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XIX. ATLANTA. GA. TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1887. PBICEFIVE CENTS. $i,ooo In Christmas Presents. (Su un counts o» sixth face.) When TOO SUBSCEIBR TO THE CONSTITUTION TOO CRT TOO.DEST ANO CHEATEST FAFKH IN AMEE- ICA. Ov at MERITS AS A NEWSrAFEB IT HAS CROWN FROM 9,000 TO 112,000 CIRCULATION IN THREE TEARS. In TAKING IT TfU OET THE Pest and Cheapest Paper. Besides this, . TOO OET A SHARE IN OUR "CHRISTMAS BOX” or Presents or 91,000 cash. Ir tou sub scribe NOW TOUR NAME GOES IN THE BOX, WHICH IS SHAKEN UT ON JANUARY 1, AND ONE NAME DRAWN ' OUT BT OUR AOENT. THAT NAME GETS SSOO, THE NEXT $200, AMD SO ON THROUGH THE LIST. Some subscriber will get the 9000 on January 1. Why not YOU? Out or the box or subscribers' names, one name will comb nirst. It MAY bs tours. Ir so, you OET 9600 AS A FRKSEXT. THE NEXT GETS ( and so ox. Subscribe at once. For every NEW SUBSCRIBER YOU SEND IN YOUR NA£e GOES IN AOA1X. GET UP A CLUB. FOLLIES OF FOUAMBB. By Thomas Dunn English# From the Epoch. If we trust general opinion, it wss a series of follies, beginning in boyhood and continuing during life. James Foljambo—'“Fool Jim," as the boys nicknamed him at school—and tho epithet clung to him—did, in popular Judg- • ment, tho most silly things, and yot prospered. . At school he was noted for his folly, as 'well as for pluck and coolness. If a big boy maltreated a little one, instead of minding his own busi ness, as a scnsiblo boy should, Fool Jim would take it up and thrasli the bully. L When that wretched little Diok Greene, tho son of old Corney Greene, a sort of odd-jobb man about town, broko bis leg by a fall from a cherry treo, Fool Jim used to go around and cheer up the little brat, and spend his pocket money, of which ho had plenty, for Dick's ben efit. All tho leading big boys of tho school thought him a fool, but no one dared to tell bim so, for, though hfgyss not quarrelsome, he was quick to resent ah insult, and was a tough oustomor in a rough-and-tumble fight. Foljambe left school for an academy where they prepared boys for college, and went after ward to college. I left at tho same time to be- oomQ nil dor-salesman and general drudgo in the grocery shop of Figgs & Oalchieze. I lost sight of liim then, except at vacations, until ho was graduated, and had oonufltome. His father, a confirmed Invalid, was very ricli,aud mado a great fuss over him when ho returned, and was . yfv.jjxrmwl nf tkg fact thft .Tim HAM afcjtflft.. Beals'of h!s OlrtrtSvTnrr© was no nonsense about .Tim, I must say. lie remembered all his old schoolmates, and put on no airs. Ho would como into our shop at all times and talk with mo when I was not bnsy, and, os he would ho very rich in time, old Figgs, though ho did koep his peoplo's noses close to the grindstono, never grumbled at it. Hot that Jim was an idlor. He took a vast dud off his sickly fathor'a hands In managing the large plantation. Ho little job that was, el'Jier. Foljambeoplace embraced over nine teen hundred acres, and with tho exception of a hundred acres of woodland, and about tbreo hundred of pasture antb meadow, was closely cultivated. Thorn was a fine herd of Jcrsoy cattle, then coming into vogue, and over fort, blooded horses, besides othors for plough am wogon. For four years there wav nothing worthy of note, except that I got to be head saiostuau and a sort of general manager in onr concern, which, moving. Bhe can have the liouso and tho gar den around it free of rent. She’s a shifty wo man and with that start sho'Jl get alo««* " .'oiiamhA'i ron.iin t w«i an impulse of 0 . afford. But the was a fool. Had He bid a bund red 1 over Phipps, or even two hundred, it might have passod, but to throw away—absolutely throw away—twelve hundred dollars 1 When they heard afterward that he had given the widow a life estate in the honse and garden, it was generally ugrecd that he should have a guardian over him to save his property. Talk died out, however, to he revived again by another astounding act of folly. The Ellomah Iron Works, about a mUofrom Brantford, had exhausted tho bed of oro the: had been working for over forty years, and hat to bring the crude material some distance by rail and water. It began to bo a question whether it would not pay to build a new fur nace near the source of supply and abandon the old one. Suddenly, liowover, a new ore bed woe opened close at hand. The forty-two acres of clayey hill on the Peabody farm was found to cover a heavy deposit of limonite. As that ore generally contains Impurities only fit ting it for “cold short" iron, little attention was paid to it. Bat when the chemist of tho company mado three separate analyses and discovered, the usual phosphorous was replaced by nearly three per cent, of manganese oxide, 10 thing took another shape. Tho company oiTercd Foljambo a handsomo royalty, “*' * * atoncodeclined. Uewould selloutrij at all. After somo chaffering and a of the bed, they took ferine and a rough survey all the farm but the wiu- have considering my age, wo* » big lift for inc. But eld Foljambo died at this time, and os Jamos Was motherless, and an only son, ho tucceoded to tho property. Then began the follios cl tills son, which made talk for tho country around forjrears. Tlio first exhibition was In the matter of the Peabody mortgage. There had been two Pea body