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The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-09-13
who Osman Pasha IL.

The Army and Navy Journal, on Fri
day, published the following:
1t il confidently asserted in England
from private information that Osman
Pasha is none other than that celebrated
fugitive from French prisons, Marshal
Francois Ochilrc Bazine. This intelli-
gence is by no means improbable. Ba-
zaine was always an active and stirring
man, and the circumstances of his puplic
trial in France were such as to shut him
from career in any army in Christ
ian Europe. Like most French officers of
rank, he had served in A lgeria, and in 10
doing acquired considerable knowledge
of Arabic and of the Arabs. Besides this
he served in the Crimean war in com
mand of the Foreign Legion and after
ward as French governor of Sebastopol.
During that period he naturally made
many Turkish acquaintance, and there
fore there is nothing more natural than
that he should go to Turkey in the hour
of his need. 1t is no secret that Baz ne
WIS strong Bonapartist, and that his
treason to France in the interest Of the
late emperor is indulgently looked on by
the imperial government.
/" In Turkey, where Bazaine's master
was the best friend Of the sultan, Ba-
zaine would be received with open arms
by those of his frieuds whokne his value
in any capacity of trained soldier.
That he should have concealed his iden-
tity with the utmost care is equally as
natural, and had not war come it is
possible he might have concealed it till
his death, but war with Russia, his
antagonist of twenty years ago, could not
fail to bring Osman Pasha in contact
with the people who knew General Ba-
zine as governor of Sebastopol. Whether
the secrect leaked out through some
Russian officer, prisoner in his hands, or
some English or French attacho who had
served in the Crimea, and recognized
Osman Pasha, is uncertain, but the
character of his fighting at Plevna, a
stubborn, defensive battle, is curiously
like the first day at Gravelotte, through
the difference of force on the enemies
side led him to a happier ISSUE"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-09-13
TIE CAPTURE OF MIR. DAVIS.
4 Statement from His COIOred Coac man
Who Was Present.

Soon after the close of the civil war in
1868, when Generals Lee and Johnston
had surrendered to tie United States,
forces, good deal was said-much of it
false-in regard to the capture of Jefler-
son Davis, president of the confederacy.
Soon after his capture, James III. Jones,
a coored man who was with Mr.. Davis
or his family during nearly the whole
time of the war in the capacity of coach
men, and who was with him when he was
taken prisoner in Georgia, furnished a
statement of the capture. Recently a
request has been made to gentlemen OF
high standing in this city to procure from
! James III Jones, statement OF the whole
matter, which he has given, and which
we are permitted to copy as below. But
before giving the statement we will take
occasion to say that the author il a ma
tive of this city, and stands as high as
any colored man in the state for truth
and integrity. He is and has been for
ten years captain of the Victor fire com
pany of this city, and was, until his re-
signation, captain of the Raleigh rifles,
colored volunteer company OF this city.
The statement is given as briefly as pos
sible to be ineligible, and is as follows:
al was coachman to Hon. jeff. Davis
nearly all through the war, and was with
him at the time of his capture, which
occurred on the 10th of May, 1868, be-
tween three and four O'Clock in the morn.
ing, some fifteen or sixteen miles from
the county seat of Wilcox county, Geor
gia, while in camp on the public road, |
heard the tramping of the horses Of the
federal soldiers, as they Incorporating
the camp, and awoke Mr.. Davis and told
him the Yankees were nearly on us. lie
and his wife had been sleeping in their
tent. When | went in he got up, and by
the time he got his clothes on the soldiers
were in the camp and ten or twelve of
them were standing at his tent door with
their guns. No one could pass in or out.
Mrs. Davis and the children had not had
time 10 dress. Mr. Davis went to the
tent door and was ordered by the soldiers
to surrender. lie replied that he would
not; that he would die first. At this
Mrs. Davis pressed to her husband and
put her arms around his neck, begging
the soldiers not to kill him. both she and
the children were crying piteously.
at has been stated that Mr.. Davis had
on a hoop.skirt, and was otherwise dis
guised as woman. This is wholly false.
He was dressed in his ordina.y clothing,
with cavalry boots drawn over his pants,
a waterproof over his dress coat a shawl
thrown over his shoulders, and on his
head broad-brim white or drab Texas
hat. He had not an article of female
wear about his person
"The following gentlemen were in the
camp and were captured at the same
time: Gen. Reagan, postmaster general;
Mr.. Harrison, private secretary to Mr..
Davis; Col. Lovett, of Texas; Col. Joseph
Johnston, of Kentucky; COL Joseph
Wood ESCAPED next day.; Mr.. William
Howell, brother to Mrs. Davis, and many
Others, all of whom doubt not will cor
roborate what | have stated above. -
Raleigh (M CO. Ncws.
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LEAVE ALL AND FOLLOW ME-"

