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ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Wednesday, November 22, I860.
Election Return*.
Fcltox County.—For Governor—Jenkins
840. For Congress—W. T. "Wofford, 396; J. P ’
Hambleton, 234. For Senator—Johnson, 450 ;
Collier, 22S. Hill and Maddox elected to the
House.
Gwinnett County.—For Governor—C. J.
Jenkins, 713. For Congress—Junius Hillyer,
321; J. H. Christy, 292; E. M. Johnson, 44; Dr.
Lyltlc, 7. For Senator—J. N. Glenn, 36Gv F. E-
Manson, 2C2; Arnold, 63. House of Delegates—
Tkos. II. Mitchell, 465; S. Martin, 426 ; D. N.
Byrd, 340 ; W. E. Simmons, 276; J. T. Doug-
lots, 63.
Clayton County—For Governor—C. J. Jen
kins, 260. For Congress—Bigham,260; Buchan
an, 15. Senator—J. F. Johnson, 180; John Col
lier, 21. House of Delegates—Byington, 178;
Fears, 109; Purdy, 5.
Fayette County—For Governor—Jenkins,
892. For Cngrest—Bigham, 272; Buchanan,
160; Brassell, 44. For Senator—Carter, 375.—
House of Delegates—Bed wine, 275; Minor, 111;
Renfro, 64 ; Grice, 44.
Coweta County—For Congress—Bigliam, 122;
Buchanan, 785. For Senator—Turner, 399; Rob
inson, 256 ; Arnold, 80; Watson, 43; Bead, 43;
Bullard, 24. House of Delegates— Stalling, 380;
Teuch, 293; Smith, 242 ; Williamson, 219 ; Sims,
216; Kirby, 195; Goodwyn, 69; Lasiter, 33.
In Troup county, R. A. T. Ridley and F. A.
Frost have been elected to the House of Reps.
In Cobb county, N. B. Green and J. O. Gar-
trell have been elected to the House of Reps.
Campbell County—Jno. M. Edge lias been
elected to the House of Reps.
In Spalding county, J. D. Stewart lias been
elected to the House of Reps.
In Bibb county, Messrs. Hardeman and Mougli-
ton liavc been elected to the House of Reps.
In Jones county, Win. T. McCullough aud A.
J. Middlebrooks have been elected to the House
of Reps.
Taylor County.—For Cb/igresa-Bigham, 215;
Buchanan, 10. Scandett is elected to the House.
Harris County.—Bigham gets a majority for
Congress. Hudson and Hargett elected to the
House.
Chatham County.—Russell and Harrison
elected to the House.
Muscooee CocNTY.-Fbr Congress—Buchanan,
561; Bigham, 235. Russell and Moses elected to
the House.
Ricitmond County.—Suead aud Barues elect
ed to the House.
Morgan County.—Woods and Walker elect
ed to the House.
Floyd County.—For Congress—Wofford, 584;
Hambleton, 209. Thomas and Woods elected to
the House.
Bartow County.—For the House the vote
was as follows: Howard, 473; Sims, 394; Dodd,
355; Tumlin,340; McDow, 243.
Talbot County.—We learn that Bigham had
u majority of two votes in Talbot county; that
Redding, for Senator, carried the county, and is
no doubt elected; and that Messrs. Willis and
Hall are elected Representatives.
Cherokee County.—Wofford, 659; Cole,
132 ; Hambleton, 74. Harden and Sharp elected
to the House.
Greene County.—McWhorter and Swan
elected to the House.
Upson County.—Wombcll elected to the
House.
Monroe County —Cahaniss and Woodward
elected to the House.
Pike County.—McDonald elected to the
House.
Spaulding County.—J. D. Stewart elected to
the House.
Hancock County.—Smith and DuBose elect
ed to the House.
Muscogee County.—Russell and Moses elect
ed to the House.
Pulaski County.
House.
Milton County.-
House.
Gwinnett County.—Martin aud Mitchell
elected to the House.
The Twenty-Fourth District has elected Dr.
Munson.
The Thirty-Second District has elected Mr.
Russell
The Thirty-Third District has elected Mr.
Dorsey.
The Thirty-Ninth District has elected John T.
Ezzard.
Forsyth County.—For Governor—Jenkins )
895. For Congress—Hillyer, 285; Christy, 247;
Johnson, 20; Lytle, 1. For Senator—John T.
Ezzard. 273; II. W. Howell,278; Wm. A. Teasly,
47. For House of Representatives—A.. W. John
ston, 23S , Tolbert Strickland, 199; F. M. Haw
kins, 1S2.
Paying the National Debt.—The present
figure at which “Greenbacks,” or the National
currency, is rated, when compared with gold
and silver, is attributable, in a great degree, to an
idle doubt on the part of the masses of the people
that the National debt will be repudiated and
never paid. This doubt is encouraged by de
signing and artful men who know better, but
who anticipate the realization of immense for
tunes, by speculating on the currency and impos
ing upon the ignorant, wiiose fears they are ac
tive in f -citing. The ability of the country to
pay the National debt is beyond any doubt, aud
that in comparatively a brief period, when we
consider how European governments—the best
of them—England herself especially—have paid
theirs. If peace prevails, and the Nation is in
volved in no foreign war—it will not be, we are
sure, in a domestic one—ten years will not expire
before the debt will cease to be onerous upon the
people. Wealth, population, and resources, not
yet, but daily being developed, will insure this.
There is no such country in the world, and it
can endure burdens no other Nation can. We
look upon the efforts being made to impair con
fidence in the National currency as wicked in the
extreme The intelligence of the people, we
trust, will save them from being further imposed
upon by those who propagate the idea that the
Nation's debt will not lie paid, thus causing
the depreciation of the National currency, and
raising the value of every commercial and agri
cultural commoditv.
-Kibbee elected to the
-Grogan elected to the
Immigration to the South.—The New York
Herald ofthe 13th instant says “among the immi
grants arriving here a considerable number are
bound directly for the Southern States. There
are parties whose destinations were fixed before
they left Europe, and who do not include the im
migrants who came here without any settled
plana, and who were subsequently influenced to
proceed in the same direction. The fact is a sig
nificant one, and is full of promise for the South.
It is well known that but few immigrants arrive
here without bringing some little capital with
them, and no doubt most of those who started
with the idea of settling in the restored States
are provided with larger sums than usuaL At
the South the amounts which they bring will,
in gold, purchase ten times the land which they
could buy at the North for the same money.—
Thus We shall Lave introduced at once into the
Southern States an agricultural element that will
re-place negro labor, aud that, by its introduction
of capital, will also replace all that ha9 been lost
by the war."
This is “a consummation devoutly to be wish
ed." The immigration the South needs from
Europe is one direct fr om there; not an immigra
tion composed of foreigners from the West and
North, who may have already contracted preju
dices wrainst the South, and would seek it only
as an El Dorado to grow rich upon and riot in,
bat an immigration composed of those who come
to labor and fit* with us; who want lands and
homes, and would become good citizens. These
the South needs and would welcome—none otb-
The CoafMlcnile foloa/ln Mexico.
