Georgia Historic Newspapers

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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, MAY 24, 1874.
VOL. XVI.—NO. 122.
THE WILD SOME.
v k»v« feint** fro® i*erf«me In cnrdea of r
Vhtre th* beaatl** < ‘
y of flora are crowd** i to*
gather,
And W*® nil hue* of their vesture discloses,
Yet I linger nroand this wild rose in the heather.
It is staple as wild, and carelossljr nourished,
Bj tbe sun and the dews and the vagabond
Unnoted by pilgrims, save one, it has flourished.
S than the cultured my fancy it pleases.
Oh I they may he dad with mors richness an l lus
tre,
Their perfume may sink with more ravishing
power,
Bat ne’er with their loeflets so lovingly cluster
And fold ronnd my heart as this lono desert
flower. ,
Before I discovered my exquisite treasure
My heart was as barren as Winter's effe’eness,
But now. like the springtide, U bounds with the
pleasure
Of love-life and music and blossoming sweet
ness.
“Ab, yer honor, maybe its yersel ou't
guess ?”
“I oan't dr, and aa your duty into an
swer my questions and ob*y my orders,
I do not intend to trouble myself by
guessing.”
“It’s right yer honor is, and I ex yer
Brehan.”
pardon, but the lady’n Kathleen 1
“Show her in." *
IN OTHER LANDS.
OP THE
GREAT IRISH FAMINE.
BY TUB AUTHOR OF “ DUNCAN M'lNTOSH,”
“lOUIB MACON,” “TIIOBNTON,” BTC.
Written for the Enquirer-Pun.
[OOPXBIOHT SECUBED.]
CHAFT1B III
PASTED.
The snn rose over (be town of Lough-
res, and turned the eastern windows of
the Boyal Inn into dusting mirrors, and
still Dan Gaspin sat by tbe table with hia
' faoe bnried in hia hands. He evidently
was not asleep, for now and then he
railed hia head and glanced at the fatal
coin in his grasp, or felt the streamers,
heavier than iron chains, that told him
he was bound to a aervioe he had ever de
spised.
‘•Oh, what’ll she Bay! What'll Kath
leen think of me when ahe sees what I've
done! Why didn’t I die before this black
day oame to me!”
Dan groaned and robbed bis red eyes
aa if he longed to destroy his sense of
sight.
“Cheer np, Dan. Why, it’s notin’ like
a girl, ye are, more than a man that's
goto’ to be a graonydier, an' goin’ to light
in Iojy an’ Come baokaginral. Cheer
np, man.”
Dan reoogniaad the voioe of Snllivan,
Captain Core's servsnt, and leaping from
the chair, like a tiger within striking dis-
tsnee of bis prey, be seised the villain by
ths throat and threw him to the ground.
Before he oonld do more a sergeant in
uniform, and followed by an armed gnard,
rushed in, and Dan Caspin was made s
prisoner.
Ont from the Boyal Inn, with bowed
heed end bound arms, Dan Caspin walked
in the direction of tbe berraoks. He was
seen by his friends on tbe streets, who,
with oharaoteristio shrewdness, surmised
how he had been trapped, and intimidated
by the presenee of tbe soldiers, they conld
only mutter their onraes on tbe men who
had robbed their native island of its beBt
man to fill ths human shambles of the
far East, where England was increasing
her territory and glory by draughts on
Inland's strength.
“Is that yon, Dan?” asked an old wo
man, forcing herself throngh the soldiers
and polling his coat.
“Yes, Betty, it’s me,” said Dsn, with
out looking at bar.
“An" have ye inlisted ?"
“I don’t know what I've done, Betty."
“Me poor boy, yer trapped—trapped as
waa my own sous, who were carried off to
die in foreign lands. Kelase him!” she
cried, turning to the soldiers. “Beisse
him, or the corse o' God'U come to yon
sin’yonrs I"
The soldiers pnehed her rudely aside,
and kept on with their prisoner.
Betty hobbled away, and finding a
young man near by, she said,
“Dinny Keely, ye never refused ould
Betty a favor.”
“And never will, Betty,” replied the
yonng fellow.
“Then away aa fast as yer feet esn take
ye! away beyant tbe lake, an' say to Kath
leen Brehan—Cod pity her this day 1—
that Dan ia 'listed; say they got the bet- j
ther of him, an' tell her to come to me if
she'd aver sea him she'd die for alive
again.”
Denny Keely turned and hastened to
where his boat was moored by the lake.
It was high noon in L inghrea, and the
people gathered in little groups to talk
over the misfortunes that had befallen
their favorite, and more than one plan
was suggested for his resoue—the plan of
an unorganised mob against the power of
the beat trained and bravest soldiery in
the world.
