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mnim The Daily Herald. SUNDAY, MAY 4, 1873. TBK HERALD PURUSH1IO COHPAET, ALEX. *T. (LAIR-AKHAKI, HKJRT W. GRADT, R. A. ALSTON, Edltan MaMfcn. THE BARIaHIIX OF PlBUt EXICU- Onr State Exchanges. THE TEEMS of the HERALD an m follow* : DAILY, 1 Year $10 00 I WEEKLY, 1 Year...92 00 DAILY, 6 Months... « 00 j WEEKLY, 6 Months 1 00 DAILY* 3 Months... 2 60 WEEKLY, 3 Months DAILY. 1 Month.... 1 00 I Adrerttsements Inserted st moderate rate*. Sub scriptions and advertisements '^variably in advance. Address HERAr«D PUBLISHING CO., Drawer 23 Atlanta, Georgia. Office on Alabama Street, a “ TO ADVERTISERS. The bona fide elrealstloa of the Dally Herald Is larger than that ef the Consti tution. The bona tide circulation of the Dally Herald is note tnan dosbie that of the We are pi rl >ared to verify this claim from our hooks. iln old and wealthy citizen of Pennsylvania partook of some meat which was sprinkled with arsenic, and leit on a kitchen table for rats. If he had not been “old and wealthy,” this accident would not have been remarka ble; but as the case stands, we are carious to know if he was one of the rats whose destruc tion was sought. He is dead. THE DOG LAW. The Council at its last meeting passed a law taxing the dogs in the city two dollars and a half a head. With a delicate appreciation of aristocracy, they exempted from the slaughter ous provisions of the bill “ all rat terriers with brass collars on. ” w» are glad to see that one Alderman, at least, believing that “ all dogs are born free and'eqnal,” will move to re consider the matter at the next meeting. At any rate, we earnestly hope that, whether the law is repealed or not, Atlanta will never again witness such an indiscriminate and in- hnman shooting of the poor canines as we had here a year or two ago. Oar special correspondent who witnessed the execation of Susan Eb.rhart, telegraphed ns that her neck was not broken by the fall, and that her straggles were painful to wit ness. Th, correspondent .f oar probing co temporary reported that she scarcely strag gled. He, howeTer, admits that she did not die for fifteen minutes, and consequently her death must have been from strangulation. We are, therefore, inclined te the opinion that onr correspondent's report was correct, and that her straggles were long and her sufferings in tense. Probably onr eotemporary'a man did net think fifteen minutes of choking anything very remarkable. OFFICIAL. STAMPS. Under the law abolishing the frankling privilege after the 1st of July next, special postage stamps have been ordered to be is sued only for official mail matter. Designs have been submitted which will probably be adopted. The medallion heads on the new stamps will remain the same as en ordi nary stamps, bnt the color and border and let tering will be different for the different de partments. Although the color of the stamps have not as yet been officially selected, they will probably be as follows: For the Execu tive Department, chocolate; Post-office, black; Navy, bine; War, carmine; Interior, vermill- lion; State, green; Treasury, velvet brown; Justice, purple; Agricultural, orange. In several classes of stamps the designs will be emblematic. On the Navy stamp there is a cable which runs entirely aronnd the border, and a star in each comer; and in tbs War Department, stamp representations of a shield ere plated below, and to the tight and left of the central head. There are eleven denomi nations of stamps for each department, rang ing from one cent to ninety cents on the dol lar. GE.VTLE HIK’D TO THOSE WHOM THE CAP FITS. W. trust that with th. hangjag of Susan Eberhart, ended for ever public executions in Georgia. Judge Hopkins of this Circuit, with admirable good tasto, has already set the ex ample of ordering the law carried ont pri vately, and we sincerely hope, for the sake of humanity and civilization, that all the other Jadges of the State will imitate him. Of the three or four handled persons who witnessed the strangling of Susan Eberhart, -how many were present who did not leave the ground feeling lees of awe for death and for the majesty of the law, than before the con vict ascended the gallows ? The first thrill of horror over, bow many were there who did not grow accustomed to the fearful sight and learn to look npon it with a calm indifference? It was not to witness tba vindication of law and the administration of justioe, that they assembled aronnd the scaffold. It was merely to gratify a brutal and morbid appetite for the horrible; to feast their eyes awhile upon the spectacle of a gnilty wretch dangling in mid air, and to have it in their power in lime to come, to say that they saw her die. They want just as they would have gone to a circus Who can tell how many jokes were cracked and what ribald language was indulged in If these pablic executions tended to strike terror in the hearts of the spectators, they would be, perhaps, excusable. But they do not restrain a single murderous arm. Nay, their effect is the reverse of salutory. Famil iarized, with the scene, men cease to hold it in terror. All the mystery and horror which arise from private executions are wanting. All the latent savagery of the bnman heart, prone to sin, trader tbo most favorable cir cumstances, is