Newspaper Page Text
4klt*hr’i fndepcudrut.
J. C. OiILAIIEB, Editor.
SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1874.
THE ELECTIONS
"Why don't yon write something about
election* (list it to oome off tl>i bill ?
Why don’t we have a convention and nom
inate candidates V Is the question that has
been frequently propounded to ns. Wliy
we have not is that the time has not ar
rive.!. We want no agitßlicm while the
planters are busy with their crops. Their
niinda arts and ought to be absorbed with
their business, and their minds ought not
to be diverted from it. Lot them win the
Little they are now fighting with the grass
and when the victory ia won and they can
ait down to rest let ns talk then about con
ventions and candidates, and discuss the
luerite oi parties, their qualifications and
availibility. The too early agitation of
party claims will fulminate discord; we
do not know who or whether any one ei
ther in tho Districts or in our county is
aspiring to position or not If there are
auy such wo would suggest that they wait
pulieutly aud see if they ore really tho
Choioo of the people, and we promise them
that if they are, that they will be informed
of the fuct iu due time. If your services
are essential to tho public the demand will
be made and you will be apprised of it.
Concert of action is essential to success,
and without it defeat is inevitable. There
fore for the general good and for tho ac
complishment of a great purpose let us
forget self, avoid beokon’ngs, contentious
aud confusion, and all together as one
man work for the general good. Wo all
have our preference and our preference is
aud will bo whether he or they bo our per
sonal friends or foes, the man or men chos
en by the party opposed to Radical vil
lainy. Wsf would suggest that we wait pa
tiently until the planters work is done
aud they have time and leisure to think
and talk, and we will then have ample
time to plan the campaign and fight the
buttle. Six weeks is time sufficient for the
Congressional race, and one month for
Senators and Representatives in the Leg
islature. Then tho fight will be short aud
we cau fight to the end with vigor without
Wearying.
ASTI FIRE ORGANIZATION.
Wc ms informed that there is an organ
tion of ttoflpHVMJ in this place, headed, an
we ostensibly by one anrgeant
Tinker, a “yaller nigger" of immense
hi iglit, and of ynukee army notoriety; V)ut
really headed, eondneted and controlled,
by the black-hearted, whitc-skincd, social
cquolitists of the place.
The object of this organization is to
prevent the colored people, in case of fire,
mi Tng a extinguishing it; but per
mits them to carry out all the goods and
chattels in the house, or houses. Not
withstanding Fluker as the chief officer of
this wicked organization is rigidly cnforce
ing these rules against ull the colored men
who dure to aid in fighting the distrnotivo
element, wo do not believe that lio is
mean enough at heart to originate) a shcemo
no basely wicked, but it originated in the
hearts and minds of base nud wicked
white-skiued villinnn, who are Radicals bo
cause they could not be regarded ns gen
tlemen and worthy Democrats, and be
cause in perfidy and villainy, in nrsou,
burglurry and larceny, they could only
find equals in the ranks of the uneducated,
nnsnspectiug minded children of nature
of African descent. It is hard that the
poor deluded creatures should be punished
while their leaders go unwliiped of justice.
Horae weeks ago the property of Mr. James
Y. Jones, at the west end of town, took
fire, and every body in the village has
tened to the scene, among others was Gus
McAffuc, a oolored blacksmith, Gus or
dered his journeyman workman, Monroe
Stratten, oolored, to take hold of the ropes
and assist in pulling the fire engine, this
he did, and was, as soon as possible, ar
raigned before the tremenduous Fluker, to
receive his sentence, and was fined.
Gus McAffoe requests ns to say that he
does not belong to any such organization,
that the white people of Quitman have
patronized and supported him, that they
have proved his friends when in need, and
that ho will favor no organization that is
opposod to their interest. He assures us
that he has lost all confidence in the po
litical integrity of carpet-baggers and
scalawags. He has learned for himself that
they ore Radicals for selfish motives, and
selfish ends. He told a thin-skined, hell
deserving Radical carpet-bagger, who was
here on Wednesday lust, to influence the
colored people in favor of Senator Clark,of
Thomas county, -that his only true white
friend* lived the South, uud that he
lmd never hail any evidence of friendship
from the Yankees. The pale faced thiev
ing villiun told Gus that he had fought to
free him. Qua told him if he was free lie
would act and vote as - he pleased, and
from the presence of the triumphant Gus,
the representative of the Thomas county
Radical Scuntor sneaked off like a “yaller
dorge.” We think he found more oougo
ncnl companions with meaner men with
whiter skins.
While wo are in favor of aiding and en
couraging the black people, and rejoice at
their prosperity, wo think it would be 1
unsafe and injudicious to employ any man
thut would become a member of the or
ganization above refered io. We think
that caution would at enee dictate to every
prudent man not to hire, hut even dis
charge any man wke-sareg so little for his
iSterest as not to aid hiui in saving his
property from fire. A room so recklessly
indifferent to his employes*- interest is
wicked enough to distroy his property.
