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Jf. C. GALLVfIER, F-diinr.
SATURDAY, MAY 2. 1874.
VLUL. " “
THE END
With tins issue ends the first volaui-’ of
the LiuIPP*JT. It is well kuowu to
onr rollers that we commenced the pub
lication of tLi pi>er under the most nn
favomhlo anspieea In the spring season
wl& the cotton hsd all linen sold, tin
prscwdi exhausted in payment of debts
contracted for fertilisers and provisions.
When, in fact, there was no money in the
country. A few of our subscribers I mid in
advauoe, all others assuring us they would
pay in tne fall. Many have acted honora
bly and paid; hot there is yet a large
number of suliscribers still in arrears, re
-fusing to respond to 1 our duuns through
the Jpnpnr r(*fun6 to miMWcr po*
lit* notes addressed to them on the sub
je< t. While it is unpleasant to us to say
so, it U nevertheless true, that we luivo on
our list a number that are too coutempta
ble to be recognized os gentlemen. Those
to whom we have written private letters
when they read this will know hi whom
we refer. After this issue their names will
Im taken from the list, and we will give
to our own temporaries their names and
Post Office, to l>e kept by them us a block
list that they may know them when they
prdpose to take their paper, and that oth-;
ers to whom they may apply for credit
may know of their unfaithfulness. To
all who have acted honestly with us, we
want to retain o.n our book and furnish
them the paper. We desire tlic patronage
of the people, without it wo would have
to atop.
We hope cmr next volume will l>e more
interesting than the first, there will be no
abatement of labor ou our part, and we
have no feitrs but that you will promptly
renew your subscription* and get the
beautiful present we offer you, and we
will be folly enabled to continue onr win
against Radicals, devils and all other ini
quitous men and things. You may judge
the future conduct of the Ispepenuknt by
its abort past career. You it
has never failed to expose official aejfc,thnt
were tainted with corruption, and we
promise you to perpetuate it on tlmt line,
and no love of friends or fear of enemies
will drive us from it. Remember this
year we have Congressmen to elect, and a
n Senator and Representative to elect lo
the Legislature, and you will want to
know whn your candidates arc, and the
I;viiKi’KNDEST promises to give you a true
history of the public acts of eaeli one. We !
are going to speak of men and things as I
they dese^Vo,
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A FATUTRE IN THE BLACK MAIL.
On Monday,, hist Col. James Young, n
prominent cititeii of our county and one
of our largest. planters, wan arrested under
i warrant Issued by E. O. Uivlo, Unit’d
States Commissioner, charged w ith a vio
lation of the revenue law and carried lio
l ire Commissioner Wayne, of Savannah,
for a preliminary trial. Thu Affidavit
upon which the warrant was issued wus
node l>y a negro, one o’ Mr: Young’s em
ployee*. Aud this is what the negro stn
t and: That he was unwell, that ha wanted
H-upo spirits for medicinal purposes, that
he had no money to buy it with and no
< .edit with merchants. Col. Young let
him hutti some that he had for medieiual
purposes at just what it cost him. In this
inure was no speculation, no prolit to him.
't hese facts were discovered by Wade’s
spies aud never voluntarily reported by
♦he black man who had received* 3E°l
- kindness.
And when these facts which ro readily
aroused the eager blaekmuil propensities
of our delectable Commissioner and He ve
nue Official, were made known to Com
missioner Wayne, he instantly discharged •
Oil Voting, slating that the facts were
wholly insufficient to predicate an indict
ment upon. Col. Young is a high toned,
honorable gentleman uud known by every
body in this community to boa law abid
ing man, wouldn't be blackmailed
worth a cent—hence the coutomptable
swindling opporater liere hue received from
Commissioner Wayne a merited rebuke
itch u was due him long eiuce, and such
1 o doubt as ho would long since have re
ceived if the, many frivilous cases originn
tori by himself and his still more contempt
i, ole conspirators by means of which he
baa swindled innocent parties out of their
• hard earned money tinder his pretended
judicial authority, had been curried bo
f ire Commissioner Wayne. Why nis
that this man will prostitute bis office ob
tained .by fraud .practiced upon the Radi
cal party by him and incur the dislileftsure
of all the good citizen* and render himself
infamous in the sight of God and man is
t>ne a mistery that we can not solve. We
will staW for the benefit of our readers:
that these revenue hawks w ill light upon
2ou if you dare to purchase for one of
your employees a pound of tobacco or a
pint of whisky for himself or his fam
ily. Why don’t you tell your black non
how these Radical villains are striving to
deprive them of your favors aud kindness ?
Since writing the above we are informed
that the warrant was issued at Savaunah
upon the affidavit of Mr, Wilson, who
obtained his information from Commis
sioner Wade.
Sants Anna, now “an old man broken
with the storms of state,’’ has returned to the
C’itv of Mexico, culled übon the President
of flic Republic, been cordially received,
nud Hunonnees his determination to spend
ihe remainder of lii days in peace among
his countrymen. What a romantic and
exciting life has this old soldier and states
man led. and what an interesting history
would his biography present!
-V* ♦
The new city council of Jacksonville,
>,a., are taking steps to reduce the expen
ses of the city. They have abolished the
offices of city attorney, detective, otfi.e
ls>y and market sweeper, and reduced the
salaries of ail the officers. The mayor is
to receive SI,OOO and no foes, marshal
ffrtnO. treastier tfilOO, assessor tf-’DO. h'ior
iiliua.
lODR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, D. C., April 24, 1874.
the cS-umian or rnr. senate txnatrmt
os EDUCATION AND IIA BOB — SEND
UIU A SCHOOLMASTER.
