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Volume LVL1. Southern Heoordeh rConsolidated 1872, Milledgeville, Cja., January 25. 1887. Number 2.9. THE UNION & RECORDER, published Weekly In MllleilgevIlle.Gu. BY BARNES & MOORE. TR ,1 MS _oA dollar a»il fifty cents a year Hi uitvatiee HU month* for seventy-live cents.— Two dollars a year If not paid In advance. r, The service* of Col. JamR8 If. HRYTBZ,are uu- e *fho “PERKRAL UNION” and the“SOUTHERN HKCORDER” were consolidated, August 1st, 1*72, the Union being In It* Forty.Third Vulume and lit Record*rin It* Fifty-Third Volume. baldwTn county. Petition fob Letters of Administration. GEORGIA, Baldwin County. Court of Ordinary, January Term 1887. W HEREAS, O. L. Brown 1ms (lied his petition in said Court for let ters of administration upon the estate of his wife, Mrs. L. L. Browu, decM. These are therefore, to cite and ad monish all parties interested, heirs or creditors, to show cause on or by the February Term next of said Court to he held on the first Monday in Febru ary, 1887, why letters of Administra tion upon the estate of said deceased, should not be granted to said peti tioner as prayed for. Witness my hand and official signa ture this Jarmar^the 8d, 1887. [37 lui.] B. SANFORD, Ordinary. W' Petition For Letters of Administration. GEORGIA, Baldwin County. Court of Ordinary at Chambers,) January lOtlv, 1887. > rHEREAS, Walter Paine, clerk of Superior Court of said County, has filed his petition in said Court for letters of administration upon the es tate of Mrs. Amelia Turner, deceased These are therefore to cite and ad monish all parties interested to show cause on or by the February Term next of said Court to be held on the first Monday in February 1887, why let ters of Administration upon the es tate of said deceased should not be granted to said petitioner as prayed for. Witness my hand and official signa ture this January the lOtli, 1887. DANIEL B. SANFORD. 271m.] Ordinary. WOMEN Mmjtu resawed or who oafor fnm UlraMloo rooolUr to their MX, ohexM try THB BE5T TONIC Thlx modicins conliinto bon with para ragoubls tonlot, And 1* Involaoblo for DImmm peculiar to Women, and all who laad aodantary Htm. It Kn- rlchea and Pnrlflea the Blood, MUmnlateo the Appetite, Htrengtheaa the Hnclct and Nerve# -in fact, thoroughly 1 nvignratea. Claara the oomplrxion. and makaatho akin xmooth. It dooo not blaokon the tooth, oanaa headaeba, ur produce oonatipatlon—all othtr /run mtdicinu do. Mu. Euuhtb BantD, 74 Harwell Are., Milwto- Uu. Euuutb BantD, 74 Harwell Are., Milt kw. WU.. aura, under date of Doe. tSIh. istM: I have uho Brown’* bon Bitten, and it haat non than a. doctor to me, haring cored me of BltOWh CNXM1CAL IB, BAXTUMWC, JtBb April 61888] 39 cw. ly Petition for Guardianship, GEORGIA, Baldwin County. Court ot Ordinary, January Term, 1887. W HEREAS, T. F. Smith, has filed his petition in said Court for let ters of Guardianship of the person and property of Milner, Lester, Cowan and Mildred Shivers, minors of said county. These are therefore to cite and ad monish all parties interested, heirs or creditors, to show cause on or by the February Term next of said court to be held on the first Monday in Febru ary, 1887, why letters of Guardianship for said minors should not be granted to said petitioner as prayed for. Witness my hand and official signa ture this January the 8rd, 1987. Daniel B. Sanford, 28 lm.] Ordinary. Petition for Leave to Sell. GEORGIA, Baldwin County. Court of Ordinary, January Term 1887. W HEREAS, J. T. Wood, Guardian of his minor son, Ben Wood, has filed his petition in said Court for leave to sell the real estate belonging to said minor. These are therefore to cite and ad monish all parties interested, heirs or creditors, to show cause on or by the February term next, of said court, to bo held on the first Monday in Febru ary 1887, why leave to sell said real property should not be granted to said petitioner as prayed for. Witness my hand and official signa ture, this January the 3rd, 1887. 