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KITi'HOAI, WVEMHBII t'4, ItJJ.
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To The Press.
In accord-nee with n aerie* <>f iyholh
,-iis pnwnl by the Georgia Pres* Aw
■.riot) in Court ntimi at Arnerien*. the
I idersigTieil Committee were apjsiinled
> take uli niyiwirt ab-ps fur the forma
iii of a National, I'io-hs Association.
I he Committee having received, through
> icir Chairman, n number of favorable
i -spouses hi the proposition to form sue! t
i Association, from journalist* of several
Utto* nnd territories, giving to the C’-om
i titlee the wtanmnee of their hearty co- ;
roirwnition in the movement, deem the
•iijurt worthy of nn effort, mid the present
>ll auspicious lllolnellt to begin the
work, w e therefore issue n cull for a Cnti-
Velitjou of journalist* throughout the
Union to assemble at St. Lout*, Missouri,
on Wednesday, the 2t!th, of November,
1 M 7.5, to organize a National Pres* Ass-sun
tion.
All papers in the United States nre re
q-lcMted to iniike not iee of the plaee end]
time, nml every journalist is respeetfully
is tlieifed to attend.
The Georgia I’ress will please do ti the
favor hi keep a standing notice of the call,
until the day of meeting.
ItonKIIT L. RoDOKBS,
Cary \V. Stylus,
C. W. Hancock,
T. M. Peeples,
J. It. Reese.
Committee.
EDITOR S CORRESPONDENCE.
Savannah, ()*., Novetnher 20,18711.
My dear renders, though nhaent from
my little sanctum, nml not having had the
Opportunity of preparing any articles for
thin issue, Imt leaving everything to he
done by my foreman, I have been sojourn
iug in the Forest City now for four days,
straining eyes and ears listening mid watch
ing for something great or something
small to transpire that I might startle you
with the n-port.
On Monday and Tuesday the Great
Eastern, so culled, paraded the streets
with their blind of music and cages, fol
lowed by their steam fife, (misnamed
piano), uud though this one is of the poptt
lons cities of (he South, with every facility
for training ntnl educating the mind and
refining the morals, the citizens are
slill the subjects of excitemo nt,with a
curiosity far in excess of (ho “bnek
viiodsiucii. ■’ 1 Was utterly astonished to
s*e the multitudes lead away by a little
steam engine, trained to whistle; so 1
l.ave eotue to the conelusion at last that
people raised-in cities arc people still.
The Agricultural and Mechanical Asso
ciation of Georgia is now holding its
Third Annual Fair. On Monday all the
arrangements for the exhibition was made.
On Tuesday I learned that the attend-
Mice was very small, and from every one
in apywise connected with similar associ
ation* in other counties, we heard it pro
nounced a failure. Ho, on Wednesday, I
oe term hied hi see for myself, that I might
give you a true and unbiased statement.
n 'ho. ten o’clock train carried myself nud
s -ven or eight ladies ami three gentlemen. !
Oil our iirrivai we found some three or
tour other ladies and quite a number,
of gentlemen. The Judies, we leurned,
v;ere nil or nearly nil members of the
Memorial Association, who hud quite a
i isplay of handy work, nml n table spread
loaded with the most inviting food to
supply visitors with lunch or full meals
i-ll to he disposed of for the liem-tlt of
their society, nt reasonable prices.
As 1 am determined to he brief, I will 1
neither add to or detract, from the true j
merits of the exhibition. The managers
did all Hint was necessary, furnishing :
every facility and convenience for the ex
hibitors, especially in the house w here the
ini'iiuteetiued articles anil fancy work was
displayed. I think that part of the exlii- 1
hitjon quite a success.
Mrs. \V. I’. Glower, of Thomas county,
had her vast variety of preserves, pickles, \
jellies, jams and nectars; catsups, cordials,
brandy poaches nml wines, very well hut j
not so beautifully arranged and displayed
us they were ut Thonntsville. Her w ines,
(-(insist of fourteen different varieties cor
dials, seven; syrups, five; nectars,
preserves, thirty-live; canned fruits, two;
brandy peaches, five; catsups, eleven;;
jams, eight; pickles, twenty-five; jellies, 1
seventeen. There nre some other displays
of some of the above named articles, and
while they may be equal in quality, they
fall go far short in quantity and variety
that the Judges onniiot do otherwise than
award the premium to Mrs. Glower.
There are some horses for exhibition,
and there will lie sonic racing and a con
test by the military companies, all of which,
we understand, will come off to morrow
Why is it. with nil of these scenes and
exciting contests, which nre chaste in their
character, ami are so interesting, amusing
and instructive, do not attract the masses.
There ale various causes, but 1 hope the
causer militating against the present exhi
bition is only temporary, and will all be
removed by the next annual exhibition,
and I trust that the managers will not be
discouraged, but in the future be even
more persevering and determined to make
their enterprise in the future a grand
success. Now for the hindering causes: S
The principal one is the great scarcity of l
moiiey; again, the weather is cold and dis
agreeable; another is, all or nearly all of j
the Fair going people in the different sec
tions of the State has had Fail- enough for
one season; another great cause was that
abomination of all abominations, tin- Grant
Eastern Humbug, came, nud its immense
pavilions were thronged with eager gazers
and listeners at follies and vulgarisms, and ■
the money thus unwisely expended would
in all probability have been expended at i
the Fair Grounds. But then* is another j
cause, nml av, rv serious one, viz..: the
indifference manifested by the people of j
the city, and I have no Hesitancy in saying
that it jis not at all creditable to the citizens
who withold their patronage and refuse to
eticourage an out- rprise of such vital im
portance to the city. Grand successes in
enterprises like this are always beneficial,
while failures are detrimental to a city.
