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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 7, 1882. PRICE 5 CENTS THE WEEK EPITOMIZED. NAFIRATINO THE HISTORY OF SEV EN DAYS. Preceding* at Home and Abroad—The Politic* and Pemralttea of tbo Old World—Tbs Way* of tbe People at Home, and tba Crimea and Amnaementa In which they Indulge. trial or Tirr. Russia* tuikosers. The trial of the Nihilists charged with the recent disturbances of public tranquillity, has resulted adversely to the prisetiers, and they have all been sentenced to various terms of 'imprisonment, ranging from fifteen to twenty years. Among the prison ere were ser;erul women. Dieccssnm the hush lasv ac t. Tlie house of lords having raised a comniis- tion com posed entirely of Tory landlords, ’lor the purpose of inquiring unto tlie opera tions of tlie Irish land act, Mr. Gladstone, with a view to testing tlie feeding of tlie Isousc ti|ion tlie subicct, moved thrt the action of tlie lords was inexpedient. After an animated discussion, tlie resolution avas passed. This Vote is regarded as a test of the government's strength in its Irish policy. T3C INDIAN Al’CUOie.lATlON BILL. Congress has passed Ike Indian appropria tion hill. It appropriates $4,920,29$, an in crease over the hill of -last year of ^8»>1?IOO. The amount was miule up of the following items: I'o r fulfilling ■4'reaty stipulations, in cluding pay of inspectors mid interpreters for contingencies, $2,K71„‘:85.r,| ; for transporta tion. removal, settlement ami sub sistence of the yariout tribes. gen- end incidental ’ cx|«r’,ses, $170,090; iriscella- neous, ■fs.HCS.tiOO; interest on trust fond stock, $09,21 s. RELIEF 10f THE SUFFERERS. The,prevailing floods in the Mtssiisq.qii basin hnving rendered destitute some three hun dred thousand people, urgent appeals were scan to Washington by the governors of Louis iana, Mississippi and Arkensas. Jrt obedience to instructions from congress tlie-eecreuiry of war has forwarded supplies to tire principal points of destitution. The rrlidf is to be su perin tended by t.rmy otllrers on The part of tlie federal government, in conjunction with commissioners appointed by the.gpvcmors of tlie states interested. the run rent an no nwu./ a . He-continues to p-tisc in his-Georgia jKilicy while impatient omce-seekens.atid interested friends luy daily seige to the white house to refresh the administrative mescory as to their qualifications and claims. .Air. Holden’s friends do not understand tlie delay in his appointment to the Augustapost-office. He is very strongly indorsed by white and col ored politicians in his district. It is said tha qyndicate.-in settling on a man for this posi tion. ptiid deference to the wishes of Mr. .Stephens and asked him to suggest his choice. He strongly recommended Mr. Holden* who will iu due time be appointed. Mr. At kins continues to play the Warwick in ar ranging Georgia patronage. Jle is as promi nent under Arthur as he was> under Garfield. Though s]>oken of for every office from the circuit judgeship to the minor gifts of the administration, tic remains a private citizen, with zeal for other's causes unabated. Mr. Ailkins api>ears to be operating on the German proverb that “all things roil round to him who waits.’. AICTEM1TED ASSASSINATION Or .QUEEN VICTORIA. Windsor, Eng., March 2.—As the queen wus entering her carriage this evening, a nlan in the stntion yard deliberately flfced a pistqf at her. The map, who was c. niy) Abie loofc- ii.k ot.’CSiT, \yiin IlnliRitiabfly teI;."Ca ov s^'trai policemen und taken to Windsor polie^ sta tion. - No one was hurt. The man gave his name as Roderick MacLean. Tlie queen drove off to the castle immediately after she was fired at. The miscreant was followed to the jHilice station by a large crowd of people, rrom whom he was rescued with-difficulty. The queen arrived at Windsor at about 5:25 }>ju. .She had been in London since Tuesday where she gave a drawing room on Wednes day in honor of the Princess Helena of Wnldcok, who is to marry Prince Leopold. A crowd of people assembled at Buckingham palace this morning in hopes that the queen would drive out. Tlie demeanor of the peo ple was us cordial ns usual. There was a large crowd of spectators awaiting tlie queen’s arrival at Windsor. The queen walked across the platform of the railway station to her car riage. which was waiting to take her to the castie. Join: Brown had al ready ascended to his seat behind the car riage, when a man, standing .at the entrance to the station yard, among a-cumber of spec- tutors, pointed a pistol at the carriage and fired. To judge from the report the pistol was not heavily loaded. The>queen,who was probably not aware of what had happened, was immediately driven to tlie castle. Before she passed the man had been seized by the superintendent of tlie Borough police, who was standing near by. He was also vio lently seized by the crowd, and was only res cued from them when three orfour policemen came to the superintendent’s assistance. Tbe .pistol was captured by one of the crowd. MacLean. who was miserably clad, was taken into High street, -and thence con veyed to the.policcstation in a cab. MecLean is said to be an inhabitant of Southsea. The general opinion is that the act was the result of lunacy. The report of the pistol was sharp but not loud. MacLean apparently intended firing again, when the revolver, which seemed to be a new one, was knocked from his hand by a bystander and handed to tlie police. Some Eton scholars w ere promi nent in the attempt to lynch MacLean. It is understood that tlie queen has n<it sustained any shook. JN THE STATES. Governor Roberts, of Texas, has called a session of the legislature to meet in April for tlie purpose of reapportioning the state. The Tennessee republicans favor tlie calling of a constitutional convention. The Virginia legislators failed to fasten any corruption on the state officers. The Iowa legislature has sent to the people a proposed prohibition amendment to the constitution. A perpetual deadlock exists in the New