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HOY^ ^ OO.v Proprietors. ANDERSON C. H., S. 0., THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 27, 1873. VOLUME IX.?NO. 21.
A Leaf from a lawyer's. Diary.
i [The following graphic andremarabie narra?
tive has-been obtained by us from a prominent
lawyer in one of the Eastern Kentucky coun?
ties. The facts in it have not before been pub?
lished, but for their entire accuracy the repu?
tation of the writer will vouch.?Ed. Coceiee
In 1S65 I was the State's attorney in the
judicial district in the State of Kentucky.
I had gone to the county of O?, one of
the counties in the district, for the purpose of
being present in the prosecution of the crimi?
nals. There had been no court held in that
county since 1861,'owing to the civil war. I
found everything in the worst confusion possi?
ble 'Men had been murdered in cold blood,
and nothing was done with them. Murder,
arson, robbery, and all the crimes in the cata?
logue, had been committed with impunity, and
the malefactors had goneuuwhipped of iostice,
owing to the absence of law. During the war
everything was in anarchy; there was neither
safty to women nor innocent children?all
suffered alike. When it was known that there
would be a.circuit court held in that county,
the news attracted a very large crowd. >
On Monday morning, November 8, 1865, I
found a large crowd in B-^?, the county seat
of O-. ??< Meuy: women and children . came,
some the distance, of thirty miles. Guerrillas
and bushwhackers came with their guns and
pistols, as though they intended to overawe the
court, and determined that none of their gang
should be indicted for the numerous murders
of which they had been guilty. Court opened,
and the sheriff returned his list of a grand I
jury. The court instructed them as to their
duty; they were sworn and sent to their room, j
I had determined in'my own mind that every
person that had been guil ty of a felony or mis
demeanor in O-county should be regularly ,
indicted,if I could in any way obtain the evi
dence against them. . .
: There was.a case that was shrouded in mys?
tery. A young man, who was the pride of a
widowed mother, had suddenly disappeared
from the county about two years before, and
had never been heard from. His name was
Charles Belknap; he was an only child; hand?
some, finely educated, and as brave as a lion.
I made diligent inquiry. I had about one hun?
dred witnesses summoned. I examined them
closely, and when I dismissed them I warned
them to tell no one what transpired in the
grand jury room. - In that way I hoped to
Keep the real murderers in the dark as to what
I was doing.
I could only gather the following circum?
stances in the case: That young Belknap bad
left his home in June, 1863, and was riding a
very fine horse, with $1,500 in his possession.
He failed to return at nignt, and his mother
became very uneasy about him, aud the next
morning set out to make inquiries concerning
him. She went to the house of 'Squire Mosely,
who lived about five miles from her, a leading
man in -the county, and told ? her story, and
made inquiries concerning, her son. The!
'Squire told her that her son was at his bouse
the day before, and left in the direction of the.
town of B??; that he left about 10 o'clock;
in the morning. This was all she could hear
of him. 'No one else had seen him, and she
returned home a broken-hearted mother. She
made inquiries of every person ; every stran?
ger that passed was interrogated, but all in
vain. She still kept up the search for her
missing-boy, and about twelve months after be
had^so mysteriously disappeared^ she was re
KmiingTiome" from one of he'r ^searcKST ind
met 'Squire Mosely.' The 'Squire told her he
had heard from her boy; that he was in Iowa.
He had received a letter from him, and that he
would be at home soon ; that he had left the
letter at home, &a Mrs. Belknap went direct?
ly to the 'Squire's house, without communica?
ting her intention to him, and inquired of the
family for the letter that the 'Squire bad re?
ceived from her long lost boy. The family
-seemed surprised, and knew nothing about
such a letter having been received.
This was all the evidence I could get as to
l;he~probable fate of her son. What' was T to
do? I went to my room and studied over the
matter. How could I say that young Belknap
had been murdered ? His body had not been
found; and who would dare to accuse 'Squire
Mosely of such a crime? I lay in my bed that
night thinking over the circumstances, and it
was near four o'clock in the morning when I
fell asleep. I slept until eight o'clock, I got
up, washed and dressed myself, fully deter?
mined to indict 'Squire Mosely for the crime
of murder. I went to the grand jury room,
. directly after eating a hearty breakfast. I told
- the foreman what my intentions were. I drew
up the indictment;, accusing 'Squire Mosely of
the crime of murder, committed as follows,
viz : The said 'Squire Mosely, on the ? day
of August, 1863, in the county of 0-, did
feloniously and with malice aforethought kill
and murder Charles Belknap by shooting him
with a gun loaded witb a leaden bullet, against
the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth
of Kentucky. I presented the indictment to
the grand jury, and they indorsed it a true
bill. I cautioned the members of the jury to
say nothing about what we had done, but to
keep the whole thing secret, p.nd if before the
court adjourned nothing turned up to fix the
.crime on the 'Squire, that we could destroy the
.indictment. The grand jury found indictments
against eighteen persons .for murder, and so
secretly was it managed (hat the sheriff had
' them all in jail at once.