Captain Core looked paler than when
he sat at the mess table, and there was
evidently something troubling him, and
this sense of mental torture was not les
sened when Sullivan entered and an
nounced, as he stood holding the door,
“There’s a lady to see yer honor.”
“Aledy, BuUivan! who is she ?” asked
tbe Captain, glancing at tho mirror be
fore him to be assured he waa presents-
As Captain Core spoke he grew red
and pale, hot end oold by tone.
Kathleen stood in the door and, appa
rently unnottcing the bow of the Captain
who rose to receive her, she laid: “Cap
tain Gore, I earns to ask a favor. Yon
have always been kind to the poor, for a
landlord; I hope your heart han't chang
ed."
“Changed, Him Kathleen! 1 hope it
is getting better. One thing is certain—
you can ask no favor I am not ready to
grant.”
Kathleen acknowledged this with e
bow that would have added to the graoe
and dignity of sprinoaaa, but ahe showed
no confusion, only, e tlghtnlng Up of the
little red lips, and a greater palor of her
fair faoe.
“One Dn Caspin waa enlisted last
night while under theinflosnee of drink.”
‘Yes, he was enlisted, but he wee so
ber.”
“Are yon snre of that?”
Kathleen looked at him intently, and
the Captain stammered, “Of ooune not
sure—I did not enlist him.”
“He was not himself, Captain Gore
Dsn Caspin has his old father and mother
to eare for, an' it isn’t in his heart to do
them a wrong by leavin’ them here to
starve, as starve they will, for their little
means have been growin' less an' less by
bad crops. My favor is, Captain Core,
that yon get this man released, an’ night
an' day on bended knees I'll pray for ye.”
“I oan't promise, Miss Kathleen. I
obey the laws, but do not make them;
but I will do all I can for you."
“Oh, Bir, not for me, but for tbe poor
people beyant the lake. Belhaae Dan
Caspin, an' my blessin' an’ the bleasin’ of
Cod will follow ye to the grave.”
“I will do what I oan.”
Before the Captain oonld say more,
Grant, Balston and Ayer made their ap-
pearanoe, and Kathleen, with a supplica
ting look, withdrew.
“Works well, by Jove 1 Here, already,
eh? Well, that is good.”
“Yes, Balston, bnt she,oame to beg tor
this fellow's release.”
“Oh, hnmor her; she’ll forget him in e
month. Bnt send this Dan Caspin off at
onct, if yon want peaoe.”
“Do it, by all means. A batoh goes to
Dnblin to-night; we esn send him along,”
urged Grant, who had examined Gas-
pin, and passed him is having ths pbysioal
standard of perfection required in a sol
dier.
“Very well, let it be done,” said Core,
anxious to be shown the way ont of his
trouble.
So while Kathleen was going to the
barraoks to see Den, the order WAS being
made ont to Bend him sway that night.”
CHAPTUB IV.
IN THE MOUNTAIN*
Denny Keely, who had gone beyond
the lake to acquaint Kathleen Brehan with
tbe misfortunes of Dan Caspin, did not
wait to see her off, nor retnm to Loug-
hres in hia boat. Harrying ont be
turned his fsoe to the great wall of tower
ing hills, and bracing himself for a teak
that required for its exeontion all his ac
tivity and strength,he pasaad np Brehan’s
valley and began the asoent. The valley
road was soon lost, and bis oonrse now
ran slung and up ths rooky wall of the
mountain by a path so narrow, and
fliuUcd by precipice*, ao unnerving that
it would seem impossible for any creature
bnt a goat to have made tbe path of
traversed it afterwards. Denny Keely
did not eeem to heed this, and to Larry
Brehan, who waa plowing in the fields far
below, the youth looked like a fly crawly
iug along the perpendionlar face of the
rocks. The old man wus not alarmed at
the position of Lie young friend, bnt all
his curiosity was exoited to learn tbe ob T
jeet of Deuny'a mission. “They boys
d m’t go np there in the daylight unless
there’s somethin' strange afloat. Mnsha
Heaveu help us! it’s a bard thing fur ths
ho shonld be peaeefnlly tiilsn’ the
was oonflnsd—Dan Caspin, than whom
do then was more beloved in all the
country ronnd.
“We'll save him yit in spite of ye!”
said Denny, as he shook hia eitnehed
hand in the direction of the berraoks;
end then, as if sparred into notion by hit
own words, he turned end descended the
opposite side of the mountain, only to
fsoe another by a ronte equally difflonlt.
Paths crossed his coarse in oonfasiou in-
sxtriCable, bat the youth never hesitated.
He had evidently traversed the mountains
So often as to be perfectly familiar with
all their features.