brother*, Nathan and David; but David, Hie younger one, on his fatlio:’s death had ta ken one thousand dollars in cash for his share, and gone off to Mexico to sock his fortune. He was not h«ard of afterward, and was be lieved to be dead. Nathan stayed on the old ■lace. He was a shiftlcs* man, and though ho nanled Ben Murit’s daughter, who was a tidy " * :, he could not well worn out nd he did not improve is pretty it at oil. rowed another thousand doll mortgage from tho saino party who hold the first mortgage given to raise David’s money. Things grew worse and worse, and and at last the interest remained unpaid for two years, gnd proceedings wen token to foreclose tho mortgage. Nathan took sick over it and died. Tho doctor said it was typhoid fever, but every pne thought it was the trouble, and that Na than had given up the ghost because he could pot face his difficulties. At all events he died, leaving his widow* with one child, a girl of fourteen. She was very pretty—the image of her father—aud all tho PeaKtdys were tine looking people; but sbo bad her mother’s ways. Everybody pitied the widow, for it was well understood that the farm would bring no more thou tho debt and law expenses; in fact, that the mortgagee would to obliged to buy it iu. With tbo exception of one spot, tho farm was a wojn-out samlv loom, over-run with Hedge- grass, the •ign of sterility. The exceptlcn was S hill, covering abont forty-two acres, appa rently oomposed of a tough, gravelly clay, un- ( It lor even brick making, and incapable of cul- Ivation. To be sure, the five acres around the house, which wss at one end of the p ace, hod been u*ed as a vegetable garden, ard that was In a little better order, it was a sorry niece of property. So when sale day came, and I hap pened to be over at tho county town, I dropped !uto the court-house where the sheriff was to sell. I found only a half dozen persons, and one of these was Foljamte, ar.d another was Phipps who held the mortgage. Tho sheriff, stating that every one know the place, which bad been with the Ppahdy* for over a hundred yean, asked for a bid. The amount against the property,including the legal costs, was twenty-three hundred aud eighty- low^fiv^crea/an^ai^^vcnty-fivo thousand oral comment. ■■■■■PNMHBIHIHHPfor downright r folly was at its height when it lcakod out af terward that he had settled thirty-five thou sand seven hundred and fifty dollars on Mrs. Peabody—that is, tho interest daring life to her, and the principal to her daughter after- ward. No words sufficed to oxpress the won der, contempt and disgust at tills act of folly. Old Figgs died about this time, and Oalchiczo [offered me a share in the business if I could { Butin five thousand dollars. I had saved a I Bttle over half of that by pinching and screw-' |ing, but I was puzzled about the rest. Fol-i jambo found it out, and gave mo tho money on my note. Somo folks may think this folly oni ■s part, but I did not. Neither did ho, for m ivo paid it back long since, i When tho Widow l’eabodj she sent Kebecca off to board could well afford to, and thero tho girl remain-1 ed for four years, barring visits home at vaca tion. When she came back to stay, sho had grown into a handsome, self-possessed young woman, and sho was quite admired by the young follows around. In addition to good looks and good manners, sho would havo a nico sum in hard cash in time—a good thing to add to a young man’s family resources. But she was of a domestic turn, stayed at home with her mother, and rarely went abroad. Ho suitor seemed to meet favor in her eyes, though she liadsevoral. During Rebecca’s absence at school, Fol jambo bad bcon going along quietly, and peo- plo had coased to talk of him; but shortly af ter her return ho broke out again. Ono day,n» old man in a dusty suit and boots that hSd torn bjackuned a woak before, and o .canto*-* 1 mmU %r 'Vfet' tit Brantford station and inquired if tho-WidWw Peabody lived at tin- old Jarm yet. We won learned that bo was thelong-lost David Pcabcdy who had como back after all those years, appa rently as poor as a church mouse, and doubt less with intent to spong on the Widow Pea body. Ho was not so very old either, but looked like a man whom hard luck and a hot diwato | ha<l dried up and wrinkled. To our snrpriso ho was niado welcome widow and Rebecca, and took up liisH I there. Ho was a queer specimen. After tho I dust of travel had been brushed bft ho was clean enough; but Ills clothes were of ordina ry material and woll worn. It was ovident|that ho was poor, bat bo didn’t seem to mind it. He walked about and held himself up as though he ownod one-half tho town and mcaut to buy the other. He was ready with his tongue, too, and,if any ono said a disagrocablo or imperti nent thing, could repay it with inter est. Foljambo took a great notion to him. and told me that the old man was keen and had wonderfully practical business ideas for one who bad not profited by his precepts, a thing 11 haveobMiVe&to'be not uncommon. Amah can pick up mom vbluablo bints from the un successful around him than ho can from sharp business men. Bo tlio two grew qulto Intimate, up for him, an’ we know why, but fax Is fax. And off went Cowan with his tobacco, in triumph. It did not stop thero. Tho news spread, and a spasm of virtuous indignation spread, and a spasm . snook Brantford. It soon came to tho oars of Foljambo