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The Daily Herald
SUNDAY, AUGUST 3, 1873.
THE IIEUALU Pl'BLliililNU COMPANY.
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Travelling Agent of the Herald.
Our State Exchanges.
We 1« arn from the Rome Courier that a lad by the
same of Norman Wooten, aged about 14 years, died
last Tuesday in Dirt Town, Chattooga county. He
made a speech at the school examination on the Fri
day night previous, in good health. His disease was
cholera morbus.
The Round Mountain Furnace Company desires to
employ two hundred wood choppers Immediately.
They offer full wages in cash, or goods at cash prices,
and furnish comfortable cabins.
The counterfeit fifty cent notes in circulation may
be detected by holding them to the light, when one
can see there is no silk fibre in the paper, but is simu
lated by irregular scratches on the plate which gives
the surface impression. The red Treasury seal is also
printed in ink, which will rub and blur aver the paper
if a person dampens the fingers and passes them over
it.
Professor William Henry Waddell, Secretary, an
nounces that the Alnmni Society of the University of
Georgia, will meet in annual session on Tuesday, Au
gust 5tb, 1873, at tec o'clock a. m., in the Chancellor's
lecture room, when an Alumni Trustee will be elected
to serve in the Board of Trustees for four years; and
at eleven o’clock the annual oratiou will be delivered
in the Chapel by Bishop George F. Pierce, and at seven
p. m. the Alumni dinner will be seived in the Mathe.
maticai Hall. A lull attendance is looked for.
The crop prospects in Middle Georgia are, at this
time, very encouraging, and farmers are hopeful, and
we trust, thankful.
Bishop Beckwith, owing to indisposition, has de.
dined to preach the commencement sermon in Athens
next Snnday. The Rev. Mr. Drysdale, Rector of
Emanuel Church, we learn, will deliver the discourse.
Fodder pulling is now the chief business in hand
with farmers in Dougherty county.
The crops in Baker county are, as a general thing,
comparatively sorry. The farmers in that section are
beginning to be disgusted with large cotton crops.
Small fields of cotton, large fields of corn, and a diver
sity of crops, will be the motto another year. Better
late than never.
There are in Randolph count}" 3,429 children aod
Confederate soldiers under 30 years of age entitled to
the benefits of the free school fund, and there are
$2,331 92 ofi money for educational purpose?.
Capt. W. M. Tumlin, of Cuthbert, has moved to Car-
teraville, where he will make his fnture residence.
Hon. Tbomia E. Lloyd, one of the most prominent
lawyers of Savannah, died at his residence last Thurs
day evening.
Caterpillars have made their appearance in Jefferson
county.
Rev. W. M. Kennedy, of the M. E. Chnrch, and in
charge of the Louisville Circuit, died on last SiiBday.
aged G3 years.
The Norcross High School will enter upon its second
session on the 18th insU under the supervision of
Prof. James U. Vincent.
The Telegraph says that from all quarters now comes
the report of abundant rains in Georgia and flourish
ing crops. One small corner of Jasper only, we learn
wp to yesterday, was still sufferiug from drought. The
corn crop is made, snd will be exceedingly abundant.
So far as the statistics of the several counties have
come in from the Tax Receivers’ returns, the acreage
in corn the present year is also agreeably large—much
more so than we have been led to believe. Thus, in
Randolph, it is nearly acre for acre with that of cotton,
and the proportion does not vary greatly in the other
counties heard from.
A new post office is soon to be established at the
Club House in Bullock county.
Only one passenger train is now run between Macon
and Savannah.
■Rie pay roil ot the Eagle and Pbccnix Manufactory
of Columbus amounts to $19,700 per month, or $230,-
400 per year. This is, indeed, a heavy amount for one
institution to dispense in one year for wages alone.
We doubt if it has its eqcal iu Georgia.
A colored comDany in Charleston telegraphed to
Governor Smith the other day to know if they can
enter this State.
During the month ending Thursday, the Ordinary
of ficriven county issued thirty-nine marring® licenses.
Two well diggers in Elbert count!', one a white man
named William Smith, and a negro named Dick
Thompson, were fatally injured by a premature blast
while digging a well for Mr. Tate. Both will die.
Rev. Johnny Wade, a not*-d minister of the gospel
for a great many years, died in Elbert county on the
26th ultimo.
The Engineers have finished the survey of the
route down the Savannah river, connecting with the
survey made by the Augusta A Hartwell Railrosd at
Petersburg. They report the distance much shorter
than by the river and speak favorable of it.
One half of the Washington Gazette has been sold
to Mr. John D. Calley.
The Gazette has had a visit from Rev. C. W. How
ard, who went to Washington for the purpose of or
ganizing a grange of the Patrons of Husbandry. He
will return to that place on the lGth instant, and ad
dress the people and organize any number of granges
which may be prepared with the requisite number ot
properly qualified members.
