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Ski 1 \ a ATLANTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1871. NO. 340. Suuannal). Slipping Cine*. MURRAY'S LINE—NEW 1 IRK 6r SAVANNAH. EVERY TUESDAY fbom each pobt. INSURANCE BY STEAMERS OF THIB LIKE. ONE HALF PEli CENT. CABIN PA88AGE DECK, with aub*i*U*uct> VlltUO, BULKLKY, OoiuiuBnflar, OoiupoM this line, and one of Uieite ataawalilpa leavei each port EVEKY TUE8UAY.. Through bill* of lading given by thuee uteawahipa by all railroad oouiiectioua, and alao through bllla lading givcu in 8a\auuah ou Ootton deatiued for Liverpool and lhtmburg by first claaa atoawahipa.- PHILADELP1IIA AND SAVANNAH MAIL STEAM 1HXT COMPANY. phila help hia aa'd «j- IVMV1VIH. EVERY SATURDAY from each pobt. INSURANCE ON COTTON BY 8TKAMER8 ON THIS LINE ONE HAL*’ PER CENT. caim.n PAMAfll ME DECK, with BiiliHiBtenee It* Tlila line la coinpoeed of the first claaa steamships VVVOMINi. 1 LAI.. Cmuniandsr row A W A Ri DA BARRETT, Coioinandei _ rt EVERY SATURDAY. Through bills lading /iirniabed by • heae uU-amahips by all railroad connections. Foi reight or psHaage, apply to HUNTER k OAMMKLL, H4 Bay street. For ItoNton. K This daily sun. 0«c Panur mt Bm, *m Alabama HI’. PuMhhed bj the Atlanta San Publishing Company. Alexander H. Stephen ‘ rthlbsWM “ T ‘ Heatjr Sa J. HENLY SMITH Mu uugcr. Traveling Agents i J. M. W. HILL. J. W. HEARD, HOW TO REMIT HOMEY. We will be responsible for the safe arrival of all money sent os by Registered Letter, by Expret by Draft, but not otherwise. If money sent unregistered letter is lost, it must be the loss of the person sending 1ft. No paper will be sent from the office till it li paid lot. and natnea will always be erased when the time paid for expiree. BIHVKD TO UKATH. Horrible Sequel to a Quarrel Between Ilunband and Wife. THE BOSTON AND SAVANNAH STEAMSHIP LIN1 The Bteawahips Irlrntnl, CspL F. M. Swan Vlrk-liiiig Cspt, 8. II. Matthews. CABIN FAR* $90 W DECK i 10 01 Through bills of lading given by railroad agents to lobton, and in Boston by Steam ah ip s<;enta to pnu ij»al jkointH in Georgia, Alaama and Florida. • %- Through bill* of lading given to Providence, comh secured In advi by writing i sin 8a RICHARDSON A BARNARD, HE GREAT SOUTHERN STEAMSHIP COMPANY EVEKY THURSDAY, usuranoe by this Line can be effected nnde* oui open policy at oue-half per cent ABIN PASSAGE. $20 0 General Huperlntendont BulhllngM, and nil Mariner of Carpontern* Work. T HE undersigned would respectfully announce to tho public that he has loca ted himself on the corner oi Grubb and Spring streets, near ltlce A Mitchell’s Lumber Y ard, w here he proposes to receive Contracts for Building and geueral Cari»euter»’ Work, which he pro] - *" b satisfact: of all c lied ; u 11 BANKSTON. Whitehall street, betwoen Mitchell and Peters mh21*d3m B. z. DUTTON. PRACTICAL STENCIL CUTTER, DESIGNER ANI> ENUKAVEltI HANDFArTCHFB O, B rass alphabets, dry and FLUID STENCIL INKS, Stencil Dies, Htoel Humping Dies, Railroad and Hotel Checks, Marking N. B.—Particular attention paid to Brands and Stencils Tor Merchant*, Millers, Tobacconist* a*** Distillers; also, to Name Plates, for marking clotli Ucfreslimcitle. CITY BREWERY. Corner Collinsnnd Harris Mreels; For liter & Mercer, Proprietor** Offloe In Old Post Office Building, next Gate City Bar, Jk.tlA.rLta,, Georgia. tpri fra _______ T. F. GRADY’S R. R. ALE HOUSE- e t2 Alabama Street Atlanta. Ou. J UST received, a lino lotoICIi»ia]migu, Jera«y Old.r. Families jupplled ,1 tbtir homes. A flue aseortmeut ol the beet L1QUOHH W1N1H and negars always on baud. Uoltletl Ales and Porter aspvcialty. Ale*. !»