The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, March 18, 1880, Image 1

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BY E. B. MTJBBAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 18, 1880. VOLTJMt? XY.-/--NO. 36, Crime is the State-The CATS?? ana the Remedy* Crime ison the increase In South Caro lins. The offences which are prompted by ?reed ?nd luat ire virtual ly unknown amongst white parole In this State. There are tew robberies bj white men, and no murders by white m m cogged in rob bery. There is uooe c! the brutal treat ment of women and children, by white meo. with which Northern communities are lamillar. The crimes in this State and in the South generally, whero whites are concerned, are.usually the product of rows and brawls, rarely premeditated, and never, wo may say j growing out Of the basest of the passions which are ?? foul blot upon humanity. This is the difference between crime in the North and crime in the South. An absolutely complete record of the crimea committed io the State is not tobe obtained, but the following summary of offences reported to the News and Courier \% very near the truth : December 19, 1879: A man named Fickling seriously cut iu the back with a razor by a drunken negro on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad train at Graniteville. December 20,1879 : Jenny Bates, col ored, severely stabbed by a negro near Barnwell Village. December 21. 1879: Policeman John Harlow severely beaten by a party of roughs, and afterwards killed by dis cbarge of bis own pistol while be was at tempting to make the arrest of his as sailants. December 22,1879: Ebenezer E. Tru witt stabbed to death by Robert Meyers, 14 yenni old, in Bordeaux Township, Ab beville County. Cause: An old grudge between the deceased and the homicide's father. December 28. 1879: John J. Shiver shot and killed by Johnson, colored, in Spring Hill Township, Sumter County, Caus9 unknown. December 21,1878: Samuel McGrcor, colored, shot in the shoulder by Green Williams, colored, at John's Creek Col ored Baptist Church, Abbeville County. CauBo: A dispute about a watch. December 25,1879: Jim Chappell shot and killed by Bill Harp at Newberry; Press Chappell, a nephew of the deceased, also seriously shot by Harp. Cause : A quarrel about a gamecock light. December, 25, 1879: James Cooper stabbed to death by his twin-brother, Samuel Cooper, at Monk's Corner, Chnrlbcton County. Cause : Whiskey, and a dispute about a hog. December 24.1879: Stephen G. Bush shot and killed by Wm. Bates, near Ellenton, Barnwell County. Cause: Whiskey. December 28, 187?: A colored man named McPherson seriously shot in the abdomen by a whiteman named Wooden at Lancaster. Cause : Whiskey. December 28, 1879: Mrs. Richard Compton rL?t and killed by Turner Os borne, Jr., at Fairplay, Oconco County. Cause : A difficulty between Osborne and the husband of tho deceased concern ing a dog. Dec-ember 25, 1879: Newton Latimer beaten and shot at Townville, Anderson County. Cause: Whiskey. , . December 29,1879: Tom Massey, col ored, killed by his brother, Aaron Massey, in Spartanburg County. Cause : Un known. January 2,1880: Cash Norris, colored, killed by his brother, Abram Norris, in Anderson County. Cause: A personal quarrel. January 8,1880 : Oliver O. Ross, Jr.. ehot in the breast and curiously wounded by his father. Cause: Marryiug against his w'sheR January 10, 1880: W, J. Patterson killed by unknown persons in Darlington County. January 17, 1880: Jasper Deal shot and killed by Henry Townsend in a bag nio in Greenville. Cause : Whiskey. January 25,1880: Mark Morrison se riously ?tabbed by Robert (Stewart ana others in Line street, Charleston. Cause : A personal altercation. January 28,1880: Alfred Groves killed by Citizen Rosemond, both colored, near Abbeville C. H. Cause: Dispute as to ?ho Own?rHh?p of ~ hatchet. Jnnnary 23,1880 : Jeia? Horn shot and killed by Thoa. O. Parker near Seneca City, in Oconco County. Cause: A dis* puto between the deceased and the fa? ther of the slayer concerning wages. * January 80, 1880 : Henry McQuago seriously stabbed by a man named Per kins, during an altercation in tho upper portion of Marlboro' County. January 80, 1880: A negro named Bellinger was cut to pieces with a razor by another negro named White, in Col loton County. He died in a few minutes. Causo: An altercation concerning a wo man. January 16,1880 : John Barnes stabbed to death in a drunken row in Oconee County by Milton Nicholson. ; January 81,1880: E.G. DuBoso shot in the breast by Policeman Edwin Scott, . whilo the latter was attempting to o:/eat him for disorderly conduct in Manning, 6. C. February 2,1880: Stephon Lam' shot by John Holcombe in a burroon* in Greenville during a drunken quarrel. Februaiy 5,1880 : James Gaillard, col ored, assaulted his wife in Reid street, Charleston, and cut her throat with a rahiri inflicting a dangerous but not fa in! -su nd. February 2,1880 :, Nat Dickerson, col ored, was ?truck on the head with a steno bj Stephen Gary, colored, at the City Railway etable. He died of bis injuries on February 7. ' February 1,1880: Jefferson Catos shot and killed by Tom Watson and John Brooks, colored, in Edgefield County, while attempting to quoll a negro distur bance. February 9,1880: Mn?. Berry and Mra. Byrd assaulted and outraged by two no ?roes named Kinder ona Jenkins near Irancbvillc. February 7 tftgO: Pstr?-.k Di rey ?? verely stabbed, by Johv lio-xan, on Etst Bay. Charleston. Cause: An insult of fered by the former to the tatter's wife. FebraAty-T; 1880 : J. H. Irby ? tubbed in tho nock by L. E. Irby at Laurens. Cant?: Whiskey.. February 0,1830: Charles Sullivan col ored, sbot and killed by bis brother, J?T Sullivan, in AbbovHIe. February 9, 1880: Eli Wilcox ?hot and killed by Jim Black in Marlon. Cause: A dispute concerning a wager. February 10,1880 : Thomas Robinson, allured, cut on the head with an axe by Major Rrnwn. aa? his wife, Margaret Brown, on Jame* Island. February 15,1880: Oscar Taylor, col ored, chopped on the head with an axe bv Edward Wooden, colored, at the Race Course, Charleston. Fcbraarv 14, ISS0: William Parker ?tabbed and killed by a man named Pub' mun at a , fiocinl gntheripg in Laurens t^nMity. ji?d*ea Martin seriously shot bv Potman .at tho same time. CVuse: Whi?key. February 27. 1880: M. R. Conelly slabbed and killed by A. J. Gill at Vara ville, Hampton County. Cause: An old feud. February 28,1880 : Mrs. Byrd assaulted by a negro named Kinder near George'? Station. March 1, 1880: Mr. James Strand mortally wounded with a pistol by Scott Hopkin?, colored, at Chester duringadis pute concerning money. The period covered by thia summary is rather more than two months. It is an appalling exhibit: 21 homicides, 16 assaults with intent to kill, 2 rapes. Ths homicides and assaults with intent to kill were almost without exception, per Cetrated by white r?en upon whites, or y negroes upon colored people. . Wo mention this to show that the colored people art not tho subjects of attack by tho whit?'