Let us all learn who they are, and have no
dealings with them. We have no respect
for any man who would give employment
to a white man or negro who stands i
pledged not to assist him or his neighbor
in .avmg hi- property horn distinction
A 810 SMELL.
A unification, civil right's, social
equality, Radical, Scalawag nominating
Convention is to lie held this duy ut Outil
don’s church, in this county. AVudu uud
Griffin bus been preparing for weeks for
this grand carnivul, where they hojie to
meet n large number of their equals.
Orifflu we learn has the plans all arranged
for the Congressional fight this summer
and full. Ham among negroes that can’t
reud, wc are informed, is quite a speakest.
Wade lias no speaking qualities but is very
sly, and politically very mean; he is on
terms of perfect friendship mid equality
with the meanest negroes. The 1 sitter
and more intelligent class have no resjiect
for him. With nnificators and social
equalitists he lias some pretty respectable
ideas, and he uses poor, simple Hum us uu
instrument, or speaker, to convey them to
the negroes. This is the programme for
to-day and they will probably succeed iu
deluding the bluck people in tlmt neigh
borhood into tho support of themselves
or some other white man very little bot'wcr
than they are. This to Wade im/i Gridin
will be a day long remembered on account
of delightful embrace* and the regaling
of their refined alfactories.
tHE BIGNB OF THE TIMES
are tliut the Musical Entertainment to be
given at Madison, Fla., on the 24th of this
month, for the Lee Monumental Associa
tion at Savannah, under the supervision of
Miss belle Hnusmau, aided by the accom
plished Mrs. Ship, of Tallahassee, and
others of rare musical attainments, to
the lovers of music will Vie grand and im
posing. Madison We hope, ah, We doubt
not, will b alive to the occasion, so pa
triotic and benevolent iu its character, and
fraught with trip; Southern pride. Madi
son is now mid has been in advance of her
sister towns both in Georgia and Florida
in the commemoration of heroism, and we
hope, ah, indeed, we know she will not
peril the prestige so honorably won, so
creditably maintained. Madison, yes,
Florida has been robbed, her interests
have boon crushed, but tho fires of her
prido and honor burns upon her countries’
altar and will never bo quenched. We
hope to be there and will be painfully dis
appointed should anything occur to pre
vent our attendance, and we hope to see as
many noble Floridians as can possibly at
tend.
Savannah, the State of Georgia, will
appreciate this noble effort on the part of
onr sister State to perpctmitc in memory
our great chieftain, aud we hope the press
j of our State will tender to these estimable
ladies an expression of appreciation as a
reward of merit.
YVe cannot eloso this article without n
notice of the liberality of Mr. J. H. Es
till, proprietor of the Morning Newt, that
popular paper,both in this State and Flor
ida, that needs no heralding from us to in
crease its circulation or add to its enviable
reputation. The ladies of Madison had
but through n friend to a.k Mr. Estill to
aid them in advertising their entertain
ment. Considering (he benevolence of
tho object there was no hesitancy on liis
port, hut a largo number of immense and
elegantly primed posters were printed at
liis office mid forwarded to tho ludies for
distribution through tlio country. All done
gratuitously. We know the ladies and all
the people wjll appreciate tliiw liberal net,
aud we hope, we believe, and indeed, we
kuow tlint neither Mr. Estill nor liis ex
cellent paper will loso nny popularity by
the act. His putronngo iu Florida lias
been so extensive and so long aud unin
terruptedly enjoyed that tho people feel
that, they have some claims upon him, nnd
when the ladies append the Col.’s gal
lantry prompts n favorable response and
always will as in this instance, nnd we
hope that this public spirited act of his
will be rewarded ten fold.
LETTER FROM MADISON.
Madison, Fla. , June 9, 1874.
Editor Independent:
The County Court has been in session
yesterday aud to-day, after disposing of
several petty lnroeny eases,court adjourned,
subject to the call (I presume) of that rep
rehensible man usually denominated
as Judge Benj. Tid(well), a fox in a sheeps
clothing, totally ignorant of the high po
sition which he holds, nnd tho intricacies
of which lie ia presumed to know, and of
course his holdings and deeissions are at
variance with the precedents of the higher
courts of the State. He is a Judge with
out judgment, a creature of instinct, nml
that of a low order, and liis decisions are
made without reason, and without the
nnalisis of facts or tlio application of the
rules of law. He is possessed of au instinet
us all other animals are, and he culls that
“equity," and to do that “equity” every
precedent is ignored, every rule of law
must bend, and facts stand abashed, and
Tid's instinctive equity prevails. “The
mills of the<smls grind slowly,” Tid is in
the hopper and they are grinding him
away, his snn has passed the neredian nnd
is now on the decline, redemption is near
ing, and it must come, or we are inevitably
doomed to go "where the woodbine twin
etk,” or at least “where the whangdoodlo
monrnetli for its flint- born.” We will hail
with much joy the dawn of the morn of
our redemption.
