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GALLAHER'S INDEPENDENT, PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT QUITMAN, GA., by J. C. G A L L A H E R. TERNS OF SUBSCRIPTION * TWO DOLLARS per Ann tan in Advance. THE WOLDEI SI OR. There is mtnv a rest in the road oftife, If we only would stop to take it: And many a tone from the better land. If the querulous heart would make it. To the sunny soul, that is full of hope. And whose beautiful trust ne’er faiJeth. The grass is green aiul the flowers art* bright, Though the wintry storm prevailed}. Better to hope, though the clouds hang low, And to keep the eyes still lifted. For the sweet blue sky w ill soon peep through, When the ominous clouds arc rifteu. There was never a night without a day, Or an evening without a morning: And the darkest hour, as the proverb goes, * Is the hour before the dawning. There is many a gem in the path of life, Which we pass in our idle pleasure, Taht is richer far than the jeweled crown, Or the miser's hoarded treasure; It may be the love of a little child, Ot a mother’s prayer to heaven. Or only a bsggar a grateful thanks For a cup of water given. Better to weave in the web of life A bright and golden tiling, And to do God's will with a ready heart, And hands that aroswdt and willing, Than to snap the delicate, minute threads Of our curious lives asunder, And then blame heaven for the tangled ends, And sit and grieve and womb r. LOVE IN Tilt: SOUTH. Tlie grouse shooting hail commenced a few days. The steamers on the Caledonia Canal were crowded with sportsmen and tourists. The inns at Fort William and Uenevie were nightly besjeged by wild troops of hungry Sasseimchs. Eley’s car fridges and Black’s hand-books rose to a premium in the provincial markets; and the Highlands rebounded with the joy of the stranger. The Gael gladly reaped, in expectation, the anticipated harvest, "while the breast of every motherpalpitated with pleasurable excitement as she fixed one eye on the list of arrivals in the Grouseshire f'nurier and the other on her red-haired daughters. Meanwhile, the said nymphs were deciding on their dresses for the northern meeting, and thumbing the Bed Book for the geneal ogy of ever new comer. lu fact, gaiety regained in the North, except in the case of a few unfortunate tourists who found themselves at Inverness, and having visited Macbeth’s castle and the Field of Culioden "were at loss how to employ themselves. In one of the many country houses fam ed for Celtic hospitality a very merry party was met. There were grouse shoot ers and Highland belles. The host and three other chieftains, who rejoiced in the names of the McDum, Kill-devil, Devil hit and Kill bogle—there is a run on Satanic uomeefature in the North, such us would drive a Yezidi to distraction—two or three English visitors made up the party of gen tlemen. Of ladies, there were the daugh ters of the houses of McDum and Kill- Devil, with many other of the neighboring damsels, and of course closely related to each other. The mornings were devoted by the gen tleman, ns in duty bound, to the game. In the afternoons they, perhaps; competed as Tox ophilites with tile indies, or assisled them in adorning their albums w ith carica tures of the face ol' nature. In the even ings dancing, music and flirtation pre vented the most ardent sportsmen from Itecomig totally brutalized. Of all the young ladies assembled be neath tbe roof of McDum the one most re nowned for desperate flirtation was Miss Clementine Kill-Loon. She was a young lady of great animal spirits. She was handsome, had a tolerable figure, and her uraMes were not much larger than an Eng lishman’s. She could ride, shoot, fish, dance and reel against any number of con secutive Sassenachs, and was altogether a great accession to a country house. Yet she remained unmarried, and her tweuty seventh year was drawing on. But the reason was, the gentlemen said, she was so very affectionate. Every one was fright ened at her readiness to catch at an offer, besides, she so soon changed from one to another. There were Smith and Jones— they came on Wednesday. Ou Thursday Smith nearly capitulated, when she got hold of his hand in the conservatory, and would keep it; but on Fridav, coming un expectedly into the diningroom, he found heron her knees before Jones, rubbing bisleft arm, which was rheumutically given —Jones looking rather sheepish. Smith fled on the spot, and refused to return. This season she had determined to make a victim of some unconscious Southerner. The natives, she knew, were too shrewd to be caught; besides, they none of them had any thing to live upon but the proceeds of their shootings and fishings. So she laid her pluus accordingly. At the last North ern meeting she had met a Lieut. Spooner, then on recruiting service in the vicinity, He saw—admired —danced as often with her as propriety would permit laud they don’t think much of propriety beyond the Highland line, as long as a lady had a “lang pedigree,”) and was encouraged by her kind behavior to say non- than he had ever dared to utter before; for he was a timid youth and inexperienced in the ways of the world. Therefore, when he had replied to the question, ‘‘How do you like the North, Mr. Spooner ?” by answer ing, “I wish I could always remain where I am now”—she was lovingly squeezing him up in a corner of the sofa —he blushed violently, and almost repented his audacity. However, her glances and squeezes of the hand restored his courage, and before lie left the ball room he was desperately in love. He told his passion in confidence to a friend, who, of course, told his friends, and so the tale came, not uudiminished, to the ears of Miss Clementina. A year’s absence had a almost effaced her image from his mind, for he had been suddenly called on duty; but the lady Could not divine this, and therefore, when she 1. ard he was coming to pay The Mc- Dum a visit, she natuaailv concluded he was irresistibly drawn thither by her charms; of course, to came to seek her consent to make him the happiest man on earth. Full of this idea, ou the morning of his arrival she held a couucil of the ladies, and expounded to them the state of the case. “But, you know, he is so shy,” she said to her sympathizing friends. “Well, Clementina, we will do all we can for you—you are quite sure he wishes you to propose ?” “Oh, yes 11 know he only wants an op portunity. The dear creature —how jxile and interesting heis looking.’ “Listen, ladies all,” said Miss Mc- Dum. “This evening, after dinner, we will slip out of the room and leave them alone —then he is sure to speak.” So it was settled. The gentlemen en tered readily into the plan, each one de lighted to find the fair Clementina was not after him. Meanwhile the unconscious VOL. L j Spooner was deliberately kind intentions i preparing for dinner quite unaware of their kind intentions tow ard him Of course, he handed Clementina down from the drawing-room, and the tender ! speeches and affectionate glances she be stowed upon him during dinner-time re called many of his last year’s feelings to wards her. Indeed, he would have been : still more subdued lmd not his timidity | led him into a mistake, the confusion aris ing from which banished all thoughts of | love from his breast. Not thinking him self sufficiently intimate with the chief to call him simply “McDum,” he actually addressed him ns Mr. McDum ! The head !of the olau looked like an insulted lion, an embarrassing silence rebuked the trem bling offender. He had scarcely recovered j by the time when the gentlemen resought the drawing-room, and he was glad enough to seek for consolation from the charming ! Clementina, from when allowed him to nestle close by her in a curtain recess. Engrossed by hor conversation, he ! scarcely remarked the departure of most of the company from the room; hut, at last aroused by the silence, he looked lip just in time to catch a glimpse of the last couple as they disappeared through the doorway, and he and Clementina were the only oocupant.s of the room. He felt the awkwardness of the psoition and suggest e i tub :r that they should follow theotho s “Why should we, Mr Spooner ? Do you wish to go away ?” “Oh, dear, no I—only I thought—they are all gone somewhere," gasped Mr. Spooner. “Dear me ! so they are, but I dare say I they will soon be back; but pray go if you wish; don’t let me detain you.” What could Mr. Spooner do ?He bal anced himself on the right foot, then on the left, and then sat down again, but at the other end of the sofa. A pause en sued; he felt very much like a schoolboy ; for whom the schoolmaster has sent something was evidently corning. There was music on the chair close bv. Clemen tina took up a song, “Oh had I but one loving friend I" “Can you love me ns a friend, Mr. Spooner ?” she said, with a sweet glance. “Oh yes, l dare say I can, if you wish it, Miss Kill-Loon, replied the unhappy man, clasping his moist hands together, and feeling as if he would have given the world for a thunderbolt to fall in the room. | “What is she going to say next?” he thought. He looked at the door; if it had been open, ho would have fled. It was shut —she would catch him before he could | get it open. An involuntary sigh escaped j from his lips, “Why that sigh ?" she whispered. “Is there any grief upon your mind ?” He determind to make an effort. “Really, my dea Miss K 1 -Loon, if ;ou w ill excuse me—" “Oh, Mr. Hpooner I” Sin- blushed and turn and her head. , ‘Now is t -e time to bolt,” he thought, rising from the sofa. “He is going to fall on his knees,” she thought, “If you wfill excuse me for a few ruiu i utefi,” he began. She turned her head back again. She ; seized his hand. “1 know it all,” she said. “You have ! come hereon purpose to see me “ Hear mo one moment, Miss Kili- Loon !” He would have given the world to cry for help. “On purpose to see me—to tell me all; hut papa will never hear of it—but, oh ! my heart,” sobbing, “my heart has long been yours.” “What will become of me ?” thought the unfortunate Spooner. It must, be a dream. It was too horrible to be true. No—she held him firmly by the hand there wan no mistake about it. “Take this,” at last she said, placing a ring ou his limp, passive finger, and ab stracting his, the most valuable of his gems, in exchange, “these shad bo the tokens of our mutual affection.” She paused awhil ", and then, as lie seemed incapable of doing or saying any thing, she left him standing alone, and disappeared. The company returned, Mr. Spooner : pleaded indisposition, and retired to his bedroom. In that night his whiskers be came prematurely grey. Before breakfast ; time he was on the mail with his face to wards the South. At Carlisle he was laid i up with a nervous attack, arising, as the doctor said, from some excessive mental i agitation. On his recovery, he turned tie ring in a letter, the concocting of which j cost him four days' incessant labor and a j quarter's pry expended in stationery. Even then hedid not think himself, safe and i he seriously entertained a project of emi grating to some very distant settlement, when one morning, on looking over the 7Vines for vessels bound for California di- j rect, his eye was caught by a paragraph- j “On December 3, at Loonty, Augustus i Reginald Fitz Stephen, only son of Time- j thy Stephen, Esq., of