aroused to activity. To see a fellow being strangled; to feast their eyes upon bis or her struggles; to listen to tb. rhapsody of words from the condemned which ooaverta the gallows from a frightful instrument of punishment to a short and racy road to Heaven—these are alL Nothing bnt a temporary shrinking; a moments bating of the breath, and th.n to calmly discuss the hideous spectacle, as if it were an exhibition given by the State for the special delectation of the multitude. In th. name of God, in the name of that Christian religion which has made civilization all that it can boast of, we pray for the abo lition of this "relic of barbarism" in our State. Who can think ot Susan Eberhart convulsively struggling for breath, with the pitiless rope choking the life out of her body; who can picture to his mind the spec tacle of frantio, though unavailing. efforts to free herself, to rest her feet upon one inch of earth; who, in short, can think of this hide- ous administration of justice, without feel ing that the crowd below were sadly out of place? It is repugnant to humanity, it is a libel upon Christianity. Shocking when a man is the victim, it becomes barbarous when the victim is a woman. We believe capital pun ishment a sad necessity; we believe further that, as an act of justice, Susan Eberhart de served to die; but we must condemn the prac tice which choked her to death in the pres ence of a gaping multitude gathered aronnd her gallows from motives of mere curiosity. Public executions are revolting to all the higher, tenderer and civilizing inflaences of the mind. They do not serve to repress crime; they cannot aid justice and law in any manner. They are not attended by humane and tender-hearted persons, except in the discharge of duty. But the motley hordes of blacks and whites who stare upwards with scarcely a shiver at the ghoshy scene, are for the most part composed of the heartless and the reckless, who would not hesitate a mo ment, if their baser passions were aroused, to commit the very crime of mnrder, which they will walk miles to witness punished. It is a duty we owe to religion and to civil ization to put an end to this barbarism. In future 1st capital punishment be inflicted in private. Aronnd the gallows let ns throw a veil of secrecy. The mystery will add to the terror, and no opportunity will be given to the brutal and morbid minded to gratify tbeir depraved appetites. THE MODOC WAR, During the past two weeks the circulation of the daily Herald has been increasing with marked rapidity, and wa have been compelled to add to the number of qnires printed every morning. This is quite unusu al for this time of the year, 03 from April to August a newspaper here does well if it holds its own. We are, therefore, more than grat ified by the present exhibit of continued popularity. Since April 25th alone onr daily subscription list has been swelled by over two hundred names, while our agent reports many mere awaiting the expiration of their subscriptions to other papers to take the Herald. The subscription list of a paper, however, cannot alone support it We must look to advertisers also for support, and while the patronage we have received has been liberal, and the majority of our patrons have been prompt paying, we have been embarrassed by the deley of some in settling their accounts. Our collectors have bills, some of them dating back from November, which we trust will be promptly paid daring tbs present week, as we shall place all unpaid in the hands of an attor ney for collection on Saturday next Our ex penses are very heavy, and we need all the money owing to ns to keep up the Herald to its present standard and add new fea tures of interest to the public. We are compelled to pay cash for everything we purchase, and as our bank ac count is neither as deep as a well nor as wide as the ocean, we must look to our pat rons to pay ns promptly to enable ns to meet tbe demands upon ns without inconvenience. In this connection we would remark that there prevails in the minds of some persons a rather loose notion of the obligation of a debt doe to a newspaper. Minister* of the Gospel and physicians have, we believe, experienced this sort of laxity of morels, bnt if they can appreciate the friendship displayed towards them by men who patronize, bnt never think ol paying, we eannob It is certainly not calculated to preserve the placidity of one's temper to aee a man investing fifty or a hun dred dollar* in *n article of luxury, twenty minutes after he has dismissed your Collector with the serious am ranee that he was unable to pay n bill ef twenty dollars for contracted advertising. What with the mismanagement of the mili tary and the pseudo philanthropy of the peace men, the contractors and Indian agents are likely to reap a harvest now. That the extermination of the Modocs has become a necessity must ba attributed less to the treachery and barbarity of these savages, than to the shameful manner in which they have been treated. It was not they who set the example of mas6acreeing the nusnspect- ing. Their present slender number is the result of a fearful massacres in which their fathers were the victims, and in murdering General Canby and others they have merely avenged a wanton wrong perpetrated npon them. It will