A number of country people decline at
, tending tin- Fair because the citizen* are
indifferent and will not attend. It may be
that an Agricultural and Mechanical Asso
ciation is too insignificant a thing to at
tract the attention of the citizens of Hu
vutinah; if so, the city authorities ought
to pnri-lnise the Great Eastern for the
special and perpetual amusement of her
citizens. It possibly may he that the
citizens are in delicate health, and fori
that reason don’t attend. If so, Hiiviuinah
should cease to boast of her heulthfuhiess.
If the people are trai poor to attend, then ,
let Savannah never boast of wealth. If
the beautiful articles displayed by the
ladies of the Memorial Association won’t
attract their attention and excite their
liberality w hen the proceeds are to lie ap
plied to the eoninii monition of the lost
hoys in tlm ‘ lost cause,” just let them
forget the heroes and the cause for which
j they died.
I do not In lievfi that the citizens of 8a
vauunh are wanting ill liberality, for when
ever aid to sufferers are invoked they
liberally contribute. Ho, tin ir apparent
indifference in attending the Fair is, and
must lie, uttrihiitiible to other cimst s, and
ns it is not our Fair nor out- business we
will make no effort to ascertain.
MONEY MATTERS
are decidedly improving. Gotton is in
j good demand witji an upward tendency.
| Gold declined yesterday one per cent.
This, however, is not favorable, us it. lias
a tendency to reduce the price of cotton.
The business of the city is much brisker
than it has been for some days, but I
seriously doubt its eonlinunoee. I have
made several calls at the house of Messrs.
Cliigliorn A- Gum uigham, anil everyone in
the concern is tiuqy. I learn from Mr.
Claghorn that they are still selling to their
customers on time, and that their cus
j toniers generally have dealt upright with
I them. This speaks well for the country
merchant, and it fa to he hoped that things
will soon lie better and that the planters
may yet he saved from emliarrasHnieiits.
lam now writing at the disk of Gol. J.
N. Eightfold, Commission Merchant, who
is doiijg a very extensive business. He
i sold this morning some 270 lades of cotton
j and is now negotiating for the sale of
thirty more. He is one of the most ener
getic ami one of the best business men in
the city. Ido w ish our people would con
sign tin ir cotton to him, for I can assure
them that they may rely upon him for the
highest prices nud prompt returns.
The dedication of the new Catholic Ca
thedral on yesterday afternoon was attend
eil by an immense crowd, variously esti
mated from five thousand upward. The j
ceremonies were solemn and impressive I
have no doubt. I was nimble to get.
within hearing distance of the speaker, j
1 and consequently can give no accurate I
1 account.
, Now, renders, you must excuse me this !
week, and you shall have in the future
something new and fresh.
As one of the dangerous tendencies of
the party in power, the Boston i’asl calls
attention to the fact that the ‘‘national!
administration assumes to regulate the
currency, it Hecks to manage the telegraph,
it earnestly desires to undertake the hank
ing of the nation, and now there conies a
special notification from Washington that
Congress will consider the scheme of
I loaning currency from the National Trons
' wry to individuals on mortgages of real
i estate. It is not uni'easoualilu to suppose
that a government, capable of all this can
at will establish national shoe shops, iron
mills, cotton factories and bakeries, or
build canals and railroads at public expense j
for the purpose of supplying work and
wages.” If the business men of the mi- j
tion, who warmed this serpent into life j
are stung by it at lust, it will he but his
tory repeating itself. Those who live by !
class legislation die by it at last.
Not Ready for War. -A Washington
special to the New York Post says; “The
work of preparing for war will continue,
hut therefis unimproved feeling to-day that
: such a result will bo averted. Prominent
friends of the Administration say that if
: our navy was in a better condition there
would be no hesitation in enfor ing our de
liiiinds for justice from Hpuiu.”
t “The President is represented assaying
that we are in no condition to tight now,
and that on the sea the Spaniards would
have every advantage, and tie more than a
match for our small naval fleet. ”
United States vs. Gen. Jno. C.
Vaughn.- Tii the U. S. Circuit Court, nt
Knoxville,Tenn., Saturday last, the follow
ing business was transacted:
United States vs. Jno. C. Vaughn; con
spiring to defraud the United States;
Juror withdrawn, and trial discontinued in
! consequence of sickness of defendant and
ease continued until next term.
The Press ami Herald of Sunday says:
"The illness of Gen. Vaughn was consid
ered sufficiently grave yesterday morning
to warrant telegraphing for the presence
of Ins wife, who will probably reach
I here on Tuesday, from her Georgia home.
1 East night,the symptoms were more favor
able and the patient rested quietly. Ur.
Frank A. Ramsey, his physician, was in
eoustant attendance.''
Gen. Vaughn is a resident of this county
! having moved here from Tennessee.
