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WEDNESDAY .NOVEMBER 3, 1875.
CHLORAL.
The Hartford Timet says this
medicine has been extensively used
within the past three year*, and we be
lieve its discovery does not date mncb
back of that time. The physicians use
it with caution, as they have not yet
really learned all the phases of its char
acter. In many cases of nervous debili
ty, sleeplessness, etc., it has worked
well, as if the combined powers of an
opiate and chloroform were putting the
patient to rest. Bnt while it has been
of benefit in many cases, it has also de
stroyed a good many lives; perhaps in
no case, however, where the patient fol
lowed strictly the prescription of his
physician. But those whose lives have
been rather suddenly destroyed by it
have taken this medicine carelessly and
recklessly. Having been quieted by it
frequently, and finding that more and
more, like opium, is required to do
what a less quantity had previously
done, they finally take too much, and
die in an hour or two. Several such in
stances have been reported this Fall;
and they are becoming so frequent that
it is time to warn those who use the ar
ticle that beyond safely prepared pre
scriptions of the physicians, its use is
very dangerous to hnman life.
, OKEFENOKE SWAMP.
Our Atlanta correspondent states that
Okefenoke swamp, which is popularly
believed to be the great Southern terra
■incognita, is neither an unknown nor an
unexplored country! On the
asserts that a thorough
swamp was made under authority of
the State in 1857, during the administra
tion of Governor Johnson. The result
of that survey was embodied in a report
which is now on record at the capital.
The surveyor, Mr. Hunter, reported
favorably upon the scheme to reclaim
the swamp by drainage and expressed
his belief that the work could be done
for something like one million dol
lars. The Legislature was either
afraid that the cost would greatly exceed
the estimate, or else doubted the feasi
bility of the work or the propriety of
the State’s undertaking it and the pro
ject seems to have been abandoned.
Our own impression ,is that a tour
through Okefenoke swamp was written
up and published in Frank Leslie’s
Magazine tor 1858 or 1859. The articles
were very interesting, were illustrated
and attracted a good deal of attention.
If we are not mistaken the authorship
of these articles was attributed to Mr.
Rouebt Grant, a Southern Georgian.
The author either accompanied the
State’s expedition alluded to by our
correspondent or else went on his own
account. We think these are the facts.
Admitting them all to be true the ex
pedition of the Constitution will not be
without interest and may contribute
much valuable information concerning
Okefenoke and its inhabitants.
GRANTISM IN ALABAMA.
The New York Sun says the report re
cently laid before the Alabama Consti
tutional Convention by its Committee
on Finance and Taxation sets forth in
forcible terms the injury which Grant
ism has inflicted upon the material in
terest of that State, not only by burden
ing the people with an enormous fraudu
lent debt, but also through the effects
of tho political turmoil instigated by
the Administration. The raids made by
United States Marshals under the orders
of Landaulet WtLniAMs and local
Grant officials, upon flagrantly false
pretences, greatly increased the distress
among an already impoverished peoplo
by paralyzing industry, demoralizing the
laboring class, and driving capital and
enterprise away from the State, so that
the resources upon which the public
debt was supposed to be based were
rendered unproductive. The committee
report that the taxable property of the
State amounts only to about $159,000,-
000, while its indebtedness of every kind
amounts to $29,000,000, or nearly one
fifth of the taxable property. Under
oarpet-bag and negro rule the main ob
ject of those in power seemed to be to
pile up municipal, county, and State
debts for tlieir own emolument, and cor
ruption was almost universal among
them, tho worst rogues being those who
were in the greatest favor with the
National Administration. Of the total
indebtment above mentioned about $14,-
000,000 wss incurred in endorsing the
securities of railroad companies which
are now mostly bankrupt. For assisting
to maintain such a condition of affairs,
and other similar services, Grant had
his salary doubled, and now wants to be
re-elected for another term.
BYCEBB OF WOMEN IN MASSACHU
SETTS.
The faot that there are more women
than men in the State of Massachusetts
is well enough known, but, in the opin
ion of the Boston Daily Advertiser, the
usual explanations of the disparity are
not the true ones. It says that the ex
cess of women is not to be accounted for
either by the emigration of men from
the State, or by the alleged faot that
Massachusetts furnishes an exception to
the general rule in the matter of male
and female births. The rule is that
there are more men children than wo -
men children born into the world, and
it has beeu supposed that in Massachu
setts this rule has been reversed by
some occult law or undiscovered circum
stance. This, the Advertiser believes,
is a mistake, and it sees in the excess of
women a result of the large amount of
manufacturing done in this State. The
emigration of men to the Middle and
Western States has its influence upon
the ratio of males to females, but this
one cause of disparity is not sufficient
to account for the actual state of the
case. The Advertiser finds a more ac
tive influence in the amount of light
work for women which the factories con
stantly afford, and says that the excess
of women is due chiefly to the incoming
of working girls from other States, and
particularly from Maine and Vermont.
This view is strengthened by the fact
that Maine, which has suffered far more
severely than has Massachusetts
from the emigration of its men, has
only 709 more women than men,
while in Vermont the males outnumber
the females by 889. The theory is fur
ther sustained by a comparison of the
statistics of factory towns with those of
farming communities —a comparison
which shows that the disparity between
the uumbers of the two sexes is consider
ably greater in the cities and towns de
voted chiefly to manufacturing indus
tries than anywhere else, and notably
in Lowell, which has 549 females to
every 441 males. The Baltimore Ameri
can thinks that, unluckily for the new
theory, the census shows an excess of
women, not only in the State at large,
but also in every county, which, in view
of the fact that the excess in manufac
turing towns must be largely made up
of native women, drawn from the State’s
own farming communities, seems to
show that the State does after all consti
tute an exception to the general rule.
The farming communities lose men to
the West, but they lose women alsa to
the manufacturing towns, and yet there
remains in every county a numerical ex
cess of women.
A case of vandalism is reported from Hills
borough, near Enniskillen, in Ireland. The
Bev. Howard St. George, the rector, had a
small stone cross placed at the head of the
graves of two of his children. This appeared
to be obnoxious to some persons in the local
ity. for it was broken in June. 187*. and again
in July this year. The reverend gentleman
Ihen had the etone eroee replaced by a metal
one, which it wae hoped the church yard deee
craton would neither break nor carry away : j
but a few nighte ago the partiee dug up the
grave and buried the eroee m it. leaving a pa
per under a etone with a notice that if again
put up. they would dig up the children e bones
scatter them on the road.
I NEGRO JURORS.
In the last issue of the Macon Tdtgrap A we
were not s little surprised to note the names of
several negro juror* drawn for the October
term of Bibb Superior Court. We aay we wen
surprised just because we were, for we were
unaware of the fact that e negro had aver
graced a Jury box in one of our State Courts.
Rise and explain, Bro. Rtirrt* What’s tho mat
ter with old Bibb J—t/riffin Sob*.
An easy eolation of the problem may
be given. Perhape in Bibb oonnty the
Jury Commissioners have complied with
the Constitution and laws of Georgia.
The State Constitution requires the Gen
eral Assembly “to provide by law for
the selection of upright and intelligent
persons to serve as jurors.” The Code
makes it the dnty of the Jury Commis
sioners to select from the books of the
Receiver of Tax Returns the names of
“upright and intelligent persons to
serve as juror*.” If the Jury Commis
sioners of Bibb found upon the tax
books of the county the names of “up
right and intelligent” oolored persons,
it became their sworn dnty to pat such
names in the jnry box. No one donbts
the Democracy of the Jury Commission
ers of this oonnty, yet, in obedience to
their oath, they have pnt the names of
several oolored men on the jury Hats.
THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE
STATES.
Governor Hendrick*, of Indiana, is
canvassing Pennsylvania and is making
a gallant fight for the Democracy in
that State. In a recent speech he took
bold ground in defense of the sover
eignty of the States. He is reported
as having said :
In respect to local matters, domestic policy,
the home life affairs of the people shall be
f earth has given up [Ap
plause.] I know honor than
that which the people of Indiana conferred
upon me three years ago when that mighty
people selected me as the Chief Executive of
ficer of the State. But, en the other band, I
would know of no greater humiliation than if
I were required to bend my head and appeal to
the Administration of President Grant for
military power to suppress a looal and domestic
disturbance. [Applause, long continued.] In
Indiana to-day the State tax for ordinary pur
poses, exclusive of the public school fund, is
13 cents on SIOO. In Louisiana it is $6 on
every SIOO. In Indiana, the people, according
to the Constitution and laws of the American
people, control their own affairs. They select
their own legislators, who enact laws aooording
to the wants of their several counties. And in
separate bodies they enact laws. And in case
of a dispute upon a seat in either body that
body itself, as the sovereign power, decides it,
and there is no appeal. In Louisiana a foul
blow was struck in the breast of American in
stitntions and the blood of liberty flowed when
the military, at the point of the bayonet, ex
cluded five men from its legislative halls and
put five others in their places. So I come
back to the proposition that this policy of the
Republican party towards the Southern States
stands in the way of a return to specie pay
ments. And I will say a word in the interests
of the colored mau. In what State is there a
war of races ? Have you heard of any in Vir
ginia? Is there any difficulty between the
white and oolored men of Texas or Arkansas,
or in Arkansas since it has been free for a cou
ple of years ? But in Louisiana and Mississip
pi troubles exist because it is the interest of
those who are not of the people to make them
their political game. The two raees of the
South are interested in the restoration of good
government. The people of the North are
likewise interested. Agriculture oannot endure
bad government. Yon may have speculation.