not do for white men now to hold np their hands in horror over the atrocities of the Modocs. The Indiana ore, after all, only making one despoiling effort to retain their homes and their property. If they have re belled, it has been because of the perfidy of the men appointed to carry ont the promises of solemn trusts made with them by tbe Government One cannot read tbe story of their ill-treatment by dishonest white men; of the shameful manner in which they have been driven from their lands, without feeling that if their atrocities have been great, their provocations have also been great. After thousands of dollars hare been ex pended and net e few lives sacrificed, tba last of the Modpcs win Bleep in Id* Woody grave, and the great war of thoOaan* agdinat thirty- five warriors will be ended. But it will be a triumph in which there will not be any honor whatsoever for the United States government. Upon the heads of tbe men entrusted with the dnly of attending to the Indians must rest the responsibility for the brutal murders of Gen eral Qonby and Ike other breve m*n whose lives have been and will be sacrificed. And as for tbe Modocs, who are now, with all the heroism of despair, defying the power of tbe government, history wift record of them that they merely hastened, by a bloody straggle, that extermination to which the rapacity, the cruelty and the brutality of white men had already condemned them. Bon. W. P. Price has donated 14,300 to the North Georgia Agricultural College. Americas makes a lovely bow aud informa the Freta Convention that she is going to treat tbe members la handsome style. We presume there will be no objec tions raised to this. Harris, ot tbe Newt, speaking on this subject, lays : ■■ Tba Americas Republican in vites tbe Georgia editors to come to that city ' without money and without price.' We copy this in order that ,y meet the eyee ot some of tbe editors, and thus prevent them from trsvsting in their usual reckless alyls with their carpet-bags stuffed with greenbacks,” Items from the Talbott en standard: Bees have began to swarm and the sound of tin pens, bells, etc., is frequent. Last Sunday night, about 10 o'clock, two or three negro women alarmed this entire community with their yelling, shouting end ecremmlng. We have never heard th# like. They commenced tbeir squalling be- fore they left the colored church, end kept it up on tbe streets for at least a half hour. Such as this la enough to frighten our ladies sod children, and dis turb the peace and quiet of the town. Albany has a negro printer. The New* disclaims the woolly-headed honor, and hints that the Central City ia the paper that fosters him. Spit him out Mr. Russell. Augusta will excurse to A’ken, South Carolina, on the 8th. A singular theft occnrred at Mrs. Perrymau's one day last week. Just slter the dinner pot hsd been put on, some hungry individual took advantage of the oook, and alipped the supply of meat from the pot. OcL Andrews, of the Washington Gazette, must be getting better of his carbuncle, if we muy judge from the following lively allusion to Capt. Jack, the emi- ment Modoc. Says he: Tbe Modocs are what are known as the Digger In- dians, a race which has always been considered the very lowest and most worthless of all the human family They live on roots and insects, and a hole in the gronnd filled with roasted grasshoppers or cater- pillars is a feaat for the tribe. The tribe numbers sixty-seven, mil told, men, women and children 1 This handful of poor eavagea has kept the army of the United States at bay for mouths 1 These poor crea tures, with a few guns, have bravely stood np and bid defiance to thousands of soldiers thoroughly equipped with artillery, horees. amunltion, the finest breech* loading and repeating firearms sad everything neces sary for a finely appointed army 1 Captain Jack ia onr model of a hero, and we cannot refrain from according him our fullest sympathy, and shall feel no joy when we hear that the United States government has conquered and butchered his gmltant little band and Phil Sherldaned the hopeless women and children. We admire snch gallantry ss these Iod.ana have displayed. The Angnstx Constitutionalist says, quite Intelli gently : Xu the Patrons of Husbandry ia the germ of a great Reform Parly which will, under the Democrat ic banner, march to victory in the next general elec tion. This organization has for its basis the great principle of free trade and equal rights, which la cardinal tenet of Democracy. The occasion is oppor tune for bringing together, under the folds of the old Democratic banner, all the elements of opposition to Grant's usurpations and his imperial sway, and te Radicalism and all its revolutionary aims, its corrupt tendencies and Its fraudulent scheme*. The proposed convention of Southern and Western Congressmen st St. Louis on tho 13th of May, though called in the Interest of trade and intercourse between the sections solely, tends to s cryetaUzation of opinion in this direction. The Convention of Southern sod Western Governors and Mayors of cities and prominent citiizens, though nominally celled and though really intended to devise cheep water transportation between the Mississippi Valley and the Sonth Atlantic, cannot bnt serve to con tribute to the same great political results. The great fanning interest of the South and West will combine to govern the country and to restore to the States and to the people some of the rights of which they have been robbed. Colonel Sawyer, of the Rome Courier, has invented a printing presa of great merit. Sawyer is a merchant, a farmer, an inventor, a poet, a novelist, a mechanic, an editor, in fact anything yon may mention. Americas baa a company of Babcock aUngere called "The Extinguishers.'' The Cuthbert Appeal hoists as its motto: " For the Lord, tell tbs truth and maka money.” We consider it impossible for an editor to accomplish the lest two items honorably. The Albany Kewa aaya: Grr-cp iSD-GEr.