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SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1874.
THE BUBBLE -FOR BUBBLE IT IS,
HAS ACQUIRED ITS MAGNITUDE
AND IS NOW ABOUT TO BURST.
Woman outside of her sphere lm* never,
nor nover will attain to any distinction;
lmt in her sphere miracles of goisl nmy be ;
nooomplialied by her influence. W e have 1
no hesitancy in saying tlmt woman in her
acknowledged weakness i the special
object of Divine Kyinjwithy anil regard,
but in her boasted supremacy Heaven
frowns, for she has no precedent from tin
Orest Exemplar of moral action but for i
modesty and retirement.
Martha-like, a modem hostess made J
great preparations for the entertainment
of the Lord, but Mary modestly anointed
hi* feet ud wiped them with the long
tresses of her lmir, and received the bless
ing as having chosen the better pnrt-
Murthn for display, Mary for modest sub
mission, and Mary was the honored one
of Heaven’s Prince. When woman weeps
in silence, Heaven utoope to pity. When
woman in sorrowful submission says:
“Lord, if thou had’st been hero our
brother would not have died.” The
modest declaration, with the evidence of
faith, is a sufficient petition for a writ of
h'lherM corpus from the Chancellor of the
f.kies to the custodian of the dead, who
surrenders his cold prisoner, and by the
fiat of Omnipotence the shackles of dentil
fall off, the dead revives and the brother ,
in renewed life embrae.es his fond sisters
lignin. It was the tears and modest sup
plications of woman that moved to pity ■;
and tci (ears the heart of Omnipotence,
and made u God to weep at, her brother's
grave, lint, when woman transcended her
modest sphere, she damned the world in
Iter first net of diplomacy, grieved the
heart of Omnipotence, and God repented
tlmt lie had made man, and Heaven had to j
surrender its baby Prince to sojotu-n on
earth ns an exemplar and die as a martyr
to restore man to the position lost by ;
woman’s indiscreet negotiation*. The in
D ienes of woman, either for good or evil,
i potent and powerful, mill when she
1 ps within her sphere, adorned with
1, coming modesty, every act, and eveiy
word will receive the stamp of Divine ap
proval, and society will be benefltted.
But when she utisexcs herself and assumes
responsibilities assigned to man, she dis- i
robes herself of her m< ilesty and loses her
Influence and mans respect, and, ns it ih
In conflict, with Now Testament prece
dents, she loses the Divine approval.
That woman has mi interest in the sup
pression of intemperance, none will deny;
that she has the right, and tlmt it is her
duty to use her influence to accomplish
that end, none will dispute; but she Ims
no right to bid defiance to law and become
n nnisanoo and deprive parties of their
legal and vested rights. Kite lma no right
to bring n reproach upon the ennso of
Christianity by outrageous, impious and
sac religious conduct.
Great ns may ho the evils resulting from
the sale and use of ardent spirits, so long ,
as it is authorised by law, niul dealers
conform to the law. the courts arc bound
to protect them in their rights, and re- !
strain nil parties who attempt to interfere
with them in the prosecution of tlieir j
legally authorised trade. This lma been
done by one Judge in Ohio, and will be
done bvall others throughout the country;
henoe the bubble must burst. Woman's
raids will now cease in Ohio and every
where else where tho news of the Judge’s
fiat goes. As soon ns woman reflects, and J
the ardor of her enthusiasm begins to
wane, she will see tho nbtmrdily and
ridiculousness of her conduct, and with i
shaincfaocdncsa return to her modest
home and read her Bible and pray in se
crot, and will acknowledge that nine-tenths
of her tears were crocodile, mnl tho effects
more of wind and dust tlmn sympathy
with inebriates wives ami children.
Wo repent onr advice—“go homo; give
your husband a warm sapper; slug your
tittle children to sloop, and thou pmy
that you may never attempt again to roll
your husband of his what you-enll-'ums.”
*
SLOAN TAXES IIIS SEAT,
Ousting Morgan Rawls, whose majority is
admitted to 733, upon the alleged grounds
that the election in Chatham county was
not fairly held. The Now York Times,
the organ of the administration, and the
sustainer, justitier and apologist for all
tricks and corruption, says: “That
it was not intended to allow a fair elec
tion in Chatham county, is clear enough
from the following statement of facts:
All the voting precincts in the county,
except in the city of Savannah, wore
abolished."
Admitting, for the sake of argument,
that this assertion is true, can the Radical
party object to it upon the ground of un
fairness ? If so, who inaugurated this
unfair system of holding elections in
Georgia ? Under the military reign in
the South, was it not ordered by t lie com
mander of the department that the elec
tions should be held at the Court House
ru each county, to proveut frauds upon the
colored voters ? And under this Radical
rule were not the scalawag Governor nnd
Legislature elected ? Was it legal then ?
Wasn't Congressmen elected in the same
way ? Were they denied seats ? Were
not Senators elected by the scalawag
Legislature, who was elected by the voters
at single precincts in the various counties ?
Why were not the illegality of the election
ef those days discovered by the saintly
legislators at Washington ? Because it
was a Radii .’ rule an 1 a Radical victory,
and never until their plans were thwarted
Mid ceased t -ulmerse their evil purposes,
did their own precedents become ob
noxious, or the unrighteousness of their
own rutin . Income manifest. Now, to
make the worst of it, a Democrat bents a
Radical upon a Radical plan, nnd a Radi
cal Congress declares tin* election illegal
and gives the sent to the defeated Radical.
This, wo think, is Radical consistency.
GEORGIA NEW3, >
The Georgia Legislature adjourned on
Friday last, SKltb lilt.
