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VOL. 2.
THE POLITICAL SITUATION.
FLORIDA CERTAINLY DEMOCRATIC.
Tilden V Election Assured
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188 Votes Without South Car
olina or Louisiana.
HAMPTON ELECTED IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
THE PRESIDENTIAL VOTE . CLOSE.
SOUTH CABOMM.
HAMPTON ELECTED.
VERT CLOSE FOR THE ELECTORS.
Charleston, Nov. 10.— By the la
test corrected official returns, Hamp
ton’s majority is 1,481 .The full re
turns indicate that Tilden has fallen
much more behind Hampton’s vote
than has been supposed. In ten out
of thirty-two counties, Tilden major
ity. is 453 less than Hampton’s. Au
equal retio of loss in the remaining
twenty-two counties would leave Til
den less than one hundred majority
in the State.
FLORIDA.
Jacksonville, Nov. 11.—-The dis
tant counties in this State are still
to be officially heard from in regard
to election results. Up to this time
they can only be estimated, as there
are no facilities for telegraphic com
munication with them.
New York, Nov. 11.—A dispatch
was received at the Democratic head
quarters to-day from Lake City,
Florida, stating that eighteen coun
ties gave a Democratic majority of
5,573, and that nine counties gave a
Republican majority of 6,867. The
remaining nine counties to be heard
from gave a Democratic majority in
1874 of 1,906.
Louisville, Nov. 11.— The chair
man of the Democratic State Execu
tive Committee at Monticello, Flori
da, says the most careful estimates
on the figures of 1874, in counties not
heard from, and the returns actually
in, show a Democratic majority sure
ly.' The counties not yet heard from
are all Democratic, and will give
large gains. The majority cannot
fall short of 1,200.
HEWITT’S REDDEST ACCEPTED.
l>lat of Good and Fair Men wlio are Going
to iiew Orleani.
New York, November 11.—The fol
lowing gentlemen have telegraphed
their intention to start immediately
for New Orleans in response to the
call of 'the National Democratic
Committee: 'Hon. Lyman Trumbull,
of Illinois, ex-U. S. Senator; Hon. J.
M. Palmer, of ex-Gov. A.
Curtin, of Pa.; Gov. Hamilton, of
Maryland; Doolittle, of Wisconsin,
ex-Senator; ex-Lieut-Gov. Baugh, of
Illinois; Judge J. B. Stallo, of Ohio;
Hon. Oswald Ottendorff, of New
York; Hon. Henry Watterson, of
Kentucky; Hon. Theo. F. Randolph,
of N. J.; Hon. G. B. Smith, of Wis
consin; Gov. C. Carroll, of Mary
land; ex-Gov. Bigler, of Pa.; Hon’.
G. V, Fox; Hon. Samuel J. Randall,
of Pa.; Prof. Sumner, of Yale Col
lege; Hon. H. D. McHenry, of Ky.
The Weather To-day.
Washintton, Nov. 11.— For South
Atlantic States, warmer, southwest
winds, falling barometer, and clear
weather will prevail.
Florida certainly democratic
Authentic Returns.
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THE QUESTION SETTLED.
Special Dispatch.]
Lake City, Nov. 11, Dr. m.—The
First Congressional District, com
posed of 22 counties, gives 5,140 Dem
ocratic votes, and 4,501 Republican
votes—Democratic majority 579. The
Second Congressional District gives
3,254 Democratic votes, and 2,391 Re
publican votes—Democratic major
ity 863. Total Democratic majority
in the State 1,442.
This report is based upon official
returns from 34 counties, and au es
timate on the vote of 1874 on 5 coun
ties, which no doubt will give in
creased Democratic majorities.
GONE TO NEW ORLEINI.
Washington, Nov. 11.—Gov. Ran
dolph passed to-day, en route for
New Orleans.
Boston, Nov. 11.—The Traveler
says Charles Francis Adams has
started South.
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Tlie President’s selections.
Washington, Nov. 11.—Fresident
Grant returned to Washington this
afternoon. He has requested the
following prominent gentlemen to
proceed to New Orleans, to inspect
the counting of votes in Louisiana:
Hon. Win. M. Evarts, Judge E. W.
