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THE INDEPENDENT.
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H4vruD.iv, jiM iat is, is? 4.
J. C. GALLAHER, Editor and Proprietor.
ME LEGISLATIVE
is in notion; u bat will it do ? I# there
Buy mlhUou actually .nooeasaryf '‘Wheth
er or n >t there ought to be a Gpostitu
tioual Jo vention” will be a question, the
clisou#*: ion of which will consume tnueb
time i*t a great cost to the State. If Uie
pro** < f (h* Stnto i* correctly* reported,
and if it Mho true oxjwwent of popular
nontiiuerit.thc iwlVdCAteM of the (Jonrwition
if largely iu the majority. Although there
wan a meeting held in Quitman on the
(i*h for fc. to aarcrtnin the sentiment of the
people on the subject of a Convention,
and although the expression of that meet
ing w.m in favor of a Convention, wo, uev
ei*ttieb*H, believe that the popular senti
ment, if it could Ve fully obtained, ih over
whelmingly against it. As we stated in
our bwfc issue, those favoring it took an
active interest in the meeting, while those
opposing it manifested no interest, what
ever. if the Legislature will submit the
question to the )i*opie—"Convention or no
Convention” -and at the same time rote
I**r the candidates that they wish to rep*
r -nt them in the Convention, should the
quant lon be carried, we firmly believe the
i . j,de would vote “No Convention.” And
it in n rt t done on account of expenses, but
from the fact that they do not believe
there is nu immediate necessity. We
think the fair way to submit the question,
an l the only possible way to correctly get
the popular sentiment, is to let the people
toU? for or against the Convention. It is
a matter in which we feel as little con
cern personally, and perhaps have as little
personal interest in the insue as any man
in the State; and if it wal alone for the
gratification of our own personal wishes,
we would not write a line for or against
it. Hut the people's interest ought to he
subserved, and the people's will and
wis hes ought to he consulted, and it is
that alone that we advocate, and that alone
in luces im h> mnnifrftt the interest we do.
Wo hope the Legislature will not act so
precipitately in this matter as to force a
Convention upon the people without a
svnro correct Idea of the popular senti
ment. If the question is properly submit
ted to the people the very day that de
cides the people’s choice of candidates til
the Convention will determine the popu
lar sentiment in favor of, or in opposition
to, a Convention,
After writing the above article we re
ceived a communication from Hon. E. It.
Hrmbm,giving his views upon the subject,
which corresponds, wo think, precisely
with ours. We think the Judge’s views
liiive undergone a change since the mend
ing on the first Tuesday, then, we under
stand, (for we were not present), that he,
in Liis speech,was unconditionally in favor
of n Convention. But the Judge is on the
ri.'fht truck now, and we are glad of it.
FABROW TO BE REMOVED!
Getting rid of acurso is os great, and
sometimes a greater blessing than tho re
alization of a special benefit. When the
body is diseased we can think of no greater
b! ‘ssing than the removal of the disorder.
It it if the disease is only checked and
suspended, simply to change its character
Bud location, the blessing is only tempor
ary, nr and in its changed form the disease may
be more alarming. This may be the case
w hen applied to the body politic. None
know better than the citizens of Georgia
how tho body politic has been and umybe
ai'dict 'd. We lud a Bullock, a Blodgett,
nud others that,likeeankern,cut to the very
vitals of the State; but the gnngreen, by
skilful and cauterizing,has
h -err removed and suppuration hits ceased,
aid the body, so fur as the State is con
cerned. is in good health. But the great
b idy politic known as the United States is
still as corrupt utid gungreetions as the
God-forsaken, lu 11-deserving Radical vil
lains in power can make it, and as an evi
delict bf that fact the highest ami most
responsible, and slumld be the most hon
orable. positions tire filled by tho most
1 ifvthsmun, contemptible, pusillunimons,
unscrupulous, avaricious, mercenary, licen
tious, demagogical, pettifogging, political
heretics, black-mailers, Credit Mobiliers,
lii salary grabbers, murderers, plunder
•rs, robbers and thieves; the most unmiti
gated, unrelenting, .unremitting, iueorrigi-
I e and inexorable villains that the God of
tho nuiverso ever permitted to infest a
Christian country or laud of civilization.
One of these festering sores on the body
politic was, and is, H. P. Farrow, whose
eontemptibihty and pusillanimity has en
tided him to, and kept him in, high posi
tions. He has been weighed in the Iml
t'tipes Slid found to exceed in corruption
Mid villainy even the demands of the cor
rupt administration, and for his excess of
corruption he is to be removed from the
p tsitioti of United States Attorney for the
district of Georgia, This, we think, will
piove n blessing to our State, and will en
btle Grant to some little consideration and
• speet from the people, for We know the
t irse in his appointment to tho successor
to Farrow- which, of course, w ill be the
next meanest mau he can find will not
(\jtial the blessing realised by the people
in the removal of him.
His only giomuls for his efforts to re
move old man Dunning from the Post Of-
Sce in Atlanta, and Major Smyth from the
position of United States Marshal, was
that they were free from his taint* aud cor
rup*ing influences. Iu the case of Dunning
tie succeeded Before lie himself became so
oouoxious to the President. Our readers
are familiar with Furrow's official corrup
tions. for wo have made them known, snd
there iu no necessity for further specifica
tions.
*>
Fifteen Hex man > Bills. —Thus far
this session of Congress there br.s been
introduced in the House of Representa
tives 1,045 bills, and five hundred in tho
Ben&U — enough woik to keep busy all the
Stab- Legislatures of the seVoini .S;a;o of
the Union.
DEMOCRACY SICK.
The election for Ordinary in Thomas
county, to fill till) Vacancy occasioned by i
the death of Judge Tooko, on Tuesday
last, found Democracy sick abed—-couldn’t j
turn out. Wo have some warm personal
attachment for the people of Thomas
county. But, as a whole,we have less faith
in their political energy and Democratic
steadfastness t han any county in the White.
