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— 1*Y JOHN H. CHRISTY. DEVOTED TO NEWS, POLITICS, AGRICULTURE, EDUCATION AND GENERAL PROGRESS. .OO per Annum, in advance. VOLUME XXL ATHENS, GEORGIA,—WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1874. NUMBER 8. the SOUTHERN WATCHMAN PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. „, rU rr of Jin,ml ami I rail Street*. (up-etalre.) TERMS. TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. Select IpsecUatig. e-rnrs, superstitions and prejudices, and feel nt gratitude to those who disturb their fond and foolish belief in them. ADVERTISING. Alvertisoinonta " ill bo inserted »t ONE DOLLAR .«D FIFTY CENTS per Hquarc for the fir#tinser- tion, end SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS per squaro for 'heontinuunce, for any time under one month. For longer periods, st follows: Vft. A liberal deduction on yearly advertisements. LEGAL ADVERTISING. Sheriff'< salt s, per levy of 10 lines $500 n mortgago sales, SO 'lays... 5.00 Sales. 4® days, by Administrators, Executors, or ijaardians - —®-®® Citstions of Administration or Guardianship 4.00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors 5.00 R ile* Nisi, per snuare, each insertion 1.50 Leave to sell Real Estate.™ 4.00 Citation for dismission of Administrator 5.00 it *i is Guardian 5.25 To ascertain tho number of squares in an advertise- m >n: or obituary, count tho words—one hundred being equal to Ion lines. All fractions are counted as full PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS CARDS. G COBB. | A. X. ISW1S. | IIOWKLL COBB,JR. 01515, EltWIX Jc COI5I5, ONLY A PICTURE. BY JDLIA A. HOLMES. A glance at best that cauDot fade or alter, A passing gleam that genius aeized and drow; A hint of faith that cannot fail or falter, A glimpse of love that cannot be untrue; A gracious smile where twilight shadows gather And morning sunbeams are so late to fall, A living dream the daylight cannot shatter— A picture only, banging on the wall. A look of pity for each weary failure, A beam of hope for the weak hour of need; A ray of cheer for every brave endeavor. A patient purpose and the baffled deed; One earthly tie no touch of change can sever, One sweet, abiding presence over all; One pure Ideal that is pure forever— One little picture hanging on the wall. The precious gift no envious fate hath taken, A friendship no suspicion e'er can soil; A love that no satiety can weaken. And fame no idle gossip can despoil; One steadfast truth that never can be shaken, One radiant joy that cannot pale or pall; Sweet eyes no year can dim, no frowu can darken— All beaming from a picture on the wall. Ot5c ATTORNEYS at law. .4 THE.VS, OEOR OIA. n the Deupton Building. Dec21 B ANKRUPTCY.-—Samuel 1*. Thurmond, Atlorncy-nt-Law. Athens, Ga. OUcton Rrnml street,over the «fore of Harr./ A Son, Wiil "ire apcHnl attention to eases «n Uankruptcy. Al io to^the collection of all claims entrusted to his care. TAJIKS R. LYLE, , | Attorurt at Law. ji,.,.22 WATEI.VSVH.LE. <!A. ,r ■OHS SI. MATTHEWS. Attornkt at Law. DanioUviile. Om. • mi jit attention will be given to any business an- to hi* care. Marchl4. O, tender eyes ! will you hut smile as brightly When I shall fail toseoyon through my tears. And when Iturn to leave you, stumbling faintly. Bowed underneath the burden of the years T O, Father! when I wander, groping faintly, Among the shades of death that round me fall, Shall I yet sen some angel smiling saintly, As in this little picture on tho wall t ITiN'iiLANH * 0RK. I'J Whtilonalr and Ueti.il Dealern, and COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Dupree Hull Broad St, Athene, fli. We are now prepared to store Cotton at 25 eents per half, and will advance cash when desired. Oct.28. ITiNtlLISH & CLASSICAL SCHOOL, JLi For lH»y*. cur. Wray and Lumpkin apS—Jin LEE M. LYLE, P;i T II. HU00INS, •J # h >losalo ami Rolail Dealer in |)KY HOODS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE, Ac. FcMfi Bro.nl Slroei, Athens, Ga. 10IIX II. CHRISTY, ti Plain and Fancy BOOK AND JOB PRINTER. Broad St., Athens, Ga. Office corner Broad and Wall streets, over the store J*»!«!• 1>. Pittard. ** PAVILION HOTEL, 1 CHARLESTON, S. C Thil FIRST-CLASS Hotel is situated in the very centre of the business part of theoity, and nil who •top there will And every convenience and luxury that can beproeured. Board, per day, $3.00. R. II Wilton, S»pl. Mrs. L. II. BoTTBRnilD,1 Do,-12 tf Prnprirtrree. ) qUMMEY <fc NEWTON, k.3 Dealer* in Foreign and Domestic HARDWARE, June9 No. t>,Ur >ad street, Athens, Ga Q C. DORRS, Wholesale sad Retail Dealer in Staple and Fancy DRY GOODS, GROCERIES. Ac. Feb9 No. 12 Broad Street, Athens, Ga. IJ^MORY SPEEK, Hi LAWYER, ATHENS, GA. \< Solicitor General of Western Circuit, will attend the Court* of Clnrke, Walton. Gwinnett, Hall, Ranks, Jnckson, Habersham, Franklin, Rabun and White, and £:ve attention to collecting and other claims in tho#e counties. MaTeh 19, 1873. T Z ELIAS, Attorney at Law, V. FRANKLIN, N. C. Practices in all the Courts of Western* North Caro lina, and in the Federal Courts. Claims collected in all part* of the State. apl6—ly "TPliWARD R. HARDEN, J J (Late Judge IT. S. Courts Nebraska and Utah, and now Judge of Brooks County Court) Attorney at Law, julj23 ly Ilrook* County, Ga. I F. 0'KELLEY’S 0 . PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY, Over