand and
punish him even to the extent of the
death penalty.
In Be Tree*.
Only a few men can attain greatness,
but all of us can plant trees, and it is an
open question which of the classes will
confer the greater favor upon posterity.
It is a source of intense satisfaction to
great men to feel that their light will
shine for the benefit of posterity, and we
would not carelessly approach this main
spring in their existence; but as a matter
of fact, posterity in this latitude* will need
more shade than light, if we may judge
from the general and reckless slaughter
ing of trees in Georgia. The extensive
operations of vast lumber companies in
the State, the farmers’ girdling axe, and
the builders’ relentless encroachments
playing sad havoc with
the natural beauty of the
Slate; perhaps with her climate nnd agri
cultural advantages, if the theory that
forests produce rain be accepted. It is
estimated that 05,000 establishments, em
ploying 400,00-J people and using mate
rial valued at $-1,500,000 a year, are en
gaged in the United States In manufac
turing articles from wood, in addition to
3,000,000 persons partly employing wood
and using that material yearly to the value
of $0,000,000. ^Georgia is an important
district in the area in which these great
operations are being carried on, and her
resources once described as inexhaustiblo
begin to tremble beneath the magnitude
ol the assaults made upon them. It is
time that some attention be paid to this
matter, and proper steps taken to stop the
waste, restrict the use aud provide for tho
future. Two causes fortunately have al
ready begun to operate for the preservation
to some extent of our timber. The per
fecting and far reaching railway system
is rapidly bringing us into close commu
nication with the vast coal bods, and iu,
our worltshops, railways, mills, furnaces,
mercantile aud private houses coal is
becoming daily, to an increasing extent,
the fuel of the people. When it shall
have become so cheap as to be preferable
to wood in all departments of life, a vast
demand upon the forests will cease to ex
ist. The no-fence law, gradually being
adopted throughout the State, is the sec
ond cause operating favorably for the
forests. When the necessity for farm
fences is obviated by a general law re
quiring cattle to be kept up, the steel will
be withdrawn from the throats of a hun
dred thousand trees, and the sapling
will no longer tremble at
tvery approaching footstep. The
demands upon the forests will then be
confined chiefly to the lumbermen and.
the acreage-increasing farmer. To resist
the annihilating approach of these two
classes, must be interposed by new forests,
which to be produced require care. It is
not within the poiicy of tha iiving-for-the-
prew ul American citizen to engage in any
venture that will firing no return during
his lifetime, but how many labor vainly
ami leave no legacy to their posterity? We
venture the assertion, that a tract of fifty
acres ol land planted in walnut, hickory
and pine, and no further labor expended
upon it, left lo stand for twenty years, will
make the owner a wealthy man, or at
least comfortable. Aud yet out of
thousand tnen who labor that length of
time, the number of men who acquire
wealtli are few. If our poor Georgia farmer
with four times the amount of land he
can or ever will cultivate, should at the
biith of each child set out ten or fifteen
acres of ’aud iu fine trees, and deed it so
that twenty-one years will elapse before
it can l>e touched, he may lay aside life
insurance policies, and go down to
tiie grave in peace. A Tennessean
lias demonstrated by a practical illustra
tion that fifty acres of walnut trees will in
twenty years produce a thousand dollars
per aero in walnuts alone, while the tim
ber Itself would be worth a sum far supe-
porior to the aggregate value of the nuts.
But the general policy of the country
should bo to protect the young forests.
expenses would be greater than any one
man could stand. This may be true if
all should be attempted at once. If the
’moving of young trees from land to be
cleared be to great a task, let him gather
Up acorns and pine mast, scatter them
over the old fields and turn under with a
light plow. Time will accomplish the
work of restoration, and time will toon
make it necessary that some such prelim
inary work be done.
Protection baa not interfered with the
production of our agricultural staples.
Our production of cotton has increased
from -4,823,710 bales in 1859 to 6,588,329
bales in 1880. Our production of corn
has increased from 838,792,740 bushels in
1859 to 1,754,449,435 bushels in 1879. Our
production of wheat has in increased from
173,104,924 bushels in 1859 to 459,667,043
bushels in 1879. tr .r production of wool
has increased from 90,000,000 pounds in
1861 to 232,500,000 pounds in 1879.
Nor has protection interfered wl.h the
exportation of our agricultural staples.
In the fiscal year 1859 we exported 1,380,-
735,676 pounds of cotton, and in the fiscal
year 1881 we exported 2,191,078,772
pounds. In the fiscal year 1859 we ex
ported 1,719,998 bushels of corn, and in
the fiscal year 1881 we exported 91,90S,-
175 bushels. Iu the fiscal year 1859 we
exported 3,002,016 bushels of wheat, and
in the fiscal year 18S1 we exported 150,-
665.477 bushels.
A Good Thine far tna Flnejr Woods.
