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HILL DIO NOT PRESENT BLODGETT'S
PAPERS.
i K. j
MAYEN WANTS TO TALK WITH
HAMPTON AND CHAWBEK
LAIN.
Washington, Maryh 23.—Tbfc
formal presentation of the papers
and application of Foster Blodgett,
as Marshal of Georgia, was made by
Senator Morton, and not by Senator
Hill.
The result of the consideration by
the Cabinet of the South Carolina
qaestion has been the sending of a
letter to Chamberlain and Hampton,
inviting them here in person or by
delegate to confer with the President
on the situation of affairs in that
State.
EX-GOV. 1. C. BROWN OW THE OOMMIS
sjpa TO SEW ORLEANS.
Washington, March 23.—Private,
unearthed after midnight:
“Pulaski, Marci/22,1877.
"To Hon. D. M. Key, Postmaster
(JeneM • V - ;
“If it is believed that my co-opera
tion will contribute anything towards
a pacific soluiflpu of tftMroublee in
Louisiana, my services are at the
command of the President, on the
basis suggested in your dispatches of
to-day. , Advise me fully of the deter
mination ef the President.
(Signed) “John C. Brown.”
The President has appointed
Brown.
Washington, March 23.—The Pres
ident has received by telegraph the
resolution of the Packard Legisla
ture calling for aid to protect the
State against insurrection, but lias
paid a e-attention to it.
Charles M. Bendtey has been ap
pointed stenographer to the Presi
dent |w-T* r’:; T•"
■Of LrPruden sucebetJsr Major Sftif
fln os Assistant Secretary to the
President.
Bishops Campbell, Shorter and
Brown, colored, of the Methodist
church, called on the President and
were introduced by Prof, Langston.
The President thanked them for
their call, and kindly expressions of
regard to himself and the policy of
peace which he intended to pursue.
The answer, if any has been made,
by Hampton or Chamberlain has not
transpired.
Nothing new regarding the Louis
iana commission.
Mrs. Dr. Mary Walker was forci
bly excluded from the Treasury De
partment to-day.
SUUTII UROLLSIA.
,t. * > %—B— l~ —_
Hayes’ Letter to Hampton
and Chamberlain.
lie Wants a Talk.
Executive Mansion. I
WsSttritoYo*, I>. ©., March 23, ’77. |
Sir: I am Instructed by the Presi
dent to bring to your attention his
purpose to taka Into Immediate con
sideration the position of affairs in
South Carolina, with a view of deter
mining the course which under the
constitution and laws of the United
States it may be his duty to take In
reference to the situation in that
State, as he finds it upon succeed
ing to the Presidency. It
will give the President great
pleasure to-confer with you in per
son, if you shall find it convenient to
visit Washington and shall concur
with him in tbinkiog such a confer
ence the readiest and best mode of
placing your views as So tlte political
situation in your State before him.
He woald greatly prefer this direct
communication, of opinion and in
formation to any other method of as
certaining your views upon the pres
ent condition and immediate pros
pects of public jnjterests in, South
Carolina. If Iteacons of weight
with yon sfeotrH dtsconrafee- this
eourse, the President will be
glad to receive any communication
from you in writing,jor through any
delegate possessing your confidence
that will convey to him your views of
the impediments to the peaceful and
orderly organization of a single and
undisputed State Government in
m etn da w onremg>Yl ffgrriTe nr.
It is the earnest desire of the Pres
ident to. bo able to put an end as
speedily as possible to all appearan
ces of intervention of the military au
thority # 4b® Baited States in the
polkwaPMsrAftifedWtleßtA'Wrhiobf affect
the Government and afftiet the peo*
pie of South Carolina. la this
desire, the Presidentcan not doubt,he
'truly represents the patrlotlo feeling
of the (treat body of the people of the
United States. It is impossible that
fxatxacted order in the domestic gov
ernment of any State can or should
ever tail to be a matter of lively in-,
terest andoolicitudc to the people of
the whole couutry.
In furtherance of the prompt and
safe execution of this general pur
pose, he Invite* fitU'icobimdnku- '
tion of yqur opinion: on 4he whole
Subject, in such one of the proposal
forms as may seem to you most use
ful. is i-- . v
By the direction of the President, I
have addressed to the Hon. Wade
Hampton a duplicate of thi* letter.
1 am, very lespectfully, your obedi
ent servant,
W. K. Roqehs,
Private Secretary.
To the Hon. Daniel 11. Chamberlain.
PACKARD'S OFFICERS JAILED.