Some very funny things happen at the
| Capitol which never get into print. There
lis an indisposition on the part of the
[ Washington Press,* for obvious reasons, to
'print, originally, anything which reflects,
either directly or indirectly, on any uiein
ber of CongreiM or high Government offi
cial. I have a little story which I believe
has never been told in print. Jtut first it
may Is- necessary to explain that the Seu
atc Committee on Edueation and ladior
was formerly one of the most important
i nob-divisions of that body. During the
I last jrsgjon of Congress, it was presided
over bwtsenator Hawyer, of South ('arolina,
| now Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
! a man of fair educational acquirements,
and a college graduate. It was composed
of some of the best material in the. Senate;
held regular, weekly meetings; und trans
acted much business of importance. The
committee, as constituted at the present
session, consists of Messrs. Flanagan,
(chairman;) Patterson, Ingalls, 'Morton,
llpgy and Gordon. Mr. Sumner was also
a member of the oominittee, at the time of
■ his death The appointment of Flanagan
| to the chairmanship caused a great deal of
comment, since he is a man whose educa
ting has lieen sadlv neglected, and who is
conceded, on all sides, to be utterly unfit
for the position he holds. In consequence
of this, the Senate Committee on Educa
tion and Labor exists only in name, as no
! meeting bus been held during the present
I session—nor will any be held so long as
j Mr. Flanagan holds the chairmanship over
! such men as Morton, Ingalls, Bogy and
, Gordon.
TUB (TJBOt OF Tin: fir.SATE COMMITTEE O.N
EDUCATION VNIi labor- send him
A SI'EEUSO BOOK.
At the beginning of the present session,
Mr. Samuel Flanagan, sou of the Senator, j
and a beardless but pretentious youth of
übout twenty, wits appoints and by bis father 1
clerk of the committee. Feeling Ins in- 1
competency to perform the duties of the
position, young ''Sammy," as heisfamili
urly called, appealed to the former clerk!
of the committee to aid him, offering the.
clerk, for the reunited aid, half of his
salary, which is $7.20 per day, or $216 per
month. The former clerk, being out of
employment, agreed! Ao the proposition,
and things went on smoothly for a month
and a half, when young hum my thought
lie had been fully posted ou the manner
of keeping a recold of thte transactions ot
I he committed, in case it should ever meet.
At the end of this time, Sammy informed
his instructor that he thought re felt able
to'“run" the Committee alone, and there
fore could dispense with his services; in
other words, that henceforth he would
prefer not to divide lii.s nice little plum of
:?2lf> per month with him or any oue else.
In this connection, it should bo said tlmt
the original arrangement was made with
the full knowledge and approbation of the
Senatorial father. This much in cxplana
. tiyn of the incident that, follows. Fiml-
I iug that the committee never met, and that
| time huug rather heavily on las hands,
young Sammy, recently, in his leisure mo
ments, whittled out of a block of wood a
! stamp bearing, in rude litters, his name
uul official designation. Thus provided,
| he lias drawn from the Senate stationery
i room u largo number of blank cards upon
I which he impresses this stamp. The cards,
i duly stamped, arc then distributed to his
j friends and acquaintances. The stamp is
i also to lie brought into requisition if ever
| lie lias to issue an official call for the meet
j ing of the committee. The funny feature
:of this performance is that the curds und
! letters, after being stamped, read “Samuel
Flanagan t'ieark of the Committee on Ed
ucation and Labor." A large number of
these curds are in circulation and have
! created much amusement.
none or orn business.
It does seem stumge that, notwithstand
ing tlayljn ts that anarchy reigns in Arkan
sas; that Louisiana is in scarcely a better
condition; that the farmers are organizing
for defence against the railroad monopo
lies; that, from ono end of the Union to
the other, labor is organizing to resist the
euoroachiueuts of capital; that hundreds
of thousands of men and woitien, who can
only live when they ltd sir, me without
work; that even cases of death from star
vation are not unfrequent among our poor;
that in most of our large cities the “soup
house” has become a. recognized institu
tion; that differences of opinion on finance 1
and on transportation, the two great ques
tions of the day, have all lmt resolved po
litical parties into their original elements
-it does seem unaccountable, in view of
these*facta, that two sensible men, like
('arpenter of the .Senate and Poland of the
House, can endeavor to induce Congress’
to turn its back upon the sorely pressing
needs of the country, and go into the
Quixotic business of interfering w ith the i
purely domestic affairs of Spain. Luckily
for the people. Congress is in no mood; at
present , to tolerate spread-eagle resolutions I
aud speeches oil matters which do not
concern the American people, which they
do not understand, and over w hich the |
American Government has no jurisdiction.
Demagogues in Congress should not be j
permitted by their colleagues to pursue, <
for their ow n selfish purposes, a course
calculated to irritate against each other
the peoples of Spain and the United j
States, and to obstruct or hazard the set
tlement, by the peaceful arbitration inau
gurated by Secretary Fish and Admiral .
Polo, of the questions at issue between
the two nations.
EU I'KIIKINS AND DONS’ I'IATT.