There is considerable excitement concern
ing the musical entertainment to be given
under the supervision of Miss Belle Huus
man, nnd the talented assistants, on the
24th, expectations are high, conjeeturings
are at par, all for the distingue personages
that will appear. The programme will be
published next week. As far as I have
been able to learn, the selections are very
good, aompririitg operatic and sentimental
music with a few eiiaTaoter songs, persona
ted in costumes.
On this occasion, Mr. 11. J. Hnnsman
will deliver an address—subject, “English I
and American Celibritics. ”
On- the tilth the Masons here, raid from ■
neighboring towns, are to have a dinner
and a Masonic oration by Rev. Mr. Truer !
v * i
A gala time is expected for all who will
come.
By all means you must not fu.il to let us
see tla; light of your oountenance on tliut
day. Your presence will be a valuable ac
quisition on that occasion, in fact, it is at
any time and place.
./ Knntuk.
To the Executive Committee of the Demo
cratic Party.
Macon, May 18, 1874.
Desiring, above all things, unity of ac
tion by tho Democrats of Georgia in our
approaching elections, and knowing the
great importance of harmony in our rants,
I have determined, with a view to- these
desirable ends, to cull together F, e Exeeu
tive Committee of the party on the first
Wednesday in July in Atlanta, for consul
tation. Untill th'.ii it is desired that no
action looking to nomination of candidates
will lie taken by the party. Gentlemen of
the Convention, the interest of the people
r.emaiiu your attention.
Taomak H ahiik wan, Jit,,
Chairman Dem. Ex. Com.
The Present Democratic Executive Com
mittee in Georgia.
The State Democratic Executive Com
mittee of Georgia consists of the follow ing
gentlemen:
Hon. Thos. Hardeman, Chairman.
Htate at large- Col. J. L. Harris,Bruns
wick; Hob. Warren Aiken, of Bartow;
Hon. Nelson Tift, of Dougherty; Hon. J.
H. Christie, of Clarke.
hirst District—Hon. J. C. Nicliolls, of
Pierce; Hon. James H. Hunter, of Brooks.
Second District—Hon. Herbert Fielder,
of Randolph; lion. T. M. Furlow, of Sum
ter.
Third District—Hon. E. H. Worrell,
of Talbot; Major J. C. Wooten, of Cow
eta.
Fourth District—Col. J. S. Boynton,
of HpaUling: Hon. T. G. Lawson, of Put
nam.
Fifth District—Hon. Augustus Reese,
of Morgan; Hon. James B. Jones, of
Burke.
Sixth District—Col. Tlios. Morris, of
Franklin; Col. J. Estes, of Hall.
Seventh District—C>l. I. W. Avery, of
Fulton; lion. L. N. Trammell, of Whit
field.
The committee was appointed under
resolutions of the last Convention of the
party that assembled fu Georgia the 24th
of July, 1872.
Here is the resolution:
"Resolved, That this committee recom
mend that the President of the Convention
appoint an Executive committee of the
Democratic party of the State, to serve un
til the meeting of the next State Conven
tion, mid to consist of two members for
each Congressional District ns now exist
ing, and four for the State at large, which
committee shall have power to elect a
chairman outside of its own body.”
[From tho X. Y. World.]
A Great Excitement in the Republican
Party.
Washington, June 5.
The Repubieans in Congress, especially
the leading niombers of the party, profess
to lie iu a state of great alarm over tho
discovery within a day or so of the agres
sive position of the President on the cur
rency question, the new reciprocity treaty,
and possibly the Civil Rights Bill. There
liavo been intimations that he contempla
ted sending to Congress a special message,
appealing for the passage of a specie re
sumption measure and indicating even
more pointedly than he did in liis veto
message liis opposition to any hill that
proposed expansion iu tho slightest de
gree.
This course, however, lias doubtless
struck the President ns not a very wise
one pending tho consideration of a bill by
Congress, and ho has adopted the easier
channel of a correspondence with Mr.
Joues, tho hard money Senator from Ne
vada, which will be found below. This
correspondence is merely tho compound of
what tho President lias said aud read to
tho Western Republicans who have been
submitted for his approval the framework
of a so-called compromise currency meas
ure which lias been under discussion iu
the Conference Committee. They were j
astonished yesterday and tho day before at j
the decided manner in which ho put his
foot down on any project that did not. em
body his particular views, and have sp ex
pressed themselves in terms quite as earn
est, if not quite us polite, ns those of the
President.
This evening, however, when the Presi
dent’s views, as expressed to them, took
shape in the letter to Senator Jones, their
indignation was thoroughly aroused, nnd
several leading inflation Republican Sena
tors did not hesitate to denounce his in
terference with pending legislation in that
way as An warrantable as It was unprece
dented. They ehargo upon him the re
sponsibility of strangling the currency bill
in the house of its friends, and with nd- i
hering to a policy that will drive the Re- j
publican party into thfe breakers iu the
fall -elections. The Western Republicans
who have commented in this strain" con
cede that- tlie President's ootirse on this :
aud other matters will insure beyond all
doubt a Democratic House of Representa
tives.
