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ATLANTA, TUESDAY, APRIL 8. 1879.
Ssow-wroaxs at the north and ice in
north Georgia yeoterelay make op a nice
record for April.
Tun widow Olirer talk* of appealing
from the deciaion of the Jndge, which wee
in favor of the gay Mr. Cameron. The
jndge deliberated three hours before he
eoold convince himself that Simon is
really innocent.
Tm new trn-dollar certificates are not
a legal tender, nor can they be held by
the banks asa part of their reserve, but
these drawbacks do not seem to keep the
people from buying them. Considerable
orders for them have already been re
ceived at the treasury. Small-sired bonds
are the lionds for the times.
Mi IIaves's two sons notched their
first political victory Wednesday. They
sent in-the name of Andrew I). White
to succeed Bayard Taylor, and he was
nominated. The boys are to be congrat
ulated. They should continue in the
good work. They have the example of
their pa always before them, and this, in
connection with the advice of the
amiable Mr. Rogers is enough to kindle
the fires of emulation in any youthful
breast
Tna hardware merchants of New York
are moving* to secure a new bankrupt
law. They do not want the old law,
which was devised to rob both debtor and
creditor for the benefit of the officials,
but a law that is simple, inexpensive and
effective. At a meeting held last weeff
they ap|iointed a committee to procure
the drafting of a new bankrupt law for
aubmission to the present congress. If
such a law as they seek can be devised,
there will be very little objection to its
passage. The country has, however, had
enough of bankrupt laws in the interest
of officials.
Neither the democrats nor the union
greenbnekers had any effect on the re
publicans in Rhode Island. The losses
merely drove their factory operatives
to the polls at an earlier hour and
made them stay later. There was
scarcely a contest. The opera
tives have families to support, and they
can't afford to be turned out at this sea
son of the year, for it must be remem-
l>erwl that there is not room in Rhode
Island for blackberries to grow. What
ptuzles us is the fact that any man de
cent enongli to be a democrat can afford
to live in such a state.
Devore the Wallace committee, yester
day, Mr. F. A. Handy, of Richmond, tes
tified that he was employed in the post-
office. He received one of the Georgeous
Gorham’s circulars asking for contribu
tions to the republican corruption fund,
but did not respond thereto. Shortly
thereafter Mr. Handy’s official head
dropped into Gorham’s basket, and the
victim very naturally concluded that his
failure to contribute was the cause of his
untimely taking off. The Georgeous Gor
ham will have several other little coinci
dences to explain before he recovers from
the shock that hustled him out of his
senatorial office.
Mr. De La Matvr will shortly intro
duce a bill in the house authorizing the
government to loan three hundred and
fifty millions in legal tender money
certain corporations to be expended in
internal improvements. In other wools,
Sir. De La Matyr not only wants to put
the people in the power of the corpora
tions, but wants tne corporations to be
paid by the people. A more insane idea
was never conceived outside of an asy
lum, and it is just this sort of stuff that
will cause sensible men to regard with
distrust any financial reform proposed by
the nationals. Between Brick Pomeroy
Blanton Duncan, and Gilbert De La
Matyr, the greenback party is having
rather a rough time.
Dr. George B. Wood, whose death is
recorded in our telegrams, was not only
one of the most eminent of American
physicians, but one of the most distin
guished of our medical writers. IIe was,
moreover, a successful lecturer. In 1865,
he endowed an additional faculty of medi
cine in the university of Pennsylvania,
composed of five chairs—zoology and
comparative anatomy,botany, mineralogy
and geology, hygiene, and medical juris
prudence and toxicology; and the occu
pant of each chair was required to deliver
not lees than thirty-four lectures every
year. Dr. Wood was the author of sev
eral popular works on medicine. His
“ Treatise on the Practice of Medicine'
was adopted by the university of Edin
burgh, and his "Pharmacopoeia" V
adopted by the national convention of
physicians. He was also the principal
author of the "United States Dispensa-
"tory, of which, up to 1870, more than
one hundred and twenty thousand copies
had been sold.
ties. Like the greenback organiza
tion the new party trill doubtless
crumble and dwindle away as the
times become better, money easier,
and employment more abundant Be
this as it may, Chicago has a democratic
mayor—the first one since the days of the
war—and the democrats of the city and
state are greatly encouraged by their
straight-out and handsome victory.
Mayor Harrison should make his admin
istration one that will lead the voters to
desire many returns of last Tuesday’s
result.
go owns the Jackson roote, and controls trit- a that are so dreaded in the old
tile Mobile and Ohio road. Loaisville has j ,wu. A. Hie fact that they have organized
jnst pot Evansville out of the tight, and j military companies in Chicago is the only
owns a line that penetrates Alabama, and one that has a bad look to the authori-
will soon reach Florida. Cincinnati will
soon have the most direct line to Georgia
and South Carolina, including the best
South Atlantic porta. Chicago and St.
Louis will contend for the trade of Missis
sippi; Louisville has the best chance
securing the larger share of the Alabama
trade; but, as tbe case stands,
she will soon have to surrender to Cin
cinnati most, if not all, oi the trade
Georgia, South Carolina* and Florida.
The State road cannot afford to discrim
inate against^ either city; and as Cincin
nati is the larger and wealthier of the
two, and as she will hare the shortest and
host lines, both to South Carolina and
Georgia, she must, in the natural course
of things, control the trade of the south
east. I/misville cannot afford to let this
take place. It is to her a life-and-death
struggle. H she surrenders the south
east, commercial decay will follow, and
she will soon become a suburb of Cincin
nati—a second Covington.
There is but one way to prevent this—
I»uisville and her great railway com
pany must have a line to Atlanta, the
great distributing point of the southeast
that they can controL With such a line
they can demand and secure a part
of the business of the disputed
section ; without it, they will soon be
driven out of it. There is only one way
they can secure, at a reasonable cost, such
a connection with Atlanta—the link be
tween this city and the great trunk line
must be supplied. In other wools, it _
their interest to secure the building of'
the Georgia Western, not, perhaps, to
Birmingham, but to some point on their
main line. What is their interest is At
lanta’s interest, and if the two interests
could be joined, we would not have
wait a very long time for tin building of
tbe railroad upon which Atlanta’s future
now depends. For without that road we
cannot get cheap coal, and without cheap
coal Atlanta can never reach wliat would
then be manifest destiny—a population
of 100,000 active, industrious, wealth-
creating and contented souls.
THEWEEKLY CONSTITUTION; ATLANTA, &A.. TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1879.
Georgia In Congreaa.
The extra or first session of the forty-
sixth congress liegan on Tuesday, the
18th of last month, and this record* starts
from that time. Mr. Hill was present
from Georgia in the senate, and all the
Georgia members answered in the house.
General Gonlon’s credentials were pre
sented by Mr. Hill on the following day.
They were read and ordered to be filed,
General Gonlon being detained from the
senate by sickness. The roll was first
called in the house on the question
seating Mr. Hull as the representative of
the second district of Florida. All the
Georgia members voted “aye” except Mr.
Stephens, who did not vote.
Mr. Hill presented, on the 24th of last
month, a bill for the relief of the city of
Macon. It was referred to the committee
on finance. A debate sprung up over the
removal of the old senate officers, in the
course of which Mr. Hill made a speech
that attracted wide attention. Tho sub
stance of it has already been given in
these columns. At the end of the debate
the democratic caucus nominees were
elected.
The army appropriation bill was taken
up on the 27th ult, bringing Messrs. At
kins and Blount to the front in the house
debates; but no Georgia business was
presented in either house during the bal
ance ol the month of March.
In the house their are two Hammonds
—Nathaniel J., of Georgia, and John,
New York. In the senate are two Hills—
“Hill of Georgia,” and “Hill of Colorado.
The standing and select committees
the senate were announced on the second
day of the session. General Gordon _
chairman of the committee on commerce,
second of the committee on mines and
mining, second of that on education and
labor, and second of the select committee
to examine the several branches of the
civil service. Mr. Hill is chairman of the
committee to audit and control the con
tingent expenses of tbe senate, second
the committee on privileges and elections,
fourth of foreign relations, and sixth
the committee on revolutionary claims.
A Month Georgia College.
The prospects are that Thomasvillo will
have little or no difficulty in securing the
establishment of a branch of the state
university. The citizens of that place and
of the surrounding country have already
taken steps to inaugurate a movement to
this end. A meeting has been held at
which the beneficent results of such
institution were thoroughly and intelli
gently discussed. Eleven trustees were
appointed to take charge of the movement,
obtain a charter, solicit contributions to
the fund necessary to be raised, select a
desirable.site for the college buildings,
and take all necessary measures to snare
the success of the important enterprise.
