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SATURDAY. .II I.) SO, 1*7:5.
3 C. OALLAHER, Editor and Proprietor.
Touched the Quick at Last.
A letter over (lie signature of E. C.
Wade appeal* in the Savannah Morn ing
AVtfS of the 23d inst., in which he at
tempts by euppresiio fri and euygeetio
jam to relievo himself from (lie burthen
of a set of fact* that, if hi* conscience is
not soared, must weigh heavily upon him.
Hia Hist effort i, or rather the effort of
the ’writer of his letter, who is n* well
know'll here us if lie had written it over
his own signature, is to create the impres
sion upon the mind of the Administration
at Washington that he is a simon pure
Radical; that lie is and has I*■< 11 perse
cuted ou account of his political faith and
his allegiance to the Administration. He
says:
I expected when I accepted the position
1 now hold under the Oovelament of the
United-States that law-breakers of every
description, from the midnight, iissassiu
down to tlie peddler in lager beer without
a license, would rise lip uud sav, “Put tlmt
man down."
We think it very probable tlmt men ca
pable of committing high crimes against
State or Federal laws would cry out against
all officers who bring them to justice. We
have beard no complaint, no cry from the
assassin, for there is none lu re, to put
him down, and even the poor lager beer
nailer is submissive, and utters not a word
of complaint.
Again he. says, or hia writer says for
him:
Nor indeed am T at all astonished that a
newspaper should lie established in 0111*
midst by those people with the open and
avowed object by acts of intimidation,
thr> iits and violence, of preventing the en
forcement of the law* of the United Htate*. |
His writer * opinion has undergone u
very great change indeed. He once said
upon his own responsibility that it was es
tablished to pull down the Danner. Now
he says, as a mere machine for another, i
that it. was done to pull down bis principle,
(for whom he writes, uud who owns him in
fijc simple, and over his person and ac
tions possesses an absolution el tliri ilvm) and
prevent the enforcement of the laws of the
United States, Both of which opinions
were visionary ami foolish. Neither of
the puVtieH were regarded of sufficient con
sequence in this community to originate
such an enterprise. Hut wo saw that, the
law was used as a vehicle of oppression,
its precept* were prostituted to base pur
pose*, and malpractice wan manifested in
more than one instance, and the official
sustained and his actions vindicated by
the Banner, tho only paper then in the
place. The wrong-doers were sustained,
and the innocent and injured had 110 me
dium through which they could vindicate
ilieir characters. Hence the necessity for
another paper that had the moral courage
to do justice to the people and expose of
ficial misconduct, uud advocate a just exe
cution of the laws. For that, purpose the
Inoki’KNWKNT was started, and hero we
quote a few paragraphs from our pros
pect us:
The object and aim of the 1 Nneers'tu:xr
will be to vindicate the people’s rights and
guard them against the infamy of black
mail under the garb of oilieial authority.
To officials generally, whether State or
National, who faithfully and honestly dis
charge their duties in a spirit of humanity
and kindness, we will award the highest
meed of praise; but the wail of tlm op
pressed citizen will be heralded through
the columns of the Indi- I'l .wr.s r, with
condemnatory editorials of the oppression,
and an unreserved denunciation of the op
pressor.
Men in high places need not expect to
escape a just, popular retribution, Their
iniquities w ill he held up by the Imh i-km.-
knt before the light of truth, that tho
populace may see dearly their iniquitous;
fermentations.
Our effort will be at all time. <. ami under
all circnnuiUuiccH, to harmonize local strifes
and bickerings, to encourage* kind rela
tions between the two races, and as far as
practicable, harmonize them upon true
Democratic principles.
Under no circumstances will the Ism:-
I'KNiiKN'r uncharitably personate private
individual*. Tho. social relations will be
left, undisturbed except it bo bv an effort
to elevate and enhance social enjoyment.
Our polities will be strictly, rigidly,
Democratic, and we will war against tin
virus of Radicalism with unmitigated and
unrelenting fury, whether it bo personi
fied ill u blue cOuted carpet-bagger, or a
loathsome, contemptible scalawag to the
manor born.
To present, facts to the public that clear
ly demonstrate fraud and corruption is no
intimidation, is no prevention of the exe
cution of the laws of the United States.
