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CONSTITUTIONALIST.
ATJGKUSTA. Gt A.
THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 19,1869
ANOTHER NATIONAL BOSS.
In a conversation with General Tarbell,
the President complained that there had
been “an attempt made to divide the Re
publican party.” Believing this, he pro
ceeds at some length to define his position,
and goes over straightway to the extreme
Radical faction. Forgetting Virginia, in
different to Tennessee, careless of thunder
all around the sky, he puts his nose under
the finger of Boutweij. and gives the
world assurance of another National Boss.
Hence the wrath of Judge Dent. Hence
his inflammatory letter to Boutwell.
Hence his warning to Grant that houses
and lots were magnificent things in their
way, but Bout well’s dub means a broken
head for the man of broken promises.
That the Republican party has been di
vided is known to all men; but, whether
he willed it or not, Grant is the man who
most vigorously helped accomplish this
division. It was he who permitted the
people of Virginia, for instance, to vote
separately on certain objectionable clauses
of the new constitution, especially indica
ting that clause which refers to the dis
franchisement of “rebels.” From that
moment the Republican party was no
longer a unit. It split into two great frag
ments in Virginia and Tennessee, and bids
fair to continue splitting Indefinitely .-r-
That was a decisive stroke of policy in
Grant, or, at least, it so appeared. Vir
ginia was fooled with it to the top of hei
bent, and even Democrats went into ecsta
cies over the “glorious Administration.”
It would seem to the ordinary observer
that the President, having made this su
preme cmfp, would follow it up to an “ un
conditional surrender.” But he does just
the reverse. He backs down from his van
tage ground, and, at the bidding of Boss
Boutwell, recants everything he had done
and subscribes in toto to the policy of the
extremists, or bitter-enders. While the
President was holding a Conservative atti
tude, the milder sort of Republican jour
nals struck up a vociferous hymn of praise,
sounding wonderfully and blasphemously
like “ Praise Grant from whom all bless
ings flow.” That jubilant strain must now
cease, or take its place among the songs of
hypocrisy.
Well, what are we to think of Grant
now ? We know what Andrew Johnson
thinks of him; Wendell Phillips has
left his card in a conspicuous place; Dent
looks upon him as a man about to have
his head clubbed. Here is a German view.
The St. Louis Anzeiger says -.
“ What President Grant declares to be
his policy, and what he permits to be
spread broadcast over the country through
the Associated Press, is not his own, but
Mr. Boutwell’s policy. The President on
ly follows suit. He kept his promise in
that sense at least, that lie would have no
policy of his own. He carries out Mr.
Bontwell’s policy. Boutwell now is the
President. The last privilege which Gen.
Grant reserved to himself, and which con
sisted in promoting his relatives to offices,
he has given up also. What a great, lesson
is this to all political dilettanti who may
yet become Presidents of the United States.
One solitary inconsiderate step, and the
whole Presidential term is spoiled. On
the day when President Grant offered the
Treasury Department to liis old friend and
private cashier, without ascertaining
whether Mr. Stewart, the prince of Ameri
can merchants, was qualified or not, he
made the first fatal blot on his Presidential
glory. The well-organized Radical ortice
hawks forced this Boutwell upon the per
plexed President, and now, after the first
six months, Mr. Boutwell proves himself
the President.”
Is Johnson right in his estimate; is
Phillips ditto ; is Dent not far wrong ;
has the Anzeiger guessed the truth ? Or
arc these men grossly deceived in their
reckoning, as some men equally sagacious
still contend ? Pending the solution of the
mystery, Boutwell is apparently the Na
tional Boss. He is the Boss indeed but
the party still continues dividing. While
the breach widens, let the Democracy
stand compact. All attempts at a division
of party, in the face of Radical divisions,
should be indignantly frowned down. Re
cruits from Radicalism may come to us, if
so disposed. Shall we go these bolters and
pusillauimously ask them to lead us like
sheep ? Parish the thought !
DIVIDING THE PARTY.
While the Radical party is becoming
hopelessly split into factions, which time
and jealousy will render more and more
irreconcilable, we perceive signs of waver
ing among the Democracy of the South,
and, if we are not greatly in error, a cau
tious, pertinacious effort will be made to
form alliances abhorrent to all true South
ern men. Now, however “ expedient ” such
alliances may have seemed in Virginia or
Tennessee, no man can say that there is
need of any such in Georgia. The Demo
cracy of this State are united, and, we
might say with perfect truth, invincible.
But just as the deluded War Democrats of
the North are beginning to bolt from the
Radical organization, and just as an awak
ening love for the glorious Federative
principles of the past is animate among
the masses—we find disaffection where it
should least exist and a want of confidence
in those old principles where they should
be most sacredly cherished. We find, too,
that the public mind is being prepared for
the dissolution of the Democratic party
when that party begins to show a vitality
that makes its enemy tremble ; we find at
tempts at division of this party when its
promises for future triumph are beaming
every where. In view of the consternation
of the Radicals and their bitter quarrelings
and separations, is this the time for a split
in the Democratic party or an abandon
ment of position worse than a split? Should
we not rather become the more compact
and united as our foes disintegrate and
grow factious among themselves ? If we be
patient and steadfast, those who are weary
of Radicalism will come to us. But it would
by madness, folly, stultification and dis
grace for us to go to them. Georgia, at
least, cannot afford this bargain; and we
call upon the true hearts in her midst to
strangle this insidious attempt to Repub
licanize them, in its very first throes of ex
istence. The New York Times and even
the negro papers quote these anti-Demo
cratic sentiments from Southern journals
with an unction and an eagerness only
known to those who see salvation even in
straws. Well may they seize upon these
extracts with avidity, for such manifesta
tions are the tokens of progress in the last
deep game that Radicalism plays in order
to ruin the Democracy, deceive the South
and perpetuate its own gigantic sham
and infamy. No doubt these South
ern journals so darkly hinting at the
dead Democracy, and so ravenously de
voured by the Tone* and Us kindred, do not
mean to injure the South;.but the mischief
they create is nevertheless considerable
and destined, we fear, to steadily increase,
unless peremptorily checked at the start.
We want no such bastard in Georgia as a
so-called Conservative Republican Democ
racy. We need no such coalitiou of in
congruities. The Democracy of this State
are able to lead, and are determined to
lead. If any % those who have helped
ruin the country and disgrace the State
truly repent and wish to make amends, let
them come to us. We protest against the
folly, the wickedness and the horror of go
ing to them.
THE NATIONAL INDIA.