We think, with a few honorable exceptions,
that three-fttrtttn of the Democrats of
Thomas county arc at least fifty per cent.
Republican —just ready to go either way
with the slightest hope of profit. In the
recent race for Ordinary there was two
Republican candidates and one Democrat,
who is un honorable gentleman and true
to the party; and if the sick, weak-kneed,
watery-jointed Democracy bad discharged
its duty he would have been elected by a
large plurality ) but the polls on election days
in Thomas county is the wrong place to find
Democrats. Wo lmve this to say, and we
now have the proof eonelitsivo that there
arc more inefficient, slack-twisted Demo
crats in Thomas county than any other
| county in tin* State, and yet there isn’t a
! pogitioti, District or Circuit, that she
! doesn’t claim the right to fill; and if any
of the true, ironsided, unflinching Demo
| erutie counties furnishes) un applicant she
j rends the air with bowlings of her superi
ority and right to preferment, and an unre
! liable Governor hears her cry, and in pity,
j answers with the appointment. We want
it distinctly understood that we have no
objections to the appointees, or the elects
of Thomas county. As men they urc all
right; but one or two things is demonstra
ted in tuo recent election, viz: They are
inefficient and wanting iu eneigy, or they
are unpopular and unable to wield an in
fluence with the Democratic parly. With
the energy of Brooks county Democrats,
Thomas county would have been converted
and saved from un bleating social equality
supremacy long ago. Hut Democracy is
too small a thing for the people of Thomas
county to devote their time and energies
to advance; but, at the proper time, they
use it as a convenient vehicle on which to
rid© into lucrative positions, and un
informed and pliable Governors furnishes
it to thorn already greased and varnished.
We think that the Democrats of Thomas
county would do well to come down to
Brooks mid take lessons in genuine Dem
ocratic tactics. We are informed that Mer
rill is a tnu* Democrat. We arc unable to
decide from the Thomusvillo paper* who
is who, or what is what-don’t know
whether they were for Smith, Reward,
Merrill, or any other man. We wish they
would raise their flag and keep it up so we
: may know whether they arc for or against
the mill dam.
Wo understand that Col. V. T. Mcln
tyre took his position at the polls on the
morning of the election, and commenced
working enthusiastically for the Demo
cratic candidate, but so great was the. har
vest and so few the laborers that he too
retired in disgust.
(From tlir Leeds Mercury.)
Dogs in Coi’.ncil.
It is a curious question whether animals
take notice of the events which are pass- i
ing around them, but which, nevertheless,
urn apparently outside of the sphere of
their instinct. M. Theophile Gautier, the j
well known Franeli journalist ami writer,
bus raised this question in regard to the ;
animals which were in Paris during the :
siege, and ho brings forward several fuels
which he says fell under his own observa
tion, to prove that they not only took no- i
tice of passing events, but regulated tlieir
movements accordingly. He observes that
the dogs took notice, from the very first!
day, of tin' abnormal condition of Paris.
The unusual movements of the inhabitants,
the almost universal change from civil to
military costume, the exeroising of the mo
biles anil the national guards on the pub
lic parades, the continual sounding of the j
trumpet and boating of drums kept them
constantly excited and uneasy, ands, ; !
them to reflecting. Some of them, refu
gees from the suburbs, with tlieir masters, |
visibly lost their power of finding tlieir
way about. They hesitated in Hie choice '
of streets, wore uncertain of the traces,
scouted their path and ut every corner con - ■
suited some other dog that lived in the
neighborhood. The surhurlmn dogs were
scared at the noise of passing vehicles, and
ran from them, while the city dogs scarce
lv took the trouble to get out of the way
of the wheels. “Every morning," says M.
Gautier, "there assembled before our door
what appeared to be a council of dugs,
presided over by a broad-hacked, bandy
legged, lirown and yellow terrier. The
other dogs paid him grout deference and j
listened to him attentively. It was evi
dent that he spoke to them, not after the I
manner of men, in an articulate language,
but by short barks, varied mutterings,
pursing of the lips, movements of the tail,
and expressive play of the physiognomy.
Every now and then anew comer seemed
to tiring news, and the council eommen- i
ted on it, and after a while dispersed."
This went on during the first mouth or
two of the siege, when bread was plentiful,
the stock of beef was still considerable, nml i
the dearness of forage rendered horse i
meat aliund mt. The animals did not :
suffer then, but soon things began to j
change, and their rations diminished a<
those of the men did. The poor cveatun
could not understand it, and gazed at their
owners with wondering eyes when their
meagre pittance was placed before them.
Tin y seemed to ask w hat they had done to
tie so punished. Many masters abandon
ed their dogs, not having the courage to \
kill them; and these animals were to he
setui at night wandering like shadows near
the walls, and trying to induce kind look
ing persons to have pity on them. M j
Gautier says lie was continually followed
by them, they uttering faint cries all t-he
while, and sometimes venturing to put
their noses to his hand. Soon they began
to perceive that people looked at thorn in '
a strange manner, and, under pretence of j
caressing them, felt tlieir flesh, us a butch- !
er would, to ascertain if they were in good
condition. The eats perceived this soon
er than the dogs did, and became exceed
ingly cautious ss to whom they allowed to
touch them; on the least quick movement
they fled to the roof or cellar; but at length
the dogs “smelt n rat." and ran away when
any one called or whispered to them. The ;
. canine council, before mentioned, dimin- !
i ished daily, and there soon remained no
! one of its members but tiro dreaming tm -
j rier, who, however, was only dreaming in
appearance : for in reality he was always
' on the guard, scenting danger afar off, and
; showing his heels at tin; approach of any j
' one xt ail *nsptcujr.9.
GEORGIA KEWS.
Bullock (fatuity boiiHtM of a young Indy twohty
tbro year* of age, who can split two hundred
rails a day.
Tin* Legislative Committed appointed to in
vestigate the indehtcdncHM of Font or Blodgett to
the State is now in ncfftion in Atlanta.