■ A preliminary skirmish which may re
' suit in seme spicy disclosures is going on
between Eli Pci-kina, the so-called humor-
I ons writer, and l)oun Piatt, editor of the
Washington Capital. In the last issue of
I his paper, lfoiin calls Eli or “T’lie,” as he
' styles him, a literary thief, and intimates
that if he does not refrain from further
attacks on him, he, Dorm, may bring a
luierosc,,an'm bear and dissect Eli tor the
benefit science. The fact is that Eli
Imd a somewhat peculiar experience in
Washington some years ago. He was dis
missed from an SI,BOO clerkship in the
Treasury for iuetticieney, ami subsequently
produced an urgent request from Presi
dent Audrcw Johnson to Secretary Me- ’
t.'ulloch asking that he he reinstated. He
was re-iustated, and held his position for
eighteen months, when lie was again dis
charged. A few days later, he appeared
before the Secretary with a written de
mand from President Johnson that he be
at once restored to his former position.
Greatly annoyed at what he deerni and an
unwarrantable interference with the mini- i
ugement of this department, the Secretary ]
took the papers to the President, and
asked him why he persisted in forcing a
worthless clerk iqioii him. Andy read the
application, and on looking nt the indorse
ment, pronounced it, so fur as his name
was ooneenVd, u forgery. “But,” said
the Secretary, “did you -not, eighteen 1
months since, sign a request that t his per- 1
son be re-iust -ted in a position from which
lie had been di charged ?” “Never,' re
sponded the President; "you have been
imposed upon.” The doeuiueut referred*
to was sent for, and, on inspecting it, the
President at once pronounced the signa
ture of his name forgery of the most
glaring kind. This little episode was giv
en in the Washington papers at the time;
and, immediately thereafter, Eli was
missed from his accustomed haunts in
Washington. But this is among the least
thrilling of Eli's adventures in Washing
ton, ami it would therefore he well for him
to let Doun alone, or the public may have
an opportunity of looking into some per
sonal peculiarities of his career at ihe capi
tal which are fur from creditable to his fee
ble imitator of John Plucnix, Artemus
Ward und Mark Twain. A. F. B.
Damage to the Rice and Sngar Crop*.
The New York Bulletin, in its issue of
Saturday, says that the best rice lands in
Louisiana are in the flooded districts;
which fact, if the damage be as great ns
the Bulletin supposes, must have an im
portant influence npon the murket for Car
olina rice. Lust year Louisiana produced
80,000 tierces. The Jiu/tetin says: The
reports which come to us from Louisiana,
as to the disHsterons effects of the overflow
ing of the Mississippi, are distressing in the
extreme. Apart from the suffering inflic
ted upon the inhabitants personally, the
losses resulting from the distruclisn of
crops anil other material values cuunot be
well computed.
The whole rice and sugar region in the
Lafourche district is represnted to be un
der water; and what this means, commer
cially, will be understood when it is stated
that the bayou and coast land which is thus
laid waste produced before the war nearly
all the sugar tl at was eousnined in the
Unit and S ute-. All the best rice crop! were
also prod need there. Many of the finest
•-states, within eighteen miles of New Or
leans even, have been swept away, and the
city itself is threatened with inundation
from the rear levees. Since the destructive
crevasse of 1871 there hud been no overflow
of consequence, and the planters hence
seemed to huve been lulled into a false se-
curity.
The effect of all this on the markets for
Louisiana produced at this port is yet to
he seen. The estimate of the quantity of
rice to be taken for seed purposes, it is gen
erally understood, will havetol.ei icr. ased,
perhaps, tou large extent; but as yet all
is uncertainty ou tlmt score. A large por
tion of the nee section seems to have been
inundated, and this would necessarily com
pel the withdrawal from the stock of a suf
iicient quantity to make tip the deficiency.
Planting again can be del lyed until early
iu June, but this would put the season
more than a month behind. A considera
ble urea of country cultivating sugar has
been damaged to such an extent by the
freshets that the next crop is expected to
show a marked fulling off.
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Small Pox -Its Outbreak in Floyd and
Folk Conntie*.
We regret to learn that the small pox
has broken put in several- counties above
this, occasioning, in some instances, much
alarm among the inhabitants. Our in
formation is particularly from Floyd am)
Polk. In the former county it exists in
the neighborhood of Cave Spring, the cit
izens of which aro using every precaution
to prevent its entering the town. At
Itock mart, in Polk eonntv, there is much
excitement, and wo learn that the Gover
nor lias been written to, and asked to
' adopt legal measures in order to prevent
i its spreading. If the people generally will
j resort to vaccination, and avoid all com
j muuicution with the persons and localities
effected, there w ill be no cause for al-
Wo learn that some citizen of these
counties have written to the Governor,a-k
--mg lorn to take steps to prevent its spread
ing, by the issuing of orders aud the
adoption of precautions, avering that they
found the county officers would not take
hold of the matter boldly enough. The
Governor replied usking them to state in
what particular the officers showed a dis
position to be deriliet, Dr, Keen's little
child died on Sunday with the disease.
iu this connection, wo would state a fact
that is not generally known, and the
knowledge of which may save much time
aud trouble in procuring the necessary
material for vaeeinatiau. Dr, George D.
Civ-e, of Milledgeville, is the vseiue agent
of the State, and matter is distributed by
by him alone, through the ordinaries of
the various counties. Instead, therefore,
of writing to the Executive Department
at Atlanta, address as above through your
Ordinary, and the matter will be promptly
forwarded. Our State exchanges would
do well to make a note of this fact for the
public information. Atlanta Herald.
Origin of the Dollar Mark.