. The whites maim and kill each otho., and do not molest the colored people. The rapes were committed by negroes exel naively. A simple statement of the number and character of crimes committed in this State, such as we have given, is more elo quent than words, and forces the most careless to admit that something must be done at once, to arrest the spread of law lessness. The Courts will do their whole duty, we are-confident. No ill-judged commiseration for those who have shed blood will actuate judges, juries or prose cuting officers. But the object of tho punishment of criminals ia the preven tion of crime. And crime can bo pre vented in other ways than by hanging and imprisonment in the State Penitenti ary. The Courts need the co-opera tion of the public. This co-operation will give strength to their judgments and empbasia to their sentences. Unfortunately the cause of tho crimes committed by whites in this State is not hard to find. There is no mystery in it. Tho root of the evil is apparent. Nay I no attempt is made to hido it. Whiskey aud the practice of carrying deadly wea Eons are at the bottom of nine ou '.. of ten loody offences perpetrated by the white people. The carrying of concealed wea pons is bad enough in itself. A passionate impulse, a crook of the finger, and death I It is killing in haste, and re penting at leisure. When be who has a weapon in his pocket is excited by whis key, arousing the savage instincts which aro found in every breast, bis control ever himself is gone. A brother man is hur ried into eternity with ns little concern as a fly is crusUod on the wall. What wo have to address ou reel von to, there fore, is (1) tho abolition of the practice of carrying concealed weapons, and (2) tho discouragement of intemperance. The Legislature, at the extra Session re fused to pass a bill making it a misde meanor to carry concealed weapons, and until the Legislature shall meet again the main deterrents, to be relied on are ins coEv?oti?u that such a practice is unmanly and an encouragement to strife and tho belief that it is unnecessary for self-protection. The second cause of our troubles, Whiskey-drinking, can be dea't with promptly, and, we believe, effectu ally. livery influence save one hos been ex erted to ?heck intemperance and induce abstinence from tho use of alcoholic stim nlants. Clergymen preach Sunday after Sunday.. The conductors of religious and secular newspapers expound and ex hort until brain and fingern are weary. Societies and Associations of one sort and another work on the same line. They have accomplished .-men, but not enough. And the reason is, that they have not secured the effective assistance of the one class of persons in Sooth Caro lina who bavo as much power as Pulpit and Press combined, und who now too frequently, instead of treating intemper ance as a ein against him who ia made in God's own imago and os a Bin against so ciety, wiuk at it, laugh at it, and condone it. We mean the Women of South Caro lina, especially the younger women, the sweethearts who.will be wives and moth ers. Do the women of South Carolina, know ing, as they do, the ruin of body and soul which is caused by whiskey-drinking, exclude the tipplers and drunkards from their society, as unfit companions for the gentle and the chaste? They do not. It is common to hear girls in their teena laughing at Mr. A., who was "slightly affected,*' or Mr. B., whoso merit is that however mu^h. he "indulges" I ho always "behaves ilka a gentleman." Thia is au encouragement to wrong-do ing. It teaches the inebriate that beean have tho companionship of our sweet maidens and choose his wife from the rosebud garden, whetherhe be sober ortho revei?O. Thoughtlessness and habit ac count for it, no doubt, and it is in no fault-fiuding spirit that we point out the faults of women who are crowned *vitu noble quaiities and pride. Oor hope is, to arouse them to a sense of their danger and to ar. appreciation of their opportu nity I Tho women of South Carolina did not falter during the war. They never hesi tated, never- doubted and never surren dered. They made the State what it was, end were tho main-spring of thc public endurance; courage and devotion. In 1876 they saved the State, by their en couragement, their appeals, their labora and their prayers. The 8tate is more in need of saving, than it was in 1876. Whiskey is a worse foe than Radie? "sm, and brings worse ills in its train. To the womun of South Carolina then we appeal, for ruo State and in the nome of the State. We entreat them to organise in their own way, their own associations. We entreat them to sat tho SP al of their Bcorn upon the forehead of tho habitual drinker. .. We entreat them to banish from their society every man, however near or dear: wno dares to approach them with the flush of liquor on his cheek and its stain upon hts heart. We entreat them to strike from tho li?t bf their acquaintances every one who is known to be a tippler, and in everything that they do, aud wherever they go, to draw the line sharply between the man who is his own master and the man who is whis key's slave. If they will do this, they will confine drunkenness to those who are past curing, and who, excluded from woman's so?ic-y. wiii iose their opportu nities of degrading, and putting to the blush, our sisters and our daughters. And these will rapidly nnrrcind them selves with frisada who are always natu ral, moderate and pure, men fit' to bo their companions aud worthy to be ?ne partners of their lives. How much sor row, reproach and shame they will save themselves and the State, no haman tongue can tell I-Charleston flews and Courier. A GOOD HOUSEWIFE.-The good housewife, when she is giving her honte its spring renovating, should bear in mind that- the dear inmates of her house are more precious than roany houses, and that tboir systems need cleansing by purifying the blood, regulating tho stom ach arid bowels to prevent and euro the diseases arising from spring malaria and miasma, and she roust know that there is nothing that will do it so perfectly end nundy as nop Bitters, the purest and best of medicines.