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&AC0N TELE6KAFH iSD MESSENOO
FRIDAY. MAY *19, 18
A aTBAWBnnnx scab is the only check
that will para delegates into CJf Maroel-
ha K. Thornton’s June contention.
Howaud Wrr.T.rAirn, who asoeeeds Crump
as toddy miser to Arthur, waa onoa “rally
do ehamb" to lord Roicoe. “Chet” likes
Us mm “stalwart-”
the Billy Mahone of MuaUaippl. “Bonny”
is about the sine of Billy, and we fear the
resemblance doee not atop there.
Th» eon of W. H. Engtiah has been nom
inated for Congreae. He doee not amount
to much, but can win If the old man will
knock the boope off the “ba/L”
Tin pietaM«( Chart*# Aahley.ooe of the
chief witn«M«e against Cuiteau, now
adorns the roguea’ gallery u a hotel thief.
Be waa of-the Republican party.
AWtujr* Patti la laid to hart confided to a
Mend recently that the bad not washed her
feee for six years.
That’s nothing. The independent party
nerer washes its face, its hands or its rai-
The lan BMMer Id 1 re land.
-The murder of Lord Cavendish and
Under-Secretary Burke still continues to
be the subject oi excitement In Ireland
and England. The detectives are begin
ning to find a trail, and it is more than
probable that the murderers may be over
taken. Tb# following circular has been
issued:
“Wanted, for the murder of Lord Frederick
CarendUli and Undersecretary Burke, two
men, the fliat, aged thirty-fire year*, stout, fair
complexion, whlikers, short and dark, and
mustache, wearing a bine pilot coat and soft
hat; the second, aged thirty yean, hair, whis
ker* and mustache sandy, pale complexion,
and drewed In a faded brown overcoat and soft
hat. Both men had the appearance of sailors or
A man named Charles Moore has been
arrested on suspicion at Miynooth- He
had traveled by the 4 o’clock train from
Dublin. He staled that he bad Intended
to go to Longford, bat teeling ill had
taken a ticket for Maynooth. He almost
fainted when he was arrested. He re
turned from America last Friday. He
answers the description of one of the mur
derers and has marks on his lace. He
was formerly In the army. Moore has
been carried to Dublin for Identification.
This man had marks of wounds on bis
person and has other suspicions marks.
An American who has examine^Jie foot
prints about the scene or the struggle ax-
the opinion that the broad toed
boots worn by the parties were of Ameri-
Some charge the affair on
Hr. Rpwr and the State Falvenltjr
Our readers will perhaps recall, that in
the peisonal assault which Mr. Emory
Speer was pleased to make upon the editor
of this journal, in order to ereste a diver
sion from himself in the connection with
the Rountree kfiair be took occasion bo
allude, by wayjof defense, to the fact, that
he had been selected by a dab of students
to preside over a debate. This must have
occurred before the killing of Rountree.
Since that time, and at a date subsequent
to Mr. Speer’s letter, it appears that be
managed to get a further endorsement,
which has been duly paraded’ In the
columns of the Gainesville Southron
and the Atlanta Pott-Appeal. It may be
found in the following correspondence,
which explains Itself:
Ussyxmity or Gxoboia, April IS, 1832.
ITo*. Emory Spier—Dear Sir: It bccofnea
my doty, as the organ of the Demosthenlaa So
ciety, to Inform you of your election to the po-.
sltion of honorary president of the society.
The meeting at which you are requested to pro-
aide will be the usual session of the alumni
members at commencement. I am happy to
assure you, as this mark of esteem muit dem
onitrrth, that notwithstanding the bitter arti
cles penned by your pigmy opponents, that you
atlll hare the friendship and good wishes of
every member of the society. In behalf of
them, wailing for an early acceptance of the
honor, I remain Tery truly your*.
A. H. Fbaxiji, Cor. Scc’y.
VTASHDfOTOSf, D. C., Maps, 1*32.
Mr. AM. Prater. Corretpondiny Seeretary
Remotihtuian Society. Athene, Georgia—Mr
Dxae Bib: I am mads very happy on wading
___ your kind latter of a rooant date. Informing me
American”Fenians, but“ltls altogether'W election as honorary pmldent of cur
Tm Washington Post dashes off this
Ton may pound him and throw him, let him
■Up if you will; but too life that's in Stephens
will linger there atllL
Tm Louisville Co-urier-Jcncrral gets this
■alng ten years. Muchje yours,
Burn was a very cheap shyster. “Guano
Jake” bOBsbk him for one hundred thou
sand doUars’of Peruvian scrip, the par val-
of which was below that of Confederate
Tin Alabama Independent party met in
Montgomery on the 10th. It waa about
the sin of the Georgia oon*em, being com
posed of Federal office-holdt s. They re
solved to await developments.
Vahuxbbxlt made 1U miles in 109 min
ute* on the Canada Southern railway a
few days since. He would have hardly
gone faster if the infernal machine had
exploded under his opulent coat tails.
Wa have been ambushed into advertis
ing the Jean James book once. The
dodge was novel and clever, but cannot be
played upon us twioe in snoeeyton- Our
advertising columns are open to the usual
Wmm “Chet” and Jim Bennett end the
boys started down the river, one of Billie
Chandler’s admirals took the tiller and ran
(be yacht in the mud. They went at the
spirits locker, and wound up with a regu
lar all-nighter as the White House.
ANoxth Caeouxa exchange says: “A
part of Governor Vance’s lecture on the
’Humorous Side of Politiae’ is said to be
descriptive of the sensations of a young
man who turns his coat with the hope of
gaining office.” The attention of the lec
ture committee of the Atlanta library is
directed to this matter. Parson Felton’s
“brilliant and ambitious” young man
might wish to bear the inimitable Zeb.
is raising a crop of Jesse
Jameses. The Nashville American says:
*A few nighta ago Bill Pearson, Jim Baker
and Newton Loftis, each about seventeen
yean of age, attempted to mnrder Henry
Stokes. They were prevented from doing
■o by some one who happened along at
that time. The three young —in« are
now in jail to await the action of the Cir-
eoit Court”
Aw effort is being made in Texas to get
Judge J. L. Henry, of Dallas county, to
submit his name to the State Democratic
convention as a railroad candidate for
governor. The recent hostile legislation
in that State has pioduoed this result. If
our law given do not display more wis
dom and less prejudioe and ignorance on
this subject, as we have repeatedly taken
Occasion to remark, railroad corporations
will bo unwillingly driven for protection
to the ballot box. And a corporation, as
an individual, will not be choice about
weapons in defending its pone against
A WsaHuroToa woman libels her husband
toe divorce on the grounds of cruelty. He
admits that he knocked her down the steps
because the struck him in the month with
a bunch of iron keys; that he took her to
the barn and locked her in because she
bad been breaking np the crockery and
- kicked through the panels of the door; that
he throw her down end shook her head
with some violence because she had two
fonrvfouod weights in her hand striking
the padlock with them and trying to break
it. For some time they wen without a
servant, and he did the cooking a^d dress
ed the children, the wife refusing to do
anything at all and saying that she would
make him suffer and bring him into die-
two or three journals in Georgia
> desire to start a new party to avenge
wrongs of tho negroas, tho indepen-
t politicians who are now endeavoring
this element ns against tho
»of the State, and tao radical
I elsewhere which re-echoes Iho'partics
Jed to as to bulldozing, oppression and
the like,are invited to a serious contempla
tion of the present status of the tiro colored
men who were charged with the killing of
}„Mj Hountree. An officer of thefitateof
Giorgie, on his own motion, instituted
which have acquitted these
of tho crime ’ of murder,
officer has furnished all
t; • evidence that the defense could wish or
U-. mand. The parents of young Rountree,
in the interest of justice, have permitted
the grave of their son to be opened only to
have r. fresh angaish added to their bur
dened hearts. An officer of a Bourbon
Democratic administration has dug up the
testimony under which, in our judgment, it
is improbable that Rny conviction may fol
low to Johnson and hH accomplice, Thode-
1l .’t-d negroes who, under the promptings
ol recklee* and ambitious men, are array
ing ti>emrelve< against the while people of
this Stale, weu'cl do well to ponder upon
li> solid facte which we have staled.
