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NEW SERIES—NO. 8.
that I have ever seen. Do you know that
she reminds me very much, of Miss Kate
Walton?’ continued Winthrop.
‘I had hardly thought it,* answered
Hiram, with a careless air.
‘Yes she does. There is a striking sim
ilarity in their faces and figure, and their
manners are very much alike, only Miss
Eustace is by far, *he quesolisst of the two.’
Hiram’s leaden heart warmed with this
careless compliment, and his eye beamed
a pleased attention, < And Hiram I must think
there is some implacable, and cruel mys
tery that is keeping you two apart.’ Win
throp added, encourage^ by Hiram’s atten
tion.
‘There can be none on my part, Win
throp. I had her unequivocal and irre
vocable command to trouble her no farther.
And that I am sure ought to be explicit
enough to satisfy oven a more sanguite tern
perament than mioe,’ Hiram answered
with a sad smile.
‘But recollect Lavender that,
OI ii AOVKI..
CHAP. XXV.
ru;s !| AMI 1!I.00D after all.
-■ i iar t n! IIIrani w.19 not near so full
.'rasant hopes when he entered the cars
in-si morning fur Norfolk, as it was
■ tear before; bnt for all that, the im-
Lj'jjtc relief lie felt in leaving behind
” B , 0 much that only reminded him of the
■eart wreck of Ins life, was such, that he
iiKbed the lading woods ol his childhood’s
li. with a gladning eye, and a free
ireiili. and as the thio out-lines were
ij: ut hy the curve in the road, he felt
f l.t had put out of sight the dead and
nl past, and could now look to the
re (hr an earnest work, if for no sen-
mental joys.
The heart of Robert Winthrop lingered
;r e fondly behind ; the music of Viola’s
oiee ringing sweetly in his ears,
ii "thegladness of her beauty entered his
Treat hopes. We do not know how far
::;s:!vervcadence of the one, or the sweet
" Jgcnce of the other would have inter-
ed trim his sleep that night, had not
weariness of the heat and dust, during
the day so exhausted the physical man
■rctlian the moral, that he had no life for the
ay of its emotions. The heat, dust, and
be of travel, and especially of Railway
travel, are much too severe for the gentle
.umlauts of hope, and of love to oppose,
tsl it was no reproach to the warmth of
devotions, that, the cool room and white
...its of the Charlotte Hotel offered a
( Dre greatful ease even than thoughts of
,i. liut Viola was not to be ignored,
ire if sleep did come to the tired material
can. loves sweet dream over come the
darkness of sleep, and the beautiful form
efViola floated through the mazes of his
him as the sunlight ol morning floats
though the clouds.
Hut hia dreams were such dreams, as
tcy fond lover could dream, and though
hr gladened his sleep with a joyous
emotion they yet left in their traiD, no en-
tring impressions, and his'dreaminy mind
n-justas ready night after night, to
drink in the delightful showers again.
His dreams were delightfully refreshing
• contrast with the burning parched
beamless sleep of lliram.
1 he magnificent splendor ol the Beal
1 ilia was tasteless to both the young men.
ts pictured halls, and its splendid
-Mind', had lost their brightest charms
'■ Winthrop, for Viola was not there to
- rily them with her radient presence,
they were dear to him, te.nderly dear as
• uveuirs of his dawning happiness but
■ wandering through the walks, he so
*>% missed the music of her voice, aud
light of her suiilo, that the shades
uld not satisfy his yearnings, and he
! u!d turn from them only to find the par-
urfull uf the same radient remcmherances,
K.t void ol all comfort to his present heart
icings.
Hiram walked those grounds, and trod
Cose hallswith !ar different emotions. For
Winthrop it was.
S it the loss of lover’s assurance’
~iat disquieted his heart, buttwasthe endu-
anee of absence, while for him the days
•sets, and years, of absence, could have
Hen bravely, gladly endured; only had
~e blessed assurance been still his only,
tad the dreary vista of the coming days,
s »d weeks and years been gladdened with
He stuile that once illumined his heart.
But no such smile lit up his path, and
He beautiful flowers were all ‘astless, the
pictures were viled and the books were
kllcd. A week they had passed in the
nachelor establishment, and the monoto-
Mos life b^gan to grow unbearable. Hi
nt said. ’
Winthrop let us runup to Walnut Hill
;> ihy. and spend a few days on tho plan-
tattou. 1 am heartily sick of this place,
“1 of this life; why even the bitiog sting
1 \ iola’s wit is better than the monotony
' this bachelor den.’
■\nd what pray under the whole canopy
'fheaven can be better than the bright
wdmerry flashingof Viola’s wit,’ saidWin-
mtup with a delighted glow lighting up
’’’ heart aud his fhce.
’bit to you nothing even the jingling of
Sl " er lolls, would be harsh music to your
“! s compared with the tinkling of her
laughed Hiram.
Vcd in truth it would be harsher than the
’'leaking of a Maine Saw Mill file, and
I cr than the misanthropic ice into which
. au | SlJ tty to see your better nature freez-
ln ?' he answered.
Dram’s smiiad for the praises of Viola
tre ; grateful to his brotherly heart.
’>erv noli T ^
chat!
er )’ well, I am glad to see you so
, me d, only be sure and not let the
-taper of distance deaden its sound,’he
: «ud.
fear that, I would part with my
,,.. a j'c.sooner than with the musical joyous-
’ii I* 1 V° ,a ’ S .’ l0Te ^ '“throp answered with
his {■ 01 ' 1 ' s P rou< * heart flashing up in
tram replied not, and after a moment
II
"jMhrop spoke again.
DI : Ter fo'tl you how much I was
Knstace ’ Jour °'^ tweet-heart Miss
bonding hKSf 1 painCd el P ression ‘
ttlmi I* 0 . answere< l in a half curious, half
‘ ii nt tone-
T «v | P° a nd her, and her excellent mother
Kustaoo arestln Si an d the beauty of Miss
-.was superb; the most royal beauty
‘One point must still be greatly dark,
The reason why they do it,’
Winthrop said with an earnestness indi
cative uf how much he sympathised with his
friend.
