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TDeeklu JutrUigrnrfr.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Wednesday, January 3, 1806.
.tlat-on *«. Atlanta.
Under the above heading the Milledgeville
Southern Recorder publishes the following con
siderate editorial article in reply to the Journal
i(• Messenger, wlticli paper claims for Macon the
prestige of having more railroad gates to it than
Atlanta, and that, therefore, the latter's “ boast"
of being the “Gate City” is, of course, but a
boast. We are content to let our Macon cotcm-
porarv claim what it pleases for the city of its lo
cation, and to hunt up what U may, in the gen
erosity of its nature, to disparage Atlanta, with
out attempting to controvert any of its positions,
or to envy the rapid rise and progress of a city
renowned for its cotton warehouses and the pal
atial residences surrounding it. Atlanta 1 toasts
of no such grandeur. She makes no pretensions
to a score or an hundred gates. She is what she
is, a monument of State and individual enter
prise, possessing a population energetic and in
dustrious, who never think of Macon as its rival
in commerce, or for a name, or for anything.—
The day has passed by when such considerations
entered the minds of any of our people. The
future of Atlanta is too bright to let the prosper
ity of Macon cause her people any other emotion
than that of pleasure. We envy her not her
many "gates," nor our cotemporary his self-com
placency in boasting over them. We, In fact,
feel satisfied that Macon needs only one more
gate to make it the most to be envied city in the
State. We are sorry it has not yet that, else our
cotemporary would doubtless liave enumerated
it in its list—we mean “ the gate that opens to
Heaven ”!
But to the article of the Recorder:
Macon vs. Atlanta.—The Journal & Mes
senger lately iu an article of theirs on the build
ing of the Milledgeville Railroad—or the road
from Macon to Augusta—endeavored to show
up the advantages of Macon over Atlanta. It
SlIVH :
’'They boast in Atlanta of being the “Gate
City," and pray, bow many gates has she got?
Bhe has got a gate to Chattanooga—a gate to
West Point—a gate to Macon—and a gate to
Augusta. Four. And how many has Macon got ?
A gate to Savaunuli—a gate to Augusta—a gate
to Milledgeville and Eaton ton—a gate to Haw-
liicsvillc—a gate to Atlanta—a gate to Thomas-
ton—a gate to Columbus—a gate to Fort Gaines
—a gate to Eufaula—a gate to Albany—and she
is constructing another gate to Augusta, and a
gate to Brunswick—twelve gates representing
important railways and branch railways. Is
there any just comparison between the railway
facilities o'l' Atlanta and those of Macon?” &e.
We do not intend to become the champions of
either place ; as Georgians we glory iu the grow
ing prosperity of two of our cities, and bad we
the power, both Macon aud Atlanta should have
a population ilmt would rival New York. But
we think our Macon brother does not exactly do
justice to Atlanta iu enumerating her railways
with those of Macon. Atlanta has a gate to
Athens—a gate to Washington, Wilkes county—
a gate to Rome—a gate from Dalton to Cleve
land in Tennessee, making eight altogether.
Tho position of Atlanta is remarkably favora
ble to an immense travel at this time, from the
fact that all of the travel from North and South
Carolina, out west, comes over the Charleston
and Hamburg road ou to the Georgia R. R.,
thence through Atlanta to West Point, aud so
on. Also, all the travel from Tennessee and be
yond comes through Atlanta to go West, and
rice versa to go North or Northwest.
But when the Augusta and Macon road is fin
ished, Atlanta may well look out for a rival that
will be her equal, jierhaps overtop her in the
way of travel. A glance at the map will con
vince tho most superficial observer and most
timid capitalist that the Augusta and Macon road
will excel any other, (its length being considered,
120 miles,) in paying a good dividend. The
travel that now goes by the way of Atlanta will
find its way over this road on to Columbus, and
so on—tho route being so direct that travelers
will take the one that will insure a speedy trip
to Augusta or Charleston, or to any point in the
State or beyond. Those, of course, who desire
to go to Tennessee will take the West Point road.
But the great importance to Macon in the fin
ishing of tho Augusta and Macon road, is her
undisputed*claims tv» a cotton marker, a claim
that is now felt and recognized by the merchants
of (Savannah, Augusta and Charleston. The
building of a road Horn Augusta to Beaufort,
which we believe is under consideration and
partly finished, will add still more importance to
Macon. In days past it took all of the rolling
stock of the Central railroad to carry off the cot
ton from Macon; with a competing market, with
a direct road to Augusta, thence to Charleston,
more cotton will fiaa its way into Macon, and
at that point the merchants from the sea coast
will meet to buy cotton, and the two roads will
be active competitors for the carrying of the cot
ton to the coast. No longer will Macon snap
and growl at Savannah, ana ieel that they have
“Hob son’s choice." Savannah will wake up,
the Central railroad will wake up to a new en
ergy, competition will brighten the minds of
buyers, sellers and carriers, and give an impetus
to trade that will bo perfectly refreshing.
Even old Milledgeville will feel the shock of
improvement; her merchants will wake from
their Rip Van Winkle sleep, throw more energy
into their businessAncrease their stocks, and ad
vertise more liberally than they now do. We
regret their extreme modesty in this line of their
business. MacouJtvill also, if she is wise, look to
the building of nfire factories of all sorts; espe
cially can sue staid without a rival in her advan
tages in cotton manufactories. We look upon
the Mucon and Augusta road as the backbone to
the future strength and beauty of our neighbor,
tor then she camptand erect and be the admired
of oil admirers J The Brunswick road will be a
great arteiy tl» will give life and health also to
our sister eilijr Atlanta will be compelled to
play second ficflle to Macon so far as her cotton
market is concerned, and that market will he the
controlling feature of the citv.
As to Atlanta, we predict ior her a prosperous
fixture, and a commanding position. Her strength
and wealth frill consist in her advantages as a
grain and a nfirk market; with the mineral re
sources of upper Georgia to aid ns collateral
helps. Thrfuevelopment of Cherokee Georgia
in her mineMls will be to Atlanta an advantage
that is at thja time but faintly realized or appre
ciated. We anticipate a flow of population to
Northern Georgia in the course or a few vears
that will astonish the most sanguine expectant.
Atlanta will also taka high position as a manu
facturing city in the different branches of the me
chanical arts. Wise legislation and a liberal
policy to those who would become part and par
cel of us, and bring in capital and develop our
resources and build up factories of all kinds is
what the people should demand and the legisla
tures grant. We want no penny wise and pound
foolish policies at tins time. Georgia is out of
debt comparatively speaking, her $3,645,250 that
is owing can be paid easily without any great
burdeu'to the State, and if the earnings of the
State road and lier 9700,000 in the Savannah &
Gulf road pay as they have heretofore done,
there need be no fear but that our glorious old
State can pay her debts without embarrassment,
or heavy direct tax upon the people. All that capi
talists desire to know, is the taxation they must
pay and the advantages held out for location and
trade. Our State will never hliisli when she is
judged by her sister States.
We look forward to see Atlanta a place of no
small importance: and as we anticipate the build
ing of other roads from that place towards An
derson iu South Carolina, a road that will tell to
the still greater advantages of Atlanta, we would
be pleased to hear that the “Gate City” was
still wide awake to its construction. Especially
should the road from Atlanta to Decatur iu Ala
bama be built, an arm of strength will he given
to the city that will be truly enviable.
