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Address WALSH A WRIGHT,
Chronicle A Sentinel. Augusta. Oa. ,
ctjrom'cfc anb
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 15, 1873.
MINOR TOPICS.
Florida will have an immigration of Bixty or
neveuty families of Hkilled agriculturists from
Ireland next Spring.
An important change in the wearing apparel
of the King of Dahomey hi reported. Heated
on hie throne he received a scientific commie
mon, not long ago, liis body profusely decorated
with the blue, gold and green labe'n which had
been carefully peeled from medicine bottles
brought by Europeans into his dominions. In
such picturesque garb the African prince must
have equalled even the glittering costume of
the Shah.
Asa missionary, President Grant is not a
success. His latest achievement in compulsory
salvation is tho turning out of the Jtoman
Catholic fathers from the Osage Indian reser
vation. and the substitution of Quaker instruc
tors. The Osages are not pleased with the
change, the fathers having lived among them
since 1844. It certainly seems that the wishes
of tho Indians in regard to the choice of their
spiritual advisers should be heeded.
Who can read without emotion the story of
two little girls in Greene Hay, Wisconsin. The
eldest was seven years of age, the youngest
only five. A drunken father left Ihcm alone
in their room for six days, with only a small
loaf'of broad for food. When the children
were found, the elder sister was nearly doad,
having refused to eat of the bread so that her
little sister might not suffer. We hear a great
deal of heroines. Does history furnish an ex
ample equal to this ?
The Republican members of tho National As
sembly of France, at tho coming meeting of
that body, propose to introduce a declaration
against tho itifringement of popular sovereign
ty, and if that is defeated by tho Monarchists
aro determined to destroy the Republic if they
can. Tlie Republicans must defend it in an
equally determined manner. Frenchmen can
save France, but tliey have to do it by hard
blows. They should prepare for such an emer
gency.
Ihe editor of Appleton's Journal recently
opened a correspondence with Mr. W. Saviile
Kent, tho English naturalist, for tho purpose
of obtaining bis co-oporation in the erection
of an aquarium in the Central Park. Mr.
Kent, who was for a long time curator of tho
celebrated aquarium at Brighton, is disposed
to accept the proposal, and The Journal calls
upon sumo of our public spirited ricli men
to subscribo the necessary rnouoy. The es
tablishment ||at Brighton lias provod a good (
pecuniary investment; but if wo liavo one in
New York it ought to he founded by endow
ment and openod to the public free of charge.
The Washington Chrmu le, of Tuesday, in
sists that ex-Prosidont Johnson, though de
layed by the suspension of Jay Cooke's Bank,
will soon visit Washington, and thore tell what j
1m knows about the application for Mrs. Sur
ratt's pardon. The Chronicle says: ’'Those j
who are posted, however, expect him soon at |
tho Metropolitan Hotel, whoro it is arranged to j
have him called on by tho populaco, and, in :
response to their persistent calls, will reluc- j
tautly deliver an impromptu speech, sotting at
rest, once for all, the question of who was re
sponsible for the execution of tiie unfortunate
woman above named. We give this timely no
tine that all who desire may he preeout on the .
occasion."
Wo do not attach great present importance j
to tlie italk from Washington about forcing into I
bankruptcy such banks as do not pay legal ten- j
dors on demand. The special attack upon one i
of the Washington .lav Oooko banks may be j
sustained ; it is grounded, at least, upon dis
tinct allegations, sufficient to warrant proceed- 1
iugs. But to attempt to drive tlio banks gen
erally hi to bankruptcy, at the close of such a
crisis as wo are passing and apparently within
a foruight of tlie time when money will be as
plenty as before the crash, would be an act of
foily which few creditors would want to at
tempt. and no courts would be likely to en
courage.
The Congress of the Internationals, which
lately hold a session in Geneva, Switzerland,
lias attracted but little attention from the press
of Europe on account, perhaps, of the fact
that no startling theories were adopted. One
question was dually settled, and it was one
which has for some time been c mmeoted on
by writers everywhere, and that was the prac
ticability of a general strike at a given time
throughout the world. All the members con
ceded that intended strike was equivalent to a
social revolution and the impossibility of ,
organizing the masses sufficiently to ensure f
anything like success rendered tho whole
scheme impracticable, and so probably ends the
question.
Russian aggression in Asia is likely, it is re
jiorted. to involve that nation in a war witli !
J avian. Russia has long since claimed the is- I
land of Saglialien, lying north of the Japancec
Empire, as part of its Amoor river possessions.
Its encroachments have been gradual; ayd we
believe that it is a matter of record that the
Rushan Government once asked permission to
establish settlements for its fishing ami trail
ing people along the shores. The North Ger
man Government at one time was also accused
of intriguing for a foothold upon the island;
but it relinquished any claim it mav have ad
vanced. and the Russians, since the civil war in
Japan, have lieett comparatively undisturbed.
A war between Russia and Japan would be
likely to end disastrous to the latter empire.
It has been observed in some localities that
the bones of homed cattle fed on certain kinds
of fodder exhibit an unusual degree of brittle
ness. The subject has lately been investigated
l»y Herr Neseler. who has analyzed the fodder
and water consumed by cattle affected iu this
way. Among liis conclusions wc note that he
finds iu the Black Forest that this affection is
confined to granite soils, to the junction of
granite and gneiss, and to Banter san stone.
Tlie Hou. John J. Patterson's balance in the
First National Bank of Washington, of which]
Henry D. Cooke isjl'resident. amounts to *14.-
000. According to the account of the receiver
the depositors will be paid if Jay Cooke ,t Cos. j
pay the bank, which will depend materially on
the future value of Northern Pacic bouds. But ]
as this is only a portion of the Honorable Sena
tor's splendid earnings in South Carolina, he
will not mind the loss. He should have made
"a special deposit" like Grant.
The Washington papers say that preparations
are being made by the American Colonization
Society for its regular Fall expedition for
Liberia. Out of more than three thousand
voluntary applicants for settlement, a selection
will be made—the actual number accepted de
pending upon the means furnished for the
purpose. Among those desiring passage are
an elder of a Presbyterian Church, a Baptist
minister and a Methodist preacher, with their
families, and numerous farmers and mechanics
—just such people as are needed m anew
country. Recent intelligence from Liberia
shows steady progress in all departments, with
a rapid increase in agriculture and commerce.
The New York Tribufte accuses the Secre
tary of the Treasury of having given large
Illegal accommodations to Heury D. Cooke's
Waehiugtou Bank. And— what is most grave
—the allegations of Mr. Iteid are confirmed by
the receiver of Cooke's Bank, who re [ions that
the deposits made by the Treasury in that
bank amount to two hundred and eightv-seven
thousand dollars, and that the bank gave se
curity for only one hundred thousand dollars of
this sum. This shows that Mr. Richardson has
in reality lent the bank one hundred and
aighty-eeveu thousand dollars of public money
without any security whatever. What has Mr
Richardson to say in refutation or reply?
A FARMERS’ ORANGE.
For Rome time past the Chronicle
and Sentinel has urged the formation
of a Farmers Grange in Richmond coun
ty. At last there is a prospect that an
organization will be effected. Rev. C.
W. Howard, Master of the district in
which is embraced the county of IJich
i mond, reached here yesterday afternoon,
and will deliver a lecture to-night, with
a view of the formation of a Grange.
The distinguished lecturer and practical
agriculturalist will speak in the City
Hall, at eight o’clock. We hope that
there will be in attendance an audience j
j worthy the speaker and the occasion.
CHICAGO PREACHERS.
The Chicago Times bitterly complains
i that on Sunday last nearly all the Chris
tian pulpits were filled by ministers,
who, instead of preaching the Gospel of |
God, went on at a furious rate into poli- ;
tics and finances, and addressed their:
hearers in strains better calculated for I
the flags of Wall street than for Chris- J
tian edifices. The Times, however, iffi- j
inits that, considering the character of j
the congregation, consisting mostly of
money changers, stock jobbers, pro
duce gamblers and whisky venders, the
theme was about the only one that could
go to their hearts—or pockets.
VANDERBILT 8 RUSE.
Every agitation in Wall street is
traced to the machinations of a “ring.”