The St Louis Republican, says the Cincinnati
Time* of the 13th instant, under an article headed
as alxive, “learns from a gentleman who lived
formerly in Lexington, in this State, something
of the prospects of the Confederate colony which
is being established in Mexico. The one to
which he belongs, and to wliich he will return,
as soon as lie can dispose of certain property
in thi3 State, lies near Cordova, a town on
4he road between Vera Cruz and the city of 1this tin*; which might otherwise be overlooked
Mexico, and about a hundred miles from the for
mer place. It consists of about a dozen large
haciendas of apparently good land, capable of
producing cotton, coffee, cocoa, and tobacco.
This land will be given to the settlers by the Em
peror’s Government, in parcels of six hundred
and forty acres to families, and in smaller allot
ments to single men."
“Sterling Price, Gen. Jo. Shelby, Ex-Governor
Harris, of Tennessee, and Judge Perkins, of
Louisiana, were there at the time of his depar
ture, with other settlers of less note. Lieutenant
Maury, formerly of the Naval Observatory at
Washington, was also there, and actively engaged
in furthering the scheme by drawing up a report
to be circulated in the Southern States, with a
view of inducing parties of colonists to come over
and join them. The work of tilling the soil had
not been fairly commenced, and would be post
poned until there was a suitable accession to their
numbers. Tliis they expected to obtain in rea
sonable time through the medium of Maury’s
report, and the influence of the newspaper which
Ex-Governor Allen, of Louisiana, has commenced
publishing in the city of Mexico.”
While there is in the South, and especially in
Georgia, lands in abundance capable of produc
ing cotton and tobacco, if not “coffee and cocoa,”
We would advise our people not to seek homes in
Mexico, however tempting may be the induce
ments held out to them in that distracted realm.
“ The Emperor’s Government!” How long will
it be his, if it be his government now ? And
wlmt kind of a government is it now, or will be,
should the “Emperor” succeed in maintaining
his position there ? We trust that no portion of
the people of the South will be deluded into an
abandonment of their homes, by the prospects
held out from Mexico. Let them stay by theij
brethren, and for weal or for woe, meet with
manly fortitude their fate! It is in the hour of
adversity that the souls of men are tried. That
hour is now upon the South, and let her men stay
by her, the one encouraging the other, and all
labor to promote a returning prosperity. Am
nesty for the past has been granted and received,
and in good faith let all go to work now to re
store that which has been lost. Abandon your
homes! Never think of it, people of the South!
From the London correspondence of the
“Round Table," we extract the following inter
esting medical reminiscences, which, as they re
fer to two diseases, one now prevalent in some of
our sister cities, and the other threatening its ap
pearance in America—the small-pox and the
Asiatic cholera—will doubtless interest our read
ers, and especially the medical faculty of, and
their pupils attending lectures at, the Medical
College in this city:
Dr. Spencer Hall, a very distinguished London
physician, recently declined to obey the law
which requires that all infants shall, within a
certain period after their birth (six months, I be
lieve,) be vacinnated. When called upon by the
authorities, he responded in a very remarkable
letter, which was read before the authorities, of
Marylebone parish, stating why he had deter
mined to pay the fine rather than have his child
vaccinated. He declares that he has never been
able to find a cow with the disease, nor can he
find in England a farmer who has ever seen one
with it, consequently the virus which is now used
in England is nearly or quite all taken from hu
man subjects. On inquiring at the various hos
pitals, he finds from the medical men employed
in them that it is next to impossible to get any-
real vaccine matter, i. e., from the cow. He also
gives reasons for supposing that nearly all of the
virus in use lias come through the bloods of some
three hundred different people, many of which
must be tainted ■with some disease. Dr. Hall
prefers that his child should incur the risk of the
small-pox to these taints. The dying out ot the
disease among the cows has been attended by a
singular decrease in the virulence of small-pox
among human beings. The disease, from being
among the most formidable, has now almost lost
its terrors. He thinks that for some reason or
other—possibly because the whole community
has become gradually inoculated—the small-pox
may die out altogether. The Marylebone authori
ties were considerably staggered by the doctor’s
very able letter, and did not know whether to im
pose the fine or not—the fine being arranged for
the negligent, not for the philosophical. They
finally agreed to allow the doctor four months to
hunt up some original vaccine virus for his child.
The most important medical event, however,
is that Dr. John Chapman has certainly succeed
ed in making an impression on the cholera with
his ice cure. This is acknowledged by the med
ical fraternity of England; and now no person
is attacked but a bag filled with ice is at once
thrust, upon the spine. The doctor published,
some months ago, a pamphlet, in which he
showed how deeply he had studied the cholera
in connection with the ice treatment, which he
had tried upon diarrhoea with such success.—
When the cholera appeared at Southampton, he
hastened thither, and found the physicians quite
willing to have him treat their cases. Though
called to those patients some time after the dis
ease had had its way with them, he saved six.—
Two died, but one was seventy-three years of
age, and the other an habitual drunkard, living
in a very filthy place. Since then the success
has been most remarkable, and it may be almost
assumed that this fierce visitor from the tropics
has been mastered in the region of ice. Dr.
Chapman is not only known as an eminent phy
sician, but as a literary gentleman of fine attain
ments. He edited “The Catholic Series,” w T hich
brought out in England so many of the liberal
religious productions of America and Germany.
He nas been for many years, and is now, the edi
tor of the “Westminster Review.” He is, how
ever, not an old man, but bids fair to live many
years, assisting humanity to give the cold shoul
der—or rather spine—to its various ills.
To Mr. F. G. Grieve, Assistant Clerk of the
Supreme Court of this State, we are indebted for
the following points decided by the Supreme
Court of Georgia at Milledgeville, November
Term, 1865:
Samuel Merideth, Plaintiff in Error, vs.
Knott and Hollingsworth, Defendants in
Error. Possessory warrant from Baldwin.
A bailee repudiating his trust and setting up
adverse title, may be proceeded against by pos
sessory warrant at the instance of the bailor af
ter demand and refusal. Judgment affirmed.
P. & R. A. Fleming, Plaintiffs in Error, vs.
W. B. Dorn, Defendant in Error. Case from
Richmond.
In an action against copartners, one of the
defendants may be made a competent witness
for the other, by bond of indemnity, release and
deposit of money in Court to cover the recovery
in the case, Judgment reversed.
An Important Decison.—Jutlge Trigg, of
the United States District Court for Tennessee,
in dismissing an application for the privilege of
a writ of habeas corpus in the case of McCann,
the applicant, on the ground that he bad no ju
risdiction in the case, it being within the jurisdic
tion of the State Courts exclusively, is reported
to have said: “I am at a loss to pe#eive how
any judge or court, whether State or Federal,
can assume the responsibility of pronouncing
otherwise than that it was a civil war—that the
parties engaged in it were belli germ ts, and as such
entitled to exercise every right accorded to them
by the laws of war. It will of course, be con
ceded, that if it were a civil war, and the parties
engaged in it were belligerents in the sense of the
international law, then whatever one of the bellige-
The article which we publish below appear
ed in the W ashington City national Intelligencer,
of the 13th instant The position which, as is
generally understood, this paper occupies in rela
tion to the President and his administration :
and especially in regard to the work c.f recon
struction which has been initiated by the former
and pressed with so much earnestness and zeal
by him; gives its suggestions, always respect
fully considered by the public, an importance at
or pass unheeded. Of tiie article referred to,
we have to remark that it cannot fail to attract
the attention and serious consideration of the
representatives elect to the next Congress. If, as
we believe it does, the article, as a whole, ex
presses the wishes of the President, in regard to
their policy when they reach Washington City,
then it should be gravely considered by them,
whether they should, or should not, lieed and lie
governed by its suggestions. But to their wis
dom and patriotism this must be submitted.
