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B -mcr : advertisements and special noticee square (or each insertion, advertising, first insertion, SI 00 per each euhsejuent insertion (if inserted " sav) If cents per square. et g.i | nr reading matter notices, 20 cents per p for each insertion. n ta inserted every other day, twice , week, charged $1 00 per square for eeek, or once a So^iiX'.c- rates allowed except by special _jjmur* liberal discounts made to large ad- 'advertisements will have a favorable place flret inserted, but no promise of continuous a particoiar place can be given, as ^ . .,. m n«t have equal opportunities. Iliad''- ' >okthkkn smow. ; WILL WALLACE HARNEY. An exile to the pine and palm, - 1 . i r winged summer brood, ,t,' , /iire depths of endless calm, 1 Atuve a nursling solitude. And ample l>readths of bloom unfurled, 1* a^v'-rt a- that voluptuous south " r , \ )n y gave the Roman world For E-'vpt's Cleopatra mouth. All thin''3 of sight and sound appear To ■ : Vhe ot nothing but content, A« if unheeded through the year The v igrant seasons came and went. Vet often. ion I hear the rain, In flei Like gho My hea of vapor, whisper low, . about the window pane, would leap to see the snow. To*ei- beyond the frozen meres, In chilli mid crayon’s black and white, . • bn tugh at mospheres, Wind-blown in dazzling points of light. The smothered roofs that lie below The litth- wreaths of thin blue smoke, Where dodder h 1 Is handsful of snow Above them on its mother oak. In smooth, white levels lies the croft; A monad ot snow the boxwood shines; Still sweep the trowels, white aud soft, In sloping curves and sweeping lines. 3ft dairies as a shadow blurs ’he pa/-- in passing, light and fleet; c soit. warm faces wrapped to furs; ike faces passing on the street. I see them in the falling rain, Through ab the years that lie between, Like gn.’.'ts about the window pane, Among the musk and evergreen. The boyhood's irieuds, the fair young wife Who watched with me so long ago, As if across another life, Among the softly falling snow. While, grieving through the pine and palm, The winds do chide uncounted hours, Wlm:e unspent summers fill the calm W;,h soft, sweet utterance-of flowers. —[Harper's Magazine. Affairs iii Georgia. The Athens Watchman advances the sometrliat startling proposition that soloDg as Mr. Hill’s constituents in the Ninth Dis trict are satisfied with his conduct in Con gress, no oue else has the right to com plain. But is the Watchman certain that Mr. Hill’s course has been entirely satisfac tory to all his immediate constituents ? The Augusta Constitutionalist promises that there will bo music in the air shortly. We are getting uueasy. Is it to be vocal or instrumental—a eolo, or a chorus—a string band or a wind orchestra ? Give tho word. Gentlemen will please take partners for a galop. Tne Georgia Railroad bridge over the Oconee will be ready for the passage of trains by Sunday. It will cost about ten thousand dollars to replace the structure. The Augusta people are jealous even of Bilbo’s canal. Hauged if they won’t en deavor to ilout the Atlantic Ocean after awhile. Rome had some snow tho other day, and in the face of this fact Joel Branham re fused to stand up to his knees in the mnd and allow a fellow-citizen to talk him to death, and Bill Arp Smith publicly an nounced that the season was unpropitious for beer. It will thus bo seen at a glance that it is mighty easy to work miracles in Rome. Mayor Estes, of Augusta, is spoken of as a suitable candidate for Governor. Col. CliBby, of the Macon Telegraph, is not a granger, as we had been led to be lieve. He merely remarked that he had one corn that was au acher. The Rome boys caught Cohen, of the Commercial, the other day and endeavored to put snow in his stockings. They say he sqoealed as loud aud kicked as hard as a college girl. The Central Railroad authorities have arranged their rates of freight to agree with the schedule of the Georgia Railroad, from Atlanta to the seaboard, including Augusta. The change was made on Mon day. In view of the temporary position of affairs on the Georgia Road, the Constitu tionalist thiuks the merchants of that city must appreciate this liberality on the part of the Central. Mr. Michael Waitzfelder, for many years a successful Milledgeville merchant, di ;d in New York on the 13th Mr. T. Sanders, & New York consumptive, has been testing, with the most favorable results, the climate of Liberty county. He ifl very rapidly regaining his health and strength. A couple of Augusta women are fighting m the courts over the possession of a child. The mother gave it to a neighbor two years *go and now desires to reclaim it. The edition of the Monticollo Banner for March 10th was burned by an incendiary. A very destructive fire swept through the woods iu Liberty county recently. Mr. Ben E. Russell, editor of the Bain- bridge Democrat, announces that there will Diboat excursion, under the au- 8 Pices of the Bainbridge Cornet Band, from Bainbridge to Apalachicola on or about the -dh of April proximo. The steamer will be kbsem ou the trip three days. Distance from Bainbridge to Apalachicola 250 miles. e torsion will be most delightful. The ***€ of passage will not be over six dollars P* r ticket for the round trip, and probably ess. Parties who desire to go on this trip requested to communicate with Mr. Bus- 8611 as soon as possible. last number of the American Grocer comments iu terms altogether uncalled for J"! a a recent note of inquiry written by a J°r L. C Bryan, of ThomasviUe, relative fo the i e price of certain staple articles in the 'Ty ^ ne * It is perhaps natural that the jr " or ohould seek to win the applause and Peonage of retail dealers in ThomasviUe ^*r eU where, but its method in this in- -? ce seems to us, quite contemptible. 6 choir of the Methodist Church in oinasville will have a grand concert on * m “ ht of the 30th of April. ' >aQ dersville Messenger says that on of p ' a6t * ** re S°t out on the plantation coud* 6 lale ^ a j° r Brantley, in Washington «wt n-* ’ b0 °n got beyond control and •trov T a Iarge extent °* country, de- *cre' l ^ 6 t ‘ m ^ >er on several thousand °®tbuild * an ^’ ^ e8i ^ es baaing fences and crogAAi ' ** is burning, haviDg au!* i U cree k °b which Hines’s mill More than fifty thousand pannels efiito' ^ ^ aVe ^ een destroyed, and the *frantl< la tllat tbe Rotations of Green ‘Others * ’ G * W * PriDce » A - p * Heath and The r» re &1,U08t com P let e wrecks. emocratic Convention of the Sixth on thf toU t>6 held in Albany ° f April * in ti d ‘ V ° f a m *n wras seen float- Mr. p V lW !? r Dear Au gnsta the other day. w« notio i o{ Macon, whose illness de&d _ «6are 8 .i“ “ bas Ea T*" Bays: “The i ? 1st show that 4,570 *6«teri ai r* left tti8 86ct,0D ™ the aDd 200 by the tula , making a total of 4,770. “fi 8 Bfoatly dimini.ha^ of the J. H. E STILL, PROPRIETOR. SAVANNAH. THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1876. ESTABLISHED 1850. number probably not more than 150 are whites. We can only repeat what we have said, the vast body constituted a surplus population—the mass that was brought here by owners from the Western StateB to pre vent their falling into the hands of the Federate. ” The Thoma8vilio Enterprise is able to show that the sales of guano this year fall short of those for last season to this date by 100 tons. This will be a saving of at least $5,000 or 100 bales of cotton, and when it is considered that the total sales only ag gregate 220i tons or $10,000, the Enterprise is forced to the conclusion that the country will not be so hopelessly ruined by the guano question as some se6m to think. On Thursday last Senator Norwood intro duced a resolution, which was agreed to by tho Senate, to the effect that the Secretary of War be requested to commnnicate to the Senate his opinion as to the importance and practicability of deepening the inside pas - sage between Cumberland Sound and Saint Simon’s Sound, State of Georgia, with esti mates of the probable cost of snch improve ment of the inside passage between Fernan- dina and the St. John’s river. An escaped prisoner burned the dwelling- house of the Sheriff of Whitfield county the other night. The dwelling-house of Dr. M. G. Williams, of Cartersville, was burned Saturday night. Dalton had fifteen inches of snow on Sun day night. Hon. H. G. Turner, of Brooks county, will be invited to deliver the address before the Ladies Memorial Association in Thom- asville on the 21st of April. ThomasviUe is shipping early vegetables to the North. Since the 1st of September, Forsyth has shipped 8,839 bales of cotton. Forsyth has received more guano this sea