-Cbnesrd JV". H. Patri ot.' ;- "Shall I hereafter darn vour stock ings f" ls said to be tho fashionable lan guage for a young lady to ase. when making a leap-year proposal. UNDERNEATH THE HUDSON. TU? Great Work from Jersey City to New ? York well Under Wpjr. All that eau be seen of the North River Tunnel thoa far is a tremendous nell, smoothly lined with brick, slaty feet 1 deep, and'wide enough to admit an ordi- i nary dwelling house. This v ell is cor* 1 ercd by ft clumpy,.wooden shanty, high < enough to accommodate a derrick, and 1 big enough to hold the two engines and i three boilers, tho coal heap, brick pile, 1 clothes, closets, and office for the work- 1 men and tho company's officers. This I shanty is at the foot of Fifteenth Btieet, < three-quarters of the way from the Fenn- < sylvania ferry to tho Hoboken line. It I is close to the river's edge, two city blocks I distant from Provost street, the thorough- j fare nearest the river bank. Tho river i originally flowed where the shanty ia ? and underneath tho Alling is tho original < silt. The great well beneath the shanty < , is not to be a terminus of the tunnel, lt i i is simply a starting point which the tun- < I nel shaft is to pierce, and it was sunk be cause that was deemed the bettor way. to I I begin the great work. Tho tunnel will ? be worked back beneath the. city more < ! than half a mile, breaking through tho i surface beyond Erie street, and having i its absolute terminus and depot in Jersey J avenue. Eventually this well may or < may not be closed up, but in either event < the tunnel will poss along through it as < it passes any other point in its course, i The tunnel whon completed will be two i miles long, and threo-quarters of a milo I of its length will bo directly beneath the i bcd of tho river. As the river channel is ? nearest the New York bank and there is i a wide stretch of shoal water on the Jer- 1 sey side, there will bo a continuous slant 1 from the Jersey shore nearly across the < river, when a short incline upward will < bring tho tunnel to the surfaco in this i city. At- its lowest point the top of tho I tunnei wi? be 1?2 feet below the aurface i of tho river and about twenty feet be- ! neath tho river bed. The New York ter minus will bo In the. neighborhood of ; Wnaniugton square, and work in this city ' will be begun near the foot of Leroy ', street, which is almost exactly opposite i Fifteenth street in Jersey city. i By ordinary means it would bavo boen i next to impossible to excavate a tunnel i through the silt that was encountered at the outset, and must bo fought the greater I part of the way. President Haskins de vised the plan of sustaining the earth '. above tho excavation by a pressure of air. < A powerful pumping engine nupplies this < force. For safety's oako there is a dupli- < cato engine, and there are threo builem, i because an Accident that removed the . pressure of air in the shaft would bring i about certain disaster and pos. ."ble loss of life. Tho original plan was lo bore one : shaft sufficiently wide for a double rail- . road track and high enough to admit of the passage of railroad cars. It was : found necessary, however, to alter this, and now the tunnel is composed of two i shafts, side by side, like the barrels of a fowling piece, and strengthened as well i an separated by a central partition. These tunnels will each coutain a single railroad track, and will ha twenty-one feet in diameter, which gives roon, for a director's palace coach, tho tallest of rail road vehicles. A visitor to the edge of the great brick well sees what looks like a larg? boiler protruding from the well on the river side, and extending sixteen feet toward the centre. There te a platform of boards around it, and there are many tubes and pipes, heaps of brick? and one steam pump upon tim platform. Beneath the platform, which appears to be at the bot tom of tho well, but is really only half way down, there is a sheet of muddy water covering the silt that has been thrown from the tunnel. Tho protruding boiler is what is known as the air-lock, by which tho egress and entrance of the workmen in the tunnel is accomplished without destroying the even pressure of air in the aba/t. The Sun reporter saw six men enter the tunnel yesterday to go to work in it, and presently he saw ' four leave it. The six men were lowered in a wooden bucket, which wes swung over 'bc pit from the arm of a derrick. The doer cf thc boi?er-??ko air-lock was open ; but there is an inner door that was shut, and beyond it, in the tunnel, the pressure of twenty pounds of air to tho square inch was maintained. The men entered the air-lock and closod the cater door, tho engines equalized the air pressure in tho lock with that in the tunnel, and then tho inner door was opened and the work .sen passed in?o the tunnel. It took ten minuies to do this. Men with heart or long diseases could not work under thee* conditions, bot healthy young men are .?aid to experience no harm Iron them. When the work progresses further this pressrro will have to be doubled. The four men who desired to come out stepped into the air-lock, closed the door behind them, and signalled tho engineer. Tho compressed sir was allowed to escapo with a deafening roar, like the escape of steam from a thousand locomotive safety Valves, and presently the door opened. A dense cloud of brown smoko rolfed out from the lock, and as it thinned out the forms of the workmen passing through were distinguishable. The reporter was informed that this was the smoke of the candles by tho light of which the men work in the cihaft. Fifteen or eighteen pounds of candles are consumed by thom in a day, and tho smoke they create is a great hindrance to the work, although only tho very best adamantine coach li?hts aro used. Th? el?ctrln H?ht? which emit neither smoko nor beat, will soon bo used in placo of candles. One light over the woll and one in the shaft will supply all the illumination that Is needed. Work in tba tunnel never ceases. It is prosecuted by three gangs, each gang working eight hoars. Some times the men eat their meals lia the shaft, but as often they como out and spend halfen hour on the earth's surface. Theirs ls not dainty work. The earth that they dig oui is mixed with water in tho bottom of the shaft, and when it has reached a certain depth and consistency it is blown ont into the great brick well by -the air pressure in the jhaft through pipes that lie at tho bottom of the exca vation, and that are built out to follow tho workmen as they extend the shaft. Whenever it is necessary this mud is bailed out of the well to make way for more. Aa the tunnel is now it has the shape of a gigantic bottle, the air-lock taking the place of a cork in the bottle's neck. The neck of the bottle is formed by the narrow bore that was gradually widened until the permanent diameter of twenty-one feet was reached. As the ex cavators work they are closely followed by men who Uno the shaft wita plates of riveted iron, and theso in turn aro fol lowed by masons ' who construct thu arched brickwork that .forms'tho tunnel wall. Nearly one hundred feet of the ?crmanent tunnel havo been completed, ?o dato ta set for tho Krinning of the work on tho New York aide of the river. Neto York Sun, 8th It would roske a stone image turn green with envy to observo the expression of ftrofound disgust that nettles down on thc tee of the doctor when he hears his pa tients praising Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. HORRIBLE STORY OF CRIME. ? rho Deed? of the ISeader Family Outdone lu lort lana. INDIANAPOLIS. March 1,1880. A few days after tao arrrest of Mrs. Brown and her paramour, Wade, for the murder of J. G. F. Brown, the former's busband, which occurred two or three (reeks ago, the neighbors of the victim legan telling strange stories and setting ifloat rumors of dark deeds that have long been stifled through fear of tho Browns. Some of these repo sa coming ja tho ear of a ?