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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, TUESDAY, MAKCH 14, 1882.
SIX DAYS ADRIFT.
DETAILS OF A SHIPWRECKED
SAILOR S ADVENTURES.
n« of tbs Bahama's Survivor*. Ticked op In Kid-
Ocoan on a Baft After a Ions Fast, Telia a
Thrilling Tala of the Horror# of the Sea
Destitution, Starvation and Despair.
New York World.
The brig Poor], with a cargo of sugar from
Tort au Spain, Trinidad, arrived in port yes
terday, bringing one of the three sailors of
the steamer Bahama, which was sunk on the
9th instant, when on her way to this city from
Porto Rico. The Baliama, as the readers of
The World will remember, left Porto Rico on
February 4 last for New York, and five days
later experienced a heavy squall, with thun
der, lightning and crass seas. The next day
the storm increased in fury, blowing a liurri
cane, sweeping the deck of everything mova
ble and throwing the vessel on its beam ends,
©te steamer shipped a great deal of water,fires
were extinguished, and at four o’clock in the
afternoon of February 10 the vessel, being
about to sink, was abandoned by all hands
wjtli the exception of three men. The cap
tain's boat, containing seventeen men, cap
sized. The other boat, containing fifteen
mem, in command of First Officer Williams,
was picked up on the same day by the Anchor
line steamer Glcnmorag and brought to this
city. It was snpposed that the twenty others,
including the three men who refused to leuve
the sinking ship, were lost, ljut the brig which
arrived yesterday brought one of them, Napo
leon Mathurin. aged twenty-one, a French-
Onnadian, who was a sailor on the Bahama.
He was found on the morning of the Kith,
six days after the sinking of the ship, floating
on a portion of the deck house, about five
hundred miles from the Island of Bermuda.
Mathurin is a stout, broad-shouldered, ruddy
fared young man, about five feet six inches
high.
STICKING TO TnEBIlir.
To the World reporter he told the following
story, after relating the desperate straits to
whjcli tiic crew was reduced by the storm:
“After the water got into the cabins tho ship
was rolling about at the mercy of the waves.
The l)oats were manned when we saw that she
was sinking, hut Duli, the pantryman, the
second cook and myself refused to leave her.
The captain in the largest of the two boats
pulled away with seventeen men, and the
fimt officer had charge ot the other. They
urged us to go with them, hut both boats be
ing full we refused. The men in the captain's
boat bade us good-bye and rowed off. His
boat seemed like a straw in such waves, and
at every stroke of the oars I felt half inclined
to call them back. They bad not gotten far
away when a huge wave upset them, and after
a pitiful cry all was still. I felt the vessel
sinking rapidly, but held to a hawser on a
broken spar awaiting the result. She gradu-
a'lly sunk lower and lower, drawing me down
by the suction. I thought my time had come.
The spar I held floated, and when I came to
the surface nothing of the Baliama remained
but floating woodwork.
TAKING A DEAD MAN’S PLACE.
“I was nearly blinded by the waves, but I
held to fiiu piece of spar. Rising with the
waves I saw Joe Uilkner, the ship's porter, on
a part of the for’nrd deck-house, and swam
for him as it looked big enough for us both,
aad I could not hold on to my piece, it was so
small. When I reached Bilkncr and at
tempted to get on, he cried out piteously for
me logo away. ‘We both can’t live on this,'
he cried, ‘get’something else, for God sake,’
He had hardly uttered the words when a
wave swept him off and between being
stunned and exhausted by the swim from the
captain’s boat when it upset to the ship lie
was drowned and I was powerless to save
him. Then darkness came on and nothing
could be seen of the others. There was noth
ing on the deck-house but myself, and I had
nothing to cat but one pilot biscuit, which
I bad put in my breast. All night long the
waves dashed over me, slapping me from one
side to the other when I attempted to
move. I was lying flat on the
boards, and not for n moment
could I loosen my grip on the two iron
hooks that were on them. No sun roso on
the second day and the storm had not abated.
I ate the biscuit, which was softened to a
pulp, and it made mo very thirsty. The day
was spent like the night. I kept a lookout
for ships, but saw none, and when evening
came I was very much discouraged. During
the second night I broke off a door that was
on the deck-house and put it over me for
shelter from the sea. I could not sleep for
fear of being washed off. I was in the same
position for four days, almost crazy from
thirst, On the tbird day I could not resist
the temptation nor anticipate the conse
quences, but lapped up some salt water that
had gathered in a corner of the raft.
course it made me worse.
A SAIL, BUT NO HELP.
"Each day after the first I saw sails passing,
lint my shouts and signals could not be heard
orscen. It was awful. I tied my jumper (a
canvas jacket or blouse) to a stick and waved
it for hours when I saw these ships, and when
I saw them slowly disappear it*made me al
most crazy. My nioutli was sore from dryness
and my face was cut witli salt. On the fifth
day the sea calmed a trifle and rain fell,
thanked God for it. 1 spread out my oil-skin
coat and caught some of it. I did not allow
much to gather, but lapped it up as it fell.
Two days ago. I forgot to mention, I saw a
bark and on it I could plainly discern the
man nt the wheel and a man at tlie foretop,
but 1 was unseen, and it passed on. On the
night of the 15th I slept a little by tying my
arm to one of the hooks with my suspenders.
Tlie next day the weather was clear and line.
THE RESCUE.
‘‘As soon as it was light I began my daily
lookout. I had not been looking long when
I saw a sail about four miles off coming
towards me. I waved my signal and saw the
ship slowly approaching. Exhausted from
my efforts, I fell down and slept for I guess
half an hour. When I awoke the ship was
npar by. I waved my shirt and saw the crowd
at the ship’s side waving back. When she
came within a ship’s length of me a boat was
lowered and I was taken on. I was under the
impression until I got in here that I was the
only one saved from the Bahama.’’