The New York Herald is full of admira
tion for the South. It thinks the North
got a cheap bargain in subduing us even
at 'the expense of much treasure and many
imported lives. The South is acknowledged
to be the “ source of our commercial wealth
and more valuable to the North than ever
was India to England.” It does not cease
eulogy at this point, but thus continues:
“ According to the latest statistics the
value of Southern exports last year was
over two hundred and fourteen millions,
while that of the North was a little less
than two hundred millions. There is great
difference, too, in the nature of the exports
of the two sections, that a large portion of
those oT the North is in the precious met
als, which in a measure impoverishes the
country, while those of the South are the
products of the soil and bring us gold or
its equivalent. * Cotton, of course, is the
great staple, though tobacco is a valuable
product, and sugar, rice and other things
form a part of the exports. The domestic
trade of the South is still more valuable to
the North, for it supplies our manufac
turers with the raw material they need and
takes back Northern manufactures in re
turn. These great and valuable exports
(tod this vast trade, too, have been devel
oped again so soon after the South had
been desolated by war. This not only
shows the surprising wealth of the soil, but
the astonishing energy of character and
recuperative power of the people. Yet it
•is this rich and beautiful country and these
citizens which are kept under the heel of
military despotism and made the football
of scheming politicians years after the
close of war. But this state of things
must soon come to an end, and the South
will rise from its ashes to be the richest
country in the world.”
We are very much obliged to the Herald
and hope the day is not far distant when
the South, commercially independent, will
cease to be to the North what India is to
England. That is a juxtaposition not to
be desired and not to be permanently ex
pected. When the South becomes “ the
richest country in the world,” she will be
enabled either to scourge the brigands from
her confines or else buy them by the head
and ship them to any Botany Bay the mis
erable vermin may elect.
CLUBS ARE TRUMPS.
By telegraph we are informed that Judge
Dent, the President-General’s brother-in
law, has addressed Secretary Boutwell in
terms the reverse of sugary. We particu
larly remark this extract:
“ By some strange dexterous manage
ment. and occult political strategy, you
have so worked upon the confidence of the
President as to cause him to flourish the
club with which you intend to break his
head.”
Wendell Phillips lias said somesevere
things of the Executive, but this flourish of
Dent’s , rather surpasses the irouy of
Phillips, because it is a wound inflicted
by an arrow barbed at home. It places his
illustrious brother-in-law in a category of
puppets, aud makes him the tool of the
notorious discoverer of the “hole in the
sky.” Just think of a hero like Grant re
ceiving a present from a humbug like
Boutwell ; the deadliest present he has
yet accepted, since it will, according to
Judge Dent, turn into a boomerang
and crack the crown of our first would-be
Emperor.
Welcome, Brother Lamar! —The edi
tor of the Columbus Sun, who wields the
keenest pen-blade in Georgia, has made a
reconnoissance in force against those
Knights of the Quill who are so anxious
to attend the funeral of the Democracy.
The Constitutionalist and Sun have
stood shoulder to shoulder in past conflicts
with Radicalism in all its shapes. They
will not be divided in the future.
Parties at the South. —We*call atten
tion to an article headed “ Parties in the
South,” copied from the New York Times.
Those Southern papers which elicited this
article seem to be, unconsciously perhaps,
playing into the hands of men who insist
upon eternally branding Southrons as
“Rebels” and “Traitors.”
[From tfi'e New York Times, 9th.
Parties at the South.
A controversy relating to the Democratic
party engages the attention of many South
ern journals: The key-note was struck by
the Savannah Republican, which rebuked
the folly of Northern Democratic nomina
tions, and counsels the Sonth to keep clear
of Democratic entanglements. The facts
assigned by the Savannah journalist were
undoubted; the prudence of his advice was
as apparent as the integrity of the motive
which dictated it. But the old believers
in the Virginia and Kentucky elections
protested against interference with their
idolatry. They worship the dead past in
full hope of its joyful resurrection. ‘The
Democratic party is to thenras the ark of
the coveuant; it is the depository of the
principles and promises on which they rely
for delivereuce from the abominations of
reconstruction. Deprive these men of fel
lowship with that party, and you take from
them their last hope.
But this class, judging of them by the
newspapers that echo their views, are, nu
merically, an almost insignificant minority.
More practical ideas animate the majority.
To*adopt the saying of a Portuguese min
ister : “ Let us bury the dead and take care
of the living.” Deprecating appeals to
party traditions, they propose to apply their
brains and hands, “ t,o develop and utilize
the limitless resources ” with which Provi
dence lias blessed their section. They see
that any attempt to “ galvanize the dead
party organizations of the past” will pro
duce only disappointment and defeat: and
tmey urge that prosperity and peace can be
secured only “by union, justice, obedience
to law, steadfast pursuit of the right,” and
an honest fulfillment of their obligations.
Os such are men who, with Republican
help, elected Walker in Virginia, and Sen
ter in Tennessee. Such are they who, un
der the name of “ Conservative Republican
organization,” will almost certainly carry
Mississippi and Texas in November. They
care nothing for party alliances or party
traditions. The new era has dawned upon
them, with new duties, which they avow
/their readiness to perform
Rejecting the Democratic party, as such,
and discarding antique Democratic maxims
as of no more practical account than the
inscriptions on the Pyramids, they are
equally averse to pure and simple organi
zations. They are anxious for lasting pa
cification, on the basis of reconstruction,
and will work to that end. But, while
judgment keeps them back from the North
ern Democracy, feeling—perhaps, princi
ple—keeps them apart from extreme Re
publican partisanship. They propose to
restore peace and prosperity to their States,
and for that purpose seek new non-partisan
alliance. In this combination the founda
tion is laid for anew organization, which,
for some time to come, tvill probably con
trol the political concerns of the South.
The Early County News says that the
corn crops of Early, Miller, Calhoun and
Clay counties are better than ever known
before. Late heavy rains, with rot, rust,
boll worm and caterpillar have cut cotton
one-third to one-half.
I From the Courier Joursa’.
A Great Man and a Little One.
Gen. Grant has been called a great man.
It has been claimed in his behalf that he
possesses the utmost purity and pride of
character. It is alleged By his friends that
he has the nicest and loftiest sense of lion
or, shrinking from even the suspicion of a
doubtful thought or act as he would shrink
from, a deadly contagion. Comparisons
have been boldly challenged between him
iu both military and private life, and the
noblest military men and statesmen that
adorn the annals of European history.—
There is certainly a great and striking dif
ference in some material respects between
him and the great historical characters of
the Eastern Hemisphere. He thinks not
like them, he feels not like them, he acts
not like them. Let' us see what was the
course of the great Duke of Wellington in
regard to a matter which iias excited much
attention aud given rise to much
sion in the case of Grant. The Duke, in
cases where he had patronage to bestow,
disdained to receive gifts lrom those who
sought his favor. He had a too refined
sense of honor to do a thing so gross and
ignoble. A gentleman, having sent him
upon a certain occasion a . number of fine
and valuable pictures as a present, soon
followed them with an application for a
place under the British Government, where
upon the old Duke, not inaptly called “ the
Iron Duke,” made this reply
Brighton, April 9, 182‘2.
To :
Sir: I had the honor of receiving, this
morning, your letter of the sth instant, and
I am highly flattered by the mark of your
respect you are pleased to present to me.
It appears by your letter that you are
desirous of obtaining some employment,
civil or military, an ambition which I think
highly commendable, and that you wish
me to confer upon you such an appoint
ment.