26 lm.] D. B. SANFORD, Ordinary L’very Stable For Sale. A N EXCELLENT opportunity for Pi an active young man. I will sell on easy terms my stable, stock and vehicles, or 1 will sell stock and vehi cles and lease the stable for a nuiube# of years. G. T. WIIILDEN Milledgeville, Ga, Nov. 30, ’80. [21 9t.] EDITORIAL GLIMPSES. Middle Georgia Progreu. A circular received by mail Informs tvs that a weekly paper of eight pages and forty-eight columns, to be called “The Middle Georgia Progress,” is to be published in SandersvilTe, the first number to be issued about the 1st of February. This new journal is the property of a stock company with a capital of $6,000,and among its mem bers, we note the names of some of the leading citizens of Washington county as regards both personal char acter and financial strength. Dr. A. Mathis is president of the company and Messrs. Stephen G. Jordan and C. Henry Mitchell, are the editors and business managers, all of whom as wo are advised, are calculated to secure the confidence of their people and prove efficient in the performance of their respective duties. We have the most friendly relations with oiir esteemed contemporaries, the “Herald” and the "Mercury,” which have for years past dispensed the general and county news to the citizens of Washington county and we cannot but wish them success and rosperity in the future as we have one in the past. But at the same time we shall be rejoiced to see that there 1b enough of that intelligence and county pride, which characterize the good citizens of that large county, to sustain the new candidate for public favor and thus bIiow to the world that it is possible for one county, without a city with considerable pop ulation, within its bounds, to sustain three good weekly papers. We are not without what we conceive to be a well founded hope that the natural emulation of the friends of the three papers will work out this desirable re sult. The new paper has a staunch motto—-“Hew to the line, let the chips fall where they may,” which in dicates that its conductors mean, like Paddy with his shillala at Donny- brooke Fair, to “hit a head wherever one pops up and gives a fellow a fair chance. Death of Col. John T. Grant. time in the future, remain a magnifi cent memorial of the donor’s love for and generous benefleense towards the city In which he has spent the greater part of his life and the growth of which be has watched from its early location in the woods to its present g ru ^.proportions. The Above hasty and Imperfect sketch of the life of a good and use ful oitfren has been written almost immediately on the receipt of the news of his death, the writer depend ing on his imperfect memory for the facts embraced in it, and Administrator’s Saie. GEORGIA, Baldwin County. B Y virtue of an order grafted by the Court of Ordinary of said coun ty, at the January Term, 1887, of said court, will be sold before the Court House door, in the city of Milledgeville ohthe first Tuesday in February, 1887, between the legal hours of sale, the following property belonging to the estate of Mrs. Lizzie C. Sanford, de ceased, to-wit: One-third undivided interest in and to all that land and property, situate, ying and being in the city of Mil ledgeville, and said State and county, known and distinguished in the plan of said city, as part of lot No. 3, in square No. 40, known as the Stetson storehouse and lot, bounded nortli by store of Perry & Denton, east by G. T. Whilden’s livery stable lot, sou th by store owned by W. T. Conn and others, and west by Wayne street. Also parts of lots, Nos. 3 and y 111 square No. 3!), bounded north by Jolm Bayne’s lot, east by lots of W. J. Owens and H. E. Hendrix, south oy H. E. Hendrix’ lot and Hancock street and west by Wilkinson, street, embracing the following lots, to-wit: The dwelling house and store rooms 1 f°^ v J'cutf.d to F. Schiedemnnn. The dwelling house now occupied by D. B. • anford and the house and lot now occupied by Mrs. F. C. Bethune, “nowu as the “dining room lot,” the , ! ter ^ s , t 8 °ld in said property being undivided as aforesaid. Bold t the purpose of paying debts and ' wrTV Temis of sale cash. WALTER PAINE, Clerk, &c., r °f Mrs. E. C. Banford, dec’d. January the 3d, 1887. 20 tds G. T. WIEDENMAN, merchandise broker, MILLEDGEVILLE, GA. . in Ba ,a ». 11. 188' 'iffice in Bank Building, 27 tf Beef* Cattle. r ')0f)CATTLE wanted at r reS* tlle highest market price. Ail- Mil . , P. SWEANEY. ^Milledgeville, Ga., Dec. 27, ’86. 27 8m Legal,blanks for sale at this offlee. The Milledgeville Banking Co. Of Milledoeville, Ga. A General Hanking Husiness Transacted. G. T. Wiedenman, President. 15. f. Bethune, Cashier. Directors.—W. T. Conn, D. B. Hanford, ri. E. Hendrix, G. T. Wiedenman, L. N. Callaway, T. L. McComb.C. M. Wright. Milledgeville, Ga., Oct. 21st, ’86. 15 ly DR. W. H. HALL H AS removed hli office »o the room formerly occupied by M Paine, Clerk of Superior Court. 18 tf Dentistry. DR. H mTcLARKE- riTORK of any kind performed in ac- vv cordanco with the latest and most Im proved methods. _ ... *a_OKloeln Callaway’p New Building Milledgeville. Ga., May 15th, 1888. 44 KUFUB W. BOBERTS, Attoruoy-at-Xjaw Milledgeville, Ga. P rompt attention given to all business in trusted to 111* care. Offlee in room formerly occupied hv Judge 1). B. Sauford. Nov. 10, isso. 1 ,J th Miss M. G. LAMPLEY, CRAYON ARTIST! Studio in the M. G. M & A. College. I,[Fit SIZE CRAYON PORTRAITS from photographs. •WLessons given in Crayon, Oil painting, Kensington painting on velvet and satin. W'Orders and pupils solicited, jzji Milledgeville, Jan. 4, ’87. 