Camberwell, to j Clementina Alexandrina, eldest daughter! of Hector Kill-Loon, Esq., of Htrathbogk), | and neice of The McDum.” Mr. Spooner immediately gave up all intention of emigrating, and became calm: but always to this day, shudders at the j very name of Grouseshire. A Des Moines druggist sent his clerk out ! to drum for sales of oil. He called upon a ; tradesman, and tossed a card upon the counter saying that he represented that es tablishment, The tradesman picked it up, ! gave it a steady look, and said it was a fine establishment, and was informed by the' clerk that he had represented it about three years, whereupon he remarked to the. youth that he supposed he would soon be j a partner. The youth said he would he pleased to Sell him some coal oil, and that liis establisment handled more oil than i any other in Des Mi inns. The (tales man took another look at the card, and asked the boy if lie wasn’t mistaken. He ; blnshingly guessed he was, as he returned the girl’s picture to his pocket. The Baltimore <SWs Washington- cor respondent says some slight objection was t made in the Senate when the question of the confirmation of Gen. McLaws came , up, “but the personal influence ol the President, and the effort of Gen. OW-don carried him through with very little delay. ” The correspondent adds that “Gen. Mc- Laws is not the first Confederate general j whose appointment to office lias been con firait and by the Senate, but he is the first one who has been so fortunate without j having previously sealed his allegiance to tie dominant party. The world moves.” An “Instant Dress Elevator” is the latest thiug nufifor horrid streets. QUITMAN. GA., SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1874. WRONGFULLY ACCUSED. It lias been many long days since then yet 1 remember it all, just as though it lmd occurred but yesterday. 1 was a carpenter, the foreman of a large establishment, and as such possessed the entire confidence of my employer, who by the way, had been a shool mate of mine. One day he called me into his office to look at some coins he had just purchased. “Here," said he placing ill my hand a heavy gold piece, "is one worth more than all the rest put together. It is a great i curiosity. I paid two hundred dollars for it. and considered it cheap at that. I i could easily double my money in selling it and so you see, Harvey, it is really a good investment.” “No doubt it is,” said I. “thought it seems a large sum to have lie idle.” 1 breathed an involuntary sigh as I laid the coin down on the desk, for two linn i dred dollars would have seemed a fortune i to me just then. The severe illness of my wife and one of my children, and the death of an other, made serious inroads on my purse, and it had required the exercise of the utmost economy to keep myself free from debt; nay, I had been obliged to withdraw from I the hank the small sum which besides my salary, was all I possessed of worldly treasures. Thinking of this, 1 laid the : coin down with a sigh, and turned away to attend to my duties. The next morning I was again sum : inoned into the office, but this time 1 met with no such friendly greeting ns usual. “Harvey,” said my employer, abruptly, “that coin we were looking at has disnp ; peered. I have made a thorough search, j but it can not be found. It has been car ried away by someone. You alone saw or - knew of it, and—” He paused and looked significantly into my face. I finished the sentence for him, j the hot blood dying my cheeks and brow as 1 spoke. “You mean, that I took it— I!" “W’lmt else can I think? The coin was ! here, you alone saw it. I can not recall having seen it since it was in your hands. You are in need of money; you have told 'me that yourself. It was ft great tempta tion, and I forgive yon because of our old friendship, but 1 can not retain you in my ! employ. Here is the salary due you.” “Very well," said I, with forced calm ness. “bo be it. Since you have so poor an opinion of me after years of faithful service, ! shall not stop to defend myself.” Then 1 took the money he lmd laid upon the desk, and went from his presence a ! well-nigh broken-hearted man. But for the tender love for my wife, I doubt not but that 1 would have hurried my sorrows in the grave of a suicide. Supported by that love, however, and the consciousness of my own innocence, I j took fresh courage, and set resolutely to : work to find anew employer. | Powerful is the breath of slander; turn which wav 1 might, 1 ever found that the story of my dismissal for theft had pre ! ceded me, and application for employment uniformly met with refusal. Time went on; piece by piece of furni ture, and every spare article of clothing, found its way to the pawnbroker’s, until at | length even this poor resource failed us, -and my children cried in vain for food. Yet 1 did not sit down in idle despair; 1 could not afford to do so; the. life or death of all I loved on earth depended on my -exertion, and so, turning away with a heavy heart, J once more set out on the weary search for work. All in vain ! refusal after refusal met my ; entreaties for employment, and I was turning homeward with a listless step, when, passing an immense church, I was , attracted by a group of men at its base. Impelled by some strange impulse, I ap -1 proiiehod and mingled with them. A workman was standing near by, look ■ ing up at the great steeple, which towered aloft some two hundred and fifty feet above them, while a gentleman evidently an architect, was aderessing him in earn est language, and at the same time point ing toward the golden cross at the summit of the scire. “I tell you,” he exclaimed, as I drew near, “It