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EPIDEMICS.
The world was startled recently by the
Intelligence that a destructive epidemic had
broken out in Russia—that a large number
of persons had died of the disease in St.
Petersburg, and that it had reached portions
of Eastern Germany. It had created some
alarm iu other parts of the continent of Eu
rope. Iu England the Foreign Minister had
been interrogated on the subject, who had
directed the English Envoy at St. Petersburg,
Mr. Buchanan, to make inquiries, the result
of which was not known at the last accounts
from that country.
It will be seen that some alarm ha 9 been
excited iu New York on the subject. An
order has been issued by the collector of the
port of New York to the boarding officer
and inspectors of customs to report the ar
rival of any vessel or passenger from any
cuspected place that is thought to be infected.
The legislature of the State of New York
has been called to amend its quarantine laws
by Dr. Sayre, the resident Physician, so as
to secure the city and State against the in
troduction of a pestilence that is said to be
now raging in Europe.
The last visitation of a general epidemic
was the Asiatic cholera, which disappeared
about twenty years since. We have bad
frequent epidemics since, but they have been
confined to particular latitudes, such as the
yellow fever, and others of a still more local
and partial character; but a general epidemic,
such as the Asiatic cholera, excites alarm in
proportion to its diffusion aud fatality.
It mu9t have struck all who have recorded
the history of disease that general epidemics
have diminished in frequency and magni
tude since the spreadot civilization. The
progress of medical science, the improvement
in the laws of hygiene, in the various modes
of their application, have extended the aver
age duration of human iife. The conse
quence has been the less frequency and fatal
ity of destructive epidemics. We would re
call to the memory of the reader some of
those epidemics which have, at different pe
riods, desolated the earth, showing that these
Vis.Utions have diminished with the pro
gress of civilization. •
Caa of the earliest of the plagues of whloh
profane history gives an account is that re
corded by Thucydides, iu the second year of
the Peloponnesian war, which overran Ethio
pia, Lydia, Egypt, Judea, Phosnecia, Syria,
the whole Roman and Persian empires,
Greece and the Athenian States, and which
continued to rage for fifteen years, and is said
to have been the first Kuiversal plague;
Upon the ruin of Carthage a pestilence
broke out spreading over all Africa, and ia al
leged to have destroyed eight hundred thous
and. There is doubtless some exaggeration
in these figure?, but their very magnitude
shows the destructiveness of the pestilence.
Two years before the birth of Christ a pesti
lence spread all over Italy, and raged with
such fury that few remained to till the
ground.
Since the commencement of the Christian
era, and embracing the middle ages, severe
plagues have raged in England,Scotland and
Wales, sometimes almost depopulating the
principal cities of those kidgdoms. In the
second year of Claudius, the Roman Em
peror, Bo fearfully did the pestilence rage in
England, that the living were scarcely able
to bury' the dead.
Iu the year 180, in the reign of Commodus,
and during the persecution of the Christians
In the Romau Empire, a pestilence spread
over all Italy, Greece, and almost all the Ro
man Empire. In the city of Rome alone
there were, far a considerable tims together,
twenty thousand burled a day. In the year
£56 a pestilence raged in Ethiopia so univer
sally that it wa9 impossible to calculate the
number of tbe dead. In the year 811, dur
ing the persecutions under Maximilian, a
pestilence raged that cut off from the army
of that monftrch Jive thousand a day.
In the year 544 a universal pestilence pre
vailed at Peluscum iu Egypt, and thence
spreading over nearly tbe whole woild,
sparing neither age nor sex, family nor coun
try. Iu the second year of its fury it visited
Constantinople with such violence that, for a
considerable time together, jive and some
times ten thousond and upwards died daily.
In dii* part of the world or another it con
tinued Jiffy-lido years. In 717, a pestilence
agaiu visited Constantinople, and, is said, to
have cut off in three years three hundred thou
sand soule.
SAVANNAH, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1865.
I In 823, in the reign of Louis the Pius, a
plague destroyed almost all the inhabitants
of France and Germany. In 1346 a plague
broke out in Asia, that overspread and wasted
the inhabited earth. In the year 1348 the
same plague raged in England nine years,
and in Loudon alone, from January Ist to
July Ist, destroyed one million give hundred
and seventy-three thousand.