The indicting of so many persons naturally
froduced great excitement among the citizens,
went to my room that night and double
locked my door, examined my pistol and put
it under the bead of my bed. About 12
o'clock I heard a knock at my door; I deman?
ded to know who was there. A person an?
swered, aa friend." I got up, lit a lamp, took
. my pistol in my hand and opened the door. A
stranger stepped in. I closed the door and de?
manded his business. He seemed very much
frightened, and casting a hasty glance around
the room to satisfy himself that there was no
other person in the room except myself, he
told me that his name was Colby, and stated
that he wanted to communicate a very impor?
tant fact to me concerning the fate of young
Belknap. I told him to proceed. He wanted
to know whether he could turn State's evi?
dence or not and save himself. I replied in the
affirmative. He then told me that he knew
where young iteiknap v/as buried, that 'Squire
Mosely had killed him, had got $1,500 from
his person, and had rnn Belknap's horse off
and sold him to some Confederate -soldiers, and
that he bad assisted Mosely in burying Belk?
nap. I told Colby to keep his seat in my
room, that be shot/la not be>hurt; and I went
out, hunted up the sheriff and told him to get
eight or ten reliable men and bring them to
my room. He did so. I then took the Sheriff
and Colby iuto a room, arid made Colby repeat
his story over to that officer. I then directed
the Sheriff uo procure a sack and take Colby
and the men he had brought with him, and go
and get the bones of young Belknap and bring
them to my room that night. The Sheriff did
us I directed him.
When court convened the next morning,
and as I stepped into the court-room, 'Squire
Mosely was the first man I saw. I had the
grand jury called, and they presented the in?
dictment againt 'Squire Mosely for murder.
People looked at one another in blank amaze?
ment, and looked incredulous. TSquire Mose?
ly marched up to tfte bar and demanded a trial
then; that the charge waB a base fabrication
and false. I whispered to the Sheriff to bring
in the sack. He aid so. I told him to empty
the contents on a bench in front of 'Squire
Mosely; and as the bones of the murdered man
fell ont upon the bench, they seemed to sound
the death-knell of the accused man. Helook
ed the picture of despair, and dropped in his
seat and covered his face with his hands. I
announced to the court that all that was mortal
of Charles Belknap was then in court, and I
was ready to proceed with the trial.
Excitement ran high, the mob shrieked and
howled "Hang him! hang him I" and the
court was powerless to protect the miserable
man. The mob, with the mother of young
Charles Belknap at their head, forcibly took
the trembling culprit out of the custody of the
Sheriff, and hung him to a limb of the nearest
tree. Before he swung off he acknowledged
his guilt.
And as I passed by his lifeless form swinging
from the limb of that tree, I was forcibly re?
minded of i the legal phrase, "Murder will out."
"Honest John" and his Brother-in-Law.
The correspondent of the Charleston News
and Courier furnishes the particulars of an in?
teresting squabble between Senator Patterson
and a brother-in-law of that distinguished pa?
triot.:
Columbia, November 17.
The arrest of jDr. T. J. Moore, a brother-in
law and quondam bosom friend of John J.
Patterson, upon a charge of forgery, has ex?
cited no little surprise and comment. Thr.re
is, it is generally believed, some much more
potent cause for the unbrotberly action of
Patterson than the fact that Moore may have
taken some little liberties with his name during
his absence. The arrest was made late on
Saturday afternoon, and the prisoner hurried
off so rapidly and quietly to jail that scarce a
whisper of the transaction got afloat until yes?
terday. Bichmond, who was Patterson's faith?
ful judge in the days when a judge of an ac?
commodating disposition was sorely needed,
had the warrant served upon Moore, and on
alleged default of two thousand dollars bail,
though Moore^isserts that he brought two good
bondsmen, and could have brought others bad
time been allowed him, committed him to jail,
and appointed to-morrow morning, at ten
o'clock, for the investigation of the case.