himself. He had paid no attention to the popular oomment on his this was a different matter. Ue Cowan and found him in our shop, where he and somo of his cronies wero discussing the thine at the tlmo. “Mark you, Cowan I” cried Foljambo, his oyes blazing in wrath, "you have toon talking too freely about me in connection with a young lady. Ii I loam of your wagging that long ono bestow a caress on a young lady whom ho is to many within a month. And I'll hold any other man who meddles with my affairs to a strict account. Hero was a settlor. Becky Peabody to a Fol- jambet Why, tho Folj&mbes turn up their noses at the country folk, and took their wives from abroad. Gossip left the rosin and cotton, and took to the match. But it was admiring, and not offensive. The wedding came off and was a greats Miss Elton was first bridesmaid, and C demon sho married afterward, a’ mington, was Foljambe’s best man. Thero was a reception at tho house—the young people took no tour, but remained at Foljambo Plaeo —aud I, of the few Brantford folk invited, was there. So was David Peabody, of course. He was got up in a suit of fine broadcloth, and his shoos shone liko a japanned waiter. Every ono knew this raiment came from the bridegroom. O, of course l Thero were a number of costly and elegant presents displayed. But theao came, with tho oxcoption of an odd-looking Japanese cabinet, given by tho Widow Pea body, from tho Foljambo friends and connec tions. Uncle David examined them. “Betty,” ho said, loud enough to attract at tention, "tho Pcabodys don’t soem to shine in the way of making gifts to the bride. Your Undo David 'll have to put In his mite.” Then he drew a bulky packago from his capacious breast pocket, which it fitted so tightly that bo withdrew it with difficulty. “O, thank you, Uncle David,” said the bride Any thing’from you—” "Open It. child.” Tho newly-made Mrs. Foljambo undid the cord and removed the wrapping. It was a Rus sia leather covered casket, with tho letters R. P. F. on It. When she opened it, she gave a cry of delight. *'Thn» am nit "That leaves nothing for the widow,” ob served Foljambe. "Suppose you bid more, then, on her rc- eoant, said Phipps. “I shall,” replied Foljambo; "thirty-five ’hundred dollars. "Is that your biJ, Mr. Foljambe?” inquired fhe sheriff. • "Ttiat is my bid, sir.” So tho farm was knocked down to him. When we wore coining away Foljambe said to me: "Coffey, yon go past tho Peabody Farm on jour way homo. 1 wish you'd atop and tell lire. Peabody that the plioo has brought over twelve hundred dollars more than the debt, ‘ i must taka out letters of adntnistra- listencrs to their chat. Tills was in August, 1 try was in a state of excitement. It was known that reconciliation between tho warring demo cratic factions was impossible and that Lincoln would be eleoted. The question was, would thorebo war? Foljambo suddenly put tbo plantation in charge of old Uncle David, and went off south. He visited Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia, and was gone about two months. When he came back, I asked him, "Does tlio south really mean fight. Mr. Foljambe?” "It really does,” he replied, sadly; "I don’t think they'll to able to keep it up more than a year or so, unless England interferes, for wo have the most money and the most men; but it will bo fierce while it lasts. It is going to disturb values very much, as woll as domestic relations,” The first thing Foljambo did on coming home was to build a number of long wooden sheds, somo of thorn enclosed; and bo kept tho carpenters going day and night. Tho whole neighborhood was aroured. Was ho going into sheen-raising on a large scalo, or wluit crown ing folly was Fool Jim at now? I was his only partisan. Every one said he was going stark, staring mad. But tbo excitement grow to a hubbub when there came carload after carload, by the railway, of barrels of rosin and bales of cotton—tbo former stored under tho open and tho latter in the enclosed shells. The cotton did not excite so much astonishment, but the rosin I Such an amount of it! Bomo one had tlio curiosity to noso around and count tho number of bprrela piled in ono of tho long and high sheds. T-n thousand of them! And there were five more such shods, and jammed full. Sixty thousand lximls of rosin! And no end of cotton baleel What would he do with It? Wliat could he do with It? The only partisan he hod. as I have said, was myself, and I picked up a dozen quarrels about it. Bomo one arJccd old Peabody about it. "Uurlo David, la Fool Jim gawn to sat up a cotton factory an’ a ship-yard ? Mebbe he’ll sen’ liisshli« down by tho railroad.” “Sonny,” said David, “pock your head in lco. Janies Foljambe knows more in one min- uto than you're likely to know in a year.” In tho midst’of tills clamor came a bit of gos sip not too pleasant. Thero was venom in it. Bill Cowan, who was always nosing about, and kept his eyes open and his tongno busy, camo into tho chop oue day to got a plug of chew!jg tobacco. "Tell you what, Galchieve,” he said, ad dressing my partner, “I guess they’d call Fool Jim 'villain Jim,’ afore long.” "What do you mean, you scamp?” I de manded angrily. “Scamp your olf, an* seo how yon like it,” lie retorted. “What do t mean? I’ll tell yon, nn’ I ain’t afraid to. I was creasin’ by Widow l’esbody’s last night, and v/kat does I sec but Jim Pol jam to with his arm *i round Becky Pea body’s waist, an' she a-leanln’ np to him like a sick kiti en to a hot brick. Stands to reason he's foolin’ the girl. Everybody knows be’* *weet on Miss Kl’ou, an' she’s go: dollars to Becky Peabody’s dimes. You don't anppoet Foljambe s anylhhtg bat foolin’ Becky, do you? 