son than daring the past three seasons com bined. The South Georgia Medical Association will meet in ThomasviUe in June. Sandersville Messenger: Tho grain crops in this section look remarkably fine. They are, however, in a very forward.state; but if there is no further cold weather the yield will be excellent. In this county there is, without doubt, at least five times the area of land planted in oats this year tbau there was last, and more than three times the amount of what. Forsyth Advertiser': We learn that our farmers are farther advanced in their work than for many years past. Nearly all the corn is planted and a great deal of cotton land is prepared. The very mild winter allowed an early start and the farmers, eager to get uuder headway, pushed the work vigorously. We are afraid that some were so well advanced that the corn has commenced to peep out of the ground, and if so, the young plauts were bit down by the cold of the last few days. The small grain crops are flourishing, and are not far enough along to be much injured by the cold. If the weather continues good after this we may expect heavy yields of wheat and oats, two crops that pay better and iiro more serviceable than any others. ThomasviUe Enterprise : It is with pain we chronicle the death of the oldest daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Dekle, which oc curred at their residence early on Monday morning last under peculiarly painful cir cumstances. It seems that the unfortunate child was assisting her younger sister to dress on Saturday morning last, when her clothing caught fire from the fire place near which they both were. Her cries, when 6he discovered her condition, brought al most immediately her mother, who, at the time was attending to some one of her domestic duties near by, to her relief, with whose assistance the burning garments were extinguished, not, however, until the unfor tunate giri bad been terribly burned. Everything that kind parents and. thought ful friends could do to alleviate her suffer ings was done, but all to no purpose. The little sufferer lingered until Monday, when the pure and gentle spirit left its prison house of clay and soared to brighter and purer realms above. Macon Telegraph: We feel that it is no violation of confidence to give publicity to the Following private letter received from Dr. J. G. Thomas, of Savannah. Tho writer is himself one of the ablest medical men in the State, and, together with the la mented Nottingham, was mainly instrumen tal in procuring the passage of the act for the establishment of a State Board of Health and mortuary statistics. Such a testimonial, coming from a source so worthy of respect aud confidence, reflects honor upon our deceased friend and fellow- citizen : Savannah, March 20, 1876. Jo Colonel II. H. Jones: My Dear Sib—I heard of Dr. Notting ham’s death on yesterday, and have just read the communication about him imyour paper. I feel that I knew him welRand fully endorse all you say about his noble ness of character and pureness of life. I have hardly ever known a man of higlnr tone, and in this way he impress ed all who came in contact with him. His death has cast a shade of sadness over me all day, and I have felt as though I had lost one who was near unto mo by blood. • This, however, is personal, and when I think of the medical profession, aud the cause of health in our State, I truly fear that his loss is irreparable. Dr. Not tingham always lived in a very high atmos phere of thought, and you had but to be with him for a 6hort time to realize this. For the last year of his life public hygiene was becoming the master passion of liis mind, and in his death I feel that Ihe whole State loses. The vacuum which his death creates in tho medical profession and in the State Board of Health, will not be easily filled. Yours truly, J. G. Thomas. South Carolina Affairs. Andrew McGinnis, a young man in Spar tanburg county, while putting on his coat one morning, lately, was accidentally shot by his pistol falling to the floor. The bones of one leg were shivered into splinters. His leg was amputated, but being in bad health he died last Saturday. Mr. Wm. Thompson, a highly respected citizen of Horry county, more than seventy years of age, rambled in the woods near his House and was found dead. Several cows have died in Columbia re cently from eating the leaves of the mock orange. These leaves are poisonous only after they have become withered. Mr. Michael Welch, of Darlington Court House, is erecting a new store on the site of his old one. In the matter of the impounded $8,000 in Fairfield county, found in the Treasury when Treasurer Smith was arrested, the Supreme Conrt has set aside the judgment of the Circuit Court which gave most of the money to the county, and tho matter has been reopened. Bill Bryce, who was recently arrested in Charlotte for stealing, is suspected of hav ing stolen a gold watch in Lancaster county some time since. The Republicans of Kershaw will meet on the 1st of April to take steps for the inau guration of the Presidential campaign. The race between tho firemen of the Brooklyn and the Congress at Port Royal came off last Wednesday afternoon. The crews started from the lower buoy and rowed three miles. The Congress crew won by four minutes, after a very exciting con test. The great attraction of this race was the novel oars—fire shovels—with which the rowers were more familiar than the usual sort. The defeated crews are determined to have another contest, and show the Con gress boys they are not invincible. A new Masonic haU will be dedicated at Buena Vista, in GreenviUe county, on the 25th instant. The County Commissioners of Laurens have been restrained by legal injunction from giving warrants for any indebtedness created in that county between November 1 1874, and November 1, 1875. All such claims wUl require legislative enactment for payment. Rev. Mansfield French, who lived in Bean- fort during the war, died recently in New York, aged 70 years. The town taxes of Anderson reach $2,236, of whiob $1,775 have been collected. The town Connell has $900 on hand at this time, and owes $400, of which $350 are for real estate purchased by former Connells. Mrs. Joel Ellison, of Lanrens, and Mrs. qimeon Styles, of Greenville, died last week. ^Mr^ Simon Mills died at Bock BiU, on Monday, at the age of 38 year*. The Abbeville Press and Banner man has been reading Munchausen. Hear him : “It is said that Mr. W. T. Head some time ago tamed an old sore-backed horse out to die, and the animal had been forgotten until it returned a few days ago with a small oak growing out of its back. Ik is thought an acorn fell into it, from which the bash grew.” Mrs. Jane Wilkins, of Spartanburg, died recently at the advanced age of seventy-nine years. Mr. Samuel Jefferies, of Union, has a fine specimen of gold-bearing quartz, which was picked up from some of his mines, and is about the size of a turkey egg, only mado in tho shape of a rough Irish potato. It was almost literally covered with gold—one knob on it near as large as the end of one’s little finger, It is said to be worth $25. He has also a piece of pare gold, cast in a square form of an inch and a half. Winnsboro' witnessed a novel tournament on Tuesday afternoon. The participants were thirty-two young knights on foot. Each knigbt had three runs ; time, eight seconds. She runners were in good train ing, and there was no bolting nor shying, with only occasional somersaults. The Knight of the Golden Eagle, Master Riley McMaster, won the first prize, and crowned Miss Annie McKorell. Robert Buchanan, Willie Ilion and David Crawford selected Misses Mamie Creight and Rachel McMaster and Kati^ Gorig as maids of honor. The prizes were an eight-bladed knife, an India rubber snake, a top, and a toy set of salver and decanters. The young folks had a dance that evening.. A difficulty occurred on the 12th instant in Laurens between two freedmen named respectively Irvin Jackson and Phelix Irby, in which the former severely stabbed the latter, who is still in a critical condition; but he may recover, as the symptoms are now favorable. Jackson was arrested promptly and lodged in jail. The cause of said difficulty, as is usual in such troubles among the freedmen, was a woman. The difficulty recently reported at Mc Leod’s Mills between whites and blacks over an old election quarrel, is said by the Marl boro Times to have been nor in that county but in Robeson county, North Carolina. About five hundred or a thousand persons had assembled to have fishing IroJic, and when they had become nred a.ad muddy, a man drove up with five gallons of whisky. This did not give