Fillebrow ne, who it is said discounted a note
in September last for Moore, which note pur?
ported to be endorsed by Patterson, but the
signature of which Patterson now denies, is
the ostensible prosecutor. It is manifest, how?
ever, that Patterson is the real party in inter?
est, for he was present at Richmond's office
when Moore was arraigned, and persons who
were there tell me that Bichmona would ad?
dress inquiries to Patterson about the case,
and in various ways it was evident that he,
Patterson, had instituted the proceedings. I
called yesterday at the jail and nad a talk with
Moore. He was uncommunicative in relation
to the facts of bis case, being, he said, in?
structed by his counsel to make no statements
whatever before his trial. He is comfortably
quartered in a room with Capt. George Tupper,
laughs over his confinement, and is confident
that he will be released to-morrow and the
prosecution stopped. He thinks he knows too
much of John J. Pattersou's past history to be
rudely pushed to the wall. The truth is that
Moore and Patterson, for what reason I know
not, unless it be that Honest John imagined
that he had paid him enough for services ren?
dered, have been at dagger's point for a month
or two. Moore has recently been making
threats as to what all of rascality he knew and
meant to divulge about Patterson, and as a
strike against his sour-tempered brother-in-law
has been circulating with much assiduity copies
of the New York Hun, of the date of Novem?
ber 5, which contains a long and blasting bio?
graphical sketch of Honest John, and is said
to have been written, or the facts upon which
it is based to have been furnished, by a. j?.
McLure, the leader of the opposition to Simon
Cameron in Pennsylvania. Whether or not
Moore did forge Patterson's signature of course
cannot be definitely ascertained until the trial
of the case, but I have been told that he ad?
mits that he signed Patterson's name, justify?
ing his action upon the ground that Patterson
owed him money, and that he has frequently
done the same thing when money was scarce
and Patterson away, and that it was considered
all right in the family.
Speaking of that history of Honest John,
which appeared in the New York Sun of the
5th, reminds me of a statement I beard made in
relation thereto by ex-Gov. B. K. Scott, during
the latter part of last week. He was talking
to another gentleman in my presence, and
made no secret of what he said. Speaking of
the article in the Sun, he avowed that he be?
lieved that every word of it was strictly the
truth, except where it was asserted that he
(Scott) had given Neagle $30,000 to use for
him in the senatorial election, and that Neagle
had taken the money and used it for Patterson.
That assertion, says Scott, is only partially
true. I did not give Neagle $30,000, but I did
place in his hands $5,000 to be used in my in?
terest, and the d?d rascal took my money and
secured votes for Patterson.
A Substitute for Coffee.?Mr. Edward
Dugdale waives, for one year, his patents of a
coffee substitute. His substitute is persimmon.
He explains matters thus in the Griffin [Qu.)
News:
"My mode of preparation consists of steam?
ing the fruit for half an hour in a boiler, and
after crushing them I throw them into a tank
of water, and the seed are easily washed out,
as their own specific gravity carries them to the
bottom, and the pulp can be floated off. The
seed Bhould then bo spread out in the sun to
dry for three or four weeks, and then parched
and ground similar to any other coffee, care
being taken to have them parched sufficiently
to grind easy.
"The seed by this process can be obtaimed,
where the fruit is plenty, at a cost of about two
cents per pound, and if properly prepared, are
equal in all respects to good Java Coffee.
There is therefore a saving of at least ten dol?
lars per annum to every coffee drinker in the
State, who will take the trouble to prepare it.
"1 desire to have it used generally, and
though I have covered my inventions by pat?
ents, I feel no doubt that the people will find
their interests identified with mine whenever I
call upon them to remunerate me for my trou?
ble and expense in perfecting ray invention."
? It has been discovered that the tone of a
violin can be greatly improved by immersing
the instrument in lager beer and leaving it
there until it is thoroughly saturated. This is
a slight improvement on immersing the violin?
ist in lager beer and getting him thoroughly
saturated before playing.
The Approaching Session of Congrress*
Public opinion has already attached more
than usual importance to the session of Con?
gress to assemble at the Federal Canito] next
month. Politicians themselves, early in the
year, directed public attention to this session
as foreshadowing the men of the future and
the lines of succession in the ranks of the
dominant party. But more recent events have
fixed that attention and invoked a scrutiny,
earnest and penetrating, as to men and meas?
ures such as we have not witnessed for many
years past. The sensational qaestion undoubt?
edly will be the annexation of Cuba. The
time is opportune. Spain, rent by faction, over?
whelmed by debt, and the theatre of internecine
strife, is unequal to her own home government,
much less the subjection of foreign colonial
gossessions. The Government of the United
tetes has long desired and essayed the peace?
able acquisition of the "Key of the Gulf," and
on more than one occasion asserted, diplomati?
cally, that it would not permit the "Queen of
the Antilles" to pass from the possession of
Spain to any other European power. Just
now a "little brush" with Spain would not be
at all unpopular with the tens of thousands
who have been trained in the art and practices
of war, and are yet without distinction or
without employment.