A gentleman by the name of Stanley,
from Wilmington, N. C., has invented
machinery by which be utilizes the slabs
from the saw mills and all refuse pine
wood, so much of which is wasted iu our
forests. He claims that oue cord of light-
wood will yield eighty gallons of pine
oil, worth, at manufacturers’ prices, 25
cents per gallou. Also, that this cord of
wood will net twenty dollars. He nqt
only gets the oil, but also fifty bushels
The Man Wh* Made ArtbnrFraeMeat
From the time Guiteau fired the fatal
shot, during bis long confinement and all
through the trial with iu wild harangues,
be has struck closely by one idea, viz.:
that he has done tha stalwarts great ser
vice by the murder of Garfield, and the
consequent elevation of Arthur. There is
a method in bit madness which never de
viates from its course, anil he has not at
tempted to conceal at any time the fact
that his great hope of acquittal rests upon
the sympathy of the stalwarts who are en
joying the fraiu of bis act. The most pos
itive testimony yet delivered in favor of
the plea set up in defense came from
John Logan, stalwart, who was emphatic
In the expression of bis conviction as to
the insanity of Guiteau. It may be said
that Logan is as Inexpert In his diag
nosis of iesanity as he Is In the
use of tbo English language;
but the tact still stands that he sustains
the only plea which has been raised be
tween the assassin and the gallows.
Gniteau spent Christmas day in prepar
ing a manifesto addressed to the people of
the United States, for which he demanded
one hundred dollars. It Is not probable
that he received that or any other amount
for the wild and blasphemous production,
but it has done the service for which It
was prepared. It has reached the Ameri
can people through the medium of the
telegraph and mails. We would not pub
lish it if time and space were at our com
mand without stint, but we give this most
pointed paragraph embraced in it. He
says:
I am highly pleased with Gen. Arthur;
he’s doing splendidly in bis new position.
Had Gen. Garfield done as well he proba
bly would have been alive to-day. He was
a good man. but a weak politician. Iam
especially pleased with Gen. Arthur’s con
ciliatory spirit and wisdom toward the op
position. It is exactly what I wished him
to do, viz: Unite the factions of the Re
publican party to the end that the nation
might be happy and prosperous.
His subsequent and recent declatation
to the effect that his namo will bo of-
charcoal, which he readily sells at lO^n of" Jo the next Republican nominating
cents per bushel. Also, one hundred gal
lons of pyroligneous acid, also fifty pounds
of vegetable aspbaltum, making a fine
black varnish. The pine oii which is the
principal yield, contains a large per cent-
age of creosote, and has been found to be
one of the best preservatives of wood
known, protecting it from the attacks of
insects and worms, particularly from the
“Teredo” or salt-water worm, which de
stroys all the piling underneath wharves
along the scacoast. If Mr. Stanley’s un
dertaking is a Success, be has a fortune at
band. The yearly waste in our pine for-
ests is immense, and if it could be turned
to profit, as this invention would indicate,
many a poor piney woods tract will be
valuable In the future.
“Little Casino”: We are unable to
say who is the best euchre player in the
State. The sterner affairs of life have so
commanded our attention that we have
not mused and meditated much of late on
the enticing and innocent recreation; but
we would observe before leaving the sub
ject that if any brace should strike our
friends Dr. Eldridge and N. A. Smith, of
Amcriciis, in a game of laps, siams, jam-
bones and jamborees, and be able to show
counters, they will be accounted soon
artists.
theition, as a candidate for the presi-
cy, will not drive stalwart sympathy
froTu him, and whether he shall go to the
asylum or to the gibbet, or finally to the
ology, law or as consul to Paris, the men
who are enjoying the fat things his pistol
prepared for them will not forget the
sudden turn he gave to their desperate
fortunes.
If Guiteau is cleared, we may expect
to see him in the bands of some enter
prising Barnum and Haverly, and our
boards decorated with the announce
ment, “Chas. Guiteau, after a highly suc
cessful six weeks’ engagement in Wash
ington City, will appear at Ralston Hall
on blank date, in bis great specialty,
‘American Law. A Farce.’ ”
As usual, Atlanta had a hand in the
Malione business. Col. Francis H. Al-
friend, an old-timer of Atlanta, author of
a biography of Jefferson Davis, General
Gordon’s speeches in tho Senate, and other
breezy and imaginative essays, was a Ma-
hone leader in the Virginia campaign,
his plate has yet been helped to gravy and
stuffing, the fact has not been promulgated.
The great question before tho people,
Is not “where is the Malione party of
Georgia located?” hut “where is the lead
er?” And in this connection we beg
Messrs. Speer, Thornton, Duggar and
Colonel Jack Brown bo seated until we
can acknowledge the other gentlemen
who have risen to their feet.
If our inference is correct that Colonel
—aud we apply the title deliberately—
Colonel Jack Brown is opposed to Emory
Speer as leader of the great antl-Bourbon
Independent Republican Mahons party of
Georgia, then iudeed must we strip for
the fight.
The infant statesman from the ninth
district is continually clutching at the
coat tails of Joe Brown, Ben Hill and
Mr. Stephens. Mr. Stephens is quoted as
saying that the proper place for Emory is
the Republican caucus.
•w/it-.a .I t Jrtilow i.-t riquttt-zed through iu it , (j ;l - t| ie uiulerbrusli from tiso young
ptro slit*. From 133 pounds of seed is | oa [j 3 and hickories and clear ou'y the
o'' d from forty to fifty pounds of tal- 1&nd oa wUch lbe growth j g mature. For
iutha oil obtained subsequently acre oJ ^ d brongbt
j albumen by grinding, steaming , . , **, .
