TOOMBS ON THE THIRD TERM.
The Ex-Confederate Statesman on
Southern Politics.
GRANT THE SOUTH’S SAVIOUR.
“I Will Never Accept the Four
teenth and Fifteenth
Amendments."
[Correspon 11J >-v Y>r c H '<• t 4.1
Atlanta, Ga., Ang. 20, 187-1.
Taking the Richmond and Atlanta Air-Lne
route a few days since at the former point,
within thirty-two hours, including numerous
halts for meals, &0., I had traversed the six
hundred miles lying between the two capitals
in the South. As Paris is France, so is Itich
mond an epitome of Virginia, and with even
moro truth may Atlanta he characterized as
the bustling centre of thought and action for
Georgia ami the Central South. At Rich
mond, the historic capital of the South, and
yet the focus of immense influences in South
ern politics, and Atlanta, now, perhaps, Urn
best expression of the rehabilitation for which
the whole South seeks, are to be found the un
erring indices of the predominant sympathies
and expectations of the section south of the
Potomac and the Ohio. At the two Southern
capitals one hears an abundance of that bril
liant gossip and bold, defiant talk which has
always given such a fascination to political
discussion in the South. Your liichmond
correspondent hns already given you the drift
oi the political tide in the Old Dominion, and
to determine the tendencies of the entire
Southern mind it remains to be seen how far
the Empire State of the South is in unison
■with the prevalent thought of the Old Domin
ion.
ROBERT TOOMBS.
In Atlanta the properly accredited seeker af
ter sources of genuine public sentiment is pe
culiarly blessed in tho facility with which he
ascertuiDS the fores and direction ol the cur
rent of public opinion from its very fountain
heads. A few days f go, after a brief talk with
one of the first public men of the South, whose
views on current political topics I shall give
tho readers of the Herald in a day or two, I
unexpectedly encountered at the Kimball
House General Hubert Toombs, always a typ
ical Southern politician, once the Miraboau of
the federal Senate, and oven now, after the
terrible failure of the revolution which he did
so much to inaugurate, uo insignificant power
in Georgia politics. Many years have elapsed
since I had last seen the historic General,
when, ss Confederate Premier, walking with
characteristic along the st reets of
Kiclimcfid, >it the early days of the war, lie
used to loeast that he “carried the Confederate
Department of the State in ins coat pocket. "
Despite the changes wrought by time and
trials there was uo difficulty in recognizing
the Toombs of the olden time—neglige in ap
parel. incandescent and unkempt as ever,
and, in the apt phrase of the prize ring, “mu
tiiateel, but still in the ring. ’
’ A HISTORIC FIGURE.
As I leasurely approached tho veteran poli
tician, and had time to think how wonder
daily, under the supervision of some arti-t
gitted with the power ot illustrating history
and indivitlual character by attitude, mien
aud ixpresbion, he wnull. eirve in fresco as
an cpidome on the turbulent era of American
politics, in which he bud blitzed like a meteor
and tad dealt right and left his stalwarth
blows as though ialru.-.W'A. with the tilt ham
mer of Vulcan. In brief, tire “old man elo
quent." though ,-.o 1? ger Georgia’s Senator,
oi emu:;? - aboil i :: S.-mitors with 'he proph?
jjr ' m •
I sun i i.ay:i F ga no. vul.
out the .a*- mis >1 pow.authority and pni -
lie care, .till wears the rut 1 1 one who be!leves
that hie see re has ti.-'en v, lor.gbdly wr-n.-hen
; -a lime ou.y by some "uaiiu-aV
hand," at:d who sees before him the day of
ce-rUvin restoration.
I-jWER OF THE INDEPENDENT I'RE-S.
Without unnecessary formality or ctrcum
iocuiion I expressed my desire to obtain an
expression of his views for the Herald upon
the. salient political q-.-sriou now before the
country. At first demining to talk, at length,
upon the ground that ho had been so often
unfairly heated by adventurous Bohemians,
who had sought his presence, Gen. L’ ombs
assented to the suggestion of the Herald rep
resentative, that South to public men must
look to the independent press ot the great
Northern bities—papers not run in the inter
est of faction and cliques -as a medium of
communication between tho thought ot the
South and that ot the rest of the country. In
replying to this suggestion, Gen. Toombs
gave an amusing sketch of tho present shab
by-genteel coadiiiou o! many Southern news
papers, some of w hich he eleclared “too poor
to speak the truth.”
Reporter —Weil, General, the country al
ways likes to hear from you, whether in the
shape of a letter with the del familiar signa
ture or iu the shape of oue of those brilliant
l'Ubilades of political gossip with which you so
often favor 3 our triends.