It. has never been the object, of this paper
to prevent the execution of the laws, nor
to intimidate the said official from the di
charge of his official duties: nor is there
any grounds to he found in the column* of
this paper upon vvhi.h to base an opinion
no basely, cowardly and contemptible. Our
only object and aim lias been to expose the
wrong tlmt we believed had been com
mitted by United Slates officials, and to
intimidate them from similar sets of op
pression and malpractice. It is a just,
even a rigid execution of the law that we
earnestly advocate. And it is oppression
and extortion under pretences of judicial
authority that wo oppose and war against,
and there isn’t one sentence to be found
in our columns that indicates anything
else. Now, Mr. Wade, as you nor your
writer have no predicate for the assertion
that there has been an effort on the part
of the iNMsrKXDENT and its friends to iu
timi.’uite you from the discharge of your
official duties, and prevent the execution
of the laws of the United Suites, we un
hesitatingly denounce your writ, r, who was
y 1 ur mentor and oracle, as a w lifullliar. it
is true, Mr. Wilde, he pretended to be a
Democrat, ns you did when you tried to
got the npmiuaiiou iu the Democratic con
vention nt Itlarksheur three y ears ago as
the candidate h r Congress, and when you
attended the Democratic convention iu
(,hiitmn last summer, and accepted the
appointment as delegate to the State
Democratic Convention at Atlanta. How did
you feel hi th" din'e of v liabl uid
1 consistent gentlemen ? Were you a Demo*
| ernt then upon principle? If so did the prin
ciples change, or did you abandon the
principles you then professed to un
derstand and love because the intelli
; gent white people of brooks county didn’t
j have sufficient confidence in your intclli
-1 genet* and integrity to make you their
representative in the Ilegislature ? How
did it happen that you became so suddenly
attached to Radicalism, and suddenly
identified yourself with that party, and nt
once became tine of its machines of op
pression ? Now, Wade, wo will toll you
what it proves, that you arc not a man
that lias any regard for principle. You
know you declared yourself in favor of
Greeley in preference to Grant until after
the election of Representative last fall, nt
which yon were defeated hy a united white
j people. Then you became a Grant man.
Why was yon a Democrat? Because you
knew the principles correct. Why are you
a Radical now? Because you are an inconsist
ent and un*i liable man in politic*. Y’ou
know you said after the election that you
would let these people feel your weight.
You know you attempted it, and now you
complain (when youroppressionsand extor
tions are exposed) that a paper was started
to intimidate you. Wo frankly confess,
sir, that iu tho article* wo have written
upon this coat question that our effort is
to intimidate you from further oppression,
uud practice and extortion. Now, we pro
pose to analyze the feeble, evasive and
shameful defence, made fur you by your
scribbling advocate: You say charges
were preferred before yon .against Dee and
Drown for a violation of the Enforcement
Act. Why didn't, you and your writer have
sufficient honor and respect for truth to
state who the prosecutor was, and what
the parries did that, you adjudged to be a
violation of the Enforcement Act before
yon issued the warrants for their arrest ?
As you carefully evade it we will state it
as we did in our last, issue. You had till
opportunity to answer it, why didn’t you ?
Y’oti would, no doubt, if vve hadn't stated
it correctly. Reader, here are the words
upon which is based the charge of the vio
lation of the Enforcement Act. it was
statisl by someone in a crowd that
Joseph S. Cummings had said all laws
prohibiting the intermarriage of the races
ought to be repealed. One of tho accused
is reported to have said that such a man
ought to be rode 011 a rail, the other said
he would help to ride any such man on a
rail. Reader, arc you not surprised to
learn that this is all. No more could be
proven unless it he by perjury. And are
you not. surprised that any muti that can
read would make such a contemptible ass
of himself as to adjudge that a violation of
the Enforcement Act ? But to give char
acter to these proceedings and to more ef
fectually intimidate the accused it, required
a combination of Government officials;and
|to make it more terrific, Federal soldiers,
with muskets and bayonets and forty
rounds of cartridges, lmd to lie sent out to
arrestor to assist the Deputy Marshal to
[arrest, two men for saying an umalgama
! tiouist ought to be rode on a rail, and who
! had never offered the slightest resistance.
His letter shows that Brown knew nothing
of the charge, nor did liis father or brother
until they met tin; Deputy Marshal with
his soldier, gun and thirty rounds of car
t-ridges. Clinton Blown had gone to
Florida on business, not knowing of any
charge against him, and it is true his
father came to ascertain what was the
charge against Ins son, but a* to their say
ing to Cotniuißsioner Wade that they had
him hid in Thomas county, vve are author
ized to say that, it is a willful pervertion#>f
the truth; they said no such tiling. But
upon the contrary, as soon ms lie returned
from his Florida trip he came to town and
surrendered himself to the Marshal, waived
an investigation, and gave bond. After
this he says “Mr. Brown and liis friends
went to work to induce him to use his in
tlueinv to get these boys out of this bad
scrape.” How anxious he is to have it
understood that it is a bud scrape. But.
what is the necessity of his stating that it
was a bad scrape without telling what the
facts were upon which it was predicted,
so that the people may judge id’ the mag
nitude of the offence. All of liis serib-
I bliug about these things had nothing to
; do with the question vve were discussing;
| they were all. settled upon Mr. Brown’s
agreeing (o pay tho eosts, and vve have
j been urging them to explain to ns how the
eosts amount to such an enormous sum.