Leave all and follow Thee o blessed Lord,
Fain would leave the cares and tolls OF life,
The ceaseless worry, and tho endless strife
Fen the scant Joys my earthly days afford,
II were pleasant task to follow Thee
Up to the heights Of Heavenly calm and peace,
Where pain and discomfort forever cease
And NIL from grief ana sorrow ares free
But, Lord, Thou once did's say, II wo would tread
The narrow path, we too must bear n cross,
And serve Thee well, counting all else az drOsS
Remembering, when sad, how Thy heart bled.
II Ia by doing that which we should do,
We follow along the blessed way.
Thou bid'st us all work well while yet It's day,
And not the smallest duty to eschew
We cannot serve Thee well through Idle days,
Fen though our hearts be filled with oveand prayer
Labor IL worshp"-we must do our share,
And do 1t faithfully, to meet Thy praise.
Loaye all and follow Theel Yea, all the SIM
And all the paths which lead aw'y from Thee;
But from our labor we shall not be free
Until our harvest. sheayes TO Thee we bring
And, nothing 10th, | turn my eyes away
From iar.Oh heights which know not toll or care.
Duties well done Thou dost accept az prayer:
In Thine own mansions we shall rest some day.
-FoUh Walton
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-09-13

Of grain, as the time il not distant when
Charleston must be an important grain
market. This cargo was taken In from the
Savannah railroad Immediately from their
wharf, and saved all incidental expenses.
In Lexington, Tennessee, there lives
an old negro man who claims to be the
father OF one hundred and ifty,seven chill
dren. lie says he was ut New Orleans when
General Jackson met Packenham, and that
he then had q wife and one child, He has
been married thirteen times, and twelve Of
his wives bore him all his legitimate children,
one hundred and fifty.seyen IN number The
last one claims none of the honor Of ma.
tcrnity Of this numerous progeny OF her
prolific husband. He says most Of his
children were born in triplets, ana the
increase OF his family alone before the war
made his master rich.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-09-13
The Longest Rivers in the World.

The following are the largest rivers,
with their extent The Amazon, in
South America, falls from the Andes
through a course of $500 miles the
Mississippi, from the Stony Mountains,
runs $500 miles; La Plata, from the
Andes, 2,2l5 miles; the HoaDgho, in
China, from the Tartarean chain Of
mountains, is $3.50 miles the Yangt.e.
kiang runs from the same mountains,
and is 5000 miles long the Nile. from
the Jihel Kumri mountains, courses
$500 miles the Euphrates, from Ararat,
ia 1920 miles long the Nolga, from the
Vsldais, is 2,l00 miles; the Dsnub',
from the Alps, is 100 miles in length
the Indus, from the Himalayas, is l,770
miles the Ganges runs from the same
source, and is 1860 miles long; the
Orinoco, from the Andes, is 1890 mic.
in length the Niger, or Wharrs. is l,99
miles long; the Don, the DniePer snd
the Senegal are each over ] 900 mics J."
length the Rhine and the Gambia are
eight hundred and lightweight miles III
extent.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-09-13