To divert public attention from evils at home
to glory and spoils abroad might be a God-send.
To sound the trumpet of liberty in aid of the
Cuban patriots who have so long and persist?
ently and so courageously sustained their de?
mand for independence, in the face of the inexo?
rable and bloody decrees of Spanish misrule, is
just that ad cap'tandvm argument which politi?
cians just now stand so much in need. Beside
the din of its blast would shut out from the
public car the clamors of those whom, without
some such overpowering excitement, it would
be dangerous to pass unheeded, and afford
ample leisure for unobserved and unquestioned
action for retrieving lost ground in the settle?
ment or postponement of some knotty questions
which inconveniently thrust themselves for?
ward imperatively for decision. There is the
labor question, and the bank question, and
the expansion question, and the wards of
the nation, and the tariff and transporta?
tion questions, and loyal Southern govern?
ments, republican in form?all these and
many others, such as. appertain to the dis?
bursements of public moneys and the manage?
ment of the public, debt and the state of ac?
counts of certain Executive officials and favor?
ites, would be lost for time, and perhaps for
eternity, amid the excitement of war. We
shall net be surprised, therefore, to hear that
the halls of Congress, at the opening, resound
day by day with fervent eloquence in behalf of
Cuba and her patriots.
The real question which must be met, but in
which there is neither gain nor glory, is the
financial one, and, if not overshadowed, will
dig the political grave for many who now long
to serve their country in places of high distinc?
tion, ouly at their country's call. There is no
escape from the responsibilities of the situa?
tion. There can be no plea in bar for the evils
that oppress. There is no apology that will be
received in mitigation of defects in policy, de?
fects in. legislation and defects in executive
application. The masses demand relief in
prompt and effective remedies?remedies which
will restore work to the laboring man, confi?
dence to the moneyed man, and security to the
conservative man. The debtor Bees nothing
but the ruin that stares him in the face ; the
laborer, starvation in idleness; the conserva?
tive man, chronic confusion and uncertainty,
and doubt and distrust. We have had a month
of preliminary discussion in the public journals
and by leading public meo. The chiefs have
spoken. Mr. bherman says, specie payments,
not sudden, but gradually by the Government
and the banks; Mr. Wells says, let us have an
expansion in convertible bonds; Gen. Grant
says, pay out silver in driblets and establish
postal savings banks ; Mr. Low says, let Gov?
ernment redeem its notes in gold, but with a
right to re-issue them.
But it would be impossible to enumerate the
doctors or to catalogue the remedial agents.
There are advocates of expansion, and advo?
cates of contraction, advocates of free banking,
and advocates of government banking, those
who say there is no hope save in specie pay?
ments, and those who laud the greenback cur?
rency as the best this our American world, not
yet a century old, has produced in the best
government the world ever saw. Take it all
in all, we think that the next Congress, with
no lights to guide, will be forced to delay ac?
tion and appoint a Peripatetic Investigating
Committee to find out what is best to be done,
and what they ought to do, for the good of the
country and to save themselves, unless they
exploit the Cuba question.?Augusta Consiitu
tionaliit.
The Difference.?Fourteen years ago we
visited the town of Anderson. S. C. From
Anderson we returned to this village. We
could then see little if any difference in the
business appearance of the two places. At the
time alluded to, however, we had a railroad to
Laurens, and we had signs of busy life and in?
dustry. On last Saturday business called us to
Anderson again?the first time we had seen
that place since our visit fourteen years previ?
ous, and although it was then n prosperous up
country town, with flourishing schools, and
every evidence of that industry which always
secure! success, we were agreeably surprised to
observe the marked improvement in the ap?
pearance of the place. Everything presented
an air of freshness and business vigor; and
though the reflection was an unpleasant one,
the mind very naturally compared that thriv?
ing, bustling town with the dull monotony of
our own. How is this great outstripping of
the one town over the other to be accounted
for ? We know no better answer to the query
than to say that in the first place it is on ac?
count of the necessary energy on the part of
our people; and in the second place it is be?
cause we are without a railroad. This, in our
humble judgment, explains the secret?if a
secret at all?of the continued prosperity of
the one town and the gradual decline of the
other. We have as good soil and as fine a cli?
mate in Laurens County as Anderson can boast,
yet it is melancholy, in comparing the two
towns, to observe the great difference between
them as to business prosperity.?Laurentville
Herald.
? Ex-President Andrew Johnson publishes
a lengthy article in the Washington Chronicle,
in answer to Judge Holt's allegation that Mr.
Johnson disregarded the recommendation for a
commutation of the sentence in Mrs. Surratt's
case. Mr. Johnson declares that he never saw
the recommendation, but, on the contrary, that
Judge Holt urged an early execution of tho
unfortunate lady. He complains that Holt
withheld the allegations intended to damage
him until tho witnesses were dead.