It is thought in Washington that I'otanh Far
row will noon ho removed from-the position of
United States District Attorney.
Mrs. Maria J. Westmoreland has lw*en engaged
for a lecture before the Young Men’s library
Association of Atlanta at an early day.
Mr. Johnnie Brock, of Columbus, aged seven
teen, and Mbs Mary Ogietree, of Brownville,
aged sixteen, were married on the 6th inwt.
It ia midu food that, the? lessees of the State
Hoad are in debt $250,000, and the surrender of
the lease is looked imon ns very probable.
Bussell county, for tin year 1873. lias received
into her treasury over 12,000 for license, almost
the entire amount being for liceuso to sell
whisky.
Way cross, at the junction of the Atlantic and
fhilf and Brunswick and Albany railroads, Is
eighteen months old, and contains two hundred
inhabitants.
Mr. Louis Wall, an employe of the Southwest
ern railroad, fit Columbus, nno of bis legs
amputated on Saturday last, An old wound re
ceived during the war rendered it necessary.
Mr. J. Tt. Graves, the clover and efficient tele
graph operator at Bain bridge, who heroically
stood bv his post all through the recent terrible
! plague, has been presented by his friends withs
I handsome gold-beaded cane.
| Mr. L. L. Harrell, of Pulaski county, made In it
| year one hundred and fifty bushels of corn and
j five Imh s uf cotton, averaging five hundred and
| twenty-seven pounds to the bale, upon twelve
! acres of land.
i A Washington county mah who runs atw -
, horse farm killed ten hogs recently that netted
| him twenty-six hundred pound# of meat. Be-
I sides this he has an abundance of corn and ten
| bales of cotton stored away for better prices.
The death of Mr. James Knight, of Macon, is
announced. Mr. Knight came to Georgia ninety
| years ago. His youngest child died recently ag< <1
; eighty, and be has grandchildren fifty years old,
lie was one hundred and ten years of ago at the
time of hi?! deftth.
Mr. M. i: Thornton, of Atlanta, has rttovelin
press in Philadelphia entitled ‘’Hylvester Lester."
I Now, Mr. Thornton has a fellow-fUWn named
I Hylvt ster Lester, h young printer. Hearing of
(lie novel and its name, Mr. Sylve#t< r Lester im
mediately addressed ft note to Mr. Thornton re
questing him to change the name of his novel,
informing him if ho did not comply he ft lit;
genuine Sylvester Lester) would make it uncom
monly warm for the author of the mythical Syl
vester Lester. Mr. Thornton replies declining
to .change the name of Iris novel, announcing that
it was named iu lmnor of a friend who has paid
him well for the compliment.
Augusta ('hriml 'l*': We have little doubt that
the organization known ns the ‘ Bond Bing*’ will
bring up their bill (during the iu xt session of
the Legislature! for the recognition of the fraud
ulent bonds ignored by the Legislature of 1871-72,
and that a decisive vote will be forced upon the
measure. The amount involved is very large,
ami the King can w* 11 afford to spend it# room y
liberally in order to insure the success of their
scheme. With Wall street to furnish tin sinews
of war, and an active corps of lobbyist# to dis
tribute them, we may expect a long and severe
campaign. It is to be expected that no mean#
will he left untried to corrupt public sediment
and debauch the Legislature, for the stake is
large and Hie ring not over scrupulous. But w
believe that the scheme will be defeated as #i.g
--! i ally and us completely as a* the lust session.
; \\V have yet an abiding confidence in the honor
and integrity of the Legislature, nml we do not
believe that it can be either intimidated or
corrupted.
FLORIDA NEWS.
I The Gainesville L'm (Bail.) ray* the liiatary of
the Florida Legislature, simv reconstruction, in
; *li#rejmtalle.
; Forgurtoft of betworn two aml tbr***
' dollar# have boon *li*eoui\tl ia the i#wic uf #urij?
| in Yladiua.
j Tlu* roof of the iu w court hon*r at Live Oak
I ha# been put on, aiul the interior work i# b* i:
[ prosecuted.
A little negro bar deliberately #< t fire to n pib
| of cotton in the Htorr* of BotHdauJer A Uo., | .jv*
| Oak, on Monday lust, ami the building w> I- a* lv
saved.
The Hon. Liberty Billing# was on Fridav re
| ducted President pro tern, of the Florida S* nut*
by ft two third# vote, including all the Ikqc.il>>
I beans.
On Wednesday night an attempt was ma le t /
burn down tho store occupied by Mr. ('. A.
Fairchilds, back *>f Itced’s new block on Ba\
street, Jacksonville.
Captain Chas. F. Smith, (\ F., of Jacksonville,
hn# been employed to locate the boundary line
between (toorgia and Florida, and will commune*
the work at u early day.
The Commissioner of tho General Land Oftir<
nt Washington says then* is no objection to bona
fair holders of homestcade availing themselves of ,
tho timber on their lauds for the production uf j
turpentine.
It is reported that n hill has been prepare*! and ,
will be brought forward early in this session of •
the Legislature, providing for th** election of i
Governor in the event of a vacancy occurring by '
; death or otlierwise.
| It i# rumored that the President lias pardoned i
| ex-Cullertor Jenkins, now rusticating at a rural!
! retreat, near Montieello, tho guest of Captain j
! Johnson. It i# at least true that the Attorney j
General Ims recommended it.
It is reported that a lull has been prepared ami
will be introduced during the present session v f
tin Legislature, allowing circuit judges a docket
fee in civil eases, ns the present salaries arc
deemed insufficiently remunerative.
St. Augustine I Wee: Mr. Frank Bonet cap
tured with his hand# (done-yesterday, something ■
of tin fish kind that is different from anything!
vet “dreamed of in our philosophy.” It may be j
briefly described a# a body like a pin- cushion. !
with retractile and projectile months. From
this extended limbs, like rattlesnakes, in color i
aijd appearance. The beast look# more like the j
hundred headed Hydra that Hercules slow, than
anything in nature.
