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Btek—Th* Story tf BaailyaaVar*
rated by CoL W. H. Sparks.
Written for The Constitution.
Bom* time in the year 18341 was called on
In the city of New Orleans by the late
Shadrick Blatter to accompany him to the
calaboose or dty prison to see if I could re
cognise a man oonf.ned there for passing
counterfeit money. As far hack aa 2627 a
nephew of Mr Blatter, reared in the county
of Jocea, Gforgia, had disappeared, and the
last that waa heari of him was the receipt
of a latter from him. written from New Or
leans in the autumn of that year. This
man in the prison claimed to be Bunkiy,
the long-lost youth.
Bunkiy was horn to the inheritance of a
fortune, had been well educated; hisfam
ily waa ene of the first in the state, and
tberd was great solicitude felt by them to
Jearn his whereabouts if Bring, and if
«'ead, when and where be died. It appears
from bis (rat letter that he was without
foods, and ha desired that his wants should
be immediately supplied. Tais was
protnpUy done by bis family, but ha never
actnowledgad the receipt of this, nor did he
again communicate witbhu. fimtly. His an
cle in the meantime had become a resident
of New Orleans, and had been diligent io his
efforts to discover, if possible, his nephew
These had proved unavailable, and he. with
all his family, had lort hope of ever learn
ing the f \U of their relative.
The mother of Bunklv waa living. She
had another aon who hsa taken possession
f the estate of JJnnkly an his legal heir.
This son had married and died,-leaving a
widow, who had come into possession of
the estate of tba 1.* t one, and had marrie f
again Suddenly the family ac.a.ofumtd
that Jesse Bunkiy, the mining, had tcrued
up a prisot *n*i » ‘ah»L -In t-*3 state
t.risot. of Louisiana. for at that time the
famous calaboose''of N-w Orleans was used
as aueh, and the prt*>n«rv, i*, chains, worked
and cleaned, under guard, tbeetreeta of the
city. Mr. Blatter waa informed of this, and
requested :o see (he man and ascertain the
truth of this statement IWore calling on
roe he had reen and examined the prisoner
claiming to be Jjsso Bunkiy. There wm
no.hing rnuarkahie ebiut young Bunkiy
to d'sliiiguuli him from other person*, ex
cept that he had the fore j tint oI one of
hla fingers off. Thosi win had known him
well remembered the color of his hair and
eye?, and hia general appearance. But he
was quite a youtn whsu leaving his home,
and in such many changes occur in a few
years, especially when exposed to a differ
ent climate from that of trie land of their
nativity, and to the privations consequent
upon labor and the confinement of a pruon
When Mr. blatter called on me to visit
with him mis prisoner, he informed ine
that he had his doubts *3 to his being Bunk-
Iv, but he had lost a joint of his finger as
Bunkiy had,and waa well acquainted with
the early history of Bunkiy—with the
names 01 all bin family—his i-sobers and
college clawmatrs, and various private in
cidents conr.cc’cd with Buablv’a early life,
that hewss staggered in his judgment, ami
actual y doubled the accuracy «./ his own
mem ry as to the appearance of Bunk
iy, and the color of hia hair and
S ea. Hr had written thui to
» family, wht in turn had requested
him to sec me and request me to examine
closely the prisoner; that he had been my
school male and lha;. if the pretended was
Bunkiy 1 would a.-suiedly know him.
Accompanied by Mr. Holland, the
manual, we vldted the prisoner, who a. the
time wan at work ^*ou the streets in
company with many others. The moment
he saw ine he knew and called me by name,
remarking when we used to sleep together
when pupils of the academy in Katonton.
"You never ex pt-c:e<< to see rue a criminal in
chains,"and he appeared mush affected. I
aaw very clearly tnis was affected, and this
impression was strengthened by, to me,
the apparent fact of the radical differ
nice in the color ot his hair and eyes from
that of Bunkiy’a. 1 had emigrated from
Georgia about the time Bunkiy had left, and
thearqu&intnnci-fcof my fed and youth
readily recollected me, as I d; J those from
whom I had b-e»i an long a««l as entirely
separate: as W l Htinkly. Yet upon a pretty
cU»e examination he *nswer r d *jqi..-k!j
and so correctly all my questions th«i i,
Ins uncle hod been, waa really to d >n«»i *■>
to htaIdentity wi.h llunkty. ’ Mr Ho.Uud
wan so well .'Mtisiieit that ne was wh»t he
represented hun.telf that r.e said tmpnitti-
cally, "He is certainly the veritable
Bunkiy.”
1 communicated with Mr. Lowther. who
had intermarried with the mother of
Bunkiy, expressing my tit ubta, notwith
standing the teat. of this ex
amination. I could not believe
that the yellow lever had changed
the color of nis eyes a d hair, as heclaimed
it had; and tn-mgti 1 could not distinctly
remember, I thought the crippled finger
waa on the wrong hand. Yet, it aeen.ed
itupossible that another than the ret;
Bunkiy should be so intimately acquainted
with at* much of the minute history of *.»s
child hood,and of bis school days and <*ch wl-
matrs, the localities of his native villag *
and lu people, and the peculiarities of so
many of them.
Boon after the writing of this informa
tion to Mr. Lou l her. I received from Ge *r
giaantl from a prominent lawyer th«r*.
who ahali be namelw ». a cautiously worded
AMT-MARRIAGE.
A STRANGE MODE OF INSURANCE.
Declared Usosnstttotiafialby the Attcraey General
of Ohio—Poblic Policy Requires tbe Pro
motion of Marriage, and Con
trary Acts are Unlawful.
VOL. XIII.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1881.
NO. 48
be was an imposter, and yet abe wondered
how it waa possible that be should possess
so many facta in the lift and history of
her eon, and yet not be him indeed, hbe
was aa houest in her convections as in her
feelings, and sternly and in agony d- nied
the identity of the impostor as her son.
There seem* an instinct in every mother’s
fesrt of the pre'rence ef a long lost r’.ild.
when he returns to her, worn with the
care* of life and wasted with years, unan
nounced and wiped from memory. I
remember more than one instance it- my
longlife. 1 will not repeat names out I
will the incident: A mother had been
lefts widow, with several sons; one was her
darling; be was wild and full of mischief
and adventures; disliked school and was
often a truant. As he grew apace these
irregularities increase 1, and he was the
source of infinite anxiety and much misery
to his only parent, who, as mothers will,
dung tbe closer to him, the more bis
conduct was condemned by the
world. Finally he was sent
north to complete hla defective education.
In a short time aha was informed that be,
«ah two others,, had disappeared from
>cbool. and hid gone no o*.o kr.ew where
tttfhad nvtmad fee did r.o»
i-tilowed year and no
WTflle. In the meantime his sisters bad
married; so had his brother. His patri
mony had been divided amongst them.
Ihe war between the state3 saperyenad,
and all or nearly all of hia personal estate
had been engulfed in the universal rain
which followed this most unnatural and
most disastrous conflict It was lor years
afr.er tbe 'termination of this struggle,
when all these sisters, their husbands and
their brother were assembled at tbe pa
ternal mansion, once so peerless and proud,
now a desolate home, and were participit
iug m a common misery, suddenly appear
ed m the hallway of the great mansion a
Mtilor in tarry deck trowsers and a tarpau
lin hat. He appeared to be a rolicking
g<x»d fellow,* with bloused hair and eun-
irowncd skin. Tipping his hat and scrapiog
*ith bis feet the floor, he bowed to all, and
asked it they could not give him some
thing to quench bis thirst and appease his
appetite. All drew back from
him, but a flask «.f water
platter of food was given to
■fated on a side table in a
is meal finished, here-
turned to the parlor and remained stand
ing for a moment. The matron of the
mansion rose up, and approaching him,
said : “There is something whispering in my
heart that you are my own darling boy so
long lost.” "Yes, mother, kiss your sailor
Iwy. Wild Willie baa come to find yeu '
an J a mother's heart, she welcomed home
her wild boy. But there was a sequel to
this. He was not so welcomed by his
brother and sisters and their husbands. He
dness with renewed warmth towards his
mother. One morning at breakfast, when
tbe family was assembled, he remarked:
* Mother, this is scant fare to what you have
been u ed to,and you must not endure it
I can place you where you were. There is
the certificate of deposit for more than is
i.ecessary to effect this in the bank of Eng
land. I am going to the city this morning;
the poor estate to these here, who
seem so much to prize it, and appear
willing to share it, at least with me ”
cttuo ar.dshe went, and neither has ever
returned to the desolation they left
There was no instinctive whispering to
the heart of Buukley's mother that this was
1 er wild boy come hack to her, and despite
her wishes she would not oclieve her heart.
*0! there is no love like mother love; nc
nstinct so vivid, none so tenacious.”
Barber and his accompanying friend re
gained, w ere constantly together, and now
more than a year had claimed, and still tbe
rclteu.ent increases. Tbe community was
livided in opinion, and very many of
i be best citizens of the county, and mi
i *w in the state, firmly believed and
r .”^ He then
bb conduct
in the negotiation* cf a forged draft, and
admitted that he knew tbe draft waa forged,
but that he had not committed the forgery
—that waa the work of another, whose po
sition waa an elevated one, and entirely
above suspicion, and be did not hesitate to
name him. My reply was,' that not a man
ould believe his statement. He
and said the people of Georgia be
lieved the statement of Barber, which
turned out to be all false. Yea. but Barber
bad in some manner possessed himself of
so many facte, incident to, and happening
to Bunkiy, that he by this means created
very rationally a belief that none other
than Bunkiy could be possessed of.