must and can be, done. The cross must be taken down, or the first heavy gale will send it down into the street, and lives will be lost. Coward ! is this the way you back out of a job after engag ing to do it ?” "I didn’t know the spire was so high up there. Do it yourself, if you want it done.” “I would if I were able,” said the archi tect. “But go if yon will; let it be. My honor iB pledged to have it done at any price, and I can find a braver man than yon to do it.” The carpenter walked off with a dogged, slouching step, and the gentleman was about; to move away also when . I stepped forward. “What is it yon want done?” I asked “I am a carpenter; perhaps lean do it.” He turned eagerly toward me. “I will make it worth your while. Take down that cross, and I will pay you a hun dred dollars. You will have to ascend those ornamental blocks, and I tell you candidly they are not to be depended on. They must be weak and rotten, for they have been up there for years.” I looked up at the spire; it was square at the base ami tapered to a sharp point, while along each angle were nailed small gilded blocks of wood. “It’s a dangerous place to work,” I said, “and there will be oven more peril in de scending. Suppose I succeed in moving the cross, and then—” “If any accident happens to yon, my’ brave fellow, the money shall be paid to your family. I promise you that. Give me your address.” “Here it is,” I said, “and as yon value your soul keep your word with mo. My wife and children are starving, or I would riot-attempt this work. If 1 die, they can live on the hundred dollars for a while, until my sick wife recovers her strength.” “I’ll make it a hundred and fifty,” ex claimed the architect, “and may God pro tect you. If I had the skill necessary to ascend that steeple, I would ask no man to risk his life there. But come, and keep asteady hand and eye.” I followed him into the church, then up into the spire, until we paused before a narrow window. This was the point from which I must start on the perilous feat which I had undertaken. Easting a single glance at the people in the street below—more specks in the dis tance—l reached out from the window# and grasping one of the ornamental blocks, swung myself out from the spire. For an instant my courage faltered, b it (lie te-nembrance of rnv starving fain- ilv came to my aid, and, with n silent j prayer for protection and success, 1 placed my hand on the next block above my head, and clambered up. From block to block I went, steadily and cautiously, trying each one ere 1 trusted my weight upon it. Two-thirds of the space had been passed, When suddenly the block that sup ported mo moved--gave way. O, lieav -1 etts 1 never, though 1 should live to see a hundred years, shall 1 cease to shudder at the recollection of that terrible moment. Yet even iti the midst of my agony, as 1 felt myself slipping backward, I did not for one second lose my presence of mind. It, seemed to me that never before had my senses boon so naturally acute ns then, when a horrible death seemed inevitable. Down, down l slipped, grasping at each block as I passed it by, until at length my fearful course was arrested; and then, while my head reeled with the sudden re action, a great shout came front the peo ple below. “Come down ! of me down I” called the architect from the window; “half the sum shall he yours for the risk you havu run. Don’t try it again. Como down 1” But no; more than ever now 1 was deter mined to succeed. I was not one to give it)i after having undertaken a difficult task. Coolly but cautiously I commenced the ascent once more, first seeking in vain to reach uctoss to the next row of blocks, for 1 did not dare to trust myself againou that which had proved so treacherous. This .1 was compelled to do, however, until the space between the angles became suffi ciently small to allow me to swing across. Accomplishing my purpose at length, 1 went up more rapidly, carefully testing e ioh block as I proceeded. Ere long 1 reached the cross, and there J l paused to rest, looking down from the dizzy height with a coolness that even ; then astonished me. A few strokes with a light hatchet that the architect had hung at my back, and piece by piece the rotten cross fell to the ground. My work was done, and, as the last frag ! incut disappeared, I found a sad pleasure in the thought that, should 1 never reach I the ground alive, my dear ones would have ! amply means to supply their wants until ! my wife could find employment. Steadily and cautiously 1 lowered my ! self from block to block, and at length reached the spire window amidst the cheers of those assembled in the street. Inside the steeple the architect- placed a ; roll of bank notes in my hand. “You have well earned the money,” ho i said. “It, does me good to see a man with Iso much nerve -but -bless me! what is j the matter with your hair ? It was black ! before you made the ascent, now it is | gutty.” And so it was ! That moment of in tense agony, while slipping downward, i had blanched my hair, until it appeared I like that of an old man. The work of | years had been done in an instaut. Entering the Imre, cheerless room which was now all 1 called my home, I found a visitornwaitiug me—usy laic employer. “Harvey,” said ho, extending his hand, i“1 have done a great wrong. It cost me a i terrible pang to believe in your guilt, hut ! circumstances were so strongly against yon I that-1 was forced to believe it. I have found the coin, Harvey; It. slipped under ; tin-secret drawer in my desk. Can you I forgive me dear old friend V” My heart was too full to speak. I si lently pressed Lis hand. “I will undo the wrong I have done. All