? The immediate cause of the death of
Mr3. Gen. Lec was paralysis. Her three sons
and a daughter were preseut during her last i
illness, and the last hours of this noble woman
were peaceful and calm, in consonance with
the distinguishing characteristics of her life.
Reckless luxation.
The amount (sixteen mills) of tax levy pro?
posed by the Committee on Ways and Means
strikes us as enormous, in the circumstances of
the State at this time. The minority report
of the committee, in making levies for specific
purposes, and keeping each separate and apart,
to be applied only to its legitimate and pre?
scribed objects, is better. Otherwise, it is
equally objectionable. These bills call for
about $2,500,000, a sum large enough to carry
on the affairs of five such States as this. We
do not preceive anywhere the slightest regard
for the distressed condition of the people, or
the faintest tendency towards economy in the
management of our political affairs. Leaving
aside, for the present, the question of the ex?
orbitant amount about to be levied, there are
some contradictions and discrepancies in the
proposed bill which are worthy of notice.
This bill has a section which levies three mills
for County purposes. Besides this, there are
joint resolutions to raise a special tax of three
or four mills in nearly all the Counties of the
State. Take it at an average of three mills,
and the two will swell the amount to be appro?
priated in the Counties to a most extravagant
sum. What is it for? Experience has demon?
strated that the larger the amount intended for
improvements, &c, in the Counties, the fewer
ana smaller they are.
Again. The bill requires that the taxes shall
be paid in gold and silver coin, United States
currency, national bank notes and bills reeeiv
ably. The bills of the Bank of the State, which
so frightened the legislative soul when the
decision of the court which made them good
for all dues to the State was announced, seem
to have lost their terrors. Perhaps it is now
supposed that the decision only affects the case
of the relators which came before the Supreme
Court.
Again the extra printing bill, which appro?
priates $225,000 to the Republican Printing
Company, and which has passed one body, and
been favorably reported on and received its
first reading in the other, has a clause which
provides that certificates of indebtedness, re?
ceivable for taxes, shall be issued in payment
of the claim. There is a conflict of legislation
in this matter. Bills of the Bank of the State
and certificates of indebtedues are good for
taxes, but no provision is made in the supply
bill to absorb them. Besides, we find nowhere
in the bill any provision which looks to meet?
ing the interest'on the public debt, although
there is one or two mills for this purpose in
the bill to reduce the volume of the public
debt. And to crown the absurdity of the
measure, it leaves out in the cold the floating
debt, making no mention of it whatever.
The bill is evidently crude and unsatisfacto?
ry. It is put forth before any proper estimate
of the expenses of the State Government has
been made, and before the amount of taxable
property has been ascertained. It is liable to
be thwarted in the way we have shown, and to
te be brought iuto conflict with other measures
which have been adopted. It does net follow
any honest effort to reduce expenses. It goes
upon the snpposition that the poor, half-fam?
ished State of South Carolina, should have a
magnificent establishment, a costly and luxu?
rious government It utterly ignores the
straitened circumstances, the actual destitution
of the people. Such legislation as this in such
times as these demonstrates that the General
Assembly is every day growing more incompe?
tent to discharge its proper duty. Corruption
and profligacy still run their fatal and giddy
rounds.
In a speech delivered at the emancipation
celebration in Hartford, Connecticut, last sum?
mer, Congressman Rainey enunciated a policy
which the Legislature now seems bent on car?
rying out. "Land is cheap (in South Carolina,
he meant,) and we like to put on the taxes, so as
to make it cheap." This the Legislature is
doing, just as surely as if they had Rainey's
ideas of confiscation repeated to them every
morning. It is assuming with them the shape
of a settled scheme. It looks almost as if they
were logically obliged to pursue it. They can
only flounder and blunder on till the end comes
of collapse or revolution. What think the
tax-payers of the State of a tax of $2,500,000,
now that land has been made "cheap," and
everything else shrunk in proportion? Land
cheap, cotton at twelve cents, the wolf of
famine at the doors of the people, men out of
employment, children without bread?that is
one side of the picture.