“Well,” he added, *T can tell you all
about how be became acquainted with
most of these: I became acquainted
with Barber under circumstances it is
not necessary now to mention, but I learned
that he waa engaged in pushing tbe queer—
that is. in workingoff counterfeit money. I
mw bis crippled finger*, and remarked bis
hand reminded me of Bunkiy’*, who bad
joint fro it fafa 8u»
_ _ to enumerate number
fees tayings aad doings of Bunkiy. Very
soon after be was arrested, and after his
conviction
quently ta
talked with him wn
its in the chain gang. I suggested
him, after telling him Bunkiy baa never
been heard cf after ccming to New Orleans,
act! he bad, vniting his return, • large for
tune. It was not difficult to persuade him
to represent himself to be the lost Bunkiy
and ti Jt my knowledge of Bunkiy would
enable me to give him the dots where he
was deficient in the history of Bnnaly.
He became my pupil, and he learned fast
and well. 1 had lost everything. My wife,
had sned me for a divorce and obtained it.
could never see my children again, and
i desperation I concocted this scheme.
Jje Bunkiy, Jesse’s brother, who had his
money, bad died, his wife bad married an
Englishman, and I felt 1 had as good a
right to Jesse’s money as he and she had.
Colouel, 1 am a notary public, living at
rUqnemine, and for the future mean to
live an honest life. I am soon to be mar
ried to an accomplished creole lady,
and promise me that you will not
expose me, and I pledge you
ou may deem worthless.
»shall be an honest and
respectable one.” I promised, and now, for
:be first lime, give bis story to the public,
i’svlor has long been in the grave. He
lvrried a most worthy woman who made
him a most examplary wife, and as I verily
believe, made him an honest man. They
had no children. She, too. is m the grave,
aad this recital can injure no living being.
W. H. Sparks.
identify _ „
be Bunkiy. and will let me know it, he
make a handsome thing of it—if by your
influence you can get him out of the cam
booea.” My suspicions were immediately
aroused that there was a gigantic fraud
projected. 1 knew this lawyer was well
acquainted with the whole life of Bunkiy.
and that his exceeding shrewdness could
accomplish alnunt any design if be ben:
hia tuind to it. Hv tnis time the fortune of
Bunkiy had * we. ltd to a large amount, atul
waa a great temptation io cupidity. 1
showed this letter to the marshal, who was
an intimate lriend, and suggested my sue
picior a. Bondenug a moment, he inquired
the figure and central appearance of thi!
lawyer, and ad.lt d, "there has been a mar
visiting this prisoner claiming to be an old
acquaintance of his, and has frequently
read him long letters puiporriog '
come from hi* relatives, and from this tu*
have learned much of the prisoner'!) ante
cedents 1 r.:u Mire he does not reside
the city, but ofT the coast, 1 tbink. They
call each other familiarly by their given
to be very solicitous for the comforts of the * rrr m ? lhm w - rc niany •ubstantiai
prtoner and has several times left small
sums of money to supply the little wants of
the prisoner.
I think the term cf the prisoner's sentence
was four year*, and its finality was at baud.
In the nuantirue, many perrons iroin
Georgia bad visited and convened with the
Mow tbe Revised Ti
i*rlnl-l*nragrapb» instead
V emes.
New York Mall.
The following specimens cf the revised
edition of tbe New Testament are according
to ihe new print, except that we omit the
marginal notes.* It will be seen that the
book is printed just as one would print a
discourse* or a narrative in a newspaper.
Theie are no chapter ard no verse division*,
but the old chapters and verses ere indicated
by figures along tbe side ot the page. The
first extract gives the last six verse* of the
h chapter of Hebrews and tbe first aix
irses of the 10th chapter. The heavy
figures 10 in the margin indicate the
chapter:
23 It wm therefore necerw-ry ih&t tho partem* of
things In the heave:-» fcLould be pnrliitd with
these: but tbe heavenly thing? tbem-elve*
with better sacrifices than the-e. For Chrfet
is not entered into the holy pisces made with
hand*, which are the figures of the t ne, but
Into heaven itself, now to appear into the
25 pretence of God for tu: Nor jet that he should
offer himxelf often, a* the high priest entereth
into the holy pb<v every year with the blood
of others. For then must he often have cof
fered since the foundation of the world; »»ct
»•« mm* tn tho and ot tba world bath he
appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of
I was again called on by Mr. 81attcrs and
icqueated to make further investigation,
end if possible ascertain the fateof Bunkiy.
.Vftei some time we ascertained that liank-
ty had boarded with a woman of rather
doubtful fame. From her we learned that
he had been taken ill in her house ai.d that
>he had had him carried to the Charity
hospital, and that she knew nothing more
of hito. 8be did kno* his bill bad ucver
been paid her. Here was a clue, ami we
went at once to that institution. If he had
died there, or been cured aud discharged,
t here was a record of the Uct. The accom
modal log secretary soon produced tbe ted
ger of records for the year 1627, and a short
.■.•'arch discovered that on a certain day
ol the month of Anga.it, Jesse L Bunkiy
had been admitted to the institution, and
four days thereafter had died, and had been
buried in potter’s field.
There w*to two dark lines drawn from
the top to the bottom of the ledger, and
the two last letter* of the name bad been
carried into these line*, so that the tops
ana the tail of the L and the Y were only
distinct, and without a careful examination
Bank. Bat the age, appearance,
place of birth and residence were all dis
tinct, and certified to the identity of its
really being Buckley, and was con
elusive of bis fate. A copy
of this record was furnished
properly certified and forwarded to Mr.
Lowther, and Bather was immediately
arrested. In the meantime, however, the
parents of Barber had been found residing
in the county of Gwinnett or Walton, who
identified him as their sou, and other testi
mony equally strong was procured to
establish this fact. As soon as he was
viotuly known Bunltly, ami most of tHesc
were convinced of his identity. He had
been convicted under the name of Elijah
Barber, but was now only called by tbe
name of Bunkiy. It was well understood
that aa eoon as hut imprisonment expired ha
would repair to Georgia and claun his
fortune. When this period arrived the
mysterious /need who had persistently
visited him. waa present, with another, to
receive him. Who the other was none
knew but they left the prison together and
nothing waa known of their movements for
a considerable while, when they turned ut>
in Clinton, Georgia, and immediate!;
Barber, the pretended Bunkiy, preferred h
claim to the estate of Buukly*. He visited
the mother of Buukly; who was not deceived
by him. and despite tbe almost universal
belief of the public that the man was tbe
veritable Benkly, was firm in her convic
tions that be wee an imposter. The venera
ble Degrees who had nurard Bunkiy,believed
with her mistress and resisted every
evidence which declared him
to the satisfaction cf the
public to be what he pretended to be. Those
who espoused the cause of Barber found a
reason for this disbelief of the mother and
curse in the interest of the family who
held his patrimony, and the dtorsca re
flected on the family by his bistorv as a
felon. Many who were young with Buukly
had grown to maturity, who had participa
ted in many of the wild pranks and mis
chievous outbreaks of Bankly; would listen
to Barber's recital of these, and were con
vinced he really was what he pretended to
be. These sympathised with him. and
renewed tho friendship and aameiation of
early days. Many, too. of the most snb-
staniial citizens believed in the verity of
hi* detentions and warmly espoused bis
cause. He visited the different localities
where he had been at school, aad indus
triously disseminated the causes oi his long
absence; and the cruel wrongs be wa*
suffering at the hands of hts mother and
bu famuy, enlisting many an honest heart
warmly in his cause; and then, there were
others,and three, perhaps his most active
partisan.', who felt the influence of that
miserable meanness as vile envy and ardent
desire to injure those whom they felt their
superiors in wealth aad position. The
family of Buukly were wealthy and sus
reined tba dignity of posauoc with becom
ing pride. This was specially tbe fact with
bis mother, and abe bad. as all such persons
have, envious enemies who wanted to and
bo did rejoice in her humiliation. This,
owaver, had little effect upon this
•Datable woman. Jeese- Bunkiy
was bar child. His mysterious
disappearance and long abaenca had been a
cancerous, sorrow iu her heart for jean.
This was constantly a prey upon her peace.
And many a sigh and bitter tear started
from her heart
secret, when she
boy, and whan in secret ah# prayed for his
ret urn to the parental home and heart,
bha struggled to baliera this man bar loss
boy. but she could not shut her eyes to
familiar facta; in her inmost soul she felt
who volunteered to go upon bis bond and
had him from prison, such was their
c mfidcnce i:j his being Bunklv, and believ
ing him persecuted by his is.nily. When
the b?nd 4 was prepared, and zeady for his,
and hi* bondsmen * iigi.atures. it appeared
that he was incapable of w ruing his name.
Koadily be ascribed this defect of education
:o the effects of yellow fever, from which
he claimed to have suffered whilst impris'
<*sed in New Orleans, and strong aa u may
seem, there were many who gave full cre
dence to this assertion, but it did not de
ceive his bondsmen. He was committed to
prison. About this time, his friend, who
..ad accompanied him from New Orleans,
iiad in a difficulty with another individual
ftlaiu him, and waa also iu custody. This
man was a desperado, and was tent with
Barber to do any desperate work his neces
sities might require.