We trust that the City Council will not send
anybody to Washington on the matter of the
Atlanta Custom House. Mr. Mnllett. the
chief architect, is not at the Federal capital,
but on the Pacific coast, from whence he will
not return lor several weeks. Besides, we un
derstand that he has determined not to begin
the construction of the Custom House this
summer, because the snm of money appro
priated for it—-one hundred thousand dollars
—is insufficient. He thinks two hnndred
thousand dollars necessary, and be proposes
to wait until Congress meets, when he will ask
for an additional appropriation. To send any
person to Washington, under the circum
stanced, will be an unnecessary waste of time
and money.
A correspondent suggests that the Bishops
of the Catholic, Episcopalian and Methodist
Churches of Georgia make Atlanta their place
of residence. We think tLe suggestion an
excellent one. Aside from the health of the
city and salubrity of our climate, Atlanta is
really the capital ol Georgia in a religious as
well as in a political sense, and it would be
nothing more than proper for the heads of
the several churches to make their domiciles
here. We trust that the Bishops will take
the matter into consideration.
Certainly Spain does not get any better
fast. Every day the cable brings ns sadder
ne#s of the terrible condition of this once
great and powerful country. The Spaniards
are much in need of u first class tyrant who,
jf he even did shock the age by his tyranny,
would maintain order in the country.
THE REPORTED MONARCHICAL PRO
GRAMME IN FRANCE.
If the situation in France was the same as
in the revolutions of 1830 and 1848, we could
credit the rumor that Marshal MacMahon
will shortly resign the Presidency of the so-
called republic, and make way for the mon
archy. Thfe situation, however, is vastly dif
ferent. In 1830, after Charles IX had fled,
Lafayette, by a clever piece of humbuggery,
throttled the republic, and put Louis Phil-
lippe, who stood near by handy, on the
throne. In 1848 there was more trouble, aiul
it took some hard fighting and a little shoot-
iLg to repress the ardor of the lieds. Poor
Changarnier, Lamartine and the rest of them
would, however, have finally gone under I
had not the man of order appeared, in the
person of Louis Napoieou. He represented
a cause and a dynasty. With Bonrbons,
and Orleauists alike in disgrace, the clericals
find little shopkeepers, hastened to sup
port him, and when the Beds kicked up the
devil, the moderate republicans also hastened
to back him. And so, Napoleon became the
central figure of France because of his nncles
fame and he terminated the political trouble
by declaring himself Emperor.
True enough he was forced to kill a few !
hundreds of ruffians before he accomplished
his coup d'(tut. But to kill a few hundreds of
ruffians, with a sprinkling of decent men,
(shot by accident), thrown in, is a necessity
of every new government of France. Paris,
L3’Ous, Marseilles and the other large centres
of population, contain a race of hereditary
ruffians who glory in erecting barricades out of
heavy stones and whose fate it is to be shot
down by fa lojne tt Vartillerie, or to be remorse-
ly cut down by the sabres of la Cavallerie
These amiable beings are indigenous to
France and never will be extirpated. We ed
ing out is the most that can be accomplished.-
France, in 1873, presents difficulties for a j
change of government which did not exist in j
1830 and 1848. In those years a single “Sa
viour of Society ” presented himself and the j
clergy and army were a solid phalanx. To-day
no such unity exists. MacMahon may resign; '
he may even essay the role of a Monk or a j
Warwick, but who is he to put on the throne? |
Three “Saviours of Society” present them-
selves. There is the old Comte de Chambord i
with his white flag and lilies; there is the |
Comte de Paris, with bis little shopkeepers, I
and his “peace at any price” policy; and j
there is the Prince Imperial, with his golden
bees and violets appealing to young France j
and whispering that magical word to French
men, “ Glory!”
Each of these “ Saviours of Society” has his
partisans. All the Ultramontane clergy sup
port the Comte de Chambord, and they carry
with them a large proportion of the peasantry.
What is known as llie liberal clergy—those
who really constitute what is known as the
“ Gallican Church,” are divided between the
Comte de Paris and the Prince Imperial, the
largest proportion supporting the latter. Or-
leanism flourishes principally among the
small shop keepers and manufacturers. Bona
partism is strong with the peasants, with
some classes of manufacturers benefitted by
free trade and with the urmy. There are
very few Legitimists in the army ; there is
but a small faction ot Orleauists. {Probably
five-sixths of the officers and men are either
Bonapartists or Republicaus.
We do not intend to refer to the Republi
cans because they are in a hopeless minority
in France. The struggle is really between
the three opponents of Republicanism. Of
three portions the Bonapartists are
unquestionably the strongest.
But Bonapartism cannot succeed unaided;
neither can Orleanism nor Legitimism. It is
consequently certain that for MacMahon to
extinguish what there is left of the Republic,
he must have the aid of the three factions, or
at least of the Bonapartists and Legitimists.
He cannot play the part of Monk, because he
has not sufficient influence with the army;
and Lenities, monarchical England had but
one King to turn to, and thus to put Charles
II. on the throne was an easy task. France is
confronted by three dynasties, and herein lies
MacMahon s difficulty.
Marshal MacMahon was never anOrleanist.
