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Zimmerman, of Company C., Second teii States Infantry, now at McPherson D ' ,j. a wss knocked oil the track and in- uidykilled in Atlanta on Wednesday last noon passenger train on the Central j; llr(li a. He had been drinking freely, and 'j ' inq 08? ty the barracks between the tracks near the Peters street crossing, and ttempted to cross in front of the train, * a . C «as struck by the cow-catcher and ■iitown some thirty feet ahead of the train j ou to the other track. The deceased u ,bout thirty years old, a native of Ger- numarried, and bad been in the ser- bfe some eight years. Bad whisky has fjjsed the death of several soldiers in the nine way during the past few years ou these nilroail tracks. Ike Atlanta Water Works soem to be a hilnrc. New engines aro to bo pnt in and other improvements made, and in the mean- street sprinkling is to be suspended. Muddy water, poisoned wells and clouds of just are alliictions.that now overoome the City" like a summer cloud. Then was a grand ball at tho Markham House, Atlanta, on Wednesday night, a sort 0 [ “blue" and ‘'gray" affair, complimentary to Miss Wilder, of Washington, D. C. daughter of 1’aymaster Vedder, of General jj,,,., staff. Star spangled banners and py uniforms prevailed. Attorney General HIV anti Hon. Henry Hillyer were among the iuanaK*Ti'. John E. Bryant has located in Atlanta for the present, and tho notorious Bishop Gil bert Haven is also there. Just think of it -Bryant, Haven, Bullock, bad wells, muddy water, dusty streets, and lager beer only five cents a glass. Is it possible that my man cau even snegest, much less advo- cite, the removal of the State capital from t city «o full of attractions ? The Macon Telegraph and Messenger, fol lowing the example of tho Morning News, now keeps a regular correspondent at the ctpiul of the State. Ho is a young lawyer of considerable energy of character, John C. Jones, Esq., son of Rev. John Jones, D. D., formerly of Savannah. His excellent letters, allied “Oarolyun,” show constant improve ment, and warrant the belief that ho wii* become an industrious and efficient Journa list. Tho Milner Examiner is a new paper pub- luned in the town of Milner by Messrs. F. M. H«<rton A Co. It is small for its size, but will probably grow larger as it grows older. It is published at fifty cents per The Perry Journal says that Houston will make enough wheat to supply the people of the county with flour for a year. Hurrah for Houston! A Gwinnett county farmer offers to fur nish conveyance to haul all his neighbors to the court house who would agree to vote for & convention. That is the righ t spirit, and we hope Gwinuott will roll up a largo ma jority for the convention. Mrs. John Perdue, living a few miles from Btfnesville, attempted to burn out her fowl house to rid it of mites last Monday, bnt the flames catching to the walls of the building, soon reached two tenant houses, which were oonsumod. The several volunteer corps of Griffin, Forsyth and BaruesviUe are agitating a camp battalion drill at Indian Springs shortly. The annual fair of the Marshallville Agri cultural Society wid take place at Marshall- ville, in Macon county, on the 20th and 21st of July next. Tho hall formerly used by the Young Men’s Library Association of Atlanta is being cleaued and repaired, and will soon beopeued for the new scientific library. Troup county has organized a Western Georgia Fair Association, the object of which is to diffuse information pertaining to agriculture, manufacturing and stock raising. The Walton County Vidette says that dys entery of a malignant type is prevailing at Social Circle, in that county. At the annual election for Directors of the Commercial Bank of Augusta, held Wednes day, the old board, composed of the follow ing goutlomon, was re-elected: W. T. Who les*, W. H. Howard, Sr., Thos. G. Barrett, John W. Wallace, W. 0. Sibley, W. A. Lati mer, James G. Bailie, H. F. Russell and J. H. Alexander. A new post office has been established at Lxmar’s mill in Upson county, and W. G. Holloman has been appointed Postmaster. We learn from the Clipper that the reports from tho wheat crops are most flattering, and that Warren county wiU raise her own flour this year. Id his speech, delivered at the Albany fair tort Saturday, Gen. McKaig remarked that if the exhibition could be transported to his borne, Baltimore, Md., there would be 100,- WD people to look and wonder at it 1 The following extract, from the recent presentment of the grand jury of Burke county, pays a deserved tribute to a noble citizen, Judge John W. Carswell, who has Dover filled any office of trust, and yet for forty years he has faithfully aud unselfishly labored as an officer of the county: “We, the grand jury, for the May Term, 1877, have teamed with profound regret that