The people of south Georgia, whose
educational interests demand the estab
lishment of this auxiliary institution, are
required only to provide the funds neces-
rary to secure an eligible site and to erect
suitable buildings thereon. The instruc
tors, who will be at the bead of the
college, will be selected by the authori
ties ol the state university, and their sal
aries will be paid out of a fund already
appropriated for that purpose. In addi
tion to this the federal government will
provide an instructor in military tactics
and in the higher branches of* mathe
matics. It is not at all likely that the
people of Thomas and the surrounding
counties will fail to take advantage of
this opportunity to secure a free school of
higher grade than they could ever hope
to obtain in any other way. They are a
progressive people. They have redeemed
from tbe wilderness a section that had
long been regarded as unfruitful, and
made it the most flourishing and fertile
in the state for all the purposes of agri
culture, and it is not to be supposed that
they will beutate to claim and control
the advantages which an auxiliary col
lege would jure them.
An Important Railroad Change.
The Tennessee division of the South
eastern railroad extends from Edgefield
junction on the Louisville and Nashville
road to Guthrie, a town on the Tennessee
line, and also on the Memphis branch _
the Louisville and Nashville railroad.
The length of this piece of track is forty-
seven miles. The first mortgage bonds of
this division are in course of foreclosure,
the sale of the road on the ninth instant
having been ordered. The Southeastern
road, extendingjfrom Evansville to Nash
ville, has long been a serious rival of the
Louisville line—each seeking to control
the carrying trade between Indiana and
the south. The Iouisville company
therefore went quietly to work to buy in
the bonds upon which the road tc
Guthrie had been ordered to be sold.
They succeeded this week in buying
all or nearly all of the bonds in question,
and on the ninth instant they will bid in
the Guthrie branch and take possession
of it The balance of the Southeastern
road is in the hands of a receiver, and
there is no way of evading this result
It is admitted even in Evansville that
Louisville is master of the situation, ami
that Evansville has no longera line to the
far south, upon which her shippers can
safely depend for reasonable rates and
conveniences. The Guthrie link has
taken from the whole road its value as a
north or south trunk line, and the trade
of southern Indiana must accept Louis
ville’s terms. The Courier-Journal inti
mates that the Louisville and Nashville
company will also soon control the Mont
gomery and Eufaula road. H this is so,
this ambitious company will soon have a
line that reaches almost from Florida to
the Ohio river, the South and North
being now run in its interest.
Such a combination would affect
us to the extent of any diversions of Flor
ida travel, but there is this consolation
for us—the Cincinnati Southern will be
ready for business before another year
rolls around.
St. Louis, Chicago. Louisville ami Cin
cinnati are each trying to get as much of
the trade between the northwest and the
cotton states as they can. Their railroads
are preparing fora struggle of unpreee-
dented severity—for a north-and-south
rivalry as sharp as ever existed among
the great east-ami-west trunk linea St.
Louis has the river, and a rail line to
Nashville, but no control of a line readi
ng farther towards the southeast. Chica-
Tbe SI. Laois ami Chiracs medians
The democratic victories in the two
great interior cities of the country are
not hard to understand. St. Louis bss
had enough of republicanism, and should
be hereafter considered a thoroughly
democratic dty. In Chicago, the repub
lican candidate for mayor cast aside local
issues to raise the bloody-ehirt. Blaine
and Conkling sent word that a republi
can victory would give the key-note to
the pending national campaign, and all
the powers of tbe “machine” were
brought to bear on thv rank and file.
Sttlwartism went under in Chicago, and
the beat opinion there is that it will stay
under. This belief is based in good pan
the demonstrated fact that the grow
ing communistic vote comes more
from the republican than the democratic
party, especially in the German wards.
This vote is by no means a small matter.
The candidates of the socialist-communist
organisation polled in St Louis nearly
five thousand, and in Chicago nearly nine
thousand votes. It elected in St. Louis
one and in Chicago three members of the
common couneiL It cannot, however, be
said that the socialists of either of these
cities profess doctrines that are very
alarming. They are only advanced green-
Tlie Purposes of Rr. Hayes.
Mr. Hayes, it appears, has submitted
to an informal interview on the question
now under debate in congress, and, ac
cording to the western and northwestern
organs is in thorough sympathy with the
republican minority. Premising that
the president should never make public
his intentions with respect to any meas
ure submitted to him for his signature,
Mr. Hayes (probably remembering the
fact that he lacks several thousand votes
of being the real president of the coun
try ) proceeds to state, according to the
organs aforementioned, that he will not
hesitate to veto the appropriation bills
with the repeal measures attached there
to. We have very capital doubts as to
the Authenticity of the remarks attribut
ed to Mr. Hayes. They give him the ap
pearance of going out of the way to
truckle to the stalwarts, ill there
is a silly and sickly effusiveness
about them that it becomes a
person in his position, and he is made to
display an ignorance of the provisions of
the organic law almost incredible. If the
words put in Mr. Hayes’s mouth are really
his, he is about to take a very serious
step, and we warn him now that if he
bases his veto on tbe supposition or the
hope that the democrats will yield one
inch further than they have yielded, he
is making the greatest mistake of his life.
How far he may be under control of the
rule or ruin element of the republican
party we have no means of knowing, but
if the alleged interview be correctly
ported, lie is allowing such cunning and
unscrupulous partisans as the Chandlers
to lead him into a trap from which he
will not easily extricate himself.
Sparks, of Illinois, alluded to these
ported interviews in the house yes
terday, and made some very telling
points, but, after all has been said,
the action of Mr. Hayes concerns himself
far more than it concerns the democratic
party. It is a matter between Mr. Hayes
and congress on the one hand, and "be
tween the republican party and the
country on the other, and in the settle
ment thereof the democrats can well af
ford to look on with complacency.
Mr. Hayes is reported as saying that he
will not be left alone to meet the emer
gencies that will follow an adjournment
without the adoption of the appropria
tion bills. He says he will reconvene
congress, and it is very evident that he
looks upon his power in this respect in
the light of a remedy. But he will dis
cover that, owing to the peculiar sur
roundings of his administration—the
unusual circumstances attending
elevation to office—a congress with which
he is in direct conflict is about the last
element of opposition he could desire
face.
sentimental point of view, was most sin- !
cerelv to be deplored. Practically, how
ever, it worked nothing but good for
Georgia. Our farmers found it easier to
make contracts, and their laborers were
more docile and tractable. There was
less discontent, and the negroes who re
fused to lend an ear to tbe wonderful
tales of comfort and plenty in the west
justified their good sense by their indus
try; so that to-day Georgia has a class of
colored laborers as happy, and as con
tented, and as comfortable as any peas
antry in the world. The great mass of
negroes in Georgia are more prosper
ous, freer, and receive far more con
sideration at the hands of their em
ployers than the factory operatives
of New England. Indeed, the conditions
of the two classes are not to be compared.
We attribute this not less to the move
ment which carried off the great bulk of
the idle and discontented negroes than to
the gradual awakeningof the colored peo
ple to a sense ol their responsibilities in
their new relations.
We must be pardoned, therefore, if,
with the results of the Georgia hegira
staring us in the face, we refuse to join
those who, from a superficial point of
view, are disposed to regard the western
exodus as fraught with disaster to the
agricultural interests of Louisiana and
Mississippi. The instincts of humanity
compel us to deplore the results of the
movement so far as the unfortunate ne
groes are concerned, and to wish that it
had never begun; but the practical fact
remains that in these states, as in the
case of Georgia, the beneficial results will
be felt before the year is out
A Practical View of (he Ac*ro Exodus.
It must be remembered that there is a
large surplus of colored people in Louisi
ana, Mississippi and Arkansas. For
years, under the benign influence of the
genial ticket agent and the colored “lead-
“ers” who are by no meantfaverse to mak
ing a commission, a tide of negro immi
grants has flowed into these states.
Thousands have gone from Georgia,
thousands from South Carolina, and
thousands from Alabama and Tennessee.