A w riter in the Atlantic Monthly has a
curious paper on the origin of the dollar
symbol ;$). 11l brief, his tlieoiv is, that
i the two pavrellel upright marks may be
: traced back to the pillars of Hercules, and
i the S-liko figure in the scroll entwined
around them. According to tradition,
when the Tyrian colony landed on the Af
] lautio coast of Spain, aud founded the an
| eient city of Chutes, now Cadiz, Melear
: thus, the leader of the expedition, set up
| two stone pillars ns memorials, over which
| was built a temple of Hercules. As the
i temple increased in wealth, the stone
’ pillars were replaced by others, made of
i an alloy of gold and silver, and these two
pillars became, in time, the, emblem of the
city, as a horse's head became that of Car
tilage. Centuries later, when Charles V.
jieaujv* Emperor of Germany, he adopted a
1 new coat of arms, in which the pillars of
Glides orUadiz, occupied a prominent po
sition in the device. Hence, when anew
coin, the colonnato, was struck at the Im
| jierial mint, it bore the new device—two
I pillars, with ft scroll entwined around them.
| This coin becan e a coin of value’iu the
i Mediterranean, and the pillars and scroll
i became its aeeepttiiisymbol in writing.
The two horizontal bars w hich cross the
symbol of the English pound sterling are
also thought to have a similar origin. In j
the same paper the symbolic origin of the
pillar of Htircules is traced far hack into
the remote era prior to the dispersion of:
the human race from its Asiatic birthplace, j
They are identified with the houshold pil- j
lars of the Scandinavians, and the idea ;
from which the concrete embodiments j
spring is to he found alike in the Sanskrit
Vedas and in the glowing imagery of (lie
Hebrew poets. They are the symbols of*
day and Anight, or light and darkness, *
which, to the dawning intelligence of the
Arian races, wore evidences of the Cm- j
liipotent, and, the Jewish patriarch, the j
work of a revealed t'reator.
*
There is a small community of English
men in Patagonia who are thriving most
prosperously. Not only is land offered I
free to the settlers w itUout capital, hut it
is said that South American capitalists
make all advances for twelve mouths of
provisions aud implements, the only draw
backs being a scarcity of hands and the i
occasional risk of locusts, and, it might be
added, the fact that it is Patagonia.
The dtp Commercial, a sprightly little ,
paper published at Bellaire, Ohio, by a|
sensible woman, Airs. Mary E. Hoover,
says: “Thanks to the powers that be for
the defeat of female suffrage in the Consti
tutional Convention. Most women have
more rights already than they take gut si
care of,’’
fttOM WASHING NOT.
Washinotok, April 28.—The President
has proclaimed the ratification of the ex
tradition treaty with Sun Sulvador.
Anew postal treaty lias la-en signed.
An unimportant cabinet meeting Was
held to-day. Nominations—James B,
Braugharn, surveyor of customs at Velasco,
Texas; John Debrick, postmaster ut Cul
vert, Texas.
To H. W. L. Lewis, Master of State
Granger of Louisiana: By order of the
Executive committee, I send you by ex
press to-night one thousand dollars for the
benefit of the suffering members of our or
der in Eouisiaua.
[Signed.] O. K. Ktt.i.y,
Hocretf.ry of the Nutiual Grange'
Thu House Judiciary Committee to-day
adopted the majority report of the sub
committee against the prayer of South
Carolina memorialists. This report will
be submitted to the House at the curliest
possible moment. Referred back and
printed for the purpose of giving Eldridgc
mi opportunity to make a minority report,
which will recommend acommission to in
vestigate the condition of South Carolina.
Fred Douglass, the President of the
Freedman's Savings Bunk, gives the fol
lowing assurance, and requests that it be
telegraphed:
“Depositors need give themselves no
uneasiness, and should notdia|>ose of their
interest at u seen floe. His officials assure
him tlmt if depositors will be patient for a
very short time the bank and brauces will
be able to pay dollar dollar."
Mr. Sloan Hppf-ared before the Commit
tee on River and Harbor Fortifications to
duy and succeeded ip getting additional
appropriations for the Savannah river ob
structions and for u survey of the Ituiford
water line.
The disabilities of General Henry H.
Siblt-y, of Sibley tent notoriety, were re
moved to-day
Colonel Frank Reynolds, of the armey
of the Khedive, is en route to the United
Stub's on a special mission.
The Senate Judiciary Committee repor
ted adversely to many disabilities bills on
the ground tlmt no petition accompanied
tlio n; als i favorubli oi a numbi r] ncludin.;
Fitzliiigu Lee uml Duliney H. Maury.
There was a long controversy over the
veto. The vote whether the bill should
pass notwithstanding the veto stood HO to
::4. not three-fourths, uml the bill was lost.
Adjourned.
Mr. Edmunds, of Vermont, from the Ju
diciary Committee, reported favorable on
the bill to remove!the political disabilities
of li. H. Sibh y, Thomas M. Jones, Dab
ney H. Maury, Van It. Morgan, Fitr.hugh
Lee, of Virginia; John Julius Gurthrie, of
Alabama; and ('. 1). Anderson, of Texas,
all of which were pined on the calendar.
He also reported unfavorable on lulls to
relieve the politicial disabilities of J. W.
Bennett, M. D.. ami John Forsyth, of Ala
bama; Geo. i’iukctt, of Virginia; Duvid A.
Telfair, of North Carolina; mid Raphael
Semmos, of Alabama. Most of these bills
did not have the necessary petitions from
the parties named, and the latter one the
committee were not disposed to consider
favorably anyhow. The committee was
discharged from thou futher considera
tion.
House. The Committee of Ways and
■Means was instructed to impure whether
an officer of the New York Custom House
visited Washington to secure corrupt legis
lation. The legislative appropriation bill
was passed. The amendment to it strik
ing out. the items for uu assay office at
Charlotte. N. C., was not agreed to iu the
House, so the items stand
A 3i* Kail.