tho infirmities of age and the weight of more than three score aud ten years have at last determined the Hon. John W. Carswell to define accepting a re-election to his trust 48 0De of the Board of County Commissiou- * r8 of Burke county. For thirty-five years n&has been an honored and faithful public 8e rvaut, distinguished alike for his urbanity, Private worth, uubeuding integrity, and c »nscientious discharge of public duty. Tbe memory of such men should be preserved, that their examples may be followed, and ibeir virtues imitated. It is proper that a Snteful people should pay them some •Jjbute 0 f their appreciation and esteem. , e therefore recommend that the County ^nimissioners do purchase and present in The grand jury of Burke Superior Court find “that the County Court has been the means of saving the county at least twenty- five hundred dollars the past year, besides being self-sustaining; therefore, that the thanks of the citizens of Burke couutv are due to the County Commissioners for effect ing the establishment of the said court.” The Columbus limes has the following : “The clothing of Miss Cottingham, a little girl, aged twelve years, while engaged in cooking, caught on lire. In her fright she ran into the crib which also took fire, and both were burned up. The girl lived near Box Springs, in Talbot county.” Tbe Sandersville Ilerald says: “On Satur day afternoon a little son of M&l&chi Sbur- ling, about eight years old, while trying to drive a horse out of a pasture, was kicked by the liorae ou the head and so seriously injured that it is feared death will ensue.” The Columbus Enquirer remarks : “ Far mers report a good rain eight miles above the city on Tuesday. The crops generally were drying up, and this God-send is a bless ing for which they should be truly thaukful. There was another rain reported to have fallen Tuesday, ten miles east of the city. Although these did a world cff good, they were by no means ‘geueral. The Whole country is suffering, and unless we get a good rain soon, crops and everything in the vegetable Hno will certainly be a failure.” , The Augusta Chronicle and Constitution alist says : “Several Northern capitalists, who contemplate investing in a large cotton factory, to be erected on the Bite of the old Confederate powder mills, are expeoted in the city.” The Griffin News rejoices at the breaking np of the dry spell aud says : “The rain of Tuesday was very general through this sec tion, and did a great amount of good: We understand it extended from as far up as Fayetteville to the lower edge of this coun ty, and perhaps farther. One or two simi lar showers within the next few days will place the crops in a splendid condition. The farmers have been busy and the grass is pretty well cleaued out.” This from the Franklin News sounds rath er fishy, but we suppose it is only a piece of editorial fisheatusness : “It is now a mat ter of impossibility for a catfish to pass Franklin, either up or down the river;unless it does so when some one is fishing his bas ket. In some places the baskets are so thick a man might walk across the river on floats, provided he could step far enough, aud provided further that the floats didn’t sink. There are not enough fish caught to feed one lean editor.” We learn from the Augusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist of yesterday that W.E. Arnett, the clerk in the Augusta post office who was arrested for tampering with letters passing through that office, explains how the seven letters found open in his private drawer came into his , possession. The Augusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist sajs: “Three of these letters were directed to a party whom we will call Mrs. A, three to Mrs. B, aud one to Miss O. Arnett ex plained how these came into his possession in the following mauner: Being a con fidential friend of Mrs. A., he had been in the habit, during that party’s resi dence in Augusta, ot carrying her letters to her personally. Some time since she left the city and before she wont direct ed Arnett to take possession of any letters that might bo sent to her at Augusta, open them if he thought best and keep them and their contents until she came back. The decoy letter, postmarked Philadelphia, was directed to this party and contained two dollars. Arnett took charge of and opened it, but did not take out the money, which was found in the drawer with the letter Wednesday night. Mrs. A. is the person whose evidence was desired by the defendant yesterday, but other proof was at hand to show the friendship between Arnett and herself aud establish the fact that he had been in the habit of deliver ing her letters personally. From Mrs. B., Arnett had somewhat similar instructions, aud is prepared to prove the fact. The sev enth letter, directed to Miss 0., was deliv ered to