Danny Ke«ly mast hnve been traveling
over throe hours, when he suddenly found
himself on the brink of n little bowl-
shaped valley,into whioh, like gateways,
opened great black rifts in the mountain
rock. Peering in the volley carefully—it
waa about en sore end n half in extent—
he beoame satisfied it would be prudent
todesoend. With e light, qniok step he
entered the valley through one of the
rifts; though all tbe snrroondinga were
against the possibility of human beings
liviqg near by—indeed, for ought there
wet to remind the spectator of men, Den
ny Keely might have been the first
human being that ever set eye* on this
wild and desolate place*.
Standing in the oentro of the valley,
Denny gave e low, plaintive whistle, end
waiting, he soon heard an answer, earn
ing ipparently from the heart of the
mountain. Turning, be entered another
rift in the aide of which e dark cavernous
apses opened, this he entered and rapped
on a groat atone that blocked his way.
The stone was rolled back by some foroe
inside, and the youth entered the oavern
where by the light of tbe tiro in the far
ther end he saw a doxen men lying or
standing around.
“What brings you here at this time of
day, Denny Keely,” asked a tail, swarthy
looking yonng man, who emerging from
the darkness, laid his hand on the youth's
shoulder.
Denny was not startled, at least his
voioe did not show it se he answored,
“I oame, Mike Delauey, to get assist
ance for Dan Oaapin.”
“For Dan Caspin ?” shouted the men,
leaping to their feet and gathering about
the meeaenger.
Yis, for Dan Caspin. Its himsel
needs all the aid his friends oan give him
this day.”
“Don't atop! tell it ont, man!” said
Mike Delauy"Hr lift arse voice.
“They got him nnder the liquor yester
day, an' faith they bated him.”
“Listed him ?”
“Yes, faith, an they say they'll alnd
him to Injy. It'll kill Kathleen, an the
oold people will die if they're only sup
port goes from tbim.”
There were mattering onrses and low
threatening whispers for a time; then
Hike asked:
“Who did this?”
“Snllivan, tbe thriator.”
“Ths enrse of tbe poor be on him
Bnt tell me, Dinny, wonld he escape if
we made him an opening ?"
“Faith, wonld he, though be tost bis
life tbryin.”
“Whin do they intind taken him off ?'
“I don’t know, bnt It'll be dan to-night,
I'm sir tin."
“Kin yon git back an have a word with
him ?”
“HI oan’t spake, I kin send them that
esn.”
“Then back with ye, end say we’ll be
on tbe Ballinaaloe road to-night, and to
be ready for the signal. He must pertind
ha's willin’ to go with thim, and we’ll get
tbim off their gnard.” Denny was about
to tarn bsek at onoe in his eagerness, bnt
his host insisted on bis taking some re-
froshments.
Mike Delaney was an aoknowladged
outlaw, and there waa a prioe on hia head,
With bis equally outcast companions be
lived in the mountains, sustaining him
self and band by illicit distilling, and oc
casional forays on tbe fields and larders
of the wealthy landlords. He waa a bold,
desperate man, and though banted again
and again by tbe troops, he had eluded
their pursuit, and at times turned in some
defile to do blttle. He bad osase (or the
erimes whioh he committed, as we will
see as we go on in this narration.
over his oondltion he made up his mind
that so long ns Cod gave him strength
he shonld never conrt again ths demon
of strong drink. Bnt above all thoughts
of reformation, ever present in bis mind
was ths image of Kathleen and ths won
der at what she wonld think when she
ronnd hs waa enlisted,and in ths service of
the government hs had ever protended to
despise.
While Dsn was thinking over this mat
ter, n man earns to the guard room door,
and looking in, he said:
“Ia Dan Caspin bars ?"
“He is,” replied Dan, robbing his eyas
and looking np. *
‘Thin if hs is hero, there's e lady
waitin to see him.”
“Who is she ?"
“I don't know, but yon oan tall for
yersel whin ye see her,” said the corporal.
“Very well, I’m ready and waitin."
The oorporal, in his firm way, oame to
right-about, and soon after appeared,
leading to the door Kathleen Brehan.
One glan'oe told Dan who hia viaitor
was, and the moment hs was satisfied on
this point, he bnried hia fsoe In his hands
Mil with shame, and waited for hia vis
itor to apeak.
“Dsn, I never thought to see ye hero,”
said Kathleen, in her low, plaintive
voioe.
“Nor did I ever think to be hero,
aonahla.”
“Yer enlisted, Dsn ?"
“They say so, Katbiean; though its
inesel has no mimry of ths set."
“Are ye willen to go ‘way an' serve the
flag of England ?”
“No, darlin. I'd rather stay near the
sod ye step on an' die.”
As Dsn spoke he never looked up, but
sat with his fees bnried in his hands, as
be had ths night before at tbe Boyal
Inn.