An nctunl count of cotton stock in Colum
bus on Friday gave 12,5 k;) bales.
The raid on the bar rooms in Columbus
by the women Ims proved n failure.
We have received the first copy of the
Trihnn e, anew weekly paper published at
Tombshoro, Gn. It is well made-up and
neatly printed.
Hnmnel Bard was coiTflrmod on the 2d
inst., by ft two.thirds vote as Postmaster
at Atlanta. The nomination lmd been
pending ninety days, and in claimed to be
a great administration victory.
A dentist in Butler took a lien on a set
of false teeth he put in a man's mouth. A
judgment has been obtained on the Hun,
and the sheriff is now in a quandary to
know how lie is going to enforce it.
The pe.oplc of Liberty County are agi
tated about the moving of the County site
from Hiuesvillc to Walthourville, No. 4,
A. AG. It. H. The people of ITinosvillo
are straining themselves to prevent it.
The Augusta Chronicle says that there
is no object in tho vicinity of Augusta
which so attracts the attention and excites
the interest of strangers as tho old Con
federate powder mills.
We copy the following from tho Louis
ville Cos n tier- Journal:
Atlanta has built a gruiite Confederate
monument sixty-five feet liigli for $4,000.
Almost anywhere else the contractor for
such a structure would have insisted upon
a margin of at least four thousand dollars
i stealage and wouldn’t have struck a lick
l until ho got it. We shan’t be surprised to
j near that, the man who built tiiat monu
ment lms been afflicted with "the vice of
honesty” until he has fallen away to a
! mere bloat.
A Macon correspondent says; The
work of slaughtering tho magnificent
landed and personal property of Hughes*
Vickers, the planters v, hose failure for
$190,000 has already been published, com
menced in Lee county lust Thursday.
They owned a plantation there containing
2,1(10 acres of splendid cotton lauds, upon
which was n fine residence, gin houses,
quarters, stables, and all other improve
ments in proportion, hi make up one of
those complete cotton farms which have,
for fifty years past, been the pride of the
lilnck belt. Tiie land cost its proprietors
@IO,OOO. The improvements, the stock,
gear, wagons, and farming implements,
$15,000 more, or, in all, $55,000. Under
the receiver’s hammer, Inst Thursday, the
land was knocked down to the Central
Bank of Macon for $0,500. The st ick,
implements and crop brought $4,500, This
whole magnificent estate only bringing
SII,OOO.
The Augusta Chronic!* of Friday last,
says: A man “named Cyrus Holmes, bail
ing from Illinois, preached a long sermon
at the lower Market yesterday afternoon,
and attracted a large crowd of negroes.
Holmes is a Booond Adventist, ami claims
that the end of (lie world will be brought
about in May, IH7B. He stated that hell
was iii the middle of the earth, and that
■ lie himself had seen it. He takes nil his
! texts from the Book of Revelations, which
he asserts he fully understands. He de
i flares that Abraham, Isiuto nnd Jacob are
typical of the human organization \bra
| ham representing the body, Isaac the
mind, slid Jacob the soul.”
Tho Perry Home Journal is responsible
for the following, which it locates at Mi r
; slinlvide:
Maiuuep.--At tho residence of Mr.
Thomas Massey, on the 19th, by Justice
! Vuilinidingham, Mr. Win. Smith to Miss
; Lizzie Cartwheel. It being the first oer
i emeny brother V. bad ever performed, lie
j was somewhat excited, and it is not strange
| that lie made a few little mistakes. “Mr.
Smith,” says he, “yon do solemnly swear
! that the contents of this affidavit are just
and true to the best ef your knowledge
nnd belief.” “I do,” was the response
“Lizzie Cartwheel,” continued tho J. I*.,
“you are arraigned before this honorable
court charged with the grave alienee of
matrimony- are you guilty?” “I do,”
was the soft ami modest reply. “Then
join your right hands. Now, what a man
hath joined together, let, not (rod put
a under. 1 pronounce you man and
wife.”
The Marietta Journal publishes the fol
lowing recipe for making a very profitable
fertilizer: No. 1. Take one barrel hard
wood ashes, one barrel bone dust, six bar
rels rich earth; mix well. No. 2. —Take
forty pounds nitrati of soda, sixty pounds
sulphate ammonia, thirty pounds com
mon salt. Dissolve No. 2 in just suffi
cient water. Tlum add that to No. 1 and
mix well; then add to the whole one bar
rel of land plaster and mix well again. It
would bo well to have the whole to pass
through a sieve, say of three-quarter inch
mesh, made in the same manner as the
mason’s sand riddle or sieve. This mode
of mixing by passing through a riddle
makes the fertilizer more uniform and
free from lumps and stones which might
be in the six laurels of rich earth. The
above is supposed to lie equal to one ton
of ordinary gmmo us sold bv the dealers,
nnd good for almost, if not all crops. This
mixture lias been tried in Cobb county,
as well ns in many other counties, and is
essentially tho same as sold under the
name of “homo-made guano” and by other
names.
(From the Indianapolis Journal.)
A Distressing Affair.
An Indianapolis gentleman, who came
ill front Cniw fordsvillc la t t veiling, gives
the particulars of the death of a
lady in that city, Sunday niglit, under pe
culiar circunmtauces. A few nights since
the ticket office of the Logan sport. Craxv
tordsvillo and Southwestern Railroad was
robbed of a largo number of tickets. An
employe saw the thieves na tliev were es
caping, and recognized one of them us a
lad by the name of O'Nia' Michael ha
thought his first name was—and as soon
as the robbery was discovered, lodged tho
information with the a ithorities. On
Sunday night a warrant for the boy’s ar
rest, was placed in the hands of a couple of
policemen, xvho proceeded, without delay,
to the residence of Ids parents and made
know n tho nature of their errand.