STANDING HIS PRIVATIONS WELL.
Theodore Range, the first mate of the brig
Fearl, who rowed out to rescue Mathurin,
said yesterday: “I never seen such a man in
my life, sir, as him we took aboard. It was
in latitude 32.20 and longitude 73.10," said
he, looking at Ills log-book, “when we came
across him, and for a man that was six days
without anything for to eat or even any to
bacco was the heartiest ever I seen. He clum
up the side of the ship as spry as ye please,
and didn’t want nothing to eat, but made
right for tlie cdok’s gallery and got away with
four cups of coffee. He then went to sleep
and didu’t wake up for a couple of hours. It
was 8.30 when Theodore Note, the lookout,
saw him, and it was lucky ho did, ’cause the
next night it was very rough and the boards
he were on were water-soaked.
Mr. Cathart.means “Great Scrap-Book Maker.”
In proof of his bad memory, the collector was
unable to tell without consulting his books
when he first began his work. An examina
tion of his first collection of clippings fur
nished the date, December lti, 1856, and the
first clipping was found to be an advertisement
offering a reward for the capture of a runaway
slave. The last book compiled is a pamphlet,
which, when bound, will bear the title:
"Mayor King and His Black Policemen.” It
is made up of all the newspaper articles relat
ing to the appointment of colored men on the
police force.
The titles of some of the volumes will give
an idea of the subjects covered. Three large
volumes are devoted to “China and Japan,”
and are made up of more than a thousand
clippings. “Incidents in the Life of Jefferson
Davis” tills two volumes, which are followed
by four bulky books, entitled “Anxious In
quiries." Then comes four good-sized vol
umes of “Sermons and Religious Scraps,”
next to which “Assassination of Lincoln and
Trial and Execution of the Conspirators.” is
given place in a book of many hundred pages.
“Odd Fellows and Good Templars” are repre
sented next in a single volume, as are also
“Men and Women of 1868 and 1869.” Three
large volumes, among the neatest in the collec
tion, are devoted to “Colonel Forney’s Let
ters and Euro]>ean Correspondence.” Next to
Colonel Forney's letters is a volume inscribed,
“Life and Dea’h of Charles Sumner,” and
another, “Comic Sketches.” One of the most
interesting books in the collection, and, per
haps, tlie most valuable, is “Poetry of the Re
bellion,” which contains about a thousand
war songs. Another interesting volume, and
tlie largest in the library, is “The Colored
People and the Passenger Railroads, and Rail
road Matters of the United States.”' This book
contains 682 pages. No less than eight bulky
volumes are devoted to “Westcott’s History of
Philadelphia” Three volumes are filled with
“Masonic Scraps.” and five witli clippings
concernuig “Enfranciscment’s Last Chapter
the Fifteenth Amendment,-” and four vol
umes suffice to accommodete “The Biack Man
After the Passage of the Civil Right’s Bill.”
Five volumes contain the doings of the“Freed-
men’s Bureau,” and the same numberof books
are made up of clippings relating to “Slavery.”
“John Brown’s Insurrection” finds place in a
single volume, next to which are two immense
“Scrap Books of the Rebellion.” A fat book,
measuring four inches across, contains “The
Trial of Mr. and Mrs. Twitchell for the Mur
der of Mrs. Hill,” and another volume is a
record of murders, and executions, and mis
cellaneous criminal matters. Three volumes
now under way the scrap-book maker takes
great pride in,’being no less than “The Crimes
of Ministers.”
Mr. Cathcart sets great store by his library,
and reckons its value in sordid dollars very
high. To him it represents twenty-five years
of work, and lie says that a man to make an
other such collection must start young and
wait until all his hair has turned gray before
it will be as complete.
Of
DUNG1NESS.
GRAND OLD RUIN ON CUMBER
LAND ISLAND.
Once an Abode of Abound ng Hospitality—Tho Some
of ihe Descendants of Gen. Nathaniel Greene—
The Grave of Light Horse Harry Leo
A Masaive Structure—A Mystery.
The Farmer the Loser.
Hamilton Journal.
If the cost of cotton ties is to be increased, by an
increase of the import duty, the farmer who uses
them must sustain the less. If he has to pay more
for them and the price of cotton is not advanced
in consequence, there is inevitable loss, and the
farmer is the loser.
Washington special Pittsburg Telegraph.
1 had a talk to-day with Emory Speer, the Georgia
independent, who is a member of the ways and
means committee, about the prospects of the Mc
Kinley cotton tie bill. Mr. Speer is a protectionist,
and says there is a growing tariff sentiment in the
south, but that the passage of the proposed cotton
tie bill would deal it u stunning blow. The farmers
all over tlie south are inquiring why the movement
should be made to rai.-o’ the rate on the only duti
able article in which they are Interested. Mr.Speer
says he cannot vote for the bill and that no south
ern congressman could defend his action at home
after so doing. In conclusion Mr. Sjieer said iho
hoop iron men in pressing this bill at this time
were simply killing the goose that lays the golden
egg and that nothing would be done by congress
relating to any tariff matters until the commission
reported a scientific tariff hill.
ncapportlnnmrnt In Virginia.
RichMosd, March 6.—Virginia is the first state
that will reupportiou under the new congressional
apportionment bill. The state, which formeily was
divided into nine congressional districts, is now
made to contain ten, giving Virginia one additional
representative In the national legislature. By Ihe
hill just introduced in tlie senate the entire state
is so politically divided as to give the read
justers eight representatives out of tho ten
to he elected. The remaining two are
given to the democrats. Under the old, or demo
cratic apportionment, the state was designed to rc
turn seven democrats and two republicans when
there was anything like a free ballot and a fair
count. During the terms filled by Mr. John Goode,
from the second district, Virginia was represented
by eight democrats and one republican.