The members of Congress elect from the South
ern States, are now the South’s representative
men, and in occupying that position, a solemn
responsibility rests upon them, which we trust
they will wisely meet. Below is the article to
which we refer:
We have a word of advice to give to members
elect to Congress from the South, and especially
to such members as may not feel able to take the
oath prescribed by the test-oath enactment—we
will not call it a law, as applied to members of
Congress—of July 2, 1863, and this advice is,
that they shall not press for their seats, under
any circumstances, until after the organization of
the House.
The embarrassments of the situation are pecu
liar, and naturally grow out of the state of things
that follow the rebellion; and this state of things
to which we refer is especially disclosed by the
elections in both sections of the country* On
the heel of the war little else tvas to be expected
than that those candidates should win, on both
sides of the line, who have been more or less iden
tified with the ultraisms oi the rebellion. The
storm cloud is yet w r arm with the lightning.—
Statesmen long estranged should meet, talk, min
gle, exchange views, sentiments, professions, dis
close feelings and policies, and intermingle such
amenities as belong to responsible gentlemen, and
not rush, like belligerents, at once and vehe
mently, to any ultimatum. As victors, as con-
querers at every point, a3 the overwhelming
power, it becomes the North to receive the rep
resentatives from the South with all the distin
guished consideration that belongs to the situa
tion, and which has always graced the close of
civilized wars, in the conduct of victors charged
with responsible posts, civil and military. This
much is due from the North to the South as gen
tlemen, and this much is due to the dignity of the
Government and to the records ot history. Cer
tainly we cannot afford, on an occasion so inter
esting as will be the assembling of the next Con
gress, on the close of tlie war, and under the
dawnings of a peace that we all fervidly pray
may be immortal—we cannot afford, at such a
time, to present a spectacle disgraceful to civiliz
ation, and to the sublime part that America is
enacting in the eyes of all the world. And such
a spectacle we will present unless the represen
tative statesmen of the land shall rise, in this par
ticular, to the full altitude of the situation. How
reproachful to us would be a record of sectional
hate, of bitter and narrow prejudices, when all
civilized mankind are looking either with affec
tionate interest and hope, or with derision, envy,
and hate, on the result of the experiment to con
solidate the Union! Now that the party elec
tions are over, if w r e are doomed to differ, let the
difference be on high and compromisable State
grounds—grounds that are rational and fairly de
batable, and such as can be discussed and sub
mitted to the ultimate tribunal with the calmness
of argument, while we shall despise the rage of
sectionalism, and the empty noise of mischiev
ous demagogism.
To the South we respectfully say that perhaps
a certain degree of self-respect and manly pride
impels them, while yielding no right to remain
for a reasonable time on the outside of the Con
gressional body, which, in one sense, may be
compared to a court or to a commission of gen
tlemen, to wdiom their case, to a certain extent,
is referred by a large portion of the public senti
ment of the country. Nothing should be com
mitted on the part of the South which can go to
disclose that it is lust for power or office which
induces lier members here; but, on the contraiy,
that they assemble here and knock at the door
of their father’s house as erring sons, who desire
to meet once again, never to separate, around the
family altar and hearth, in the home of their
love and of tlieir choice, the home chosen for
themselves and for tlieir children and for tlieir
children’s children. To this end the demands
of a noble pride can be reconciled with every
amount of concession on their part which does
not yield constitutional questions that, in their
gravity and importance, concern the Government
itself.
And the course which we have suggested is
due front gentlemen on all sides to the President
of the United States, who is entitled to be re
lieved of every needless embarrassment. Let it
never be forgotten that Andrew Johnson stands
forth not as the head of any perishing party
whose organization is based on fleeting events,
but that as President he is the representative of
the Constitution and the political father of the
whole people. He cannot afford to be angry
with the excitable and the erring, nor can he
quarrel with the political elements which are
just awiatnral in the present state of our politi
cal world as are the laws that regulate the mate
ria! universe. There must be the ebb as well as
the tide. The storm-tossed ship will continue
to rock to and lro on the waves long after the
“let loose winds” have returned to their prison.
And as the President is the representative of all
that is majestic in authority under the trying cir
cumstances of our case, so let all concerned re
member that authority is neither noble nor com
manding when it consents to involve itself with
the contesting passions of men. It is for the
President to remember the value of the supreme
law, so well set forth by the poet :
AH the ambitious for the throne will fight,
For where none has the title all have right :
Thus, while we cast a bloody tyrant down,
4 . By blood we raise another to the crown.
All men who love the country, and who hope
for the future safety and dignity of the institutions
otr which the most precious hopes of mankind
depend—all such men must rally in aid of the
restoration policy of the President If need be,
North and South must make cheerful sacrifices
of non-essentials and of collaterals. The watch
word-better now than hereafter—must be the
Union—“Liberty and Union, now and forever,
one and inseparable.”
Then, if, after all these important aids shall be
brought to the President by the wisesAand best
of our country’s sons, North and South, there
shall still remain an obstinate, un-American,
warring faction, powerful enough to obstruct, for
the time, the great object of all our sacrifices, the
popular corrective is at hand, and there need be
no doubt that it will be summarily applied.
For ousel ves, we insist that if the President
shall proclaim the South to be recognized, that
the Clerk of the House shall enter the names of
all the returned Southern members on the roll,
and that such shall retain their seats—unless plain
reasons founded on necessity shalL appear to the
contrary—without reference to the test-oath.—
But we much prefer that the Southern members,
under all circumstances, shall wait outside of the
House for a reasonable period after its organiza
tion—and this for the reasons which we have
cursorily given.
The Memphis Bulletin says General Longstreet
is to be President of the Mobile and Ohio Rail
road, and the Memphians base great hopes upon
the change. Just now the road is being man
aged to the injury of Memphis, both in extortion
ate charges upon freight and in facilities for for
warding it. The Bulletin says, “So odious has
this company become, and justly, too, under the
present regime, that there is danger that its future
usefulness may be trammeled by Legislative ac
tion in Tennessee and Mississippi. The people
of these States cannot submit to all wrongs.—
There is a limit to popular patience, however po
tent chartered rights may render soulless corpo
rations. There is national necessity for the par
don of General Longstreet if it fe granted in or
der that a national highway mat' lie fairly real
ized.”
A Remarkable Decision.—In New Orleans
lately Jndge Duplanter decided that the value of
rents might do in conformity to the laws and usages] a pew in church might depend in a great degree
of war, also might the other party."
A Matamoras paper says seven- regiments of
negro troops were mastered out of seryice and
disbanded in Brownsville on the 2d instant.—
Most of these were Northern negroes, and will
be furnished transportation to their former States
without delay.