The Baltimore Gazette estimates the
shrinkage in cotton since the openiug of
the present season at twenty-five dollars
per bale, which, estimating the crop at
4,000,000 hales, makes the enormous ag
gregate of $100,000,000 for the shrinkage
in this one item.
Henry Antold, of Mattoon, Ills., pawned
j his pocket-book, gun, the heafsteuk for
! his family's supper, and a jug of molasses,
j for whiskey, to ouo Kellerman, a saloon
keeper, and went home raviug with intox
ication, doing damage to himself and
family. Mrs. Arnold sued Kellerman and
! obtained judgment for $1,500.
In a suit against the Illinois Central
Railroad Company for the loss of a leg nn
Effingham jury last week awarded the fair
plaintiff $15,000. The jury, being com
posed of married men, knew the value of
such things, but the railroad company is
disgusted.
LATEST NEWS.
TIIK IT BAN ([IESTION.
THE SPANISH CABINET IN
SESSION,
Tlll :FAT B OF TIIK It EM V INING
CREW OF TIIE VIIUIIAII S.
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COMMCSirA TIGS ISTERTUPTRb.
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WHAT THE LONDON PAPERS HAY.
THE ANNEXATION OF CUBA TO THE
UNITED STATES.
EECBifITIHO FOB IHE NAVY -N NEW V E
Shipment of Arms for the Spanish
Government.
HONS TWKKII POtMl Ul lI.TY ON ALL
TIIK COUNT*.
TIIK Si-AXISH I AIIINKT.
Madrid, November 18. The Spanish
I Cabinet are unanimously in favor of a
satisfactory and honorable settlement as to
, the Virginias difficulty, but regard the
j maintenance of the integrity of Spanish
! territory as essential.
The Diurio Espnnol, the organ of the
Alphonsoists, and a journal hostile to the
present ministry, advises the Government
; to send Hinkles his passports.
I TIIK REMAINDER OF THE VIROINIL'H CREW.
Havana, November 18.—Of the Vir
giniiiH crew not executed, four were con
demned to the chain gang for life, three
■ to eight years imprisonment, eight to four
! years imprisonment, and three were set at
liberty.
ARRIVAL OF THE VIROINM'H.
Havana, November 18. -The steamer
: Virginias arrived here this afternoon, fly
ing the Spanish colors. The Isabella la
| Oatolieu anil another man-of-war were in
advance, the Virginias following, and the
i Tornado in the rear.
INTERRUPTED COMMUNICATION.
Havana, November 18. —Owing to the
continuous cutting of the telegraph w ires i
in the vicinity of Manzanillo, news from
there to the 14th inst. hits just been re
ceived by steamer, and from thence tele-.
graphed here. The people were in aar of
another attack from the Cuban forces who
still encircle the town, anil have cut off all
communication between the town and the j
interior. Additional barricades have been |
constructed, and some streets leading to
wards the interior are completely ob
structed. Reinforcements reached the
city yesterday, anil the crews of a few
gunboats in the harbor came ashore at
night to do guard duty and assist in de
fending the city in ease of another attack.
A largi number of families have left the
city, while Olliers, especially women mid
children, are aboard the gunboats and
other vessels lying in the harbor.
TIIE LONDON TELEGRAPH ON THE ALI. 1
ABSORBING QUESTION.
London, November 28. —The Daily'
Teleyraph this morning, in a leading ar
ticle on the Virginias affair, says: ‘•Con
siderations of policy uud humanity would
lend England to view favorably the annex
ntion of Cuba to the United States. That
the American Government will await the |
reassembling of Congress before taking
action in the Virginias matter, is an evi
dence that its policy will not be governed i
by the popular clamors. We do not de
spair of a peaceful solution of the question. I
111 view of the difficulty the United States
would experience in retaining possession
I of Cuba it annexed, we would advise the
j Government of that country to ueknowl
1 edge the belligerency of the insurgents,
and ultimately guarantee the independence
; of the island, asking in return the abo- |
j litiou of slavery.”
THE LONDON DAILY NEWS ON THE VIKOINIIS
QUESTION.
London, November lit.—The London
Daily Sen’s, on the Virginias outrage,
hopes that England and America will act
in concert.
RECRUITING FOR THE NAVY.
New York, November 18. Recruiting
J for the navy is going on briskly here.
HELP FOR TIIE WllalWS AND ORPHANS.
New York, November 18. —The Charity
Dramatic Association give a performance
at the Academy of Music oil December 20,
for the benefit of tlic w idows and orphans
j of the victims of theVirgiuius massacre.
ARMS FOR THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT.
New York, November 18.—This after
noon the Havana mail steamer Wiiming
| ton took out fourteen large eases contain
ing several hundred Remington rifles for
the Spanish Government. She also took
a large quantity of provisions.
BELLIGERENT RIGHTS.
New York, November 19.—The Liberal
Republican General Committee resolved
tint the Cubans be entitled to belligerent
rights, and making it obligatory ou nil
, nations to arrest volunteer atrocities. Pa
: tienee on the part of the United States
| will soon be understood by the people as
; pusillanimity.
The Tribune thinks all of the seventy of
the V.rginius crew except eighteen are
1 dead.
LATEST FROM HAVANA.
New York, November 20.—The officers
of the Mom Castle report that on tlieir
arrival at Havana the vessel was boarded.