Slaughton, Gen. John A. Dix, and
G< j n. Joseph H. Va Allen, of New
York; Senator Sherman and Stanley
Matthews, of Ohio; Hon. Courtiandt
Parker, of New Jersey; Senator Ed
munds, of Vermont; Gen. Ben. Har
rison, of Indiana; Senator Logan, of
Illinois; Hon. Wm. D. Kelley and
Hon. Jno. Schoonbery. of Pennsyl
vania; and Hon. John A. Kasson, of
lowa.
These and a few others have been
invited. Nearly all of them have
been heard from and have accept
ed.
THt HERALD PRAISES GRANT’S
ORDER.
New York, Nov. 11.-Tho Herald
says of Grant’s order: “He uses
words which are most honorable to
him, and which express the thoughts
of all patriots. Gen. Grant has done
many wise acts, but this is the wisest
act of his life. It will do much to
reassure the public of both sides,
and the nation will thank him for
his timely and patriotic words.”
North Carollta’i Majority.
Washington, November 11.— The
Democratic majority in North Caro
lina will probably range from 11,000
to 13,000. No cnange in the Congres
sional delegation.
The Xew York Pres* on the Result.
Washington, Nov. 11. —The New
York Herald still considers the re
sult doubtful. The partisan papers
continue equally confident in assert
ing the triumph of their respective
parties.
INDIANA.
Indianapolis, Nov, 11.— Tilden’s
majority in the State is 5.424.
Morton on the Situation.
San Francisco, Nov. 11.— Senator
Morton states to-day that he will not
return to the East until the conclu
sion of the investigation of the Chi
nese question, in which he is engag
ed here. He endorses the wisdom of
the proposition to obtain the pres
ence of prominent and trusted men
of both parties to assist in allaying
the present excited feeling in the
■ South, but expresses the belief that
; no serious complications will ensue
! although the situation calls for pru,
! dent action.
Xot Pardoned*
Washington, November 11.— McKee
and Avery have not yet been par
-1 doned.
Secretary Chandler returns from
' New York to-night.
COLUMBUS, GA., SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 12, 1876.
Tweed Heard From.
Havana, Nov. 11. A French
steamer from St. Thomas has arriv
ed, bringing advices to the 6th inst.
On the sth, the U. S. Frigate Frank
lin, Commander Franklin, arrived at
St. Thomas from Vigo, with Wm. M.
Tweed on board.
New York Hank Statement.
New York, Nov. 11— Bank state
ment: Loans decreased one million;
specie increased one-eigth million ;
legal tenders decreased 2J millions;
deposits decreased 3j millions; reve
nue decreased lj million.
A SPEECH IIV THE CZAR.
Russia’s policy.
London, Nov. 11.—A dispatch to
Reuter’s Telegram Company from
St. Petersburg says the Galois pub
lishes aspeech delivered by the Czar
in Moscow yesterday, in reply to an
address of citizens. The Czar said,
during his entire reign his energies
have been directed to maintain right
and justices for the Eastern Christ
ians; unfortunately his pacific efforts
have been in vain. A conference of
the powers is now about to meet at
Constantinople. Russia would main
tain her demands non-acquiesoenoe
would compel Russia to take arms,
In tiiat event he reckonod on the sup
port of the subjects. The speech was
received with enthusiastic cheers.
The Wrong Procelon.
Atlanta ( Ga .,) Sunday Herald.— As Old Si
was standing at the W hitehall crossing, a
darky with a striped shirt on approached
him:
“Bow is you going to vote?" he asked
Old SI.
“I se gwine ter po polls an’ hail’ my tick
et ter de je igc.”
“I mean who is you gwine to vote for?”
“Lixikie. heah, you! i’se a law-’bidin’
nigger!"
“So is I, sail 1”
•‘l)en de law sez who I votes fer Is my
bizniss solely, indevidgully and con’se
quencially!”
“Well, ef yerdon't vote de’Publican tick
it we’s gwyno to spot yer! Now, yer bet
ter min’ de train dat yer gits on!”
“Nebber you min' bout de train dat I gits
on. You look out dat hit don’t cum 'long
an’ ketch up wid you walkin' on de cross
ties. ’Bout de time dat you spots Old Si,
oo kuriner ’ll bo ’ranging ter cum
down on a hand-kyur ter driv a stob on
despot whar de Bymmycrat injine bisted
yer inter kingdom cum.
As the striped shirt moved on Old Si
muttered: "I reoon dat dese “Publican
niggers tink doy is struck de per
sesshun when ed grazes do old man?”
