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IL1 :
| The Illions Legislature offers a re-
rard of 810,000 for a reliable curs for
lie hog cholera.
We would rat er see Hampton Pres
ident than almost any Northern Dem-
ecrat we know of.—A'noxiiUe Chronicle,
Ufownlov's Pay ft.
Somebody has figured out that the
|family of Queen Victoria has been paid
,ver one hundred millions of dollars
| die last forty years.
The .St. Petersburg Bourse Cnzcltc
declares that war is inevitable. The sit-
nation is such that retreat is impossi-
| hie for either party.
We don’t know that Judge Davis is
la remarkably filled man. yet we doubt
|if there be any one living who can
‘•fill i,q place” or. the Supreme bench.
We were glad to meet in the city last
undav Murray of the Chattanooga
limes. He is an ix-ltomamte, and re-
: il many a cordial hand-shake from
old friends. Come again.
Under the inspiration of the l’-'esi-
jlent’s order withdrawing tiie trcop.s
from the State House at Columbia,
south Carolina bond? advanced thiee
|)er cent, in \\ all street.
Notwithstanding a statement to the
{sontrary, the Deiiville Noes itisists that
Chamberlain will be appointed Minis
ter to Sweden. For this assertion it
:laims to have the most reliable infor
mation.
■‘All hell can't take the State from
IS/'—Cmiwhrrhihi to "Honest Zarh," in
|1W< ml,re.
No ; nor would it if it could. \\ hv
should “all hell” wish to remove its
Dwn ftom ] on r ?
Why is Dwinell. of the Rome Cocuikk
like a well organized choir ? Because
he has a good l’.ass accompaniment.
[ Griffin Sun.
It may he considered impossible for
l,nnJ-light<r to add brilliancy
Sto the Son, hut there’s a Hanleiter in
jriffin that can do it.
Moses was a civil engineer. Hesur-
jpeyed the j.r< rui.-t ■! land.—-Voa- Orleans
piddire.n. No, he was a mining engi-
■er. He viewed “the landscape ore.”—
oslon Post. This is Iloreble; he was a
(Vail street engineer. He was a
little hare among the bullrushes.—Note
rl: Herald. No he wasn’t, but he
hade a bigger /rrn/it than any »f those
lellmvs.
According to the Cnirier-.Tounicil, the
physicians of Alexander II.Stephens say
"Hat he will never leave his room alive.
Mr. Stephens' latest interview was with
Senator Gordon, and he emphatically de
clared that what the South most needed
|gs home rule, entire deliverance from the
Harpet-bsggeis and the withdrawal of the
Kroops of mice. And thus the mind of
.Speorgia’s dying Statesman still holds its
Own, and blazes a path through the dark
fut are fur his country. God grant that
it may walk therein.
J THU I VCOMI VC. COTTON CHOP.
H The Colton Croud, of the 2bth, Jinst.
says :
f The most reliable data give 75,000
Sales as still remaining on the 2Sth of
Biarch on tilantations and points out-
aide of the interior towns, to which we j
3dd their stock oflbT.W. and we have
■32.000 yet to receive, which would!
Blake the total at the ports 1,1 Go. I ll
Slab's ; tlie-c- arc outside figures, so that
Milder no circumstances can the total
^£rop he over -1,400,0(10 bales.
The New Yolk Time. has found out
ives the benefit of its discovery to
he world, that Georgia has robbed ‘■in-
locent purchasers” of 87,000,000 of
lends by repudiation. The remarkable
llessing to the people of this country
suiting from this discovery is evidenced
the fact that hereafter any State may
Jreatly enhance the value of its bonds
the simple process of repudiation,
r Georgia, having repudiated the above
mount of bonds, her securities now sell
III Wall street at 1001 to 110.
In this connection, we would suggest
the Times that it might benefit its
uhscribers by occasionally citing nota-
liistorical characters as models for
people to mould thc-ir lives by. For
bstance, there is that much abused and
badly misunderstood gentleman, Mr.
Judas Iscariot, who with the laudable
active of providing for his family,
mule a splendid stragetic movement once,
pd got twenty pieces of silver for it,
fchicli so intoxicated him with happiness,
hat he went out and hanged himself
: very joy. “Innocent Purchasers,” in-
eed 1 Faugh !
M. DWINELL, PROPPvIETOR.
“WISDOM, JUSTICE AND MODERATION.”.
TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM..
VOLUME XXXI.
ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 18, 1877.
NEW SERIES-NO. 33
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H. Stephen’s Opinion of the
Cabinet.
Dr. J. P. Van Epps, of Cleveland,
)hio, the popular education man, had
an interview with Alexander 11. Ste
phens to-day and published the con-
[vexsation. He said: “Mr. Stephens, do
you not think the President has been
[very fortunate in the selection of his
Cabinet ? Have we not, in any emer
gency that may arise involving the
^principles of civil and religious liberty,
| safe umpire in such men as Evarts
| r ‘d Thompson?” Mr. Stephens re
plied : “i think the President has an
ijcellent Cabinet. The gentlemen to
whom you allude I know very well
nd believe them to be able and true
ud educational advisers. Please say
Secretary Thompson I would be
Had to renew the acquaintance of forty
[ears ago. That golden-headed, black
falnut cane he presented to me I have
sed over thirty years,”
J, WEST INTERESTING NEWS.
Synopsis of Telegrams.