‘Yes, and it seems upon that point, Miss
Eustace is content to let me indulge any
speculation that I may please, only that I
do pot ttouhle her lor an explanation,’
Hiram answered bitterly.
‘Well, I am sorry Lavender; both for
you and Miss Eustace,’ kindly answered
Wiuthrop, but the kindly words had bet
ter been left unsaid as in the sorrows of
the heart, any sympathy of a third party is
never grateful. Men prefer to bury their
own crushing disappointments, rather than
have the profane words of another to touch,
even if they would divide it.
‘Iam glad that your own wealth of love,
and hope, and joy, enables you to be thus
liberal with your sympathy,’ he answered,
in a tone of cold politeness.
Winthrop felt the coldness, and softly
replied.
‘Do nut mistake mo Lavender; I did not
wish to intrude my sympathy upon you or
to idly touch the saerod sorrows of your
heart. My own joy is full, but it is not
its overflowings, that, softens my feelings
towards you. Had I never known the
delicious power of love myself, I would
still feel for you in your desolation
The kindly tone more, than the kindly
words went to the heart of Hiram, and he
said as beheld out his hand,
‘Forgive me Robert, I did not mean
:o wrong you. The matter is one that
almoBt distracts me, and I beg that yon
will never allude to it again. It was to
escape theaccurscd remembranec of Emma
that X hasten from home, from my sick
mother, aDd you must not recall it. Help
me to forget her, aDd all that she has been
to me.
Winthrop eagerly clasped the extended
hand, and said,
No, I will not mention her again, only
my dear Hiram, it does seem selfish in me
to be so happy myself without reaching
out my sympathy to you.’
I appreciate your sympathies, and rejoice
in your happiness.’ Only be happy Robert,
and be assured that the reflex of your
happiness, and Viola’s happiness will be my
own sweetest enjoyment,’ Hiram answered.
The trip to Walnut Hill plantation was
a pleasant one. The broad acres cove ed
with rich pastures, Indian corn, and the
broad leaves of tobacco presented a novel
and pleasing sight to the eye of Winthrop.
The frrendly and glad eagerness with which
the negroes crowded around the young, and
new master, each receiving from him a
kindly word, and a suitable present, was a
grateful sight to any one. Winthrop
thought, if this be slavery it is far in
advance of the Factory Freedom, of New
England. Tho neat and cleanly quarters,
were visited, and every where the prudent
system of Mr. Green, the overseer, was
visible and apparent.
Lavender,’ said Winthrop, after they
had returned from a ride over the waving
fields, ‘this is indeed grand—No lord or
nobleman in Europe, should feel a nobler
pride in contemplatiug his domains, than
you may feel in the enjoyment of this.’
Yes, said Hiram,’‘it is suggestive of
proud and nobie thoughts, but they are
coupled with a sense of grave responsi
bilities. There are one hundred bnman
beings upon this plantation. I am, as you
are aware not used to such possessions, aud
I must confess that the dazzle of its gracd-
eure is greatly diminished by a sense of
its responsibilities.’
‘That is all true, and yet those people
seem to love you as if you had been their
master and tlicir guardian always,’ said
Winthrop.
Yes, they are a confiding race and the
least kindly approach is always met with
a perfect friendliness.,
‘You have other plantations,’ asked
Winthrop, after a few moments silence.
‘Yes, I have two others; the one equally
as large, and the other much larger.
The Roanoke plantation, mother reserves
for herself. The Waverly is mine, and
this one we intend for Viola.’
Winthrop started with surprise. His first
emotions was one of pain, but as be saw
the brotherly tenderness that beamed from
the eyes of his friend, he could not regret
the gift.
‘It is a magnificient kindness,’ he said.
‘It is only what she deserves,’ answered
Hiram. To her father I am not only in
debted for tho opportunities that I have had
for study, or for social position, bnt for the
restoration of these estates as well, he
took me by the hand, while a poor
friendless boy, and without any hope of
reward carried me to his own house, and
made me one of his family, placed me at
school, continued me at college, and at his
own expense entered me at Harvard. All
these services, I think cheaply repaid by
this plantation. But it can never be re
paid. I only wish that no such debt of
obligation confused the gilt I have made
to Viola, and that she could accept it as
the grateful offering of a brothers love.
‘Oh, I know that her generons heart will
accept it upon no other condition,’ answered
Winthrop.
Yes U know that and that thought
makes the offering all the more grateful.
‘Does Viola know of yonr intentions,’
asked Winthrop. ‘No, neither does her
father.’ The deeds are already executed
by my mother and myself, and we intend
this as a bridal present, so yon must he
careful, Winthrop, not let her suspect it,
Hiram answered
‘Yes but you have completely upset
the romance of my wooing, my beautiful,
my peerless, my penniless bride,’ said Win
throp.
‘Oh, no, not your wooing, the beautiful,
the peerless, the penniless maiden, it was
that you wooed, and such unselfish devotion
onght to be rewarded by a dowered Iride,’
answered Hiram with a langh. .
‘And the wealth of all the Indies could
not make her more peerless in my sight,’
said Winthrop, from the very bottom,of his
heart.
‘I well know that,’ replied Hiram, for
all the wealth of all the Indies could not
weigh a feather against the parity, the
gladness of her heart, and the charm of
her beauty,’ answered Hiram, with an
enthusiam scarcely less warm than Wiu-
throp’s.
‘Oh, she is an angel and that is all ofit,
said Winthrop.
A few days were spent, npon the planta
tion when they returned to Norfolk, when
a few more were consumed by Hiram in
attending to his affairs, and thenthefriends
embarked lor Stonington, to spend the
remainder of the vacation amid its social
hospitalities.
Mrs. Winthrop was delighted with the
snnbrowned cheeks of her handsome son,
and held him to her heart, as if he had
just returned from the burning sands of the
Sahara.