INVETERATE UOsJIUTV TO FREEDOM AND SUE-
T-RAGE.
General Toombs—ln due time 1 shall be
heard from at length upon the great questions
which are nov before the country, and when
I talk it Will be with no uncertain sound. I
never was a milk-and-cider politician in my
life, and everybody, triend and foe, always
knew exactly where Toombs stood. Columns
of type would hardly express my views upon
present public questions, and yet in fifteen
minutes I can give you the substance of my
prestnt political creed. I never shall acqui
esce in the fourteenth and fifteen amendments,
and 1 never shill toi rate the damnable doc
trine that there caa be good government
where negroes participate in the shaping of
public poiic3’.
NEGROES AND THIEVES ALLIED. A
Reporter—l!ut. Genera,l, unless you are
dulgiug in an expression of that
an I yi.t heretofore impotent
the wrongs 01 reconsfuctiou so or a
lrom Southern public men, 1 would
know tomnking about the o •<>
wliieh you 1 repose to
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Georgia.
Gem ral Toombs—
growing slrtdiger (Very day. -
give Gi nit any unmlur of
our ally in breaking down
ernmunt of negroes and tl.ii
help ns, I believe, and with
ing lam heartily for him. You
the Herald proclaim it to tho
arc tired of this
CARNIVAL OF KNAVERY,
and that the South is detcrui ntd
to attempt a revolution on the ml-'
and honest administration of
This time we shall succeed, because
heve the government with us, and wj bwl
have whatever there is ot virtue and decejß
at the North with us,
Reporter—l suppose that besides the third
term question there aro the usual local
issues m tho canvass soon to open in Georgia.
GEORGIA AND HER FII.ST LOVE.
General Toombs—Ou, yes. Av ;y encour
aging phase of Georgia polities is the dispo
sition ot the people to return their first love,
that is to their representative men. Georgia
always did despise mediccrity, and she is sick
and tired of sending men of clay to Wash
ington This was illustrated by Stephens’
election to Congress last year, and, I hope,
will be again illustrated this year by Ben
Hill’s election in the Athens district. Hill, I
think, will be chosen, not so much from per
sonal popularity as because the peo
ple admire bis brains and want to be represent
ed at Washington by men of intellectual pow
er and powess.
Bidding me once more to proclaim to the
world through the Herald his purpose never
to acquiesce in the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments,” General Toombs closed the
interview by reiterating his advocacy of Grant
for a third term as a means ot destroying an
oligarchy of knaves resting upon negro suf
frage.
CEASELESS YEARNINGS.
Proclamation to the Democracy
The' Leading Democratic Organ
laying Down the Platform.
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A Programme of Hatred and
Revenge
[From Ibe St Louis Dispatch (editorial) Aug 3 }
MISSOURI DEMOCRACY.
Evidently tbos<j who are zealou3 for the
formation of anew party in Missouri, or who
ro sure that the time is opportune for the
inauguration of u movement similar to that
one which culminated so disrstroiL-ly after
Cincinnati, have never considt re i n : i stuff of
which Missouri Democracy L-* mt i . They
know noihing < f its fibre or texture, > othiug
of its passions or its hatreds, ami certainly
nothing of its traditions and its anc-.stry. Jt
was an observation of Talleyrand’s iLtat, with
the memory of some great wrong to untie
them, itn intelligent- party rarely lvi-t loses it
organization. It might be ostracised socii-.-ly
and cut from every path or avonatf-to :
•’ vor . ixnfl;- •; but when tL” >?¥
v■ii’, ill*; >• Luomoiies v>ou!d revi \ i u the
hearts ol tho leaders, the oid war* : - wo.; .■
reawaken the and uni ant energies of ’.be rank
and file,ft grand uprising as of old vciudasU a
ish all who believed lesistanoe and A, ad vic
tory—a thing unknown ihuc-s*. t the :■ •: •. ra
tions that were engaged in ihe contest--
c< me back s of old to the tr.Uei'd li gs
hv vy with tl.o dust of count it.-, ovir throws.