The bulls and bears will not admit that
anything is the result of natural causes.
The failure of Grinnell & Cos., which
caused such a flutter on the “street” a
few days since, is said to have been the
work of Commodore Vanderbilt, and
was planned in order to arrest a further
decline in what are known as the Van
derbilt stocks. The firm was largely
long of New York Central, Lake Shore,
Western Union, Union Pacific, etc.,
and the trouble which the concern got
into during panic week had the effect of
greatly depressing these stocks. In this
emergency Vanderbilt put Grinnell &
Cos. into bankruptcy, anil had injunc
tions issued restraining all who held
the stocks of tlie firm as collateral se
curities for loans from closing them out
under the rules of the Stock Exchange.
It was thus demonstrated that none of
the stocks would be placed upon the
market, and the decline in them was
arrested.
THE CHARLESTON ELECTION.
The Conservative citizens of Charles
i ton held a monster mass meeting yester
j day for the purpose of taking action to
j prevent the city from falling into the
I hands of the Radical robbers. The pro
| gramme ngreed upon, as announced in
\ tho News and Courier, is for Mayor
Wagener and the present Board of Al
dermen to claim their seats until the va
lidity of the recent so-called election can
he tested. This seems to us the best
plan which could be adopted. If the
election is a nullity, by reason of fraud
and non-compliance with the law, as the
Conservatives insist, it would be the
height of folly for them to resign their
j jiower and wait upon the law’s delay
while the city is daily being plundered.
Let Mayor Wagener remain in his office,
and let Mr. Cunningham seok the
courts if he dures. When a writ of
quo warranto is applied for, then tlie
Conservatives can come forward and de
ny that any election has been held. The
maxim that “ possession is nine points
of the law,” was nowhere more forcibly
illustrated than in the Charleston muni
cipal election of four years ago, and tlie
Conservatives will do well to learn ales-
I son from that contest.
A MONARCHY FOR FRANCE.
j A special telegram to a London jour
; nal states that three hundred and fifty
j members of the French Chamber of
Deputies are pledged to vote for a mon
archy. If this be true, if the Monarch
ists cau start with vote, then the
I Republic is indeed in imminent peril.—
j But the dispatch fails to state a most
| important fact, namely: Whether this
| formidable faction is united upon the
support of one man or one dynasty.—
, Will the three hundred and fifty give
their votes to Orleanist or Bonaparte or
Bourbon—to the Couut de Paris, the
Count de Chambord or the Prince Im
perial, or will they pronounce in favor
of placing the crown upon tlie brow of
the soldier-President—the hero of Ma
genta and Sedan ? In tho meantime the
friends of the Republic feel the dan
ger which menaces the fruits of their la
bors, and are preparing for the impend
ing crisis. Thiers has been summoned to
the capital; and a common danger has
caused the contending factions to forget
for a time their feuds. We are told that
the extremists have consented to unite
with the moderates in order to rescue
France from what they consider more
dangerous than conservatism—mon
| archy. Everything betokens a despe
rate struggle, and Paris may, ere long,
have her streets defended with barri
cades and her sewers running with the
blood of her children.
A “MODEL” STATE TREASURER.
The nomination of R. W. Mackey, the
present State Treasurer of Pennsylvania,
by the Republican State Convention,
shows that he is considered by the Re
publican party as a model officer, and
one whose services demanded some
recognition at the hands of the people.
It has been charged again and again that
many of Mackey’s transactions as State
Treasurer were not for the best interests
of the State, yet these charges were as I
constantly denied. The Republican Con
vention had au excellent chance of get
ting rid of Mackey. He originally se
cured his position by appointment, so
that the party was under no obligations
to take his burdens upon its shoulders ;
but he was so prominently identified
with the ruling ring in Pennsylvania
Republicanism that the party could not
shake him off, and he received the nomi
nation whicn was dictated for him. He
labors nnder the disadvantage this year
of having to secure an election at the
hands of the people—something ma
j terially different from an election by the
Legislature, as he may perhaps find.
One of the peculiarities of Mr. Mackey
to which public attention is now being
directed is that of mixing up in an al
most inextricable j amble the public ac
j counts of the State of Pennsylvania anc
the private accounts of R. W. Mackey.
He does this in such a way that no one
but himself and perhaps a confidentia.
, clerk could possibly separate the one
from the other. Asa sample of the way
in which he does business, a case whict
came up a few days since may be cited
j The charge was made that the State a:'
Pennsylvania had a large sum of money
deposited with Jay Cooke and also witl
the Union Banking Company. Mr
Mackey answered this charge by the fol
: lowing telegram to H. Bncher Swope
United States Attorney for Philadelphia
j “The report is not true. I had not i
| dollar at Jay Cooke's, and less than ter
thonsand at the Union Banking Compt
| ny, which is amply secured.” Comment
ing upon this the Philadelphia Age sayt:
’’ If anybody were to ask him ( Mackeyi
if a million of the public money wai
commonly in one of the State banks it
this city, he would probably reply,
have no money in that bank.' ” The
people of Pennsylvania should elect as
. Treasurer a man who will do business
in a more business like manner.
THE RECEIVERS AND THE BANKS.
The Comptroller of the Currency
dashes to the ground the hopes of the
financial wreckers who have been so
clamorous for appointments as Receiv
ers of “suspended” National Banks. He
states that he cannot legally appoint a
Receiver for a National Bank on account
of refusals by a National Bank to pay
money, but which gives certified checks
in lieu thereof, as is now the general
practice in nearly all the large cities in
the case of persons or companies who,
at the time such check is certified, have
on deposit in said bank an amount of
mpney equal to the amount specified in
such check. Any check so certified by
duly authorized officers is, according to
law, a good and valid obligation. This
point has been made by the Metropolitan
National Bank of Washington City, and
the efforts made to induce the appoint
ment of a Receiver proved entirely fu
tile.
BADLY MIXED.
Governor Smith, of Georgia, is clearly
a man for an emergency. Asa means of
lightening the burdens of the people of
that State in the present stringency of
the money market, he has suspended
the wholesale liquor • tax, in response to
a general request. What the effect of
this sort of suspension may be is not so
clear, but it must be far more favorable
in its results than the suspension of the
banks, unless, indeed, to paraphrase the
familiar language of advertisements, it
should place the liquor thus disen
thralled “ within the reach of all ” by
reason of its cheapness.
The above is taken from a recent arti
cle in the editorial columns of the New
York World. It conveys news to Gover
nor Smith and to the wholesale liquor
dealers. The truth of the matter is,
that Governor Smith simply s uspended
the collection of a partial, odious and
onerous tax, until the Legislature can
meet and repeal the law, under provis
ions of wliiqh it had been levied. The
average New York journalist displays as
much knowledge of Georgia or any oth
er Southern State as he does of the in
ternal affairs of the Kingdom of Daho
mey.
EUROPE AND PORT ROYAL.
The Augusta papers are overpowered
with joy since they have learned that
the Dominion line of steamers will run
between Liverpool and Port Royal early
in November. They take occasion to
sneer at Col. Tift’s effort, and the atten
dant delay of liis scheme, but they for
get that the latter is intended as a per
manent enterprise, while the Port Royal
is sky-rockety, and intended only for a
season. So far as the comparative enter
prise of the two places may be brought
into question,, Savannah already has two
English steamers in port, and probably
before November rolls around will have
many more—even if the Tift movement
results in failure, which, however, is not
probable.— Savannah Advertiser.
The above editorial article appeared
in the •Savannah Advertiser, of Friday,
and bears pettishness and injustice upon
its face. The fact is, Savannah and her
press are so excessively touchy on
the subject of Port Royal that it is
a hard matter to get them to treat a sis
ter seaport with entire fairness. In the
first place there is no reason for assert
ing that the European line of steamers
which Port Royal has secured is a “sky
rodkety” enterprise. The cable telegram
which wo quoted stated that Mr. Apple
ton had been successful in “securing”
the Dominion line of steamers between
Port Royal and Liverpool. There is
nothing “sky-rockety” which we can
discover in establishing a permanent
line of steamships between Europe and
a Southern harbor. Again, we saw no
sneers at “Col. Tift’s effort and the at
tendant delay of his scheme.” But we
were glad to notice that while Col. Tift
was imploring help from Hercules the
friends of Port Royal did not wait for
the god, but helped themselves.