‘Oh Robert, I do believe that yonr
southern trip has improved you, I never be
fore saw your face so full of smiles aud your
eye so joycus,’ she said as she released him
from her arms and gazed with a mothers
fondness in his face. She little knew of
the beautiful light that beamed within.
‘But you Mr. Lavender, I do not think
that yon are looking nearly so well as you
were wheu you went away. She continued,
turning to Hiram, and shaking his hand
with a motherly grasp. Bnt she little knew
of the cat kering worm that was knawing at
his heart.
Winthrop protested that the trip had
been one of boundless hapincss to him and
Hiram gratefuly assured her that it waj
only the fatigue of travel, that had dimmed
the lustre of his health.
‘Well you must have a day er two of
quite and rest, and Ihope that oar fresh
sea air will soon restore you,’ the good lady
said.
A day or two of quite repose was had,
and the rndy glow of health did again fix
its seat upon Hiram's cheek, and Mrs.
Winthrop watched their coming with a
real pleasure.
Letters from home came, one to Hiram
from his mother, reliving his mind from
its lingering anxiety, and assuring him of
his restored health.
One came to Winthrop, bnt who it was
from, or what it said, we leave the reader
to guess, only that it was a pretty missive,
faultless lines, well rounded letters, and fall
of nil manner of flowers and pretty things.
Winthrop kissed it a dozen times, and then
he went straight to his mothers room, and
telling her to sit down close to him, he
read the letter to her, and then he told her
what a prize, an angel, a joy, a bliss, he
had found away down among the green
hills of South Carolina.
'Oh mother, I cannot begin to paint her
angelio beauty, here is her face, bnt the
picture is not a good one, it is horid and I
can hardly endure it, only it does look a
little like Yiola. And he uncovered a little
em of an ambrotype and displayed a face
so sweet, and so pretty, that Mrs. Wiu-
throps swimingeyes were ready to start
with delighted surprise.
‘And mother, she is the sweetest little
creature in all the world, so fall of life, so
merry, singing all the day like a happy
bird, and yet her heart is tender, and
strong and trne, the shallow ripples are all
in her eyes, her heart is an ocoan of love,
of tenderness, and of feeling, and then
mother, she is so brave, and so sensible,
and when the emergency comes she can
be so earnest, and she is accomplished, sing
ing like a mocking-bird, plays like an—
What more Winthrop said we know not
as the manuscript is lost, and theremainder
of this chapter will have to be conjectured
Editor Courier.
Beauties of the Ku-Klux Law.
The proclamation of Gen. Grant, declar
ing the authorities of.South Carolina un
able to protect the people in their rights,
is probably only preliminary to the act of
plamqg the State under martial law, with a
series of wholesale arrests, nodir the pro-
virions of the Ku-Klux bill. The weignt
of evidence is entirely against the supposi
tion that there is any necessity for this
action. Indeed, only a few days ago Gov.
Scott, in a conversation with a correspond
ent of the Charleston Neut, unequivocally
said that he^ was opposed to auy declara
tion of martial law, as he believed the en
forcement of civil law to be the only prop
er policy, and that under the administra
tion of civil law only oonld the liberties oi
the people be preserved. But for his own
selfish ends Gen. Grant wishes it to be be-
The Power op Heat—Nothing Fire
Proof.—A letter from Chicago to the New
York Herald contains these extraordinary
statements:
Scattered all over the devasted part of
the city are the sorrowful wrecks of what
were popularly believed to be fireproof
buildings, in most instances they were com
posed of brick and stone walls, with iron
jirders, stringers, joists, etc., and their own
ers fondly prided themselves, like the build
ers of Babylon, on possessing a sure refuge
and bulwark against one of the devouring
elements—fire. In many instances, Iesi.
than twenty minutes sufficed to transpose
them from stately edifices or pallaces, into
pitiful masses and piles of crumbled brick
and stone and warped and blackened iron.
This configuration has abundantly provent
that stone buildings are but a trifle more
to be trusted than wooden ones, and tha
notliiog known to modern architecture pos
sesses so much power to resist intense heat
as brick cemented with well tempered mor
tar. Out of dozens especially examined not
one stooc vault seemed perfect, bnt many
brick ones were almost wholly unhurt.
Miles upon miles of curbstones ate thor
oughly calcined and reduced to lime, in
asmnch, that although eight inches in
thickness, they can be broken off by the
band and actually crumbled into small
fragments by the fingers.
The area horned over, is over two thous
and acres. The number of buildings burn
ed is not below twenty thousand. The
number of lives lost is believed to be at
least two hundred. There are abont one
hundred thousand persons in need of relief.
Tni Chillicothe (Ohio) Register contains a
“notice to the wives of intemperate men,”
asking them to leave the names of their hus
bands with the Secretary of tho Liquor Dea
lers’ Association, aad promising that no
liquor shall be sold to those so reported.
The dealers take this method to protect them
selves from prosecution under the State law
giving damages to the wives of men who buy
liquor.
Frencii Pickle.—Take one peck of
green tomatoes cut in thin shoes. Take a
layer ol tomatoes aad sprinkle salt npon it
and so on alternately nntil the whole peek
is disposed of. Let them remain in this
condition over night, and in the morning,
squeeze them outjdry. Then take two heads
of slongh' cabbage cct up fine, one doxen
large green peppers cat fine, one fourth of
a peck of chopped onions; then add one
half a pound of mustard, one half a pound
of white mustard, one pound of sugar, two
ounces of allspice and cloves whole: two
ounces of celery seed; mis all together and
cover with vinegar and boil two honrs.—
Cultivator.
A Frenchman has invented a lamp wick
that will bnrn five years.
The Democrats elaim 40,000 majority
in Texas. ‘Rah for Texas.
The Sontb Americans quake at the pros
pect of another earthquake.
A meat packing firm in Maine will pnt
np 150 oxen in tin cans this season.
The yacht race for the Douglas cup, at
Newport, was won by the Dreadnanght
beating the Palmer. Madge and Wanderer.