Without c.iiingaave for the truth of an
alysis to Vfc.Mil th • memory of v. sit gl wrong
dote to Bern *4-mey ,n Mip>.’nr ; . it was
ac-tii-. ’d to beV democrat, we won pi remind
cv. ry now' party n, untebank iu the stats tia
nen->. eution makes parties, like it does in*ii
vMuais, heroic. It is vho blessed moth* r of
discipline. It gives to a vja.isf a holy fuv:r
like tire spiritualism of a m>,v faith. " It abo
besloics its hatreds and ils ceasei : w yearnh-Q
for revenge. It teaches the aged how 1) bo
cunning that may be useful in counsel, ted
tho youthful how to be brave, that
may be swift and resolute in action. BkL
the great barrier, iu short, that
r-amlilp rai't s between the
[ c i no- l <i, ill and -ihu li jireVentM
I <1 ti.fi l'. --cr by the greater until Jp
|(V r- ■•:!* •. tlie sot tow
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story:
. 11-dress and, ami s ncl ho came fn-m
, "fe lookttl l.ko advmnmer for a
<lr.v-N ot | rt bonse, except that tho
displayi- evctl jim,, j S the cus-
these peripatetic r, ntry- q-„ iho loaf-
others who stood aro,, J{ j thebar—and
H good many “regtilars” who „ erß hanging
; around on the sidewalk, had iou.. . 8( i j u when
I they heard the loud talk—ho seems; jjho a
| young f-.-llow on bis first spree, who ban more
i money than ha knew what to do with,
t He Wasn’t very drunk when he firs* came
in, but ho was mighty loud with hi: talk. He
asked everybody up to take a drink, and the
loafers didn't n- ed any pressing. In point ol
fact, there wasn’t one of them that didn't take
a drink. Theirs were big drinks; but the
; Cincinnati man's wasn't more than one finger,
| and he left some of that m the bottom of the
I glass. But it seemed to fly to his head, not
| withstanding.
It was an np-!own saloon and at the begin
! Ring of tho pork-packing season, when tbe|
| hog-raisers were driving m their grunters.
i There were three or lour of'em in the saloon
jat the time, taking a little Robertson comity
jin a group by themselves. They didn’t
j drink with the Cincinnati man, bat the
j stock-raiser who was treating his party
j paid for their drinks and showed a well
j filled pocket-book as he did it. After that
j the Cincinnati man was inclined to be
! friendly with the hog-drovers, but ho didn’t
neglect the loaiers for ail that. He wanted
everybody in the room to drink with him
again. Ihe regulars stepped up promptly,
but the countrymen declined. The Ciuctn
: nati man pressed them to driok with him.
}He had dead loads ot money about him. He
' teas on a little tear, aid damn the expense.
So they must drink with him.
He was so polite and liberal end seemed so
anxious that the drovers each took a drink.
The regulars had all poured out theirs, and
had gulped ’em down while the talk was going
on. The countrymen each took the usual
horn, hut the Cincinnati man poured out two
fingers this time, and didn’t drink more than
half of that. But he seemed to be getting
duink fait.
Then he treated all around again, and,
though his drink won vex small, it began to
thicken up h s talk a little.
“Less taka ’nother glass, gen’lemen,” said
he, and he dove down in another pocket and
drew out a big roll of bills. “Inere’s ’nuff
money to treat the whole town, an’d—d if I
ain’t goiu’ spend all it ’fore get through.”
So they all drank around with him again,
and his tcugno was getting surprisingly taick,
seeing that he hadn't taken enough liquor to
I make a cat drunk—that is to say a Kentucky
I cat, which is supposed to be used to it. But
then he was a simple sort of fellow, whose
head didn’t seem to be of the strongest. As
for the loafers, they were not fazed in the
i least, and no more were they- countrymen.
“Now, gen’i’men, less have ’nother drink,
ail’ll show you trick with cards. Say, bar
keeper, hau’ out deck cards.”
The gentleman behind the bar t:ok down a
pack . ; cards and gave it to the Cincinnatian,
whose big roll of money still lay oil the coun
ts r.
r /,- sa ia the aho by‘t’uio
lien- was getting drunk very las*, “gon’t’meu,
•’ll bet twenty dollars can do trick v. itn cards
none cl you flu' out. But less take 'nother
rink first." Bo they all drank round with
him again, and the loafers and countrymen
ga'heitd about him as he c-iumsiiy shuffled
the ; asteb arils, noddiDg sleepily toward the
couulor every ones and awhile. Thin he
tried to do several tricks with the cards,
which were very transparent, indeed. As
each of bis tricks was successfully detected
by both loaiers and countrymen, he began to
get mad,
“D--n'l I can’t do one tiling,” said ht , at
last, “none of you can flu’ out. I can cut, -. .y
card'n pack you name, 'n not half try. Bet
ten dollar can cut any card 'n pack,” he re
peated and drew- a ten-dollar bill from ihe big
roll on the counter. It was evident that he
was very drunk.
Then the loafers gathered by theme-. !v s iu
a corner and there was a hurried comparing I
of finances, hut there wasn’t as much as ten j
kdollars in the crowd.