the crowd a drink around. Then two barrels were brought to the scene and a general warming up began. Then a quarrel commenced, and fish-gigs, pistols and knives were drawn. One man got his skull split with a gig. After a time peace counsels prevailed, the fish were divided out, about one apiece, and the crowd dis persed with black eyes and aching heads. The Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad has this year procured a reduction on the assessment of its property in Darling ton of $2,000 a mile for twenty-three mile-'. It has tendered $1,225 in bills of the Bank of the State in payment of the tax. Up to last Saturday the total tax collected in that countv reached only $13,491 of a levy of over $70,000. Trial Justice Keenan, of Aiken, has a rich case before him. A newsboy on the South Carolina Railroad, on Monday night last, went to sleep aud on awakening found his hat gone. Mr. liurkhalter next morning brought tho hat to Trial Justice Keenan, saying he had found It in his pocket in the train on waking. He thinks Williams, an employe, put it into his pocket for a joke. Williams indignantiy douies this, and Mr. Burkhalter is prosecuted for highway rob bery. Mr. Burkhalter refused to compro mise for five dollars, but will appear next Monday and have the newsboy arrested on the charge of being a three-card monte player. A warrant has been issued at Chester for tho arrest of F. B. Lloyd, School Commis sioner of that county, for purchasing school certificates, which is prohibited by the act of 1S73. He was absent at the time on a visit to schools under his charge, but,we are informed will not seek to evade the penalty of the law. Mark Twain on St. Patrick. The foUowing letter was read at the supper of the Knights of St. Patrick in Hartford, Conn., on Friday night: Habtfobd, March 16. Richard McCloud. Esq. : Deal Sib—I am very sorry that I can not be with the Kuights of St. Patrick to-morrow evening. In the centennial year we ought ail to find a peculiar pleasure in doing honor to the memory of a man whose good name has endured through fourteen centuries. We ought to find pleasure in it for the reason that at this time we naturally have a feUow- feeling for such a man. He wrought a great work in his day. He found Ireland a prosperous republic, and looked about him to see if he might fiud some useful thing to turn his hand to. He observed that the President of that republic was in the habit of sheltering his great officials from deserved punishment, so he lifted up his staff and smote him, and he died. He fouad that the Secretary of War had been so unbecomingly economical as to have laid up $12,000 a year out of a salary of $8,000, and he killed him. He found that the Secre tary of the Interior always prayed over every separate and distinct barrel of salt beef that was intended for the uncon verted savage, and then kept that beef himself, so he killed him also. He found that the Secretary of the Navy knew more about handling suspicious claims than he did about handling a ship, aud he at once made an end of him. He found that a very foul private secretary had been engineered through a sham trial, so he destroyed him. He discov ered that the Congress which pretended to prodigious virtue was very anxious to investigat e an Ambassador who bad dis honored the country abroad, but was equally anxious to prevent the appoint ment of any spotless man in a similar post; that this Congress had no God but party, nog system of morals but party policy, no vision but a bat’s vision and no reason or excuse for existing Anyhow. Therefore, he massacred that Congress to the last man. When he had finished his great work he said, in his figurative way, “Lo, I have destroyed all the reptiles in Ire land.” St. Patrick had no politics; his sympa thies lay with the right—that was poli ties enough. When he came across a reptile he forgot to inquire whether he was a Democrat or a Republican, but simply exalted his staff and “let him have it.” Honored be his name—I wish we had him here to trim us up for the Centennial. Hut that cannot be. His staff, which was the symbol of real, not sham, reform, is idle. However, we still have with us the symbol of truth—George Washington’s little hatchet—for I know they’ve buried it. Yours truly, S. L. Clemens. Pleasures or Life in Texas.—A man named Adams went into the store of Mr. Anderson at Savoy, one day last week, and raising a difficulty with him, threw a four pound weight at him, but fortunate ly missed him. Anderson then threw a four pound weight at Adams, and strik ing him on the head, killed him—weighty arguments.—Galveston News. It is reported that Mr. Thos. Maguire, the able and popular New England “commissioner” of the New York Herald, has fallen heir to a legacy of $50,000 from a New York gentleman, who takes this method of expressing his gratitude to Mr. Maguire for saving his daughter from drowning, some time ago, at Long Branch. The Louisville Courier-Journal says: “At first it seemed that to render Grant’s administration respectable in the eyes of the world nothing was so much needed as the active aud persistent operations of the fool-killer; but now the plain necessi ties of the case plead like angels, trumpet- tongued, for the stern, implacable red right hand of the thief-killer.” Beecher says: “Every man that loves his country would fain take a cloak and go backward and cover the shame and sin and sorrow of the miserable spectacle that humiliates us at home and makes us a shame-stock abroad.” He was alluding to the Belknap matter. Oh, yes. That's the thing he wants, to “w&lfc backward” and cover with a cloak. BY TELEOiPO THE MORNING NEWS. Noon Telegrams. KAUICAt, RASCALITY AJiD KNAVERY. The Case of Georgre H. Peadleton. CRESWELL, LATE POSTMASTER GEN ERAL, IN AN UGLY FIX. WUITELY AND THE SAFE OLAKY BUSINESS. Bl'R. The Hayes Cadetship Investigation. FROM THE CENTRE OF CORRUPTION. Washington, March 22.—Mrs. General Barton, to whom Butler refers as cognizant of the relations between Pendleton and Mrs. Bowers, is known in the lobbies as Minnie White. The poet Longfellow is seriously canvass ed as JSchenck's successor. Cameron and Frellnghuysen, and all the Democrats, voted against Daua in the committee. The post office investigation regarding straw bids and collateral irregularities is assuming an ugly look for Creswell. Jewell is untouched beyond allowing pay from the department for political services. Congressman Burleigh writes that his charges againBt naval officiate, in regard to building a sloop-of-war at Kittery Navy Yard, which has undoubtedly been run in the in terest of Senator Hamlin, are true. The Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repairs will have an opportunity to explain. There are to be no postal cards after the first of April, unless Jewell gets $685,000 special appropriation. * The new steamboat bill allows the carriage of coal oil one hundred and ten degrees proof in metallic cans, and one hundred and tiftjTiegrees proof in barrels, on deck or in the forecastle. Steamboat owners having knowledge of defects are liable for the full amount of loss, while inoocent owners are still liable for the amount actually owned. The story of the safe burglary will be fully told. Whftely, the Chief Detective of the Secret Service, who was indicted in connec tion with the aftair, is here from Colorado. He denies that ho had been out of the country. The Committee on Naval Expen ditures is developing facts which show that while Baring Brothers were custodians, money was held for a legitimate pur pose. Jay Cook, McCullough & Co. used it for all kinds of speculations. Capt. Whitney, manager of the telegraph, produced messages between Balknap and Marsh. Belkuap telegraphed: “Come here. Some hitch in arrangements.” The evidence against Hays, in the cadet ship irregularity, accumulates. When Mrs. BeardBlee got the $3,000 draft from her Utica banker she told him the use she was to make of it. The supporters of Payne’s bill are discour aged. Holman and other Democratic infla tionists will vote for the Atkins bill, which virtually repeals the rt sumption act. FROM JEFFERSON COUNTY, BLA. An Attractive Inland Town—Some of Ita Substantial Features—A t.lance at Jef ferson County—That Undiscovered Vol cano—Fresh Attempts at Its Discovery —A Few Final Notes. [Special Correspondence of the Morning News.] Monticello, March 13, 1876. AN ATTRACTIVE INLAND TOWN. To travel in Florida and not hear of Monticello, where are the most fragrant of flowers and the most beautiful of fe males, would be like visiting Boston with out hearing any one speak of the “Big Organ ’—it can’t be done. This noted town is not only off the regular