At the ensuing tar
for the county of Jones, the trial of Barber
alias Bunkiy came off. He was>bly defend
ed and as ably prosecuted. Tbe etate'i
attorney was assisted by Walter T. Col
quitt, who, |in his happiest mood,
conducted the prosecution. The
testimony was ample to the identity
Barber, and tbe records from the New Or
leans charity hospital, equally conclusive
as tolhedeuthof Bunkiy Iu htsaddress
to the jury. General Colquitt made this
proposition: "If the prisoner at the bar will
read one chapter iu the Bible, and write
two intelligible lines here, before you gen
tlemen, we will immediately abandon this
proeccution, and at once surrender to him
the patrimony of Jea>c Buukly.**
Tae jury w*re not lone in finding a vet*'
diet ot ftuiliy, and Barber was sentenced to
the penally or seven > cars at hard labor iu
the su.u* penitentiary. Hr served this
pena l, and l t- »he prison a most excellent
bfeu kauiiiu. He co iMoued his pretensios
to the nsme cf Ba- k:y, «td what is even
more singula*. u» this day, there are intelli
gent men ir. . l»e ? tate who honestly believe
he was what he claimed to be.
THE NEW TESTAMENT.
THE CAGED REDMOND
CHAFING UNDER* HIS CONFINEMENT.
Aa Iatsrvisv With ths Hotcrieu Desperate-!Be
Accuse Himsslf of Woadsxfol Isaocuc,
Whils His Captor* Prove Hia to
bs a Public Dsipmdo.
hlms-lf. And as it is sppoln
once to die, but after this the judgment: So
26 Christ was once offered to bear the sins of
many; and unto them that look for him shall
he aDocar tho at
sal vt
many; and t
he appear tho second time without sin \
- ration.
offered year by year continually make the
comer stbcreuuto perfect. For tb *■*
they cot have ceased to be offered
of sir. every rear. For it is not posable that
the blood of bulls and of goats should ink
shen he cometh into th
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin tliou
hast bail no pleasure.
a specimen of narrative we quote a
portion of the second chapter of Matthew,
follows:
1. Now when Jesus was born In Bethlehem
Judea in the days oi Hired the king, beheld,
there csxno wi9e msa ea t ** *
Special Correspondence Constitution.
Ashzvillk, N. C m May 2.—"This is Major
RtJmond,” said’Squire Young, the courte
ous sheriff, as he pointed to a slender boy
ish figure that lay on a bed of straw in front
of the iron-barred window, enjoying the
cooling breeze from off the blue hills with
which he is so familiar. He has a western
window, and looking westward can see the
distant peaks among which for several years
ha has been as much at home as a chamois
* his native Alps. He extended^
weather-stained hand to your corres-^
pond'-ut and asked him to be seated on the
only chair in his cell, except the one by
which he propped his head.
"Where did you get your title, major?”
"Well, that,” said he "is a nick-name they
gim me when I was a boy.”
‘But you have been iu command of
squads of men at different times, have you
not?”
No, air, I never was. Them’s all a pack
o’ lies they tell about me havin’ a band of
men.”
Wbat, major, are the charges against
you?”
They say, some’rs about a year and a
half ago, I was seen iu a blockade still-
house. The truth about the matter is that
there’s a man out there in Swain county
who has been a tryin’ to lay his blociaJe
stillin’ on me. He has got suthin’ or
nurther agin me. We haint got along well
together for sometime now.”
* Major, tell me something about your
life.”
"Well,” said he, adjusting the chair un
der his head more comfortably, " I was
born do** to where Atlanta, Georgia, is
now, io 1854. Then my father moved up
to Trans;* Ivar ia. in North Carolina. We
lived there till the war come on, and moved
to Swain county. Alter tbe war was over
I went btrk to Transylvania and lived
there and farmed it tiTl 1S77, when I had
some little trouble with some revenuers.
They was to blame, I wasn’t I
left then and went over into
South Carolina. That same year
about corn-gatherin’ time 1 married old
man Ladd’s gal—in the upper edge of
Pickens county. 1 come back then in
March ’79 to Swain county and leased me
some land on the Tcnue*se«i river, about
eight miles from Charleston; but, wherever
I’ve been I aliers had a good character. The
newspaper men ha-i tole a heap o’ lie* on
me.”
"Major, how did the officers capture
^ "Well I’ll tell you,” said he. "I have
been a’livin’ peaceable and not botherin’
nobody fur this is now gwyin’ on three
years. I mostly stay at home and don’t
hardly ever leave my cabin *cept to hunt a
little and to work in my fields. Along
about the fu*t week in April my wife
asked me to step out in the fedge o’ the
clearing and kill her a squir’l. And I
heard the dogs a barking up on the ridge
above the house; so I gi<s the shotgun and
goer up that a way. But when i got in
about fifty yards of my clogs—where they
was a barking, I seen roomebody move be
hind the brush and cliff an’ six men stepped
out and hollered "halt.” 1 turned around
an’ started towards my cabiu and they kept
a shootiu', and ever once an’ awhile I'd
faul a ban hirme, ana x neard 'em whlxflb'
by me till I got over the ridge They run
alter me and overtook me about a hundred
and fifty yard* from my bouse.”
"In how many places were you wounded,
major?”
"Seven places, cn’ they hurt me mighty
bed this mornin’, but I don’t say much
about it.
Tbe officer’s version differs somewhat
from the razor's statement. Officer Conley
says: "We went to his house—or ton
ridge about a hundred and fifty yards
distant—early Thursday morning, April 7.
At 10 o'clock a.m. the d*igs aaw us ana came
rushing up to where we were,
Utdihond followed with his gun. When ir
about fifty paces of us he lowered his gun
as if to fire. We told him to halt, but as he
was still rapidly advancing we fired. His
gun fell from hi* hands and he ran toward*
sur
Where
he Jews? lor
Jeroaa-
he that is bora
. _ W
When Herod the
thle gs.be was troubled,
with him. And when he
4 bad gathered all tbe chief priest* and scribes
of the people together, he demanded of them
where Christ should be horn. And they said
him. In Bethlehem of Judea; Sot thus
... the east, and
worship him. *
kingh&d heard tb*
2 to
klv
and *>11 Jt-rusah
7 pie Israel. ... .
called the *i*e men, inquired cf them dili
gently what lime the star appeared. And he
again, that l may come a
When the
and lo. t
i worship him afeo.
’ ifTdep-rted;
in the east.
11 Joy.
Mary his mother.
they
. _ils motl
shipped him -. <
recognition they received was most pleas
antly acknowledged, causing, however,
some inconvenience to the king. To sit
on the box of a drag. managing a pair of
high-mettled horses taking off and putting
on a stove-pipe bat half a dozen times
every minute, listening to and answering
a pretty woman, even if it be his wife, mas
be a little taxing to a man, even if he be a
king. Every such appearance of the royal
pair, sitting side by aide, like Darb ana
yal Italians of domestic
lastea; but the king is too busy a man to
trice many pleasure drives with or without
bis wife or son. The yonng prince, once the
petted darling of Victor Emmannel, is eaid
not lo be very amiable or affable. A Homan
lady tells me that he was lately in disgrace
for some days, confined to his apartment,
and kept on short allowance of maccaroni
and polenta, for saying to a humble
little playmate,, who had offended
him in some way: "When I am
king, I will cat year head off; see if I
don’t” Humbert is tbe la$t papa to tolerate
such an outbu’jt.^V^'yHal savagery and
snobbery, kno?jS u jx®f J t <'Ql as aD y other
■ xihe eriffv..©Sfy^is still- volcanic
ores*.ed republicanism. He is, from
principle or policy, from nature or necessity,
tbe most democratic king in Europe. He
is almuet a make believe monarch and
loses no opportunity of testifying to his
regard and respect for th*e people—
even the descendants of these "greasy
citizens” whom Cariolonu3 despised
and defied. It was something, of course, to
have the bonnie queen and the young prince
(or opposite neighbors, especially as the
loyal family of Iialy are not like those of
Germany or England, gorgeous lay figures,
mechanically bobbing their heads now and
then and never for an instant forgetting
dignity or deportment. They seem to enter
heartily into the hearly merriment of the
people on all such occasions, enjoying
themselves like the sensible and wholesome
hearted folks they are—first human, then
royal. The queen in her balcony re
ceived and flung bouquets and bon-bons
like any other gracious lady, and joint* 1 in
tbe wild, closing frolic of all, the maccolet-
with girlish abandon, rushing and
nglng about, eagerly intent on patting
out the tapers borne by the gentlemen ana
ladies of her suite and preserving her own
frura extinction. At one time she had two
uij*ers, bolding them as far above her head
a* she could reach, or as far out over the
balcony.
THE STATE DEPOSITORY LAW.
A Measure or Glaring Impolicy and
tbe Cause of tbe Recent Bank Fall
urea—A Fair and Iboronzb Discus
sion or an Important Matter.
Correspondence Chronicle and Constitutionalist.
Atlanta. Ga., April 18, 1881.—The re
cent bank failures of two state depositories
are exciting a discussion that will prove
profitable. It is unfortunate that the men
who have been chronic grumblers have
been disposed ;to. besmirch state officials.
But these things are corrected by the truth.
The fact is, that the depository law is a
blunder and is responsible for all of the
trouble. It has been fairly and vigilantly
administered, but it is radically improper
and should never have been passed. When
the measure was introduced the committee
called upon ihe then state treasurer,
OoL John W. Ileufroe, for bis views upon
it. That official, who is a financier of un
common sagacity, and administered his
office with a perfection of skill ai
that have never been equalled, made the
following reply, which is taken from the
official correspondence of the state tress
urer's office. This remarkable response,
nut in one short condensation of experi
ence and wisdom every one of the many
fa;al objections to the bill, and should
have killed it.