A Philadelphia paper says that one-half
of the servant girls in that city are drunk
ards.
anarchy ;and by availing himself ofthe des
potic powers which have been conferred
upon him by unconstitutional legislation,
he expects to mislead the public in regard
to the situation in the South. It is possi
ble teat the success of the anti-GraDt par
ty in the recent municipal election in
Charleston may have had some influence
in indneiug him to issue his proclamation
at this time.
It is evident that the alleged outrages in
South Carolina which have been the pre
text for Giant’s assumption of dictatorial
powers are either fictitious or have been
greatly exaggerated for political effect.
For instance taking a few of the most
prominent examples, an investigation of
the facts leads to carious results. In New
berry it was charged that a colored preach
er named Ben Hare was diabolically mur
dered by the Ku-Klnx for being black and
a Republican. His murderers have been
arrested, and they prove to be three ne
groes, all Republicans. One McClure in
Chester county was said to be another
murdered victim of the Ku-Klux. His
own father-in-law, who is charged with
other infairons crimes, is now in jail
awaiting his trial for this murdir. It was
charged that the Ku-Klux murdered Lew
is Thompson, another colured preacher,
whose body was seen in Broad river. In
vestigation showed that Thompson’s con
gregation objected to his preaching, and
that as they were unable to silence
him otherwise they u is posed of their pas
tor as people sometimes dispose of super
fluous kittens. A colored woman named
Coleman was bnrned in Fairfield county,
and the murder was laid to the Ku-Klux.
It has been found that the murderers were
negroes. An outrage alleged to have been
perpetrated in Edgefield county is proved
to have been entirely imaginary. In Sum
ter county it was reported that a man had
been terribly whipped because he was a
Republican; it tarns oat that he was only
remonstrated with by a committee of citi
zens for baying stolen cotton in the seed
from negroos. Yet all these esses have
been published far and near as evidences
of the deadly hostility of the people of
South Carolina to the national Govern
ment.
A case which has just occurred in Mis
sissippi affords a curious illnstratiou of the
way in which Kn-KInx outrages can be
manufactured, and also of the iniquitous
manner in which ignorant or corrupt offi
cials may misuse the power which partisan
legislation has conferred npon them. In
Neshoba county two dames named Robert
son and Barfield had a dispute regarding
the possession of certain articles of apparel.
Daring the discussion one of the ladies
droped the brash wherewith she was wont
to perform the delicate operation of “dip
ping,” and when she stooped to pick up
that indispensable article, her opponent
basely took advantage of her attitude to
pitch into her, to her great personal in
convenience. A suit before a Justice for
assault followed, in the course of which
fifteen neighbors swore that Mrs. Bar
field’s character for truth and varacity was
so bad that they wonld not believe her an
der oath. Enraged at this, Mrs Bar
field went with her complaints to United
States Commissioner Simon Jones, who is
sued a warrant of arrest against the fifteen
witnesses on the charge that they had
banded together for the purpose of pr •-
venting one Sarah Barfield from obtaining
her rights by civil law, and for the pur
pose of breaking up the Federal Govern
ments.” United States troops were called
upon to make these arrests, and the fifteen
citizens were actually matched from their
homes under .military guard to Jackson,
where they were thrown into jail to await
trial for a high-banded attempt to over
throw the Government of the United
States 1
It will be seen how easy it i9 to find a
pretext for making arrests under the Kn-
Klnx law. It is cot necessary for a per
son to commit a crime or even a misde
meanor in order to find himself in prison
on an accusation which may or may not be
pressed against him. And what is now do
ing in tho South may yet be dune in the
North under the provisions of the same
law, which authorises Grant to proclaim
himself an absolnte dictator at his own
discretion whenever and wheresoever
within the United States he may see fit to
do to. In fact, there is nothing to pre
vent onr ambitions President from hereaf
ter instituting the same arbitrary meas
ures against men who may be suspected of
belonging to Groely clnbs that are now
condneted with his sanction against those
who, with or without reason, are accused
of affiliation with the Kn-Klnx.—N. 7.
Sun.
Communicated.
The Great Fires in tbe West.
Secretary Boutwell Disgusted.
We stand appalled at the record of the
Chicago fire, and tbe scarcely less fearful ac
counts of the devastating fires which are
sweeping the woods, and prairies of Slichi- servlce
gan, and Wisconsin, and which have spread
over hundreds of square miles, laid in ruins,
mills, granarecs, lumber, and whole farms,
including the dwellings and houses; and
engulfed in its pathway of flame, whole vil
lages as well, and Alas! Numbers of hu
man beings, who have been unable to es
cape from its fnry.
Our hearts are thrilled with horror, as we
read of parties gathering in buildings for
protection from the raging element, which
proved to be no protection, and compelled to
remain there, and be literally roasted alive;
and others rushing in swarms to the rivers
lakes, and ponds, and plnnging in, prefering
drowning to the awful flame. Our thoughts
revert to the time when these same people
Iieved that South Carolina is in a state ofJ : veat ‘ h ~ n S J h °“ r land with tbetorch
in their hands, to wreak vengeance upon the
women and children, whose husbands and
fathers were away confronting the horde of
soldiers, poured down upon ns for onr subju
gation and the pitiless and demonical fury,
with which they burned farms, homes, and
towns; cities, and the hallowed temples of
our God. To this suffering people, in this
the day of their trial, while God’s vengeance
is upon them, the keenest element of their
sotrow must arise from the rememberance of
their wrongc to others, which has thus called
upon them the retributive justice of Heaven.
The loss by the Chicago fire is estimated unly
by hundreds of millions, while our losses at
their hands, had they been computed must
have counted l>y billions.
The City of Chicago, which a New York
paper says: “wis built largely daring the
paper money inflation consequent upon the
Rebellion,” and which refused aid to our
beggared and starving people, after them
selves reducing us to that point, has been the
first to feel the sword <JF vengeance. Still
the loss falls not alone on the inmidiate
community scourged by the flame, hut the
wail of distress echoes back from the pock
ets of those in the great metropolis of this
country who exercise controlling influence
in her monetary affairs. The panic it caused
in the Stock Exchange, and produce Ex
changes of New Y ork City, is discrihed as
being almost unequalled. The Mercantile
and Banking interest of that city, also will
suffer. Railway Stock will feci it, and the
vast anounccd Insurance corporations in the
North and West, are trembling to their very
center.