• -r and Champagne Jersey Cider on JralL Call ouora.lv and away pleased, detitf Uncle Jack Coughlin, H aving disposed of his »» Uie old -7n Saloon,” on the coiner ol llroa. an.. .lahaum streets, ha* located himself uuder the old Post office, corner same streets, in the HHK-MU'K BJLOOJS', Where EVERYTHING 18 READY for th- accommodation ol In. old Wends, and as many nev drlnks A AT It COLD LVA’CHEM CALL AND dt* AIM. myf-tlii )nn«s _. . - LB HON TON, Jfo. 11 Pear hirer Si reel, near ike .National Hotel. DAN. LYNCH’S OLD 8TAND, FREE LUNCH FROM 10 }A. M.TO 1|P. M. EVERY DAY. FECHTER k MERCER'S PREMIUM DEER. DEODORA WHISKY. MILK PUNCHES. BUMMER DRINKS OF ALL KINDS, THE CELEBRATED AMERICAN DRINK. ••NIP UP, Leave Augusta at 12 00 M. Leave Macon at G 00 A. M Arrive at Macon at 7 40 P. M Arrive at Augusta at 1 45 P. M %%. The day passenger train arriving ■ Washington and all point* on tho Georgia road, am will connect at Atlanta with trams for the West. mar20 8. K. JOHNSON. Superintendent New Lumber Yard, JUHOTION OF MARIETTA AND WALTON STS.. AH. KINDS OF L 0 M B B H. (XivJTANTLY ON HAND. ecial Attention to Orders. M. A. HARDEN. apl29-3m LANDSBERG’S LUMBER YARD. 0PP08ITE GEORGIA RAILROAD DEPOT. \TLANTA,GA Sawod Slilnglom anc XiAtliM, Wlxito Pino 8a«li f Window* «*> Blinds Ml Kinds ot Dressed and Framing Lumber. feb21-ly A. LAND8BIRG k GO., Proprietors. cn. Bar Will sail as follows: U. LIVINGSTON lass steamers. For passage , .F. G. Mallory, Com I^or Baltimore. A IABIN PA88AQE.. ers sail from Savauuali nriug Dot Thursday,February 2d Thursday, «• flth Tliursday, *• 16th Thursday, •• 23d I hnrsdny. March 2nd JAS. B. WEST A CO., ■ Day street, foot of Whitaker. SAVE YOUR FRUIT! To Parties Dssiring to Build ^mperlntend the HUhHnr Mniehim tht A’tieiehintr It. port men! mult/, or o J'Yral Class they mmy unh to Street. He has at his command a pto.ad s. t of hands, luels confident In giviug general satisfaction *T REFERENCE—Col. John L. Grant, Louglwj i; Robinson, and Fay k Corpot, Architects. JO HA' C. A'ICHOLS, SAFEST, CHEAPEST AND BEST fruit jAits In the market JIcBHICBI ctoOO., Make mp Clubs. We shall make The 8un lively, fresh and 1 eating—containing all the latest news. We shall All it with good reading matter, and shall hav each Issue as much reading matter as any paper in Georgia, and we shall soon enlarge and otherwise niprorelt, so as to give It a haudsowo appearance md make It easily reed and desirable to have ii family. We ask oar friends to use a Utile effort to make up a club for ms at every post office. See our club i A very little effort Is all that Is neodtd to make large list Terms of Subsoriptloni $7 00 Per Annum.,.,.......... Six Months '4 Three Mouths a 00 WEEKLY PEE ANNUM : e Copie No subscriptions, to the Weekly, received for shorter period thou six months. All subscriptions must be i«id for in advance Terms of Advertising. 1 square 9 00 11 00 12 00 14 00 16 00 18 00 90 00 29 00 94 00 27 00 40 00 Tirtr 9 00 19 00 16 oO 18 00 66 00 43 00 65 00 Advertisements in the Local Column marked with au asterisk, (*) will be charged 95 cents per line eac h —-rtinn. Advertisements under the Special Notice head (leaded) for less time thau one week, will be charged 16 oents per Hne. Af Advertisements, exoept for established busi ness houses, in this city, must be paid lor in sd- Night Passenger Train leaves.. Day Passenger Train arrives.. 1 lay Passenger Train leaves ..10:30 a. 1 ...3:00 p. 1 IU OBOROIA (AUGUSTA) RAILROAD. (A r o Day Train on Sunday. 1 Night Passenger Train arrives 6:40 &. Night Passenger Train leaves 6:15 p. Day Passenger Train arrives 6:90 p. Day Paaseuger Train loaves 7:10 a. Night Passenger Train leaves Day Passenger Train arrivss 2:10 p. Day Paaseuger train leaves 5:00 a. Night Passenger Train leaves Day Passenger Train arrives.. Day Passenger Train leaves... Regular Passenger Train leaves Nt. Loafs, Memphis, Nashville and Chattanoooga Great Central Through Line. Chattanooga train leaves.... 