26 3m For Sale. A at this office. [26 tf. Notice. A LL persons are notified, that in thirty days from date, the pri vate way, through my place will be eiosed. JA8. L. SIBLEY. Jan. 3rd, 1887. 27 4t. New Advertisements. TO ADVERTISERS! Vor a check for $'J» wo will print u teii-llm- ad vertisement in one Million is»ues of leadin' American Newspapers. This Is ut dm rate m only one-llfllt of a cent a line, for l,""" iivmn- tloul The advertisement will no pheed “Oloiv One Million different newspaper purchasers:—ur FiveMii.i.ion readers. Ten lines will accom modate about V> words. Address with copy of Adv. and check or send :p cents for Book oi pages. CEO. 1*. ROWELL A CO., 10 Struck Ht„ New York. January 4th, 1887 memory it has been 27 Ins. By an extract from the Constitu tion, published In another column, we are informed of the sudden death, on Tuesday night last., at liis resi dence in Atlanta, Ga., of Colonel John T. Grant, for many years past one of the most useful and lion ored citizens of that city. From early association and subsequent friendly acquaintance, the death of this good man is a matter of sincere regret to the writer, the local editor of this paper. Nearly a half century ago, when Col. Grant was a young engineer on the location and con struction of the Georgia railroad, the writer held a similar position on the railroad leading from Macon to the point of junction of the above two roads with the State railroad; a place then covered chiefly with the prime val forest, Jbut now the site of the great railroad and commercial centre, the city of Atlanta. John T. Grant and his eider brother, James A. Grant, were young men, the latter scarcely grown, from the distant of State of Maine. Without, we sup pose, any special personal influence exerted in their favor, by the posses sion of excellent good sense, and a faithful performance of duty, and the persevering study of the practicul de tails of the r profession, while labori ously engaged in the performance of their daily work, they both steadily advanced from one position of respon sibility to another, acquiring and. re taining the confidence of their supe riors throughout their career, Mr. James A. Grant, after the completion of the Georgia railroad was called by professional engagements to Tennes see and there died, after some years, in tiie prime of life. His younger brother, John T., engaged if we mis take not in the construction of the Atlanta & West Point railroad and perhaps others, but soon became con nected officially with the operation of the Atlanta and West Point, after its completion, and in no great length of time became its Superintendent and afterwards its President. In this office tie lias for many years exhibited tiie fine business capacity and profes sional skill, which made him one of tiie most successful and useful rail road men in the South, and while at the age of “three scoreyearsand ten,” he was still engaged in its arduous duties, he was suddenly “called up higher,” to enjoy the fruition of tiie Christian’s hope in another state of existence. He had for many years before his death, been a faithful and leading member of the Presbyterian denomination in Atlanta. Col. Grant in early life was blessed in hi9 marriage to a Miss Williams of Decatur, who if we mistake not, died years ago, leaving several children. One of them, Mr. John A. Grant, fol lowing his father’s example, became a civil engineer and has achieved a most enviable position in his profes sion. While still quite young, Col. Grant became possessed of a consider able body of land, embraced within tiie present limits of Atlanta, and lie held on to a large portion of it through a number of years. Several years since lie made a donation of a considerable body of it to the city of Atlanta for the purpose of making a park of it, and it was gratefully ac cepted by the city. It has been hand somely laid out and partly improved and when it shall have received its final finish and adornment, it will prove to be a great blessing to At lanta, and will, for an indefinite written In part as a tribute justly due to tile subject of it and partly to pre sent to the rising generation such an example for their emulation and imi tation, as the obituary columns of our State press rarely furnish to us. Tiie family of the deceased have the sincere sympathy of the writer. Republican Criminality. On the 12th the Republicans expell ed Mr, Meagher, democrat, from his seat in the House. The testimony Bhowed that he was fairly elected and without the use of money or any unfair means. A United States Sena tor wax to he elected to succeed Sena tor Logon end the contest was so close that a tingle vote might decide one way or the other. The Republ leans saw that the chanoet were against them and without any complaint from t!u>.peop le of Vigo county, that in which Mr .