The news from the East is unfavorable
to peace. The war feeling increasing.
The United States troops marched out
of the State House at Columbia day be-
fore yesterday at noon.
It can be stated on authority that the
President made no promise whatever
to Chamberlain as a condition of his
abdication.
Chamberlain in an address to Re-
publicans of South Carolina concludes
thus : I now announce to you and to
the people of the State, that I shall no
longer actively assert my right to the
office of Governor of South Carolina.
In reply to a note from Hampton
requesting that he turn over to him the
Executive Chamber, records, &c.—
Chamberlain replied that he would
end his private Secretary to meet any
iffieer from Hampton yesterday, at the
Executive Chamber, for the purpose of
complying with Hampton s request.
Columbia, S. C. April 10, 3:30 P. M.
To Gen. John IF{Gordon, Washington,
]>. V. : ,
Perfect peace prevails. 1 he troops
ire withdrawn and Chamberlain sur-
eiiders. South Carolina thanks you.
Wade Hampton.
On Thursday the Louisiana Commis
sion divided, one part holding a con
ference with Packard and the other
with Nicholls. The Commission has
been busy with delegations and indi
viduals, but have made no known pro-
ess.
The Post speaking of the meaning of
the Turkish circular, says: “In a word,
the Ottoman Government is prepared
to face the peril of a war rather than
ubmit beforehand.to terms which it
considers could only be imposed upon
a vanquished nation after great rever
ses in the field.”
It is believed at the \\ bite House
that the Commission will simply re
port on the siuation, without any reco-
mendation. The impression is general
in high quarters that it will require a
heavy re-enforcement of troops in Lou
isiana to sustain Packard. The troops
cannot be spared.
The number of lives known to have
been lost at the burning of the Southern
'Hotel. St. Louis, is eleven. It is feared
some 2-5 more bodies may be found.
Kate Claxton, the actress, had sufficient
presence of mind to wrap her face and
head with wetted towels, and walked
and rolled down stairs. Except having
a few bruises she is safe. The building
was six stories high. The inmates of
the upper stories must have perished
The New England Methodist Con
ference at Brston, having learned that
“Wm. H. Scott, an aged and respected
minister of the South Carolina Confer
ence, has been shot to death without
provocation, while peaceably leavin
his church, on the close of an evening
service”requests their Bishop to inquire
into the facts and bring them to the
face of the ei,tire church, that it may
take such action thereon as the neceisi-
ties of the case require.
Senator Patterson, from South Car
olina, in a Constitutional harangue
against Hayes for removing the troops
and on matters in his State, thus lets
the valuable political cat out of the
hag:
“You see,” resumed Patterson, “That
Cainhoy massacre was a God send for
us. I tell you. if it hadn’t been for
that massacre, we should have lost
Charleston county, and Hayes could
not have carried the State.”
There are in New Orleans 33 ot the 30
Senators, and 104 of the 120 Represen
tatives, whose election is not disputed by
either party. The Commission labored
four hours day before yesterday, urgiug
that a consolidated legislature ot these
members, whose election is not disputed,
he organized. The business men were,
however, immovable. They said that,
rather than run the risk of having to
endure Packard as Governor they would
resist with arms, so as to make a mil
itary government necessary. This ends
this compromise plan.
Political Notes.
Mr. Packard seems bent on provok
ing an insurrection of the national
stomach.—N. F: Tribune, Ilep.
If Mr. Hayes was as great as Julius
Ca sar, he would still find it hard to
develop a policy which would satisfy
the country, for the people elected an
other man to be their President.—X. I.
San, Dem.
The Democratic part}' has devoted it
self not alone to working for the desti
ny of four millions of negroes pitch-
forked from slavery into political pow
er, but to working for the destiny also
of eight millons of white people bayon
eted from freedom into political slave
ry and social ruin.—A T . 1. World, Dan.
People go to hear Beecher because
they “like his pluck.” Northern papers
praise Packard because they “like his
pluck.” Doubtless much of the' pre
judice against Mr. Iscarict and other
notable persons that we read of is sole
ly due to the lack of this element of
“pluck” in their otherwise pleasant
characters.— Courier-Journal.
We insist that, despite his peculiari
ties and occasional display of airiness,
Wade Hampton has on the whole so
conducted himself the past few months
as to merit the respect of all fair-mind
ed men, and is certainly entitled to
the confidence of the intelligence of the
nation rather than to its prejudgment
and condemnation.—Boston Journal,
Rep.
Lee’s Confession.
In the confession of Lee, lef: to be
published after his death, he gives the
following description of his efforts to
save the emigrants:
After the first attack on the train had
terminated, the emigrants hoisted
white flag in the midst of their corral.
Friday afternoon four wagons drove up
with armed men. When they saw the
white flag in the corral they hoisted
one also, but drove where we were and
and took refreshments, alter which a
council meeting was called, of presi
dents, bishops ond other church offi
cers and members of the high council,
societies of high priests, etc. Major
John M. Higbee presided as chairman.
Several of the dignitaries bowed in
prayer, and invoked the aid of the
Holy spirit to prepare their minds and
guide them to do right and carry out
the counsels of their leaders. Higbee
said that President F. C. Haight had
been to Parowan to confer with Colonel
Dame, and their counsel and orders
were that this camp must be used up.
I replied, “men, women and ehildren?”