the world shall know how I accused you unjustly, not through my words only, but through my actions too. You must be my partner, Harvey. If you refuse, 1 shall feel that you have not forgiven me.” I did not refuse. Instead, I thankfully accepted the offer which my friend so gen ! erously made, knowing that no surer i method could he devised to silence ! forever the tongue of slander and free my name from the unmerited reproach which of late had rested upon it-. Prosperity has attended my steps ever since that eventful day. but neither pros perity nor wealth can efface memory from my heart, nor restore my withered locks to their own raven hue. - - - The Prosecution of the Bishop of Olinda. The trial, conviction' and sentence to four years’ imprisonment, with labor, of the Catholic Bishop of Olinda, at Pernam buco, Brazil, on the 21st of February last, is a matter of no little interest to the Cath olic world. The causes that led to the re sults above are succinctly set. forth as fol-j lows: The issue arose out of the interdicting by the Bishop of Olinda, of various semi religious brotherhoods, secular societies, j which were formed to promote the splen- : dor of religious worship and to perform : acts of charity and mutual aid. The bishop gave as a reason for the iudcrdicts that they had not expelled all the Freemasons ; among them. Legally the brotherhood were utterly without power to expel Free-; masons, and, on appeal to the crown, the Emperor, by advice of the whole council | ol ,State, held that the brotherhoods were without power to obey the bishop’s com mand; that this was therefore exorbitant and the interdicts unjust, and that the ; bishop be required to undo his work and remove the interdicts. The bishop perempt'rilyrefused to obey the Emperor’s order, though made in proper legal form after consultation of the Council of State and denied the jurisdie tion of the- temporal power and the right \ of the brotherhood to appeal to it, alleging that appeal lay solely to the Pope; and to emphasize his position proceeded to inter dict some twelve more brotherhoods for i the same motive. He also published, con- i trary to law, a brief from the I’ope without first obtaining the government permission to do so. 'The legislative chambers were in session at the time, and offered to give j the ministry any special powers required by it to deal with the issues raised by the j Bishop of Olinda, and supported actively i or verbally by the other bishops. The j government, however, held that the new j powers were not necessary, and determined ; to promote a prosecution before the Hu- j preme Tribunal of Justice. On the second day of the trial the ! Bishop of Rio Janeiro published a long . representation to the Emperor, appealing to him to stop the prosecution of the mar tyr, and hinting that, otherwise the Brazil ian clergy would withdraw their support from the dynasty. The trial however, was continued with the result stated. Tnc world uses 250,000,000 pounds of tea and 718,000,000 pounds of coffee every year. China furnishes nearly all the tea, and Brazil more than half the coffee.- [Correspondence of tint New York Hun.] GOVERNMENT BLACKMAILERS AND ROBBERS IN GEORGIA. Nhot'klng RrvrlntioikH of Olllrlul Crime. Washington, April 0. —On last Friday morning Sir. J. 0. Norris, of Georgia, ap peared at the instance of the lion. Alexan der H. Stephens before the House Com mittee on Expenditures of the Department of Jnstice, tor the purpose of giving in formation concerning extravagance and fraud in the United States Marshal's office of the Northern Judicial District of his State. Ho stated to the committee that he had filed in the Attorney General’s office charges against the Marshal and his depu ties, and that the Marshal had made an swer in writing. The committee then postponed further hearing of the case, deeming it- expedient; to first obtain from the depart ment the charges and answer re ferred to, and tiny information the Attor ney General might ho disposed to give ou the subject. Your correspondent- sought Mr. Norris and heard from him the following state ment: STATEMENT BY MB. NORMS. There is in the Northern Judicial Dis trict of Georgia a conspiracy between in ternal revenue officers, the United States Marshal and his deputies, and array offi cers, who, under the pretence of enforcing the revenue laws, rob the citizens and the government out of many thousands of dol lars and commit deeds of violence that have made them a terror to the people. Fertile purpose of more successfully pros ecuting theiroutrages they are in collusion with some of the illicit distillers, who number in all about two thousand within the district. The Judge of the District Court is John Erskiuo, a resident of Geor gia for many years, and his court is located at Atlanta. The District Attorney is Henry I*. Far row, originally from South Carolina. The Assistant District Attorney is George 8. Thomas, and the Marshal is \Y. H. Smyth. Smyth is a carpet-bagger, who was a major in the Federal Army and stationed at At lanta. He was appointed to his present ulfice shortly after he was mustered out at the close of the war. YV. B. Smith, an old resident, of Georgia, was clerk of the court from the close of the war until within the last, six mouths. He was also United States Commissioner, and as such respon sible for the numerous blank warrants is sued to deputy marshals, under which so many outrages were committed. The present clerk is Albert- Buck, also n carpet bagger. A man by the name of George B. Chamberlain, from Boston, is designa ted as the chief deputy marshal. A. Spen cer, of New Y ork, is.the deputy in charge of the books of the