By the*way, Bavaunah should see to it that
the gap from Madison to Eatonton, connecting
herself with Atlanta, is built as sooxt as the Cen
tral railroad can afford it. Then Milledgeville
would be able to boast of being a Little Gate
City—having a gate to Augusta—a gate to Ma
con—a gate to tlie Central railroad—a gate to
the Georgia railroad; thus making the Capital
accessible from all points. But when the Au
gusta and Macon roJd is finished. Macon can
claim the honor of being the Big Gate Citv.
Death.—That man was mistaken, when he
talked about its being hard to die; living is the
hard part. Only live right, and there will be no
trouble about dying.
* ^ .
rnE Me.t to Marry.—Piytch ^ives some
^iuicn
good advice to women in looHug for suitable
husbands. Among other tilings he says:
The man who don’t take tea, ill treats the eat
takes snuff, and stands with his back to the fire’
is a brute whom I would not advise you to mar
ly on any consideration, either for love or mon-
ay, but decidedly not for love. But the man
who, when tea is over, i3 discovered to have had
none, is very sure to make the best husband.
Patience like his deserves being^rewarded with
tho beat of wives and the best of mother-in-laws.
My dears, when yon meet with such a man, do
f our best to many him. In the severest winter
• would not mind going to bed first.
Trial of G. B. Lunar Before a Military i
Comwlwlon at Savannah.
We have before us in the Savannah Republican,
of the 27th instant, the first day’s proceedings of
this important trial It is, as reported for that
paper, preceded by a brief summary of the life
of that gentleman, who is so well known in Geor
gia that we omit further reference to it. The
court is composed of a military commission—the
counsel for Mr. Lamar are Julian Hartridge and
Thomas E. Loyd, Esqs. The latter demurred to
the jurisdiction of the court, which was over
ruled. The different charges and specifications
were then read, to which the accused pleaded,
“ Not Guilty." They are as follows:
Charge First.—Maliciously and wilfully com
bining and conspiring together with Gazaway B.
Lamar, Jr., and James L. Seward and Arthur P.
Wright, and others unknown, to defraud the
United States by stealing cotton lielonging to the
said United States.
Specification First.—In this, that the said Gaz-
way B. Lamar did wilfully and maliciously, at
Savannah, Chatham county, and at Thomasvilie,
Thomas county, both in the State of Georgia, and
at divers other places in the State of Georgia, in
or about the eighteenth day of October, 1865, and
on divers other days between the said eighteenth
day cf October and the second day of December,
1865, combine and conspire together with Gaza
way B. Lamar, Jr., and James L. Seward and
Arthur P. Wright, all civilians, and residents of
the State of Georgia, and others unknown, to
steal sixty-seven bales of cotton, marked [S] of
great value, to-wit: ten thousand dollars, and
also certain other bales of cotton of great value,
but the number and value of which are unknown,
which said cotton formerly belonged to a certain
company known as “The Importing and Export
ing Company of the Stated Georgia,” and which
cotton at the time and times above mentioned
belonged to the United States, thereby intending
to defraud the United States.
Specification Second.—In this, that the said
Gazaway B. Lamar did wilfully and maliciously
at Savannah, in the county of Chatham, and at
Thomasuille, in the county of Thomas, both in
the State of Georgia, and at divers other places
in the said State of Georgia, on or about the
eighteenth day of October, and on divers other
days between the said eighteenth day of October
and the second day of December, 1865, combine
and conspire together with Gazaway B. Lamar,
Jr., and Janies L. Seward and Arthur P. Wright,
all civilians, resident in the State of Georgia, and
other persons unknown, to steal sixty-seven bales
of cotton, marked [S] of great value, to-wit, ten
thousand dollars, and also certain other bales of
cotton, of great value but the number and value
of which are unknown, all of which cotton at
the time and times above mentioned, belonged to
the United States, and thereby intended to de
fraud the United States.
Charge Second.—Maliciously and wilfully de
frauding the United States by stealing cotton
belonging to the United States'
Specification First.—In this, that said Gazaway
B. Lamar did wilfully and maliciously, at Savan
nah, in the county or Chatham, and at Thomas-
ville, in the county ot Thomas, both in the State
of Georgia, ami at divers other places in said
State of Georgia, on or about the eighteenth day
of October, 1865. and on divers other days be
tween the said eighteenth day of October and
the second day of December, 1865, steal sixty-
seven bales of cotton marked [8], of great value,
to-wit, ten thousand dollars, and also certain
other bales of cotton, of great value, but the value
and number of which are unknown, which said
cotton formerly belonged to a certain company
known as “ The Importing and Exporting Com
pany of the State of Georgia,” and which cotton,
at the time and times above mentioned, belonged
to the United States, and thereby be, the said
Gazaway B. Lamar, did defraud the United
States.
Specification Second.—Iu this, that the said
Gazaway B. Lamar did wilfully and maliciously,
at Savannah, Chatham county, and at Thomas-
ville, Thomas county, both iu the State of Geor
gia, and at divers other places in the said State
of Georgia, on or about the eighteenth day of
October, 1865, and at divers other times between
the said eighteenth day of October and the sec
ond day of December, 1865, steal, sixty-seven
bales of cotton, marked [8], of great value, to-
wit, ten thousand dollars, and also certain other
bales of cotton, of great value, but the value and
number of which are unknown, which cotton, at
the time and times above mentioned, belonged
to the United States, and thereby he, the said
Gazaway B. Lamar did defraud the United
States.
Charge Third.—Maliciously and wilfully com
bining and conspiring, together with Gazaway
B. Lamar, Jr., and others unknown, to bribe of
ficers and others in the military and civil ser-
viN'it-.lbe United States, for the purpose and
with the intent to defraud the United States.
Specification First.—In this, that he, the said
Gazaway B. Lamar, did wilfully and malicious
ly at Savannah, in tlie county of Chatham, and
at Thomasville in the county of Thomas, both
in the State of Georgia, and at divers other places
in the said State of Georgia, on or about the 18th
day of October, 1865, and on divers other days,
between the said eighteenth day of October and
the second day of December, 1865, combine and
conspire, together with Gazaway B. Lamar, Jr.,
and others unknown, to bribe Col. Win K. Kim
ball, 12th regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry,
aud certain soldiers, names unknown, all then
and there being in the military service of the
United States, and also Albert G. Browne, Su
pervising Special Agent in charge Fifth Special
Agency of the Treasury Department of the Uni
ted States, and W. A. Beard, contractor, both of
ficials in the service and eipplov of the Treasury
Department of the United States, for the purpose
of and with the intent to steal certain cotton be
longing to the United States, and thereby to de
fraud the same.
Specification Second.—In this, that the said
Gazaway B. Lamar did wilfully and maliciously,
at Savannah, in the county of Chatham, and at
Thomasville, in the county of Thomas, both in
the State of Georgia, and at divers other places
in the said State of Georgia, on or about the 18th
day of October, 1865, ana on divers other days
between the said eighteenth day ot October and
the second day of December, 1865, combine and
conspire, together with Gazaway B. Lamar, Jr.,
aud others unknown to bribe certain officials,
both military and civil, and certain soldiers cf
the United States, then and there having posses
sion of certain bales of cotton belonging to the
United States, for the purpose of and with the
intent to steal said cotton, and thereby to defraud
the United States. Jno. H. Watrous,
(Signed) Capt. 103d U. S. C. Infantry,
Judge Advocate.
The first witness on the part of the prosecu
tion, Col. William Kimball, of the 12th West
Maine Volunteers, was then sworn, who, after
giving in his testimony, produced a large mani
fold writer and a bundle of Utters, which he had
seized as belonging to the prisoner—seven of
which were read. Two only of them we see
published in the Republican of the 27th, owing
to want of space for the other five. The two
are as follows-.