“All,” said he, “except such as are too
young to tell tales, and if the Indians
cannot do ii without help, we must
help them.” I commenced pleading
for the company and I said, though
some of them have behaved badly .they
have been pretty well chastised. My
policy would he to draw oil' the In
dians,let them have portion of the loose
cattle, and withdraw with them under
promise that they would not molest
the company any more. That the
company would then have teams
enough to take them to California. I
told him that this course could not
bring us into trouble. Higbee said :
“White men have interposed and these
emigrants know it. There lies the
danger in letting them go.” Ira Allen, (
counsellor, and Robert Wiley and oth
ers spoke, reproving me sharply for
trying to dictate to the priesthood, that
it would set at naught all authority;
that he would not give the life of one
of our brethren for a thousand such
persons. “If we let them go,” he con
tinued, “they will raise h—1 in Cali
fornia, and the result will be that our
wives and children will have to be
butchered, and ourselves too, and they
are no better to die than ours, and I am
surprised to hear brother Lee talk as he
does, as he has always been considered
one of the staunchest in the church.
Now he is the first to shrink from du
ty.” I said: “Brethren, the Lord
must harden my heart before I can do
such a thing.” Allen said: “It is not
wicked to obey counsel.” At this
juncture I withdrew, walked off' some
fifty paces and prostrated myselt on
the ground and wept in bitter anguish
o: my soul and asked the Lord to
avert that evil. While in that situation
Counsellor C. Hopkins, a near friend of
mine, came to me and said : “Brother
Lee, come, get up and don’t draw off
from the priestli od. You ought not
to do so. You are only endangering
your own life by standing out. You
can’t help it. If this is wrong the blame
won’t rest on you.” I said : “Charley,
this is the worst move this people ever
made; I feel it.” He said: “Come, go
back, aud let them haye their way.”
I went back, weeping like a child, and
took my place and tried to be silent,
and was until Higbee said the emi
grants must be decoyed out through in
tended friendship. I could no long
er hold my peace. Said I: “Joseph
Smith said that God hated a traitor,
and so do I. Before I would be traitor
I would rather take men and go to that
camp, and tell them they must die,
and defend themselves, and give them
a show for their lives, that would be
more honorable than to betray them
like Indians.” Here I got another re
proof and was ordered to hold my
peace. It having been agreed upon to
decoy them out under a flag of truce,
Higbee called me out to go and inform
them of the conditions, and if they ac
cepted, Dan McFarland, brother to John
McFarland, a lawyer, who acted as
aid-dp-camp, would bring back word
and two wagons would be sent for the
fire-arms, children, clothing, etc. I
obeyed, and the terms proposed were
accepted, but not without distrust. I
had as little to say as possible. I sat
down on the ground in the corral near
where some men were engaged in pay
ing the last respects to some person who
had just died of wounds. A large,
fleshy old lady came to me twice and
talked while I sat there. She related
their troubles, said that seven of their
number were killed and forty-seven
wounded on the first attack ; that sev
eral had died since. When all was
ready, Samuel McMurdy, counsellor to
Bishop P. K. Smith [Klingen Smith],
drove out on the lead. His wagon had
seventeen children, clothing and arms
in it. Samuel Knight drove the other
team with five wounded men and one
boy about fourteen years old.
I walked behind the front wagon to
direct the horse and to shun being in the
heat of the slaughter, but this I kept to
myself.- When we got turned fairly to
the east, I motioned to McMurdy to steer
north across the valley. I at the same
time told the women who were next to
the wagon to follow up the road up to
the troops, which they did. Instead of
saying to McMurdy not to drive so fast,
as he swore on my trial, I said to the con
trary to drive on, as my aim was to get
out of sight before the firing commenced,
which we did. We were about half a
mile ahead of the company when we
heard the first firing. We had driven
over a ridge of rolling ground and down
on a low flat. The firing was simultane
ous along the whole line. The moment
the firing commenced, McMurdy halted
aud tied his lines across the wood of the
wagon box, stepped down coolly with his
double-barreled shot gun, walked back to
Knight’s wagon, who had the wounded
men, and was about twenty feet in the
rear. As he raised his piece he said,
“Lord, my God, receive their spirits, for
it is for the kingdom of Heaven’s sake
that we do this.” He fired and killed
two men. Samuel Knight had a muzzle
loading rifle and he shot three shots and
killed three men. Then he struck the
wounded boy on the head, who fell dead.
In the meantime I drew a five-shooter
from my belt, which accidentally went
off, cutting across McMurdy’s buckskin
pants in front. He said: “Brother Lee,
you are excited, take things cool; you
was near killing me; look where the ball
cut.” At this moment I heard the scream
of a child. I looked up and saw an In
dian having a little boy by the hair of
the head dragging him out of the hind
end of the wagon, with a knife in his
hand, getting ready to cut his throat. I
sprang for the Indian with revolver in
hand, and shouted: “Ariel: ooma eat too
sooet,” (stop you fool.) The child was
terror-stricken. His chin was bleeding.
I supposed it was the cut of the knife, but
afterwards learned that it was done on
the wagon-box as the Indian yanked the
boy down by the hair of his head. I had
no sooner rescued this child than another
Indian seized a little girl by the hair.
I rescued her as soon as I could speak.