line of travel, but you have to leave an irregular line of travel, on a short branch railroad, to reach the place. But when you get h$re, which is not a difficult matter in any respect, you find one of the most pleasantly located and charming towns in the State. I doubt if any other city of its size can boast of as elegant and stately mansions as can be seen on the shaded streets of Monticello. The resi dences are widely scattered, and nearly all of them are adorned with tastefully arranged flower gardens. The orange trees are now in bloom, and some still display their ripe and tempting fruit, while on every side I see banana and other fruit culture being successfully carried on. The vegetable gardens present a flourishing appearance, and more beauti ful and fragrant flowers I have never seen in this semi-tropical land of fruits and flowers. As I write the sweet fra grance of a magnificent boquet, tasteful- * ly arranged and presented by one of Mon- ticello’s most charming, bright-eyed maid ens, proves to me that the praises which have been so lavishly showered upon the floral beauties of this favorod region were well deserved and justly bestowed, as beautiful flowers and lovely women are the pride of Jefferson county. SOME OF ITS SUBSTANTIAL FEATURES. SWINDLES. .Republican Uottennemi in Nearly Every Department. Washington, D. C., March 17.—Day by day fresh evidences of the corruption that has so long existed in the War De partment are coming to light. This time it is not a post tradership nor a sutlership, but a deliberate steal of over $100,000. A letter dated Leavenworth, Kansas, March 9, 1876, written by a gentleman in that city, has been received by Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania. The writer, whose name, for sufficient reasons, is withheld, is said to be a responsible person. The subject of his letter is the military prison at Leavenworth, and the connection of the late Secretary of War therewith. At the earnest solicitation of Mr. Belknap in 1874 a military prison was established at Fort Leavenworth,Kansas, and three stone buildings were turned over by the Quar termaster’s Department to be converted to that use. Congress at the same time made a very liberal appropriation of $100,000 for the purpose of building a stone wall about the prison grounds and to make other trifling alterations, such as fitting up two hundred small pine cells within the main building. Mr. Belknap is said to have been especially active in securing this appropriation. The writer of the letter states that the first stone of that wall is yet to be laid, and all that can be shown for the appropriation of $100,000 is a pine fence around the prison and a few cells of coarse pine lum ber within the prison. Shortly after the prison was organized it became necessary to warm it, and in 1875 Congress made another appropriation, urged by Belknap, for the purpose of erecting machinery to heat the prison with steam. Belknap had the letting of the contract for work, and he accepted the highest bid, that of J. O. A. Sargent & Co., of Manchester, N. H., for $32,000—thus giving the contract to a firm in an Eastern town thousands of miles from the prison in which the heat ing apparatus was to be placed, at the same time rejecting lower bids made by # prominent firms doingjbusiness in St. Louis, Chicago and other Western cities. Messrs. Sargent & Co. farmed their con tract to the Great Western Boiler Manu facturing Company of Leavenworth, who were one of the original bidders for the work. The writer charges that the ex-Secretary of War received in the neighborhood of $12,000 from Sargent & Co. for awarding them the contract. But there are other things in which a just pride is felt that contribute to the prosperity and attractiveness of Monti cello. Her citizens are men of energy and business capacity, and know no such word as fail. The fire-fiend may come, as he has done, and sweep away their stores and lay in ashes the best part of the public square, but, Phot;uix-like, new structures arise from the ashes of dead hopes and disappointed aspirations, and the increasing trade of the town receives no serious check from such disasters. One of the last structures of this kind is now in course of erection by Messrs. G. W. Lyons & Co., of Savannah, who are doing a gen eral mercantile business here. A number of the stores are built of brick, as is the court house, some of the churches and school edifices, and a few dwellings. The Jefferson Academy is a large brick building, two stories in height, and very pleasantly located. The colored children also have a large two-story wooden school house, neatly painted, and with ample play grounds attached. There are four attractive church edifices for the white people, and several for colored worship pers, which afford ample sittings for a population of about twelve hundred, iu eluding both races. Two commodious hotels provide the traveling public all the conveniences of an interior town, and the. Constitution, an excellent and well patronized local weekly paper, pub lished by the Messrs. Fildes, presents in its columns many inducements for com mercial travelers and pleasure seekers and immigrants to visit Monticello in their journeyings, and examine the re sources of Jefferson county, either for mercantile, mechanical or agricultural pursuits, or as a home for invalids seek ing a miJder and healthier climate. A GLANCE AT JEFFERSON COUNTY. A FEW FINAL NOTES. I am surprised to find the circulation of the Morning News so large in this county, nearly every person having the means to take it being a subscriber. I have received many courtesies from CoL Thomas Simmons, your local agent here, who is a most cultivated gentleman and honored citizen, and who at one time was widely known throughout Georgia and South Carolina. I am also much indebted to Mr. S. Simon and his pleasant family for their agreeable attentions, and shall long remember with most delightful recollections this brief visit to Monticello, whose attractions I had so much desired to “see with mine own eyes, and not another’s.” Judge Bell has been engaged for some montfis past in making a rare collection of the birds, reptiles and natural curiosities of Jefferson county, to which valuable additions are yet to be made, with a view of exhibiting the same at the approaching Centennial. As this county extends to the Gulf coast, and has numer ous lakes and rivers and swamps withtfi its limits jn which game abounds, it is possible to make a collection of this kind whose value and attractiveness would fairly astonish even the scientific men and learned naturalists who are expected to daily inspect the- h-lte of tho exhibi tion buildings at Philadelphia. As J6f ferson county adjoins two of the most fruitful and desirable counties in South Georgia, would it not be well for the citi zens of Thomas and Brooks, who are men of acknowledged energy and capability, to look about them and see if they too cannot make some kind of a display at the Centennial, that the world may see that that portion of your noble “Empire State of the South” can rival even this semi-tropical “Land of Flowers” in many of its natural attractions and cultivated productions? Sidney Herbert. The Carl Schurz’s Bereavement. [N. Y. Tribune, March 16.] Mrs. Schurz, the wife of ex-Senator Carl Schurz, died yesterday afternoon, at her husband’s residence in this city, No. 40 West Thirty-second street, of puerpe ral fever. She gave birth on the evening of Sunday, the 5th in&t., to a boy—her fifth child. Great anxiety has been felt ever since by the physicians as to her con dition. For some days she seemed easier, but on Tuesday morning the fever ap peared to reach its crisis, and since that time she has been gradually sinking. Mrs. Schurz was the daughter of a well known and wealthy Hamburg family. Her marriage to the ex-Senator was es sentially a love match. She met him when he was young, poor, a defeated revolutionist, an exile from Prussia, and with a price set upon his head, married him then, and has been since the most devoted of wives and mothers. Senator Schurz is doubly afflicted by this loss, as it is only a few weeks since his venerable father died in Illinois. Mr. Schurz had visited him a short time be fore, but was compelled to return to New York by his anxiety concerning the health of his wife. When dispatches came announcing his father’s rapid de cline, he was unable to start West again because of his wife’s condition, and was thus deprived of the mournful pleasure of soothing his father’s last hours upon earth. He is now called suddenly to bear a second and even greater bereavement. Mrs. Schurz leaves two grown