{Meagher, lives a|plan was hatched opto have a contested elec ion case in which it was charged that Mr. Meager lacked a vote or two of heating his competitor and wit hout any investigation the Republicans having a majority of one or two votes'passed a resolution declaring that Mr. Mea gher was not elected and that his com petitor was entitled to the seat. Dr. Dickinson, MeagherVopponent was then escorted to the bur of the House and took the oath of office that was administered. As he retired from the bar he was hissed from the floor and s. aterson arose and said: “Mr. , er, After this outrageous rape e constitution and the liberty of ‘ ;en I move the House adjoarn.” otion was defeated, but as it was then 0 o’clock, another motion to adjourned quickly prevailed. Mr. Cornelius Meagher is a popular Irishman and had filled the office of Justice of the peace in his county, He made a very sensible speech in op position to the injustice about to be done him, but to no avail. The Re publicakfj wanted another vote or two avd the plan of displacing him to get it. Senator Voorhees, ex-8ona- tor McDonald, and Judge Turpie were present and participated actively in the contest. A Democratic Represen tative thought the proper plan to pur sue would be for all tiie Democrats to resign and break up the scheme of the Republicans to steal a vote to elect^a Senator. The Supreme Court Deoidsa in Favor of the Prohibitionists. Walkbr et al va Sanford, ordinary, and vice versa. Ooutsatwi Ejection, from Baldwin. EtMticlna Costs. Practice in Supretnfe Court. (Be fore Judge Lawson]) Biandford, J.—1. Where hn eleetion was held in a county to determine the question submitted to the voters for or against the sale) of spirituous liquors, under the act of 1888, and at one preoinot one of the three superin tendents who managed the election was neither an ordinary, justice of the peace nor freeholder, the election at sucli precinct was Illegal, and the ordinary acted properly in refusing to count the vote thereof. Code §1283. 2. Where an election was held at a lace three miles from that which had sen established as an elsotion pre cinct, it was illegal, and there was no error on the part of the ordinary In refusing to count the vote so oast. 8. There is no provision made in the aot ot 1880, in oases of contest, for any oosts, nor for requiring the payment thereof; nor is there any general law on the subject. There Mdag no pro vision for awarding oosts, it was error to award them against the county. 44 Ga., 801; 3 Id., 340. Judgment affirmed in first case, re- versedin second. ' ; 4. Before the docket ot tbo circuit to which these cases bel reached, it being brought 1 tentlon of the court that 10 the case of Sanford, ord’y, vs. Walker et al., the clerk of the superior court had failed to mark the bill of exceptions filed In offlee or to certify-the same, on motion, it was ordered that the bill of exceptions be returned to such clerk, with directions to endorse on the bill of exceptions the true date on whloh it was filed In his offioe, or, if it never was filed, to send his certificate to that effect in answer to the order of oourt, and if the bill of exceptions was filed in his office and was the true original, so to certify the same, or, in default thereof, to snow cause, or the call of the case, for his failure to do The clerk returned the hill of filing iohea so. exceptions with au entry of thereon and a certificate attach thereto. (Rep.) Jos. 8. Turner, W. B. Wingfield, W. L. Jackson, for plaintiffs. O. P. Crawford, for defendant. TO GOVERNOR TAYLOR. Within the next few days Governor Taylor will appoint the State officers, who will for the next two years assist him in administering the State Gov ernment. The three leading State officers to bo appointed are the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Commissioner of Agriculture and the Superintendent of Prisons. We presume that the Governor will fol low the precedents and appoint one of these officers from East Tennessee, one from Middle Tennessee and one from West Tennessee. East Tennes see has several applicants for each position, and the places could all be filled with capable and worthy men selected from among Governor Tay lor’s own neighbors and friends. The position of Superintendent of Public Instruction is considered the most honorable offlee and we would naturally like to see it fall