Why don’t he answer at once, mid show
wherein he is entitled to such liberal fees,
and show how it i- that he was entitled to
thirty dollars in one ease and only twenty
in the other; and how it was that Dee, who
was arrested without any trouble, bad to
pay ('l l !H), and Brown, who they hud to
scud their Marshal and armed soldier* to
arrest, and who he says acted so rebellious,
was only taxed BH2 lb. Now, wo ask him
and his scribe to refer us to the book and
page that authorizes him to charge thirty
dollars for issuing a warrant and taking a
bond. Then refer ns to the book and page
that authorizes Mr. .V. W. Stone and
Marshal to charge eighty-seven dollars in
the two cases. What had A. W. Stone
done for which he was entitled to a fee?
We answer, nothing. What had the Mar
shal done ? Nothing. We state that 110th
| ing had been done but issuing tho vvar
; rant, making the arrest, and taking the
bonds, for which costs lmd been charged.
And this was all done at Quitman by E. C.
Wade and Joseph S. Cummings, and for
that service the law only allows fourteen
dollar*. But. ritouc. hud to have some, and
Freeman ad to have some, and Wade had
to have fifty dollars; and fourteen dollars,
the legal fees, was not sufficient to satisfy
these hungry officers, so the costs had
to bo run up bv sonic sort of compu
tation ;o a: to extort from Mr. Brown
the repuisito sum for each. Wade
had beat the bush, and they had helped
to latch and piek the birds, and
they felt entitled to some of the feathers.
; and they got them; but they won't tell
whv aud for what they charged such
: aiuounth,
Hi* advice to Mr. Brown is altogether
Hupcrihton*. Me is tlm only man here
tlmt we know of tlmt has made any effort
to get hi* money, and the only offc that is
threatening further litigation to give him
lesson No. 2, in the matter of mist. If
I this isn’t a system of blackmail vve don’t
know what the term moans.
Now, wo wish it understood that all that
I has been published in this paper has bean
published upon our own responsibility.
We ask no man for a thought, nor for the
arrangement of a sentence for us. What
ever effect tiic Ijoikpkniixnt lias bad upon
public sentiment, we ami we alone are re
sponsible. And if our exposition of offl
; rial misconduct bus incensed the people
j against the act, vve, cxultingly exclaim it
|is a righteous indignation. Ho says, or
liis writer says, that Mr. Brown agreed to
i pay him for all the trouble he was at, if he
would get the matter settled, and upon
that promise he went to work. If lie did
it upon that principle we unhesitatingly
assert that lie, a United Htates officer, was
\ bribed to subvert what was, ia liis judg
j meat, the ends of justice, for he says it
j was a bad scrape. But forold man Brown’s
money he was willing to get them out of
it if Hb could. Hi* scribbler has utterly
l uted to make lor him a satisfactory explii-
I nation, and worse than failed in estate ’
lisliing innocence; but Inis absolutely de
veloped a crime tlmt we hadn’t thought
of—-that of receiving pay for a criminal
prosecution tlmt he himself denominates
“that bad case.”
One more thing vve would like to have
| explained: by what authority a United
States Commissioner charges fifty dollars
for taking an appearance bond iu Colquitt
■county?
We wisli it distinctly understood that vve
arc not warring against the man or men,
for we would not hurt a hair on their
unhallowed heads unless provoked, Imt it
is their official acts that we make war up
on. We, in conclusion, say tlmt there are
wrongs patent upon the record, and that
they have failed to explain them. And to
prevent an investigation of them, they
threaten to further enquire into thatK. K.
matter, that is, the proposed ride 011 a rail
matter.
We say, without malice to nuy one, that
any man, white or black, that publicly ad
vocates the amalgamation of races ought to
: be rode 011 a rail, and a very sharp one at
that. White wc would regard it as just,
we are too merciful to do it. We have
| your figures. Tell us vvlmt tho fees were
for and vve will dismiss you, so fur os these
euses arc concerned.
Congress authorized at its last session
t llut jhe President should provide out of
the ordinary annual appropriations for the
maintenance of the United States military
cemeteries, for the proper rare and preser
! vatiou and maintenance of the cemetery
i or burial ground near the city of Mexico,
ill which are interred the remains of offi
! eer* and soldiers of the United States, and
i of citizens of tho United States, who fell
in the battle or died in and around the city ;
jof Mexico, and an officer will soon be sent
out to carry out the plan adopted,
The Madison Recorder.
The first issue of this paper has reached
. 11s and we give it a hearty welcome. We
| arc gratified to know that Madison has a
county paper once more, and hope that the
people will sustain it. and that the editor
. who touches the pen so modestly and
trends upon tho threshold of liis new life
so delicately may never regret his under
taking. Wc hope he will take a hold
I stand for his country, exert his talent to
the utmost and tend his energies in pull
! ing down the stronghold of the enemy
1 that has so “paralyzed the energies of the
j people and palsied all public spirit”!