Williams'Shoe store, Broad street, Athens, Georgia. sep3. B P. CAMP, • Attorney at Law, CARNESVILLE, GA. Will give prompt attention to nil business entrusted t‘> him. He will attend the Courts of Habersham, Franklin and Hall. sepl7—ly. E. P. OOWELL. c. CBRPLKS. PEEPLES & HOWELL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, 20 and 22, Kimball House, ATLANTA, GA. P RACTICE in the Statoand Federal Courts, and attend regularly all the Courts iu Atlanta, includ ing tno Supreme Court of tho State, aud will argue cafe* upon briefs for absent parties, on reasonable term*. They al»o practice in the Courts of the counties con tiguou* or accessible to Atlantaby Railroad, sepll M.W.RIDEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, D, S. Claim Apt and Notary Public GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA. Mr- OSes on Wilion atroet, below King A Bro’a. _i\hruary HI, 187S. ,0 >» a. xarca. WADiaox bxli.. ESTES &: BELL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. GAINESVILLE GEORGIA. \\’ ILL practice in theeonntieaaompoaingthe West- *’ vrn Circuit, and Dawaon anil Forayth eountiea o' the Blue Ridge Circuit. They will alto practice in the S upren.o Court of Georgia, and in the United Stater cJ »n at Atlanta. mayI4 Sirs. Gaines ns a Lawyer. Belva A. Lockwood’s recent appearance in the Court of Claims in Washington reminds the New Orleans I'icmjune of what occurred in tlie District Court of that city Dearly thirty ears ago. It was on the trial of one of the first of the many suits of Mrs. Myra Clark 1 Gaines. Judge Buchanan presided, and the caso was submitted to a jury. It happened that the lawyers, some of tho ablest at the bar. fell into a hitter wrangle with the Judge, and were so nfiended at his rulings that they with- diew from tho case and the Court. Mrs. Gaines and the veteran General, her husband, were present in Court. The General wore his mil uniform, his sword and sash, in conformity to the regulations. Tho lady was there in the meridian of a beauty, grace and vivacity, even now preserved to so remarkable a degree, af- tor reaching the Scriptural limit of human life. luuneUiatefy upon the withdrawal of her lawyers tho stately old hero of Fort Erie, tak ing his wifo by tho hand, led her to the bar, and addressed tho Judge as follows : '• May it please your Honor, I was educated for the bar, aud tho honored relative whoso name I bear (the celebrated Cbiof Justice Ed mund Pendleton, of Virginia), impressed mo, in early youth, with the profouudest reverence for tho civil courts of my country. Perhaps in the view of tho world and of the Court, it would he my duty to supply the placo of my wife’s lawyers upon their retirement from her case. If it were a duty that I thought myself adequate to perform, I should not shrink from it, for tho lady, besides being my wife, is the, daughter of my old friend, Daniel Clark, to whom I am bound by many ties of an ancient friendship and warm esteem, to render every service I can in the maiutenanco of the rights of bis friendless daughter. And this service I should bo bound, as a soldier and a gentioman, to render to any lady in like circustances.— But as the lady is far mere able to argue her case than I am, I beg that she be allowed to conduct her own caso.” And then, raising his bead and gently touch ing bis sword, bo turned to the opposite coun sel and remarked : “ For whatever tho lady shall say or do I hold myself responsible, te the full measure and in every manner recog nized by gentlemen.” Judge Buchanan was greatly annoyed at this proposition, and fired up at the allusion of the General to bis personal responsibility. He manifested bis anger by reminding the Gen eral that a display of military* pomp and menace could not be allowed in the Court— He was uot to bo overawed in that way General Gaines, in a most courteous and submissive style, begged to ossnre his Honor that, if bo referred to bis presence in Court in military dress and accoutrements, it was from respect for the Court, and in strict conformity to the regulations of the service. The sword which he wore would never be drawn with more alacrity than in the defense of the civil authority and tribunals of the conntry. Mrs. Gaines then took charge of her case, and for sovoral days conducted it with all her spirit and zeal, confronting and vexing the learned connse), and worrying the Judge with her sharp little speeches aud piquant personalities, windiug up bor caso with a very effective speech to the jury. We do not now remember tho result, but have a very distinct recollec non that the Judge, who was a plucky but high-tempered gentleman, did not resume his place on the bench the next day, and for sev- oral days thereafter. The final judgment in the case was in favor of Mrs. Gaines. A. A.. EDGE, Hoot, Shoe and Harness MAKER, •print—iy WATKINSVILLE, GA. JAS. L. LONG, M. D. Surgeon, Accoucheur and Physician, (Office al Mr. Tkomae Sheaf’ Store,) 4 Good Hope District, Walton oo., Ga. Offer* hi< prof.tiional services to tho oidsens ol tho •urrouDdmg country. aug27 Equinoctial Storms. There is a popular delusion that a three days’ storm is inevitable when the sun crosses the line in the latter part of March and Sep tember, and the unsettled state of the weather at this period, which usually culminates in showers of some duration, is always spoken of as the “equinoctial storm.” According