“The ould people will miss ye, Dan,
an' there ia thim as would die for ye
that'll miss ye, too.”
‘I know it, Kathleen, sgrsh, an’ I’m to
blame; bnt I’ll never lavs tbe island
without thim, Co 'way, Kathleen, yer
bnakin’ me heart, Jlo 'way an' aay to
the father an' mother that Dan made a
mistake whin tbe liquor in his head druv
tbim that he loved from bis heart. Bnt
say more, msvonrneen—ssy that Dsn will
never lave wlthont thim. Co back,
Kathleen, an' lave tbe rest to me.”
She took his long mnsonlsr band in
tier's'so plump and soft, and the recruit
felt the hot tears falling on it and the
thrilling pressure of soft lips on his fin
gers, end he heard her say aa aha roaa -.
Til save ye, Dan, with tbe bleuin' of
the Vargin.”
The Oorporal stood without the door,
and a eonple of drunken recruits lay near
by on the wooden benohes, bnt Dsn for
got them, forgot bis own position as he
sprung from his asst snd throw his Btrong
arms about ths girl before him.
“Oh Kathleen! if I was only sure ya
loved ms or thought anything of ms be
fore, I wouldn't bsvs made a mistake.”
He seemed like a ehild before her, and she,
poor girl, prepared for the worst, seemed
like an angel,
“Don't blame yersel’ Dan ; bat for the
sake of thim that’s dependin' on ys I'll
save ye with Heaven’s, help.” Again Dau
felt tbe soft lip snd hot tsars on his hand,
snd before he oonld make reply Kathleen
had turned from the room and passed be
yond the guard.
It ia easy to say whet yon or I would
have done, particularly as we cannot ap
preciate the surroundings, if we could
aud wore in Dan’s Gaspin’s place. Like
him we wonld lie on the wooden bunoh
and tieg heaven for tears lo qneneb onr
hot eyes and bnrniDg heart, nor think of
esoape.
[TO BE CONTINUED.]
KELLOGG AND HIS VAMPIRES.
Warns oth and Kalian Contras tad.
NORTON AND HIS PUPPET.
THE NEW ORLEANS POLICE.
Kalian 1st (pagan with Penitentiary
Coavlcta.
ETC., ETC., BTC., ETC.
[nOM OUB OWN OOBBBSFOND1NT. J
A New Invention.—Chemical armor
for bank vaults is time described : Tbe
moat important invention is the obemiosl
armor for bank vaults. Air obambere of
thin metal, either entire or aeotional for
shipment, line tbe interior of tbe vault on
every side snd at the tojhaud bottom, also
the door and safe. These metallio otasin-
bers are filled with long tubes of glass,
Naw Orleans, May 16, 1874.
There Is a ray of hope for wronged and
down-trodden Louisiana. The eoneervs.
tive oitixens, who number in thsir ranks
ail those opposed to Kellogg end hia crew
of vampires, are st least afforded a ohanoe
to partially redeem the State, and to erip-
ple the power of the Illinois adventurer
whom an ill wind hat blown down to Lou
isiana to bligbtaa bar prosperity and to
befqnl her eaentoheon. This hope-engen
dering sign is to be found in quite e
BIBIOUB SPLIT IN Tax DOMINANT PAXTT,
whioh, in its petty quarrels snd fights
over ths spoils of office, is fast losing Its
—not at all enviable—prestige and that
adhesiveness whioh made it a formidable
foe. With all his low gunning and Irlok-
ery, Kellogg has proven a poor party
manager, aud nnlike his predecessor,
Warmoth, is far from being a master of
the art of keeping a parly organisation
well in hand by harmonizing tis several
parts into well disciplined co-ordinate di-,
visions. From a moral point of view
there is denoed little difference bet wten
Warmoth and Kellogg, both bsliig alike
unscrupulous when it ootnes to mailer* of
dollars and cents ; but Warwoth, with ali
his raaoelity, was a master mind in the
political arena, foil of pluck, and pos
sessed of an iron grip, while Kellogg is s
moral oowerd end uai row-winded, where
Warmoth was public-spirited. The secret
of Warmotb's power aud of bis gradually
conciliating tbe masses of tb* white peo
ple to bis role is chiefly to be found in
the faot that he was always on ths ag
gressive, never faltering, never halting,
and with unequalled whim overriding all
obstacles when one or the other of his
schemes was to be realized. Kellogg,
owing to his weakness snd his abortive
attempts to please every one, without
snoeeedlng in winning the good opinion
of any decent man, cannot afford to be
aggressive, snd is always kept on tho de
fensive. I do not wish that these remarks
be construed into an apology for War-
moth. I am far from even attempting to
whitewash his offloiai obsraoter. The
foregoing remarks are only offered by
way of drawing a parallel between the
two “Governors” furnished by Illinois.