Tho Tamp?. Cnardirin of the 3d inst. tells the!
f bowing boar story: “Henry Stevenson, of An- j
Goto, and a young gentleman named Stevens. 1
from Sumter, while* riding in the pinv woods near !
Lake Butler, discovered a bear of large size, am!
gave chase. After t iding their horses over tin
bear three times, the bear caught Stevenson's j
horse at the fetlock, ami while holding on with ;
this grip of hi# teeth, Stevenson jumped to the
ground and plunged his knife into the heart of !
Bruin, killing him instantly. The weight of the •
bear is probably some two hundred and iifty j
pounds.
Comptroller Oowgill, of Florida, gives the to- 1
(al debt of the State at $1,620,809 27. He also |
says: The receipts for the year ending December I
31. from the collection of taxes and licenses i
applicable to general State expenses, were $320,- !
830 66, and the expenditures, excluding bor- ;
rowed money and interest on 1871 bonds, were
$314,817 11. Of this $246,711 Gf> were fir tile j
regular expenses of 1873, ami $68,105 46 were
used in payment of expenses incurred previous to j
1873, including debt due Lunatic Asylum, to Bank 1
Note Company, etc. Thus, then, it appears that
the bonded and floating debt of the State is nearly i
$250,000 less than it was supposed to be a year I
ago, and that for the first time since reconstruc
tion the revenue the tttatv lm* excaeded it# j
expeaditur#.
hti:piir.\m in conuuksh.
“Weak Truth n-lcuning on her crutch.
War-wasted Jtoutb, at her utmost need,
Thy kingly intellect shall feed/’
tTssnra&o*.
It wa# a striking scene;
The frail old non —so long u stranger there —
With furrowe 1 features, and with whitened hair,
And putieiit-stHck'Mi mien,
I Using, upon his crutches, once again.
Wiiat lie deems truth and right and wisdom to
maintain.
In clarion Voice.and clear—
Broken with pa tuid tremulous with age
lie dared once more forensic war to wage,
As when, by friend and peer,
And partisan surrounded and upheld.
Now ovor t strange crowd thy silvery music
swelled I
And silence, such a# fall#
Hcldom o'er that tumuifuon# multitude,
Chained all who hoard. The gentle and the rude,
That thronged those marble balls,
Alike were swayed by the mesmeric spoil
That breathed such power about the ancient
oracle.
The cap Jo stretched h or wing
Once more above him ns in days bvgonc,
And like a vision vanishing with dawn, .
Long v# ,ir of -n.'t ring
Passed with the shadows. To the bright new day
Ho held Ids dying hands and pointed out tho way.
To those who after him
Shall come to fill those hulls, with larger life.
Experience, won from straggle and from strife,
From War and famine grim
But iu whose liemoms smoulder still tho fire#
Of love of (onnoon cause bequeathed them by
their sire*.
Thus to the rescue came,
! Mwnthod in the cerements of his bed of pain,
With his rhivalrie soul and inighty brain
And eloquence of tbnia. "
Chatham to ward the wrong and find the right.
I When our young country that Was snuggling
into night.
Never will those forget,
Who siw tl* old Confederate fiu-bly rie
! With bi ‘thin limiting hair and piercing eyes
So dark and deeply set
I The pall-like velvet resting on his head—
! Tim hour when seemed the past to yield its
buried dead.
I Mind over matter then
Asserted that supremacy and claim
Which, like ,;n arrow, certain of its aim,
Cleaves to the ht art# of men.
And beyond spot.* a word or written scroll,
i Flashes conviction that the clav but <T>g# the
immortal soul. [ ,\7c* York Post
6THSMARY OF LATE NEWS.
! The Hetrnto passed a bill to remove the politi
cal disabilities of Win. Hteci, of Texas.
1 be Mabry Bill, an passed by the Kenate, passed
| the House - 226 to 25. It njvv goes to toe Pri A
id nt.
* The Spanish frigate Arapile* ran ashore nJ the
[ foot of Bridge street, Brooklyn, on the morning
i of the 11 ill inst.
Mr. (.’ashing request# the withdrawal of his
[ name ns Minister to 8} min, and the Bros ulent
| complies.
Dndley White, colored, accused ~f murder, in
; Mceklen'luu’g county, Ky.. was take.i from the Jail
; and hanged by tlio peopie.
! Htejs ns boldly announced that had he b- n
i present yesterday, (13fh i,#t.,) he rmld hav*
, v..tfd against the repeal of tin salary bill.
At Lnner. Mi b., or Cne-day nigiit, the bouse
of Jacob M Mautgftl wa* burned, and the entire
• family, consisting of husband, wife and child,
perished in the dames.
! A dispatch from Baltimore nay#: In tb National
: Brieklayi rs' Union, a motion n admit negro* s to
! i iembership waa defeat*--fl. The eight-hour
i question was re-; nit ted to the local union#.
The remain# of the late Emperor Napoleon 111.
; wi v- trunafirred on tin Dili inst. to a wireonhagas
nn a* ntod to Eug* rd ‘by Queen Victoria. A Hum
i her <*f loading Ibmaj.-Hrtiwt# attend.--1 the etro
! mony, liiit I*iific< Nn i H'lt*>o waaabsent.
The presentation ,j an illumined memorial
| album t<> the family of Horace (K , j y, a# a gift
of the city of N’ev. York, took place on the 14th
I tout., at the resident * of Jno. '\\ (Teveland,
j wh* re Orceh•>'# dnght* r# are residing.
I The officer# of tit— Spanish war #team r Ara
i piles, have t*eco enf*— tae* *i at a dim** r at lb !•
luonico'#. N* w York, by the Spanish r* * idc:it >f
this city, it is said the actn-n -if Admiral Boh*
was denounced in the jw#t-prandial spteclie#.
'* Tlie ('iilifornia la gisl itur** ha# jiassed a bill
authorizing the Governor to -uh-r a reward *f
1 ils,(Kd fi*r the capture of the m*b-n*;i# handit
Yos*;u s n!:d his baud. It is report* *! that V#-
i ques is in Sun Frwnciwoo at the prcs.-ut time.