&Hr*?>ic7reportei,uo turned letcotivc, and for the past ten days has lone little else than trace tho rumors to heir source. The details of thia work, JO the extent of several columus, will ap pear in tho Sentinel to-morrow, and ihould a thorough examination of the premises corroborate his statements, his efforts will have been rewarded by the iiscovery of crimes as appalling and atrocious as those of the notorious Ben 1er family of ?liasouri. For many years it was suspected that the hume of Brown was tho headquarters >f a band of desperadoes, who made plun dering their principal occupation. These mspicions were verified a year ago by the irrest and subsequent conviction of Brown and bis wite, together with sev eral accomplices. But not until the m?r ier of Brown did the people of that dei n i ty become aroused to the fact that i Bender family bad been living in thoir midst, It is now remembered, however, that sevoral persons have suddenly disap peared within the past five or six years, und that in each instance they were known to have money, and that Brown sva3 indsbted to them either in tho way af wages for labor or money borrowed. ODO of these was a man named Hunter, & German, who had formerly lived near Seymour. Indiana- Ho was aa indus trious, frugal young man, and had about ?900 ia bank. About five years ago he worked for Brown, but at the ena of a year, finding him poor pay, Hunter de termined to leave. Brown accompanied bim to the city, ostensibly to pay him, after which he was never seen or heard of again. Brown told several di fieront stories of hui whereabouts, and no ono taking any personal interest in tho mat ter, it was never called to the attention uf tho officers ; but it is now recalled that shortly after his disappearance Mrs. Brown's relatives, thu Fletchers, had a disagreement with the Browns, and hint ed thal they could tell what had become ?A Hunter. About that time, to ?, it is remembered Brown covered a poition of his garden with dirt to the depth of about eighteen inches, saying that it needed to be filled up. The Fletchers frequently referred to this fact in cot section with Hunter's disappearance., ono of them ra mm king that she could put a stick with ia eighteen inches ot his body. Ben. Fletcher, a half-brother of Mid. Brown, says that Hunter's jewelry and picture nero seen in Brown's house, and tbnt several letters were received from his father asking as to his whereabouts. Shortly alter Hunter's disappearance, an old man, whose name is now forgot ten, began boarding with tho Browns. He carno from tho gold regions, and had about bim in a bolt 9400 or $500 in go'd. By some means Brown managed to bor row $50 of him, .md"for the purpo?b of getting it back the old man undertook to board it out. This was the last Been of him. Soon after his disappearance Brown again covered his garden with fresh dirt, this time to the depth of two feet, giving the samo reason as before. Nobody taking any interest in the old man, tho matter wau never looked into, although ii appears tho Fletchers hinted, pretty plainly that they could tell, if dis posed to, what had become of bim. The next victim is supposed to be a physician, who was known to have $700 or $800. Browu borrowed $200 or $800 of him, and, becoming alarmed lest it might never bo returned, he made repeat ed calls at Brown's houso. Veryaocn he suddenly disappeared. A man working for Brown at the time discovered in the edge of a neighboring wood , what ap peared tr? hn n. 5eT-!SSdc gT?76. XLO mentioned the fact incidentally to Brown, and shortly nftt- the place waa covered with roils, Brown explaining that he had planted acorns there, and the rails were to keep the hogs away. This ia now be lieved to bo the grave of the unknown doctor. A few months before Brown's convic tion for robbery, fifteen months ago, Dr. Levi Ritter,, an attorney of this city, who resides in Irvington, about a mile from the Browns, found a man lying by the toadside itt. tho vicinity of their house with his skull crushed in. He was taken to tho City Hospital in an unconscious condition, and d'cd in a day or two after ward. It. was never known who he was. but at.tho timo lt was supposed he had been robbed in tho city and taken out there to mislead tho officers; But in the light of recent revelations it is believed he was one of Brown's victim?, . Sevoral years ago the Brown's took a boy to raise. He refused to participate in their dark transactions, and, about the time of Brown's trial for robbery, be too disappeared. He - probably knew too much, and went 'be way of Hunter and others. How long the list of victims is cannot be determined, but, as evidence is carefully gathered, it becomes more and more corroborative. In tho morning a number of arrests will bo made, on the strength of what is already known, and it la lltrol?' fKo rinnnli. iVntmtulnnAK will authorial Brown's premises to be thoroughly examined, that the whole truth of tho terrible crime may bo known.-Cincinnati Gazette. - Some carions, if not instructive, facts and figures are given to show how expensive a Congressional funeral is : The funeral of Gustave Schleichler, of Texas, cost 15,102, of which $313.50 was e^pc-ded for gloves and silk scarfs at $9 each 'or tho delegation. The cost of tho funeral of A. S. Williams waa $1,449, of T. J. Quinn $452, of Rush Clark C J.634, of B. B. Douglas $1,041, and of Julian Hartridge, of Georgia, $2,686. The itemized account of tue expenses of Mr. Hartridge's funeral show the manner in which funeral delegations spend the Gov ernment's money. Tho railroad tickets coot $709.50, and $280 were added for a special car. The bill for carriages was $183. Before starting the trip, apparent ly, an elaborate lunch was provided, and afterwards a dinner. Tho dinner cost $15, but tho cost of the lunch was $140. 90; $48.40 of this sum was used at a dining saloon which contains a bar, and $92.50 (which is specially set down as "lunch") at a liquor saloon which does not furnish meals. - The Hon. George Bancroft. wh?. was recently thrown from his carnage with {.