to Professor Loomis, of Yale College, however, the equinox has very little to do with the storms, and excepting that the weather ie gen orally unsettled by the changes which are taking place in the atmosphere, there is no more likelihood of a storm upon the day that the sun crosses the. line than upon any other day of the year. So much for one of oar pop ular theories, which, like onr popular super stitions, obtain a stronger hold npon the pub lic mind than the strongest facts. In the light of this truth it is not difficult to account for the length of time—centuries, perhaps—which it takes to discover a popular error or 'estab Ush a scientific truth; nor can we measure our J, v u *0*P«hU«paardly tbat\aha/trt«7hatn Indebtedness to the men who devote tbelr ill “ d wH1 *P* r * no pi iffa to maka Livery, Feed & Sale Stable, ATHENS, GEORGIA W GANN & REAVES, PROPRIETORS, *JjI‘ Wound at thoir old itaod, roar Franklin k .“‘•““lid!;.;, Thommi street. Keep alwayi need good Turn-outs and careful drivers, ntoea well eared for when entrusted to onr eare. stock on head for eale at all times. dac25—tt WALTON HOTEL, MONROE, GA. I It E subscriber would lespeetfully inform travelers Senator Norwood. , Ut)W HR SNATCHED BUTLER BALD^EADED. We make the following extracts from Sen ator Norwood's remarkable speech an Civil Rights. Criticising Ben Butler's spee ili in the House of Representatives, be said: The Ropublican party has often assured us that in tho late war “ the colored troops fought nobly," and the Senator from New Jer sey repeated the declaration in cur hearing on yesterday. It is true, that interwoven with the dreadful realities of that stiuggio, there is much of fiction and romantic episode ; many imaginary instances of inspiring heroism, dis played by the colored troops. Fact and fiction are lamentably mingled in inextricablo con fusion. But there is one exceptionable in stance of daring and of death, and so notably established on the testimony of a single eye witness, that the Senate must remember it, and it is worthy of recounting oven in this august presence. I see that the quick percep tion and historic learning of this body have already anticipated my disoovery, and I would eveu now forego tbo thrilling narration, but for the fear that some future Muncbansen might charge me with prejudice against the objects of the Judiciary Committee's special devotion, should 1 decline to furnish so valu able a contribution to his peculiar style and school of history. I refer, as you know, to the Balaklava- charge, made by the colored troops, at the witching hour of dawn, on empty stomachs— bayonets fixed, nipplos uncovered—and under command of a general of renown, on tlie 29tli or September, 18C4, at New Market Heights. Tbo historian—who was the general then com manding, and who seems to have been the only survivor of those colored troops—tells us the story with charming simplicity and with the eloquence of unbridled fancy. He says, that being himself in the rear, where he in tended to remain, and wholly nncertain wheth er tho charge would bo feebly to the front or with frantic heroism to tbe rear, bo ordered, as a precaution for personal security, the nip pies of tbe gun3 to be uncapped, and offering up the prayer of Fafetaff, “God, keep lead out of mo,” be gave the order “ Charge!”— [Laughter.] He says that there fell, within a parallel ogram just ten feet wide and three hundred yards in length, tbe exact number of Are hun dred and forty-three of his colored associates, or one man to every twenty and three-tenths inches; that as soon as they fell, mounted on his fiery Pegasus, like feathered, or '• Harry ” Mercury, he marched solitary and alone to one end of that slaughtered heap, and fixing one eye wcepingly pendent over tbe dead, and cocking tbe other fiercely on tbe enemy—the one tearful as Niobe’s, tbe other glowing like fiery Mars—he rode, with arms akimbo, through that parallelogram, over that heca tomb of bis companions, to tbe farther end— bis horse meanwhile dancing a minuet in tbe benevolent endeavor to find ground on which to plant its reverential feet. This was an exploit worthy of deification— Pity it is, it bad not been performed in tbe pro-Homeric or Hesiodic age, as that genera tion, so appreciative of horse gymnastics, would bavo deified and translated tbe heroic actor, and ho would now bo enjoying tbe beatitude of hero worship in tbe constellation of Aries or Taurus; or, happier still, he and that horse might now be a bright, particular constellation in themselves, under the proper name of Equns-anthropos, which lovers, at parting, would designate to gaze npon at tbe tender hour “ when twilight dews are falling fast,” and renew their vows of devotion. But why that humane general should have ridden that tender-hearted horse over the dead bodies of his colored associates, instead of making a brilliant flank movement along that geometric holocaust, such as oidy he can when moving on a custom house, I have fatigued my imagination in vain to endeavor to discover. Perhaps, like Mrs. Malaprop, he was trying to ascertain tbe “ perpendiculars ” of the slangh ter; perhaps it was to accommodate tbe aDgle of bis vision; perhaps to test tbe sensibilities of that horse. Bat conjecture is all in vain. It was simply one of those direct forward movements over the bodies of one’s friends, so often witnessed