Thomasvii.i.k, Ga., Oct 24, 1865.
JDeitr Uncle—I leave with train in the morn
ing, which will carry the 45 bales from Boston,
the 73 from Quitman, and 8 hales from Groover’s
—two of the ten from the latter place reported
stolen.
1 have had xuueh trouble and annoyance, eve
rybody, with one or two exceptions, working
against me. I shall go to Blackshear on Friday
to see Col. Kimball, by appointment. I am
thrown, and have been on my judgment, and
liave done my best, which I hope will give satis
faction. I am. anxious to see you. I have fol
lowed your instructions as far 'as possible, and
have gone outside of them when it was impossi
ble, but I hope to get cotton.
Yours truly, G. B. Lamar, Jr.
I shall be at Quitman until Friday morning,
and then at Blackshear.
TnoMASVTiXE, Ga., Nov. 15, I860.
Dear Uncle—Browne will complete in the
morning the shipment of the Importing and Ex
porting Company's cotton in Parnell’s warehouse
—having already shipped that from McKinnon’s.
I enclose you complete list of what he has ship
ped. He has not obtained his receipts for what
ts now on the platform ready to be shipped, so
that I am not positive about to-day’s work—the
rest is accurate.
Browne has not yet replied to Seward’s letter,
a copy of which 1 sent j t ou, and has whipped
the light by delaying the answer. His shipper,
Mr. liayes, with whom I conversed this evening,
informs' me that the North Carolina cotton will
lie shipped next. Tlxis North Carolina cotton is
undoubtedly blockade, and I cannot see why he
should hesitate between that and the L and E.
Co., which is not a blockade company. I hope
that you will be able to stop all in Savannah ;
gin to think that all will yet be saved.
The train has not yet arrived, aud it is feared
that some bridge may have been washed away
by tlie recent heavy rains. I hope that commu
nication lias not been cut. I am very anxious to
bear from you. Yours truly,
' ' G. B. Lamar, Jr.
The Court then adjourned until the next morn
ing at o’clock.
The Hope of the Sooth.
We do not despair, says the Nashville Gazette,
“of deliverance at the hands of the President.
There is yet a chance that he may be able to rally
to the support of his policy, a majority even of
the present Congress. It be fail in this, then
what hope of defense have the Southern people,
against the merciless tyranny of the radicals ?”
“There is perhaps still one refuge for us. With
out the exports heretofore furnished by the South
ern States, it cannot be very long before disaster
and ruin must overtake the commerce of the
North, and, as a consequence, the revenue and
the credit of the Federal Government. When
this result becomes evident and imminent, the
radical bondholders among the Northern popu
lation may be induced to do us justice, lor the
sake of their own pecuniary salvation.”
“Without peace and security, Southern agricul
tural products cannot and will not be raised, to
any considerable amount. Peace and security
cannot come by such unjust and destructive Con
gressional legislation as we are now threatened
with. For this reason, and not from any high or
patriotic motives, the Northern radical majority
may be forced to renounce the pleasure of tread
ing us “into the mire, clear out of sight” “King
cotton” may not be yet dead—only temporarily
dethroned.”
The Speech op Henry J. Raymond, in the
Congress of the United States, our northern ex
changes say, astonished his political friends and
enemies alike, by its very brilliant reply to Thad.
Stevens’ speech made a few days previously.
It appears that Stevens was not in the house du
ring the delivery of tlie speech, and the amaze
ment of bis next friends was an index of what he
might have expressed had he been present Va
rious attempts were made to badger Mr. Ray
mond by questions from the radical side, which
most signally failed. He proved capable and
ready in debate—spoke without notes, it is said,
rapidly, clearly, and forcibly. The point of his
argument was, that the ordinances of secession
were nothing more, says the Philadelphia Ledger,
than so many expressions of a purpose to go out
of the Union, and to break up the Government,
which did not succeed, and that the States lately
in revolt are therefore still in the Union. Around
this position he gathered an unanswerable argu
ment. One of his points alone will show the
dangerous position into which Mr. Stevens is car
ried by liis extraordinary theory. If secession
was a success; if the Southern States were re^jy
out of the Union, and became a foreign power,
as Mr. Stevens claims, then their debt becomes
valid, and tlie United States succeeds to the
privilege of paying it. Is any considerable por
tion of the American people willing to pay for
the whistle of Mr. Stevens at such a rate as this?
This excellent effort of Mr. Raymond, viewed in
connection with the course of Mr. Cowan, Mr.
Doolittle, Mr. Dixon, and Mr. Sherman in the
Senate, shows that sound patriotism and com
mon sense are still to be found in Congress.
The Test Oath.—The Washington City Con
stitutional Union of the 25th instant says that in
the Supreme Court of the United States yester
day, pending the ease, ex parte, A. N. Garland,
of Arkansas, asking to be allowed to practice as
a counsellor, the Hon. Reverdy Johnson deliv
ered an argument against the constitutionality of
the Congressional test oath, on the grounds of its
ex post facto nature; that is, making an act a
crime, which, at the passage of the law, was not
a crime. It excluded the petitioner from the
pursuit of a lawful profession, and by this means
punished him cruelly and unjustly, in defiance,
too, of the President’s pardon. Mr. Johnson
spoke two hours, and delivered a very able and
powerful argument, which was listened to with
great attentiveness by a large number of the le
gal profession The court yet holds the applica
tion under advisement, and has adjourned until
Tuesday next.
Alabama Vagrant Law.
The following is the Vagrant Law enacted by
the Alabama? Legislature:
A BILL to be entitled an Act concerning Va
grants and Vagrancy.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives in General Assembly con
vened, That the Commissioner’s Court of any
county in this State may purchase, rent or pro
vide such lands, buildings and other property, as
may be necessary for a Poor House, or House of
Correction, for any such county, and may ap
point suitable officers for the management there
of, and make all necessaty by-laws and regula
tions for the government of the inmates thereof,
and cause the same to be enforced; but iu no
case shall the punishment inflicted exceed hard
labor, either in or out of said house; the use of
chain gangs, putting in stocks, if necessary to
prevent escapes, such reasonable correction as a
person may inflict upon a stubborn, refractory
child, and solitary confinement for not longer
than one week on bread and*water; and may
cause to be hired out such as are vagrants to
work in chain gangs or otherwise, for the length
of time for which they are sentenced; and the
proceeds of such hiring must be paid into the
County Treasury, for the benefit of the helpless
in said Poor House or House of Correction.
Sec. 2. That the following persons are vagrants
in addition to those already declared to be va
grants by law, or that may hereafter be so de
clared by law: a stubborn or refractory servant,
a laborer or servant who loiters away his time or
refuses to comply with a contract for a term of
service without just cause, and any such person
may be sent to the House of Correction in the
county in which such offense is committed; and
for want of such House of Correction, the com
mon jail of the county may be used for that
purpose.
Sec. 3. That when a vagrant is found, any jus
tice of the peacg of the county must, upon com
plaint made upon oath, or on hi9 personal knowl
edge, issue his warraift to the Sheriff or any con
stable of the county to bring such person before
him, and if, upon examination and hearing of
testimony, it appears to such justice that such
person is' a vagrant, he shall assess a fine of fifty
dollars and costs against such vagrant, and in de
fault of payment, he rtay commit such a vagrant
to tlie House of Correction, or if no such house,
to the common jail of the county for a term not
exceeding six months, and until such cost and
charges are paid, or such party is otherwise dis
charged by law; provided, that when committed
to jail under this section, the Commissioner’s
Court may cause him to be hired out in like man
ner as in section first of this act
Sec. 4. That when any person shall be convict
ed of vagrancy as provided for in this act, the
justice of the peace before whom such conviction
is had, may at his discretion either commit such
person to jail, or to tlie House of Correction, or
hire such person to any person who will hire the
same for a period not longer than six months, for
cash, giving three days notice of the time and
place of hiring, after paying all costs and charges,
shall be paid into the County Treasury for the
helpless in the poor house.