Suite of Georgia, Treasury department, Atlanta,
Georgia, July 5,1879. , House of Represen
tatives: Dear bir—In reference to your bill creat
ing state depositories, I would respectfully sug
gest the following considerations:
... - -
aapoasib’e.
- aei *
law does not,iu my opinion tend to accom]
THEY SHOULD BE TAKEN CARE OF.
Ur. Westmoreland Ddreritas ths Overcrowded
Garditica of Ocr Aiylnta and Forcibly
Argues tbs Necessity cf aHtw On*
to Meet tbs R quiremeats.
A representative of Th* CossTrnmox met Dr.
W. f. Westmoreland on yesterday, and was in
continently halted.
"I am averse to going into the papers as a gen
eral thine, but, there is one matter, the details of
which I have become acquainted with, that I
think ought to he laid before the public.”
"What is Ur*
"I\is the status of the lunatic asylum and the
lunatics cf Georgia. I do not mean that there is
anything to criticise in the management of the
asylum, but tho trouble is with its capacity.”
“There is not room for the lun&Ucs? ’
‘There tt not—I have Investigated tbe subject,
by conversation with Dr. Kennon, who I met at
the late medical convention, and later by letter.
There are now about 130 applications from luna
tics throughout the state for places iu tho asylum
said the ssvlum is now full to overflowing. The
aveiageot dismissals aud deaths per annum is
about seventy, and the increase in applications
Is heavier every year.
It must be remembered, too, that there are
many crazy persons in the state for whom no
application is made, as it is known there is no use
in applying. I have no sort of doubt that there
are over two hundred lunatics in Geo:
BEREFT OF RElSON
county jails and who are living in the jails.”
"In the county jails?’
“Why, certainly. You must remember that a lu
natic is not like any other invalid. It is impoeri-
ble.usuahy to keep a crazy wife or child or husband
in Us home as you can keep a sick person. The
ety requires that they must be con-
asylum if possible, if not in a jail. In
tae asylum is full, there is no alterna
tive but the jail, except to those who are able to
send to private asylums outside of the state. If
the tender and delicate wife of a Georgian should
go mad to-morrow and become violent and he
was unable to provide for her iu a private
asylum in New York, she would have to go to
the county jail. It is a horrible thing to think
of. and yet it la true. I have reen five or six
lunatics in tho Fulton county jail at once, and I
suppose there are some there now. I think there
are two hundred crazy people locked up In the
county jails ol Georgia to day, and sub, ' *~
aany cases to horrible abuses, and in
teprived of the treatment which la essential to
recovery. This number will increase constantly
as it has been increasing for the past year or two,
and it'.wiU be a stain on the humanity and
ciivlization of Georgia If the legislature allows
another session to pass without providing for
these unfortunate people!”
••You think the legislature
other asylum?”
should build
is absolutely a matter of necessity and humanity.
The state is as sacred’- - ’-^— J «--**-•-
its law to provide for
it is to provide for tl
property. No man k:
wife or his child may lose her reason and be
forced either into jail or out of the state into a
distant private asylum, of the management of
which he con have no knowledge or guarantee. If
jSinet famous already for it3 weakness; by
if! fully fathering all that is good, and qui
etly disapproving all that is bad in what
must be a stormy administration, he can
impress the public as the man who should
he first and r.ot second in power. Bu: for
some such ulterior object Blaine v%*ould
never have left the senate where
had no peer in influence or
(topolarity aad where his vanity could b
flattered oftener than is possible in cold
shades of official dignity. It is supposed
that the Chicago battle will be fought over
in ’84. Blaine or Grant seems now to b»
the prospect with the contingency that
they may pull each other down and leave
the prize to some accidental child of for
tune like Hayes in ’76 and Garfield in *80.
Governor Bollock stopped in Wash-
r.gton yesterday on his return from New
York to Atlanta. He is taking home his
son who has been at school. He speaks
confidently of the prospects of the cotton
exposition, estimating that its value to
Atlanta will be enormous, but that
tt will have a far wider scope
extending to vast and permanent benefits to 8tar routes,
the whole south. Of the success of the
enterprise he has no donbt whatever. Gov.
Bullock is a man of such admirable busi
ness capacity that his hoi>eful view of the
exposition is indeed cheering.
While tfcere are a large number of
nominations ahead of Longstreet’s, it is
supposed that it will be favorably reported
at <uU early day by the committer, and his
confirmation iusy be had in a week. He
will be ordered home at once to assume the
vexatious duties of the office. I under
stand that Georgia is considered a thorny
ground by the departments. In few states
have there been so many feuds among federal
office holders; so little consistent operation
of the coordinate branches of government
al authority. It is hoped, that General
Longstreet will manage the marshal’s
office so that there may be harmony in tbe
efforts to execute the laws and that the
collector, whoever he may be, will do the
same thing. For a year or two past the
offices of marshal and collector nave not
been arrayed so formidably against the evil
doers as against each other. There has
been a wrangling of which the authorities
are sick and they have determined that it
must stop.
Colonel Bob Ingersoll has a hearty
admiration for the southern people, and
wants, as soon as he can get time, to take a
trip amoug them. There have been fre
quent efforts to engage him for a lecture
tour of tbe various southern cities, but
hitherto they have failed. His lowest
terms are $200 a night Whenever he rents
a hall and fires out for himself he bags
least $500 in a lively town. A fine por
trait of him has just been hung in an ave-
IN GENERAL"
—Speaking of fruits, dried apples seem to
have the bulge.
—Thera are si-:ns of an open summer.—
New Orleai.s P.cayune
—With its 4 000 bakers on a strike. New
York probably appreciates the fact that half
a loaf is better than tio loaf at all.
•The senators bathe in tubs of polished
white marble, which cost the tax puyera of
the United States$50,000. But the senators
an be kept clean.
—Mr. Erastus Corning has purchased a
Jersey cow called "Gold Thread” because*
23 per cent of her milk is pure cream. She
is for Mr. Coming’s private uae, and the
' im paid for her waa $1,500.
—Joe Lane’s death leaves only two sur
riving generals of the Mexican war—Gen
eral Robert Patterson, of Philadelphia, 90
years old, still to be seen on all pnblic occa
sions in that city, and General Huney, 81.
—"I see a great deal in the papers about
ar routes. Who can stop to think about
star routes when so many of our fellow
creatures are being dragged down to early
graves by hard cider?”—B. B Hayes.
—Drinking beer may quench the thirst,
but it will npt refresh the memory.—New
dream that
retnrn to Herod, they deport
ed into their own country mother way.
And wt.* k n they were departed, behold, tbe
angel ol the Lord rppeered to Joseph in a
dre»m Arise and tnke the young child
and his mother and flee Into Egypt: lor Herod
14 will seek the young child to destroy him.
When he arose ne took the young child and
hi* mother by night, and deported into Egypt;
and was tbc-re until thedextiiof Herod: mat
And b’leg warned oi Gt>l fi
16 Lord bs the prophet, _
hare I oail-.d my .>»n. Then Herod, when he
mw that he waa mocked of the wise men.
exceedingly wroth, and cent forth and Blew
all the children that were in Bethlehem; and
iu all the ooasta thereof, from two years old
and under, according to the time which he
had diligently inquired of the wise men.
Presuming that all our readers have
Bible at hand, we leave them to compare
the new with the old.
A FEDERAL DECISION
Which the Negro Qneetloia Upsets
« Judicial Finding.
Washixgtos, May 2.—A decision waa rendered
by the supreme court ot the Cnlted S* atca to-day
in tbe case of William Neal against the state of
“ * from the court of —
terminer for Newcastle county. Neal, who
negro, was indicted, tried and
sentenced to death by the state conrt for ta
li is house. Pas3iug the cabin he ran about
one hundred and fifty yards into the woods
beyond. All six of us closed in on him and
found him wounded and exhausted. We
took him to bis house, and the physician
oaid he could not be safely moved on
an extended trip on account
of his wounds. So we were forced to try to
keep him in our ebargo there. We antici
pated an attempt at rescue on the part of
his friends. We plainly told Redmond,
when we saw his neighbors coming to anil
going from his house, that if any attempt
should be made to take him or any attack
made on us that we would shoot him first.
This, we think prevented his pais from the
daogerous experiment. On Friday, April
22d, we carried him eight miles on a titter
to Charleston among our friend*, where
we slept better. On tbe following day,
Saturday, 23d instant, we started for Ashe
ville, reaching here on Sunday. We brought
him to Asheville 'because the several re
wards offered for him designate that point
as the place for delivery of his body.”
His father is said to have been
moonshiner, and fared badly at the hands
of the revenue officers aud the law. Hence
it was but natural that young Red
mond should imbibe the prejudices of
his father. His antipathy to the agents
cessful resistance
state and federal. Flushed with victory,
he became desperate and shot down Deputy
Marshal Duckworth, in Transylvania
county, in 1877, when an effort was being
made for his arrest for alleged vio
lation of the revenue laws, lie
then fled to South Carolina. Bat
he did not there escape the sleepless eye of
the law, but he managed to elude her offi
cers. Whereupon a reward was offered, and
and we ore informed is still offered, for his
person. Oace in South Carolina his wagon
and team were aeixed. under the revenue
law. He escaped the small squad of offi
cers who took hia property. But in a few
hoars he returned with a double-barrel
shot gun, and with the wild
daring of a frontier desperado,
quickly dispersed the confiscators
of his property. Then he, with iiis wife
left South Carolina and came to the wildest
port of the Bine Ridge country—Swain
county. Here he nos since had a wide
berth. Hia fearless and daring reputation
had preceded him. To this he materially
added by his open and defiant conduct. He
told tbe credulous mountaineers that he
was "bnllfet proof.” His immediate neigh
bors—through policy—were hi* friends.