We turn away from viewing the other, cov?
ered all over with extravagance and corruption
of officials, reveling in the proceeds of a $2,
500,000 tax. Are not these things significant
of a great change??Columbia Phoenix,
Leaving the Sinking Ship.?The Chicago
Staats Zeitung, chief organ of the German
Republicans of Illinois, thus announces its
departure from the Republican party: "The
causes from which the Republican party rose
have long ceased to exist. By its stupidity and
short-sightedness in stirring up dead issues anew
and reviving questions finally disposed of, the
Democratic party has kept alive the Republi?
can, compelling those German Republicans
who were so from sincere conviction to continue
a repulsive alliance with the professional Eng?
lish-speaking Republican' politicians. But
with the failure of the last attempt, made by
Greeley's nomination, for a reaction which
would "undo the rights secured by the war, has
disappeared every reason for a connection that
can nave no other object but to assist ungrate?
ful, double-faced English-speaking scoundrels
to profitable offices. The Illinois Staats Zei?
tung, at least, will henceforth have nothing to I
do with this sort of American 'Republicans,' j
and protests, hereafter, against the designation
of 'a Republican paper.'"
The Political Reaction.?In noticing the
late elections the Boston Post savs: "The result
of the elections proclaims that the era of frauds
is drawing to a close. Incapacity is to be al?
lowed to plead no more inpudent excuses. The
Democracy are in arms for the redemption of
Constitutional Government. Recruits from the
people will now pour into tho Democratic camp
to serve for the war. It is a war with every
imaginable form of fraud and corruption, with
ring monopolies, centralism, military usurpa?
tion, bought legislation, salary grabs and Cred?
it Mobilier, ana the power that seeks the spoli?
ation and debasement of sovereign States of
the Union. The call goes out for a higher
tone iu tho character of the Administration.
Better statesmen aredemauded in Washington.
The East and West interchange judgements.
A corrupt and incompetent Administration
stands rebuked. The great Northwest is
aroused, and the Empire State reasserts her
imperial sway in politics. The deeps of cor?
ruption and falsehood are at last broken up."
? The Worcester Press takes a liberal view
of the situation. In these days, it observes,
when banks have to sustain so many "breach?
es" of trust, it is no wonder that they occasion?
ally announce themselves as "suspenders."
? "Cau't you love your neighbor as yourself,
Jonny?" "Yes, ma; then he added, reflec?
tively, "if he don't keep a dog that tries to bite
little boys." >
Whence it Came and Whore it Went I
The report of the State Treasurer for the
fiscal year ending October 31, 1873, has been
submitted to the Legislature. It shows that
the receipts and payments during the year were
as follows:
Received from taxes of 1872-73....$1,621,714 90
Received from taxes of 1867 to
1871. 21,029 67
Received from Licenses. 24,191 38
Received from Phosphate Compa?
nies. 30,788 76
Received from sundry sources. 22,003 76
Total Receipts.?1,719,728 37
Paid for Salaries.? 230,797 39
Paid for Public Printing. 331,945 66
Paid for Legislative Expenses. 291,339 47
Paid for Free Schools. 361,101 37
Paid for Repairs and Fittings. 57,975 57
Paid for Contingent Funds. 75,033 75
Paid for Militia. 25,719 42
Paid for Penitentiary. 75,415 36
Paid for Lunatic Asylum. 117,253 11
Paid for Orphan House. 14,973 62
Paid for Deaf and Dumb Asylum 11,179 00
Paid for Refunded Taxe?. 29,272 75
Paid for General Election 1872... 82,471 63
Paid for Sundries. 62,840 50
Total payments.$1,717,318 60
The Treasurer says that the Legislature au?
thorized the payment of $2,418,872 during the
year, and ihe Treasurer only received $1,719,
728. There is, therefore, a long list of defi?
ciencies, of which the following is a summa
For salaries.$ 105,767 00
For Free Schools. 29,714 00
For Public Printing. 118,055 00
For Claims passed. 54,336 00
For Contingent Accounts. 6,410 00
For Contingent Fund. 5,161 00
For Militia. 6,321 00
For Orphan Asylum. 20,000 00
For Ku Klux Rewards. 32,403 00
For Normal Schools. 24,980 00
For Legislative Expenses. 3,642 00
For Sundries. 133,539 00
Deficiencies of the year 1872-73..$ 540,328 00
The actual difference between the amount
authorized by the Legislature to be paid and
the amount received is $699,144, and the
difference between this amount and the amount
(540,328) of deficiencies reported by the Treas?
urer is represented, we presume, by deficiencies
of previous years, authorized to be paid, but
not yet paid.? Charleston Aacs and Courier.
Mark Twain's Life and Exploits.
A letter in the Washington Star says :
"Buffalo has many reminiscences of Mark
Twain, and of his remarkable attempt at pub
lishiug a newspaper on an entirely uew plan.
After his return from the Holy Land (per
Quaker City), Mark took a wife, and purchased
the third interest in the Buffalo Express, own?
ed by A. M. Ciapp, Public Printer. They say
that Mark's style of newspaper work was
unique. He is not au early riser, and is as
slow of movement as of speech, consequently
he didn't get to the office very early in the
morning. And, when there, his movemeuts
were not characterized by^iervous haste. Seat?
ing himself in a capacious pivot-chair, his
first move was to deposit his boots in the waste
basket, and replace them with roomy slippers.