While tlm Western men luivo been ex
j hibiting their political demoralization over
| the financial fiasco, the Pennsylvania Re
: publicans have startled their friends with
, the announcement that the President has
j come out in favor of the new reciprocity
j treaty, and Messrs. Kelly and Cameron
j have grown white with wrath and words
' over tho fact. As if to supplement the
day’s development one of the negro mem
bers from South Carolina informed some
of his white Radical brethren on the floor
of the House this evening that ho had as
surances he could not doubt that if Con
! gross passed tho pending civil rights bill
; the President vymld certainly veto it
! These facts are well calculated to alarm
| the Republicans, and concealment of
them is no longer wise, even if it wero
possible.
The Tbomasvillc Enterprise says: **o.
B. Davis, the bigjunist whose capture we
reported in out; last, will await in jail, his
trial at the next term of Thomas Superior
Court, in default ol a two thousand dollar
bond.
[FriAn the New York Herald. J
The Scientific Outlook.
Wendell Phillips said in a recent speech
that the time was coming when we might
communicate instantly with San Francisco
without either wire or operator. Tho au
dience laughed at him. Perhaps his state
ment is not so extravagant us it scorned.
Uud tho ordinary work now done by the
magnetic telegraph been predicted forty
yoars ago it would havolioen received with
the same incredulity. The truth is that
science, like policies and love, always de
velops in unexpected directions. No
sooner nio men fixed in their scientific
opinions than some startling discovery re
veals their ignorance and shows tlio world ;
tlint all things are possible under the sun.
Ever since the invention of the use of
steam men have agreed that only hot va-1
por had the least power; but quite recently
a Philadelphia machinist exhibited an iron i
globe, no larger than a gallon jug, full of
cold vapor, showing a pressure of twonty
thousand pounds to the square inch, and
neither time nor temperature diminished j
its tremendous power. The discovery is ;
said to have been accidental. The inven
tor was experimenting with an engine run j
by compressed air and a vacuum, when to ]
his profound astonishment he* turn bled on
the cold vapor secret; and it was some
time before he could make a gauge strong 1
enough to test its power. Until then he
had not imaged such a discovery possible.
Nature seems to coquet with the inquir
ing intellect of man until lie is sure of
some great secret, when she confounds
him with disappointment; but in his less
inquisitive moments she reveals what ho
never dreamed of. Modern science is a
paradox. Water, which was always con
sidered the most incombustible matter in
nntiiro, produces the greatest heat known.
Watch springs burn like pitch. The
chemist prepares delicate muslin so that it
can be cleansed with fire. Arsenic is pre
scribed for dangerous diseases. Frozen
feet, are saved by plunging them into
snow. Children are told to keep away
from iron during thunderstorms, yet
hardware stores are never strnck by light
ning. Persons suffering with hydropho
bia go into convulsions at the sight of wa
ter. A French physician, however, Ims
cured fifty cases of this awful malady with
hot baths. An editor of a New York news
paper lost his sight until a surgeon put a
*knife into his eyeballs, whereupon the
man recovered and went about his work.
The wildest imagination is unable to
predict the discoveries of the future. For
all we know families in the next century
1 may pump fuel from tho river and illumi
; nate their houses with ice and electricity,
i Iron vessels, properly magnetized, may
sail through the air like balloons, and a
trip to tho Rocky Mountains may be made
jiu an hour. Perhaps within fifty years
: American grain will be shot into Liverpool
| and. Calcutta through iron pipes laid under
| the sea. By means of condensed air aud
i cold vapor engines excursiou parties may
| travel along the floor of the ocean, sailing
1 past ancient wrecks and mountains of
! coral. On land the intelligent farmer may
i turn tho soil of a thousand acres in a day,
! while his son cuts wood with a platinum !
! wire and shells coni by electricity. The
1 matter now contained in a New York daily I
' tnay bo produced teu thousand times a I
minute, on little scraps of pasteboard, by 1
improved photography; and boys may sell
tho nows of the world printed on visiting
cards, which their customers will read,
through artificial eyes. Five hundred
years lienee n musician may play a piano
iu New York connected with instruments
in San Francisco, Chicago, Cincinnati,
New Orleans and otb< r cities, which will
be listened to by half a million of people.
A speech delivered in New York will be
heard instantly in tho halls of those cities,
and when fashionable audiences iu San
Francisco go to hear some renowned singer'
she will be performing in Now York or ;
Philadelphia.
In the year 1900 a man may put on his j
inflated overcoat, with a pair of lightsteer
iug wings fastened to his anus, and go to j
Newark and back in nn hour. All the ]
great battles will be fonglit in tho air.
Patent thunderbolts will bo used instead
of cannon. A boy in Hoboken will go to
Canada in the family air carriage to see
his sweetheart, aud tlio next day liis fntlier
will chasten him with a magnetic rebnker
because be did not return before midnight.