in political strategy, and never known iu military tactics, that it must remain a moral wonder until lapse of iime, and oft re peating shall consecrate it as a truth, or until some cruel CEdipns shall rise to solve the rid dle and destroy its artful inventor. But gallant as was that fatal charge, and heroic and solemn as was that perilous eques trian exploit, they pale into paltriness in pres ence of tbe sublime sequel to this military evolution as given in tbe simple story of this historian. He says that having finished that horse eouranto—consisting of a coupee, then a high step, then a balance—he sounded a solemn halt, faced mournfully about, fixed bis eyes again as already described, gave the order. Attention, General!" and in chronic absence of the Bible, drew from his holster-case pocket edition of the Massachusetts Pilgrim's Progress, issued under tbe Maine liquor law, and kissing one end devoutly with bis face turned upward, he administered to himself solemn, oorporal, and general oath, that so long as bis surviving colored companions would vote to make him Governor of Massachusetts, or a Representative in Congress, he would spasmodically devote the idle moments of tho remainder of his political and official life, in a feeble effort to secure to them tbe great con stitntional right to attend, “without distinc tion of race, color, or previoas condition servitude,” every theatre, circus, and menag erie in the United States of America and tbe Territories thereof. He then sealed his oath by pressing bis feverish Ups once more to the bibnlons end of that cherished volume, and calling in the eye which had meanwhile stood sentinel on the enemy, he dismissed himself from the parade. IF WE KNEW. If we knew when walking thoughtless Through the crowded, noisy way, That some pearl of wondrous whiteness Close beside onr pathway lay, We would pause when now wa hasten, We weald often look aroaud. Lest onr careless feet shonld trample Some rare jewel in the ground. If we knew what forms were fainting For tbe shade that we should fling, If we knew what lips were parching For the water we shonld bring. We should haste with eager footsteps, We would work with willing hands, Bearing cups of cooling water. Planting rows of shading palms. If we knew when friends aronnd us Closely press to say good-bye, Which among the lips that kiss ns First shonld ‘neath the daisies lie, We would clasp our arms aronnd them, Looking on them thro’ our tears, Tender words of love eternal We would whisper in their ears. If we knew what lives were darkened By some thoughtless words of oars, Which bad ever lain among them Like the frost among tbe flowers; Oh, with what sincere repentings, With what anguish of regret, While our eyes were overflowing. Would we cry—forgive—forget! If we knew, alas! and do we Ever care or seek to know. Whether bitter herbs or roses In our neighbors’ gardens grow 1 God forgive us, lest hereafter, i Onr hearts break te hear Him say, ‘ Careless child, I never knew yon, From my presence flee away.* »L cotnfaruM* who may favor'liim with' thatr patron- ***■ HUaWjM Mill be reasonable. jan28 lm Agat R. B. ADAIR, D. D. S., GAINESVILLE, GA vmce, Southeast corner Public Square. mar2T lives to discovering facts in nature and are, and establishing them npon a scientific—that is, a real and bnowablo—basis. For it mast be remembered that theso men are always in a minority; the mass of mankind are content What Forrest Thinks might have been. Gen. N. B. Forrest, of Tennessee, has been talking to a newspaper reporter about the mil itary operations of tho war, and on being ask ed if be thought it would have been possible for tbe South to succeed under any circum stances, replied: There were some turning points in the war which, I think, had they been properly managed, wonld have made the struggle a success. The two greatest disas ters were tbe failure of Gen. Beauregard to foi low up tho victory at Shiloh, and of General Bragg to follow up tbe victory at Cbickamauga I look upon them as tbe decisive fate of our country. I think if wo bad followed those victories the South would now have been an independent nation. At Chickamauga, on Sunday, tbe root of the Federal army was complete. Monday morning I drove the Federal pickets into the town of Chattanooga, when the enemy was entirely disorganized, with the exception of a few brigades. If General Bragg had followed op bis victory on Sunday night, ho could have captured tbe entire army with the little horses be could mounted 20,000 men, including bis own cavalry, with which we conld have recap tured Nashville and the State of Tennessee and could have taken tbe whole of Kentucky and perhaps Cincinnati, before tbe enemy could have gotton reinforcements to check us Had this been done, the backbone of tbe war would have been broken, and the contest set tied in onr favor. Reporter—But do you think it was possible for Gen. Bragg to have accomplished this in tlie face of tbe difficulties by which he was surrounded, and iu tbe face of such a large army t General—I think it could have been done bad tbe pursuit been kept up on Sunday night. Tbe Federal troops were completely panic- stricken, and were huddled together among their wagons and cattle, and other places, and were in no mood to fight. I think it was one of tbe greatest disasters in failing to push on at that fight. M. Quad’s Tribulations la Getting a First* Class Sewing Machine. There was Hnbbard. He drove up to the door, unloaded a sewing machine, and said if we wanted a machine that wonld do all kinds of work, run easily, hem, tack, raffle, gather, braid and be a thing of joy forever and forty days more, we shouldn’t fail to buy the Ligntniog Stinger.’ I bought it, and when after a week, he wanted a certificate, I cheer fully wrote one s This is to certify that I hare had a ‘Light ning Slinger in my honse for some time past and I wouldn't bo without it for twice its cost. It hadn’t been in my honse half a day before my son recovered from the whooping congh and my wife found a ten-dollar bill on the side walk. I think it is the best machine ever made. I can't bear to go to bed and leave it.” He said be was ever so many times obliged and he hadn't got out of sight before Kilroy drove up with tho “ Thunder & Blazes" ma chines. He began to sevr at the other ma chine; saidwehad been terribly humbugged and that his machine was the only fisst-class machine in the market. My wifo began to cry, and he soothed her by offering to trade kis machine—which ho could sell for old iron—and thirty dollars to boot. We made the trade. He said tbe Thunder Sc Blazes” would make any kind of a stitch, sow any kind of fabric and out run anything but a locomotive. He came round the noxt week with a certificate all written oat, and I signed it: This is to certify that I have gained ten pounds of flesh per day since purchasing your Machine, and that my wife hadn't ran it half an boar when her uncle died and left her two hundred thousand dollars. Not one of the children has had a cold since the day tbe Thunder & Blazes' came through tbe gate It plays easily, the strings are not liable to snap, the stops are easy to manage, and it is tbe only machine in the world that can be op erated by a red-headed woman with a cork- leg. I can stay out until eleven o’clock at THE RESERVOIR DISASTER. GREAT LOSS OF LIFE AND DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY. Springfield, May 17.—The Williamsburg reservoir, which gave way yesterday morning, precipitated the vast mass of water it contain, ed three miles down a steep and narrow val ley into the thriving manufacturing village of Williamsburg, and thence further down tbe valley through the villages ’ of Haydenville, Leeds and Florence into Northampton mead ows, where the stream empties into the Con necticut river. l]he huge torrent dashing into Williamsburg with resistless power, swept away the manufacturing establishments and numbers of dwellings, causing an immense de< strnction of property and a terrible loss of ha- snan life. Good-By Hospitality. The half of hospitality lies in the speeding of parting guests. Lavish welcomes are easily enough bestowed; bnt the hospitable thought must be very gennioe, indeed, which dare to leave the gnest as free and woioome to go as tooomo. We all suffer,.now and then, from andue urging to stay when we prefer to go, and nearly every one of ns is himself a elnner in this regard, too. No sooner does tbe gnest intimate a wish to terminate his visit, than we fly in the faoe of bis desire, and urge him to stay longer. Wo sometimes do this, too, (do we nott)a8 a mere matter of duty, when la onr hearts we care very little whether the gnest goes or stays. We feel ourselves bound to show onr appreciation of onr friend’s visit by asking that he prolong it. Now, true bos* Aside from the buildings destroyed and dam aged, the bridges have been carried away, the road rained, and hundreds of acres of mea dow land rendered valueless. Tho total loss most far exceed a million ofdollars, and will probably come nearer two millions. It appears some doubts as to the safety of tbe reservoir have been entertained ever since it was built, nine years ago, though less for the last two years than in its earlier history. The gate It is impossible to empale the losses, pitality ought to learn its lesson better than this. Our effort ehenM be, from the first to last, to make onr friend's virit thoroughly pleasant and agreeable to him. Wo strive for this result in welcoming him. It is the desire to do this which prompts us to offer hint the most comfortable chair and to set out best viands, if he break bread with us. It is that he may enjoy bis stay that we take pains to talk only npon agreeabre topics. Iu short, from the time he crosses our threshold until keeper has several times expressed fears to be rises to leave, we courteously endeavor to bis employurs, calling special attention once make the moments slip by as pleasantly as to a point where a break occurred; but the possible. But the moment he asks for bis hat examiners always reported that it was safe, onr courtesy fails us. Hitherto we have stud- The other villages suffered only les3 awfully, ied to anticipate and gratify his every wish. Tbe latest figures of tbe los3 of life make tbe Now that he wishes to go, however, we on- total 144, divided as folio ivs betwqen three deavor to thwart his pleasure. We selfishly Williamsburg, <50; Leeds, 49; Hay- try to turn him from his purpose to ours. We denville, 35. Tbese figures only representthe wish him to stay, while he wishes to go. Cour- persons whose loss is positively known, though tesy would prompt us to giro his wish proco- the bodies of all are not yet recovered. Bod- denco to our own, but, as