In ISC® a daring and successful robbery
was commuted at I’etroleiim county, l’a.
Five men living ill Nawyerstuwn, near
Ml adville, entered the house of ft man
named Benuehoff, and at the muzzle of
the pistol compelled him to take from his
safe a half a million dollars aud deliver to
flu in. Two of the rob I .era were afterward
i arrested, convicted and sentenced to the
penitentiary. Two others have never been
heard lnmi, while the fifth, .las. S ieger,
has been a fugitive from justice for six
years. Meager stole the entire amount
from his comrades, leaving them with no
; money and the guilt of the crime, and
| jumped the eduutry. On last Sunday
evening Senger was arrested by deteetiv.
1). ,1. Cook, of Deliver. Ho came to tin
city a few days before, and w as recognized
by Mrs. Hotter, the wife of a restaurant
keeper. She had known him when she
was a child. He was somewhat overcome
when first accosted, lmt immediately con
j teased his identity, and engaged in conver
j .nation with Mrs, Hotter. Ho told Hotter
I tii.it he was in the Texas cattle trade, and
: had between thirty and forty thousand
' head in that State, and a number of herds
I mi their way to Colorado. Meager employ
ed Hotter as his attorney for the transfer
of some property. Hotter seems to have
had some grudge against Mueger on ac
count of some injustice which lie hud done
his uncle some years since, and concluded
to take this opportunity of repaying him.
lie informed D. J. Cook, the detective, of
Sanger's presence. Cook immediately set
to work to secure his capture. On Mon
day Hotter went to Saeger’s camp, found
him slightly intoxicated, induced him to
partake more freely, and then brought him
to Deliver, where Ira was handed over to
Cook, who arrested him and placed him iu
jail. After lie waft confined in jail he con
fessed that he waft tin* identical Bennehoff
robber, but averred that had he been
armed lie would - not have been taken.
Maid it was the first time he had ever been
taken unawares. ,K,e gave n brief aceonrfl
of his wanderings.siupo the robbery. He
first went to Pittsburgh, thence down the
river to New Orleans, aud thence to Cuba;
thence to Mexico,.-than which country he
went to Texas. He hnd been in the cat
tle business three,years. He intended to
wll his herd and return to Texas. He hud
been cornered before, lint had escaped
through the free uSt* of money. He said
he hud always intended to repay Beuue
hoff, but he had been unfortunate, and
bad not been able to do so. One hundred
thousand dollars was offered for his cap
ture, and it is supposed that Cook and his
assistant will get" the reward —llocky
Mountain JVers.
Memphis, April 29. —The river is sta
tionary. but forty miles wide. There is
no change in the condition of the railroads.
Former reports of the flood und suffering
are more than confirmed.
Bai.timobe, April 29. —The City coun
cil Ims appropriated $25,000 for the flood
suflereres. ~
Monroe, La.. April 29.— The river has
fallen an inch uud a half in the last twen
ty-four hours. The water above here is
higher thuu ever known by two feet.
New- Orleans, April 29. —Planters who
hope to make five thousand hogsheads of
sugar now only hope to save seed. Fami
lies from all quarters are coming to the
highlands. Most of the large plntations in
Teehe are abandoned. Three persons were
drowned nt the Mobile and Orleans Road
on Pearl river.
Washington, April 29.—The House is
considering the bill definniug the rights
and duties of Americans abroad.
The Senate passed a bill to relieve the
political disabilities ui Inoiu A. Telfair,
of North Carolhm-
The Arkansas Muddle.
LmxE Kook, April 28.—There have
been no material changes. The Baxterite*
have a sixty-four pounder siege-gnu plan
ted at the corner of Markham and Scott
streets. Both parties are expecting rein
forcements, ami both have telegraphed (be
President regarding the situation.
Fifteen citizens followed a party of horse
thieves. In the fight one citizen and three
thieves were killed.
WashisotoN, April 28. —The following
dispatch was received x here to day from
Little Rook, Ark.:
U. A'. Urant, Frenidmt;
On the 19th day of this month, as Gov
ernor of this State, I telegraphed you that
there was an armed insurrection against
the legal government of this State, and
mode requisition upon yon for aid to sup
iiress it and to prevent domestic violence.
have just now been advised that you
never received the requisition. I now
take occasion to say that an armed insur
rection exists in this State against the
law full v constituted authority thereof, and
as the Legislature can not meet until the
11th of May, I call upon you for aid to
protect the State against domestic vio
lence. E. Baxter,
Governor of Arkansas.
A similar cull bad previously been re
ceived from Brooks, churning to be the
Governor, and two attorneys in his behalf
reached here yesterday to urge a compli
ance with the call. Two attorneys dis
patched by Baxter will soon arrive on a
like errand in his interest. The question
as to who is the actual Goyeruor will be
presented to the Presid. ut for u decision,
unless some oilier mode of settlement shall
intervene before the matter is formally ta
ken up for Executive consideration.
Hereditary Drunkenness.
Not m re pitiful are the approaches of
madness than are the well understood
symptoms which signify to the b -roditarv
drunkard the hour of his inherited ] as
sions. I knew in Texas a young man who
was heir to such a woful heritage. He
was, physically, one of the handsomest of
men and possessed of great and varied
talents, which ho had carefully cultivated.
Moreover, he hud served his country with
distinguished bravery, and was the hold
ing h high position of trust and honor.