's why he was so liberal with his money "They are old mine stones,” said Undo Da vid, quietly. "Don’t drop that scrap of paper. I don't want you to be running to your hus band for pocket money, and you’d bettor invest the amount of that chcquo for yourself as he advises you.” Tills was a surprise. Few had soon such a a necklace, bracelets, earrings and pin, nude up of the finest brilliants, somo of thorn quite largo. They must have cost enormously. Whore ufd Uncle David got tho monoy? I found oat before any one else. I was down in Now York to purchase tea, and Carlton, of thb jobbing firm with which I did business, said to mo: “David Peabody is rusticating at Brantford. Dsvld sort of liaiigor-on to his him, I fancy. "FeodflJumI What do you moan? David Peabody could feed a dozen slstor-in-iaws, and not feoiit.” "Woll,” I said, "I recently began to suspect ho was rather well-off.” "Rather well-off I” exclaimed Carlton. "That’s tho best joke out. David Foabody well-off I Is it possible you don’t know how rich he Is? But he hardly knows himsolf. Ho has boon for ovor eighteen years the prin cipal stockholder in a great Mexican mine. It is an English company, and ho is tlio only American in if. Butpio owns two-tHirds of. it* Why It is one of the most successful mines in tho country. Well off I Why, he is away up in the millions, and it koops pouring in.” Of course this was too good to koep. Brant ford hod the benofit of it, and, oxcopt an occa sional dash at tho resin and cotton, David's great wolth was the subjoct for discussion and eomuiont.^ war como and was going on, and ludliia follies faded before it. At Foljambo’s cotton bogan to be sd risen in price exceedingly, nnrl found that thero hod been method In tlio madness. But tho rosin, though it had risen too, remained undisturbod. At'lcnr*' I think it was in August, 1803, three hund barrels of the rosin were shlppod to Boston. Tbo next day ono hundred and fifty went to l'hiladelphi, and a hundred to Baltimore. The next day threo hundred were sent to Now York. And so It continued to move, sometimes in smaller, sometimes in larger quantities, until by the latter part of Novombor, overy barrel was gone. I took up tho prico current and ran over tlio file for tho quotations on naval stores. To my surprise the prico had varied from Au to Novombor, from twenty-fivo to forty- - _ dollars per barrel. And then it went down below the first figure. Foljamlio had stocked tho market* Thero was little talk about Foljambo’s follies after that in Brantford. On tbo contray, tho Brantford people admired the shrewdness of "Fool Jim," and that name dropped. Well they might admire him. He and Uncle David botween thorn bavo built up the place, which has doublod in population and Is thriving in overy way. As for Foljambe himsolf, he is vory quiet for a man so immensely rich. Be yond a year's visit to Europe, and two or three months’ travel every yea? to somo part of tho country, he stays principally on the Foljambe place, where he has enlarged tho old mansion and devotes himself to his family. Rebecca Foljambe is as handsomo I think as ever, though more plump tlian she used to bo. Thoy appear to be as fond of each other uever, and I dare say tliat thoy oro. Ono day, when he dropped into tho shop, I happened to say something complimentary to his foresight. Jlo laughed. “Coffey,” he said, "most of my successes were unexpected. Iliad, it is true, a suspic ion amounting almost to a certainty that there MEMOIRS OF MACOK. A House of Refuge Erected In tho Heart of tho Wilderness. DY MONTGOMERY M. YOLSOU. For Tbo Constitution. Tbs nood tot r post of defonso on tho f rontlor of tho nowly Acquired territory hsd long been felt, snd It wss Fresldent Thomas Jefferson who assisted in the estshllsliment of a trading ]*Mt in the old Ocmnlgee.fielda as early as 1802. To Colonel Benjamin Hawkins belongs the honor of selecting tho site for the poet. The selection was s wise ono. Tho hill Is the highest in tho vicinity. It it a foot and a halt higher than tho reservoir hill boyond tho rircr. At It* thero wero many spring* of pure water, and the volleys all around boro evidence of tho fertility of the eollinthe luxuriance of the natural growth that covered them. The hill and all Its sides was cleared of the forc,t growth, except s few spresdlngoaks that were left insldo the stockade tor the benefit of tho soldiers. Of thesebut ono solitary oak of gnpit ago, remains on the sum mlt of tlio his toric hill. The atooksdo was formod of hown timbers fourteen feet long, sank four foot in the red day and rising ten feet above tho surface with post holes in each alternate post. At tho south eastern snd northwestern angles wore two block houses, with foundations of stone, tho second story of wood, projecting beyond tho wall of the bosoment, so that in oaso of sudden Rent tilt the defenders mightfirefrom tho upper story directly down on tho heads of tho savago too. The southeastern fort commanded tlio ap proaches from tho south and cost overlooking the hillsloncs, and the great plain of tlio Oc- muigeo fields. Tho othor commanded a