a rule, we ask him ies are constantly boing found, and in some to sacrifice his own to our pleasure—Hearth cases those of persons who wore not supposed and Home. to be lost, so that it seems perfectly safe to The Prouosed Sea of Saluda, say that tho total loss of life will exceed 150. | u has boon EroVaol ti ago that if, indeed, it does not more nearly approach tbe gr0at A f r j can Jegort j 3 lower than tho bed 200. It is impossib le as yet to give details. of tho AUantjc Qcea|1 . and ^ 8uppo8ition (8 the cause of xnE break. that the channel connecting the sea that for- Springfield, May 18—All acconuts attri- merly covered it has been filled up by accre- night not. and my wifo hasn’t a word to say. I but0 tbo disaster to the weakness and insocu- t j 0Di or somo migUty volcanic upheavals, most Formerly she used up four rolHng pins costing rity of tb0 reservoir W ork. Tho walls were probably tb8 latteri tbe wator beiDg evaporat- two shillings, each, per Jweok. not thick enough to resist the pressure of 125 e( j by j be tropical heat of the suu. Possibly Then McManus came. I told him that we acroao f water averaging 30 foot in depth. at some very remote period in the history of had the best machine in tbo market, and he TnE details of the flood. the world, the whole plain was lifted^ above asked to look at it. He hadnt fair y E ot j Arfl boart . ren( ]j n g. it is feared that many the level of the surrounding hills and oceans, his eyes on tho * Thunder & Blazes’ l)eforo “° Cana( jj an8 resen tiy arrived to work on the and the water foreod bodily out of it into tbe commenced to laugh. 1 factories are lost. A watchman discovered the sister seas, whon it sank baok again into its Ho ! ho! ho!” ho shouted as ho dropped danger and rode down the valley, making basin, leaving its wide and sun-scorched wil- on a chair; “ it will kill me did you ever t [breo mi j es lu gf teen minutes, sliouting the derness a plain of arid sand. oh! ho ! bo !” I sternly asked the cause of his hilarity, and he replied that Kilroy had swindled us—taken us in—cheated us stone blind. 1 he “ Thuu der Sc BIaze3 wasn’t worth anything, he said man and patonted by a fool. My wife began to weep. ‘ But,' said McManus, * that wore his ma Fashions of Solomon’s Time and of the Present. It is an interesting fact, and true to a great extent, that tbe style of dress and ornaments of tbe Hebrew ladies of the present day—and in faot, tbe prevailing toilet of all ladies—is much the same as daring tbe time of Solomon. With alt the changes and variations of centu ries, tbe gradations and crinolines, we now find much of tbe simple grace and easy sym metry of ancient Greece. The Scriptures nar rate a great many things about the style of dress worn in the time of Solomon, and in the law of Moses several directions are given con cerning garments worn by the Israelites. In the Book of Judges the girls of that period are described by Deborah as ‘ a prey of divers colors of needlework,’ while Lemuel says: Their clothing is of silk and purple.’ In tbe frequent intercourse between the Jewish and other nations, the ladies, tired of their primi tive simplicity, sought tho fashions of the cle ver Egyptians, the elegant Phoenicians and the luxurious Persians. Even patient Job be came impatient at tbe dresses, and Isaiah de nounces the * women of the period’ living for nothing, bnt to dress and flirtation, with the one desire to * see and be seen.’ The tunica worn by the ladies in tbe time of Solomon were much like tbe polonaise of to-day, and the belts now worn with fancy clasps are about the same as the leather girdles and silver buckles worn of old. We also find recorded that trains were worn to dresses, and that camel's hair shawls were common. Embroi dered mantles, fastened with golden pins, are also spoken of. The hair was also oiled, dyed and pat np in coils; little carls were let hang over the forehead, and, strange to say, the girls of Solomon’s time, it is stated, used paint. Veils were worn, and sandals were made of blue and violet-colored leather with fancy latchets. Solomon, as is related, said to Shn lamite: • How beantifnl are thy leet with shoes, O, prince’s daughter!’ Hair nets were worn, and ear-rings of all forms and much value were very common. Bracelets on the right arm, strings of pearls and heavy gold chains aronnd the neck, rings on the fingers and other orna ments were ail worn by the ancient Hebrew ladies. alarm. Hero a milkman, with a fleet horse, I It has been proposed to again unite the des- dnslied ahead of tbe flood some two minutes ert with the sea by an artificial channel, aud He beat it in crossing a bridge scarcely 20 to convert tbe savage homo of the wild land seconds, and sped on, screaming the” reservoir pirate into a lake or soa, thns briuging com- ..is coming.” This heroic milkman saved bun-1 mores and civilization to its hitherto dark and was on old machine invented by a md | ( j re(j8 of person3 wbo fled their homes and Pagan shores. To this the Scientific American breakfasts for the slopes. The flood rushed objects, on the ground that the waters would by, carrying hnmau beings, bouses, great iron be evaporated as fast as they flow in, and leave boilers, huge trees, cows, horses, poultry, tho desert of sand a desert of salt; and that chine, the ’ Chained Earthquake.’ It wore tho pjan08 an( j b j t( j ca g e s upon its crest. the largest river would scarce fill the plain in machine, and all other machines were base „ The man who took a g 0S - It proposes a series of artesian wells, imitations. Wo might try it, and if wo do* I^arriST* I of which would form an oasis.’and lead like it he would cut his throat with a brick- P , f . D A be f or o 81 eventually to the reclamation of tho waste. SrtiflcTte ‘fehriedTt' 1 Wh0 ° * ^ | o’clock, while all the people of this place were ^ odo the objections of that paper certificate, I signed It. well-founded. The introduction of any con- “Tbis is to certify that yonr sewing ma- W“ 8 .® 0 '” 8 .? ‘ .. siderable quantity of water into the desert bed chine has saved me 10 per cent, in fnel and 0lr a ° 10 ‘ . ... would gradully bring about changes that would 20 per cent, in bay and corn since we purchased ance of My ron Day from Haydens lie ovent ually lead to the success of the oxperi- it. I licked an alderman, pulled a scboolmas- horse obou ;ing T™ -1 h and I menfc If a email artesian well would (as it ter’s nose and kicked a memberof the legisla- on, aavei yo • ‘ ' ba8 } a man y places) create an oasis, would not b the second day after wo got the machine. 0 r . when the roar a * ar 8 e J>°dy of water flowing in spread, and we hadn’t owned it a week when I found where a g0 heard bv tho inhab-1 118 is evaporated, tho air would become moist, I could get trusted for meat and wood, and if w this time stood at their door-1 rain wouid bo produced and the waters again found a flonr shed unlocked. It will sow any- He .lashed toward Florence and the retarB0d 10 the soil * The rush of waters will thing from a log of mutton to a New Hampshire steps He> daabed toward Jlioreiic >, a deepeQ widen tUe , nIett and tbe next gen . mountain. There hasn’t been a ©toady day I pep a . Bmed t 0 them as the eration would see an artificial sea, bearing on since the machine first started, and tbo and tb 0 r 0 what ssomed a them as the bft80m c hr!stianitv commerce and civiliz*. moon now rises two hours earlier and lasts all crest of an enormous moving wood pile flf ^ L on * , he JJ ' ht e d children of • Afric’sbdre- night. No one should be without it.’ feet high. They knew what it was, and rush- Jion to he bon.gbted children of Africsbdrn He took the certificate with a triumphant 0 d wildly up the slopes to safe quarters. Their arteslan tbeorv wou)d take aee310 „ ork , . houses were left ust as they stood, with the ta- 1 ne arceslan tDOor y woula laK0 a S ea 10 ” orK , ana — ., . r nn ,, rh _ „hiidmn Mt- out practical results; but the ocean would baf- it I must leave off here. Farnsworth has bles spread for breakfast and the children get- * , ... . <W i„ nT « w «iRd minlei ting ready for school. In less than three mm- no 100 art8 01 ,ue sa'age roDDera, ana in aiow just tailed with the Five Jeweled Du P ex ~ . / , ., . d tb _ years bring Africa's interior almost to the very High Low’ machine—the only leading machine “t 00 tbe stone dam had given away, and the Eurone and America in market-and he Is telling my wife how we great column of water laden with frame bouses 0 [ P . .S—’ — got swindled by McManus.—Ilf. Quad. pianos, sewing machines, boilers, iron wheels, ..a wag was requested by an old lady to — I huge grist mill machinery, cows, sheep, poul- read the newspaper for hef. He took it np A Playful Varmint. | tr y and human beings from Haydensville, I and read ^ follows: The bear of the Arctic regions does not hug p i UD g ed j nt0 tbe Valley of Leeds. Me^urea ‘Last night, yesterday morning, about one like other bears, but bites at his opponent ; j for j mmad j ate relief have been instituted at | o’clock j Dt ho afternoon, before breakfast, a and he declines to eat his captive until life is I n a y den8V jn e . Mr. Hayden sent on* notice to I hungry boy, about forty years old, bought a qnite extinct. Among the Esquimaux of reba fl d his works, and offers to employ all who b lg costard for a levy, and threw it through a Greenland he plays strange pranks, ofton 0ver worked for h j m and as many more as are b rick wall nine feet thick, and jamping over creeping upon the banter whilst busy fleecing I need y | n clearing away the debris and making j t> broke bis right auklo off above bis left knee, a seal, and tapping him on the shoulder with pr8parat jon8 for work. Hundreds of acres are and f e u j nCoa dr y m ti|.pond and was drowned, bis powerful paw. Then it is the unfortunate covored w j tb tbe sad remnants of villages which About forty years after that, on the same day, man’s eue to “ feign dead,” so that when on j e ador ned the tract of country running an 0 j d cat bad n j ne turke y gobblers, a high Brownio retreats a few steps to enjoy tho| eigbt mi , e8 tbro ugh Hampshire county and w ] nd b lew Yankee Doodle on a frying-pan, prospects of bis intended meal, the gnn can I now a ba rren waste of land, stones, ruins and and k |Ued a sow and two dead pigs at Boston, be got ready before bo returns again to tho I cti . p8e3 I w h 8re a deaf and dnmb man was talking to attack. Thousands of people have gone from this his Annt Peter.’ ..Anoted broker, who hesitates in hisspeech I c j t y Md t j,e surrounding country to Northamp-1 Whereupon tbe old lady, taking a tong lately gave an except advice about invest- and the scene of the Mill river devastation breath, exclaimed: ’ Du tell !