The Atlanta Times says; Felton, Ind.,
has defeated Dabney, nominee, by 1,500
vote3 in the 7th District.
A Xfw Substitute for JLeather.
The last issue of Scribner’s Month
ly contaius an interesting sketch of a
new riroduet designed as a substitute
for leather. This new product is
named by the writer as “vegetable
leather;” but why the name “leath
er” should be applied to it, consider
ing that the definition of the word is
“the skin of an animal dressed and
prepared for use,” is a question, as
the new invention is composed en
tirely of vegetable matter. Passing
the question of title, however, we
present, as a matter of interest, an
’account of the material and process
used in manufacturing the so-called
vegetable leather:
The materials are cotton, or cotton
waste or dust, coeoanut fibre and
other textile by products and fucus
crispus, a marine moss abundant on
the New England coast. The waste
is first carded into sheets of wadding
of uniform thickness, and then laid
on polished zinc plates, kept at a
high temperature, and treated with
a decoction of the fucus till thorough
ly saturated. The sheets quickly be
come dry, and in a few minutes may
be lifted from the plates and passed
between hot polished rolls adjusted
to give any desired thickness to the
finished leather. The rolls are under
heavy pressure and completely felt
the materials into strong, tenacious
and flexible sheets. The sheets are
next coated with boiled linseed oil
and dried in the open air or in a dry
room. When dry they are coated
with vegetable wax and run through
hot fluted rolls, and are finished by
a flnal passage between polished
rolls. The leather may then be
bronzed, silvered, varnished or other
wise treated like ordinary leather.
To produce a white leather, clean
cotton is used, and the whitest pieces
of the dried moss and bleached lin
seed oil.
An Exposed Contingency.
i Mr. Ferry to Assume the Responsibility
of t'uuiitlsf the Ebeturul Vote.
From the X Y Graphic't interview with Mr llalitead,
Editor Cincinnati Commercial.
R—l noticed you said in your Coop
er union address that you feared, in
case New York did notgo Republican,
there would boa disputed Presiden
tial election. Just what did you have
in your mind?
Mr. H.— I havo been impressed
from the first the “solid south” was
a reality; that every electoral vote,
including those of South Carolina, of
thooid Southern Confederacy, would
be given for the Demoeratlo candi
date. In that case, counting Indiana
as a doubtful Stnte, the Republicans
must have the vote of New York to
make sure of a majority in the elec
toral college. If New York should
happen to go Democratic, the proba
bility is that there would be tv dispo
sition on the part of the Republicans
to throw out the votes of those South
ern States which were carried for
Tilden by the intimidation of the
blacks. I have heard the suggestion
made that it would be moral perjury
in Vice President Ferry and President
Grant if they should conseut to allow
the electoral votes of States to bo cast
for the restoration of the Southern
Confederacy, when they knew that a
majority of the people of those States
had been disfranchised, and when
they had in their hands the legal
proof of that fact. There is already
a difference of opinion between the
Senate and the House on this ques
tion. The point in dispute is as to
the existence of the twenty-second
joint-rule. Republican senators are
careful to say that that joint-rule is
no longer in existence. The Confed
erate brigadiers of the House, and
their followers, will hold that it is in
existence, and, perhaps act upon it.
Now, if the Presidential election
should turn upon the votes of, say,
Mississippi, South Carolina, Florida,
or Louisiana, it would be impossible
to avoid a desperate dispute between
the two legislative houses of the Gov
ern rnent. The way is already prepared
by the declarations of Republican sena
tors, for Mr. Ferry, acting Vice Presi
dent,'to assume the entire responsibil
ity of counting the electoral votes. The
House will not, of course, consent to
this. Tne next thing is the position
of President Grant. Grant is com
mander-in-chief of the army and
navy of tho United States. The very
practical question would arise wheth
er he would sustain Mr. Ferry in the
Senate. I imagine that the weight of
reference is that he would. Perhaps he
would do it by proclamation. That is
what in the Spanish-American repub
lics are called pronunciamentos. The
situation will be exceedingly difficult,
if not hazardous. Trouble would
come upon us in a more dangerous
shape than it did sixteen years ago.
That is what I meant by the risk that
the country ruus of being American
ized. The vote of New York for the
Republican ticket would carry the
country wide of that danger, and be
fore tho next presidential election
there might be statesmanship availa
ble to provide against such an ex
treme hazard in tho vote. I have
nothing official or semi-official to
base this form of apprehension upon.