Speculators may thrive under bad government.
Agriculture requires law, honest industry and
light taxation. We must allow the people of
the South to restore their prosperity. This is
my position In respect to the resumption of
specie payment. Congress oannot do it. But
the agriculture of the North and South can
alone restore specie payments through the
laws of trade and commerce.
Governor Hendricks has spoken wise
ly trad well. Eliminate the currency
from the campaign and let the battle be
fought upon more important issues.
The Southern States have been outraged
and robbed. The liberties of all the
States are in danger. Let the Democra
cy everywhere rally to the support of
true State sovereignty, and they will
everywhere be suooessfnl.
AN INTERRUPTED VOYAGE.
The Williams & Guion steamer
“Dakota” which reached New York a
few days ago brought the passengers
who started from Liverpool in the
“Montana,” a vessel belonging to the
same line, on the 30th of September, bnt
which was disabled when a few hundred
miles ontand compelled to return to port.
To a reporter of the New York Tribune
they told a story of a mutiny at sea
unusual in the history of steamers cross
ing the Atlantic. Their statement was
to the effect that the “Montana,” which
should have left Liverpool on Septem
ber 29, through some unexplained cause,
did not leave until the following day,
and that it was generally understood
that a race was to take plaoe between
that vessel and the steamers of the
White Star and Inman lines. The
“Montana,”. contrary to her printed
notice, did not stop at Queenstown, but
in spite of the requests of her passen
gers, and in the faoe of a heavy wind,
kept on her way at the rate of thirteen
or fourteen knots an hour. At times the
bow of the vessel was buried in the sea,
and tons of water came pouring upon
the forward deok with such force as to
shake the steamer from stem to stern.—
Finally the iron plates in front of the
anchor deck were beaten in, and water
began to poor into the first and second
| compartments. The dining saloon and
some of the state rooms were flooded,
the forward hold soon filled, while the
compartments above and below the hold
were receiving large volumes of water.—
The pnmps were set in motion, bnt
finally it was announced that there was
17 feet of water in the first two com
partments. The crew then
ed to retnm to port and insisted
that they wonld not work the ship
unless she was headed eastward.—
Capt. Guard said he wonld starve them
into submission. And the vessel floated
with the waves for 12 hoars. Then, as
the crew passed to the parser, he pnt
the question to them, “Will yon work
the steamer westward?” and 60 of them—
nearly all—answered “No.” The cause
of the trouble was talked over among
officers, passengers, and men, and all
agreed that the vessel was fanlty in con
struction and could not withstand a
heavy sea, and that the only way was to
return to port. At this juncture a meet
ing of about 18 cabin passengers was
held at night, and they all protested
against proceeding farther. They wait
ed upon the captain, and finally he con
sented to pnt into Queenstown, where
they arrived on October!. Upon arriv
ing at port it was discovered that the
passenger*’ baggage had been almost
completely destroyed. One passenger,
Mr. J. H. Cowan, of Savannah, loat
property to the Talne of £550, but the
agents of the line refused to make good
any of the damage. On October 13, the
“Montana’s" passengers embarked on
the “Dakota” for New York. The
weather, according to the passenger*’
statements, was not unfavorable, nor the
seas tumultuous. Yet they say that the
steamer had her bows stove in, in the
same place as the “Montana,” and that
the pomps were kept going continually
for several days. They declare that
these two vessels are wrongly construct
ed and are nn seaworthy. They are
built upon anew plan, which it was sup
posed wonld insure greater speed, and
their bows are made concave insteado f
convex. Evidently the Williams A
Goon line will have to rebut these singu
lar statements or passenger* will not
trust themselves in their vessels.
When Gen. Spinneb resigned, the Sun'*
W aehington correspondence pointed oat that
the real reason was that his sooounts would
not bear examination. Now his successor
shows that items amounting to $765.9*6. which
have for years figured as oash in Treasury, are
really deficits. How maoh more of the
amounts officially oertiAed as on hand last
Jnlysre of ths same kind l The way bnsineas
is done in the Treasury is well shown by the
fact that three year* are expected to elapee
before Smmsa’e aooounta can be eetttod. Hu
leaves ample time for the public to loee inter
est in the matter. Meanwhile tho Republi
cans of New 1 York are trying to elect the old
gentleman Comptroller.
DISOBEYING THE LAW.
A standing order of the House of Re
presentatives, adopted December 30,
1791, require# the Secretary of the
Treasury to lay before the House, within
the first week of the aeesion, an accurate
statement and aoooant of the receipts
and expenditure* of all pablio moneys
daring the previous fiscal year; distin
guishing the amount of the receipt* and
expenditures of all public moneys
daring the previous fiscal year; distin
guishing *io the expenditures under
each head of appropriation, and show
ing the unexpended balance®. The aet
of August 26, 1842, reaffirms this re
quirement. The New York Sun says if
those mandate* were obeyed by the
Treasury, the oost of conducting that
establishment, as well as the State, In
terior, and Jndicial Departments, could
be pretty closely ascertained. Bnt the
requirement* of Congress are disobeyed.
For year* past the volume containing
this great nationaAsash aoooant has not
been presented at the time fixed, nor
till ao long afterward that most of those
who could testify to it* truth or falsity,
or who wonld suffer by its revelations,
have been out of offioe and perhaps out
of reach. The failure to render this ao
ooant has greatly increased the oppor
tunities for pablio stealing.
TUNNELLING THE ENGLISH
CHANNEL-
An exchange say* the project of tun
nelling the English channel seem* no
longer ehimerioaL A short time sinoe
and it was almost universally regarded
even by experienced engineers as one of
the most impracticable of schemes,
guided only by fancy in her wildest
it teannooneed that the
meneed thi* week in the sinking of a
shaft on the French ooast near Calais.
The fact that the Rothko hildb and aer
eral other great capitalists believe in and
are willing to invest large sums of money
in the project will do much to establish
confidence in its feasibility. Such
shrewd, practical men are not apt to be
carried away by visionary schemes, or to
stake their money on anything which
they have not thoroughly examined, and
of the ohanoee of the snocees of which
they do not feel well assured. Still, the
thing is so stupendous that we can
scarcely realize its possibility, and, if it
should ever be accomplished, it is hard
to say where the limits of possibility of
modem engineering must be placed.
THE TWO-THIBDS RULE.
The Colnmbna Enquirer says that it
has not, as the Atlanta Constitution rep
resents, admitted that the majority rale
was right in principle, but impracticable
because it may lead to a bolt. What we
have said is that where the people to in
dicate a preferenoe for any candidate by
eleoting a majority of delegatee favorable
to him to a convention, it wonld be
right and Democratic in principle that
such a majority should secure his nomi
nation; but if the people fail to express
a preferenoe in this way, and the dele
gates, at first divided among a multi
plicity of candidates, proceeded to make
a nomination of tlieir own (not the peo
ple’s), by combination or bargaining,
then a two-thirds vote ought to be re
quired, especially if such was the pre
vious onstom of the party. And farther,
that it might enoonrage bolting for a
combination less than two-thirds to
nominate a candidate in disregard of
party usage.
The Enquirer continue* : The Con
stitution says that Governor Wmeth was
nominated under the majority role to
fill out Bullock’s unexpired teim, and
that be was afterwards nominated for a
fall term “by acclamation, which is the
majority rule in its highest form. 1 ' We
find the foots to be that Governor tiurrs
was both times unanimously nominated
“by aoolamation,” though the Conven
tion that nominated him for the fraction
of Bullock’s berm had resolved in fav or
of the majority rule. This, however, wt*
stoutly resisted at the time by a largo
minority as a departure from Democratic
precedent, and there is reason to believe
that if the Convention had not been
almost or quite unanimous for Smith,
the departure would have neither been
insisted on by the one party nor readily
aoqniesoed in by the other. But a* to a
unanimous nomination by acclamation
being “the majority rale in its highest
form,” that is a manifest incongruity. A
unanimous vote by acclamation is a
larger vote than even two-thirds, and
signifies the very reverse of a dose con
test, which is shown by a nomination by
a bare majority.
THE GRIIENESBORO FAIR.