her and she went back on him, going to
Europe with California gambler
named Barker, 1t was her boast when
on the continent, n favorite with such
men rs Charles Dickens, Alexande
Dumas, Theophlle Gautier and Charles
Swinburne, "t"at gto began with a
price fighter but would end with a
prince" and she came within an inch
of roping in one of the noble blood of
the crown Of France, but for parental
interference. The Adah Isaacs Men
ken who, all but entirely naked, rode
strapped 10 the horse in Mazeppa, and
the brilliant, beautiful conversational
ist, for whose book Dickens wrote the
preface, and to whom the brain and
pride OF Europe paid court, were very
much alike, both very fast and faithless
She found her destroyer in herself, and
died from too much OF herself. She said
that cher soul would 60 to heaven
through the gates of Paris" but as her
soul would never have left its gay salon
if she could have prevented it, it il
doubtful il her prophecy is fulfilled. The
monument over her grave was put up, as
George Butler once told us, by set OF
halfiamished Partisan Bohcmians, and
is probably unpaid for to this day. The
vast meaning of its epitaph, "thou know
est !" probably is best known by the
stone cutter. Ada Glare was perhaps
the most thorough of our active Bohe.
mians, and az the associate of Fitz James
OBrien, George Arnold, Artemus Ward,
Ned wilkins, Henry Clapp, Mortimer
Thompson, and the others of that Gotham
journalistic gang, who could not eat a
breakfast on less than a dozen cocktails,
was entitled the queen of Bohemia. Ada
was from the south, born wealthy, but
with bad streak somewhere in her,
which evinced itself in her coming north
and Joining in those carousals at Plans
and the Madison DOree, where those
sweet-scented shrubs held forth, She
was northumberland with all, and
thought nothing of running ofona jaunt
of a week or a month with any of them.
Her intensely eager, nervous, clean-cut
face and heavy blonde hair always at
tracted the attention of Broadway to her,
and there, quafing champagne at the
Doree, or beer at Plans she was wholly
Indifferent to all criticism. Her end was
trouble. She outlived all Of her old as
sociates, but three years ago died from
hydrophobia, the result of the bite of a
pet dog Ada was the best of the lot of
bas rogues, for she was n fool, and too
good hearted to give any one much pain
Of heart. - Washington Capital
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Courtesy i'm New York.

The great want in New York is civilty
in trade Stewart, a short time before he
died. said that one Of the Z clt plaques
of his life was to find n salesman that
would be civil to poor people vino wanted
few needles and some tape. TO ladies'
that trade in satins aud laces men wouli
be polite. But the same salesman won d
snub small buyer. 1t il the universal
complaint that officials are impertinent.
One can hardly get civil answer in
trade. One of our car conductors came
up the other morning to the Grand Cen
trail depot. His car was stopped two
blocks below. The train lett at twelve.
A dozen people were in the car who
wanted to take the noon train. Some OF
them were aged and decrepid. Instead
of announcing that his car would be de-
tanned ten minutes, he jumped off, bought
paper and an apple, came into the car
and began to eat and read. When asked
if the car was going to move ne SIMPLY
shouted, "If you want the twelve tram
Won had better be lively" All his 100
iost that train through bis dogged Incl.
v;litv saw lady ask for bunch OF
,;ntot. ar one OF the ferry offices a
. ~. lad threw down two punches. The
i n'I aid she wanted but one package.
The IT bow flew into a passion, as if the wo-
~ had committed some great crime,
because the lad misunderstood her. He
realIy abused her so that the woman left
in tears. During the centennial season
little ofthe old time courtesy would be a
healthy infusion. BWleigh's New York
letter 10 The Boston journal.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-09-13
orty were killed while gathering the

forty we're killed while gathering the
wounded,
In Armenia, on the 18th, the Russian
forces, numbering $4,000 infantry, ten regi.
ments OF cavalry and one hundred and ten
guns, attacked the Turkish forces commanded
by Mukhtar Pasha. The battle lasted all day,
and the Russians were compelled TO with.
draw with the loss Of 1000 The Turkish loss
was stated at one hundred and sixty five.
The Russian newspaper Verdermoste,
after an elaborate review OF the sums already
expended in the war, draws the conclusion
that II the war last till next autumn, IL will
cost not less than S50,000,00 roubles, Of
which 122000,000 have already been ex.
pended. To cover this sum, there is in re.
serve 100000 600 roubles. As to the re-.
naming 900 900, more paper money, Of
which there is already S770O0,0OO roubles in
circulation, must be issued.
An official telegram from the yiceroy
OF India summarizes the progress OF the
famine of August Goth to 2Sth, II says that
in Madras the situation is not improved
anywhere, and is distinctly worse in Madura,
Coimbatoon, Nellore and Salem. where $780,
M are on relief works, and ,326,97l are
receiving gratuitous relief. In Miserere the
crop prospects are worse, and 2i3,2S3 are on
the relief works or are receiving gratuitous
relief. More favorable accounts continue OF
the condition of the crops in the Bombay
presidency, Owing to recent rains in the
northwest provinces the autumn crop in the
division of Agra and Jhans are nearly lost,
and in the Allahabad and Benares divisions
it is critical There has been good rain in
Merut and Rohileund; the crops in Oudh
are suffering from hot winds; the condition
of Puniaub is critical and that Of Gwhlior,
Raiputana and lIyderabad is bad, There is
much destruction south of the Nisams do.
minons; the Deccan is Improved. The
prospects are good in south Bengal Burmah,
and in the central provinces of Bera, lndore
and Rulam,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-09-13
JOHN WESLEY HARDIN.
The Captured OatInw for whom the Re.
wards Aggregate 100000.