—We learn that an old negio wo- man, residing in this county, aged 104 years, walked the other day a distance of twelve mllee In fonr hours Let it be recorded. Brother Baker, of the Blacksheir Georgian, makes these sensible remarks: "The two young ladies at chnrch last Snndsy morning, did look Interesting. A white hat, the neat handiwork of home-made skill, gracefully rested on the head of one, and a little chapeau tastefully adorned the head of the other. How becoming the colors ot the dresses I not glaring and fiashy, but rival- log the soft, cheerful, rosy light of the eerly morning —a grace and beanty in the Spring. And then the fit. What neat eleganco of proportion and graceful sim plicity of flowing outline i The fair, whose skill and taste are thus evinced, are guarantees of order and neatness in the sanctuary of home.” Ihish Potatoes vs. AdoLDunx-Last year I made on a piece of ground six feot square, fonr bushels of Irish potatoes. I dug and measured them with my own hands. B. Srim-i.i.vG. We all know Mr. Stripling. What he says may be relied on with confidence. At the rate of Mr. Strip ling’s crop as above stated, one acre of ground will yield 4840 bushels of potatoes. By selling the potatoes at one dollar per bushel (aud that ia a reasonable price) would make the yield of $4340 for one acre of ground. That basts King Cotton. Pretty good for Cobb county. AsoTHEtt Factor! at Columbus.—Tho Columbus Sun aays a number of prominent bankers, merchants, real estate owner*, nnder the direction and manage ment of Mr. J. Rhodes Browne, a practical manufac turer of long and wide experience end great Judg ment, propose to get op a company with $360,000, with which to erect a cotton factory on the Bite of the Palace Mills, and have an ample floating capital. The site is perhaps the beat in Colombu', and the water power unequaled. The same paper has these additional Items Apalachicola.—The three lumber mills now In operation cut 70,00# feet of lumber per day. Three others will be bnilt thla fall. A charier for a railroad ha* been granted from St. Josoph to Quincy, and a party is now at the latter place engaged in making sur vey*. Bo river men inform us. A Blonde for a Brunette. A SERIES or STRINGS ADVENTURE*—BOW TWO ENGLISHMEN EXCHANGED PICTURES AND WIYE8—A ROMAN TIC 8TOBT. E. Barodet From the New York World. In 1849 he wa* a schoolmaster in Bontaoge, Saone-and-Loir* county. He loot his place From the Bestoa Globe. There ia a little romance going tha round* about Bichard Farquahr Dingle and his wife Phosbo, and Bobert Moore and hi* wife Mary. The account of the strange fortune that hap pened those couples ia so circumstantial that it must be in the maim true. All the parties ware English, and ware aowly married aa above ia England before they came to the New 'World to court the goddess fortune. Dick Dingle and hia wife were both blondes, and Bob Moore and his brunettes, and both women ware beauties of thair respective types, and all were young and adventurous. The two couples didn’t come over in the same ship, but they came about the same time, and they did not know each other. Dick Dingle, together with hia pretty wife, proceeded to Petroleum Centre, Pa,, with a capital of 810,000, which wa* Boon sunk in oil wells—all but $400. Dick divided this sum with Phoebe, and started out alone tor the Argentine Bepublic to retrive hia lost for tune and make another. He struck a good streak of mining luck, and cleared $9,000 in the first two years, which he sent to Phoebe, and which she dnly received. This recon ciled her to her husband's absence for the time, but she heard no more from him for some years, and she began to regard him as dead. The fact is ho was living a wild sort of life in South America, and had almost forgot ten hi* blonde ,wife, though he carried her picture. GOLDEN VISIONS. Bob Moere and his brunette wife had also a comfortable capital when they arrived in this country, and lost some of it in unfortu nate speculations. Bob left Mary in Boches- ter, N. Y., and went to South America full of golden visions. He promised to write to his wife soon, bat never did, and was not lucky in the Argentine country. Finally, Dick Dingle and Bob Moore met, and both were vagabonds—in a strange country and with out money or friends. They joined their fortunes and fold each other the story of tbeir lives. There was a remarakable sim ilarity beaween them. They both had pictures of their wives, and each went in raptures over the other's picture, and cared very little for his own. In a mad freak vagabond Dick and vagabond Bob exchanged the pictures of their wives, and Borne luck