Tho time is coming when the Herald will i
send a reporter to see a mail reduce one j
of the Rocky Mountains to powder in half
a day. Skilful miners will extract gold j
from quartz easily as cider is squeezed j
from apples. A compound telescope will
be invented on entirely new principles,
so that one may see the planets as dis
tinctly as we now see Staten Island. Mi
croscopes will bo made so powerful that a
particle of dust on a gnat a back will ap
pear larger than Pike’s Paak. And mar
vellous progress will be made in pscholog
ical and mental sciences. Two men will
sit in baths filled with chemical liquids.
One of them may be in Denver and the
other in Montreal. A pipo filled with the
same liquid will connect the two vessels,
and the fluid will be so sensitive that each
man will kuow tho other’s thoughts. Iu
these coming days our present mode of
telegraphing will bo classed with the
wooden ploughs of Egypt, aud the people
will look back to steamships and locomo
tives as we look back to sailboats and stage
coaches.
The highest grade of marriage union
is tho religious, which may be expressed
as pilgrimage toward a common shrine.
This includes • ’.l the others; home sympa
thies and household wisdom, for these
pilgrims must know how to assist each
other along the dusty way; intellectual
communion, for how sad it would be on
such a journey to have a companion to
whom you could not communicate your
thoughts and aspirations as they sprang to
life; who would have no feeling for the
prospects that open, more and more
glorious as we advance; who would never
see the flowers that may be gathered by
the most industrious traveler! It must
include all these. Mirgurct Fuller.
[From the ltsltiniure Handily Telegram.]
Exit Riohardson.
Adiue 1 We bid thee adieu, great mas
ter of finance ! When shall we see you
again ? We begun with Alexander Humil
ton_we have just parted with Richardson.
The financial edifice was balnnced on its
little end. Its broad base was lifted up to
the heavens, and it was made to stand on
the little end of nothing. It was an aw
fully abrupt attempt at tapering off, for
Richardson was to Alexander Hamilton
what the point of tho steeple is to the base
of a pyramid. Ha was sharp aud ornamen
tal, but utterly useless. He was not even
armed with an alarm bell. He was ap
pointed to direct tho finances of the gov
ernment, but permitted them to direct aud
run away with him. He was appointed
to guard the public money, and admitted
the tlieives by contract—in fact, had a
law passed to legalize their operations. It
was his duty to devise measures for the
betterment of the financial condition of the
country, but ho never moved save to mar,
nor suggested but to confuse. In a place
requiring the highest education, the
tontest atatesmanshij), the widest experi
ence and the sturdiest morals, he devel
oped a marked aliscence of the one and
laxity of the other that was startlingly ap
parent to the public and ruinously demor
alizing to the service.
It was imagined that when Bontwvll was
reached the Treasury had.touched bottom.
Financial vagaries, it appeared, had found
their great expounder and patron diety in
him. But it was reserved for Richardson
to eclipse his preceptor and astound the
world. He stood at the President’s back
in New Y'ork, during the panic, a champi
on of law and defender of the “reserve.”
Ho returned to Washington aud opened
the valves, flooding the country with ille
gtiWirrency enough to aid the gamblers
and to puralize legitimate business. The
praises he had earned by his New York
firmness were not dry from the lips that
uttered them before he had given the lie
to himself and branded the national faith.
Then came his grand scheme for resuming
spieie payments. Silver was to be put iu
circulation by the pint to prevent the dis
turbance of trade, and several pints were
uttered which, white they did not achieve
specie payments, vindicated liis prudence
bv failing to effect any perceptible change.
Rut the conspicuous achievement of his
term wits the farming of the revnue.
With wonderful skill nml adroit manage
ment he succeeded in enlisting the effi
cient Sanborn to take such burdensome
work from the paid officers of the govern
ment for one-lialf of the money collected.
This was a triumph of financial and moral
genius. And when Congress came to in
quire of this private arrangement for the
collection of government dues, he prevari
cated with an insolence and awkwardness
which would have excited the suspicion
of a dunce. When Ananiy the particulars
j of this master stroko were dragged to light
|he laid the blame on Sawyer, aud Sawyer
, blamed Banfield, and Banfield bluined
Richardson, and tho count-}' was treated
to an exhibition which would have been
I ridiculous had it not been infamous.
| The committee dared not stand before
the country and take the rosponsibity of
i palliating the incompetency and confessed
j dishonesty of such au officer. We say
confessed dishonest}', for if he had
that he had only complied with tlie law
and pursued an honest construction of
duty, be would liavo given to the Com
mittee of Ways and Means every paper,
book and document relating in any manner
to Sanborn’s contracts which were in his
possession. He acknowedged guilt by
striving to conceal the evidences of it.