daughters, a son three or four years old, and an infant boy, born ten days ago. The Rochester papers tell a carious story of a baptism which took place the other day in the plunge bath of a Turkish bathing establishment in that city. Ac cording to the account a clergyman called and arranged for the unmole&ted use of the plunge, then called again with his convert, and the two entered the room together. The mysteriousness of the transaction induced some of the people belonging to the bath to watch and listen. Instead of discerning the expected indi cations of murder or suicide, they were astonished to hear the voice of prayer. Further investigation disclosed the fact that it was a case of baptism by immer sion. The minister and his baptized fol lower paid their bill and departed in peace. The ballot is a weapon firmer set and better than the bayonet; it falls like snow flakes on the sod and executes the freeman’s will as lightnings do the will of God; but in New Hampshire it oosts something to make it execute, and the ballots fell there last Tuesday at about fifteen dollars per flake. Jefferson county extends, in a narrow strip, from the Georgia line to the Gulf coast, and is bounded by some of the most fruitful counties in the States. I need only name Thomas and Brooks, in Georgia, and Leon, Madison, Wakulla and Taylor, in Florida, to prove this as- serticn. It is nearly the centre of what is designated as Middle .Florida, and pre sents, generally, an attractive, undulating surface, well watered, including the widely-known Miccosukie lake and the Ancilla river, and with a fruitful and easily cultivated soil. The climate is un surpassed for health and invigorating in- * fluences, which are promoted by good water and moderated breezes from the Gulf. Lands of all kinds; and in every portion of the county, can be purchased at as reasonable rates as iu any other sec tion of the State possessing similar ad vantages. That farming can be made successful and profitable in Jefferson county, as in the adjoining counties, was fully shown at the ThomasviUe Fair, where many of the prizes awarded came to Leon and Jefferson. Cotton, corn, oats, rice, potatoes, sugar cane and vege tables of all kinds can be cultivated here with the most gratifying results. North ern and Western immigrants wiU find many desirable features in this section of the State, and if they come here in the right spirit they wiU always be cordially received and weU treated by the old set tlers. The lands are not worn out, but will readily respond to proper cultivation and experienced labor. THAT UNDISCOVERED VOLCANO. Of the wonderful secrets of nature that Florida can boast of possessing within her limits there is one in this county upon which the eye of mortal has not yet been permitted to gaze. For more than thirty years its existance has been tantalizingly proclaimed by a cloud of smoke that has unceasingly ascended, frequently chang ing from a light to a dark shade, from an imp^etrable swamp some twenty-five mUes from Monticello, and in the direc tion of the Gulf coast, from which point this “pillar of cloud” is also visible. Short-sighted men, unmindful of the fact that illicit distiUeries are of a somewhat modern growth, have suspiciously hinted that this perpetual cloud was “merely the smoke of an illicit distiUery.” Learned gentlemen, however, after viewing “the landscape o’er” for many years, and from various standpoints, have arrived at a far different conclusion, and have proved the sincerity of their opinions by frequent and persistent efforts to solve this long standing and perplexing mystery. But up to this time nothing has been accom plished beyond unsuccessful attempts to reach the place, all of which efforts ended in disaster within four or five miles of the spot on which the supposed volcano is thought to be located. FRESH ATTEMPTS AT ITS DISCOVERY. I am informed that Judge Bell, of this place, and other parties are now making a fresh attempt to penetrate to this mys terious phenomenon, and discover its true character. Judge White, of Quincy, a man of large literary culture, has led several expeditions to that region, bat in every instance failed to effect an entrance through the closely interwoven and im penetrable undergrowth of the centre of the swamp, where the volcano is situated. While some of these attempts have been feeble and inefficient, others have been well organized and equipped, and led by men of experience and fixedness of pur pose. Judge White had an ob servatory which he could place in the tree tops to guide him in the right course, and I am told that the New York Herald had one of its “great discoverers,” of the Stanley order, attached to one of the expeditions. And yet this “undiscovered bourne” remains untrodden by the foot of a modern traveler; at least none has ever returned to report its still unfolded and unex plored mysteries. One thins: is certain, now that the Okefenokee Swamp has been “done up” for the reading public, that another twelve months will not pass withont witnessing the successful un folding of this wonderful mystery. If this object can be accomplished in no other way, I will guarantee that the Savannah Morning News will send out a balloon expedition that will swoop down upon impenetrable spot and explore mouth of the flmy demon. Cheek of the Heathen Chinee. [From the Laramie San.] One of our city guardians was standing on the corner of Second and B streets yesteiday, when a wild-looking China man came rushing up, seizing him by the arm, and said: “You ketch-um-saw?” “Yes ?” “You no savey; you ketch-um-saw-ee, dem saw-buck-ee. You savey?” The officer was bewildered, and think ing some terrible crime had been com mitted, endeavored to get the Celestial to explain. John repeated over every word of English that he had learned, yet still he couid not make himself understood. I* inally, he seized the officer by the arm, and saying, “Come long,” started off at a rapid pace, closely followed by the eager official. They went first to a wash-house on B street, into which the Chinaman looked, and then, with a shake of the head, struck out again. “Skipped out, has he,” asked the offi cer as he pounded along, using every en deavor to keep up with the cat-footed Mongolian. “Come along, we katch um bime by.” On they went at a rattling pace until a house near the rolling mill was reached, into which John looked, and shaking his hand, dashed off on the back track. “Where now?” “Come ’long,” replied John, and on they went. They traveled all over the town, and at last reached a shanty near the round house. The officer was by this time nearly dead with fatigue, and was covered with perspiration. Going up to the door, John said: “Now we catch-um.” “Thinking there might be a desperate crew inside, the officer drew his revolver and they entered the door. A small man was sitting on the floor, and in him the officer recognized ‘Jim,’ an English Chinaman.” “What’s the row, Jim?” he asked. “He hunt me so I interpret what he say. ” “Well, what is it?” * - The two jabbered a minute, and Jim said : “He want ee borrow saw-buck, and somebody tell ee him you lend um one.” “Saw-buck be dashed! Here I’ve walked no less than ten miles after that rice-mashin’ heathen, thinking a murder had been committed, or something ter rible had been done. You tell him that if he ever speaks to me again I'll mash him into the ground ! ” and he returned to his beat. A Petrified Forest iu the Desert. [From the Winnemucca (Nevada) Star.] From David Rideout, who has been en gaged in preparing a section of petrified tree for the Centennial exhibition, we learn the following relative to the petri fied forest in the desert of Northwestern Humboldt. On the plain, about thirty miles west of the Blackrock range of moun tains, stands one of the greatest natural curiosities ever discovered in Nevada. It is a petrified forest, in which the stumps of many of the trees, now changed into solid rock, are still standing. There are no living trees or vegetation of any kind other than the stunted sage brush in the vicinity. Some of these ancient giants of the forest, which flourished, perhaps, thousands of years ago, when the climate of Nevada was undoubtedly more favora ble to the growth of luxuriant vegetation than at present, rival in size the big trees of California. Stumps, transformed.into solid rock, stand in an upright position, with their roots imbedded in the soil, as when growing, that measure from fifteen to twenty-six feet in circumference, and the ground in the vicinity is strewn with the trunks and limbs, which retain their natural shape and size. Mr. Rideout, determined to secure a section of one of these trees for the Centennial exhibition, -with two other men, spent twelve days in cutting it from the stump. This was accomplished by drilling all around the tree and separating it with wedges. The specimen is three feet high and eighteen feet in circumference, and its estimated weight is three tons. It stands on the stump from which it was severed, ready to be loaded on a wagon. Mr. Rideout does not feel able to incur the expense of bringing it by team to the railroad, though he had once made arrangements to do so, but the other party to the agree* ment failed to perform his part. He is anxious to call the attention of the Cen tennial Commissioners to the matter and see if they will not furnish the means to get it to the railroad. The country in which it is situated is an inviting field for geologists. GRANT’S UNBIDDEN GUEST. Carious Scene at the White House. Washington, March 19.