-rent, violence, and severely iii ju rod, while driving at Newport, ?Aya Ibo New York Fvening Pott, "ia so strict a tee totaler that ho refused to take a little wine after his recent accident." Another investigation ha>: bro ven be yond doubt that Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup is the best medicino for teething children Price 25 centa a bottle. A Thrilling Incluent In th? Lire of Alexander II. Stephens. Howard Caryl!, who has beeu giving sketches of tho lives of prominent Amer icans in a New York paper, has an article on Alexander H. Stephens, the material for which was gathered from the lips of the ex-Vice President of the Confedorwte States. Tho following incident lu the career of this well-known Georgian is graphically told by Mr. Caryll: During Mr. Stephens' congressional service,- and pending tho campaign of 1843, ho returned from Washington to Georgia. Ho was fresh from the great debates on the acquisition of California and New Mexico as United States Terri tories, and for having token, against the wishes of a majority of the Southern members, a moat prominent part in oppo sition to such acquisition, he was met with much adverso criticism. Judge Cone, who was at tho time one of toe leading politicians of Georgia, was par ticularly severe in his comments upon Mr. Stephens' action, and was reported as having publicly denounced him ss a traitor to tho South. Hardly had Mr. Stephens reach his home when these and similar reports were conveyed to him. At first he did not crodit them, but as one kind friend after another informed him that Cone had called him traitor, and advised that he owed it to himself to demand what is called "satisfaction." the fires of pugnaci ty in his nature, which are always smold ering, biased up, and ho declared that if Judge Cone would admit having called him a traitor to the South ho would "slap his face." Not long: after this he met the Judge- at a numerously attended Whig gathering, and going up to him quietly, said : "Judge Cone, I have been told that you, for reasons of your own. have de nounced me as a traitor to tho Soulby and I take Vaia opportunity of asking il Buch reports aro true." "No, Bir," was Cone's roply, "they are not true." "I am very glad to hear you say BO," said Mr. Stephens, cordially, and in th J same friendly tono contin ued : "Of course I do not desire to be io ?ny way offensive to you, Judge Cone, but in order that we may have no futher misunderstanding throur_.fi the misrepresentation of otbors, I think it right to tell you that I have eaid I would slap year face if you admit ted having used the language attributed to you." Upon this tho Judge again disowned haviug spoken disrespectfully of Mr. Stephens, and so for the time the affair ended. It was the subject of much dis cussion all over the State, however, and the general vedict was that Judge Cone, a very powerful man, by the way, had Bhowa the whito feather to "Little Aleck Stephens." In such a community no publie man resting under such a charge could hope either fer political preferment or popular respect. Cone, of coarse, knew this, and, very much annoyed by tho comments which were being made upon him, wrote to Mr. Stephens demand ing an immediate and public retraction ofilia threat. In reply Mr. Stephens wrote that the threat of slapping the Judge's face had been reade contingent upon ?*?e troth of reports regarding him wnLii se had pronounced untrue, and that such being the case there could be no cause for offense or angry feeling on either side. Unfortunately this letter was not received by Judge Cone. Three or four days after it was written, howover, he met Mr. Stephenson tho piazza of a hotel in Atlanta, and, disregarding that gentle man's friendly greeting, said in a very offensive tone : "Mr. Stephens, I demand that- you make an immediate retraction of your threats regarding me." Sick and weak though he was, Alexan der H. Stephens could allow no one to speak to him in the fashion described. Judge Cone was a very giant in size and muscular development, but the frail man whom he addressed, with nggrivating politeness and without hesitating a mo ment, replied : 'Pardon me, sir, I have already written you fully on that sub ject; I must declino to discuss it fur. I tn er." "Am I to take thia as your answer?" asked Cons, excite it/. "It is the only answer I nave to give you'' was tho calm reply. "Thou I denounce you os a miserable little traitor," cried Cone, mad with ex citement. The last word had hardly left his lips when a little cane wielded by the quick hand of the man he had insulted left its red scar across his cheek. Wild with pain and passion, without uttering a word, he drew a keen pointed dirk-kuifo v jd mado one furious thrust athis weak little adversary's heart. In stantly as he did so, however, Stephens, seizing a stout umbrella which he bela in his loft hand, interposed ii ss a defense, and was able for a moment to hold him at arm's length. The knife fell short of its mark. Once more it waa thrust at Stephens, cutting a deep gash in his arm, bul reaching no vital point; eighteen times it cut into his breast, arms and body, and still he did not fall. Then he could hold out no longer. No courage, no spirit, however firm and unyielding, could long withstand such an attack. Cone was determined to finish his work. Ho threw all his great weight against tho umbrella which held him away from thn nias which he i:-.tended to kill. It broke ; Stephens, half fainting, fell upon his back. The giant Cone was at bis throat in a moment; his head, ;jy n grip o? >???, VF ?a liciu ?Kainsi ino cruel floor; the keen and blood-dripping knife was bold aloft before him ready for the last fatal thrust, but still tho poor pale face of the little hero was sot and defiant bia black eyes still flashing undaunted ly. "Retract or I'll cut your caned throat 1" hissed Cone. "Cut I PU nevor retract 1" gasped tho ?l?oo?t Hitless Stephens. Like a flash ?he knife came down. With an almost superhuman effort tho Srostrate man caught it in bis right hand I lean through tho muscles, tendons und ; jes of the nand it cut, then stuck fast find reached no vital part. With despe rate strength Cone tried to wrench it free. With a grasp almost of death, the horri bly mangled and mutilated hand still held it fast. In tho straggle Stephens was dragged to bis feet ; the blood was rushing inBtreams from his many wounds; bia bold upon the knlfo which sought his bravo heart began to relax ; he was dying. But even when be believed tho next moment would be his lost strong men came to his relief. The madman Cono Was secured and held fast. Then puickly tho wounds which Mr. Stephens had received were examined. It was found that one of them had pene trated to within a sixteenth of.an Inch of hie heart. %n intercostal artery had been cut; The doctors declared he would sorely die. Happily their predictions were not verified*. ~ His life was saved by the unremitting care' of a Burgeon, his de voted friend? who. as good fortune would have it, happened tobe in Atlant* at tho time. When ho recovered, with a mag nanimity of which few men are capable