When you first did me the honor to* ad
dress me I conceived that you wished that
the pictures painted by your grandfather,
which you declined to sell, should find a
place in my collection; and I accepted the
offer you made me of two of them on the
score of your respect for the services which
I have been enabled to render the country,
aud with a view to gratify this desire of
yours. If you had then mentioned your
wish to obtain employment, I should have
declined your offer, as I consider myself
obliged to do since the receipt of your let
ter.
I am perfectly aware that your desire of
employment is quite distinct from the other
subject on which yon have written to me.
If I did not think so, I should probably
treat it in a different manner. But you
must be sensible that public men in this
country cannot be too cautious or too free
from suspicion; and upon consideration
you will not be surprised that I should in
form you, that if by Monday, the 15th, I
should not receive from you an intimation
to what place you wish the three cases of
your pictures, now in my house in Pica
dilly, should be sent, I will send them to
you to No. 9, St. Vincent’s Parade, Hot
wells, Bristol.
I have, &c., Wellington.
Thus spoke out and flashed out the soul
of one whom no gifts could buy or influ
ence. He scorned every semblance of
bribery with a scorn unutterable in words.
But our great military hero, he whom in
terested and mercenary political and per
sonal flatterers endeavor to exalt above all
others, would have accepted the gift with
avidity, made haste to ascertain its precise
pecuniary value, and removed the first
crippled soldier or soldier’s widow that he
could find iu office to make place for the
venal dispenser of presents. He was never
known, so far as the world is informed,
either to refuse a gift or to decline the be
stowal of public office upon the giver.
Even his political friends blush for him,
though few of them care to express in
language the shame they feel.
Tn another case the conqueror of Napo
leon was offered a minor present, not a
house and lot, not a hundred thousand dol
lars in gold or greenbacks, but a humble
present, such as an inferior officer was able
to afford. And here is his reply:
Ordnance Office, 33d February, 1824.
To :
Sir : Your letter of the 17th reached me
this morning, and I avail myself of the
earliest opportunity to inform you that I
cannot possibly accept the present which
yon have thought proper to offer to me. I
am unwilling to express to you the dis
agreeable feeling which your letter has ex
cited, as I am convinced that an officer
who has served with so much credit as you
have obtained could not be a actuated by
an improper motive. A little considera
tion, however, would, I am sure, show you
the impropriety of offering a present to an
officer to whom you are a total stranger,
and with whom, from being iu the same
department, you would probably be here
after in the habit of communicating.
I have, etc., Wellington.
This was as noble as it was kindly. It
was a rebuke, but a gentle one—a rebuke
administered from a sense of delicacy to a
worthy soldier who, in offering a gift to
Wellington, had, as the illustrious Duke
believed, committed au error of judgment.
The great captain’s sense of honor was hurt
by his humble admirer’s offer, and, in fol
lowing the plain path of duty marked out
for hirnself on all such occasions, lie felt
constrained to reject the gift. How iu
contrast Wellington and Grant here show
themselves to the world, the one standing
erect in conscious purity and nobility of
feeling and of action, and the other leaning
anxiously forward and thrusting out his
hand for whatever the selfish and the sordid
may choose to lay upon his polluted palm.
Grant may be a hero, but one hero differs
from another hero. No American citizen,
can view the course of Grant in connection
with that of Wellington without expe
riencing a deep aud torturing sense of
shame that Grant is the Chief Magistrate
our country.
Too Moch Military.— Military here,
military there, military seems
to be the order of things. A local Judge
cannot make a decision involving a ques
tion of State authority over a prisoner blit
we have the farce of a military demonstra
tion, and that, too, by order of the Presi
dent of the United States. The military
satraps of the South are ever present, anil
put their hands, or rather their swords,
into all the political and social affairs of
the people. One decides this way to-day
and another that way to-morrow, and the
unfortunate Southerners, whether they
have gone through the process of recon
struction or not, are kept hi a state of fer
mentation and disorganization. Every
body, as a consequence, appeals to the
military. We take the latest news from
Virginia as an example of what is occur
ring in other parts'"of the South under this
system of military rule. In the news from
Richmond, published yesterday, it is said:
“ Accounts have been received at headquar
ters of riots and disturbances between
the whites and blacks in various portions
of the Several parties have been
killed during the week. A negro was shot
yesterday in a riot at Heathville by a
white mob. A sailor was arrested by the
military commissioner, but the citizens the
same night released him from jail. A
white man named Lett murdered a deputy
constable in Brunswick on Tuesday, who
was trying to arrest him. Gen. Canby has
sent detachments of troops'.to the Several
counties where these acts of violence have
been committed.” The Government au
thorities will say, probably, that these dis
turbances show the necessity of ’military
action. But it is the military government
over the South and its incessant meddling
with the local affairs of the people which
cause these disorders. Let the Southern
ers govern themselves, and let the civil law
be supreme, and there will be peace. Un
der the existing state of things both the
Government and people will be imbued
with the military idea. It is high time
that the President, Congress and all the
subordinate officers should divest their
minds of this idea and restore self-govern
ment and the civil law to all parts of the
republic. —New York Herald.
The Early County News regrets to an
nounce that Rev. Mr. Anthony, the circuit
rider of that section, has been compelled to
leave because the people would not pay
him, and he could not live on the wind.
The church in Blakely paid all it promised,
but the other three did not give a single
cent. The Newt says that such people
onght to be eternally damned. The re
mark may sound somewhat profane, but
the editor’s indignation is sufficient excuse.
[From tho.l ondtfn livening Pest
A Strange Imposter-Story of a London
Baker and his Lodger.
On my arrival in London I took lodgings
in llalf-Moon street. Pi readily. The pro
prietor of the house was a baker, (well to
do in the world) and, like'many of his coun
trymen, an intense admirer of everything
that pertained to rank or nobility. He was
a fat, jovial fellow, and often invited me to
the parlor to talk over a pot of “’alf antl
’alf,” observing with much pride that noble
men aud gentlemen who had been his lodg
ers had often honored him with a social
enpt oyer that beverage.
One evening when he was entertaining
me with anecdotes of a certain lord, a re
spectable looking man called and engaged
the roo/ns on the ground-floor, which were
then vacant. The stranger, seeming satis
fied with tig Price, said that as he had just
come up frd|n Banbory, he should occupy
the rooms that same evening.
“ Banbury, TBanbury,” said the baker,
“ why, that’s my native place.”
“Indeed!” said his lodger in surprise;
“ then I suppose yon have heard of Mr.
Wickham ?”
“ Although I have no recollection of the
gentleman,” replied the baker, “I kuow
his family as well as I know my Angers
■aud thumbs. Nay, sir, he is the richest
commoner in the country. It must be now
fifteen years since I lived at Banbury, and
I am somewhat in ignorance about affairs
down there; but if you are a friend of Mr.
Wickham, you’re as welcome to my house
as flowers in May, or coals at Christmas.”
If an angel had suddenly descended
through the ceiling with a clap of thunder,
no deeper impression could have been pro
duced upon the baker than be evinced when
the person he accosted informed him that
he was the veritable Mr. Wickham himself.