York legislature, caused by the holding off of tlie Tammany element. California is agitated over tlie Chinese question. The Pennsylvania munic ipal elections resulted disastrously to the ‘Tings’’ in power, which means, for the most part, republicanism. Tlie South Caroliua re publicans will coalesce with all the disaftec-ed elements. A violent canvass is progressing in Kansas,, the prohibition law being the bone of contention. The Indiana legislature lias de clared in favor of prohibition. Dwitule Dolac*. Gold has been discovered in paying quantities on the Alaska line. Hon. W. L. Scruggs, of Atlanta, hasbeen appointed consul to Panama. A Nebraska murder crew out of the failure of the victim to spell correctly. Mr. t-tephena is still urging upon .congress tho adoption of hi* goloid dollar scheme. The sheriff of Barry county. Missouri, was shot dead while attempting to arrest a prisoner. Senator Pendleton, of Ohio, announce* himself as being ia favor of a vigorous foreign policy. in Macomb county. Michigan, a young man named Uillem murdered bis grandmother. The Mormons are making earnest protests to congress against the proposed coercive legislation. A strong appeal las been made to congress for la- ereused accommodations for tbe congressional Il l-rare. In a tix day* walking match ia New York last week, Hazael was the champion, making COO miles in theilx days.- Three Indians were executed in Arizona last week ns a.pc:ial'* for murder. They met death with scoffs cud jeers. General Sherman and General Hancock both rec ommend, in order to increase the eitieiency of tlie line in the army service, that after fifteen years duty the pay of officers shall be increased on & graduated plan, A year or two ago Cyrus W. Field erected a mon ument on the soot where Major Andre, the British spy, was captured during the revolutionary war. The inscription was written by Dean Stanley. -I-ast week the monument was defaced by a tramp named Hendrix. He is now under arrest. Foretc* Flashes. Another farlist plot has just been frustrated in Spain. In a coal mine disaster in Styria, Austria, dftcew persons were killed. The queen of Fncland has erected a mcaiurpeut to the memory of Benjamfu Disraeli. » In a riot bt-tween tne citizens and Turkish sol diers in Smyrna, a number of the forme? were killed. The czar of Rttsria threatens to abfl\c*te *nm-'di- •xtely after tils coronation unless nihilism emses its vigilance. Tbe English government has in read?*css war rants for tne arrest of all the home Title -ixcmbers of parliament, Mr. Parnell, the Irish agitator, ues completed a week’s solitary ee&Unumcni for somcCnfraction of prison rules. Bradlaagh wa* expcJGd from the British parlia ment last week on account of his atheism, and was immediately re-s.-lecteiif.ry his constituents of North ampton. Hetny Uclirmn, wbr, because -oi being cncie«* f e was respited from evreution for-romplicity i* Jhe assassination of the late czar, -died last week in childbirth. governor smith has something to say about DR. FELTON, Which writ b« Found Mighty Interesting Beading- Some Statement* and Fact* for Dr. Feltcn’a Consideration About the Coalition—Some Foli.lcal Information—Strong Talk. i there had never been a lease act Ratteree i would have been where he was, and the ; Ratteree case would have come up all the saute. As for the case of Adalinc Maddox of which bespeaks, Judge Hillyer would have sentenced her if there had been no lease. The lease has nothing in the world to do with the coses he has cited, and he simply cited them as an appeal to the ignorant and dis* reputable class who sympathise with crime because they are criminal themselves in A representative of The Constitution niet.j lntent a slander. ex-Ciovemor Smith vestertlay %nd esked him j j repeat it, that never in the history of this it he intended to replv to the last letter of ] state, or any other state, has there been a man P B ‘ Who thus slandered and outraged the judicia vrr. return. ... , ry. the juries and the system of justice, and “Why, no,” said the governor, smiling: 1 deliberately put himself before the "‘why should 1? Even if I desired to do so, I .country upon a platform that shocked evesy am debarred by ail rules of honorable prac- . intelligent and reputable citizen and appealed ttce. In my first inter* lew Jr. 1 cl ton ws f yr the man who has done this, whenever chutged with a dishonotable and treacherous he denies the charge that I have act. He has dignified this charge with his j put upon him — that he betrayed notice. He therefore stands as a criminal in * lis P art >' llis people, and contracted , .... . to slander his state and debauch its sentiment, the dock definitely charged with a base j w |j[ accept his plea of not guilty and forrn- atid disgraceful action. He has been notified ally proceed to make out nty case, and you that even his unsupported denial would be will oblige me by putting what I have said in --p-i-p™***“•» SwittisafsrBissrJasss: and that he was guiltless. But he lias not ; •j| ie dor.tor says he feels humiliated. That is 1 a good indication. Humility always attends genuine repentance. I do not consider the case of the doctor as entirely hopeless; still 3 look on him as the ‘Uriah Haep’ of Geor gia politics, full of humbleness. But he may, nevertheless be in a saleable condition.” Have you anything further to say, gover- Ho Return* to the Ffty Ca nt Charge, and Tries to Viadicato Himself on an Issue of Veracity with the Thomasvllle Bntertrise—Some other Facts in the Highway Robbery. AN ETHNOLOGICAL EVENT. A F»rt5‘«f-l*uehIo—n.liuns IC«.Koute to the Or.aii to I'erAr-m u itrtlrlnn Kite. Kansas City, March 4;—F. H. Cmfcing, of rise etbnologicr.l bureau-of tlie SmUdieonian institute at Washington., was in tbe city yes terday, acconir anied bysfix chiefs of due agrt- eulunrtl anti-pastoral trite of PueMc (Indians, located in -Western Xtw Mexico .about 35 miles south vjf the liir: of the Atfiar.tic and l‘ao:-fie railroad, and k*»own as tbe^lKnis. He is >en route to Washington aatd Boston, by way of Chicage, the object of the