The murderer will wash aw ay tho most in
nocent stain, because a sense of guilt
causes him to fear suspicion in every dark
spot upon his clothing. An innocent man j
would not fear a drop of blood, if his con- j
science is clear. *Yet Richardson claimed j
to be honest with the fact before the world
tlmt the Committee of Ways aud Means
had to extort peace-meal from him tlie |
papers and vouchers bearing upon San
born’s transactions. Then, like a guilty
wretch that he was, he crept beliiud Saw
yer, atid held him up as a scapegoat, and j
both then combined to blame Pa .field.
To the charge of dishonesty and incompe
tence, these men added the crime of per
jury, and before their monstrous degrada
tion tho humiliations of former incapaci
ties paled to venial faults.
Ho has left the Treasury, but not with
out his reward. With a perseverance that j
would be sublime in the better canse, the j
President persists in walking counter to I
the popular will and moral sense, and the I
man who leaves the Treasury under a
moral brand is transferred to a place upon !
the bcuce of the Coart of Claims which .
snould be occupied by a man of nnim- !
peachable integrity. We have no right to
presume that au injudicious or dishonest i
Cabinet officer would make a model judge 1
of claims, but in anew position he will be
far more harmless than in the place he has
left, and for even such a diminution of
evil we may afford to be thankful.
His successor, General Bristow, is a man
of a mild order of eminence, is represented
to possess considerable ability, and to have
preserved a character so fur above ap
proach. He is not so entirely unknown as
the majority of the obscurities with which
the President has habitually surrounded
his person, but, ns any change in the
Treasury must be an improvement, we re
joice at our escape from the worst whilst
we persevere in hoping for the best.
Somebody having mentioned to La
vender that there are eight basial diversi
ties of kisses spoken of in the Bible (the
kiss of salutation, Samuel xx. 41; valedic
tion, Ruth ii. 9; reconciliation, 2 Samuel
xiv. 33; snbjection, Psalms ii. 12; approba
: tion, Proverbs, ii. 4; adoration, 1 Kings
1 xix. 18; treachery. Matthew xxvi. 49; affec
tion, Genesis xiv. 15) he remarked that
there is another kind of kiss which young
■ ladies receive on the sofa in the front parlor
after the gas is turned low which the
Scriptures don't mention -nor tho young
ladies either.
REDUCING THE CURRENCY.
F atur< of (hr Wrw Cnm-nry Act Hrforr
i oiig >-■.
Washington, June 9.—The currency
act shall hereafter lie known us the Na
tional Umk net Among the provisions
are the following: That the entire amount
of United States notes outstanding and ill
circulation at any one time shall not
exceed the sum of three hundred v>n 1
eighty-two millions of dollars which shall
be retired and reduced iu the following
maimer only, to wit:
Within thirty days after tho pnssa e of
this act circulating notes to the amount of
one million dollars shall from time to time
lie issued to national banking associations
under this act in excess of the highest
outstanding volume thereof ut nny time
prior to such issue, it shall lie tho duty of
the Secretary of the Treasury to retire rui
amount of United States notes equal to
til tee-eights of the circulating notes so
issued which shall tie iu reduction of the
maximum amount of three hundred and
eighty-two million dollars fixed by this
section, and such reduction shall continue
until ttie maximum amount of United
States notes outstanding shall be cancelled
and carried to the account of the sinking
fund.
It also provides that on and after tlie
Ist day of January, 1878, any holder of
United States notes to the amount of fifty
dollars or any multiple thereof may
present them for payment at the office of
the Treasurer of the United States or at
the office of the Assistant Trearuri rat the
City of New Y'ork and thereupon shall be
entitled to receive at liis option from tlio
Secretary of tlio Treasury, who is author
ized and required to isHiie in exchange for
said notes nn equal amount of either class
of coupon or registered bonds of the Uni-
Pul States approved, provided, however,
that the Secretary of the Treasury, in lieu
of such bonds mav redeem said notes in
gold coin of the United States.
Flanking a Salary Grabber.
Col Ozro J. Dodds, late member of Con
gress from the first district of Ohio, tells a
good story about a call he recently re
ceived at bis office from a mail who claimed
to be an editor from Arkansas. He was a
very seedy looking chap, and appeared as
though he had but recently come off from
about n six weeks’ spree. Bowing pro
foundly, then striking uu attitude, with
one hand on his heart, and the other ex
tending a hadly used plug hat, he ex
claimed with a dramatic air, “Have I the
honor of addressing the Honorable Orzo
J. Dodds ?”
“Said the colonel, “My name is Dodds,
but I am no longer an honorable.”
“Not an honorable? Dodds not an
honorable ? Now, by St. Paul, when I
scan that honest face, on which all the
gods at once do seem to set their seal
(‘green seal,’ murmured Dodds to him
self,) I read nothing dishonorable. ”
“That’s right,” said Dodds, “never read
anything dishonorable. But to business. ”
“Yes, as you say, to business. I am a
printer—l might say, with no unbecoming
blush, an editor. lam from the noble
Htate of Arkausaw, the only State, by the
way, able and willing to support two gov
ernors at the same time. But I have been
unfortunate. Much have I been tossed
through the ire of cruel Juno, and—”
“Junohow it is yourself,” broke in the
colonel.