They were afraid to be otherwise. At
least, however, it' W2s rumored that
Redmond said, "There are r.ot enough
merf in 8wain county to arrest me.” This
The procwa&ropaoai^is tnore-ctreaH
hthI hazardous. It muftiulicJ the number who
handle tbe taxes, and is therefore objectiouab'e,
aa it ii more circuitous and hazardous. The tax
lullectors, under the present law, give boud and
Si curity, and tho money collected by them is
-.irtusmittcd directly to the treasury, aad without
• k pease to the state. Under the change made by
this bill the money goes into second hands before
the sttte be erpozed to os fewchaucesof loss
default as possible. The collectors may now
make deposits iu banks, and their own protection
against loss, and the protection of their securities,
will stimulate them to use eTery precaution, and
hey deposit at all, to select the banks which
most convenient and safest. Thi* they can do
with a* just a discrimination as can be done bj
any officer of the state department. The safest
aud simplest process is for the tax collectors to
transmit directly to the treasury.
Again, accounts would have to be opened with
the banks as well as with the tax collectors, thus
increasing labor and complicating settlements.
I he present system is well understood throughout
the state, and to change It would surely give
trouble to this and the comptroller’s department.
I must confess I cannot see any benefit to be
derived from the proposed law.
The amendments I - -
I think pioper if the
the building of the capitoL or levy a special tax;
or do anything rather than suffer this thing to
continue as it is. And if nothing is done it will
continually get worse.”
“You say the asylum is overcrowded?"'
"Yes; and that brings up another phase of the
.tter. The asylum now has between 900
. _ i 1,000 patients, when it really has accommo
dation for barely GOO. By this I mean that barely
*00 could be treated there properly and comforta
bly. I have nothing but commendation for tbe
management of the asvlum. Wonderful results
are beiag reached considering the opportunities.
But they are so crowded that they have little
ihanco to do much. The most essential pait of
the treatment is the moral treatment. This can
only be had in an asylum where there is
plenty of room—where there
whatever else would be likely t*
dering intellect and fix it, orsootne me ueunous
brain. In the crowded state of the asylum all
this is impossible—except by cbstate. It is essen
tial, too, that the phjstciau* riionld be able to
isolate * patient at ony tima, and t<v
— »- go ihr* —- —*
they can' study the
moods and the manias ard attempt to control
them. Dr. Keunon surprised me with instances
of how slight a thing will sometimes restore a
' «of a
ounce
in the
‘ :ept In:
i him The
ounce and saw that it
natlei
bouqi
inquet of flowers, and in another
oi wniskr. The latter was in the a—
who had never drank at alL He kept insisting
that a drink of whisky would '
night* leit a vial of whisky with him with in
structions as to how he must take it. He had a
person to watch, and the patient followed the
Instructions perfectly. In a month he was en
tirely cared. It should be to that every patient
could be studied aud watched and given separate
It was only a few years after the convic
tion of Barber, I was on a steamer descend
ing the Mississippi from my plantation to
New Orleans, when at supper I found my-
sell seated by tbe side of a man of genteel
oronce, who was conversing with h:s
•vis about Georgia I econ learned he
was a Georgian, or had resided in Georgia,
and in Macon. I sought him after the meal
was ended to inquire after my relations in
Macon, and told him who I was. He seemed
not ouly surprised, bat alarmed, and when
l inquired his name he hesitated—bu:
finally, after asking the place of my
residence, answered that his name was
Giles B. Taylor, and now I mani
fested surprise. This he observed,
and when I informed him
that I had heard ot him in Macon, he was
for some moments silent. There was quite
a crowd of passengers on the b^ar.enaty of
whom were intimate acquaintances of
mine, and oar conversation hod been over
heard by some of these. Taylor obeerving
this, requested a more private interview
upon the outer deck of the boat, where, as
be said, there would be no listeners.
Immediately after being seared he said,
"I suppose you are acquainted with the
cause of my leaving Macon. ’ "Yea.” I an
swered, "I bare beard something about it,
and especially on my visit to Macon about
the time of the Arrest of Elijah Barber, who
had bean claiming the estate of Jesse Bank
aud uted. This court bolds that the excitation
|of colored persons from juries, which is com*
p.aiitcd of is this case, did sot. as a matu-r
of law. result from the constitution and laws of
the crate- ihe case, therefore, could cot have
bet s properly removud to the federal oourtc.
Since, bowevi-r, there was an improper exclusion
oi the colored men on account of raos from juries
| by which Neal was indicted and tried, the state
court erred in rtf using to grout the motion of
accused to q oash the iadic:rac d and panels of
jurors. Its judgment is Therefore reversed with
kxat*. and the case remanded, with directions to
ae: aside the judgment and verdict, as well aa
the order denying the motion to quv-h the
indictment and panels of jurors, end for
such proceedings upon the farther hearings of
■wmmotions as znayb- consistent witn the
awoke the energy and pride of the Swain
county boys, and they determined to take
him.
The federal court convened here to
day, and Redmond will be tried some time
durinjgtbc session.
A HAPPY KING AND QUEEN.
The Goard Club.
Nazcbcz Democrat.
Sort? of the good people of Atlanta, as we sm
by The Cor stitcttoi*. hare set themselves abort
organizing • "Gourd Club,” the object of which
south. An txhibitten » also contemplated I
time tr.i» ial : when there will be a grand display
of gourds—old g»n:d» zed new. such as drinking
gourds, powder guards, shot gourds, darning
gourds, sugar gourds, soap gonads and in fact all
■■Mm
.umber* mud Sargbtrlta of Italy.
hu«1 tbelr Hamel rain Happy Life,
Grace Greenwood in the Chicago News.
We are near the Quirinol palace, and fre
quently see its sr.gust inmates, who have
onyT
bon
the hill)
with these, it is objectionable, *oraotht-r I
cm see no advantage iu it over the present
system. The more I study it the more trouble I
see in it for this department. Very truly,
[Signed] J. w. Rekfboe,
Treasurer.
The law simply relieves the treasurer
from responsibility - for the state funds,
.tnd scatters them about among a dozen
banks that giveouly a$50,000 bond to cover
double the amount of deposits.
The bank of Rome and Citizens’ bank
both made impregnable returns of solvency
under oath, and there is no power to go
behind the returns. And when the law
designates the depository the treasurer is
relieved from the responsibility that should
belong to him alone and for which he is
put under heavy boDd.
Before the deposifory law, the treasurer
deposited the siate’s fund* in five Atlanta
backs, thus dividing the risk among a
number of banks under his own ^eye.
When the depository law was passed, be
was compelled to withdraw the funds from
the four other banks and concentrate upon
the selected depository. This is why so
large a deposit of $330,000 accnmulated in
the Citizens’ bank. It was simply carrying
out the law. When the deposit reduced
over $200,000 in three months, the Citizens’
bank had of course to utilize its re
sources, and the very withdrawal of the
Atlanta city bonds from the state and the
substitution of personal security was for the
s»ate’s benefit, as tbe proceeds of the bords
were used to pay the state’s deposits so
heavily called for, and thus went straight
into the state treasury, and the additional
pe> ojeal securing of the new bond gave the
state so much more surety for its money.
Once, several years ago, a bank with
$100,000 of state’s money got a little shaky,
or was reported to be so, aud the matter
was wisely managed as .net only to save
the state, but the bank. If an im
mediate draft had been made for the
whole amount the bank would have gone
up. But upon notice of the purpose to
withdraw the money the bank made a
showing of its affairs, and demonstrated its
ability to pay if not forced to the walL As
its discounts became due and were collected
the money was paid over to the state, tlpon
one occasion the bank wai suddenly press
ed by other parties, but the treasurer
promptly advanced the sum necessary to
Dridgeover, and thus by cool, skillful man
agement and the giving of a little time
every dollar was saved to tbe state. It took
several months to do it, but trouble was
avoided.
Either the treasurer must be allowed
under the watching of the governor to
manage matters as before the passage of the
depository law, or a proper vault should be
provided and the state’s money put there
and properly guarded. And, furthermore,
l«t all the indecent besmirchment of the
state’s officers cease for matters that no hu
man vigilance could guard .-gainst, and
which grow out of inherent imperfections
iu a law that tot evpn a capable and honest
enforcement can remedy. Fact.
are io crowded.
But worse than all, the physicians should have
fifty spare words or beds into which they could
put patients wbo had a contagious disease, and
by perfect Isolation prevent its spreading. As it
I* now, it must he a miracle if t. disease started
and did not spread through the entire building.
Tbe results of such a thing ore too ter
rible to contemplate. That 1,000 mad people
to are unable to describe their own condition
to submit to intelligent treatment, should be
prostrated in a violent aud deadly epidemic
would furnish a result that would shock the
entire st&te. In case the asylum should catch
on fire its crowded state would bring even worse
results—provided the managers were unable to
control the fire. Hundreds ot the inmates would
refuse to leave their rooms, and would have to
be taken out by main force. It Js true that the
arrangements against the spread of fire are per
fect, bat it is well to consider all these things.”
“What is it thst you recommend?"
“The immediate building of a new asylum.