We have no doubt that a large majority
of those who are now seeking homes in
Kansas comprise the remnant of the un
fortunates who were induced by labor
contractors, railroad agents and colored
decoys to leave comparatively comforta-
ble homes in the eastern states of the
south; but whether this be true or not; it
is certain that Kansas is now receiv
mg that large class of colored men
whose restlessness will not permit
them to be industrious, and whose
going will have no appreciable
effect, except for the better, upon the
states where they have formerly had
their abiding-place. We have no doubt
the farmers of upper Louisiana and Mis
sissippi are alarmed at this sudden and
unexplainable exodus. A few years ago,
when thousands and tensof thousands of
colored people were leaving Georgia for
the purpose of seeking homes in these
states, our own farmers made no attempt
to conceal their anxiety and alarm forthe
future; and The Co.vstitttion gave fre
quent and faithful expression to tbe feel
ing. The most serious results were an
ticipated, and the alarm assumed such
proportions that the general assembly
took the matter in hand and made it the
subject of legislation. A law was passed
compelling immigration agents to pay
license of five hundred dollars in every
county in which they operated. This
legislation, which is still in force, was
practically prohibitory, but before it
could go into effect vast num
bers of colored people had left
the state in search of what they had
left behind. Hundreds of them perished
by the wayside, and a few returned to
their homes and friends, but tire great
bulk reached their destination only to
find themselves plunged deeper into
poverty and destitution. They were
without money, without friends, without
clothes and without supplies. They
found themselves, moreover, in a region
to which they were unacclimated. They
were attacked by malarial diseases to
which they were unaccustomed, and hun
dreds fell victims to their own credulity.
Mi ■* w ® suspect, the negroes who are
now migrating to Kansas from Louisians
and Mississippi, or any portion of them,
are among those who left Georgia and
Alabama some years ago, it is no wonder
that they are restless and dissatisfied.
Their experience has been a sad one.
But the point we had in view is this—
that the exodus of negroes from the
named will not materi
ally affect the agricultural interests,
even should its proportion be
trebled and quadrupled. It is not pos
sible that the number of negroes wffo
have thus far cast their fortunes with the
exodus brethren in Louisiana and Mis
sissippi is more than one-fifth as great as
the number that left Georgia during the
two years prior to the adoption of the
prohibitory law relating to the operations
of immigrant agents. And yet, tbe far
mers of this state have discovered that
the emigration, which occurred and
which caused them great anxiety at the
time, was not only harmless but really
wholesome in its results. It was discov
ered that the movement carried with it
nearly tbe whole of that large dan of
idle, discontented and restless individuals
whose example was so demoralizing and
whose influence was so pernicious.
The truth is, it may he stud that tbe ex
odus from Georgia, covering a period of
nearly two years, was one of tbe
Tbe Ctaeatlana Before Congress.
What was the civil war waged for?
Was it to free the negroes,to perpetuate the
union, to put down secession, or to illus
trate coercion? Let us consider this
broad question in tbe light of the vivid
rhetoric of the stalwart organs, and of the
revolutionary eloquence of the republi
can leaders in the discussion of the issues
now pending before congress.
No man is insane enough to say that
the war was a war between the repnbli
cans on the one side and the democrats
on the other. Even the most unscrupu
lous republican will not say this, because
Hancock, Slocum, Franklin, Custer, Ew
ing, McClellan and a host of other gal
lant leaders of the union army were al
ways democrats; and on the southern side
Longstreet, Mosby, Key, and a number
of other gallant confederate soldiers never
were democrats “to hurt.” If tbe war had
been for the freedom of the slaves alone,
it surely would have been ended as soon
as this object was accomplished. If
perpetuate the union, then as soon as that
was accomplished we should have had
jieace. If to settle the question of seces
sion, or to establish the right of coercion
then just as soon as these things became
facts, old issues should have died out,
bringing new parties and new questions
before the country.
But what Is the situation? We have
accepted the freedom of the slaves on the
terms proposed by the republicans, who
had lull control of the subject We have
acknowledged the perpetuity of the union
just as the republicans desired, and
the terms they proposed when they had
full control of the government We have
consented to blot out secession forever,
anil are willing to use coercion when
casion offers. There can be no doubt
as to how the south stands on any or all
of these questions. But still the republicans
are not happy. When the negro is free
and has all the rights desired by those
who profess to lie his best friend; when
the union is established stronger than
ever before, and secession a dead issue,
we see men who profess to be statesmen
clamoring for the use of the army, anx
ious for revolution, and willing to go to
any lengths to plunge (he country into
strife, war, and bloodshed again.
Can anyone doubt the motives of Secor
Robeson, Garfield, Blaine, Frye, Chandler,
and other leaders of a party that is more
notorious for the magnitude of its swind
ling and wholesale plundering of our peo
ple than for anything else, in clamoring
lor the use of the army in times of pro
found peace? These men were not gal
lant soldiers in the field when the issues
were being discussed with sword and gun.
They are the vultures that come on the
field of battle when brave men have
ceased fighting, and they want another
battle-field to furnish food for their hun
gry stomachs.
The republican party has been defeated
on every issue that has been presented
since the war. Why? Because it is
party willing and ready at all times
subvert the principles of the government
to serve its corrupt purposes. What
power has Secor Robeson to rob the gov
ernment, in the future us in the past, but
through the use of the army? What could
Garfield, Blaine, Chandler and Frye hope
to accomplish without an army at their
back to carry out theirnefarious schemes?
They are indignant now that the slaves
were freed; they revile the union, and
regret that the wayward sisters ever re
turned to the union. They hope that se
cession is not dead, and scoff at coercion;
but they are solid whenever Wall street
has a scheme for robbing the people, or
when force can be used to perpetuate
their power, or when they can
by fraud and strategy defeat the will of
the people. Are these the results of the
civil war? If so, let it be so recorded in
history. Let it also be recorded that the
south is solid against any such pro
gramme—that confederate brigadiers are
opposed to it—that honest men,north and
south,will not submit to it—that the thou
sands |of brave and gallant democrats,
who fought on army battle-fields to main
tain the union, prefer to help even rebels
(as the thieves delight to call us) but who
are honestly trying to do their duty to
the government in preference to corrupt
scoundrels who are trying to rob every
man who is not a member of thier syndi
cate, who want to administer the gov
ernment as if we were their slaves, and
who measure the union with the l«««o
that binds this band of plunderers to
gether.
"OLD SI.’ 1
He Delivers His Tlrws on the Hstel-
Carryln* Hanla.
Old SI picked up a dime that he accidentally
fouod just where he had laid It dosm when re
turning ut some Chance a tew moments before,
and then, as he reached the door, remarked:
“El dese h par ledges an’ newrpapers keeps on
talkin' like tier do, dar*s twine ter he er monghty
chance in men’s ftshlns In dispart obdelan’
'fore lone!”
"Do yon think so?”
"W'y, dar’Il be cromslcrble stock ob breeches
wldhlp pocklts In ebety tatlershop twtxt dls an'
tun-set 'fom chrtsmus time!"
"You mean that they will break up the pistol-
carrying practice?"
"Dat'a de pint! Dls ting ob gwlne 'ronn* loded
Up wid han'-muskitry like dey wua 'sportin' news
ob de nex’ wall on ebery trace Is gutter play out:
Hit’s gtttln' mos' too omloonsptesent!"
"Well, you know the old saying that • in times
of peace prepare for war 'P'
"Yaa, I kno'a dat, too: but ter my min’ dat
meant ter lay up petrlshnns an torridge, an'
not ter keep In prarktis ter de lnemy by matin' a
bull's-eye In de pit ob per 00801*0 stnmmlck!"
‘•That is vety true; besides the habit keeps
down needed immigration."
"Dat hit do, hot, den, hit ain't so much de
immerEiathun dat's pervented ea deemmergra-
shun dat's kumpelled dat Tie lookin’ arter. 1)1*
hyarsuddlntly handin' er man er led kupon fer
de onlimltod Jumey by de ondeigroun’ rode ar 1
what’a ruinin'dls country! An’de sooner dat our
treeta ain’t named ‘Six-Shooter avenue* an’
•Shot-Gun alley’ de sooner dls tan’ll be win*
erowdid wid fokes dan er mlnstrul show an’ grave-
yahd lots cum down turn web-prices, yer heah
me?'
And then the old man slid out without leaving
a due-bill for tbe dime.
Ilia Tiews an the lettro Pedestrian lam
si the Future.
As Old St was studying a bill-board covered
with minstrel picturce yesterday, one of hit
friends asked him:
"Ole man, ia yer gwlne ter be dosm ter de cake
walk ter night?"
“Whar ia enny cake-walk an' what ar’ er cake
walk no howr' , *
"W'y. hits down at de ehu’ch an’ whar ale de
boys an' de gals bea er walkin' match ter see
Etta de prize cake, don’t yer seer’
“Oh. yes, 'pears ter me dat I hea heer'd ob
rich rldlcklesnmnlss like dat, but I aint 'skrtbin'
ter no rich hipperdromea deae sorter er times.
But, go on—wheuebber you niggers gits ter
walkin' onde resumpshnn track I'll be up dar
close ter de string ter shake han't wid dc win
ner!”j
"What's dat? On de 'resnmpshum plan’?"