I told the Indians that they must not
hurt the children; that I would die
before they shonld be hurt; that we
would buy the children of them. Before
this time the Indians had rushed up
around the wagon in quest of blood, and
dispatched the two runaway wounded
men. In justice to iny statement, I
would say that, if my shooter had not
prematurely exploded, I would have
had a hand in dispatching the five woun
ded. I had lost control of myself, and
scarcely knew what I was about. I saw
an Indian pursue a little girl who was
fleeing. He caught-her about one hun
dred feet from the wagon and plunged
his knife through her. I said to McMurdy
that he had better drive the childre,
Hamblin’s ranch and give them some
nourishment.
The concluding portion of the confes
sion relates to the quarrel of Dame and
Haight, as to the responsibility for the
massacre and Lee’s mission to Brigham
Young, which has been already pub
lished.
Personal Jottings-
Wheeler is a widower.
Nicholls has a handsome face.
“Anybody can write a book.”—U. S.
Grant.
Tilton made $30,000 lecturing last
year. Beecher netted $15,000. We
have not heard what poor Elizabeth’s
share was. Probably nothing.
John O. Breckinridge, son of the
late Vice-President, will be married on
the 10th ol April to Miss Louisa, second
daughter of Lloyd Tevis, the well
known capitalist of San Francisco.
This inscription has been put on a
Connecticut tombstone: “Here lies
the body of Jonathan Richardson, who
never sacrificed his reason at the altar
of Superstition's god, and who never
believed Jonah swallowed a whale.”
Dr. Muhlenberg, recently dead, wa3
author of “I Would Not Live Alway, I
Ask Not to Stay.” His age was eighty-
one. The World says, editorially, re
garding him: There is no citizen of
New York, of any creed or calling, who
should not pause from his busy life a
moment to-day to pay a tribute of re-
Bpect and gratitude to the simple and
noble character of the venerable man
who yesterday passed away from
among us.
Georgiacs.
It is stilted that a new daily newspa
per is to be started in Atlanta by Col.
P. W. Alexander.
One of our exchanges says that Geor
gia has framed and adopted six Con
stitutions and now needs another.
It is reported on the streets of Atlanta
that Ben Hill will soon open a. law office
in Washington and spend a large part
of his time there.
The State Road has commenced to
lay steel rails south of Etowah, which
will soon make this road among the
best in tiie South.
The best reason for not supporting a
certain candidate is that given by a
poor Georgia editor, who says he has
as much as. lie can do to support him
self.—[Exchange.
The Atlanta Constitution gets off this
ood one : “The probabilities are that
Chamberlain will be a mere cypher in
South Carolina. The New York Herald
ought to send a correspondent, armed
with an elephant gun to discover the
sources of the nihil.”
One of the oldest and wealthiest citi
zens of Dade country, who was once
a rider in John Robinson’s circus,'died
there last week, aged seventy years.
At the time of his death he was, and
had been for some years, a preacher.
Somebody ought to have cut the
straps of the editor of the Fort Valley
Mirror. Thursday night of last week.
He was too happy to roost on this plan
et. Hear him describe a serenade on
that night: “The sweet, mellow notes
of the guitar mingled with the symph-
onious cadences of a dozen happy voi
ces, filled the circumambient air with
wavelets of sweet sounds as pleasant to
the ear as strange music reverberating
in the lonely halls of some antiquated
grotto; wafting one’s soul for the nonce
from the corroding cares and troubles
of life to Elyeian fields of happiness.”
A contributor to the Dalton Citizen
says : On the 5th day of this month,
Maj. T. II. Pitner, of this neighborhood
gave a birthday dinner to his uncles
and aunts—members of theMcGaughy
family. The guests, for whom the din
ner was given, so remarkable in age,
health aud vitality, that the reunion
was one of uncommon interest. The
record is: Wm. McGaugby, aged 78
years, and lady 75 years; Samuel Mc-
Gaughy, aged 75 years, and lady; Rob
ert McGaugby, aged 70 years, and lady;
Mrs. Tarah McG. Pitner, aged 75 years,
widow; Mrs. Margaret McG. Norton,
aged 72 years; Mrs. Jane McG. Brooker,
aged G8 years; Mrs. Lavina McG. Var-
nell, aged GO years; Henry Brooker, Sr.,
aged SI years; M. P. Varnell, aged 72
years; and other than immediate fam
ily—Mrs. M. Mitchell, cousin of Maj.
P., aged 74 years; Mrs- M. Fagala, aged
63 years; Mrs. Jane Cooksey, aged 60
years; also Mrs. Dr. Wells, and our be
loved pastor, Rev. W. G. Hanson and
his estimable lady, made up our pleas
ant though rather unique party.
Lincohn’s Joke on “Little Alec.”
President Grant has been telling Sen
ator Gorden this story, which is not the
worse for having been told before:
“When the three Commissioners met
us at Fortress Monroe, Mr. Stephens
came swaddled up from top to toe in
an enormous overcoat Lincoln called
me aside as Stephens was disrobing
and observed, “Grant, what does that
perormance of Stepheci’ remind you
of?” I answered, ‘Mr. President, I do
not know. Bnt what does it remind
you of?’ With one of his queer winks
Lincoln said, ‘It reminds me of the big
gest shuck off of the smallest ear I ever
saw in my life.’”
Diablerie in New York.
The Separation of the Soul from the Body.
New Yoik World.]