The baker seemed overwhelmed with obse
quiousness and respect and rushed out of
the room to call up all bis family for Mr.
Wickham to see them. After giving a de
tailed account of the manner in which he
first met his wife, and the respective ages
of the children, lie insisted on all drinking
to the health of his guest. He did not for
a moment doubt his having Mr. Wickham
for his longer ; yet he could not help won
dering that neither footman, nor portman
teau appeared. The next morning lie made
bold to ask how a gentleman of his estate
came unattended.
“ Hush,” exclaimed Wickham, holdiugnp
his hand iu a posture of admonition, “ my
servants are not in the way at present, as 1
don’t want my arrival to be known. lam
going to arrest a merchant who owes me
£3,000. If he should know of my presence
in town iny purpose would be defeated ; so
keep quiet, and don’t mention my name,
whatever you do. You shall know all in
good time.”.
That night a servant came, and Mr.
Wickham fell into a great rage at him for
allowing the porter to put his trunks in the
wagon train.
“ This, sir, will cause me a delay of three
days,” sliouten thoj Irate Wickham, so that
everybody in the ifcuse might hear. “Have
you telegraphed to warn theifi of the mis
take ?”
“ Jeems has just been to the hoffice, sir,”
replied the valet, with submissive deference,
“ and he says the will be here the
day after to-morrow.”
“And what in the name of heaven am I
to do in the meantime?” resumed th“ be
wildered Wickham. “My frtfjfil, Lord
Grosvenor, and others arc out of town, and
here I am, owing to yoqr stupidity, without
money or clothes, and cannot attend to my
business. You had better send Jeems at
once to Banbury to bring me somedinen,*
and tell him to get fifty pounds from my
secretary.”
When the servant had taken his depar
ture the baker ran to his drawers, and lay
ing hands on the best linen he had, carried
it to Air. Wickham and begged the honor
of his wearing it, He also laid fifty pounds
on the table and expressed a hope that his
guest would not take it amiss if he offered
these slight tokens of Ids respect and re
gard. Wickham at, first refused, but was
not proof against the pressing solicitations
of the obsequious baker. Three clays after
wards thp footman appeared, in gofgeoqs
livery, with the missing trqnks; and the
baker, more satisfied than ever that he had
to do with Mr. Wickham, one of the rich
est and noblest of gentlemen in the king
dom, makes it rpofe his business to give
fresh marks of his respect and attachment.
In short, Mr. Wickham did the baker the
honor of accepting from him three hundred
and sixty guineas, for all of which he gifve
him his note.
About six weeks after the opening of tjhis
adventure, the affable aud condescending
Wickham, while enjoying himself at a
tavern, was seized with a violent head
ache, accompanied with a burning fe
ver. 4s sqor, as he found himself ill
he went home to his lodging:?, where
he was waited upqn by one of his foot
men, and assisted in everything by the
good baker, who advanced all the money
that was wanted and passed his word to
the doctor, apothecaries and everybody
else. Meanwhile the patient, grew worse
and worse, and on the fifth day he was
given over. The baker, grieved, to the
heart at the condition of his illustrious
friend, felt bound to tell him, though yyith
much reluctance, what the doctor thought
of his condition. Wickham received the
news calmly, and with all the resignation
of a true Christian fully prepared for death.
He desired a minister to be sent for, and re
ceived the communion the same day. The
next morning the distemper and danger in
creasing to an alarming height, Wickham
told the baker thift it jyas not enough to
have taken care of his soul; he oughr also
to set his worldly affairs in order, and de
sired that he might make his will. A
scrivener was therefore immediately sent
for, gnd the will was made and signed in
proper form before several *Mtness£s.
Wickham, by h s will, bequeathed all his
estate, real and personal, jewels, coaches,
teams, race horses, pack ofJioßnds, ready*
money, etc., and a with ail appur
tenances and dependencies, to the baker.
Never was anything more noble or gener
ous. This done, Wickham called the baker
to him, and told him that immediately after
his decease he had •othing to do but go to
liis lawyer, who him full In
structions how to proceed. Soon after he
fell into convulsions and died.
The baker first applied himself entirely
to carry out the provisions of the will,
omitting nothing that was ordered to be
done. The body was not to be interred
until four days after death, and all was
readv by the second. The baker had time
to look for the lawyer before he laid his
benefactor in the ground. Having put the
body into a rich coffin, covered with velvet
and plates of silver, rpade all the other
arrangements, had began to consider thatit
..would not be improper to reimburse himself
as soon as possible, and to claim pos
session of his new estate. He therefore
went and commnuieated the whole affair to
the lawyer. This gentlemen, being of a
shrewd and suspicions turn, expressed muth
astonishment at the manner in which His
client, had come into possession of so large
an estate, and immediately instituted an in
quiry. He requested t]ie baker to call the
next morning, when he would be enabled
to advise him on the subject. We may
easily imagine the disappointment of tie
baker, when at the hour anpointed tie
lawyer informed him that, according to a
telegram received the evening before"’from
Banbury, the true Mr. Wickham was in per
fect health. The film fell from the poor
bakers eyes and he at once saw that he
ba< j!’y “ bitten” by a villain and a
Upon . this he immediately re
turned home, and took the rogue’s horlv
tffirdnartofth C ° —’ W, ' ich fora
third pait of the original cost. The trades
people, who bjen employed in the nrenara
tions for the funeral, had compassion on the
a h nd took their things to him, though
not without some loss to him. Thev duir
a hole in a corner of St. Clement’s chore?
yard, where they threw in the body with £
little ceremony as possible. - 3
Type Setting Machine. —Every year
almost the long sought, perfect type setting
machine is invented. The latest is the us
ventiou of a maJkln Raleigh, North Caw
Una, and is appiSVed by Mr « a ,
and Governor polden, who ttl
belief in its practicability. The name of
the new instalment, which is called “Thi
Wild Goose Type Setting’MacSe •%
cites suspicion, but the inventor £ san
guine, and he promises to furnish forth!
“ a^Sjmpanying type distributor
the two machines not to cost more than
four hundred dollars. * l tnan
Governor Bullock has aonointwi
Faith.
Just at tbe last (here stood beside her bed
Two angels, each miraculously fair,
With loftiness of plume and aureoled hair ;
And Love, the Rlalclier angel, weeping, said :
“ Mark her great agony. Were it not best
To soothe her and to strengthen crc she goes S’
My we not whisper that which either known
A precious pardon and of rapturous r* al V”
And he whose name was Hope, whose fervent
eyes
Were always heavenward raised, responded
now :
M 0 hi other, lay Ulir.e hand upon her brow ;
Comfort her with God’s promise while she
dies!"
Whereat his fellow-angel near drew
To the white sufferer’s pillow, pausing there,
But on a sodden, outlined from void air,
Rose a third angel, Statelier fcbaff the two.
“ Nothing until the end may’st thou reveal!’’
■ Calm, yet Commanding, -bis dear voice raug
ont: X,*.
“ ’Tis better to die battling with one doubt,
Thah with all knowledge at the Throne to
!”
State Hems.