“Dat'a wbat I sed-an' I'se speckin' wid ripe
gums too, don't yerlergic hit! Whenebber yon
nlggen git ter klrverin’dem kidney feetobyo'a
wid raw-hide an' takes ter walkin' twiit de
hanTesobderezetecktcd plows ob Georgy sralk
In’ matches ’ll be dere own rewahd lndiscoun
try. Kbbery darkey dat makes Jo' akers
lap er day, den, '11 be boun' ter win erprize hoe-
cake sweeter’n hunny an’ war de ehampyin belt
ob nigger lndependince resoomed! Da
kln’e ob cake-walks I'se hollerin’ arter!”
The other negro didn't wait to borrow any to
bacco that time.
UNCLE REMUS 1 POLITICAL THEORIES
"This looks like spring." said one ef the yonng
men. as Uncle Remusambled in with a basket of
poke sated on his srm. The old man smiled
rious smile ns he deposited his bosket and bis
bundles on the floor.
“Hit’s bar’ly a glimpse, bora, but hit’ll sorter
mmke de ole 'oman 'member dat Ifa 'bout time
ter ter rurale 'roun' and look arter her collard
patch."
Thereupon the old man sat down upon the coal
box, took off his hat, fished a bandana from Its
depths and proceeded to mop Ills face. He wo
evidently In a reflective mood. Finally he acid:
“I hear Stars John readin' to Ulss 8ally dat dey
er kickin' up a monstus racket op dere In kongua,
stldder bein' at borne laborin’ 'lougrider dere na-
bore Hit's de same ole rumpus. alntlL bora, dat
dey bln havin’ ever sence de fahmtn days wua
over?”
"Yea; exactly the sirae."
The old man chuckled complacently, shifted
his feet around, and went on:
"De nigger in de wood-pile. Dey put Mm In
dar, an* now dey dunno howter git'lm out. Dey
fling de wood fus* on one sider de fence an' den
on de udder, an* den dey move it 'roun' de yard,
but de nigger Is dar, an' dar he's gsrlneter 'bide.
Hy ‘pinion Isdat he alnt playin' lav'ritT dls
son.”
" Well, at any rate, he to still In politics," re
marked one ol the young men.
" Dey mout be an' den ag’in dey montn't,'
piled Uncle Remus, “ but dey ain’t wotin' srld de
looseness dat dey uacter. Deyer gittln' sorter
stuck up 'bout dere prevallgls, dese niggers is.
done line ont w’at my politics Is, an' I’m a trickin'
unto urn like a rusty-back llazud to de tunny ride
uv er fence-rail.”
" Well, how do you stand, Uncle Remus?"
"You see, boss, hit’s like dia: A man w’at I
dunno fum Adam’s saddle-boss come 'long an'
say.' Look yer, ole man, dls Is a light whar yo*
Intrust Is mlxt up. You mut* wote wid de ripub-
Uklns, kaze de w’lte folkcsMl have you strung up
Inter riave’y befo’ youk'n bst yo' eyes.' Dat’
w'at dc man say. Den I ax Man. John
'bout It, an’ Mats. John he my, 'Remus,
you villainous old sutler, dere’s er pot
er greens an' a none er com bread
out dar to de kitohiu*. I ain’t got time ler to talk
polirica now.' Bet, bless yo’ heart an* soul.honey,
dere wua mo’ politics In dat pot er greens an’ dat
pone er corn-bread dan w'at I ever seed at de
cote-house w’en de niggers wuz rampin' ronn’
warin' ler folks w'at dey on'y know by hearsay.
Hit don't make no diffunce wid me w'lchaway
a man drape his argyments w’en he's a browsin'
l* on de aldges, but Wen he gits down ter
bizues* he's des goiter rub tumpin' under my
Wet smell like Mars John's pot er greens an’
Miss Paly’s biled ham. De argyment Wat's got a
smoke-house an' a hot stove at de udder eend
it—flat’s de argyment Wat'll ketch me."
NEWS AT THE CAPITOL.
THE HOMEWARD TRIP.
TRo Solitary Piotcwtant dsssrets of
t’nbrs—Hard Times After the War-A
Last Look at More nod the city—
Xanana—Its Xeffroeo and Tomatoes—
A Storm at Sea-KIdlu* at Anchor
Tresis Water nod safely Home.
Editorial Correspondence of The Constitution.
IV.
Not quite all Havana were engaged in
merry-making on the Sunday that we were
in the city; for the good Catholics attended
mass during the early morning, and at 12
o’clock there wns, in a parlor of the hotel
Pasage. a Protestant service—the onlv one
of its kind on the island, although it fa fully
750 miles long and contains over two anil
a half millions of p-ople. Only recently
could permission be obtained to hold even
w “ ch J 5 chief ly intended for
English residents and travelers. The min
uter is a young Philadelphian, whose ef-
[tctency is only [united by his capacity to
» . „ ’ um " «c were empliali-
of lh ® "a- When, after being
om *“ ur ; .’ N we arrived off the bar at the
Mfaarel t‘i" h St ; J " hn > and ,h ® Pilot name
h stories of the wrecks thattlie
that'll ' along the coast.we felt
, j w ® J M t**n rescued from the jaws
of d .b« h \ r .T h ' n < ? lme ll ‘® first real pleraurj
hitta—thfa , Cambering over the
f ^ £*4 word—that a flood
creare! d hu. .R °“ bl " i"' of the St. Johns
'itml t he SWOO,h fresh water of the
-^* f X*? *«" “ore delightful. If
?a ever tetore been appre-
cwted. I am sure it was during our sunnv
in \'he7i.(L h fi ra drying on the racks
lo.-fv- 11 * fiahfog villages, and at Jackson-
yille the pier was crowded with quiet, well-
who came down to welcome
reported aa^Most." h**' U “ t tad «“»
Mahm Frank'w 8 f ° r ‘ he customs officials,
“test ranv ofxSTt? PUt in nl >' handa th «
enrol SiVi™ SJOmbhtbto*. and I am
aurel will be permitted to say that 1 thought
J, 1 ;.®*V ! had lost seventeen days
ffiBS buriaf’and* remains
wrath* rtrorkeLiil'taunmfer helmet (f 3 **"''' ^ "‘ e
find that Mr.
thc * e ! low fever—a fever by th£ I 2ii nd JuL W l S J oti, I* . at every roll-
way that never leaves Havana. There were I •Jtbough Mr. Chris*iancy bad not
to **0 deaths a week from it dur- £ p/m'““iL*!? 8 ' 5 d ®®! ded ,h “t he must go
mg the month of our visit, and the authori- I 90 ot her things. Seven-
ties would thtnktl.e world was coming to I !!!"'"/’ Cnt - ou . t °' ,h ® world’s record
fnty f?si!», a . week . passed by without disclos- I JJflSw? day ? of <l uick trans-
tng deaths from it or small-pox. But I am I UI? » * un ® er J?* n M to almost everything
wandering. The mission of which I wa* I tbe world’s condition.
American hmneh of the*£? ln h * : we^r^l nextTv
but rehes after aUforsupport °n the offerinsa I { .I,,?, me by th ® Cumberland mute,
of those who artend its services. The parlor i, “ 11 ne , ver f ? p K et ‘be patness
was well fined withpeople, and the fact that 2L t a r JJ. , “ ark * n J de , by one of our
it was the only Protestant service of the I T w ! mt *° me of the
populous and faithful isle rendered it none I * and , through which we were
thejess interesting. The new government | n -? Wa .’ 1 8°°** for—*‘It displaces so much
» n • . , o*. fjuiciuuiClll
lnoka 1 W'ti» some degree of favor
V”'* 1 ??* bberty, and unless ignorance
thus lessening the sum total of human
misery. He had not forgotten Cape
breedstrouble^ that lie law can no readily I that stream which one should
control, there is no reason to apprehend anv I ISSt!? 0 !! 1 never cross, at least, while a
interference with the little church that has northeaster »s blowing.
The question of nets at the mouth of
rivers and the use of nets extending the en
tire width of rivers is frequently referred to
the commissioner of agriculture by those
who are annoyed and injured bv such con
duct. There Prelaws against this method
of capturing fish, as it destroys all chance
of a permanent stock and is fast killing the
shad supply. The offenders should have
the law applied.
The soil test samples distributed by the
commissioner of agriculture are very much
in request by farmers who wish to expert-
ment with fertilizers. These samples are
furnished gratis by the manufacturer or
dealer in fertilizers, 300 pounds of each dis
tinct brand being required by the commis
sioner for the purpose of soil test, in pur
suance of law, the experimenters paying
the freight. The distribution is about com
pleted.
Cokstitctioh Publishing Company,
Atlanta. Ga., March26,1879.