While aboard the passengers were unmo
lested, but were seized upon landing. Six
of seventeen steerage passengers were ar
rested but discharged after being searched.
The Spanish officers explained that they
were suspected of bearing dispatches.
The persons for whom they w ere search
ing came ou the City of New York. She
was boarded upon arrival. The pusseu
1 gers were seized and searched, and six de
clared guilty. Tbtee were women. Lx
tensive correspondenc wus found secreted
iilsait their person. Cue was a niece of
Altßada, who had attracted attention dur
ing the passage by her great beauty and
brilliant conversational powers. The pris
oners were confined in the cabin and their
fate was unknown when the Moro Castle
left. Bambettu, express agent, attempt
ed to throw some papers out of a w indow,
hut they fell short. He was at once con
demned to death. Ry the extensive cor
respomhnee which laid been seized many
persons on the Island, hitherto unsuspect
ed, were implicated, nud as the Moro Cas
tle left Havana they were being shot w ith
out mercy. It was estimated that about
forty patriots on various portions of the
island had met tl i< fat.. In the mean
time the most extensive preparations for
the reception of the Tornado were going
forward in Havana. Her Captain and en
gineers were Inuded to the skies, and tile
admiration of tlieir heroism and valor was
unlioumled. Huhsciiptions in their behalf
met a generous response everywhere, nml
paper* were circulated to the uiot distaut
{■arts of the island. In the meantime, the
General of Marines or Admiral, addressed
the people, saying that the officers had
only dime tlieir duty, anil desired no pub
j lie demonstration. They were paid for it
i by the nnvv, in whose service the glorious
deeds lmd liern accomplished; Imt the
people arid press took different ground*
The heroes had accomplished ill- i
achievement* i- 4-dialf of the people
they belonged to the people -and the peo
ple were determined they should not go
unrewarded.
OUR COMPLICATIONS WITH SPAIN.
Washington, November 19. -The im
pression is general in official anil other
circle*here to-day that the Hiinih Gov
ernment is disposed to make every effort
to settle the impending difficulties, end
gentlemen who hold intimate personal re
lations with the President assert their lm
lief that u war will not arise from the pres
ent, complications, inasmuch ns Hitin.
I through (’ostelnr, has given assurance*
that all proper demands from this Gov
ernment will he complied with. The en
ergy and promptitude of Secretary Robe
sou in presenting a lsild front by our navy
have been a subject of much favorable
comment here, and the fact that the ef
ficiency of our naval service is being
demonstrated so completely, is set forth
as one of the reasons for the impression
that war is not likely to result from the
pending trouble*.
A letter was received in this city to-day
from General Longstreet, offering tie
services of twenty-live thousand men to
the Government should a necessity arise
therefor.
MIGNIFII ANT.
Washington, November 20. The fol
lowing significant paragraph is furnished
from u reliable source :
“Evidences uceuninhite that Cuban mat
ter* will require much correspondence and
delay. No complications need he feared,
as flic Administration sees its way clear,
and while a war will Is- avoided, Cuba will
Is- free.”
It is understood that Secretary Fish lms
made an imperative demand upon Spain
for the immediate restoration of property
sequestrated from American citizens in
Culm, as he desires to report to Congress
that the stipulated restoration has been
made.
BURRIEL, THE BUTCHER.
New York, November 20. The follow
ing is an extract from a private letter re
ceived from Cuba Monday : “On the Bth
inst., at 5 p. in.. Captain General Jovellar
telegraphed to Btirriel that the Spanish
Minister at Washington advised him not
to shoot any more men. The telegram
was received by Burriel at Santiago de
Cuba early on the Bth. On the 10th, he
shot the fifty-seven men. O n. Jovellar
says that he comprehended the necessity
of saving the lives of these men, t>nt was
over-ruled.”
FINANCIERING
New York, November 19. Ely J Blake
advanced SBOO,OOO of the surplus of the
Mercantile National Bank to the Domestic
8-wing Machine concern, wht-r. of Blake's
partner in the Hewing Machine concern
protested, and Blake resigned the Presi
dency.
the tweed case.
New York, November 19. The Tweed
jury rendered a verdict of guilty on all the
counts. The de;. see took no exceptions
to any except the general verdict on all
counts. The defence waived arrest of
judgment on the ground of want of juris
diction, and that the act creating the
hoard of audit was repealed by the act of
1878.
The court replied that it was useless to
waste time, as the court was convinced on
these points. The defense remonstrated.
Judge Davis replied that he lmd no inten
tion to wound the feelings of counsel for
defense.
The defense said that answers by the
prosecution to points made by the defense
were humiliating, the prosecutor calling
them trifling.
TAX ON CHURCH AND SCHOOL PROPERTY.
Trenton, N. J., November 19. —The
Constitutional Convention has refused to
exempt church and school property from
taxation.
THE ODD FELLOWS.
Philadelphia, November 19.— The
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows oppose the
abolition of the Encampment branch
order, nud the Grand Secretary was di
rected to inform sister Grand Lodges of
its action.
small pox.
Cleveland, November 19.— Ther are
sixty small pox cases here, and the disease
is increasing.
A Chance, fcb Bismarck.— The steamer
Frankfort, whose mails were seized a few
days ago at Havana, is a German Lloyd
vessel, sailing from New Orleans to Havre
! and Bremen, touching at Havana.