Sea 5. That all fines received by any justice of
the peace shall be paid into tlie county Treasury
for the purpose as stipulated in the first section
of this act
Sec. 6. That it shall be the duty of the justice
of the peace to settle with the county Treasurer
at least once a month for all fines received by
him under this act, and tor a wilful default so to
do, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction by any court having jurisdiction
shall be fined in double the amount so received
or collected by him, and all costs of suit
Sec. 7. That the Court of county Commis
sioners of each county shall have full control of
the pablic works and' public highways therein,
and shall make all contracts in relation thereto;
and shall have power to appoint a superintendent
of said public works and highways under such
rules and regulations as said court shall deter
mine, and any justice of the peace trying any
cause under this act, on conviction shall have
power to sentence such vagrant to work on said
public works and highways nnder the supervi
sion of such superintendent for not more than
forty days.
Boston spec-
of a letter
that city. The
are at work,
[get employment at
>n them. The line
clears over
per month, and
How Atlanta appears
taclea will be seen from
written from hereto a
letter says “four thousand
and five thousand more
once if materials were purchasable. Over two
hundred stores have bcea&built and opened,
and still traders pour in w|o cannot obtain ac
commodations. In fact, At]y«a ig doing more
business than Macon and Anista together. The
four railroads centering title, though crowded
with freight and passenger Raffle, are totally un
able to meet the demands
leading from Atlanta to Ci
one hundred thousand d<
had the company enough iigines and cars, it
could add fifty thousand dollars more to that
sum. So densely crowded^ are all the narrow
and crooked streets of Atisnk with teams, work
men vehicles, business tnenJTgoods, building ma
terials, etc., that Chicago'mi her busiest days
could hardly show such a sjjht. Builders, busy
as they are, cannot take all,the contracts offered
them, and rents are fabulously high. Perhaps
the reader will not be si
of the tradesmen now so
there before the war, and
yet to be regarded as pel
ertheless the former residi
re-establishing themselvi
Looses and getting things a
man did not destroy all thidty. He spared the
City Hall, the Medical College, all churches,
many of the handsomer
inga, and nearly all the
and poorer classes, so
there was ample shelter f<
thousand persons. But
tion of the city was
some of the larger dwell!
to learn that few
:ve in Atlanta were
,t few of them are
lently settled. Nev-
are returning and
re-furnishing their
order again. Slier-
more stylish dwell-
of the middling
>n the first of June
at least six or eight
entire business sec-
ed, together with
e sun,. othegjj^ that
ne£ It proved to
ntly recovered his
’diere, touched by
Tlie blow-
■y us some may fan-
^ Captain Femierwas
That is not a bad sroBV^told of an English
man in the Crintear • I^a^Rinently a Frenchy
affair, and was somethifl^MBthis wise. It ap
pears he was madly in lifyrith a Scoteli vivan-
diere at Balaclava, and Ik ed her with his ad
dresses The young wont 1 no longer able to en
dure the annoyance, forba fe him the door. After
many a vain attempt to o errule tlie objections
the tourist determined to 1 nnuiit suicide, but, in
the presence of the great gents which were be
ing played out in no pa ty manner. Having
first bequeathed his fortune to the vivandiere; he
caused a deep hole to be dbg, in which he placed
twenty pounds of powderj; over this excavation
a slab was laid, and upoq^it the rejected one,
cigar in mouth, took his seat He tranquilly fin
ished his weed, which wa&to doubt a good one
and not easily parted witiGmd then applied the
expiring embers to the magazine below. “L’ex-
plosion eut lieu,” and two; minutes later a char
red mass descending fronithe heavens fell into
the port—a mass which agoniahed British sea
men recognized as a human body, and proceeded
to fish from the water. There was a general cry
of “A man from Heaven?* some declared that
he had been kicked out
he was an aeronaut con
be the Englishman, who
consciousness, and the
this proof of affection, ca]
ing up is not so extraoi
cy, for, adds M. Louis _ 7 _, - , f — —
blown up with hi9 battery aud was found sitting
500 yards off, wondering what the devil had
happened, and not in tb£jeast hurt.
The cost op living in Washington just now r
is rather startling, if correspondents writing from
that city speak correctly^ A letter to a West
ern paper states that a Congress member from
Illinois has been in Washington some days, en
joying the luxury of a nJSm iu the third story of
Willard’s Hotel at the riflfaerate quid pro quo of
eighteen dollars per dayTjt says further: “This
is not an isolated case, lidwever, for your mem
ber from Chicago is a regular boarder, and occu
pies a room on the second floor, about ten by
•fourteen; with not-ttnaaJptpHarye bed in it, for
which he remunerates the proprietor at the rate
of only ten dollars per day, or three thousand six
hundred and fifty dollars per annum. Your
correspondent has a lively recollection of indi
viduals whom he has now in his mind’s eye,
who could not, if they honestly and promptly
re-imbursed the proprietor, honor that house
with their presence, as a guest, for the space of
over about fifteen minutes.
“ It rained one day, and cotton umbrellas went
up to seven dollars. Members ot Cdfigress get
three thousand dollars salary, from which a tax
of five per cent, is taken - The mileage is count
ed by an air-line, and to show to those who
complain that the tax commissioner is exacting,
and also to show that Uncle Samuel is no re
specter of persons, a tax is taken from this too.
It is veiy easy to see that these honorable gen
tlemen are not without their little trials as well
as the common folks that independently sit by
their firesides and enjoy the sweet luxuries of a
home.”
Br request, we publish the following impor-[
taut circular issued by General Tillbon, Acting :
Assistant Commissioner of the Freedmen’s Bu
reau, at his headquarters in Augusta:
Brmr or Bit's, Frd'nn aid Abandoned Lands, 1
Omn Acting Assistant Oomnissionib. Ga., v
Augusts, Ga., Dee. SSd, 1885.)
Circular No. 5.
In answer to numerous inquiries, the following
is published for the information and guidance of
Officers and Agents of this Bureau.
L This Bureau does not propose to support or
remove from the plantations, or homes of their
late masters, the helpless and decrepid freed
people or young children. If the former have
children who are able to support them, they must
be required to do so, if not, there is no other al
ternative but that their former owners shall pro
vide for them until the State makes provision lor
their support. The ]>arents of the latter, if able,
must support them, it not. Agents will endeavor
to bind them out, together with orphans and
those whose parents can not be found, as set forth
in Circular No. 3, from this office.
It must be apparent to tlie people that it is im
practicable, if not impossible, for the Bureau to
remove and provide for the very large number of
destitute and helpless freed people who are scat
tered throughout the State. Besides, it should be
remembered, that there was an implied contract
between the master and his slave, that in return
for his service the slave should lie fed, clothed
and lodged, during his old age, and where the
former slave lias fulfilled tlie conditions of the
contract on liis part, the former master is not
absolved from bis obligations, by the freedom of
tlje slave, for which the latter is in no way
responsible. Honor and humanity require that
the former master shall not attempt to escape
from or evade his responsibilities. Even such
colored people as are able, by their labor, to pro
vide for their old, worn out parents, have a right
to expect that tiie former owners of the parents,
will, if able, assist them in bearing this burden.