‘ Negroes on Bay<ut# TANARUS che and Lifonrclie. La..
: am-on a #trik*‘Oii a**e*ntttt *>f a reduetinnof wages.
A larg** un mb* r of nuumt* *1 men ride from place
j (opiate, allowing none to work. Kellogg, in r*>-
-p-'U -* to appUeatiou# fi r aid, r< pin •# that a force
would probiinlv be sent to-iuorrow.
The engic *r# >u the New Jersey Southern
1 Ihiilroad quit work m the l‘Jtl iunt. Then- is
no distttrbiun**, but the nti'ik* rs #* etn-d *leter
; mined to hold out. Tin re are ’. trii-is running
on the road. The strik* has ext* lab and to tb<
train and track hands. The locomotive# are all
|in the shops, but ore partly disconnected
and cannot la* tub. ;i out. The track is also torn
iup in different piacos. No iL.- ? urbance is re
iHirtcd.
A -li .pateli fn-ic Ford* nt* wn, N. J.. on the 9th
inst. n.r. s: ('ousiderablc * x* it.-mmt exists h re
1 caused by tlit* discovt rv of tin* Ijodv of a young
woman on tin whore of In la ware riv* r ye#tT<l ay.
The (ba'cased was about * i rhti a year# of age,
ui.d m* and iiiht v r-- beau!ifiil when living. Par
i ti*s eu.me from Fusion and.r< M *c*gnized the de
ceased a# t lie daughter of aw* Uthv family. The
unities had offer* and a r< ward of five hundred dol
tar# for her recovery, d*;;dr alive. The b.ulv
had no clothing, except a chemise, shot# and
(stocking#.
Hon. Edward Salmon. ex-Gpvernor of Wis
consin, appeared in the Supreme (’■ mt in New
York on the ih'li inst., in behalf of Baron Yon
Bhoden, of Berlin, find nmd argument on motion
prelimioai'v to asking the court to net asi the
drcree *.f divorce obtained by his wifi*, popularly
known as Madame B. uline Lucca. Tie case i#
nmde complicated owing to the fact th.v >l;:Umt
Lucca was marrivil to one Voti Walhoffen #(Kn
after she obtained the decree of divorce from
Baron Von Kh<*den. Th*- Baron #a\# h* 1 and hi#
wife lived happily together until Von WulhoflTon
was wound***! about the same time as himself in
the Fcauco-Brussian war, and came to his home.
Tobacco and Tobacco Smoking in
Spain IVrlmps Ly iulv*'rtising ti roweni
fort-lie discovery, it might be possible to
find ii man in Spain who does not smoko.
Yet, strange to suv, the culture of tobacco
in-Spain is forbidden by law. The soil
and climate are favor ible % and it# cultiva
tion has been a great success. But that
kind of legislation or decree peculiar, to
Spain, and constantly reminding one of
the C’liiimso, the mother country, Spain,
is prohibited from raising tobacco in order
that the daughter, Cuba, may have the
monopoly. The right of importation is
sold to contractors, who make a great bus
iness of it. In the middle of the fifteenth
century the Sjianiards began to get tobac
co from America, and have been getting
more and more of it ever since. In INGO
they smoked seven millions of cigars, and
cigars are not the thing they usually smoke.
They have their tobacco rolled up in little
bits of paper, and these they carry iu their
pockets, with matches. Often they carry
Ihe tobacco and the paper separately, and
make a cigarette when they want it. mak
ing one while smoking another. These
interesting manufactures are not peculiar
to Spain; they are common in our own
country, but not so general. The weed is
used only for smoking and snuffing in
Spain. I can not learn that it is chewed
at all.
Children smoke at an earlier age in
Spain than in other countries. It is not
uncommon for them to begin at six. or
even five years of age. And they never
leave it off till they die. Ladies smoke.
Not often do we see them with a cigarette
iu their pretty mouths on the street or in
the cars, but In the cafe and the drawing
room they enjoy it, as well ns in the bou
doir and the hath. l>y cool fountains, iu
a marble-paved patio; among the orange
trees, or lolling at noon on their silkeu
hung couches, they live to smoke, and
their lords have spoiled tlieir own breaths
arid taste too effectually to make any ob
jection. Where both cat garlic it amounts
U) the same thing.
lOofTcajKitidonee of the Ckmrler-Jonmal.]
The Murder of Mrs Surratt.
The recent accusatory, exculpatory and
explanatory curds of ex-Pfeid#*t Johnson
and Judge Advocate General Holt upon
the subject of Mrs. Surutt’a execution, are
suggestive of thrt retributive justice,* winch
sooner or 1 uter overtake* the cruel and law
less man. Iu times of high excitement
and licentious power, the rights of indi
viduals may be disregarded, nod innocent
blood may flow; but, when reason resumes
her sway, the loftiest traugroHsor shrink*,
or his misdeeds pass under tho calm
scrutiny as her searching eye, and the in
nocent blood will cry out from the ground.
The hand that wrote the appeal of Holt
—the hand that penned the reply of John*
son—both have blood upon them the
blo*>*l of a helpless woman, who died
amidst the execrations of a mob. Mary
K. Surratt has been in her grave for more
than eight long years, but her “sriirit
walks abroad.” Eroin the tomb of sup
posed infamy into which her lifeless hotly
was hissed by a maddened populace, u
voice proceeds which will not let her taur
d'-rers rest. Ami has this poor, unfriended
woman, who fwung into eternity with ft
f< 1 n’s halter about her nock, power, even
in her dishonored grve, to arraign be
fore the bar of public opinion the two
most conspicuous actors* in the disgraceful
and illegal proceedings that culminated in
her execution ? ’Tin even so. Her spec
tral finger points to these two central
figures in the conscience-smitten group,
and the muse of luUtory him so adjusted
her photographic h nn as to transfer their
pictures to the plate forever. They may
quarrel as to the part each took in tin*
horrible work, and the one endeavor to
fthift from his own to the shoulders of the
other “the deep damnation of her taking
off.” But they are jmitners in
the trial, partners in the execution, part
ners in her blood, and juatners in that
undying sentence of condemnation which
the solemn voice of posterity will pro
nounce against the deed. This is a part
worship which cannot be dissolved—either
by mutual consent, the d< oreoH of courts
or the death of parties. They .arc wanting
their time in eudeavoring to fix tlmir re
flective liabilities now. Let them not an
ticipate the verdict of hi dory. The point
thev are discussing now is an immaterial
ona collateral issue, compared with the
more solemn aspect# of the case. Holt
affirms that he laid before Johnson the
petition for the pardon of Mrs. Surratt.