The bats are so thick at Yorktown Va.,
that evening church services are interrupt
ed by the minister dodging.
Ceorr ; a Column.
The small-pox prevails in Mueon.
There is a nrgr< woman in Troupe
! county 118 years old.
It is said that the lumber shipment from
I Georgia lost year amounted to 290,401'.
948 feet.
Tin* young lad i fe*. who was run over
l by a ilriiv lust week in Savannah has since
[ died.
Wm. Thompson nml Mingo Norman
| both colored made their escape from th<-
jail ill Hinesville last week.
The Supreme Court of the United State*
i has refused the motion for u new I ■' in
the ease of Milfon Malone, for the murder
i of Phillips in Atlanta.
A white girl eloped with n negro the
other day in Augusta. It issaid they were
to lie married by a colored justice of the
peace in Hamburg'.
The Singer Sewing Machine Company
jof Savannah donated a sewing tmw-bine
valued at oue hundred dollar*.to he raffled
j at the F dr for the sufferer* in Bainhridge.
Early County AVir* : The Tow n CVmn
! eil. at it*meeting on Monday night h-vi and
' II tax of one-fourth of one percent, to ru-et
! the current expenses of the town for the
i present year.
The liquor store of Capt W M T>- vid
! son of Savannah was entered on Sunday
:u ip lit la-I by burglars. They succeeded
in carrying off atwmt fiv- thousand cigars
and some bottles of champagne.
Hull. A. If S*eph- n* has renrhed Ae
iriistn in route for Washington. He has
’ made an early sturt in ord r to lieeome ac
customed to th<- colder weather of th-
North before the opening of Congress.
Captain David If. Dillon advertise* in
•heSavannah |aqa-rs fur information enn
, reining the wherenbimta of James Tapper,
i a machinist and blacksmith. Any such
inform tion will be acceptable to Capl.au
; Dillon.
Hinesville (la A few days ago,
! while Mr. It. it. M. S o ppurd was regu
lating his saw gin, his hand was aeeident
: ally caught, and la-fore the giti could In
stepped, u portion of one of his finger*
was cut off, uud hi am terribly lacerated
from the wrist to the elbow. The wound,
although not dangerous, is exceedingly
painful.
The Brunswick Appeal relates that sev
era! years ago a very wicked colored man
professed conversion, and wan taken by
liis pastor to be baptised in one of the
i small creeks on the coast, which was tin
usual place for baptising. It happened
-hiring a season w lieu shrimp* were very
j abundant. The minister hii-1 our friend
went down into the water, and everything
being ready, the words “I lmptizc thee,”
-Ye., were uttered, hut nt the word “Sou,"
the colored man cried out: “Stop, ni*su.
| stop, debt d—d shrimp, iln tickle me.”
A curiosity ha* been exhumed in Au
gusta. The Chraniiie says that ou Fri
day last, while a colored man named Adam
Nelson was digging up n large light wood
stump, in wbat is known as I)• Laigh ’s
swamp, about three mib s from tin- city,
he suddenly perceived ill tli*'hole h had
! dug what w:i apparently a human hand.
I Although far the moment almost para
i ivzed by the discovery, he soon stooped
j ilown and picked up the thing. Hi* first
I impression was correct. It was moot ei r
! lainlv a human hand, but completely pet
rified. and ns bard us adamant. After ga
zing id I lie singular affair |cr h few miu
! ot s, Nelson came to the conclusion that
i the body to which the hand belonged must
|he buried under lls resinous ro.it* of the
■ huge .stump. H-- therefore set to work,
, and in a short time had tire List portion of
wfiat Was elsce a mig’ dy iL uarr-i o. tii
forest on the surface on the ground. Wind
all ohjeet then in- t his eager gaze 1 In tie-
I bottom of the hole was lying, in a si in
wht cramped position, the entire body oi
j a man, with the - xr< ption of the hand
j jir- vioasly found, the whole figure was
' petrified like tire hand, and had the ap
! pearance of a stone image. The skull was
cleft in twain almost to the lurk, mid nt ar
s by wsiH lying a heavy atone hatchet which
hail evid idly been listed to do the deadly
i work. The le-gio carefully raised the
| figure from th- hole, and carried it. to
gether with the lmlid and ludchet, to hi
cabin mar the Savannah road. He says
j he intends to sell them to same museum it
j the authorities have no objection.
The Grant Parish Horror. — From a
reliable geutleman, who has just arrived
iu the city ou the steamboat Ghtdiola, we
glean the following late news iu relation
j to the end and just deserts of one of the
1 wretches who waa implicated iu this brutal
: affair :
The stenmlioat GhtdioLt arrived at Col
fix am Saturday evening, uud several of
i I r officers and pass ng> rs went ashore,
I and there they heard the particulars of
i the crime, and further that one negro
i m sn. whose name isn.l.l not he b urned,
j but who was certainly implicated in the
1 affair, and was supposed to U the leader,
j hod met his death by the bauds of the
i justly enraged citizens of the parish.