The evidence is chiefly atmospheric.
There is a sort of Mexican miasma in
the political air.
DOMESTIC TRADE.
[From the New York Bulletin, oth.]
As in the city markets, here, busi
ness of all kinds is more or less in
terfered with by the political excite
ment, so the same feeling is reflected
more or less at the various trade cen
tres throughout the country. Iu a
day or two, however, all this will
have subsided, and things will once
more be back in their ordinary chan
nels. At the West, the marketing
of the hog product for the moment
attracts no attention. The pork to
be packed during the four months of
tho winter season it is estimated will
be worth $65,000,000 or $75,000,000, ac
cording to the prices which prevail.
The movement necessarily will have
more or less influence on the money
market. The Chicago Tribune says :
“The country has obtained about
“as much in the way of advan
ces as it is entitled to, and the con
sequence is now that a smaller
amount of country paper is being
discounted. The movement of cur
rency to the wheat regions has been
narrowed down to small amounts,
and during tho present warm
weather tho orders from tho hog
country are restricted.” As to gen
eral trade, the same journal, in an
other article, reports a fair business
with the interior, and that after the
elections jobbers antipate a libetal
order demand for reassortments.
Cleveland Leader: “Trade active;
new corn coming in.” Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, November 2: “Business
as brisk as can bo expected during
the present bail weather.” The
Pittburg Commercial of Friday speaks
Of a moderate trade there, while the
St. Louis Globe-Democrat says: Ev
ery branch of trade evinces a healthy
success and expansion. There is an
active movement of goods to tho
country, and tho city offers
throughout its thoroughfares and
business houses a cheerful and vigor
ous condition of trade.” The St.
Paul (Minn.) Pioneer, of the 2d inst.,
speaks of business in that quarter as
only fair in most departments of the
wholesale trade, while in some
branches there are complaints of un
expected dullness. The grocery
trade is the most active of any. Col
lections. however, were unexpectedly
good, in most instances. A report
from Memphis says there was a large
trade there last week. The general
feeling among business men in
that quarter, as expressed and shown
by their preparations, is that the
fall and winter tia ie will be large
in the aggregate, alt hough individ
ual purchasers are not buying as lib
erally as last year. The Kansas
City (Mo.) Times, of Thursday, says
In some lines of trade the leading
merchants report a very active
week’s business, while in other sorts
there has been a little lull. The Gulf
ports report the leading branches
fairly active. According to the Gal
veston News of October 28th, a free
distribution of merchandise to the
interior is still in progress, notwith
standing tho lateness of the season.
At New Orleans there is no further
apprehensions of yellow fever, and
consequently there is a brisker
, movement among resident traders.
The city is beginning to fill up with
strangers, who go there to spends
portion of the winter in a mild cli
mate, and that aids business. The
Prices Current of Wednesday last
says: “The general movement has
“shown increased animation, most
“branches of tho wholesale trade do
“ing a more active business.”
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KAFFIH WFIIUIKIiN.
BY LADY BAHKEB.
I have seen two Kaffir weddings
lately, and, oddly enough, by the
merest chance they took place within
a day or two of each other. The two
extremes of circumstances, the rudest
barbarism and culminating smart
ness of civilization, seemed to jostle
each other before my very eyes as
tniugs do in a dream. And they went
backward, too, to make it more per
plexing, for it was tho civilized wed
ding I saw first—the wedding of peo
ple whose mothers had been bought
for so many cows, and wiiose mar
riage rites had . probably been cele
brated with a stick, for our Kullir
bridegroom does uot understand shy
ness, and speedily ends the romance
of courtship by a few cuffs. Well,
then, I chanced to go into town one
of these ttuo bright winter mornings,
(which would bo perfect if it were
not for the dust,) and I saw a crowd
round the porch of tho principal
church. “What is going on?” I ask
ed, naturally, and heard in broken
English, dashed with Dutch and Kaf
fir, that there was an “uutyado,”
(excuse phonetic spelling,) or “bruit
log,” or “wedding. Hardly had I
gathered the meaning of all these
words—the English being by far the
most difficult to recognize, for they
put u click in it—than the bridal par
ty came out of tho church, formed
themselves into an orderly proces
sion, aud commenced to walk up the
exceedingly dusty street two and
two. They were eseorted by a crowd
of well-wishers, and a still greater
crowd of spectators more or less de
risive, I regret to state. But noth
ing upset tho gravity and de
corum of tho bride and bride
groom, who walked first, with
a perfectly happy and well-satisfied
expression of face.