While man for bis individual crimes, must
answer as an individual to his Maker; only
at the last grnnd assize, in the presence of
an assembled world; the sins of governments
and communities, are visited upon govern
ments and communities in this world.
Every careful student ot History, will admit
that this has been the experience of man,
from the day when God’s chosen people of
fended him, as a people in the wilderness
until this day. Surely no more striking ex
hibition of it has ever been shown than this
recent terrible calamity. Scnex.
Secretary I5outwell(-.8 a gentleman re
cently from Washington informs us) is the
most disgusted official in the Government
He is not please! with some of
the mO't conspicuous of his subordinates,
bnt he canuot help himself. He can neith
er reform them, white wash them, nor re
move them He complains of them in a
querulous tone to tbe Prwident. bnt ihe
chief is pathetic; he receives tbe appeal
coldly, and smoks On complacently, and the
objectionable iucnmbents of good places are
left to stick. Then his foreign ncgocia-
tions of bonds has muddled his ligures.
He announced that he had placed tbe re
mainder of the hundred million loan, and
the delivery of the bonds commenced.
When the first of the month came, how
should he makeup his debt statement? If
he added the bonds handed over to tbe
ryndic ite to his issues, then the volume of
the debt was increased, and this tbe law
forbade. If he made tbe proper allowance
for interest, then* tbe bonds were sold at
from 2} to 3 per cent, below par, and this
was forbidden. So he says that he has
sold the bonds, and the syndicate Say that
they hav; bought th.-m. and deliveries
from their hands prove that there has been
an is3ne on some terms, bat the official
debt statement recognizes ndne of those
tiansactions. either in the iocrcase of the
bonded debt or the receipt of the cash
equivalent. Then again, it issaidthat this
bad management here, aDd the equally bad
manipulation of affairs in London by the
two Treasury agents, who really «have a
branch Treasury Department there, have so
embarrassed the syjdicate that even
with all their pluck, energy and smartness
they have not made the thing go as they
expected, and may have yet to throw part
of tho bonds back on his hands. We think
Mr. Bontwell’s disgust is not so unreason
able; we share it ourselves, and most of ear
readers are suffering from the same experi
ence.—Front the iY. Y. Journal of Com
merce.
THE TROUBLE AT SALT LAKE.
What the Mormons Say About it.
Dress and Health.
Cheap Ice House.
A writer in the Country Gentleman tells
how he makes a cheap ice house so that
ioe may be kept with very lit’le expense.
He says:.
Throw down a dozen or two old rails or
poles on a piece of ground sufficiently in
clined to carry off water, fill the crevices
between the poles with sawdust, cover with
old boards, slabs or bark, get from the saw
mill a few loads of slabs, take fonr, say
twelve feet long, notch the corners like a
log home, set them on the platform and
yon have a crib about ten and a half feet
square by the width of the slab deep; fill
this crib with sawdust and pack it down
hard. Cnt yonr ioe so that it will pack
close and eight feet square; lay it on the
sawdust, put on another crib of slabs and
fill up and pack hard with sawdust all
around, and so go on nntil yon get up six
or right feet; then put a foot and a hall
of sawdust on top; over this pnt a shed
roof of slabs, one en d of the slabs nearly to
theioe, raising the other three feet. If
ice ball that b wanted it will keep in
this manner ai wellki in a varnished boose.
Let a fanner onee get into the habit of
keeping ioe and he-will soon find a way to
make something better than a crib to keep
it in, and I think thb cheap plan will be
apt to get him started.
The tight waists, the low necks to dres
ses and the high heeled shoesarc most flag
rant abuses and ought not tobelong tolera
ted. We shall not quarrel with the jaunty
hats ot the ladies, for they are indeed pretty
and no harm results from them, as of all
paits-of the body the head needs the least
clothing.
But, to pass to the other extremity, we
have to say that the detestable high heels
to boots and shoes, running as they do
almost to a poiot, are spoiling the gait and
running the ankle joints o** children and
young misses. We are careful to order our
shoemaker to remove such heels from shoes
before permitting them to be brought into
our dwelling.
Heels of moderate height and good
breadth are of great service in elevating the
feet so as to avoid contact with moistearth,
and they also give support and aid firmness
to the step. Why should fashion push
good devices to absurd extremes? We
most aid in dethroning the tyrant when
her decrees lead to the physical or moral
injury of the race.
The present fashion of leaving the neck
and the npper part of the chest hare is
fraught with evil consequence. It would
be less objectionable in countries uniformly
warm; but that our daughters here iu this
frigid aud changeable climate shou.d con
stantly expose to the chilling winds a vital
part ofthe body is oneofthcevilsof fashion
which should be discountenanced by every
mother and father and brother.
No part of the dress of man is really
more absurd thau the hard ‘stove-pipe’ hat
so generally worn ; aid yet all attempts to
subvert it have proved abortive. Forthirty
years we have worn this kind of head cover
ing, and we like it better than any other;
we have tried hard to like the low, sof. hats
bnt we cannot; and this is the experience
of thousands. Absurd as tbe high, hard
hat is, it does keep the head more comfort
able, it does maintain a more equable tem
perature, it does feel better than any other
form of 1 ead covering. And they serve a
good purpose in brushing cobwebs from the
roofs of old garrets and stables, and also pro
tect ns from bad bumps, and keep ourheads
comfortable.—Journal of Chcmcstry.
Roofs and Shingles.—Twenty years
experience in building has taught us that
extra shaved pine shingles made of latge
timber will ontlast all other kinds. We
stripped a roof covered with this kind, and
on inquiry learned it had been in nse
forty years, and there were no very bad
leaks then. Extra shaved cedar shingles,
are more durable than those of any other
manufacture.