office, and lie disburses the money. In addition to these there are about a dozen deputy marshals employed, in o g whom are the following: Henry Martin, W. B. Whitmore, Aaron Collins, J. Jefferson Findley, -fames Findley, J. E. ; Carter, - - Huffman, Manchester and Alike YVhoclin. “GOING FOB THEM.” Under tho direction of Chief Deputy Chamberlain who pockets the principal part of the swag, these men raid over the country with blank warrants issued by a United States Commissioner in search of ; illicit distillers and others charged with violation of the revenue laws, They are all Special Deputy Collectors. They never fail to make a trip profitable, the orders given by Chamberlain being to “go for them.” Sometimes one deputy will have a hundred warrants sworn out for the ar rest of people he never saw or knew any thing of in his life, many of these persons being innocent, and known to be so. They have spies all over the country, who send in the names of persons both guilty and innocent, and upon such information ns this the warrants are sworn out. Blank warrants are issued by the Commissioner in large numbers to meet cases of emer gency. The way in which I got into the fight was this. I had served as County Sheriff, and afterwards as military Sheriff, and knew something of the business. About two years ago this month I procured the appointment of Deputy Marshal under Smyth, and went to work. Nunjero 1 s complaints soon begun to pour in against tiro deputy marshals, and it was not long before 1 discovered tho conspiracy. Find ing that the District Attorney would not prosecute these officers, I determined to go to Washington and lay the whole matter before the Attorney General. Upon reach ing Washington I found that the Attor ney General was absent-, but I hud an in terview' with his chief clerk, Mr. Falls, to whom I stated the case. He advised me to return to Atlanta, und say to District Attor ney Farrow that it was the wish of the de partment that he immediately cuter upon the prosecution. I delivered the message, and Farrow obeyed tue order in form merely, allowing the case to be defeated. While in Washington I called upon Commissioner Douglass, who, after hear ing my account of affairs in Georgia, re ferred me to Mr. Cushing of his office. It happened that the Supervisor of Internal Revenue for tho district including Geor gia, Mr. P, W. Perry, was here at the time, and ho was called into consultation with us. After learning the facts he said I was the very man ho wanted to see, and that in order to enable me to break up tiie combination he would instruct J. A. Holtz claw, Collector for the Fourth District of Georgia, to appoint me a Special Deputy Collector, and that he would arrange with the commissioner to have me compensated out of the SIOO,OOO appropriated for spe-, cial service and information. I received the appointment of special Deputy Collec tor, retaining the office of Deputy Mar shal, and proceeded to investigate the frauds and outrages of the Marshal's office with the view of making a general raid on the distillers, deputy marshals, and all others concerned. This investigation was made under instructions trim Commis sioner Douglass. WHOLESALE ARRESTS. I will now tell you some of the results of my work, which will give you a tolera bly clear conception of affairs down there I will commence with the case of Deputy Marshal Henry Martin. Martin went into Union county with numerous warrants issued by the United States Commission er, some of them blank and some s worn out ou hearsay, also a few bench war rants, and he was attended by a squad of twenty-five soldiers. He arrested a great many persons charged with violation of the revenue laws. In one night he afres ted seventeen citizens and locked them up in a stable. They demanded to see the i warrants for their arrest, but this was 1 NO, 50. refused them, and they were not even informed ns to the nature of the offence Charged agniuiA them. One Green B. Holeofnb, who claimed to lie a revenue officer, was the only man allowed to visit them while in the stable. He told them if they would pay him $250 each ho would get the officer to release them. They were poor and not able to pay that amount of money, and Holcomb compromised upon their agreement to pay SB2 50 each and costs for taking bonds, $7 50 each, Martin hud come prepare and with blank bonds, but of course he had no authority Jto accept bonds. These bonds were never I returned to the United States Commis j sinner by Martin. There was no record at Atlanta of any Warrants issued against the parties arrested, which shows that I blank warrants had been used. After they had paid the money demanded of j them they were released, and went to Atlanta to inquire whether warrants hud | been issued for them, but none were found. One of them was an old man I about seventy-five years of age, named | John Souther, a good citizen and a plan ter of Union county. Another was named Josiali Daniel, about the same age, and a tnan of means and good standing. Nei ther of them hud ever made a drop of whisky, or in anywise violated the reve nue law. Martin and Holcomb we.ro indicated in Union county, but their cases were trans ferred to United States Court at Atlanta under a provision of the revenue law, and were there nolle pmeequied hv District Attorney Farrow. In tho investigation at Atlanta the parties who had suffered the outrage were all summoned as witnesses before the grand jury, and swore to the facts in the case of Deputy Marshal Mar tin. But Farrow advised the grand jury not to find any bills against Martin, as he knew of no law by which he could sustain tho charge. TURNING ST ATI;' S EVIDENCE. Several