The Last oT (Jultcau.
Cincinnati Commercial Special.
“No one need imagine,” said District-Attorney
Corkhill to-night, “that Guiteau will not hang on
June 30th. He will. The anniversary of that fate
ful Saturday night will find him under the dissect
ing knife. I hear that Scoville has deserted the
case and will file no bill of exceptions. Whether
he does or not is a matter of no moment ntall. The
court in banc will grunt no new trial. It has prac
tically passed already upon every point that could
be presented in any possible bill of exceptions.
Every word and every aet of Judge Cox during the
trial was the result of a conference with all of his
brethren of the bench. There is nothing to decide
now, and the assassin will never appear in a court
room again. His next appearance in public will be
on the scaffold.”
Votlne Itrnorunec.
Pittsburg Telegraph.
An ignorant man with a vote is worse than a case
of small-pox in a community, a scourge that carries
danger not only to individuals but to the govern
ment itself.
RING DEM CHARMIN’BELLS.
A UNIQUE LIBRARY.
The Remarkable Collection Made by m Philadelphia
Janitor.
Philadelphia Times
A bail memory and a desire to preserve the
gojjd things he read in the newspapers led Jo-
W. H. Cathcart, twenty-five years ago,
llpfnn cfipfin-lhiiiL” mal'intr Vntr lui line a
to begin scrap-book making. Now lie has a
library of 100 volumes, made up entirely of
clippings, and covering a great variety of sub
jects, allowing at once the broad range of the
collector’s taste and the wide scope of the
journalism of the past quarter of a century.
Cathcart is janitor of the building No. 303
Walnut street, and has held this position for
half of his lifetime. In liis room is a large
bookcase filled with neatly-bound volumess
each with the character of its content,
stamped in gold upon the back, with the name
of the compiler, followed by tlie mysterious
letters “G S. B. M.,” which, as translated by
AS SUNG BY UNCLE REMUS.
Oh, sinner! don’t take yo’ time,
Dar’s a road we afi mus’ clime—
Hit’s a road full er faintin’ spells;
De way mighty long,
But soul git strong
Won she year dem charmin’ bells.
Oh, sing, my soul!
Oh, ringen roll!
Ring-a dem charmin' hells’.
De road mighty full cr dus'.
But sinner kin squcnch his thus’
By driukin’ fum de Jacob wells:
En de soul git strong
Wen she year dat song—
Oh, ring dem charmin' bells!
Oh, Jerdun, roll!
Oh,sing, my soul!
Ring-a dem charmin' hells!
Oh, sufferin' sinner, rise—
Lit’ up dem 'umbel eyes—
Lissen w’at de Speret tells:
Oh, do git strong
En sing dat song—
I year dem’ charmin’ bells!
Oh, sing, my soul!
Oh, ring en roll!
Ring-a dem charmin' hells t
Wen de night git dark en col’,
En you year dat Jerdun roll,
Dat de place whar John befels;*
Oh, soul, git 6trong,
En sing dat song—
Oh, ring dem charmin’ bells!
Oh, sing, my soul!
Oh. ring en roll!
Ring a dem charmin’ bells!
My Lord, he done onroll
Dat shinin’ dot uv gol’.
En de heav'ms dey sinks en swells!
Oh, sonl, ring strong!
Des shout dat song—
Oh, ring dem charmin’ bells!
Oh, sing, my soul!
Oh, ringen roll!
Ring-a dem charmin’bolls!
Washington Gazette.
I mention Dunginess, of Cumberland Is
land, Georgia. This grand old ruin s.ands on
the south point of the island, looking out on
the broad expanse of the Atlantic. Disman.
tied and despoiled by vandal treatment dur
ing our late war, it is no longer tenantable;
and its former lofty walls seem to have lost
half their altitude. It was originally a sixty
feet cube, of massive tabby structures, whose
castellated gray heights loomed up in the dim
distance a landmark for the weary mariner
looking homeward.
AN EARTHLY PARADISE.
Dunginess was once an earthly paradise,the
abode of true gentility, and abounding hospi
tality. In the early spring the delicious odors
of its orange groves, wafted by favorable
winds, could be inhaled for miles on thg open
sea. Here for many years was the home of
the" immediate family and descendants of
General Nathaniel Greene, of the revolu
tion, the friend and favorite of Washington.
The remains of General Greene do not
repose, as some think, on this island
home. He died at the age of forty-
four from sunstroke at his rice plantation,
Mulberry Grove, (given him by Georgia,) a
few miles above Savannah, en the Savannah
river, on the 19tli of J une, 1786, having never
lived on Cumberland island, which was sub
sequently settled by his family. And the
present place of his sepulture, knoweth no
man unto this day. Immediately after his
death his remains’ were deposited*in a vault
fora temporary period, located on confiscated
property, confiscated because the original
owners had sided with the royal government,
and lett the country.
AFTER THE WAR.
After the war feelings had subsided, the
confiscation acts were repealed, and absentees
returned to their old homes. Among them
were the owners of the above named vault.
Soon after, the family of General Greene hav
ing selected a cemetery, decided to remove to
it his remains, and opened the vault for that
purpose; when to their utter astonishment
and grief, not a vestige of their loved and
honored dust could be found. That
lie had been removed by cruel
hands, was absolutely certain! The
sad mystery remains shrouded in painful,
weary "conjectures. But, although debarred
the privilege of visiting the resting place of
tlie great man. his name and deeds are crystal-
ized in the chronicles of the great revolution;
and by tlie cenotaph erected to his memory
by the city of bavannuh in 1825, tlie corner
stone of which was laid by his comrade, Gen
eral LaFayette, during his triumphal visit
to tlie United States. And we hope
that the monument voted by congress, to
tlie memory of General Greene, nearly a cen
tury since, will yet be erected. It is said that
tlie Hon. Alexander Stephens intends calling
upon this long-neglected duty. But the re
mains of a noble hero of the great revolution,
do repose at Dunginess. Those of General
Henry Lee, known as light-horse Harry, the
father of our peerless Robert E. Lee.