Mr. D. Campbell, of Rutledge, Georgia, is
not authorized to receive subscriptions for
The Constitution.
SOUTHERN MATTERS.
Ma. W. L. Scaruos. of Atlanta, has been
nominated by Mr. Hayes to be consul at
Chiu-Kiane. This consulate is a long dis
tance off, but the remuneration is good
amounting to thirty-five hundred dollars.
Ebenezeb Leathkbs, a tough citizen of
Xew Hampshire, has had his name changed
to Rutherford R Hayes. If he will now
apply for papers of naturalization in Ohio,
be can probably get a postmaster’s place
somewhere in this broad and fertile land.
Mr. Rogers, the amiable private secretary
of the administration, who, among his other
duties, prepares Mr. Hayes's autographs,
should lose no time in shipping Mr. Ruther
ford R Hayes, of Xew Hampshire, a letter
of welcome and of approval. Neither Mr.
Hayes nor Mr. Rogers has lived in vain.
Oxc* more we call upon Sergeant Bates to
shake off his lethargy, march down to
Mississippi and defiantly shake the flag of
our unioo in the face of tbe bloody-minded
Ohio secessionist who is making a spectacle
himself.
Ip the Chicago Inter-Ocean is to be be
lieved, the people of Chicago, by voting the
democratic ticket, have indorsed the views
of tbe aaa who edits tbe Okolona States.
Tbe Inter-Ocean should not wilfully slander
the good people of its city. It is enough to
lie about them in a general way.
couldn’t see the point.
Baltimore Sun.
Senator Hill, of Georgia, yesterday, whil
in the senate ch&uber at Washington, re
ceived a dbpatch from Chicago as follows:
“Chicago has been carried for the rebel
democrats by 4,000 majority. Send us
rebel briagdiers at once.’* Mr. Hill sent the
dispatch to Senator Blaine, who read it, but
did not see anything in it to laugh at.
WHERE THE INVALIDS GO.
Baltimore Ban.
It is curious to note that of the invalids
from colder sections of the union who seek,
in winter, southern sunshine and warm air,
the bulk of those from the west go to
Thomasville. Georgia, because the distance
by rail is a day’s travel shorter; those from
Xew York and Boston to Aiken, South
Carolina, and from Baltimore to Jackson
ville, Florida.
ON TO HENDEESON.
Spartanburg Spartan.
General Austell, of Atlanta, and Colonels
Oates and McAden, of Charlotte, passed
through town last week on their way to
Henderson. They let out tbe contract of fin
ishing the rood to that point to the largest
railroad man in thesoutb.Colonel Potts.who
has agreed under penalty to have the iron
horse in Henderson the 1st dar of June
next. Friday morning about 60 hands left
this place for the head of the road, and 8at t
urday six car loads of iron followed. We ven-
ture to predict that Colonel Potts will com
plete tbe road before the time specified, for
he has the reputaion of getting more work
out of hands than any man who has had
railroad contracts in this state. Nine more
car-loads of iron went off yesterdav. ma
king fifteen in ail. which is about one-
fourth iron enough for completing the road
to Henderaon. A new engine and two
coaches have been ordered, and will be on
hand for tha summef travel.
Death ar Madame Bonaparte.
Baltmox*. April 4.—Madame Elizabeth
Patterson Bonaparte died this afternoon.
Special dispatch to Tha Constitution.
Bal iMomx. Mu.. April 5.—8ince Tuesday
. * kept
roitiujnuiMiii puuuc nouse.
Before we take leave of tbe island, let me
•*' * ab, ut the condition of the peo-
BILL ARP’S SUNDAY CHAT.
pic. lneyarenot as happy and jolly as
they seem. Discontent, hard times, poor
currency, war losses and high taxes are not
unknown. Great sections of the best part
of the island were ntu>rlv laid w«**•»» ^.,1:—
peo-1 HU r * m,, y Preparing to Reeelve an
Influx of Conn try Conala
Written forthe Constitution.
ountry family
. utterly laid waste during I bave their city cousins to visit
fonKtu Uwaradoalabolition and »re fixin up to receive ’em in a hospita-
cial nmlirit Sfneral hnan- ble manner. Mv v ‘
ciai condition. If there is hope for the island ■
—ro.ro — .... IU1 wife, Mrs. Arp. she were
at all u a colony, u'iita tiinTugh Martinet I Bt huIn ' and *° ,h ® ft" 1 ’ took matters in
Campos.^ Unlike most of the I for several days the exciting
is, beyond a doubt, a man who when lie , u ™ 1,ke clcarin * th *
promises a reform, intends to see tlmt the ? k , * man of warfor * f, K ht * The house
Promise is fulfilled. The people have con- “** been scoured, and scrubed. and sand
try/amPthMatest *nq>octa iSteSld«e?-'
^nbelnngerrel.edona.a.ourceot re ve- bra been ftrahly^nfci with f fce“
nger re
of^dfaloyalty 10 tha*
excuse .oj J? S
^e form -, Cubans were left, however, I spoons and nar
that thev Hjsi}"' j” r ’ “ nd j 1 ** not Probable | a jewelry store F
‘■me their wrath raor ® »* Present than to I surveyed U- ...
We left Havana in the evenin. ...a I day with affectionate interest for it docs me
that thfa W® claimed keen us from trampin through the hall and
SSSBSK-asfts'Silf}
SSSSas-SsErsSs
1 or eat hominy with a knife, or smoke in the
J Tbe wash howl has been turned up-
NASSAU, the beautiful, I Jf4 e d £ wn 10 beep us from using it. With
where we an-ived at snnrire of the second
cou ro® everything there was I the lips of my fingers ther snrveved me
lovelj and pleasant, from the very bine I with looks of uimtrerable despair F When
S n’ fhI C Ih/# Very sni » llMt P'®ltaniny I I raise my work in’'boots on the baniste-
on the wharf. We were at home, compare- I rail for an evening rest they wipe it off with
did !fj We ccrt f, inl J M* *>- We a wet rag ra soon o, I leave/ Ymurani Imp
dld ,??l"J*i“T 0I ‘.® t° ,el1 ns, even before on the purty red hearth to make tin
that we had passed from a laud I a fire or to put a back loe on th-o
of beggars, ignorance andTdi-content, to one I weighs 50 pounds. They ve put nillows on
l K>v ® rl J' P« h ltc schools and nty bed abont half a. big asa balcTof cotton
good government In the one, vice has the and fringed all round like a ne’ticoat The.
upper hand; in the other, the blessings of are to stay on in day-time^ K S
a noble civilization arc everywhere appar- I at night. When Im tired and feel the need
sameoM difference that can of a midday nan that bed was .
the mountain hunt.
AN OLD TRAGEDY BROUGHT TO HIND.
Ths Kurtmr of Lisotoratit Nclatjro Tracked to
His Lair sad Diptorod-Pistoli for Bedfel
lows sad Children Alxioet Innx-
Btrabla — A Daring Act.
On the night of the 10th of February.
1S<7, there occurred at Frog mountain, in
Gilmer county, Ga.. a tragedy which
created a great sensation in Georgia, and
was warmly discussed by the press all over
the country. Lieutenant McIntyre, a gal-
land officer in the second United States in
fantry, had been sent to the
northeastern counties with a squad of
troops to arrest some offenders
against the means laws, who had defied
the efforts of special deputies to bring them
within the reach of the courts. Ou the
night of the 10th an attack was made on the
b” u *® where a family named Jones resided.
Their home was nestled amid the rocks and
ravines of the wildest portion of that wild
county.. The approach was beset by danger
m the time of perfect peace, but when the
inhabitants were aroused bv what thev
deemed wrongs at the hands of revenue
officers the march was perilous to a degree
that might make a veteran feel nervous.
Lieutenant McIntyre followed the revenue
detectives who were leading the wav until
they reached the cabin hidden both by the
shades of a black and fearful night and bv
its natural seclusion.
About this house there occurred a brfcf
but tierce tight, in which a number of moun
taineers attacked the troops. After sharp
firing on both sides, the assailants fle l and
H?.. ' uuler , ll * e 5pw of night. They
defen-e, and tbe commissioner .et H for Sat
urday at 11 o’clock, when the prdiminar r
examination will occur. The i'ri-m»er wav
taken to jail yesterday afternoo . Hed Dies
all complicity in the killing uf Llente .n t
Mclniyre. He ravs lie thinks it very wrong
to kill a man who was doing his duty ai d
obeying orders. He talks well and is ev -
dently gifted with a good intellect naturall',
formed aud marred'i t.°^ grca ">* d ' '
Perhaps this is the beginning of the so
lution of a long mystery. The case in every
respect is one of the most interesting be
have ever known, hut it is a sad instance of
what untutored humanity may be.