In the year 1611 a pestilence again visited
Constantinople, and destroyed two hundred
thousand in five monttis, and still later, in the
year 1665, during the destructive fire, which,
it is affirmed, arrested it, the great plague in
Loudon occurred, which bad raged the year
before iu Egypt, Greece, Germany, Holland,
and which destroyed iu that city in a single
year ninety-seven thousand.
Iu the year 1720, in the city of Marseilles,
from tho 25th of August to the end of Sep
tember one thousand were swept off in a day,
and in our own times, during the year 1831,
the plague raged so violently in Bagdad, that
the city waa almost desolated.
The great general Epidemic of our day,
the Asiatic cholera, is too recent to need de
scription.
Accordiugto the testimony of contem
porary writers, the plague of 1348, in France,
waa attended by several unusual meteoric ap
pearances, and during the same period there
were dreadful earthquakes and other convul
sions of nature. Superstitious fears no doubt
exaggerated many of the appearances by
which these visitations were accompanied.
The same spirit of exaggeration no doubt
magnified the numbers destroyed. It is re
corded in a report made to the Pope at Avig
non that before the pestilence invaded Chris
tendom, it had swept away twenty-three mil
lions three hundred thousand persons through
out the East, in the course of a single year.
Making every allowance for exaggeration,
there can be no rational doubt that epidemics
were more general in their character and
destructive in their effects in ancient than in
modern times.
Another conclusion is forced on the mind,
that the East has been the birth place of the
most devastating epidemics, seeming to af
ford evidence of the fact that the populous
neas of the Eastern world, the cradle of man
kind, as it has been called, is favorable to
the generation and spread of these sweeping
epidemics.
What the Supreme being in his wise provi
dence designs by this extermination of so large
a number of the species, we shall never
know. That in the order of that Providence
it is part and parcel of his general laws for
the good of mankind must be the conclusion
of every pious mind. Were it not, perhaps,
for the occasional decimation of regions hav
ing a tendency to over populousness, the
earth would not yield sufficient subsistence
for the increasing numbers. It has been
computed that according to the natural law
of increaae, were that law to have its full
play aud operation, there would not be
standing room for the numbers, that would
be brought into the world. %*
Recollections of Pbeiident Lincoln —A
correspondent of tbe Boston Journal gives
an account of a conversation with the late
Presideut, from which it appears that he had
a presentiment that he should not survive
the close of tbe war.. The writer says :
He may not have looked for it from the
hand of au assassin, but he felt sure that his
life would end with the war long ago. He
told me “that he was certain he should not
outlast the rebellion." It was in last July.
As you will remember, there was a dissen
sion then among the Republican leaders.—
Ma ay of bis best friends had deserted him,
and were talking of an opposition con vet tiou
to nominate another candidate ; and univer
sal gloom was among the people.
The North was tired of the war, and sup
posed an honorable peace attainable. Mr.
Lincoln knew it was uot—that any peace at
that time would be disunion. Speaking of
it, he said: “I have faith in the people; they
will not consent to disunion. The danger is,
they are misled. Let them know thf truth,
and the couutry is safe." He looked haggard
and careworn, and further ou in the inter
view I remarked oa his appearance, saying:
“You are wearing yourself out with hard
work.'* “I can’t work less,” he answered;
“but it isn’t that—work never troubled me.
Tilings look badly, aud I cau’t avoid anxie
ty. Personally, 1 care nothing about a re
election ; but if our divisions defeat us, I
fear for the country.” When I suggested
that right must eventually triumph—that I
had never despaired of the result, he said :
‘ Neither haye I, but I may not live to see it.
I feel a presentiment that I shall not outlast
the rebellion. When it is over my work
will be done."
ANkwThbort.— “Brick" Pomeroy, edi
tor of the La Crosse Democrat, is a copper
head ot the rankest breed. In a late article,
*3 apologetic for the assassin of the President
as he dared to make it, he thus discourses:
But we should sooner think his assassina
tion the work of some tool of Ben Butler.—
We do not state this as a fact, but do know
that less unprincipled and less wicked men
than Butler have thus for pay procured the
removal of men who have snubbed them, or
who have stood in some way between tuem
and some coveted position. We do not say
it was Butler, but, if we were Butler, should
expect at least one third of the American
people to think it < t us.
Tbe hotel keepers in New York are reduc
ing their prices of board.