Then, elevating his slippered feet to a comfor?
table cushion on the exchange papers (their
only legitimate use in his estimation), it was
his wont to lay back in his chair, swinging
himself lazily on its pivot, and tell stories of
wit and wisdom by the hour to the associate
editors. This was vastly pleasant to all con?
cerned, but somehow it did not work in the
way of making a newspaper, aud at the end of
six weeks Mark came to the conclusion that
publishing a newspaper was not his forte. He,
however, retained Iiis interest in the Express
for about a year and a half, though as afore?
said, he did not take part in the 'active' man?
agement for more than six weeks. Mark mar?
ried the daughter of JarvisLangdon, of Elmira,
New York, the heaviest coal operator in the
West. His property was valued high as $10,
000,000 in bis life, aud had he lived to get all
his irons out of the fire, perhaps that amount
might have been realized, but leaving every?
thing by the ends, there has been a great
'shriukage' (the word, I believe,) in the value
of assets. Still there is enough left to divide
a trifle of a few millious between Mark's wife
and her brother, Charles Langdon. It was
through this brother, by the way, that. Mark
got his wife. 'Charley' was one of the 'Iuno
cents Abroad' who accompanied Clemens on
his famous trip on the Quaker City, and wrote
home so enthusiastically about Mark Twain
that Mr. Langdon, Sr., sent him a cordial in?
vitation to visit them at Elmira. The result
was the meeting of Mark and Miss Langdon ;
a case of love at first sight, and the twain be?
coming one."
Diptheria.
A physician of distinguished ability gives ns
the following facts concerning this much dread?
ed disease:
1. Ia its nature, it is not a local affection,
as is usually supposed, but constitutional, pre
vading the blood of the whole system before it
makes its appearance in any part; it:;sofa
nature kindred to erysipelas, and though epi?
demical, is not, strictly speaking, infectious.
2. Its most manifest symptom is a false
membrane, of a white color, which forms upon
and around the tonsils, near the palate, and
which thickens and extends, unless checked,
until the patient dies from suffocation. This
false membrane is, however, not confined to
the throat, but may some times be seen upon
the band, or arm, or any other place where the
skin has been removed.
3. Among the cautions to be observed are
the following: Avoid all medicine-sand modes
of treatment which shall exhaust the strength,
and be careful not to injure the skin by blis?
ters or counter-irritants, particularly in the
neighborhood of the throat.
4. To effect its cure, aim to restore as rapidly
and effectually as possible, the patient's waning
strength. For this purpose, let the diet be of
the most nutritious character?chicken soup,
beef tea, etc., give freely of egg-nogg, made
of good whiskey, or use the stimulant in any
other way that will combine nourishment with
stimulation. Add to the general strength by
the use of mineral tonics, of which none is
better than muriate of iron, which may be ad?
ministered as largely as ten drops at a dose,
every two or three hours, for an adult. Be
tweer the doses of iron, give from five to fifteen
grains of chlorate (not chloride) of potash or
of soda. The chloride of soda may be used as
an antiseptic gargle, but the best gargle is com?
mon salt.
If the disease gives signs of periodicity, by
regular remissions and accessions, then bring
to your aid the great anti-periodic, quinine.
Cut this out r.nd keep it ready in time of
ueed, as it may be relied ou.?Augusta Cuusii-,
tutionalists.
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens.
The Atlanta Herald has the following hand?
some notice of Mr. Stephens and his return to
public life:
When Mr. Stephens left the Congress of the
United States, in 1869, it was his intention then
never to enter public life again. He thought
the Government was well established, and that
all irritating questions were settled. He bad
spent all the prime of his life to bring abont
this result, and he determined to spend the re*
mainder of his life in serene retirement at
"Liberty Hall."
But when the conflict between the State*
came on, he cast his lot with his State, and was
made the Vice President of the Confederate
States without any efforts of his own. Serving
his country in that honorable and responsible
position throughout the war, performing his
duties with fidelity, he became, at its close, a
prisoner in the hands of the Federal Govern?
ment, and was cast into a cell at Fort LaFay
ette, where he remained for several months,
after which he was released on parole.
Returning again to his beloved home at
"Liberty Hall," he had no other expectation
but to remain in private life, engaging in liter?
ary pursuits, producing his celebrated work of
the "War Between the States," and a "School
History" of the United States.
About a year ago, Mr. Stephens' name was
brought forward by his friends, without his
solicitation, as a candidate for the United
States Senate, in which he was defeated.