And to cpntinne this illustration, I mast
mention that Warmoth knew only oue
master, and that master was Warmoth 1
He was an out-and-out autoorat, snd his
brain capacity is sneb that be conld afford
to be an antoerat, Kellogg, on the other
hand, while attempting to play tbe auto
crat, only anceeeda In cutting a ludiorons
figure In sneh a role. He has not the
moral courage of bis predecessor lo shako
off thoso who choose to oonstitnte them
selves his masters, nor can bo, in hie pro-
oarions position, afford to give them their
walking-papers io the aame independent
aud devil-only-oaro manner as Warmoth
did whenever he had s mind to, A scene
whioh oconrred in the Ezeontive obamber
soma time laHfnmmer oouies to my mind,
now that I am contrasting the iwo “Gov
ernors.” It shows
easily, aud shaking hia long, bony finger
in Kellogg's faoe, he anarled:
“Murderyon! Who the dovil thinks
it worth while to murder a contemptible
pappy Uko yon 1 Look here"—nnd Nor
ton abook hia finger in dangerous prox
imity toKellogg’s note—“you have lied to
mo twioe regarding this bill, and I will be
if yon shall tie to me the third
time 1”
“But, Norton, wait only a few days."
“I want this bill signed right off; do
yon heat? No dodging it."
And the bill was signed snd the appoint,
ments under it made, in saoordsnoe with
the wishes of Judge DareU's henchman.
My informant in this matter ia Mr. J.
B. Wanda, n member of the last snd the
previons Legislature, snd at present tax
collector for Tangipahoa parish, whioh
latter position was given him about two
months ago as hash-money in e certain
affair, whioh will be fully ventilated in
some snbseqaent letter, Mr. Mbauds wit
nessed the soene between Kellogg snd
Norton in an adjoining room, tho door
leading into Kellogg's private offioo stand
ing ajar.
The readers of the Enouibeb-Sun can
draw their own inferenoe from tbe charac
ter of a “ohief magistrate" who permits
any one to address him in ths manner of
Hr, Norton; bat what do they think of n
“Gobernor" who roornits hia
tended to fifty or sixty of our Btate Peni
tentiary convicts. Bines their enlarge
ment, burglary, robbery and anon havo
become almost nightly occurrences, and
until they have again been retired by the
solemn ediot of society, ao household in
Now Orleans can be considered safe.”
snd then lead pipes eootaining alternately
io
land to-day, to be hiden’ in tbs mountains
from tbim os has driven ’em from house
an’ borne, and set a prioe on their heads. ’
Larry Brehan wiped bis forehead snd
turned bis horses baok on another farrow.
He felt, ss did tbs people of tho whole
island that spring, that not one moment
was to be lost in work, nor one foot of
lsmi that would prodnee be left nnonlti-
vated ; and aa tho potato was tho most
proliflo crop—food for man and boost, as
it were—the smaller formers felt that it
wa9, ia some way, a waste of land and
labor to plant anything but potatoes.
Tbe season promised well, and the people
working in the fields were bopefol. Let
them be happy in their toil. It is not for
me io anticipate, but rather faithfully to
record tbe aots of those in whom we are
interested.
Denny Keely seemed never to tire. Up
and on be kept till ho had gained a point,
where stopping for a moment to rest, ho
could see the lake apparently st his feet,
the farm houses like white dots, snd the
town away beyond with *its spires, and in
tbe baok-gronnd ths reload castle nnd ths
wide streteh of bog. Tho beauty of the
scene affected him not, and the only
building in tbe town that ha notleed was
tbs long white barraoks by tbs lake—the
barraoks in whioh ha knew Daa Caspin
CHAPTER V.
THAT NICiHT.
Kathleen Brehan had no trouble in
gaining admittance to tbe barraoks where
Dsn Caspin with a score more renraits
had tbe nominal freedom from the red-coat
ed soldiers who were lounging about.
But they were as secure as if they bad
been ironed aud in juil, for tbe armed
guards stood at ths gates and every pos
sible approach lo the building. Tbe
plaoe called “the sutlers” in the Ameri
can army, has a corresponding establish
ment known as tbe oanteen in the British
aervioe,and in a room close to the oanteen
the recruits were kept. Liquor had been
sent in abundance, and every man drank
to drown hia feelings but one, and that
one was Dan Caspin, From the early
dawn be recognised snd appreciated bis
position, snd be resolved that tbe trap
laid to ensnare should not be used to de
tain him if he saw a possible ohanoe for
escape.
