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.fndqinulcnt. 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, - —— 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. —*- 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. —--- - -+T+- 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.