Descended from an aristocratic Legitimist
family, he inherited a contempt for the fam
ily of Philip Egalite, who voted his brother
to death. During the reign of Louis Phil-
lippe he kept aloof from the dynasty of the
“Citizen King.” If he has retained the pre
judices of boyhood be is as much a Legitimist
as when he helped the young “bloods” to
hiss down actresses ot Bonaparte tendencies
in Paris. But MacMahon’s life is insepara-
bly»associated with Bonapartism. For eigh
teen years he served Napoleon, and from the
hands of the Emperor he received his baton
of Marsha’, his decorations and bis title. If
the traditions of his family incline him to the
Comte de Chambord, the sentiment of grati
tude binds him to the Prince Imperial.
As matters now stand he can only enact the
part of Monk, if an understanding exists be
tween the Legitimists and the Bonapartists.
It was reported not long ago that the pro
gramme was to make Chambord King and
name the Prince Imperial bi6 successor. As ’
we once before said, this arrangement would !
be a queer alliance between heretofore irre- 1
concilable ideas; bat we live in an 9ge of won
der, and nothing surprises us. Such an
alliance, however, would make it comparative
ly easy sailing for MacMahon, even though
he would have to shoot or sabre a lew more
ruffians. If, on the other hand, he aims to
restore the mouarchy without reference to the
Bona par Li.*, ts, Le will not be able to carry the
army with him. “Napidcou’s rheumatism 1
before de Cham Lord's prayers,” said gruff!
de Cissev, aiql this General merely repeated !
the sentiments of a large majority of the
French officers and soldiers.
On the whole, we will nut credit the rumor
until we have further evidence. MacMahon
is not strong enough to restore the monarchy.
He could restore the empire, because when it
came to a square issue between Napoleon and
Oambetta, Legitimists and Orleanists alike !
would take the ioimer, and as these two |
names represent the army it is not likely that
the Monarchists will attempt to overthow the
present nominally republican government by
force, and ignore the Bonapartists.
Perhaps the position of France is best illus
trated by a cartoon we saw recently iu a for-
eign paper. A group of iiersons are before a
roulette table, the board of which is divided
In o five parls. marked “ Republiqne,” “ Le
gitimists,” “Orleans,” “Napoleon,” “Com
mune.” Here we seethe “Blouse,” deCham-
bord and priests, Comte de Paris, the Prince
Imperial and his mother, and M, Thiers and
bis party intently watching the game. In the
rear a female figure, representing France
stands weeping. The game keeper is a blind
folded woman in the act of starting the ball.
Doubt and anxiety are depicted on every face
for nobody knows where the ball will stop and
who will win.
AVe repeat that it would be unwise and un
safe to five credence to reports of a purpose
to change the government in six months.
The task is not an easy one, and never will
be while, as at present, there are five distinct
political parties in France, aud not one con
trolling a majority of the people.
THE OHIO NEW PARTY AIDING
CAESAR ISM.
The disintegration of the Northern Demo
cratic party has commenced and before many
months have passed'we fear that the lasc organ
ized opposition to [Cassarism will have been
numbered among the tbings 4 tbat were. Ohio,
which gave birth to the abortion of last year,
has produced a second monster. Hungry
politicians, long out of office and official pap,
are seeking by a sacrifice of principle, to
gather between their dried lips the teats of
federal patronage. Success, by a sacrifice of
everything which made the Democracy a for
midable power, may be possible ; but it ren
ders the work of Casar easier. It strangles
the republic with a package of greenbacks.
No possible motive can exist than the desire
to obtain office, in this third party movement
in Ohio. Messrs. Groesbeck, Pugh, and the
other gentlemen who are engineering it have
no higher ambition than to overthrow’ the
men now in power. It they propose to as
sert the principles of Democracy, then where
the necessity for a new party? If the prin
ciples of Democracy are to be thrown aside
like a worn out hat, what can be substi
tuted in their stead ? Are you to have a
kind of “ middle ground ” platform, “ neither
fish, flesh, nor red herrings,” but a kind of
mongrel mixture of Radicalism and Democ
racy, with a “Good God, Good Devil”
hymn to wind up with?
For eight long years the Democracy has
been in the hands of those whose principles
laid in their pocketbooks. Still, as long as
they did not ask us to surrender them;
so long as they affirmed them, the Democratic
Party was a powerful unit, not large enough
to conquer, it is true, but too large for the
majority to dare proclaim Ciesar. The Ohio
new party movement is a shameful “depar
ture,” and an abandonment of the struggle
for a return to the theories of Jefferson. It
indulges in a lot of clap-trap against corrup
tion and calls for a revenue tariff, but it does
not demand that the sovereignty of the States
shall be recognized and that the Federal Gov
ernment shall abstain from interfering with
them iu the regulation of their municipal
affairs. It proposes to accept as an fait <xo-
coinpli all that radicalism has done. It is
Radicalism in the gait of moderation; central
ism seducing republicanism. Nothing more.
AVhy change the men now in office if we are
to put in the place men who will persevere in
the same policy of government. If the third
party movers assert that there will be a change
of policy then they are attempting a fraud
aud swindle on the people. If they mean
Democracy, with Democratic principles, let
the fact be proclaimed. Honesty is the best
policy after all, in politics as well as in private
affairs. If it is not Democracy, then, what is
it ? There is no middle ground between
right and wrong. There are no third set ol
principles which we can consider. Years
ago the issue was made between the federal
ism and centralism of the Republican party
and the confederate theory of Mr. Jefferson.