Btrlfet twen'y dollar can cut any card in j
k;” but nobody saw the raise. The ioa!-
longingly toward the pil , aim ::.i-u
th door as by a auddt n impure.
rlthongii he was very dm ..
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... and i-.-p‘ci.i'.ly to U,- - who
1 a-- 1 1 . . 00k.
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one rnicht think he was ma
couutryman.
said that in
nit any card iu
ted man from
c out ?" asked
reiterated the
nnati, and an
on might have
boas bright as
on his bosom;
Jering that he
was so
lied to see this,
particularly
dollars
in that
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f HERajuu—September 2, 1874.
The well-dressed man from Cincinnati
tonsed up sufficiently to say “that’s whal
irnean.”
“Then I name the jack o'clubs, and cat
and be damned to you.”
Then (herd came a sudden change over
that guileless man from Cincinnati. He
roused up all at once. Ho didn’t seem half
as drunk as he was a moment before. And
he put his hand up behind his neck and he
drew a long and very sharp bowie from down
his back, and cut that pack of cards clear
through and down to the counter. Then he
reached over to the barkeeper and said:
“I guess I'll take that pile.”
“Hold ou a minnit, stranger; don’t you be
so all-fired fast,” here interposed the drover
from the interior. “S’pose you look over them
kcards and show me the jack o’ clubs.”
“There wasanother change suddenly over
spread tho faei of the gentleman from Cin
cinnati. He iurriedly ran through one-haif
of the divided pack, and there was never a
jack of club.t here. Then ho ran through the
other halt of .he pack, and there was nut even
a showitg if .l-,e jack of clubs there, tidier.
Then he look and at the hogdrover from Shelby,
who locked pacidly at him iu return.
“Did youfiid that jack, stranger? No, I
reckon jon dim’t, for lien it is;” and sm\
enough, there’t was. He slowly drew it from
up his sleeve :nd laid it on the table. Then
lie reached ov.r for the money, aud the stake
holder gave it o him.
“Now, str.ujor,” he continued, “the next
time you wan-ter play any o' yonr shenani
gans with kea-ds spose you be sure yon haint
| tackled a cooi as he knows ’em better’n does
j his a b c,” aid he modestly pocketed the
j money,
(| It was no u * kicking against tho pricks,
and the Cincimati man sadly saw bis green
backs swallowed up in that big pocket-book.
Then he slodjy turned to go, and met at the
door an exqied crowd. It was the loafers,
who had raa.aged to rake up a considerable
pile by moseiing around among their friends
anil a visit tc their common uncle around the
corner.
But they wire too late. The money had
been gatherer in by a green-looking customer
from the courtly. The Cincinnati man is in
clined to belitve that Kentacky isn’t a good
State to prospet in. Leastways he has’nt
been seen aromd here since.
A FR3AK OF NATURE.
Singular Bom of Union Between Two Day
ton Bare: --A. Greater Wonder Than
the Siamese Twins.
/ Dayton, O , Aug, 21.
Ou the of the Ist of August, Mrs.
Mary Hess, wife of D. Hess, living iu Potts
dam, Miami cbtmty, gave birth to twins, who,
as natural curiosities, excel the far-famed Sia
mese* children. They were both males aud
fully developed/ combined weight being
thirteen ands. hah J,wnds. Each had a sep
erate circulation, and they were in all respects
two distinct persons,except in a union between
them, which is about as follows: Tho distance
from the base of the skull to the point of union
was one and a half inches on each side; the
length of the union was four and a half inches,
extending to the umbilicus, there being one
for both; the nipples were two and half inches
apart, and the nipple of ‘.he left child was on
its back; it was six inches from thejoint of the
right s . -tlder * Mile right child to the left
shoulder <i the left child; the circumference
of the tuion w .s 18 inches, and the entire
length o! the children was 10 inches; the bond
of union Letw een the t wo was a bony substance.
Both children were bora dead, bat before in
terment graphs of them were taken, ntd
a picture i them in India ink is on exhibi
tion at the oMlery of Mrs. M .-aizee, cn Lu.-.t
Fifth stiv-ut, n. this city.
Mis. He s i tiller is a blacksmith, and a
h'-_ge liuu ;;Y • \ was on 00. l him fjr the
bodies ot xb . . jiidren, b.n he declined them
and alter ti. 1 .rial a guard was placed over
the grave tr , v ent them beieg stolen away.
They were t rvard secretly removed and
bumd m ai*.; her p i ,ce unknown to any person
but the par is. fne mother v.as three days
in-labor, an whs attended by Drs. Sigarroo>t
and Bobbs. She his been up and well for some
time.
Tumlin.