Tha taHcw is used for a j into cultivation, plant in trees an equa
_» ,< purposes by lbe Chinese, but amount of worn out land and bring ft
ibo.o particularly for making candles, j backto fertility. It may be said that
ki cb are burned in Buddhist worehip.” t *ucb ideas cannot be carried out; that the
fru.
and
Mr. Emory Spzer does not meet with
unanimously enthusiastic welcome to
the Republican camp. Col. Jack Brown
more than intimates that Mr. Speer Is re
garded S3 a political dead-beat, as it
were.
And now a Mr. Archey turns up who
says lie knows where a Confederate quar
termaster buried $170,000 in gold in the
city of Mobile. Wii! not Mr. Archey in
form us where Captain Kidd planted his
loot?
Blaine is credited with the state
ment tiial if Garfield had lived he wonld
not have tarred his hands with Billy Ma-
hone. Who sent Mahon* the nosegays
upon his first overt act of treason to Vir
ginia?
Tub impression is gaining ground in
this office that Si I Lewis is off on a cold-
water Christmas spree. The absence of
the hkmaeUte at this crisis may be
taken as an indication that the impression
is well founded.
Expert testimony runs fearfully
against Guiteau, but ol late years the law
yers have been in the liahit of mangling
experts of all kinds in a very horrible
manner.
“Foyntzs”: Yes. Mr. Stephens is an
adroit aud successful whist player. There’s
a weak place iu bis play, though. When
the cards ran against him bis bed time
comes very early.
Guiteau lias been docked and the re
porters put out of jail. The docking was
all right, but no better asylum than a jail
could be found for the average Washing
ton reporter.
Tub frcscoe artists of the treasury in
vestigating committee are kalsomining the
clawhammer coat of Honest John Sher
man. 9
Reaping the Whirlwind.
The Republicans who with Federal pat
ronage and money helped Billy Mahono
to drive Virginia to the disgrace of repu-
diation are beginning to reap the whirl
wind as a harvest in return for the seen
sown.
When time for cooling had come after
the heat of the contest, the leading Repub-
can journals began piteously to beg the
jick in the box, whom they had made a
political dictator iu a great Slate, to modi
fy his repudiation schemes, in order that
they might escape the ruin and disgrace
which for a certainty must follow. But
Mabone, flushed with victory and crowned
with authority, takes counsel with no one
but himself. The Richmond Whig, the
mouthpiece of Mahcne, serves this notice
on the Republican party:}
It says: “There is no power under
heaven, except war power, that can coerce
Virginia or any other State as to her own
affairs—especially with relation to claims
against her, or as to the imposition anA
collection of taxes. Whatever Virginia^
shall declare to be her debt will bo her
debt; aud any mode she chooses to pay it
in will be the only legal mode. There are
no laics nor constitutions, nor judicial de-
cisions (worthy of attention) to the con
trary, notwithstanding the windy prating
of case-lawyers aud street-corner states
men. And such declaration aud mode
she may repeal or alter at her own sov
ereign will and pleasure, and there is no
where lodged any power to molest her or
make her afraid in so doing. This is the
only true theory and practice of govern
ment, and no State can accept any other
without degradation to the status of a
mere corporation.’
such we believ* him. But the judge who
presides over the trial is present to apply
only the cold, bard precepts of the laws
our legislators have adopted. His progress
may apparently be slow, but there is no
ether way to convict. An order passed in
the beat of passion, a single false move, a
denial of a single right, and the whole
disgusting scene win he re-enacted. It is
even no# ah Open question If the separa
ting the defendant from bis counsel and
placing him in the dock, and the presence
ot two persons on the jury who are iu the
employ of the United States are not
grounds for a new trial. In the former
there is a precedent in the Sickles trial,
but {Sickles did not appear in court as
counsel for himself.
Gniteau’* Trial.
The press generally, but more especial
ly the Republican portion of it, is heaping
calumny upon the head of Justice Cox
tor the manner in which Guiteau is at
lowed to conduct himself in court. An
amount of nonsense which would fill sev
eral volumes, is daily promulgated, and
threats of impeachment, removal, etc.,
freely indulged in. Peihaps it would be
well if some of the eminently respectable
journals which are engaged in this sense
less tirade would examine the difficulties
aud rules by which Justico Cox is hem
med iu, and forced to proceed, not only
slowly, but with the utmost patience and
forbearance. Guiteau is in court iu tliree
capacities: First, as defendant; secondly,
as counsel, and thirdly as witness. More
over, he appears as a criminal upon trial
for his life. Now, let us consider what
remedies Justice Cox has for the dlaoi-
derly interruptions of the prisoner. In the
first place, a fine for contempt of court
might he imposed. That wonld effect
nothing, for the simple reason that the
prisoner couldjnot, or would not, pay It.
The fine might be turned into imprison
ment, but that would suit Guiteau only
too well, aud prolong the trial during
the natural termcf his life. Nor can the
prisoner be scut beyond the courtroom
and tLe trial proceed, for a verdict ob-
taineu against him would be instantly set
aside on the ground' that he was not con
fronted with tho witnesses. To manacUi
him heavily would not stop hij tongue,
and to gag him would deprive him of the
power of conferring with Ills counsel, act
ing as counsel, and cross-questioning wit
nesses. This, too, would unvalidate the
verdict obtained, if it were infavorabie to
him. What then? There seems to be no
legal method of quieting tho criminal. It
must be remembered also tbattbe defend
ant pleads insanity or its equivalent,
while his brother counsel pleads insanity
pure for him. Justice Cox has refused to
be frightened into using abusive language
to the prisoner, and has preserved
throughout the trial a calm, unraffied ex
terior. The man before him is simply a
prisoner whom tho law presumes to be in
nocent. Ho has been arraigned simply
for murder. The fact that he has slain
the President of the United States is not
to weigh in the conduct of the case. The
only question is, did he with malice afore
thought kill James A. Garfield, and the
case does not legally differ from hundreds
of others yearly brought before tho bar.