trip beisstr to eturf le the JKur.is. who have a ■ civilization -cimilar to .the ancient Toltecs and Axtzs, to fperfortn a religious ecc-cmony, which can -only he per formed at the ocean. Ttie ceroa- ony in its minutest detail has teen lianded -down from the past by tradition, but so otdds it tliat not wen tlreir traditiont- say when at«tvas last per forated. An intereeiingscieartikq'problent is, when were these people < m tbe -shore of the ocean, and where? Tlie • teremionv will proba- Wy be (performed fit 1*1 yniouth f Rock. Mr. Cushing has been adopte d in/io - the tribe ami the highest religitrjs or der, atsd will take a part in the ceremony. ' The -Kurds are agri cultural people and hav< > reached the highest success in that industry, as weU as in horti culture, and have lar tje herds and flocks. One of the objects of th is tripi-is to secure an enlargement of their gr Azingoajjges. Mr.’Cushing has disco .veretla rich and fruit ful field for ethnologist i, and-eefentisLs in the east ere waiting tlie ri suit of his trip witk great interest. Pros, d Oatr leh ranMcg. SttriTANArous, March 4.—Some gentlemen Zr. J vj-o county, In<l., are p-roposlog to go in to ostrich in '.tig. It is claimed tr tat this ciimat: is suitatrio tile business, and that tne nroi-'tc wo uld be vet>v . A setting of eggs ' vould costlZOO or 9S50jtMC- estimated that the promts *»oul<l be in the ..vi^hborhood of 3-\000. in two er t hree years. ,Should the enterprise be/undertake.:, it -will be rltt! : f the . II the ciniu.:». , - Turner 0«t*Tfiiu)«rl£. JEFPEESONVIUA, Ind.. Marek-4.—Miss 3Iary Her man has passed htr lorly-sevenlh day wiXhoutfouC,. and np to noon to-day is twelve homrs on the .forty-eighth day. The woman is still at tho coutsy poor asylum, slowly wasting away te a si teleton. TENNYSON’S LATEST. even the nerve plead “not guilty”—m because he knows that he is guilty, for It- would violate his conscience without tin slightest hesitation—bat because he kr.ow- tliat his guilt can be proved. Why, then. 1 should I, as a* honorable man, bandy words j with a trembling criminal who cannot even , nar w> raise his eyes^to tlie jury and enter a plea c -“Nothing at present but an ‘au revoir, doc- “not guilty.” He dare not do this, bewtusc to au rev “ ir , I- wlien lie -does the crime of falsehood | ... will be added to the crime of treachery. ; an awkward STRUGGLE Until he does deny the truth of the : charge that I laid «pon him, 1 Will answer or “ Young C<w ? te For tire Matrtmostnlltcncatrtton him no mere than I would any criminal in f : A feud between the Capulet Powells and any coAirtfoom. Bet I will take this oppor-f^ tbe Montague Moberlys of Irvine, Ky., made it rather hard upon A. D. Towell, of the for mer family, and his sweetheart. Miss Sallie Moberly, of the latter. ^Nevertheless the young folks miHGugcd to meet occasionally Utility tosay tliat ne criminal ever yet escaped from the dock by charging that his aceusar was as.guilty as himself. The trutk is, Felten sltows the same*<irrelevance of defense ex hibited ‘by Guiteac, and has not the decency !»»"«« P a re «.. <, PI h„. s »»so worked tta . chatge-ooncerning the Markham house eopfer-j they w«« all tire more •determined to carry enoe. ’ Cupid’s banner through 4o the end. The val- ,, TT , he c.tssoT BEsy. . cntinesexcliaRged, tlierafore, had more bust- “Ht* he never denied this?”’ ; ’ , . ! „ “Ko, sir; and Le cantnot deny it. TVvrrow" j nes sthem'than such missives usually con- who-k a bold acd truthful maig-acknowledges j tain. <i»n velentine’s day, indeed, a proposi- is substance all that I charge in mydstter, j t; on fo elope -was made and accepted. Last that’there-was a perfect coalition between , , r , ... „ ,, , Felton and the stalwart wing-of the.republi- ■ afternoon Ms« lowell slipped away can-party, and that this coalition was estab- j front her heme and joined her lover, who lished at the-Marklmm house conference, and I drove away at a rattling pace to a neighbor- d^heriaimsJs te a d s?a f v^ i b^^hCT ' ingtown. The girls disappearance was dis- slavc to a bargain which is swtister ini£ts char- i covered -shortly after a train had passed acter and that involves treachery t-c his own | 'threagh -Irvine, aw i her parents supposing stayed. Scurloit and Scarlett’s three huiub-ed w ere rfeV he ir beneatlidhe notice of any lionsst man.” “There :is one thing,” srid Gov ernor -Staith, as he turned tnway, “that'I would like t€-Gull.the attention of - the i public to. From the di'ic of that 'Maikliam -heuse conferen-e Dr. ••'Felton has Hot -jsed one argument tliat canshe addressed to-.the intelligence and respectability of the state. : His centinual whine has -been in favor otaHowiug insolvents to vote -witimut paying tux,and 4-protest against tthe.punLshment of aways. This mistake was fortunate for the lovers, Wvho thus gained about an lteur upon ‘rite horsemen who i-inmediately upon the findinc of the right trail, started in hot.ptrrsuit. The lovers drove many miles and 'coming, without interruption, te the t dacew 7 here-Mt. Powell was to prooure the license, hurriedly sought tlie clerk. The lat ter asked Mr.'Powell if Miss Moberly was of age. 'Powell looked at the girl. Miss Mob- crime by the courts. With a shamelessness ’ erlyasked: ‘i£s it necessary for me’tosay that fce»'ceid'pi«cf dent in the (polities’ history of I 1 am-of age?” “Yes.” “Theu^’-she replied, titis-or any -other state he irests his w’hole case J “this is all foe nothing; I will not lie, even upec an ppp- al to dead-heats and criminals, fqr Al; Pin only sixteen.” The • eJerk ex it isclearly the duty of every ■ citizen of the ^rrepsedliisrogret at the dilomma, and young ’Uev.eli- iOokcti &hee/‘ish: -a -oysu-nsitt- 'sug- 1 state ttj jjuy ais poll ta£.- 'ifc; p'^Giiu sct&oM* Tin- Ciarce bP ttic Heavy ttitetieat K alaklaeo. Nbw York, February 28.