probable that it was the result or personal
enmity to Lecretary Barke. It must bare
been planned with great deliberation, sad
Secretary Burke, who had rendered him
self obnoxious to a great many people,
had received letters or warning. Lord
Cavendish probably lost bla lire In an at
tempt to defend his companion. There
could not have been any animus as
against him for he bad but Just strived as
a messenger of peace and conciliation.
The incomparable ass who distills his ma
lignant duluess over the columns of the
St. Louis Globe-Democrat, charges np
up the mnrder to the account of the
Democratic party of this country. He
saye:
The demagogues of the Dcmocgtlc party In
this country are. In wane degree s' least, re
sponsible for the murder of Oat radish and
Burke. They have urged the Ignorant to deeds
of brutality and violence In Ireland, under the
assurance that American naturalization gave
perfect immunity. Only a few weeks ago, In
the Senate of the United States, tho American
minister In London was denounced In tho
vilest term* because he had said that his gov
ernment could not shield criminals in Ireland*
This comes with admirable grace from
a member of that organization which rec
ognized Gnitean as one of Its trusted lead
ers, and which is now enjoying all of
the prizes In the “lottery of assassins-
Ttie Jacksonville Hlshweymea.
Onr telegraphic dispatches a day or two
since gave note of the arrest of two
youths, charged with the crime of burgla
ry and highway robbery in the vicinity or
Jacksonville, Fla. The papers of that
dty bring us Itall particulars of this sad
story. Fowler, one.of the parties, is nine
teen years of age, the other Is only eigh
teen and is the son of Col. McDonnell, a
prominent lawyer of Jacksonville.
These two yontbs alone bad committed
a series or robberies by breaking open
stores in Jacksonville, Green Cove Springs
and other places, and bad successfully
robbed several persons on the public high
ways by night, in more than one case re
sorting to the use of firearms. They
were at length arrested for robbing the
post-office in Jacksonville, and made a full
confession.
The father of young MacDonnell, after
bis son’s confession to him, tamed him
over to the officers of justice. Having
performed this duty as a citizen, he, as a
father, employed counsel to ’ defend the
unhappy boy who bad brought rein and
disgrace to bis family. It is stated that
MacDonnell has for years been reading
all the blood and thunder literature he
could lay bis bands on in the shape of
dime novels, and from this source drew
the inspiration which baa landed him in
be clutches of the law.
As In the wioter season Jacksonville Is
overrun with thieves, burglars, robbers,
bunko men and gamblers from the North
ern cities, it is more tbsn probable that
hese youths were, to a greater or less ex
tent, demoralized by these associations
But for the fact that the vigilance of the
police has stopped them In a career of
crime, they might in a abort time have
brought up on the gallows. It is a sad
and sickening story, and we present its
main points, In the hope that It may serve
as a warning to other youths who are dis
posed so mock at parental authority, and
to despise the power of the law.
A Change of Opinion.
Some time slnee a Mr. E. P. Van Me
ter, of Cblllicothe, Ohio, addressed a let
ter of Inquiry tff an officer of the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia rail
road. This letter was turned over to
Col. G. XL Adair, of Atlanta, who a#
swered It in a very plain, truthful and
practical way. The Atlanta Constitution
publishes the letter of Col. Adair, from
which we take this extract as to the ne
gro. He writes:
Colored field laborers can be hired for the
retrain tot 10 per month, and rations sop-
piled; or *12 to il5 per month U they furnish
themselves. The great majority oi the negroes,
however, prefer to work for a portion of the
crop, and are generally averse to hiring for
wages. White men can seldom he hired for
wages, and when they can, negroes are gener
ally preferred. The colored man Is more do-
die and tractable. His Intelligence Is not
equal to that of the white man, and when left
to work by himself, even with the most careful
directions, his work, asa rule. Is not as mtla-
fedorily performed as that by white men, hat
11 the proprietor remains with and directs his
work all the time, pays promptly, according to
agreement, and deals justly, the negro is the
best laborer In the world. In this way more
work, and better work, can be obtained from
him than any other ctase of mankind, and
he will be better contented while rendering it
This contains the entire troth in regard
to the Georgia negro who la disposed to
work. The Constitution also produces
this endorsement:
The status ol the colored people given by
Colonel Adair b. In my opinion, nearer the
truth than any statement I have ever read on
the subject Jatmwko.-
It is gratifying to know that “Jayhawk-
er,” upon further acquaintance and expe
rience has found reason to alter his pre
conceived opinions npou tho subject.
The discussion of the matter does not ap
pear to have resulted la barm.
Foro parents will be pleased to learn
that the 8tate University to about to turn
out a race of intellectual giants.
Whxx the reform retolutions in Don
Cameron’s platform were road out at
Harrisburg, the laughter was “loud and
prolonged#”
society at the alumni meeting next commence*
ment. Iamalsoverygratelalfor the intelli
gence you write me that notwithstanding the
current of abuse and obloquy directed against
me of late, that my society does not withhold
from me its friendship and sympathy. I have
the strongest feeUng ot devotion to Us present
and future welfare. I am sure that my public
life has reflected no discredit on it* proud es
cutcheon. I shall In this letter In no way an
imadvert on those who It seems are deter
mined, U In their power, to crush every hon
orable ambition I may hsva to serve my State
and my country. It would be Improper for
mo to do so. I wUl only say that I do not do-
serve such harsh and cruel criticism, and I be
lieve that time, as It rights aU wrongs,will right
mine alio.
I accept, with great pleasure, the gratify
ing honor which the society has conferred
upon me, and beg of you to express my thank*
I remain, dear sir, Tcry sineerely yonrs.
This action ot tho Demosthcnian Socie
ty occurs some days ter the killing of
Rountree, and at a time when Mr. Speer
was being discussed In no complimentary
manner by the press of the city of Athens
and that of other cities ol the State. This
discussion if necessarily personal in some
respects, was, in fact, political. It t
directed at the political conduct of Mr.