The case goes before the l:nitcd Slates
on the ground stated if the prisoner is corn-
mttted. If the «date authorities were to in-
diet lam for murder, it would be a manor
of discretion whether the circuit judge
should waive iheri^ucof his court and turn
the prisoner over to the state officials. In
cases where two courts have jurisdiction,
the tin>t which gets the prisoner has priority
of right in proceedings against him.
STATE SUNDAY SCHOOLCONVENTION
Georgia State Snrotnjr School Associa
tion.
This body will h. ’ !s its next session in
Macon, Georgia. on .,e 39-31 of May, 1879.
Having received many letters in reference
to representation in the etate Association I
take this method of answering all.
Every County Association is entitled to
one delegate for every 390officers and ment-
lK>rs, or tractional part of 300, composing
the County Association.
In counties where no association exists
the representation is two delegates for each
member to which such county is entitled
in the Legislature.
These last named are appointed bv the
V ice-Presidcnt of the Congressional District
left blood marks behind them, and some of I «*» which such county is located. Separate
the gang are supposed to have been mor- schools are not entitled as such to represen
ts ly wounded. Lieutenant McIntyre was j t*rion, hut must either form Countv Asso-
shot down never to rise again. The moun-1 ciation * and let such Association .send dele-
Uineera were pursued, but no satisfactory I P ai ®’*- "? else nin-t apply to tho Vice-l'reii-
rosults were ever accomplished.
The United States authorities took the
dents to select delegates.
I inrat earnestly call upon the ministers
-..ro V *»>vu Utaiw ■liuiurilics IOOK IRC 1 t• r , ,, • ■ r " miiuviux
matter in hand and sent a company to I of roM# 0 " o* all names and Sunday-school
keep order in the mountains and also to * workcI ? a «‘/‘ver the State, and especially
State, and es]»ecially
try and find means to catch and convict I ? p V n Vice-Presidents, Assistant Secre-
the guilty parties. Governor Colquitt I UflfL“J” 1,1 ‘be Executive Corn-
showed a strong desire to do his duty in I ,w U8C ‘heir utmost endeavors to
everyway possible. He appointed Colonel I • Yf cve, T county in Georgia represented
Sam Williams to take evic fence in relation I ,n in Macon,
to the difficulty and a full report of all the I R H"* 8 * p ro s - & S. A.
circumstances was submitted and publish-1 ^ . A V P*!* 5 ™ friendly to the cause
ed. Rewards were offered by the state for the I guested to copy the atyve.
capture of the murderers of Lieutenant “ “
McIntyre. Intense public feeling was
worked up on the case. Gradually, how-
the matter lulled. Several*arrests
l>*nt!a of JTndjfe Iknvlo.
Special dispatch to The Constitution.
SocialCirulz Ga., April5.—Judge ('has.
old and respected citizen of
were made, but all of them proved to be I)avis ».
"*orth very little. The Jones family went I ^ on ro«i in this county, and resident for
jrortb Carolina, where they seem to have n ? ar s,xt Y ye*™, died last evening at 9:15,
hidden in the dark corners of mountains | aft * r a s " ort illness of onlv a few days
as wild as those they left. The public seems Judge Davis was formerly judge of the wea-
to have almost forgotten the affair. orcuit, and during liis long life of use-
“ ef***?*. however, a deep impression I f u»i»esa held many other offic a of trust. He
—* J u — f l * 1 -as a remarkable man in many respect*.
Death of Alex, t'ampbcll’n Rr ether.
... ^ij, WH ! tltUNO ’ W. Va., April 4— A. W.
near which McIntyre was killed, was the | Campbell, brother of t he late Elder Alex-
inan who slew him. Several ineffectual I »»der Campbell, of Bethany, \V. Va., died
efforts were made to effect his capture. It I suddenly in this city last night, aged sev-
, . . —. - -*P .ra.ra.voa.VU |
at nshington and hns long lain heavy on I was * ^markable
the tuindof the attorney-general. It has all
the while been the general belief that Ayres
Jones, the man who resided in the house
ascertained that he ‘had ,c-
turned from North Carolina and settled
near Frog mountain, within a few miles
of Ins former home. A few months ago
Tom Jones, the brother of Ayres Jones, was
arrested in Tennessee and carried to Knox
ville for trial on a chai
While he was
enty-fivc years.
JLef the Negroes Go.
Nashville Manner.
i ^Theroara very many in the south who irgant tho
restless spirit msuifestc.t by the negroes with
ficials here suspected that he might know I ‘J cld ’ I^ nlr,ll * ri y, would
something of the murder. Colonel F.^row 2 Ktl&S? SjHPW&ASl Jfo
the district-attorney, went to Knoxville and I jnoraUaed; yet while many former* would will-
succeedcd in showing cause why lie should 11”* 1 ? exchonpe them for the morn intelligent and
bring the pri oner back to Atlanta I w hite laborers, there are other* who atill
He has been in jail here ever since I b**P never had
to await a full ^investigation of the SggjTiElra■5£5* , r.S»fl?S»
J rom this point the ense the workshop* in the *.uth, other* will
has been thorouhgly worked up bv Marshal I ?L ,me '“V. 1 Ulke th C ,r p 1 *****- It w***
Fitzsimons and Colonel Farrow. U^r I h . er ,
f- F ;? d >®y and Mr. Lit
of Jones. Friday they started on their I £TP«ih kinrt of c-aliens that make prosperity and
search for him. Going to Gainesville, th*\y P * re * 1 wealth*. I*mik ih«
proceeded i hence to Dahlonega on h
back. From there the wav was trulv
of difficulty and danger. The dei.u
ties meant business, however, and
went abend with a vim. Thev were 1 Yh re,,u,cv nun wm» aw
pelled to go fast, for if the object of S.eir I ^ ^ ^ nothlM * by **
visit had been known the whole enuiuvl
might have been arou-ed in
against them and the already i
project might have been made doubly diffi
cult, if not impossible of successful exeou-
I mold up great emmonwealth*. Look at the
rapid growth of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa,
all younger state .than Tennessee, but all far In
* d J w ‘o® «f her in material wealth. It wan white
labor that made them what they are. Therefore.
rim!!? % [? r cv f ry 0 .? 0 ,hat
[^uhrt^omdbemadeto replace him with a white
Give the Reader the Xew*
Jacksonville Sun and Prcm.
'j. 1 uMheseen,” said Tim Atlanta Consti
tution. "thnt we donut treat our readers i
1 ion. They were mounted on suiM>rb horses I —?.*^ e - c - hildren .”. ) Ve h » v ' e no remark __
id made rapid progrosz through a sec-ion I
in rays to cli.|Kti the gloom tint ignorance Cn7J,'!otenor
and generous people. It has been a rule of <i
UMtaintlievimnressedeereraimen whom
t.iey met, and with this possemoved swiftly
oa toezretttqthcirmiraion^Vhen^thTn, ? {IdnftffsS
na!.’.s of where they knew Jones Vs",!X
^‘Bhcst of mountain I *ud given an advantage of understandlng.as well
paths and the horses no longer found a ^wecoutd, the reaaonlng of others. There is no
sure footing on the loose stones that bordered I . < El ctlUUfd ^ ,ow « r J^e dignity
the precipices of this forbidding region ot ***"*
WS irwwvaSB gWMBrag&jg -
had been falling for hours and the ground I confederacy aa the conqueror. It may become
s on early I D-vU to accept
(1 , 'Micrwicu tiiK'jiuies move emoot ato
siSSS 18 problem that the war has slip in at another. Thevl enter an anneal
ThSId^rlrti ! JJ°fJ c . ofthe * OUl ^e rn states, when Mrs. Arp comes home. Im waVting
frwS^ Au^ i ^ve been patiently for Aer advent mysel” buTan?
nua., y n “,e A bS t i I n ^ «*N^,u &"nT^ e SEMS ^ 5
w nch embraces every darkey on the island j me and restore my ancient privileires. She
ftsSWraWJSfeaSSqK
who is well enough to go.
tight to read and write
.to*! gVHKl government, fiffatffah mT- I SrarataTSlh^JTtfYdS.TO to®
l 1 **™** furnished with that article I cide what to bny with two doHtrsan«?n half
less hra achieved at Nassau, and some of our generally understock she lira to Yi cm 1 i
political economists, who are compelled woke on one nigln about n,Woiehf„f.?n’
,L n ,he far south, coveresi her sitt.ng by the fire whh n r
should give their leisnre time to an glasses on a reading iwiv n J, “ , y
mvestlgalton of this subject. I will revellin niw at Irar lelfah" when ,he ^
Hmliziro *^f S ? U ( .‘^ ar * c * e9 t that! all the improvements that we hare made
-jSaBwss-s&fis.- sittssaKVaaSirS
1 1 ha "__ for g° lt en. to mention that we I J r,th b L ue grass 8od - They run round in the
reached Havana a little too late to meet the I fo ^ n . of * anake with two crooks in him but
watermelon season, and at Nassau we were I ^id) our poetic girls .-peak of as Mr.
il falls in the uncertain path they stood. I t«!!° w 0,1 • hli"mobv
Uio'ctoek^nigK in^fron t of toe honra | 'SSL STA"^
of Ayres Jones,
had defied any n __ ^ umw
to come and take him out of his niounfaTn
retreat. No time was to be lost. Both
Gaston and Finrii«v m.iwvi
doorof the
man who I *" orc Power in tt»e union of t»day »>i-n
TS4
any number of deputies I Three^daeen and a Bengal tiger! Yea.