9:50 a.m. aud 6:45 pm. ” arrives...9:06 p.m. and 3:45 s.m. Memphis train leave* 4:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. arrives 9:80 am. and6:00 p.m. ghelbyrflle train leaves 8:80 p.m. From the Memphis Avalanche, June 17.] Id the Avalanche, a few weeks since, mention waa made of the troublea of Mr. and MrH. Mike Garrity, of Chelaea, to gether with the happy result of Squire Miller’s interposition ns a mediator in the family quarrel. Keeping a small gro cery directly opposite the brick church, th«*y made u good living, and, beyond their frequent family quarrels, were good neighbors. Since Squire Miller’s media tion they lmve been getting along unusu nlly well together, and it was hoped by their neighbors that the Garrity family had concluded to dwell together iu peace aud unison. It wus merely the lull, how ever, which oftentimes precedes the storm, for Thursday evening about 8 o’clock a terrible quarrel broke out be tween them. They were at the time in the grocery—a small one os it has been stated, which was lighted up with an oil lamp suspended from the ceiling. After quarreling for a time Mr*. Garrity be came highly incensed at some remark and catching up a “pop bottle” from a box near by, drew it up—in a very vio lent manner—over her head as if to strike Mike. She was at the time standing di rectly underneath the lump, and in rais ing the bottle she struck the lump, break ing it into fragments. It was at the time full of oil, which igniting poured down over her unprotected head a sheet of flame,setting fire to her hair and clothing. Her husband, w ith one or two bystand ers, rush'd to her assistance, but having no blankets or anything with which to smother the flames at hund, could do nothing except to tear the clothing ofl her. When the fire was dually extin guished, site was found to be burnt iu a most horrible manner. The eutire cuticle of her face aud body was burnt to a crisp, and os she writhed ou the floor in agony, she presented a frightful sight During the entire time she gave heart-rending screams, which continued until she be came so weak that only low moans oould be heard. A physician was at once sum moned, and everything possible done to alleviate the sufferings of the d>iug wo man. Having incoherently all the while, it was a relief to all when death came, about two o’clock yesterday morning.— Mrs. Garrity, who was about thirty years of age, is said to have been quite hand some. Two little children are left to mourn her sad fate, which is also univer sally deplored by the entire neighbor hood, who, despite her many faults, held her iu esteem. A ConrtljrInnovation. A single visit to Massachusetts by the President of the United States forty-five years ago culled down upon his head the severest animadversion. The student ol history is obliged to smile when he read? what was then said upou the subject, es pecially should ho think of the wonder ful progress made by our present Chief Ni'.T^n^i’u'.feCT 75, taife day. If any President before the year 1800 had left his official duties ami goiu off ou long pleasure excursions, he woulu lmve raised a storm of popular indigna tion throughout the country. He would have been denotineed as unfaithful to the high trust reposed in him, and even his own party would have turned against him. Not so with President Grant. He goes away whenever the spirit moves him, and nobody appeal’s to care any thing about it. He is now comfortably stored away at Long Branch, where he intends to remain for months, and his great office is left to take care of itself.