true bills were however, found agaiust Holcomb. Holcomb proposed, through me to the District Attorney, that to save himself he would turn State’s ovi donee against the whole Ring, give the names of all the parties between whom the money was divided, saying that he would give the name of witnesses to prove it, whoso oaths could not he successfully im peached. Tho money received by Hol comb was paid to Martin and Chief Dep | uty Chamberlain. The District Attorney j consulted with Martin and Holcomb, und I then refused to accept the proposal of tie I Litter to turn State’s evidence. Holcomb I lins in his possession some of these blank warrants and blank bonds, and one bond j given him by Henry Martin to have filled j out for himself. The surety on a bond is j required to swear that he is worth a given I amount over and above his homestead | ($3,000) and liabilities, and a clause to ! this effect is printed in the forms used. Bondsmen would be very scarce iu that | county if this requirement were faithfully | observed, but it- is not. The form is pre j seated to the surety, and iu hundreds of ' cases he sayH he cannot swear to it. The deputy then says, “No matter,” and j runs his pencil through the homesterd el m e upon which the surety is wilkrg jto execute the bond. After he bus I sworn to it and signed liis name, the ; pencil marks are erased, leaving the surety swearing to a lie. When Holcomb was ar j rested and needed hail, he was instructed I by Martin to procure it- in this way. Hol comb is now in attendance on the United States Court awaiting his trial, and ready to turn State’s evidence and reveal ail the secrets of the Ring. But there is no prob ability Unit lie will lie permitted to do so without an order from the Attorney Gen eral, who is thoroughly - informed in the case, and who has been applied to for the order. Holcomb says that if he fails to furnish the witnesses to prove a ease of conspiracy such as he has charged, he will ask no clemency of the court. The next case I think of wits that of Manchester. He was a Deputy Marshal in South Carolina, a Deputy Marshal iu the Northern District of Georgia, and a Special Deputy Collector of Internal Rev enue. He went into Union county, Ga., with his pockets full of warrants of all sorts from the Marshal’s office at Atlanta, for the purpose of arresting numerous persons on the usual charge of violating the revenue laws. He arrested several ! citizen : seized a great deal of illicit whisky; !as a revenue officer, seized horses; shot two men to death and wounded a third. ; He sold the whisky and never accounted to ; the government for a dollar. In addition ; to this, he received $1,600 in gold to re i lease fifteen men he had arrested. These | parties were summoned as witnesses be. [ fore the grand jury at Atlanta to indict ; him. He, learning the fact, intercepted them to Gainesville on their way to Athui- I ta, told them that the grand jury had ad joined, and that they need not go there. They accordingly returned home. This was found out, and tbe witnesses were again .summoned, and they appeared. Several true bills were found, and he run away. ROBBING AN OLD MAN. The next case I give you is ono in which Deputy Marshal and Special Deputy Col lector J. Jefferson Findley was a princi pal actor. He arrested Durkin Bagwell, of Gwinnett county, on a charge of illicit distilling took him to Atlanta, and then offered for a consideration of SSOO to get him out of tho difficulty. Bagwell bor rowed $250 of a friend, and gave this sum, together with his due bill, to Findley, who then allowed him to go home. Soon af terward Findley called on Bagwell for payment of the due bill, and got $l4O on j uecoiiut. Bagwell sent for me to come to j his pbice, which I did, I found him to be -very gild and feeble man, Owning a plantation of two thousand acres, and en- i joying a high reputation in liis neighbor hood. He told mo that Findley had come there and charged him with having an ; illicit distillery on his place, and that after | he was arrested and taken to Atlanta, Findley told him that unless he got out of the difficulty the government would confiscate all liis land and offered to release him for SSOO. He futher said that unless tbe i money was paid Bagwell wouldtbe certain- ; ly convicted, for he (Findley) could prove ' anything, 1 investigated the case; went over his plantation, but saw no traces or evidence ofa still. The neighbors were unanimous in testifying to the integrity and general good character of Mr. Bagwell. Ho was an old man, hardly able to get about, and almost demented. I returned to Atlanta, laid the ease before District Attor ney Farrow, furnishing him with a copy in writing of the statements I had taken from Bagw ell mid his neighbors, and demanded ; that the outrage be inquired into and that, Findley he indicted. Furrow flatly refund to do so, l then wrote to Findley, stating that 1 had lttamcd of liis operation wih Bug wcl!, and advising Mfn to come to Atlanta at once and bring the money and note ho had received, so that it con ill be restored to its owner through u person then in At lanta autliffrir.Od to receive th*. He all swered that I should see Chief Deputy Chamberlain, and that whatever (he latter should advise iti the premises he would do. Findley supposed 1 Was in the F.tfig or ho never would have referred me to Chamber lain. But f did not see Chtgntierlain. 1 called on tho Marshal and told him tho facts. The only response I got from him was the question why I had not told him I before. 1 answered that it wit. sc it - enough if ho was disposed to act. j The Marshal dismissed mo as deputy, ! hut I continued the investigation lit my own expense. 