sweeping view of tho country toward tlio north anil west, among tho hills and valloys that marked tho breaking away of tho lull country. Inside the stockade, which comprised four teen seres, and convenient to the soldier's quarters, a well was sunk to a depth of ono hundred feet, tapping the pure current of theio hidden mountain spring!, and affording a bountiful supply of water, Tho well was curlicd from bottom to top witli rock, and although It 1ms long boon unused, it Is today, tlio finest well of water in or about Macon, "ighty years lia3 not affected it in the least, id tlio water stands today at the samo mark it stood when tlioso who dug Itcompiotod their labors. All that is left of tho old fort now Is tlio fragmentary outlines ol Uto old wall and tho h gray granite foundations of tlio two c houses. Only tho faintest outlines of dock house at tlio northwestern aaglo re main, hut tho foundations of tho ono In tlio southweatern corner are clear and woll de fined. . -This old fort was a place of groat Importance, if.; 1 aaifi.. '<y., [l0 J, y ’ hnl its great atrength and unapproachable sis. liissIstor-in-lptY sIn* feeds uation kopt tlio liiillnnii nt Imy, and tlioycon- tnssijtor taw. bln. locus fcntea timundv,., |„ skirmishing around <■■■» out of reach of tho big guns of tho fort. Finally it was found necessary to construct a lino of fortifications from tho blockhouses In oither direction toward tho rivor. Earth works woro built from tho northwestern block house across to tho rivor along tho crest of tho ridgo,and another lino was run from the south- eastern anglo to tho high mound on tho edge of tho Ootnulgeo Holds. On tills mound a small cannon was placed, and thus tho Indians wore keptolcaront of reach of tho main fort, where tho factory and tho trading post wero erected, Crossing tho river under tho cover of tho bills tho Indians onco mado a fiorco attack on tho southwestern shin of tlio fort. They wero mot with a dotcnulncd>csl3tanco by tho troops, mid a bloody battlo ensued. Taking advant age of their breastworks, tlio soldlors drovo tho Indians frutn ono point of defenso to r ' until thoy wero furcod Into tho river m bare of what is now Itoso hill, and tho war, 20; 87. Hnntor's corn- total, •to, .. At Fort Hawkins, Major -- • ■ {h, . total, w; _ _ Cook’s company, five years, 63; during tho war 8; total, 01. Grand totals, fire years, C31; during tlio war 149; eighteen months, 11; total, 791. The Indorsement roads: "Tho foregoing la an abstract of the 8th regiment infantry, or the llitil day of February, 1815, with a detach, ment of Light Dragoons, which la forwarded to your ofilco agreeably to Instructions of the 12tli Instant. Fiiil Coox, Major. Major Ewing, Commanding," Out of all that 7U1 men *—* ‘ ment, thero are but few who Itro to draw their pensions. Old man James Lavfiold, of Harde man, On., who dlod a few weeks ago, claimed to bo 110 years old, and was a soldier stationed at Fort Harklna dur ing that war. Tlio venerable fatlior of Captain Loo Perkins, of Bolingbroko was ono of tho Fort Hawkins garrison in the war, snd is still allvo snd in the full i Hai . Him IB BUM 1111 of all hi* faculties. Mine 333 iOU Among the interesting document* kindly loaned me by Mr. Emory winsbip, a grandson of Major Phil Cook, is an old army register issued from tho adjutant and inspector gc al’s office st Washington. August 10,181.3. "Janies Wildo, paymaster of the 8tii infantry; Dr. Ballard, hospital luireon’a mate, Fort Haw kins, Ocmulgee Old Fiolds; Peter McQueen, commanding the hostile Crooks.” In tho register of tho Eighth regiment tho names, rank and staff appointment! cr brovots of tlio various officers are given. . Colonel, Patrlok Jack, promofW aid-de- camp. Lieutenant-Colonel, Lawrence Manning,pro moted to ffd*nel. Majors,William Camming, wounded, Philip Cook, commissioned August Iff, 1813. Captains, David E. Twiggs. Robert Cunning ham resigned. William Chisholm, Felix B. Warley, William Jones, Thomas W. Farrar, William McQueen, Matthew I. Koith, Charles Crawford. Hughes Waltonlreslguod. Then follows a list of tho nontenant*, en signs .and snraeons, names among thorn sotuyl- ingvery familiar to Goorgians of today. Tlioro wore stirring tlinoa In tlibso (fays, anil ono fails to realizo, after three-quarters of a century, to what straits our ancestors 'were often reduced. But thore Is a charm nttotched to these old documents that is captivating In in a simple, tho extreme. Ordors wore written torso and pointed atylo that precluded i possibility of a mistake m to thoir moaning. Hero are some samples from tho Winship col lection: Camp {Hops, October 12,1813.—Sir: A few lys past, John Wright, an Indian country man, was committed to the guardhouse at this Mist, on suspicion of boing a spy. For his safo cooping, 1until a fair investigation of facts can io had, I have to request of you tho favor of hia boing kept in tho guardhouso at Fort Haw- Ins. With respect, yours most obediently, Captain Philip Cook, Fort llnwklns. John Floyd, Brig. Gen. Corn’d’g.” CfiKKK Aokncy, 7th Nov.. 10 p. in., 1814.— Thero aro two or threo parties gono towards tlK'ifroMth'C tor mischief. The number seen Carr s Neil and since by a Ucheo was twnnty- wkht, Ned.knew severed of thorn from_A»- ■mies, TTnft’hTtmBftftHe; tlttaTilWWB HtffiTri.d.