—-Tlteifellow ing poeic made its first -appearance ill London thi. 1 morning . and bos been sent by cable to the Mew \ ork Inde ; pendent, and--will appear in its .isu'ie ti i-morrew. Jt i*entitled ‘fYho Cfiarge of the Heavy Brigade.' Baisjilava, October i‘>, 1851:” I. The eliarge of the gallant three JiunlreU, Theiheavy brigade: Dorm the hill, down the hill, thousands of Res i Mans, ' Thotisauds of horsemen drew to’the vail ey—ani’: For tiiigby. When the points of tlie Kussiaa lances, Broke in on the sky; And nc callea, “Left wheel int© line.” And? Thqv wheeled aud obeyed. Then he looked at the host that i»ad he£ied, He knew not why. And he turned-half round, and he .hade His.trumpeter sound “To.the charge,” and he rode oa ahead, As he waved bis blade To thegtilant three hundred, whose4;!ary Will never die. “Follow, and up the hill’”; Up the hill, up the hill, followed ,the .Heavy Bri- j ^ade. II. The trumpet, .the gallop, the chMgc,.aiui The might of the fight; Down the hill, slowly, thousands .of Busmans Drew to the valley, and halted at last on the ^height. With 11 wing .pushed out to the Icft. andA owing to the right; _ Bat Scarlett was far on ahead, fnd.he ihiriied itp alone. Through the gray slope of men: And he wbirlcd.hls sabre, he held Lis own. Like on Englishman, there and then; And the three that was nearest him ifolloivcri with, force. Wedged JhemseVres between horse aud horse. Fought for their Jives in the narrow gap they had made. Four amid thousands; and up the ltiR i-pthel ill. Galloped the gallant three hundred, tike Uetvy brigade. III. Fell, like acannon?5hot. Burst like a thunderbolt. Crashed like a hurricane Broke through the mass front below, Drove through the ntidst of the foe. Plunged up and down, to and fro, Bode, flashing blow on blow. Brave lnniskiuings and Greys; Whirling their sabres in circles of light. And some of u«, all in amaze. Who were held awhileirom the fight And were only standing at gaze. When tlie dark muffled Russian crowd Folded its wings from the left and the right, And rolled them around like a cloud— Oh! mad for the charge and the battle were arc. When onr own good red coats sank from right, Like drops of blood in a-dark gray sea; And we turned to each other, muttering, all .dis mayed: “Los-t are the gallant three hundred—the Heavy Brigade!” IV. But they tode, like victors and lords. Through the forests of traces and swords; In the heart of the Russian hordes. They rode, or they stood at bay: Struck with the sword-hand and slew; Down with the bridle-hand drew The foe from the saddle, and threw Under foot there in the fray: Raged like a storm, or stood liken rock la the wave of a stormy day: - Till suddenly, shock upon shock. Staggered the mass from without: For our men galloped np with a cheer and a shout. And the Russians surged and wavered and reeled Up the hill, np the hill, op the hill, otzi of the field, Over the brow and away.^ Glory to each aud to ell and the charge that they made! Glory mail of the three hundred, the Heavy Bri-, gade! A note appended to the poem states: “The three hundred of the Heavy Brigade who made this fa- c mous charge were the Scott’s Greys and the second squadron of tbe Xnuiskillings. the remainder ef the Heavy Bricade subsequently dashing up to tbeir support. The three were Elliott. Scatlett’s aido-de- ramp, who had been tiding by his side, and the c j umpeter aud Shegog, the orderly, who had ose behind him.” are-in jtartsustained by tliis poll tax, and if it is not; paid fiee education vnust te that extent cease in Geor^ia. It is only faicnv.d just tliat nounan who Jails to pay his tax.-for the edu- ,-cation-of-.pocr children fihoukl. be debarred tin; .privilege of voting. •fDE. FELTON’S VjEIN .TLAU-I. iTlie. main-plank in Dr. J'elton’s platform is that the dead beat or vagrant - who is too •.worthless or.cvaricious to .pay this particular ; tax:fcr the education of children must be .allowed to-voie anyhow, and the-refusal of a just and. props r law to allow, him- to vote un- • til be hits discharged this-sacred.obligation lie calls an obstruction of thedree -ballot. This is .why I say that he appeals to . tint vagrants . of th^vountry for his support. -tWhat honest and respectahtie man is there.in -.the state of •Georgbv tliat. wants to j ttea .panty, the sole .provision of .which is to protect hita from the payment of a dollar per annum, for the edu cation of tlie.pear chtldrea. white .end black, Of his .native state? As.to his appeal to tke-vrimina’s, that is ithe .wief :edest and most dangerouz-thing that the.ntiaals of o*~ state wiil show. He delib- .-ecatejy assaults tlie judicicry. of. our state, assauUs -every jerymau who -sit&ir the jury .box, denounces;.‘he whole rsystenvof justice in xhe.interests<1-a few esutiinals. By this .eoxrse he. delibeartely forfeits allJiope of com- .:madiag>the sum ort of atiyirs^peciioie man, white or.tlack) ail bases Lk-eiaims to office |'.Upon tbe.r;otes oi criminals. ' ‘ A SHALLOW C-LWMJ. iTo-sIigw Iiow slzcllow Giis -eiaim/is I will state that three-for nhs of the/persocs. now in ithe jiieniteatiarj'. <ct the state are; there be- rtsutse . .of .crimes committed on ^colored people. ; TJiesystex'of justice iss .deyised by «ur CARsti'.ution. a21' as adnupiUtered ;by our judgAiand/.tries is ilnt ended for the ^protec tion. c£ black; as weJ' as the whites, .-.-a:id in deed-because of tliei: weakniessiit is more es- seatutLss a tic tectiox. for tlie blanks than the vfcites. .Why, even She very case of. the col- catad-gtri th.it he alltites to was aercuue .com- liiivteu^taiEs;. a poor, defenseless ittcgsc, and the family «£• dtat and every roputaWejiegro iu talc-state is.ac deep>_ interestedin' the fair and yusLenforcentehtVs? the law astbezvihite people, otul it is only those who -soatipathize with crime thatUir. Fes’on can eouct .upctt.” •‘TLBse.az-e. verj' hard c;ords.” “Bta: -they ane deserved. Dr. Feltau’s course-since the JJarkhan house oaafereaee could fcave h.utoce effect, and that >is tOids- moralist: .pxhLic xentimtnt, to discredit la>v and order, to.unjustly blncken the name.af the state Anti to encourage criminals. It;k worse than if he. were to .-’become a hashway cobber hiuisaif. AKSXtf-ANATSCN. j His coardnot is .erplicabie only otz the gi jund that La luis b.