He was distinguished for supe
rior military prowess, activity and efficiency.
Was a man of rare intellectual ability and
culture. He composed the best history of tlie
war in the southern states; and is the author
of that immortal tribute to "the father of his
county.” (found in his eulogy on Washing
ton,) “First in war, first in peace, and first
in tlie hearts of his countrymen!”
LEE S DEATH.
The death and burial of General Lee on
Cumberland island, occurred as follows:
Having been seriously, incurably wounded in
Baltimore, in an attempt to quell a mo!
some years at ter the war, he visited the W
Indies for his health. Perceiving that'
strength was failing, he determined to
return home. The vessel that brought
him, passing near Dunginess, he, at
his request, was landed on Cumber
land island. Fortunately, meeting a grand
son of General Greene, to whom he made
himself known, and requested him to inform
his aunt, Mrs. Shaw, that an old friend and
comrade in arms of her father, had arrived,
ana sought her hospitality. Very soon the
family carriage came down,*and conveyed the
sick general to the mansion; where he was
welcomed most cordially, although intimating
that his days were almost numbered. He lin
gered oiuy a few weeks, receiving the kindest
attention. He was buried in the cemetery of
tlie Greene family, at Dunginess, with mili
tary honors, amid tlie discharge of artillery,
as there was at that time a small squadron
of the United Slates navy at an
chor in the neighboring waters. The com
mander and officers of the squad
ron, including the chaplain, landed and uni
ted in paying tlie last tribute to the illustri-
trious dead. General Henry Lee was born in
Westmoreland county, Virginia, January
29tli, 1756, and died 25th of March, 1818, aged
62 years. One of the closing acts of the life
of General Robert E. Lee, was to visit the
grave of his father in 1870, the year.of his
death.
me, I’ll ’vide wid you.” One of
tlie gents tried to persuade the other
to go in the day and dig for the gold
bnt he declined, saying, “I’ve got no faith in
negro dreams, and don’t want to be laughed
-at, and you know if Tom Graham hears of it
he’ll put it in the Republican. Better let the
nigger-have it.” But the other man reflected,
and the more he reflected the more he wanted
the buried gold, so one bright, moonlight
night he gathered his pick and slipped off
alone to the graveyard. He dug from seven
until eleven in all the corners of the fence
but his search was unrewarded. It is said
that every night now that man turns over the
sod in that oldjcemetary until eleven,and then
goes home. At a quarter past twelve the old
long grave near the gin house opens, an old
darkey's form creeps forth,looks at the broken
ground, goes to a certain spot, stamps several
times, chuckles gleefully, and then goes back
to his rest in a good humor. He guards his
gold from “de poor white trash.”
THE RAPID PROGRESS OF AN EN
TERPRISING TOWN.
AN ALLEGED CONFESSON
Of a Murder Perpetrated In Kentucky More than Six
Year* Aco.
Dispatch to the Enquirer.
CvsTHiANA.Ky.,March 4.—Quiteasensation
was created in this community yesterday
when it was generally known that a confes
sion had recently been made of a murder
that was committed near this city between
six and seven years ago, and was the all-
absorbing theme of conversation upon the
streets, there being an immense crowd in at
tendance upon county court.
On a Saturday night, about seven years ago,
the lifeless body of Eugene McCarthy, one of
our reputable citizens, was found on the pike
insfr nernss Lickinir rivpr fmnnsitp thin nifv
* In other words, this is what befell St. John. It
may be well to state in tills connection that this at
tempt to reader the spirit ol a very qnaint song
should not bo comounded with “Boll. Jordan,
Roil,” the music of which has been preserved with
wonderful success by the late Mrs. Lucy McKim
Garrison, nor with another song with the same re
frain. The roUineof the Jordan and the ringing of
the charming bells aro heard in a dozen negro
songs.
just across Licking river, opposite this city
At that time a heated political primary elec
tion was pending, the excitement was running
high, and scores of men from all parts of the
county were in town daily, imbibing freely.
McCarthy was in town on the day named
above, pretty drunk, ilnd left for home on a fast
steed about 10 o’clock that night. About
11 o’clock your correspondent, who
then resided in the suburban village across the
river, found the corpse lying in the road with
his hands folded across his breast, gasping his
last. The facts were made known to the au
thorities, a coroner’s jury was empaneled, and
they returned a verdict of death from an un
known cause, as it was always thought that
McCarthy was either thrown front his horse or
fell off and was killed, and so the matter
rested.
This much in the way of how the man was
supposed to have met his death. We will now
give what is alleged to be a death-bed confes
sion of Newton Asbbrook, who died at his
residence near Trickunt, in this county, last
Wednesday, which was as follows:
He said that on the night named above, he,
in company with one Paddy Moore, left this
place for their homes about ten o’clock, and
that they overtook McCarthy just opposite
the city, on the pike, when Moore dealt
McCarthy a blow behind the ear with his
fist, which felled him head first to the ground
from his horse; that they rode bn. not stop
ping to see whether the man was dead or not.
Paddy Moore, tlie perpetrator, according to
the Ashbrook statement, died about tiiree
years ago, and only last week Ashbrook him
self died. Ashbrook, with all his good traits,
never gave up anything he knew about the
murder until he was about to breath his last.
He died of consumption. The above is the
information in regard to the confession at
hand. It may not be exactly correct in de
tail, but the substance is.