oven ot undestanding, he refused to pros ecute Cone, and that person, instead of ge ttl nt, his deserts in the dark cell of a Stat o prison, was fined $1,000, and with his "honor vindicated" was allowed to go free. To this day Mr. Stephens speaks of bim in terms of consideration and for giveness. Not long age, referring to the terrible struggle I have attempted to de scribe and snowing me the great bole in bis mangled hand he said, with a quiet and far away look in his dark eyes: "Poor Cone ! I'm sure he'd be sorry if be knew what trouble I hare to writo with these stiff fingers of mino." Hie Fear of Death. There are several clements that enter into what is called the fear of Death that ought to bo carefully discriminated be tween. It is to bo said in tho outset that the contemplation of Death increases as mee advance in years, and grow to recog nize that the time of tho inevitable change draws nearer. But it is fairly open to question whether the man who bas arrived at forty years of age has not in some one dav experienced all the fear of Death he will experience in one day thereafter. How much or rather how little, this is, each man knows for him self. Men think of Death oftener In a year, after they arriv? at sixty than when they were thirty, but from all wo can learn of tho inner life of such men, the fear is not more intense than at ear lier periods of their lives. The first element in the fear of Death ia tho idea of physical pain. It is natural that this should be connected with the idea of Death, for in many cases intense pain precedes death. But tho two are far from being invariable accompaniments. Interne pain may be followed hy life as well as by Death. We must distinguish between the fear of pain and tho fear of Death. Death ni nv bo painless. The approaches to Death may be compara riyol? rainless. Pain ant! Death do sot stand in the relation ot cause and effect. Ono is somotimcs tho preceding condi tion of tho othci, but not a causo. Be sides this, the fact must be recognized that Death is but a point in time, an in stant, a second, and that neither the pre liminary process nor th? imm?diate dis solution is constantly attended by pain. Even at tho worst, Death may be wel comed as bringing a release f rom suffer ing. So let us thruut asido the notion of pam, and keep carefully ?separated from it tho fear of Death. Second is the idea of tho mystery of tho chango. Lot us keep closoly in mind what Death is-it is an instantaneous change. One moment was life, tho next is not lifo. One imitant was the exercise of tho vital energies, the next their total stoppage. One second one was with this world, thc next ho is gone from it forever. This mystery, unlike pain, is inseparable from Death, and tko idea of Death. Ono can not think of tho mys tery of the change, and the lonesomeness of it. Every ono bas to encounter for and by himself, and himself alone. Third is the iden of that which is be yond Death. This idea also is insopa arable from tho contemplation of tho change. Whether one believes in a life beyond tho grave, or in annihilation, makes no difference. There is something beyond, and the dread ofthat mystery Puzzles tho will, And makes us rather hear thc ills wo have, Than fly io others that we know not of. All these three ideas aro connected with Death. And yet tho chango is or,e? tbat is being encountered every day. There are few but have seen uno die, and it ia a matter of goncral knowledge that tho number of death-bed where tho one who was experiencing tho chango has been unnerved is very small. Tho dying ono is not moved by his loneliness. He docs not weep at tho separation. What grief ho does manifest ia moro for those who are left than for himself who is going. Whether a weakened vitality blunts his sensibilities, or whether he ic prepared ?br the last great change by unusual strength, matters not. Thero 1B tho fact. When tho dying m ?rn comes to die, at the real and very decisive moment, he bas no fear of Death. Tho fear of the living cf Dcat'u Is not founded on the fear of Death of :he dying. I Jeremy Taylor said something on Death that has always seemed to have in it a weight of wisdom. "Take away," he says, "but the pomps of death, tue dis {juises and solemn bugbears, and tho act ngs by candle light, and proper and fan tastics ceremonies, tho minstrels and the noise makers, tho weepers, tho swoonings and the Bhrlekings, tho nurses and tho physicians, the dark room and the minis ters, the kindred and the watches, and then to die is easy, ready, and quitted from its troublesome circumstances. It ia the same harmless thing that a poor shepherd suffered yesterday, or a maid servant to day ; and at the same timo in which you ale, in that very night a thousand creatures die with you, acme wiso men, and many fools; and the wis dom of the first will not quit him, and tho folly of tho latter does not make bim unable to die." In a word, reader, your fear of Doatb will not mak?you fear Death when Death comes. It (sonly now when you aro liv ing that you fear it, and how little time after all do you spend in fearing it.-Cin cinnati limes. A_DEDNKEK ELEPHANT.-I Raw lit tle Betsy as drunk as a fiddler ono time, and she was a fanny sight. . We were showing late in the fall in Iodiana, in ve rv anvere weather. Seine E? O no cy s and birds and snakes had already frozen, and Betsy showed that she was suffering greatly from the cold. Long John went to Manager Older and said to him ! "You'd better get some whisky for Betsy or she'll freeze." "How much." "Her ears are beginning to freeze; get three backets." . Well, they knew that wo; two for Betsy and ?ne for John; but when it came to elephants ho was bo*3, and the whisky was got, aa ho ordered. Only you should have seen the tavern-keepers eyes stand out when they ordered three buckets of whisky for drinks. Betsy drank all they gave her and got staving drunk. She'd stagger, and roll over, and pick herself up, and pick Long Jchs sp ssd toss him on her back and sort of laugh, and it was nip and tuck between them which was the drunker. Elephants are very fond of whisky, or any 'sort of liquor, especially if it has a lot of pepper in it : aud they are uot only fond of getting-drunk themselves, but they aro very considerate of drunken men. I never yet knew of an elephant hurting a drunken man. That Long John, when he was staggering drunk, would go up to Sultan or Canada when nobody dared aro near them, and would foot around them, and swing on their tusks'and toss their trunks about and go to sleep right'down by their feet, and they would not only not do him any harm, but would not let anybody go near him until ho chose to wake up; and any real drunkon man can do pretty much as he pleases with aa elephant. The greatest enemy to children ia worms. Shriner's Indian Vermifuge will nave them frpra ruin. Only 2tr?cents a bottle. Try