Justice requires this. It would be shameful to
impose the entireburde 1 upon those whose only
means of support i% their labor. Very few per-
sonAjinflbM&n f6ui*d in the fcttaty, and they by
mrmejHtyneftiost estimable, wl|6 do not regard
The Contrast.—A Texan editor, on his trav
els, writes a graphic and vety interesting letter,
to the Galveston News, from which we extract
the following paragraph:
Morning on the Mississippi! The sun is glo
rious, as the little white fog fleeces are drank up
by its beams. Look out u$on the stately man
sions, the great piles of sugar mil^ and the vil
lages of white cottages where the slave resided
and grew sleek and happy. Where is he now ?
I look in vain for the long lines of the cheerful
darkies streaming out at this hour of the mottl
ing, singing the cheerful chant that once spoke of
their careless happiness. The fields are full of
weeds—no smoke from the quarters and, and the
d<*ors are shut. Whither have they gone t All
is silence and desolation. What mean those sol
itary chimney stacks, those half fallen walls of
brick, the rugged shrubbery and fenceless gar
dens? Ah! the destroyer has been here. The
slave has had his shackles stricken off, and he has
gone forth to freedom—nakedness and death.—
The torch has 9wept his master’s house, but not
by liis hand applied, yet' by his holy liberator.—
His master’s family efriven into exile and wAnt;
his home and associations broken up, and he in
troduced, with hallelujah, to starvation and
wretchedness. This sunshine only mocks the
ruin on those once happy shores.
the matter in the light slated.
II. In upper and middle Georgia, where the
land Is comparatively floor, ancl but a small
quantity of cott&n or corn can be raised to the
acre, planters offer from twelve to tbirteeif dollars
per month, with board ana lodging, to full male,
and eight to ten dollars to full temale field bauds,
the laborer to furnish his own clothing and me
dicines. Along the coast and in Southwestern
Georgia, and in other portions of the State, where
good crops of cotton, rice, com or sugar can be
raised, planters offer fifteeen dollars per month,
board and lodging, to full male, and ten dollars
to full female field hands. In all portions of the
State, planters are found who prefer to give a
portion of the crop, which, with a favorable
season, would probably give the laborer a sum
equivalent to that above mentioned. Usually,
they offer from one third the gross to one half the
net proceeds. They are at liberty to pay money
or a portion of the crop as may lie preferred by
the parties.
III. Freed people who have sufficient property,
or are so situated that they can support them
selves and families, without making contract for
their labor, have the right to refuse to make con
tracts and must be protected iu this right; but in
all other cases, [comprising the vast majority of
the freed people] it is absolutely necessary that
they make contracts, to ensure a supply of food
and escape starvation the coming year. It is also
imperatively necessary that contracts be made in
time, to prepare for raising crops the ensuing
^§jjj|^egpl§( have the right to select their own
employers; but if they continue to neglect or re
fuse to make contracts then, on and after Janu
ary 10th, 1866, officers and agents of the Bureau
will have the right, and it shall be their duty to
make contracts for them, in all pages where" em
ployers offer good wages and kind treatment
unless the freed people belong to tlie class above
excepted, or can show that they can obtain better
terms. Contracts so made shall be as binding on
both parties, as though made with the full consent
of the freed people.
IV. Article II, of the amendments to the Con
stitution, of the United States, gives the people
the right to bear arms, and states that this right
"shall not be infringed,” Any person, white or
black, may be disarmed if convicted of making
an improper and dangerous use of weapons; but
no military or civil officer has the right or au
thority to disarm any class of people, thereby
placing them at the mercy of others. All nten,
without distinction of color, have the right to
keep arms to defend their homes, families or
themselves.
V. All persons are forbidden to tamper with
or entice laborers to leave their employers before
the expiration of their contracts, either by offering
higher 'wages or other iaduceritents. Officers
and agents will punish by fine or otherw,se, any
person who may be convicted of such acts.
The public interest requires that labor be made
reliable and profitable, and 30 long as the freed
laborer is well paid and kindly treated, this
Bureau will not tolerate any interference with
the rights and interests of employers.
Davis Tillson,
Brig. Gen. Vols., and Act. Asst. Com.
A good story is told of the Rev. Robert J.
and i f our judges^are” but"trae* to ^ ho wa ? temporary chairman of
? . . . „ ... , . - ’ the Baltimore Convention last Year, and the late
the Baltimore Convention last year, and the late
Thomas F. Marshall, of Kentucky. Both wish
ing to establish a reputation in early life, meas
ured lances with Henry Clay, and, of course, got
the worst of it- A few years afterwards the two
met—the latter being on one of liis customary
sprees. The lawyer exclaimed, to the divine:
“Ah! Bob, it was an unlncky day for us when
we tilted against the Great Hariy! It drove me
to the bottle and yon to the pulpit, Bob*; but I
We shall note the progress of this remarkable | have stock a d-—d right closer to my text than
trial—one that excites a lively—we may say a
painful interest—not only in Savannah, but
tliroughout the State.
you have to yours.”
An Inconvenient Habit.—Somebody tells
the following little story, but neglects to mention
whether the sufferer was a Federal or Confeder
ate officer. The affair occurred on the occasion
of a grand review in Charleston:
The commanding General had engaged a fine-
looking charger, that had been doing duty in the
bread cart. The troops were formed in line to
be reviewed, and as the band struck up the Gen
eral and staff came galloping down in front to a
good round place, when just as he was passing
the centre of the line some fellow in the ranks,
knowing the characteristics of the animal, sang
out “bread.” The old horse, true to his habit
when hearing the word, came to a “halt,” and as
a matter of course, pitching his rider over his
head, and landing him spread-eagle fashion on
the grass.
Discipline could not stand it; there was a roar
of laughter from one end of the line to the other,
including several hundred spectators. I think I
never saw so mad a man in my life. He jumped up,
drew his sword, and for a few moments it seemed
as if he would take the life of every man on the
ground. He stormed and raved, offered untold
wealth for the name ot the man who did the mis
chief bat I doaty if he ever knew. I never sec
a General and staff galloping down the line that
I don’t think of the scene and the way that high
functionary went to
All the horses loaned by the United States
Government to the fanners in North Carolina,
last summer, have been ordered in.
A Long Look Ahead.—A contemporary
tarns his visage to the future, and through the
misty distance of two hundred years sees and
describes the following :
Scene—House of a citizen in New York.
Time—A. D. 3056, A telegraphic message
has been sent to a servant, who presents himself
M the window in a balloon.
Master.—John, go to Sptith America and tell
Mr. Johnson I shall be happy to have him sup
with me this evening. ^
In five minutes John morns. .
John.—Mr. Johnson says he will come. He
is obliged to go to the North Fide for a moment,
and wul call herb as he comes back.
Master.—Very well, John. Now you may
j wind up the machine for setting the table, and
telegraph to my wife that Mr. Johnson will be
Mrs. Jane Swisshelm, the strong minded j here presently. After tStat, John, you may dust
woman, is advocatin'the employment of females out my balloon—I will have an appointment in
in the government offices. Like Mrs. Bloomer, j London at twelve o’clock.
she “pants for fame,” and is inclined to be mad
that her sex are deprived of the inalienable right
to sing bass.
From the Washington City Union.
Sumner, Stevens, and tlie President.
The style of debate recently adopted by Mr.