The fourth annual exhibition of the
Grqenesboro Fair Association, which
took place during the past week, was a
success. The-writer wais present at the
exhibition daring Thursday and Friday,
and was well pleased w ith what oame
under hi* observation. IFloral Hall con
tained a variety of artidilee, the handi
work of the fair ladies of Greene county,
whioh reflected oredit upon their indus
try, culture and domestic acquirement*.
The various departments in Floral Hall
were well represented by the exhibition
of articles both useful and ornamental.
There was a great variety of needle and
crochet work, evidencing taste and skill
on the part of the lady exhibitor*. In
the domestic economy department there
was an abundance and variety of pre
served fruits, vegetables, jellies and but
ter, equal in appearance to the best
Goshen. The products of the farm were
represented by corn, wheat, rye, rust
proof oate, Irish and sweet potatoes,
turnips, cabbages, etc. The corn and
potatoes (seoond crop), were simply su
perb. One oob of oorn, taken np at<
random, contained twelve hundred
grains. The harness and shoes of do
mestic manufacture, made from Greene
oonnty leather, show that our peo
ple are not solely dependent on the
North for these essential articles', and
that they oan be manufactured at Dome.
These industries deserve to be encourag
ed and developed by extending them
healthy patronage. The exhibition of
stock, cattle, hogs and poultry, was good.
The great attraction wa* the races. Tho
grand stand was foil daring the exhibi
tion of fine stock, and especially when
there was a trial of Bpeed, of which there
were several daring Thursday and Friday.
Whatever may be said as to the im
morality of racing, a Fair without trials
of speed is like the play of Hamlet
with the character of Hamlet omit
ted. One of the attractions Friday was
a speech from Hon. John H. James,
who addressed the people at the request
of the manager*. Mr. James is thor
oughly in earnest in his canvaos for the
Governorship. He has entered for the
raoe and he means business. Tho Greene
County Fair was a suooees and *• con
gratulate the managers upon thff pres
ent exhibition. We will publish the
award of premiums Tuesday.
June a Kaixr ha* returned from the Sooth.
He reports the entire Southern country eager
to aocept hia inflation theories. He aay* that
Senator Bayabs's doctrine iff ; contraction,
which teaches the people to permit the credit
mongers to oantmne to bleed them, fell like a
wet blanket. The reception iff any views by
an opposite party, and of TUtaed’s views by
hia own party, plainly show* the damocaiiaa
tion of partiee. — Washington Dupaiek.
Judge Ker.T.wr h evidently been
drawing upon his imagination for his
facta The Booth cares no more for in
flation than a Digger Indian does for
Darwinism. The Sooth is interested
now in obtaining good government, hon
est government and constitutional gov
ernment
The papers are atill ringing tea changes
upon the name of the new BaaMan Minister to
the United States. The Cnrasu abb 3*ti
xel, iff Saturday morning, added its quota to
the fin** 1 *"" 1 "*"* by oalling him Oaxcxm, a
more suitable for a Coasal from Cork
than an Ambassador from Bt. Petersburg. The
proper name of the Bastion roaster, wa ba
lieve, is Ckkmbxk, though wa shall not erow
over the discovery until more positive infor
mation on the subject be raoaivad.
FROM WASHINGTON. j
Fast Mali to New Orleans. 1
Washington, October 28. —Arrange- j
ments are is progress for a fast mail line (
from Washington to New Orleans. It .
will pas* through Danville, Charlotte
and Atlanta, and will save seven and
a half hours between Washington and
Columbia, South Carolina. Senator ]
Patterson is urging the matter.
Agricultural Report.
The October report of the Department ,
of Agriculture contains accounts from ]
New Jersey, Wisconsin and Minnesota, [
showing a large decrease in the cranber
ry crop by insects and frost. The rice
crop in South Carolina, Georgia, Flori
da and Louisiana is much larger than
nanaL In North Carolina the great
crop was rice bnt since the war the pro
duction has fallen off and no crop has
t m it* place upon the large and val
uable plantations whioh, have conse
quently gone to ruin. The sugar cane
in Georgia wae cut short by drouth
and in some parts of Florida
not more than 30 per oent. of
the usual crop was planted for want of
seed, but there will be an average yield.
In other parte of the State the crops
were brought up to a full average by the
August and September rains. In Ala
bama there was a largely increased acre
age in average condition. In Mississip
pi the leading planters are manufactur
ing their sugar mid molasses at home
from Louisiana and African cane. Mach
cane will not be ground for want of
mills, and will, therefore, be lost. Lou
isiana has not justified the promise of
its fine appearance in the Spring. The
sorghnm crops, though injured in some
sections, is represented as generally fine.
The hop crop is quite good. In New
York the yield was at least one-third
more than any crop for the last five
years. There was a large yield on all
the fields in Oregon. The culture
there is yet in ite infancy, but the
bottom land* of the Willamette will
probably prove the finest lands in the
world for nop growing. The hemp crop
in Kentucky is very fine and has been
out in good time. The number ojf .fat
tening cattle in the country is somewhat
greater than last year. There is a fall
ing off in all the New England States,
except Connecticut, which reports an
increase nearly balancing the deficiency
of the others. Many of the farmers of
Missouri are investing largely in fruit
culture, especially apples and grapes.
In Florida the oereal crops arc being
fast abandoned and supplanted by the
culture of oranges. In this State there
is an excellent crop of gnavas and,
doubtless, a large quantity will be con
verted into jelly. Limes are quite
abundant and will soon be furnished in
quantities for shipping.
The President of the Board of Fire
Commissioners Asked to Resign.
JoseDh Williams, President of the
Board of Fire Commissioners, who was
quoted at the Fire Engineers’ Conven
tion at New York as saying “When he
ran with the machine if a party refused
to contribute to the support of the Fire
Department they spotted his house,
and when a Are oame they saved adjoin
ing property and permitted his to burn,”
made an unsatisfactory explanation of
his remarks to the Fire Commissioners of
the District and was asked to resign,
which he did.
Postal and Treasury News.
Geo. H. Cowell, of Connecti
cut, is appointed Chief Clerk in the Post
Office Department.
The oanoellation of $704,880 legal
tenders is ordered, being 80 per cent, of
the national bank notes issued during
the month.
Cuban Affairs—No Adequate Founda
tion for Startling Reports Which
Have Been Circulated.
Washington, October 25.—Statements
have lately been telegraphed from this
city to several prominent journals, rep
resenting that there was about to be a
change of policy by the Government in
reference to the Cuban question, that
the belligerent rights of the insurgents
were about to be recognized, and that
Spanish government had been notified
that unless the insurrection was put
down in a given number of days the
United States Government would in
this way recognize the insurgents. In
order to give more color to these state
ments, a parade has been made by the
American ships of war lying in and near
the West Indies, and others ready to be
dispatohed there at brief notice. In
quiry into this matter does not disclose
any adequate foundation for such start
ling reports. There is authority for
stating that no snob notice as that above
mentioned has ever been given to Spain,
and it is not believed that it is in con
templation to do so, although its prob
able that in view of the great injury and
annoyance to American commerce oc
casioned by the civil war in Cuba, the
Madrid ministry has been informed that
the present situation coaid not be much
longer tolerated by this Government. No
material change in the respective rela
tions of the two belligerents in
Cnba has occurred in the last
few months, and until some
greater progress in military re
sults is made by the insurgents,
no recognition is likely to be extended.
The points made against them are that
they have no port in their possession,
and that no one knows where their capi
tal is. Spain is naturally nneasy as the
time approaches for the annual message
of the President, lest there be a change
of policy, and something enunciated in
it of an unfavorable character; and ac
cordingly she is making her usual an
nual effort to quell the insurrection by
dispatching a large reinforcement of
troops to Havana. The best opinion
here among well-informed persons is
that these troops will not be able to
accomplish the object, and the ability
of the Madrid Government to make
greater efforts is liable any moment to
be arrested by a successful revolution
at home. Your correspondent does not
believe that there is anything more se
rious on the tapis at this juncture in
respect to the Spanish question than
an energetic urging by the American
Minister at Madrid of the unsettled
claim of the United States.
A Damnable Villain in Power.
Some days ago a young lady called
upon a well known justice of the peace
in this city, at his offioe, and made an
affidavit, stating the fact that she had
been dismissed from a Government
clerkship, and that the public officer
who had the power to restore her had
made it a condition of her restoration
that she should consent to a dishonor
able proposition whioh he made to her.
She declined, and he thereupon refused
to restore her. She explained that her
affidavit had been made at the instance
of the President, to whom she had ap
pealed and narrated the occurrence.
The name of the officer who is thus im
plicated has not transpired, bnt it may
be positively stated that he is not a
member of the Cabinet.