— The members of his Cabinet, too, influ enced by his example, abandon their posts and go wherever inclination or in terest calls them. There was but one Cabinet officer last summer who could be found continuously iu the discharge of duties, and he, not long after the re turn of the President from his summer’s frolic at Long Branch, got up one mura’ ing and found his oificial head cut off.— ()f course we allude to Secretary Cox. It vas only the other day that the present Secretary of the luterior, Mr. Delano, vas over in Georgia looking after hisrail- oad interest. He is now in Ohio work- ng for the renomiuatiou of General Grant aud for liis own elevation ton seal a the Senate of the United States. How mny of his colleagues in the Cabinet are ow in Washington we are not informed, but doubtless they will all be off iu dm* a80U—some for pleasure, some for prof it nnd some to keep up with the faslnoD introduced by their chief.—Louisville Courier-JournaL Prices a Century Ago. 1 ill IT JAIWA Jilt)!. IIARFTOW, B. D. BALMOH*. f. A. BABDOUR Drake's Vreek Jftills. F. A. BARBOUR & CO J^EALERS IN FLOUR, MEAL, V SHIP STUFF, FSLMJrkLUr. mKJTTVCKr. if HIGHEST PRICK PAID FOR WHEAT. -%« All produce delivered at the depot froe of char#*. aprl3-6tn Thomas «. Simms, \I7ITH BURYOCK k ROWLAND. VY Wholesale Dealers in J’fear sad JHmmwfmetmred Tohm era, PURI BOURBON AND HBUTIFIED WHISKIES, CHEESE. FISH. CRACKERS. OORN MEAL, HOMINY, BOaP, CANDLE8. COAL OIL, AND FANCY GROCERIES. Also—Commission Merchants for the sole of Pork Baron and lord, and general plantsUou supplies. No 916 Commercial street, and 9UV and 210 North ‘"“s T. LOUIS, MO. •prl3-6ra WANTED! 1*1 AA AAA U* CONFEDERATE CFRREN- .pJUlM/wUry, ,.i all denominations, for jAfafe s lair ]>ri p will bo paid. Apply to MOORE’S ACTUAL BUSINESS COLLEGE, may91-8t Cor. whiti-lnll and Hunt. I IllK PLANTATION .In jifrlcullurml U'erkly of Sixteen J*ng*rs, Published in witlanta^ Ga„ EV^RY SATURDAY. per .Innnm for Single Copy. $ 4 30 for I'lnho of •'4 for Clmbt of Ttcenty. r is edit y Col. I • airtial ot the kind ii merit. advertising medium it ha* few equal*, as its lions tide circulation is Five thousand, and btvsdlly increasing. SEND FOR A SPECIMEN COPY. -g» *jr GOOD AGENTS WANTED. “C* ADDRESS, MORRIS k HOWARD, myl6-lm Drawer 31. AUouU, Georgia. In the Dlslrlrl Court ofthc I'nUt-d 6Ult» for the Northern District off Geor gia—In Bankruptcy. A t ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THIS .Till iU>- of «»>•. 1*71. Til* utiil.miKnrd h»r«b7 give, aotlo. of hi. .p- Put off the Train. The Aosnsta Chronicle A Sentinel of S".‘nrd»y, ha* the following: It .ppeara that a tla; or two ago a gen tleman waa on hia waj from New York to Savannah, having a through ticket from the Utter to the former place. On the train of the Charlotte, Columbia and Au gusta Railroad the conductor cut oil the coupon due the road, und gave the paatt- euger a paaa ticket iu its place. At Co lumbia the gentleman concluded to reat awhileaud take the next train, which iie did the day following. YVheu the con ductor, a eon of the President of the road, demanded hia ticket, he handed him that which he had reoeived the day before, and also the through ticket from which the oonpon had been taken. He waa told, however, that that waa not suf ficient, and that be would have to pay the full fare to Aoguata. Upon hia re fusal to do thia, aa he'bad already paid for hia pa mage once, the train was stopped, and he was put off at the five- mile post, ip a dense ,awamp and in the midst of a pouring rain, through which, after hiding his baggage in the woods, he waa compelled to walk back to Colum bia. We understand that he has brought auit for $10,000 against the oompany. The result of the primary elections in California indicate the nomination o' Mr. Booth for Governor, by the Repub licans, und Haight, the present menu, bent, by th. Democrat*. Both uk pledged agahut local subsidies to rail roada. pe** BLANKS., LA * T * U - ooa *M)ur» Ht AMko ol I'd* of Jot »f itatne, in 1, .ItInn sold District, wliobsva tr •!