Sumner in the Senate, and Mr. Stevens in the
House, is not calculated, says the Philadelphia
Ledger, to raise them in the esteem of their coun-
tiymen. Perhaps, indeed, Mr. Sumner does not
care, for we understand that he has no regard for
white people. There was a time in the Congress
of the United States when the members of that
body had sufficient respect for their own dignity
to receive and treat with courtesy a message from
the President, who is their equal as a co-ordinate
branch of the Government. But some of our
modem law-givers have changed all that. The
Senate sends to the President a resolution asking
to.be informed ot the condition of the States late
ly in rebellion, and for certain reports on the sub
ject. This information is promptly and cour
teously furnished by the President, and thereupon
the Senator from' Massachusetts, because the
message does not agree with his ideas, stigma
tizes the communication as a “white-washing re
port.” What can be expected of a Senator who
thus permits passion to cloud his judgment, and
personal spleen to overcome a proper sense of
official decency ?
A similar scene took place in the House on
Monday last, showing a total disregard of that
courtesy (to say nothing of good feeling) which
should prevail between a member of Congress,
who is a part of one branch of the Government,
and the President, who is the head of another.
Mr. Stevens, pretending to state the positions of
Mr. Jolmsou, wholly misrepresented them,giving
a distorted view of his opinions ; and then, with
a perfect knowledge that the President has offi
cially acted on the ground that all the States are
stilt in the Union, Mr. Stevens characterized those
who held such opinions as “dreamy theorists.”—
Nothing could be more offensive or insulting
than such language used by one officer to an
other, and it was only surpassed by the savage
and almost blasphemous attack made by Mr. Ste
vens, in tlie same speech, on a dead Chief Justice
of the United States. It Andrew Joluison were
a bad man, or a man of doubtful loyalty, or of
weak mind, or ambitious of power to be used for
his own advancement, instead of being a strong,
firm, vigorous thinker, an unimpeachable patriot,
and jenlous of the one-man power, the remarks
used by Mr. Sumner and Mr. Stevens might liave
some color of excuse, but as the case stands they
are such as the people should unanimously con
demn.
As to the matter which called out Mr. Sum
ner’s improper words, the people have had an
opportunity to judge. They will foil to find in
the plain, dispassionate and clear statement of
the condition of tlie Southern States, which Mi - .
Johnson sent into the Senate, anythiug which
calls for such offensive observations. It must be
remembered that he has the whole case before
him, and no other fhember of the government
has, either inside or outside of Congress, and
therefore his judgment is entitled to respect, as
it is most - likely to be correct. And it should
also be borne in mind that he fiad just been
strengthened in his opinion by the report of Gen
eral Grant, who was fresh from an extended
Southern tour of examination on the very sub
ject on which the Senate asked to be informed.
General Grant’s opinion is identical with that
oi the President. He had talked with all kinds
of people, as he was traveling, with leading
Southern men in the principal towns, and with
his own officers, high and low, and he came
back “satisfied that the mass of the thinking men
of the South accept the present situation of af
fairs in good faith,” and that they regard the de
cision which has been given against them on the
battle-lieid “as a fortunate one for the whole
country.” In another place in his report he says
that there “is such a universal acquiescence in the
authority of the General Government” in the
parts of the country he visited, that the mere
presence of small portions of the military is suffi
cient to preserve order.” The_ people will be
much more likely to pot faith in the President
and General Grant than in Mr. Stunner and Mr. !
One Pair of Stocking*.
Told a trie of long ago; ,
While down by her side, on tho kitchen floor.
Stood a backet of wonted balls—a score.
Then she spoke of the time when the basket there
Was filled to the very brim.
And now there remained of the goodly pile
But a single pair—for him.
Then wonder not at the dimmed eye-sight, .
There's but one pair of stockings to mend to-night.
For each empty nook in the basket old.
By the hearth there’s an empty seat;
And I miss the shadows from off the wall.
And tho patter of many feet;
'Tis for that that a tear gathered over my sight
At the one pair of stockings to mend to-night.
'Tis said that far through the forest wild,
Aud over the mountains bold.
Was a land whose rivers and darkening caves
Were hemmed with the rarest gold;
Tben my first-born turned from the o-tkeu door,
And I knew the shadows were only four.
Another went forth on the foaming waves
And diminished the basket’s store —
But his feet grew cold—so weary aud cold—
Thev’U never be wartp any more—
And this nook in its emptiness seemeth to me
To give forth no voice but the moan of the sea.
Two others have gone towards the setting sun.
And made them a home iu its light.
And fairy fingers have taken their share
To mend by the fireside bright;
Some other basket their garments fill.
But mine! oh, mine is emptier still.
Another—the dearest—the fairest—the l>est—
Was taken by angels away.
And clad in a garment that waxeth not old,
In a land of continual day •
Oh ! wonder no more at the dimmed eye-sight.
While I mend the one pair of stockings to-night.
Frozen to Death !—Alone on the Arctic
Sea !
Were I to chronicle the events of the dav, or
indeed to write down the story of each week, in
this my first voyage, I don’t know when I should
finish iny story.' I must tell it therefore as briefly
as I can.
We soon left San Mayon and sailed northward
to prosecute our searcli for Sir John Franklin.
Our men were as anxious as the captain, and un
der his direction Bobus fitted up a cask which,
stuffed witli wool aud straw, was hoisted up to
tlie mast head and there fixed. It was called “a
crow’s nest^’ and there a man, relieved every
half hour, stood with his glass in hand, looking
out for a sail, for land, or for any present dan-.
gT|»6’.
I had myself mounted one day, watching with
Bobus, the progress of a fine iceberg floated
down towards us, with a slightly rotary mo
tion. We had not watched long, when a sight
was presented which we had not before seen.
“Look, Bobus!” cried I in amazement; “look
there, there’s a man !”
“As sure as my name’s Jack Co—!’’ He did
not finish tlie sentence because he was so sur
prised, for there, seated on tlie berg, iu a cavity
which formed round him like a natural arm
chair, witli liis head leaning on tlie hand, anil
his arm on his- knee, was an English sailor
hair blew wildly about, and his hat was J
his garments, loose and covered with he
blew towards us, so that I thought he beckoned
us.
“Yo, ho! shipmate. Yo, ho !” cried Bobus
frantically. “Yoho! What cheer?”
The figure never stirred nor answered. T
wind blew out his hair and ragged garmen
before.
The men were all astir on deck, for tlieMgaw
the figure, and presently the captain cannjSlbft
with his glass and looked at him earnestly.
Slowly the berg bore down upon us; the helm
was altered, so that the ship wore round and
passed the berg at some seventy feet distance,
as nearly as we could with safety to ourselves.
Bobtis, the most hopeful of us all, continued to
shout as out countryman came near.
“An English jib, cried Bobu3. “One of Sir
John’s men, as I make out; yo, ho! shipmate,
yo, ho!”
“It’s no use shouting, Bobus,” cried the cap
tain. “He’s been dead for weeks, if not for years.
He never will speak more.
Tlte words had hardly left the captain’s mouth
than a cold wind blew from the iceberg, and the
atmosphere, as it does always near those im
mense masses of ice, grew colder. The ship
wore off from the berg; but at the same time, as
we neared it, the very face of the man was pre
sented to us, aucl we could see the sunken cheeks,
the pale lips, and the eyes. They were open.
“Cap’en Seth Smith,” said Bobus, solemnly;
“that man’s alive.”