For Cox to assume that
he sits as judge upon the murderer
of the President would be a monstrous
perversion of law, and would subject him
to the contempt of ail law loving people.
The press may rightly form opinions up.
on the guilt of the Infamous scoundrel
who is on trial. ^There can be but oue
opinion as to his guilt if he be saue, and,
A husband has no right to get his wife’s
letters from the post-office, even should
he suspect the correspondence covers a
criminal intrigue. This is the last chunk
of wisdom from the Post-office Depart
ment.—Montgomery Advertiser.
The husband still has the right to take
his wife’s letters from the poet-office.
The decision to which the Advertiser re
fers was to the effect that a husband
could not take from the office a letter
written by his wife to another man. The
reason is very simple. As soon as the
letter is addressed and dropped iu the
post-office it becomes the property of the
person to whom it is addressed. A “wife’s
letters” are those addressed to her, and
the husband has a right to demand them
from the office in which thoy lie.
Another Cotton Exposition.—
Louisville, Kentucky, is preparing to put
In for a cotton exposition next year. The
special correspondent of the Louisville
Courier-Journal, who Las done much of
tho writing and a great deal of the orato
ry at Atlanta, writes to his paper as fol
lows:
It cau be accomplished. Many exhibi
tors here told mo that they would come,
and I am credibly informed that those I
refer to as having missed this one will
jump at that onq. Agitate it. It is feas
ible, and if Louisvillo lias only got the
snap to have it there will be no trouble iu
having machirery cuough thereto awaken
even the Louisviliiaus from their slumber.
I am personally “dead cone” on the man
ufacturing idea. The exposition has
affected others tho same way.
A son of Senator Bayard and a son of
Senator Mabone wero lodged in the guard
house at Washington a few nights since
for insulting ladies at the National The
atre, In that city. If these youths had
been at home at work *r at school, in
stead of enjoying fat places in the Senate,
this disgrace would not have como to
them.
The changes in railroad circles in At
lanta are accepted as the best that could
be dene, albeit great regret is expressed
at the resignation of Gen. McRae as gen
eral manager of the Western and Atlautic
road. Col. R. A. Anderson, who succeeds
him, is every way competent, and his ap
pointment gives general satisfaction.
New York Times: “Mr. Sherman
prostituted the vast aud varied Treasury
service In tho South in a desperate effort
to secure his own nomination to the Pres
idency, and when he leit his high office,
that service, with some striking oxcep
tions, was sca:cely other than a nest of
greedy traamg politicians, with little
ability and less character.”
The Atlanta Constitution is authority
for the statement that Col. Jack Brown
has read Emory Speer out of tho Repub
lican party. As Speer read himself out of
the Democratic party some time since,
there’s nothing left for the hoy politician
but to have a nice little party ail lo him
self.
“Jane,” Gail Hamilton,” is the
nomme de plume of a buxom,but plain
Yankeospiusterby the name of Dodge,
who is a relative of Blaine’s wife. She does
the retired statesman up in the newspapers
and periodicals and is looked upon in Bos
ton and thereabouts as a soit of Macau-
ley in pant—petticoats.
The “glass hen,” the wonder of many
visitors to the Cotton Exposition, is an un
grateful mother. She hatches out a nu
merous brood, aud then provides no meth
od of livelihood for tho little chicks. Like
the Haiionn party after tho election, she
lets every one scratch for himself.
It turns out from the investigation now
going on at Nashville, that belladonna
and croton oil wero the moving agents
which pushed the bond bill through tho
last Legislature. Belladonna is calcu
lated to push a man’s eyes out, but cro
ton oil will move him when money won’t.
Not Yet Out of the Timber.—It
is the general opinion here, based on the
Ohio press, that Mr. Pendleton’s Presi
dential aspirations have not been respond
ed to witli much heartiness. Indeed the
next Democratic candidate is still in tho
woods.
Georgia soil may be occasionally dis
graced by bloody tragedies, but it takes a
New England deacon to elope with a
seventeen year old girl, and leave an old
woman to support a half dozen bard earn
ed children.
The fight over tho Athens post-offlen
grows hot. Speer wrote to the depart
ment that Pledger was a thief and Pledger
retorted to the effect that Speer had been
a ku-klux. Ben Hill’s carriage driver
Brydie may yet take the cake.
Connecticut has eleven thousand
more women than men and is puzzled to
know what should be done uuder the cir
cumstances. Do? Why drown off all
the girl babies for a year or so, and let tho
men catch up.
Mr. Speer, Mr. Frost and Mr. Belmont,
the youngest members of the Housoof
Representatives, are sometimes called by
their aBsosintea tho “Kindergarten mem
bers.”— [Washington Paper._
But the infant phenomenon from tbo
Ninth does not attend the same school
with the other boys.