The barraoks at Longhrea never held a
more unhappy man than this, snd hs
blamed only himself for tbe unfortunate
position in whioh he was plsoed. Hs had
been overpowered by thstoorse of bis na
tion—strong drink, snd ss hs lay on tho
bench in tho guard-room and thought
either sulphnrio acid or bicarbonate of so
da in solntion. In breaking into tbe
vault, on either side, top or bottom, a
dozen or more of these fragile reoeptaoles
mast neoesssrily bo freotured, and it
is ao arranged that the dislodged contents
must run into tbe vanlt,' and there, unit
ing in tbe trough, receiving them, from
oarbonio aoid gas. Tbe gas begins to ax-
pel tbe vital atmosphere from tbe floor
upwards, until tbe vault is fall of the
deadly vapor, and no oxygen is left. Of
oonrse, being heavier than the atmos
phere, the oarbonio gas oannot leave tbe
vanlt uotil an opening be made on a level
with tbe floor. It follows that the bur
glar who shonld rashly venture into a
vault so impregnated, by bis own aot,
wonld never leave it alive. The obemiosl
armor of an ordinary sage vault coats
about $500. This, it ia claimed, wonld
have saved tbe Qninoy bank $1110,000.
A Betibed 1’iiyhichn writes:—“How
does it happen that amid the everlasting
ery against drunkenness, we nevor hear a
word against its sister evil glutton;? I
think I oan assert with troth that in a long
practice, three have died among my pa
tients from over-eating, where one has
died from drink. Whence come apoplexy,
paralysis, dyspepsia, and a host of other
diseases, but from too mnch and too rich
food taken nnder the moat imprudent cir
cumstances, And yet we hear of no so
ciety formed to prevent this growing
vice. A man cals until he drops down
and expires with apoplexy by the road
side, when np domes tbe ooroner with a
jury of twelve good men and true, who
pronounce a verdict, ‘Died from intempe
rance.’ So he did. Bnt what kind of
intemperance waa it? I have beard more
than one minister in the pulpit expatiate
with great vehemence against tbs ein of
drunkenness, whose very appearance was
proof positive that he was pre-eminently
guilty of gluttony.”
HOW BILLS ABE SIONID.
The Legislature of 1878 bed passed an
sot abolishing the six Keoorder Conrts
(polios oonrts) in the oity of New Orleans,
and creating in their stead four municipal
polios courts, with a much more cornpli-
plioated and vastly more expensive ma
chinery. The lteoordera, or “police
magistrates, "as they are styled elsewhere,
were previons to 18611 eleetive officers; in
1861) the City Oonocil was given tbe right
to appoint them. Tbe new bill abolish
ing the old Beoorder Courts gave tbe Gov-
nor tbe right to appuint the several po
lios magistrates, their alerks and assistant
oterks. Oreedy as Kellogg is, he cer
tainly liked this increase of Executive
patronage, bnt he was afraid to sign and
promulgate tbe bill, as public indignation
at that time ran very high, and ths pro
mulgation of a law increasing the city’s
expenditures, and putting men into office
obnoxions to the great majority of tbe
poople, wonld have added fuel to the fire.
It appears, however, that E. E. Norton,
Dnrell's partner in bankrupt eases and hia
companion in draukeu sprees, was inter
ested in this police court bill. Several of
Durell and Norton's friends were to be
provided for, aud tbe new courts affoided
convenient berths. Norton had Kellogg’s
promise that the bill wonld be promul
gated, bnt the promise was not kept. So
one fine day Norton drives down to the
St. Lonis Hotel, where the Ezeontive
uflloe was then located, and oonfronts
Kellogg in this approved style:
“Kellogg, have you signed the police
oourt bill ?"
“Well, Norton, hadn't we better weit ?
Yon see the people ere so excited that
they might mnrder me, ‘ stammered the
weak-kneed Kellogg.
Bnt Norton was not to be got rid of ao
BUPFOBTBM FROM THE PIN1TXNTIARX,
and has to look for adherents among
thieves, burglars and murderers 1 This
remark look* certainly strange to people
who Uve nnder a well-regulated State gov
ernment as the people of Oeorgia do un
der the excellent administration of Gov.