Mme. Blavatsky is a Russian Coun
tess, who now lives on Eighth avenue
in this city, and is corresponding secre
tary of the Theosophical Society—the
same which conducted the cremation
of the late Baron de Palm. She has
spent some thirty years of her life in
Oriental countries, and, a mystic by na
ture, has embraced the Buddhic faith
A profound scholar and a remorseless
critic, she is fearless in her attacks on
what she holds to be error, wherever
it is found. The reporter had called
to learn about magic.
“But of the actual operation of magic
—the working of wonders—what have
you seen ?”
“What have I seen ? Look there!”
And Mme. Blavatsky pointed to a win
dow—not the one with a blue-glas36ash
but another.
The reporter looked, aqd promptly
dropped his pipe. Across the window
was passing a shadow. .That of itself
was not remarkable; but the shadow
was not cast from the inside, and there
were certain reasons why it seemed
impossible that it could have been cast
from the outside. It was a clear, dark
night The only lights visible outside
the windows were the streets gas-lights,
the stars and a few night lights of other
keepers of late hours besides the party
in ’Mme. Bavatskys room. None of
these lights could ty any possibility
cast the shadow that was seen, as no
single one was brighter or nearer than
many others, and the shadow was as
distinct as if cast by the noonday run
Then again, the shadow—if it was real
ly a shadow—must have been cast by a
body very near the window, for it was
the exact profile image of a man, not
distorted or disproportionate in any
parcticular, and exactly life-size. And
another reason why it must hav6 been
cast by a body near the window lies in
the fact that it was a seconi-story win
dow, and there was no place nearer
than the width of Eighth avenue where
the body could have been, excepting
a ledge below the window, about eigh
teen inches wide. And the reporter
will make affidavit that no solid body
passed along that ledge when the
shadow passed across the window.
Of the six persons who sat in the
room.one besides the reporter was a
skeptic. All looked carefully- All
saw the shadow, and four asserted and
two admitted the fact detailed as show
ing the strange character of the appari
tion.
“Col. Olcott,” said Mme. Blavatsky
after the examination had been made,
“please pull dowe the curtain.” Col.
Olcott complied, and Mme. Blavatsky
left the room, leaving the company in
siler t and not altogether ‘ comfortable
expectancy.
When she returned she was asked,
“Whatwas that?”
‘.‘It was a friend of mine, an adept
who lives on the Mediterranean, and
who is this moment at home. You
will hear his music-box in a few min
utes.”
“Do you mean that it was really he,
and that he has returned to the Medit
erranean already ?”
“I do. It was his astral body. He
comes here frequently and generally ap
pears inside the room. I don’t know
why he did not come in here to-night
unless it was because you were here.
I went into the next room and spoke
with him. Listen! Do you bear mu
sic?”
The reporter did not, and for a full
minute all was silent Then there
came the sound of a music-box play
ing an unfamiliar air.
“It is a very old box,” said Mme.
Blayatsky, “ and I wish it played more
than two old tunes. They set’ me al
most wild at times, do these two tunes.'’
“But is that the sound of a music-
box that is playing on the shores of
the Mediterranean?”
“It is. You carry sound by -..means
of the telephone. All that is necessary
to do this is to establish the current.
We can do that without a wire. But
this is nothing unusual. You will see
and hear many such things if you
come often to this house. And you
may read of far more wonderful things
in the books of travel in the East I
have seen a man throw a large ball of
cord into the air which unwound as it
ascended, one end being fastened to
the ground. As the hall unwound it
disappeared in the clouds and the cord
remained stationary. In a few mo
ments the man sent a little boy up this
cord, pretending that it was to find out
what held the other end up. The boy
went up aud up, till he was lost to
sight. And he stayed np so long that
the man pretended to become enraged,
and climbed up after him with a drawn
sword in his hand, and he, too, disap
peared from sight. And presently
down fell a bloody foot, and then an
other, then a leg, and then different
pieces of the boy, all bleeding. We
dipped our handkerchiefs in the blood
to see if it was really blood, and it
was. At last the boy’s head fell down,
and presntly the man climbed down,
all bloody, and still simulating rage.
He collected the fragment of the boy
that lay around and threw them in a
heap on the ground. Then he threw a
cloth over the pieces, and the boy in
stantly jumped up, alive and welL
The man and the boy were entirely
naked, and the trick, if it was a trick,
as you will say it was, was done on' an
open plain, out of doors. I say it was
actually done. There were hundreds
of spectators. That is the kind of
things that Eastern magicians do.”
“But why is it, if such tbiDgs are
true, aud not tricks, that we of the
Western countries do not know more
of them ? Are we not as intelligent as
those of the East?”
“Our. Western civilization is young
yet,” replied the occult, “andj as I have
said, the mind of the Caucasian is not
as well adapted to the perception of
snbtle truths. But there are many Eu
ropeans who are Teal adepts, and there
are quite a number of persoos in New
York who are studying occultism.
Some of them only study it philosoph
ically, but some are practicing it
There is one who has several times ac
complished the separation of his astral
body from his physical body, though
only for a few moments. Bnt 1 can
make all this much clearer to yon after
a time by showing yon a copy of the
book I am writing—•‘The Veil of Isis’
—than I can do in conversation.”
A Terrible Experience.