The mother, a woman about forty years
of age, and mother of six children, one of
whom was a babe, when she heard the
story, vehemently denied that her boy
eouid have been guilty of the crime with
which he was charged. So excited did she
become tlmt she finally fainted away, and
on beiug restored to consciousness again
relapsed into a swoon. On recovering
from the second nervous attack, Mrs.
(I'Xcnl pleaded with tho officers not to take
her son, protesting with nil a mother’s
power, that he was guiltless. Tho police
at last consented to go with the boy to the
man who had given the information, nnd
if he failed to indentify him lie would be
brought back immediately. The police
men, who were deeply troubled by the
scene, hurried :nvty and aroused the man,
xvho announced that it xvas the xvrong boy.
Imvindlv rejoicing they spirted hack, but
before they bad proceeded far they w ere
met by Air. O’Neal xvho informed them
that his w ife was dead—had died from the
stroke of hearing of her child's disgrace,
as she supposed.
FLORIDA NEWS.
•
The court house atNew Troy ( the comity
seat of Lafayette county, was destroyed
by tiro on the night of February ibid.
The Press estimates that tho amount of
wealth represented by Northern residents
and visitors now at the several hotels in
St. Augustine, is upwards of a hundred
million of dollars.
About the first of February A. Long,
living on Five-mil* creek, near the St.
Lucie river, Brevard county, wns decoyed
from his liou.ie and killed by Thomas
Daughtrey and Allen Padgett. It is sup
posed lie was murdered for his money.
William Keene, who mnrderecl William
Valentine on the St. John’s last fall, was
hung in Jacksonville Friday lust. The
Jacksonville press gives a full account of
the murderer’s confession and execution.
The following letter wns written bythoun
fortunate man and may prove a warning to
others:
* J xrrKSONVrr.nr, February 25,1874.
Dkab Aunt: It is with a sad heart and
with tears in my eyes that I write these
few lines to you and to grandmother.
T would have written to you before now
but 1 was ashamed to write to you as you
have been so kind to me, and for me to go
on in this as I have foryoars, and yon have
always helped me out of all the troubles
that I have been in, but this will Tie, the
lust letter that I will he aide to write to
yon, and I hope that you will forgive me
and pray for me and ask God to forgive
me also.
1 know T have been a had hoy and have
brought you and grandmother and all the
rest of my relations to a great deal of dis
grace, and this will boa great deal more,
| but you w ill never have in suffer any more
trouble from me in this world, lint I hope
and piny to meet you in the next world,
and there live in joy and happiness for
ever.
Dear Aunt, do not fret for me, for I will
soon be out of this world and he with my
dear Lord in tlmt Heavenly home above,
where all is joy and love. I have sinned it
is true, and I nave asked God to forgive
me for what I did. I hope and pray He
w ill have mercy on my soul and not cast
me away from His heavenly home, but
take me to His bosom and forgive me.
Dear Aunt, T did kill tho man to get his
m wney. I will tell you the truth about it
i for I can never enter the Kingdom of
; Heaven without I confess all my sins. I
! have done a great deal of wrong in tliis,
lmt I hope and pray that I am forgiven of
them, mid hope this letter will give you
comfort when yon read it.
I would not have been here to-day if I
lmd taken your advice when r loft home,
lmt bad company and drinking whiskey
j has brought me to my end.
If I had doneasmy mother told me T
j would have been well off-to-day, instead of
being in prison waiting to die.
I did wrong in Salt Lake City, and that
is w hat caused mo to come back to New
Jevsy again.
()!i 1 If 1 1 lad obeyed iny poor old grand
mother and not have done this wrong how
happy we would all have been living to
gether. Do not grieve for me for I am
going home to God and to have everlasting
life. Good-bye on" and nil, nnd God bless
grandmother nnd all you. Give my love
to all my friends.
End of tho Tickbornc Case Review of the
Trial.
The trial of the claimant to the Tieh
borue estate in England, on charges of
perjury committed during the trial for the
possession of the estate, lifts been con
cluded with a verdict of guilty, nnd a sen
tence of fourteen years of penal servitude.
The trial has been a long one, having
lusted one hundred nnd eighty days, and
its result effectually extinguishes the pre
tensions of the claimant to the Tichborne
estate. The case will live ns one of the
most celebrated in law records, and n pop
ular interest will belong attached' to the
man himself, who has hail the audacity to
assume n title that did not belong to him
in order to get. possession of a vast prop
erty. Whether he ho William Orton, the
butcher, or sofke other ~orson. it has been,
it appears, well settled that ho is not a
Tichborne. The following is a resume of
the extraordinary case:
Roger Tichborne, the oldest, son of Sir
James Tichborne, after being educated
in France and at Stonybursf, and serving
for a while in the army ns an officer of
carabineers, set sail for South America in
1851, after which he was never seen again
in England. His travels nnd his life ended,
or were supposed to have ended, when the
ship Bella, on which ho set, sail nt Rio de
Janeiro for New York, foundered at. sea.
His mother refused to believe him dead,
and advertised for him for several years.
At last she was rewarded by hearing from
Australia that her son was alive and well;
nnd she got letters purporting to bo from
him, in which be stated that, he bad been
picked'up at sea nnd carried to Melbourne.
Tn 1800 the would-be Sir Roger, in the
person of the claimant, reached England.