THE BONDS.
The State Treasurer publishes a card
to the people of Georgia, giving an ac
count of the sales made of the 8 per
oent. bonds issued under an act passed
at the last session of the Legislature.
Os the amount issued—Bl,2oo,ooo —more
than two-thirds—sßsß,7so —have been
sold at par, mostly to the citizens of
Georgia, and the expenses—all told—
have not averaged one per cent. Three
hundred and forty-one thousand still
remain unsold. The Treasurer also pub
lishes the uame of each purchaser and
the amount purchased— classified by
counties. The following shows the
amounts in the largest counties:
In Richmond—W. Hope Hull, Esq.,
invests $10,000; Hon. John P. King,
$9,000; John J. Cohen k Sons, $12,250;
The Merchants & Planters Bank, $8,250;
J. C. Fargo, $2,000; L. A. Dugas, sl,-
000; Branch k Sons, $1,000; C. A. Platt,
$250; L. A. R. Reab, $250; Sam’l Levy,
$250 making the amount taken in
Richmond, $44,250.
In Chatham—General J. T. Gilmer
takes $250; John R. Wilder, Esq., $3,-
500; Noah B. Knapp, $4,250; W. L.
Lawton, $2,000; H. S. Wetmore, $12,-
000; Female Orphan Asylum, S2,IKK); J.
S. Hutton, trustee, $1,250; Bryan k
I Huqter, $750; J. E. Gaudry, $250; Hon.
I George A. Mercer, $250; George L.
! Cope, $500; Gen. Henry R. Jacktion,
$0,250; and George Cornwell, trustee for
S. C. Dunning, SIO,OOO, making amount
taken in Chatham, $41,250.
In Clarke county—William D. Mitch
ell, Esq., Secretary, takes $250; South
ern Mutual Insurance Company, $8,000;
Dr. James S. Hamilton, SIB,OOO, and
the University of Georgia, $96,000 —
making amount taken in Clarke, $122,-
250, or $26,000, exclusive of the.Jcollege
investment.
In Bibb oounty—The City Bank of
Macon through its President, Hon. C. A.
Nuttiug, takes $50,000; Rev. W. D. Wil
liams, $500; Franklin Lodge, $500; John
J. Grisham, Esq., ss,ooo;Henry L. Jew
ett, $5,000, and John E. Jones, $1,250 —
making amount taken in Bibb $64,250.
Iu Fulton—Joseph E. Brown takes
$1,000; S. B. Hoyt, $1,500; Joseph
Winship, $1,250 ; (ieo. Hillyer, $3,000 ;
Messrs. Lowrys, $1,750; John H. James,
$18,000; Dr. T. F. Boseman, $12,250;
the Bank of the State of Georgia,
$20,000; the Citizens’ Bank of Geor
gia, $50,000, and the Atlanta National
j Bank, $109,000 —making the amount ta
: ken in Fulton $260,750.
COTTON.
In the last monthly report of the Bu
reau of Statistics there is an interest
j ing compilation, showing the produc
i tion, exportation and consumption of
: cotton in the United States-in the years
j 1848 to 1873, inclusive, excluding 1862,
! 1863,1864 and part of 1865, it being im
, possible in those years to obtain accu
i rate statistics. The crop was the largest
’ in 1860, amounting to 4,861,292 bales.
In three other years the crop was over
four million bales—in 1857, 1859 and
IS7O-’7l, it being respectively in those
years 4,093,837, 4,018,914 and 4,374,006
bales. The crop of 18?2-’73 stood next
in point of magnitude, reaching 3,930,-
I 508 bales. In the four years immedi-
I ately subsequent to the close of the war
1 the crop was smaller than during any
four years since IS4B. In 1865-'66 it was
only 2,269,316 bales; in 1866-’67, 2,097,-
, 254, the lowest point reached for years ;
in 1867-'6B, 2,503,993 bales, and in
I 1868-69, 2,439,039 bales. In 1848, 1849,
| 1850 and 1851 the crop went below
three million bales in each year, but
since then, except in the fo»r years
after the close of the war, the crop has
only been smaller than three millions
twice—in 1855, when the production was
2,982,634 bales, and in 1871-72, when it
. was 2,974,351. The exports gere the
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 15, 1873.
greatest during the year ending June 30,
1860, when they reached 3,774,173 bales.
In only three other years—lßs9, 1861
and 1870-’7l—did they exceed three mil
lion bales, being then respectively
3,021,403, 3,127,518 and 3,167,268 bales.
The exports were the smallest in 1850,
footing up in that year only 1,381,264
bales. Though the amount of cotton ex
ported in 1865-’66 was only 1,552,457
bales, its value in that year was greater
than in any other, reaching $281,385,-
223 in currency. This was the first year
in the history of the country where the
value of the exports of cotton exceeded
$200,000,000. Since then the value of
the exports hhs exceeded the latter
figure four times—in 1866-’67, 1869-70,
1870- and 1872-73. Previous to 1851 the
cotton exports never reached $100,000,-
000 in value; but, except in 1852 and 1853,
they have never been less since. It is
noticeable that last year the consumption
of new cotton was greater in tho United
States than it ever was before, the total
amount consumed being 1,201,127 bales,
or nearly one-third of the whole crop.—
before the war the South had be
gun to engage somewhat extensively in
the manufacture of cotton, but this was
retarded by the war, and operations
were not fairly resumed until 1871-72.
Last year showed some improvement,
and from the amount of last year’s cot
ton still in the hands of planters, it
would seem that the coming year would
witness a great. revival. The lowest
average price reached by cotton since
1848 was in 1849, when it touched 6}
cents. Before the war the highest point
attained was in 1857, when the average j
price was 12 3-5 cents, gold. In 1861 it j
was llj cents. After the close of the
war, in 1865-’66, the average price of j
cotton was 30 2-5 cents gold, or 42 7-10
cents currency; next year it fell to 30
cents currency; in 1867-’6B to 141-3 cents
gold, or 20 cents currency, The two
following years prices were again a little
higher, only to decline in 1870-71 to 13 1-5
cents gold, or 15 cents currency. In
1871- the price was 19J • cents cur
rency, and last year cotton averaged in
price 17 1-5 cents in gold or 18 1-9 cents
in currency.
THE CHIEF JUSTICESHIP.
The Detroit Free Press thinks that
the organs are beginning to feel their
way toward the endorsement of the nomi
nation of Senator Roscoe Conkliug for
Chief Justice by the President. It is
plain to be seen that this is the appoint
ment which will be made, and such jour
nals as have not the courage to protest
against it, must accept with the best
grace they can muster. Some of them
go a long way round in order to come to
the point at issue, and then, instead of
meeting it, evade it as skillfully as they
"possibly can. For instance, one of the
organs goes through a list of the men
who have held the office of Chief Justice
since the Court was organized, and points
out that most of them were distinguished
for political services as well as for their
legal attainments. It it also claimed by
this journal that there has hardly ever
sat upon the bench as Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court a Judge who was
not a politician and something of a
statesman, and who did not owe his ele
vation largely to his services ,in these
two particulars. This assertion was un
doubtedly made without any examina
tion into the facts in the case. Os the
thirty-seven Judges who have sat as As
sociate Justices since 1789, only ten, or
barely one-fourtli of the whole num
ber, ever sat in Congress. These
were Justices Rutledge, Patterson, Sto
ry, Duval, McLean, Baldwin, Bar
bour, McKinley, Woodbury and Clif
ford. Nearly every one of these was
out of active political life when he re
ceived his appointment. All were known
as lawyers of high attainments, and
most of them had experience on the
bench. was scarcely one of
the Associate Justices who was not far
better known at the time of his appoint
ment as a lawyer and jurist than as a
politican and statesman.
So far as the Chief Justices are con
cerned, not one of them was selected
solely because of his political services,
and in only one case—that of Chief
Justice Chase—could it be said that the
appointee was a man who was more pre
eminent as a politician and statesman
than he was as a jurist. And it should be
understood that in no quaxter is there
any objection to the appointment of a
man to the Chief Justiceship because
he may have done some service to the
Republican party, or because he is a
statesman. Let ’President Grant take
as good care in selecting a man for the
Chief Justiceship as was done by his
predecessors in the Presidential chair
upon whom the duty has devolved, and
there will be no cause for complaint.