-en premised a federal appoint mest if ite will work the base uses of his late purchasers. -Lte has no hope of being eleoted. He was beaten under the Boast favorable circumctances to himself before and i e realizes perfectly well tiat an appeal to the dead-beats and.criminals of Georgia can never result ia success. Bet the more vicious he becomes cite more utterly lie slan ders his own people, the more utterly he de- j bauches our public sentiment, .the more actively he incites the iimeadiarv feelings of our dangerous classes, the more definitely he discredits our public justice, the more cer tain he trill be to get his rewatd from those who hate us. Like a wounded' viper, blinded bp malice and _ rage, he is throwing his venom in all di- seetioas. He does not gain upon the public confidence by the fact that lie has worn the cloak of God"’s religion and has used it to ob tain audiences tor his slanders.” ■‘By the way,” said the governor, as he started off again, “just consider the foolish ness of the assault on the lease system. The friends of that system are willingtoabandon it whenever Dr. Felton or any one of his friends will propose a better one, and as to the cases tliat he has brought forward, what are they? Why. Ratteree was not held under tlie lease at ail. He was one of a squad of convicts voted by tlie legislature to a railroad. If gestod that perhaps the girl was-wrung about it,.and thut nitty be Powell would • be willing to-state that she was of age. “No,” said the conscientious lover, “I wouldn't-lie, even for ficllie.” ’ ‘ILet’s go home: I .gt-css we can wait,”-«aid Miss Sallie, and home they went, •escorted part of the way by their delighted •pursuers. FarmcifiBaird, a wealthy citizen of "Wash Vtjgion county, Indiana, has a daughter who, am til last week, vyas the apple of his eye. Now Mr/.Baird mourns sad .talks like Lear •of ingratitude and graneless iprogeny. As •the ■western papers tell the story, Mr. Baird •wanted • his daughter to marry one of his friends,-uiman of wealth, -of wisdom and of years,-wherefrom wisdom springs, but the girl Jtada mind as well asaiecor other own. This lever, -Samuel P. Lowry., a . youth without shekels,--bat full of bruin and.brawn, having been informed by his girl that old Money bags. proposed to wed her right away, decided to strike a bold blow straight from the shoulder. That night Mies Pairti disappeared fiin thei-following morning the father called in haste, and in anger at Mr. dowry's office, •eEpectigg to find that he, too, had llown Lowry sat his desk, however, and affected sur prise when i 11 formed of the disappearance. Mr. Baird-sc-archcd here and there, and two days later, swore out a warrant for .Lowry’s arrest, charging .him with kidnapping the yonng woman. ..But Lowry was still ahead. He had gone to Jeffersonville .or hour before, and when arrested that evening he introduced ife?. .I.owr- to the officer. Jt .probably occurred to Mise.Mattie Evans, ofiCentersille, Jnd.. last Wednesday after- noeti,.that she had promised more titan she could .perform. She found herself leaning upon the.&nu of Mr. Jackson, bound for the piiissou'a^jmd at the same time facing Mr. Dyt; au accepted lover, with whom she had maiie an appointiuent for that.very moment. Bui Jffr.. Dye was a half square away, and Mise Bvans .'.ed Mr. Jackson .quicltly into the house of a fcend around the corner. As Dv had-seen the pair approaching h&entered thi_ house also. 1T0 his amazement Miss Evans and Mr. Jackson were not in the;house. Un der similar .-circumstances most young men would Jtave.pt:t their hearts at half-mast and retired behind their dignity, but Slye lost any of tluetatter he may have possessed and pur sued the fugitives* by way of the back gate, their pdace of. exit a few minutes'before. He chased them :from street to street,and, finally, to the depot, where he arrived in time to throw a kiss at.the departing beauty, who was supported in her successful lover’s arms on the Lack platform of the rear car, at tliat mo ment rounding a distant curve. John Lessstox acd Miss Mary Hope figure prominently in the St. Louis papers as the parties to asalopement from the Helena re- .gion last week. There does not appear to be any reason for the e&opement other titan that the young woman .was of a romantic and the youth of a yielding turn. They started to drive to a neighboring village. When near .their destination and while attempting to ford a -swollen stream the.carriage was overturned. Lernox caught Miss Hope by the hair and beitvg a strong swimmer kept her head above the surface, but they were borne swiftly down the stream into a wide bayou. There the current was not so rapid, and as they found two logs, immediate danger of death was oyer. In spite of all that Lennox could do, however, the logs drifted apart. What would have resulted had not a rescuing boat happened along Lennox shudders to think about Ojjce landed, Miss Hope said she wanted no more romance, hut Lennox pre vailed upon Iter next to marry him the day. Banjo* In Flawing. iiamesville Gazette. Mr. Ambrose Murphey says he now hires ne groes to plow who pick the banjo. He tuntish- "e.s them a pipe to smoke while picking tbe banjo, and lets them ride aud plow as they pick and smoke. He claims to do the work of three mules and three hands, with two mules and one in,in, including the pipe and banjo. NEA.R CARTERSV1LLE” ORE CORRESPONDENCE FROM DR. FELTON. 4 Near Caetersville, February 27.—Editors Con titution: There is an issue of veracity between myself aud the Thomasville Enterprise, and The Constitution commented on the same in yester days’ (Sunday) paper. I ask a hearing in your columns. The Enterprise make the bold assertion that I am ‘criminally ignorant” of the laws of my state when I say “a person can be sent to the penitentiary for five years for stealing fifty cents or for fifty dollars.” I propose to examine this state ment in tlie plainest way, and to give the proof as have it—without a single care as to who may feel ‘maligned” orinsalted by the same. In The Atlanta Constitution, dated November 2Gth, 1881, I find the following, which I copy ver batim: “During the recent criminal trials in the superior -ourt, one Adeline Maddox, a colored gin, was convicted of robbing a negro child of fifty cents and was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. Her attorney now moves the court for a new trial. Willis Me A flee, a notorious criminal, pardoned out of the penitentiary by Governor Colquitt in tne last davs o! February, after a service of ten years, was convicted of a burglary, committed May 2oth, and sentenced for four years. lie also, through his nttorney, moves for a new trial. 