it. Exodas Phases. A loller from Topeka, Kansas, gives an amusing and interesting account of how the negro refugees are faring in Kansas, and hor the white residents feel about: the inflow of pauperism. The letter Bays : The feeling among tho working peoplo of Kansas, who are brought into compe tition with such black refugees as will work, is bittcily hostile. They justly complain that '.hoy cannot compete with labor that is fed, clothed and sheltered by charity, while they are required to feed, clothe and sheltsr themselves and families with the money they receive for work. One working man said to mo : "It is all very well to talk of cheap labor. See how it has affected me. I was work ing for a dellar a day ; a negro took mj place for fifty cents a day. He worked two days. Another took ? his place and worked three. Then another took.hold. They were working for spending money only, as they were fed at the barracks. I have my family lo support. I cannot do it on fifty cents a day." His objection was sound. It ia as unfair to ask white labor to compete with black labor that 2s supported by charity as it is to ask them to compete with convict labor. ' None of the white laborers about Topeka would flinch from competing with the refugee negroes if tho blacks were required to gain their food. If the food is supplied by Northern charity they feel that com ?etitlon is impossible. They are right, j 'he tender hearted people' who are so ' liberally supplying tho Topeka barracks negroes with food and clothing are, un knowingly, inflicting great injury on the white laborers of Kansas. The negroes are living in barracks and huts in North Topeka. Two little towns have boon built-ono called Redmanvillo, the otherTenuesseeTown. The property adjoining tbeso towns has greatly depre ciated in value. Ono gentleman told me ho owned a piece of real property that before the negro exodus he valued^at $6,000 ; now he would gladly part with it for $2,800. Ho believed the evil to bo a permanent one. Tba .barracks and huts, having been built, would, he feared, be kept full of this worthless class of negroes uatil tho buildings are burned by some property bolder. When I visited the barracks the. air quivered with laughter. Groups of ne groes sat sunning themselves in tho hot sun. Some wera dancing, others amus ing themselves by teaching tricks to dogs. There were little dogs, middle sized dog?, big dogs, yellow, white, block, spotted, and brindle dogs, smooth dogs, and rough haired dogs; some with long tails, some with Btub tails, all of the same breed the cur. I waa astonished at the gener osity of tho subscribers lo the exodus fund. To feed, clothe, and shelter the Eoor outraged negroes, who fled from the rutality of the southern lsnd, is chari table. Tb cheerfully feed a drove of mangy animals, BO as to keep the out raged ones from brooding over tho wrongs thoy haye endured by giving their minds occupation in teaching tricks to curs, is an unparalleled curiosity. A yellow dog with a bob tail, sitting up on hit haunch es, balancing a bit of hoecake on his nose, and at tho command, "Dar. now I" tossing it into the air and catching it ' : it fell, attracted my attention. I felt thal the negro was progressing in civilization, A white man situated ss this negro wai would havo gone crazy realizing his deg iodation as a pensioner on public charity The negro sat in the sun, happy and con' tented, and taught a bob tailed cur tricks In a street by the Topeka State Bani I saw two white men dressing building stones. I counted thirty-one. negroes leaning against a railing, or standing oi tho sido rvalk in small groups, all amok ing, and all with great Interest watching the white men work. Au hour later J again passed. There were but twenty three black men bloced against the rafi lng by tho bank. Eight had crossed V. the ether sido of fho street and joined i tang of nine other refugees, and lb lack forces, now numbering forty, Btcad ?ly watched the two white men dress tb building atones. Tbs change iii puHucai feeling amoDj not only the workingmen, but propert owners, is great. Many men living i Topeka, who have always voted the Ex publican ticket, will at tho next electio vote against tho party that started th) exodus. HOT MUSH AS A WEAPON.-A ? markable incident, and one whose ser ous character waa partially onset by il ludicrousness, occurred about 6 o'cloc the other morning in tho kitchen of mansion on Penn avenue, beyond P?ii Brc3Ze, in the East End. At that tin the cook was busily manipulating tb stirring paddle in a huge pot of rausl which was seething and bubbling on til stove. Two of the domestics employe in the household were present, and wm1 tho mush was being- worked up in tl nroper style the throe fell into a wan discussion. Presently the argument wi changed to a quarrel, and the females ei tcred into the dispute with great relis Something was said disparagingly of tl cook soou after, and in a fit of stiprcn eager she retaliated upon tho dornest who made tho remark by landing a lad full of the hot mmh directly into tho c fending female's face. Thus tho fig begun. Five minnies later tbs Omitr tho mansion, aroused from his BIUUIVK by the noise, rushed into th'; kitchen, ni was literally astounded by the ?ceno tb ??et his ~icr. Soft nasses of tuuan w flying in all directions. The cellir walls, carpet and various articles in t apartment were copiously ornament with big chankb of tho smoking coi pound, and the irate domestics, wi their bands madly mixed ap in ea other's hair, were plentifully bespatter with it. The battle bod been a hot o in more senses than one, and after awh: when tho comhataoi? had. hoe o eepcrii it was found that each of them had be burned more or less by the hot mixta Smoking lamps of tho stuff clung loth: bair ana garments, and on the whole tb were in a pitiablo plight. The proprio did not stop to inquire into the cause tho trouble, but then and there dischurg all of the females from his employ Pittsburg Wegraph. - The citizens of Kansas will v next autumn on prohibitory atrondmi lo the State constitution forbidding I manufacture' or sale of in lexical liquors. The temperance peoplo, led Governor St. John, are hard at work its support, through the press and the stump, but the liquor dealers aro actively in tho field, and at a recent o vention in Topeka they voted to rs $100,000 to defeat the measure. -Stantly Matthews has made a Gr speech lo Cincinnati. Tho Grant n would do well to watch bini with caro they find him among the missing eoe these data Ho was temporary chi man of ino Greedy Convention la lt declared tho Grant rula 'to bo so j meated with corruption that its overthi was a necessity, and flopped over to support of Grant and liberal attorney I within a fortnight. He ia very ablo , tho stump, bu? awfully unsteady In. cours?. Dead Hen Made to Breathe. Tue execution of, John Hall and Bur rell Smith for the murder Of Major Pugh was wit newed by a crowd numbering thousands! A feature never to be for Sotten by those who witnessed it was the Isplay of devotional sentiment of the wild, fantastic, exuberant sort common among negroes, on the scaffold, and du ring the tow hours previous to tho exe cution. A number of BO aga were at?s?