Speer In the past, bis then political attl
tude and bis probable future political ac
tion. ifevery respect the discussion was
proper and legitimate, and recent events
bad made it imperatively necessary. The
press was in its right place and was in
the performance of a plain duty. It Mtd
made a sharp and incisive political
issue which was to be met and decided by
the voters of the ninth Congressional dis
trict at the coming election. A society
consisting ol students of the State
University had no right to become a party
in any way, shape or form to the case as
That this society should have elected
Mr. Speer to an honorary position
not of Itself intrinsically wrong. It was
natural, that if he wished it the camarad
erie of a society of which he is a member
ahonld have responded with the profert
of cheap honors. But this correspond
ence develops something more. It ex
hibits the fact that by some process not
made public, it has been used in its cor
porate or at least aggregate capacity, to
appear in the public prints at a serious
and critical juncture in the political ca
reer ol Mr. Speer as his endorser and de
fender.
Tha ordinary run of people will not lay
undue stress upon the fact that a parcel of
college boys regard Mr. Speer as a giant,
as compared with those who may deem it
a nght and a duty to call into question
his political words and actions, bnt the
people of the Stats of Georgia will be apt
to receive with dissent and displeasure
the attempt of these same boys to be
come factors in a political discussion.
For ourselves, we are free to say that
we do not believe tbe unwise and Intem
perate language of Mr. Corresponding
Secretary Frazer conveys tbe deliberate
opinion of tbe Demostbenlan Society.
Mr. Speer may bave been wily enough to
make this so appear in a moment of sore
tronble to himself, and Mr. Corresponding
Secretary Frazer may sincerely subscribe
to all that ho has Inscribed, but we are
not, from a knowledge of the parentage
and training of some of tho boys who
compose that society, prepared to believe
that this note baa received their endorse
ment and approval.
It is scarcely necessary for us to say
that we cannot harbor a suspicion that
this correspondence reaches tbe light of
day with the sanction and consent of the
facnlty of the State University.
Bnt since It has done so it shonld at
tract their attention and action. If by
reason of social or political associations,
Mr. Speer to enabled to nso tbe State
University or any portion' of it to further
bis personal and political ambition and
designs, and tbe facnlty to unwilling or
impotent to stay him, then the trus
tees of tbe Institution should take imme
diate steps to eradicate a practice which
can be pursued only to the speedy and
permanent ruin of tbe University of Geor
gia.
Tbe Ill-timed mistake and enthusiasm
of one or' of several boys may bp looked
npou with lenient ejes, but tbe evideui
avidity with which Mr. Speer seizes upon
the occasiou to display himself as an in
jured Innocent, and to indulge In Uriah
Heapisb rot about his ambition and desire
to serve his country, to disagreeable evi
dence of that unappeasable selfishness on
his part, which would discredit his alms
raster, to serve his personal and political
Coxoxxl Sunuvaw, late of tbe prizo ring,
baa met hto match. Mr, William Hagarty,
a Boston barber, thrashed him soundly for
slandering Mrs. Hagsrty. Mr. Hagarty
dispensed with hu little razor and polished
the bully off with bis fists. Tbe nmpiro will
please bncklo tho belt on the barber and
“eet ’em up” at the expense of this offleo.
Tox JjarxBSOJf, in one of his letters
published by Congress, nays “tint when
tho farmers of the oouutry are directed
from Washington when to sow 'and when
to reap tho chances are that we ehall go
without bread.”' It ie to be presumed
from this that Thomas was opposed to the
Hi Jim of the pnblio pumpkin patch being
raised to the rank, pay and emoluments of
a cabinet offioer. Well, we are a long way
rmlsM far Sit# Bins of Olhsn
A few nights since there was a celebra
tion in Washington dty in honor of John
Brown, the fanatic whose soul, according
to song,
4 *8tin goes marching on."J
Frederick Douglkss was, on this occaaon,
as upon all other colored occasions in that
dty, tbe chief orator. Dongles* Is a man of
parts, impressive in appearance, and a
fluent speaker. By reason of his roman
tic history, hto escape from slavery,
hto education at the North, ahd hto politi
cal training in that section, he has become
an acknowledged leader of his people.
While be to rarely violent and extreme,
he is always partisan, and in this respect
to not wise. Hto people cannot
work out their destiny by a blind
adherence to an organization which, In
tbe progress of a great war, came to be
the immediate instrument of their eman-
dpation. They cannot better themselves
by drawing a political dividing line be
tween themselves and the people of tbe
Sbutb, among whom they bave elected to
live. Wo say elected, for the reason that
tbe negro evinces a determination to live
here. The world to open to him. A
young republic on the coast of Africa,
which, by 1U constitution, forever prohib
its tbe possibility of the swsy of the Cam
xaslan within its borders, is Inviting .him
to come and jralid it up with hto brawn
and hto brain.
But be disregards the invltatio:., with
all of its grand possibilities, and prefers
to remain here. It to bis undoubted right
to do so. Hiving msdo his choice, it is
his duty to cultivate the confidence at>d
friendship of the people amongst whom
he easts hto destinies. This idea does not
seem to have Impressed Itself upon Fred'
eiick Douglass. He was too Intimately
connected with the anti-slavery agitation
not to have become an abolitionist in
principle and in temper. He is too old
to fight and conquer hto prejudices, and to
not the wisest counsellor or the ssiest
leader for tbe Southern negro.
In an eulogy on old John Brown consid
erable latitude of ihctaght and expression
are allowable. Now, since tbe sgltati&n
of slavery has passed, tbe sober judgment
of tbe world regards him as a crazy man,
who shonld have ended hto life in a re
treat for the insane, rather than on the
gibbet. Better-thinking people are
shocked that Kansas should select him ss
a model for a statue in the National Gal
lery, even though Kansas to perforce con
fined to a very limited choice. There Is
no necessity that the negro should canon
ize him. In the course of hto oration,
Djmglass said the “raid npon Harper’s
Ferry was one of the most cold-blooded
ever planned, and all tho circumstances
go to make It tbe most aggravated
ever recorded. When an emperor Is*
blown to atoms, or an oppressive land
lord In Ireland Is shot, it to viewed with
detestation, but when tbe facts are taken
in consideration with what has gone be
fore it is viewed differently. So with this
raid; vlewed{ . '[attending circum
stance*, we regard it differently. This
raid was no worse then ome of the ex-
a committed on Sherman’s march to
the sea. Nothing is not reaped that has
□ot first been sown. He who sows tbe
wind most expect to reap tbe whirlwind.
God is not mocked, and whatsoever a
man sows he shall reap. The difference
between the moral and physical world is
not so marked, yet the harvest will never-
sj come. Here, as elsewhere, there
are century plants, and their Traits
will urely come. So, my friends,
deeper down than old John Brown we
must look. The fruit was reaped from
two hundred years of blood and bondage.”
This characterization of tbe Harper’s Fer
ry raid Is true, and hia comparison of It to
the outrages of. Sherman’s bummers to
apt. may be true, totfc that these were
part of the harvests to be reaped from the
institution of slavery. If so, has not tbe
South expiated her portion of tbe offense?
Most the negro persecute and punish her
further, by joining tbe lowest elements of
her society in another raid to overthrow
the virtue, Intelligence and worth upon
which her prosperity to based?
And if the proposition as laid down by
Douglass be true, why should the South
suffer for tbe sins of others ? She was op
posed at the outset to African servitude.
It was put upon her by tbe men of New
England, who had grown rich in the slave
trade, and bad parted with their slaves
only when they bad cessed to be profita
ble.
