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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 . ,i 'I !. ! jeMM jjpf ! V p ■ 1 : It 1 ! i ? le- ’ l: li ■.us- ti.< S. . l; p. !-•: r ti l • n-.P^jg 11> it there is nrv lliirt^H 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. t f 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 I ci’.:.!!:• sot pu*iTiji:ioa and j ti;. wo: k* ;t :o.- t■.*,• latter ihmS ■ 1: >1 nhbiiuiuj® ; jUbt:oe. ii.s ;:?* i’e , becaus^B a'’ . . ... i . .'or liira/jig U It - IT l, 4 g M Jh ■y,g . v _ ■bbl g. ; _N vy ' ■. . V j /g Jttjk M M yvy \ | it. HUeadable. 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 .. i 1.!. n-... Is, hin.s.-lt ..It :-ttir ... and i-.-p‘ci.i'.ly to U,- - who 1 a-- 1 1 . . 00k. MU 1 '■!. 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 Bfcfyes Hs’OU Ku - Kit f'‘ul K-'o ■ a ■ e MvQrifS 1 ’" K'lf Ku I Kicm 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. - —% ♦ - 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. 5