Reheat's father was dead: the claimant
was recognized by Lady Tichborne as her
son. Tn a year or two she died, before
the ease came to trial: meanwhile almost
every other member of tho family denied
identity.
The suit instituted by him for the pos
session of the title and estates commenced
on the 10th of May, 1871, nnd continued,
with little interruption until July 7, when
nn adjournment for some month's xvas had.
The ease was resumed in November, and
the clnimnnt’s ease was completed on Jan
uary 15. 1872. Sir John Duke Coleridge,
then Attorney-General, on that day began
his opening address for the defence, oc
cupying five weeks in its delivery. On
March 4. the jury, having just listened to
the testimony of Lord Bellow, to the effect
that 110 had tattooed the real Sir Roger
when at school, and the claimant being
unable to show any tattoo marks, xvlicn
induced to state to the court that they had
heard enough testimony. Two days after
wards the claimant’s ease xvas withdrawn
from before the court. Lord Chief Jus
tice Uoville, who bad presided at the first
trial, thereupon issued a warrant for the
arrest of the claimant on tho charge of
perjury, and his bail was fixed at .£50,000,
but be was soon bailed ont by bis enthu
siastic partisans.
On April 23. 1873, he xvas put on trial
before Lord Chief Justice Cookbnrn, Air.
Hawkins conducting tho proseention. and
Dr. Koneuly the defence. The testimony
for the prosecution xvas closed on the 2d
of December last. The defence was then
opened, and concluded on the 14th of Jan
uary. Tho summing up for the prosecu
tion xvas finished on January 28. and on
the ensuing day Chief Justice Cockbnrn
began the charge to tho jury, which has
proved almost as tedious as the speeches
of counsel. The verdict of guilty was nn
unexpected' one, for there xvere two men
on the jury who were regarded with great
suspicion. The two trials of the case
have cost the government alone fully 82,-
500,000, the counsel receiving enormous
fees, nnd witnesses being brought from
Australia nnd this country at. groat ex
pense. Altogether the case has been a
marvellous one.
THE LEGISLATURE.
Thu Last Day’s Proceedings.
SENATE proceedings.
Att.anta, Feb. 25. —Mr. Simmons
moved to reconsider tho action of yester
day relative to the bill organizing county
courts, so far as it relates to Bibb. The
motion prevailed.
Mr. Lester moved to reconsider the
action relative to the bill fixing the fees of
the Sheriff of Chatham. The motion pre
vailed.
nn.M PASSED.
To amend the act creating county courts
so far as relates to Bibb.
To relievo maimed and indigi fit soldier .
It requires tax receivers to take a list of
them.
To create the office of State Geologist.
To amend tho net Incorporating the
Savannah, Seaboard and Skidaway Rail
road Company; also for tho relief of the
s'lme.
To amend the act relative to the civil;
and criminal fees of the Sheriff of Chatham
county.
To establish u Department of Agricul
ture.
To prohibit tho use of explosive oils in’
passenger cars.
To exempt from jury duty telegraph
operators.
To require tax payers to pay taxes only
to collectors on election day.
To incorporate the Augusta and Haw
kinsville Railroad Company.
To provide for the removal ufthocounty
site of Coffee.
To allow freight trains to run until 8
o’clock on Sunday to reach their termini.
To improve Indian Spring.
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
BILES PASSED.
The following bills were passed by the.
House;
To amend the school law of Richmond
county.
To repeal the net providing for a public
school system iri Baldwin.
To make citizens and residents of
municipal corporations jurors in certain
cases.
To amend tho charter of Milledgeville.
To authorize the Council of Augusta to ;
remove the market house.
To provide for keeping insano persons
convicted of capita! crimes.
To prevent the destruction of game in
Liberty and Mclntosh.
To amend the aet incorporating the
Trustee* of the Masonic Hall iu Milledgo-
Ville. j
To amend the charter of Americas.
To incorporate the Altamoha Railroad
Company.
To authorize the Governor to lease out
tho convietli.
'l’o amend the charters of Greensboro !
nnd Oxford.
To define tho fees of tho Ordinary of
Chatham.
To limit and regulate the assessment
of taxes by municipal corporations.
To permit the Mayor’s Court of Macon
to try offences against penal laws of the
State, nnd for other purposes.
To amend the act to establish a County
Bourn Commissioner for Bibb.
To incorporate the Muckulee Munufnc- ;
till ing Company af Americas.
To amend the charter of the Georgia
Railroad and Banking Company. It pro
vides for another hank ut Atlanta,
To incorporate the John W. Lewis
Manufacturing Company.
THE MAOON AND BIitTNSWICK nAII.HO.VD BONDS.
A me*vigo from the Governor concern
ing the bonds of the MatjpU and Bruns
wick Railroad Company, suggesting that
it he investigated w hether their indebt
edness was otic million nine hundred and
fifty thousand dollars or two millions.
Mr. Carlton offered n resolution pro- i
viding for the appointment of s joint com
mittee to investigate the mutter, which was
agreed to.
rnAUff).
The chums of Devine, Jones A- Leo,
and of John A. Dore against the State-,
were referred ,for arbitration to Wm. A.
Walton, of Richmond, at the recommen
dation of a joint committee of couferonoo.
hoouman’h bonus.
The joint special committee, to whom
was referred the claim of Boorman, John
son A Cos., made two reports. The ma
jority report, signed by Messrs. Kibbee.
Brown and Mercer, favors the payment of
the claim.
The minority, signed by Messrs. McDan
iel and Reese, is adverse. No action was
taken. The reports wore read for infor
mation in both Houses.