Instead of this there will be just cause
for congratulation, and no journals will
offer it more cheerfully to the Presi
dent and the people than those who
have felt it their duty to protest
against a certain proposed appointment.
The people will object, and have a right
to object, to the appointment of a man
whose only claim for the position is that
he is a lawyer, and he wants the office,
and that he is a leader in the Republi
can party.
THE HOMESTEAD.
In another column we publish the
substance of a recent decision of Judge
Erskine, in which it is held that a bank
nipt is entitled to the homestead allow
ed him under the laws of Georgia. The
bankrupt is entitled to this exemption
as well against debts contracted prior
as to those contracted after the passage
of the homestead law. It will be re
membered that last Spring the Supreme
Court of the United States decided that
the homestead was not good against
debts contracted prior to the passage of
tie act allowing an exemption of per
ssranlty. But this decision of Judge
Enltine says that a party who has taken
a hstnestead may retain it against any
debt and despite the decision of the
Supreme Court by going into bank
ruptcy. Os course the creditor is not
benefkted by the decision, which was
popularly supposed to have effectually
quashed the homestead as against old
■debts. But the debtor is obliged to go
to an additional ftpense of three or
four hundred dollars, in the way of
Court costs and attorney’s fees, in order
to save the property already set apart to
the use of his family. The only persons
who derive any profit from this condi
tion of affairs are the lawyers. Would
it not be better, then, for the debtors and
creditors to come to some agreement
without a resort to litigation? If the
holder of an old debt presses his claim
against his debtor who has taken an
exemption of realty, the latter merely
goes into a court of bankruptcy, aDd
Jndge Erskine says he shall retain his
property. Instead then of enriching
third parties by the struggles of the
creditor to take and the debtor to retain
the homestead which has been allowed,
let them meet in a spirit of concession
and arrange a settlement If the credi
tor forces his debtor into bankruptcy he
loses his debt If the debtor goes into
bankruptcy he loses a fourth or fifth of
his homestead. Better let them com
promise their differences and keep out
of the Courts.
Cotton near Athens is opening faster
. than it can be picked.
STATEMENT OF GAPT. BUDDING
TON.
Farther Details of thf Separation and
the Rescue.
[From the New York Tribune.]
Onr special correspondent at Dundee
sends ns some interesting details of the
adventures of the rescued crew of the
Polaris, in addition to the long state- j
ment telegraphed to us on the 19th of j
September. Buddinglton, Schumann,
i and others tell the story of Capt. Hall’s
death without varying from the accounts
already published. Schumann, the
first engineer, says that after the return
from the northern sledge journey,
“On coming into the cabin the cap
: tain turned sick, and after lying down
vomited a great deal. He would not
taste anything at first, but afterwards
asked a cup of tea. He got the tea,
but he hacr no sooner partaken of it
than the vomiting returned more vio
lently than before. Abont six hours
afterwards he took delirium, and con
tinued in this conditiqflfjfor three days.
On recovering his senset, however, he
' grew better, got up, and wrote •up his
| journal. He also attended to his other
j duties asif he had bosii| in his usnal
I health, but he never Meat- out. In
about tt n days afterwardffoe was again
| seized, and got worse a#H worse until
! the night of the 7th, whfei he became
i calin. Seeing Dr. Besselynar he called
him and said, ‘I am 'Yeaffirr uch obliged
to you for the kindness yet? have, shown
to me, Doctor.’ After: at.U-'hig these
words he relapsed, ancl Ah the morning
he was dead. Capt. Spddington, the
sailing master, and second in command,
then took charge of the vessel, and Dr.
Bessel headed the scientific and explor
ing party.” V
Capt. Buddington makes a long state
ment, covering the whole voyage from
the time the Polaris left Tessuisak, in
August, 1871, and gives a brief account
of Hall’s death;
On the 24th Capt. Hall returned, hav
ing reached a bay which he named New
man’s Bay. Not long after his return
Capt. Hall was taken seriously ill, and
Dr. Bessel said his disease was apo
plexy. For two weeks he continued in
bad health, but now and again he would
rally and appear well, and then relapse
suddenly. On the morning of the Bth
he died, and on the 10th we buried him
half a mile to the south of the Observa
tory. We were now in a peculiarly em
barrassing condition, but I considered
it still our duty to press toward the
North Pole. In consequence of some
little differences which Md occurred be
fore Capt. Hall’s death, as well as from
the novel position in which we now
found ourselves, the harmony which
had previously prevailed wa3 now more
than once seriously broken. On the
13th November, Dr. Bessel drew np a
paper, and he asked me to sign it, which
I did. It was a repetition of the instruc
tions given by the Naval Department to
Capt. Hall, providing that I should con
tinue as the sailing and ice-master, and
control and direct the movements of the
vessel, Dr. Bessel to continue chief of
the scientific department. This paper
concluded as follows; “It is our honest
intention to honor our flag, and to hoist
it upon the most northern point of the
earth.”
After describing the separation from
Tyson’s party, he continues :
We were now in a critical condition,
without boats, anchors, or hawsers, but
there was no time for reflection, as the
water was gaining fast, and would soon
reach the furnace fires, in spite of the
bilge pump, which was all this time at
work, assisted by the alley-way pump;
and if we could not start the deck
pumps it was evident that the vessel
would go down. The ice around us was
fine broken slush, which W’ould not bear
the weight of a man. By ' this time the
water in the boiler was hot, and by
pouring several bucketsful down the
pumps we thawed them sufficiently so
as to enable us to keep the water from
gaining, and never did men use their
strength with more energy than we did
on that occasion. It was evident we
could not last long at: the work, but for
tunately just then the engineers report
ed steam, up, by which additional aid
we were enabled to keep her afloat. On
the morning of the 16th we found our
position a few miles north of Littleton
Island, in Smith’s Straits. YVe had
drifted abreast of Sunderland Island, at
the end of Baffin’s Bay, during the
night. The gale had then subsided,
and it was shortly afterwards quite
calm. We looked from the masthead of
our vessel for our companions on the
floe, but could not see anything
of ■ them whatever. Tlie current
must have taken them in a dif
fereht direction from the course the
wind took us. About noon a breeze
sprung up from the north, and opening
a lead in-shore to the east, the vessel at
this time began driftingoutof the straits
again. By the aid of steam and sail I
took advantage of the lead when opened
wide enough to admit me, and ran the
vessel as near shore as the ice would ad
mit, and made fast with lines to heavy
grounded hummocks. Here we were
aground at low water, there being nine
feet rise of tide at this place, which hap
pened to be Kane’s Lifeboat Cove, lat.
78 deg. 23J iN., long. 73 deg. 21 W. We
kept an anxious look-out all the time
from the masthead of onr vessel for
signs of the party, but the sharpest eyes
on shipboard failed to see aught of them.
As, [however, they had the boats, even
to the little scow, we were in hopes they
would possibly be able yet to make for
us. On the 17tli, I surveyed the ship,
and found the stem entirely broken off
below the six foot mark. I called the
officer’s attention to it, who only won
dered she had kept afloat so long. I
therefore considered the Polaris a lost
vessel, and immediately made prepara
tions for leaving her, and living on shore
during the Winter, getting our spare
sails, coals and provisions on shore. We
were assisted in this by the Etah Esqui
maux, who came to us the day after we
got ashore. When these Esquimaux
hovedn sight, gesticulating and halloo
ing with great apparent glee, we took
them to be our castaways, and immedi
ately cheered most heartily in return.
We put up a house on shore, which was
superintended by Mr. Chester ; those
not engaged inbuildingit being occupied
getting provisions and fuel, which they
did with a great deal of difficulty, as
they had to leap from one detached
piece of ice to another all the way to the
I shore. Often some Os the party would
| tumble through fissures and get wet,
i which was a great inconvenience, con
sidering the insufficient. supply our
wardrobe furnishe'd for change. On the
morning of the 2P t we had a number of
Esquimaux visitors. They came in five
sledges, and kindly went to work to as
sist us, proving of excellent service. In
a short time we had all the portable ar
ticles from the ship on shore. I made
I them such presents as cur scanty stock
j would permit—mainly needles (har
poons)—with which they expressed
j themselves well pleased. It was fortu
' nate that among other articles put on
i the floe were a number of those indis
j penasable articles to an Esquimaux—a
quantity of knives. On the 24th they
j left us for Etah, we having completed
our work for abandoning the vessel.