The Americas Republican says the first
bale of cotton raised this year in Sumter
county was received on Saturday, the
14tli instant, from the plantation of Capt.
C. W. Felder, and sold at auction for fifty
five cents per pound.
Mr. Thomas A. Graham, a practical
printer, of Amerieus, designs to commence
the publication of a paper at Lumpkin,
Stewart county, on or about the flrfit of
October.
The Americas Republican says that in the
fields of Mr. James Hancock, near that
place, the cotton stalks are broken and
weighted down with bolls, and the ears of
corn are so large and heavy that the stalks
bend over to the ground.
The Amerieus Courier states that intelli
gent planters in Baker and Mitchell coun
ties report crops in that section better than
ever before. The people are also enthusias
tic on the subject of the South Georgia and
Florida Railroad,and say they will haul
their cotton to Camilla for shipment over
that road to Savannah.
The Home Courier invokes the City Fath
ers to give the press excursion a befitting
reception and supper in that city.
On the 24th of July Mr. Silas O’Quin, of
Appling county, aged 80, gave a birth day
party, to which his descendants were in
vited. There were present seventy-three per
sons, and thirty-four absent, making in all
one hundred and seven. At this golden
party the old man looked back upon a well
spent life. With seventv-three of his de
scendants around his board, all well-to-do
and respectable, doubtless, his bosom swell
ed with Abruhamic pride.
Crops in Clinch and Ware counties are
first rate generally'. Jn Pierce and Appling
they are fidtrsogood, having suffered much
in many places (est want of rain and from se
verestorms. Mr. B. Henderson’s honse, of
Pierce county, lias been partially stripped
twice this year, and most of the fences and
green timber in the vicinity were blown
down. Crops, shade and fruit, trees in that
and other localities, were much injured.
The Atlanta Era reports that quite a re
vival has, for several weeks, been In pro
gress Third Baptist Church in that
city. A ninnber have beep added tq the
church, and the meeting continues with in
terest.
A correspondent of the Macon Journal
& Messenger, writing, in reference to the
Central Railroad, says: "It seems that
under power to lease, this all-grasping mo
nopoly has bought, body and soul, the South
western Road, and is in the vfry act of
buying the Macon anil Western Road. The
effect will be. to make Columbus, Eqfaqla
find Atlanta its western termini, and leave
Macon high and dry, a mere wav-station.’’*
The Columbus Sun, of a recent date,
says-. “ About the close of the war a young
woman of this city was married to a man
—whose name we withhold—ho lived
With her some time op good terms, but
fjnally they had a little domestic squabble,
and the man left for parts Unknown. He
had been absent a couple of years when his
wife, concluding he was fiegd, was married
again, and h*s lived with her second hus
band a year or two very pleasantly. Yes
terday No. 1 hove in sight, and the two
me| in the same room. No 2 told No 1 if
he plaipied the yyife he would retire. The
latter replied that he did not want her.—
The matter stands just so. The woman is
very sick, and the husbands hold each
other in abeyance. Tiie matter will pro
bably be left to her decision. What the
*flm»le will be we have yet to learn.
Dr. W. A. Carswell found beautiful iron
ore, eight miles from Rome, in Vann’s Val
ley, with (jo per cent, of pure iron.
Magdalens.—The Awful Stefs of
their Inevitable Descent.— Six- years, I
said, was the life of those women. After
that time A non yip a is no longer Anonyma,
she sinks to the gutter and the jail, unless
she reforms, or becomes mistress of some
house. First, she becomes prematurely old,
she Jqses her temper, her language becomes,
filthy, she is a termagant and a drunkard,*
prone to the smashing of windows, and the
exercise qf her finger nails on sisterly faces.
[ She becomes a nuisance in respectable dis
reputable houses, she gets in arrears for her
board, and she takps to the streets. Rouged
—she needs paint now—and flaunting dress,
she parades Craig street, or Yitre, of Vigor
Gardens, or notable St. Lawrence—Main
strpet, seeding whom she may devour.
Policemen arrpst her for loitering, or accost
ing some innocent person. She passes a
night in the civic saw dust, and next day
appears before the Recorder. She hangs
her head for shame. “Do you know her.
Nelson?” “ Well known prostitute, your
honor.” “ Five dollars or one month ”
The reporters whisper that, Agie is coming
down, she used to be at Forty, ghe goes
to jail, and comes out at the expiration of
her sentence, hopeless and' irreclaimable.
She is slateringly and draggled ; She occa
sionally sleeps in a gate-way; she has a
face of brgsfv «trd a heart like the nether
mill stone. From St. James street she has
been driven to Main street, and that rejects
her for puricus around the Barracks, Water
street, and other similar localities. She
haunts cellars and low dens; she consorts
with soldiers, gets her teeth kicked out in
a fight, has a carmine nose, and brazens it
before the Recorder with lunar regu
larity. *
The wages of sin is death, whisky, and a
few pence in her case. Then she sinks to
Logan’s Farm, where she ciouches half
naked in the brush-wood, lives by theft,
and passes her winter in jail. Then comes
death in the hospital,'in the streets—drunk
or starved—suicide or muider. This is the
ending of more tlum seventy per cent, of the
Anonymas of Montreal. The balance mar
ry, or leave the city for places where they
are unknown, or are shriven by the patient
nuns, and taught lessons of industry and
virtue, which too frequently they forget in
a week.
I do nbt think, Clare that ever a memory
of by-gone days comes to them, and melts
them to remorseful tears. Ido not believe,
'awful though it Is to say it, that one in
eight of these women is capable of a tender
feeling, an effort at amendment. They are
hopeless, hopeless, hopeless. I believe now
in the hardening of Pharaoh’s heart; that
it was a process which goes on uow-a-days
and whose subject never egeapes doom.—
These women have nothing womanly about
them. Modesty they have none, shame
they no longer know, woman’s pity they do
not understand, men’s authority they do
not respect, God they blaspheme, heaven
they can not appreciate, hell they defy, and
death is meaningless. They are filthy in
habits, obscene in language. What margin
have you here to work ?—Montreal Star.
Religious. —The revival at Wesley Chap
el continues with unabated interest. On
Sunday last about twenty-five persons pre
sented themselves for admission into the
clnirclf, making upwards of fifty since the
meeting commenced. On Sunday night,
after a sermon by Rev.JKV" Stewart, the al
tar was again crowded with mourners.
Daily meetings continue in Bt. Luke and
St. Paul Methodist churches, with indica
tions of good results. At least three have
professed conversion at the former, apd a
number of penitents presented themselves
for prayer on Sunday night and Monday
morning. A religious interest is now being
awakened throughout the commonjty gen
erally, which by the pious is considered an
omen of gracious results. We would be
pleased to hear that every church In the
community had caught the enthusiasm.
[Columbus Sun, 17th.
BY TELEGRAPH.
1 Associated Ptetfc Dispatches
WASHINGTON.
Washington, August 18—Noon.—In the
case of (Jowdry and others vs. the Galves
ton and Houston Railroad, and others,
Judge Svvayne lias made a decree, holding
the railroad, &e., of the old company sub
ject to mortgages, and dismissing that part
of the complaint which claims the property
of the successor of the company, and on
the individual liability of the defendants.