William Maguire, the only survivor
of a crew of nine men and three pas
sengers who sailed in the brig Roanoke,
from Philadelphia, os the 17th of
March, for Kingston, Jamaica, and who
was rescued in the midst of a gale by
the crew of the schooner Addie Todd,
of Boston, arrived at that port yeeter-
day. He says that the Roanoke was
thrown on her beam-ends, on the 19tb
of March, the sea sweeping over her. Af
ter describing unsuccessful efforts ‘to
relieve the vessel, Maguire continues
his story as follows:
“On Tuesday,the 19th, it was blowing
a gale from the southward. At 9 A. M.
a two-masted schooner saw us, but she
continued os her course and left ns.
We got a little preserved food that day
and some lager beer.. Next evening
there was a heavy sea. Thursday, the
21st, came in with a heavy gale ftom
the northwest, the seas breaking over
the vessel clean fore and aft, causing
her to be break up. The Captain wished
to take to the boat, but was pursuaded"
not to. In the afternoon, Mr. and Mrs,
Dallett, of Philadelphia, two of the
passengers, shook bands with Captain
Dehlman and the mate, bid all hands
good-bye, and said they hoped they
would meet in heaven. Mr. Dallett then
took his wife’s water-proofand wrapped
it around her head. They embraced
one another, and then threw themselves
into the water, and were locked fast
in each other’s arms when the sea
drifted them off. A Spanish gentleman
the other passenger, then said his pray
ers, wrapped a quilt around his head
and drowned himself.
“The Captain, steward, one sailor and
a boy drifted away on the after deck.
The stem went next, and the two mates
with it The mate was drowned along
side. There was now two men with
myself left. We were lashed to the
stump of the mainmast. A brig passed
close to us, but did not take any no
tice of us. We got some tallow to
eat, but we suffered very much from
thirst In the morning we saw a bark
about a miie away, but she did not
take any notice of us. In the after
noon it moderated, and we got some
more -tallow to eat, bnt our thirst was
fearful. Saturday wqs a fine day.
Got some candhs and a tin of sar
dines, no water. Sunday it was blow
ing a gale from the southeast. One
man went crazy with thirst, and
drowned hirnself. I got a candle to
eat, but our thirst was fearful. At day
light the next Wednesday saw a schoon
er, Addie Todd, which rescued me; my
companion went crazy while the schoon
er- was near us, aDd drowned himself.”
Endorsed by Wm. H. Vander-
bill-
om the El!« Journ ii.]
One of our townsmen being in New
York recently, had occasion to visit one
of the city banks. A gentleman entered
the bank, and with a nervous air push
ed.forward to thejprincipal officer’s desk,
where he presented a note for a heavy
amount and desired to have it discount
ed. The bank officer took the paper
examined it, and nointing to the name
on tne back, said. „That name, sir, is
not good here; we can’t take that paper.”
“Then,” said the other. “I am ruined
—ruined!” With a hurried glance at
the bystander, the man was about to
withdraw the worthless note, but an
other gentleman who had been engaged
close by, and who had evidently obser
ved what was going on, quietly put forth
his hand, took the rejected paper, scru
tinized it, and then having taken a good
look at the man who had presented it,
lifted a pen from the desk, and deliber
ately wrote under the previous endor
sement “Wm. H. Vanderbilt.” The
action was accompianed by the simple
words. “I guess that’ll go.” Then the
seventy-five milionaire—for he it was
—turned hastily away and went about
his own business. Henceforth, for him,
at least the name of Vandetbilt will
mean something more than railanads,
stocks, and bonds.
Bomance From Real Life.
Miss Cora Dickson, a young girl of
22, arrived in Paris the other day from
South America. At 15, tired of the
monotony of home, she ran away from
her father’s house with a large sum of
money. She cut her hair short and
donned a boy’s garb. After becoming
in succession a cabin boy. a clerk and
a horse dealer, she turned up in Buenos
Ayres, where she entered the army,
still disguised. She distinguished her
self in the service, and became a colo
nel. Some months ago, at a meeting of
officers, she quarrelled with one of
those present A duel followed, and
she killed her adversary. On examin
ing the dead man’s papers, she found
she had killed her oldest brother, who
had left home when she was two years
of age. Horror-stricken, she threw
herself at the bishop’s feet, who prom
ised to intercede with her father.
What Governor Tilden Says.
A New York dispatch to the Phila-
deldhia Times says that gentlemen ful
ly in the confidence of Governor Til
den, and fresh from an interview with
him, aver that the institution of legal
proceedings to oust President Hayes
has been strongly advocated by David
Dudley Field, and freely discussed by
the friends of Mr. Tilden, but that Mr.
Tilden himself has never thought of
such a thing. Mr. Tilden said to-dar
that he had never, directly, advised
such proceedings or encourage it He
says in fo many words that an attempt
t question Mr. Hayes’ right, in view of
the present situation, would be an as
sault upon the tranqiiity of the coun
try, _ .
Florida’s Electoral Vote.—It may
have slipped the memory of some of
onr readers that at the time when the
Electoral vote of Florida was cast for
Hayes, legal proceedings were pending
to prevent it The Circuit Courts had
decided against the Hayes Electors,
and an appeal to the Supreme Court
was pending. The Supreme Court will
soon have the case ud before it, and
aarties are preparing for the trial. It
is stated that a delegation of Florida
Radicals waited on Hayes the other
(fay to ask whether he wanted counsel
employed to defend the case, and that
he referred them to the Republican
National Committee. Itistobehoped
iy of the j-thatthe Democrats will proseeufe the
case to a decision on its merits if
possible.—Columbus Times.
Walked from Georgia.