The position of Holt, if sustained by proof,
(and he does sustain it) falls infinitely be
low the charge he w iil lx* called Upon to
meet at the h ..- of posterity. He was the
Judge Advocate General, and, hh such, was
charged by the miliiary law with the duty
of giving to the military tnbuu.il, that
tried Mrs. Surratt, his legal opinion upon
nil point#. If the tribunal undertook to
try any individual of whom it had not
jiirisdictn-u, it was his solemn duty ho to
inform them. Such a tribunal had uo
jurisdiction of Mrs. Surratt’s case. The
Constitution of tin* United States up*n
this point i# too plain ami emphatic for
any man who ever mid its provisions to
doubt about it. Was Judge Holt ignorant
of the fact that she was a e.vilmn, and a#
Hitch could not he tried by h military
court ? Was he ignorant of tie fact that
she was a citizen, and had the right to a
trial by jury ? He is too aide a Layer to
plead In# ignorance on these points, if. in
d*ed, he should desire to avail himself of
this defense. The court* of the District
of C’olumbift were open, m J he knew it.
She could have been indicted by a grand
jury, and he knew it. She could have
been tried by a jury of her peers, and ac
cording to tlm forma <f law. and he knew
it. The Constitution <f her country gmo
antced to her such a trial, and h knew it,
lie* was the law office rof the military tri
btinal b* fore which she was arr*Jgn**d, and
as such it was u part of his official duty to
give the court hi* opinion in writing if he
saw them assuming a jurisdiction which
the law did not give them.
Judge If dr take# the p ins, in hi# nq*ly
to Mr. Johnson, to #ay that he b li. ■. #
the evidence was sutfieietit to convict Mrs.
Surratt. His opinion ns to her guilt or
innocence is wholly immaterial. It was
the opinion of a jury of her peers that she
was entitled to under tin- ( institution of
her country. Will Judge Holt stake his
reputation as a lawyer by announcing to
the American people that in his opinion
that military tribunal hud the consiiti tiomd
right to try Mrs. Surratt V And, if not.
why did the Judge Advocate General fail
to so inform the court ? It was as ranch
his duty to protect the rights of Mr#.
Surratt as it was to prosecute her. Why
was he silent wheu he saw this military
tribunal matching over the barriers of the
(•<institution to shed th** blood of t!b
defenceless old woman ? Had he done
his simple duty here, he would have saved
(lie escutcheon of his country from a foul
blot ami lmve passed into history with a
fame to which he can now have no hope*
of ever reaching. But it is said some al
lowance must be made on account of the
excitement of the hour. The mob that
clamored for her blood may t;:k** shelter
b*‘himl this plea, but no rnnn who occu
pied the position of either Holt or John
son eau he allowed to put it forth even in
extenuation of his action. The sentinel
who deserts his post in the hour of danger
must l>e shot. The high public function
ary who from moral cowardice joins the
the multitude to do evil, and shouts with
the mob that he fears to face, must accept
the infamy that legitimately attaches to
his conduct.
In the case of ex part** Milligan (4 Wall,
the Supreme Court of th** United States
quote with approbation from a debate in
the Knglish Parliament, Hurticiputcd in by
Lord Brougham nml Sir James Mclntosh*,
in which the doctrine is announced- that
“Where the laws can act. erery other mode
of punishing supposed crimes is it*e:f on
enormous tr//*.” Let Judge Holt, as the
our ajfivr of that military tribunal Hint
convened within the shadow of the Capi
tol, with the doors of every civil tribunal
iu the district w ide open for the trial of
offenses, hike his part of the “enormous
crime” of suffering without u protest, aye,
of giving his active aid to the trial of Airs.
Surratt by a military commission. And
when he next rises to explain to the “loy
al public,” will he let them hear from him
oil this point ?
And suppose Andrew Johnson should
succeed in convincing the country which
he Luis not done) that Judge Holt withhold
from him the petition for Mrs. Snmdt’s
pardon—what follows ? Ho may succeed,
ly establishing this fact, iu showing the
cold-blooded malignity and perfidy of Holt,
lmt not in washing from his .skirts a single
drop of Mrs. Surratt’s blood. It matters
not whether Johnson saw the petition for
pardon or not, so far as the inculpatory
considerations that attach to his part of
the transaction are concerned. He might
have pardoned Iter or not, w ith or w ithout
a sight of that petition, and in the exer
cise of his high discretion in the premises,
have stood justified at the bar of posterity
and his own conscience. The charge that
cornea crashing and hissing through the
flimsy side issues that Mr. Johnson has
piled around him to deceive the populace,
is this : After Mrs. Surratt was convicted
by an illegal military court, Judge Wylie,
to bis honor l>e it ever spoken, had the
moku courage, on the application ol‘ her
counsel to grant her the w rit of habeas
corpus, bv which she would have been so
■—m -
cured a fajr and impartial trial in a civil j
court. Mr. Johnson ansi>end**d this writ
of habeas coqms and ordered the ex**cit
tiwn to proceed He stepped between this
woman’s life and her right to a constitu
tional trial. He had nothing to do but to
stand still and let the law take its course.