>!* up« u tin pvtitiou ot Uicir St lot (Vim t ol **1.1 Dlstn.t. ROBERT T. HARGROVE. Assigns*. GEORGIA NEWS. The Griffin Star mentions a stalk of cotton 84 inches high. Savannah had an nnnHually heavy thunder-storm huuduy afterno-m. John MoOonaghy, a Savannah whole sale liquor dealer, was found dead iu hi* store Sunday afternoon. The Muhous of Griffin are fixin? up for a grand demonstration ou tho 24th—St. Johns day. * The next monthly fair of the S|Mddiug Agricultural Club will take place on the 15th of July. Gen. Wm Brown will address the Spalding County Agricultural Society, at their next fair to be held on the 15th of July next.—[Middle Georgian. ROn Saturday last a difficulty occurred between Mr. T. J. Manley and a Mr Pounds. Mr. Pounds drew ami usea n revolver pretty freely, without, however, hurting any one.—[Grifliu Middle Geor gian. A. S. Canuet, formerly soliciting agent for the JEtna Life Insurance Company, and more recently well known in Sent fa- western Georgia as the traveling agent o! the Sttvanuaii Advertiser, while it Quit- man on last Friday night, was arrested by an officer upon a warrant issued from the office of Jnstioe P. M. Russell, Jr., on the affidavit of Mr. J. D. Vanderford, the agent for the company in this city, charging him with fogery. It appears that while acting in the capacity of solic iting agent for the JStna, in 1860, Canuet preseiibn! to the ugent here, the receipt of Dr. J. M. Madden, of Brunswick, for fees, to the amount of forty dollars, which he (Canuet) lmd paid him as examining physician iu cases of applicants for in surance in .aid company. It has turned out in the course of events that no such amount was ever paid Dr. Madden, and, consequently, that his receipt for it was not given by him. Suspicions having arisen in Mr. Vanderford’s mind in re gard to the transaction, which were trengtheued by investigation, he tiled an affidavit, as above stated, before Jus tice Russell. Canuet was brought to the city on Saturday morning. Au examina tion wa* held before the Justice, and the testimony elicited proved sufficiently stroug to commit him for trial before the next term of the Superior Court on the charge of forgery. He gave bail in the urn of two thousand dollars and was dis charged from custody. Some time sine* the same party wabiudioted by the grui.d jury fur embezzlement, and when the case was called his attorney read a cer tificate from a physician iu Valdosta, stating that Canuet was too ill to stand his trial. We are informed that ou the one dav that the certificate beam date Canuet left on the cars for Quitman and figured in UtUeeiux virant foi the benefit •f a Sunday School, iu the Brooks county Court House. Brother Fildes, of the Quitman Banner, gave a high puff to the listinguished visitor.—[Savannah News, lUth iust. ►»* Man-Haters-. lu wue JuoiHiou inagu/,im*H unit s tu» unoug the odd social phenomena of the 1 resent day the class of women who are ir of eased despise rn of men. This set of noderu man-haters is recruited from three classes mainly—those who have been cruelly treated by men, nnd whoso faith in one-half of the human race can not survive their owu one siul experi ence; those restless aud ambitious per sons who are leas than women, greedy of notoriety, iudiffereut to home life, and holding home duties in disdain, with strong passions rather than warm affec tions, with nerverted instincts in one di rection, and none worthy the name in