The present one is overcrowded by at least three
honored patients, and mere are at least two huL-
dred mad people now in county jails awaiting a
The man has so many loveable virtues—hia
life is so full of tenderness ' and good to
others that those who know him best re
gard his heresy merely as the aberration
of a vigorous intellect. Personally no
man is more sincerely esteemed by his
friends and even by many of the most or
thodox faith. F. H. EL
Hannfnetorles tn the South.
New Orleans Time*.
Oae of the results of the cotton exposition at
IBStl.. ^
England states. Very few of the manufacturers
of New England have ever been in the south, and
the great majority, if not all of them, therefore,
have very erroneous ideas about the facilities
which the south possesses for the manufacture
of cotton goods. Some of them think
that the climate is unsuitable, others
that labor cannot be obtained,
aud still others, that the composition of southern
society is hostile to manufacturing enterprises.
They offer to ignore the fact that cotton factories,
wherever they have been established in me south
have been successful and have yielded a
profit on me capital Invested in mem. The
at Wemon, Mississippi, have always paid a good
dividend, and the report for me last year shows
that me GratiiteriUe company at Augusta, Ga,
declared a dividend of fifteen per cent. Other
mills might be mentioned, bat there ore sufficient
to prove that cotton factories in me south are -
good property. la mis city, in me course of a year
or ?*o, mere is reason to believe that cotton
will be mtcufacturod
rcale Tho
j»p!e are anxious
ol cottou factor!* * and ore prepared to enconragi
tiuxnin every possible way. In thU B ate the;,
are exempt from taxation for a good many years
after they are iu operation. With tegard to the
climate, it is all that could be desired. Iu effect
up ju cottou is beneficial, and it is in every
ie*pect an assistance, and not a hindrance as me
climate of New England Is, to the manufacture
if cotton cloth. There is plenty of labor. It
i>u’t skilled labor, of onrsc.but it isoi a kind that
can quickly be made efficient, and, besides,
skilled labor will always follow me factories.
Cotton ought to bs manuctured in the stetien of
country where it is grown, especially
on be manufactured there
profitably thusx elsewhere.
That this can be done we hope will be fully and
clearly shown to capitalists during the Atlanta
exposition. It is a noticeable fact that there has
been a very large increase in me production and
manufacture of iron iu the southern states within
me last ten yean. According to the census
report* the increase in Kentucky has been 43 per
York News. That delicate matter is
the unpleasant dutta ol the bar tender.—
Keokuk Constitution.
—Bernhardt avers that Americans lac k
variety in physique, being all of one type.
She evidently never saw Senators Dav’.s
and Mahone side by side, with Justice
Harlan and Alexander H. Stephens in the
background.
■Mr. Washington McLean, of Cincinnati,
who has been spoken of in connection with
the democratic nomination for governor of
Ohio, telegraphs from Washington that
there isn’t an office on earth he would
have.
Ex-President Hayes’s horses, which are
nearly worn out, will be used by President
Garfield until fall, when they will be sent
to Fremont, Ohio Mr. Garfield, who loves
to ride alone, does not ride fast. He does
not care for driving.
—General D. H. Strother, (Porte Crayon)
United States consul general at the City of
Mexico, is past sixty, and is described as
being hale and cheery. Daring hissojonrn
in Mexico his pencil has not been idle, and
his portfolio contains a multitude of new
sketches.
CoLmBcs, O., May 4.—Some months ago
& .company was organized in Cincinnati,
whose purpose it was to pay its members a
certain specified sum of mouey on their
marriage. The idea was a novel one,, and
the success of this company has been such
as to induceothers of a speculative turn of
min'd to endeavor to embark in the same
business. Recently a half dozen certificates
tor.the incorporation of similar companies
have been presented to the state department
for official certification. The secretary of
ttv- state asked the attorney general for an
opinion on the subject, and to-day General
Nash gave .an opinion against any
further increase of this peculiar etyle of
insurance. General Nash’s opinion in sub
stance is as follows: One company seeking
•corporation provides fot paying a sum of
money tiinety days after marriage. It is
also provided that if a member is married
within two hundred days after becoming a
member of the association, he or she shall
forfeit all rights arising from such . mem
bership. and that after a lapse of two
hundred days there shall be credited
to the member on the books of the
association the sum of $20 per month for
each month thereafter that the member
remains single; provided that, in no case
shall the amount paid upon marriage
exceed $2,400. The plan proposed for
doing business by this association certainly
offers a money consideration for people to
remain unmarried for a long period of
. If one is married within two hun
dred days after joining the association, he or
she loses ali benefits that are expected from
it. and after the two hundred days have
expired a premium of $20 per month for the
K riod of ten years is offered to each mem-
r who remains unm a; ried. Nearly eleven
rears must elapse btfore the full moneyed
Lienefits expected from the association can
be received. This kind of business is not
sanctioned by section 3,630 before referred
:o. This section makes the principal bene
fit depend upon the happening of an event
beyond the control of man, whereas, in this
proposed association the principal benefit
is constantly increased for the period of ten
years by the voluntary deferment of a
marriage contract, which contract it is
the policy of all Christian nations to en
courage and promote. The purpose is to get
large numbers of young people to combine
together and to hold out inducements to
them to refrain from entering upon the
marriage relation until certain sums of
money are accumulated. All admit that
marriage is a contract coeval with and es
sential to society. Many good people bold
it to be a sacrament, and although many
others do not so esteem it, yet they nc-
chonce to go somewhere else. This of itself
should be enough to cause tbe appropriation to
be made. But added to this is the foot that the
present facilities do not furnish even those who
deem the asylum proper treatment and that hor-
-• ltantiy over the heads
n»r and dourer impends constantly over the heads
of those who arc there. Georgia is deaf to all
humanity ii she hesitates a moment in her duty
to these unfortunate people—and I have no tear
that she will hemUte."
"Where should the new asylum be built?”
"I asked Dr. Keunon that question. He said
that selfishneM would cause him to say that it
ought to be put up at Milledgeville, but that he
really thought it ought to be built elsewhere. I
think it ought to be located in some quiet town
Late*! About the Engl lab Beai
Boston Transcript.
ivtbihg bat an august air, after the boar- ' .JjL.fftVjifeiphto moved in the hlchest
S ^ .n-M-a e»i*! S2^S.gSSA.|ffitS as*4s:
plainly though neatly dressed, is an ex- : iny pedratxl. Society
ceedingly plain man. Yes, a downright | enough. She would have been
lestly
tolerated her long
honestly ugly man, though not after the ; ^f 11 jfeviah deference paid to all whom
fierce, up-standing hair,
promises to be no improvement phys; ally
ob father or grandfather, which is atn ge,
as Queen Margherita is a decidedly pretty
woman, with a very sweet and gra tens
expression. They go about among the peo-.
pie with little pomp and seem to be very
popular, though no particular fu«s is made
over them, we met them out driving the
varieties of KOurd».t*c
for a prwrid-nt nf this caique organization
wtae bead *nxc«<cd ths Hon Wiuiaza Arp. Wbat
ahoppy thought. No mas in tbe state of Georgia
waa better fitted by nature and drcamaaoncee tt>
tw Ike mttinx c««r ol Ike fcomlctab tku I * n » ™T
Bill Arp. t orrenuadanea waa ax «iw opened 1 of drag—with the quietest poacible hverses,
with Bui. who referred the matter to Mr*. Arp. j Humbert was holding tbe reins aud
T" gained onh- after being as-j Morgfierito was sitting, at hxs rii’e, cha:-
£ looking uauyrally
. and the Gourd club Is aa certain as j Fretty.
pretty. in a black Gains
borough bat. There was no .•hom
ing a* they passed, but tbe respectlul
rtfcd, appealed to that illnshiou* person
. sy her debts, but the prince has difficulty
in meeting his own responsibilities, and so de
clined. Tee fair iarly’a indiscretions became very
rla ring of late, and the bailin'* men almost mode
bouse their home, so that the final r«.
•riaed bat few. Her beauty is
accident of royal favor
actual fzcL The lower portion ot her
lace is by na> means preposrearinfr, the chin being
long and the mouth
way of earning her h
which, while .enabling her to make play with
her certainly beamifuri — -
loriy ungraceful csrriog
..Mrs. Cornwall* West is a woman of quite a
different order, though in the optnloa of our
«wntry man her claims to any sisterhood with
>enas arelltevoe meagre. Shell, however, os
cauar’s wife should be. aid her huabandis a man
ot very good family and large p>aan«
A Brighten Inc Prospers.
The democratic prospect tor 1682 is brightening
wonderfully.
most approved system flow is iu
having a separate cottage for every patient—and
thus assuring perfect quiet sad l o', at ion from
disturbing influence*. This system has been
found to be wotidfcrtuUy efiicoclous ”
The above suggestion* of Dr. Westmoreland
must surely call the attention of legislators to the
vital matter which he discuses. What he says
about the quiet that is needed for the proper
treatment of lunatics requiring quiet is the histo
ry of all who have had to do with them. The
Indians had but one remedy for lunacy—“failing
water.” When one of the tribe become crazy he
was carried to some waterfall and kept within
Bound oi its soothing roar until the brain was
quieted and reason restored,
THE FEDERAL CAPITAL.
Conkllog’s Efforts lo Thwart Garfield.
Special Correspondence Constitution
■Washington, May L—It is now conceded
that there will be an executive stssien of the
senate some time duriDg the week. The
republicans deny that they intend to give
up the fight for the office, bat to renew it
after the executive sessions had performed
the legitimate business of the body wonld
be to resume a position even weaker than
that which has just been abandoned. The
Gorhnm-Riddleberger ticket is apparently
doomed.