Uniforms were strictly excluded,
and the groom and his male friends
prided themselves on having discard
ed all their miscellaneous red coats
for the day, and on being attired in
suits of ready-made tweed, in which
they looked queerer than words can
say. Boots also had they on their
feet, to their huge discomfort, and
while soft felt hats stuck more or
less rakishly on their elaborately
combed-out woolly pates. The gen
eral effect of the gentlemen. I am
sorry to sav, was that of the Christy
minstrels; ’but the ladies made up
for everything. I wish you could
have seen the perfect ease and grace
of the bride, as she “paced” along
with her flowing white skirts trailing
behind her in the dust, and her iaee
veil thrown over a wreath of orange
blossoms and iianging to the
ground. It was difficult to believe
that probably not long ago she
had worn a sack, or a fold of coarse
salempore, as sole clothing. She
managed her draperies, all snowy
white,and made in the latest fashion,
as if she had been used to long
gowns all her life, and carried her
head as though it had never known
red clay or a basket of mealies. I
could not see her features but her
face and throat and bare arms were
all as blaok as jet, and shone out in
strong relief from among her muslin
frills and furbelows. There were
yards of satin ribbon among these
same frills, and plenty of artificial
flowers; but it was all white, shoes
and all. lam afraid she had “dis
remembered” her stockings.
The principal couple were closely
followed by half-a-dozen sable dam
sOs, “gowned in pure white,” and
made wonderful with many bows of
blue ribbon. Each maiden was es
corted by a groomsman, the rear
guard of guests trailing off into col
ored cottons and patched suits. Ev
erybody looked immensely pleased
with him and herself, and I gradu
a’ly lost sight of them iu the uufuil
ing cloud of dust which rises on the
slightest provocation at this time of
year. I assuie you it was a great
event, the first smart wedding in Mar
itzburg among the Kaffirs and I only
hope the legal part is all right, that
the bridegroom won’t be freeto bring
hotne|another wife some fine day to vex
the soul of this smart lady. Kaffir mar
riage laws are in a curious state, and
present one of the greatest difficulties
in the process of grafting civilized
hubits on t he customs of utter barba
rism. In spite of the imposing ap
pearance of bride and bridegroom, in
spite of the good sign all this aping
of our ways really is, in spite of a
hundred considerations of that na
ture which ought to have weighed
with me, but Idid not, I fear I took
far more interest in a real Kaffir mar
riage, a portion of whose preliminary
proceedings I saw two days after this
gala procession in white muslin and
gray tweed.
I was working in the veranda after
breakfast—for you must know that
it is so cold indoors that we all spend
the middle part of the day basking,
like lizzards, in the delicious warmth
of sunny air outaide-when I
heard a distant but loud
noise beyond the sod fence
between us and a track leading
over the hills, in whose hollows many
a Kaffr kraal nestles snugly. I knew
it must be something unusual, fori
saw all our own Kaffirs come run
ning out in a btato of great excite
ment, calling to each other to make
haste. G , too. left the funeral
obsequies of a cat-murdered pigeon,
in which he was busily employed and
scampered off to the gate, shouting
to me to come and seo. Wo I -who
am the idlest mortal in the world,
and dearly love an excuse for leaving
whatever rational employment lam
engaged upon—snatched up the baby,
who was supremely happy digging
in tho dust in the sunshine, called
Maria in case there might be any
thing to explain, and ran off to the
gate also. But there was nothing to
be seen, not even du.-t, only a sound
of monotonous singing and loud
grunting coming nearer and nearer,
and by and by the muffled tread of
bare, hurrying feet, shuffling through
the powdered earth of the track.
The announcement that leading Demo
crats were on their way to New Orleans
to investigate the situation, published in
the morning papers, lias had a very en
couraging effect on our people, who are
very anxious to know what the North and
West propose to do in case Kellogg and
Packard attempt to swindle us out of the
State, as they did in 1872. — N. O. Demo
crat, 10th.
VT. F. TICKER, Dentist,
Randolph street, (opposite Strapper ■) Colombo
>al 1/] Georgia.
LORD BYRON’S LOVE.
The Story ni Told by Mary ('lmworth’s
Mcrvunt.