a party of that name who afterwards returned it opened, stating that it was in tended for auother party of the same name. As the letter was open, Arnett placed it in the drawer, intending to band it to the owner whenever she called for it. He de nies that he ever opened or tampered with anv othor letters than the six mentioned, which he says he is prepared to prove he had a right to do.” uarne of the people of Burke county to J* 16 Hon. John W. Carswell a handsome sil- V8r piteher, with a suitable inscription en- ^ r ^ Te< l thereon, as a testimonial of his high honorable character, and long and faith- uu public service^’ , The Berrien County News says : >Vuhin four days the merchants of Ala- bought twenty thousand pounds of aud J. B. Dorminey & Co. shipped uhin one week thirteen thousand four Dndred and ninety-nine pounds. Last a * W0 °Hy * time. On Wednesday iWO pounds of wool was carried into town.” I pke ^audersviile//eraW says of ourTybee naud resort; “it may well be styled the 7?. D K Branch of the South. The eastern or .‘*autic beach is said to be unsurpassed in 8 by any on the continent. We can jteest no pleasure excursion more enjoy- e tuan a visit to onr Forest City and then e xcursiou in tne nice steamer, the Rocka- w *y. out to Tybee." ^ 0 b D80Q county the wheat crop is sufe oat cro Pt though having „ O( e . rt0 ^ or want of rsin, is nevertheless lar» Corn cotton, though not so tw<? e &H if ram had fallen every week or i * la Dot vet ininrari Th« nnnntv is in bette*°— in ) ured * The county is in w *r. inot L _ r condition than it has been since the applies have been purchased c °Dnty nearer self-sustaining than 10 ^years past. We« c »^ arne8v *^ e Gazette says: “Mr. J. F. i Vebte(1 wheat crop Saturday, Th* ground into flour on Tuesdav. ChL? 0111 !® ^ our * 8 aB good as Cook & tfine s cel , el, rated brand, aud Mr. West baa uee * Q PPly on hand lor sale.” Florida Affairs. The Fernandina Express introduces to its readers Mr. J. N. Whitaer as associate edi tor of that paper. Wo' welcome the gentle man. Mr. Whitner is a good writer, and is well known to newspaper men. About seven thousand dollars worth ot land has been sold at Orange Park since the purchase of the tract in February by Mr. Benedict. The total number of deaths in Jackson ville during the month of May just cloeed, was thirteen, of which three were of colored persons and ten white. Five were less than three years of age, aud the remainder wero over seventeen. Four only were na tives of Florida. The Tampa Guardian says : “The pros pects for good crops this season throughout this and adjoining counties were never bet ter than at present.” C. A. Cowgill, late Comptroller of this State, and a member of the notorious re turning board, has received a government appointment at Washington. He is the last of that disreputable trio—Stearns, McLin and Cowgill—to receive the reward of his infamy. . . , ^ The editor of the Agriculturist is informed that the whole belt of government land be tween Indian river and the ocean, near Cape Malabar, is being entered by immigrants, mostly from Illinois. The land is some of the best in tbe State, and free from under brush, so that it is easily brought under the plow. A man hearing the reputation of being a cow thief was recently assassinated at Fort Mead, in Hillsborough county. Ho was sit ting in his house with his family when the murderer shot him through a window. Mr. Bobt.E. Parks, of Macon, Ga., has presented the Monticello Academy Library with a fine package of hooks. At no time since the war, says the Monti cello Constitution, until tho present season, has corn been selling at fifty cents per bushel daring the summer months in Jeffer son county. There was an unusually large crop raised last year. • A mighty change has been wrought in Jackson county. Last week the Circuit Conrt was in session, and for one entire of ernoon the court room was not honored by the presence of a single colored man. There are sixty marriageable yonng ladies in Monticello, and only twenty-one young men. ... . An excursion to Florida this month is be ing planned in Chicago. The County Commissioners of Sumter havo adopted and ordered published the game law passed at the last session of the Legislature. No wild turkey, partridge, mocking bird or deer can be killed between tbe first day ot April and the first day of September. The amount of the orange crop of Sum ter county in 1875 was 1.125.000; m 18/0, 1 000 000. Immigration is rapidly filling np the county, and the Advance says: Ala bama families are expected here next week, to locate in this vicinity.” On Wednesday a young girl, the adopted a.m.hter of Peter Jones, Esq., of Jackson- daughter oi w harf at the boat yard, gs*aa.