Friend Stripling, it is no time for neutral
ity, with these results of political misrule
j.staring you in the face. Political conse
quences so disastrous to your country, so
destructive to the people’s interest, and so I
! embarrossiug to their social relations and
happiness must he met and overcome with ;
political weapons. It can bo done, it must
be done, it will be done; else the crushed
flowers of pleasure and pride that once
bloomed in every Floridian’s heart will
j never revive and blush again with the
freshness of life and beauty. It is true
there is no political campaign going on to
excite the minds of the people, but the
\ hideous deformities of political parties
may Vie discovered their corruptions ex
posed, and their ranks depleted by the
power of logic that enlightens tho masses
and revolutionizes public sentiment, and
turns the tide of oppression and restores ;
the country to health and prosperity. Tlic
third page of your paper presents ,
mournful spectacle to your readers, who
knew in former days that once opulent !
people, reveling in tl\p luxuries of that
once blessed of all countries, with hearts,
as generous and noble as their supplies
were bountiful. Who and what was the
cause of the miareulous change that has
taken place? Are the parties that did it [
in power still? Do the causes that pro- :
'■ dueed it still exist? If so, haven’t you a
work to do, in connection with all good
citizens, to subvert the causes that pro
duced such disastrous effects, and restore
v our country to tlmt prosperity its noble
people so justly merits? Come out, friend
Stripling, from the debris of Radical ru
ins, unfurl tho old States Rights Demo
cratic Banner, though it may bo soiled
and blood-stained. Bear it proudly and
call upon the people to rally around you
and your efforts will be crowned with the
happiest success. Fight upon the princi
ple that Democracy is truth, and though
crushed to earth it is still omnipotent, and
will ultimately arise and assert its great
| majesty again. There are no v isible lines
| dividing us. there is nothing iu nature that
j declares that vve are not the same people.
Therefore the geographical linen that -des
ignate the different commonwealths and
. sovereignties, and politically divide us, is
no barrier to tho emotions of our hearts
and the sympathy of our nature. We
| were oue people in the line of battle, one
*in the great druggie for Southern inde
" penitence, one on the march and in the
camp and in tlie marshal tread a* we met
the foo
One foot-fall echoed tho sound of all.
Wo were one in sadness when our cause
, was lost, one in weeping when our banner,
tattered and torn, wus furled to wave no !
; more. We are one in the celebration of !
the birth of our chieftains, one in sorrow
on the anniversaries of t|je death of our j
! fallen braves, one once in each year in de-.
1 eorating their resting places'. Shall vve j
i cease to be oue with the living? Desert
j not to the foe, encourage not the enemy j
by neutrality, but fight for Democracy— j
for freedom—and never give over the strug- -
gle. until the mountains shall echo, and the j
plains uml valleys, and the wide ocean too,
shall reverberate the joyous acclaim of |
victory! victory! victory!
FLORIDA MATTERS.
j The health of Key West is said to Vie
| excellent.
Peaches in Jacksonville are selling reodi
| ly at §1 per peck.
Henry Hutchinson has been recently
! appointed Sheriff of Franklin county.
They grow large crops of “hen fruit” in
■ and around Jacksonville.
Jacksonville complains of too much
benzine.
Jacksonville bos raised a fine crop of
j noxious weeds t&is season.
The Florida News offers to do the city 1
printing of Jacksonville at 8250 i>er an
num.
Capt. W. H. McCormick has been ap
pointed to the police force of Jackson
ville.
Wc learn that everything is now in
readiness to commence the 81 John’s bar
improvement*.
The man of the Florida Nem insinuates
that the Mayor of that town is no better
then an old grand-mother.
They arrest aud imprison a man in Jack
sonville for getting drunk. Who ever |
heard of such a thing.
The Jacksonville Xeos man has just;
heard that old John Brown is dead, j
Happy man.
The boot-blacks of Jacksonville propose
to black the "boots of newspaper men by
the wholesale, or to contract for tho whole
hide. *
We are in receipt of the first number of
the Madison Recorder. We arc glad to j
see that Madison is again ably repre- j
seated.
Tho editor of the Florida Xetcs is some- j
what out of humor in regard to the Pub- !
lie School Fund, and proposes to “go for”
the printed report as soon as it makes its j
appearance.
The Jacksonville Republican Rays: “Mr,,
J. H. Iteimer, of St, Augustine, has per
fected liis arrangements for enlarging the
Florida House, ut that place, during the j
present season."
A Washington dispatch of the Nth mst, [
s*ays: “It is stated that the defalcation of j
Horatio Jenkins, formerly revenue collec
tor ill Florida, amounts to about six thou- j
sand dollars. The goverment will lose about
one thousand five hundred dollars.”
The Jacksonville Republican says: “Our
milling interests are improving, and all
are again ill operation, vve believe. The
loss occasioned hy the strike, which prom
ised to be quite serious, will soou lie made
up.