THE BIPKEJIE COURT REFUSE*
THEM II ABE AM COHPI'H,
Norlhrru Property Holder* Par Taxes
tu Nlcholli.
* —:—
New Orleans, March 23.— Nine o
Packard’s recruiting officers, brought
before Judge Whitlaw of the Su
preme Court, on habeas corpus, were
sent baok to prison, the writ being
refused.
.The Brooks of Boston owniug sev
eral millions of property in New Or
leans, Burnside, the largest property
la Louisiana, and many large
property holders, have paid taxes to
NTcnblrk'tax collectors.
Liverpool Colton Circular.
Liverpool, March 23.—The circular
of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers' .As
sociation, in its weekly review, says:
Cotton continues unsettled, with a
limited business. Under an increas
ed pressure to sell, prices have fur
ther declined. American continues
much depressed, at a decline gener
ally of Jd. Sea Island is neglected
and unchanged. In futures, except
ing Saturday, when a very large busi
ness was done, transactions during
the week were only limited, and the
desire to sell considerable. A de
cline of fully a farthing was estab
lished.
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
San Francisco, March 23.—Cala
han & Lynch, stock brokers, failed.
Liabilities $900,000.
Boston,— The New England Glass
Company, the largest in New Eng
land, voted to wind up, being unable
to compete with Western and South
ern concerns. Two hundred employ
ees are ousted.
Columbus, O.—The Republicans
nominated Col. R. M. Moore for
mayor.
Liverpool.— Austerlitz won the
grand national steeple chase; Con
gress second; Liberator third. Bet
ting ten to one against Austerlitz.
Nfw York.—Russian fleet anchor
ed outside the bar.
THE EASTERN QUESTION.
MONTENEGRO AN TURKEY WILL
DECIDE IT.
Paris.
arranging for a meeting of the three
Emperors, should the protocol be
signed.
London, March 23.—A special dis
patch trom St. Petersburg to the
Hews says: The decision of peace or
war really rests with Montenegro
and Turkey. The Russian govern
ment'cannot influence the' Prince of
Montenegro beyond a certain point,
because he can appeal to a greater
power than the Government, namely,
the Russian people.
Catholic Church Affair*
London, March 23.—The Standard's
Vienna dispatch says : “A circular to
bishops has been issued from the
Vatican, counselling patience and
abstention from provocation during
the expected period of increased per
secution.”
Rome, March 23.—Mohsegnor Var
die, Auditor of the Sacred Rota, is
dead.
It is reported Count Corti succeeds
Meligario as Minister of Foreign Af
fairs.
The Pope is somewhat indisposed,
but there is no immediate cause for
jDktfUjr-t i i y fS~r *t*o rtjjryi* ]
London, March 23. —A special dis
patch from Rome to the Times says
it is stated that another allocution is
preparing for delivery at the Pope’s
Episcopal Jubilee in Jufie. In the
allocution the Pope will review the
condition of the Chupch and Holy
See—with respect to all nations of
the world. One of the Sacred Con
gregations is now considering the
question whether the Italian Sena
tors who in consequence of their
religious sentiments have never
participated in the deliberatiojis of
the Senate' since Rome became The
capital, may now do so in order to
vote against the Clerical Abuses
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For anything in Groceries, Provisions
Grain, Ac., at “rock bottom,” prices call
on J- H. Hamilton.
a on tf >0
COLUMBUS, GA.. SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 24, 1877.
EXECUTION OP J. D. LEE.
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Salt Lake, March 22.—The Mar
shal has left Reaver City with Le
for Mountain Meadow, where the
execution will take place. A compa
ny of soldiers accompany the party
to-preventa rescue.
St. Lake, March 23.—At 11 o’clock
a. m. precisely, Lee was brought out
upon the scene of the massacre at
Mountain Meadowy before the exe
cuting party, and seated on his
coffin, about 20 feeffrom the shoot
ers. After the order of the court was
road to him and the company pros
tent by Marshal Nelson, Leo made a
speech of about five hundred words,
bitterly denouncing Brigham Young,
and calling himself a scapegoat for
the sins of others. He hoped God
would be merciful. Ho denied that
he was guilty of bloodshed to the
last, and maintained that his mission
to the Meadows was one of-mercy.
After his speech, Parson Stokes,
Methodist, made a prayer, commendt
log the soul of the condemned man
to God. Immediately after thiß, a
handkerchief was placed over Leo’s
eyes; he raised his bands and placed
them on top of his head, sitting firm.