* Trouble in the Cabinet—The Bob-Tail
Clam Yankee Again—The Boss’ In
dignation—Shepherd. a Silent Cabi
net Officer—Lincoln's Assassin —
Rebel Airs—Times Changing—What
Might Have Been.
[Special Corretpondence Chronicle and Sentinel]
Jewell and Shepherd.
Washington, October 27.—At a Cabi
net meeting held yesterday much bad
blood was engendered by Jewell’s de
mand that the present District Com
missioners be removed and others
placed in their stead. Jewell argued
before the Cabinet at great length to
prove that the District Commissioners
are tools of Shepherd and that the
“ Boss” is pocketing some rich “ pick
ings” from the concrete pavements now
being substituted for the wooden ones.
Daring the discussion Shepherd was in
ante-room and heard every word that
Jewell said. When the meeting ad
journed the “ Boss” brushed by the re
tiring members of the Cabinet and was
soon closeted with Grant. It is a
notorious faot that Shepherd is a silent
member of the Cahinet and exerts more
influence over the President than any
other adviser he has. Shepherd stated
to s friend of mine last night that he
was becoming tired of these attacks by
the “ bob-tail clam Yankee,” and that if
he did not let him alone he would put
“ a heed on hist." Grant has espoused
Shepherd’s and the District Commis
sioners' cause and the quarrel waxes
warm.
Cabinet Complications,
The presence ot Jewell i* no longer
Jesired in the Cabinet. He is distaste
to both Grant and Chandler, but
just how to get rid of him has not oo-
Jrarea - to these gentlemen. They fear
mi open breach with him because several
powerful newspapers in the North per
sist in bolstering him np as the one re
deeming saint Iff the Cabinet. On the
other hand, Shepherd declares that
while Governor .Jewell was a corrupt
man, and bloekmai.'ed his officials al
most ss unmercifully w did Moses
while Governor of South Carolina ; that
Jewell has been implicated in several
huge contract jobs, mbttreby he has
pocketed thousands ot dollars, “
these rumors true or false, there i* l
no doubt that Grant wants a change
that will insure a cessation of suck
wholesale abase of his friend and
partner, Hie “ Boss.” Pmb *U I
mb learn, Grant entertains an
an open contempt for his Cabinet. .At
his tri-weekly Cabinet meetings, he wears
hia fans, puffs bis cigar, and keeps his
feet at an altitude above his head. He
telk anecdotes, whileJewefl End Bustow
an knotty financial ques
tions. He never thinks of employing
titles, bnt sing* out to “Jewell, and
“Bristow,” and "Zacfa." He makes a
laughing stock of old Judge Edwards,
the Secretary of the Republican Com
mittee, and whenever he meets him he
always inquires of him, “how much
money did yon collect from the employees
yesterday, old man?” How changed
the times since Buchanan was wont to
consult in deferential manner the sa
gacious Cobb and the intrepid Floyd !
The Remains of Booth.
I was told yesterday by a Balti
morean that the remains of John
Wilkes Booth have been recovered,
and interred at a private ceme
tery in Baltimore. A neat but substan
tial monument has been erected over
him. However much Booth may have
erred in assuming the assassin’s role, tor
whioh men must in all time de
nounce him, there is no donbt that his
distorted intellect made him believe
that he was performing an act of patriot
ism. While Booth has been severely
animadverted upon from time to time
by Southern journals, and people
generally for his rash act, there are
those in the North who regard him as
“a great hero.” A young New Yoik
lady stated tqjme that she revered the
memory of Booth, and would freely give
her own life if she oonld call into being
the young aqtor. “I would esteem it an
honor to kissnis foot were he alive,”
she exclaimed. The evening before he
fired the fatal shot, Booth addressed the
following lines to his lady love, who is
still single, and on pleasant afternoons
may be seen, closely veiled, and in deep
mourning, promenading on the Avenne:
‘TeU me not chaste one I am unkind
If from thy-aweet embrace
To war and arms I fly.
True, anew mistress now I seek,
The first foe in the field,
And with a stronger faith embrace
A sword, a horse, a shield.
• * * * * *
I could not love thee near so much
Loved I not honor more.”
These familiar lines I think are by the
peerless Spencer in his “Fairy Queen.”
Mr*. Surratt and Miss Jackson.
I met a Christian statesman the other
day, and asked him if he oonld inform
me where Mrs. Snrratt was buried.
“Indeed,; I elnnot sir,” he responded.
“The killihgjfcf that woman was mnrder,
aod.atijffie wfcars ip th.e Potomac could
not whiten the souls of her mnraerers.”
“Bat were you not in the Senate at the
time, sir, and might yon not have inter
ceded for her poor life ?” I asked.
“ ‘Judgment had fled to brutish beasts,’
sir, and it wonld have taken a man of
more courage than I possessed to have
even suggested that she be pardoned,”
quoth the ex-Senator. John Snrratt
married a Virginia lady last year, and is
now teaching school at a village in
Maryland, about twenty miles hence.
Miss Snrratt married a Treasury clerk,
but immediately after the nuptials he
was dismissed from the department.
The daughter of Jackson, who shot
Colonel Ellsworth for tearing down the
Stars and Bars from his hotel, is a clerk
in the Post Office Department. She re
ceived her place through the influence
of Colonel Mosby. Some time since she
was discharged, bnt upon hearing of it
the President—put this down to his
credit—instructed Jewell that this
worthy young lady was to be retained as
long as he was President. I guess Miss
Jackson will not oppose a third term.
Any young lady whose father was pa
triotic enough to defend his country’s
flag with his life against such heavy
odds is doubtless as noble as her sire,
and some day will make a happy wife
for some worthy fellow.
The Good Deaoon.
I inquired of a Cincinnatian, last
night, can you tell me if the New York
Sun’s statement is true that Deacon
Riohard Smith is greatly impeded, and
his usefulness destroyed by his
wicked partners? “Oh, bosh,” ex
claimed the gentleman from Porkopolis,
“that is nothing but Dana’s joke. The
Deacon is a truly good man, and has
hosts of friends, especially amongst the
ladies, who never apply to him in vain
for aid in ellymosynary undertakings.
He is the pride of our city, and the be
loved of all. His partners are not bad
men, but appear much worse than they
really are when contrasted with the
Deacon. Dana would do well to emulate
hi 6 noble charitieß.” Private Dalzell
has been elected to the Ohio Legisla
ture, and newspapers will rejoice to
know that this Winter, when his valuable
time is not expended in eating pindars,
it will be exclusively devoted to writing
short missives for the press.
Maryland, My Maryland.
It may be gratifying to 001. Randall
to know that “Maryland, My Maryland”
is being done here by almost everybody.
Upon the piano, violin, guitar, and
brass bands, the patriotic air is con
tinually swelling upon the breeze. An
Italian has an organ whioh also grinds
out the air. This, I regard, as highly
complimentary, as the instrument was
made at Naples, showing that in that
sunny clime the air which inspired the
heroes of the Confederacy has become
a favorite. Nor is “Dixie” without ad
mirers here. At the theatre “Comique”
that soul-stirring air is nightly played
by a splendid band, evidently to the
delight of Washingtonians.
Stonewall Jackson.
Time produces many changes in
opinions as well as places. People who
applied the epithet of “Rebel” to the
immortal Jackson, now refer to him as
“the Heaven born General." Stone
wall Jackson has as many admirers in
the North to-day as he has in the South.
The peerless soldier may yet find
a biographer in the North who will be
willing to accord him justice, and at a
period sufficiently remote to allow an
intermixture of fiction with truth, de
scribe in epic verse how the astute and
gallant Virginian, with a depleted di
vision, watered his houses in Northern
streams, supplied his commissary from
Banks’ stores, and terrified the Federals
so that they were forced to raise im
mense armies to annihilate his war worn
veterans. “If Jackson had been given
the oommand of 50,000 Southerners after
the battle of Manassas, armed even with
shot guns, he oonld have taken Wash
ington, released Maryland, raided Penn
sylvania, and taken Philadelphia, and
we would have cried for ‘ peace ’ in ten
days,” says no less a personage than
General Joe Hooker. How different the
result might have been had Mr. Toombs
or R. Barnwell Rhett been at the head
of the Confederacy. But why discuss
these matters, for the Spaniards tell us
when a sorrow is asleep not to awaken it.
Bull Run.
NATIONAL BANK USURY.
The Recent Supreme Court Decision—
Its Probable Effect on the Money
Market.