Had he done this, flic laws of Infer country
would have saved her life, without culling
in the aid of the pardoning power. But
he stepped forward and paralyzed the arm
of the law that was raised to shield and
save her. The attempt on the part of Mr.
Johnson to have the people infer that if he
lmd seen the petition he would have par
doned Mrs. Surratt, is, in view of his ac
tion in the premises, the most bare-faced
attempt to perpetrate u fraud upon the
p* pl* that ha# ever been essayed by a
mau that has occupied his exhnltod posi
tion. That he does mean that such an in
ferenco shall be drawn is patent. Tn no
other view' li;t# this controversy w ith Judge
Holt any point or sign iff eenee. For, if he
would have refosi**! to pardon after seeing
the petition, it can make no difference, so
frr aft Mrs. Surratt is concerned, whether
le saw it or not; ami does he suppose that
he can make any man, with s**ns*“ enough
to comprehend the simplest facts, believe
that he, who was so eager to shed blood
that he In itnt and not to strike down the
law when it was interjwised to shield his
victim, would have listened to a petition
f*>r pardon. Me trampled the writ of ha
beas corpus bent at h liis feet to shed the
blood of Mrs. Surratt. In doing this he
violated w hat ho was sworn to uphold.
The petition for pardon was addressed
iner :y to ilia d)Wr**tion—he could disre
gard it or not. Shull h* who broke through
the constitutional harrier of the great writ
of right to compass the death of this wo
man b* heard to say that he a anted to
i\ *' her life, and if Holt had not conceal
ed the petition be would have followed
the promptings of bis ow n heart and par
don od her ?
There i# oce thing that Judgb Holt did
riot conceal from Mr. Johnson, aud that
was the Constitution <>f his country, which
he hud HWtiru to support and which guar
anteed to Mrs. Surratt a trial by jury and
w hich provided that she should not be tried
•*t nil tivih-ss upon presentment or indict
ment. There is another thing which
Judge Holt did not conceal from Mr.
Johnson and that was the writ of habeas
corpus, which sought to pluck the body of
Mrs. Surratt from the jaw** of death aud
place her heneuth the regia of the consti
tution. 11 n( he ton* her from the rery arms
rtf the (donut it of ion ond threic her t[nirrfin<j
form to the Mood hound* of mu it-try justice,
Olid the dm/* (let oft red her.
This is Mr- Johnson’s part of the “enor
mous crime.” Holt arraigns Johnson for
hurrying the poor prisoners into etemitv
in two short day# after they were tried.
The Judge Advocate General is fearful
they wore not prepared to die. Hear him.
He says lie “could not have thought for
a moment of hurrying them into the eter
nal world, us cattle ure driven to the
shin, ht r pm, without a care for their fu
ture.” Now these be sweet and pious
worda from the pen of the Chief of the
Bureau of Military Jus ire. Doubt test* the
future welfare of tl-ene poor creatures
weighed heavily upon his pious soul, and
if he could have been followed to hi
closet, he would have been found on his
knees in prayer for poor Mrs. Surratt’s
sir,l. But the Judge Advocate General
makes an admission in this connection
rather against the presence of his pious
solicitude, lie says he made no sugges
tion to Johnson as to time; that Johnson
told him to writ** down “two days,” and
he w rote it down thus and made n< remark
at nil. Why not? The only reason he
give* is that ho wan not the President’s
constitutional adviser. Too thin ! Judge
Holt was on terms with Mr. J -bnson at
that tiim ; that would have fully warren
F 1 him iu ranking any suggestion he
might desire in the premises; and if lie
had f It then the pious solicitude which he
affects now, for the souls of th** condemned
hi* ro dd have suggest* and a longer time.
The ciiemn dances are all s:r;iii.t Mr. Holt
>u this point, and leave but little doubt
tlint h was falS in accord with the Presi
dent in driving “the cattle to the slaugh
ter-pen. ’ Ah. that HLArfIHtER-i*£K ! Think
of the Chief of the Bureau of Military Jus
lice compering the spot when* the con
dor rn *l met their fab- to a ulanghter-pen
and speaking of them as cattle driven
thither by ex-President Johnson. Verily,
the hand of retributive justice is becoming
visible.
It would have been better for both John
son nml Holt if they,had imitated the ex
ample of Attorney General Speed and have
r* niuiiied silent in regard to this worst of
all homicides —a judicial murder. The
blood of that slaughter-pen will defy the
clear sing powers of all the water in all our
rivers and even time’s effacing fingers to
remove it. R. G.
CT-akksvtllb, Tfnn., Dec. 24.
Cheap Tnwsi* >;trvrn>N. A dispatch
from Washington on January Ifftli sevs :
The Senate Committee on Transporta
tion expect to report about the 10th of
February. They have taken a very large
amount of testimony, and have procured,
besides, a great deal of statistical data rel
ative to the fliibject before them. They
have, however, found out little co-relative
data covering the entire scope of their in
quiries, aud lmve therefore been obliged
to enter upon tedious ami elaborate sta
tistical compilations, requiting much time,
and hen.ee they have been prevented from
r< porting nt as early a day as they wished.
There was a meeting to-night in the
rooms of Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of
the Georgia delegation in Congress, to
discuss the interest of the State on the
subject of cheap transportation. Judge
Whitt of Alabama, was present, and took
nn active part in the proceedings. Hon.
J. H. Blunt explained the object of the
meeting. Hon. P. Delley, Hon. H. R. Har
ris, Hon. P. M. 13. Young, Gen. Thomas
and Col. Frobel, of Atlanta. t*xdv part in
the discussion. The importance of the
Atlantic and Great Western Canal to the
interest.# of the country was shown, and
great unanimity of feeling and purpose
was manifested. It was resolved to call a
meeting of the delegations of Georgia,
Alabama and Tennessee, to meet on Thurs
day night next, for the purpose of hearing
Col. I’roebei on the merits of this work.