The issue is tbe same to-day. To abandon
the Democracy is to accept radicalism.
Nothing presents itself in tbe new party
movement but a scramble for office. The
usual clap-trap about corruption aod
dishonesty will not avail anything. AYho
is to guarantee that the new men will be any
the less corrupt and dishonest than the old
one ? What difference does it make whether
Grant or somebody else is Ca-sar ? If a man
is to be put to death, there is little choice be
tween hanging and shooting. It is death all
the same.
On a memorable occasion Daniel AVebster
asked what was to become of him. To-day
tbe South may well repeat the question. If
the Northern Democracy are to abandon prin
ciple and engage in a struggle for Federal
bread and butter, nothing remains for ns but
to keep aloof and let them fight out their
pitiful tight. It is a matter of life and death
to us to cling firmly to that Democratic theory
of government which we once enforced
throughout the country. We cannot afford to
take any new departure and for the sake of a
little patronage submit to centralism and
Ca-sar. The Greshema, the Pughs, and the
rest ot the Northern office hunters may de
stroy Democracy at the North; here in the
South we must sustain it. The principles our
forefathers fought for in 1776, and which our
fathers aud brothers contended tor in 1861-5
we must maintain at every hazard until they
again triumph. For it we give wuy and fol
low the Greshems and Pughs it will not be
long before somebody will put a crown on
Ca sar’s head, and there will be no one near to
strike it off' and no Brutus at hand to strike
Cwsar down.
The South Carolina negroes are justly
grumbling because the colored Congressmen
have dared to appoint • white boys to West
Point Academy. It seems to us that the white
men of South Carolina ought to rest content
with the privilege they enjoy of paying all the
taxes, instead of seeking to send their boys to
AVest Point at Annapolis. ThisUoaov ought,
by all means, to be reserved for the colored
aristocracy of the Palmetto Slate.
Those of our subscribers on the West Point
Railroad who do not wish their Herald** sent
on Sunday, will please notify us of the fact
so that we can have their uames entered up on
a different list.
There is not an acre of cultivrted cranbelry
marsh in Minnesota, and yet hundreds of peo
ple make an almost exclusive business
of gathering the fruit for market. Cranberry
marshes abound in numerous regions through
out the State, and wherever found are, owing
to some peculiar fitness of soil aud climate,
not only very prolific, but produce fruit of
superior excellence.
Alabama Dots.
The Meridian Mercury, of the 29th inet.,
eay*: “The Receiver* of the Alabama and Chattanooga
Railroad have leaaed their road to the Alabama Cen
tral, from Meridian to York, giving the latter absolute
control, reserving only the right to run their own
si N. IS. Forrest is in Selma.
Mr. B. F. Smith, of Prattvi’.le, of the iirm of T. L.
Smith fc Co., is dead.
The following list embraces the names of those
students who have pasted through the term of the
Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College at An
burn at its recent commencement e;:erci?es, without
a single demerit mark. These young meu had not
been absent from prayers, roll-call four times a day, or
recitations without proper excuse, and bad never been
| disrespectful to their instructors duriug the collegiate
| year: A. M. Bucbanon, Society Hill: N\ D. Denson,
I.aFayette; J. F. Dowdell, Auburn; S. A. Ellis, Cbe-
pultepec; J. It. Figh, Montgomery; M. A. Frazer, Au
burn; J. L. Golsan, New Orleans: C. T. Hodge, Ope
lika; J. W. Holland, Ozark; J. A Hurt, Hurtsville; B.
H. Johnson, Dadeville; B. F. Jones, Fort Browder; M.
G. .Tones, Crawford; J. F. Lauier, Huntsville; L. H.
McLaui iDe, IJruceville; Joseph Norwood, Fort De
posit; F. D. Peabody, Columbus; TV. M. Perry, Co
lumbus; W. 8, Rowell, Smith’s Station: J. F. andP.
R. Rutledge, Auburn; It. J. Staggers, Benton; P. II.
Stowe, Opelika: C. R. Vinson, Suspension; G. D. Web
ster, Greenville; Reese Wilson, Salem.
The State ^Journal classifies the city authorities of
Montgomery, politically, as follows : Mayor, Repub
lican : Aldermen—Democrats, 8; Republicans, 4 ;
Chief of Police, Democrat; City Clerk, Republican :
Patrolmen, 20—six are colored—all Democrats.
The corn crops in Macon county are very poor, aud
the cotton nothing extra, but in a growing condition.
LaFayette Clipper:
Every shade tree in tbe Court-house yard h*s re
ceived a coat of whitewash.
Chancellor McCraw’s special term of Court for Ma
con county, ha* been postponed.
LaFayette can beat tbe world for plajing draught*.
This is the only kind of draughts, however, she in
dulges in.
The convicts who have been employed in the State
qusrry at Rockland, by W. C. Morris A Co., took their
departure on last fcunday.
The protracted meetiug at the Biytist Church at
Van Wert is progressing with unabated interest.