[Washington Cor. S. Y. Berald.l
An important decision, and one having
a direot bearing on the money market,
was rendered to-day by the United
States Supreme Court, Judge Swayne
reading the opinion, in the case of the
Farmers’ and Mechanics’ National Bank,
of Buffalo, against Deering. The case
came np here on the appeal of the plain
tiffs from the decision of the Supreme
Court of New York State, which non
suited them in an endeavor to recover
the principal of a note whioh they had dis
counted at a usurious rate of interest for
the defendant. The total amount of the
nsnry was only a few dollars, which
sum was paid in excess of the legal dis
count of seven per cent. Under the
civil code of New York, both principal
and interest in ansnrions transaction are
forfeitable, and the nsnrions lender is also
punishable under the criminal code for
misdemeanor. But the penalty for
nsnry prescribed in the national bank
act is altogether different, and mnch
less severe—that is, there is no forfei
ture of principal at all; bnt the borrow
er, who has paid more than the legal
rate, may refuse to pay the interest
when it falls due, and in case the usu
rious interest has been taken off in ad
vance, may recover in an action of debt
twice the amount of interest so
charged and deducted. This vari
ance between the National and State
laws has been a mooted subject for a
long time in financial cireles, the na
tional banks believing that the former
law over-rode the latter, at least in trans
actions in which they were concerned,
and that they might practice usury with
out greater penalty than that of the in
terest stipulated for in the usurious
transaction. The decision to-day is in their
favor on this point, the United States
Supreme Court holding that they are
amendable to the laws of the United
States, and are not subjected to the ju
risdiction of the State in the matter of a
forfeiture of the principal of such loans.
The Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Bank can,
therefore, oompel Deering to pay the
principal of hia note.
The settlement of this question is
going to have an important effect on the
money market, and in the case of New
York city and Wall street will hash np
the cry for the repeal of the usury laws,
for the reason that, in times of mone
tary stringency, the national banks will
take the risk of leading money at a
higher rate than seven per cent, through
trustworthy and honorable banking
houses, and thus defeat all speculative
machination* and combinatiens for the
locking np of money. As long as the
principal of snch loan* W* in jeopardy
the national banks were i/raid to inter
fere. Bnt now that they can, M most,
lose only the interest, cd then in very
rare instances, the long looked for solu
tion g{ a steadier money market it be
lieved to ftfi reached in this decision of (
the Supreme Court to-day, which, in one'
view of it, j* $ jirtul repeal of the
nsnry laws,
A final meeting of creditors decided
that the Ames Plow Company shall con
tinue business,
A DOOMED MAN.
Thomas J. McGeojrheiran Sentenced
by a Mysterious Tribunal to be Shot
Judgment Pronounced in a Ferry
boat-Treason to Ireland His Offense
—Will the District Attorney Save
Him?
f-Tste York Herald.]
This is the age of sensations. About
one year ago an organization was form
ed in this city of a Communistic nature
by a man named Father McNamara,
who had at one time been a Lazarist
priest, and who had also officiated as a
clergyman of his own persuasion in
Raleigh, North Carolina. It is said
that, owing to some irregularities, the
bishop of the diocese in Which Father
McNamara preached silenced him, de
priving the clergyman of his functions,
or, as it was styled in the latter half of
the eighteenth century, the bishop had
“unfrocked” h'-n. Since then Father
McNamara h*3 devoted his attention
chiefly to organizing revolutions in the
cause of the Fatherhood of Nations and
the Brotherhood of Man. The ex-rever
end gentleman wears a long sack over
coat with a velvet collar; his yellow hair
hangs down on his shoulders, his face is
always clean shaven and his presence is
a marked one whenever he appears in
any of the streets of the city.
The Hediyiyl.
The organization formed by Father
McNamara was called the Sacred Order
of United Irishmen Redivivi, and had a
number of lodges scattered throughout
New York city with fearfully mystic
titles. It was the design of Father Mc-
Namara to revive the organization at
one time known as the Order of United
Irishmen, and which had correspond
ence with the French revolutionists of
1793. A number of earnest, fervent and
enthusiastic young Irishmen, not at all
deterred by the prospectus of the associ
tion, which declared that Ireland could
only be freed by a weekly subscription
of twenty-five cents per man, joined the
“Sacred Redivivi” and paid in their
does, as became them. Each candidate
was sworn secretly, his hands crossed
over a basin of , blood and with a
large, sharp-bladetUaxe depending from
the ceiling directly over his head. It
was a fearful scene that some the candi
dates witnessed, and three or four be
came light-headed immediately after the
terrible ghostly inaugural ceremonies.
Ex-Father McNamara declared that even
if the Pope and Kaiser Wilhelm opposed
the movement, he alone would free Ire
land. The organization increased rapid
ly until at one time the Redivivi num
bered about 180 members in this oity,
all of whom were paying subscribers.
One of the chief and most deadly con
spirators was a vender of human hair,
who is proprietor of a store pn Canal
street. This man possessed some money,
and it is said that he had negotiated for
a harbor steam tug to proceed to Ire
land with twenty minie muskets, calibre
1857. when Father McNamara stopped
his proceedings. There was also a poet
named Callinnan in the organization, who
had for a nom de plume, “Red Rain.”
The Man Who Is To Die.
Among the reoruits obtained by ex-
Father McNamara there was a young
man named Thomas J. McGeoghegan, a
well educated and good iooking young
gentleman of twenty-five years of age,
who is now teaching school iu the Aca
demy of the Christian Brothers, in
Brooklyn. The pseudo-Father McNa
mara, who closely resembles a noted
preacher in Brooklyn, having consider
able conversational powers, did in some
manner fascinate young McGeoghegan
and finally induced him to join the
Redivivi. The young man had written
for the press, and, being largely gifted
with imagination, he became one of the
most earnest and zealous, propagators of
the revolutionary doctrine? which the
ex-priest had given his years to incul
cate. The Redivivi generally met in
Chatham street, over a weekly newspa
per office, and sometimes a milk can full
of blood would be conveyed from the
Thirty-fourth street slaughter house, of
which the Redivivi would partake freely,
and thus seal their vows of loyalty and
heroism. But young McGeogl#gan be
gan to have doubts of the honesty as
wall as the practicability of the organi
zation of the Redivivi to secure the lib
erty of Ireland through the instrumen
tality of ex-Father McNamara. Being
of quick intelligence, to use a politi
cian’s phrase, he “kicked,” yet he did
not fail to subscribe his weekly twenty
five cents. It seems, however, that Mr.
MoGeoghegan is a very strict Roman
Catholic, and after some months’ con
nection with the Redivivi he began to
have conscientious doubts as to wheth
er he should continue to be a member or
not. Having as a Catholic to do what
is known as the “jubilee,” he was in
formed by the clergyman under whose
ministrations he sat that he oonld not
receive absolution unless he immediate
ly left the Redivivi. Mr. McGeoghehan,
feeling that he ought to be certain of
the matter, and knowing that he would
be sentenced to death if he were to be
come a traitor to the Redivivi, consulted
two other clergymen and they informed
him of the spiritual penalties to be en
forced should he continue as a Redivi
vist. Now came the agony, and Mr.
MoGeoghegan found himself between
two fires. He felt that he would have
to endure the pains of hell fire if he
were to remain in the Redivivi, but
should he dare to leave it he knew that
the organization would have him shot
as a traitor to the oause of Ireland. The
young patriot decided immediately, and
chose everlasting bliss in the future to a
paltry and indefinite existence as a
school teacher. Accordingly he dared
his fate, and wrote a letter to the “Na
tional Chief” of the Redivivi, as ex-
Father McNamara calls himself, resign
ing his position as a member of the sa
cred order.
The Sentence of Death.
However incredible it may seem to the
citizens of New York who live in a civil
ized and Christian community and are
supposed to obey the laws under which
they exist, the “National Chief” of the
Redivivi, on reoeipt of the letter, called
a council of the mysterious organiza
tion, which met, as it was alleged, by
summons of a dagger and cord delivered
to each of the members of the “su
preme and extraordinary council,” for
so they are called. The number of
“seven” has always had mystic powers,
and the “Council Seven” met on the
7th of October, at the hotel kept by
O’Donovan Rossa, in Chatham square.
The proprietor of the hotel knew noth
ing of the purpose of the seven men
who called on him, headed by McNama
ra, and he readily allowed them to en
gage a room. Six of the men were par
tially disguised and were not known.—
They met in a room upstairs after or
dering some ginger beer, and locked
the door so that no one should enter. —
No one except those present could tell
what happened in the room; yet, incred
ible as it may seem, one of the seven,
under the solemn obligation of secret
oaths, was deputed to kill Thomas J.
McGeoghegan wherever found, no mat
ter if it were in a ohurch, as a traitor to
Ireland and the Saored Order of the Re
divivi. Our reporter discovered last
evening that the name of the man who
is to execute the sentence of death on
the unfortunate McGeoghegan is Jas.
Walsh, who is a bottler of champagne,
and belonged formerly to the firm of
Walsh & Peel, but when not otherwise
engaged is a pedler of maps. Mr.
McGeorghegan called last evening at
the Herald office and declared that he
was not a traitor to Ireland, but that
owing to his honest religious belief he
had to resign his membership in the
Redivivi. He seemed a little frightened,
and declared that he did not know what
the members of the Redivivi might do
if they were excited.