Ibe laws of nature, we are taugbt to
believe, are equable in their execution
We are told that the rain falls npon the
just and the unjust. The Christian faith
holds that the laws of the Almighty are
executed in tbe very essence of justice.
Where then to the punishment for the New
England slave traders, the ancestors
of the men who followed John Brown
and the bummers, who carried fire
and sword to tha happy homes and
the fair fields of the South ? If
the Southerner had to be punished for
bolding property in slaves under a consti
tutional guarantee, to the New Eng
lander to go unwhlpt of justice who sent
hto ships laden with rum to the African
coast to bay and to kidnap the negro ?
Douglass may believe this to be all right,
and he may impress his belief upon those
of his people who listen to him. But
when he sows in their minds and hearts
tbe seed of hatred to tbe white men of
this country, he but prepares for a harvest
that be may not live to see garnered, but
that will as surely ripen and fall, as that
the seasons como and go.
Atlanta and tbe Bmalt-Pox.
The Atlanta correspondent of tho Sa
vannah New having written a letter
•either twenty-tour hours too soon or too
late, detailing a boirfblo account of small
pox In Atlanta, has brought tho Conetitur
lion to tbe front. We publish the state
ment and denial In another column. Tho
correspondent alluded to failed to/sub-
slantlate Ills statements, and could back
them up by no higher authority than
Pledger, tte negro politician and present
surveyor of the port. Wo accept the
statement of tho Constitution as ^con
clusive of the matter. «The smalT-pox
is In Atlanta, and generally con
fined i to negroes. Th]v to the result
of the fact that a large portion of the ne
gro population of that city is very badly
housed, and to the further fact, that they
have neglected and refused to protect
tbenuelves against tbe disease by vacci;
nation. The city authorities of Atlanta
are makiug an energetic fight against the
scourge, »nd will doubtless .succeed in
stamping it out. Both the Constitution
and the dty authorities are dealing in
this matter fairly with tbe public, and the
exaggerated rumors afloat are far beyond
tbe real facts.
Scaatar Sills CowdtU«B.
We are enabled to give to our readers an
Intelligent account of Senator Hill’s con
dition. When the last -operation was
performed upon him, the entire glandu
lar system on tbe left side waa removed.
Tbe glands themselves were sound and
uncontam lusted by disease, and tbe sur
geons considered that a certain cure
would follow. Tbe wound did not bea!
howover, -and the couaeqneut pain and
inability to eat solid food greatly pros
trated tbe patient and made bis
condition serious. It was then detenhin
ed to send him to Eureka Springs. He
acsomplsibed the journey without Iqju-
ry, and is comfortably fixed, sdrrounded
by bis family and attended by a surgeon.
Tbe waters hsvo done wonders in the
way of alleviating and eradicating can
cerous affections, and at last accounts the
surgeon in charge made more cheerful re
ports to the family.
While the condition of the Senator is
WEST FLORIDA.
officers and a speed capacity ol eighteen
such as will not silence tbe solicitude of ijoioU aa hour, lay at tho wharf. As we
Should you be a sufferer from dyspep
from Jefferson now, and Congress ha# just' aia, indigestion, malaria or weakness, you i
bought him off with a monument. i cau cured by Brown’s Iron Bliters. j
bis frlendi, it to by no means hopeless as
yet, and he has not considered and does
not consider the question of resignation.
4 mmmrnm ■>“-■ « ' 1 • 11 * 1
Thb fellows in Georgia who roll the term
Bourbon so trippingly npon their tongue*,
do not understand its significance. In the
first plsoe, a Bout bon is a gentleman. The
record does not exist to show that he ever
denied a friend, deserted a principle, or
disgraced his blood.
Abthub says be has great sympathy for
“Betty and the Baby.” Let him prove it
by keeping the sergeant where he cannot
best “Betty and the Baby” and drink np
tbe small portion they received of the
large amdnnt of money kind souls bare
contributed to them.
Warns Editor William Moore was sink
ing his incisors into the luscious peach, our
young man was drawing on his yam socks
and tbe devil was shaking np the dnst in
the official coal bin. The Independent
party has evidently imported some weather
along with its last invoioe of politics.
CoxGBKSSSLiH Lynch says the Repsbli
can party said to him: “Gome to the
House of Representatives, the plaos which
has been prepared for thee since tho foun
dation of the government.” The invitation
was late in reaching Lynch, or Lynch was
slow in responding.
Mb. Robebt Tamsill, a prominent dis
gusted Mahoneite of Virginia, rises to
mark: “It is as much impossible to make
Virginia a Republican State as it is to
make Tnrkey a Christian, country. That’s
all.” We may be permitted to second the
motion by adding, that’s enough.
Gobhah observes: “ Tbe red man
should share with tbe whites in the bless
ings of civilization, including the fallows.”
The red man, not having a vote, gets his
share of tbe rougher part of civilization,
bnt Gorham is unwilling that tho black
man with a ballot, ehall enjoy a bank in
the penitentiary.
Gem. Botobd is horsey'to tho lost. He
proposes to go to Heaven like Elijah. He
says : “My earthly career is drawing rap- ;
idly to a olose, and my great aim now is to
win the raoe for eternal life, and as yon
have before ssid, if I could pass through
the pearly gates of Heaven in a chariot
drawn by Enquirer andMoWhirter,Iwou!d
shout with great joy, and would be far in
Rdvance of yon, Mr. Editor, should your
chariot be drawn by a pair of Noah’s mus
tang ponies.”
TUB virtuous Hawley arises and explodes
this in the Senate:
Beeolved. That the committee on tbe District
ot Colombia he. and they are hereby, Instruct
ed to inquire Into the management and discip
line of the Jell in the district, with (pedal
reference to the privileges granted to prisoners
and tho freedom with which visitor* are ad
mitted. ,
Will not some Senator amend by enlargg
ing the inquiry as to the jail guard who
attempted to assassinate Gniteau, and fur
ther, as to the case of Bill Jones ?
Nobtb Oabomma has on Independent
fiesh and new, who has started a weekly
paper. His rear name is Harris, and he
has Vl great many front names. He .a go
ing to shake things np. Listen to him:
“Aggreselon shall be our watchword; canis
ter, hot grape and no quarter shown, our
policy. The gilded palaces of the political
autocrat, built upon means fraudulently ob
tained, shall crumble Into dost, and North
Carolina, once more tree, shall take her place
among the sovereign States of the Union.”
Colonel Marcellos E. Thotnton never—
we repeat it, never—did anything better
than that.
Feamtola Bay, Milton nmd (lie Peana-
cola and Atlantic Ballnxtd -Slnr
Note* Prom a Wnotion Seldom Board
From.
From a Stajr Correspondent.
Mxltox, Fla., May 10.—I have nt laat
found a territory over whiohthonbiqaitoua
newspaper man has never reigned. Occa
sionally a Bohemian letter finds its way out
through the post-offioe bare, and the Santa
Jiaea Newt is published weekly at tUU point.
Beyond these, however, this in a newly-
dlsoovered eountry and my legitimate
prey. I find subjects for three letters only
—the town and tbe new railroad, tho lum
ber business and points of interest. These
only shall I loach upon while hero, and the
latter may carry me np about Pensacola.