1 here are more charges for him to answer should a new trial be granted.” Now, Messrs- Editors, I confess to considerable astonishment to hear you say in your Sunday’s >aper, “no negro girl has been seutcuced in At- anta or in Geoigia to five years in the penitentiary for stealing fi'ty cents.” It is true you attempted to explain tho colored girl’s offense as "highway robbery”—but I gave the facts to the public, in your very words, and I re spectfully insist that my statement is hardly “crim inal,” when derived from such “well-informed authority.” I trust the Thomasville Enterprise will eopv this letter of mineasa proof of the “Parson’s" innocent truthfulness, which can scarcely be called “criminal ignorance.” Now, will you explain to me and to the public, the reason why Willis McAfee “THE NOTORIOUS CRIMINAL” was only sentenced to four years, while “the fifty cents highway robber” was sent up for five. There is something in a name it seems. If you call it highway robbery” you can make as many “able- bodied, long-term convicts” as the lessees may need, and if vou call it something else you can pro tect the hardest criminal in the state, and give him what might be called feather-bed punishment. To illustrate, I will take the case of Edward Cox, the slayor of Alston. In the first place, his trial was a most remarkable one in many respects. The de fense sought to delay the trial at one time, by the plea that General Gordon had not arrived, and he was a most important witness for Mr. Cox. When he did arrive the prisoner asked as a special favor that General Gordon and Governor Colquitt should not remain in the court room while he was being tried for his life, and the court granted the very- singular request. That was a most singular pro-, ceeding. Poor Alston had been sent over the river of death, and it appears lie had no friend to insist her identity. Subsequent to her arrest, however, she was recognized bv Mr. Emmet, superintendent of the city chain-gaug, as Adaline Maddox, who had but a short time previous to the arrest bv Offi cer Norman, escaped from the city chain-gang. A TRUE BILL. The day following her nrrest Adaline was taken before Justice Tanner, and after a careful prelimi nary trial committed to jail to await the next term of the grand jury. On the 12th dav of October a grand jury, with Mr. E. E. Rawson as foreman, gave the charges preferred against Adalinc a thorough and searching investigation, and then returned a true bill, charging her, in the language of the bill, “with the offense of robbery, lor that tlie said Ada- line Maddox, in the county aforesaid, on the 8th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1881, with force aud arms violently and forcibly did take from tho person of one Mary Ann Thompson fifty cents coin, etc." THE trial. On the 26th ay of October, 1881, in the Fulton superior court. Judge Hillyer presiding, tlie case came up for trial. The state was represented by Solicitor General Hill, while the prisoner was ably defended by Mr. R. J. Jordan. During the trial only three witnesses were introduced, two for the prosecution and one for the defense. Mary Ann Thompson was the first to testify for the /prosecution. She was a small ten year old child, residing with her mother, Lou Amcy, on Gilmer street. Her statement was calmly made, al though the defendant’s attorney did all in his power to confuse her she told her story without a single conflicting statement. She recognized the prisoner ns Adaline Maddox, the woman who had robbed her on the corner of Decatur and Platt streets. 7 he witness went on to state that she had been to carry home some clothes and was returning with tho money, fifty cents, which she was carrying to her mother. She saw Adaline Maddox following her, and when near the corner oi Platt street the prisoner advanced upon the child and asked what she had in her hand.'The child at tempted to evade the prisoner, but tlie prisoner grabbed her and by force took the money from her hand and ran away. The child went home and re ported the robbery to her mother, who asked her if she knew who had taken it She said she did not know her name hut knew where she went after taking the money and would recognize her if she could meet her. The mother then accompanied the child to the place where the prisoner had gono after taking the money and where the child pointed out the prisoner and said: “That is the woman who took the money.” Immediately after Mary Ann and her mother came up the prisoner ran away, but was followed and finally arrested and taken to the calaboose. A rigid cross-examination by Mr. Jordau, the defend ant’s attorney, did not cause the youthful witness to vary in her story. The testimony of the mother substantiated that of the child. THE DEFENSE AND THE VERDICT. For the defense Ida Dupree, a colored girl, was the sole witness. She swore that she was with the prisoner nearly the entire morning upon which tlie crime was alleged to have been committed, and that she, the prisoner, was not away from home that day. Lpon across examination it was shown that the witness and the prisoner were apart and out of sight of each other frequently during the morning for as much ns fifteen minutes at a time. Tho prisoner in her statement said that she did not leave her mother s yard that day until the po lice came, aud that she then ran because she thought they were comiug to take her back to tho city chain gang from which she had escaped. Sho denied ever