C. C. Carioll, the great soap man, liaB established a
laundry in Cartersville, aud the people from away over
in the Ststfi of Polk send their clothes up there to be
washed. Gibson, of the Reported, sent his shirt last
week, and had it done up.
They are cryin« for a mail line between RocVniar-
snd Cedar Town—distance only twelve miles.
The engineers have finished the survey of the nar
row gauge portion of the Cberokee Railroad, prepara
tory to making it broad gauge all the way.
l’rol, Marcell's bondsmen gave him up the other
day, and he was remanded to jail, where, no doubt, he
will remain until next Court.
There is a general complaint that the fruit crop is
being injured l>y rotting and lalllug off'. We notice
that to be the case iu this section, at least.
Something mac three thousand chickens, raised iu
Randolph, Clay and Cleburne counties, have passed
through this place in the last month. What a tremen
dous chicken pie three thousirud would make !
A number of families are summering at Chandler
ami Talladega Springs.
The Iron Earl.
TheEarl aad*Countess ot Dudley have been
among the leading sensations in the Austrian
capital; and his lordship is indeed a remark
able person personally, amt as holding iu
some respects a unique position among
English peers. In tbe reign of Charles I,
there was a very wealthy goldsmith of the
name of Ward. He was jeweller to t^ueen
Henrietta Maria, Charles’ consort, and having
bought a great property and gained the
status which in England has ever accompa
nied landed estate, contrived to marry his
son to the daughter aud heiress of Lord
Dudley. Eventually this lady succeeded her
father as Baroness Dudley in her own right,
wLilst her husband was created, by Charles
I., Baron AVard. borne time alter the Dudley
barony fell into abeyance among direct fe
male heirs, w hilst the Ward barony descend
ed to the immediate ancestors of the
present peer. Earlier in the present century
it was held by one ol the best known men of
the time, who filled the post of Secretary ot
State iu Mr. Canning’s ministry, and was
created Earl of Dudley. This nobleman, one
of the kindest hearted men who ever lived,
vras a strange compound of eccentricity and
ability. Unhappily in the end the former
overpowered the latter. His absence ol mind
was proverbial. “Come and dine with me,
my dear fellow,” he said to Sidney Smith,
“and I’ll get Sidney Smith to meet you.”
AVben one night at a party his carriage didn’t
arrive, a gentleman well acquainted with his
peculiarities offered to let him down at bis
house. The hour was so late that Lord Dud
ley, in some ways a very retiring character,
was perforce compelled accept the civility, but
was no sooner in the carriage than he began,
according to his wont, expressing his
thoughts aloud, and said: “Confounded
bore: I suppose I shall have to ask
the fellow to dinner.” Whereupon his
companion presently rejoined iu a similar
tone : “ Confounded bore ; I suppose this fel
low will be thinking it necessary to ask me
to dinner.” Lord Dudley appreciated the
joke, and they became great friends. Lord
Dudley was in the habit of always having an
apple paddin » at his table, and his neighbors
at a grand State banquet at Vienna were not
a little surprised ou hearing him muttering
repeatedly: ** Nc apple pudding: no apple
pudding ! God bless my soul, no apple pud
ding ! ” Whilst at the head ot the foreigu of
fice, Lord Dudley was on one occasion guilty
of a memorable absence of mind, which
formed a curious episode in diplomatic his-
I tory. Ha directed a letter intended for the
■ French to the Russian ambassader, shortly
] before the affair at Navarino, and, strange to
j say, attained bv it immense credit for
j diplomatic address. Prince Lieven (who
I was then Russian ambassauor) set it
down as one of the cleverest ruses ever at
tempted to be played off, and gave himself
immense credit for not falling into the trap
laid for him by, as he imagined, tbe wily En
glishman. He returned the letter with a most
polite note, in which he avowed, of course,
that he bad not read a line of it after he had
ascertained it was not for Prince Pohgnac, but
j could not resist telling Lord Dudley at an
\ evening party that he was (rop ji.>, but dip-
j lomatists of bis (Prince L’s) standing were not
j so easily caught. Toward the close of his
j life Lord Dudley's mind quite gave way, and
| one of tho earliest symptoms *ot his unfortu-
j nate malady was that of asserting himself inar-
1 ried. He is said to have expressed great aflVc*
i tion and solicitude for his imaginary wife. As
Lord Dudley never married, his earldom died
with him, but his barony of AVard went to
his second cousin a clergyman, unit at his
i death came to his son, the present peer, who
inherited the title when about eighteen.