His father was preacher who lived in
southwest Texas. Asa boy he was re-
markedly quiet, and gave no evidence of
the terrible passions which, in after life,
made him thirst for blood. When al
most sixteen years of age, and while the
state was under military rule, darkey
on his fathers place provoked him, and
ne shot him. For this he was arrested
vnd placed under guard of some soldiers
who started to Huntsville with him. As
he was only boy they did not watch
him very closely, and at night lay down
to sleep. Hardin arose in the night
and killed every one of them. This out
lawed him. The next act was the muir
der of Jack Halem, out of which grew
the Sutton and Taylor troubles. Har.
din siding with the Taylors. His
father and brother got mixed up and
were taken out and hung in western
Texas. From this time on he was des-
perado OF the worst order. Missouri and
Kansas became the field of operation and
before he lett them he added many more
to the death list. In those states there
are at present large rewards offered for
him. From there he came back to Texas,
and kept the border in state of terror
ism. His last murder was the killing
of Webb, the deputy sheriff of Brown
county, at Comanche. 1t is estimated
that in various sections of the county
there are over twenty thousand dollars
of rewards offered. Harden is young
man, about twenty-seven or twenty
eight years of age, five feet eight inches
and one half in height, weighs one hun
dred and fifty pounds, has haxen hair
blue ewes. and not an unpleasant counte-
nance.-Dql'as { Ter.) Htrdd.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-09-13
PERSONALITIES.

Secretary Evarts will introduce to
Washington society, the coming winter, his
eleven beautiful daughters.
Gail Hamilton is out with another
and final Letter, in which she pitches, right
and left, into Joe Medill, Sam Bowles, Carl
Schurz and others.
Herbert Spencer has nearly finished
his system of synthetic philosophy. By
putting causes and effects together he ex.
poets to give plausible form to his liberal
views.
VIM. B. Astor is reported by Florida
paper as having bought plantation there.
This looks like a shrewd investment.
Ex-Presiden Theirs, in receiving re-
publican Populations Friday at st. German,
said that the republic was the only govern.
ment possible in France,
General Sickles has returned to New
York and settled down to his old business as
law practitioner.
Stewards hotel for women will be
opened in October A former hotelkeeper
has been selected to manage it.
Lucca il an open enemy to beer,
Nilsson cannot endure Coffee and Patti
almost faints at the sight of potato.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-09-13
FOREIGN.

The specific charges upon which Gam.
beta will appear before the tribunal OF
Lille is that Of insulting MacMahon and his
ministers.
The British privy council has forbid
den the landing Of leaves or stalks of pota
toes grown in the United States, Canada, Oh
Germany.
A republican conspiracy has been dis
covered and frustrated at Madrid. Numer
Gus arrests were made there and throughout
the provinces.
Despite the energetic attempts of the
government to stampit out, the Colorado
beetle has spread over a field of twenty-five
acres at Langenreichenbach, in Germany.
A London telegram says that owing
to the depression in the cotton trade, the
Nuneaton cotton mill, which employs over
five hundred operative, will be closed.
In the pampas of Buenos Ayres there
are Y 900, 900 cows and 100000 horses that
have owners. while there are also great
numbers of wild herds.
The Peruvian government wants to
borrow $24,000,000 for few years. and will
secure the lender with bank of guano one
hundred and fifty miles long and mile
wide.
The London Agricultural Gazette of
Goth, in its review of the crop prospects Of
Great Britain, predicts general failure of
crops. The potatoe crop, which, until then,
had promised to be productive, WIS very
generally threatened with disease.
On the Goth, the Paris conservatory
papers united in announcing that there was
no choice there except between n coup d'stdi
and revolution, and that a republican victory
in the coming election would not be submit
ted to. 1t was believed that France was on
the verge of perilous crisis.
Adelina Patti, has brought, says a
Paris dispatch, for nullty of marriage
against the Marquis of Caux, alleging that
the Rev. Mr.. Plunkett, who performed the
ceremony in England, had no license from
his archbishop, but acted simply as delega'
ted by the parish of st. Phillip du Rule in
Paris,
Sir Stafford Northcote, in a speech
delivered at Plymouth, declared that the
duty of England at the present moment was
to pursue policy of the strictest neutrality.
Occasion might arise in which definite
policy would be necessary, but under present
circumstances the duty of the government
was to keep in view and maintain in every
possible way, the position and influence of
England, so that it could be of assistance in
bringing this miserable, disastrous, cruel
and barbarous war to close
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-09-13
THE WAR.