Both parties appeal to the Supreme Court.
Cowdry, who represents the bondholders,
is placed in possession of the railroad un
til appeals are determined; Cowdry giving
security to account tor rents and profits
while in possession.
The entire Cabinet are absent.
Cuban advices to the 9th say that many
are fleeing the Spanish conscription aud
joining the Cubans. Discontent among the
slaves is increasing. Jordan and Quesada
fully hold their own.
Washington, August 18—P. M.—Rev
enue to-day, $315,000.
Cuban advices to the 9th—semi official —
say Cubans rejoiced at the order of De
Rhodas for a general conscription, and esti
mate that it will double their forces. The
negroes are asserting their independence
under the proclamation of Cespedes, and
are organizing for active operations, and
have taken the field at several points in
their own defense. Gen. Quesada is rapid
ly closing his lines, and believes that in
fifteen or twenty days he will be in posses
sion of N uevitas. Gen. Jordan is being re
inforced by conscripted Cubans, a»d is in
corporating them in his army. He says'he
will immediately commence offensive ope
rations, with appearance of success.
A letter from Chief Justice Chase has
recently been exhibited, in which he ex
pressed great satisfaction at the result of
the Virginia election, and hoped that a
similar result would attend the elections in
Tennessee. Mississippi and Texas. He in
timated that the Republican party bad
served its purpose, and that a great con
servative party ought lo be formed out of
the moderate men of all existing parties.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Wilmington, August 17. —For a week
past a personal difficulty has beeu pending
between Major J. A. Englehard, editor of
the Journal, and Gen. J. C. Abbott, United
States Senator. It grew out of an editoral
article which appeared in the Post of the
Bth inst.,in which the editors of the Journal
were denounced as public liars, on account
of alleged injustice done Abbott in reports
made of his speeches. No collision or cor
respondence having occurred in the mean
time, on Tuesday evening Abbott addressed
a note to Englehard, in which lie stated
that he (Abbott) and not the editor of the
Post was the author of the offensive article,
and that he was personally responsible for
the same. Oil Wednesday and Thursday
there were unmistakable evidences that
Englehard would attack Abbott on sight,
but the vigilance of the authorities pre
vented. On Thursday Abbott was ar
rested and placed under bonds to keep
peace. Englehard successfully avoided
arrest until Saturday morning, at one
o’clock, when he was surprised at a
private house by flic sheriff aqd a posse of
men, gqd placed onder bonds. Sunday
morning, Englehard, with three friends,
proceeded to South Carolina, whence lie
addressed a communication to Abbott, of
which the following is an extract: “You
must now make a full retraction of the
contents of that article, and an apology for
publishing it, or give me the satisfaction to
which I am entitled in accordance with the
code of honor.”
_On Monday, Qen. Abbott, through his
friends, replied in a communication, of
which the following is an extract: “By
authority of Gen. Abbott, and being fully
empowered by him, in his name, we rotrn.
in full the article in the Post, of the Bth in
stant, reflecting on Jlfaj. Englehard, and
express om- regret lfiat if wgs written and
published. The amende was accepted by
the friends qcting for Englehard, in a writ
ten communication, in which )|. i ; ; stated
that in nothing that has appeared in the
Journal was any assault on the private
character of Gen: Abbott intended, and ex
pressing regret that it had been so con
strued.
WEST VIRGINIA.
White Sulphur Springs' August IS.—
The National Board of Trade Delegates,
with their families and prominent citizens
and members of the press from all parts of
the Union, readied here on an excursion
train this morning en route for Clifton
Forge. They return here this evening.
On.invitation of the Executive Commit
tee of the Virginia Agricultural Society,
the Southern planters here, will hold an
Agricultural Convention next Friday.—
Among the visitors here are Mayor Banks,
or Baltimore, ex-Marshal Hoover, of the
District qf Columbia, Generals Yqung, of
Georgia, Echols, of Virginia,' and Judge
Parsons, of Philadelphia.
VIRGINIA.
Richmond, August 17.—Accounts from
all parts of Virginia show that the drought
has shortened the corn crop hy one-half.
Richmond, August 18.—General Canby
has ordered the discharge from custody
of police Captain Callahan, \yho shot and
killed Joseph Kelly at a registration office.
Callahan had a preliminary examination
by a Military Commissioner, but has had
no trial.
Norfolk, August 18.—The steamer San
Jacinto is afloat and coming in in tow.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Philadelphia, August 18.—Prof. Chas.
Dexter, of Cleveland, is dead.
In the Labor Convention resolutions
were presented in favor of protective tariffs.
Miss Anthony’s case provokes hot speeches.
Mr. AValls, from the New York Typo
graphical Union, read a dispatch directing
him to withdraw it Miss Anthony was
admitted. A proposition refunding Walls’
admission fee, and allowing him to with
draw, was discussed to adjournment.
MEXICO.
City of Mexico, August 13.—A conspi
racy against the life of Juarez was frus
trated. The principal conspirators, in
cluding five Generals, were captured.
The treaty between Mexieo and the North
German Confederation has been forwarded
to Berlin for ratification.
The Indian revolt in Yucatan is grow
ing serious. Cuban residents are volun
teering to defend the cities. Two Indian
chiefs have been captured and shot.
The Tamaulipas revolution has ended.
Queretero troubles, involving State
Bights, are still pending.
CALIFORNIA,
San Francisco, August 18.—The direc
tors of the Central Pacific Railroad have
information of a conspiracy on the part of
former employees to burp all bridges,
stock amt fuel cast of Sierra Nevada.
Measures have been taken to frustrate the
conspirators.
FOREIGN.
Madrid, August 18.—The Government
is making extraordinary efforts to prevent
the Carl lata assembling in La Mancha.
Paris, August 18.—The Emperor, to
day. presided at the Council of Ministers.
His health is much improved. The Em
peror will attend the Suez Canal Conven
tion.
The Viceroy of Egypt has sent a con
ciliatory reply to the Sultan.
MARINE NEWS
Savannah, August 18.—Arrived: Steam
ships America, Baltimore; Tonawanda,
Philadelphia; San Salvador, New York.
Cleared; Ship John Barbour, Liverpool:
steamship Rapidan, New York; schooner
Ella, Portsmouth, N. H.
Wilmington, August 18.—Arrived :
Steamers Rebecca Clyde, New York; Lu
cille Baltimore; Pioneer, Philadelphia.
Weather cloudy—indication of rains.—
Wind Northwest. Thermometer, 83.
Charleston August 18.— Sailed: Steam
er Saragossa, New York.
MARKETS.
London, August 18—Noon.—Cousols,
92%. Bonds, 83%.
London, August 18—Afternoon.—
Weather favorable for crops.
Liverpool, August 18—Noon —Cotton
active; uplands, 13%; Orleans, 13% ; sales,
15,000 bales. Corn, 31s. (i | Others un
changed.
Liverpool, August IH— Afternoon.