COIIDESPONDENCE CONCERNING HIS CANDIDACY
FOR THE LEGISLATURE IN RANDOLPH
COUNTY.
[From ike Cutkbert Appeal.]
QUESTIONS FOK CAPT. TUMLIN.
Mr. Editor:— Asa voterof Randolph conu
b, I wish to ask Capt. Tumlin a few plain
questions, which 1 hope he will answer
tarough the Appeal.
Ist. Do yon believe you are the regular nom
inee of the Democratic party of Randolph
county ?
■2.1. If so, and if elected, would you, direct
ly or indirectly, vote State aid to build rail
roads ?
3d. If elected would you vote for the renew
al of those bonds that were declared void by
the last Legislature? Or would you vote for
the constitutional amendment forever prevent
ing the payment of said bonds, by the State ?
4th. Have you promised to vote for White
ley, for the purpose of getting the Radical
vote in this county 1 Wm. Tuckfis,
4‘.h Dist., R tndolph Cos.
MB. TUMLIN’s REr-LY.
Cuthbekt, Ga. , August 26, 1874.
Wit. Tucker, E-:q:
Deab Sir:—lt affords ms pleasure to an
swer, lu l and explicitly, the questions pro
pounded in your letter to me, ot the 21st lust, j
and published in last week's issue oi the j
Cuthbert Appeal. I respectfully decline to j
answer through the Appeal, as I ieel that I
have been treated very unfairly andj unjustly
by its editor and seek the medium of the
Atlanta Herald, which deservedly has a large
circulation in our county.
First:—l recognize myself as the nominee
of the Democrmio parly, and in the spiiit of
harmony, have been willing in tne pttosu
submit the qaestiou to the Executive Com
mittee of oar parly in this countv, which J.
consider the proper tribunal to settle all issues
that may arise in party warfare.
Second:-+-I will say that State aid to all
important railroad lines in our State, has al
ready been granted, and if elected, I will not
vote either directly or indirectly, any further
aid to railroads.
Third:—ll elected, I will never voto for the
renewal of any fraudulent bonds, and will sup
per. cheerfully the Constitutional Amend
ments passed by the last Legislature. But
will never vote ' for any bill or amendment
that strikes at the repudiation of the endorse
ment on the Brunswick & Albany, and Bain
bridge, Cuthbert & Columbus Bailroads,
i when built in accordance with law.
! Fourth:-I have never spoken to Mr.
Whithely but once in my life, that I remem
ber, and that was something like two years |
j since, and I have denounced the author on j
the public square, as having uttered the tna-
J lioious lie contained in your fourth interroga-
ILtory. Yours truly,
Wm. Tumlin.
I Cuthbekt, Ga., August 2G, 1874.
Bo the Editoks or the Hekauj:—
■ Gentlemen : —You will please publish the
Inclosed correspondence between Mr. Tucker
Hnd myself.
■ I notice a slight mistake of your Mr. Grady
lin your paper a few day s since. I stated to
I him, that I was willing to leave the matter to
the Executive Committee; but not taat I
have withdrawn. You will please correct it.
Very truly yours,
Wm. Tcmlin.
Wo beg leave to inform the readers of the
other city papers, that Gen. Toombs is run
ning for Governor, and that Freeman has
withdrawn from the race in the Fifth Dis
trict.
A BLAZING SENSATION!
WHAT HAPPENED IS WESTMINSTER.
BEST STORY WRITTEN YET.
An Entertaining Travestry of the
Performances of the Modern
English Reporter.
Under the title of “What Happened in
Westminster,” the London Examiner prints
an extraordinary story—intended, we imagine,
to throw ridicule upon the class of newspaper
reporters (not unknown in this country), who
when facts fail them, fall hack upon the un
bounded resources of the imagination. It is
m form of a letter to the editor, and is signed
“Jemima Drystick.” The writer and the
creature whose contest with a cat forms the
theme of the narrative are thus described:
“In my capacity as district visitor to the
Society of Wealthy Hebrews for tho Discovery
and Invention of Social Abuses, 1 am Called
noon to visit many curious and dangerous
localities. Iu the course of my investigations
I have chanced upon a hoary Eastern savage
in a back room m Fleet street, and have
handed over to justice a depraved newsboy
crying the Jail oi Khiva a mouth before llut
event occurred. It happened to me ou a
recent afternoon to be walking through Riley
street, Chelsea, a slum inhabited by low Irish;
and my attention was attracted by a noisy
group of people congregated cn a little plot
of waste laud near the river-end of tha:
thoroughfare. The central figure was a tall,
gaunt and ferocious-looking female, with long
grizzled hair which hung about her scraggy
neck and over her lean but mu.cular shoulders
like the matte cl' a wild beast.”