- and two Uchces. Tho strcngtl: THE MIS STRANGER From the N.Y. Evening Post. tho narratu ed by Dr. Camp boll'a Traveller,” who fig- •tory of "The Mystei ured in Nenice n hundred years before, but no allusion was mado to a similar story, published In tho British Magazino by Dr. Hill it 1700. Dr. Campbell’s narrative will bo found In tho preface to the later editions of St. Leon, hut I know of no modern reproduction of Dr. Hill’s story, and ss It is hi the samo vein, and might have led mo in the samo direction, 1 imvo brought tho two together. They woro lw»th striking. This, In substance, Is Dr. CnmpboU’f narrative: In 1G87 thore appeared In Venice a man of . . api. pmh __ _ ,gou_ Durin the few montha that ho resided in Vcnico ho mado tlio acqaatntanco of many Influential persons, to whom he was known as Scignor GuaUl. llo entered into no particu lars concerning himself, nor could any ono say whence he came or what wero his antece dents. He was noted for three things—a small collection of very find pictures, which he vai- but I bought it soluly to give the widow a lift, for Nathan J’caliody bad petted me when a boy, and wm always ready, poor follow, to leave his farm work to join mo Inf nutting, or anything else. _ almost certain, however, made me divide the profits with the widow as a matter of equity. I uever suspected Uncle David’s wealth; but tho cotton and rosin purchaxo wm a matter of calculation, particularly the rosin. It wm then _ . Jn t j 10 market, jj |uul accumulated In largofiiibi wheievcr they mode turpentine. It could bo had almost for the taking away. I knew that war would come, but I never dollars. 1 built the cause Yosk, Brantford, be- And toll hsr tot it 'not' to tlUnk ol j to th. widow. It’s well eno«*h tot yon tootsS" i tiiat w.t« cheaper than storing In New ,and that’s all tho fortnight I hail.” “You must have made a good thing anyhow,” I rejoined. "It is not my how much and I don’t ask, but you m out of it, business must have mind tolling you,” he said, "I have figured it up. On the cotton and rosin together. £ netted just three millions, seven thousand and ton dollars. But I am not so rich m David Peabody, by some millions.” Boom for Ono If oro. From the New York ► v «l Gas (who has Invited bis friend Jack to a Third avenue table d’hote dinner.)—Have you fin* Isbed your eoflbe. Jack. Jack—Y+eo. Gu*-Well, wkai bad we better do now? Jack-Let’s bars another d inner on me. ing patty disappeared to return no mot This was tlio iMt band of hostilo that ever creased the river in the, Yl« Fort Hawkins, and the victorj^H by several ycar.ref uninterrupti the amonnt of businoss amounted to $22,317.38, according to tho report of William Kustls. sec retary of war, to Henry Clay, speaker of the house of representatives. Fort Hawkins is de scribed as being remote from the wblto settle ments, and is designated m “Factory No. 1.” Thero wore twelvo othor such establishments in tho United Btatee. Tho unsottlcd condition of European affairs occasioned by the wars of the groat Napoleon, affected this out-oMhe- world community in a peculiar manner. It affected tho prico of deer skins to a degree that rendered Indian trading unprofitable, as the principal market for those products wm on the continent of Europe, the home supply be ing largely in exceM of the demand. Although tho fino country along the valloy of tho Ocraulgoo was now tho property of the whites, and despite tho fact that these lands wore protected by the formidable flint locks of tho garrison of Fort Hawkins, the pioneers camo not to elenr away the forests and cut down the canebr.ike*. It was long ere they volunteered to imslure their flocks and herds on the bonks of these oleor*water creek MKiUiHiiiiii utu li tni« vuis, ujiuu mo young republic and tho rusty swords of the revolution wore sharpened anew, snd the men of war shouldered thoir muskets and prepared to avenge tho insults to thoir own American gle. Fort Hawkins was a general rendezvous for the troops that took part in the operations in Georgia, Florida and Alabama. Camp Hope, now CruNS Keys, wm the camping ground of largo bodies of troops. It Is two miles from Fort Hawkins on the old Federal road. Hera Generals Floyd, Blackshear, Wimberly snd even "Old Hickory” himself, struck camp at different times. Colonel Benjamin Hawkins wss located at tho Creek agency on Flint river, and kept up a constant communication with the command ant at Fort HAwkins. At the beginning of the war Captain Philip Cook wm placed in com mand of tho fort, which was garrisoned by a coerce uneven paper, yellow with age, and tho ink marks grown pale and faded. It reads: "Abstract of the Eighth Regiment U. B. in fantry and a detachment of U. B. Light dragoons, on the 16th of Feb ruary, 1815.” It shows in different columns,! ruled with a pen, where the compa nies were located, who in command and tho terms of enlistment. The Light Dragoons, under Lieutenaut Twepfn, Camp Huger, en listed for five years, 71, during the war, five: total, 76. The infantry ol the Eiiclit regiment were disposed m follows: Fort Wayne, Cap tain ChUbolm’g company, enlisted for five years,92 men. In the army, Worley’s compa ny, five years, 80, during the war, Iff; total 95. Farrar’s company, five vears. fff, during the war, 22: total, 97. Keltic's company, five years, 50, during the war, 85; total. 