Mr. Simmons offered a resolution re
questing and empowering Gov. Jenkins to
investigate claims, arid report to the next
Legislature. Disagreed to.
VAT.E 1
All business was disposed of in both
Houses, and after returning thanks to the
officers, the Legislature adjourned sine dir.
at half-past eleven o'clock.
The Religion We Want.
We want a religion that bears heavily,
not only on the “exceeding sinfulness of
sin,” l>nt on the exceeding rascality of
lying and stealing—a religion that ban
ishes small measures from the counter,
small baskets from the stall, pebbles from
the cotton bags, clay from the paper, sand
from sugar, chicory from coffee, alum from
bread, and water from the milk cans. The
religion that is to save the world will not
put all the big strawberries at tho top and
all the little ones at the bottom. It will
rot make one-huff pair of shoes of good
leather and the other half of poor leather
so that the first shall redound to the ma
ker’s ere lit and the second to his cash. It
will not put Jouvin’s stamp on Jenkins' kid
gloves, nor make Paris bonnets in the back
room of a Boston milliner's shop; nor lot
,a piece of velvet that professes to measure
twelve yards come to an untimely end in
the tenth, or a spool of sewing-silk that
vouches for twenty yards be nibbed in the
bud at fourteen and a half; nor all-wool
delaines nor all-linen handkerchiefs be
amalgamated with clandestine cotton, nor
coats made of old rags pressed together be
sold to the unsuspecting public for legal
broadcloth. It does not put bricks at five
dollars per thousand into chimneys it con
tracts to build of seven-dollar materia!:
nor smuggle white pine into floors that
have paid for hard pine; uitr leave Yawn
ing cracks in closets where boards ought
to join; nor daub the ceilings that ought to
be smoothly plastered; nor make window
blinds with slats that cannot stand the
wind, and paint that cannot stand the sun,
and fastenings that may be looked at, but
are on no account to be touched. The
religion that is going to sanctify tho world
pays its debts. It does not consider that
forty ceuts returned for one hundred cents j
given is according to the Gospel, though
it may be according to law. It looks on a
man who has failed in trade and who con
tinues to live in luxury as a thief.— Boston j
Christian.
There was a bell in a building burned at
a recent fire in Providence that bore a date
two years prior to the discovery of this
continent by Columbus. It formerly called ,
the inmates of a Spanish convent to j
prayer.
Romance of a Convict Girl.
Ten years ago this month a refined onil
pretty yonhg girl was sent til Blackwell’s j
Island for picking the pocket of a lady on j
Broadway. Day before yesterday the same l
girl, now a lovely woman of twoiity-four, ;
was convicted of the theft and sentenced j
to four years hard labor iii Uie State j
prison.. Tho story of this unfortunate;
woman is a most interesting one. Bom j
in Lexington avenue of wealthy nnd re-,
spectahle parents, she nevertheless iulier- ;
ited that unfortunate temperament known
ns the hysterical or emotional. dVlicn the |
young girl was convicted the first time the
mother pleaded hard for the misguided
daughter, but it was hoped (hat the dis
cipline of two years would be of advan-1
tage to her, and so the sentence was cur
ried into execution. Thoughtless and guy
as a child she donned tho convict’s dress.
She utterly refused to work, and eonsid- !
erablc liberty was given her. Everybody
liked her, for she was pretty and winning j
—more like a spoiled child than a danger
ous woman. To the son of the warden, a
toll youth of eighteen, she seemed a veri .
table angel, with her soft hands, deep I
blue eyes, and her volatile ways. It took J
him about three months to arrive at the
conclusion that she wu the most admi
rable being that this earth contained, and
six months more to decide that it was
wrong for such a refined little lady to be
kept in such a place. lie was serving an
apprenticeship us gas-fitter in New York.
He. began to neglect his work on plea of
illness, and to stay upon the island instead
of going over to the city. It was nston
| wiling what an interest he took in all that
, related to the affairs of the prison. *
Never was bo grand a chance offered
, for a gallant hero to strike a grand blow
;to captivate his lady. If I’anline Deschup
j pelles had been a convict instead of a mer
; chant princess, Claude Melnotte would not
| have had to resort to the subterfuge of
| personifying a prince. “If I get you out,
! will you marry me?”'said the Claude of
j Blackwell’s Island; and his Pauline re
sponded: "Yes, yon or anybody else; only
ibe quick about it.” In broken words,
caught through gratings or behind iron
doors, the fugitive lovers planned it. She
should get awsyand leave the Island alone,
( remain in New York three weeks and then
: he would join her.
A proper opportunity was long in pro
| seating itself, but it came at last. The
warden had left for a time his son on
: guard alone. The sister of the young
man was in her room above; she was called
down on some pretext and sent to a neigh
boring building. Quick as a flash the
pretty jail bird dashed up stairs, tore off
| the convict garb, and donned the sister’s
; best suit. She did not forget the veil slid
parasol with which to shield her features,
and she had the wit to sober down her
; usual airy gait to the more staid motion
;of the one into whose shoes she hid
; stepped. Our (’laude was waiting. "Here,
T want you to row my sister over to New
York,” lie said to tho men, and they did
so.
ft is not known how he fixed matters
with the family, but certain it is that three
weeks later he promised to cherish and 1
protect for life that liberated jail-liird and
she to love him, to honor, and to obey.
A couple aged respectively fourteen and
eighteen were rather voting to begin
housekeeping, so they lived in a hotel.
His love for her was a real passion; she!
was his iumw! no matter what she did, nnd
he workeitraard all day nnd every dnv to
support her. As for her. she Vrrtiimlv
respected her husband, she was grateful
to him, she had kept her promise, hut 1
the strained, dark bands of the gas-fitter l
were always a horror to her; it was towards
the light-fingered gentry that she gruvi- ;
fated gracefully and naturally.