Spruce, il the timber be large and the
saD all taken off will last fifteen or iwenty
years, but shingles made of small spruce
or fir timber with sap on, snch as are im
posed npon the market, ate comparatively
worthless, especially the extras, and espe
cially] so are the poplar, although much de
pends on the condition of the timber when
it is cnt. Some kinds of ash shingles last
well, bnt they warp and crack badly.' I
have used hackmatack shingles, bat never
observed as to their durability. Concern
ing the best pitch of roofs, my observation
has been that the steeper the roof the lon
ger it will last. The fact that shingles
will last much longer on perpendicular
wills than on any pitch of roof is evidence
in favor of steep roofs- Cor. Maine Farmer.
Irving’s Tenderness For Aniiials.
A little incident showing Washington
Irving’s fondness for even the lowest forms
of creation, was told ns by onr host. A
party of gentlemen from town having made
him * morning, call, one of the group,
while loitering on the lawn at Sunny-side
espied a small, striped adder gliding nimbly
away. Persneing it he tried to strike it
with his cane. Mr. Irving quickly ran to
the spot, and picking np the passive rep
tile, stroked it gently with his hand, ex
claiming: “My dear sir, my dear sir, pray
don’t hurt the charming little thing!”
The Poet Campbril declared of Irving
tha* “he had imparted charity to the Eng
lish tongne-” May it also be truly said
of him, as of a beloved brother author,
that he was “very, human indeed?”—Lip-
pineolt'a Magazine.
Foreign Fancy Groceries.—But few
are aware of the immense quantities of
foreign fancy groceries that arc annually
consumed in this conntry. This line of
joods, including pickles, sauces and condi
ments, are shipped principally from Eng
land. The bnlk of them are entered at
New York, and are then sent to all parts
ofthe conntry. There are received here
annually from England alone, from 10,000
to 15,000 tarrels— the pickles, sauces, jel
lies, olives, etc., being put npin bottles
and then packed in barrels for shipment,
in addition to large quantities of French
fruits aad preserves. From LoodoD, and
Doublin, there are shipped to this market
large quantities of ale aod porter, and not-
withs anding the large number of home
breweries, the sale of malt liquors hive
largely inert ased. One ofthe novelties in
this line of foreign goods, is the London
crackers, which just at present are very
popular. During the past year abont three
hundred tons of these fancy crackers made
up in all shapes, sizes and designs, have
been received by steamers from London,
and strange to say, a large quantity of
American flour is consumed in their manu
facture- Western flour now Sads its way
across the water to snpply the English
bakers, and comes back again in the form
of crackers, of which large quantities are
used all through the West. English black
ing also belongs to this trade, aad over
1000 cases are received annually.—N. Y-
Bullelin.
A Beautiful Extract.—“Generation alter
generation,” says a fine writer, “have felt as
we feel now and their lives were as active as
our own. They passed away like a vapor
while Nature wore thesame aspect of beauty
as when her Creator commanded her to be.
The heavens (hall be as bright over our
graves as they are now around our paths.
Tbe world will have the same attractions
for onr offspring yet unborn that she once
had for ourselves, and that she now has for
our children. Yet a little while and all will
have happened. The throbbing heart will
be stilled and wc shall be at rest. Our
funeral will wend its way, and the prayers
will be said, and oar friends will all return,
and we shall be left behind in silence and
darkness for the worm. And it may be for
a short time wc shall be spoken of, but the
things of life will creep in and our names
will soon be forgotten. Days will continue
to move on, and laughter and song will be
heard in the room in which wc bled; and the
eye that mourned for us will be dried and
glistened with joy; and even our children
will cease to think of us, and will not remem
ber to lisp onr names. Then shall we have
become, in the touching language of tho
psalmist, “forgotten and gone out of mind.
About Birds.—M. Figuier, a recent au
thor on natural history, is a staunch advo
cate for birds against the senseless prejudi
ces or greedy desire of their destroyers.
Larks, he declares, unless proteced by leg
islative measures, will soon be extent in
France; and no one, wc think, can have
travelled over the wide cultivated lands of
South Germany without being struck by
the unnatural silence of those sonny plains;
no wonder when song thrushes are restlessly
pursued for their delicate flesh, and even
robins are looked upon as“excclcnt game!”
As to the destructiveness of birds, wc are
told that in the “Palatinate, alter sparrows
were proscribed and exterminated, the in-
haditants were under the necessity of re-im
porting them in order to arrest the savages
of insects, in consequence of this bird’s ab
sence, had multiplied in a frightful manner;”
and that in Norway, where laws were
made for the extermination of rooks’ the
noxious grabs and lav® formerly devoured
by them, and conseqnetly kept in check,
became most formidable iocs to the farmer,
and most difficult to overcome
To Fasten Instruments in Handles
.—A material for fastening knives and
forks into their handles when they become
loosened by nse, is a much needed article.
The best cement for this purpose consists
of one pound of colophony, and eight
ounces of snlphnr, which are to be melted
together and either kept in bars or reduced
to powder. Ons quart of the powder is to
be mixed with halfs quart of iron filings, fine
sand or brick dost, and tbe cavity of the
handle is then filled with this mixture.
The stem of the knife or fork is then to be
heated and inserted into tbe cavity; and
when cold it will be found fixed in its
place with great tenacity.—Engineering
and Mining Journal.
To Preserve Fresh Fish for Sev
eral Days.—Clean them well of scales
and entrails, fill np the cavity with pow
dered charcoal, and keep them in a cool
place; they will by this method retain their
freshness and sweetness ranch longer’ than
when kept in the usual careless way.
Fresh fish, unless kept alive in tanks, as is
now the practice in many places, decay
very rapidly, and should be eaten as soon
as possible after being caught.—Journal
: of Applied Chcmestry.