“Buffeted by the world’s rude storms,
j you see mo here a stranded wreck. Scarce
three moons past I left my office in charge
fomy, worthy foreman, and sought the
peaceful vales and calm retreats of the
Muskingum Valley, where my childhood
sported. Returning 1 stopped at Cincin
nati. I fell into evil company, and -but
why dwell cn details ? Enough that I am,
that that I am, disheartened, mined,
broke! A mark for scorn to point her
slow, unerring finger at. An xvas about to
give up iu despair, having given tip every
thing else I had, I thought of you Sir, i
am here. You have riot sent for me. but
1 have come ! Your name, sir, is known
• and honored from one end of this great
republic to tho other. It
“Glows in the stars.
Refreshes in the breeze,
Warms in the suu
And blossoms yn tlie fees.
W lieu the national treasury was threatened
by a horde of greedy Congressmen, you
stood like'a wall of adamant between the
peopleand those infamous salary-grabbers.
lewd me a dollar /”
“My dear sir,” the colonel hostered to
explain, “You mistake the case entirely. I
was one of the grabbers. ”
“Y'ou were ?” (grasping the colonels
hand warmlv) “so much the hotter ■ Let
lfio congratulate you that a parsimonious
public could not frighten you out of what
was a fair remuneration for your invalua
bly services. lam glad that your pecuni
ary circumstance are so much be’ter tliun
I supposed. Md eil two dollars
And the colonel did. It was tlie only
elean th.ng left for him to do.— Haiti more
Sunday Telegram.
Hidden Heroism.
There is not a finer story of heroic
life nml death in modern times than tlmt
afforded by the short and obscure career
of George Gordon,Sixth Earl of Aberdeen,
who was lost at sea four years ago while
serving as mate on au American sailing
vessel in the West Indies. He was one of
those young nobleman, of great wealth
nnd greater heart, who believe that hu
manity has some claim upon him, and he
proposed to prepare himself for the duties
of his exalted station iu life by
practical experience of the struggles and
privations of the poor. Ho came to this
country, and, under an assumed name,
worked for a living with his hands, gain
ing the regard and cot.fiileece <*f hi fellow
laborers, who never suspected liis real
rank and position. He became, an able
seaman at last, and was lost in a
storm in 1870. His mother, the Coun
tess of Aberdeen, has just sent a contri
tion of 81,600 to tlie Amrrican Seaman’s
Friend Society of Boston, for the purchase
of books for the use of sailors. If a proper
history of his romantic life could be writ
ten, from materials now in the hands of
his family, it would be extensively read
among the fashionable society of England
and might induce some young gentlemen,
now at the crossing of tlie ways, to devote
tbier lives to something better than horses
and ballet-dancers.
Punctuation.
Any editor of the literary paper or mag
aziue, with a single year’s experience, is
a competent witness to prove that not
more than four out of every forty who
scribble fur bread or notoriety have any
more correct ideas of punctuation than a
Patigonian has of Paradise. One profound
thinker—leaving out the h—drives on over
three pages of foolscap without a single
dot of punctuation. Another perpetuates
odfe line periods, bringing us to “down
brakes” at the end of every line, as ab
ruptly as if we had checked up against a
dead wall at “thirty-miles an hour’ speed.
Number three keeps up acontinuous string
of exclamation poults—eternally screaming
at something that needs no screaming at,
whatever. Many affect the dashing style
of punctuation, slipping in one,two, throe,
ami half line dashes, indiscriminately—
dashing paragraphs into spasmodic non-1
sense.
GRANGERS VS. DEMOUUACY.
THE CHEAP TRANSP OR TA TIO .V
QUESTION.
THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS AND
STATE RIGHTS.
Tho Washington correspondent of tlio
New Y'ork Herald writes:
“For the last two days the Senate has
been discussing a resolution from the joint
Committee on Transportation, embracing
uu appropriation of two hundred thou
sand dollars for surveys, in view of u ship
canal from the upper Mississippi river to
New Y’ork. ria Lake Champlain, and
thence ria the Hudson driver to onr great
commercial metropolis; and of the pro
posed trans-Allegheny routes, each for a
freightrarroad ordinal connection —
from the Ohio river across West Virginia
to the Atlantic seaboard; and, second,
from the Tennessee river to the Georgia
seaboard; and also for a survey in view of
the improvement of the navigation of tho
Mississippi, particularity at the mouths of
the river; and in the discussion of this res
olution several of the Democratic Senators
have flatly committed themselves to tho
policy of resisting these improvements on
the part of the general government us un
constitutional and dangerous to the re
served rights of the States. In tho dis
cussion of this resolution, we say, provid
ing for these surveys, while the Republi
cans have fully committed themselves to
the policy of pushing to completion tho
improvements suggested, under appropri
ations of money or bonds from the na
tional treasury, the Deou cratic Senators,
Saulsbury and Bayard, of Delaware, and
Hamilton, of Maryland, opposed these in
ternal improvements on the purt of tho
general government as broadly in conflict
with the great underlying corner stone
of onr federal system of State rights nnd
as dangerously tending to centralization.