Haying tile whole day to herself, in the ,
midst of the great metropolis, the here- i
ditary dormant passion was snrelv and !
speedily roused to life. Thieving is a
disease. Vl ith this Door girl it assumed :
the chronic state. Before die had been a
wife two years she wns arrested for grand
larceny, fried, convicted, and sentenced
to Sing Sing for three years. When she
came out she thought herself cured; the
husband, like Douglas, ever tender and
true, took her home again. Unfortu
nately for her she never loved him, and i
she was incapable of keeping her promise
to bo honest.
At last she did fall in love. She tried tn
nick the pocket of a rich Southerner, and
he caught her in the net and chivalrously
forgave her. Again a yearning for some
thing nobler nnd better took possession of
her, and again she promised never to
yield to temptation; bqj the new love
awakened in her heart made her ashamed
of her husband. Boon she was again on
trial for larceny, nnd the father of her
husband came forward nnd did not spare
his evidence in full. She received another
term in Sing Sing. In time the warden’s
son was divorced and married again.
Adelaide came from prison tho third
time to stand beside the death-lied of ber
mother. “If yon are again tempted to
yield to the fatal passion, my child, think
how mncli vonr poor mother loved you,”
said the dying woman; nnd again tho
daughter took the pledge of abstinence.
She went to live with a sister in Brooklyn.
At the ago of twenty-three she was more
of a child than she had been at fourteen.
“I am going up to my home,” she
said yesterday. “Sing-Sing—l call it my
home, 1 have been there so much. T be
lieve I like it better than this New York.
I suppose it's because 1 am so hardened,”
nnd the eyes fill with tears. Her last
pledge is broken; the panic came with its
great, excitement for ah. nnd nn excite
ment especially calculated to aggravate a
m ilady like hers. She for four more
years must occupy a prison cell, .V. F.
Graphic,
At a recent fashionable wedding in
Boston, it was announced that the cere
mony would take place in tho church at
half-past seven o'clock in the evening.
A musical gentleman was requested to
preside at the organ, and, at the time
appointed, opened the service with the
“Bedding March.” The church was
filled with a large audience, but the
wedding party was late. The organist
played the “Wedding March” through
twice ns a prelude. Bv the time the
church bell had tolled out eight strokes,
he had gone through tho limited repertory
of music appropriate to such an occasion,
had executed a number of snored airs in
a style so rapid and novel that few, if
any, in the audience recognized them,
and finally, in despair, played the “Dead
March in Saul,” with variations of an ex
ceedingly original nature. Still there
were no signs of the wedding party, and
the organist, thoroughly vexed at the de
lay, began and play eel a few measures of
the air, “O, dear, what call the matter
be ?” and closed his introduction with
the “Rogue's March,” to the movement
of which the party, which had in the
meantime arrived, passed up the aisle to
the altar.
A man stopping his paper, wrote to the
editor, “I think folkes ottend spend their
munny fur paper my daddy didn’t and
everybody sez lie wus the most intillygint-;
est naan in the enndry and got the smart- i
est farrmly uv buoys that ever dugged Li
ters. ”
How Pianos are Made.
It takes nearly four years to make one
instrument; three years and some months
to form the parts. No less than sixteen
different kinds of wood enter into tho
formation embracing tho softest, toughest,
hardest, heaviest, lightest, and most com
pact gruin. In the “action” alone there
are eleven different kinds of wood. The
piano, morever, is cosmopolilan, from the
fact that the vegetable, animal and|mineral
kingdoms of the world contribute to its
composition. While spruce pine from
Northern New York, n.aple from West
Massachusetts, pine nnd ash from Mich
igan, cherry from Pennsylvania, wulnut
from Indiana, and poplar from West
Virginia, after passing through choppers,
sawyer- , rnftmen and insjx c'ors as well as
buckskin of four kinds, first from tho wild
deer and then from the mnnufnot’ers, are
necessary. This country does not furnish
all the material required. Six kinds of
felt, four kinds of metal, besides silver
for the plate, silver-gilded strings,enstiron,
many kinds of paper, ns also ivory, ebony
and varnish are all imported from other
countries. In an ordinary piano there
are 800 screws, 170 siring ,85 keys and 520
key and turning pins, in a seven-octave
square about 90 square feet of vcDcering
is used, and in the “action” alono there
nre no less than 5,072 pieces. From the
foregoing, some conei p ion of the rcqnii
ites of a square, upright, or grand piano
may be formed.
First in the manufacture of a piano
conies the seasoning of the wood, which is
done by two years’ exposure. Next it is
subjected to several months’ storage in nil
open building, each piece being separated
to get an air drying, anil then quarantine
of several moths in a building heated wrtli
steam, followed by ten stages of hot-air
; drying during the process of manufacture.
Each manipulation of the wood and each
; coat of varnish is followed by a drying
! process, and in the case of the outside
. rosewood pieces a regular roasting. The
; heavier pieces of wood being turned by
j machinery, they together with the legs
are carved by the hands of skillful artists
to the required shape and the sounding
arid other boards shaved to the requisite
thinness by a planing machine. Then
, comes the glueing, liending and veneering
nu ll followed by the drying -all of which
;is accompanied with the most minute and
elaborate detail. Next in order are the
rases nnd tops, which are varnished five
times, each coat being entirely scraped off
j and another put on until the grain of the
1 wood appears, when they re
; receive several more coats of polish varnish
j are again scraped and then rubbed down
with pumice stone again, varnished, again
rubbed, and then polished by hand. The
iron frames, after being japanned, receive
several coats of paint, and arc then rubbed
down and bronzed, after winch they are
I ornamented in shaded gilt. The compli
cated details of fitting the frames, finishing
the sounding boards, making the bridges,
uprights, strings and pins, as also the
delic t: sero 1 saw manipulations in making
the ivory keys nnd wooden lace work for
music rests, all baffle description. The
ivory, like everything else, is submitted to
the drying process to prevent warping.