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From LippingcoWs Magazine for Nov'r.
Nottingham, —— I have been wonder
fully entertained to-day by the story of old
.1 Mary Chaworth’s servant, ‘head
man at Annesly Park,’ . I should much like
to know if anyone else has been so fortunate
as to hear the loquacious old man’s account
of Byron and his early love. When one
hears a story like this from the lips of a
servant, it is surely worth while to consider
whether, after all, great reputations are not
apt to suffer from the ill-will of hirelings,
and may not be too readily.branded by the
world, as prompt to condemn our failures as
to'applaud our attainments. Lord Byron
suffers nothing from J ’s confession,
but Mistress Chaworth was surely unfoitu
nate in her confidentdependence on a ser
vant's faithfulness.
That was a funny sum-total of J 's
when I asked him his opinion of Byron’s
character: ‘Oh, his lordship were a fool.
He didna knaw—grass from—grass. An’
he never give me naught. But many's the
pun’ note Mr. Musters gie me for a chance
tospeakwi' Mary Chaworth.’
So! and who knows if, but for the trick the
old man confessed, Lord Byron would not
have married one whose affectionate dispo
sition and self-immolation for the object of
her devotion might have saved to the world
a pure and elevated poet, unsullied by the
mire of wanton despair, and to Mary Cha
worth a heart that loved her for herself?
John Muster's triumph was cheaply pur
chased. I will record it as old J rela
ted it.
‘Ay, I remember well when his lordship
wud come riding like mad into Annesly
Park, and his two great dogs flying along wi’
him. ‘My word,’ old Mrs. Clark would
say, ‘lf there doesn’t come his lordship,
and those nasty brutes are with him to spoil
my nice white counterpane!’ You see the
brutes always sleept outside o’ the covers
on his lordship's bed.
‘One fine day, when I was lying the cloth
for dinner, Miss Mary sat in the great hall
wi’ her back to the lawn, an’ 6he didn't see
his lordship coming.’
‘How was she dressed?’
‘Oh. she was dressed in a white silk gown,
very low on the shoulders, an’ a high belt un
der her arms, like. An’ it were very long
behind, an' so you could see her wee small
feet in tidy slippers in front.
‘Well, the great hall windows opened on
the lawn, an’ his lordship were quick enough
to spy Miss Mary sittin’ there. An' he came
soft like through the room, and before she
knew it, he leanid over her and kissed her
beautiful white shoulder.
‘Oh, dear! will I ever forget how she flared?
She sprang to her feet, an’ wi’ a voice chokit
wi’ rage, she sai l, ‘My lord, what doeß this
mean? You never have so much as touched
the hem of my garment, an’ you never shall!'
Then it were awful to see the fire in her eyes;
she were the picture of her grandfather, who
were killed in aduel wi' his lordship’s grand
father across that very table. But she
needna been so mad, for his lordship were a
nice man enough but for his nub foot. Poor
fool! she didna know Musters were only af
ter her money, an’ his lordship loved her for
herself. Mr. Musters were a handsome man
too, and he always gied me a pun’ note; once
he gied me fi’ pun’ note, hut I never told
him I saw a five on it when I got home. I
hleped him to get rid o’ his lordship, an’ I
fixed all the meetin’s wi’ his man. You see,
I was head man at Annesly Hall, an' when
the young heiress rode out, it was my, place
to ride after her, au’ Mr. Musters’ man would
ride after him, ail’ we’d always go the same
road.’
‘But how did you manage about I-ord By
ron?’
‘Oh, he were like his mother—afraid of
the bogles!’
‘Bogles! ind pray what are they?’
‘Oh, the people out o’ the kilkyard, that
couldna rest alter the duels an’ that.'
‘Oh, yes; well, go on, please.’
‘An it were lor that his lordship always
kept one o’ the men waiting half the night
next to his bedroom till he read himself to
sleep. Well, one night it were my turn to
wait, an’ I watted till it were near morning,
an’ at last l couldna keep awake any longer,
an’ I just out aud said, ‘I think, your lord
ship, it’s time for reasonable folk to have
done wi’ crack reading an’ go to sleep.’
‘Fellowl’ he shouted, like one stark mad,
‘fellow! do youknow to whom you are speak
ing?’ ‘Ay, your lordship, that I do; but I’m
aleared o’ naught—neither lord, duke, earl,
nor king—for the matter o’ that!’