A dispatch was received on Friday morning
at Washington announcing the death of Wm P.
Johnson, Esq., the only brother of the President
of the United States, and late the Collector at
Yalasco. He died on the 6th inst. front the ef
fects of an accidental gun-shot wound.
on the "legitimate pride of a father to establish
a gifted daughter with the benefit to be .derived
from the -conspicuous position" in question.—
This is the first tiBewe ever knew it to be said
so from-.the Judicial benclt.
_Gex#Dick Tayt.or is living quietly in New
York, and has not lieen running to Washington,
as the telegram and newspaper correspondents
have him. __
The Columbus Sun says their cotton market
was'rather dull on the 17th. Middling may. be
quoted at from 41 to 42 cents, though the range
was greater, and good middling 43 cents.
f Crime in Nashville.—The following record
j of outrage and crime in Nashville, for one day,
i we dip from the “ Union" of that city. We are
amazed that in a dty of so much commercial and
political importance, itself the State’s Capital,
and as it used to be, of elegant social refinement,
such a state of lawlessness should prevail Can
this, too, be one of the sskT results of tlie late
war ?—Ed. Ixt.]
We yesterday gave a chapter of horrors. We
continue it tondav. If there is not a change,
people will begin to doubt that Tennessee is the
most moral place in existence. Only one murder
—that is, as tar as we were able to learn yester
day ! Only one! and onl^one the day before;
and only about a dozen last week—and all with
in forty miles of tliis place. But not to general
ize :
MURDER OF A NEGRO.
A negro named Stephen Jones was yesterday
shot and killed by another negro, named Joe
Bell, near the corner of Cherry and Jefferson
streets. Bell was slightly intoxicated, and was
pointing a pistol at a little colored boy, when
Jones approached him and said:
“You should not do that; the pistol might go
off and kill the boy.”
“D—n you,” said Bell, “I’ll settle you; I killed
a nigger over in Edgefield last week, and now
I’ll kill you ;” and at the same instant he fired,
and the ball passed though Jones’ heart, killing
him instantly. ,
The alarm was soon raised, but Bell had fled.
A warrant was sworn out against him before
Esq. Patterson, but at the time of going to press
the culprit had not been found.
wife-whipping.
A warrant was yesterday sworn out before Esq.
Patterson by an Irish woman named Mrs. Brace,
who lives near the Buena Vista Springs, charging
her husband with the most horrid cruelties to
ward her. Her head and face were horribly mu
tilated, and her general demeanor was that of a
broken-hearted woman. She has been the sub
ject to ill-treatment for years, but never before
appealed to the law for protection. Forbearance,
however, ceased to be a v&£ie, and she was con
strained to invoke the aid of officers of tlie law
in her behalf.
NEGRO KNOCKED DOWN AND ROBBED.
Yesterday, about 11 o’clock, a negro, whose
name we were unable to learn, was knocked
down by a white soldier, while walking along
Cheriy street, south of Broad, and robbed of a
watch. The alarm was raised, and a crowd of
men, white and black, commenced pursuing tlie
robber, but be escaped unhurt, and has not since
been arrested.
row in smoky.
Three of the 16th Regulars were yesterday ar
rested by the provost guard for creating a disturb
ance in the classic precincts of Smoky. Tiiey
were all drunk, and undertook the rather grand
task of “cleaning out” the place; but, instead of
doing so, they all found themselves in durance
vile, in an hour after they had commenced “clean
ing.”
ANOTHER.
Some soldiers of the 16th Regulars got intoxi
cated and went into Smoky for the purpose of
“going for” every negro they could find. One of
them pitched into the wrong man, however, and
got shot through the leg for his pains.
BOY BADLY BEATEN.
A warrant was yesterday sworn out before Es
quire Patterson, against Francis Pritchard, who
is charged with assault and battery. The charge
is, that he beat a little boy,, whose name we are
unable to learn, in a most cruel and shocking
manner. The boy’s life, it is alleged, is in great
danger; though ot the facts we are not aware,
further than that the boy used some very insult
ing language toward Pntchard. That, however,
is no justification for an assault on a boy.
THE “FORTY THIEVES.”
Who has not heard of the forty thieves, a ju
venile organization which has been flourishing
for a year or two in this city ? The members are
youths of from twelve to sixteen years of age,
and they are perpetually committing depreda
tions of some character—frequently operating
beyond the corporation line, in order to escape
the vigilance of the police. Recently, they have
been somewhat quiet; but yesterday one of the
recognized leaders of the gang—Jim Sullivan—
stole some articles of clothing, in which he was
detected. The owner of the clothes commenced
pursuit at once; but lie fled. A warrant was
sworn out for him, but at last accounts lie bad
not been taken.
BOLD THIEVES.
We stated several days ago that Jas. R. Green,
who lives on the Nolenssfile Pike; was robbed of
a fine set of harness. C^FMonday night, a party
of thieves attempted to make away with Ids
horse. Mr. Green and another gentleman fired
upon them, when they ran oft', but soon returned
again, and were treated in the same manner.
Considering that the business they were engaged
in was a little hazardous, they left after the second
attempt.
We 4 lo not know who these bold villains were,
but it is probable that they are the same who
killed Hamlet, a few nights since, and who com
mitted the depredations we narrated j'esterday.
Is there no means of bringing them to justice?
TO BE CONTINUED.
We presume we shall be compelled to continue
our narrative of villainies to-morrow, though we
hope not.
The Georgia Convention.—The fallowing
notice of the late Georgia Convention, we clip
from the Milledgeville correspondence of that
old, able, and most excellent journal, the Wash
ington City National Intelligencer. The wri
ter is a gentleman who has won an enviable rep
utation as a journalist in days past, and who, we
learn, is now connected with the editorial depart
ment of that paper. We allude to W. M. Bur-
well, Esq., a name familiar to the Press, North as
well as South. We cannot commend too highly
the National Intelligencer to the generous support
of our friends:
As a body the Convention lias a highly re
spectable appearance. There are a great many
members new^o public life, but they are obvi
ously the representatives of a substantial and in
telligent population. There is an air of gravity,
almost of gloom, upon them, unaccustomed to the
trammels which a war of conquest has placed
upon ihein. There is a disposition rather to as
certain the limits of their action than to invite a
collision with an authority with which they cannot
cope. Hence, the discussions are short, pointed,
and marked with neither passion nor declama
tion. The object seems to be to comply with every
condition, and adjourn. It happens that nearly
tlie whole Convention boards at the same hotel.
They hold two daily sessions, and go and come
to and from the State House with the regularity
of a school. There is no attendance from the
adjacent country, and none of those recreations
which usually solace the leisure hours of public
bodies. The writer has neither seen nor heard
of an instance of intoxication amongst the mem
bers. There are several men of State and Fed
eral distinction in the Convention. The charac
ter of the president, Herschel Y. Johnson, for
ability and worth is well known. Mr. Jenkins,
chairman of the Business Committee,. a lawyer
of high reputation, and a man whose private
virtues have secured the affection and confidence
of the people. He has been put in nomination
bv his friends as Governor, and there is little
doubt but that he wiil be elected. It is under
stood that Governor Brown, his only prominent
opponent, will unite in the invitation to. him to
become a candidate. Mr. Seward, Mr. J. Hill v
Judges Reese and Floyd, and other gentlemen
have an extended reputation. There is a good
deal of conversation in regard to the next Fed
eral Senators. Among others who have been
mentioned as proper to fill the last appointment
are Governor Brown and the Hon. J. Hill, the
latter formerly a member of the Federal House
of Representatives.