Next iii order i placing the sonndrng-
I < a ’,fitting the r ings and ki T-’oar ,ad
making the "movement,” The "move
ment,” which includes the pedal arrange
ment, hamnu r , dampers,and in numerable
other contrivances, which differ in the
various kinds of instruments, is so compli
cated and elaborate in its construction as
to defy description. As is well known,
each kev struck going a certain distance,
which differs in each key, raises a grooved
arrangement connecting with the hammer
of that key which, as the grooved connec
tion slips out, hits the wire and flics hack
to the first position. Each 1 anpticr flics a
different distance, and is also further
regulated by the felt coverings. The j
pedal operates on the wires by strips of
felt w hich press against tin m. The move- 1
nient being place J in position, the wires -
••ire strung, the oth'r finishing touches 1
given, when the instrument having been ;
carefully regulated liy a turning fork, the !
tine and modulation is perfect, and the
m; mfocture of the piano is c uupletod.
Halt i more. Sun.
Senator West's New Bill.
Wasulxotiix, March 2.- The bill intro
duced by Senator West for the settle
ment of loyal claims provides that the i
Court of Claims shall have sole jurisdic
tion of all claims against the United States
brought by loyal persons for all classes of
property destroyed, occupied, used o
taken by the army and navy of the!
United States for nnd in the service of tho
United States; also, that nil persons who,
have been restored in their rights of pi r
son or property, after participation in the
late rebellion, by reason of any amnesty!
proclamation or personal pardons of the;
President, and who resumed their allegi
ance before the final ending of the war,
shall be entitled to the benefit of the pro- !
visions of this bill. It also abolishes the !
.Southern Claim Commission and provides)
that all claims now pending and unde-j
tennined by said commission, or before
the Quartermaster General, Commissary j
General, Third Auditor of the Treasury
or other executive departments of the j
government, shall lie transferred for ad-.
judication to the Court of Claims, which,
after rendering judgments on the same is i
required to report them to Congress for i
its action thereon, although either the
United .States or tiic claimant can appeal
for final review to the Supreme Court- of i
tae United States in all cases where the |
amount involved is over three thousand j
dollars, so that when the action of Con
gress is had upon the same, the full pi n: !
ties and law of each claim shall be made I
up for its determination. The bill fur
thermore provides for commissioners to
be appointed in each judicial district of
the United States, by the Court of Claims;
these commissioners are empowered to !
summon witnesses, take testimony, em
ploy stenographers, and fully prepare 1
each claim for presentation to said court.
Ihe government is to he represented by
the respective district attorneys, anil the ‘
orders of the commissioners are to be
enforced by the respective United States
Marshals.
Tho docket of pnoh c.isc is to be open
to inspection of the public when com
piled. Other detailed provisions gnard
the rights of the United States and
( human ts by prohibiting mmecessary
delay after the commencement of suit,
and enforcing severe penalties for mis
conduct of the commissioners. The costs
and expenses in each ease are all to be
borne by the successful litigant.
It is claimed that the enactment of this
bill would save to the government a vast
sum of money annually expended in
salaries of employes and other expenses
in the various departments engaged in
examining and setting such claims, be
sides the great expenses to which claim
ants are now subjected in coming to
Washington to prosecute their claims
which under this bill can virtually be
prepared for determination in their re
spective judicial districts.
A canvass of Congress shows that about
one-fourth of the members stand on the!
temperance platform* The others 101 l un
uer it. Boston I'osL
6HOULDER TO SHOULDER.
—_ •
Georgia itnUr* Her Voice for South Cro
liua An Rmphatlc Bmftorsement of ’*
the Tax-Payer* Mciuorlal.
*1 , .
The following preamble and resolution*
were introduced in the Goorgirt Senate by
Mr. Gilmore, nnd agreed to on Thursday
last, and were concurred iu by the House
on the same day:
Whereas, The tax-paying Citizens of
South Carolina, in Convention assembled,
have addressed the morality, the justice,
and patriotism of the people of the United
States, in a memorial to Congress, by
which it is made to appear that they arc
suffering from an organized system of op
pression, under the form of a local gov
ernment, inaugurated amid the chaos of
revolution by unprincipled political adven
turers, nnd sustained through the eo-oprr*
ation of their unfortunate dupes, the re
cently enfranchised negroes; and whereas,
this appeal to the people comes to us, citi
zens of Georgia, who through Providence,
have escaped the tyranny of the oppres
sion which these, our brethren of South
| Carolina, have so long endured. Therefore
i he it
1. Resolrnl, by the Senate and Honso
1 of Representatives of Georgia, That the
representations made by the memorial of
the Tax payers' Convention, recently held
in Columbia, South Carolina, present u
catalogue of outrage nnd wrong scarcely
having a parallel iu the annuls of Christian
civi'ization, and is an appeal to the pa
triotism nnd moral sense of the people of
the United States, demanding their grav
est consideration.
2. Resolretl, That ns the genius of onr
Republican form of Government rests in
| security only in the virtue and intelligence
of the citizen, these cannot be ignored
without destroying the safeguards of
liberty, nnd without corrupting the form
Hf government established' by our fa
thers.