A Herald reporter called at the Dis
trict Attorney’s office yesterday to know
what steps would be taken by that offi
cial in case that McNamara should at
tempt to oarry out his insane threat of
executing the unfortunate McGeoghe
gan. Mr. Phelps was at the time bnsily
engaged in trying Dolan for the murder
of Mr. Noe and oould not be seen, but
the officials in the District Attorney’s
office informed the reporter that the
laws would protect Mr. McGeoghegan
from the murderous attempts of the
man McNamara, if he would apply in
time for such protection. The “National
Chief’ McNamara met Mr. McGeoghe
gan in a Hamilton ferry-boat a few
nights since, and after abusing him in a
savage way, solemnly sentenced him to
be shot to death by James Walsh. The
latter individual bought a Smith k Wes
son seven-shooter last Saturday evening
and is supposed to wreak vengeance on
the fated McGeoghegan, and it is quite
possible that inside of forty-eight hours
our citizens may be startled by the news
of a dreadful mqrder. The “chief,”
McNamara, was yesterday seen on Tryon
row and other public places armed with
a bludgeon, and on being appealed to
for mercy stated very resolutely that he
saw no reason to reverse the sentence
pronounced, and that McGeoghegan
must die at set of sun.
A Motheb’s Sobbow. —The Vicksburg
fferald, of the 20th, requests Southern
Journals to give currency to the follow
ing paragraph; Mrs. Mary Arthur, of
this city, had two sous, GavidS. Arthur,
and C. W. Arthur, in the Confederate
army. She has reason to believe that
one of her sons is dead, and she has not
heard from the other in years. Any
person knowing the whereabouts of
either of her sons will confer a great
favor upon a widowed mother by ad
dressing her at yiaksburg.
Henry E. Fairfield, flour wA grain
merchant of Montpelier, Vermont, has
failed. Liabilities, $40,000.
THE COURSE OF COTTON.
Weekly Review of the New York
Market.
[Ne%> York Daily Bulletin.]
The volume of business has been
somewhat reduoed, the fluctuations on
values were within a narrower compass,
and there has been less positive excite
ment than last week. Still the tone has
shown more or less of a feverish ele
ment existing, and values have frequent
ly changed front from no other apparent
cause than the mere humor of operators.
Quite a number of the trade are still
confident that the market has been un
duly stimulated, and will again soon re
act, some even looking for a break to
figure lower than any yet reached. In a
general way the basis of these calcula
tions is the same as before noted, say a
full crop, light demand for actual cot
ton, and an apparent determination on
the part of consumers to have low prices.
Still the turn toward the “bull” side of
the question commenced last week has
been more marked. Looal speculative
manipulation, it is admitted, unques
tionably has had much to do with the
forcing up of values recently, but other
points, it is claimed, commence to be
developed which cannot be overlooked.
First, Liverpool is cited as keeping
along comparatively steady and uniform,
with Manchester in fairly encouraging
condition; the stooks of American cot
ton abroad showing quite a falling off
also; arrivals at the ports, though petty
full, not quite up to calculations; the
supply here small and difficult to reach,
with a large amount recently gone into
the hands of exporters on short notices
for October, most of which it is calcu
lated will be shipped. The home de
mand, too, it is thought, shows indica
tions of some revival, though spinners
are doing better in many cases on pur
chases direct than they can here. Most
of these arguments appear to be fairly
met by the opposing interests, but with
out positive effect at present, operators
for a rise having too firm a grip upon
the market.
“Spots,” immediately following our
last, were advanced 8-160 and then
quickly lost the improvement, with a
further decline of Jo per lb. There was
also at the same time an increased offer
ing from store and pier, and some little
pressure to realize on parcels to arrive.
Buyers, however, were not attracted to
any extent until toward the close of the
week, when the spinning demand
brightened up somewhat and values re
covered l-160. Exporters throughout had
handled little or nothing from table, but
were taking care of all the short notioes
they received, and in this way came in
possession of several thousand bales
which it is considered quite certain will
be shipped. Latterly the offerings have
again beoome moderate both in quantity
and assortment, and the actual amount
of cotton available is far below the total
as shown by the running count.
On contracts the volume of business
has been smaller and less extended, not
much interest being shown on engage
ments maturing after January. At
times, however, a considerable amount
of animation was shown, and there has
been two or three fluctuations—the first
of sufficient magnitude to carry values
down several fractional points, though
not making the average cost much
lower than last week, owing to subse
quent partial reaction. Most attention
has been devoted to this month and
next, with November largely in favor, as
compared with a week ago, and October
at one time quite tame. Subsequently,
however, the continual stoppage of short
notices, especially by shippers, and a
noticeable scarcity of spot cotton, gave
renewed strength, and there was a re
covery. Liverpool has been off a trifle
for the week, but, withal, reasonably
steady, and frost accounts —confirmed
and unconfirmed —were reoeived, though
none reporting serious injury to the
crop. At the close on Saturday the
offerings of short notices were again
pretty free, and not being “stopped”
quite so generally, the market was tame,
the downward turn of gold contributing
somewhat to the slack tone.
IN ARTICULO MORTIS.
Some Remarkable Death-Bed Soenes
—A Physician's Observations of Men
In Their Last Moments.
A prominent offioial, or rather a man
who had once been prominent, passed
out of this life the other day. The phy
sician who attended him, in describing
the painful soenes attendant upon his
death-bed, said: “I have witnessed in
the long experience of my life many
deaths, but the great mystery of death
only grows upon me as the years ad
vance.” He then went on to talk of how
the average man meets deaths. He said
that in the majority of cases, where men
dying have physicians in attendance,
they pass out of life without being con
scious of the change. They are stupefied
by narcotics given them to dull pain,
and die the death of brutes, as this phy
sician says, instead of like men. This
medioal authority has an idea that the
first moment death comes like the pe
riod of dropping off to sleep, the sleeper
not knowing when it comes. He has
often experimented with a handkerchief
to see if he could ascertain the exact pe
riod when he would fall asleep. This
he would attempt to do by lying down
with a handkerchief in his hand, trust
ing that when the moment came the re
laxation of his hand in dropping the
handkerchief wonld tell him the exact
moment when he lost consoionsness.
But he always failed in the experiment.
In speaking upon this subject of death
he described a most remarkable death
bed scene which he witnessed upon the
outskirts of Washington. The hero of
this occasion was a poor Frenchman,
who worked as an ostler for a small inn
keeper, who kept a house where huck
sters and countrymen found a simple
fare and low prices to suit the&'. This
Frenchman lived in a very small house
near the inn. He was married, and
with an income of fifteen dollars a
month he and his wife managed to live
ip what they considered comfort. He
had, however, the use of a small patch
of land, the products of whioh enabled
him to eke out his very modest income.
The time came after several years of his
human life, that the husband oonld no
more go to his work. A disease of the
kidneys, long neglected, seized upon him
with a savage hold, so that in a few short
days death came very near. The physi
cian that was called was surprised to
find this poor man possessing a culture
far above the ordinary. The French
ostler working for the humble pittance
of sls a mohth, had in his library well
thumbed works of the best French
writers. Racine, Oomille, Moliere, Bal
zac and Voltaire were the daily com
panions of this humble foreigner.
The physician soon saw there was no
room for his art here, that death could
not be averted; but he did not mention
this to the sick man. He gave him a
potion to make him sleep, and for the
time being left him to the care of his
young wife, who nursed her husband as
tenderly as if he was a child and not a
full grown man. A week or so after the
first call the physician visited the
Frenchman’s little honse in the evening.
It was late in the Fall, and the cool
nights had caused the wife to build a
cheerful wood fire in the open fire-place
in the main room of the house. The
Frenchman was found sitting in a large
easy-chair in front of the fire. His
countenance had upon it an unusually
lively expression. He playfully called
his wife, Maria, to him, as he chatted
with the physician, and even made her
sit upon his lap, although suoh an exer
tion made him tremble like a leaf. After
an hour’s chat upon many matters,
during which the Frenchman never ap
peared mentally clearer, or more to an
advantage, he suddenly checked the
talk by saying: “My time has come.
Will you please help me to the bed?”
The physician hastened to-his aid, and
gently led the man to the bed. The
dying man placed himself squarely upon
it, looking straight before him as he
called his wife to him.
“Goode-bye, Dootor; I shall be off in
a moment,” said he, in a strong, clear
voice, as he took his little wife in his
arms. “Poor little Maria,” added he,
in a cheerful voice. “I do believe you
are crying. You are young and pretty.
You will find someone to care for you
when your old man is gone. ” Here he
took his wife’s face between his two
trembling hands and kissed her repeat
edly. Then he murmured “adieu, and
quickly “au revoir,” as he gave her a
final kiss. At once he became rigid
and exclaimed in a loud voice, “Stand
back, ah ! My father before me at Wa
terloo died with his face to the enemy.