The Baltimore Sun’s Washington
correspondent, under date of Thursday
last, writes as follows:
Among the callers on the President
to-day was an old man who lives near
Savannah, Ga. He told the President
that there was a great deal of illicit dis
tilling in his section, and that the men
who owned the distilleries suspected
him of giving information to the In
ternal Reyenue officers, and that for
several months they had been trying to
kn-klnx him, and that just before he
left his home they fired at him, wound
ing one of his children. The President
told him that he should have informed
the authorities of his treatment instead
of coming all the way to Washington.
The old man told the President that
he had walked every foot of the way
starting from his home on tiie third
Saturday in February, arriving here
yesterday. The President gave him a
note addressed to the United States
Marshal at Atlanta, requesting him to
investigate the case. As he was leav
ing the Exective, office Mr. Rodgers,
the President’s private secretary, hand
ed him a five dollar note. The old
man, who was attired in a butternut
suit, had a canteen and haversack hung
on his side. He also carried an army
blanket and a large umbrella. In case
he cannot get transportation from the
Treasury Department he mil have to
walk all the way back,"which will take
him about forty days. " He will leave
here to-morrow.
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Remarkable Phenomenon.
From the Hew Orleans Picayune.
Two miles south-west of Milnebuxg,
and about half a mile from Lake Pont-
chartrain. there occurred on Friday
night a most wonderful phenomenon.
The earth for about thirty acres became
suddenly depressed, sinking fnlly thir
ty feet, and trees on the margin tum
bled into the chasm. When there, on
Saturday evening, a very distinct rum
bling noise could be heard at intervals,
whilst in the center of the cave flashes
ef light sprang np to the height of fif
teen or twenty feet. A sulphurous
odor is so strong on the margin of the
chasm that it is approached with diffi
culty, and is perceptible at the distance
of a mile from the Bpot Wherefore is
this, and what does it mean? I am a
seafaring man, and have recently noti
ced a change in the Gulf Stream. It
sets in with a powerful current through
the Chandeleur Islands, Mississippi
Sound, Lake Borgne and by the Rigo-
lets into Pontchartrain.
Can it be, by some sudden convul
sion in the internal structure of the
earth, that a vaennm has been created
so near—into which the waters of the
Atlantic are now running—threatening
an earthquake ? The subject is worth
the attention of scientific men better
able than the writer to explain this
very straege phenomenon, to which I
merely call attention.
John Rugby,
Captain Brig Ajax.
How a City Absconded.
Baxter Springs, a small place in
South eastern Kansas, has few people
but great expectations. People were to
come to it in thousands, and the citizens
wanted their “metropolis” fitted up in
a manner worthy its future importance.
But there was even less money in tfie
place than people. However, some
“benevolent, public-spirited” capitalists
were found ready to advance money,
and for a year indulged themselves in
genuine mnnicipal extravagance. The
feast was ready, bnt the expected thou
sands failed to appear. Meanwhile,
the interest had to be paid, for the
much-praised, “public-spirited” capi
talists would ha7e money. Another
year and the interest was unpaid, and
there was no money in the Treasury,
The bondholders brought suit and ob
tained judgment, but Baxter Springs
appealed. These rapacious robbers
must be foiled at any cost A happy
thought came. The citizens were not
individually responsible except while
they continued residents of Baxter
Springs. So they selected a convenient
site just outside of the city limits,
moved their personal effects and what
buildings they could, and migrated in
a body. Baxter Spings remains a de
serted city, and the first one to become
runaway debtor.—Nashville American.
The Fun Loving Bostonians.
The fact is that these Bostonians
have always been like othermcn, mirth
ful and enthusiastic, bnt nobody has
known bow to rouse them. It takes
protoplasm, bioplasm, and all that sort
of thing, to awaken them. Let Wes
tern ministers of oratorical ambition,
who contemplate visiting the modem
Athens, make a note of tiiis. Give the
Hubites no ordinary humor, approach
them with no common arguments, bnt
int it to them thus: “True morpho-
ogical units, without cell-wall or pri
mordial utricle, but endowed with bio-
plasmic entity and protoplasmic lon
gevity, filled with the glowing possi-
nlities of agamogenesis, clad in nucle
ated shell aggregated by the eternal
affinity of morphological units, sancti
fied by fission and gemmation, glori
fied by molecular attraction, and born
in Boston, shall alone inherit life ever
lasting.” Such a sentence as that will
clean the buttons off a Beacon street
burgher’s vest quicker than lightning.
It will knock nis skepticism into flin-
dersin a minute, and cause him to bel
low for salvation as the ox loweth for
its master’s crib.—Chicago Tribune.
The Came of Oakey Hall's Sad*
den Flight.
Special to tfce Journal of Commerca.]
New York, April 6.—A World special
from London says that Oakey Hall’s
flight was plainly caused by the ever re
curring spectre of his alleged complicity
in the ring frauds. The perpetual re vivid
of these charges made life intolerable to
him till he came to think death better
than to be thus constantly hannted. He
said that he wished to be considered dead
by his friends and to be forgotten. He
is very greatly depressed, and seems to
have no care for the future. The World
correspondent does not believe any woman
had part in his flight, or that any per
son Derides himself was cognizant ef his
purpose in leaving New York ,or is in any
way connected with HalF presence fa
London.
Jain and Jill
Vent on a bill
To got a keg of lagtr;
Jako aUibbed bia hib,
Und loosed bia grib,
Und Jill her dumpled after.