But wit 4 a regularity tlmt. was terrible,
there came to him—no matter where he
was, over his ledger iu the church, by the.
side of the victim ho loved -u craving for
brandy that possessed him like a demon,
and drove him forth among his fellows.
With set lips and despairing face lie
would deliver to a friend tin' keys of his
office and betake himself to bis room—not
os nn-n go to u carousal, but as they go to
a fearful reckoning- and for two or three
days drink in sullen silence till the craving
was appeased. Home onr- was oue day
praising in his presence, his vast stores of
acquired information and his delicate
fancy as an artist. “Yet I shall die like
a brute,” ho said sadly, und the despair
ing look of a hunted animal came into his
eyes as he added: “My father—died
drunk mv mother—God forgive her !
my gv.inti father shot himself in delirium
tremens -you know, boys, how poor Pat
rick died—it will bo the same with me.”
His prophecy was too soou fulfilled.—
Science of Health.
A PnoroSEi* New Office.—the House
Committee on Public Hands have discov
ered a chance to create anew office, and
have prepared a bill for the purpose. The
incumbent is to be styled the Commis
sioner of Forestry, and is to report meth
ods for preserving the forests of the conn
try. A portion of his duties will be, in*
! doubt, to make the tour of Europe at
United M tut IS expense, to see how the
thing is done abroad, and after he gets
back he will want a few deputies and a
force of clerks appointed to assist him iu
getting up tabular and comparative state
ments in bewildering rows ol figures; then
he will want a building put tip in Wash
ington for his accommodation, with com
fortable suites of rooms: and then he w ill
get out every year anew hook, with illus
trations, which will he printed at the Con
gressional printing office at u cost of a few
hundred thousand dollars, and furnished
free by Congressmen to their grateful con
stituents. We think, with the Baltimore
Sun, that the encouragement of tree plant
ing and the preservation of forests can la*
secured without all this paraphernalia.
Let the present Agricultural Department
find something to do by giving the requi
site attention to the subject. —Saroimah
.Yens.
The Confederate Monument at Atlanta,
The Atlanta Constitution describes the
Confederate monument at that place as
followe:
< )n January 31. 1371, this monument w as
finished. It is of the Roman style, consist
ing of a rustic base in six courses, twenty
feet square at the top of the foundation.
All the work above the bases is fine cut
ashler and laid iu courses. The first ped
estal is finished with a projecting tablet
containing the words, “Our Confederate
Dead, 1873. The cap projects beyond the
face of the pedestal stone six inches on
which the shire starts from a large convex
molding and runs up to a height of twelve
feet without any diminish, and is capped
with a plain projecting, the diminish com
mencing above the baud to the opex of the
spire. The w hole height of the uiouument
is sixty-four feet. It is made of granits
from Stone Mountain, sixteen miles from
Atlanta. The total cost is about four
thousand dollars.
The corner stone was laid iu IS7O with
Masonic ceremonies on the day Gen. Lee
were deposited in the vault beneath the
College Chaple, Lexington, Virginia.
The remains of six thousand Confederate
soldiers are gathered around the menu
incut. Many of these were slain in the
battles around Atlanta.
Disorderly Scenes in Congress. —ln
no department of the government is the
general demoralization, which lias been
the legitimate result of Redieal ascend
ancy, been more conspicuous than in the
House of Representatives. According to
a Washington letter, that body seems to
be growing more and more boisterous
and unruly every day. The writer says:
“Business is transacted amid the greatest
confusion and this was particularly the
case oil Saturday last. Toward the close
of the session several amendments were
offered to the pending bill by Air. Law
rence, of Ohio, hut a number of members
for some cause or other, seemed de
termined that he should not address the
House, and as soon as he opened his
mouth they drowned his voioe by such
culls as ‘vote, 1 -vote,’ ‘vote,’ ‘hear,’ ‘hear,’
‘hear.’ This seeue was kept up for over
half an hour, and Mr. Alavnard, who was
in the chair, was utterly powerless to stop
it. ’’
There is no denying the faot that under
the new regime the House has deterio
ated as well in the character as in the
color of a portion of its members. — Savan
nah Ifems.
Illness of Gen. Jno. C Breckin
ridge.— Lexington Ky. , April 25.—Hon.
Joh C. Breckinridge was taken seriously
ill last night with hemorrhage of the lungs
aud lay in a critical condition during the
uigkt and this morning. This afternoon,
however, he was reported 1 letter.
A Good Suggestion.
The New York Herald says: W e still
hear of Kn Kiux prisoners being brought
North. Would it not be better to pardon
these men and teach then! a code of love
by telling them to “go and sin no more ?'
Here is another chance for the President.
The suggestion of the Herald is a good
one, and us it claims much of the credit of
making grant veto the currency bill, per
haps it can make him adopt the just and
humane suggestion. But the better and
more efficient remedy would be to repeal
j all the Ku Klux and Enforcement laws,
, which were passed by a Radical majority,
!to worry anti persecute the Southern peo
' pie, and to lie used at elections for polit
i leal purposes.— Savannah Advertiser Re-
I publican.
The Great Bridge across the Mississippi
at St. Louis has been completed amid
j general rejoicing. This bridge connects
St. Louis with East St. Louis, in the
I State of Illinois. The river at that point
jis 1,500 feet wide. It is spanned by three
arches of 500 feet length inside the piers
on which they rest. In its construction
chrome steel has been used. It has a
i tensile strain double that of ordinary steel.