I, too, will face the great enemy, ;
Death !” He raised his head boldly
and looked straight ahead, with the
buoyant look of a man who knows not
fear, and with this noble look of cour
age upon his face he passed away.
Asa class, the physicians think that
people of culture meet death more firm
fy than the illiterate ones. Those of :
higher minds haye invariably canvassed
the subject of death, and it never comes
to them with all the terrors that it does
to people of a lower grade of intellect. '
The exception to this are the cases of
brutes executed for the commission of ]
some crimes. The majority of these die ]
calmly, but it is the excitement of the ]
situation and the presence of many spec- j
tutors that keeps them up. It is also a <
secret practice in most penitentiaries to
furnish prisoners whp be hung
with an inordinate qustimu
lants, so that they are in a 1
normal condition face i
to taco with death on Eze- I
cate men in secret, specta
tors, beyond the neee^^^^B cla * 8 or j
sickening details pubi^^^^V 16 newß ‘ '
papers, and eiecntion^^^^^ Ye a ***■
ror for criminals that wonld more than
doable what they have now.
Charge a battery in daylight and not
a man falters. Charge in the blackness
of night and fnlly one-half skulk at the
first opportunity. It is this sense of
glory m maintaining a semblance of
bravery that keeps up the oriminal when
he has a orowd at his feet and a person
at each elbow to boast him into a heav
enly paradise. I was present some years
ago at the execution of Barney Williams
in this district. He was an illiterate
man, who had committed one of the
most atrooious of possible murders. In
his cell, preceding the moment that he
was led out to execution there, was one
of the most distressing of imaginable
scenes. His wife was admitted to say
farewell to him. She was a very strong
woman, a regular Amazon. In the trans
ports of her grief she seized upon her
husband, a heavy man weighing upward
of 175 pounds, and ran all around the
cell, orying ont in a wild, wailing voice
that made one’s blood curdle with sheer
dread. If ever there was a scene that
could have completely unmanned a man
this was the one of all others. Yet Bar
ney Williams walked out of his cell as
calm and collected as if he were going
to a dinner instead of his grave. I never
understood this man’s nonchalence nntil
I afterward learned that he was filled up
to the brim with whisky and oamphore
until he had lost the realizing sense of
the situation entirely. He was too
drunk to talk even, and so passed over
the border.
OCR LINCOLN LETTER.
Linooln Superior Court—A Prosperous
People—A Popular Judge—What
Judge Pottle is Doing—The Bar—
The Cases Colored Spectators—A
Good County.
[-SjoeoHi! Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel.]
Linoolnton, October 28, 1875.
Liucolu Superior Court commenced
on Monday the 25th inst., Judge Pottle
presiding. Very few oases were brought
to the present term of the Court, which
shows a healthy finaneial condition. In
fact, the whole docket, both oivil and
criminal, was gone through with, and
Court adjourned Tuesday evening. The
orops yin this good old law-abiding
connty are short, but the people having'
been accustomed all their lives to living
within their means, will be enabled by
dint of economy to pass safely through
another year. Many persons attended
for the express purpose of hearing Gen,
Toombs’ tackle the great Federal finan
cial question, but, owing to the indis
position of “the old man eloquent,”
were disappointed. They all think
down there if any one can cut this great
Gordian knot Toombs is the man to
do it.
Judge Pottle is very popular there as
a Judge, and we think deservedly so too.
He has almost destroyed the criminal
praotiee. We heard a gentleman say the
other day that ha had done more for the
temperance reform movement in this
county than all the temperance
lecturers who ever traveled through
it. There are now I believe but
two or three grog shops in the county,
while but a year or two since, you could
not start a pig trail but led to one.—
The Judge has had occasion to enforce
his precepts with “seventy-five and
costs,” a time or two, but now the peo
ple have become temperate, not from
principle, but from the lack of princi
pal. A splendid new Court House,
nicely carpeted and neatly enclosed,
speaks well for the enterprise of Lincoln
county. Her offices are filled by men
of sterling worth and ability, and we
must say she has a splendid financial
prospeot ahead of her. Just here we
cannot pass by the splendid charge of
his Honor Judge Pottle to the grand
jury, whioh was full and comprehensive,
and showed him to be no less a Chris
tian than a magistrate. His charge with
reference to the treatment of oonvicts
(a portion of whom are now at work
within the limits of the county) showed
that he possessed a heart capable of
feeling another’s woes, even though
those others were debased and degraded
convicts.
The visiting bar present were Judge
W. M. Reese, M. P. Reese, Gen. D. M.
Dußose, Hon. Frank Colly and Mr.
Shubrick, of Wilkes connty ; W. D.
Tntt, of McDuffie, and Solicitor-Gen
eral Lumpkin, of Lexington. These,
together with the able looal bar, con
sisting of Hon. H. J. Lang and the
Messrs. J. E. and C. R. Strother, were
more than sufficient to devour the few
legal bugs scratched up on that oo
casiou. The highest grades of offenses
on the criminal side of the Court were
“ assaults with intent to murder,” but
none were oonvicted of higher offenses
than misdemeanors. Three fifteenth
amendments were sentenced to six and
twelve months in the chain gang for
assault and battery and stabbing.
We think the practice of modifying
the sentences to labor on farms, when
there is no organized chain gang in the
county, will tend greatly to the inorease
of misdemeanors, for if yon don’t take a
negro away from his associates he don’t
care whether he is working for himself
or another. Labor to him is very little
punishment at most, and if yon pat him
where he can go to the same meetings,
the same corn shnckings and quiltings
that he has always attended, it makes no
difference with him who gets the price
of his sweat.
We could but notioe how well the
Court was attended by the blacks. Some
of them told your correspondent that
they had no idea before how much there
was to be learned by their attendance,
bnt we thought that if they were at
home picking out their oottou it would
redound in a greater degree to their ul
timate good. When a negro gets im
pressed with the dignity of oourts of
justiee he will not rest till he gets there
as a party litigant, and if he oan’t get
there on the oivil side you may rest as
sured he will be there in the role of de
fendant on the criminal side of the
Court.
Old Linooln is right side up with oare.
Though making no great pretensions to
wealth, she is inhabited “by good livers”
and, best of all, they are nearly all re
sponsible for their contracts. If they
would plant a little more grain and a
little less cotton we think they could
soon deolare themselves independent of
“all the world and the balance of man
kind.” Tbaveleb.
Is This the Coming Man.
[Frtm the Springfield Republican.]
The odds are that Samnel J. Tilden,
Democrat, will be the next President.
Certainly, he is nearer the White House
to-day than any other politician of eith
er party. Barring accidents, his chance
for reaching it is much the best. It is
true the rag money Democrats out West
feel very sore and angry with him just
now, and talk as they feel. If the na
tional convention were to assemble next
week, they might very likely defeat his
nomination. But there is time enough
for this irritation to cool down aud for
the Bober second to get through even
pretty thick skulls. The Democracy, as
a are fairly wild for success and
power. It is a perfect parrion with them.
All classes, factions, and seetions are
affected by it. When it comes case in
hand, we may reasonably expect that
this dominant passion will prove too
strong alike for personal preferences and
sectional resentments. If the conven
tion is convinced that it is a choice be
tween Tilden and defeat, it will not be
likely to take the delegates long to make
np their minds. It looks very much
now as though it was coming to that.
Mr. Tilden is to-day the most conspicu
ous figure in our politics. More than
that, he is a positive force. He repre
sents something. He has and controls
capital, which the party cannot well do
withont. He is as matters now stand
and are likely to stand, a necessary can
didate. With Thurman, or Bristow, or
Lamar, or Bartlett for a second, _ the
Republicans will be liable to find him a
pretty formidable candidate.
How Quacks Make Money.— The tes
timony of Dr. Moses Jacobi before the
Assembly investigating orime in New
York, about the way he was abused and
swindled by one of the keepers when he
was sent to the Tombs on the charge of
having attempted an abortion, brings
out incidentally an illustration of the
way in which quacks grow rich. He said
that he was for half a dozen years the
assistant of a “Dr." Franklin, whose
business was making medicine to pro
duce abortions, and whom he subse
quently bought out; that the medicine
was nothing in the world but colored
water, which he used to put up in bot
tles of three different kinds and sell for
$5, $lO and S2O a bottle; that “it is all a
barefaced humbug, though I practiced
the hnmbg myself, simply to make mon
ey; I have had as many as twenty wo
men waiting to consult me of a morniDg,
thinking I was Dr. Franklin, and all the
medicine they ever got from me was col
ored water; it could do them no harm,
and certainly did them as little good.”