THE LIGHTNING’S ANTICS.
The Freaks Played by the Electric Fluid In a Midway
llonucw
Milledgev’ille Herald.
Midway. Ga., March 2.—On the night of
February 28th, at about twelve o’clock, light
ning struck the chimney on the east end of
my house, knocking the top off, tearing off
part of the gable end, and running down the
studding next the chimney, tearing up part
of the hearth and scattering the brick-bats,
timber, mortar, etc., over the room, breaking
out the glass of the windows and scattering it
all over the room. Mr. M. B. McGinty and
T. A. Chapman were sitting at the table writ
ing, about six feet from the fireplace, and
were both thrown back from the table and
badly shocked. Chapman received a slight
wound on his face from some of tLe tim
bers. Mr. McGinty was also shocked and
received a cut on the back of the head,
but neither were seriously hurt. Mr. N. S.
Eaves was lying on a bed in the corner
of the room with his head within four feet of
the scantling that was entirely torn out by the
lightning, and was considerably shelled by
brick-bats and mortar; but his head being
protected by the head-board of the bedstead
he was hurt very little. J. M. Cook and A. L
Eaves were lying on a bed in the room, where
they were covered up by splinters and dust.
Splinters were also stuck in the ceiling of the
room all about. John Colvin Hillbum was
sitting on the bed in the opposite corner from
Mr. Eaves, and when he came to himself he
was on the floor. R. P. Eaves was on the bed
with Hillburn, bnt received no injury at all.
The lamp on the table between McGinty and
Chapman was pnt out and a hole made
through the lamp chimney. There were
twelve in the other part of the house. I can
but feel grateful to a merciful Providence that
no one was killed, or severely hurt, which
under the circumstances is remarkable.
TALLOWTOWN’S TREASURES.
»fro
Gold Biggins Excitement Caused by
Sumter.
Americus Republic.'n.
Some excitement was created in Tallow-
town, in the old sixteenth district of Sumter
county, by an old darkey telling one or
two gentlemen that he had dreamed two or
three nights in succession that the ghost of
his old daddy had appeared to him saying
“that a large pot of gold was buried in a
certain comer of the fence around the old
graveyard, and if he would dig there be
tween twelve and one o'clock at night be
could find it." The darkey was so firmly
impressed that the gold was there that he
wanted it, but said he, “Bosses, l’se fraid of
glioses in de graveyard, an if you’ll go wid
Wlioltepreaenttho People.
Accoiding to the directory of tlie forty-seventh
congress, there arc In that body 293 members:
One hundred and ninety-five lawyers.
Kiueteen professional politicians.
Three railroad officers.
One capitalist.
One clergyman.
There are’ sixty-five members representing the
useful employment of the country as follows:
Seventeen merchants.
Eleven farmers.
Twelve editors.
Ten manufacturers.
Five physicians.
Two civil engineers.
Two miners.
Two mechanics.
One metallurgist.
The useful employments are still worse repre
sented in the senate, as the following shows. There
are seventy-six members, whose professions are as
follows:
Filty-seven lawyers.
Five bank officers.
Three railroad officials.
Three professional politicians.
Of the useful professions there are eleven:
Three merchants.
Three manufacturers.
Two miners.
Two general business.
One farmer.
One editor.
WAYCR0SS.
the
Additions to the Original Town—Sapidity of Improve
ment Removing the Old Land-Marks — Tho
Waycross Short Line Offices—A Livel/
Newspaper^Rise in Real Estate.
Savannah Times.
On every hand new buildings are in course
of construction. At present the town is
divided by a deep branch. The old—or 1
should say the original town—is on the north
and east side of the branch, and the exten
sion, that portion belonging to the Savannah,
Florida and Western railway, is on the south
and west side. But judging from the rapidity
of improvement it will not be many years
before the two will be united in such a way as
to obliterage every vestige ot the present ap
parent dividing line. Lots in tlie old town—
and I only use this term in a distinctive sense,
for none of it is old—are not held, as one
would suppose, at extortionate prices,
and those in the new, or railroad ex
tension, are sold, regardless of location, at
one hundred dollars each. Quite a number
of buildings, residences, and business houses
are now going up in both places, and the peo
ple seem alive to the present emergencies and
hopeful of future prospects. The Savannah,
Florida and Western railway have erected at
their junction with the Waycross short line a
splendid, commodious building, for offices
and the accommodation of passengers, and
here is an eating bouse presided over by Mr.
P. McGuire, of New York. Everything is
conducted in regular New York style. On
the east side is a broad, level area, reserved
by the company for the use of their employes,
and neat residences are going up rapidly’ I
noticed among th e so a fine residence recently
completed for Mr. Reed, the assistant
engineer of the road. I learn that a splendid
large brick hotel is soon to be erected near the
depot. Nor is Waycross behind in other mat
ters. suggestive of an enlightened, progressive
community. She lias a first-class live weekly
newspaper, owned and edited by Judge Joseph
Tillman, well known to the people of Savan
nah and the state. I was not. fortunate
enough to meet the judge, who was absent,
but found Mr. W. A. Wright, also well known
in Savannah, temporarily representing him.
To this gentleman I am indebted for tlie
usual courtesies of the press. Two good
schools are in successful operation and are
well patronized by the citizens. A neat
Methodist church and a tasty-lookiug, commo
dious courthouse, and there is now in course
of construction a town market.
the dogs keeping up with
procession, Emanuel drinking in
the music of the far-away yelping. When
about ten miles from tlie starting point, and
in the vicinity of Boliugbroke. tlie foxes
parted company, and then tlie. dogs piled in
on them. Some of tlie hounds who bud fol
lowed the other fox heard the squall of the
captured and came up, but when he was
killed the English dog, Jake, led off after the
other, followed by ten of tlie hounds. They
soon closed in on him and the race was over.