U. 8. Conant has placed Deputy Mar
shal Tilibits, ef Tallahassee, “in charge,
custody and possession,” of tlie J., P. Sc
M. R. R., and all the property, during hia
absence nt the North. He has revoked
the appointment of G. C. Gibbs, as Depu
ty Marshal.
All enterprising darltey entered tho rear '
of the store occupied by A. Zac.lia.vius it Cos., j
of Jacksonville, the other night and ex
tracted 8255 from the money-drawer, but
had not proceeded far before be was
“taken in out of the wet” by an officer.
This from tho Jacksonville Republican:
“Dust Saturday, while being towed down
the river, the schooner Hattie, Capt.
MoClintock, hence for Point Petre, Guad
iiloupc, with cargo of lumber, struck twice
and commenced leaking 1,500 strokes nn
hour. A board of survey recommended
that she retuVu to the city for repairs. She
is now discharging her cargo, aud will Ik;
put apou the railway aud repaired with
out delay. She was loaded at Fairchild's
mill.”
This from the Jacksonville Republican;
“We are pleased to learn that tho experi
ment in growing cane and other crops, be
ing made at Black Point, this year, by
C. D. Brigham, Esq., late of Pittsburg,
Pa., arc very satisfactory, exceeding bis
expectations so far. He has eighteen
acres in cane, which has made a very
rapid, vigorous grow th, much of it being
six to seven feet high.
-
Tho Advertiser am I Republican says: i
Miami- University, Oxford, Ohio, has sus
pended, owing to financial embarrassment*.
The fact is a warning which ought not to
be disregarded. Universities, so-called,
which are, in fact, nothing but boarding
schools, are scattered all over the land.
Western towns, especially, seem tq have
a mania for establishing universities just as
they have for opera houses, and with no
better hope of supporting tlie one than
the other. They are comparatively use
less in an educational point of view, and
nearly always impecunious in a financial.
It would be the part of wisdom to make
those which we have better rather
than to start anew one every time a town
is started.
A most important piece of political in
telligence comes from Washington. It is
that Senator Cameron has declared
j himself in fav or of General Grant for a
third term.
STATE GOSSIP.
Hawkinsville ho* a string bund and min- ;
strei troupe.
. Tho death of Mrs. M. L. Davis, of
Dooley county, is announced.
Homebody is after “Juke, the whisky
selling Jew,” of Hawkinsville.
The crops along the line of the Htate j
Road are reported looking well.
A negro boy wo* accidentally drowned
in the Savannah river the other day. .
§
The condition of the cotton crop in '
Burke county has materially improved.
Bated wool is selling in Hnwkinsvilhqat
27) cents, and loose wool at 25} cents.
A screech owl scared new life into a j
Thomaaville man the other day.
It is said that the caterpillar has made 1
its appearance in the northwestern section
of Glynn county.
The steamship Montgomery, wliiofa left j
Savannah last Saturday for New York, car
ried with her 3,090 watermelons.
Mr. R. 11. Howell, of Havannah, died '
at liis residence in that city on the 20th.
He hail been an invalid for some time.
A certain clerk and one of the M. D's
met 011 a plank the other day iu Fort Val
ley, and immediately proceeded to play
“dog and bear.”
An umbrella which had two oxen bitched
to it blew out of a wagon a few day* since
in Fort Volley and slightly Beared the in- \
habitant*.
A negro man at the Atlantic and Gulf 1
Railroad depot in Thomuavilte was caught
between two freight cars the other day and
slightly injured.
David Herring, who keeps a store at
King's Ferry, near St. Mary s, was se-j
verely stabbed in tlie abdomen a few days
since by a man named Martin Geiger.
He who can cut a twenty-five pound
cholera torpedo without afterwards swear
ing at the inconvenience occasioned there
by we unhesitatingly pronounce a happy
man and a Christian.
A colored man by tlie name of James
Robertson, living on the farm of Mr. YVm.
Collins, near Hawlriuavilte, wus allot at and
wounded by some person unknown while
sitting iu his cabin a few night* since.
Some enterprising individual “lifted” a
fine set of single harness, a splendid sad
dle, a clock, and a fine •broadcloth coat
from the stable of Capt. M. A. Dehoney,
of Savannah, one night last week.
Mules-in some part* of Georgia make I
it a point to let the citizens know when
they arrive iu town by laughing at them,
and whenc hu*tried by tlieir drivers for:
tlieir insolence, they start oft’ aud try to
break up yrings.
A colored drinkist of the feminine way ,
of tucking herself into bed, by the name :
of Rosa I’olite, got rather too much lieu- !
zinc ahead the other day, and while iu I
that condition seated herself upon the j
track of the Savannah and Charleston Rail
road, near the Fair Grounds, from which
she was lifted by the morning passenger
train and set so gently down that she died
in a few minutes.