The democrats are beginning to see
the good result in their brave, persistent
fight in this contest. It is renewing the
fast failing confidence of the masses in the
ability and pluck of the party. The tone of
the democratic press is hopeful for the first
time since the disaster of November. The
democratic leaders, wilh whom one has a
chance to talk here are confident that the
party can make itself powerfully felt i«
both branches of congress until its good
work is rewarded by a bestowal ot a major
ity in the house at the next election. J oat
now the politicians are hard at work pre
paring the wires that are to be pulled in
executive session. The administration men
have suddenly gained great confidence and
declare that Conkltr.g’s fight is hopeless
Bat that masterly political manager
resting neither night nor
day. He i* not to be scoffed
at. no matter how bold an
effort he may make, for few men
have such enormous resources. If k**
does no*, whip the administration ir.
the Robertson case be will accept defeat
merely a* the incentive to more determiners
effort. As sore aa he lives he will have his
tit for tat with Garfield aa he did with
Haves.
I recentlv heard a man of ability, wbo
knows Garfield well, say that he had almost
aa little of the thing called backbone as
Hay* s, and that he chose Blaine as the
strongest pillar he could find on which to
rest hia. own irresolution. But men- who
know Blaine»ay that he. like most politi
cians. is for self first and his friends after
wards. Blaine is known to cherish a
burning ambition for the presidency. It
would not be the thing for him to make
Garfield’s administration too signal a tuc-
cess, for that would shut the gate to the rosy
path on him in ’84. By appearing before
the country aa the .one strong figure in %
cent; in Tennessee. 125 per cent; in Georgia,
and in Alabama 792 per cent. The increase in
Alabama has been enormous. This is due
largely to her increased faculties. Capitalists
have found out that iron can be produced there
very much cheaper than iu Pennsylvania, not
withstanding the fact that the cost of railway
transportation is considerably sreater. It is
authoritatively announced that one of the largest
manufacturer* cf iron and Bessamer
steel la Pennsylvania is about to transfer bis works
to Alabama. He declares that he con find there
ali the ore, fael and labor that he needs for his
b urin ess, and that he cau afford to pay the higher
transportation on southern railways and yet
make a great dc-1 better profit thou be can Id
Pennsylvania. His example will no doubt be
followed by others, and it may not be many yean
before the iron mine* of Alabama, Georgia aud
North Carolina are as famous and os productive as
the mines of Pennsylvania. If the iron manu
facturers are moving south, why should not the
cotton manufacturers move In the same direction?
It may be accepted as certain that this field
of enterprise will not remain unoccupied
long. The south U now attracting the
attention of the whole world. The
progress which she has made, as shown by the
census since 1870, has attracted wide attention
and excited great admiration. Capital and immi
gration have, in a measure, avoided the south,
aud her miuea have remained undeveloped and
her lands uncultivated. The world, however, is
beginning to realize how great her riche* and her
reaoutces are. Unless all indications loll the
next census will contain facts far more suprising
than the lor t. 11 will be shown that the south
bos lost her purely agricultural character, and
tlrat her field* furnish the world not only with
cotton, but. also, that her factories supply a very
large portion of the manufactured goods which
the world’s markets demand.
in 1880 were over $220,000,000. This in<
cates in some degree the growing wealth of
the French republic, which is astonishing,
and shows an amount of prosperity which
has never been even approached under any
other form of government.
—It is rumored that the Trincess Dolgo-
rouki is in very poor health, aud that the
tragedy of St Petersburg has permanently
broken her constitution. Physicians have
advised her to make her residence at one of
the bathing places in the south of France
as soon as she is able to travel.
—Miss Juliet Corson, of New York, has
been conducting practical experiments in
aesthetic cooking in Chicago. And farmers’
wives will be delighted to hear that Cantons
ds Rouen are very healthy, Brunoise soup
is recommended for invalids, and it’s not
much of a trick, after all, to make Mayon
naise.
-Russian ladies, it is said, always wear
in winter time fur next the skin, aa in con
sequence of the intense cold no ordinary
merino or flannel is sufficient. Lynx ts
most frequently used, and every young
Russian bride has one or two undergarments
in this fur, and then is considered 6et up in
life.
—Prince Bismarck while confernc
his private cabinet with a diplomat
petted to speak of tbe earl of Beaconsfield,
and to show his esteem for the English con
servative leader said, pointing UAhe wall,
"There hangs the portrait of my sovereign,
there on the right that of my wife, and
tjhe left there that of Lord Beaconsfield.’
/ —Elder Gilbert Beebe, pastor of the old
school Baptist churcbe. tl Middleton and
New Vernon for haif a century, editor of
the Signs cf the Times, a leading organ of
the Baptist faith, and widely known as a
preacher, was stricken with apoplexy Mon
day morning aad now lies unconscious.
He is eighty-one years of age.
—Ex-Senator Hamlin nttened a “calico”
ball at Bangor, Maine, one evening last
week and danced until the end of the pro
gramme with as much nimbleness and
euj jyment as the youngest one in the hall.
Another well-preserved man is Chief-Justice
Appleton, of the supreme court of Maine.
He is 77 yeais of age, and contemplates
making a trip to Europe in 1883. v
—Mr. R. S. Spofford, who suffers from
rheumatism, has been taking the baths at
the Hot Springs of Arkansas. There are
fifty nine of these springs of various degrees
of temperature, the highest being 157. Ex-
Minister Washburne has been taking a
course of baths. He has been very ilL In
valids claim to be fond of the hot water as
a beverage.
—France appears to be suffering from a
strong attack of annexation fever just now.
r_ 1 s_ tl.: .L.i.
count it as of divine origin, and invest it
with the sanction of relig
in, ana invest, it
igion. For indi
viduals to associate themselves together
for the purpose of effecting and surround
ing this kind of contract by and with the
considerations proposed in these articles of
corporation, is against public policy, be
cause against public welfare, and if against
public policy it is unlawful.
An Old Southern Borough.
By Walter H. Page In tho May Atlantic.
Tbe whole town has a languid and self-
satisfied appearance. There is little anima
tion in man or beast The very dogs look
lazy. It would require twice the energy to
put forth the same effort that it would coat
in New England. The streets are neglect
ed, and in places almost impassable; the
paint is worn from most of the houses; the
people are slow in their movements. In the
afternoon, an hour before the mail arrives,
a crowd begins to gather about the
post-office. They sit on chairs that have been
half whittled away, on boxes, and on the
steps of the porch. If any one approaches
ana desires to enter, some fellow that is
lazily seated in the door will look up mildly
and ask, "Want to come in?” Then, after
a minute of preparation, and a good
natured word about "disturbing a fellow,’
at which the most energetic laugh just a
little, he will slip aside far enough to allow
entrance. .
The conversation in this company begins
usually about the dry weather, or about the
wet weather, and then some weather
prophet will enumerate his signs of rain or
"its clearing up.” It was at such a meeting
that an old countryman declared that "a
wet drought was mighty nigh as bad as a
dry drought.” After a while the conversa
tion turns on the political, situation
(for everybody is a pohxiciic.tA Then
the chances of the favorite caniuujffe for
the legislature arc talkcd?Jover|'and his
opponent is unmercifully "run down.” If
a stranger has come.to the inn (for inn is a
better word in this connection than hotel),
they wonder, every man in turn, what his
justness can be, and talk an hour about
i im; for it is not every day that they have
such a person to talk of. Visitors, except
"drummers” from the northern cities, are
very few. . , , , „
Every one of these men has what he calls
Lis "business.” Frequently two of them
are associated in a little grocery, the work
of which is not half enough to keep one
employed. While one of the firm is
out, "gone after the mail,”—that is,
engaged for two or three hours in a dis
cussion at the post office—the other
is seated in the cool part oi hia
store room, smoking. Hia quiet is disturb
ed only now and then by a customer who
is in no hurry to be waited on. 8o they,
too, engage in a discussion that may last 10
minutes or an hour. These men ato are
fond of talking; but the range of theirsub-
MICHIGAN MORALS.
Another Instance of <be Predominant
Crime ol tbe State.
Oxford. Xz. May 3.—The coroner’* ioqaezt
pon the body of Mrs. Amanda Thompson, who
-led here very suddenly test Wednesday, has
resulted in quite a sensation. The Jury’s verdict
is that she died April 27. from oil of tansy taken
tor the purpose of producing a i abortion, and
that the drug was procured by William H.
Richardson for that purpose, and admin
istered tffher by Kicharasou or Me. Clara J.
Reid, with the knowledge of its use. ^Uchardson
has been living here as a gram widower, and Mrs.
Reid has been keeping house for him, profesring
herself bis sister-in-law. Mrs. Thompson, who
a beautiful gra* widow, was kept about for
»ral convenience It now transpires
that Richardson’s true name is William
Reid, and that Mrs. Reid is his law
ful wife, married to him in 1848,
at Whitehall, Mich. Boon thereafter he took the
name of Richardson and decamped with his
wife’s younger sister, with whom he lived and
moved from place lo place for ten years.bat.was
always ferreted out and followed up by Mrs. Reid
with her two boys, who finally overtook them
here. Mrs. Richardson then left with her child.
He retained his assumed name, and she
known as Mrs. Reid, the _boase keener.
tions lor adding to her territory.
l»aper says sht
adding to her
over it is atid that Tonquin will be annexed
to the French colony of Cochin China, the
preparations for the annexation being
pushed on rapidly.”