■I doubled I'd lose my place, but Mrs.
Clark begged his lordship's forgiveness for
me, and 1 wasna dismissed. But 1 made up
my mind his Lordship shouldna sleep more
nor one night at Annesly Hall.
‘Mrs. Clark,’ I said, ‘you'd rather the
brutes would not spoil your white coun
terpane?' .Ay, J ,’ she said, ‘but I dare
not offend his Lordship.’
‘Well, I didna say aught, but I just went
about it, and this is how I did it. The great
bed in his Lordship's room had heavy cur
tains, an’ they were hung on brass ring?
that run on brass bars, an’ they made a
deal o’ noise an’ rattlin’ when they were
drawed. I found a big ball o' pack thread,
an’l run one end through all the rings on
one side, and th’ other through all the rings
on th’other side; and when I carried the two
ends down the post and along the floor I cut
a clean slice off the bottom o’ the bed-room
door, so the thread would be sure to pull
easy-like; an’ I put the rug over the thread,
an’ then I couldd't ha’ told myself aught
was wrong.
•After me tellin’ his lordship a piece o' my
mind about hi crack reading, they took the
next man to me to wait on him for that
night, an’ 1 thought it would be morning be
fore he ever would have done, he was so in
tolerable lo g. But at last 1 heard the door
of his lordship's room open, an’ soon as every
thing was quiet, I peeped throughbhe crack
and made sure the master and the brutes
were alt sleepin’. Then I pulled the thread
It was an awful shriekin’ the ring made over
the brass bars, an' in a second, crack! went
a pistol, an’ the dogs howled, an' his lord
ship called, ‘Help! help! thieves! thieves!’
‘I ran to my bed fast as my legs would
carry me, an’ in a minute all the doors in the
house flew open, an’ candies were flarin' an
women screamin', an’ all the men poundin
on his lordship's door ari’ callin’ ‘Open the
door, my lord. There be five o' us here, an'
we’ll soon make sure o’ the rascals!’
‘Some one came an' tried to waken me;
but vou knaw I had my breeches on, an’ ii
I’.d got out o’ bed they'd known I was at the
bottom o’ the mischief.
‘Go ’long to the great room an’ I’ll come.’
I 6aid at last, yawnin’, an’then milkin’ as ii
I had just hauled on my clothes, I joined the
men at the door, an’ alter his lordship was
convinced we couldn't burst the door in he
opened it, and such a rushin’ of men an’
dogs was never seen afore. Lookin'up the
chimney and under the bed, I were really
frightened at the danger 1 were in o’ bein’
found out, an’ sbakin' all over when I said,
•There be naught here, your lordship—nei
ther thieves nor murderers—an’ I doubt it
was the bogles from the kirkyard yonder.’
'My word! no one slept any more in the
hall that night, an’ it was the last t’me his
lordship ever went to bed at Annesly Park.’
'But you are sorry now, and , for the
trick you played, since Miss Chaworth
might have married him if she had known
Lord Byron better, and had not been decieved
by Mr. Musters?'
‘Ay, that I be, an’ it often gied agin my
conscience when I waited till all the folk
would be asleep in the hall, an' then I’d
bring Miss. Chaworth down to meet Mus
ters in the dining-hall, an’ leave ’em a bit
to chat an’ that; an’ when I’d knock some
times he wouldn’t go, an’ I’d have to tell
him he must, for the folk would soon be
stirring in the hall. And oh. the picnics we
had in the groves! I'd send out the hampers
by the men to the blacksmith’s, an’ they
never knowed what was in them. And Mus
ter’s man would get them, and lay the cloth
on the sod, an' such long merry talks they’d
have while we strolled away a bit; an’ then
they’d go off together while we’d lunth a
bit. The very last time we were feasting
in the groves Muster’* mart said, ‘So many
bottles are strawn around, an’ these be nice
ones, J ; one for you an’ one for me; an’
we put ’em in our great-coats; and there
they are; you can have 'em both if you want
them. Ah, little did the poor young thing
know what was cornin’! The day she was
ot age she married Mr Musters, and a month
from that she paid £ 100,000 to the money
lenders, that were only waitin' all the time
for his promise to pay them when he mar
ried the heiress. And oh, she was the most
unhappy woman alive w'hen he openly trea
ted her bad-like! and all he wished of her
was money! money! Never will I forget
the day his lordship's funeral was cornin’ to
the inn at Nottingham. My poor Mistress
came into the town an up to the very door
before she knowed whose luneral it was.