>r.saa:- , "“ rtvvaSffS&a Sand Point, by Mr. E. B. Carter. The Jacksonville Yacht Club have elected the following officers for the Wm. Aster, Commodore; Vice Commodore E. \V. Penn ^ W H. Bent, Secretary; A. 1>- Basuei, ur'er A. M. Beck, Measurer. House Com W A Dell. E. C. Stetson, H. D. T? ltt nAthea*n Building Committee— S. Con- ®°t Q D Greenleaf, H. T. Bays, M. W. Drew, t Tt Campbell. Finance Committee—V. G. »• T McConihe, C. B. Benedict. Board A fTnistees—w. Stokes Boyd, H. Bisbee, Jr., EM Randall, J. B- CampboliDr.Geo. B. Had ' Begatta Oommittee-J. 1. Childs, B. McLaughlin, E. B. Kellogg. T 1 nnville Sun: “Elick Valentine and o JaC v k8 r‘wo colored individnals residing Sam Vesey, two com on Alfred Smith's in °,‘ kl ? cattTe 'our miles east of Baldwin, St °TneIdav 1M‘. and s° cce « ded “ 8 e tt‘ng on Taesday i*» . includiag two working away "i’ h ®Jole valued at one hundred dol- oxen, the whole Thomas Fan- lars. Tb ^ t s 0 l d r ‘m ‘“cksonville, ior fifty dollars*’ Tb«y were subsequently arrested and oommitted to jail. The investigation relative to the recent attempt to burn the Norwood House, at FernaDdina, has been concluded. Miss Jennie S. Mooney, the losses of tbe house, was arrested on suspicion of settiDg the fire. She was taken before JnBtioe Jeffreys, bnt waived an examination and gave bond in the snm of one thousand dollars to appear at the next term of tbe Circuit Conrt. The house was owned by a Mrs. McBoy, who is represented by Mr. Samuel A. Swann. It was insured for three thousand dollars. The furniture was the property of Miss Mooney, and was insnred for two thousand dollars in Foster’s agency, Jacksonville. Five prisoners in the Leon conntyjail made their escape on Wednesday last. Some of them were pursued by one or two persons passing the jail yard at the time, and sev eral Bhots were fired at them, bnt of no avail. Tbe Sheriff at once instituted a vig orous search, bnt nothing came ot it. The Floridian says that among those who escaped waaJack , charged with murdering a negro at Miccosukie, Joe West, the incendi ary who fired Bobioson’s store, and Jeff Jackson, the attempted wife murderer. From what the officers have ginoa been able to learn there is no doubt that tbe prisoners had bribed “Bally,” the assistant cook at the jail, to pick a chance and let them oat. The Monticello Constitution says: “On last Sunday afternoon Frank Goodman and Spencer Miller, two colored men residing in the neighborhood of Bnabin’s store, about eleven miles northwest of Monticello, be came involved in an altercation, which ter minated seriously. Goodman stabbed Mil ler in the abdomen inflicting an ugly wound, from which protruded hie entrails. While in this condition, and scarcely able to re main upon his feet, Miller shot his antagon ist four times with a pistol—all the shots proving flesh wounds, however. A woman was at the bottom of the whole affair.” On the evening of May 30th a very shrewd plan for the escapement, of the prisoners confined in the Monticello jail, was discov ered by Sheriff Bailey. In one room are confined a white man named Boatwright ^charged with cattle stealing) and five ne groes, all committed in delault of bail for trial at the fall term of the Circuit Court. By some means Boatwright secured a case- knife and file, and with the latter he con verted the knife into a very serviceable saw. With this tool he cut a hole sufficiently large for the passage of a man’s body through the solid ceiling of the room, and then removed all the brick and mortar except the ontside casing of the building. The prisoner had sawed the ceiling in such a manner as to en able him to replace the timber whenever the jailor was expected to make his appearance. The rubbish was all kept concealed, and naught bat tho imprndeut tongue of one of the prisoners revealed the plot. If the dis covery had been delayed a few hoars longer, six prisoners would have escaped, as all that intervened between them and freedom was ono casing of brick. Boatwright and his companions now sleep in the iron cage. The IVnsacola Gazette has this notice of a “ Fine Florida Farm : ” “ The fruit farm and vineyard of Mr. Btodard is probably the most extensive and expensive enterprise of the kind in Florida. Already there are many thousands of vines and trees, of various ages, growing with fnll thrift, and unmbers in bearing. The trees inclnde a vast variety of pears, peaches, figs, plums, oranges, lemons, apples, etc., both American and im ported from other lands. There are cur rants, strawberries and other berries by acres. His domain, on the shores of Bayon Texar, includes seventy-five acres of selected land, charmingly situated, devoted to t'rnit and vine culture. A short drive away is his home place, where his handsome residence Btands in an enclosure of thirteen acres of high ground, which looks down upon the peopled bay a mile and a half distant. Several acres of ground in front of the man sion are tastefnliv