appeared to come to them afterward. They were fast friends, and accumulated seme money and began to behave themselves better. It was seven years since Dick Dingle had written to hie wife, and ene day, in a fit of repentance, he wrote her a letter enclosing $1,000, and asking her to join him in South America as soon as pos sible. In the mean time she had removed from Petroleum Centre to Philadelphia, bnt the letter and the money found her after long delay. ON THE WRONG TRACK. As Dick had waited the proper time, and heard nothing from his wife, be began to feel uneasy, and one day resolved to return to the United States to hunt her up. He started from Panama on the English steamer George Watts for the United States on Friday, the 7th day of June last, while bis wife sailed from Nevr York for the Argentine Bepublic the next day, Saturday, June 8th. Dick went to Petroleum Centre; thence to Philadelphia, bnt could not find his wife or hear anything of her. Ha then went to New York, resolved to take the next packet for South America to join Bob Moore. But something occurred to pre vent tho voyage. He got on a little bit of a spree in New York and happened to stumble into a store on Broadway to bay some trifling article. There, behind the counter, he saw a handsome brunette, whose face looked charm ingly familiar. He was not mistaken—it was she, and the picture he carried proved it The acquaintance ripened. Mary had sought and obtained a divorce from Bob Moore for desertion, and was free and lovely, and still young Dick Dingle told the story of his wife’i disappearance, and the couple resolved that she must be dead; so these two got married, and are now living happily in Brooklyn. FINDING HER PICTURE. Phoebe Dingle pleughed the deep to join her recreant bnt repentant huBband in the Argentine Bepublic. She was doomed to die appointment, but she found Bob Moore, and Bob showed her the picture which he had received from the hands of Dick Dingle him self, but be did not tell her the whole story. In fact, it ia uncertain what Bob did say to tbe beantifnl woman who had come so far to find her husband and failed, bnt it is quite certain that those two got married in a very short time, and now live in good style in Cor dova City, Agenline Bepublic. A real blonde is quite a variety down there, and she makes a sensation when she rides out every evening on a beautiful palfrey. It is, perhaps, just as well as it has fallen out These two singular couples are too far apart ever to interfere with each other's happiness, and are much better satisfied as they are than as they were. because be grossly insulted the Mayor and curate of that town. He went to Lyons, where be staved off starvation by keeping shopkeepers’ book*, and writing letters for the illiterate. When the revolution of the fourth of September occurred, he was one ot the ringleaders of the mob which invaded the City Hall and took possession of it. He was a member of the Committee of Pablic Safety end ot the Committee of War. He wan elected a member of the Municipal Council by Lyons on the 17th of September, 1870. He distin guished himself in the Municipal Council by proposing the arrest of General Max a re by tbe National Guard; by apposing the re establishment of the municipal customs' du ties; by insisting on the dismissal of the clergy from tha public schools and the appointment of lay free-thinker* in their alead; ha was a zealous admirer of the red flag, “the flag of the commune and federation;” he protested against its removal from tbe flag-post of the City Hall; he protested against the treaty of peace with Germany, "that ignoble treaty which the monarchical condition has forced on the National Assembly.” He was re-elect ed a member of tho Municipal Council, his competitor being Judge de Bocbefontaine, of the Lyons Coart of Appeals. He has since then governed Lyons, and npon M. Heoon's death he became Mayor. He presided over the disgraceful School Festival. He has since be became Mayor tried to pursue tbe same policy M. Thiers has followed—to run with the bare and hold with the hounds; to please tbe Government in Versailles and not to of- Bev. George Bowers, late dead of Manches ter, has bequeathed to hi* nephew, Mr. Ad- diogton, the gold ring know* ea originally be- UmgivgtoJoinBwn. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Hon. Hugh Buchanan, Judge of the Superior Court, Tutlftpoon Circuit, and Albert H. Cor, Solicitor Gen*- ral, same circuit, *ro in the city. Hi* Honor le regis tered at the National, while hi* right bower honor* the H. I. K. with hi* hand*ono faoo. R. 8. Bust, of Albany, wa* at the National. Gao. G. Wolch, Macon; O. T. Rogers, Covington; C. H. Cam field, and Cecil Gabbeti, of Albany; Frank G. Su ad. Savannah; Geo. J. Jones, Griffin, and H. W. Crane, ot Augusta, ware alao at the National. Prominent among the numerous arrival* at the Kimball Houee, were the fallowing Georgians: Geo. X. Bartlett, Monticello; C. J. McClellan, Macon; D. M. Duration and Charles J. White, Savannah; Hon. J. W. H. Underwood and C. Row#! af Rome. A Story from Crooked Lake. AN OLD MAN’S WANDERINGS—TRAMPING OUT HIS MISERY AND BIB HATE. Correspondence of Tha N. Y. Sun. Bath, N. Y., April 26. Yean ago there lived over the mountain, south of this Tillage, an ocoentric character * Newell Kimball. He sold Yankee no tions for a living, carrying them from house to house in a tin box. He was over seventy years old, and used on hit tramps a peculiar and very crooked staff He had been a sailor in his younger days. He was married, his wife being many years his junior. One night five years ago he left Bath for his home. Weeks and months passed sway and he was not sgsin heard of. His wife knew nothing about his mysterious disappearance. Humors became rife that tbe old men had been murdered for his money, as he nasally carried quite a sum with him.' It was said that a portion of his clothing had been found on the shores of Crooked Lake, near Bath. Tha old tramp was forgotten in a year or so, and hia wife went away, and it u believed re-married. The house in which Kimball had lived gradually fell into decay, and was occupied by a straggler now and then who wanted lodging. The old sailor turned np last week, much to tbe astonishment of everybody. His hair and beard had grown long, and hung about hia braast and shoulders white as snow. He carried the same crooked staff, and evidently had on the same suit of clothes. In reply to inquiries, he said that the night he left Bath he heard voices inside his house fend tbe Vigilance Committee in Ene Grolec. ■ as he was about to enter. He stepped to the Daring the last six years LaSecurite Generals 1 —— v 1 - ! - 3 (an insurance against accidents company) had been insisting that be Lyons firemen should take ont a policy in it. The annual premium was $3 a bead. Tbe municipal authorities had invariably declined to do any snch thing, as the burden was too great for the treasnry. In 1871 tbe directors of tbo insurance com- E any elected M. Barodet manager of the yons office. The following day all the Lyons firemen were insured at the city'i ex pense. Railroads in Peru—Some Big; Fares. New York Sun Interview. Reporter— Is there any coni in Bolivia or Pern ? Mr. Evans—There is no coal in Bolivia nor in Peru that I know about. They have dis covered petroleum in Paru, and there is good coal in Chili. Reporter—Are they not payin g $30 a ton for Chilian coal in Peru ? Mr. Evans—Yes, I suppose they have paid as much as that. Reporter—How can they run the railroads profitably and pay that much for coal ? Mr. Evans—How can they run the Panama road and make it pay, when everything they have rots out in a year? Why, by charging high rates. They charge $27 in gold for car rying a passenger forty-seven miles, and in Chill $10 for fifty miles. Reporter—Don't yon think that such a high tariff will keep th* people from using th* rail way*? Mr. Evans—The people there are accus tomed to pay well lor accommodations. I have given $3 there for watering my horse. I dined ones in Peru with some gentlemen who owned mines. I said, “I don’t see how yon can afford to workyonr mines at so much expense." “Expense,” they replied, "don’t matter much when you find things like that lying aronnd,” and they showed me several lumps of silver. With regard to the valae of the guano yet remaining, Mr. Evans declined to give any opinion. He also refused to say anything as to the way in which the Peruvian government is carried on. Of th# prospects of Peru, ke eaid, “Too much prosperity will hurt a peo ple as much aa adversity. Gold and silver will rain people quicker than anything in the world. My belief is that there is eternal wealth is Peru. When I was building the Tagna road, an Indian nsed to com* down from tho mountains once a year with a lamp of gold worth $5,000. He would sell it, buy goods for bis village and depart. Attempts to discover where he obtained tbe gold were vain. Iu .another instance, an Indian lady was found wrapped in a shawl of beaten gold. There are mines of silver and gold in Peru only waiting for Yankee ingenuity and Yan kee pluck to work them.” window. The curtain was raised. He looked in, and saw his wife in company with another man. He 6aw enough to disgust him with the partner of his bosom. Depositing on the steps some little household purchases he had made, he took up hia staff and started off, not knowing where he was going. He walked south, through this State and Pennsylvania, eating at farm houses and sleeping wherever night overtook him. He went to Delaware, through Maryland, and visited the capital cf the nation. Prom there he went to Virginia. Thence back through Pennsylvania to Ohio. Then down through Kentucky he bent his footsteps. Passing through Tennessee be came to the Mississippi river. He crossed the Father of Water*, and westward took his way. Through Arkansas and on over tbe Ozark mountains. He went to Fort Smith, where he tarried awhile, and then entered tha Cher okee country. Then he took his course up through Kansas and Missouri. At St. Louis he recrossed the Mississippi and went to Illi nois. Through that State into Indiana, up into Michigan, across the Lake country into Canada. Then he turned his steps homeward again, and after a tramp of 3,000 miles artma back in Batb, whence he started five years ago. The old man says he has walked bis misery and hate to death. He ia now nearly eighty years of ago. He thinks of again starting out for a walk, this time making lor the Pa cific coast Length of Whales. Ought the Date Not to Be Uni form. Aa a matter of uniformity, would