Marshal Nelson then gave the word
“Fire!” ami five guns were dis
charged, the balls penetrating the
body in the region of the heart. Lee
fell square back ou his eofiln, dead!
His death was instantaneous. The
body was placed in the coffin, and
tho crowd dispersed.
There were about 75 persons, all
told, on the ground. Nut a child or
relative was there. The best order
prevailed. Lee’s last words to Mar
shal Nelson were, “aim at iny
heart.” The body is now on the way
to bo delivered to relatives at Cedar
City.
Brigham Young makc9 publication
denying the truth of the confession
made by Lee, the Mountain Meadow
murderer. Lee throws the entire
guilt on the Mormon church. Young
says, “any statement implicating me
is utterly false.” He says: “My
course of life is too well known by
thousands of honorable men for
them to believe for one moment such
an accusation.” Execution probably
took place at noon to-day. ft is not
known whether the firing party be
soldiers or marshalls.
Minister WttDhbnrnn Resigned.
Washington, March 23.— Minister
Washburue has resigned the French
Mission. The President accepEsT.be
resignation, with a request that Mr.
Washburne remain at Paris until his
successor arrives theto. 1
WEATHER INDICATION*.
War Department, 1
Office of Chief Signal Officer, >
Washington, March 24, 1877. )
For the South Atlantic Stales,
warm southerly winds, shifting to
colder westerly and northwesterly,
stationary or rising barometer, and
increasing cloudiness, possibly fol
lowed by local rains during the even
ing. ___
THE LOUISIANA DELEGATION PRO
TIATN AGAINST THE COM
MUNION.
The President Declare* the Commliiloi
the Only Thing the Divided Cabinet
Could Unite On.
Special to the N. O. Democrat.]
Washington, March 21.—General
Gibson takes a calmer view of the
present situation than any of his col
leagues of the Louisiana delegation.
He says that he had an interview
with President Hayes at John Sher
man'S house prior to the in'atigura
ticn, in the course of which Hayes
told him that he favored the plan of
sending a commission to Louisiana
to report on the condition of affairs
there and would ceriainly do so.
Gibson has resisted the commission
programme vigorously ever since
Hayes was inaugurated, but he says
he nas been prepared for it, and be
lieved it would come; anti that, in
private communication, he has kept
Gov. Nicbolls prepared for it from
the beginning.
To-day, when the President an
nounced the determination of the
Cabinet to send the commission, Gib
son said to'him: “Mr. President, I
can not find words in which to ex
press my grief at this determination ;
nor need I try to express to you the
disappointment with which the an
nouncement of your determination
will be received in New Orleans and
throughout Louisiana. The language
of your inaugural led my people to
hope for the best at your hands.
This determination will ceriainly fall
very far short of their hopes.”
The President replied : "I am very
sorry to hear you say these things,
Gen. Gibson. I assure you that noth
ing is farther from me than an un
kind feeling toward your people, but
I earnestly believe that this policy is
best calculated to promote the com
mon interest of all the people of your
State.”
At this point Mr. Ellis addressed
the President and said:
“Mr. President, it is very hard on
our people, after having been deluded
and robbed, to be compelled to wait
yet longer and dance attendance up
on a commission : to wait and suffer,
while their fate hangs upon the con
clusions of four men, who may do
one thing and who may do another.”
The President replied ; “It is hard
ly worth while to reopen a discussion
upon those points, Mr. Ellis. The
proposition to withdraw the Federal
forces encountered opposition in the
Cabinet and divided the admiuistrar
tion against itself. The plan which
we have adopted was discovered,
after exhaustive discussion, to be the
only plan upon which the Cabinet
could unite and I thought It better
that, upon a queston ,ol so much
'gravity, the administration should
“act as a unit rather than as a divided
body.”
Mr. Hayes then turned to Col. Levy
aud said that he should select as
members of the commission gentle
men who hud the confidence of the
whole country, pud should await
their report with perfect confidence
that it would be justified by events
and approved by results.
At this point, the interview between
■the President ,and the Democratic
Conservative delegation in Congress
from Louisiana terminated, but as
the gentleinou were leaviug, the
President detained Gen. Gibson and
said to him that the only embarrass
ment he apprehended was a possible
difficulty in getting the men he want
ed to serve on the commission, but
he indicated that he would exhaust
the catalogue of non-partisan fair
minded men before he gave it up.
Buell.
Tlic Cnaiinl**loii a Triumph of khrrnun.