3. H' vViw/, That we extend our sympa
thy to the good poople of South Carolina
in the ordeal through which they luivo
been called to pass; and while weeanimt
hut admire the spirit of forbearance ami
fortitude with which they have endured
these outrages and suffered these w rongs,
we condemn the perpetrators thereof as
being responsible for material ruin of n
gallant poople nnd the overthrow of the
the Republican Government of a great
State.
4. Resoled, That onr Representatives
in Congress of the United States be re
quested to co-operate with the delegates
from tho "Tax-payers’ Convention” of
South Carolina iu securing such represen
tation of their grievances, and remedy
therefor, ns may be deemed expedient.
5. Resoled, That his Excellency tho
Governor lie requested to transmit these
resolutions to the President and members
of the “Tax-payers’ Convention” of South
! Carolina.— Charleston Courier.
Semitic s' Petition for Pardon.
Admiral Semnles, in a letter to Gen.
Gordon, Senator from Georgia, asking for
removal of his disabilities, says:
The undersigned respectfully shows unto
i your honorable bodies that prior to the
late war between the United States and
the Confederate State he was a comman
der in the army of the United
; States, domiciled in the State of Aiubum-,
i of w hich State he had been a citizen for a
.lumber of years; that viewing the ques
tions at issue between the Northern and
Southern States from a Southern stand
point, he believed in the right of secession
J o- a St ite for cause; and in a contest U r
a kg am e between bis State nnd the Fed
. r.u Government he believed his allegiance
j ultimately due to his State; that when hi
State seceded he felt himself in honor
bound to follow her fortunes for better or
| for worse; that his State did secede, and
that upon the happening of that event ho
tendered his resignation to the then Seere
tary of the Navy,who well knew the object
! of the tender, and that his resignation was
! accepted; that being by such acceptance
relieved from all his obligations to tho
Federal Government which grew ont of
his late commission, he returned to tho
i State which he believed was entitled to bis
allegiance, took up arms in her defense,
and defended her nnd the Confederate
States of wl.ii li she had become a member,
to the best of liis ability. That at tho
close of the war he retired to private life,
and has again become a citizen of tho
United States, having as a voter of Ala
bama _ sworn to support and defend the
( (institution of the United States, and tho
Union of the States. Having thus renewed
his allegiance to the Federal Constitution
in good faith, he desires the prompt and
entire oblivion, except in so far as history
may deal with the sub iect of the late dif
ferences between the two sections. Ho
has the natural affection of an American
citizen for the land of his birth, and tho
same pride as formerly in the glory and
prosperity of Ids country, and of hisjwkole
country, and he now requests your hon
orable bodies to remove the political disa
bilities under which he has so long la
bored, and restore him to the full and free
embrace of the only country which can
claim him, and the only country which ho
cares to claim.
Respectfully,
Rachael Semmes.
“Done at Mobile, in the State of Ala
bama, on this, the thirtieth day of Janu
ary, A. 1). 1871.”
l.h'i AL AD I EIiTISKMKXTS.
HOMESTEAD NOTICE.
QtTATE OF GEORGIA, Bbooks Corner*.
O Court of Ordinary.
William Hiern, Sr., having applied for exemption
:’ f pcrsoflnltv anil setting apart anil valuation of
homestead, I will pass upon the same at mv
offfcc ill Quitman, ar 11 o'clock a. m„ on Mon
day. Oth day of March, 1874.
(lion under my hand and official signature,
this 21st day of February. 1574
Mi2B-at J, M. BHEARER, Ordinary.
O TATE OF GEORGIA— Bbooks County.—
it Jonathan 11. Alderman having applied for
exemption of personalty, I will pass noon the
same at my office in Quitman, at II o’clock, a. m.,
on Monday, Oth March, 1874.
(.hen under mv hand and official signature,
this 21st dux' of February, 1874
feli2.S-2t ~ J. M. SHEARER, Ordinary.
QTATE OF GEORGIA. Brooks Count r.-On
me ridST MONDAY IN Al’ltlL NEXT i
will apply to tbo Court of Ordinary of Brook*
( ?}}*}>' for leave to well, at private sale, all the
wild lands Ivin*? m the county of Flovd t State of
Georgia, belonging to the estate of M. E. Parra
more, deceased.
. 10w u .. . . JOHN A. IRVINE,
re D2B-41 Administrator with will an Tie ~ed.
i QTATE OF GEORGIA, Brooks County.— On
p the FIRST MONDAY IN MARCH NEXT
I will apply to the Court of Ordinary c f Brooks
Comity for lea re to sell at private sale four hnn
dred and seventeen (417> acres of wild lard
Bing m the county of Air In tosh and State of
Georgia belonging to minor heirs of M. D.
Harris, deceased, for the purpose of distribution
and mamtemmcc of and education of said minors
. ™ >7 ' 4t JAMES S. HARRIS, Guardian. _
QTATE OF GEORGIA, Brooks County. —
y j , i l,ncs > • Morrow, Guardian of Eulala Jack-
Eulala Peacock.) having applied
to the Court of Ordinary of said county for a dis
en arge from Ins guardianship of said Eulala
P crß ° n and property.
This is therefore to cite all 'pers ns concerned
to snow cause, by tiling objections in mv office,
wu\ tlit> said Janies E. Morrow should .not be
dismissed from his guardianship of Eulala Jack
son, and receive the usual letters of dismission.
Given und r my official signature, this 2d day
of March. 1*74. 0 J
nmr7-H J. 51. SHEARER. Ordinary.