The bridge is arranged for railway and
carriage tracks. It enters St. Louis
near its business centre. There is no draw
in it for the passage of boats, and its it is
lint sixty feet above high water, only the
smaller class of steauierr can pass under it
| without loweringt their chimneys. Ibis an
enormous structurg. It is claimed to be
| the most important, or at least the most
notable railroad tiruig •in the world. Its
cost, including approaches and tunnel, will
not be less that $1,000,000. Asa feat of
; engineering skill it takes the very first
j i auk. But greet and reuu>.rknble os it is,
the cry is raised against it that it obstructs
; navigation. The largest steamers find
! trouble iu pnssiug under it, and plans
j have been suggested for a remedy. But
i so long ns the bridge stands—ami that is
[ likely to be many yean—there seemed no
other course than the steamers to be built
und fiftted with machinery for the easy
| lowering of tlieir smoke stacks. It is
evident they must acknowledge obeisance
by a graceful bow.
The Soctbrn Pacific R. It. is Congress.
—A congressional dispatch on the 23, says:
Scott’s bill supplementary to the act in
corporating the Texas and Pacific Railroad
Company, ratifies and confirms the con
selidution heretofore made of the South
ern Pacific Railroad Company and the
Southern Trans* Continental Railroad
Company, as authorized and required by
the laws of the State of Texas, and provides
also that these roidsso onsolidat. and and
east of Fort Worth,shall be deemed and
taken to be a part of the Texas and Pa
cific railroad, und shall hereafter be sub
ject to the limitations and provisions of
the act of Crngress approved Mar h3, 1871,
incorporating the Texas and Pacific Rail
road Company, and of the acts supple
mentary thereto.
Governor Ames, of Mississippi, has de
termined to prosecute a vigorous war
against the Louiauiaus who are making a
duelling ground of tile Mtate' There
luelwitwo terminated fatally) have been
fought at Bay Sr. Louis within the pust
twelvemonths, aud the fourth was rscently
interrupted by the arrest of nil parties—
principals, seconds, reporters and specta
tors—by the authorities of Mississippi,
fhe Governor intends having them all
indicted, tried and pnnishod, and will issue
requisitions for arrest of all the surviving
purtiepuuts in previous affairs.
—i. —.—*•*.
Great Exi ei t itions Disappointed.—
IjniisciUe April 24.—Some years since, a
number of persons styling themslves the
Cambell heirs, laid claim to a portion of
this city, about 3,000 acres in all and em
bracing all of Uortiund and the creator
portion of the land ill Louisville tft'luw 3d
street. A test suit was instituted in the
Louisville Chancery Court, and was to day
decided Viy Vice Chancellor Harlan aga: Best
the claimants. Hart of the laud claimed
was that i mb.Being t v canal, and ihG
claim has been used against the bill now
pending iu Congress for the disposition of
the canal.
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The Postmaster General has decided
that he has not the authority under any
United States law to deliver letters to par
ties and allow them to open them w here
the m'sdirection is a question in doubt.
For example, a let*. addressed to John
G. Smith should not be delivered to John
A. Smith. The Postmaster General has
just issued an order to that effect.
GEORGIA NEWS.
Air ,T R. Christian. late of the Thom
asville Times, has purchased the Sparta
Times and Planter.
The Tlioniasville Enterprise announces
i the death of Mr. Chas. U. Beall and Mrs.
J. L. Finn, of that city.
Gov. Smith lias commuted the sentence
of Thomas Ware, of Worth county, who
was to have been lmng on the Ist of May,
for iho murder of Air. Warmuth, to hard
labor iu the the Penitentiary for life.
Hon. A. H. Stephens is now at his
home iu Crawfordsville. Air. Stephens
informed his friends in Washington that
lie never expected to rcttiru to that city
unless his health was improved by liis
home trip.
The Darien Timber Gazette: A sailor
w hile intoxicated last Sunday night, fell
overboard at the lower bluff mill, and was
drowned. Every effort was made to save
him, but the current was so strong that
they could not reach him in time to save
him from a watery grave.
Savannah Adrertser-Republian: We hear
that Mr. John L. Hardee has collected
from the government the Hardee claim of
102,000, which has been in litigation since
the war Air. Hardee has returned to Sa
vannah, and is subject to congratulation
on the successful and just Settlement of
this debt which Uncle Sam has so long
been owing.
Here is a bit of conversation lately over
heard in the street in Providence between
a young lady and gentlemnu: “Charley,
did you ever hear it said that if a person
found a fonr-leaved clover and put it in
their shoe the first gentleman or lady the
person walked with would be their hus
band or wife ?” “No—never heard of it
befora” “Well, I found one and put it
in my shoe this morning, and you are the
first one I have walked with. I wonder if:
it is true ?”
Dried apple pies. I loathe ! abhor ! de
test ! despise ! abominate dried apple pies!
11 like good bread, I like good meat, or
; anything that is fit to eat; but of all the
grub beneath the skies, the poorest is
dried apple pies, Give mo a toothache,
or sore eyes, in preference to such kink of
pies. The farmer takes his gnarlist fruits,
’tis wormy, bitter, and hard to boot: they
leave the hull to make us cough, and don’t
take half the peelings off. Then ou a
dirty cood they’er strung, and from some
chamber-window hung, untill they’erready
to be made in pie.s. Tread on my corns,
or tell me lies, but dan’t pass me dried
apple pies.
in — it ; muni
SCRAPS.
A band St Wotnca visited orte'
saloons in Brooklyn, N. Y., in one week.
They ought to sign the pledge.
An exchange tells how the eye is "swept
and washed," How it is blacked would
furnish another interesting chapter.
It is oue sign of the tendency of hnm. n
nuture to goodness that it grows good un
der a thousand bad influences.