HprcUl to Kj 0. Democrat:]
Washington, March 21,11:30 1>. m.—
Hayes now occupies the middle
ground between conservatives and
carpet-baggers. The former have
lost faith and confidence in falsi, and
the latter are laying in wait in hopes
of ultimately capturing him out and
out..
The general belief of Southern men
here is that Hayes has let his great
opportunity slip by, since, even if the
commission finally recommends the
policy of non-intervention and the
consequent recognition of Nocholls
and Hampton, the leader of the com
mission will get aj! the credit for this
instead of Hayes,
The hope of carpet-baggbrs is that
conservative men will refuse to serve
on the commission, thus compelling
Hayes to choose Rudieal partisans.
The determination to send the com
mission may be regarded as a victory
for John Sherman and a defeat for
Carl Schurz, who stood up manfully
for the interests of the Southern peo
ple to the last, sad did not yield un
til he found himself entirely alone
iu the Cabinet. However, Schruz
does not regard this failure to secure
his view as a vote of want of confi
dence, and will not resign yet. awhile.
Buell.
Parents, mothers, nurses, do not
fail to give Dr. Bull’ Cough Syrup to
the little ones for all eases of coughs
and colds. Only cost 25 cents.
mivlni south.
A Boston correspondent of the New
Orleans Picayune says: Last even
ing we attended a meeting of an or
ganization called “The Bovereings of
Industry Coo-perative Agricultural
ami Manufacturing Company.” It
comprises about 160 members, com
posed of mechanics and farmers.
There are members of this company
who belong in distant portions of the
State; This week they send a com
mittee or three to examine land in
Western Virginia, and they expect
to plum 100 families in the Slate in
the next two months. We doubt if
they will send 60 many. They are,
however, in sober earnest. None of
them during the entire evening oven
hinted abput, going West. The South
is all the talk.
They imehd to establish a farming
and manufacturing colony, and want
a good water power as well us good
lauds.
One speaker, a very intelligent
tau, said the movement they were
making was merely a beginning, a
mere drop in the bucket; that three
hundred and fifty tbousaud working
men, including families, would move
from the Northern Slates to the
South in the next twelve months.
He said the time is past fur laboring
men to do anything iu New England ;
that multitudes of the mecbauics
must leave the cities and go South
and become farmers. It was the
only hope. And young farmers are
joining in the movement. This is
probably the last colony that can go
South before fall and winter, and
these can go no lower down than Vir
ginia or Maryland. The season is
too far advanced.
A member of the company said in
the meeting that he was a Republi
can, and that he wrote to a Republi
can editor in West Virginia, stating
a colony was forming in Massachu
setts to settle in Virginia, but the
editor did not give them more than a
half dozen lines, said nothing en
couraging, and wound up by saying
he knew nothing about the parties
desiring to emigrate to Virginia
whether they were responsible or not.
He said lie then wrote to u Demo
cratic editor, and he published a
flaming notice, and bid them come
and welcome. Virginia wanted them,
and the ptAUple would receive them
with open arms. *
At a lecture which I attended a few
days ago, the distinguished speaker
said that iu the year 1800 but onc
iweutfeth of the population of the
United States lived In citie3, and now
one-fifth live in cities. Too many
non-producers.
The surplus intelligent labor of
the North is alarmed at danger
ahead. Land Is the great remedy
which they seek. A house aud twen
ty-five to fifty acres of land in .a
Southern State is the height of their
ambition. That merely a revival of
business in the North will not reme
dy the evil; hundreds of thousandj
of them must have land and a home
where they can make their own
bread. t
LIST OF LETTER*.
The following is the list of letters remsinlng
iu the puHtoJßoo at Columbus (Ga.,) March 24th
un.
Baldwin min* Suean McCormick mra Mar y
Bartlett WPP May* J
Berner K Mason mre Mary (col)
Bia< kabur Sarah (col) Mayer W H
Browu miss Melina Morgan mi Carrie
Coleman Louie* (col) Monart miss Charlotte
Crawford I Miisgrave mISB Punsa-
Davie L ®ola
Dobson J H Nowsam f
Drew miss Blla Pooser J B
Eiland mtss Mary Simmon P B
English J O Sorrell L T
Ferguson miss H H Htewart miss J N
Happerty J L Taylor T M 2
Hall T A Thomas W 2
Hoffman V Tommy miss Carrfe C
Holliman rmsCbarjotte Walker K
Hughs mrs H Watkinn miss Mary Ann
Jaokaou M Wilnon mins Emma (col)
Jones miss Emma Williams mra Julia 2
Langford W M W* Iburne J tCol)
Langford W Ward mrs Crist
McHenry. *-
W. H. JOHNSON P. M.
Zephyr
I have received this day 251bS. Zephyr
•Wools In White aind Colors.