another; and those who are the born ves tals of uatnre, whose morale falls below the sweeter sympathies of womanhood, and who are uusexed by the atrophy of their inspects, ns the other classes are by the perversion and coarsening of theirs. By all these men are held to be the enemies aud oppressors; and even love 18 ranked as a mere matter of the senses. It may not l>e denied that women have just causes for the^complaint against men. They have many, aud so loug as human nature is what it is, strength will at times be brutal, rather than protective, aud weakness will avenge i;s -If with more ciaft than patience. But that is a very 1 ifferent thing from the sexual eumity the modern man-lmters assert, and the revolt with which they make it their re ligion to prench. If women will but be lieve that, on the w hole, men wish t > be their friends, nnd to treat them with fuir- ness and generosity, they will find the work of salf-protection much easier, and the reconcilement of opposing interests greatly simplified. \ HECRET INVESTIGATION. How it Is Managed President's Son is h Grunt’* Over-Seeing Point Court-Martial. tv lien a ivolved— u West It is curious to compare retail pri^ r. hundred years ago wilii t-hose which rulc- now. We hsvr seen an » i.l daybook in which .* country mcrchui.t in tlie village of Plu.ik irniu, Now Jersey, charged the customers, among whom was the cclebra tod Lord Stirling, who practiced with honor in our revolutionary struggle against tho Cr« wn, with the ordmar, family supplies. Iu 1778, we find ohtfgeu flour ‘21s. per barrel; corn, 4s.; mm. 4s. fid. per gallon. Riee was 8.1.; sugar 1 Id.; tea, Os. fid. per pound. Calicout Is 4d. per yard; caudles Is. 6d. per pouud. Black strap,” the favorite amelioration to the colonists in those days of tho bur- lens of the flesh, is plainly enougn hint ed ou every page of the old daybook by the associated “rum aud molasses,” ot which it was composed. The most inter esting reflection touching such a record is the proof it further affords of the great mprovement of the laboring classes with in the century passed. A chance entry credits a customer with twelve days’ la bor, 2s. fid. per day, which would indi cate about 58 cents as the value of a day’s labor. The same fact appears from other oources, the soldiers’ wages—88 per month—having been fixed, with rations and clothe* iu addition, by the Conti nental Congress, as an enhancement ovei tiie wagt s of common labor. On the other hand, these items of acoouut tend to t>now in how moderate a degree the workiug classes could iudulge in what every laborer uow deems strict neoes-u l ies of life. Reoontin—Mon in Arkansas has reduc ed the taxable property of the State one- half and multiplied itB taxes by three.— Radical departures are beginning to he numerous, in view of this result of Radi cal legishsuon. Tho Cleveland (Ohio L • * lev (R pnbl can), iu noticing the elect ion oi a Dorn* cratic Governor in New lUmpstdfa, aar? “tho San Domingo scheme and Rumner imbroglio did the business. Let Ohio beware 1” That translated into plain En glish, means that in the Load c’s opinion it will not do to nominate Wade, the fa vorite of the Administration and tlie San Domingo Commission* r. To olh -r words, An Annum Miracle. The Libvita Cutimi >f Nuph s, g an account of some nnu&u*»i »vncnrui presented by the bloml of St. Jannaaius the 6th of April, oue of th© auunnl oocttsiouf on which the martyr is honored at the Cathedral at Naples. At a quarter- past four r. m., the reliquary being bi 'uwht out of the tabernacle, where it uad remain''' 1 since the 16th of last De inber—the Feast r? the Fatronnge—it is found partly liquid, »s when laid np. It continued in the crime state during the