The writer discovered iu various obscure hut
not altogether novel ways, which are fully de
scribed, that this woman was about to engage
in an unnatural of a combat, and finally
obtained permission to be present. The re
mainder of the letter we quote entire from the
Gazette:
“It mallets not how I succeeded in gaining a
promise that I should see for myseli the na
ture of the ‘fight.,’ nor the terrible details of
the oath that I was compelled to take that I
would not betray the dramatist persona. At
8 o’clock the same evening there happened to
be innocently lounging in the neighborhood
of a court which opens off Old Pye street,
Westminister, Mrs. Cockowaxy and one or
two female acquaintances. These were ptes
ent ly casually joined by a female figure, whose
appearance, I tear, was somewhat question
able, but which, nevertheless, was that of the
respectable district visitor who sjgns this let
ter. Strenuous efforts were made to confuse
my perception of localities. I had to follow
my conductors np one street and I down
another, till the chase began to grow some
what wearisome. I was spun round, an
ndefinito number of times, at a spot where
our cross-roads met, my normal position was
temporarily inverted, and finally I was blind
folded and mesmerized.
“I fume to myself in what seemed the front
attic of a large but dilapidated house. A
square area in tne centre of the room was
farmed in by ropes, on either side of which
were two strong upright holdfasts. At the
upper end ot toe room was a raised platform,
which, when I first looked at it, wa empty;
but the other three sides, between the ropes
and the wal.iL.vere deesr/y <lacked with sight
seers. Tlitsf, without exception, were wo
men. Some of them were almost as uncouth
aud debased lo .king as Furious Poll herstli,
toozb and as to hair, disheveled as to bosom,
fiery as to face, coarse and violent as to lan
gnaW. But all were not female roughs. I
recognized, the wife of a well-known metro
politan clergyman, accompanied by two port
ly denies, who looked as if they were the
spouses of church-wardens, and a fl .t bottle
circulated among the trio with great frequen
cy. For myself, I was accommodated with a
seat on the lower step of the platform, be
tween two other females, one of whom
had a black eye aud smoked a short
black pipe, the other wore a puce silk dress,
rather the worae for wear, and was vocifer
ating offers to back Furious Poll at evens lor
anything under £5. Poll herself was inside
the inclosed space within the ropes. She was
sitting on a bucket, aud swea ing freely at
things in general, while she combed out
her matted elf-locks. This done, she went
down on her knees and felt all over the in
closed space, as if she were searching for a
pin. ‘Ain’t she a dowuy old faggot,’ said rny
ueighbor with the short pipe; ‘it was a splint
in the planking that lost her the last match.'
-Bosh,’ replied she in the puce dress; ‘she
lunked it wen she felt his talents in her
throat —that’s wot it were.’ Whose ‘talents,’
and in the name of everything mysterious,
why should she lurk them? It was still un
certain with me, though I was coming to have
some inkling of the hotrible truth.
“ ■ Time ! Time ! ’ were cow the cries from
the back rows —‘ wot are we waitin’ for ? ’
• Wy, we can’t begin without the swells, and
it’s the Prince o’ Wales garden party at Chis
wick wot makes ’em late. Just at this mo
ment about a dozen gaily-dressed ladies em
erged from a side-door, and stepped on the
platform laughing and talking. I was dumb
!otinderd to recognize in the group the
Duchess of , the Countess of and
jl rs . , and Mrs. , wife of the Bishop
Furious Poll was honored with much
notice on the part ef these ladies, especially
of the Duchess ol . The great lady ac
tually kissed her, ill-looking and repulsive as
she appeared, and, taking a black bottle and
glass out ot a reticule, carried by a person
who I supposed was her companion, she first
refreshed herself with a bumper and then
hnuded tne repleni.-hed glass io Poll, with the
affable remark, ‘Have a glass of max, Poll;
it’s genuine 6tuff—my own particular tipple.’