Cotton active; uplands, 13%® 13% ; Or
leans, 13%@13% ; sales, 20,000 bales.—
Lard, 775, fid.
Liverpool, August 18 - Evening.—Cot
ton closed active and excited; uplands,
13% ; Orleans, 13%; sales, 20,000 bales, in
cluding 8,000 for speculation and export.
New York, August 18—Noon —Stocks
dull and firm. Money steady at 7. Sterling
—long, 9%; short, 10%. Gold, 32%. ’62’s,
registered, 20; coupons, 21%; Virginias,
ex coupon, 55; new, 60; Louisiana!*, old,
71 @71%; new, 73 asked ; Levees, {64%;
Louisiana B’s, 84%; Alabama B’s, 93%
asked; Alabama s’s, 64 ; Georgia fi’s, 83%
asked ; Georgia 7’s, 91%; North Carolinas,
old, 56% ; new, 50%.
New York, August 18— P. 31.—Govern
ments strong and advancing; 62’s, 23;
Southerns stronger. Money continues easy
at fi@7. Discounts dull. Sterling dull at
9%@9%. Gold fluctuating, but closed
firmer at 133%. Stocks closed unsettled.
New York, August 18—Noon.-—Flonr
s@lo lower. Wheat I@2 lower. Corn I@2
better. Mess Pork dull at $33 10. Lard
dull; steam, 20. Cotton firmer at 33%@34.
Turpentine, 43. Rosin steady, freights
firm.
New York, August 18—P. M.—Cotton
% better; sales, 2,800 bales at 34. Flour
heavy ; superfine State, s6@6 50; common
to fair Southern extra, $6 85@7 30. Wheat
dull at 2@4 lower during the day. Corn
scarce; mixed Western, $1 19@1 22. Beef
quiet and unchanged. Pork heavy at $33
@33 25. Lard steady; kettle, 28%. Whis
ky, $1 17@1 17%. Rice and Sugar steady.
Turpentine, 32%@33%. Rosin, $2 30@8.
Freights a shade'easier.
Baltimore, August 18.—Cotton firm.
Flour dull and weak. Wheat ioiyer ; prime
red, $1 60; good, $1 50@1 55. Corn firm
and scarce; white, $1 12@1 15. Oats dull
at 53@58. Provisions easier. Pork, $34.
Bacon—shoulders, 16%. Lard, 20@21
Whisky, $1 17@1 18. Virginias, ’67’s, 54%
asked.
Cincinnati, August 18.—Whisky firm at
$1 11%. Pr< ♦visions quiet aud unchanged;
no sales of importance. Corn scarce at
95@96.
Louisville, August 18.—Corn very firm;
bulk, 80@85. Provisions very firm. Mess
Pork $34(?i34 50. Shoulders, IG%; clear
sides, 19%. Lard, 20%. Whisky, $1 10@
Sr. Louis, August 18. — Corn dull; yel
low, in sacks, 90@92; white, bulk, 87.
Whisky firm. Mess Pork quiet at $34 25.
Bacon steady at 15%@1G; clear sides, 19%.
Lard, 19%@20. '
Wilmington, August 18.—Spirits of
Turpentine, 38%. Rosin steady at $1 60@
$4 25. Crude Turpentine, $2 50@3. Tar,
$2 30.
Mobile, August 18.—Cotton closed firm;
sales, 120 bales; middling, 30 ; receipts,
none; exports, 92 hales.
New Orleans, August 18—Cotton dull;
sale ■, 30 hales; low middling, nominally,
30; receipts, 19 bales. Flour—superfine
and double scarce and in request; super
fine, $5 75; double, $6 50@6 62%; .treble,
$6 65. Oats lower at 62@63. Bran, sl—
s29. Pork dull; held at $35 50. Ba
con, 17,19% and 20 ; hame, 23@25%. Lard
firm; tierce, 20@20%; keg, 22@23. Sugar
dull; common, 11@12; prims, 14%@14%.
Molasses inactive; rcbc»llod, 60@70. Whis
ky firm at $1 lfj@l 17%. Coffee—fair, 15@
b’%; prime, 10%@1Q%. Gold, 132%
New l ork Sight, % premium. Sterling,
40 1 , \
Charleston, August 18.—Cotton quiet;
no sales—the light stock preventing trans
action ; middling, nominal, 31 % ; receipts,
none ; exports coastwise, 13 bales.
Savannah, August I9r—Cotton—Re
ceipts, 22 bales; exports, il l bales.
—-r wni>
Augusta Daily Market.
Omen Daily Constitutionalist, t
Wednesday, August JB-P. M )
ki NAN 01AI
GOLD—DuII. Buying ut 133 anil ixslliug
at 135.
SlLVEß—Nominal. Buying at 120 aud sell
ing at 130.
COTTON—There was more activity mani
fested in the market to day than has been ex
perienced for Rome weeks, opening at 32 and
closing at for middling. Iu consequence
of the small 6tock on hand there waa very little
ofleriug; upon the full prices being paid,
brought out several lots which otherwise wonld
have been offered. Sales, 59 bales. Receipts,
15 bales.
BACON—Continues firm. We quote C.
Sides, 21% ;C. R. Sides, 21 ;B. B. Sides, 20 ;
Shoulders, 18%; Hams, 21@2G; Dry Salt
Shoulders, 1G%@17 ; Dry Salt C. >R. Sides, 20.
COHN—DuII; market overstocked. We
qnolo choice white.il 25; il 20 from depot.
WHEAT—We qitote choice white, il 70@
1 80; amber, it Go@l <ls ; red, il 50® 1 55.
FI.OCR City Mills, old, #G@9 ; now, i7 50®
@10; at retail, fl f) barrel higher. Coun
try, SG@O, according to quality.
CORN MEAL -$1 30 at wholesale,and fl -10
at retail.
PEAS—No supply. Selling at fl 50 for
seed.
Died for the South.—A Confederate
soldier by the name of A. Kyle was put off
a steamboat at this point shortly after the
battle of Belmont or Fort Donelson. He
had been wounded in battle, and died be
tween this city and Evansville. He was
decently interred in our cemetery, and now
occupies a place in <Dr. Tyler’s' lot in our
cemetery. Upon his tombstone is inscribed
the following;
A. KYLE,
C. S. A.
Cos. C, 18th La. Vol. Regiment.
“ What more can a man do than die?”
Southern papers please copy.
For an eulogy upon this poor soldier, at
the time of his burial, we were arrested and
our paper suppressed. We hope we will
not meet with a similar fate for saying that
he fell in a glorious cause, and our only
regret now is. that the cause for which he
so gallantly laid down his life was not suc
cesful.
“ He has fought his last, battle.”
[ Owensboro Shield.
A Foundling. —A male infant, about two
days old, and a very fine little fellow, at
that, was left at the residence of an aged
widow lady, on Cotton Avenue, late on
Sunday night last. The little ope was ac
companied with an ample supply of beauti
ful infant clothing, a handsome nurse's bot
tle, and enough money to defray its expen
ses for a good long while. The
taing the money stated that the services of
the kind matron would be amply rewarded,
if she would accept and tenderly care for
the infant, and that funds would always be
placed at her command for the use of the
babe, and as pay for her trouble.