Smith, and would assuredly not be credi
ted were I not to furnish proofs—irrefu
table proof*—for my assertion. Onr con
dition here ia a strange anomaly as com
pared with the stato of publio affairs in
other aeotions of tbo country. Taka, as
illustrative of iny subjeot, the protection
of life and property. Yon of Columbus,
Atlanta, Savannah, etc., havo your oity
police foroe, which is under the imme
diate and sole oontrol of the municipal
authorities. Not ao in New Orleans. Onr
police force ia paid by tho oity, bnt is
beyond the oontrol of the oity authori
ties. We have a board of polioe commis
sioners, appointed by the Oovemor, and
this board, noting nnder instructions of
the Ezeontive, has the sole and exalusivo
oontrol of pfi*p* affaire. A police com
missioner has to be a strong Kellogg par
tisan, and the men appointed by the po
lice board for polioe dnty have, nolens
nolens, to be blind party tools. In addi
tiou to the appointive power, the Kellogg
board of polioe commissioners has also
the right to issue negotiable paper paya
ble to the oity and receivable for oity
taxes and lloem-ur, “provided”—I quote
the law—“that Hie segregate of said war
rants, ohacka < c order* ao received in
eaoh current year shall not exceed the
amount of the apportionment made by
the board of Metropolitan Police Com
missioners.” Yon will obaerve from the
wording of this model law, that the Po
lios Commissioners themselves make tho
apportionment for the annual expend!
tares of the police department. This
apportionment the oity ia oompolled to
acoept, and to levy and collect a tax for
that purpose. The apportionment for
New Orleans this year waa originally a
fraction over eight hnndred thousand
dollars, whioh waa justly considered out
rageously high, and was, after much
botheration, reduoed to six hnndred and
some odd thousand dollars, which ia still
fully double the amount of what the po
lios department* of Bt. Louis, Cincinnati
and other oitiea of doable the eizeof New
Orleans expend for the same purpose.
Iniquitous as was the police law under
the Warmoth administration, Kellogg
orowned the wloked work of hie prede
cessor by induoing the Legislature, short
ly after bis usurping the Btate govern
ment, to pa*s an aot supplementary to
police law, and which amendatory act
gives tho Oovernor the power to call the
New Orleans polioe furue ont on military
duty and to send them marauding into
interior parishes whenever he has a mind
to, tbe city of New Orleans to foot the
bills of such excursions, and the city, as
this has been the case several times, be
ing left without an adequate police force.
Fally one-sixth of the total number of
men on the police pny rolls are individu.
ala who do no polioe duty whatever, but
are thus provided for in considers'iou of
political services—dead-heads aud dead-
boats paid out of tbe oity treoeury.
wise and consistent arrangement, to be
sure! In brief, New Orleans, of all the
oitiee of Ihc Union, is the most expen
sively and alHO the most inefficiontly po
liced oily. Never in the history of New
Orleans has
CRIME INCREASED
at so fearful a rate tfian at tho present
time, and this sad state of affairs
owing to the above enumerated oauses
not leas than to the issuing of
pardons' AT WHOLESALE BY KKLLOOO,
who fndireotly admits, as I will presently
show, that bo thus recruits his support-
era. Within a comparatively sliorl time
between fifty and sixty noted oriulinals
have been turned loose upon tho commu
nity by their confederate in the Guberna
torial ohair. So great has become tho in
dignation at this jail delivery, that even
the New Orleans Times, which journal
a strong apologist of tbe Kellogg usurps
tion, bad to give voioe to outraged put:
Uo feeling:
“In illustration of the neoessity of pru
dence and of tha miaohief whioh a few
man oan prodace either in political
moral falony, we may point to the reanlts
of a miscalled executive clemency ex-
Kollogg, not finding the Times’ com
mentary and the remarks of other jour
nals on this subject, to his Hklbg,
comes out with an Exeontiv* letter of a
column in length,in whioh he lngiorionaly
fails to Bet himsel!- right. In fact ha
ooramits quite a blander by blandly Ha
ting over hia own signature that “quite a
number whose term of sentence had ex
pired, or nearly eo, and who, their Of-
fenoes not being each as to reader them
unfl j to dieoherge the dntiee of citizen
ship were pardoned, fn order that they
might be restored to their eitil right* af
ter they had undergone the penalty which
the law imposed upon them for their of
fences. ”
“In order that they might be restored
to their civil righla"—in order that they
might be made available tools for jwliti-
oal knavery!
The oity is full of thieves and mur
derers, and I wonld advise my Oeorgia
friends to be on their gnard
whenever they visit New Orleans.
Notwithstanding, however, the sad state
of affaire prevailing in New Orleans, end
all throngh Louisiana, there is, as I said
in tha beginning of this latter, a toy of
hope, and .
Louisiana's bidemption
not an Utopian dream. How Louisiana
can be redeemed and Kellogg forever
crippled, will be the subject of my next
letter. Videtti.
th glycerine
and a few drops of oil of oinnaufln added,
tha taste of castor-oil can aoareely be
reoognized.