procession, aud, after thirteen minuteso. prayers, the sign of the mirucle was giv en, the portion which hr»d remained hard being perceptibly still more dissolved, so to show that the mirable hail taken place. Gradually, duriug the kissiug of the reliquary by the congregation at St. Clara, it became entirely dissolved. On its return to the Cathedral, contrary to what has taken place during the last few ears, it was touud to be completely har- Icued. When cart u d into the Chapel of tho Treasury it dissolved a* ew, and now eutirely, yet remaining thick uud glutiu- ©ns, and in that state was laid up about teu p. m. The very latsst idea iu the fashioble world is the moonlight German—full drees, no lights, windows wide open, sil very moonlight streamiu^ in iu floods, delicious waltzes enchanting in the air, flirting perfect’v nim:n•airshed, and al! diat Hort of time A Washington inventor has patented a process bj wbn U he claim* to “burn” .deaiu, in coiumitiuu with crude aephal- him, coal tar, rcsidum from pctrolium distillcriee, etc. One ot the burner*, the Washington Chroniole says, goea on Cap tain Hall’s exploring vessel, the Polaris, in which train oil or blabber is to be em ployed, in oombination with steam, ns fuel IkHIi for the t,-aeration of motive that the nldp must 1« righted by pitoh-1 power aud for w-.ruling the vewel while iug Grant overboard. J iu the polar rogious. Correspoudcnce New Y’ork Sun, West Point, June 12.—For tlie last four days the visitors and epaulctted gentlemen at “this uursery of soldiers” have had something to gossip about fa. - yond tho usual staple subjects. They have been deeply absorbed iu marvel lous stories which have been circulated iu regard to a mysterious court martial investigation. The Sun correiq ion dent has fathomed the mystery. It Is noth iug less -than an attempt to discover the per petrators of the outrage which w.-ut com mitted here last winter, in which Cadets iiflird and Fleckinger were ignominious- ly ex|>elle<l the Academy at night time by «iertoiu unknown .u«-inbcrH of the present graduating class, whone b. lmvior resem bled that of the Ku-Klux Klau. Geneual Belknap, the .Secretary of War, and the Presi.l *nt, have watched the investigation with lively interest, and have directed it, to some extent. It is hinted as one of the reasons for the h. - cresy of this court martial that it is to screen the Presidnit’s sou, young Fred Graut, in case tht- evidence should show him to have been connected with the out rage. The investigate*u is progn suing in the Superintend.mt’s flic* in the Library building, and as an evidence of the pains which have been * do n to ke.-p the pro dding* from leaking out, it may be mentioned that the st< raplitr, who was brought from N-w Yurk. was sworn to secresy. When the investigation was begun much ahum was created by the dir30very of the fact that the steno grapher who was originally engaged was incompetent. After frightening him with a threat of putting him into tho guardhouse to t uke him keep quiet about'the investigation, they finally dis charged him, and ordered him away from the Academy limits. I am positively insured that one of tho results of the investigation will be tho restoration of Cadets Baird and Flecki 11- ger to their class on the 1st of July. Whether any thing will be done with the Renders who were guilty of the outrage ms not been ascertained. The investi gation will probably terminate to-mor- but whether the Secretary of War and the President will see fit to give the mass of testimony which has been taken to the public is not known. A Costly Letter. Washington’s letters are becoming very scarce. The one of greatest value to New Yorkers has recently been recovered by the city