At 6, p, m., we ‘stopped the steam
i pumps to let her fill, and bid farewell to
j the little Polaris, which had penetrated
j through dangers and hard knock to a
i high latitude, but which was destined not
| to return witnthe honors she had gained.
| Daring the remainder of the month we
were visited by natives—men, women,
I and children, I sent a party to McGar
| ry's Island in searen of Dr. Hayes’ boat
i and provisions, but could discover no
sign of her. I was afterward informed
by the natives that a party from the
j West land found her five years ago, and
j appropriated to their own use what was
1 serviceable to them; the boat they dis
covered to be worthless and full of
hole*. At high water the lower decks
of the Polaris were covered, the water
j rising to within three feet of the upper
i decks, the vessel being firm on the
. rocks. I was in hopes she would remain
in that position, as we had to get fuel
! from her and material for making our
j boats for our Summer journey south.
, We spent the Winter months of Novem
| her, December and January in house
j hold duties—getting ice for melting
1 purposes, supplying galley and house
stove with coal, and keeping passage
ways to and from the house free from
i snow. A great many foxes were shot.
We were visited continually by the na
j tives, who were suffering a great deal
from coal and hunger. Several of the
families made their residence with us for
the most of the Winter, buidling snow
hats for themselves, where they slept.
We supplied them with a share of the
! provisions we had, but still they had to
kill a great many of their dogs in order
to give their children fresh meat. Two
families in particular reduced their
team of dogs to one, and another
family to two. Some of our people had
slight attacks of scurvy, principally in
the gums; bat is general the health of
our party remained good. The
jof February brought us daylight. On
j the loth the snu was seen for the first
J time since its disappearance on the 16th
of November. We had now to consume
the bowsprit, masts, and rigging for
fuel, these fortunately having been
landed. The only material for building
boats was the ceiiing of the alley-ways
and after cabin—the house on deck
j being used as fuel. The following
; months were occupied in building boats
for our journey. Shooting parties
went out occasionally, but, with the ex
ception of a few hares, generally re
turned unsuccessful. There was one
deer killed during the season, but a
great many were seen. Although the
natives had left us some time for their
respective settlements and hunting
grounds, they still, however, continued
to visit us, and, as if to remind us of
our former kindness to them, which they
appeared to have appreciated, kept
bringing to us quantities of walrus liver,
which made a greater improvement in
the health of our party. I had suitable
bags made out of the foresail, aud filled
them with provisions for our journey. I
also built a small boat out of some spare
lumber for the Etah natives, which will
be a great acquisition to them in sealing
and getting eggs from the islands. By
the 28tli May all our preparations were
made. I must compliment Mr. Chester,
who superintended the building of these
boats. They are creditable scows—far
better structures than I thoublit could
have been made out of the mwterial we
nad. They are flat-bottomed, and cany
considerable weight. The open water
was by this time close up to our house.
Our provisions and what limited cloth
ing we were to take with us were brought
down to the water’s edge to be in readi
ness for embarkation. There still re
mained with us two native families, and
during the Winter and Spring we were
visited by nearly all the natives from
Etah to Cape York. There were during
this time three deaths and one birth
among the natives. One of the former
was Myonk, who was one of the first to
visit us after our vessel got on shore.
MURDER IN BARNWELL.
[special correspondence of the chron
icle AND SENTINEL.]
Barnwell Court House, Oet. 2, 1873.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel :
Our village was very much awakened
from its accustomed quietness yesterday
morning, by the commitment of murder
on our streets, the brief partii ulars of
which I send you, viz: On Thursday
mftrning two colored men, named re
spectively Aleck Chisolm and William
son, alias Morris, were arraigned before
a Trial Justice in our village upon some
family feud. It seems also that the said
Williamson had been deputised by one
Calrence Brown, a Trial Justice at
Martin’s Station, on the Port Royal
Railroad, to 'arrest Chisolm after liis
trial at this place. Accordingly, after
the trial Williamson attempted to arrest
Chisolm, who made some slight attempt
at resistance, whereupon Williamson
fired upon him, the ball penetrating the
forehead immediately between the eyes,
producing instantaneous death. As there
were but three or four colored men
at the scene of the murder, who were
friends of Williamson, or either from
fear, allowed him to escape. Coroner
Patterson held an inquisition over the
dead man, and the jury rendered a Ver
dict of willful murder. At last accounts
the murderer was still at large. As he
may probably visit your city, it may be
well for your detectives to be on the
qui vive, as our Governor will no doubt
offer a reward for his arrest. William
son is described as about six feet in
height and very stout, with a light com
plexion and weighs about 170 pounds.
More anon. Virgil.
LIGHT AT LAST.
The Story of the Goodrich Murder.
New Yoke, October 4.— The Daily
Graphic, to-day publishes the statement
of Lncette Meyers—the principal witness
in the Goodrich case. It is the first de
tailed account of the mysterious murder
which has ever been made public :
After some hesitation, Mrs. Meyers
said :“I will tell you all about it,
and I will give you positive facts. On
Monday afternoon, March 17, Ros6oe
and Kate Stoddard came to my room,
and in a little while I went out, leaving
them talking together. When I returned,
and just as I was about opening the
door, I heard Goodrich’s name men
tioned. The window over the door was
open, and I could distinctly hear most
every word said. I stopped and listened,
and heard them agree to go over to Mr.
Goodrich’s house on Thursday night.
They said they’d ‘fix matters’ then.
They knew that he came to see me every
Thursday evening, and they were to fol
low him home. Kate was to go in first, and
then let in Roscoe if the way was clear.
Nothing was said about shooting him,only
they’d ‘fix matters.’ My thought then
and afterwards was that they intended
beating him, and I at once made up my
mind to thwart their plans. The mo
ment I opened the door and re-entered
my room they stopped talking, and
neither thought I’d overheard them. On
Thursday evening Mr. Goodrich came to
see me, as usual, and sat talking until
nine or half-past nine o’clock—l'm not
exactly sure of the hour—when he took
his hat and, bidding me ‘good night,’
said he was going ‘directly home.’ Du
ring the evening I told him I believed
Kate Stoddard and Roscoe meant to do
him bodily harm, and that he’d better
be on his guard. He laughed at my
fears, and said he knew Kate was a bad
woman, but he was not afraid that eith
er she or Roscoe would injure him. I
warned him again and again, but he
paid ho heed to it. As soon as Mr.
Goodrich left, I threw off my dress and
skirts, and put on a suit of men’s clothes
which I’d borrowed. I then called a
young man named John Henry Beaoh,
who now and then visited me, and
whom I’d asked to go with me to Brook
lyn. Beach was a friend of Roscoe’s.
I told him I feared Kate and Roscoe
meant to do Mr. Goodrich some bodily
harm, but the idea of their shooting him
never entered my head. I lighted a
cigar so as not to attract attention, and
Beach and I hurried down to the Brook
lyn ferry. On the other side we met
Roscoe, evidently waiting for someone.
Beach and I hurried on until we reached
Mr. Goodrich’s house, when we went in.
After I heard the plot of Kate and
Roscoe I went to Brooklyn and made an
impression of the lock, and so got a key
made. We saw Mr. Goodrich enter,
and, after giving him time to get up
stairs, we slipped in quietly and secreted
ourselves in a closet in the passage way,
between the dining-room and kitchen.