Richabd Cobdun.—England has lost one
of her greatest men, and was mourning her
losa at the very time when we were culled
upon to deplore the sudden dea'h of Presi
dent Lincoln Richard Cobden died, in Lon
don, ou the 2d of April, of bronchial a-thma,
from which he had long suffered. He was
boru at Midhurst, on the 3d of June, 1804.
and under the patronage of a relative he early
became a successful business man, and as
pired to distinction in letters and politics
He wrote as “A Manchester Manutacturpr,”
on Russia and the United States, both of
which countries he visited, and sympathized
.with, as it was natural that a man of pro
gresJve ideas should. He took a prominent
part in effecting those commercial reforms
which England had been engaged in making
for some years, and became ou ;o: the most
effective members of the famous An i-Corn
Law League. He sought an eleCiiou to
Parliament, at Stockport, iu 1837, but un
successfully. He was elected for the same
place in 1814 becoming a member of that
Parliament which was to repeal the Corn
Laws,. though ‘it contained overwhelming
tory majorities.
In that repeal Mr. Cobden had a gvapd
port, so that Sir Robeit Peel could truiy say,
iu respect to the new commercial measures
that had been adopted. "The uume which
.ought to be, aud will be associated with the
success of those measures, is the name of
one, who,"acting, 1 believe, from pure and
disinterested motives, has, with untiring en
ergy, made appeals to our reason, and has
enforced those appeals with an eloquence the
more to be admired because it was unaffect
ed and unadorned ; the name which ought
to be chiefiy associated with those measures
is ttle name of Richard Cobden.” Tbe
English agreed with Sir Robert, and Mr.
Cobden received a solid testimonial of their
regard, and was elected to the Hou-hj of
Commons from tho West Riding of York
shire, which is held to be the greatest Lon <r
an English statesman can receive at the
hauds of the people.
He continued to represent the West Riding
for many years, aud was ever a zealous, an
efficient, and olten successful advocate of
free trade; but be was also opposed to war,
and his course when the Russian tout s.
came about, and into which England “drift
ed, ” made him almost as unpopular as he
had been popular. He was left out of Par
liament in 1857, and did not enter that body
again for some time, but was employed by
Lord Palmerston to negotiate a ue.vc miner
cial arrangement with France, by which ’the
shackles of that most absurd ot all things,
the French protective system, were sensibly
loosened. Mr. Condeu visited America tor
the second time while he was out of Parlia
ment, and saw that gathering of tue c.ouds
which was to break in tue red storm of civil
war. He noted the action of parties here,
and it is said that he o .Cj remarked that
nothing surprised him so much as the bold
ness of the pro-slavery pariy, cZc. pt the
cowardice of tbe other party in yielding to
them. He was to live to sec a limit put to
our submission. v* •
Elected to Parliament Tor Rochdale, Mr.
Cobden might have become a member of the
government formed by Lord Pa.meraron, in
1855, but he declined office. His Career wa>
well nigh run, and he fell a victim to au ill
ness that prevented him doing much in h:e
latter years. When tae Am. ric..n civil war
broke out he was found to be our fast and
firm friend, and nobly and usefully did he
uphold our cause against the aristocracy aud
middle-class snobs of Britain. The last
speech he ever made,—at Rochester, iu No
vember, 1864—was largely devoted to Ame
rican matters; and yet we regret that he
made it, for the exertion and exposure or
that occasion injured him much, and from
their effect be never lairly rallied. He
thought himself so much better latterly, how
ever, that he went up to London, meaning
to speak in the Housj of Comrnus, ou ttic
Canadian question; but he was forced to
take to his bed on his arrival iu me metrop
olis, and he left it but tor his grave.
The anouncement of his and ath caused a
strong sensation throughout England, and iu
the House of Commons the hignest eulogies
were pronounced on him bv Lord Palmef**< n
aud Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Bright also spoke of
bis departed friend, but was too much affect
ed to utter more tliau a lew sentences, which
made his remarks all the more impi\ srive.—
England ba9 lost a great statesman, America
a great friend, aud universal humanity a
great advocate.