J. Albert Kikven.
Prom the N. Y World. 1
A TKAMI’ fi QI'KCR HTOBI.
■ " ' —————
SAL’S HE ONCE UOJjHE D A SAFE AND
WANTS ?0. (lET. MAORIS PRISON,
Yesterday, just as the Tombs Polico
Court wus about to udjourn, offleer
Kennedy, of the twenty-seventh pre
oiuct, brought in a man whom he ar
rested us a suspicious person. The
officer was patroling tils beat in the
neighborhodd of Broadway and Wall
Street, oil Broadway, and noticed ills
priMxiffrt* shabbily-dressed six
footer, having uli the amiearapoe of
a tramp-going from floor to, door,
trying them. The officer witched
him for Borne time, and, whilo he was
trying the door of No. 115 Broadway,
aocoscdhiui: ,
“What do you want here?” said
the officer. “Are you trying to get
iu ?"
"Yes, I am,” replied the fellow,
sullenly.
“Did you intend to get into that
plaen V”
"Yes, I did, if I could,” was the
answer.
On further questioning, the officer
learned tbitt. the stranger had no
right there and arrested him, sorely
puzzled as to how any man would
willingly acknowledge a State-prison
offense. He took his prisoner to the
station-house, where he was sent be
fore Justice Kilbret, at the Tombs
Police Court.
Wbeu arraigned, the prisoner gave
his name us Christian llauseu, aged
42, borh in Copenhagen, Denmark,
and came to this couutry in 1863. In
answer to the charge he said he
wanted to be arrested ; that he would
rather be in Slate Prison than roam
ing about penniless. He seemed to
be a inau of good education, and the
Court questioned him as to his his
tory. He gave it without any reserve,
except that ho refused to give the
names of three men who were en
gaged with him in crime, and who no
doubt are, if out of prison, as danger
ous a trio as could be at large.
“The second day after I arrived in
this country,” said lie, “I enlisted iu
Company K, Seventh New York Vol
unteers. I went through the war,
being in many battles, and was only
once wounded. After the war was
over I went to Cincinnati, where I
accepted work as a laboring man,
though I was able to fill a position
requiring education. I lost my posi
tion aud became dispirited. I had
beep iu the habit of occasionally go
ing to the '.Buckeye’ saloon while at
work, and when I was out of work
I went there a good deal. There I
made the acquaintance of a gang of
burglars, who induced me to join
them. They had a good many jobs
in view, but the first one I was en
gaged in was the robbery
of the First National Bank of
Cincinnati, where we got $400,000 in
bonds and $5,000 in cash. This was
on the 3d day of February, 1860. I
only got SIO,OOO, my 'partis’doing me
outof my share. I took to gambling
in Eph Holland’s place in Fifth St.,
and lost even ttiat. Things got pret
ty hot for us in Cincinnati anu we
left. We went to Richmond, Ind.
Our next job was to rob the railroad
car on the Vandalia road, and the
way we did it, was this: They stop
ped at a little station for some
purpose, aud takiug the ad
vantage of the absence of the
train men, we opened the car
and threw the safe out, the safe roll
ing down an embankment, for which
advantage we chose that station. We
took the safe off into the woods and
there opened it and only found $5,000
in it. We ttien started for St. Louis,
but I had only just arrived when 1
was arrested, and on requisition sent
iiack to Cincinuaii to answer for the
bank robbery. My pards blowed on
me, I guess, but I’ll never do that on
them. I was tried before Judge Taft,
who used to be Aitoruey-Gpneral,
aud Emil Rhodes and ex-Judge Cox,
of Cincinnati, defended me. I was
convicted and sent to State prison for
twenty years. This was in 1866. Af
ter serving ten years I was pardoned
out by Gov. Haye9 on the sth of Feb
tuary last. I got my pardon because
I behaved rnvself When I left pris
on I bad $65. My money gave out
and I failed to get work, and walked
all the way from Pittsburg hero. I
was tired loafing around, and so I
just did what the officer arrested me
for down Broadway. I want to be
have myself, but I’ll have to starve
or steal, and I’d rather be in prison,
where I'm safe from harm.”