to East Tennessee. There is a gentleman in Knoxville who is an applicant for the position whose appointment would reilect honor upon the entire State, and would be a high compliment to Knoxville as well as a deserved recog nition of a distinguished scholar. We refer to Professor Win. G. Mc- Ailoo, one of the best known educa tors in the South, an accomplished writer and a man of high literary at tainments. He is a native of East Tennessee, a graduate of tiie Univer sity of Tennessee, and for many years a professor in the University. There is no man in the State moro thor oughly qualified and equipped for tiie important position of Superin tendent of the Public School system of Tennessee. Professor McAdoo has not persisteutly urged upon tiie Gov ernor liis claims for the position like many applicants for other positions, but doubtless Governor Taylor, know ing his worth, will carefully consider tbe request which Prof. McAdoo’s friends have made in his behalf.— Knoiville Daily Tribune. The friends of Col. McAdoo In this city would be gratified at his appoint ment to the office mentioned. He is well qualified for the position. A Clean Confession. By removing the tariff on one form of scrap iron, a great American indus try was destroyed and now every bale of cotton produced In'America is put up in English ties! The Birm ingham Age says: “No matter what natural advantages we in Alabama have for making iron, we are not able to make it in competition with for eign countries. The only trial thus far made is in the case of the cotton ties, and the result is before us.” This is a candid confession. It is an acknowledgment by the Birming ham Age that a tariff on cotton ties would make the price higher. What tbe ootton tie makers at Birmingham want is a tariff tax, to enable them to sell their ties at a higher price. In other words they want the eotton f growers taxed for their benefit. This s very candid to want the cotton growers taxed for their benefit. This Is a fine illustration of the whole high tariff policy. Are the farmers willing to submit to it? THE FORESTRY CONGRESS The Governor Appoints the Delegates From This State. The Sari Francisco Daily Examiner, having decided to inaugurate the largest and most complete Fraternal Society Department ever published, have tendered Win. H. Barnes the position of Editor of said department, and lie lias resigned liis former posi tion on the Morning and Weekly Call and accepted the same. C. B. Far well was elected to the Senate from Illinois to succeed Gen. Logan. He was chosen on the first ballot. The following letter which explains itself, was yesterday sent to tiie presi dent of the Southern Forestry con gress by the governor: Executive Devartment, Atlanta, Ga.. January 16.—Hon. C. B. Pringle, president Soul hern Forestry congress. Saudersvllle, Ga.—Sir: In compliance with your requost, I have the honor to enclose the names of delegates to attend the Southern Forestry congress to assemble In Florida ou tbs 22d of February next. In futher compliance with your request, I designate Alexaader H. Stephens as the Georgian whose name shall do associated with the tree, which Is to be planted with appropriate ceremonies on that Interesting occasion; and suggest the words append ed below us the legend to be associated with the tree so planted In Ills honor. [ •tn very respectfully, your obedient ser vant, J. B. Gordon, Governor of Georgia. THK LEGEND. “This tree is planted in honor of Alexander Hamilton Stephens, of Georgia, a name suggestive of all that, is beautiful in private benevolence and of all that is wise and conserva tive in statemanship—tiie synonym I and striking example of the blended elements of a true and noble man hood.” The following delegates have been appointed by the governor to the Southern Forestry congress to be lield at DeFuniak springs, Florida: E. W. Lane, Scarborough; W. H. Atwood, Darien; It. B. Reppard, Sa vannah; A. H. Smith, Valdosta; J. A. Butts, Baiubridge; J. H. Martin, Hawkinsviile; J. B. Lattimer, Lump kin; J. B. Gorman, Talbotton; R. J. Moses, Columbus; M. A. Candler, De catur; Sidney Root, Atlanta; Robert N. Hardeman, Clinton; C. P. Craw ford, Milledgeville; M. M. Folsom, Macon; William L. Phillips, Marietta; D. B. Hamilton, Rome; J03hua I Knowles, Greenesboro; Lewis Jones, ] Athens; H. P. Bell, Camming; James | Nichols, Nacoochee; J. J. Jones, j Waynesboro; P. J. Berckmans, Au- 1 gusta. Washington Letter, From. Our Regular GorresponcUtnt. Washington, Jan. 18,1887. Editor Union-Recorder: The passage of the great Inter Stato- Commerce bill, whloh is the result af a popular movement beginning tw«* ty years ago, marks the past week ka Congress. There was a good deal of important legislation besides thW l however, such as that giving tj*e Ag rleultural Department Executive im portance and its ohief a seat in tht- Cablnet; that extirpating the hierar chy at Salt Lake City, and that doub ling the militia appropriation for the year. This last aot will, doubtless, be well received everywhere; for tbe time haB come when it is acknowledg ed that the citizen soldiery of tho land ought to receive more attentiem than has yet been showed thorn. It was expected that the Senate would settle the vexed question eg Commerce by railroads as it did, about the hour of midnighton Friday, hat no one knew how many moat Senators would be found support!