She was so stricken with trouble an’ illness
that the folk thought even then she were
some'at daft. An’ two years more was as
she could manage. She died from the mad
house.
The czar and the sultan.
Boston Advertiser.l
Paris, Oct. 15. * * * A popular
legend in Serbia, whose origin is
very much like that of the “Arabian
Nights,” has a strange actuality in
the present moment, and runs thus:
The Czar of Moscow sent to the
Sultan Mouiesit presents of greut
magnificence: A table of massive
gold; upon this table a golden mos
que ; encircling the mosque a serpent
of gold, and in the serpent’s mouth
a diamond of purest water. Sabres,
enriched with precious stones, for
the crown prince. A cradle of gold,
supported by golden falcons, for the
Suliana. How could such courtesy
be returned? . . ~
“O, glorious Sultan Mouiesit!
said the hodjus, “consult the Chris
tian patriarch; he knows what will
best, please the Czar of Moscow.”
“Speak,” said the Sultan ; and the
Christian patriarch replied; “Send
the crosier of Sava Nemantitch
(founder of the Serbian dynasty,) the
crown of the Emperor Constantine,
the sacerdotal vestments of Saint
lovati and the standard of Lazar,
with his cross. All this has but
little value to you, O Sultan
Mouiesit!”
The Sultan listened, smiled and
sent, back ttie messenger of the Czar
charged with the—to him—worthless
objects, and divan boasted of being
quit at such little cost, but a certain
pasha remarked to him, “Why not
likewise have sent the keys Stam
boul?”
This brought a flash of comprehen
sion to Sultan Mouiesit’s mind. He
sent forth orders to overtake and
bring back the messenger, but alas I
too late. The Russians, anticipating
second thought, took another road,
and tho Turks never recovered what
had been so lightly lost. But one
means of vengeunee remained to the
enraged Sultan. He ordered the
Christian patriarch to bo decapitated,
and this was promptly done, allow
ing as a great favor the old man’s
last prayer, to die upon a hill-top,
his face turned toward the Black Sea
and his eyes toward Moscow. And
thus it came to puss that the Czar
received from Mouiesit the standard
of Lazar, with his cross, the sacer
dotal vestments of St. lovan, the
crown of Emperor Constantine and
and the crosier of Sava Nemantitch.
A report of the departure of the la
test colony of negroes from this coun
try to Liberia says: “They wore
homespun clolhes and appeared to be
a hardy, healthy set or people, rang
ing in color from lamp-black to ma
hogany. They seemed to be rather
glad at leaving this land of liberty and
equal rights, and no doubt their
minds pictured a future of glowing
and perennial happiness on Afric’s
sunny strand. Bishop Haven was in
fine spirits. He spoke enthusiastic
ally or the destiny of the colored race
—of the day when, in educated num
bers, they would return to their natal
soil and redeem a great, continent
from sterility and barbarism. He
dwelt fondly on the prospect he
hoped to see arise—gnat fleets leav
ing the ports of America laden with
intelligent and Christian negroes,
carrying the torch of civilization and
religion into the hauDts or supersti
tion, vice and heathenism.”
To the Public.
Having received our new stock, we
would respectfully invite our customers
and the pdllie in general, to call and ex
amino the same. Every artilcle has been
selected with great care, as to style, and
will be found equal to any offered for sale
in New York, or elsewhere. The prices of
watches, jewelry and silver-wure has been
reduced considerable here lately, and as
we buy only for cash, we can oHer , our
goods at the lowest protualije p:ice.
Therefore If you want good goods at low
prices you will lind what you want at
WirricH & Kinseii’s
octß 3m Jewelry Store.
Buiethlnir Xlcf.
Genuino'English Plum Pudding import
ed, Canton Ginger Preserves.
For sale by J. H. Hamilton.
nov2 tf ' ■ •
U. AVKRETT.
FAMILY GROCER—AT OLD POST-OFFICE
CORNER.
Has on consignment—
-500 doz Eggs at 20e ; large lot Fresh
Apples—by barrel or at retail; Northern
Cabbage; Cheese and Butter, and gener
ally assorted Family Groceries.
All down low for cash.
Ilinck 811 k nml Cashmeres.
If you are in need of such goods look at
my stock before buying.
otes-eodtf J. Albert Kikven.
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