The skins were brought into town and ex
hibited as trophies of the double capture.
manuel is a dntyman for George S. Obear,
and when he takes a notion to go hunting
puts some one on his dray and takes to the
woods. During the fall lie hunts ’possums
and coons, and in tiiis way makes a living.
He is proud of his dogs, and to go hunting
with him is a rare treat. The skins of the
game lie catches bring in but a small revenue,
but he says the reputation of his dogs and the
possums nrc as much as lie wants.
From Wanhlnztim Society Note*.
Evening Star.
Hours for visiting, and evening parties are gradu
ally growing later and later. Tne president rarely
sits down to dinner Before S. even when he has no
specially invited company. The invitations he has
issued for dinner name d half-past 7 ns the hour, in
stead of 7, the fashionable time for formal dinners
given here for some years. The guests have not as
sembled at many evening parties this year until
after 10 o’clock, and It has been 11 before the rooms
were well filled. Many ladies have told their visit
itig acquaintances that they would not be ready to
see visitors before 5 o’clock.
and might be found at
home almost any day at that hour. This greatly
limits the visiting hours already short enough, for
thare who have long lists. It is scarcely possible to
make more than two calls between 5 o’clock and
dinner-time, since the ladies naming that honr for
receiving do not live near together. Wherefore it
follows that, now so many have taken that hour for
receiving, that one can make only about a dozen
calls per week, excluding Sunday.
IN HARVEST DAY.
Sunday Magazine.
Through Farmer Gale’t wide fields I passed
Just yestereve;
My week of holiday was spent,
And idly on the stile I leant.
Taking my leave
Of all the fair and smiling plain, ’
Wood, vale, and hill.
And all the homely household band,
(The warm grasp of each kindly hand
Bides with me still);
And I was sad. The stricken grain
Around me lay;
I could but think of silent glide—
Of buds aud blossoms lowly laid
The harvest day.
“And this is all!” I sadly said,
“These withered leaves—
This gathered grain; spring's hours of bliss
And summer’s glory turn to this—
Some yellow sheaves! 1 ’
Then Farmer Gale—that good old man.
So simply wise—
Who overheard, and quickly turned,
Said, while a spark of anger burned
In his gray eyes:
“Lad, thou art town-bred, knowing naught
Whereof thou pretest!
For, be the flower ns fair as May.
The fruit it yields in harvest day
Is still the greatest!
“And thou—thy spring shall quickly pass;
Fast fall the leaves
From life’s frail tree. In harvest day
See that before the Lord thou lay
Some yellow sheaves!”
He went his way: I mine. And now
I hear the flow
Ol busy life in crowded street—
Of eager voices, burryiig feet, •
That come and go.
Yet e’en when Sashing factory loom*
My bands engage,
I see that far-off upland plain—
Its long, low rows of gathered grain,
Its rustic sage,
And hear them say: “Let pleasure fair.
And passions vain.
And youthful follies, fade and die;
But all good deeds, pure thoughts and high.
Like golden grain
“Be gathered still.” Blest harvest store!
That surely grows
In hearts by noble dreams inspired:
In hearts to generous action fired
By other’s woes.
Lord, when thou called; when this world
My spirit leaves,
Then to thy feet, oh, let me come.
^ uu, ici uxe tuuic,
Bringing, in joyful harvest home.
Some yellow sheaves I
THE SECESSION OF GEORGIA.
What Albert Lamar, Secretary of tho Confederate
Conerews llu* to Say About It.
Gath’s Interview.
Said I, “Mr. Lantar, is it not true that the
secession of Georgia was accomplished by
making Hersehel V. Johnson drunk, when'
he was carrying the convention at Millcdge-
ville, called to consider secession, over to the
union side?”
“Yes,” ’ said Mr. Albert Lamar; “and
mixed tlie drink of brandy which settled Mr.
Johnson. Cobb’s brother and Toombs were
privy to it, and I was tlie secretary of the
convention at Milledgevilte which pass
ed fite secession ordinance. The
upctple of Georgia were very much
dS^ftBclincd to disunion. We on "the other
side were too much committed to it to fail
without being individually ruined. We had
already made our political record for it, and
if the union side prevailed we were gone
politically in Georgia. Hersehel V. Johnson
bad been the candidate for vice-president on
the ticket with Douglas. He was the most
powerful speaker in our state when lie could
get fiiliy enlisted and stirred up. He made a
sp'-ecli that day in January, 1861, before tlie
Miliedgevillo convention, which was tlie
noblest effort of his life. We felt the temple
of our creation falling around our heads.
It became necessary to _break up the line of
that tremendous speech", and we proposed an
adjourment, conceding that Johnson should
go on after dinner.- It was then resolved to
give him a drant that would break liis com
mand over liis topic. There was some old
brandy at the hotel, and I made a toddy of it
without water, very palatable, very tremen
dous. He drank it, and when we met again
lie could not go on. His memory was weak,
his words ran together, the convention got to
laughing at him, and Toombs carried it by
storm.
Thus was the noble cause of disunion thrice
nobly achieved by refusing to let the voice, of
reason be heard.
Yet I hold in my hand another sign of re
pentance and regret for it.
AVERY VS. “GATH.’
“Colonel,” said a Constitution reporter to
Colonel I. W. Avery, “I understand that in
your history of Georgia you give a different
version of tlie Hersehel V. Johnson matter
from that given by Gath in the interview with
Mr. Lamar, which was published in The Con
stitution yesterday.”