The Mormons have proved too often and
nnder too many trying circumstances their
devotion to their faith for it to be doubted
now. At present, not only their political
rights, bnt their religion is assaile 1 by offi
cial authority While t%e nation is work
ed upuri with the cr. ol polygamy, that is
bat u 3'iand to cover the real object
Nearly every fundamental principle or tire:r
faith is attacked, not b; calm reason and
scriptural argument, bnt by disgraceful
abase, ribaldry and profanity, sanctioned
and endorsed by official smiles and bland
ishments, while the forces are being mar
shalled to break up tho community as a
religions organization, destroy the leaders
and the people, or scatter them wanderers
aga ; n cn the earth. AH this is aimed at
nnder cover of law, by outrageous and ille
gal judicial ratings and proceedings, by
men who use their positions to annoy and
irifate. and whose hearts overflow with
fanaticism that yearns for the dt strnction of
a people who hive been more temperate in
their exercise of power than any other re.
ligioos 1 ody of whom the world has re
cord.
But from the arbitrary coarse now being
parsaed there is an evident intention on
the part of some of the officials, at least, to
goad the people into desperation, so that
some overt act may be committed that will
give a color for calling npon the Govern
ment for an army to be sent here to chas.
tise them. Wears thankful the people
have been so calm, so temperate, and self-
possessed, tha’ thus far they have not given
the first occasion for such a demand. Bnt
should they be driven to madness by insult
npon lDsnlt, injury piled upon injury, what
would be the result? Should blood be
shed? it would have another and a very
different termination to what many people
think. No men meet death so calmly, so
unflinchingly, as they who believe it opens
for them the portals of eternal bliss.
Docs any sane man think the Mormons
wonld not feel and believe that death in
each a strife would only be martyrdom,
and the port to a martyr’s glory ? And
whether it would take a long or a short
time to exterminato them, for no other
word meets the emergency; tbe consequen
ces to the Territory and all interested in
its welfare would be frightened.
Who desires to see a free people hound
ed to desperation ? Who wishes to see a
community showing industry, enterprise,
intelligence, sobriety, and virtue stripped of
every vestige of their political aud relig
ious rights, because they will not change
their faith at the bidding of a few fanatical
men, who are so blindly besotted with their
folly as to see in the future they desire only
the destruction of the Mormons and the
confiscation of their property? Yet that
this is the object, the programme arranged
and the end to be accomplished, peaceably
or by force of arms, no one who has nar.
rowly watched their course can for a mo
ment doubt. It is nearly time that tbe
conservative men of the Territory, inde
pendent of religion or party, should utter
their protest against a course of action hav
ing snch an object in view. With im
mense wealth being developed on every
side, narrow-minded bigots who desire to
provoke a conflict by any or every means,
should b-- told to halt in their insane ca
reer. The world has traveled the path of
progress loo fast and too far to sustain the
semi-bar barons ideas which demand that free
men should, with craven sonl, fling their
faith at the feet of whilom satraps or place
their conscience and parses in the keeping
of men they cannot trust. For nearly a
century “the sovereignty of the people”
has been an established doctrine in the
United Stares, and the principal has gained
so rapidly through the world that it as too
late in the day to introduce the “sover
eignty of the few” where the other has
prevailed. “Let ns have peace.”—Salt
La/ee Herald.
Hunting Down a Mill cnaire.—The
following story is told by the San Francis
co Chronicle, of Meiggs, the great rail
way prince of Peru, who ran away in debt
from Sau Francisco some years ago:
Mrs. Jossylin is a washer-woman and
works hard for her living. In the palmy
days of Harry Meiggs, she deposited with
him no less an amount than S2,500, and
when Meiggs and her money were gone,
the time in which i woman coni! lay np
so large a sum from the profits of her bu
siness, was gone also. But she washed on
aDd kept her head above water. Some two
or three months ago, she read in the Over
land Monthly, or some other publication, of
how much money the old banker had made
in South America by building Rail Roads
and with a beautiful faith in bnman natnre,
which cannot he too highly recommended,
she embarked on the Panama Steamer, and
wended her way to the sultry Sonth where
Meiggs now holds sway. She sought the
millionaire in the gorgeous residence so
graphically disci ibed in the Overland, and
presented her bank book, and told her
tale. Meiggs listened, and when she had
finished, he banded her a check for the
amount of the deposit, with interest form
the date to the time of payment. She de
parted a wealthier, and a happier woman,
and returned to San Francisco, where she
arrived by the last steamer.
Emboldened hy his successes in the recent
Northern election, and lashed into fury by
the honest repudiation of his thieVqib,cor-
J rupt and tyranical admin.stration in Texas
aDd other Southern States, G rant has let
loose his thunder against our land in the
form of his proclamation against South Car
olina, and trne to their dispicable instincts
bis little creatures, who ever sta n d ready
to reecho malice aad encourage lyrany,
have taken np his cne and are now yelp
ing their approval. The Hew Era, the
Radical slop pot,and the organ and defend
er of thieves, rogues, and liars, and which
owes its very existence to the money its mas
ter has stolen from the tax-payers of Geor
gia, thus pnts oi the air of. a patriot and
seeks by a sanctimonious whine, to justify
the forthcoming fate of onr own State.
We give the article in full that onr peo
ple may see wh .t a viper Bullock has been
holding and fat'enin : in tiic very heart of
our State. Words are lacking to express
oar condemnation of this infam-us slanderer
traitor and liar* Theauthur knows as well
as be knows anything that bis whole argu
ment is false, and every avenneit against
onr people is a wicked, malicious lie. His
ears ought to be crept close to his head,
and he aod his thievish crew lashed from
the land. That this was not done loog
ago, is the best evidence, that no snch com
bination as hose virtuously complains of,
exists. No better proof of a people's pa
tience, and tolerance can be addneed than
that they suffer snch a vile slanderer, not
only to subsist off of their hard earnings,
bnt to slander them as this fellow and his
thievish crew slanders the people of Geor
gia.