Pledger's armament dees not consist
alone of 8 hickory bludgeon. Ha has a
cartridge box full of documents very dam
aging to the child publicist of the ninth
district.
Some of the exposition stockholders
who Invested five-twenties in the enter-
pi iso will join feelingly in the hymn which
is to close tho affair— 1 "Old Hundred.”
Boutwell says he knows Gniteau is
crazy “by bis laugh and gait.” If these
indices are reilable < BoutweU is a babbling
idiot.
The technical term for hunting broken
victuals In the stalwart kitchen in Wash
ington is “flopping over.”
Rumor is rife to the effect that Dr.
Felton will formulate the plan ot the In
dependent campaign. j
the New Tear—At the Foet *1 the
Mali*
Well, here wa are again, at the foot of
another flight of stairs, with a long line r-f
three buMred and sixty-five steps away
below us, the dust from our feet still light
upon them. Childhood Is a little further
off, and the stars a little nearer. Around
us Qn the landing all the world Is gather-
[ Cd, And as the midnight hour drips frond
the glass, and the breath of sound gathers
in the deep-mouthed bell, we seethe pic
ture. Yonder tbo old man, gaspiDg as he
leans his trembling band upon the rail,
and counts as best he can through his
dimmed vision, the step that yet awaits
bis wearied foot; here a maiden bending
forward,eager for the bound which places
within her grasp the orange flowers whose
overbold whisperings have mantled her
cheek and choked the lilies on her
breast; over there, the strong n.an,
settling his burdens more eas
ily upon his shoulders, grasping
the hands of wife and child, and gazing
upward fearlessly, hopefully; here again
the young mother, forgetful of her own
way, teaching toddling feet to move, and
near her one who gazes backward—for
ward,and sees the journey half complete.
All are gathered here at the foot of the
stairway. The strong, the weak,
the aick, the blind, the halt, rich
and poor, the joyful, the despairiug.
Some with memory’s dew upon their lids,
some with hope’s smiles upon their lips,
some who have left ail behind and cannot
see through the mist of tears, and some
who have gazed upon the fading faces in
the past until their fixed vision has learned
to see them far ahead. What a scene it
is! And yonder behind; what wrecks re
main. About that long stairway lie the
drift of winds, storms, happenings, crimes
and events—the drift of time—covering
them over until one scarcely sees the path
but yesterday traversed. From this long
stairway, there arc those upon its landing
who have seen wondrous things; have
seen vessels dashed to pieces
or engulfed, famines, plagues, pestilence
and conflagration at work; lives swept
into eternity and life rescued. Look!
Upon yon distant step a dying Czar is
burled, and near us a wounded President
lifts his wasted iorm. Yonder—but yes
terday—a burning theatre smokes, and
echo brings the shrieks of half a thousand
wretches. Upward from the varied scenes,
float in fancy still, songs of maiden, laugh
ter of children, voices of men, impreca
tions, merry voices—it was but yester
day we heard them on the stairs.
But bark I The bell Is creaking in its
grooves—the multitude about us turn their
faces upward,—tho stroke comes. An
other year is born, and tho great world’s
procession, with its clatter and its clam
or, moves onward, smiling at the antics of
tbo iiltio urchin whom time has fathered
and eternity hovered for the hour.
Cor* James Atkins rises up as the
leader of tbo Malione movement. Tho
Colonel has had much obloquy cast upon
him, but has been crammed with much
Federal pap. But tho Colonel is entitled
to the floor, and the sergeaut-at-arms will
see that the partisans of Messrs. Thorn
ton and Speer in tho galleries keep quiet
while he proceeds in order with his re
marks.
The fate of forty persons iu a Polish
church, who lost their lives by »> ^ *
should ho a lesson to those dea^
start round with the contribution''
fore the fear-allaying hymn is lifted.
Now that the brisk little city ot Rome
takes the premium fer the best cotton, she
should put up mills to manufacture her
fine staple. She has the water power and
coal and iron near at hand.
The clerk of the weather has with
drawn protection from the ice machine
men. The Maine farmers will smile as
they commence to cut a thick crop of fro
zen water this morning.
AetMoatal Tralh,
Syracuse Herald.
Accidental truth: A medical certificate
is among the treasures of the I/>ndon gen
eral post-office, worded as follows: This
is to certify that I attended Mrs. — is
her last illness and that sh? died in conse-
qnence thereof.”
Gal lean’s Flaw.
Detroit PMt.
It is said that Gniteau favors the plan ot
Laving witnesses in criminal com* electa 1
by the people, the same as the judges ana
clerks of court. In that way he hopes to
get experts who will “stand fire better
than Khombo-oepbalio Spitzka.
Tbe Vlrfftala 9s*l.
Atlanta Coastitutio*.
All the eminent Virginia oolonels and
majors who have recently engaged sn pa
per wad dueling have been restored to tne
privileges of citizenship. Now there are
many substantial arguments against the
duel proper, but it cannot be charged that
a Virginia duel is barbarous.
Tbe Inooavealeace ot Opinion*.
Motto* Post.
A Pennsylvania grand jury reoently in
dicted a man for stealingan umbrella, and
later as they came out of the jury room to
go home and observed that it had come on
to rain, *hey gazed at a lot of umbrellas
that stood in a rack and muttered softly to
themselves, “What a fool a fool is.”