it not be well for the ladies of tbe South generally to adopt May 10th, the date of the death of Stonewall Jackson, as the time for decorating the graves of the Confederate dead. It seems to ns that it would be better to have one Me morial Day throughout the South. All first tried the 26th of April. This admirably snita all claimants like ours, but|in Atlanta,-Nash ville, Richmond, and latitudes further North than onrs, it is impossible to decorate the f ares at that date for the want of flowers. ence, they had to delay it Now, we have plenty of floral offerings throughout the Spring and Summer. We believe in a uni formity of date* aa regards National customs, aud aa certain portions of the Southern States cannot eecure sufficient flowere for the 26tb. we hope their day, May 10th, will be adopted throughout the once Confederacy. What say the ladies ?—Oolumbus Sun, ifay 1, 1873. We are authorized to say that tbe "Ladies' Memorial Association " at their meeting yes terday indorsed and approved tbe suggestion of the Columbus Sun. Let the 10th of May be known as “ Dixie Day.” Mr. Scoresby, a very high authority on thi3 subject, declares the common whale seldom exceed* seventy feet in length, and is much j o T#r tfie border by the hundreds, and the em- After what bes been done by the Govern ment of Quebec t# induce Freaeh Canadians, who have left that Province during the past few years, to return from pleasant homes in the United States, it must be particularly dis couraging to find that the "exodos of infants du soT is greater this season than at any period within ten years. They are coming A Michigan man has invented a unique, poetical, and to hia mind eminently practical mode of traveling rapidly on horseback. Hia idea is to construct a cone-shaped balloon, which is to be laid lengthwise npon (he hone'a back. Th* animal and rider are to be weighed and the balloon filled with just gas enough to lift all but a few pounds ot weight of horse and rider from th* earth, in order that the frisky Pegasus may hare nothing to do bnt go abend. The possible speed of such a contriv ance is as yet beyond ooajeetnre. Gen. John B. Gordon’s Speech at Austin, Texas. Stateu&an Reporter. According to arrangement, General Gordon spoke last night, in tbe Bepresenatative hall, to a very large audience, composed of the member* of tbe Ligislatnre ana the intelli gence of Austin. His subject was the educa tion of the youth of tbs South, and he han died the subject in a most patriotic manner. He referred particularly to the style of books adopted by our officials for use iu tbe public schools, and by reading passages from them Rhowed that they were intended by the au thors, and by those who adopted them, to bring the ancestry of the risiDg generation into disrepnte among those who shonld hold them in respect and reverence: that many of these books were calculated to deprave the mind of th* youth, and to destroy the divine sentiment of love for one’s kindred and home. He claimed that theso books were suited for no other purpose than to keep aliTS prejudi ces and create strife; that tbe Southern peo ple did not desire this, but that they wished to have their children educated in a love, not alone toward their own section, but the whole country. He claimed that the text-books truest to history were contributed to by Southern writers and published in the South, and should bo encouraged to find their way into the schools, that such a decision was necessary to the honor and integrity of the rising generation, and that it wns the duty of our legislators to take this important matter in baud and t* bring tho remedy into proper farm. His speech was too comprehensive tor us to notice fully in the abort space of time we have. Wo hope, however, to be able to give it in a more satisfactory shape in a short time. The effort was a noble one, and com manded the earnest attention of every one upon the floor. A clergyman of this city recently received by express from the county a box, which, when opened, was fonnd to contain a large trout, neatly surrounded with moss. Highly gratified at this token of appreciation from some absent admirer, ho determined to foast* few select friends therewith. He sent invita tions to a few of hia Fifth sTenue friends, and there was a joyous gathering around his hos pitable board; bnt, while each took his foil share of the fish, no ont ate more than a mouthful, n circumstance which pozcled him exceedingly until ns received a letter from a brother clergyman in the rural districts, stating that its author had obtained the fish two years previous, and bad preserved it in alcohol on account of its monstrous size. Hearing, however, of the establishment of the Museum of Natural History In the Central Dark, he now sent it to fats friend, asking him to have it pat back into alcohol and pre sented to the Museum.