, During the father's enjoyment ot the peer-
] age and his own minority the oceumukition
from the property were so great that an in
mense addition was made to it by the pur
chase of the estates ol Lord Foley in Wore s
: tersbire, for upward of U MO,000, the law a
I sale on record iu the United Kingdom. 1 .
the great bulk of the English peerage, the
I Foleys had been traders, and Dr. Nils'
stances them as proving what may be do • iu
a free aud tradiog country by integrity in
dustry, frugality and an extensive line of
business. But, as iu so many other cm . th
Foley descendants w ere fully as good a* * i*- 1
ing as the auoestors at making. Witley < ’ i rt,
the former vast abode, ia remarkable f
morial of ephemeral splendor iu the i■ q.e of
ceiling by Verrio which formerly docot*t<»d
Canons, long since laid low, the home of
Pope’s Timou, the princely Chan do* The
splendid bronze lamps which used to blnz* »,t
the entrance of this grand abode
were removed to Wanstead, at the
commencement of the century the most
magnificent bouse in England, but of which
not one stone now remains on the other. Tbe
staircase of Canons, then the only marble one
in the kingdom, was bought by the celebrsted
earl of Chesterfield for Chesterfield House—
no longer the property of the Chesterfields—[
where it may yet be seen. Ever since the
present Lord Dudley, who was raised to the
earldom a few years ago—came into his estate,
that portion of it which, lies in the Black
Country, around Dudley’, has gone on increas
ing in value until, allowing for fluctuations
incidental to the iron trade, his command of
money is so great that tbe luxury beyond his
means could scarcely be named. His house
in town, Dudley House, Park lane, is amongst
tho dozen finest in Loudon, whilst Wit ley and
Himley are enitomes of splendor. He also
has one or two residences in Scotland. Yet it
may be questioned whether there are not set
offs of a disagreeable kind to this accumula
tion of wealth and splendor. Lord Dudley
has ever been the object of unpleasant rumor
and this culminated in connection with his
first marriage.
Lord Dudley’s first wife was the only child
of Mr de Burgh, long a notorious character
iu the fast fashionable world of London and
Paris. Air. de Burgh was well known to have
dissipated a fine fortune, aud to be a needy
man, and it was freely reported that his
daughter’s husband’s purse was likely to be
very convenient for him. Lady AVard (for
Lord Dudley had not yet attained his higher
honor,) was married in April and died the
November following, and then a flood of sto
ries were abroad as to how she had been forced
into a distasteful marriage, and had died the
broken-hearted wife of a monomaniac; for one
tale was to the effect that her husband was
subject to the strange delusion that he was,
albeit of the male sex. competent to bear chil
dren, and, that having applied to an eminent
medical man to solve the anxious question, if
be had a child and Lady AVard had a child,
which child would be the heir, got the saga
cious reply, “Oh, your lordship’s, of course.”
How far these tales are true, who cau tell?
Probably they were handsomely garnished,
but so much smoke as there was argues a little
fire. For some years Lord Dudley remained a
widower, but at length his eyes fell on the
daughter ol Sir Thomas and Lady Louisa
Moncrieffe. They had a very large family,
and resources by no means correspondingly
considerable. It was generally understood
that Miss Moncrieffe favored the attentions of
a suitor more of her own age than Lord Dud
ley, the Marquis of AVaterford; but their mar
riage would probably not have been nearly so
acceptable to the Moncrieffe family. Lord
Dudley was rich in the present, Lord Water-
ford (his father, a somewhat penurious per
son, was still living) only in the future. So
the beautiful Miss Moucrietfe became Coun
tess of Dudley, and her mother might have
sung like a lady in “A Match of Affection”—
Well, my daughter is married. The popular print*
Are full of her blushes, her blonde aud her beauty;
And my intimate friends drop me delicate hints
That my poor timid giri ia a victim to duty.
They talk about interest, mammon aud pride.
Aud the danger attending a worldly connection :
How little they know the pure heart of the bride—
She always was bent on a match of affection.
Many thought that she was, indeed, but
not with Lord Dud’ey: aud this idea was
somewhat strengthened, when the Mordaunt
trial came on, giving the feeling to many that
her sister’s match with Sir Charles Mordaunt
was encouraged by her family from worldly
considerations. But, so far as the world goes,
Lady Dudley’s position — beauty, rank,
boundless wealth—is magnificent, and it is
but fair to add that no rumor bus ever been
abroad as to Lord Dudleys eccentrici
ties since this event took place. The Black
Country, as the district from which
Lord Dudley's immense revenues are drawn
is called, is an extraordinary region, filled
with an extraordinary class. When some ten
years ago a special commission was appointed
to inquire into the state education in England,
it fell to the lot of Mr. Coode, a barrister, to
report to the privy council on this district.
Mr. Coode’s report conveyed an extraordinary
picture of contemporary history. One sen
tence of his, relative to the morality of
this locality, excited indignant comment
It was; “Adultery is the rule rather than
the exception, and incest is fearfully com
mon.” Yet there seemed little reason to
doubt that Mr. Coode, whose good faith
was beyond suspicion, had stated the fact
The men who are employed ia the iron
country are for the most part little better than
athletic savages. They have tbe strongest
passions, the weakest self-control. Earning
high wages, living well and being without
scruples of morality, the result naturally is
the triumph of animal life. Certain gentle
men in the district—notably Sir Horace St.
Paul, who lias rivalled his saintly namesake
in untiring devotion to the cause of Christ—
have labored unremittingly to sow some spirit
ual seed amongst the people. And Lord Dud
ley’s brother-in-law, Dr. Claughton, now
Bishop of Rochester, who 'formerly held an
important living in this part of the country,
was another ardent missionary in this field.