UMUW ri (om in I
raptured the aiidtol.
Hogarth, line oeatity. \Ve'vc levclcd'off
another ynrd for a crokay ground: she lovi
•'lay HMinetimes. and it docs me good to
her throw the mallet after the ball
when it miNM* the wicket two or three
heel of the tomato seasor
Tomatoes are a new export product n . ,— B , UU[I
>ew Providence and the whole island I P‘°y ^“'‘otimes. and it docs
had last winter the tomato fever. 1 *** her throw the mallet a
It sprang from the quiet but profita-1 w “ en misses the wicket
ble operations of one man, who had culti- I times in succession. She’s a comm’ The
tomatoes for the northern cities n°wen are waiting for her, and the chick-
about five yeara. His neghbors caught the I the dogs and cats and
idea * year or so ago. and last winter nearly J he cWWr e» a »‘* *ne. We’re are all a wait-
everybody planted tomato seeds. The seed —
ts put in the ground in October, and bv I
December there is ripe fruit on the vines. Ini
January and February thousands of boxes I
are shipped to New York and other north- |
ern cities, each tomato being wrapped in |
The Frost and the Fro
“Dr. Janes, is tbe fruit dead?”
*‘I cannot tell.”
Then the reporter spoke of the chilly wirnfa
that the
weather
water on the buds
thin paper ra oranges come to us from the «>»t “*■“«<> <o come right from among iee-
“ a * fl ? e P? fit “ re ®I' zed - »®rtS>.»nd frighten back tile blush legs,frW
theoreraga American will have « *® "!»y «y- He spoke of Ice and
fo—to.M early as the first of twenty-nine degrees huddled down in the
March at reasonable prices if this new in- | ■filtering thermometer. Dr. Janes still ner-
du f ,r Jj ti* Bahamas fa proportionately I suited in his doubts. He says jnst at 'the
'f t ,'U d ,® d - f'—sau need\ however, quicker I present stage of the fruit crop it fa
and bettor communications with the north- I almost impossible to toll when it ii hurt bv
era markets before she can safely go into I jh® cold. \\ c can only wait and see what
j*®,farming in the winter time on an ex-1 19 tbe real result of snen a snap a? the nres-
tenued scale. I cnt. Thu dm<>As> v*#*., u. .• * ..
The ruder doubtless knows that I fell in i ... • A ... —- —
lore with Nassau at sight My admiration I 2**2 dry and there wa3
was not lessened by the return visit. It was I v- , ,
just as quiet, pleasant, sweet and restful as I Newman, of the agricultural de-
ever; the sky was as blue, the air as pure I I* rtmenl ; “/*. in eight years’ expe-
and the waters as inviting as the week be-1 « fruit ^ro win S He found
fore or the week after; for no amount of I that coId snaps improved the
mere oral or written evidence can now con-1 ^rop more than a frost or freeze. He
me . that Nassau is even unblessed the ***** 18 j*°»*g*j to a considera-
with the choicest gifts that nature can be- I • de 5 ree- . ^ r * Mark W. Johnson, who
stow. l*t us, however, leave it until cir-1 rmw< * Y n ? fruit ,n K >rkwood, says that the
cuinstances enable us. one and alt. to I 9nap of th , re ? we eks ago injured the crop
pitch our tents in its tropical groves for I U 1110 "’ ? nt h « l«rns that the present
something better and more satisfactory than I ““F 1 ^ hat L the . n e9C *P«d- The wind
a flying visit. I so hard night before last that' there
a storm at sea. I *** no frost, so that the result was not as
We had ample reason to distrust the sea Pn h i Ve ^ een on aca!ra
after we left Nassau. Never was sea smooths I frnl? " * A *. ar ? experienced
than during the first night and the first cart I SSlf7 >1l y r ’ -S* that "early all
of the following dsy. Keve"^ ,„efa£S kill * d ’ «. ray. that there
more confident that they had at last con-1 ^ ^. n,e re * u 1 ?* , lJ r cver 7 *en
qnered it than we were. Alra for hnntan I orifIJ'in^M> r ^t n i be M 0ne m 1 * 19 ' , , tlen * n '
calculations—on the sea. We were in.t I ,W ’ #nd * notl >®? came in ’99, and
fairly in that dreadful gulf streim ”hra a ? e 5* r * •**"““» **ich chilled the pre-
gale from the northeast came npon ns- and I ?v, 0IM S f ring ° f ,879 ’. ftrafessor Bras thinks
the way in which we were taSbSSf 2d I d «®«*«l periodicity
toraedaboot by waves that were higher than I t 'tri, and
onr iron pot took the last bit of marine '°° k . lk ® there ” m
conceit out of us, to sav nothin. I ac 2 dcn ' "> tl»s fegular recarrenr®.
of the contents of our stom'acha Ou? mmo/faKfil?"' ° f ' h ' |' art . inf fnr ’
boet was but a toy. and the W.v— I of V®Kalbcount}. was in the city yes-
each succeeding one being larger and more I , ®’J a J- ?* *P*»ksi gloomily of the pwaiieet
w ““»th*n its predecessor, buffeted ns JS I TZ^h thC *****' peaches and a,> *
* child does* rubber b*U. The I p, ?2 ar t,CH , .? ed *
• QLicnu urae was to be Io*L Fk»?h I rtn/cnin ‘^^fiDEthe union.
Gaston and Findley rushed against the j ofoui, Sw iSS ^ ufe'SSiSi®
door of the rude house and it gave in. In- blue-coat* have folle^^^betowTJi^k
suntly Fi .idley was at the bedside of Jones S^S ,n,u>n CI, J- Th ® confederate cray'o.m
with a pistol In hie face. The man ^ 21',* P»mlem. Olorions! Pulh in th,
that resistance was idle and sullenly he
££«s“hJ5UB. jr iM .n ts Tha 'rr.^* t r nrM -
‘"At yppSffiMwbTMjr;:
Ceen a more’thriMing'sccnc™ Jonra^rafo
the mWstof his family, a wife and nine o£t tK w " <«e
children. He took liis capture with a cool-1 tfo I.oown£k“d th.t
difficult and dangerous doubly so was the I iom«!# m,,,aUo 7 (°. r Rnvenior, which Thurman
ret urn to the horses. The officers took their SStTbicSS A jTSf®, WtbtS
prisoner ra fast a, possible, securely hand- for the
cuflfod ra he was. They reached their horses I date traz the n«Uonliw r Bm w/th^iinj^!?!:
and made him ride behind them. He rode I jE*£E2’ llow ®“uid avlcuuy, tfooe smaaoLta
first on one horse and llien on tlie I SSHFiu 1 t' irthln ® ,or poor Thunoau? IT any
other. The men made a distam ° I *'“• hl «' han <*s seem flipping away. J
of twenty miles from the placewhere Jones I xh. ,,, _ ! ~
wra captured hy day-break. Tliey wanted I T " 1,1 3,Hn _ 0 . r _ ‘ ,1 ® Republleana
Talks.
prisoner. When day came I „ Okolona Southern States.
they wore stiff deep in tho woods and moun-1 never Indonwd the amendmenta
“ms- It was evitfent that Jones ex.«ei„l TSUS““'•‘“d Krirttertfar” ’
- s ferra pnesibleoutof Uie wilds
their prisoner. When day came I
dent that Jones exiwcted \
” • •'ir*™rkTd^^ 0 s'^ 1 ;" t ^
it* tancoIn T hi r elfnaa
rescue from some of bis frienda “ifeESkS I
around frequently and seemed perfectly in-1
different as to hfa condition. As tiicy I Hfths way, Yankees don't It nrak. *ou U rSi
brouglit him nearer ami nearer to tliicE 2nS r J° “S,*!?'’' defrated^J ten J w i
ttlemenfa hfa oiuntciiance showed that he I an<1 “P'n'cd tbe capful?