^ It came tri by a vote of f, although a number of Senators who voted for the measure were dissatisfied with it. These decided to set aside their ow» views and follow the dictates offr their constituents, saying in this in- stanoe, where legislation is necessari ly experimental, it Is safe to give Mm people the benefit of the doubt. Tbe Inter-State Commerce bill framed and pressed forward by who were mostly honest In theireffoak. to relieve the people, bat there are-a good many legislators who doubt its efficacy. Some say the railroads will put up their through freights, instead Of reduoing their way freights, and thus insure the equality which the law demands. Now that the Anti-Mormon bill has been passed by the House, one bean a good many comments which kidL cate an appreciation of tiie sevoriW of the measure. It not only makea polygamy a felony, but dissolves th* financial corporations known as tbe Latter Day Saints, and the Perpetual Emigration Fund Company, and practically abolishes all the machin ery, religious or political, that is now employed direoHy or indirectly in the maintenance of tiie Mormon Church system. There .are differences ol opinion as toT+w wisdom and jnetio** of policy’, but the friends of tbe measure just passed assume that the malady is of such a terrible nature as to require heroic treatment. Its cqp- ponents sav it would be better to wait upon tiie slow attritions of time and tiie pressure of public opinion to wear the evil out. The Republicans pledged them selves to eradicate polygamy in 1856, more than thirty years ago. They held power for nearly a quarter of a century and as Morinonlsm still floun ishes it is left for the Democrats to perform a duty which the Republi cans’ neglected or else could not da ' Of course everybody desires that the twin relic of barbarism” shall be de stroved, if it can be done without, straining the ^Constitution. Hou. Randolph Tucker of Va., who report ed the Anti-Mormon bill, field that there was nothing in ,lt that cookR hurt the conscience even of a Mor mon. If he thought there was, Aw said lie would vote against it. The State reception at the White House on Thursdav evening was gorgeous in the gold face of the guests of honor, the Diplomatic corps, with', music, gaslight, flowers and palms on . every side, a crush of richly costumed: women and a crowd of famous men, many of them in brilliant uniforms. Beside the official world of tiie Capi tal, about sixty persons in private life were invited to the reception. Among these was noticed Mrs. Frank Leslie, land it was difficult to decide- whether she or Mrs. Stanford, the wife of the Senator from California, wore the largest or the finest or the greatest number of diamonds. The Marine band which furnislies music at White House receptions, is enthusiastic in praise of the present Administration. Mr. Cleveland feeds them well and is social and kind to them and Secretary Whitney is a •nan just after their own hearts. When they got through at the Presi dent’s on New Year’s day, the Secre tary of the Navy took them over to liis house to play at the reception there. He paid them $5 apiece for their services and the leader $10. This was the first time they ever re ceived any remuneration from a Cabi net officer or any other Govt, official. They say tiie worst treatment they ever had was under President Arthur, when they were sent home at two or three o’clock in tiie morning with their stoaiacln full of oyster soup and beer. Blame was not fixed upon Mr. Arthur himself, but upon liis steward. The far-famed Marine Baud is com posed of thirty-eight men, and the salaries paid them are $38 per month for first class talent, $24 for second class, and $21 for third class. The leader gets about $1,600 a year. This and the West Point band are the only two bands, as such, that the Government supports. Although the Marine band enjoys some perquisites, and a good many privileges and hon ors, it complains that its salaries ore too small, and that first rate men can not be kept at the wages paid by the 1 Government.