“As dead as last year, or as Pontius Mate,”
returned Captain Seth. “Yo, ho ! there oriyyk;
run out a gun, and when I give the word, qjUjT
We had a long gun on deck, with which^pr
doctor, a learned man, had been endeavoring to
calculate distances by the reverberations and
echoes. Under his orders it was quickly charged
with powder only, and made ready, and as the
berg floated by the gunner applied the portfire,
an' 1 an explosion followed, the smoke 3f which
had no sooner cleared away than he saw the fig
ure rock slightly backwards and then topple for
wards and slide 'down swiftly the steep sides of
the iceberg info the sea. All looked with horror
into the deep ocean, but the waves closed over
the dead man’s head, and he did not rise again
to the surface.
“Ah !” said the captain, “I knew how it was;
he was frozen to death upon that berg.”
“How dici he get there ?” said the doctor. .
“Heaven only knows. It might have been
that the turning of tlie iceberg overwhelmed his
ship, and he being upon the mast jumped off to
the berg, only to see his vessel and all hands go
down.” j
Bobus had told me thaUone qf the chief dan
gers of a vessel in this ‘v&sthern ocean, was the
danger of being crushed»y a turning berg. They
are often -prodigiously ijgh, but whatever their
bight above water, tbej^ nave six times the depth
below. That is, when a, mountain of ice floats,
six-sevenths of its bulk' a^trsubmerged, so that if
it be only fifty feet high it is three, hundred feet
deep. The temperature of the water- also being
higher than that of the air, the wafer being in fact
warmer, the ice in the water gradually melts till
the bottom becomes lighter than the’top, it turns
over. Of course, if any ship be near it. tlie ship
is crushed and borne down.’ . '
“No,” cried the doctor,’“lie is not the last ot
the band ; lie may be one of Sir John’s men.—
He may have come from that mysterious spot
where icebergs are formed, and where Sir John
lias penetrated the Arctic Ocean Sea.”
All started at the words. Each hoped that
they might prove true. Every one in the ship
indeed long ago discussed the Di\’s theory, that
beyond the zone of ice whielt hound in those
frozen regions like an iron wall, there is a vast
and probably a fresh water ocean on the" banks
of which the icebergs were massed together; for
we knew that, except fit the entrance of immense
rivers, no large quantity of fresh water, such as
is contained in a berg could exist.
“Ah "cried old Bobus, turning to the doctor,
“I bean’t a book learned man. I bean’t; but
what you says about the open sea is feasible.—
About ship, Cap’en Setli, about ship then, and
let us away to find out Sir John.”
Cap’en Seth pointed to the iceberg and smiled
sadly, “Ah, Bobus,” said he, “ ’tis easy to talk ;
but how are we to ’bout ship and pierce through
eternal ice ? Why the great Party when he got
to latitude 81, abandoned his ship, got up sledges
and went north; but the drift of the ice carried
him further south than he could go, ond taking
his bearing after a long journey, lie found him
self four miles further south than when he start
ed. ”
“Disapjiointment enough, ” said the doctor.
“Ay, ay, but what was he to do ? Nature is a
great giantess, and conquers the most bold of ns.”
But she will be subdued in the long run,”
continued the doctor. “ Who knows but we mny
some day find out something which will mitigate
these perpetual snows anti iey cold ? ”
“Ay, who knows ?” said the captain with a
shiver. “Meantime, Bobus jump into tbe boat
and get aboard the berg. Let us see if that poor
Jack Tar has left any memorial of himself”
We were all willing to.be of the party, and I
regarded it as a great favor that Bobus took me
with him in tlie boat. The iceberg had floated a
little wav past to the stern ; but we soon pulled
to it. The narrowest part only of it had been
towards us, for it had many sides, some broad
and narrow. We easily made out the place
where the poor fellow, numbed with cold, sat
down to die; but we could not reach it from that
the place, when a gun from the ship gave us the
signal to return. When we looked in the direc
tion of the shot, we could hardly make our ves
sel out.
“Let us make haste back, Bobus,” said I, “or
else we shall undergo the same late as our poor
frieud.”
“Ay, ay,” cried Bobus, and away we scampered
over tbe block to tbe place where our boat was
moored, and where one of our men was iu
charge. We found tlie descent mueh harder
than the ascent, and were indeed so long before
we all got down into the boat and round the angle
ot tbe berg, that the thick mist and fog parted
us from our ship. The effect of being alone iu
the Arctic regions, or at any rale seeming so for
away from our companions and bidden front
their sight, bardlv knowing where we might drift,
or whether some of the immense masses of loose
ice might not overwhelm us, was bv no means
pleasant. Under the influence ot Bobus, how
ever, none of ns despaired, and as the others
rowed aiid he steered according to tho direction
of a man at the head, who looked out for the
masses ot ice, I was employed in firing a pistol
off which 1 held, so that we should give notice to
the ship where we were.
We soon had the relief of hearing them reply,
and so pulled strait through the fog to the Lively
Bessey.
They were very glad when we got on board,
for accidents in those seas are frequent enough,
and our good captain was anxious to bring his
men home all safe. “Well,” said he, “Bobus,
what trace have you found of our countrymen ?”
“None, Cap’en Seth,” said Bobus; “n<>ne ’cept
these,” and he produced the clasp knife, the to
bacco pipe, aud tlie meat can.
“We didn’t find no scrap of writin’,” said Bo
bus, in a melancholy tone.
“Eh!" returned the doctor, who had taken the
meat can. “How do you know! Have you
looked here ?”
He unscrewed the lid of the can as he sfioke
with a strong wrench, for it had rusted together,
and opening it, turned it to the light of the bin
nacle. There, sure enough, were letters in rude
capitals, worked on the inside of the lid with the
jioint of the seaman’s knife: “John Trueman,
Ship Sarah, September, 1838. Left alone on the.
ice. M<ty the Lord have mercy!’’
“Poor fellow ! poor fellow ! What ship was
that, captain T
“The ship Sarah," said Capt. Seth. “I don’t
remember her name among any of the arctic
searches. Maybe she was some whaler, driven
out far north, and then overwhelmed as we guess
ed before.”
At this time poor Bobus was displaying very
lively emotion; now clasping his hands, now his
forehead. “Give me the box, doctor,” said he,
“and let me look at the handwritin’; I know suiu-
mat of that ship.”
“Yes.” he continued, as he took the tin, “that
good ship Sarah was a North Sea Whaler, and
as good and tight a ship as ever sailed ; and this
here John Truetnan,” lie stvuek the box with his
great fist as he said it, “was my brother-in-law,”
and married my only sister, whose name likewise
was Sarah, long years ago. Tlie good ship aud
good John never came back again, no, never,
never and John’s parents and wife, who never
mistrusted him, thought as how she had foun*
dered in deep water and no hands had come to
land. She, poor girl, lived on a little while, and
then died ; but John’s parents live too, and John
I seed to-day, a sitting with liis head rfesting, and
thinking of his poor young wife and his friends
at home, afore the iceberg came and touched him,
and turned him into death.”
The good old sailor rubbed the back of his
sealskin glove across his eyes. His companions
were silent. “Yes,” he continued, “not that I
am sorry for John, I’ve no doubt he had a hard
struggle"; but, thank God, he is at peace. Peace
and^jalm rest upon and with hint. If he could
rise up from yonder wave, he wouldn’t see his
true love again; but his spirit knows and loves
her now; And if so be as I doget home, I shall
tell the old people how John Trueman died sit
ting at his post, and waiting quietly for the sum
mons to go aloft.”
The old seaman rubbed his moist eyes as he
spoke, and took off his fur cap and pointed up
wards. His gray hair streamed upon the cold
night wind by tlie light of the binnacle, and made
him look not unlike John Trueman himself—
“Give me the articles, Cap’en,” said he; “I think
I may cofistitoot myself residooary legatee.” He
smiled faintly when he took them.