It is believed that among the citizens
who succeeded iu hunting down this
I wretch were many of them colored peo
: pie, who deprecate i.i the strongest Lux
' ■'iLe 1 the inhuman act perpetrabal by
li*-hi; outlaws. Before the death of the
, negro who wits caught, he confessed his
! crime and gave the names of eleven others
i who were eoneerned in the hellish treat
■ meat of the young lady. The citizens of
the parish have i.o obj. - tion to the law
| taking it* proper course, 1 hey only insist
ing that this ease bo acted ou at once, and
j without delay.
The little child who was so brutally
' treated, together with the deceased young
: lady, and who was left out on the road
; side in the chill air all night, it is thought
will die.— St’tc Orleans I‘wat/ime, Vlth.
Adulterated Teas. — There is a vig
orous outcry in England just now about
spurious tea. It has been discovered that
the London bonded warehouses, at this
moment, are running over w ith tea which
“the heathen Chinee” lias adulterated with
sand, iron tilings, and various deleterious
coloring matter. Some of the journals are
calling upon the government to destroy
the spurious merchandise, and to taka
striugent measures to prevent additional
importations, otherwise the British con
stitution will be seriously impaired—-or
rather the constitutions of all that numer
ous class of Her Majesty’s subjects who
indulge in tea-drinking—while members
of the medical profession are seeking to
quiet uneasiness on the subject by argu
ments to prove that sand and iron filings,
after nil, are not necessarily fatal in the
tea cup.
A Havana letter gives the following ae-
I count of the execution of the Virginius
i prisoners at Santiago de Cuba: The four
prisoners w ere shot at the place made fa
| mous by previous executions, and in the
! usual manner, kneeling close to the slaugh
ter-house wall. All marched to the spot
with firmness, Bambettu and Ryan show
ing marked courage, although the former
was slightly affected toward the last. The
| two others quite brok down before :;*ey
were bandaged, but Bynu kept up to the,
last, never flinched a moment, and died
without fear or regret. Bambettn and Ryan
were killed nt the first discharge.
Arlington.
Among the many bruti.lities of language
attributed to the Lite Secretary Stanton,
and made matters of praise among Lis ad
mirers. none ever seine and to us more offen
sive than hi', boast that he hud buried
the Federal dead nt Arlington, in order
that its owner—a woman too—should nev
er lie able to claim her own. He utilized,
as the phrase ia, the sentiment of rever
ence for the resting-place of the ih ad by
making it the mean* of cheating the liv
ing. Mr. Htanton was a lawyer, and had
the credit of being u good one. He knew
what the Constitution provided. He hud
sworn to obey it often enough. He knew
no oue better—that there was no such
thing a* “corruption of blood," and that
no forfeiture, except during life, and th. t
the life of the person attainted, hi and any
effect. He km *. and those (the mind r
is rapidly diminishing)’who admire him,
know now. that the title of the United
States to the Arlington estate is utterly
worthless. The property never wo*Gen.
Lee's. If there wasan old-fashined com
mon law L-tircst ill it, it was divested by
his death.. His wife was never ‘attainted. ”
The thorough sympathy she no doubt ha-1
wish her heroic husband may !• a great
clime in “loyal” estimation; hut it we
never legally ascertained. Now she is
dead, too—and luT husband long since,
anil .St ntou. 100, an 1 the lawn ol Arling
ton isstndd-'l vc it tl graves ,-nd to which
burial place of the three is the sentiment
of the Ann ricati J i epic, North arid ha.ulh.
How attracted. To one who knows, or
cares, where Htanton is luirii and, there are
thousands who would gladly go ands e! u
tear on tile secluded t--mti where Robert
L. Lee sleeps, *nd where Mary Cnstis Let .
the wife of ttjsiwisoni-—the mother of his
children —bus just been laid, tenderly und
reverently, beside him. —Baltimore Ga
zette.
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Smith and Joliuson—How Ran Eival
Stage Lines.
In Utnli Ten lory there were two rival
one mn by a man iirtmed
Smith, mul another run by a man nmmd
Johnson The competitiou wjw so great
that at hist both limn* <-;irrietl people f<i
uctliing. a id guve tiicui j r e > and 8
Smith oltereil tree rides andaßurlow kmte
to cseli jtoisheriger. Johusoit olV* reii a
boiled hliiit. Brnith saw that and went
one better by giving a pound of Bologna
sausage with the shill. Johnson adopted
the sausjtge, and distributed gold-bunded
canes ami eople* of Watts' tiyrans. Sin.'
ruiiifd, and ottered nil oi Johnnon's prenu
mm. with a litter of pups and a hunch ot
tooth-piulxN t< ea.>h man. But Johnson
took all the travel by [Living tin old debts
ot each paasengc*r ajd and thug him a cem
etery lot. Smith turned the tide lint *<i
uttdv in Ins direction by giving each h i
low u pair of mules, a chnuh p w and
1,500 aimres of stork in the Bacific railroad.
Tiieii Johnson deb nmned upon his master
stroke. He went to Brigham Young and
got a special dispensation, and then ia
oilcied to marry ail'tliie women who 101U*
in his stages, to take all the men into
partnership, and to give gum rings to all
the babn-.s. Smith was broken np and
hud to st 11 out and abandon the business.
Johnson now has l,Tib wives, l.aK) part
ners, and he is indebted to an India rub
ber mail for six bushel* of guru rings. But
he killed Smith, ami he is now happy*—
[Uux Ad. k r.