Avoiding the customary reference io the
trip through Georgia, I will take up the
lines at Pensacola, where my party arrived
early Friday morning. A beautiful little
steamer, the “Mary Morgan,”, having every
comfort for passengers, an able corps of
the whole Western travel. Added to this
are tha post facilities from New Orleans to
Sevannab. • * ‘ ‘
It may interest Macon fishermen to
know that within the “basin” at the foot
of the bill, fifty yards away, a negro caught
eighty-four bream in two hoars this morn
ing. It is said that in Yellow river, twenty
miles from hero, jasrch come oot of the
water and catch grasshoppera in neighbor
ing fields. This I do not Touch for. But
tbe bream incident is true. H. 8. E.
JUKLLE JBtEADE.
There was a system in vogue before the war
which, we believe, filled the purposes for which
It was Intended, Wo do not remember to have
ever heard any complaint against that system—
we mean, the incarceration of criminals with
in the walls of the penitentiary. The State
found work for the violators of Its laws within
those walls, and she can use the same system to
advantage now.—IForf* CountyStar.
The State did have a penitentiary before
the wnr, in which prisoners were confined
at hard labor. The system was onerous
and nnsatisfactory, and was the cause of
grievous complaint Over and above the
nroceeds of tbeir labor the convicts cost
tite State annually one hundred and forty
dollars each. Then there were compara
tively few convicts, now they are likely to
inoreaso rather than diminish in numbers.
If the lForfASfar can produce the figures
which will show that the State can build a
penitentiary and work the convicts therein
to “advantage,” it will have solved a prob
lem that bo far bos baffled our legislators.
It is easy to rail against the present system;
the difficulty is to provide a better, safer
and cheaper one.
ImcEDiaTELT in advance of Jeff Long’s
political convention, which formulated one
of its grievances against tho Democratic
party of Goorgiainthe shapo of a resolu
tion domanding greater educational facili
ties, there was laid in this city the oorner
stone of an asylum for the blind of the
colored race, where they can ba oared for
and eduoatsd to the extent of their oapaci
ties. A Democratic Bourbon legislature
inaugurated this charitable work and drew
the monoy for it from tho public treasury,
A colored minister was the orator of the
occasion. As an offset to tho resolution of
a lot of professional politicians, we give
his words on that occasion, from his
speech, which is published in the Savan-
nnh Echo, withou tjeomraont. He says:
Tho educating of the African race is going
forward, all over tho State of Georgia; and the
Intelligence is Increasing everywhere among
our people. The arts are flourishing and the
science has won new trophic*, for whlell we
return a thousand thanks to the Legislature
and the good people’ of Georgia, and In behalf
of tho kind citizens of tho Central City, In
which wo lay the foundation stono’ for tho
building of a Colored Academy for tho Blind In
tho State ot Georgia. May tlio God of Abra
ham protect tho city of Macon from pestilence,
from .contagious disease and famine. And
may the good people of this city rise higher
where sunshine streams In heavenly friendship
ith nil the nations of the earth.
The colored voter must choose as be
tween the pastor and tbe politician.
He cannot educate bis children by
striking down the hands of tlioie who aie
building school houses an 1 pacing teach
ers. ’ i
steamed away to the east a beautiful view
waa presented. About ns lay one of the
finest bays in the world, and in it several
htmdrod ships loading with lumber for
every eountry in the civilized world. Away
in the distance gleamed the forts, and
plunging across tbe blue waters were game
little tugs towing ont rafts of lumber to
tha waiting vessels. My attention was
called to a full rigged chip, whoso every
sail was set Before a stiff breeze she had
passed the harbor gates and was coming
down tha bay like a thing of life. As she
neared us, down came the topsails, then
others, nntil, stripped of her white]wing«,
she lifted high her spars and swung round,
graoefulty responsive to the plunging
anchor. Our little steamer going eastward
soon left tbe shipping in the rear. Pass
ing from Pensacola bay, we crossed the en
trance of Escambia bay and entered the
B ackwater river, whoss low wooded shores
half hid the network ot bays, ba*ina and
inlets, whioh on all sides intersect the
country. Twenty-five miles from Pensaco
la, we paesed up to the wharf and
dropped anchor—that is, “hitohed on to a
po8t,”as a Georgia negro on board re
marked. The tittle village named is situ
ated on both sides of the river, and con
tains about one thousand inhabitants. We
are located cn the south side. On the top
of tbe bluff, which horseshoes a blue basin
of water a half mile in diameter, is S«ntb
Milton, and a prettier situation I have
never seen. The road runs between us aud
the basin, and tbe blue waves which roll in
from tbe river through the inlet just oppo
site where I sit, break almost against the
road-bed. Only a half-dozen families live
in South Milton, and their residences, sur
rounded by magnolias, front immediately
nnon this body of water* from which a
cover-ending breeze, cool and refreshing,
springs and wander*. ,
The new railroad b of oourse the big
item here. It is called the Pensacola and
Atlantic* Becin'nint; at the first named
place it will ran dne east to Chattahoochee,
a little town on the Appalachicola river
and the terminus of tho Jacksonville, Pen
sacola and Mobile railroad. The new
railroad is being built by A. J. Lane A Co.,
and is progressing rapidly. By July 1st
the grading will bo finished, and by October
1st the track laid. The company named
as building the road have contracted lor
about two-thirds of it. Tbeir work begins
at Milton, and thirtoen miles have been
flubbed and trains are running. Track b
being laid at the rate of a half-mile per
day by a machine constructed for that
purpose. Itb a simple contrivance, bnt
very effective. A dozen fiat cars are
loaded with rails, plates,
cross-ties. The engine is in the rear. On
the tide of each flat b a trough, in the bot
tom of which are iron rollers. At tbe end
of the train the trongh on the lelt n exten
ded forward twenty feet by means of a
light derrick. About thirty-five men oper
ate the machine, and each man has just a
certain thing to do at a certain time. I
will describe the whole prooees. The signal
man gives the word, and the train is shov
ed up to thtend of the raib that have been
laid.’ Two mpn throw a cross-tie i>.to
tho left hand trough, and others raft it
down to the scene of action. As it (hoots
ont two men catch it and put it in position.
The cross-ties come only a few feet apart,
and when they cover a space thirty feet
long, a steel rail b fired ont from the other
trough and thrown into position. Almost
before it strikes the ground the man whose
dnty it b to join the ends with plates has
them adjusted and riveted, while a half
dozen hammers ore raining down blows
and spiking the raib into position. The
time occupied in laying a rail and its cross-
ties in position, spiking and rivet
ing, b just one minute. The country
b very favorably situated for a rail
road, bnt there are some sections
specially difficult. Thus, the bndge
across Escambia bay is to bo two and a
half miles long, and the length of the pika
now being driven is eeventy feet Mr.
Nisbet Wingfield, a young gentleman
twenty-one years of age, a fine engineer
and great favorite, has charge of the
bridge. Itb abont one-third complete.
Forty-five miles from Pensacola is a ont
forty-seven feet deep and from which 176.-
0tO cubic yards of dirt were to be removed.
I visited the spot re.terday and beheld
more improved machinery at work. Iron
carte, with the body swung under tbe
wheels, are n-ed. Filled with dirtthey can
be easily pulled by two males. They hold
a little more than one-half a cubic yard of
soil. The gain of time b alf in the load
ing. A portable engine stands in the cut,
and upon an iron dram, standing in front
otit and controlled by a lever and clutch,
is coiled a long, heavy chain.