—A few days ago the President wished to talk over, in an informal manner, with the ring men of the District and their Congressional backers, some matters of importance to his household. The President’s real estate speculations, General Babcock’s connection with the improvement of cer tain public reservations, and Hallett Kil- bourne’s imprisonment for not producing his private books and expressing Grant’s connection with the real estate pool, all required friendly conversation. The private secretary of the President, Ulysses S., Junior, was handed by his father a list of the parties to be sum moned to the Presidential dinner table During the day he repaired to the Capitol and personally presented the President’s compliments with the request that each party waited upon would be at the White House to dinner that evening. General Garfield was among the first called upon. Then looking over the list he saw the prefix “Sen.,” which he thought meant Senator, and the angular writing of the President lead him to read the line as Senator Saulsbury. To thei.venerable and gentle Senator from Delaware young Ulysses presented his father’s compli ments and requested him to be at the White House promptly at seven o’clock that evening. At the appointed time the guests were all in attendance. No one was so bland and polite as Senator Sauls- bury. The President saw the mistake, but it was useless to attempt to correct it then. General Garfield was consulted, and having had large < perience in “sitting out” intruders at late hours, he recommended that the invited guests except Saulsbury be re quested to linger ai the table and perhaps the Democratic Senator would discover his awkward presence amid an assem blage of Republican Congressmen and Senators. But he did not, and remained until so late an hour that the President gave up in despair and intimated that he wished to retire. Now, the Senator who should have been invited instead of Mr. Saulsbury, everybody knows, was Sena tor Sargent, of California. Garfield in the House and Sargent in the Senate are the defenders of Boss Shepherd, the real estate pool, and all the other profitable rascality which has cursed the District for six years past. Young Ulysses was up braided for having made the mistake, and defended his action on the ground that he was not familiar with his father’s handwriting, and did not know who his ijjpg friends were. During the last Con gress Mr. Wood was placed in a similar awkward position by mistake. Congress man Parker, of Missouri, a Republican, was invited to the feast, instead of Parker, Democrat, of New Hampshire and this one uncongenial party spoiled the evening’s entertainment.—Baltimore Gazette. J very i Uncle Sam’s Cash Room.—The cash room of the United States Treasury is said to be the most beautiful room in America. One may study the marbles for hours. The polished panels in the second story have the varied coloring of a choice painting—or, from the gallery, he can look down upon the busy clerks below, who are cashing drafts; filling boxes with greenbacks; sealing the pack ages; counting the fresh, crisp bills, so unlike the dilapidated rag-money that they are destined soon to become; pour ing gold through funnels into bags, occa sionally stopping to “ring” a suspicious coin. But beyoijd this there is not over much to see. Uncle Sam keeps strict guard over his huge money-box; and the vaults, processes of engraving, sorting, examining and destroying of notes, must generally be left to the imagination of visitors. A Great Organ Changing Tune. There are two articles in Harpers Weekly of this week that are significant— especially so because of the recently man ifested opposition on Staten Island to Mr. Curtis, its political editor, as a dele gate to the New York Republican Con vention, by reason of his hostile criti cisms of the Administration and to the Administration’s second choice for Presi dent, Mr. Conkling. Mr. Curtis is an intense partisan and reflects, no doubt, the sentiments of the brains of the Re publican party. Equally suggestive was the abandonment by this organ of its tone of defense of Republican corruption, in its preceding issue. Dropping the mask of hypocrisy, it now candidly confesses that “recent events, culminating in the crime and disgrace of the Secretary of War, the return of our Minister in England under a charge of swindling, and the declaration of the Attorney Gen eral that he has ‘ascertained’ the private secretary of the President to be a thief of private papers, leave no sensible Re publican in doubt that there is but one way in which Republican success can be assured in the Presidential election of this year,” and “that way lies in a radical and thorough change of the spirit and character and tone of administration.” And yet it as freely admits in another ar ticle that there are Republicans who see in this disgrace disaster so fatal that they “despair of the party and declare reform within the party to be impossible.” Mr. Curtis would be even more candid to en dorse this declaration. That he ought to endorse it is shown by his own logic in the article immediately preceding, where in he says: It is puerile to say that Mr. Belknap is only an individual, and that a party should not be held responsible for the conduct and character of all who choose to act with it. Our government is one of parties, and the party in power cannot evade its responsibility. What is the value of party principles and professions if the men trusted to put them into practice are unfaithful or dishonest ? Can the Republican party, for instance, claim to be a party of civil service reform merely because at its last National Con vention it declared for it in the most unreserved terms, but when it had gained power contemptuously discarded it? The “journal of civilization” admits further that the Republican dread of Democratic success this year is counter balanced by the popular indignation with the corruption that has been developed under Republican auspices; but when it adds “that indignation will defeat the party if the party cannot prove by its nomination that those who have con trolled, control no longer,” is insincere, insomuch that it is merely the expression of the editor’s personal hostility to Conk ling and his administration-backing. The Republican situation is far more desper ate than that. The ejection into the seething sea of popular indignation of ever so many Jonahs, will not save the doomed Republican ship. The admissions in the other article from the Weekly, from which we have quoted, prove this. It tells us there are Republicans who have abandoned all hope of success over the Democrats, save through the ma chinery of a new party. This is always the ominous and unmistakable symptom of early party dissolution. A new party, or rather the old party under a new name, with new directors, will no more save it than the casting of its Jonahs to the fishes. No party could survive such ex posures nor withstand such a storm of popular indignation as is now rising, un less the public attention might be di verted from the main issue—which is the corruption of the party in power—to other made issues, which, if not irrele vant, are of secondary importance.