High, doodle, (lee lie,
Dem dog ns4 dot feedle,
Dermoonjnmbed oferder o «;
Dor prindle sow howL-d, _
Und der busy cad crowled,
Und der abpoon ran away mit hie fran.
A lazy fellow lying down on the
grass, said, “Oh, how I do wish that •
this was called work and well paid
for!” —
A shoemaker has one great advant
age over most kinds of mechanics—
his goods, whenever finished, are al
ways soVd.
A live tnrkey would seem to be'com
paratively less noisy than a dead one,
for one makes only a din, and the other
a dinner.
“I have turned many a woman’s
head,” boasted a young nobleman of
France. “Yes,” replied Tallerand,
“away from yon.”
Why is a vain young man like a
confirmed drunkard ? Because neither
of them is satisfied with a moderate
use of the glass.
At a printer’s festival, recently, the
following toast was offered: “Woman,
second only to the press in the dissem
ination of news,”
An old bachelor seeing the words
“families supplied,” over tiie door of a
shop, stepped in and said he wonld
take a wife and two children.
The following “notice” is posted on a
fence in a London Bnbnrb: “Whoever
is found trespassing on these grounds
will be shot acd prosecuted?’
A young lady studying French, and
finding that “belle” meant “fine,” told
somebody in a letter - that we had a
great deal of hello-weather lately.
Why are ladies like watches? Be
cause they have beautiful faces, deli
cate hands, are more admired when
full jeweled and need regulating very
often.
“I say, Nell, do yon know why that
fellow who trod on my toes last night
is like the commander of a regiment?”
She did not know. “Because, he’s a
cur, Nell,” (colonel).
A Wiltshire dame, the mother of a
large family, was once asked the num
ber of her children. “La, me,” she re
plied, rocking herself to and fro, “I’ve
got fourteen, mostly boys and girls.”
A “Scene” in the House Fifty
Years Ago. ‘ /
A large, fine-looking man, of com
manding presence, is the Speaker, and ar
raigned before him, in the custody of the
sergeant-at-arms, is a tall man of more
than six feet and finely proportioned, in
the prime of life, with personal advanta
ges scarcely rivaled by any notable man
of his day. Dressed in faultless style, with
not the least of defiance or swagger, yet
with perfect ease, self-possession and calm
dignity, the culprit stanrs at the bar of
the House awaiting the reprimand which
the House has decreed shall be adminis
tered him by the Speaker. The House
is a study; breathless silence reigns; the
members are looking on in eager interest;
the bearing of the cnlprit makes sympa
thy and everything of the sort impoesi-
Me, while that of the Speaker makes it
difficult in the extreme for some of the
representatives to restrain themselves
from violating the decorum of the House
by langhing outright; the Speaker is by
far the most embarrassed man upon the
scene, suggesting the idea that he is the
one to be punished rather than the one to
administer punishment. In a hesitating,
perturbed manner, he at length tells the
culprit that the House had ordered that
be should be reprimanded before
its bar by its Speaker; and he (the
Speaker) begs him (the culprit) to con
sider himself reprimanded according to
the said order; the culprit bows in a
graceful and dignified, almost lordly
manner, an almost audible smile spreads
over the House, and the scene closes.
The Speaker is Andrew Stevenson, of
Virginia, and the culprit is Sam Houston
A member from Ohio, named Stanberry,
we believe, had accused Houston of de
frauding the government in a transac
tion with an Indian tribe upon the Tenn
essee border; the latter had demanded
an investigation, hot had been unable to
obtain any satisfaction. Smarting nnder
the charge and despairing of legal re
dress, he at last gave the accuser a severe
caning within the precincts of the cap-
itoL Of course the House could not do
otherwise than arraign the caner, and a
reprimand was the least penalty it could
adjudge him.—Potter's Monthly.
Alluring Trent With Whiskey.
Last night ’Squire Meador and Judge
Bonnefield arrived here from Winne-
mucca. the latter on a hunting srd fi h-
ing excursion. When the Judge grave
ly announced that he was p- ug to fish,
everybody looked incredu! us, for the
river i3 high and the water muddy. The
Judge, however, prepared l.is bait, put
his hooks and lines in order, and this
morning started to the river. A ben* 9
o’clock be made bis appearance with
eight of the finest trout I ever saw. This
surprised even the Piutes. His hooks
and lines were examined, and foond to
be of the ordinary kind, but the bait
had a peculiar smell, and upon investi
gation it was found to be nothing more
nor less than pieces of beef soaked in a
mixture of sugar, whisky and port wine.
The news spread among the Piutes, and
they are swarming here from all direc
tions and catching many fine trout.
A Cabprt-Bagger’s Simile.—The
carpet-bag element here is exceedingly
distressed at the prospect that they will
soon be abandoned by the Administra
tion at Washington. “Tim” Hurley,
one of the most active among the white
leaders of the negro party, said to me
to-night: “We are like a tin pan tied to
a dog’s tail. We make a devil of a noise,
Lut tiie Republican dog is now jump
ing over a fence, and he will shake bs
off and be glad to be rid of us.—Charles
ton litter in New York Tribune.
The Courier-Journal remarks that the
Detroit Free Press urges that great need
of the country is a return to “the bon-
►t and trustworthy shade of the blue
cotton umbrella;” but, alas, somebody
has stolen it