A small boy. riding a mule
trots him np and hooks the chain
to hb “snatch” and drags it down to where
a cut has just been driven into position
facing the engine, perhaps one hundred
and fifty feet away. The long chain b
booked to tho cart tougue. a lever lowers
the body fist on tbe ground, the engine be
gins to . tarn the drum, tbe
chain winds, mules, negroes and
cart dart forward toward tbe engine, tbe
cart plowing ur> a load for iteelf. The
lever is jammed down when tbe cart halts,
and the body lifted from the ground. It
has thus been loaded without a pound’s
strain on the male, and in less than fifteen
seconds. Work in all the departments b
being pushed-as rapidly as in those de-
ssribed. There are on tbe one hundred
and five miles mentioned between fifteen
bnndred and two thousand hands at work.
They are encamped at various points in tho
piney woods (it would be hard to find any
other sort), and are the happiest people in
tho world.
The Pensacola and Atlantic railroad b
built with State aid. Florida gives to the
incorporators twenty thousand acres
ti the mile, altercate sections within six
miles of tho right of way, I believe, but
wherever any of thb land has been entered
the company can select any Stcto lands it
cm find. It gets in all nearly four million
acre*. The Loubville and Nashville rail
road takes enough bonds to bnild and
eqnip the road, and 65 percent of Restock.
Thb gives tbe Louisville and Nashville
control, and leaves tho incorporator*
46 per cent net profit. Tho
land, as far oj I havo been,
consists principally ot pine barren*, sup
porting gophers aud Florida crackers, but
I am told 1 have been over tho worst sec
tion, and that as a large portion has al-
rendy been entered, rich bads elsewhere
will bo taken. The road will form an im
portant lir.e, and complete tho plans laid
out by tha Loubville and Nashville. You
will remember the Straggle between the
Central and the Louisville and Nashville
for possession of the Montgomery and Eu-
faula railroad, and how that littio eighty
mile lino brought $2,100,000 before the
railroad boom began. Indeed, the tale of
that same rot-d inaugurated ibe present
Southern railroad boom. It was a move
which, when made, brought on the multi
tudinous struggles to checkmate, which
have for several years been the ruling
newspaper topics Balked iu its efforts to
reach the coast, the Loahville aud Nash
ville tried several plans, and finaliy settled
on u road from Pensacola to Jacksonville?
Tho charter hold b> the Pensacola and At
lantic afforded an opportunity, and this
new road was begun. How well it is plann
ed to captare tho Western travel to Flori
da, will be seen bv reference to the map.
The Louisville and Nashville trains
rmis South through Nashville, _ Bir
mingham, Montgomery and Mobile to
New Orleans. P.is<ougtrs do not change
M»«ob n*i«e»iw to tt»« Coalcrmet at
tbe r*Di(w* Farm.
Special Correepondcnce Telegraph and Met-
eeaaor.
Nasnvnxz, May 10.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:—
Will yon allow me to tarn aside a little
from conference proceedings to a delight
ful jaunt taken with onr mutual friends,
Dr. J. S. Key and Col. Ike Hardeman, on
last Saturday afternoon. On tbe night be
fore we listened to the story of Mr. Pea-
oock, tbe uoootnDlished manager of the
Maxwell House, abont the beautiful home
of Gen. Ben Harding, known a* Belle
Meade. So we determined to see for our
selves, and wo fonnd that he had not told
us the half. We took a conveyance at
4 o’clock and rode (even miles over a beau
tiful turnpike, along which were handsome
:arm-hoi*sea and magnificent parks, across
limpid streams. At last we came (p sight
of Belle Meade. I can never describe it,
bo you will appreciate it aa yon would from
tbe sight of it. All tbe surroundings ere
just charming—if not too lovely. Tbo
mansion b a large brick house with veran
da and airy pannages. It sit* amid ns-
brngeous oaks, avenues of which extend tor
miles on either side of the inbctantial
atone fences that enclose his lands. Just
imagine, if yon can, a grand park, contain
ing over 120!) scree, all covered with blue
grass and clover, through which are beau
tiful clear brooks, filled with fish, and
scampering abont amidst the oak and other
trees that afford a delightful shade to
the park, fine oolts, deer and stock of all
kinds—making op a picture such as you
see sometimes in painting*, or read of in
Englbh story. Dr. Potter saya be never
saw anything mors beantifnl in Europe.
Everything in field or yard or garden is as
beantifnl as could be. We were also allow
ed to see some of the General's famous
stock—for instance, we saw two fin*
horses, one of which cost $9,000, and the
other $10,000. Wo saw over thirty one-
year-old colts that were rained and
■old for abont $1,000 apiece on the aver
age. One sold to Lorillard, of New York,
just one year old, for $4,600, and some
body said he waa worth $6,000. It is jest
simply astounding to see how these people
np here are getting along so weil, and they
don’t raise a pound ot ootton. General
Harding uaa in a body around hb plaoa
over3,000 acres of land. He employs over
three hundred hands, and yet be make* no
ootton, and itb income from hb farm and
stoc* is annually in the neighborhood of
$10,000. Besides his fine horses, be baa fine
cattle, hundreds of doer, thousands of
sheep and goat*. I told onr friend* as we
rode through those beantifnl fields of bine
grass and clover, that pretty as it was, if it
were in onr country, they would cut
down the trees, plow up the
grass and clover and put it
all in cotton, and get poorer every year,
instead of getting riolier as these people
do who raise plenty to eat and stock to use
and sell.
■Now, I wbh your agricultural readers
could aee the beautiful place and try their
hand* at Bomethizig ©Is® beside# cotton to
get rich on. Of course they could not hare
* advantages as are poeaeseed up here,
bat they could divoreify a little and by de-
■■■■tMar could Lb'tup fine stock aud live
at home and be happy and comfortable a*
these people up here appear to be.
The conference b progressiagly tolera
bly well. Tho time for the election of
bishops b not yet set, but it will be about
Friday or Saturday. Dr. Bedford replied
last night to the book committee in a writ
ten address of over three hours. To-day
Dr. McFerrin and Judge Whitworth, chair
man of tbe book committee, replied to
him. -This is a troublesome affair, and it
b hoped will soon be terminated.
To-night the conference assembles at 8
o’clock to receive fraternal delegates. Dr.
Ridgeway, of Chicago, represent* tha
Methodist Episcopal Church, North, and
Dr. Sprague tho Methodist church in Csn-
. Forth
Bits Track.
Boston Post.
Somebody remarks that "every rime Jumbo
laker) his foot out of tbs mod it look* a* if some
body had been digging'll cellar.” You see hi*
tracks mijrht bo easily muutkeu fo
Chicago girl.
for those i
The rikhlen Rreonelloi.
Philadelphia T\m*e.
Somebody has taken the palne to contradict
the rumor that Senators Hoar and Rollins had!
had a few words the other day. This informa
tion ie alike timely and gratifying, with ror-
dlal relation# between those gentlemen unin
terrupted it to a gloomy mind that will lose
faith In the saiety of the country.