04. Craw ford’s company, five yeare, CO, duriiu the war, 28; eighteen months, 1); total, 89. Johneon’s company, ftvo years, 07, daring tho war, 20; and the othor sldo red. trailed by somo Uchees near where they turned up the river. The othor is supposed to liavo gono down the river. The party trailing having no ammunition returned and reported. Thirty-nine Uchees are enroll ed up to this day. 1 shall aond them a supply of ammunition tomoirow and orders to waylay the hostile trails to make battlo when they can and report tho state of things when thoy cannot. Tbo mounted mo.*i should be particular to apnreliend or fire on every soldior bolow the fort (Hawkins) of the description above, or In deed or anything scon on the frontier tiireat- cned. It may bo of advantage to our scouts to know they aro In detachments. Wo cannot do much from this quarter m yot, we havo neither mounted meu or infantry to oo-opsrate with our Uchoes under Captain Barnard. I shall send an express tomorrow, .to .furnish us tho detachment at Fort 1’crry and replace them with Indians. L am* twlfh slucere to- regards, etc. BnKfAMiN Uawki.vh. To Major Cook, Fort Hawkins, by Richard’s Express. Crkkk Aokncy, 8th * November,-nMajoz Cook: I have received yours of this date. My other by Richard giro* yoa all I know on the subject of it. I sent 300 cartridges and muskets to Captain Barnard with instructions how to sot. I have today racoi ved certain information that the Miocosookoe In dians are hostile, and moving toward our fron tiers. This is the capltol of the friendlies. The governor says he will certainly hove fiOO mounted men. I report dally returns of tho number of enrolled Indians. I shall draws line. Thore ahallbeno nontrsl*. Each one may toko his choice, aud at the work of deAth we go. Nothing but tho discharge of tho British officers shall stop. I hare ordered ten runners to this^ost and if you need any In dians. 10,20 or SO, as scouts, and two more runners, I. can send them. With regards,&c. Benjamin Hawkins. Two other letters are in tho collection, one of which glvee a a graphic description the Fort Mims masMore, writ* by Georgs Gibson, of Mobile. The other is from Colonel Hawkins, and tells how tho British officers hod a dispute with Chief Ferriman who remarked, "I slinll go to Feniacola, and when I return x will show you that I am a man and a warrior.” These old manuscripts wero written with nlll pent and sealed with wax in tho old Into way. Tho hands that wielded tho pons are long ago turned to the duct, and the seals on those old yellow documents are broken like the lives of tlioso old patriots who live only in the fragmeptary memories of history. Bitten By a Centipede. From the Albuquerque CHlsen. A well-known lady of Albuquerque wm picking blackberries in her garden when she frit somethin; bits her on tho right side of her nask Just below the ear. 8hequ'okly put her right hand up to the place, when a centipede curled Itself around her footing! r. Bhe immediately brushcdll off with o relate, dkl not fidnt, husband, nor daugh ter, or any one cist by calling to them, but nut iuto the house, an I finding the ammooia bottle empty, took a big knlfo and stuck the blade into 'he tire in the stove uutil it got hot, when she applff 1 It to tho wound. Next ihe took some eoJa and applied that, fastening it by wrapping a cloth around bor neck. Ity this time her neck began to swell, and eho says ■lie frit m though the top of her bead was about to accede, snd closed her teeth tightly to make sure that her head was not gone. In a sliort time >ho frit greatly relieved snd than Informed her do tigh ter. Hite did not even call for a doctor, but she has procured another supply of ammonia. Though it occurred several days ago, tlio wound now bw>ks as if an ant had hi.’ten her. That lady would keep -^reumceof miud in a tire or In a railroad acxl The Whlaky Was Mean* From the Philadelphia News. A Garfield, W. T., paper »ajn: "A young man of reliability informs m that while healing boniea near Kndiettt ho wedge 1 a ratth.rea’*e be tween rocks In mic) »a manner that It >.&) not hnr the make. polled the i at tic* oft g n d removed ck, tud the snake was m vico.->a!s and com* t ra ever, ami ever/ lime ’.he snake would Its tall tremble the ratpfa which the yonu:,- mr.n held In Ida hand would, qttiver and mUu> Put the tame m If they had qr.er been ramoved.” the reliable young man's bind must Law been a little collection of very fino pictures, which he val ued highly, a knowledge of tho arts and sciences, and a ready supply or* monoy without resorting to hills of oxohango or credit of any kind. It was further remarked tliat ho wrotu no latter* and received none. His knowledge of art and soienoo was unquestioned, for ho conversed freely with men of learning who could easily have dotectod an imposture. HIs pictures he was ploosed to show to any ouo who wished to see them, and if ono wai familiar with art, and could convorso with lvim on tho subject, ho fouud liiufentertaining. Ho fro- quoutod places of resort, was daily at tho coffee liouso at the hour when tho grentest number wero there, nml took part in tho discussions that were going on, without push ing himself into notice. Ono days nobleman, distinguished for liU learning and love of art, oxpreH-od a wish to seo tho boignor’s collection, which tho solgnor was equally pleased to show him. Thonoblo- nian was delighted with tho paintings, and so expressed himsolf. As ho did so, his eyes clmnccd to rest on a picture ovor tho chamber door, which till