He farther testified that there are a good
mauy people in the city who carry on
this business, and that they all give this
same kind of medicine —colored water
when it is given in bottles, and bread
pills covered with sugar when pills are
prescribed; that he has known a man to
pay SIOO for a box of these pills; and
that “Dr.” Franklin used to make $2,-
600 a month.
A man who inquired if anybody had
seen anything of his little boy, and
then said he W& looking for him,
stopped at a White street 7^*:
terday, at three o’clock, and talked till
about five, when he (track out again in
search of his son with a tonohing exhibi
tion of paternal interest.— Danbury
N*w.
OCR ATLANTA LETTER.
Matrimonial—A Romance of Real Life
Sawyer vs. Hopkins Kelley a
Democrat —Blodgett Coming Back.
[Special Correspondence Chronicle and Sentinel.]
A Real Little Romance.
Atlanta, Oct. 29.—A nice little matri
monial adventure occurred yesterday,
which, for novelty, is without precedent
for many years past, as the parties to it
were a gentleman and lady of
culture, distinction, and belonging to
fashionable society. Yesterday at Grant
ville, Mr. Frank Perryman, of this oity,
was married to Miss Alice Norwood, of
the former place. Among the attend
ants were Dr. Beasley, of LaGrange,
and Miss Lucy Pope, of Washington,
Ga., a young lady well known through
out Upper and Middle Georgia. Dr.
Beasley had met Miss Pope only two
weeks before yesterday, but within that
period, it seems, had formed quite an
attachment for her, as the sequel will
show. Reaching Grantville a few hours
before the marriage, he sought Miss
Pope, and, without unnecessary delay,
offered himself in marriage and was ac
cepted without unnecessary ceremony.
The next question was, when they would
be married. The minister and friends
being present, they quickly agreed that
they would be married the same day
with Mr. Perryman and Miss Nor
wood, by the same minister. Dr.
Beasley hastened off on a passing
train for a marriage lioense. Return
ing shortly he took his stand with
Miss Pope in the company of attendants,
and they aoted their parts as groomsman
and bridesmaid during the marriage
ceremony of Mr. Perryman and Miss
Norwood. The moment the ceremony
was concluded they stepped forward to
gether, presented to the astonished min
ister their marriage lioense and requested
to be married, and were immediately
joined in the holy bonds of wedlook in
the presence of the wondering company.
Dr. and Mrs, Beasley were in the oity
yesterday, receiving the congratulations
of their friends here. Miss Pope was
well known iu this oity and was quite a
popular belle wherever she went. They
returned yesterday by the Atlanta ana
West Point Railroad to Dr. Beasley’s
home. .
' Mlndr Notes.' .
The Commonu/ealth-Bavryer’a attack
on Judge Hopkius, inconsequence of his
sentencing a one-legged soldier to two
years in the penitentiary—the extent of
the law — for shooting at another, after a
recommendation of mercy from the jury,
is reoeived here with varied oomments.
Some say the Judge was harsh aud cruel,
while others maintain that he was right,
churning that one-legged soldiers have no
greater shooting privileges than any other
man. * + Piglron Rag Money Kelly said in
his speech here that he was a Republican.
In private conversation, however, with
some of our citizens—white ones—no
quadroons—he atated that in the fnture
he expected to act with the Demooratio
party. Too thin! * * Mr. Charles
Dimitry, of New Orleans, one of the
most profound aud polished scholars in
America, will soon deliver a lecture here
under the auspices of the Young Men’s
Library Association. * * The daugh
ter of a wealthy dry goods merohant—
the largest dealer in Georgia—in this
oity will assume the liymenial veil in a
few days. * * A North Georgia gen
tleman of prominence, a member of the
Legislature and a politician of influ
ence in his section, says James M. Smith
is the strongest man in the field for Gov
ernor. * * It is a mistake that H. I.
Kimball has oome into possession of the
Kimball House. He owns only a half
interest, and has not paid for that in
full. * * Foster Blodgett’s friends in
this city say he will return to Georgia
shortly if he can arrange satisfactorily
a few little business matters. Yes, pre
cisely so! Halifax.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The Fair oommences in Walhalla No
vember Ist.
Diptheria has attacked the ohildren of
Darlington.
Willie F. G. Whitlook died in Fair
field reeently.
S. W. Ruff, trial justice iu Fairfield,
has resigned.
Mr. Charles Bland is going to leave
Darlington for Mississippi.
Married, in Chester, H. N. Obear, of
Winnsboro, to Eunioe Harris.
Dr. Robt. W. Gibbes, late President
of the Medioal Society of Columbia, is
dead.
The residence of Henry E. Soott, of
Columbia, was burglarized the other
night.
B. N. Ward has been elected Senator
in Horry to fill the unexpired term of T.
C. Dunn.
The Synod of the Presbyterian Churoh
of South Carolina will meet in York
ville Thursday next.
The post office at Shallow Ford, An
derson county, has been re-estalished;
Robt. M. Graham, postmaster.
A motion to reinstate Capt. Nixon,
Chief of Police of Columbia, was lost.
Gov. Moses addressed Council in his
behalf.
Mr. Pieper, of Walhalla, reports that
he has this year raised nine cucumbers
averaging 10 pounds, and one weighing
33 pounds.
E. Ross Sepaugh, a York oounty Ku-
Klux prisoner, has been pardoned, and
has returned home from the Albany
penitentiary.
C. E. Nelson, alias Miller, who was
arrested in Columbia for stealing a lot
of dry goods, has been safely lodged in
the Charleston station house.
At Greenville, J. Newton Cox was
knocked in the head with an ax by one
Charles Snllivan, and severely injured.
He was improving at last accounts.
Fred Jones, a negro, tried for the
murder of Leonidas MoNeel, in York
Circuit Court, reoeived a verdict of not
guilty, the Court charging that the deed
was in self-defense.
The jury gave a verdict of not guilty
in the case of J. Albertus Hope ana
Mary E. Hope, tried for the murder of
Mary Isabella Castles, in the Court of
Sessions for the oounty of York.
A. S. Richardson, former postmaster
at Chester, is now in Yorkville jail, un
der charge of being a defaulter to the
Government. He is to be tried at the
November term of the U. 8. Court, in
Columbia.
Dr. J. M. Sloan, of Walhalla, assisted
by Drs. Williams and Spearman, recent
ly successfully performed the operation
of cutting from the neck of a lady a tu
mor weighing four pounds. The lady
is reported to be rapidly recovering.
The Penny Readings, proposed by the
Board of Direotors of the South Caro
lina Monumental Association have been
inaugurated iu Columbia. Among the
renderings of the first evening was
“O’Connor’s Child,” by Gen. John S.
Preston.
C. P. McCullough, Jr., and Mr. Mc-
Lauriuz, express messenger on the
Greenville and Columbia Railroad, had a
renoounter in the reading room of the
Mansion House, at Greenville, in which
Mr. McLanrin was painfully wounded
with a knife.
THE HOTEL OF THE FUTURE.
[Guy. Hamden, in Scribner’s.]
In jthe hotel of the future, if we can
not change all our carpets at the “spring
clearing,” and change them back again
at the “fall clearing,” if we cannot afford
double suits of furniture for every room
—whioh may well be the ease until the
latter part of the millennium—we shall
yet look to it that each room is furnish
ed with some lights, agreeable, easily
movable and wholly restful fnrnitnre,
which shall seem to be cool even when
the heavens are brass above onr heads
and earth is dnst beneath onr feet. In
the hotel of the future each room shall
have one graoeful, simple ohair or lonnge
which may be lightly lifted, and whioh
shall not be too fine to give rest for tir
ed feet withont fear of perpetrating
vandalism. Why should one dissemble?
That is what you go to a hotel for—to
put your feet in a chair when you come
in tired. Foreigners and onr own home
folk also are never weary of caricatur
ing the American habit of holding the
feet higher than the head. It is very
bad manners, bnt it is very good phys
iology. The highest medioal authority
declares that a horizontal positon of the
body is most oondneive to a restoration
of disturbed equilibrium aud to a health
ful circulation. But there are some en
terprising spirits amoDg ns who do not
need science to tell them what rests
them when they are tired, and, carrying
the principle of self-preservation too
far, they have postured themselves too
recklessly, aud thrust their uplifted feet
through all the laws of deference and
oourteay. Let them be Anathema. But
shall I not take mine ease in mine inn ?
Augusta, Ga,, October 28, .1876.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
We notioe in the communication of
your correspondent from Macon two
errors, which you will please favor us
by correcting. He stated that we re
ceived no award in consequence of none
being given in our line. We were awarded
a diploma for mattresses, cushions, and
feather pillow and comfort. The other
error alluded to was typographical, and
read pin cushions instead of pew cush
ions. Yours respectfully,
Tpoq. J. Mpanoox A Cos.
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Here’s a man who knows how to keep
a hotel. He lives in Cambridge Oity,
Ind., and takes twenty-eight weekly be
sides several daily papers,