“Yes; Gath must have misconceived Albert
Lantar—liis account is so full of errors. There
is no better posted man than Lamar, and lie
is incapab'e of blundering as Gath has made
him blunder. Upon pages 120 and 121 of the
History of Georgia, tlie incident about Gov
ernor Johnson is related. I was in tlie con
vention as a spectator, and I had Governor
Johnson’s own authority for tlie statement
that I have made. In the first place, the in
cident did not occur in tlie secession conven
tion which assembled on the 16th of January
1861; but it occurred in the democratic con
vention that Assembled June 4, I860, after tlie
rupture in the Charleston convention, and
when the democracy of Georgia had assem
bled to act upon the split that had occurred in
that convention. The president was T. L.
Guerry. and the chairman of the business
committee was William H. Stiles. A
majority and minority report were
made, Hersehel V. Johnson making a minor
ity report. The majority report indorsed the
action of the scceders and reaffirmed the Cin
cinnati platform. The majority report took
ground for the protection of slavery in the
territories. The minority report declared that
slave property was entitled to the same legal
recognition in the territories as any other
property. A long discussion ensued. Mr.
Toombs was not a member of the convention
and did not speak. I can give you now
the words of the history as Governor Johnson
told the matter to me: “Ex-Governor John
son began his speech before the noon adjourn
ment of the session and concluded it after
dinner. His speech was powerfully begun
and was a masterpiece of argument and eio^
quence. Even his opponents acknowledged
its magnificent power. But what slight causes
can effect human effort! Wearied at the
close of the morning session, and unable from
the strain upon him, to eat any dinner lie
took a glass of wine upon an empty stomach
to strengthen himself, and it sickened him
rendering the continuation of liis speech so
difficult that its diminution of vigor was
marked.”
AN UNUSUAL FURORE.
Itcccnt Excitement Iuvextlgutcd by tbo Herald
uud the ltcsult* Made Public.
(Cleveland. O., Herald.)
A few weeks ago vve copied into our columns
from the Rochester, N. Y„ Democrat and Chron
icle “A remarkable Statement” made by J. It.
Henion, M. D , a gentleman who is well known in
this city. In that article Dr. Henion recounted a
wonderful experience which befell him, and a few
days thereafter we published from the same paper
a second article, giving an account ot the “Ex
citement in Rochester,” caused by Dr. Hen-
ion’s statement, in the first article Dr. Henion
stated that for a number of years, up to last June,
he had been afflicted with what seemed at first a
most mysterious trouble. He felt unaccountably
tired at’frequent intervals: he had dull and indefi
nite pains in various parts of liis body and head,
and was very hungry one day and en
tirely without appetite tlie next. However, ns a
physician he thought, and so did hie fellow phy
sicians, that he was suffering from malaria.
lint yet he grew worse, and was finally obliged
to give up a large and lucrative practice. Still
he was not conscious of his danger, nor that a.
monstrous disease was becoming fixed upon him,
although all lifs organs had become gradually
weakend. The symptoms above described con
tinued, accompanied by others of an aggravated
nature, and he noticed a peculiar color and odor
about the fluids lie was passing; that they were
abundant one day and very scanty the next, and
were covered wiih froth, or tilled with brick dust
sediment. But even then he did not realize his
real and alarming condition. At l ist, however, he
was brought face to face with the fact that
he was the victim of a most terrible disease,
and he made heroic efforts for recovery, fie
traveled extensively and consulted the best physi
cians, but they could give him only temporary re
liefs and that principally in the form of morphine.
And so he grew steadily and constantly worse until
hislife became a torture. His pulse was uncontrol
lable. He lived wholly by injections, and for six
days and nights he had the hiccoughs constantly,
which are considered the sure.indicationsof coming,
death.
When hope and life were nearly exhausted his
pastor, the Rev. Dr. Foote, rector of St. Paul’s
church, strongly urged hint to try a means which
the reverend gentleman hud seen used with re
markable results. He objected at first, but finally
consented, and was conscious of an improved con
dition the first week. His pains gradually disap-
icared; his stomach resumed digestion; his heart
leoame regular; his headaches disappeared; he had
no more chills and fever, or acidity of tlie stomach:
he gained twenty-six pounds in three months, and
is a well man to-day, being entirety cured of a
most pronounced case of Bright’s disease.
Although conscious of Ihe consequences from his
professional brethren, still as a duty to his fellow
men, and according to a vow he made on what lie
thought was his dying bed, he published a card de
tailing his illness and remarkable cure. “Since my
recovery,” he says, “I have thoroughly reinvesti
gated the subject of kidney difficultiesar.d Bright’s
disease, aud 1 believe more than one-half the deaths
whicli occur in America are caused by Bright’s
disease of the kidneys. It has no distinctive symp
toms of its own (indeed, it often develops without
any pain whatever in the kidneys or their vicinity),
but has the symptoms of nearly every oilier known
complaint. Hundreds of people die daily whose
burials are authorized by a physician's certificate of
“Heart Disease.” "Apoplexy,” “Paralysis,”
•‘Spinal Complaint,” ’’Rheumatism.” “Pneumo
nia,” and other common complaints when in reali
ty it was Bright’s disease of the kidneys. Few phy
sicians, and fewer people, realize the extent of this-
disease or its dangerous aud insidious nature. It
steals into the system like a thief, manifests its
presence by the commonest symptoms, and fastens
tself upon the life before the victim is aware. U
Is nearly as hereditary as consumption, quite as
common and fully as fatal. Euiire families, inher
iting it from their ancestors, have died, and yet
noue of the number knew or realized the mvsteri-
ous power which was removing them. Instead of
common symptoms it-often-ehowa-none- wi-nteverr "
but brings death suddenly lind as such is usually
supposed to be heart disease.”
’the second article entitled “Excitement in
Rochester,” was made up of interviews with Dr.