— Nashville American. KATE THE KLEPTOMANIAC. The Romantic Career of a Once Rich and Beautiful Woman—A Shop-Lifter Dressed in Brocade, Silk and Diamonds —iler Stay in Cincinnati—Arrest in New York, St. Lonis and New Orleans. There are some few Americans who think they are “ doing the genteel thing” by doing nothing; or who, if they must work on an emergency, are ashamed of it. But such people, fancying that they are imitating “foreign airs,” are only adopting a spurious “ gentility,” which is despised and ridiculed. No matter what nominal rank, by birth or prefer ment, people may hold, those who make their mark in the world are neither ashamed nor afraid to labor. The leading men in Europe to-day, Disraeli, Glad stone, Bismarck, Thiers and others are among the hardest worked men alive. If they had not been they would not have achieved their greatness. In our own country the same remark holds true. Given an idler, and yon have a useless, and sometimes a dangerous person. One of the principal attractions in the old Hall of Representatives are the mas sive pillars of Potomac marble. The quarry was exhausted in supplying the variegated supports which encircle what is now called Statuary hall. For over thirty years the pillar to the right of what is now the entrance to the new hall has been pointed out as containing a re markable formation, being a perfect rep resentation of a man’s face in a recum bent position. It was first noticed by John Quincy Adams* when Speaker of the House, during a night session. Re cently workmen engaged in placing the statue of Ethan Allen in position, per mitted the derrick to come in contact with this column, resulting in defacing this well-known attraction. As a com pensation there has been discovered in the same column a perfect head of Boss Tweed, resembling in the most striking manner the caricatures of Nast. Since the celebrated face has been disfigured, parties are daily engaged in seeking for new formations in this curious pillar. Birds with the rarest plumage, heads of animate, outlined faces, implements of war, and in fact there seems to be a re flection of the contents of Noah’s ark. [Cincinnati Enquirer.] Habitues of the Grand Hotel may re member among the feminine guests there last fall a tall, elegant woman, about thirty-five years of age, whose striking face and figure and rich toilet made her noticeable everywhere, and whose sud den departure was the ccasion of consid erable gossip at the tilths. Dame Rumor connected her aristocratic name with th« gentle epithet of kleptomaniac, and cer tainly her repeated visits to fashionable dry goods storos, which found themselves heavy losers^ gave some ground to the suppositio2r The circumstance would not be alluded to now, if an Enquirer re porter had not learned some facts which make these robberies an insignificant epi sode in the romantic career of a remark able and gifted woman, and, as the in formation was gathered from an authen tic source, there can be no harm in relat ing it to a Cincinnati public. A short time after her sudden flight from Cincinnati she appeared at St, Louis, where she registered at the Everett House, under the name of Miss Kate Cummings. In the glamour of wealth and aristocratic lineage that surrounded her she met with nothing but servility and obeisance everywhere in her visits to the dry goods palaces of the Mound City. No suspicion attached .to her when it was discovered at a number of stores along Fourth and Fifth streets, that they were daily suffering the loss of valuable articles of ladies’ wear and fancy fabrics. No suspicion attached to her when a detec tive from the police department was placed in a secure position, where he could observe everything for the pur pose of catching the thief. And the detective could hardly believe his eyes when at Scruggs, Vandervoort &- Barney’s, a few days later, he saw ;a piece of lace pocketed by this woman, dressed in brocade and silk and bedecked with diamonds. But it turned out to be so when she was taken down to the police station and locked up. The property was found upon her, and a search of her trunks at the Everett House showed a stock of stolen goods amount ing in value to several hundred dollars. The police threw a veil over the matter when they found that she had a brother in the city who was a prominent and in fluential lawyer, and consented to accept her version of the affair, as a freak of kleptomania, with which she had been afflicted from childhood. In her extrem ity she “spouted” her diamonds and other valuables, and with the proceeds she was able to purchase bonds from shyster attorneys in league with tho po lice, who let her “jump the town.” It wouldn’t be worth while to pursue the story further, if the woman was an ordinary shop- lifter, who was running a race for the penitentiary. But the heroine of this news item is a veritable daughter of haughty Virginia stock. Born and brought up amid wealth and luxury, she married a wealthy retired New Orleans merchant, who became her devoted slave. As the wife of Colonel John M. Carr, she moved in the highest circles of New Orleans society. In that soft Southern sky no star was more bril liant than was Sallie E. Carr. Men fol lowed in her train and worshipped at her foot-stool, but woe to the victim on whom her fascinating glances fell with favor. Her control over men was that of a queen, and a subject once gained yielded to her the control of his whole being. He was drawn into a maelstorm of in toxication and fascination until whirled into a black abyss of disaster and despair. She controlled men by the pow er of a mighty and subtle intellect and wit, and these alone. Her passion was not love, but gambling. Her victims fell be neath her greed of gain. At her com mand, and often with her money, they backed against the “tiger” till all was lost. Once a year she made a trip to her home in Virginia, but she took advantage of the occasion to go on a gambling tour through the watering places of the East. She would stake thousands on a single throw of cards. She was wonderfully lucky, and frequently won immense sums. These were lavished on the most costly laces, silks and jewelry. These, again, on the other hand, she would hand over to her “uncle” when fortune went against her, and more than once she was com pelled to resort to her kleptoma niac practices to replenish her ex chequer. In the fall of 1866 she was arrested in New Y’ork for shop lifting and thrown into the Tombs. A well-known New Orleans merchant, J. Pinckney Smith, happened to be in New York at the time, bailed her out, and had the matter quieted. In the fall of 1868, during the progress of the Louisiana State Fair, at New Orleans, she was de tected in the act of purloining a set of jewelry on exhibition belonging to E. A. Tyler, a prominent jeweler in that city. Her wealth and social position succeeded in preventing scandal. Enemies she had, of course, but she pursued them with the vindictiveness of a fiend. On the other hand her generous charities made her adored by thousands. She played men as she played cards, and a man in her hands became a piece of pasteboard she could bend at her will. Later she played for a $2,000,000 silver mine and lost. Her own home, heavily mortgaged, fell at last under foreclosure, and her husband’s princely fortune went with it. Then she became a wanderer, and a wanderer she is to-day. Distinguished Englishmen have re marked that if the Prince of Wales had not sworn falsely in the case of Lady Mordaunt it would have been impossible for him ever to become King of England. “He perjured himself like a gentleman.” saicUhe late Daniel Webster, on a mem- oca A Spark Extinguisher—A Simple But Effective Contrivance. It has long been a puzzling problem, to railroad, steamboat and factory men, how to devise a prevention of the escape of sparks from smoke stacks. The danger arising from flying sparks is so apparent that it need scarcely be pointed out. Mr. C. L. Kock, of this city, has devised a simple contrivance which seems to effec tually accomplish the desired purpose. It consists of two semi-circular iron plates —together exactly equaling the diameter of the smoke stack—inserted one above the other, so that the lower will close the front half of the stack, the upper *the rear half. The upper plate is set within a sifter, or perforated copper plate, which entirely covers the other half of the stack. The smoke and sparks ascending the stack, strike against the lower plate, and are deflected to the other side, where a little higher up they are again arrested by the upper plate. The effect of the two deflections is to completely extinguish the sparks and to prevent the escape of nearly all cinders, while the smoke escapes as freely os it would under any other circumstances. The contrivance is called the spark ex tinguisher and arrester, and is appli cable as well to the stacks of steamboats and factories as it is to those of locomo tives. Mr. Kock has applied his invention to the stack of a locomotive of the Pont- chartrain Railroad Company, and last evening a number of gentlemen, by invi tation, rode down to the lake to observe its operation. The fairest kind of a test was made, and it resulted in convincing all present that the object was completely accomplished. Although the closest ob servation was made, both in going and coming, not a single spark was detected escaping, and very few cinders. It is surprising to think that so simple a thing does perfectly what over seventy-five patented inventions have failed to accom plish.