then lu> had not noticed. Gazing at it for a moment, he said to Boignat GualdT: "This portrait was drawn for you, sir/* to which tlio scignor replied with a low bow. "Bnt how is It?” continued tho nobleman. "You look like a man of fifty, and vet I know this picture to lie by the hand of Titian, wh# lias been dead a hundred and thirty years.” To this the soicnor replied: "It ia not easy to know all thing! that ara possible, but tlioro cortainly is no crimo in my lookiiigliko a picture drawn l y Titian.” There thojconforonco ended, for tho noble man saw that ho had given offomo. and on his return to tho coffoo house ho reported what had occurod* which r»o excited tho curios ity of some of his frionds that they resolved to call on Ihe solgnor the following day, mid nntis- fy themselves fn regard to the picture. This wl.ih could not be gratified, for on the morrow itftufcUiiAid JM>tA|»pear at Urn usual hour,which further pinned jt/ieir curiosity, »nn on Inquir ing at ills lodgings, they learned that ho had loft Vcnico an hour before. This mado a great at ir, and for tho timo it was tho ono thing that occupied tho thoughts of thoso who know tho mysterious stranger. Of tho travellor who was tho subject of Dr. niU’s story loss was known, for no ono could ovnn say what was his nnmo. IIo had vLitcd tho different kingdoms of Europe, was a closo obserrof, and could and did adapt himself to tho circlo in which for tho llino ho found him self—was all tilings to all men, and whatever ho did ho did well Having ascertained what wore tlio tastes, habits and pursuits of a plaeo in which ho was about to rcsldo, ho was pro- pa rod on ontoring it to mako himsolf ngroo- able. Jn England, where lio found that music was in favor, ho showed skill as a per forator on the violin. It Italy ho displayed » masterly knowledge of geniaond nnd antiqutes. In Franco ho WMlforoinost among fops, and the Gormans recognized (in bim a chemist of tho highest order, llo gomposed music as well m played, and there wai no question u« to tho doficnoy and taste of his performance. As a fop ho lod tho mondo. and whon ho went from Germany to Franco, ho carried with him tho reputation of hn alchemist, who had not only tlio power of turning drops into gold, but had olso at command tlio secret powder for tho res toration of yottth—tho "nnlvorsai mcdlcino”— as It was called, that would nut only arrest t ha infirmities of ago and prolong one’s years, but would restore lging wick in all their fullness — the vigor, and grsco snd beauty of youth. This emboldened a dachees, Jwho felt tliat hor charms, if not already waning, could not lie expected to last much longor In tho soma degree [having already boon a hollo for four teen years, to apply to him to turn bock the tldo that prom (sou in the noar future to over whelm her. Bhe therefore sont to tho stranger, and thus addressed him: "Monsi. urjlo Comte,tlieyftell me you havo the inestimable secret, worth mow than all your S old, tho medicine that will restore youth. I on’t know that l want ityet, but time is time, and perhaps, monsieur, what it can remedy il can more erelly prevent. I would be early la my care. Como, ‘answer roe. Can I obtain la of yon? Let mo havo It, and name your con ditions.” "Those who possets those secrete do not choose it should be known they liavo them.” "I know It,” sho replied, "but you may con fide in mo. I pledge myself to secrecy.’’ Her words prevailed, snd on tho morrowjha brought hor a vial containing four or fir* spoonsful of a liquid which sho wm to -tu* sparingly, for if wasted it would not bo easy to got a further sapply. Ton drops would suffice for once, and thrn only at tho new or on tha full of tue moon. If so takou it wm innocent. Tho duchess put the precious drops away in what sli* deemed a secure place, but her wait ing maid came in soon Alter, and, suffering from an attack of colic, searched for a liqueur to relieve hor distrees, when, ebaheIng on tha viol so carefully put away, site opened It amt smelt of it. It wm fragrant, then sho tasted of it. It wm pleasant, and at a breath she drank Holt. At once tho collo disappeared, and in the best of spirits she turned to her work of arranging the toilet of her mistress Ska was so employed when tha duchess camo to her chamber at the clow of the evening, who rac ing her there, exclaimed: "Child, who aro yoa? What do you want with mo, and liovr came you here ?” >» Tho woman simply conitcsled, but whon tha dnchcjM peevishly bade ber go, sho answered: "lour graco is pleased to hpoak In an un common manner; I havo the honor to be yocr grace’s woman, and wuit to undroM you.” "Heaven and earth l” camefliom tho duch- ess, with a gasp. "You my womaut why, child, my woman is five and forty, and you are TSTiKSSrSi with Uto -ireote.jG .h. story goes, bat It could not bo i*|>Mt.d.tor th. stranger hsd .nn., snd thn doebsss, inlicr do- cllnlns y.sr i, not Wing *M» io gut snolhot vis), Erc«rMoray ** other ms!ron» who saw tlio bloom tsdo train thoir checks. Trout tho New York World. Itcd Hhlrt ol lb. Buffalo BlUcrto. ni pro* .ntatsdlnncr^rratlioMlwT crcfllDf by. well* known houdiimln—. Homo shrimp, were pc—d '*r*:ud, wh. rcupn.i Red Hhtrt’s Ikre nsanmod us cr. pre—toa ol Rwat pnnonneed tvrosnsneo. At Urt, his ictdliir* ovtrpowct.i Ido nsUvc ImrcMbilliy, and ho sold, sod not In s <t**c whisper "Ns In dlu; tue uvsgo mayte; bul m* no cst wonns,’ 1