Tbe Brazen Dullard
If etc Tori Commercial Bulletin.
It required no little effrontery on the Deri of
tho Speaker of the House of Kerrescnfatives,
Mr. Kelfer, to look the merchants of New York
straight In the face while asserting, as be did
at the Chamber of Commerce banquet, that
"we are better morally and intellectually than
any other nation In this or any other era.” Wo
say It required no little effrontery—and that
too of the tnoetbrawy, pharlaatcal tvpc—to in
dulge In an effurion of this kind before an in
telligent and self-respecting auditory; but it Is-
but Just to Mr. Kelfer to »y he was equal to the-
occasion. In the mouth of any other publio
man, personally and officially above criticism,
the immodesty and bad taste of tho thing, if
nothing else, on such an occasion, would pro
voke rebuke, If not disgust; but,,coming from a
high official, who was not ashamed to appoint
to some of the most important committees of
the House men of BOlIca reputations, implies,
wo must be permitted to any with ail due re
spect, a degree of contempt for public and pri
vate opinion at which the Chamber, and men
of ordinary moral sensibilities everywhere,
stand aghast, “Better morally,” Indeed, "than
any other nation in this or any other era.” If
thw be so, then ti need only be said tho other
cation* and the other eras are to be commis
erated.
ado.
tho present, I close.
i. W.B.
CONDITION OF THE CROPS.
A Grand Experiment la #*t Baialag
In Baldwin
ViMmixr, May 13,18“2.—The oat crop
will he a real bonanza to too people of
Georgia toe present year. The area under
cultivation is immense, and thanks - to
k.nd Providenoe the yield bids fair to be
unprecedented. Tho saving of expense to
the farmers owing to the great dearth of
corn can hardly be estimated. At 1
four months'of stock feeding will be
bridged over by the timely supply of this
important cereal, whioh is far less heating
and more nutritious than Indian oora.
The writer recently gathered some inter
esting facts from Mr. Samuel Walker, who
is a member of an agricultural club com
posed of twenty planters in Baldwin coun
ty, who have offered three premiums of
one hundred bushels, sixty bushels snd
forty bushels of oats respectively, for the
largest quantity of that cereal raised upon
a single acTe. Tbo contest is confined to
the club, find nearly all the members have
entered the list. Tbe reader will be able
to form some estimate of the degree of in
terest excited, by the experiments of five
of the gentlemen in question.
thou-
Mr. William Cook has applied one
rand bushels of cotton seed to his acre.
him
Vftit *«P’viuj,uci uw MWV \ j i. hiii lit . MU ttl » ll
core, and when this uvw line, which con- lit:;.-j..vi.irmance t
uects with tbe old nt .Pensacola junction, ibe mniers oi toelr i
ii complete, you wi 1 seo through cars from ' ' '“-vires tor the u
Louiaville aud New Orient!-into Jackson
ville. Hie great "V” which luitt it< apex at
Pebsacoia throws out its arms to enclose
Solomon Bongs’ fertilizers coat
niffety-seven dollars and fifty cents.
Judge Weldon has spread npon his acre
(already quite rich), forty two horse wagon
loads of stable'manure and two hundred
bushels of cotton se&L
Mr. Joe Scoggin cow-penned his land
with forty head of cattle for a year, and
then made a heavy application of cotton
seed.
Samuel Walker used upon his aore one
thousand bushels of time, fifty-eight wagon
loads of stable manure and three hundred
bushels of cotton seed. The lime was ap
plied last August and turcod ruder with
tho green sod. Such an amount of fertili
zation mast prodace prodigious result*.
Upon inquiry, we learned that eeven
bushels of oats were seeded to. the acre,
and in come instances as m*ny aa eight
bu-hel*. The several patches are repre
sented to be so uniform in appearance that
it is impossible to determine from ocular
inspection which is the beet. They will
average 6)4 feet in height, and ere this,
the work of harvesting hoe commenced.
The result of these experiments will be
anxion>ly awaited by the public. Startling
figures may be expected.
TOR CHOP P308PICT.
Cotton planting is over with in Georgia
for the most part, and fair stands have
been obtained. There is tome complaint,
however, from the recent cool weather,
which has caused the young weed to turn
yellow aud even die outright. Hot suns
and moisture are the needed panacea in
such eases. We hear of no serious drought
in any nortion of tbe State.
The stands of corn are very {rood, and
tho acreage larger than usual. There is a
failing off in tho consumption of commer
cial fertilize 4 ?, but this may probably be
explained by the largo area laid down in
small grain and the diminished cotton crop.
These plant stimulants properly employed
are n priceless treasure to the Agricultu
rist. Those who use them should cultivate
rapidly, and be certain that grass and
weeds do not appropriate all tho virtue of
the compound. H. H. J.
Hu Lovely Oseer,
Phitadelph a Timti.
With the (uddennesfSof an apparition Oscar
WiMc appeared before ihcaudienccat Associa
tion Hall yesterday afternoon, the knuckles of
ills left hand planted under Jiis floating rilis,
his too awfully hairy head fixed In a raajc^tic
jxiine. looking for all die world the perfect em
bodiment of an electrified aeveiitecnth century
figure. Standing thus in hk black velvet jacket
and knee breech.--and silk stockings, withacas
cade of laee falling over hla psjptpaSweMA
the- ,-evc ml hundred ladies prevent and score or ]
more of men fcrutlnlzed him, from biz No. 8
patent leathers to the •'cowlick" on the left of
tils plumb-eenire part in his hair, as if he was
a pii-cu Of anttv'ity suddenly revived The
first thing the resiheic did was to seize a very
ordinary while stone pitcher by the handle end
pour imo a commonplace flint glass tumbler
about two Rill- of simple Schuylkill water,
which he absorbed In the course of thealicr-
in two very healthy gulps. During ibis
A Oeraer la Chlnamee. id.; |
Philadelphia Timet.
Now that the anti-Chinaman bill la signed,
tho next tiling in order will be for mmeliody-
to get up a corner in Chinamen. This will bo
a comparatively easy thing to do, for our sup
ply of Chinamen Is quite limited. In all the-
thirty ye*rs we have been importing this arti
cle our net Importations foot np not much
over 500,0000. Supply and demand have com
fortably kept pee* with each other. If any
large manufacturing concern now wanted a
few hundred Celestials ti would hare to offer
such high wage* that tho old charge against
these people, that they worked for almost noth
ing. would bo wiped out.
A. sudden demand for a thousand Chinamen
would be more than (he famous six companies
ooold possibly supply. But there Is a wav or
getting out of the difficulty. Tbe new bill te
for ten year* of exclusion. The six companies
have bought a bit of British soil on tho upper
Pacific coast, where immigration from anypart
of the world can be landed. They can bring
Chinamen by the hundred* or thousands to the
British possessions and let them
stay there for five year*, during which tlmo
they can economically work their way. By
this time the Chinamen willbeatllbertyto be
come British citizens. Having sworn aliegtanefr
to her Majesty's government and procured their
naturalization papers, there is nothing to hin
der them from stepping acroas the boundary
line and laughing in theirgreat looe sleeves at
us and otir law. We may slam the door In the
face of the Chinaman and tell hint to go abont
his business if he hit any. Bnt to turn away
the subjecu of her Mhfc Majesty is a depart
ment of the Immigration business we may
wisely let alone.