D—n tbe Dutch.
Xeio York World.
The Speaker of the House of Representa
tives is anxious to have the pnbuo know
that his name is “Keefer,” not “Kyfer, be
ing evidently afraid that he may be sus
pected of having German blood in bis
veins. Mr. Keifer is true to the traditional
belief of the Ohio Ropnbiicans so tersely
formulated in the phrase, “D—n the
Dutch 1”
Darkey DentUIrr.
Courier Journal.
Some years ago whenever a colored man
had the tqotbacne a string was tied around
assistant held the cord the dentist raised a
heavy maul, as if to strike the patient dead.
Of oourso the Afrioan threw himself back
to avoid the blow and with such force as to
jerk ont the tooth. This sort of dentistry,
it shonld be said, was cheaper than the
present operation.
aeir.
Philadelphia Record.
A tree and loyal recognition ot self,how-
ever, lies at the very bisis of all right liv
ing, individual or social. It is right and
proper that a man should look upon his
own welfare, consistently with that of his
neighbors, as the most important of the
trusts committed to him. One who acts
always with a due consideration of his own
primary responsibility for himself will not
be more self-heipfnl, bnt he will usually be
more able to help others, and ho is not so
likely to bocomo a ueod-weight upon socie
ty as tho man who regards himselj ns mere
ly an insignificant drop in thejgreat ocean
of humanity.
Your (Juele Sammy.
Philadelphia Times.
However paralytio Samuel J. Tilden may
bo in body his rocent letter to tho Atlanta
Exposition folks evinces the pristine clari
ty and vigor of his mind. He has the
knack which comes of long study and deep
reflection, or, as a London reviewer re
marked, the brooding habit, essential to
the best product of statesmanship. In a
few phrases, felicitous as they are forcible,
he makos exposition of theprime condition
of Southern prosperity, and, allhongh some
of his illustrations saior too strongly of the
scholastic specialist, thoro is not a line
which may not be studied and applied with
tbo most affluent profit to the conditions of
tho South.
Western Hnmor.
Detroit Post.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston sings thus:
Jeff Davis is crafty and foxy.
And he lives on the gulf at Biloxi;
When tbo lost cause was busted
He got up and dusted
With 20 wagon loads of silver dollars,
which he took to the residence of tho
late widow Dorsey, where ho will prob
ably die in the odor of panel coab as h°
now lives in the sweet o J . 'ud
* ""“*'*18 UN
TIM Tl*w**f Mr. llepkMi,
From a long Interview with Mr.
Stephens, published in the Not York
Tribune, mainly devoted to reminiscence*
of tbe past, we make the following extract
embracing tbe views of onr representative
upon Immediate izi practical issues:
Tbe conversation then drifted to the
present, and Mr. Stephens was asked,
“Do you think tbit session will be a qoiet
one ?”
“On the contrary, I think it will be a
very animated oee. While I hope and
believe that It will not be nutated by sec
tional issues of any sort, there will, in my
opinion, be much disscussion of every im
portant question. Thejsubject of inter-
oceanic transit, for example, is one of the
very highest national and international
consequence, and it will undoubtedly en
gage the attention of Congress to a great
extent. It Is of paramount importance
that we should not allow Great Britain,
France or auy oilier European power to
acquire ascendency over any part of this
continent.”
“Are you in favor of an inleroceanic
canal?” asked the correspondent.
“Certainly I am, and I think It would
be wise for Congress at once to charter
the Nicaragua Canal Company—the one
in which General Grant is interested.”
“What abont refunding?” the corres
pondent asked.
“Well, I am in favor of refunding all
our bonds that we can at tbe very lowest
rate practicable for a long time—say a
hundred years. We could probably place
bonds having that length of time to run at
two and one-half, or even perhaps as low
as two per cent. Then we ought to cur
tail the expenses of tbe government as
much as possible, and reduce taxation as
far as practicable.”
“In what way ?”
“We ought to begin by abolishing all
iuteraal revenue taxes. They are a horri
ble fungu°, and would never have been
tolerated in this country except as a war
necessity. They ought to be swept out of
existence.”
“What about the tariff?”
“I am in favor of a commission to re
vise it. 1 should like to see the rate of
duty on a good many articles decreased
so as to be no longer prohibitory, and
some articles which are now free should,
in my oninion, pay a duly. But a revis
ion ot tiie tariff, if accomplished at ail,
must be the work of a commission.”
“What about silver coinage and silver
certificates?”
“Of course I do not agree with the ad
ministration in regard to them,” was the
reply. “For my part, I would be glad to
see all our circulating notes—greenbacks,
hank notes, etc.,—in tbe form of coin cer
tificates, every dollar of which should rep
resent an actual dollar in tbe treasury,
payahlMMdemand to the holder of tbe
I think the policy recom
mended by the President and the Secre
tary of the Treasury in regard to silver
and silver certificates will not commend
itself to tho favorable consideration and
Lction of this Congress.”
■t. Iionls Lnwjer* oa tbe snprea
Court Matter.