* meat. One of hi3 friends said to him; to-day. Search for the dead bodies has been “ I’ve just mortgaged my honse, and have going 0 n all day. and will be continued undor ® aeo of Rwarfe Discovered in Africa, a few thousand to spare. Can’t yon tell me t j, 8 beat possible management for eeveral days, I Rayard Taylor, in a lata letter from Egypt of something good and safe to go Into, where pcrb aps even weeks. The meadows are l ® tbe New^York Tribune, gives an account of I can make a neat thing and be perfectly se- L, deep i y covered with debris resulting from i 0000 ® discovery ola race of pigmies in caret” I the destruction, that it is feared many dead I Ca “ trld f^ Speaking of two in the care “ Ye-ye-yes, I k-k-know a-a-a flrst-r-r-rate I bodies have been yet undiscovered. A number | 0 .“1®. . v ®\. **? 8 1 thing f-f-for yon.” What is it t* B-b-b-buy that m jrt-mort-gago 1’ I have been recovered today, and it is nowl 1 The little fellows looked at me wi*,h bright thought yesterdav’s estimate of two hundred Zoning steady eyes, while I examined and lives lost; may fall even below the actual truth. T “ b ( bul ™ ^ty-nix inches I The extent It the disaster increases rather he ..Anoted him ter or South BcMtantM aod lt , , | mt „ a iw, to“<i ^ “'■’I* “» b “ 1 ' ttr.»t,-fo.r, f“ “» Mr*:' “Hn.ro “roll nnd rotlnb!. ot tho I* of a gnn that scatters shot badly, so that it is [give ! property and life A. H.,d.osrlll. to-d.y, GO I 10 Tho hood nod arm. rrrrrrr. 1 - an advertisement in a city paper offering to send information whereby each “scattering” of shot could bo effectually prevented, on re . . . , . . , „ . , enrved in remarkably from tho shoulders toe rary funds furnished from Northampton yes- h ,... w terday are exhausted, and a mass meeting has • U,# hipjolnt ’ tbr0W,D * 0Ut tbe abdomeD ’ " hich ceipt or fifty cents. He sent tbe monsy, and been called at Northampton this evening, to j ^ d(et / f beans aud bananas^ Yet the head inane time was informed that to prevent bis devise means for continuous and systematic tha nhrinldani hn tha ii«i> nm.-ctm gnn from “ scattering” he should • pat in only reHof of th0 8uffe rers. The whole community *“ «ect, the Raiders on the lino of gravitn- ““ 'is moving In th. .ch.rmh.r.n.d.*53*. ’VSLKSL? Isa Nut-Shell.—The Detroit Free Press remarks: “ We should never have had a war if tbe men of tbe North conld have known the men of the South, and cice versa." To which that sterling Domocrat, the Manchester (N. H.) Union, replies: “Thousands of people live agreeably side by side, who don’t know each other at all; but each knows his own bn- to take the world as they find it, with all its' skuas and attends te it. ..A planter in Virginia, being dressed for some special occasion, said to Uncle Ben, an old family servant, * Uncle Ben, how do I look f • Why, yon looks splendid, marstxr, splendid. Why, yon looks as bold as a lien.’ • What do you know about a lion t Yon never saw one.’ ‘ Why, yes, I did, marster, I’se often seedalion; offen.’ ‘Where, Uncle Bent’ ‘ Why, down on Master Johnson’s plantation; they’s got a lion, and yon seed him, too; I know yon has.’ ’Why, yon old goose, yon, that is not a lion; it is a jackass, and they have named him Lion.’ • Well, I don’t care about dat—I don’t care for dat. Yon looks just like him.' the body, as in South Africa. Tubbnl measur ed twenty-six inches around tbo breast and -.Gray was the most careful of poets, and I that tan will be done to alleviate the suffering so severe was his taste that he expunged the Hayden, Gore & Co., at Haydenville, pro-. . . .. following beantifnl stanzas from his immortal I prietors of tho destroyed brass works, ohm- ° b * abdomen.; his Elegy in a Churchyard.’ Even Lord Byron ra0 nced the work of re-bnilding this morning,, tUt said in his Diary, February 27, 1821, * I won- b nt have been obliged to desist on account of der that Gray could have had the heart to tho rain. They will resume their work os soon omit each lines : as the weather allows, and hope to have their Here scattered oft, the earliest of the year, building ready for occupancy in three months' By hands unseen, are .showers atviolets found, | ^ M( , H l. James, woollen manufacturer at Williamsburg, whoso mill was left standing, although badly damaged, wijl prepare for full resumption of business as early as possible. Most tbe other business men affected by the It has been well said that the leavings of I disaster will probably resume as early as prao- Gray are superior to Xhe finished compositions ticable, but the suffering of tbe laboring classes of most other men. * must inevitably be very savers. The'red-bresit loren to build and warble here. And little footatej)» lightly printthe ground. With grim delight Ihe brood of winter view A brighter day, and heavens of aiureblue, Soent the new fragra.nee of the breathing roae, And quaff tho bluah ing vintage as it growa. large, only the knee joints being disproportion ately thick and clumsy. The facial angle was fully up to tbe average. There was a good development of brain, fine intelligent eyes, and a nose so flattenod that in lookiDg down the forehead from above, ono saw on!/ the lips projecting beyond it. ral'hc nostrils were astonishingly wide and square. The com plexion was that of a dark mulatto.” . .Sapphires have been discovered in Colo rado. This is the way they try to gat mar riageable young ladies to emigrate to that Statfe.