At an informal meeting of his friends he was
invited to stand for Congress in his old District,
where he had been so often elected to fill that
position, without even being formally nomina?
ted.
The return of Mr. Stephens to Congress after
fourteen years' absence, and after being the
second officer in the so-called rebellion, forms
an important event in the affairs of this coun?
try. It is with much regret that he -again
leaves his home to take an active part in po?
litical life. But he goes to Washington with a
heart full of devotion to his beloved State, and
with no other motive but to devote his labors
solely in the interests of Georgia and his
country.
Sleeping in a Cold Room.
Hall's Journal of Health says that cold bed?
chambers always imperil health and invite fa?
tal diseases. Robust persons may safely sleep
in a temperature of forty or under, but the old,
the infant and the frail should never sleep in a
room where the atmosphere is much uuder
fifty degrees Fahrenheit.
All know the danger of going direct into the
cold from a very warm room. Very few rooms,
churches, theatres and the like, are ever warm?
er than seventy degrees. If it is freezing out
of doors it is thirty degrees?the difference be?
ing forty degrees more. Persons will be chilled
by such a change in ten minutes, although they
may be actively walking.
But to lie still in bed, nothing to promote
the circulation, and breathe for hours au at?
mosphere of forty and even fifty degrees, wheu
the lungs are always at ninety-eight, is too
great a change. Many persons wake up in the
morning with inflammation of the lungs who
went to bed well, and are surprised that this
should be the case. The cause may often be
found in sleeping in a room the window of
which has been foolishly hoisted for ventila?
tion. The water-cure journals of the country
have done an incalculable injury by the blind
and indiscriminate advice of hoisting the win?
dow at night.
The rule should be everywhere during the
part of the year when fires are kept buruing,
to avoid hoisting outside windows. It is safer
and better to leave the chamber door open, as
also the fire-place; then there is a draft up the
chimney, while the room is not so likely to
become cold. If there is some fire in the room
all night, the window may be opened an inch.
It is safer to sleep in a bad air all night with a
temperature over fifty, than in a pure air with
a temperature under forty. The Dad air may
sicken you but cannot kill you; the cold air
can and does kill very often.
Southern Cotton Mills.?In noticing
the sale of some shares of the Langley Factory
stock at $110, and the profits of Southern as
compared with Northern mills, the Nashville
Union and American comments as follows:
"It would be a great advantage to the cotton
growing States if a much larger portion of
their staple was manufactured at home. This
would create a market for all grain, vegetables,
fruits, meat, and all other provisions, and give
both land and labor the full benefit of our
admirable climate. The sunny South ought to
be distinguished for its extensive factories;
land and its products are cheap, Winters mild,
and the country generally very healthy."
? "I once boarded for three months," said
Mr. Smith, "in a family, where during the
whole time of my stay the husband did not
once speak to the wife, although tbey met at
the table every day." "Shocking! wh*t a
monster he must have been!" "Not at all.
He was a very amiable man." "Impossible 1"
"And I think he was fully, justified in his pro?
ceeding." "Justified, Mr. Smith ! How can you
say so? A man who would preserve silence so
long a period must have a most implacable and
revengeful disposition." "But, my dear, there
is one little circumstance that I forgot to men?
tion that might mitigate the severity of your
ju'Vuieut. The man was dumd."
? The Chinese labor system on the sugar
plantations of Louisiana has not proved the
success that was hoped for it. In the years
1870 and 1871 of the thousand, more or less,
of this class who were thus employed, the large
majority proved to be failures, and they either
ran away from their work or were driven away
by their employers in consequence of their
laziness, thefts, or of worse outrages committed
by them. All sorfa of offences, from petty
stealing to attempted murder, are charged
against them, and they have generally had tho
name of being unfaithful, clannish, sordid,
slow, aud weak.
? Hickory nuts are quoted in the New York
market at one dollar and a half to one dollar
seventy-five cents per bushel, We make this
announcement for the benefit of tho farmers,
many of whom can easily gather hundreds of
bushels from the trees on their lands. It is an
industry that might be invested in to consider?
able profit at this time, inasmuch as the chil?
dren can gather these nuts as they lie on the
ground, ready hulled, as easily as can regular
hands. _
? The New York Shipping List informs us
that during the eight years that have inter?
vened since the war, the South has raised and
ecnt to market twenty-three million five hun?
dred thousand bales of cotton, averaging four
hundred pounds to the bale. At seventeen
cents per pound, the curreucy value of this
vast product would amount to $1,568,000,000,
which is more than twice tho entire greenback
and bank note circulation of the country, and
equal to three-fourths of the national debt.