It is very gratifying to bear the terms in which
the National Intelligencer is spoken of throughout
this State. Its honest and conservative course is
universally commended, and all look with pleas
ure to its renewed circulation amongst them.—
Several gentlemen mention that they had pre
served files of the paper, and one who had lost
the files for sixteen years by the military destruc
tion of his property seemed to feel his loss en
hanced by the sound and instructive political his
tory which had thus perished.
Milledgevtlle, Friday, Nov. 3.—In the Con
vention, to-day, an ordinance was adopted de
claring it the duty of the Legislature to provide
for the widows and orphans of Georgia soldiers
and for disabled soldiers, and ratifying the acts
of <niardians, trustees, etc., during the war.
The State of Georgia has herein acquitted it
self of a sacred duty to the families of the brave
men who, at her call and by her orders, gave
life and limb to her service. * We long ago at
tempted to awaken the State of Alabama to a
sense of a similar duty, but we have not learned
that the Convention took any action on the sub
ject. Weliave been required to repudiate oar
war debts—and a war debt is just as sacred as a
peace debt; but we trust we shall not be expec
ted to repudiate our living defenders, or the
memories of our heroic dead.—Mobile Advertiser
<£- Register.
The Sun's Heat.—Professor Thomson as
signs to the sun’s heat supposing it to be main
tained by the appulse of masses of matter, a limit
of 300,000 years; and to the period of cooling of
the earth from universal fusion to its actual state
98,000,000 years.
The Bridal Balloon Voymge*
In the New York Tribune, of the 9th, we find
the following interesting account of mid-air mat
rimony :
The* announcement that a bona fide mStmage
was to take place above the clouds in Professor
Thomas S. C. Lowe’s balloon United States, yes-
terdav. at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, caused a
great* crowd to assemble in the large inclosure
whence the bridal party were to take their de
parture from tliis terrestrial sphere. About 3,000
persons, nearly one-hall of whom were women,
were congregated around the balloon, at the cor
ner of Sixth Avenue and Fifty-ninth street, while
probablv as rnanv more occupied positions on the
roofs of buildings and lofty nicks overlooking
the inclosure.
THE BRIDAL CAR.
At one end of the raised platform, over which
the partially distended balloon, oseiliateu fitfully
in the strong gale, was erected a pretty gate of
woven evergreen bearing the motto, “Ever Thus,”
through which tlie bridal party were to pass to
the balloon. The bridal car was very handsome,
the outside being covered witli gold and crimsqp
damask, and the inside cushioned round with
pale green silk, with a capacity for four voyagers.
It was also elegantly tented with pink silks, bor
dered round with drooping festoons of lace of
bridal white.
THE PARTIES CONCERNED.
Miss Marv West Jenkins, late of St. Louis,
Mo., was the blushing bride; Professor John W.
Boynter, M. D., of Syracuse, N. Y., was the hap
py and eccentric man. They had been engaged
for some time, and, according to advertisement it
was expected that they would be accompanied
bv tlie Rev. F. Dewitt Talmadge, of Philadel
phia, to the pure, untrammeled realms of space,
and there united in tlie holy bands of wedlock,
with the eternal stars for witnesses, the sun and
moon for groomsman and bridesmaid, the fires of
sunset for their hymenial torch, and the blue em
pyrean for their domestic sphere. Of course,
here was poetical novelty enough to attract
throngs of sight seers, who, however, were com
pelled to wait two drearv hours in the cold open
air, keeping their feet and hands from freezing
by incessant applause, and clamoring for the spec
tacle to commence, as they had paid their admis
sion fee in good faith.
ARRIVAL OF THE BRIDAL PARTY.
Owing to the accident which had taken place
at the Manhattan Gas Works, Prof. Lowe was
compelled to make liis own gas, which occasion
ed considerable delay, but at about four o’clock
the balloon was ready for her voyage, and soon
after carriages containing the bridal party drove
into the deep enclosure Irom the Fifth Avenue
side amid roars of laughter and deafening cries
of “Hi! hi!”. “Here they come!” “I see the
bride!” “Look at the old man!” and similar ex
pressions. A moment after two little girls, half
clad in white musliu and cheap spangles, and
shivering with cold, sprang from the foremost
coach and scattered flowers along the platform,
which was now densely crowded with spectators,
whom the policemen, with all their efforts, were
hardly able to keep from the narrow path which
had been cleared for the passage of tlie bridal
party, consisting of the bride and bridegroom,
the two dauglitera of the latter and the sister oi"
the former, with a few other friends.
THE BRIDE AND BRIDEGROOM.
Soon after the arrival of the party, it was given
out that the marriage ceremony had taken place a
few hours before, at the Fifth Avenue hotel, and
that the only legal ceremony to be performed on
high would be the signing of the marriage con
tract. The reason given for this change of pro
gramme was that the clergyman of the occasion
had to return to Philadelphia by the next train ;
but the actual reason probably was that the rev
erend gentleman, accustomed to act solely in,
mundane matrimony, had backed out at the
eleventh hour, and tied the knot in the manner
with which we groveling mortals are usually
contented.
“Wliich is the gal wliat’s to be yoked?” asked
a vulgar fellow at our elbow. “That is the bride,”
we replied, instinctively indicating a beautful
woman of about five and twenty, who had just
alighted from the carriage.
She was tall and comely, with bright dark
eyes, pale cheeks, and a somewhat nervous smile
about her pretty lips, as she passed through the
throngs with a step-daughter, hardly younger
than herself, on either side. She was dressed in
a plain, but elegant traveling dress of dove-col
ored silk; her rich dark hair was modestly dis
posed beneath an elegant bonnet of the latest
style, and she kept her eyes cast down as if sad
and dejected. Tlie “happy man” was a large,
portly gentleman, about double the age of his
uew wife. Tlie latter looked pretty and sweet
as she was lifted into the gay cabin of the air
ship; but as the husband stepped over tlio *dge
of the car, there was a pitiless laugh from tlie
crowd as though he had made that one step from
the sublime to tlie ridiculous of which the poet
speaks. Owing to tlie scarcity of gas, It was
found impossible for Miss Lula Boynton to ac
company her lather and step-mother, as was
originally intended. Her place was therefore
occupied by a little sister of the bride. Prof.
Lowe then stepped in, and all was in readiness.
THE START.
Tlie ballast was on board. A dozen men were
clinging to tlie unsteady car to keep it down.