Alderman Morris and Dr. Elisha
Harris, Registrar of Vital Statistics,
wore seated ou the bench with Jus
tice Kiibreth, and the three gentle
men expressed themselves as willing
to help the man. Alderman Morris
gave him $2 ou the spot; Justice Kii
breth instructed one of the court offi
cers to call at his house to-day for a
suit of clothes, and Dr. Harris prom
ised to procure the prisoner work.
Justice Kiibreth, before sending him
down stairs, asked him to describe
by what means himself and bis part
ners managed to rob the bank. “We
hired,” said he, “a room in the base
ment of the next house for the pur
pose of opening a saloon. We dug
a hole through the wall into the
bank, bound and gagged the watch
man, and blew open the safes with
powder.”
He was aked to describe the modus
operandi of blowing open a safe.
“We do it,” said he, “without a
tool of any kind ; and if I had a safe
here I’d show you all in a minute
how it is done.”
“We have one,” said the Justice)
“come into the back room.”
“You see,” continued the tramp,
befdre the safe in the private office;
“that I have no possible means of
getting powder into that safe. These
crevices along the door are so tight
that you can scarely put a sheet of
writing paper in them. Well, we
just take a lot of putty and cover all
these cracks, leaving a little opening
at the top here and one at the bot
tom. We have about, a pound of line
powder which one fellow holds right
in frontof this lower opening agd; at
the mher one of us places his mouth
and draws out all the air in the safe.
The vacuum created by this opera
tion draws iu the powder below, and
when we think we have enough in we
set it off and it never fails.”
The listeners were astonished,
Hansen was treated to a hearty meal
aud then given iu charge of the War
den for the night.
The Hnner Bee.
The honey bee iz an inflamible
bugger, sudden in Hiz lmpredshuns
and hasty in hiz conclusions, or end.
His natral disposition iz a warm
cross between red pepper in the pod
and fusil oil, and his raorgl bias iz,
“git out ov ml way.”
i They hav a loijg boddy. divided In
tlic middle hi a waist spot, but their
phisikal importance lays ut the ter
minus of their subhurb.i in the shape
ova javelin.'
This javelin iz always loaded, and
stands reddy to uuload at a minute’s
warning, aud enters s mau az still az
thought, az spry az liteuiug, and az
full oph melankolly az the toothake.
Bees never argy a case; they settle
awl ov their dilierenoee ov dplnyun
bi letting their javelin tlv. aud are az
Certain lew hit az a mule iz.
Tilts testy kritter lives In congrega
tions numbering about 20,000 souls,
but whether they ate male or female,
ov conservative, or matched iu hoods
of wedlock, or whether they klub to
gether and keep one wife tew save
expeuses, I dou't leno nor don’t kare,
1 never examined their habits mutch,
i never considered it helthy. for what
would it profit a man tew kill 99 bees
and hav the 1 hundredth one hit him
with his javelin?
The droues seem always bizzy, but
what they are about the lord only
knows, they don’t lay tip enney
honey, they seern tow be bizzy only
gist for the sake of eating all the
time, they are alwus in as much ova
hurry az the they was going for a
dockt.er. I suppose this uneasy
world would grind arouud on its
axeltree onst in 24 hours, even if thure
want enny drones, but drones must
be good for something, but i kaut
think now what it iz. There haint
been a bug made iu vain, nor one
that want u good job; thure is ever
lots ov human drones loaf
ing around blacksmith shops, and
cider mills, alt over the couutry,that
don’t seem to be necessary for enny
thing but tew beg plug tobacco,
swear, and steal water-melons, but
you let the cholera break out Once,
and then you will see the wisdum ov
having jist such meu laying arouud
loose, they help to count.
Bees aro not long-lived—l kant
state just how long their lives aro,
but i kno, from instinkt and observn
shun, that any kritter, be he bug or
be he devil who is mad all the time
aud stings every good chance he can
git, genuerally dies early.
The only way tew git the exact
flteing weight ov tho bee, is tew
touch him, let him hit you with his
javelin, and you will be willing tew
testify in court that somebody run a
one-tined pitchfork inter yer, and as
for grit, i will state for the informa
shun ov those who havn’t had a
chance tew lay in their vermin wis
dom as freely az i hav, thut one
single bee who feels well will break
up a large camp meeting.
What the bees do for amusement
iz another question i kant answer,
but som ov the best read and heav
yest thiDkers amuug naturalists say
that they have target excursions and
heave their javelins at the mark ; but
i don’t imbibe this assurshun raw,
for i never kmi enny boddy, so bit
ter at heart uz the bees are, to waist
a blow.