Although Lord Dudley shares the first Baron
Rothschild’s dislike to paying his bills, so
that his milkmen’s tutile dunning is one of
the jokes ot London, he has never been ac
cused of a want ot liberality where claims
connected with his property are concerned—
it is one which probably entails a greater re
sponsibility thau any other in England, hav
ing regard to its peculiar circumstances.
Amongst Lord Dudley’s pleasures the opera
has always held a large place, and he has pe
cuniarily had large operatic interests. On more
than one occasion he has played a generous
part toward those endowed with vocal talent
by aiding the struggling to reach the
front. In appearance the Iron Earl is re
markable— about six feet high and rather
heavily built, with an extraordinary fuzzy
head of thick black hair. It is said that a
weil-known hair-dresser—Marsh of Piccadilly
—accompanied him to A'ienna to keep this
remarkable hair in order; which is likely
enough, as he has been devoting a lifetime to
this task, for his acquaintance with Lord Dud
ley commenced at Oxford, where Marsh was a
journeyman iu the service of Mr. Spiers, the
proprietor of a very celebrated shop (Words
worth’s lines “l*e Spires of Oxford, your pre
sence overpowers the soberness of reason,”
were, so Mr. Verdant Green’s cicerone in
formed him, iu allusion to this remarkable
establishment and not to architectural effects.)
Lord Dudley was so pleas. -1 with the man
that when he left college he he'ped to set him
up in Loudon, where Marsh continues to flour
ish. By bis second wife Lord Dudley has bad
several children.
Narrow Escape of Gen. FrrzHruH Lee.
The Alexandria Gazette of Monday says : “An
accident occurred at Richland yesterday after
noon, by which a colored deckhand on board
the schooner Joe Miller, named Luther, was
drowned, and Gen. Fitzhngh Lee was with
difficulty saved from the same untimely fate.
The vessel had been loaded at Richland, aud
Gen. Lee was being carried on board in a
skiff by Luther, to come to this city, when,
’-nng the storm prevailing, the ekiff swamp-
: and «unk. The colored man soon drowned,
. .t tin '\nonti, though wearing heavy cav
alry b«- managed to keep afloat until his
or ■ s, v q. j! is s*id, could be heard lor
a 1 >' >m’d some colored men to the
h- sc< ojg his condition, immediately
'.t ^ distance iu a scow propelled
i nl r soiled him just as he was on
il: ■ r . • king. A seine Was afterwards
^ ! d’- drowned man by Messrs. Ticer
i : ' i. of thin city, who happened to
with their boat, but, owing to
growth of river grass, their ef-
- without success. The General,
Gh irely indisposed by the accident,
*i»ft d to his bed, was this morning re-
nort^d to be iuiproviug.
coon has a “capital” way of eucour-
n wspaper enterprises. He orders that
.11 n of certain social and political circles
alv .hncribe to the new Japanese paper or
hr I eheaded.
The Heir o. Russia.
4 TOCSG Mis WHO WiKTB . EC 4 ..SEAT ( "•
gT'ZKOIi
Button I'ost Lcndo. I ett«
it is worth while to ilescri th-s Fr:a.'" a;
•ie appears tons here ilail ia t -■ L'-mion
streets, for everything iadimU .
if he lives, be one day a cons ";ou histori
cal character. I! he turn, cr.i . 1 - stem
and, august despot than Nich
tain to be a more enterprisiuK
ruler thau Alexander II. Tl HtV ' i,
war and ilas little taste fort uo -..
and feats, while his heir is noth, ■ ,
tively ambitious and by natm r , .
and aggressive. The Czarowite
dium height, very solidly and •*
built, with a straight, martial figi
carriage of a haughty and courage.
He has the true ltoman off-cast o
unco, that is, a square oval, lull in 1
rouud lull cheeks, full lips, ah m-
round, determinedebin, short, straig
nate looking nose, large, stern dark -;
rather lowering brow. His hair is darl
aud is closely cut to the head, and he
rather long, dark moustache, with a
fill military sweep at either end. He can
not he called strikingly handsome, but he
is a young man who would be noticed
lor his manly healing and expression any
where. His c: - .nny complexion is
smooth aud sofi, and he has the appear-
ance of having lived on tbe fat of the land.