“Give us one good swing, boys, and then let
us sail!” cried Prof. Lowe. The next moment
there was a strong puff—a flapping sound", like
that of wings in motion; the crowds below
caught one more glimpse of the pale-cheeked
bride, with tiie nervous smile upon her lips, and
then tlie air-sliip was afloat and rising slowly on
her heavenward way. She rose but slowly,how
ever. The Professor emptied a sand bag just in
time to clear the eaves of the little house at
one corner of tlie inclosure. As it was, the
car came squarely in contact with the flag-staff
on the roof; but the slender mast bent like a
willow and the next moment they were clear
and rising rapidly, witli the Professor waving
his hat triumphantly over the side of the car.
tug bridal voyage
was a happy success, and is thus described by
one of the voyagers, who is evidently of a poetic
turn: ^ *
It was not near so cold as we thought it would
be. Immediately after clearing the walls of the
inclosure, the balloon seemed to become perfectly
motionless, and the world sank from our feet like
a peopled dream. The city was spread below us
like a map, with its hundred spires and myriad
casements gleaming in the last flash of sunset,
which flooded the west with pallid gold, with
here and there an island of white cloud. For a
moment we seemed to be perfectly motionless,
and then by watching the Central Park, directly
beneath us, we saw that we were moving rapidly
tow ard the north.
“Then, as the wind began to weep
A mnsic out of sheet and shroud,
We steered her toward the crimson clond
That land-like slept along the deep.”
Our nervousness w r as quickly gone, and we
were soon chatting merily. Lesser and dimmer
grew the world as we soared and swept along
over Harlem and along East River, with its hun
dred Lsles, with the wide, glittering waters of the
sound beyond, like a dazzling shield, and ham
lets, hills and woods, the latter flushed with au
tumnal purple and gold, resting far beneath us
like the vistas of an enchanted realm.
It all seemed strange and fairy-like. It brought
to mind the “Day-Dream” of Tennyson. By but
a slight stretch or the fancy, the bride became the
sleeping beauty, newly awakened by her true-
love’s kisses; by another stretch—quite a stretch,
it is true—Professor Boynton became the fairy
prince, “lighter-footed than the fox,” who bore
her to his father’s ball3. It was the sweet Day-
Dream of youth and love.
And on her lover’s arm she leant.
And-round her waist she felt it fold,
And far across the hills they went,
In that new world which is the old ;
Across the hills and far away,
Beyond their utmost purple rim.
And deep into the dying day
The happy princes followed him.
Even as in the sweet Day-Dream, the happy,
couple in the air-ship left the world behind
mounted starward as though to make their bri
dal home in some bright bower beyond the
clouds. . ,
And o’er them many a sliding star
And many a merry wind was borne.
And.' streamed through many a golden bar.
The twilight melted into mom.
* * ¥ * + * *
And o’er them many a flowing range
Of vapor bnoyed the crescent bark,
And, rapt through many a rosy change,
The twilight died into the dark.
We understand that the newly wedded pair
will remain some days in New York before seek
ing their house in Syracuse. May their days be
of silver and their nights of gold!
An Adventure in the Oil Region—A
Highwayman Vanquished by a Parson.—
The Rev. J. H. Stubbs, of Titusville, related the
following at a prayer meeting in Ids own church
one day last week, having received Ids informa
tion from the hero of the story:
On Tuesday last, the Rev. Mr. , of the Bal
timore Conference, was riding on horseback from
Pit Hole to Titusville. He had nearly reached
Pleasantville, and was trotting quietly along,
humming a psalm tune, when a man stepped into
his path, and seizing his horse’-s bridle, presented
a pistol at the parson and demanded his money.
Nothing disconcerted, the traveler calmly re
marked that-be was only a poor Methodist
preacher and had but little money, but would
give up all be had. The roblier made no reply,
out maintained bis threatening position, and pa
tiently waited for the Conference man to disgorge.
The dominie eyed the freebooter pretty earnest
ly, and remarked, with great Solemnity, “You
can have my money, my friend, but for Christ’s
sake and your own soul’s sake, give up this' busi
ness of highway robbery.” The freebooter drop
ped his pistol at his side, and' in a voice tremb
ling with deep emotion, exclaimed, “You can
pass on!”
The Cronins Sweeper.
The late Mr. Simcox, of Harboume, near Bir
mingham, a gentleman largely engaged m the
nail trade, was in the habit of going several tunes
a t ear to London on business, at a penod when
journeys to London were far less readily accom
plished than they are at present. Or. one of
these occasions be was overtaken by a heavy
shower of rain, from which he sought shelter un-
der an archway, as he had not any. umbrella w ith
hint This continued for a long time with una
bated violence, and be was consequently obliged
to remain in his place of shelter though begm-
nin.r to suffer from his prolonged exposure to the
cold and damp atmosphere. I nder these circum
stances he was agreeably surprised when tlie
door of a handsome house immediately opposite
tvas opened, and a footman in livery t\ ith an um
brella approached, with liis master s compliments
and that he had observed the gentleman standing
so long under the archway that he feared
he might take cold, and would therefore
be o-lad^if he would come and take shelter in his
house—an invitation which Mr. Simcox gladly
accepted. He was ushered into a handsomely
furbished room, where the master of the house
was sitting, and received from him a very friendly
welcome.
Scarcely, however, had Mr. Simcox set eyes on
his host than he was struck with a vague remem
brance of having seen him before; but wfliere, or
in what circumstances, he found himself alto
gether uuable*to call to his mind. _
The gentleman soon engaged in interesting and
animated conversation, which was carried on
witli increasing mutual respect and confidence;
while, all the rime, tliis remembrance kept con
tinually recurring to Mr. Simcox, whose inquir
ing glances at last betrayed to his host what was
passing in his mind.
“You seem, sir,” said he, “to look at me as
though you had seen me before.”
Mr. Simcox acknowledged that his host was
right iu his conjectures, but confessed his entire
inability to recall the occasion.
“You are right, sir,,’ replied the old gentleman ;
“and if you will pledge your word as a man of
honor to keep my secret, and not to disclose to
any one what I am now going to tell you until
you have seen the notice of my death in the Lon
don papers, I have no objection to remind you
where and how you have known me.
“In St. James’'Park, near Spring Gardens, you
may pass every day an old man w'ho sweeps a
crossing there, and whose begging is attended
with this strange peculiarity; that w’liatever be
the amount of the alms bestowed on him, he will
retain only a halfpenny, and will scrupulously
return to the donor all the rest. Such an unusu
al proceeding naturally excites the curiosity of
those who hear of it; and any one who has him
self made the experiment, when he happens to
be walking by with a friend, is almost sure to say
to him:
“Do you see that old fellow there ? lie is the
strangest beggar you ever saw in your life. If you
give him sixpence, he willl be sure to give you
fivepence-halfpenny back.”
“Of course his friend makes the experiment,
which turns out as predicted; and, and, as crowds
of people continually passing, there are numbers
of persons every day who make the same trial;
and thus the old man gets many a halfpenny
from tlie curiosity of the passers-by, in addition
to what he obtains from the compassion.