authorities. Sometime ago, the communication sent by Washington to the Common Council of New York City at thecloseof the revolutionary war, was offered at auction and brought $2,000. The letter was stolen from the archives of the corporation library—but the thief has not been discovered. A oma «*oo luoiitn*. l l'v tin- District At torney w recu»ci ••»«. ’j . • . finally surrendered to the Clerk of the Common Council —the litigation costing the city over $2U,(KH). The letter was written in 1782, nnd was read before the City Fathers of that year. The endorse ment mode by tho City Clerk faintly up- pears on the back, the officer who stole the letter having partially erased it—to prevent identification. A lithographed foe-simile of the letter is to appear iu the Corporation Manuel, which will be ready in July. Monday afternoon a young girl, Mag gie Gregory, daughter of Mr. Walter Gregory, of Long Island City, was drown ed iu Dutch Kills creek, under peculiar circumstances. Maggie was a good swim mer, and, together with a young girl who could not swim, was bathing in the creek. The younger girl, iu watching Maggio swim, ventured Iroyond her depth, and becoming frightened, calk’d for help.— Iu trying to help her companion Maggie became exhausted. A younger brother, hearing the cries of the girls, hurried to a boat and managed to reseda tho young- <*r girl with tho aid of his sister; hut that aid seemed to tal:'* her remaining strength, for she sank to rise no more alive. Her father was soon at the scene; but when the body was recovered life was extinct. Coroner Tewsbnry held au iuquofit and rendered a verdict iu accordance with tho facts. ► a -4 In the Superior Court in Boston a few days ago a ease of inti rest to th« travel ing public was d.-ided. Iu 1868 Mr. J >hn A. Colenun, of Bo t m, lUb mpUd ‘oricle from New York b - Now Hav-ui ou a coupon ticket, w’ii’it was rejected by the conductor on the r oM that, al- 1 hough it trail good .i- ui 2s\ w Haven to New York, it did not pa. n the holder over the road iu a train goiug in t opposite direction. Mr. Col man iurs’ J tli;.t the Company w«t» oompolb-.i t«» roceive (fit* ticket, ss it represented money paid for a passage between iIiom* points, and was put off the train by l uce, receiving such injury as to utLct las iwalib. He sued the New York and New Haven Rail road Company, aud recovered. Tho Railroad Company obtained a now trial aud waa beatcui again. Ou exceptions lo '''e ruling of the Jr. Igo (ho uoieiidunU btained a third trial, which terminated in a verdict for Mr. Coleuiau for ?>1,500 damages. Intelligence from i’-Tsia gives tho cu rious piece of information Unit, owiugto the great suft* nug n - v prevailing in that •ountry from famine an 1 the stagnation n all departments of trade, Gypsy tribes Here, who suffer with tho rc^t, uro soli ng thair young women, w ho are remark able for tueir personal charms, at prices ranging from five dollars and upwards. Sad, but cheap. Mr. Charles A. Buokalow, who is ft member of the PemiHylvania S. uste, in Inced the Legislature ut its hut session ro pass a law to authorize cmnttlfttivo voting at all Itnrrough • lections in Peuu- tylvai'ia. It is probable that at *he con- lihitional cenrention, which botli pai- ies iu that State have io«oivod to f me system will l»c applied to Ihcflceftm ►f Senators and RepruMidaiivej. Messrs. Appleton A Co., in reply t«»flii insertion that they reprint Air. Darwin a Descent of Man without rem in.» »ti. oi to the author, announce tha fc they pay regu lar copyright, tho same a* that usually a. u J t.i Amtrloun aiitlmra, to Alcaara. tfuxlov, Trnilull, Darwin, HjH'iicor, Lnl)- book, l.eoky, Gallon, n.nl oilier Eagtieh ImVntiflo writara, ahiiw works they re- aprint.