having seen the mother or the child until the day of her arrest The jury, after tho charge of Judge Hillyer, returned a verdict of guily after which the court sentenced the prisoner to five years iu tlie penitentiary. “ cha ... -. __ .. The charge was robbery and the penally is from that the whole truth should he known to the | five to twenty years. On account of the prisoner’s public. sex the court disregarded her character and gave THE NF.Or.O GIRL is condemned as a “highway robber,” and sen tenced accordingly, while Mr. Cox received the lightest sentence of the court for the crime com mitted, and was then handed over to the partiality and tenderness of the lessees. I have The Consti tution’s report of tlie trial, and the facts can be made to appear. When the supreme court refused a new trial, and he had to start to the Dade coal mines, how did he ? :o? I have the Elberton News of May 19, 1880, giv- ng a full account of the departure, which that pa per says was taken from The Constitution. As the account is voluminous, I will condense it for your readers, aud you shall have this copy of tlie News to establish its statement if my veracity is ques tioned by the ThomasviUe Enterprise. When .Mr. Cox left the Fulton county jail he rode to the depot in a close carriage, attended by a friend who then delivered him over to Captain Nelms, one of the very nlen who saw” ASston killed in tne dapuol. Aline breakfast was provided at the restaurant, and he was furnished with a seat in one of the passenger coaches of t he train. By instructions of Governor Brown (!) Oox was not ironed, and was allowed all the comforts of a regular passenger. Every comfort and sympathy was offered to him, and he wus assured that every effort should be made to procure execu tive clemency at the proper time. As Governor Brown gets the “able-bodied long term” men, Mr. Cox was sent to him, but he was to be provided with occupation in the -open air, as wort.in -the mines would be.injurious to his health. Now, Messrs. Editors, I desire you teicompare this punishment with that of Adeline Maddox (who stole filty-cents from a negro child), the dangerous “highway robber,” if that term suits you better. The BcKalb News gave me the facts in reference to •cox’s PURSUIT of an -escaped convict, of how he jumped on a mule, was absent several days, and nobody knew where he was, or was in the ieasl uneasy about him, until he returned to his light employment in the Dad-: coaiiaines. the ‘‘friendly shelter arranged for him." It really appenrs when you read of Adeline Mad dox and \*ftlis McAffee and Edward Cox, that the lighter crimes get the heaviest punishment, while the teg criminal is esconeed in “soft places.” This is-one of the glaring errors of the system. Itcoststhe state, 1 understand, about fifty dollars tocenvict a criminal, on an average. The courts of Bartow county (I speak of my own county beea'.sc 1 can speak positively) entail more and more ex pense upon the taxpayers every year. We get no pm&t from the criminals whatever. Those that pay tbe taxes are compelled to work the roads und build the bridges without any help from the con victs, who drain the taxes of the county continu ally. We grow poorer while the men who control these criminails grow richer, and if anything is said against the system or-its method of procurement, a storm of abuse is burled upon the man who dares to criticise. If a legislative report is thorough enough to get down to the iniquities of the system a rebuke is-given that poor Alston feund;to his cost was heavy enough to deter a similar experiment. EALAC ABOUT VESTED RIGHTS' What do you say of vested wrongs? When the idea was afloat some years ago that the courts should be enjoined to require the keepers of the penitentiary to deal justly with the lessees so far as todistifoute convicts impartially, the courts de cided *e matter by refusing any effort towards in junction—the keeper should do as he pleased. In 1S75 “a lessee” went into print tosay the state could not control a convict to build her state capi- toi, for “the lessees would take it to the courts, aud the courts would sustain the leasees,” which 1 think highly probable from the general appearance of some of their decisions. If we are iu bondage to onr political masters, the state should not become too helpless to protect the criminal from atrocities, abuses or unlawful im prisonment. J did not know wise presided in the ease of Adeline Maddox, until I saw a pretended reply from a dis tinguished source, and I am free enough to say I don’t care now. for tliat verdict would have been a hard one if King Solomon had made it. I AX SO LAWYER, Do not pretend to be one, but no man in Georgia has a higher esteem for legal ability and erudition, and the hope of this republic lies in an honest incorruptible judeiary, but X am much at fault if there is a despotism under heaven that would sentence a colored girlto the iniquities of the present convict system, for five hopeless years for stealing the sum of fifty cents. The northern journals charge complicity between the judiciary and the lesscs, and 1 aiu pained to know that this verdict is a sample of Georgia justice. If there is no “coa lition” between the code, the lessees and the judiidary there seems to be a "capital understand ing” that no criminal shall get off easily that steals fifty cents, though they are not so strict iu larger cases. If the code is “cast-iron.” and the judge is obliged to sentence, wilhbut any discretion, suppose we make the code the judge, and save a considerable sum that is now absorbed by the whole staff of judges? 