“I am not sorry, Cap’en Seth,” he said, “that I
went on this voyage with you; I kinder thought
as I should meet with John, and now I have, and
now my mind is at ease.”
He looked down to the tin as bespoke, and re
read the words on the lid. “All alone on the ice,”
he said. “Poor fellow, all alone! Well, well,
there may be others as are not quite all alone.—
There may be others as have lost all their boats,
but have not lost heart, and are now abandoned
on the shores o’ that there open sea the doctor
speaks of. Bout ship, cap’en, bout ship, aud let
us find ’em; steer away for the open Arctic Sea!”
place, for the ice rose in a perpendicular wall
about thirty feet high. .We therefore rowed
round the berg, which we found to be nearly a
mile and a half in circumference. On tbe oppo
site side to where we first saw' our countryman, ir
regular steps formed by the ice gave us a foot
hold, and some of the stoutest of our party going
first were soon on the berg.
, We traversed it a3 well as we could; but found
no traces of. our companion, as some had pre
sumed we should, till we came to his resting
place; there we found only three things. A pipe,
empty indeed, but blackened with smoke; a jack
knife, tied with lanyard, such as sailors use, and
an empty meat can—one, indeed, such as had
been sent out by the Government, and by those
who fitted out these northern expeditions. We
seized these eagerly and looked around for more
relfcs of the poor fellow, but found none.
“He ain’t left no scrap of writing, Ned,” said
Stevens, and it is gratifying to find that no one in 1 Bobus, “to tell who he was, or how he died, or
the Senate echoed the offensive words of the Mas- j to send his last love to his sweetheart.’
sachusetts Senator. Such influential Union men . “How could he, old spooney ?” cried Pilbeam,
as Mr. Doolitte of Wisconsin, and Mr. Dixon of “he couldn’t call for a pen an’ - ink, -could he?”
John disappears to execute these orders, while
his master steps down to the West Indies to get
a fresh orange.
Connecticut, and Mr. Sherman of Ohio, took op
posite ground, and two of them administered to
him a strong and proper rebuke.
Gen. Logan having declined the Mexican
Mission, the Presided has appointed the Hon.
L. D. Campbell, of Ohio, who is .now jn Wash
ington, and will accept hnd enter at once upon
his duties. Gen. R. B. Van Valkenberg, of .New
York, lias been appointed Minister to Japan.
Pilbeam had not forgotten the. rattan; and was
the only one in our ship who was discontented
and ill-natured. Bobus looked at him with some
contempt, but did not. answer.
“Let’s scrape away the foe,” said one of tlie
sailors, “maybe the Jack. Tar has left some no
tion of who he was.” We did so, but found no
memorial; the meat can had been carefully
wedged in a fissure, and the knife and pipe wore
laid on top of it. We were looking forlornly at
Aim Smiley, the Betting man.
There was a feller here once by the name of
Jim Smiley, in the winter of ’49—or maybe it
was the spring of ’50—I don’t recollect exactly,
some how, though what makes me think it was
one or the other is because I remember tbe big
flume wasn’t finished when he first come to the
camp; but anyway, he was the curiosest man
about, always betting on anything that turned
up you ever see, if be could get. anybody to bet
on the other side, and if he couldn’t he’d change
sides—any way that suited the other man would
sifit him—any way just so’s he got a bet, he was
satisfied. But still he was lucky—uncommon
lucky; he most always come out winner. He
was always ready and laying for a chance; there
couldn’t be no solitaiy thing mentioned but what
that fetter'd offer to bet on it—and take any side
you please, as I was just, telling you: if there
was aJtorse race, you’d find Mm flush or you’d
find him busted at the end of it; if there was a
dog fight, he’d bet on it; if there was a cat fight,
he’d bet on it; if there was a chicken fight, he’d
bet on it; why, if there was two birds setting on
a fence, he would bet you which one would fly
first—or if there was a.camp-meeting, he would
be there regular to bet on parson IValker, which he
judged to be the best exhorter about there, and
so he was too, and a good man: if he even 9aw
a straddle-bug start to go anywheres, he would
bet you how long it would take him to get wher
ever he was going to, and if you took him up he
would foller that straddle-bug to Mexico but
what be would find out where he was bound for
and bow long he was on the road. Lot3 of the
boys here lias seen that Smiley, and can tell you
about him. Why, it never made no difference
to him—he would bet on anything—the dangdest
feller. Parson Walker’s wife laid very sick once
for a good while, and it seemed as if they warn’t
going to save her; but one morning he came in
and Smiley asked him how she was, and he said
she was considerable better—thank the Lord for
His inf’nit mercy—and coming on so smart that
with the blessing of Providence she’d get well
yet—and Smiley, before he thought, says, “Well,
I’ll resk two and a half that she don’t anyway.”
This yer Smiley had a mare—the boys called
her the fifteen-minute nag, but that was only in
fun, you know, because of course she was faster
than that—and he used to win money on that
horse, for all she was so slow and always had the
asthma, or the distemper, or the consumption, or
something of that kind. They used to give her
two or three hundred yards start, and then pass
her under way; but always at tbe fag-end of the
race she’d get excited and desperate-like, and
come cavorting and spraddling up, and scatter
ing her tegs around limber, sometimes in the air,
and sometimes out to one side amongst the
fences, and kicking up m-o-r-e dust, and raising
mo-r-e racket with her coughing and sneezing
and blowing her nose—and always fetch up at
the stand just about a neck ahead, S3 near as you
could cipher it down.
And he bad a small bull pup, that to look at
him you’d think he wam’t worth a cent, but jest
set around and look ornety, and lay for a chance
to steal something. But as soon as money was
up on him he was a different dog—his under
jaw’d begin to stick out like the for’castle of a
steamboat, and his teeth would uncover, and
shine savage like the furnaces. And a dog might
tackle him, and bully-rag him, and bite himTand
throw him over his shoulder two or three times
and Andrew Jackson—which was the name of
the pup»—Andrew Jackson would never let on
but what he was satisfied, and hadn’t expected
nothing else—and the bets being doubled and
doubled on the other side all the time, till the
monev was all up—and then all of a suddeirhe
would grab that other dog just by the joint of
his hind tegs and frerae to it—not eliaw, you un
derstand, but only just grip and hang on till they
throwed up the sponge, if it was a year. Smiley
always came out Vinner on that pup till he har-
nessed a dog once that didn’t have no hind legs
because they’d been sawed off in a circular saw’
and when the thing had gone along for enough’
and the money was all up, and he came to rmflre
a snatch for his pet holt, he saw in a moment
how he’d been imposed on, and how the other
dog had him in the door, so to speak, and he
’peared surprised, and then he looked sorter dis
couraged like, and didn’t try no more to win the
fight, and so he got shucked out bad. He gave
Smiley a look, as much as to say his heart was
broke and it was bis fault, for putting up a dog
that hadn’t no hindlegs for him to take holt of,
whilch wa3 hi4 main dependence in a fight, and
then he limped off a piece, and laid clown and
died. It was a good pup, that was Andrew
Jackson, and he. would have made a naiue for
himself if he had lived, for the stuff was iff hint,
and he had genius—I know it, because lie hadn’t
no opportunities to speak of, and it don’t stand to
reason that a dog could make such a fight as he
could under them circumstances, if he hadn’t no
talent. It always makes me feel sorry when I
think of that last fight of his’n, and the way. it
turned out.