Everything was perfectly still in the
house. After awhile we heard the front
door open, and supposed it was Kate
letting in Roscoe. She must have been
up stairs when Mr. Goodrich reached
home. All became quiet again for
awhile, and then we heard Kate in the
front basement, where she was soon
joined by Mr. Goodrich. Kate began
talking to him in a loud and angry
tone, but I could only pick up a word
now and then. Neither Beach nor I
could see anything from our hiding
place, and we didn’t dare move for fear
of being discovered. Kate did all the
talking, Mr. Goodrich only saying a
word occasionally. The only thing I
distinctly heard Kate say was, ‘This is
the last time you’ll leave me to visit any
and on the instant a shot was
fired, and I heard a body fall heavily
upon the floor. Mr. Goodrich said
‘Oh, dont!’ and then a second shot was
fired. I was so frightened I oouldn’t
move for a second or two. Following
the second shot, I heard someone rush
into the room, and then a third shot
was fired like a flash. I sprang from
my hiding place into the room, and saw
Kate kneeling over the prostrate body
of Mr. Goodrich, and wiping the blood
from his face with a hankerchief or towL
She must have knelt down* the moment
the last shot was fired. I simply no
ticed the bodv of Mr. Goodrich stretch
ed upon the door and blood oozing from
his head. On the instant that I enter
ed the room I was recognized and con
fronted by Roscoe, who grasped me by
the shoulder. He said, ‘ What are you
doing here ? I’ve a good mind to
shoot you on the spot -now go ! go !
and, mark my words, if you ever drop
one word of this I’ll put a bullet
through you.' I merely said, ‘ Shoot
me if you want to; I wished you would.’
He had. a pistol in his hand, and fear
ing that he mig jit, in his excited state,
kill me, I slipped in a hurry to the front
door and half walked and ran as fast as
I could. I was so confused and hor
rified at what I had seen that I lost my
way and sat down on a stoop. Some
man came along and directed me to the
I ferry, and there I found Beach waiting
I forme. I remembered as I turned to leave
j Goodrich’s house seeing Kate wiping
the blood from his face and hearing her
I cry like a child. It was a terrible sight.
Mr. Goodrich's body was stretched at
full k igth upon the floor. I hurried
away, fearing Roscoe would shoot me,
as he’d threatened to do so several times
before. I think Mr. Goodrich must
have been killed by the first shot. The
only words he uttered were ‘Oh, don’t !’
The murder was committed between
half-past one and two o’clock iu the
morning. Beach and I were in the
house some time before Kate let Roscoe
in. How Kate got Mr. Goodrich to
oome downstairs I don’t know, but there
they were some time, while slie was
talking to him iu a most excited way.—
These are the true facts in the ease.—
Beach walked home with me. I have
only seen him once since, and that was
at Hunter’s Point. ”
THE CINCINNATI PLATFORM RE
AFFIRMED.
The Increased Salary and Back Pay
Measure Denounced.
Elmira, October B. —Liberal Conven
tion resolutions :
Resolved, That the Convention of
delegates from the people of New York
congratulate the patriotic citizens of all
the States upon the indications now
apparent of a growing disposition to op
pose any perversion of civil authority,
and to demand in all our public ways a
return to official honesty, economy and
fidelity to public interest.
Resolved, That this gratifying ten
dency of public sentiment justifies and
encourages us to reaffirm the platform of
principles set forth at Cincinnati more
than a year ago, which embodies, in
clear and forcible terms, tlie need of
the hour, and by such affirmance to in
dicate sincerity of continued efforts and
aspirations tor purity of government
reform.
Resolved, That the public approba
tion belongs to the Senators and Repre
sentatives who, in the last Congress did
not favor the salary increase and back
pay bill, and especially to such as have
voluntarily and without pressure of pub
lic sentiment returned to the Treasury
the so-called back pay, and we denounce
every S ;nator and Representative who
voted for or approved such bill, aud any
party who invokes Congressional action
to shield a guilty conscience in doing
what should be done—what some have
done without legislation. Further, we
feel most sincere regret that the Presi
dent* of the United States should so mis
take the morality of American character
and disregard the honor of tho Ameri
can name ns to give his official sanction
to the bill, which, as far as it relates to
himself and members of each braueh of
Congress was wholly uncalled for, un
precedented, demoralizing and wicked,
and we charge the Republican party with
the wrong of originating and passing
the bill, and we denounce in tlie most
unqualified manner this measure and
all its supporters and demand its uncon
ditional repeal.
Resolved, That we deem it of higlilfet
importance to the people in all parts of
our State and country, that the lines of
transportation between the East and
West be improved, so as \<> furnish bet
ter and cheaper transit to the end that
no route shall make an inordinate
charge upon produce, manufacturers, or
merchandize, and thatno interest whether
of producer, corporation or capitalist,
can justly complain of the facilities af
forded. The importance of regular
cheap and rapid interchange of the pro
duce of the West, and tho merchandize
of the East, both for internal consump
tion and general commerce, cannot be
over estimated to the people of our
State, and especially of our great sea
board cities. An enlarged water chan
nel, freight railways and cheap and ex
penditious, passage alike for outgoing
and inbound trade, are imperatively de
manded, and the attainment of which
cannot with justice and safety be de
layed; and we deplore the corrupting
influence of our great corporations over
our legislative action, whereby our ag
ricultural interests are crippled and the
development of the resources of the
country retarded.
Resolved, That the internal policy of
States and municipal, ties cannot consti
tutionally be interfered with by Federal
authority, but that each must be left
free in the exercise of the supreme right
of local self government which has been,
we are grieved to say of late, frequently
and openly violated.
Resolved, That the conrse of the Na
tional Administration in patronizing ir
responsible and visionary fiscal agents—
in fostering primitive and unwholesome
business schemes—and iu its stealthy in
terberenqe and favoritism, the abandon
ment by its members of their posts of
duty for long periods of time, and the
gross neglect of public business, from
President down, has brought the coun
try at last to financial discredit and dis
tress, and it is, therefore, justly held
responsible before tho tribunals of pub
lic opinion for the recent disordered
condition of the country, the instability
in exchange of trade, in the work of
production and investment and depres
sion of business, for the sufferings of
laborers and ruin of individuals.
Resolved, That in view of the present
disaster the result of a weak pernicious
Administration, the widespread corrup
tion of public service, defalcations of
officials, peculations condoned, robbe
ries, forgeries, extortions upon mer
chants and importers with the approval
of Federal authority, personalism of the
Chief Executive, and as a consequence
the impaired standard of political mo
rality, it is a matter of painful regret
that unreasoning party zeal should out
live just party allegiance to others and
postpone return to good and honest
government, but still we have undimin
ished faith in the integrity and man
hood of the people and their ultimate
purpose and ability to correct every
wrong and restore right.
Resolved, That the return of the
country to a specie basis is an object of
paramount importance ; that as the
great purpose of money apart from be
ing a standard of value is to serve as a
medium of exchange and an instrument
with which transfers are made and in
debtedness discharged, business in
tegrity and even handed prosperity
unite in demanding a return to a oom
mon standard of the world, and that
banking privileges should be extended
to all who can give perfect security for
prompt redemption of she circulation
they utter in as good money as the Gov
ernment makes lawful money of the
country.
Resolved, That we pledge ourselves
to firmly resist reliability of the State
government by special legislation, being
as it is a pliant instrument of unworthy
private schemes, and we demand in
every department of public expenditure
rigid economy and good faith, and
thorough investigation and punishment
of all official misconduct.
The resolutions were unanimously
adopted.
The following was adopted with loud
cheers;
Resolved, That the thanks of all free
men are due to the tribunal w'hich has
indicated the right of local trial by jury,
and the freedom of the press against at
tempts to snatch away citizens to answer
before a foreign court —suoh attempts as
aroused the protests of our revolutiona
ry fathers.
The following ticket was nominated:
for Secretary of State, Diderich Wil
lers: Comptroller, Nelson H. Hopkins;
Attorney General, Daniel Pratt; Treas
urer, Charles H. Raines; Canal Commis
sioner, James Jackson; Engineer, Syl
vanus H. Sweet; States Prison Inspect
or, M. K. Platt.
The Convention then adjourned
sine die.
BIG GAMBLING.
How a ‘‘Pure Hand" Was Known—
California Forty Miners at Cards.
In the latter party of ’4O a number of
professional gamblers in large practice
were residing at the Graham House.
[Who that was in San Francisco in
’39-40 does not remember the Graham
House that stood on the comer of
Kearney and Pacific streets?] Among
the rest, two were specially remarked
for the boldness of their play and the
steadiness of their business nerves.