The sultan has issued an imperial de.
cree calling to arms all hitherto exempted.
It is said that the Russians have con-
tracted with an engineering firm for the
construction of bridge across the Danube
capable of withstanding the ice.
1t is officially announced that all the
great powers and Belgium, Holland, Sweden
and Portugal have agreed to the German
protest against Turkish cruelty.
According to Bucharest kilograms of
,hs l7th. the fever epidemic in the Russian
army was rapidly increasing. The troops
were also suffering for the want Of suitable
food
The Russian official report, published
in 81. Petersburg on the 2lst, admits that the
Pu sian losses at Plevna were between 5000
and 10 go men. OF the two hundred per.
sons attached to the Red Cross ambulances,
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-09-13

WIEN Bishop Mead preached in Ohio
in the early days backwoodman said
lie ia the first of them fine fellows that !
have ever seen who could shoot without
rest.
Miss c." said gentleman one
evening, "why are ladies 40 fond Of off,
GERS ?" "Hew stupid" replied Miss
C; "is it not natural and proper
that lady should like good offer, sir %
VISITOR" see You have new girl"
Housekeeper--"I took her week on
trial" Visitor" And how do you like
her ?" IIousekeeper-"The trial" is al.
most more than | can bear"
THERE is a lady at Eureka, California,
who, dozen years, ago, was married in
two thousand dollar dress. Now she
takes in washing to support drunken
husband and three pairs of twins.
The marked decline of l0S,0O0,0 900
pounds in the importation of East In
dian cotton into Great Britain during
the years of 1875 and 1876 respectively,
shows clearly that all hope of successful
rivalry with the south must he aban-
doned Since 1866 Ilindostan has ceased
to be dangerous competitor.
DURING July there were thirty.two
failures in New York city, in which the
! liabilities amounted to 1901 ,4sS In
addition there were assignments and adju-
dication in bankruptcy which swell the
total Indebtedness to about 50, 1920, 600
The number of failures were the same as
for June, and the liabilities are 100000
greater.
DIEp recently in London plucky and
witty French lady, who, a few days after
the revolution of lS4S, ventured to drive
out in carriage with armorial bearings.
She was hooted and modified, and one
Patriot, taking handful of filth from the
gutter, smeared it over the panels, cry
ing That's for your arms" All,
you have substituted your" said the
lady.
WE.still hear occasionally of the ten.
der, passionate, worshiping lover, who
lies in ambush for the idol Of his hearts
affections and cuts her head of with a
Ratchet because she will not marry him.
1t is getting to be safer for girl to shoot
man when he proposes, than to reject
him. And that possibility makes it very
unpleasant for the man when he "askS. "
--Ha'Ckeyc,
WHAT ", nicnic would he without hor.
rets ia mattnr Of conjecture as there
never bas heen a wav 70 find ont, A
hornet il not UNCONVENTIONAL 1t goes
~ aIl nicnics And il is a desirable adj
iunct. II tends to modify greediness,
besides adding largely to the enthusiasm,
Five hornets at small table will do moro
to level social distinctions and to promote
sacial intercourse than an awful disaster
in n village anb,ry Nsws.
Ir ia anouch To make every patriotic
American ioin the hoodlums in their
attach mon the Chinese quarter, to hear
That inonisitive peopraphers have recently
tnund two rivers in China. each of which
ia nearly a thousand miles longer than
our GREAT Mississippi. 1t does seem AZ if
so.caIled scientific observers might be
about better business than bringing hu.
initiation on the noble Caucasian race.
Ia civiliya,ion n failure?
THE San Diego (Cal.) World says
"San Diego has young gentleman tele-
graphic operator, who, after repeated
calls for a young lady operator in an.
other Office, at last got response, and