Ladies' traveling cloaks for summer are
made of brown pi' buff linen, with capes
and skirts very fail and long.
Florida hotel keepers are opening u<*w
bank accounts every day. Several "con
template spending the snmther abkoaft"
Salvini has a rival in, a Kaunas jail pris
oner. He played Samson by lilting the
jail door from its hiuges and departed.
Instead of saying, “It’s a long time be
tween drinks." Western men now remark,
"It's a long time since I signed my lust
pledge. ”
When the Indians catch a bald-bhadt-d
man they cut off' his ears to compensate for
the loss of scalp, and it’s about as well be
to scalped.
Texas judges arc accommodating fellows.
One of them who fined a man three hun
dred dollars, took a 825 mule and called
in square.
If the beautiful nnd the good are not al
ways uuited, we cuu only say that they
ought to be so, for they " belong to each
other, us the blossom to the fruit.
Men’s weakuess and faults are known
from their enemies, their virtues and abil
ities from their friends, their customs ami*
lives from their servants.
The king of Italy is said to be very fond
of course jest uml humor. He recent y
visited ulow theatre iu Naples, frequehted
by lazzaroni, and ivas heartily welcomed.
To cure neuralgia take the bark of the
peach tree, pound it and steep it in hot
water. Hold the face over it so as to
thoroughly bathe it in the ascending steam.
It is a certain cute.
An illiterate Kentucky farmer, wishing
to enter some animals at an agricultural
exhibition, wrote to the secretary os fol
lows: “also enter me for the best jack avs I
urn sure o( taking the j.remium.”
There is some virtue in almost every
vice, except hypocrisy, and even that,
while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the
same time a compliment to it.
The White House has hailed the advent
of but one baby iu its whole history, but
the boy’s chance of being president was no
lietter than the next lad’s.
“Did you execute the instrument with
out fear or compulsion from your hus
band ?" blandly asked the judge. “Fear!
Compulsion! He compel me?—You
dou't know me judge."
North Carolina, having signally failed
in the volcano business, has pmenred tt
lmby with only half the usual quota of eyes
nnd ears, but a double supply of finger*
and toes.
It is estimated that it takes a domestica
ted fly u two-billionth part of u second to
wink, while an industrious mosquito can
do it in one tenth of thut time. Correc
tions solicited.
A pastor of a C’ongregatiomdist clinreh
was once asked if he was an independent
minister; he replied, “Ear from it; I am
the minister of an Independent congrega
tion. ”
An Arkansas man is travelling around
delivering a lecture composed of eight
chapters of the Bible, and none of hi*
hearers have detected the literary theft.
A relic of the ill fated steamship Atlan
tic in the shape of a passenger's ticket,
printed iu German cud English, bus been
taken from the stomach of a preserved sal
mon at St, John's, N. B.
A Vermont boy is in luck. The school
teacher was just going to “baste” him
when the lightning struck the house, and
in his excitement the teacher forgot all
about the intended thrashing.
Prepay your postage. Bushels of prin
ted mutter on which postage is insuffi
ciently lurid are every week deposited in
t he General Post Office, and there detained
and ultimately destroyed.
The body of a woman lately deceased in
New York is to bo-exhumed for the pur
pose of testing the question as to whether
she was poisoned. Supposing, now, she
had been burned instead of burns], Messrs.
Cremationists ?
A Chicago gentleman who recently trav
elled through Ohio says that everybody he
met called potatoes “tuters, ” except one
i young lady, who called him a “small per
tater.”
It is estimated that getting born costs
the iwople of the United States 3220,095,-
000 annually; getting married 8250,000,-
000; getting buried, $73,839,450; total
$543,984,450.
“It is my opinion,” said a Detroit judge
to two boys who were brought before him
for drnnkeness, “that I ought to stop pro
ceedings and boot-jack you both: but I
havn’t the boot-jack and shall fine you $5
each. ”
A little boy in Georgetown ran into the
house the other day, crying at the top of
his voice because another little boy would
not let him put mud on-Ills head with a
shingle. Some children are like their pa
rents, no accommodation about them.
A man in Dallas, Texas, tried-to poison
his wife, who was sick, by giving her ars
enic instead of a powder of a different
kind. He was much surprised on handiDg
it to her, to see her empty it on the floor
and hear her decline dying in these words,
“Asa pizener, Jim, you haint a success."
A friend gives us the following informa
tion that a certain cure for whooping cough,
can be effected by boiling chestnut leaves,
and sweet ening the liquor with brown
sugar. Whooping cough generally re
mains eighteen weeks, while by the uso
of tea, it can be cured in a few days.
The inspiring sunshine of the season
has tonched the heart of an Indianaplia
girl, who eonpludes a love letter thus.
“The ring is round, the dish is sqnnre, and
we’ll be married the next State fair. The
bell shall ring, the drum shall play, and
we’ll go dancing all the way. Answer
sooit Mary."
Excepts living man, there is nothing
more wonderful than a book; a message to
us fro(n the dead— from human souls wo
never <ftw, who lived, perhaps, thousands
of miles away. And yet these, in those
little sheets of paper, speak to ns, arouse
ns, terrify ns, teach ns, comfort us open
their hearts td’us as brothers.
Always have a book within yonr reach
which you may catch up at your odd
minutes. Resolve to edge in a little read
ing every day, if it is but a single sent
ence. If you esan give fifteen minutes
every day, it will be felt at the end of the
year. Regulate yonr thoughts'when not
at study. A man is thinking even while
at work. Let him think well.