The Advertiser and Republican of the
19th, ha* this: “Among the cases on tho ;
information docket yesterday was that of
Mr. Christopher Murphy, charged with
erecting a wooden building on Broughtou ;
street lane. The decision of the Recorder
was that the defendant pay ten dollars per
day for the five days which the building
has remained up, uud that the building
be removed in ten days; in default, that
ho pay ten dollars per day as long as the
building remains up after said ten days.” i
This from tho Thomasville Enterprise .
“The crop prospect* in this county were j
universally promising, excepting the eater
pillar, up to a few days ago. More than
an average corn crop has been made; su
gar cane and sweet potatoes are promising,
and cotton, though considerably behind
tlie sciusou, is weeding and fruiting rap
idly. But since Saturday the weather has
been cool and cloudy and showers fre
quent aud copious. Should this continue,
caterpillars will become general, cotton
will shed and fodder be ruined.”
The Fort Valley Mirror says of the
crops: “YVe hear encouraging reports of
good crops from all quarters. The fanners
are in good spirits and it seems that our
impoverished people will be peculiarly
blessed this season. Our farmers are not
much involved, and if uo disaster in the
way of freshets, etc., overtakes the crops
the people generally will be in a better
tiuaucitU condition than they have been
since tlie war. YVe firmly lie hove that
Houston county will make a sufficiency of
corn for home consumption.
Sometimes brains and sometimes none.
How are we to please that man of the Sea
port Appeal ? Ho said he had test liis
brains, and wc agreed with him and told
him we had discovered the fact some time
before. YVe didn’t boast of the discovery
—thought everybody else knew it. That
created a sensation in the vacuum oe
eaaioned by the summer’s heat. In his
excitement while dancing with hismonkeys ,
on his plank across the creek he swore in
his wrath that we had brains an eternity
of fire couldn’t melt. YVe agreed with
him and told him that as his father was the
keeper of those regions of heat, we hoped
he would excuse us from goins home with
him. Now, after two week* hard study
he inplyedlv declares that he has recovered
his brains, and candor com pells us to agree
with him again, and spmpathv constrains
ns to condole with him that he Ini* found
his own and none better. Now, brother
Smith, yon get up an excellent paper, and j
we are always pleased when it comes to us.
If you will just keep your head cool, quit
dancing on that plank by moonlight you
will succeed and your paper will be par i
excellent.
(Letter from the Hew York Son.]
The Walworth’s in Washington.
YVlieu the civil war commenced Mrs.
Walworth took sides with the South. She
was a Southern woman, and all her
friends were thoroughly enlisted in the
cause of the South. She was anxious for
her husband to go South and join the Con
federate army. He had, however, no dis
position to win glory on the gory field of
battle, and an opportunity offering he ac
cepted u position in the Htate Department
under ilr. Howard. His wife followed him
to Washington, and here was thrown very
paturally in contact with all the active
conspiring .Southern spirit*. There were
at that tune a number of extraordinary
women in YVasbington—who were in con
stant communication with the enemy and 1
continually conspiring to obtain important
information of the intentions of the Fed
eral leaders and of the movement, of the
Union armies. The center of this,
system of spies was a Mrs. lUie
Grenough and a Mrs. Morris. The former
was on old resident of Washington, highly
connected, intelligent, refined, aud on
terms of intimacy with almost every man
who had lieen in public life during 'many
years. The luttor wus not so highly con
nected nor moving in tlie same high so
cial circle prior to the war. But she wn*
beautiful uud accomplished, a Y’irginiiin
by birth, the wife of 11 proud descendant
of one of Virginia's most aristocratic fami
lies. She bud separated from tills mail
after a brief honey-moon spent in Faria,
and in more sober times would have beeu
quietly tabooed by the very people who
now received and patronized her because
she was smart, had intercourse with prom-!
incut Union people, and the ability and
will to ilo aud dare for what they termed
tile holy cause of the South.” Mrs. Wal
worth, herself a proud Kentucky lady,
thoroughly in sympathy with the South,
met the little coterie of rebels who sur
rounded these two remarkable women.
They knew her and the high position of,
her husband's family in New York. They
encouraged her in her noble devotion to |
her native land, slid joined their peraua-1
sinus to hers to induce Walworth to join
Beauregard's army, which was then be- ,
leaguenng Washington. He, although
not very enthusiastic in the cause, was per
fectly willing to go, provided he could at
tain a rank corresponding to his idea* of 1
his own importance. Through Mrs. Mor
ris, General Beauregard wua communicat
ed with, und in due time an answer was
received that Mansfield Tracy Walworth
oould have the position of first lieutenant I
in the regular army of the Confederate
States of America. This was not what
YValworth expected. His expectations
mounted as high as a Brigadier General
ship, while a Colonelcy was the least rank
liis vaulting ambition would allow him to j
accept Another effort was made by the
Greenough-Morris cote no to get him a
Colonel's commission, but it was unsuc
cessful.