—-X T. Tribune. more frequently under sixty. Out of three hundred and twenty-two whales, which ho assisted personally in capturing, not one ex ceeded fifty-eight feet, and the largest of which he knew the reported measurement to be authentic came up to only sixty-seven feet Two specimens of the rorqual or razor-back whale have been observed of one hundred and five feet in length. One of these was fonnd floating lifeless in Davis Straits, and the skeleton of the other was seen by Clarke in the Columbia river,J and must tail and all, when alive, have measured one hundred and twenty feet. Other specimens have measured a hundred, and many others from eighty to ninety feet. One cast on shore at North Berwick, Scotland, and preserved by Dr. Knox, was eighty-three feet in length. These instances seem to establish the average and extreme length of these animals. But with considerable credulity in earlier ac counts, Baron Cuvier, the eminent naturalist, says stoutly, there is no doubt that whales have been seen at certain epochs and in cer tain seas upward of three hundred feet long or one hundred yards in length. Bavished and Murdered. Pittsburgh, April 29, 1873. A young girl named Lizzie Ness was brutal ly outraged and mnrdered yesterday forenoon in a grove near Soltsborg, Pennsylvania, four teen miles from Pittsburgh, oa the Pittsburgh, Washington and Baltimore railroad. Her skull was fractured in two places, and her hair matted with blood. Two tramping pain ters named Pohl* and Hyndymen, who claimed to have worked recently in Cumberland, Maryland, and who passed through SaKsburg Monday forenoon, were arrested here to-day charged with the fiend ish murder. The girl was fourteen years old, an adopted daughter of Mrs. Christian Kline, residing near Stdtsburg, and is said to have a lather living somewhere iu Ohio. The cor oner held an inquest on the remains of the mnrdored child, and a verdict of death caused igration promises to continue thus briskly un til the end of the Summer. Several month s ago, ike Quebec Government appointed the Abbs Chartier chief of a commission to come to this country and labor earnestly with the French Canadians for the pnrpose of convinc ing them that it would be greatly to tbeir ad vantage to sell out and go back to their for mer dwelling places. At this foolish work some $7,799 in gold, were spent, only $150 of which, however, went to p»y transporta tion for the converts—the fares and hotel expenses, probsbly, of one “homesick" family. Instead, therefore, of stopping the emigra tion, the experiment of the Government has had the opposite effect. By one of those amusing mistakes by which the druggist’s clerk enlivens the monotomv ot business, a Chicago lady was recently supplied with poison instead of tbe innocuous medi cine which she desired. As a consequence the iady died, and her husband, who is un doubtedly a prosaic person who cannot appre ciate a joke, has sued the druggist for $25,000 damages. Probably he will recover a much smaller sum, both because the average jury man is incapable of giving a deserved verdict, and because the Chicago juiyman will doubt less regard $25,000 as a sum altogether in excess of the current market price of wives. The husband, however, has our beet wnn s for his success, and it is only to be regretted that th* clerk who furnished' the poison can not be made to expiate his criminal itupidity by a few years iu the penitentiary. Th* little Dog-owner's National Primer has this pretty story: "In Nashua, New Hamp shire, a Newfoundland dog was left for a few minutes in a room with an open grate in which wns a child just old enough to creep. The child crept toward tbe fire, and the dog, which apparently saw ahd understood the danger at once lay down between the child and the fire and remained there until the mother came to the rescue. Th* hair was burned from the dog’s side, and bis body was blis tered. and yet, noble dog that b* was; he did by some petty or parties unknown to the jury , not budge. A wicked policemen afterwards filed at 3 o’clook. * “ ! v “‘* — ‘ Pittsburgh, Pa., Apiil 29. There is still great excitement in regard to the horrible mnrder of the little girl Ness yes terday forenoon near McKeesport, Pa. Tbe shoes worn by th* two men, Pohl* and Hyndoman, Swedes, arrested on the charge of oommiMing the crime, were taken this af ternoon to the scene of the murder and com pared with the perpetrator*. They fitted exactly. Th* occurrence of a freeze at aa lot* a peri od as the 26th of April it something almost unprecedented ia the history of the low oountry of South Carolina. The latest froat of which w* have knowledge in a period of a half a century occurred on the 19th of April, 1849, on which day than wan a killing front, and in conaeqncno* of which th* price of cotton rapidly advanced. Tb# cotton crop of that year wa* very short—Charleston News. S oisoned this noble brute, and the baby’s ear mamma had to buy another good dog to keep her sweet child from clawing the coals while she wa* gone.” Ia the Chicago Inter-Ocean of Friday hist occurs the following ludicrous paragraph: Married—In Chicago, April 20, by Kev. L. F. Chamberlain, Bev. Edward H. Smith, pas tor ol the First Congirgatioaal Chnrch, Mor- ristan, UL, and Jennie G. Woodward, of Chioago. No cards. Contractors for harbor improvements will find it to thsix interest to occasionally glance at the government adver tisements in the Inter-Ocean. A Maine paper tells thia: FredfCownsend, of Fast Wilton, a lad of 8, raahv'l into a swift stream fire teet deep to rescue tbs sister, 4 years old. Clinging to the ice and holding hi* sister above th* water, be refused to be helped out himself till hit sister was cafe. Fred Butterfield, a lad of 10, saved them both-