“I, sir,” continued the old man, “am that beg
gar. Many years ago I first hit upon this expe
dient to save me from utter destitution; and find
ing the scheme to answer beyoud my expecta
tions, I was induced to carry it on until I had at
last with the aid of profitable investments, real
ized a handsome fortune. And now, sir, such is
the force of habit, that though I am no longer
under any necessity for continuing this plan, I
find myself quite unable to give up; and accord
ingly every morning I leave home, apparently for
business purposes, and go to a room where I put
on my old beggar clothes, aud continue sweeping
my crossing in the park till a certain hour in tlie
afternoon, when I go back to my room, resume
my usual dress, and return home in time for din
ner, as you see me this day.
Mr. Simcox, as a gentleman and a man of hon
or, scrupulously fulfilled his pledge; but, having
seen in tlie London papers tlie announcement of
the beggar’s death, lie then communicated this
strange story to my friend.
‘‘All! Sir, that Knock.”
When I was vicarof F , I preached a
sermon to a large congregation of persons, chiefly
of the laboring class, on the text, “Behold! I
stand at the door and knock.” That sermon
was blessed above many that had been greatly
blessed to the same congregation. Amongst
others to whom “the Word” on that day was
brought home with power, was an aged man,
who had attended the church for sixty years, and
who, up to this time, had been totally unim
pressed concerning vital religion. He was a re
markable man in liis way—particularly vener
able said respectable in his appearance, and es
teemed very highly as a sober, honest, industri
ous, kind and thrifty person. He always sta
tioned himself in tlie aisle at the door of the
squire’s pew, which lie opened for him and liis
family ; and there he remained during tlie whole
of the sendee, sitting down occasionally on a
step which was close by. While preaching, I
had often watched his countenance, to discover,
if possible, bow far lie felt interested in w'liat I
said. I never could discover any sign of feeling
on his part until tlie day when I preached from
tlie text which I have mentioned. On that day
he listened with the most marked attention, and,
in a few days after, he, with ten or twelve others,
to whom the same sermon was blessed, assem
bled in iny study, and manifested the most in
tense anxiety about salvation. This old man was
to me the most interesting of the group. The
tears streamed down his cheeks, and, before all
present, he did not hesitate to express the deep
emotions of liis soul, and how the arrow of con
viction had pierced his heart. “For years and
years,” said lie, “I have stood at the squire’s pew
door and thought myself all right, or did not
think at all. I never heard a knockout my heart
before; but, tliank God, I have heard it now.”
He departed that day somewhat comforted, but
not quite satisfied, and for months he was kept
in a state of great doubt respecting liis accep
tance with God.
I left the parish, and when I left, old Joseph
II was one of the happiest and most consis
tent of the Lord’s people in that place. In about
a year after, I returned and stayed there for four
days on a visit with a friend. The next morning
after my arrival, almost one of the first persons I
saw was Joseph. I called him to me, and gave
him a hearty shake of the hand. His eyes filled
with tears of gladness, and almost the first
words he spoke, and all that he could speak,
were, “Ah, sir, that knock! I shall never, please
God, forget that knock.”
Reader, do you know anything of this knock ?
You would be ashamed to permit any respectable
person to continue knocking at your door for any
great length of time; and yet it may be that
from your youth up to this present time you have
permitted Christ, the king of kings, to stand at
the door of your heart knocking, and you have
never yet opened unto him. Oh, treat him no
longer so, or the day may come when he will
say, “Because I have called and ye refused, I
have stretched out my hand and no man regarded;
but ye have set at naught all my counsel, and
would 1 none of my reproof, I also will laugh at
your calamity. I will mock when your fear
cometh.”
Now is the accepted time—open your heart
to him now, and lie “will come in,” and “sup
with you or, if happily you have opened it al-
ready, then open it still more widely to him and
let him always have free access to your affections,
and you will prove the truth of his words:
“Whoso harkenetli unto me shall dwell safely,
aud shall be quiet from fear of evil.”—Sunday at
Home.
The Best Way.—When the honeymoon pass
es away, setting behind dull mountains, or dip
ping silently into the stormy sea of life, the trying
hour of married life has come. Between the
parties there are no more illusions. The feverish
desire of possession has gone, and all excitement
receded. Then liegins, or should, the business
of adaptation. If they find they do not love
each other as they thought they d*id, they should
double their assiduous attention to each other,
and be jealous of everything which tends in the
slightest way to separate them.
Life is too precious to be thrown away in se
cret regrets or open differences. And let me say
to all those to whom the romance of life has flecl
and who are discontented in the slightest degree
with their conditions and relations, begin this re
conciliation at once.
Renew the attention of earlier days. Draw
your hearts close together. Talk the thing all
over. Acknowledge your faults to each other,
and determine henceforth you will be all in all
to each other; and, my word for it, you will find
in your relation tlie sweetest joy earth lias for
you. There is no other way for you to do. If
you are happy at home, you must be happy
abroad; the man or woman who has settled
down upon the conviction that he or she is at
tache.! for life to an uncongenial yoke-fellow, ami
there is no way of escape, has lost life; there is
no effort too eostlv to make wliich «m restore
to its setting uponthe bosom the missing pear!
Interesting Discoveries.—At the last meet
ing of the Academy of Sciences, M. Garret pre
sented a note on the new epidemic in Savoy, in
which he re-asserted the cause of the disease to
be the carbonic oxitle produced by the cast-iron
stoves. His nephew, M. Jules Garret, has proved
tlie presence of tlie gas iu the room heated by a
cast-iron stove. M. Maurand submitted an in
strument which may prove - of value. He calls it
a “Ready Reckoner \provnpt calcalateur*”) and it
is inteded to reduce with ease and accurary the
weights and measures of all nations to tlie French
metric equivalents, and vice versa.
A Politic*! Sermon,
A correspondent of a Northern paper writing
from the North-West says:
“It is difficult to convey byword an adequate
idea of the intensity of the rage with wliich the
Republican party of the Northwest regard the
recent course of President Jonnson and the poli
cy which he has adopted. During a recent visit
to Chicago and Wisconsin I had an opportunity
to see the manifestation of this feeling in various
aspects, not from the press alone, but from tlie
pulpit and in social life. The revulsion of feel
ing which has taken place in Wisconsin and
Northern Illinois, during the hist four months, is
perfectly wonderful. At the time that Mr. John
son succeeded to the Presidency, I heard grave
elders and deacons and ministers there declare
that they could see tlie hand of God in the re
moval of Mr. Lincoln, because they feared that
he would have been too lenient toward the South,
and that God had raised up Mr. Johnson to be
the Joshua in the place ot the gentle Moses who
had departed. Mr. Johnson’s little finger was to
be thicker than Mr. Lincoln’s loins, so far as
harsh measures toward the South were concern
ed. How changed are the notes of these same
ministers and deacons now ! Two weeks ago 1
heard one of these political teachers, in his Sun
day morning speech to his congregation in the
temple of God, compare the President to the
wicked kings of Israel who caused the aneieut peo
ple of God to wander after strange gods, aud to
give point to his discourse, he read that chapter
of the Old Testament which denounces curses
upon the Israelites because they had not rooted
out and utterly destroyed the inhabitants of the
land which they had conquered; and the appli
cation of his discourse was, that now that God
had delivered tlie inhabitants of the land which
we had conquered iuto our hand, that if we did
not exterminate them, we ought at least never
to admit them to a participation in tlie rights of
citizenship, until they consent to admit the ne-
f roes to a full participation in the same rights.