St. Louis, December 28.—Tbe State!
bar association, which is m session here,J
has adopted resolutions indorsing the bL"
of Senator David Davis for the relj
the United States Supreme Couo
pending in the United States Senad
that in tbe opinion of tbe association
plan of relieving the Supreme court,'
which the essential feature shall be I
establishment at Washington City of *J
other appellate court, whether infei'
‘ ate ^BBhe Supreme |
or i
P*M
therd
open to gTS
an Ex-Secrets
Congressmen.—LooiTaV
the United Suites, tbj
rica. You listi
effort made by Geu. Joseph E. Johnston
put Mr. Davis in tha position of an embez
zler will meet with bnt little sympathy from
Southern people,” and that “Gen. Johnston
shonld be placed in the hands of a receiv
er, 1 ' moaning, probably, that the recoiver
in this case might be as bad as the thief.
With the coming now year will como
the waid rounders from New York city,
with loud pantaloons, to relieve the buck
eye youths who guard the Washington
departments.
If tho newspaper correspondents are
posted, tilings are not lovely at tho Atlan
ta exposition. 1 here’s a wild and fierce
fight for blue ribbons, bronze medals and
such.
The State road lease has Just nine years
to ran from lost Tuesday, December 27th.
The Legislature will have some time yet
to exercise itself upon the subject.
The Maboneizing of North Carolina
has opened up lively. Gov. Jarvis seems
disposed to pat it down with ball and
bayonet.
Some ten-year-old highwaymen in
Texas have robbed a stage coach. The
dime novel is getting in its work.
Cupid, in ulster and arctics, is abroad
in the land, and the ordinary's faco looks
like a full moon in twilight.
South Carolina seems to bo swap
ping off a bad element of her population
to Arkansas.
Scarlet fever ravages the East, while
smallpox scourges tho West.
The Christmas fires are still burning
from Maine to Texas.
Whnt Othello Tenche*.
l id Si
Old Si camo in at a late hoar, took _
chair by the fire and after punching that
inoffenBivo element vigorously, turned
around and remarked:
“Dat’s do trufe, now, an’ I'm ’sponsibul
fer hit I”
"What is the troth ?”
“W’y dnt do Lawd nebber ment fer fokes
ter mix do breeds whnr he ’stablished."
“Now, what has set yon off on that sub
ject?”
“Well, I’so bin ober dar ter de theater
ter see that Italian-, man play '‘Offo!lo.”an ,
I’se seed mo’ trubbio in de family, an’ mo’
’sassiuoshun an’ sooycide dan dis heah pa
per eood publish in er week, er de Nunited
States cote regeriate twix now an’ nex’
Prismas.”
“What is tho objection to tho play ?”
“Dar ain’t none et all wid me—I’se fer
deploy! But de fack dat l’ee retchin’ fer
is dis: Yor kin mix de eullors dat goes on
do outside ob de house berry well, but yer
kant mix-dem whar’s got ter go inside an’
lib dar.”
“In other words, you are against misce
genation?”
“I ain’t again miss anybody; I jes’kno’
Miss Desdymouy foun’ herse’f in bind luck
w’en she married dat nigger 1 An’ so’ll
ennybody what tries hit; ’kaso er white
’omen’s mougbty fiirtational. De cross-
rodes an’ wah ain’t far ahed ob ’em w’en
dey tries ter',»rabbel tergedder—don’t yer
kno’hit ain’t?”
“No doubt of it.”
“Yas. sab; de niggers an’ de whitirfokes
kin trabbel on de same kyarswidout fitin’
an’ bny licker at do same bar widout gittra’
drunk tergedder, an’ vote at de same gang
ob thieves—but w’en hit onus fer mixin’
p on de same marridge stiffleate dat’s
har de cullud line's goiter be draw’d wid
red pencil auLer wide mark!”
After which dulivurauoe the old man
nt down to woke up the mailing depart-
nt.
Tbe Guarded Tomb
Cleveland Letter in Cincinnati Enquirer.
So long a time has elapsed since the ob
sequies that many strangers risiting Cleve
land are surprised to loarn that a detach
ment of United States infantry are still de.
tailoi to watch tho vault wherein lie the re
mains of onr honored President. Night
andday can be heard the measured tramp,
tramp of tho sentry on daty, and it is in
tended to continue this watchfulness until
the body is deposited in tho ground.
Through tho grated door of the vault can
be seen the elegant caskot given by the Ma-
sonio brothren. Covered with beautiful
flowers, kept fresh by loving hands, it is
still visited dally by hundreds of people,
many of whom eagerly seek tho cast-off
blossoms as mementoes. Near the vault is
tho shelter-house, and on the other side of
the lake the white tents of tho soldiers are
pitched. At tbo base of the hill upon which
tho monument :> to bo placed, a glass
houso is erected, inclosing tho funeral car,
still trimmed with immortelles and the
trappings of woe.
An aged couplo, who had been gazing
with tear-dimmed eyes upon the casket,
approached the guard and asked if they
might not bo permitted to have a few flow
ers from off the coffin. He told them that
ho could not open the vault. They were
much disappointed, and said that they were
from tho distant South, had always been
rebels, but the death of Garfield had
changed their feelings, and that they had
journeyed far for tho privilege of standing
bj his tomb.
Cox and Gultena,
Kew York Tribune.