1’owEB or ExpLoaivaa.— Some experi
ments made in a Carman iron mine,ml
Hamm, to ascertain the relative effioienoy
of powder end some of the nitro-glyoer-
ine compounds for bleating, gave tbe fol
lowing reanlte: Ordinary saltpetro gun
powder, 1 unit of foroe; extra bast pow
der, with exoaaa of saltpetre and cherry-
tree charcoal, 8 units; dunlin, 5 units;
lilhofraotour, 8 unite; oolonia powder—a
kind of powder saturated with 80. to 86
per oent. of nitro-glyoarine—6 to 6 unite;
dynamite, 6 to 7 unite. It wilt be seen
that dynamite far exceeds the others in
power, and its use is displacing theira in
German mines.
Anii.ine Colobs.—Frofsasor Kopp, who
has recently wade e oareful study of the
aniline odors at the Vienne Exposition,
says that tbe mannfaetnre of theaa pig-
MHEffTMTO ROTES.
ments f|om ooal tar predacts is making
most remarkable progress. _ Fnchaia,
constituted by a salt of toaaailine, ia ob
tained exclusively by tha reaction of er-
seuio aoid on eommereial aniline. In or
der to afford en idea of the eaormone
ooosnoiption of thia violent poison ia the
manufacture of faehsin, it is stalrd that
iu Germany alone tha same ia eetimatod
at 8.800,000 pounds a year, It is,only
lately that the reaidaea have bean treated
to regain tbe areapio in oommendal form.
M. Kopp mentions, aa a novelty a beauti
ful rose-red ooloriog matter oolled eaffro-
nine, wbiob, upon silk, is e very brilliant
dye.
Facts Oonoebnino Gold An Silver.—
The vigorous measures whioh have been
adopted by the Seoretary of the Treaanry
for the purpose of bringing abont the re
sumption of apeoie payments render the
following notes by. Frof. J. F. L. Seta ti
mer, Superintendent of the Branoh Hint
at Denver, Colorado, vary interesting,
One ton (2,060 pounds avoirdupois) of
gold or silver oontain* 29,168 troy onnoee,
snd therefor* tbe value of p too of pure
gold is $002,799 21, pod a ton of Oliver
$87,704 81. A oubio foot of para gold
weighs 12,187.6 pounds avoirdupois; a
outdo foot of pure'silver weighs' 068. ft
pounds uvoirdupois. One million l
. , . in dollar*
gold ooiu weigh* 8,686.8 pounds avoirdu
pois ; $100,060 silver coin weigh* 68,988,9
pounds avoirdupois. If there i* one Mr
cent, of gold or silver in * ton of ore, it
contains 291.68 ounoes of troy, of either
of these metalR. The average fineness of
the Colorado gold is 781 in 1000, and the
natural alloy ; gold 781, silver 200, pop
per 10 ; total 1000.
A New Fuel — We leero from the New
York Journal of Commeret that there whs
recently plaoed upon tbe market * Mtr
fuel known aa carbonite, similar in rise of
lumps aud external appearauoe to oanpel
ooal. When broken, the surface fractured
is said to bo dull, instead of glossy, like
anthracite or oaoncl coals. It Uotllaa
readily, burns with clear, bright flame,
almost without smoke, and then crumble*
into a bed of red coals, whioh diffusa a
steady heat, somewhat lest intense than
that of anthracite, but lasting longer.
On tbe test made by dividing a grate
throngh the oentro and putting anthra
cite on one side end carbonite on tbe
other, with equal draft, the entbraelt*
tiro lasted eighteen hoars end the csrbo-
nite thirty-six. It comes from the mines
of the James Uiver Goal Company, situ
ated on the north aide of th* Jamas river,
twelve miles west of Biobuood. Tbe
veins havo been traced more then two
miles in length, nnd range from four and
fuur and e half feet to eleven feet in
thickness.
Pbesebvation or the Tmrrn.—Bow-
ditch, in examining the. teeth of forty
persona of .different professions, and liv
ing different kinds of life, found in al
most ali vegetable and animal parasites,
Tbe varasites were nnmerona in propor
tion to tbe negleot of oleanlineaa. The
means ordinarily employed to elean th*
teeth had uo effect on tbe parasites,
whilst soapy water appeared to destroy
them. If this (says the Janeet) be a tree
version of the cause of caries—the action
of acids, supplemented by the action of
fttugi—then it follows that the great
means of saving teeth is to preserve fits
most scrupulous cleanliness of tb* month
and teeth, and to give to the r'nsiog
liquids a slightly alkaline character, which
is done by the mixture of a little soap.
Thia is not so pleasant a deutriflooes
some, but it is effective end '
Aoids not only dissolve the «a , „
teeth, but favor tho ieereaa* of tiff J
of tbe month. No increase of faity
no action ou tbe dental
eolations slightly alkaline, SMh as p <
solution of soap. Tb* good "
stopping teeth, IB the light of i
ments, are intelligible. The I
of aside and fang! ie pet
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