> .. "./-. by them and other prisoner? in the jail! while waiting for the sheriff to como and take tho condemned men to the ?afluid. Amonf?them was a refrain: "I've found my robe, it fits mo well ; I've tried it on at tho gatesof hell." Tho two condemned men, and Bill Smith, another negro, whose testimony with faelrs combined tosend eight men to the fienitentinry, ns members ol'their gang of ncendlaries, who aro declared by msuy to be innocent, kneeled down on the jail floor, and swore they had told the truth, calling each other''brothers in Christ." Halt and Smith ceinoupon tho scaffold with their black faces wreathed in ghp.it ly smiles, and sat trembling in every limb during the preliminary preparations. Smith tried to munch a piece of pound cake he hud in bis pocket, but he did not look as if ho enjoyed it? When the lust Crayer had been pronounced, and jiiBt eforo the black cap was drawn over their faces they made a few farewell remarks, ' Baying that they hoped to meet all pres ent in beaven ind "God bless you." As tho rope was cut Smith fainted and fell, which gavo him an awkward full, causing him to writhe lu agony at the end of tho rope. Hal) died easily. After they had been suspended seventeen minutes they, were cut down, and' Dr. Slo Sr, of ' Nashville, and Dre; Byrne arl urfeo, of this city, attempted tho exper iment lu resuscitation which was proposed., ' some days ago. They did not begin until thirty minutes after the men bad been cut down. A number of physicians were present to witness the experiment. After the clothing had been-taken off their bodies were wrapped in hot blankets, ? applications wera mudo to their necks to reduce the swelling, and an artificial res piration . brought about by the means usually applied in casca of porsous who have been tn tho water ipr a long time. AU this was preliminary ,'p the applica tion of electricity. Baltc.Ics wor? placed in juxtaposition to tho spinal cord and different portions o* the brain. Tho ef fects of the application wcro soon appa rent. First carno nervoui muscular twltchings in those parts of tho bodies with which tho batteries wero placed in contact. Tho temperature waa gradually Increased until it reached over 1,000 de grees. The effect was immediate. The limbs twitched and shook like men asleep and struggling nsmder tho spell of a horrid nightmare. Tho regular drawing in mid expulsion of air produr #>\ by tho "appli ances referred to were Lv/ribty real and life-liko. The euspiration carno with an effort, however, and sounded like tho gasp of men struggling for breath. Dr. Sieger put nia hands to their wrists. "The pulse lo boating," ho auld. You can feel itC but faintly." Their eyes next opened under tho ef fect of the electric currant, .and turned about the room in a vacant gaze. There was no sound but the labored gasping al their lips. All in tho room stood still with horror. ?Gentlemen," said Dr. Sieger, "tho experiment is now concluded. Our main object waa to shuw the effect cf electrici ty upon tho muscular centers, and wp bavo exhibited that, I think, in arcmark able realistic way."-AV 're?tb?ro {Temi.) (Correspondence Chi?ogo Jtmes. ? Twenty-fire Years an ?airr?ror. The Czar of all the Russ?as baa been nu Emperor for twenty-five years. Ho ' ascended the throne ob the death of his father, Nicholas, on tho 2d of March, (old style February 19,) 1855. To-day ho, therefore, entera upon tho twenty sixth year ot his reign, and tho evens will fro coiebraier? throughout tb? empire and whore loyal Russians are found throughout tho world. In the palace of Sc Petersburg the celebration.. will bo very quiet. The'Empress is ?ick^-sho has probably not a great while to live. The last attempt to assassinate the Em peror and family by blowing up a portion of the Winter Palace is only two week* did. Tho Emperor has just been com Soiled to infest Gen. Louts Melikoff with senatorial powers for tho preservation of the peace of tho imperial household. His own nerves aro unstrung. His life has been fur from regular, and indulgence . has told upon bim in tbs irritability which is the-sure index of nervous de rangement. An Emperor can hardly bo asked to be gay when Nihilista are threatening to celebrate .the twenty-fifth anniversary of his accession to thc throne by: a bonfire which is tc consumo bis capital. Tho Emperor is now in the sisv7*s?i' ond year of bia age. Ko was born April 29, (O.8.17,) 1818, arid wa? nearly thir ty-seven yoars of age when he ascended the throne. His roita has not only.been long but eventfu?. His country was en gaged in the.Crimna war when the death of bia father do volved the cares of thu empire upes his:. In ISSI, oa tb? eli*?'"" anniversary of his acceasion to' tho - throne, he declared tie freedom of the serfs. Ia 1868 there waa an uprising iu Pclssd, r,nd lu IoS4 ino Crnr, in crccr to weaken the influence of the great nobles, liberated the Poliah eerfc. . Towaid the close of 1880 a war was concocted between Russia and Turkestan. This conflict dragged along for a couple . of years. In 18W tho Emperor sold Russian America to'tho United States. During tho F/acco-Gcvroan war thc ifzar declared that he did not confider bimi.-ir bound hy th? '(^it-li^-c in rsgtrd w ti ia - use of the Black Sea placed upon him by the treaty of Pam in 1856. In 1871 a conference was held in London, which modified the treaty in accordance with his desires. , In 1873 Khiva was conquered by tha Russians. Tho recent war between Rus sia and Turkoy is fresh In every one's recollection. Russia was victorious ia tho field, bot hor diplomante lost all. r that her soldiers had won. Europe prac 1 tioally combined against Russia after tho treaty of San Stefano, and ut tho treaty I of Berlin compelled tho conqueror to Sart with her conquests for tho aggrau iremcnt of greedy neighbors. . Russia is, of course, dissatisfied with hor position. Germany anticipates war Io tho .* w future. Official declarations are maue in favor of peace, but acts ara against its being maintained. ; i On tho whole, tho future must took Eloomy to the F.inparor. Insurrection nt boa and foreign war aro threatened. After twtaty?fivo years at' BTC'^?MCU in exercising supreme power, ho fiada him , self in thc presence of d.it?cult?o* quite aa great as ?ny ho has hithertosurmom Ha probably dcslrfca rent, but thora i ?J none for him this sida of abdication or the grave.-Nev? York Graphic.; - Grest ouantiliwi of tobacco are raised in Russia, thc seed from which it , I* growl., being obtained chiefly United Stales.