There is one man connected with the trial
at Washington who has thereby earned
public contempt. The country has no
worse opinion of the assassin than it had
when ho was brought in, pale and shaking
like the onward criminal that he is, to faco
insulted civilization and outraged law. It
has a better opinion of some of the attor
neys in tho cose than before, and con re
spect Mr. Sooville’s enrnestuess in the dis
gusting task that a sense of duty placed be
fore him. The audiences have disgraced
themselves and done what little they conld
to disgrace the court, but the showman who
contrives to make bis show low and de
grading duas not usually expect or desire
intelligent and self-respeo ing audiences.
The man who is responsible for the most
intolerable and blistering disgraoe that has
yet befallen the judicial system of thiB
country is Judge Cox. We do not refer to
his palpable leaning to tbe side of tho pris
oner, in remarks npon evidence or izf the
treatment of opposing counsel, for there
are somo very worthy nnd excellent judges
who, having formed from tho evidence a
strong conviction as to the ease before
them, cannot prevent that feeling from in
fluencing their bearing. Nobody cares any
longer which side may ho favored by the
opinion of a porson who has not self-respect
enough to protect himself and the court
which he disgracos from the worst possible
insults, continued all day and every day for
weeks.
Career of the Keefer of a Noto
rious Bagnio.—Minuie Brooks, alias
Louisa Tumev, keeper of a notorious
Fourth avenue (Chicago) bagnio, closed
her long career of sin suddenly by joining
the church and turning her den into a re
sort forjprayer meetings. Religious peo
ple evinced interest in tbe new Magdelen,
jut after their ardor cooled tbe repentant
was left to the cold charities of tbe world
without means of support. It is just
learned that she has married her former
barkeeper, a colored man, and very black,
and tbe evangelists raise their hands in
holy horror. The unexpected 1 denoue
ment has created a general sensation, but
the reformed woman remain* steadfast to
her religious vows, and has set herself
to the task of converting her dusky hus
band. She will probably succeed, as he
declares he Is trying to become a Chris
tian. Tbe colored husband’s name is
Giles W. Hunt, an Alabamiau, of very
genteel manners. Mrs. Hunt is an at
tractive brunette, and is connected with a
highly respectable family in New York.
A MAN is wiser lor his learning, and
the sooner he learns that tho only proper
way to cure a cough or cold.-ls to use Dr.
Bull’s Cough Syrup, the better be is off.
ents ? Manyj
silence and
reading of an ami]
ingtou paper. A
wanted to make a sp
finance. He went to a \
seller aud asked him if
Smith on Finance.” The }
piled that ho had not, but
on ‘How to Make Money.j|
the Congressman, “1 gu^
and he
finance spee?
izing tiie country^
tricksters, amjjiave
men out of off
to enter.—[Fro
Schurz.
Remarkable]
—At Bradford, Pa.,^
while John McCleat;
Roberts Company^
near Haymaker, i
oil and threw tbo
explosion. Tiie I
eight pounds ofn ,
started to run as so
well was about to 1
cut oft as smoothly as thol
tailor. His back, thigh
lacerated by flying pieces of
and tin, and he was thrown
feet, hut jumped up and conti
nmg until lie fell from fatigue al
None of hia bones were broken}
physicians think that he will
again in two weeks. His
death is considered most
The derrick was reduced to splint]
windows in houses half a tnilj
broken by tiie force of tiie
AnImportanti
ber of ilic leading cotton
Orleans hare just corupll
in that city, for $100,0 "
of laud in that city, upofl
tend to erect cotton yardj
for tbe storage and f
ton. The properly' _
2,000 feet, and there is <
accommodate the largest ships. A
for handling cotton corresponding to t|
by which grain is handled in Clilc
to be adopted, and it is claimed t here {
bo a saving of at least 30 cents a balo \
handling compared with present charg
The New Orleans papers claim that th^
commerce of the city has received a pie
ant Xmas gift in the enterprise inaugu-]
rated. The business men of New Orlear
are evidently awakening to its necessiti
and great possibilities.
The Bartholdi Statue—At a
ing cf the Bartholdi statue committe
at the Union Lea:ue club house, ini
York, December 27th, plans of a pedd
to the statue were received from sey
architects, but were not acted upou, sp
fications being expected to arrive i
from M. Bartholdi. An address was alsd
issued, reciting the history of the gift, and
staiingthat fbr the purpose of erecting the
pedestal about $25,000 would be needed.
To secure this amount the committee
propose to circulate a series of subscrip
tion lists in all the large cities and towns %
of the Union, so that all citizens may tes
tily their appreciation of tbe gift.
A Difference Between Gover
nors.—Governor Crittenden, of Missouri,
has refused to surrender, upon the requi
sition of Governor St. John, of Kansas, •
man named Martin, who was indicted,
tried, convicted and sentenced to pay a
fine of $100 for violating the prohibitory
liquor law of Kansas, but walked out of
court and made his escape without paying
bis fine, and before the officers could take
him to jail. He made his way to Missouri,
and now Governor St. John demands his
return on requisition. Governor Critten
den takes the view that the federal consti
tution does not require him to surrender a
man who owes a debt toa State where the
debtor lives, and the St. Louis papers, irre
spective, of party indorse the action of the
Governor, who is a sturdy champion of
temperance himself. .
Terrible LoM ot Ule
Millions of rats, mice, cals, bed-bugs,
roaches, lose fbelr lives by collision with
“Rough on Rats." Bold by diuggisU.
15 cent*. j untidily