These were a hunohback named Briggs,
and one Joe Bassett, a better sort of a
graduate of the old Vicksburg school.
Both had been signally successful in
many a sharp operation during the year,
and had considerable property in lots,
which, for their convenience in busi
ness, they had converted into cash and
banked partly with Bnrgoyne or Wright,
partly on various monte tables. One day,
in an after-dinner chat, they compared
notes and found that they stood equally
fair on the gamblers change, each
being good for just $120,000 im
mediately available dust. Both being
more than usually enterprising under
the inspiration of wine, Briggs offered a
daring banter, which was recklessly ac
cepted by Bassett, that they should at
once adjourn to an upper room, fill up
each a check for the entire sum lie wits
worth in cash, divide equally between
the two $240,000 in red checks, and play
for the whole—neither to leave the room
on any pretext until all the red checks
were lost and won. Accordingly, with
one equanimity and singleness of pur
pose, they retired, with a few choice
spirits of their set, to the privacy of a
reserved apartment, and having provid
ed a store of choice liquors, cigars and
viands for the company, executed the
required documents, divided the rosy
counters, they took their seats at tho
opposite-side of the table and began tin
extraordinary aud most interesting con
test—a contest which called out such
feats of memory, sagacity, discrimina
tion, s°lf-possession, quick recognition
of signs and detection of sly fineness,
such fine feints, nimble thrusts and par
ries, hot assaultaand well ordered retreats
as would have made the fortune and fame
of a statesman, a general or a fencing mas
4er. The first deal was made at four
o’clock in the afternoon, aud the game
went on with changing fortune all
night. At the elbow of each stood n
glass of water, moderately heated with
brandy. Neither smoked; a cloud be
tween them would have been as cul
pable a blunder as the sun iu the eyes of
a duelist. Ten o’clock next morning
yet in their places, both looking some
what pale and haggard, but very quiet.
Briggs had $4,000 left of all that 1 was
near a Jipor just, as
Bassets., ‘ ky” it was, was mak
iug up his mind, someone entered and
stood behind him. Briggs eyed his an
tagonist over his shoulder,' and with a
searching stare that held his very breath.
Without noticing the entrance of the
new comer, with no flutter of liis cards;
without one startled glance, or even the
move of a finger, Basset “wentsix thous
and dollars.” “Take tho money,” said
hunchback; and he took it. Briggs had
two jacks; Joe Basset three kings. As
the two quailed great bumpers of raw
brandy, Briggs remarked, as lie rose to
go to bed, “If you had noticed that man
I might have borrowed the money and
held out a little longer; but wheu I saw
that you did not look over your shoulder
or drop the face of your cards, I know
that you had a puro hand.” A few days
after that the hunchback invested fifty
dollars, borrowed from Basset, in a
miner’s outfit, and started for the dig
gings, where lie died in a month a help
less pauper.
DON JOSE’S SECRET.
In the Winter of 1850 there came to
New Orleans from Havana a Spaniard
about thirty years old, and apparently
of good social condition, whose only
baggage was a large trunk, remarkably
liglit for its size and curiously pierced
in the top with many holes. Instead of
going to a hotel, his first business upon
landing was to inquire, in passably
good English, at various stores and
houses near the wharf, for information
of a garret story to rent, as no other
abode would suit his particular need,
and lie wished to secure such a one im
mediately. Thus, by the time he had
found a lofty and comfortless sky-parlor
in a building opposite the French mar
ket, and had his huge and unweighty
trunk transported thither on his own
shoulders, many persons in the city
were prepared to regard him as an ec
centric mystery and watch his subse
quent proceedings with interest. This'
curiosity increased when the stranger,
who paid his small rent in advance and
did not choose to give any name, fitted
his trunk into one of his garret windows
in place of the removed sashes as an
extemporized cote for • the pigeons,
which were presently seen to fly in
and out of it. What next ? was the
inquisitive feeling of those taking
note of this ornithological develop
ment; and a bar-keeper across the street
made it his critical mission to watch the
sallow garreteer narrowly thenceforth.
But nothing of particular importance
ensued. Having established his pigeon
ry, the stranger seemingly adopted a re
served, uneventful life in his lonely
lodgings, buying cheap meals for him
self and his feathered charges at tin
market, and assuming a poverty of Eng
lish words, by which all overtures for
familiar conversation were effectually
discouraged. All that could be learned
of his habits by ocular observation was
that when the steamer from Havana came
in he sometimes had a Cubauese guest
as reserved as himself, who wcut back
with the ship; and that occasionally one
of his birds would be seen returning de
monstratively to the cote, as from a
longer absence than usual. At last,
after about a year of these appearances,
the watchers concluded that the man
was some harmless lunatic, with a mania
for birds, and was visited at intervals by
kindred or friends from home. Near the
close of the second year he was absent
from his garret several weeks, and then,
to the exasperating mystification of the
bar-keeper and other curious neigh
bors, reappeared in a gorgeous carriage,
with liveries, to carry off his trunk of
pigeons and return thither no more.
Obviously some great change had conn
over the spirit of his life, for in a few
w eks more he was occupying costly
rooms in the St. Louis Hotel as Don
Jose Castillo. In this new aspect he
was scarcely recognizable as the late
pigeouary of the forlorn garret, and to
the few of his former observers who now
met him he conceded the fullest license
of imaginative explanation that their
fancies chose to indulge. From the
hotel he removed to a stately mansion
on Royal street, where, in 1850, he gave
some of the finest sooial entertainments
in the city and maintained servants and
equipage in extravagant Btyle. Courtly
mannors and improved English enabled
him to become the leader of a coterie of
distinguished fashion, and his richly
furnished house witnessed many a dis
play quite in the Monte Cristo style.
Because he spent money lavi hly it was
thought that he must possess millions,
and the Don tacitly allowed this idea to
exert what influence it might, until an
episode of one of his da-diiug enter
tainments gave a cue to invidious sus
picion of his native high degree.—
Amongst the guests on the occasion in
question was a gentleman who had never
been there before and was observed to
regard his host with pecular attention.
Later on, when somewhat flushed with
wine, this person uttered an exclama
tion of surprise and declared emphati
cally to those near him that he had
finally recognized in the aristocratic
Don Jose Castillo a former prowling
foreigner to whom he had once scfld a
ticket in the Havana lottery which had
ultimately drawn a heavy capital prize.
The foreigner had heard of his pur
chase of the ticket and came to him
with an offer to buy, which he had ac
cepted. Here was a scandal at once,
since, according to American ideas, it
detracted from the present partician
pretensions of the splendid Cuban, and
its rapid circulation in society led to tin
elicitation of nearly every known fact
of the Don’s first year iu the city. This
alone, however, might not have troubled
Castjllq greatly hud his fortune been
equal to report. But he was not a
millionaire. His costly style in Royal
street was really exhausting liis gold at
a fearful rate, and just as the gossips
were concluding that, whatever his past
history and practices, his fiDal position
was impregnable, the fine house, furni
ture, and horses went into the hands
of the sheriff. With the crash he dis
appeared abruptly from ' high life,
leaving his late fair weather friends to
solve the mystery if they could;
but it was not until be had almost
passed from fashionable memory that
the truth about him came out. Os a
really respeetablo though not wealthy
family in Cuba, he had been infatuated
with the lottery business of Havana from
the dawn of his manhood, and, after
devoting nearly ten years to futile
schemes for gaining a fortune therefrom,
suddenly conceived the following idea :
He would go to New Orleans, where
many tickets were regularly bought, and
take thither a brood of choice carrier
pigeons. After the birds were duly do
mesticated and familiarized, an accom
plice should come to him by eaoh steam
er from Havana, and oarry one or more
of them back. Then, when the draw
ings or the lottery took place, the nnm-<
bers of the tickets drawing prizes J
for New Orleads should be sent by a ;
pigeon, which would make the passage ,
iu nine hours, and thus enable Castillo j
to seek the holders of snch tickets long I
before any one else could possibly know
i the fortunes of such numbers, and buy
j the tickets from them on apparently
! blind speculation. As many an amateur
possessor of such property, all oyer the
world, is glad enough to sell out within a
few hours of his investment, and cau
generally be traced without much trou
ble from the local distributing agencies,
the shrewd master of the pigeons reaped
much average gain by his unsuspected
serial dispatches, and finally, as above
revealed, took a heavy “capital prize.”