The Confederate General replied to their
second urgent solicitation that there was
au induqssdtion on the part of their sol
diers tii serve under officers they did not
know personally or by reputation. He,
however, suggested that YYulworth could
serve the cause of tlie Confederacy in hi*
present station more effectually than in the
Held. He held a position in the Federal
State Department, was trusted, had friends
and influence, aifd could be advanced at
the same time he could aid tlie cause he j
really loved by transmitting through his
friends of the coterie all the important
diplomatic secrets of the United States
Government This was rather more to
Walworth's taste than winning renown at
the cannon’s moutli. and he determined to
act upon Beauregard’s advice. For some
time he aud his confederates drove their
trade with perfect impunity. He was in
this way thrown frequently in the society
of Mrs. Morris, and her bewitching ways
and bright, piquant face soon captivated
him. She was then in the heydoy of her
charms a brunette with coal black eyes
that dantted and dazzled or flashed and
flamed us love aud passion or hate and re
venge prompted. Her figure was passing ;
good, and her face, though not pretty, was
attractive. The nose was rather prominent, •
and tho forehead low and slightly reced-!
ing, but the extraordinary breadth from
temple to temple testified to a good under
standing, a well balanced mind and a will:
of her own. Rarely, if ever, has any
cause enlisted as its devoted, self-sacrificing
agent a woman of more resolute courage,
of more consummate cunning than Mrs.
Morris. Her life was joyless, for all her
hopes were recked on a man who either
loved not or was not loved. She there
fore needed the excitement, the danger of
a life like this, and once entered upon it,
all the finer sensibilities—the angel part of
her natnre—soon disappeared. All the
arts and wiles of depraved womanhood
came iu their stead, and the end justifying
the means, she could coolly plot min and
wretchedness for a luippy household in or
der to gain her point and serve her em
ployer. She had bewitched a young and
gallant officer on General Sickle’s staff,
and through him obtained the earliest in
formation m regard to the movements of
the armies. YY ulworth was used also to
obtain the secrets of the YYiir ns well as the
State Department, and thus all went on
swimmingly for a time. His wife was
heartily hi accord with him—nay, was
rather deeper in the plot and more active
aud efficient than he was.
One night Stanton’s trusted chief of se
cret service, whose equal in the detective
line never lived, quietly arrested the cote- j
ric of spies and housed them iu the Old
Capitol prison. Mrs. Walworth alone was
undisturbed. Her husband deserved death, j
and had little hope of escaping. He i
broke down utterly, and showed bow little j
of true manhood there was in him by
making puerile confessions to Assistant
Secretary YY'atsou, iu w hich he cast all the
blame on Mrs. Morris. He had, however,
love sufficient and manliness enough to i
save his wife—the real author of his mis-!
fortunes. The records of the YVar Depart
ment will show how he begged for mercy
—how he declared it was love for a strange
woman, a terrible fascination—that led
him to betray his honor aud his country
His friends interceded for his life, and
Stanton, believing him to be harmless, al
lowed him to go free, provided be went to
Saratoga and daily reported by letter to
the department.
His wife learned of the confession he j
bad made—made, as I really believe, first;
to sgi-e his life, and second to shield her;
aud from that hour she ceased to even re
spect him. He had been unfaithful and
her heart was steeled against him. The
domestic troubles grew worse and worse
from that forward, until they culminated
in the separation.
The natural disposition of YValworth to
jealousy was also aroused because his
brother Clarence was devoted to his wife,
and took upon himself to act the part of
protector to her und of guardian to her
children. His hair-Brained mind was al
most overturned, aud hi* passions, unres
trained from boyhood, carried liim into
the same excesses of threats and vsquir
ing w hich, as I have said, he indulged in
during his yo ’Ji and early manhood. The
dependent position in which he was left
by his father's will added to tho flames of
wild and unquenchable rage that consumed
him. He was without means and without
a profession or qualifications for any busi
ness employment. The only thing open
to him was the life of literary vagabond
age. He struggled hard for several year*,
but neither reputation nor money was
gained thereby. He bad not the talent*
requisite for a high order of literary work,
and if lie hud there wa* no ca*h demand
for it. The Weekly would take blood-and
. thunder romances at *0 much per yard,
and Carleton & Cos. would pay something
for a slightly toned down article. The
terrible letters which he wrote to his wife
are much id the same strain tR the most of
his romancing, and I have no doubt that
they were wiitten when the spell was upon
him, and that iu his sober moments he wa*
heartily ashamed of them. Nobody who
' knew him would ever have thought of
fearing the execution of any of his threats.
The following letter from a correspond
| ent of the Now York World is of special
interest at the present time: “The un
, iioimcemeut of the death of the sculptor
Rowers recalls the circumstance* surround
ing the modelling of the Greek Slave.