Mr. Cobdea's funeral took place oa the 7th
of April. It was numerously attended, but
it is a significom fact that bat one peer was
E resent. When Lord Macaulay was buried,
ut one Tory of great eminence, Earl stan
hope, (betu r known in this country as Lord
Mahon.) .attended, and now peers seem to
have been quite as chary to.vard Mr. Cob
den, who was a nobleman of the oldest cre
ation, owing his peerage to uature.— Boston
Traveller
Napolkon’s Minisii.ks.— Emperor Napo
leon finds his friends falling fr<an him, as the
Thanes fell front Macbeth, though from ad f*
ferent reason. The Thanes deserted the
Scotchman, the Frenchman s friends die
Moray he lost but a few weeks since, and
now Walewski is incapacitated for labor, and
is supposed to be fatally iudi-posed. The
bursting of a blood vessel in-the nose has
placed the Polish-Frenchman on the 6ick list,
and is expected to to his end while
he is in the prime of his intellect. He is a
sort of relation of the Emperor, as Moray
was, though not so close a relative as that
sublime speculator, and yet over the-left, as
was Moray’s case.
Walewski is an illegitimate son of Napo
leon 1., bis mother being a Polish lady. Tnis
would make him the reigning Emperor’s
cousin, as they are nominally children of
brothers; but the Emperor is'no more the
son ot Louis Bonaparte than ho is the s >n of
Lord Brougham. We suppose that W.lews
ki and the Emperor maybe called cousin-in
law. As Walewski is a man of much diplo
matic skill, and is peculiarly .strong ou al
matters that relate to so eign politics, to be
deprived of his as-lstmce at lb s time is n >
slight evil to the Emperor, Who is h mself -o
ill us to be under medical advice to leave
Paris an,d reside in the country until Nov. tu
ber. Walewski will be forty-five years rid,
Should he livs to the 4th of next May —Bos
ton Traveller.
PUUSIDEKT JOHNSON’S HABITS.
Siuce the inauguration ceremonies on the
4th of March mum has been said concerning
the habits of Andrew Johnson. We have
had something to say ou the subject—have
said it, and said it harshly. And without
new light we would uot feel called upon to
modify anything uttered. But we desire to
do justice jto Mr. Johnson not only, but to '
ourselves.
We had a conversation this morning with
Mr. Thomas Perot 11, of this city. Assistant
Superintendent of Bridges for the past six
mouths o.i one of the lines of Railroad in
government hands running South from Nash
viiie, who has just returned on n brief fur
lough. Ho is an uncompromising Democrat
For one month during me winter lie was in
Nishvillo and saw Mr John-o i almost daily,
having occasion to meet hitn several times,
and lie avers that lie never saw a sign of
li iuar or the slightest evidence of an habitual
drinker upon him?* Giving the fullest cre
dence to this testimony, we are satisfied that
Mr. Johnson does uot habitually indulge in
tue use of into xicating liquors to excess, as
has been reported. —Rochester Union.
Evidence of this kind is accumulating on
all lianas. We, ourself, saw Mr. Johnson in
Louisville and Nashville and were in occa
sional intercourse with him tor tho period of
eighteen months, iu 1863 and 1864, and never
heard that he even tasted liquor. We heard
almost every other allegation preferred
against him by his enemies, that he was an
adroit politician, a demagogue, a tyrant and
a usurper ; but we never beard his bitterest
opponent allege that he was either a toper or
a tippler.
It was a knowledge of these circumstan
ces that led us to refrain from joining in the
general outcry against Mr. Johnson at the
time of the inauguration, and made us*feel
confident that the good sens? aud the good
feeling of the American people would not
suffer them to ostracise forever a faithful
public servant for a single and perhaps acci
dental deviation from temperance.—Roches
ter Democrat.
Wellington and Shkbman. —The London
Times recently made a great outcry about
Gea. Sherman's alleged barbarity in his de
termination to retaliate on all concerned iu
the murder of his foragers, and also about
Gen Sheridan’s destruction of property in
Virginia to impede the operations of guer
rillas. It repre.-ents those as unprecedented
in modern warfare. But the Dail j News
very effectively exposes this hypocrisy by
referi ing to many d'stmguished British ex
ampl s, among others tire following :
“Proclamiti »n by tue Duka of Wellington
tQ the inhabitants of Bidarry and Baggotry,
in the south of France : If tho people wish to
make war, let them place th. mselves in the
ranks of tue armies ; but I will not permit
them to play alternately the part of paacable
inhabitant and thatoft-o’.dier. If they remain
quietly at inane nobody will harm them; they
will ou the contrary be protected like the
o her iuhabitants of tho couutry iu the occu
pation of my armies; but I warn them that
if they pretar to make war upon mo, tin y
ought to turn soldiers and leave their linnV'S;
they cannot remain in their villages. We.lia.*
ton.
in enclosing this proclamation to Marshal
Beretford for distribution, Lord Wellington
instructed him : “If I have further reason to
cotnp ain of those or any other village*, I
act toward them ns tbe Frenoh did toward
the tonus and villages iu Spam and Porta
gal, that is I will totally destroy them, and
imug up all the people belonging to them
that I shall find. Lei the rest of the pec pie
of Bidirry be detain 3 i till we shaft see what
lfleet my letter produce^. 1 ’
Lawyer* to be Loyal.