Operators wishing to get np corners In China
men - should remember that we are. for at
least five years, dependent on our present ztock,
subject to depletions by *lcknes* and desth;
but at the end of that time we can, by making
the most of adjacent British territory, havo all
wrmiecd to supply the shorts.
“Colon SbisHCle’t on tbo Dootbe.
- ’ Gath.
“Mr. Owens, has Booth been exaggerated by
tho old man witnesses of hit acting T Suppose
he was to play at the present day beside his
son, Edwin Booth—or suppose we conld bring
old Booth cut of the grave and put him to play
beside his son, Edwin Booth, when Nod wa= In
the rigor of hla health—which would excel ? ”
Thinking a moment. Mr. Owens said: "I
rather think old man Booth would bold his
own against any of these newcomers. I have
seen him play, though it is rather a faint recol
lection to me now. lie was a small man, riot
much over five feet high, and I have been in
the theatre when he was surrounded by men
like John L. Scott—tall, splendid looking men—
snd he playing a prominent part in the middle
or them would rather inspire a smile; bnt as tho
play proceeded he *eemed to ri*e up. and they
eoRespondlngty toslnk down, until he looked
to be the largest man on the stage. He owed
much of hi* strength to hi* remarkable coun
tenance. On that low. (mall body ho had a
large, complete head, tn which tho ltne* and
character seemed to tic In chunks. He had
even power over tho texture of hi* *ktn, snd
his eyes were glorious and black and would
shoot fire. His «>n, Edwin, has a verv fine
861 a sood '
•^Doyou remember Mrs. Booth, the mother
of these bovs?”
“My reoquecUqn_of her i* that (he wss arud-
not recollect the color
bought a.'arm north ot Baltimore, and ti Is
said that he thought he wus buying another
farm when be got a lawyer to prepare the
deeds, and moved his effect* Into a house,
where a man carried them off. Many of tho
stories told about him are inventions or legen
dary. There I* one thing about him that I
have not seen printed. He held to every dol
lar be made with teMdty. Peculiar end ex
travagant as he was under certain conditions,
he put his band on the dollar and hung to it;
and so he brought up his family much better
than might Imvc been expected of a man appae
. Hn* there not a little rein of lunacy to
nlxn *
“I think there was. His son, John Wilke*
Booth, who killed President Lincoln, had that
vein pretty strongly marked. I never lisd much
doubt but that Els insane streak affected hla
designs on tbo President. He was with me In
Boston during the war, and hi* conversation at
that time was about making money to oil. and
tho two or three points which he (tuck to down
to the time of the murder. Although’he Is
dead, and died under these rerrehc-nsitila cir
cumstances, I can say of John Wilkes Booth
that he was one.of the most.niAturo boysl -ver
knevr. E rom his childhood tip Ire wes inar.lv,
matured, grown. Ilis father nad a brother in
street. He waa one of those cranky men
and was now and then (ending to Pater-
ST row for book* for some old book-worm
of Baltimore; and he was a book-worm, too,
and was always screwing his bia. k rye* •town
at some old letter-text; Booth left a son named
Joseph, who has the business instinct. Yon
never see him on the stage, but he Is very at
tentive around the box-oflico.” 5
The C«av«rted Cowboy.
Galveston Notes.
James Solomon Samson was a cowlroy. Tho
name does not Indicate the notenion, or the
steers he followed. James never happened to
realize what hiz name really Implied uatil two
weeks ago. The cowboy la not liberally sup-
pUed with fnsh reading matter, from some
oversight of their employer*, so tho freshest
literary food within the reach of thi* particu
lar rowboy wss the Bible, an old copy of
which got smuggled into the outfit bv mistake
Burning with a desire for the lat'e.-t news.
Cowboy* like to quotation* from other
languages thau their own. (They have one of
their very own.) When chasing a refractory
steer, they reanimate fevers! of tl,.- dead and
dying .xiiguages. Some of the*.' ebuiliii.inzot
learning disclose their familiarity .viil> bibli
cal names. From reading for news Limes be-
ij.rcsM.-d with the Tact Hint si! „f iim
. , . CTf t’Ood Bible orthography, and to
him they took on h prophetic zignmegaoeu “I
must abotn horned fora profit «r a pro*, her,”
said Jmr.es to himwdf and h 1 * cowk v fellow*.
Ikon see I could not say fellow cow boys, for ti
does not read right.) “Durned ft I don't go tt>
mtaaton(irving you* fellows,” said he one jjv,
after(pe.lingont a few painful ;„,g., of the
hardest kind* o. names, and the boys, nothing
loth to help him along, entered into tho
•‘.peerit' of the thing, bo. after the most ap-
jjoved cowboy »iyie did lie begin chide
hem for their shortcomings and long g.-ineacm
In snody path*—<uo reference to cactus r ato,
qalto shade intended)—au-t just t„ p.,> .fo.
fthed Painting iu all the bfackmU of Tex*»
mnddhe awful doom iuimln-tt the v,™
took up the thread of his discourse.
‘ bay. Jceiti'." > lid ore rowhov mot rowbaal
“doe>u't the Bible -hv 'Blessed are thev that
are revile. 1 and persecuted?' ”
Jaini* was obliged to confess that it did, at
toersme inn-su.fl.r.g lire tail of a lizard in tho
gras*, woicji. u lt:x$s, ii' a. rat.
“Amy* >rtM another, sn t it xiy some-
thing about, u a man belt you over the gob,
^roti should turn Inin the othtr sid» ’•
Tho lizard » tnil was more apparent i>o\v. hut
sJarms nianfuhy n-piitd that lie wa* sure of it
A Inlnl chimed In: * And don’t it sjiv nothin’
not to do notiiinkr" iI> “‘ 0,1 yo "’ th ' rt ^
I thinkzhedo." stammered James.
James to re ire
•Wheu it*a
and m h. i:. !ri <>d m«u
James ci
g “ vlmdo
ladle* had time to twist
mouths down and compose
talk on "The practical aj*-
plication of the principles ot the icatlietle tiiei.
rv to the exterior and Ulterior house decoration
with ohfervutlous upon dress and personal
ornaments.”
by tbe
The obliging Jam:
1(" tanned In color
1!!. some solid hunks
said the chorus of i
"prepare to receive:
ihero profits got,"
words lor a lion- froi
The first speaker
bsd language until the c
ignorance, mid his attempts r
lion* were mi ot succor-ful. The t
er sailed iu wiih a left-hander on
check of the missionary, and made
from the eastern jaw . - on Piste The
been very iudnstnou* wuu hi* quirt u
point, when, approaching James, ho
let go enough'isieottned saliva to drown'
bad he been little Billy instead. Ho had not
more than retired before n hunk o: baked soil
about the size of a bind claim, went crashing
Into his preface. The boys then ■* 1 * -
watch the eir<:et-
"Are vou ail through, bevs"’
missionary, wiping Ore tobaeao
eye*.
"ruffectly,” they eh I w
James Solomon Sam.con'* s
"1 reckon them there Bible
heeled." said he, ami when the
away four dead cowb
“Converted, by J
reckon 1 wereu t cut a
Mirtain cure, but rough <
missiouary swam his
'Jrarule, ‘