—N. O. Times. [From the Commercial Advertiser.! the inost°remarkah| irt j yeaPS ® noe 01 derous fought in Vicksburg P laca J® 8 was formerly a Xew YnrV V he Pf 1 ' 68 from one of the a P"!? 48 filling all Vu atreet ,,&nk8 - Af ter with'singnlar abUul °! that '“titution : b ; Ch JT ° S r Se “ d cause d much jeaf- Stitmg r, 8 . ^ 3enior Of that in- in hta^ >eC< T “? marked “d unbearable told tb? r er th c at the President finally ^d that hf" ^ hC must it, and that he would stand by him. He thftS°. a SOO “ afUr t0 one of the tellers a specimen cf his skill in the ch«l?f self ; defen3 e- This resulted m a and !f!?r “ d !i el ‘ Which was ““Pted, d after three days of constant pistol P r |^'“ ce . reaultld iu the death of the tenet, lie had numerous relatives that, one after another, came forward to avenge his death, until four duels were forced upon the cashier from the natural consequences of the first duel, and “still there were more Richmonds in the field.” A relative of the first victim, an editor and successful duelist, gave out a threat that he wascoming to town to avenge the death of his cousin. His great cour age and desperate fighting qualities had been frequently successfully tried, and were so well known that something dos- perate must be done to meet the emer gency , and if possible to stop any and all future challenges. The editor arrived in town, and lost no time in sending his message, whioh was as promptly . responded to. Early in the morn ing of the same day all of the arrangements were made for a meeting at 6 o’clock the next morning. After making some necessary arrange-* inents in case of death the cashier went to bed and slept until 4 a. m., having all this time forgotten the almost worshipful love and devotion of his wife and only child, who were in profound ignorance cf his desperate enterprise. He silently kissed them, aud then the husband and father stole away to attend the bloody business. On arriving at the appointed rendezvous he found a trench dug six feet deep, two feet wide, and twelve feet long. Into this double grave the two principals descended, each armed with six-shooting navy revolvers aud having bowie knives, with instructions to com mence firing at the word advance and finish the bloody work with their knives, if their pisrols failed to accomplish it. At the first shot the editor was mortally wounded. He drew his kuife, and with the ferocity of a tiger sprung forward at his opponent just as he had fired his second shot. He warded off the blow with his pistol, which had a deep cut in it 'made by the heavy knife, showing what a desperate blow had been aimed at his life by his adversary, who fell dead at his feet. The cashier's mind was so much diseased that he could not attend to business, and by the advice of his physician took a vacation and change of scene. lie came to this city and died in a lunatic asylum a month after. The Royal Bengal Tiger. The tigris regalis is the only species of the kind, and obtains the appellation of “Bengal” because its beauty and ferocity are there most developed. It has a wide geographical range, though it is limited entirely to Asia. From Ararat and the Caucasus on the west, it extends to the Island of Sagbalieu, and, with the ex ception of the central table land of Thibet, extends through the length and breadth of India, and round by China and Mon golia into Persia. It is found at consid erable elevations on the Himalayas (Dr. Fayrer gives au instance of one that was shot test year one thousand feet above the level of the sea,) and penetrates Siam into the Malayan Archipelago being found in Java and Sumatra. The St. Louis whisky trials will cost, according to figures in the Republican, $65,682, if the lawyer’s bills are allowed as presented. General Henderson’s bill is $22,000, those of Broadhead & Eaton are $10,000 each. Had Babcock been convicted the result reached would have warranted this great expenditure. The President has interviewed Robeson and the Secretary says he is innocent. “Guilty or not guilty is it yon ask me?” said hear ikt evidence ?” I till ] As might be expected, it varies greatly in color, thickness of hair, etc., according to its habitat, the hair growing longer and thicker in colder localities. None of the felidtv have as yet been found in Australia or Madagascar. Recently Captain Lawson, however, has astonished the scientific world by his discovery of the “moolah,” which was in shape and size, he tells us, like a Bengal tiger, but much handsomer, the skin being a white ground, with black and chestnut stripes. One which he shot was seven feet eight inches from the nose to the tail—larger than any tiger he had seen in India. Ill-natured persons, on reading these details, may be tempted to fancy that the gallant Captain had served with the marines. In Ceylon, too, it is unknown. The special points in the anatomy of a tiger which call for mention are the enormous developments of muscle in neck, chin and forearms, and his for midable canine teeth. The digitigrads feet are armed with cruel retractile claws and cushioned with soft pads, which aid his stealthy advance. In man and many other creatures the partition which sepa rates cerebrum and cerebellum is mem branous; in the tiger it is bony, which lends additional strength to skull. The senses are acute, though that of smell is less developed than the others. The skeleton is strongly compacted, the frame being especially adapted to the requirements of strength, speed and agility. The curious little clavicles are deeply sunk in muscle, and if not care fully sought for are liable to bo passed over: the natives esteem them highly as amulets and charms. Digestion of the flesh which forms the tiger’s food is speedy, owing to its simple stomach and short intestine. Lightness of foot and extreme facility in executing thoB© bounds which are characteristic of the felidte generally are noticable points in the tiger. In fact, he is nothing more nor less than a huge cat, with power and ferocity excessively developed; a very “King of Cats.” Travelers sleeping in their tents may hear one calling to ita mate in the neighboring jungles, till night is made hideous by their amatory growls and roarings, just as their diminutive congeners on European house-tops serenade the moon, and pro voke the exasperated sleeper to dislodge them with a hair-brush, a lump of coal, or whatever comes first to hand. The crowning point of a cat’s ferocity, stealthiness and delight in bloodshed, is arrived at in the royal tiger. Those who have seen him after he has been shof and his skin stripped off have noticed liis singular resemblance to the frame and fore-arm of an athlete. The muscles of his arm and shoulder are but modifica tions of those seen in man and other animals, adapted to the requirement*' of the animal’s predatory life. A carious arrangement of elastic liga ments and muscles provides for the with drawal of the claws during ordinary pro gression, so that they are not worn or jlonted by contact with tho croand. The tiger takes particular care of these terrible weapons. Trees are frequently seen in the jungles scored with iongverti- cal fissuies to the height of eight or ten feet from the ground, where tigers have cleansed and sharpened their claws. Some trees are greater favonties than others, and the peenul, or Indian fig, is often disfigured in this manner, AU sportamen know how difficult it is to Srv. either claws or whiskers on a presen Da tives deem them powerful love charms, and cut them out K7instant they dare to approach the. tne / It features peculiar watchfulness^ to" prevent this and Dr. w tells us that natives who are per- F honest in all other respects are utterly ^unable to resist these tempting treasures. —i-Vustr’a .!/by<zunc. A writer in the ProetiOmfr te**; BL sev eral instances to show that TTofdws not assist the vital forces to alcohol doe ^ De Q uinC y > m re6lS „ t fM» P e«Js, notices the same fact one of 1, FTMtaonal observation. Al- “h fibs the moisture in the body. by frost. „ J.ril is imputed ability to quote To the d presumes to tell what “ri-^re “Practically,” ri sing except the cultivation h . e pJltisn virtues in both sexes. The of C K virtues of moral life must be (oundatio vi cu]uyated . homely vir- more r , be Wde heroic at the mother’s tnes mu» ^ m y > wn’t. Beecher an *<M- lipi Bjt terer andperj ,v r. Ju*.