NUMBER 42.
Thence his change from the garret to the
hotel and Royal street. Even after his
rise he had secret agents about the city
to profit by his removal and then subur
ban pigeon station; but the rate of prizes
for New Orleans uid not maintain itself
sufficiently for the Cuban’s lavish style
of living, and when awakened suspicion
shortened fashionable credit the prince
ly establishment collapsed. In these
days of telegraphic cable from Havana
such an enterprise as the Don’s would
lie impossible; but, according to one
“Whit,” who relates the story at greater
length in the New Orleans Picayune,
in these very days the patron of restau
rants in tho Crescent City muy often
meet Castillo, who, as a wheezy, seedy
old gentleman, with some signs of dissi
pation about him, now peddles the tick
ets of the same lottery which has been
at once his fortune and his ruin.
THE MODOC MURDERERS.
All of Them Have Good Hearts and
Tell the Truth.
A. Herald reporter interviewed tho
Modocs the night before their death and
gives their statement as follows;
Correspondent—l wunt to know from
Captain Jack what made them massacre
General Canby and that party instead of
making a fair fight.
Soar-faced Char' heart was iu
the right place. 'ke Meacham; he
tell me truth, not make good
talk; he toll me litkJPpilon Dave tell me,
“Modoc stop fight, Boston people kill
them all.” I believe Allen Dave speak
truth; he make me bad heart. I snap
pistol at Canby, pistol no go off; Canby
run away, all run away, all fall 150 yards
away; I no shoot no more; other shoot
kill Canby.
Correspondent—Ask Cnpt. Jack again
who shot Canby.
Scar-faced Charley—l don’t know;
some of the boys in the stockade all
shoot same time. I only snap pistol;
bad shot ; no shoot good; my heart good;
no kill General Canby.
Bogus Charley—-Canby, Meacham,
Dyar and Thomas, all there. I told
them wait a minute. I told them keep
back. They tell me lie. Notell truth.
I went there witli only a few boys. Tell
all keep back, not come dear. Hooker
Jim, Black Jim, Barncho, Shack Nasty
Jim, Sohonchin, Boston Charley, Sam
and George, all there. George dead;
killed at Dry Lake. Scar-faced Charley
and Steamboat Frank sit behind rock,
some distance away; see what was done.
I tell them to keep away. Peace Com
missioners come up talk; no make good
talk. I snap pistol. General Canby
run away. My pistol no go off; General
Canby fall some 150 yards away; all
boys shoot.
Captain Jack (interpreted by Bogus)
—I nm glad Meacham bo well. Ho tell
me long time ago Klamath Indian bad;
Klamath Indian no like me. lam glad
Meacham he tell me that time. All I
can tell you, we see him long time ago;
we tell him truth; my heart was good;
tell truth. I knew what men my friends.
I never lie; tell him all truth. I don’t
like Klamath Indian. Ino know why I
am bad. I call him Klamath Indian
bad. Indian he tell me lie. Ho tiy to
do me harm; make my heart bad; all
people see me. I speak truth; my heart
good.
Jack then subsided, evidently satis
fied that he had made a most powerful
harangue and entirely enlisted my
, sympathies in ids defense. I then
asked Bogus Charley to see • what
Sconcliin would tell me. Bogus told
the old scoundrel—l call him scoundrel,
as lam inwardly satisfied Jack would
nover have fought again after the 17th
of January if the old devil had not
forced him to do so. Sconcliin was
evidently quite pleased with the in
vitation to talk, and, bracing himself up
for the occasion, made tho following
speech:
Sconcliin—l don’t know why Inm bad;
I got good heart. Klamath Indian ho
talk bad to me; be tell mo bad, tell mo
make muek fight; I no like him Kla
math Indian, I think ho toll mo lie; I
am good man, good to my people; I no
shoot Meacham; shoot bad, old man no
shoot well; all my people like me; I
came first time to Fort Klamath, I go
away scared. Yet Dry Lake Klamath
Indian tell mo bad. Allen David, Kla
math chief, he tell me not stop; kill all
white people; try him;Canby, Meacham,
Thomas and Dyar tell me all good; kill
them; Allen Duvid ho tell me stay in
lava bed. “I want yon stand like a
man all tho time—like big man; keep
gun, keep war; never stop.” I told him
this people all right; they stay there. I
tell you truth, you want to know my
mind. lam poor now, iu guard house.
Klamath Indian very bad.
Correspondent—l want you, Bogus,
to tell me the truth about tho Canby
massacre and who shot him.
Begus—Captain Jack he tell heap
lies; lie stand by, snap pistol, cock it
again and shoot Canby; kill him dead.
Sconcliin he shoot at Meacham; Boston
Charley, he shoot at Dr. Thomas, and
Hooker Jim, ho shoot at Dyar. I speak
the truth all the time; I tell you no lie.
Correspondent—i want you to tell me,
Bogus, what Indian first proposed to kill
Canby.
Bogus—Klamath Indian, at Fair
child s, tell us bad talk; say Boston peo
ple kill you all; I no believe him; say lie
tell lie; Sconohin believe him; lie say be
speak truth; Sconohin no like to mako
peace—Sconcliin and Sconcliin’s son—
with Indians who kill settlers; lie afraid
to make peace; talk fight in council; lie
say I kill Canby; who kill others V Barn
eho,Slocox arid boys, we kill others. Cap
tain Jack then say I am chief; I kill
General Canby. I want no one to como
with me. Captain Jack no like to seo
Sconckin chief of Modoos. Sconcliin
say first try Canby, Thomas, Meacham
and Dyar, Captain Jack no want to
fight. Captain Jaok not afraid of Bos
ton people—want peace. Sconcliin lie
kill many; he afraid; no let Captain Jack
make peace. *
An Important Decision.
Judge Erskine decides that a bank
rupt may claim the exemption allowed
by the Constitution and laws of Georgia,
as existing in the year 1871. The ex
emption is as follows :
The necessary household and kitchen
furniture, and such other articles and
necessaries of the bankrupt ns ho shall
designate and set apart, having reference
in the amount to the family, condition
and circumatanoes of the bankrupt, but
altogether not to exceed in value the
sum of five hundred dollars.
2. The necessary wearing apparel of
. die bo’.krupt, and that of his wife aad
children, without valuation.
3d. The uniform, arms and equip
ments of a soldier in the militia, if he
be such, or if ho is in the service of tho
United States.
4th. Such other property as now is
exempt from attachment, or seizure, or
levy on execution by the Jaws of tho
United States.
j sth. Real estate to the value of two
thonsaml dollars in specio.
This decision applies as well to debts
contracted prior as to those contracted
after the passage of the homestead law.
LIKE INSURANCE CRASH.
The St. Louis Mutual Gone Up.
St. Louis, October 7.—The State
Superintendent of Insurance yesterday
filed a petition in the Circuit Court,
asking for an injunction to restrain tlio
St. Louis Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany from transacting any further busi
ness, and especially from ismiing any
new policies, reinsuring any of’its risks
or paying out any money whatever. The
petition further asks for tho appoint
ment of a receiver and for a decree
dissolving the company and winding up
its affairs. The petition is based upon
the fact, as the Superintendent alleges,
that an examination of the affairs of
the company declares its liabilities to
exceed its assets by #904,955, exclusive
of SIOO,OOO capital stock. A writ of in
junction was granted returnable.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
The cotton receipts in Rome continue
to be large.
The Plimnix Riflemen of Savannah
have received their new uniforms.
The city of Savannah sent #3OO to
Shreveport in aid of the sufferers.
Horse thieves are on the rampage near
station 2j on the Central Railroad.
Very few sales were made at tho mar
ket house in Savannah last Tuesday.
The coming municipal election in At
lanta keeps up an excitement iu that city.
The annual meeting of the stockhold
ers of the Northeastern Railroad will be
held in Athens, on the 13th inst.
New Post Office. —A new post office,
called Jewell’s, lias been established at
Jewell’s Mills, Hancock county.