A few whispered confidences then passed be
tween the virago and the Duchess, and, these
over, the latter took out her time
keeper and called ‘ five minotes to
time’—whereupon there was a clipping
of ‘hands and the beetle-browed Fu
rious Poll proceeded further to mystify me-
She divested herself of her upper clothing
about the throat and shoulders, and took off
a broken and curiously self-ass rtive crinoline
which had previously been distending her
dirty and ragged skirt. Thus partly stripped,
she appt nred a a extraordinary muscular fe
male. Her bony arms were covered with deep
half-healed scratches; and the creature, now
one came to examine her. for exceptional
physical characteristics, had the marks of vac
cination peculiarly well-developed, a straw
berry t ark upon her arm, three black eyes,
and a circular cicatrix on her iunny-bone,
which looked like a piece bitten out ot a dirty
apple and put back again. She nßw produc
ed a large buckle with curious serrated
tougues, “which she interwove into her long
black hair, at the same time dispensing with
two hairpins and an imitation tortoise-shell
comb, with half the teeth broken away. Then
she look from out ef the crown of her battered
bonnet a pill-box, filled with what looked like
dripping, which she handed to the Duchess,
wholiad called ‘time,’ who took off the lid,
smelt at it; and having solemnly pronounced
it ‘all right,’ gave it back to Poll; and that
mysterious female, amidst almost breathless
silence, commenced to anoint her face and
throat with it, rubbing it well in. ‘Sail Oock
ewaxy won’t bring in Opodeldoc till the last
miuuit,’ remarked my neighbor with the short
pipe. 1 still manage to retrain from demand
ing of my companions, who, the Opodeldoc
was for, and what it all meant; but it is to
this hour a wonder to me how I resisted.
•‘Within a minute my curiosity was only too
well satisfied. ‘All ready ?’ asked the Duoh
ess, who by this time had also begun to smoke
a short black pipe. 'Ay,' ma’am, 'ave bun in
as soon as we like,’ replied Poll, and soon
there was heard the sound of an angy rniew
ing, and the door opening iu came Mrs. Cocko
waxy with Opodeldoo, which to my sickening
horror, turned out to be a huge black tom-cat,
with fierce glaring eyes and whiskers ot port
lentions bristliness. The moment Opodeldoo
cangh sight ot Furious Poll, he Rpat at her
with fiendish malevolence, aud arched his
great back as if for sudden spring, while his
bushy fail thickened (o the dimensions ot a
pillar letter-box. But Mrs. Coekowaxv had
him fast by the back of the neck, and with
dexterous hands she caught his tail in a close
hitch with a stout leather strap, which an as
sistant fastened around the
other holdfast the end of the strap
which hui,g from the buckle in the
tongue of whioh Furious Poll’s back hair was
interwoven. I dislike gin neat, and especial
ly do I feel it incompatible with the pos.tion
of a district visitor to gulp it out of a bottle;
yet, on account of the sadden sensation of
sickness which at this moment overcame in--.
I ventured to ask the Duchess to baud me
down the bottle, which she did with much af
tability. Tuere could L.e uo Ion: r-r any mis
understanding as to the horrible encounter
which was ah -ut to happen. Th:*.-. ft- .:-, a;
virago had hacked herseli, or had been back
ed by hc-r liier.ds, to engage it? combat with
that lr iniic tom-cat. ‘lt was Fuii,us Poll’s
own Tom once,’ explained lie. woman with
tho short pipe, ‘but she bang-d it with a
broom-handle till it turned aud flew at her
throat; and this is their third reg’inr go in.
.She’s a good un to fight, is Poii; last week she
did for a monkey in four'rouacs. The week
beiore that she had a drawn battle with six
game-cocks, and in the spring she drored a
badger like a bull terrier. Bathe’s a rare tin,
is Opedeidoc; it’s one and one with ’em as
yet; this time it’s who shall.’”
“The conditions of the hideous combat were
simple enough. Both cat and woman were
to he allowed length of rope enough, as it was
cilled, to get at each other; there was not so
much of it that either could tail to get out of
the other’s reach should it be prude-t to do
so. Mrs. Cockowaxy set out r. cancer with
some milk in it on. her side, while the Duch
ess handed Furi- us Poll the bottle, with the
advice to ‘bottom it, for there was another
one handy.’ Then toll to k iff her shoe? and
stockings and gave the finishing rasp with a
small tile to the jigged nails, long as a leop
ard’s talons, which garnished her toes, lor, in
the words of the woman with the black pipe,
she was ‘free to fight with ali four feet.’ Op
odeldoc ceased for a moment spitting at his
antagonist in order to spit in his own fore
paws, and his shrill miews of frantic impa
tience weie absolutely appalling. So frenzied
with passion was he that tears trickled irom
his bloodshot, savage eyes; but as this ebulli
tion ot feeling might interfere with his powers
of vision, Mrs. Cockowaxy tenderly sponged
the brute's eyes with Goulard’s lotion. The
Duchess then called ‘let go!, and tho woman
aud eat sprang at each other with ghastly
fury.