There was an American gentleman of
great wealth who hod a beauteous daugh
ter, beauteous iu form as iu feature and
character; but not content with this treas
ure, he added to his household a second
wife. Many persons will remember in
Paris, about thirty years ago, an old man
grieving for the loss ol a faithless wife
and a lortune tiiat disappeared with her.
Father and daughter, in their poverty and
distress, took up a temporary resi
dence in Florence, and there met Hiram
. Powers. Out of love for the destitute
father, whose sufferings from want she hail
no minus to relieve, tjje daughter con
sented to become the model for the Greek.
Slave. Friends uud relations recognize
the likeness in the beautiful statue to tho
original. But that the lady, who is still
living and ia the mother of charming
j daughters, may lie recognized, this epi
sode could be dwelt upon and the romance
;of her life continued; but it would seem
like sacrilege to lift the veil of secrecy
! from an net that wus tlie highest proof of
j filial devotion that modest muiden ever
gave to her father.
The State Department has received a
dispatch from Minister Sickles, confirming
the statement that the Spanish Government
I had issued a decree directing the return
of ail sequestered estates in Cuba to tlieir
owners. It is held at the State Depart
inent that our Government, so soon as it
has official knowledge of such degree, will
be bound to sec that it is executed, so far
as it affects American citizens. Tlie fact
that tlie Spanish Government lias not here
tofore decreed this return, has been tho
main reason assigned by Mr. Fish for not
advising the President to adopt more vig
orous measures. Tlie number of '■states
to be released by this order is about eloveu
hundred, and of these so’mo one hundred
belong to naturalized American eitizens.
One does not read of so terrible a retri
bution s that w hich overtook, last week,
a murdsriT in Chosshire. Conn. Michael
Higgins, a farm laborer, on Saturday
nigiit stabbed, fatally, John O’Neil. A
search for Higgins being instituted, bis
body vNs found in a room in the farm
house. He had died of heart disease, su
lieriuduced by excitement. Nemesis ar
rested, indicted, arranged, tried,convicted,
sentenoid and executed him almost simul
taneous If hungings are impressive,
here wus a denouement of the tragedy
which ipon many minds will be more im
pressive than forty strangulations.
A colored lady raised a difficulty with a
white lady, in Fort Y'nllev, on Monday
last, atd when tho Marshal attempted to
arrest her. she “cussed” him out in the
■ most fashionable maimer. She had a
i green-eyed monster in her gizzard as big
as a rhinoceros, and was compelled to give
; vent to her “pheelinks” in some way. It
costs oily 815 to give a Fort Valley Mar
shal a genteel cursing.
*.
Attexpteii Sricnii!.—YY T e learn, say*
the Sawnnnh Xeuo, that a young mn re
siding ki the western portion of the city
attempted suicide on TnWtday night by
cutting liis throat with a knife. He failed
in his purpose,’ however, and is now in a
fair way to recover, the wound not being of
a serious character. The cause, as we are
informed, of this attempt, was the refusal
of a young lady to accept his proposal of
marriige.
It ii rumored that Mrs. H. Hill, of Salt
Lake City pitched into Mr. A. Hill, her
divorced husband, because he came around
her house with three roses in his hat, and
oomreeneed to “twit" her about her girl
hood wildness. She drew a revolver, and
the upshot was that Mrs. Hill was fined
tea dollars.
Butt al. Mcrdek.— A dispatch from YYil
■ Hamsport., Pa., of the23d inst., says: “Isa
bella Mcßride, aged seventy, living with
j her lmsliand on a farm seven miles from
this city, was brutally murdered last night
; by being shot through the head. Her hus-
I band, John Mcßride, was knocked down
’ with a club and received seven severe cuts.
YYhcn found this afternoon Mcßride
was found lying on the floor, weltering in
his blood, but living. They were old peo
ple, lived alone, and were supposed to
have a large sum of money. Thirty thou
sand dollars was found in the house. No
! clue to the murderers.
An altercation occurred at Sanderson,
Fla., on Saturday night, between two col
ored men, Adam William* and Paul Stag
gem. Staggers accused Williams of an at
tempt to rape his daughter, and shot him
through the left side. The wound is sup
posed to be fatal. The investigation elicit
ed evidence that YY’illiams was gnilty.
Staggers is in the county jail, heavily ironed,
awaiting the result of the investigation.
Pishop Morlev was fond ofa joke. Once, when
the footman was oat of the way, he ordered tho
coachman to fetch some water trim the well,
to which the coachman made a grumbling objec
tion that his business was to drive, not to run er
rands. "Well, then,” said Morley, “bring out the
coach and four.set the pitcher inside.ana drive to
the well,” a service which was several time* repea
ted, to the great amusement of almost the entire
village.
A Wcstern stock-breeder having a horned colt,
tin scientfle men of the region tried to account
for it, and come to the conclusion that its horns
were due to the influence of the equine-ox.