Henion himself, who eon firmed ull said in his card,
and also with Mr. II. H. Warner. The latter gentle
man did not regard Dr. Hciiion's case as particu-
laily exceptional, because lie had known of very
many such cures by the tame means in all
parts of the land. Kidney diseases, he said,
arc carrying off tens of thousands every year,
while Bright's disease is increasing 250 per cent
a decade, and yet the people do not realize it or
seek to check it until too" late. He related how a
New Orleans medical professor, lecturing mi this
disease, thinking to show his class what healthy
fluids were, subjected some of his own to a chemi
cal test, and although he had no suspicion of it be
fore, discovered that he. too, had the dreaded dis
ease, which proved fatal in less than a year. There
was also an interview with the celebrated chemist
of the New York State Board of Henltn. Dr. 8. A.
Lattlmore, who said he had analyzed the remedy
which cured Dr. Henion, and found that it was
“entirely free from any poisonous or deleterious
substances.”
We have made those condensations tn order that
all the material facts may be set before our readers.
Since the publication of these two articles, having
been besieged with letteis of inquiry, we sent a
communication to Dr. Henion ana also one to II H
Warne 1 it Co, asking if any additional proof could
be given us as to the validity of the stataments pub
lished. In answer thereto v.c have received the
following letters, which add interest to tlie entire
subject and wholly verify every statement hitherto
made:
Rochester, X. Y„ February”, 18S2.
Gentlemen: Your favor is received. The pub
lished statement, over my signature, to which you
refer is true in every respect, and 1 owe my life and
present health wholly to the power of’Wamer’s
Bale Kidney and Liver Cure. It is not surprising
that p- ople should question the statement I made,
for my recovery was as great a marvel to myself,
as to my physicians, and friends. * a *
J. B. IIenion, M. D.
Rochester, N. Y„ January 31,1882.
Sirs: Acknowledging your favor duly received,
we would say the best proof vve can give
that the statements made by Dr. Henion are en
tirely true, and would not have been published
unless strietly so, is the following testimonial from
the best citizens of Rochester, and a card published
by Rev. pr. Foote, which you are at liberty to use
if you wish. H. if. Warner & Co.
To Whom it may Concern:
In the Rochester, N. Y., Democrat and Chronicle
of December 31,1881, there appeared a statement in
the form of a card from Dr. J. B. Henion. of this
recounting ^his remarkable recovery from
FOX HUNT.
Two Cray Foxes Run Together fora Lob* DUtunce
Macon Telegraph.
Yesterday the old Macon fox hunter
Emanuel Hunt, accomplished a feat seldom
done in fox hunting, that of running two
foxes together and capturing them. Emanuel
has been engaged m hunting foxes, opossums
and coons for nine years. He has a pack of
fourteen bounds which he is ready to match
against any other pack in the south. It ii
composed of the July, Red Ball and Birdsong
breeds, and one genuine English fox hnntin"
hnnnrl urhiM* * hunting
hound which he declares will clean un any
thing that eeta before him. v_25. up an >
ing that gets
S, Emanuel c
ing, Emanuel gathered a cro\Tof d me™ and
taking his hounds started out on a big hunt
ght’s disease of the kidneys, after several doc
tors of prominence had given him up, by the use of
a preparation manufactured in thiseitvand known
as Warner s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure.
.. , arc ,V er> , ona]I >’ or by reputaliou acquainted
with Dr. Henion, and we believe he vvoula publish
no statement not literally true. We arc also per-
T? n Se y or Jreputaliou well acquainted with H.
H. Warner <t Co., proprietors of this remedy, whose
commercial and personal standing in this commu-
nity is of the highest, order, and we believe that
not publish any statements which were
n< S JjH-nffly an d strictly true in every particular.
C R 1’arsons, (Mayor, Reckesler.)
wr»£l! rc ®* 1 ' ( l - ditor Union and Advertiser.)
w D fchuart. (surrogate Monroe county.)
Edward A frost, (clerk Monroecounty.)
Rmunnu' (District Attorney Monroecounty.)
Daniel T Hunt,(Postmaster,flochester)
M pavy, (Ex-Member Congress, Rochester.)
T . ,, ' ' VVilClUfB, AiUt'livolvl . J
John 8 Morgan. (Special Co. Judge, Monroe Co.)
WfM? Sibley. (Capitalist aud Seedsman.)
ins an3’c^^!r;'' ,c ' lu anticipate any further inquir-
* nd labor, and_
for foxes. They jumped two and ,h»v f ,1UUC anvnnn “t dicIne and would do the sarno again to
seas “aaissrd*’
noura. J-ne race was a-rntf 4 — . Rector nfstf Punl'udmidL
was exciting,
Rochester XT v T Kector of SL Paul’s church.
Rochester, N. Y., Jan. 28,1882.
ffijwlev, (Comity Judge, Monroe county.)
.V. 0 '! 1 ^}!!: iMember of Congress.)
® fitch, (Editor Democrat aud Chronicle
and Regent of the University.
Editor of the Living"Churcli, Chicago, Ilk:
allow the following card, personal to
D1 Tnf.tk to apPearan you widely circulated paper?
was published in the Rochester Democrat
of 31st of December last, a state-
ment made by J B Henion, M. D., narrating how he
|XJi cured of Bright’s disease of the kidneys,
khinn,. 11 J“ sl Stases, by tlie use of Warner’s Safe
a, nd Cure. I was referred to In that
Marias recommended and urged Dr.
cured t0 lry the rtmed >’. which lie did, and was
t h»b£m C r ?? u hlishing of his statement in many of
lf„ii SJOU !! lals °f the dav has been the cause
innnt£,°'I of fetters to me making many
inquiries, but chiefly whether the statement is true,
I advertising dodge, etc., ere.
?. e §’ therefore, to anticipate any fu .
some postage, by