—
A Child Bride.—While we were in the
court house in Linn last week, ii.lt mua
to the tv-rimony iu the ease of tii 8:..t
vs. Lade, for alaiialoning' 1 i.S wife anu
eliilderu, a little girl won iuti.slued us
witness. In manner uud peneml appear
iuoe si:, was ' imply 11 child, and we laul.y
thonpi.t oiißht, oil ueeonut of her you!. ,
iuivo been spared the ordeal to which
witnesses iu a court of j istiee aragen- a iy
sabjecD'd. Tli first qisenfiou asked by tin
attorney was;
“Are you a married lady?”
Our astouishnii nt can t>e le-tter imuir
mod than described, when sin- promptly
replied:
“Yes, sir.” ,
“How long have you been married?”
asked the lawyer.
“About two years. ”
“And how old are you now ?”
“I will he thirteen in December.”
In reply to other questions, she stated
that she and her husband hud not lived
together *itiee their marriage, nnd that
she was induced to marry through tin
tl)reals of her ither who had some mer
cenury object iu view.
After the adjournment of the court we
sought and obtained an interview with the
young lady and her mother iu order to as
certain the particulars of thiaextraordin ny
marriage. The maiden name ol thiscbild
luide was Chriteinn Lode. Ble‘ wiv* l*>rn
in this county Deceuila r 3, 18L0, i-ud was
married to Sliehael Fronkewich (aged l!lj,
.Tannary 1. 1872, being at the time of her
mar.i. ge only a ft w days over eleven
years of age 1 She stated to ns that, he;
tatber. hv threat.- of punishment in c.-se
of refusd, eomp-'ll-sl her ;o cousi-nt to this
uutiiuely union, bidding h-*r under sever
penalties to state to the justice that she
was ever fourteen years old.
♦
A Royal Rescue. The Royal family
of Portugal have been in trouble and
danger, but came out with honor and
general rejoicing. The trouble was that
of a mother about the safety of her chil
dren, and the danger was the blotting out
of the constitutional dynasty, which is a
guarantee of tin- independence, liberty
and progress of Portugal. The facts are ;
Queen Marie was at the sea-side with her
two little princes, one being the heir pre
sumptive to the Portuguese throne. Th
princes were walking with their royal
mother on the beach. They ran away
from her, hi-vlike, towards the sea, and in
their gambols w ere surprised by a wave
which came reaching after them over the
sands. It grasped the boys nml threw t aem
into u hole beyovd their depth. They
struggled to get back, but the hungry sea
refused to loosen its grasp. The queer
plunged in after them and snee-, ded in
keeping tlieir beads above the wav*-s, but
she found it impossible to return. There
was likely to be a royal funeral. A jxior
man who was a short distance off, seeing
the danger of the three, ran to their ase
-lstaiice, and succeeded iu bringing them
all safely to laud. He did not know at
the time whose lives he was saving, but
found out when his Majesty, the King,
conferred * upon him the Order of the
Tower and sword, and granted him a pe
cuniary pension. The King also present
ed the Queen with the gold medal of dis
tinction, ami premium granted to merit,
philanthropy and generosity. It is not
every mother who gets such an outward
token of distinction for saving the lives of
their own children.
Senator Charles Sonnier, who, a year
ago, was very unpopular in Massachusetts,
and censured by the Legislature of the
State ou account of his motion to st rike
the names of battles from the regimental
colors of the United States army, has, it is
stated, regained all his former popularity.
The man who moved the resolutions for
his censure has been elected to stay at
home, and tl, a defeat of Benst Butler for
Governor is set down as a Sumner triumph.
It is now predicted by the Senator’s
friends that tie will be re-elected in 1875
b.V a large majority of the Massachusetts
Legislature in spite of Butler’s plotting.
La Honda Junction.
Two baebelots, *n old one nml a young
one, kept a *orf of sfof.- aiid rnnche ou a
state route*‘-La Honda Junction, Cal.—
and (here was no serving woman in their
house. If waa not u tavern, but they ofteD
entertained limiting and fi-hing parties,
and sometimes ladies; and they li. gsu trt
feel tile need of female help. At length
they learned through the advertising
columns of a Han Francisco paper that a
young widow Italy, refined uud educated,
wanted to take charge of a gi nth man's
house in tlu- city or country, und desired
n home. Ella Chuttillicr was the name she
guve, and Sauatuan und Buyers, consulting
over the matter, concluded she was tlieir
woman. They finally engaged her, and
liked her, and tlieir guests lik and her. and
the Hansrann and Buyers runehe brightened
up amazingly under the magic touch of
the widow liuly. Bayers was a vary foolish
young man mid could not stand pros]* rity.
lie thought th- re was some mystery about
their housekeeper, and became miserable
ls-eause be could not fathom it. In hi
effort* to dive into her secret history he
managed to grossly insult Sirs. ( liattillier.
She declined to have anything more to say
to Say- re and told Haiisnuin of her troubles.
Savers began to say hard nnd unwarrant
able things about her. and she heard of
the Bcaudul through various channels.
-Sh filially made up her uiind to leave,
ami to and Bailsman that before her depart
ure she would mukeSnyi rs publicly retract
or give him a horsewhipping. Buitsmiur
tried to dissuade her fr, .in such measures,
but she was fully resolved and could not
be shaken. On the day of her departin'
the suigc from IYscmlero drove up full ol
passengers, and !lit' soon filled
the store of Messrs. Sausmuu A Bayers.