The following act wa* approved January
24th, 186>, and is now in force. The Federal
Judges will be obliged to see that the oath is
administered ip the lawyers at each tenn of
their courts who may present themselves to
practice, provided tuey construe the law as
the law-makers did:
Be it emcteJ by tha Senate and Himse of
Representative* of tho United States of Amtnca
in Congress assembled, Tnat no person after
the date of this act, snail bo admitted' to the
bar of the Supreme Court of the United
States, or any time alter the 4th day qf
Matcn next, snail be admitted to the bar of
the Circuit or DLtuct Courts of the United
States, or of the Cqurt of Claims, as an at
torney or counsellor of such court, or Qhall
be showed to appear and be heard by any
such court* by virtue of any previous adtiiis
si u, unless he snail have first t>iken and sub
scribed the oath prescribed in "an act to pre
scribe an oath of office ands r o her
purposes, * approved July 2, 1863, according
to the forms aud iu the manner iu said act
provided, which aai i oath so taken an t sub
scribed Saali be pres rved among tho fi es of
said Cpurt, aud any p< rsoa wir. snail falsely
take the said oath >bali be 'guilty of peijury,
and on conviction shall behub.e to the pains
an t p.na.iies in me said act provided.
Here is the last story about Dumas. He
has been giving readings of bis works in
Paris. At one of the most recent he bad
chosen to read M’lle da Belle Isle. ThU was
done to the great satisfaction of hi 9 audience,
Changing his voice, his countenance and
manner according to thetdifferebt personages
represented in the piece—and wnen the en
tertainment was over, and the public were
about to retire, astonished and enchanted,
the book from which th# great Alexander
had b(*en reading the play was handed round, .
and displayed nought but the heads of chap
ters. The whom had been recited Horn
memory. This genuine tour de force be
came, of course, the wonder of the d hy ; and
tor ‘-a man who came in with the century, ’
as he acknowledges to have done, it has, per
haps. never been rivaled. “It is enthusiasm
which keeps a man green and young torever,”
exclaims Alexander, when complimented on
on tue eternity of years which seems to be
his portion.*— £jtchaiiye.
Russia is the scene of a destroying pesti
lence, which is particularly severe at Sr.
Petersburg, where 2o,00,) persons had died
from it. It is a contagious fever and Seems
o b • moving westward, Causing great alarm
in Europe.'
General Sheridan wai born in September,
]R3i, and * the refers oay tulrty- three years
old*
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MINUTES.
▼ot. t
Moonlight evening—»hadr grove
Two yonug people much In lov*;
Heroin* wlcn greet wealth endowed.
Hero handsome, poor mud proud;
Truth eternal, heart* united,
Vows »; chaugeteas passion plighted;
Ki«*c* quarrel*, s gtxs, caresses,
Harden yields one ot her tresses;
Obstacles to be surmounted
Ugly rival, bid aud stiles
Overhears Uit tender tale.
▼at. n, . ’
Morn In la the Bast looks ruddy.—
Scuue—young Indy's fathri's study.
Hert>. w.th his hat ia hand.
, Comes h*r ditto to demand;
Angry pareu: otorms, abuse*, *
Ana ao onscconseut refuse* j
Maiden faiuu beneath the blow,
Mother iuts; codes—ao go;
. Bane a, hysterics, pr >t*tat(ous
Mtxed wim old man's etec. auou*.
Exit lover—midst the dm—
Ugly rival enters In.
• • ■>**■ vox., m. ;..'v
Tup*—A moonlight night one* more,
Beene—Outside toe lady's door.
Lover, with half-broken heart,
Swear* he'd rather die thau part.
Oafaeu—flowora— umbrageous shade.
. Manly ac> eats—serenade.
Chamber window opens wide—
Debut of expectant bride;
Little dog most kiudly mate—
Tears— rope-ladder—flight—pursuit—
Gallant eteeaa—t o late—night's screen—
Triumph—marriage—Gretas Green.
Old man's rage—disowns forever—
Ugly rival—scarlet fever.