The ljttle customer evidently hqils from
high life, and, we dare say, that while it
will require food tor nourishment it will
afford a little for reflection to those inter
ested.—Macon 1 degraph. •
California has bespoken the next Cabinet
vacancy. One thousand cigars, from a San
Francisco firm, packed in glass boxes of
one hundred each, with the monogram of
the President on each box, and the small
end of each cigar finished with gold leaf,
have arrived in Washington addressed to
the President. _
Enoch Parker, d?colored school teacher
of Bibb county, organized a Sunday School
at Stone Creek Church, twelve miles from
town, in Twiggs county, the fourth Sunday
iir July last, with fourteen pupils, and the
second Sunday in August the school num
bered 148 pupils. He has now three Sun
day schools in charge and a large day
school.
Jllpess of Hon7B. H. Hill.—The At
lanta Era reports that Hon. B. If. Hill jjas
beep lying quite ill at the United States
Hotel in that city for several days past.
He is represented, as recovering at present,
Jipweyer.
Local News.
, Dwelling House Burned— Between »
and 3 o’clock yesterday morning the alarm
of fire was sounded, and the firemen, with
accustomed promptness, were soon m
search of the destructive element with
their apparatus. After a heating and ex
haustive ruu to South Boundary, it was as
certained that the fire was somewhere in
the vicinity of the Race Course, too far be
yond the corporate limits to carry the en
gines. We lyarned yesterday that the fire
entirely consumed the dwelling house of
Mr. Brown, near the Race Course, wUh a
portion of his furniture. The unseasona
ble hour at which it broke out induced the
most serious apprehensions on the part n r
the family of Mr. Brown, and the most
startling screams and shrieks from them
summoned the neighbors to their assist
ance, but too late to be of any avail in res
cuing the building from the flames. Anions
those who were foremost in responding to
the alarm were two colored boys Georve
Hale and Fred Price, through whose ex
ertions, aided by others, a portion of the
furniture was saved from the burning
building. The fire having originated in a
portion of the house which has not been oc
cupied for some time past, there is every
reason to conclude, as is believed, that it
was the work of an incendiary. We un
derstand that Mr. Brown's loss is fully
covered by insurance.
A Negro Severely Beaten— On
Tuesday night, at a house in the alley op
posite the lower market, running through
from Broad to Reynolds street, a difficulty
occurred between three negroes, Wade
Johnson, Thomas Boyer and Samuel
Daniels, in which the latter was severely
beaten by the two former. The difficulty
seems to have had its origin in a question
as to the comparative honesty of the
parties, developed by a negro woman
losing a handkerchief, the stealing of which
was charged upon Daniels, who insisted
that the other parties were quite as liable
to suspicion as he was. This declaration
led to an invitation to battle.from the other
two negroes, and when Daniels left the
house they set upon, him at the door and
inflicted a severe beating on his head with
a stick, from which he received several
heavy blows, causing painful wounds and
resulting in disabling him. The two
negroes who inflicted this beating are stout
young men, while their victim i3 of more
advanced years and evidently about half
witted. Johnson aud Boyer, represented
by A. D. Picquet, Esq., were before Justice
Ells, yesterday, for a preliminary examina
tion, and were bound over in bonds of S2OO
each to the ensuing term of the City Court,
for trial on a charge of assault and
battery.
A Youthful Horse Thief— A very di
minutive American of African descent was
arrested, yesterday, by a couple of colored
men, in the act of stealing a horse. This
young thief is evidently not more than six
or seven years of age, and entirely unable
to mount a horse without assistance. —
When arrested, lie was mounted on a hor.se
belonging to Mr. R. C. Easterling, which
was recognized by the colored men referred
to, and was riding the animal in a direc
tion which excited suspicion as to his pur
poses. The little piccaninny stated that
he was placed on the horse, which was
hitched on Broad street, iu front of the
store of Messrs. Branch, Scott A Cos., by a
negro man, who had directed him to ride
the horse to the outskirts of the city, in
the vicinity of “ Braytonville,” near South
Boundary, where the youthful thief claims
to reside. It is believed that this child
was employed to perpetrate this crime by
one of the recent thieving subjects of Ex
ecutive clemency, now in this community,
and for whom the police are keeping a
sharp watch.
Cubans Investing in Georgia We
learned yesterday that a couple of Cuban
gentlemen bad purchased a plantation of
800 Mr. Charles J. Denham, of
Columbia county, at a cost of SIO,OOO
This tract of land is situated about seven
teen miles from Augusta, and is said to
comprise some of the most fertile land to
lie found in Columbia. These purchasers
certainly betray no symptoms of a fear of
Ku Klux violence, when they leave their
own fertile but war-convulsed Island, and
make such heavy investments in a section
of the Enqiire State which has been held
up as a bugbear by the sensation-venders
of the Radical school. We opine that old
Columbia will cheerfully welcome to her
borders all settlers of this character, and
that-among no people will more cordiality
be experienced than from the good people
of Columbia county.
Land and Immigration Association.—
Attention is directed to the advertisement
of the Land and Immigration Association
of Richmond county. The books are now
open at the office of Maj. J. V. H. Allen,
for the purpose of securing subscription to
the stock of the Associatiou. Wc trust
that our citizens will, by their liberality
and consideration for the material pros
peritv of the county and State, give to this
Association the vitality necessary to in
sure its operation as an effective agency in
drawing among ns an element of labor cal
culated to develop the resources of the
soil and contribute to the permanent
wealth and advancement of our section.
A CorrEß-CoLonED Copper-Thief—
Sent Up. —One of those high-minded
thigves who have for some time past been
engaged in stealing copper from the roof qf
the old Eagle and Phoenix Hotel building
was trapped yesterday, through the exer
tions of Mr. R. Dempsey, and arraigned be
fore Justice Malier on a charge of larceny.
He gave his name as Zach Nixon, and ap
pears to be a youth of eighteen or nineteen
years of age, of a liue corresponding to the
cplor qf the metal tylpch he climbed sucji
a dizzy ljeiglß to steal. IJe was convicted,
and sentenced to twelve months’ lybor on
the public works.
A Popular Article.— We used to hear
on all sides of Plantation Bitters; but
Messrs. Hyams & Cos. have driven Drake
out of the market with the famous Solo
mons’ Strengthening Bitters— a South
ei n institution. Those Bitters are recom
mended by some of the most distinguished
men in the country, including Messrs. Ste
phens, Hilliard, and many others.
Alaska.—This territory cost the United
States over $7,000,000. It is now pro
nounced to be of no value except for seal
fisheries, and these are in possession of a
single company. Two companies of “ boys
in blue” remain to uphold the stars aild
stripes; the rest is rheumatism and dismal
snow.
Baltimore Booksellers.— Attention is
directed to the'advertisement of Messrs".
Cushing # Bailey, dealers in school, law,
medical and classical book}, etc., in Balti
more.