In May last when the Executive of Geor
gia issued a Proclamation offering rewards
for the apprehension aDd delivery, with
evidence sufficient for tbe conviction, of
any person or persons, guilty of a species of
crime therein described as peculiar to wbat
is known os the Kn Klnx organization, it
was hoped that the State Courts and Grand
Jurors wonld, by theirvigilance and prompt
discharge of duty, render any Federal in
terference with the police regulations of
tho State unnecessary. The laws of Geor
gia are adequate to the complete and final
suppression of this Kn Klnx lawlessness if
they can only be enforced. But unless en
forced they are of course impotent. It was
with a view to their enfurcement, there
fore, and nothing more, that the Governor
made an earnest appeal to the press and
people of the State, to cease lagging this
species of outrage into politics; but to unite
with all good and true men of all parties in
ferreting out and bringing-to trial before
the State Courts a class of outlaws who
were disgracing the State.
Some arrests were made, the parties
found guilty, and sentenced by the State
Coarts to the penalties nnder onr local
Plain Speaking.—Henry Ward Beech
er said, in a recent discourse: “Think
yon that these six or seven on whom the
New York Times’ axe fell are sinners abovp
all in New York. [Laughter.] I tell yon
cay. It all men that have been guilty of
frauds in New York were to have a tower
fall on them, there would be funerals
enough for fifty years. [Laughter.] 3fen
are thought to be respectable men, when
they have heaped up money by the most
disreputable means in the banks, in brokers’
offices and railways. Is it right in such a com
munity as this to beat down these men as
if they alone were culpable. What have
they done? Stolen? So have yon. Lied?
So have you. False to their oaths? So
are you.” [Laughter.]
JErial Navigation.—The efforts at
demonstrating successfully serial navigation
have been made in closo proximity to this
city, and the inventor, who soon intends to
introduce kis plans to the public, considers
with absolnte certainty his work will be a
success. The plans have been submitted
to scientific men here and elsewhere, and
have certainly awakened an interest, which
is a tribute the demonstrator may regard
as valuable. It is understood that move
ments are on loot to organize a company to
give practical reality to the theory which
has been consummated.— Washington Pa
triot.
Bears are to he found in immense numbers
on the Alaska mainland. They are of feroc
ity of the California animaL It is a fact
that contact with civilisation increases the
ferocity of Brain and his whole tribe.
criminal code. Bnt in some remote sections
of tbe State Grand Jurors failed to report
outrages of a notorious character, aDd the
wrong doers fell into tbe hand9 of the
United States authorities under the pro
visions of the Kn-Klnx and Enforcement
Acts of Congress. In this nay some of
these cases will, we understand, come before
the United States District Conrt, and it is
right and proper that they shonld. If
Grand Jurors and Superior Conrt Judges
fail or refuse, for any reason; to do their
duty, that is no reason why the banditti
should continne to disturb the peace of
society, and pnt all law at open defiance.
Peaceable and law abiding men cannot long
live in a country where masked marauders
can with impunity scour the conntry at the
hoar of midnight, and take the law into
their own hands. In sach a state of society,
the life and property of no man is safe. All
good meD arc therefore personally interested
in the suppression of this Kn-Klnx villainy;
and if this cannot be done by State authority,
then, rather than that the disorders shonld
continue, no law abiding citizen, be his
political opinions whatsoever they may, will
raise objection to the suppression of this
lawlessness by the stroDg arm of the-Nati
onal Government.
In his charge to the Grand Jury yester
day morning, United States District Judge
Erskine read certain clauses of *the acts of
Congress bearing npon this subject; and, in
the most impressive and earnest manner,
pointed out to the jurors their imperative
duty nnder tbe provisions of those acts, and
the obligations of the solemn oath they had
taken. He took the precantion to state
that, with the question as to whether the
acts were constitutional, they, as Grand
Jurors, bad nothing whatever to do. It
was their duty simply to find true bills
against any and all persons guilty of offences
under those enactments; and that, when che
cases came to be argued by connsel, the
question of constitutionality could be passed
npon by the Court, whore scle province it
was to decide thb question. On the question
of the validity of the Enforcement Act, he
had no donbts whatever; it was the intention
of Congress to carry into effect, by appro
priate legislation, the XIV Amendment of
the Constitution, and thb it had done by
the Act ofApril20, 1871, commonly known
as the Enforcement Law. He cantioned
the Grand Jorors to divest their minds of
all prejudice, to find tree bills against no
man upon mere probable cause, or to allots
no man to escape the coDseqncnces of his
own misdeeds where the evidence of his
complicity with these gangs of outlaws was
established.
There is much more involved in the sup
pression of this outlawry than most persons,
at first glance, are apt to think. Snppose
it should turn ont that the law Courts,
State and Federal, shonld be unable to put
down tbb disgraceful species of brigandism,
wbat follows? Must lawlessness continne?
In that care/.he imtinclsof self-preservation
will prompt men to form counter organiza
tions, and to oppose force by force, jost as
has been the case in Mexico and some of
the Sonth American states for years. This
pnt ns nnder a government ofthe mob, and
supplants tbe Courts with the partisan junta.
What peaceable and law abiding man de
sires to live in snch a comnnity as that? Is
it not evident that snch a state of affairs
wonld soon reduce ns to a state of pure
barbarism? And yet this mnst be the in-
evitable result, unless that most dangerous
of all expedients, martial law, is restored
to. Martial law b fully anthorixe! by the
acts of Congress as a last resort, when both
State and Federal Courts fail to restore
order; and property holders will always
welcome martial law rather than endure
anarchy. It may indeed destroy Liberty,
bnt it will preserve Civilisation; and when
men are thus forced to a choice between
the two, they will never hesitate to accept
the loss of civil liberty rather than the los3
of both liberty and civilization.
The much-talked of overthrow of the
famous column in the Place Yendorse docs
not seem to have involved any serious de
struction of property. A competent archi
tect estimates the cost of its restoration,
precisely as it stood before, at a trifle over
$50,000. Thb appears incredible. But
tiie prostration of the column only injured
ten of the two hundred and seventy-four
bronze plates of which its exterior was com
posed—and these require bnt comparatively
slight repairs. A few bars of the balus
trade and some pieces of the capital have
disappeared, hot these can be easily re
placed. . .• |
If a prond man makes me keep my _ dis
tance, the comfort b that he keeps bb at
the same time.