_ud he warned his hearers that the judgments of
God would be visited upon us, if we do not cut
down the groves and break all the images in all
the land that we had conquered; that is, if we
did not root out and abolish all the old established
customs and forms of worship at the South, and
substitute, instead of the Episcopal, and Catholic,
and Baptist, and Methodist Churches of the
South the Puritan Churches of the North.—
Three or four months ago, he said, strong efforts
had been made to root out tlie false teachers at
the South, and to supply tlie Southern Churches
with godly men from New England and from
the Chicago Theological Seminary. But in an
evil hour President Johnson had ordered that
good work to be stopped, and the Southern
Churches were again in the hands of the South
ern people.
A Big Game—A Fallen Priest Turned
Confidence Man.—Some years ago Dennis
O’Neil was regularly ordained a priest in the
Catholic Church, and for a time served in that
capacity with credit to tlie church to which he
belonged and honor to himself, but, alas! he be
came tired of a life of that kind, aud lie drifted
into the whirlpool of frivolity, and soon the robes
of the clergyman were laid aside for the fashion
able dress of the world. From the social wine
glass to the flowing bowl, step bj' step, he sunk,
until at last the church took cognizance of the
fact and he was expelled from the same, lie
then mixed iu tlie fashionable world, and his
means became exhausted, he had to resort to
some plan to replenish his pocket-book. Too
proud to work, and having lost the confidence of
all who knew him, lie had to resort to the dodge
of the swindler in order to carry on his mode of
living. At different places persons were victim
ized out of considerable amounts by this clerical
gentleman, but in all instances, from some cause
or Other, he evaded the vigilance of the law and
never fell into the clutches ofthe officers until
he reached this city, where he was arrested by
officers McGuire and White.
We will give a sketch ot the operations of
O’Neil in our city; Some four months ago he
came to this place, reporting himself as one of
the priests, and by that means imposed upon
many. He paid a visit to the Orphan Asylum in
the upper portion of the city, where lie repre
sented he had some fine wines to sell, and ob
tained an amount of money to purchase casks to
put the same in. At another time he canvassed
the city, taking up subscriptions as lie said lor
the school at New Haven, and by this means
beat some of our citizens out of money, one of
our regular police officers being caught in the
trap. In a number of other ways did lie impose
upon the confidence of those with whom lie be
came acquainted. He left the city and returned
a short time since for tlie purpose, no doubt, of
resuming his game here. We understand that
the case will be investigated before tlie Police
Court this morning.
General Forrest and Telegraphic Cor
respondents.—Statements have often found
places in public journals with reference to the
conduct of General Forrest, which have not the
slightest foundation of truth. It was recently
asserted that he was so odious in the neighbor
hood of liis plantation that he could not live
there in safety; that his life was threatened by
those whom he had wronged white tiie war pro
gressed ; t hat lie had said that bribery would se
cure a pardon when all other means had failed.
There is not the semblance of truth in any of
these statements. He spends most of liis timein
this city, is persistently devoted to business, and
avows, at all times and under all circumstances,
his acquiescence in the established order ot things;
and is to-day, as lie was years ago, a staunch
friend and adherent of the Presidents
If the Press telegraphic correspondent who
disseminates these baseless stories as regards Gen.
Forrest would have an item of truth, let us say
to him that Forrest was the first general officer
of the whilome Confederate army whom wc
heard say that tlie Union was restored. He used
this expression at Meridian, Mississippi, when he
heard of Lee’s surrender. He lias never uttered
a word or done a deed in contravention of the
proposition then advanced. He asks it not at
our hands, but we only do him simple justice in
making tlie above statement.—Mem-pins Bulletin.
The Speed of the Pen.—A rapid penman
can write thirty words in a minute. To do this
he must draw his quill through the space of one
rod—sixteen and one-half feet. In forty minutes
liis pen travels a furlough ; and in five and one
third hours a mile. We make, on an average,
sixteen curves or turns to the pen in writing bach
word. Writing thirty words in a minute, we
must make four hundred and eighty-eight to end.
second ; in an hour, twenty-eight thousand eight
hundred ; in a day of only five-hours, one hun
dred and forty-four thousand ; in a year of three,
hundred days, forty-three million two hundred
thousand. The man who made one million
strokes with a pen in a month was not at all re
markable. Many men make four millions. Here
we have in the aggregate a mark three hundred
miles long, to be graced on paper by each writer
in a year. In making each letter of the ordinary
alphabet, wc must make from three to seven
strokes of the pen—or an average of three and
a-half to four.
Properties of Chmi*Mal.—Among the
many properties of charcoal, may he mentioned
its power of destroying smell, taste, and color;
and, as a proof of its possessing the first quality,
if it be rubbed over putrid meat, the smell will
lie destroyed. If a piece of charcoal be thrown
into putrid water, the putrid taste or flavor will
be destroyed, and the water be rendered com
pletely fresli. Sailors are aware of this; for,
when water is bad at sea, they are in the habit
of throwing pieces of burnt buisenit into it t.*
purify it. Color is materially influenced by char
coal, anil in a number of instances, in very ir
regular way. If you take a dirty black syiitp
and filter ft through burnt charcoal, the color
will be removed. The charcoal of animal mat
ter appears to be the best for this purpose. You
may learn the influence of charcoal in destroy
ing colors, by filtering a bottle of port wine
through it ; in the filtration it will lose a great
portion of its coloring, and become tawny'; re
peat tlie process two or three times, and you
have destroyed it altogether.
He Saw her but a Moment.—She wore a
handsome crinoline on tlie day when first we met,
and she scudded like a schooner with a cloud of
canvas set. As she swept along the pavement)
with a grandeur fit to kill, I saw her but a mo
ment, yet methiuks I see her still.
Tiie wind was on a bender, and as saucy as a
witch, and it played the very dickens with dust,
dimity, and sich! The gaiters were delicious
whicli her feet were made to fill—I saw her but
a moment, vet metliinks I see lier still!
She scotted round the corner, and streaming
out behind, lier crinoline and calico were romp
ing in the wind. To have kept them in position
would have baffled twice her skill. I saw her
but a moment, yet metliinks I see her stilt!
I shut my eyes treineajus, for 1 did’nt want to
see a display of pretty ankles when it wasn’t
meant tor me; and till I lose my senses, I am
sure I never will. I saw her but a moment, yet
metliinks I see lier siill!
Nervous Philosopher.—Tlie celebrated “J.
N.” is rather heavy on the “nerve.” Recently
meeting an entire stranger in a railway car, tlie
following dramatic conversation occurred:
J- N.—“Mj r friend, are you a man of nerve ?”
Stranger.—“I don’t know, 1 rather think I am.”
J. N.—“Well, sir, do you object to tlie appli
cation of a test ?■’
Stranger,—’“By no means.”
J. N.—“Well, sir, (in a loud voice," so that all
in the ear could hear hint,) have you got the
nerve to give me a two-doilar greenback for a
one ?”
The stranger “came down" instantaneously,
pulled out the two-dollar green-back, and re
ceived from tlie immortal philosopher a “one”
in exchange.