—The subscriptions to the Booth and
Irving season at the London Lyceum theater
already amount to the great sum of $50,000,
and no seats can now be had for any money.
The two actors have been rehearsing to
gether for two weeks, in order to play to
each other’s strong points. John Collier
has presented Booth his royal academy
picture, representing him as "Richelieu”
tu the curse of Rome scene.
—The immediate ancestors of Lord Bea-
cuitfield, descended from Spanish and
Venetian Jews, were lax in their adherence
to their ancient faith, and he himself, born
in 1801 or 1805, was actually baptized as a
Christian in his boyhood. One of his news
paper biographers, and he not of the de
ceased earl’s household of political creed,
nays that he was never ashamed of the race
from which he sprang, and that he con>
tended for its political rights even at a pe
riod of his career when bis personal interests
pointed in the opposite direction.
—Prince Oicar, of Sweden, who visited
this country at the centennial and had a
good laugh with General Sherman over a
militia general whose horse tumbled oppo
grandstand, has just been engaged
’rincess Victoria. He has an income
of $45,000 a year as prince and $200,000 from
huferandmother, Josephine, a daughter of
Eagene Besaharnais. the one gentleman in
the circle ol tbe elder Napoleon. Prince
Oscar thus comes on two aides from "Nai
1 sonic” stock, as bis father is descend
from General Beraadotte.oneof Napoleon’s
marshals, but Prince Oscar’s mother,Queen
Sophia, a daughter of the ducal house of
Nassau, is said to be anything bat proud of
this relationship to new Jffood.
—The Greeks of Alexandria make the
dreadful charge that their fellow-towns
men, the Jews, at the recent feast of the
pasaover, kidnapped and killed a Greek
child as a blood sacrifice. The simple fact
Mt* Thorn Twin
iu as a help and ret lined'
paramour. A post mortem examination revealed
the fact that ihe hod been pregnant four month*.
e child was fixed on Rid ‘
inquisition. Richardson
finally
jects is very narrow. They could be in
formed of what is going on in the world,
but they do not care for such information.
They talk almost entirely about their
private and local affairs. Every one of
them knows all about every other one, both
in business and at home.
Arouud two subjects, chiefly, their con
versation centers—tho church and political,
They are orthodox in their creed, and good
citizens (save in the matter of sins of
omission) in their practice. They are
moral in their lives, and the most
of them are active supporters oi
one of the Protestant churches. If there
happens to be a man among them who
dentes in the least the literal interpretation
of the scriptures, after the manner of their
churches, he is considered a dangerous
man iu their soctety, however upright his
conduct may be. When the season of po
litical discussion is on the wane, two of the
b-st informed among them will begin a fierce
discusion of some very abstruse
theological question; for
pie, the efficacy of the different
modes of baptism. It will be taken up at
the post'office, and the whole town will take
one side or the other. Rarely does such a
controversy end in less than a week. But
no original arguments, or even phrases, are
brought forth; ideas and words alike bear
the stamp of the politician or of the preach-
Totn nanbalT* Oratory.
Kentucky letter to Chicago Time*.
“Tom Marshall. Richard Menifee and Prank
Hunt were all brilliant men,” continued Gov
ernor Magoffin, as the conversation drifted in
that direction. "Hunt came nearer being the
equal of Clay than any man I ever knew. He was
a wonderful man. Marshall had a wider repu
tation, perhsp*. He was a wonderful compound.
‘They talk about my astonishing bants
eloquence,’ he said to me oae day. *affd doubt
irn^ine that it is my genius babbling over,
is nothing of tbe sort. I’ll toil you how I dc
I select a subject and study it from the ground
up When I have mastered it fully I^write a
speech on it. Then I take a walk and come l '
and revise and correct. In a few days I sub.
i; to another pruning and then recopy it.
Next I add the finishing touches, round it
off with graceful period* aud commit it to
memory. Then I speak it ta the fields, in
iny father's lawn, and before my mirror, until
gestures and delivery are perfect. It sometimes
takes me rixweek* or two months to get up a
speech. When I have one prepared, I go to drink
ine. I generally select a court day, when there
U *are to be a crowd. I am called on lor a speech
and am permitted to select my own subject, l
seize hold of the banister* or railing and con
firm the impression that I am very drunk, and
fetwak my piece. It astonishes the people, os I
intended ft shoa:d, and they go away marvelling
at my * marine power of oratory. TnieycaU it
genius, and it represents the hardest kind of
wort/ This is the way Marshall would talk to
his intimate*, and I have no doubt be was telling
the truth. Yet, with ail his vanity and hla faulty,
h« w»«. a man of unquestioned ability and intel
lectual power of tbehighest and brightest stand
ard.” a
Great aad Good.
Darien Timber Gazette.
Thx Atlanta Constitution, with ail of its
fanlts, continues so be a great and good paper.
Public School* In Georgia,
Providence Journal.
The school commissioner of the state of Geor
gia, in his report for the years 1*77 and 1880, a
synopsis of which is found in The Atlanta
Constitution, has produced some figures which
b exceedingly creditable to his state, as they
w e encouraging to the friends of education
everywhere; !of tt i* not to the nature of thlnn
that one southern state should exhibit the ad
vantages of a good English education, open lo
both races, and attracting yearly more and more
to partake of its benefits, without influencing for
— J that entire section of country. The perco-
a of correct ideas, and theimitatkm of
.hr examples, may be stow, but they will he
sure. Even in Misristippi there la now an oo-
‘ aol proof of thi* to that a paper call* for
abolition of the hip pocket and the
unking of school houses. There aremany Indi
cations that Georgia ia to take the lead to the ac
tual reconstruction of the south. The amount of
his body was found in the harbor. The
charge of blood sacrifice wo* mode, on up
roar followed, the Jews were set upon, some
f them killed and tr.any wounded, and a
ineral massacre was threatened. At a
subsequent port mortem examination of
the boy’s body a dozan doctors declared
.that it showed no wound to support tbe
charge made. But still the Greeks adhere
to their theory, and the norresponaeht of
tbe London Globe says that the Arabs, wbo
bear no good will to either Greeks or Jews,
believe the charge well founded. It
averted that a Christian child disappears
nearly every year at the time of the past-
over. Such has been the case in Alexandria
before, in Smyrna, Damascus, Seida, in
Syria, in Lebanon, and more than once in
Constantinople. The European population
of Alexandria regard the position taken by
the Greeks as ridiculous and untenable.
—Leo XIII. appears to be a decidedly
enigmatical personage, if we may trust the
account given cf him by the Roman corre
spondent of the Cologne Gazette. Tbe
moat striking fact about him bo far appears
to be the slight extent to which his cfta.ac-
ter is known either by the faithful at large
or by the inmate* of the Vatican. Every
pne knew how Pius IX lived; his hoars
were all allotted beforehand, and tbe same
duties always performed at the same mo
ment. Tliere is a total want of this regu
larity in his successor He keeps iste
hours, and ha* sometimes been found by
his servants at his de*k in tbe early morn
ing, half dazed after writing through tbe
night. He has all his meals served to him
in the greatest privacy, is much more
auriui pofiural UTiraliiU'a.lemoCT.UcgNm-
tctton, all show aneffierveracence oftoubuc optn-
merely different from but wholly antagonistic to
b “shooting at the lamp” method*of the olden
W irance. Hence the law* against teaching him.
ith emancipation there came to the nerro no
change of *entlment on the part of tire
thUrespecTThe old feeling remained. It boa
vanished to a degree, to Georgia to such anertmit
a* to eatnie that state to greet credit. In 1871, six
E ar* after the close of the rebaliioo, there were
the public school*, say 43.000 white children,
nearly 7.000 colored children; in all, enetly
€3,922. In 1880, there were. white pupil*. 150.W);,
colored,86,000, odd, or to tire
The in 1880over 1873 woo, in round number*
10,0.0. No comment to ncceamry. But^lhe-e
according to L— _
ideas, need re virion. Thu*, aa a whole, there to
only the«»te.ppwUtlon raid•u.te.upCTTtakia.
There i* no local taxation; under the constitution
however the legislature msy grant the power of
local taxation for public whoola. This tire com-
mSdoner dodrea to have done. He to right.
Education, like justice, should be brought to
every man’* door, and it to pleasant to notice lha:
TrueConstitution agree* with tire commiwrtoner.
Whatever yet remain* to be done, Georeia
deserves honor for what, in this behalf, she has
already accomplished. Five hundred and thirty
thousand dollars to not what to due to the public
school* iu Georgia, but to a remarkably good
Knowing under the rtreumatanoea.
is state secretary and the cardinals
can only see him at irregular intervals.
One thing is clear, that Leo XIII means to
be master in his own bouse; but the exact
aim and tendency of his policy are by no
i mean* equally evident.
Tbe Rugby Plan or Getting a Drink.
Correspondence of the Cincinnati Commercial
The Rugby plan to peculiar and works smooth
ly. 1 have it from one of the initiated. It to as
fellow*: When the dewotee feels the craving
coming on heriort* out alone lor a wart in som>;
unfrequented port of a pine grove, when he
raddeuly makes tire discovery of a bottle ot
moonshine on the back side of a tree. He pick*
it up and walk* solemnly away, meditating on
spiritual thing*. Before he has gone far a
stranger appears and my*: "Beg pardon sir; I
would like to have you loan me a dollar.” Ho
loans the dollar, and tire stranger depart* without
disclosing his name.