He is e\ ideally of a luxurious as well
as active and enterprising temnerament: in
both respects being thoroughly unlike his im
perial papa. In one thing, however, he re
sembles the Czar, and, indeed, this is a tra
ditional trait of the ltomanoff; he wears a
habitual expression of haughty melancholy,
which seldom melts into a smile, and almost
never into hearty laughter. The Emperors
Paul, Nicholas and Alexander IL were all
melancholy men;and Alexander I. had a deep,
underlying sadness under his cherry and bluff
exterior. This has been accounted for by the
fact that the Czars, from their position," live
in constant danger of assassination, and never
can know from what source or in what man
ner the blow may come. Certain i: is that
the present Czar is timid aud is a victim to
hypoebondra; which is accounted for by
some by his habit ol taking too much alco
holic stimulant, and by others as the result
of a constant wearing fear of his life. The
Czarowiteli, on the contrary, is a thoroughly
brave man, but has probably got his melan
choly by inheritance. Different as he is from
the Czar in personal characteristics, he could
scarcely do otherwise thau differ from him in
his habit and in bis political views: and it is
well understood that he has for some years
assumed the role, which may almost be" said
to be habitual to heirs to thrones, ot leading
the opposition to the court. He sympathizes
rather with his uncla Constantine" than with
his father, and belongs to the warlike “Old
Hussia’ party, instead of the internal devel
opment party, favored by the Czar. The
German intlueuce at the Russian Court
are regarded by him with dislike aud
disfavor. He is far from being friend
ly with his cousins, the Prussian Prin
ces, and during the late war was a
frankly outspoken partisan of France, while
his father was well known to sympathize
with the Germans. Prince Alexander, too,
not only disapproved ot, but vehemently pro
tested against the policy of the emancipation
of tbe serfs, though when that occurred he
had not reached manhood. Iu short he is a
type of the Cossack autocrat, pure and simple,
with a sturdy dislike to reform and constitu
tionalism and popular rights and the “peace
ful march of progress” and abandonment of
the Russian dynas^beipicathed bv Peter the
Great to his succe-^-s. Had he been on the
e past
throne during the past three years, events in
Europe would almost certainly have taken a
different turn. France might have found an
ally in Russia, and ere this Constantinople
would perhaps have become subject to a Rus
sian Governor; while in Central Asia England
might have been defied, Persia invaded, and
tbe Russian standard floating in the Persian
Gulf.
Comfort in Warm Weather.
Few people understand how to make them
selves comrortable in warm weather. In fact,
a majority of us, in a hot day, unconsciously
add “fuel to the fire” in a score of ways,
which thoughtfulness and good judgment
might lead us to avoid. The morning is close
and sultry, which may doubtless be a pretty
good excuse lor languor and laziness; but
suddenly, perchance, the breakfast bell rings,
and you must hurry to get ready, which is a
grand mistake at the beginning ot a hot day.
Most likely, also, some impatience comes
with the haste, and the result is the blood
becomes additionally heated. The common
salutation, “ How hot it is ! I don’t believe 1
slept a wink last night!” the constant flutter
ing of a fan. the quantity ot ice-water con
sumed aud the perpetual doing nothing ex
cept thinking and talking about the heat, all
tend to increase the discomfort w hich, though
we may not wholly escape in midsummer, is
made quite endurable by proper management.
The observance of a few’ simple rules will
give coolness and comfort. Even those who
have laborious duties to perlorm may take a
hint from some plain suggestions, such as
these: Never hurry: to which end do not be
behindhand ia anything which must be done.
Take light, cooling, but nutritious food, and
don’t drink too much. Do not be forever
talking about the heat—it makes one feel
ten times hotter. Of course never get angry,
aud do not fret whatever happens*, but keep
the mind in a placid state. As a genera
rule keep fans to be used in tainting fits. It
you must go out iu tbe blazing sunshine do
not be afraid to carry an umbrella. By all
means, even if there is no necessity of
working, provide for yourself some light
occupation and attend to it diligently during
proper hours; nothing makes one so thor
oughly uncomfortable in hot weather as hav
ing “nothing to do.” Avoid crowds; dress
lightly in spite of fashion; take regular sleep
and plenty ot it; bathe slowly: aud use moa-
eratiou iu all things. AA'e might add a dozen
or two to these impromptu suggestions, but
we are much mistaken it attention to even
these few will not greatly add to the comfort
of every one who will give them a fair trial
for one week of our “heated tern..” — Harper's
Weekly.
A Long Swim.—The Detroit (Mich.) Free
Press of Saturday contains this paragraph :
“A negro, named Joe Long, claiming to be h
deck hand on the propeller Arctic, reached
here yesterday from Maiden, claiming to have
made cue of the longest swims recorded in
this country for some time. He asserts that
he fell overboard Wednesday, while the Arctic
j was full two miles from Maiden. His cries
j were unheard, and no one seems to have wit-
! nessed the accident. Long had on a pair ot
gniters, and ns soon as he saw it was to be
1 sink or swim with him, he kicked these off,
and, turning on his back, began swimrain.
| for the shore, there, fortunately, being ■
j littlo sea to interfere with him. He sa- o
alter swimming for about half a mile b
across a piece of board about three tVe '
‘ aud the float, frail as it whs, aided him ni:»x«
rially in completing tbe remainder of h > \c\-
age. He gave the mute ot tbe person wh
picked him up near the beach, told the u..;
; of the physician who cave him some
' hint, and would be highly indignant
1 doubted the truth of the whole story.”
A little child at Los Augelos, Cal., .
home, the other day with a treaaare-tro e
i the shape of something that looked like
; swallow ’s nest, but when several tarantulas,
j big aud little, crawled out, the anfortu
' infant met with the ingratitude that urn \
! rewards discoveries, aud his interest iu ua\a
, ral history is greatly abated.
j Senator Morrill is preparing a spec* h t‘>
show that there is nothing ini Morrill in the
* retroactive salary bilL