Mrs. Chatillier was there, ready to go, and
Buyer* was there too, when there was a
little drama of interest to those passengers.
The beautiful woman, advancing to Buyers,
thus ojx'iied the play ; “Mr. William
Ravers, you have heaped indignities upon
me ever since I have been here. Ido not
cull them insults, because it is not in vonr
power t insult me, but yon have tried to
insult me, and y--n have maligned my
character. I now demand that in tho
presence of tilts- witnesses yon retract
everything you have said, and apologize
for your uiigentlemanly conduct." The
spectators were keenly alive to the situa
tion. Saver* got very red, turned on his
heel, and in a contemptuous manner re
ins. and to make the reparation.
Mrs. Chatillier routinned: “Mr. Havers,
my father is dead, my husband i* Oen-L
■ iid I have no big brother to figdit for me.
I shall be obliged to give yon a borae
w hipping if you don't make the retraction
I have ih uu-ud-d.”
Sayers said: “Oh. go off; what will
folks think of yon. talking to me like
tint ?" The play I .-‘(-a me exciting. Mrs.
Ghattillier tralkt and out to ti.e stage and
got the driver’s whip, came hack and com
menced business. The passengers formed
a ring, and would not let S -v-r, run.
The woman used the whip-stoek with the
lash wound tightly round it with one hand
md held a eoekeil pistol in the other.
The whip stock was gradually worn into
-libers, and finally Sayers broke Hs way
■tiirough the crowd, crying us he run,
“Don’t let her shoot me.” Thorp was tre
mendous applause. Mrs. Chatillier nmv
turned to Mr. Bailsman nnd said: “Yon
l ave ever been a gentleman in your con
duct towards me. I told yon some time
-go that srtrue tiui** I would lot you know
my true- name. It is Major Pauline (Juah
nmn.”
They lmd heard of the Major in other
et-oes All ejaculated, us it were, with
one breath—“ The Heout of the Onmber
’ “id !" There was a grand tableau. Major
Pauline Cushman mounted the box with
tl-.e <l,,ver uiul the stage drove off'. The
iriver of that stage now flourishes anew
silver-mounted whip bearing this inscrip
tion; “Presented by Mujoi Pauline Cush
man (the Scout of tin- Onnibi-riand) to H.
D. Ingalls, in return for the on-- which she
broke over the hack of William Sayers,
September 2ti, 1873, for aspersing her
reputation.”
Bailsman ami Sayers dissolved partner
ship. nnd each doeshir.on n housekeeping.
No woman need apply.— Si. Louis Repub
lican.
Though Anns stems to have carried
Mississippi for Governor, it is by no me ans
certain that he will g.-t his seat. Many
of tho best lawyers of the State share the
opinion that tic proceedings were illegal,
being in conflict with a provision of the
State constitution, which they say does
•lot authorize an election for State officer*
before 1874, There is a strong party iu
flic State who will use every lawful means
to defeat the success of the ambitions
o.'irpet-hugepr, and it is probable that th-'
question will be taken to he courts for
lee -iou. Powers, the present incumbent
and the AHornev General are both opposed
to him. and tl eti posi is wall gj-e (Lem
g:.,e. advantages in a fight lieiore the courts.
The whole affair wid doubtless r suit m a
muddle, in which the President and tli
.Attorney O- ueral of the United 8 ates w i 1
figure as prominently as they did iu tile
Louisiana trouble. Th- Ur sident may
have to exercise his excellent judgment in
determining win. h is the lawful State
Government.
Mns. Lee's Last Visit to Arlington.—
There are few modern incidents more full
of simple pathos than the quiet visit which
Mrs. Alary Custis Lee paid to her old
homestead of Arlington about three weeks
before her death. Aire. Lee had not put
in words her heart’s longing ior the place
endeared to her by so many bright associ
ations. During the Gcn- rul’s lifetime she
had not said a word about her confiscated
estate, and after his death she did no more
than consent that a modest petition should
be sent np to Congress asking that the
judgment which deprived her of her an
cient home for no fault of her own, should
at any rate be examined into, even if it
could not lie revised. I* was thought she
took this step for the good of her children,
ami not because she had any personal
feeling iu the matter. But when she felt
the hand of death begin to tightened upon
her, she painfully left the seclusion to
which ten years of rheumatic fever had
confined her, slowly and with sad interest
revisited the old homestead and the scenes
of her youth and womanhood; gazed upon
that which she had loved so well and
longed for in silence and resignation, and
then went quietly back again to Lexington
to die. It will add a pang to the sense of
loss which her friends have for this gra
cious lady, of such nobility of character
and patience in affliction, to feel that to
Ler other griefs was joined this am '-fling
yearning for the old home she could not
come back to—yearning not put in wolds
nor suspected until expressed by that most
pathetic leave- taking on the eve of death.
—A colored philosopher thus unburdened
himself on one of woman’s weuk -" > -' t ' >:
“Jim, de men don’t make such fools of
demselves about women as de women do
about men. If women looks at de moon,
dey see a man in it. If 1 dey hear a
mouse nibbling, it’s a man; and dey all
look under de bed fust thing at night to
find ! man. Why, 1 nebber took nutter
niv bed to find a woman; does you ?'