Old man sickly—send* for child—
Alls srgiveu—reconciled; '
Young man tasking money fast—
?ht man's blessing—die •at last.
onthtiU couple prove probate—
Get the money, live ln etate—
Family mansion—jewel*, plate. o
Mothei's wishes crowned with joy—
Doctors—nurses—tittle boy. . '
Time proceeds—their ties endear—
Olive or&ucaas year by year,
blessings ou the good attend—
Genera, gladuess— moral tod.
—London Paper.
.I .
The Assassination Denounced at 9g#m«
phU.
SPEECH OF OBN. BANKS.
The elt iz-ns of Memphis, Tounassse, held
an impromptu mass mooting qu Sunday, 16th
ultimo, to denounce the assasslnatioa of Mr.
Liucola and to pay a trjauto of tj
hD memory. The Bulletin says:
“Never have wa seen a meeting where
there was and eper fe ling and wh r* tuera
wui more entire accord <>f aentim *nt
“Tiicr# w.i» uo totmil organ zu 1 in, but
.Major G un-rat Banka waa introduced to tthe
auuietice by Major-Gctt.rol Waaaburae, aud
waa loudly applauded.
General Banksaald :
“The President and Secretary Seward
have not died because of their individual
acts or individual opiuiona. It was because
they represented the government of the
American people, which was established aud
sanctioned t>y our patriotic fathers, and re•
doe men by the blood of our brothers in this
d«y. It was because they represented this,
that they were ftripken down In thtf fuU
strength of manhood. *
The New Bkitish Envoy—S r Frederick
Brace presented ids credentials to President
Johnson, on Thursday la-t. as Her Britan*
nick Maj- styjs Envoy Extraordinary and
M nister Plenipotentiary to tbe govcrmjient
or the United States: Tue interview Wasuaost
satisfactory, and the remarks exchanged by
the two distinguished statesmen Were such as *
promise to promote the pres rvatfon of peace
uetween the two brandies of the greatest of
modem race?, a race to whom the principal
part in tbe improvement of tha world is as*
signed by Providence, and who, in catling
out the purposes <>f Providence, should ever
act logetuer as uliiea, aud never agajaot each
other as enemies
The New Mist&kss of the Whit« House.
Mrs. Johnson's health is such that she cannot
preside at ttie White House, and one of iter
daughters, Mrs. Stover, it is expected, will
act for her. Mrs Stover is tbe widow of the
gallant Col. Stover, who foil in bat tie near
Nashville. One of the President’s tons,
Charles Johnson, was killed by a fall from
his horse, dn 1863, but Robert and Andrew
are living. He has another daughter besides
Mrs. Stover, Mrs. Patterson, wife Judge Pat*
tersou.
The Agent of the Freedmen s Relief As*
aociatiou, L n lon, has receutlv received Jll
11s. lud. iu mouev, and a quantity of ttssful
clothing,- which are to be forwarded to this
couutry, with othei similar contributions for
the emancipated n -gr-es.
Mr. Wm. Avans,' the antiquarian book
seller, states that the line?—“Qii l why ,
should the sprits of mortal be proud”-*
which have bean absurdly ascribed to Mr.
L'ncoln, were written by a young Scotchman
named Kn<>x, whd was regarded by Walter
! sks tl as ot' gr at promise, but w.io early fell
| a victim to consumption. **
War has been renewed iu New Zealand,
i The Euglish troops had met With severe
' losses, and a member of the Provincial Coun
cil had been beheaded by the natives,*—but
it does uot appear that they ate him.
A fellow in Ohio advertises, on behsli* of a
certain famous accidental railway, that “an
experienced coroner and ,sjLX practical jurojß
will follow each regular train in special cate,
together with a few surgeons and reporters!"
Open smoking can havo been pat on the
city railroads in New York. It is said-that
about half of the passengers in those cars
are of the fair sex. They doubtless wish to
s'>ow that they are above a “vulgar preju
dice” against smokers.
A man in Philadelphia, on Wednesday,
distributed to the people in the streets slips
of muslin, with these words printed on them,
“Pardon died with Abraham Lincoln."
Napoleon'* “Casar” was published Its six
capital*, in six different languages, ou the
same and iy. Toe translators received between
$1,600 and $2,000 a volume.
Gan. McClellan is in Rome, the guest of
Mr S or/. He does not beliuvs the war it
near its end.
Frad Douglass talk* of starting a paper la
Baltimore. „ . • j.