There is one thing that a bees does,
1 will give him ceedit for on ml
books—he always attend to his own
bizziness, aod wont allow any bod
dy else tew attend tew it, and what
he duz he duz well, you never see
him altering enny thing, if they
make any inistakeSrit is after dark
and it ain’t seen.
If bees made haff as menny blun
ders az the men do, even with their
javelins, every boddy would lafT at
them.
In ending of this essa, i will cum
tew a stop by conculding, that if the
bees waz a little more pensive, and
not so darned peremtory with their
javelins, they might be guilty of less
wisdum, but more charity. But you
kant alter bug nature without spil
eing it forenuy thing else, enny more
than you kan an elephant’s egg .—Josh
Billings.
Lee’* sword at hi* Nurrendcr.
The Richmond Dispatch of Saturday
contains the following communication :
Messrs Editor's:—l am sorry that you
allow to pass unchallenged the item in
your paper of this morning from the Bon
gor|(Me.) lying about Grant’s magnanim
ity in declining to receive Lee’s sword, &c.
Several years ago you published a letter
trom your correspondent. “Viator,” giv
ig General Lee’s own account of the sur
render, in which he denied must emphati
cally that he ever tendered his sword to
General Grant, or had any idea of doing
so. In Personal Reminiscences of Lee
there is also a full statement of General
Lee's own account of the surrender, the
following extract from which settles the
question ; “Gen. Lee said that when he
met Gen. Grant they exchanged polite
salutations, and he stated to him at once
that he desired a conference in reference
to the subject-matter of their correspond
ence. Gen. Grant returned you your
sword, did lie not Generali one of
the company asked. The old
hero, straightening himself up re
plied in most emphatic tones; No, sir! he
did not. He had no opportunity ot doing
so. I was determined that the side-arms
of officers should Ire exempt by the terms
of the surrendur, and of course I did not
offer him mine. All that wnssaid about
swords was that Gen Grant apologized to
me for not wearing his own sword, say
ing that it had gone off in his baggage,and
lie had been unable to get in in time."
This spoils a great, deal of rhetoric about
Grant's magnanimity in returning Lee’s
sword,’ and renders as absurd as it is false
the attempt of Northern artists to put the
scene on canvass or statuary. Even Gen.
Giant’s connivance at this so-called ‘his
tor,c scene’ will not save it when the
world knows that R. E. Lee said that
nothing of the sort occurred.” The Bword
scene, the “historic apple-tree,” &c., are
mere.inventions of army correspondents,
and which to please the “saviors of the
Union” are being constantly repeated.
Grant’s terms were magnanimous; but he
knew full well that they were the only
terms which Lee would have accepted.
J. W. J.
Richmond, March 15,1877.
An expedition to explore the buried
cities of Central Asia is being talked
of ia Bombay and elsewhere in In
dia. That treasures like those at
Mycenffi may be found iu the sands
of Mongolia is at least possible. It
tradition be of any value—a tradition,
too, which has peristeotly clung to
one locality through the lapse of
centuries-thetombof Ghengis Kban
is yet, with its fubalously rich treas
ures, to be found (as Col. Prcjeval3ky
was told by, tbe Mongols) to tha
south of Lake Tabasutn Nor. With
in the tomb lies a inan who seems
asleep. Every evening a sheep ora
horse is tied near to the spot, and
lo! in the morning the animals have
been eaten. In 300 years says the
Mongols, the sleeper will awake, and
lead countless hosts of
to victory add dominion. This old
story is said to be circulating more
and more widely every year. Then
the Mongols say that constantly the
drifting sands discose, here and
there, gold and silver treasures,
which they have a superstitious
dread of touching. The burled cities
under the sands of the Gobi are af
firmed to be mitres of incalculable
wealth, guarded by gnomes and
fearful spells, while uli the deserts
around the hidden ruins are peopled
by myriads of howling ghosts. The
sands of the deserts of Central Asia
regularly move and drift from east to
west, and even now the eastern bor
ders of deserts are being denuded
widely of all soil that can be torn
away by the violent winds.
The Lata Mrs. Pldgsun.
Max Adeler in New York Weeklj.]
We had been out to the graveyard
to bury Mrs. Fidgoou, and we were
riding home iu the carriage with the
bereaved widower. While he sopped
bis eyes with his handkerchief he
told us about her:
“Iu one respect I never saw her
equal. She was a manager. I’ve
kuowed that woman, that’s lying out
there in the tomb, to take an old pair
of my Irowsersand cut them up for
tbe boys. She’d make a splendid suit
of clothes for both of them out of
them old pants, get out stuff enough
for a coat for the baby and a cap for
Johnny, and have enough left over
for rag carpet, besides making hand
kerchiefs out of the pockets, aud a
bustle for herself out of the other
linings. Give her any old garment
and it was us good as a gold mine.