Bismaiw k Afraid op the Press. —lt is
not a pleasant thing to be editor of a Ger
man paper under Bismarck’s regime just
now. Even the Cologne (duetto, one of
the so-culled official organs of the new
German Empire, has had its edition con
taining the Pope’s last encyclical sup
pi eased, and is now quite at a loss to know
what it is allowed to print and what not.
The editor of a Koenigsberg paper was
comdemned to three months’ imprison
ment because he admitted into the col
umns of his paper nn official dispatch of
Lord Russell's. Several other newspapers
have been confiscated because they pub
lished til* l answer of the Pope to Arch
bishop Ledocliowski’s letter. Other pa
pers were confiscated and tlieir editors
punished because they published the
Pope’s letter to Emperor William, while
government official journals were not only
allowed but instructed to publish it. The
German editor is, therefore, considerably
nonplussed just at present as to what is
official news w hich he is allowed to publish
and what official news i considered
c ntraband. - Poet.
Caleb Cushing.
Wasif TN ( * ton , January 13.—-It was sup
posed yesterday afternoon, when Senator
Edmunds moved that the Senate go into
Executive Mission, that it was with the
intention of acting on the nomination of
Caleb Cushing b> be Chief Justice of the
United States, Senator Edmunds, who
is chairman of the Committee on the Ju
diciary, having reported fuvombly on the
nomination the same day it was made. A
motion for adjournment, made by Sena
tor Sargent, and carried, was regarded
a# unfavorable to the nomination. Some
of the Senators, however, voted for nn ad
journment on account of the lateness of
the hour it being half past four o’clock,
while the larger number did not care for
mally to enter upon the consideration of
the subject until time should be afforded
for further individual examination into
the entire question. A caucus of Repub
lican Senators th in morning was called, es
pecially to exchange view# relative to the
nomination, when it was discovered that
the opposition was much greater than was
supposed even by those who had made up
tlieir minds to vote in the negative on the
question of confirmation.
The meeting of the Semite at noon in
terrupted further proceeding* of the cau
cus, but after an early adjournment the
session of the caucus was resumed, when
Senators Edmunds, Conkling and Bout
well advocated the confirmation of Gush
ing. These were his principal advocates,
but those w ho spoke on the other side were
fur more numerous, and before the dis
cussion ended, it was discovered that the
1 nominee’s frnoids were in the minority.
Finally the gentlemen whose names are
above mentioned seemed to yield to the
views of the majority.
As the Iw st indication of the views of
the Senators, it cun be positively stated
that the members of the Committee on
Judiciary were requested to wait on tho
President in reference to the nomination,
and although they were not unfavorably
instructed, it was the general understand
ing that-they should represent to him the
feeling and views of 4lie Republican Sena
tors upon the subject as adverse to the
nomination. The opinion therefore pre
vails among them that the President, on
hearing the statement, will withdraw the
nomination.
Tin* objections urged to Caleb Gushing
did not affect his legal qualifications for
the position, but were based principally
on his political principles heretofore de
clare.! in his ottici J acts, which were con
sidered as not being in accord with those
entertained by the Republican party.
The Senators expressed their views with
much animation, and with a positivenesa
which showed a deep seated opposition to
the nomination.
—♦♦♦■- ■■
(From tlr* St. Louis Ht publican, Jan. B.]
Presidential Promotion.
Tlie yesterday contains the fol
lowing suggestive extract:
“Lust witit* r. when I rr-1 Grant was
sent out to Chicago to displace the gallant
Gin. Forsythe on Sheridan's staff, the
Lieutenant General felt constrained to ex
ph.in in r. general order that voting Grant’s
title of Lieutenant Colonel was only a lo
cal rank, to he dropped whenever he re
, tired from the stuff. General Sheridan, ut
the time he issued the order containing
the above information, probuhlv believed
what he wrote, and expected that the prom
ise would be fulfilled; but a recent event
goes to show that, while he may propose,
the President disposes. This is not un
unusual way for the Chief Magistrate to
treat his subordinates in matters (-oncom
ing the welfare of a member of his own
family. In the face of Hheridau's order
he has ordered Fred to Washington, and
hits appointed him mastering ana disburs
ing * tiicoj- with the rank and pay he en
joyed whiles member of the Lieutensut
Gem ral’s military family. The only duty
expected of the young man is to draw his
salary, the details of his office being per
formed bv u competent officer holding a
lower rank and draw ing small pay. This
action of thi President is of a piece with
the withholding of Geu. Porter's resigna
tion. Not satisfied with having his own
salary doubled, he has taken advantage of
bis high office to jump his sou from Bre
i t Second Lieutenant to Lieutenant Col
on I. with corresponding increase of pny.”
How an administration organ pir excel
l-mv could let its journalistic foot slip so
j tiros to permit sneh a sharp stab at the
Executive as tho above to find a place in
its columns w>-of course cannot explain;
hut the public will doubtless appreciate
the information more highly because of
the Globular endorsement.
When young Grant, was elevated from
the disagreeable inferiority of a brevet sec
ond Lieutenancy to the elegant and re
!i:u and sinecure of a staff appointment with
j rank and pity of a lieutenant-colonel of
i cavalry, we predicted that such h remark
able exhibition of presidential and paternal
partiality was destined to be permanent—
. not temporary, as certain party mouth
pieces then claimed. Our prediction wax
htusi tl upon the simple argument that, if
the President of the United Htutes conld
so fur forget duty and decency as to pro
mote his son over the heads of officer*
grown gray in the service of the country,
the same forgetfulness would induce him
' to keep that son in his ill-gotten position.
If Justice, common sense, well recog
nized and long-established precedent
amount to anything. Brevet Seeond-Lien
tenant Frederick Grant has no more right
to he lieutenant colonel of cavalry than ho
bus to l*e comma ruler-in-chief of the army.
: His original appointment was nn insult to
the moral sense of the nation, and his
transfer to Washington iu the same capac
ity, only intensities the significance of the
act which hits never had a counterpart in
the military history of the land, aud which
furnishes a delightful commentary upon
the happy times in which we live.
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