Mr. Hamilton, of Maryland, says that
this proposed system of internal improve
ments on the part of Congress is/vholly ut
war with all the Democratic doctrines on
tho subject, as expounded and defended
by all our great apostles of Democracy
from Jefferson to Jackson and from Jack
sou down to this day. This is true, ami
there is much truth in this warning of
danger as to the reserved rights of tlio
States, hut nevertheless tlio party oppos
ing this proposed system of internal im
provements is facing a resistless tide.
For throughout the West and South a re
sistless popular tide lias set in for cheap
transportation, embracing these suggested
improvements, as the first and most im
portant question of the day. In the ap
proaching elections for the next Congress
cheap transportation will he the cun troll
ing issue in the West and South, and if in
these elections the Democrat* of the West
ern and Southern States shall follow in the
wake of Messrs. Saulsbury, Bayard and
Hamilton, of the Senate, they will bo
routed in perhaps every Congressional
district from Minnesota to Louisiana and
thence along the seaboard to Virginia.
The overwhelming argument in favor of
those projected improvements by the na
tional government, us presented hv Sena
tor iYiadorn, is simply this—that llieso
improvements, when completed, will en
hance the value of the lauds of the North
western States thousands of millions of
dollars, while reviving to an unpnndlcd
degree of prosperity the cotton producing
States, and giving cheap food to the Eas
tern States and profitable employment,
meantime, in the prosecution of the works,
to hnndied of thousands of men who
otherwise would betalf starved, in haring
nothing to do. Against this argument lui
party or politician in the YVest or South
can stand m opposition to this programme
of cheap transportation. Senator Bogy
(Democrat), from Missouri, understands
it, uud goes enthusiastically for these sur
veys and these improvements. Bo far,
however, the Republicans are leading tip;
way in these grand projects, and it is ap
parent that they are drifting ton policy of
internal improvements which within tlio
next ten years w ill add three or four hun
dred millions to the national taxations, or
so much to the national debt, whatever
else may follow But the grangers are in
the field, and they hold the balance c f
]>ower.
TURNED TO STONE.
*fi£u]ur Slrtainorphlijof u Woman 1 * Hotly
-Vulurr’n .Mclliiml of( or|Mc
Considerable excitement exists in the
usually quit t little city of Morristown, N.
J.. over the discovery of the body of a
woman in a state of petrifaction. A Mrr
! ■ urv reporter learned yesterday that the
, body was that of Mrs. Hannah Johnson,
wife of all old resident of Morris county
also deceased, and lmd been buried for a
decade of years. The graveyard is private
i situated on a farm a few miles distant
from Morristown. It is located on a knoll
or hillock of gravel and saud, and at its
! base a little brook ripples over tlie pcobly
soil. A few days ago it became necessary
to remove the body of Mr. .Johnson and
! others from this yard to a cemetery. The
j remnants of poor mortality were caru.'ully
' gatho ed up and placed in boxes and t -
uallv the resting place of Mr. Johnson wi s
| reached. The removal of three or four
loot of sandy and gravelly soil disclosed her
| grave. The outer box and the coffin were
! entirely rotted away, but the lid of the
! latter, though somewhat decayed was still
| intact. The undertaker raised the lid,
when a strange sight was presented.
I There lay the 1 odv and its cerement# ap
parently as unchanged as though only a
day instead of ten years has flitted by
. since burial the shroud nnd other clothing
in a perfect state of preservation, and as
white as when first interred; but the
greater portion of the body bad undergone
petrifaction. The flesh from the head,
arms, hands, and from the knees down
wards fulfilled the words of sacred writ,
“earth to earth,” though the skull and
remnants of the bones of the parts men
tioned, still remained and were carefully
gathered together. The body when struck
with the spade it returned a dull nmfßed
sound, like the noise caused by hammer
ing upon a block of brown stone, and it
bore the weight of a heavy man on the
chest, without yielding an inch.
- At first it was thought that the hotly
had been entirely converted into stone,
but a more thorough examinatiou showed
the work of petrifaction still incomplete,
i The flesh on the lower portion of the re
maining extremities was of a soft nature,
of the consistency of cheese or clay in the
bed. It was white nnd life-like, and did
not seem to have shrunk a particle. When
the head and legs were covered the body
looked like that or a person in life, tlm
skin presenting a natural tinge. More
j earth was taken out, preparatory to re-
I moving the.remains, when it was found
that the body had as it were grown to the
I soil, and the efforts of four men were re
quired to detach it and place it in the
undertaker’s wagon. The soft portion
referred to when exposed to the air cram
bled and broke away under the touch like
drying clay. Beneath the body was found
a spring of clear, pure water which ran
through the gravel to the brook at a
base of the knoll or hillock. -A. * •
day Mcrcun/.