-“losing hope. In the conversations had
-}*5 “» c fP t ““ I*® “Id something of his
wild life in tbe mountains He Mys he
raises enough Irish potatoes and rye to live
on. Not a hnndrerf yards from the house
- distillery, it fa said, and
accused of having
twelve gallon*
he has
from this
taken ten and
?r'.i , . , " k L at .?. n “ " ‘.' h h» wKt. to
One of tlie Re*f.
Akron, Ohio, Commercial.
tbVSSS^SIbi wond**' “ PMU ‘"‘ 7 •” «•
Moraantan the comity site of Fannin. He
offered his liquor publicly for sale, and de
fied all revenue officials He issaid to hare
i 1 "*.'.'? arr "“ hi » shoulderaand
On (he Improve,
ttsrleua Journal.
The Daily Ooxzrrn.’rioa geu batter and t
The Black Death In HJasonrI.
Lexington (Mo.) Register.
marched around the country defyln'auTft I. Th ® ““f fearful fatality we have
forts to arrest. Never was he taken before. SSf n , c, "® d n I". ,n ‘® ®hr»nicle during thi
““l “i?* * ” never was in a court-house I uf our chtorial experience oc-
tn his life. I ®urred toa poor family by thi nanie of
He lias passed all hfa days in the wilds of r.lU?!?]5i , *i Vi * . h w f abov * th ®
f^rs^Blri&issrsn’sas 2&SarasS?'s&f-
SB S." “ ufess e:
pr^ed that they should (££.” I industnons young man!
f u :r Th^nnd^a, „ff fi 2d. * | fo* k bo , “?, d ' nl} ' «t^a>rstirtr
the preliminaries were arranged, but some- I rarazlna were
thing liar,pcned to prevent thfa unnatural wiltftofih.'fM follo “ ,n ? day, ami a few
Bklft-. Tit® brothers had not spoken einoe I with’th«2^S^* a ken
tiie difficulty until they met in jail yester- I 2 ™ 'U^®"**- H ® Unger-
day Not long ago Tom Jones wWto hfa 2 Sfai d raf Wed"e«fay. »Tie„
brother that he had bettor look out, as the citrine 1 J he excru-
ofiicers were after him A frw dir* ■»* | ciaiiiippnj*ical agony. After death it is
Colonel Whit AnTrion tato^nSd- 22^22 “SK? *«'•• “ack and wra
. letter which Tom Jonita lid bU “•jf 1 " “»»*'•
Titten to some friends in the 1**•? “ m ® disorder, and
tountains tiiat they had bettor come down da7in*f2rfol ra'n'Jm *i,t irl »l5on Fri.
id rescue him from bis imprisonment I . T V® '“mining
rtiild or nature as rah be imagined'. ... „
laterally untouched by modern civilization
Hedoea not know r ‘ “
*°” same ’ craeF'dfa-
se that deprived liim of a kind father
id mother and loving ».—.*(—
that ever occurred. It brought
sorrow and suffering to the unfortunates
engaged in a nervous at-
texnpt to manufacture backbone for Mr.
Hayes. But in this they are making their
laac ahe has been unconscious and
alive by stimulants. There were present at
her death-bed her physician. Dr. 8. J. Me?
Kenzie; her grandsons. Colonel Jerome Na
poleon and Charles Joseph Bonaparte, Mrs.
George Patterson, widow of her brother, tbe
Ute George Patterson, and Mrs. Clark, a rel
ative, who has been her faithful attendant
and nurse for tbe past ten years or more.
She left an estate valued at one and a half
million of dollars.
Severe Baav ft term.
PaovuraciowN, Mass., April 4.—A severe
snow storm here last night did considerable
dami^e to tbe shipping. Some lives are re-
rumeu. i**”- and aj>-
was built for blockade'ronning^buUt C too I W1 i! iat ? Kile, who resides in West
on the Clyde, of good honest i^nandstori frU,t is “ fe ’ he ,hinks -
We had confidence in the boat, but we had I «!jnipowible to tell iust
more confidence in her captain when after I t . he ext «n* of the damage done
running along the Florida shore, aftercross- I *°'r! ie *f nder trees **■ critical stage,
ing tbe gulf stream, be decided that the I n ? et f r sported at thirty-
storm was too severe to be faced withsafetv I . l ^ e Ul,lled States observer yes'er-
by bis veaseL He had the courage to*turn 1 1,1 ?everaI lo «*htie» in Atlanta it
hia vessel about, and hasten under the lee of I IE 11 “venty nroe. Ice was plentiful on
the reef that stretche* out from Cane Sn-1 ^V u . ud '
never saw but two nearoea This nn>t m! I k"" - l £*f re 18 butl|little if anv
remarkable ev:dence 1< „t hfa backwoo.fa I ™» d fa«ze that lira
habit* wra shown in “e fa'J fhe 22th n,£l ,rom ,he ,a ®«
that he had never seen a railroad I of a en< ^ . un, ‘’ th ® P la S« a
or a locomotive until hfa raptora emried 2 ft j?Lj|t. rtrea ? ,e ' e L r of
him to Gainesville. They re&hed“hire ran,, »°f k *'"> thi
Wednesday afternoon, ahd he begged inf2ti2I d Tltod£2Sfh. fc IIIi na, * ,yil, * n,,t
Ihlra'V^'Fo” °“ t * n ’ d ,# * him l ‘* k *' * — b ®® n Pn«<«wnced
delighted with thi
rious machines. 1
ta yesterday at 12:30 by Mr. Finley and Mr thi
or haif hour buU.‘T&uV;Vfw» , ?. le ;^ P ? eU r oMi *'
the movement of these cu- bea relief to J,a., ®°J r ®®t- It may
...toifaft*!*• *&»■ ti-Stighwh^d hive ESXEsrsts
« , J-vtoi/iiB ( ||
have been attacked with
J , Mcr ; which is evidently not con-
™ ri>® oftemon he wra I naTuraTly'arira" i*'?
earned before Commissioner Smyth to an-! once allayed. ^ a ^
swer the charge of resisting an officer and
conspiracy, tbe only crimes which
he is charged with under the United 8t*tea
Indigestion.
the reef that stretches out from Cape Can- I * fr V u ‘ ,d * wind blew cold all tiuy
averal, at the head of Indian river There I ? nd nt ? clothes were hauled out from
we lay two whole days, waiting for an abate-1 !!!'i" k ” a , nd ,nto ’*"*<*-. The tempera
ment of the storm—tossed about by evtxv I donn ? th ® day
wave, with no water on board that a human I hI!? cl °*^ - lth pnwpect of a frost to-
stomacb could bold, with misery in the I in? "P 0 ®** from other parts of the
“^e^g^mbilr’S^fwrara^ •'ur^^SSVto K-xon ^rt’inTb'"*.,’^ Hfa“gS;’ 2fl2'^tt^ 1 tS2S^S^Sl^, bl00d ’
gfad that we had the shelter oMb/dSSS ^.Adanta. rt^tbfacklmlrl. parted'fothemi;Jd" g S2y“ff7ff ftre ZSSmISSESZ&Z
cape. | i Hard Frr#iu»
SToiinfnifri^hfrS: SS
sssspms izsasssaus
backets, bolding none of the wild doe- who engaged in it, and, from a purely alhhe will d^his dutj?
usual m : «take If he his an. h.cVL™,. '■ Tbe Spanish bark Isadora Rhmda. bound
w^l hi. “ y b “ kbon *“ to Portland with sugar, t. dismasted in thi.
^ .SM? 4 at ® a *L ancI »r • truck farms around Charleston is r C-
or, we bobbed up and down, we rolled, and mated at a quarter of a million. *
nndhia face covered with bristling, reddish
braid. His eye ia peculiarly bright and
piercing, and his motions rather quick and
nervous. He was dressed in true back-
woods style. Jeans pants, thick green
woollen shirt and heavy brogans made
up moat of hfa outfit He
seemed perfectly at ease in the
presence of the authorities. He was retire
til? ftnrtmstl X- Lit. .1 ‘zt
THE PRESENT SUPERIORITY of the
JhJ «ra| , | h ' determined by
the excellence and cheapness of articles of
miff ITSi At S°PI i! 101 ® must be preferred
rach a household boon as Dooley’s Yeast
sented by Gartreil & Wright, white The'dis- ti.e*pt%\l* h ^Thl’ransaresiwAvTu'" *'*[ h
tnct-attorney appeared for the prosecution, and the tSvrder itMlf mfra .Si, f “ 1 ' R l * 1 8 ht
The case was not ready ou the part of the SfaWSSST£e!^ S a " a ^