1 will add that all the offi cers of the court down there live iu fine style, sporting carriages and horses, but the District Attorney eclipses theta all. He lives in a splendid house, and has built up his fortune within fliefe years. But-the Judge is not backward in good living, although his salary is small. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMf. An elderly journeyman bnkor is lik- I ened unto Virginia, because he is on old l dough-minion. Don’t take off your flannel yet. The ! rheumatism goetli about seeking whom it i may find with his flannel off. An lowa clergyman who had a donation ; party lately, has beahs enough to lost him thirty-Aeven years. The mothers of some young Indies wanf : everything on the square and therefore ! oppugmite round dnntes, A lraly fainting at tho Opera House j Thursday evening, begged her husband ' with her falling breath not to forget to put j tho mackerel to soak. “And did you hear him call benny deaf | or anything jike that 7” asked the iaivver. ; “No, sir! of course not; why, she was his ; wife,” answered the lady witness. It is a rule of etiquette in Arksnass that no true gentleman will eat with his leg thrown over tho back of his neighbors i Lair, if he can help it. A North Carolina landlord posts a notice in his dining-room that the Legislature | would bo first seated, afterwards the gen | tinmen. The Washington Slur says that oh act count of want of practice it takes a veteran Congressman very long to apply a postage j stam]). If there is one time more than another when a woman should ho entirely alone it is when a line full of clothes comes down in the mud. Fires in Jersv City, Norwalk, E’mirrt/ Philadelphia, Orange, East, Newark und iii I Canada. All On the 24th inat. Total loss . nearly $600,000. It is frequently a source ai Wtin'iler to us | why hi) oUe lifts thought of writing the word “weekly,” when qualifying a literary | production, as weakly. Hereafter no portrait is to fed placed up on any of the bonds, securities, notes, frac tional or postal enffency of the United j States while the original of such portrait ; is living. “If a man bequeathed you a hundred I pounds, would you pray for him ?’’ Naid ri Sunday school teacher to a pupil. “No,” said he; “I would pray for another like him.” A policeman, in making out a eharpa against a pfisofief, wrote: —The prisoner J set upon me disorderly, and called me an i ass, and a precious ruffian, and an idiot — all of which I certify to be true.” A gentleman having a deaf servant wns I advised by a friend to discharge lu r. ! “No,” replied that gentleman, with much ; good feeling, “the poor creature would never hear of another situation.” A dear, good old lady ou t West lost hofi muff and jumped from the ears after its But when they hacked up after her the lo cal reporter pathetically remarks, “death’s clammy fingers has clutched her throat.” A colored hov twelve years old was ar rested iu New Haven for stealing dia monds. “1 won’t talk aforo I see a law yer,” lie said to the police captain; “but I’m willin’ to gib five dollars to square do job wid you.” “Professor,” Haul a student in pursuit of knowledge concerning animals, “why does j a cat, while eating, turn her head first ono I way and theu another V" “For the reason, replied the professor, “that she cannot turn it both wayß at once.” A cowardly fellow having kicked a news boy for pestering him to buy an evening newspaper, the lad waited (ill another boy accosted the “gentleman,” and theu shouted in the hearing of all bystanders, It’s no use to try him, Jim, ho can’t read.” An ingenious mechanic in England has invented a drag by which a vehicle going ut full speed is quickly stopped, and the i impetus stored up to he used In aiding to start the vehicle again. The apparatus is especially adapted for use on stages. The proprietor of a young ladies’ acad emy in Illinois has utterly ruined liis busi ness by causing to be inserted in n large , number of papers a picture of the bidding ' with two girls standing on the balcony ; with lust year’s hats on their heads. “Unless you give mo aid,” said a beggai to a benevolent lady, “I mil afraid I shall have, to resort to something which I great ly dislike to do. ” The lady handed him a dollar, and compassionately asked, “What is it. poor man that I have saved you from?” “Work,” was the mournful answer. A pious but uneducated judge closed a sentence with the following touching re proach; “Prisoner at the bur, nature has endowed you with a good education and respectable family connections, instead of which you go round t'te county stealing ducks.” They have some very smart business men in New Jefsey. Last week a youug man Was struck by lightning in a field near Trenton, und when the people began to flock to tho spot to look at the victim, they found a man standing by the corpse trying to sell lightning rods to ths crowd. A Mistake happened some time ago at a funeral iu Mury-le-lionc. The Clergyman had gone ou with the sefTict', until be came to that part which says# “Our deceas ed brother or sister,” without knowing whether the deceased wns male or female. He turned to one of the mourners, und asked whether it was brother or sister. Tho man very innocently replied, “No relation at all sir, only an acquaintance. ” Chicago is a phenomenon. Her Clergy men invited Anna Dickinson to lecture on the Social Evil. All the good protested agaiust an unmarried woman doing such sri unheard of thing, and then wenttosee how she did it, and then went to set) bow she did it, und were sorely disappointed, if not vexed, that she did not say something vt rv naughty. There is no betting ou s me folks.