It was very slrtnge, but it is true, that, al
though at first I loathed :lip spectacle to ab
solute sickness, yet whether cu account of the
Duchess, or of the gin, or ol f.be dire yet en
thralling fascination of the fight, I found my
self as intensely interested ia its '.ortunes as
any oi e, and evened backed Furious Poll
for three half-crowns agaiust my friend with
the black pipe. In the first round Opodeldoc
fixed his loreelaws in Furioas Poll's nose and
hung on indomitably tor a few moment?, his
mas*.,with his teeth befog evidently her eyes;
but Poll, abhough ail but blind, caught She
furious beaet by one of its whiskers and thraw
l it off', the whisker remaining in her grasp.
The betting rose to two to one on Poll, the
Duchess offering what she called half a point
more. I a'ake short work ol the t:.rea
next roni i'.s: which ia some of their details
w-.re inexpressibly shocking. But, at what
ever violence to good taste, the story of the
fourth lounds must be told in detail. As
it commenced, Poll, whose face and
fignro weie reeking with blood, caught
i and htid Opedeidoc by one ear
with her ttetb, while he, with
| fierce, keen talons, lacerated the back oi her
neck, the carotid ariery being clearly his
mark with his teeth; but with a swift sudden
wrench he hurled his fell eiaws round to the
woman's lace, and to my irrepressible horror,
gouged the wretched creature’s tje clean out.
The company evinced a ghastly relish tor
this hideous sensation; in the excitement bel
dame hustled Duchess for a good view, and
the metropolitan clergyman’s wife, who was
backing Opodeldoc, mien ed loudly in trium
phant sympathy with that fierce quadruped’s
prowess. As soon as he had secured the eye,
Opodeldoc tore himself out of the grip of the
woman's teeth, jumped to his own corner,
and began to play with the bloody nurse! as
if it had been a mouse, but the Bishop’s; wife,
with a glimmer of humanity—that heaven
born attribute—breaking through the adven
titious callousness that had grown upon her,
here interposed, “Take it from him,” she
cried referring to Poll s eye, “and hand it up
here; it can be stuck iu again when the fight
is over. With one light out, Poll wouldn't
be half the woman she is.” Meanwhile, furi
ous Poll herself, had taken the misfortune
with amazing sang (ioid. Asking a bystander
lor a morsel of bread, she masticated it, and
then filled up with the chtwe.l mass the vacu
um where the eye had been.
“Time” was called for what was to be the
last round. At the word Opodeldoc rushed
rampant to the encounter, although evident
ly embarrassod by the impossibility of straight
ening his tail. Furious Poll, who had clear
ly braced berself ior a grand conclusive effort
sprang to meet him as if he had been a swift
elastic ball. Her back was arched convtxly
and her lower limbs were gathered up, so that
toes and fingers wore close together. Her
head with the one eye blazing init, was low
ered between her arms, just us a tiger carries
his head when on the spring. She met Opo
deldoc with all the impetus of her surprising
suppleness, and all the knife-like mcisive
uess of her terrible nails. And as she struck
him she straightened herself out a little, so
that when her finger-nails were teaiing at. his
throat her toe-tails laid open his carcass; the
viotory was greeted with loud acclamations.—
The Duchess gave her a big drink and kissed
her again; the Bishop's wile scooped out the
bread nnd inserted the eye, with which Fu
rious Poll instantaneously winked a wink
oi good-natured triumph at Mrs. Cockowaxy;
and then, putting on her crinoline, under
which she tucked the ouc tss of the cat, she
quietly went away. “What has she taken the
cat tor?’ tasked :ny neighbor. ‘Why, for
her an’ Slogger’s nipper,’ was the reply. No
c imments on this plain, unvarnished truth
lul narrative are needed."
Failure of the Kentuckx Tobacco Crop. -
The Louisville Courier-Journal yesterday
published reports from correspondents in fif
ty counties ol Kentucky, representing seven
ty-five per cent, of the tobacco crop or tue re
tire State, which indicate n:i unparalleled
failure af tho crop. From the aggregate es
timate it is deduced that under the nost
favorable future conditions the crop of 1871
will be only thirteen per cent, of the average
annual yield.
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A lady on Aberdeen street lost he: blaek
and-tan idol last week and consulted a clair
voyant, who, for and in consideration of sl,
put on a wild look, ascended to the seventh
Heaven, and thence beheld the pup—as ha
stated in a muffled voice—in tho kindly keep
ing ‘-of the head-porter at the Palmer House
—a big man.” Mrs. 0. went to the Palmer
House, found the porter, found that he was a
big man, but found not the pup, She is now
thinking seriously of suing to get her dol
lar.
A female stockdrover recently appeared in
Pittsburg having in charge two car-loads of
cattle. She was from (Jynthiana, Ky„ and
recently Assumed the management of a 400
acre farm On the death of her husband. The
eattie were raised by herself, and it was not
her first trip in the business.
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