1 We have paid out thousands of dollars since the wat for new and revised copies of the code, and in stead of making the law clearer we seem to get more and more befogged. If nobody suffered but the poor men who are taxed to raise this money for the purchase of the code, we might bear it, for it seems pre-deterroined to tax us to the utmost to support onr political ring-masters and their pets, but when life, liberty and property all are jeopard ized, there should be something done, and done quickly. I will say to the Thomasville Eiterprise, the “parson” is always ready to be instructed, for he is not like a numerous class in Georgia, “who never learn and never forget;” but there is somebody else “criminally ignorant” in this matter of sen tencing a colored girl to the penitentiary for live years for stealing fifty cents. Respectfully. W. H. ‘Felton. nutary of the Cue*. her the lightest possible term. A motion for a new trial was made but was over ruled aud the case went to the supreme court, THE OTHER CASK. On the twenty-fourth day of October, 1881, tho Fulton grand jury found a true bill against Willis McAfee. The offense alleged was burglary, and upon the fourth of November, 1881, the accused was arranged for trial. Captain Bagshy, of the At lanta police force, was the prosecutor. He swore that he had arrested Willis McAfee because be was satisfied that he had in his possession some stolen goods. Subsequent to the arrest he found- in Willis’house a coat and a pair of lifty-dollar; sleeve-buttons, which had been stolen from A. \. Brumby’s residence, 124 South Pryor street, besides- other articles that were reported at the station-• house as stolen. Previous to this arrest Mr. Brumby’s resi.leneo had been.entered through a window atnl thejorop- erty described above stolen. The possession‘oft tits property Willis could not explain, and thecharge- of burglary was the result In his testimony Mr. Brumby failed to convice- the jury that an entrance into his house had been effected by breaking tlie window open, and ther jury failed to convict him of the offense charged in the indictment, but found him guilty of larceny from the house, for which he was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. FOUND GUILTY. Immediately preceediug the trial and at the same term of the court McAfee was tried upou an other warrant, charging him with burglary, hut was acquitted on account of some technical point. There were and are still a half dozen indictments against him which he must answer as soon as ho gains his freedom. He is a bad negro generally and has been a convict for years. He was sent up for a long term during Judge Hopkin’s occupancy of the bench, but was paraoned recently by Gov ernor Colquitt upon the statements of physicians to the effect that he was dying with consumption. Before being sentenced by Judge Hopkins it was proven that Willis was the recog nized leader of a band of burglars in Atlanta, and this fact was believed when he pleaded guilty be fore Judge Hopkins. After his pardon he returned to Atlanta, and in no time burglaries and robberies became numerous ayd frequent. The stolen prop erty found in his possession clearly showed his acquiring capacity, lfis gcueral character some what influenced Judge Hillyer when he gave him five years which is generally considered a very heavy term for larceny from the house. A motion for a new trial in this case was over ruled aud the ease was carried to the supreme court. IN GENfcRAL. The baby elephant walks around. Too too is the name of a post-office just established iu Madison county, Alabama. The prettiest p/izc in the lottery of mar riage is a little bit of a girl baby. Ice twenty-one inches thick has formed at Brunswick, Me., in spite of the mild winter. Japan exported last year $7,090,000 worth of tea, of which $1,779,000 came to the United States. “How beautiful the dome of heaven this evening,” said Angelica, as she leaned heavily on his arm. “The stars seem to look down upon us.” “Oh, yes,’ said practical John, “It’s impossible for them to look up to us, you know. They cawn’t,’ A Tazewell Court House (Va.) lawyer was completely baffled and talked down by a pretty school girl the other day. “Don’t you want to ask me some more?” she inquired sweetly, while the spectators laughed and the lawyer locked foolish. Statistics show an increase of nine-fold in the California wheat crop from 1855 to 1SS0. A state havingin actual cultivation 38,000,000 acres of wheat land can make a good showing, anil the amount is being yearly increased at the rate of about half a million acres. A Pittsburg judge has decided that a mar ried woman Is not liable for debt contracted in her maiden name. 1 his is right A married woman has trouble enough economizing so as to let her husband pay the debts which he contracted before he met her.—Philadelphia News. Tiie lamentations of the Bordeaux wine merchants continue. They were obliged last vear to import 24,000,000 gallons of foreign wines* be sides 2.500 tons of Smyrna and Cyprus raisins, which furnished about 2,030,000 gallons more of a fluid which, duly mixed, they supply as claret Another 1,000 tons of Scotch and English potatoes arrived at New York by the steamer Bo livia from London. These importations promise to continue well into the summer, or until the new home crop begins to come in. The steamers find them more profitable for ballast than anything else just now. The East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad company carried one twentieth of tlie whole cotton crop of the United States last year, and, owing to its new connection link betweea Rome and Macon, the road will carrv one-tenth of the cr^^this year. The link will' be completed California is growing restless at the dilato riness of congress in dealing with the Chinese question, and urgent appeals are made by the pa pers of the state that a limitation be at once placed upon Chinese immigration. Unless this is done it is claimed that 40,000 Chinese will be landed in San Francisco during the next six months. It is now that the dry goods clerk begins to On tlie 8th day of Julv, 1881. Adaline Maddox was i lay , awa >‘ a dollar per week for a vacation fund, U* instance Lon An.,, a woman, by Officer Norman, of the Atlanta police, clothes, and a capital of twenty dollars, he will The charge preferred by the complainant was rob- on Iots .p r an <\ ibe girls will fancy he is berj, but when Adaline was arrested she denied SfflctaL-Pu^ * >re£tdent defaulting bank indistinct print