Why, she’d take a worn-out sock and
make a brand-new overcoat out of it,
I believe. She had a turn tor that
kind of economy. There’s one of my
shirts that I bought in 1847 still going
about making itself useful as winder
curtains and pantalettes, aud plenty
of other things. Only lest July our
gridiron kinder give out, and she took
it apart, and in two hours it was rig
ged on tbe side of the house as a
splendid lightning rod, all except
what she had made into a poker and
an ice-pick. Ingenious ? Why, she
kept our family iu buttons and whis
tles out ot the ham bones she saved;
and she made fifteen princely chick
en coops from her old hoop-skirts,
and a pig pen out of her usea-up cor
set-bones. She never wasted a soli
tary thing. Let a cat die around our
house, and the first thing you knew
Mary June’d have a muff and a set
of furs, and I’d begin to find mince
pies on the dinner table. She’d stuff
a feather bed with the feathers that
she’d got off of one little bit of a
rooster, and she’d even utilize the
cock roaches iu the kitchen so’s
they’d run a churn-had a machine
she invented for the purpose. O, she
was phenomiual! I’ve seen her cook
potato parings so’s you’d think they
were canvas-back duck, aud she had
a way of doctoring up shavings so
that the pig’d eat ’em and grow fat
on ’em. Ilielieve that woman could
a built a four-story hotel if you'd a
given her a single pine board ; or a
steamboat out of a wash-biler; and
the very last thing sho said to me
was to bury her in the garden so’s
she’d be useful down below there,
helping to shove up tbe cabbages.
I’ll never see her like again.”
I don’t believe he will either.
A Rat In * Bimtle.
But for the plhck of a young and
pretty woman the other morning
there'would have been an exciting
scene in a local train on one of our
railroads.
The blustery condition of the
morning made people don their
clothing with an unusual degree of
alacrity. The young lady referred to
took the train and having settled
herself in a seat commenced to re
view a hastily-made toilet.
Feeling something move behind
her she gave an indignant look at
the young man who occupied the
seat with her, supposing that he had
placed his hand upon the ground
sacred to the latest style of bustle.
A crawling sensation quickly con
vinced her that something other
than a human band was threading
the mysterious mazes of the gar
ments beneath her red petticoat.
She followed the object with her
hand until it made a semi-circle
around her body, and then seized it.
Had the young man dared ho would
have assisted her, but those striped
stockings, that had just cost 75 ceuts,
were not to be profaned by a man’s
rude touch. Pale as death, the young
lady whispered to him to raise the
window quickly. He did so, and sup
posing that she might have eaten
something for her breakfast that did
not agree with her, instantly hopped
out of the seat. Scarcely had he
done so, when, with her other hand,
she drew forth a huge rat and slung
him into the middle of next July
The animal had probably got into
the bustle as a roosting place in tbe
early hours of a very cold morning.
Another Keely Motor.
Philadelphians are to be given a
slight of anew machine, invented by
a clergyman in Maryland, which is
called the Bradley promethor, and is
described at length by a correspon
dent of the Bulletin. The writer
claims that “the motor employed in
this invention is a well-known agent,
aud one that is beyond comparison,
powerful in action and easy of man
agement. Second, that the mode of
utilizing it is marvelously simple,
original and perfet. Third, that its
economy is marked, being as one to
five, if not six or eight, in com
parison with steam. Fourth, that it
is managed so as to be positively non
explosive and without danger at any
stage. Fifth, that the machine issuit
able for all mechanical purposes;
and, finally, it isunlike anything else
in the world of mechanics, and will
excite au interest iu economies and
revolutionize the present mode of
propulsion in every department of
mechanical motion. Tbe machine
and its capacities are not simply a
great invention, they are an inspi
ration, utilizing the roroes of nature
by the principles of natural laws, and
conforming the conceptions of man
the perfections of the Divine intelli
gence in His works. In a few weeks
tho public will have an opportunity
of seeing in operation in Philadel
phia a promethor of tbe power of
fifty horse, which Is now nearly
ready for exhibition.”
Extra Cheap.
The Briilianttnes and Alpacas at J. 8.
Jones’. Call and look at his 40 and 50c.
numbers. mh23 3t
RartatM.
If you want real bargains in 10-4 Sheet
ings call on 3. Albert Kikven.
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