laid out and planted with thousands of flowers and ornamental Bhrubs, including a great number of the rarest ex otics. Fountains and vaseB adorn the grounds, and the machinery for thorough irrigation is complete throughout the area of the thirteen acres; hydrants, with a heavy head of water on tap, being placed at short intervals. Thns drought can be defied, aud vegetation assured the season through. A year or two’s growth will render the grounds most beantifnl, and within that time they will be enclosed within the rapidly growing hedge of rose vines. Fountains, hydrants and the buildings are supplied with .water from tanks fed by pumps driven by a wind mill.” The following sensible resolution has been adopted by the Board of Pilot Commission ers of Pensacola : “Resolved, That for the better security ot tbe health of the city, no sand, rubbish or dirt ballast can be dis charged at the railroads, wharfs or cribs at the citv, and that nothing but atone or rock ballast'cau bo discharged at said wharves, from now until the 1st of November next, with the exception of such as already have obtained a permit for such discharge.” WRECKED ASD BUTCHERED. A Startling Story of Shipwreck Pacific Const. THE DAGGER AHEAD. How the Southern Pacific Jabbers Ex pect to Organize the Uonse. Two Maidens Fighting is Church,— It was a hand-to-hand engagement be tween Annie Owens and Sarah Jones, who could not even under the sublning influence of a soul-inspiring sermon, con trol their passions. The fight occurred on the 20th ult„ during divine services in a churoh in Ixonia. The girls entered the church, and unaccountably both oc cupied the same seat. While the rest of the congregation were attentive listeners to the sermon, Sarah Jones arose from her seat and raised a window near by to get a little fresh air. This did not suit Miss Annie, who was’ seated by her side, and she instantly got up, leaned over her enemy, aud spitefully pulled the window down. This slight indignity led to a few epithets, and the window was again raised aud as quickly pulled down. Then Sarah struck Annie with a book over the left eye, and the engagement threatened to be fierce and determined for a time, but a few women stopped it. After the services, care was taken not to permit the belligerents to get at it outside. They had the satisfaction, though, of shaking their fists at eaoh other.— Watertown Democrat. A surviver of the wreck of the steam ship George S. Wright has been discov ered at last in the person of an Indian named Coma. He was recognized on the street at Nanaimo, British Columbia, last Friday, and was arrested and brought to Victoria. Vancouver's Island. Sun day. The Colonist of the 4th icst. says: “Since the disaster Coma has constantly evaded the police, and until quite recent ly it was not known that there existed a single survivor of the wreck. Coma has confessed to the Superintendent of Po lice, after being duly cautioned, that at night the boilers of the steamship ex ploded, and she began to sink at once. Captain Ainsley. with four United States officers and a passenger, got into a boat and told Coma, who was on deck, to get in too. The rest of the people were in bed, or tried to escape by means of another boat. The Captain’s party, seven in all, pulled ashore near Cape Caution. They were nearly naked, and the Indians gave them blan kets to keep them warm. A day or two afterwards three canoe loads of Indians came to the spot, and Captain Ainsley offered the leader five hundred dollars to convey the shipwrecked men to Fort Ru pert. Four of the Indians were armed with muskets, with which they killed all the whites. They then tied stones to their bodies and sunk them in deep water. They robbed the bodies of all valuables, including the Captain’s gold watch and chain. They spared Coma, but told him that if he ever dared to narrate the cir cumstances they would kill his father. Coma thinks all the peiple on board who were in bed at the time of the explosion were drowned, as the ship went down rapidly. The prisoner was to-day con fronted with four Indians who were brought in as prisoners by the steamer Rocket and have since betn in jail here, and identified two of them as belonging to the party of murderers.’’ [The steamer George S. Wright was lost, as near as it is possible to determine, on the night of January 27, 1873. The place whereshe is supposed to havs taken her last plunge is a point along the wild and ragged coast about forty miles north east of the extreme northern end of Van couver’s Island, and nearly 250 miles from Victoria. On the evening of January 2, 1873, the Wright sailed from Portland, Ore., bound for Silka and intermediate ports. She reached her destination and was on the return trip. As near as can be ascertained, about twenty passengers were on board at the time. A few frag ments of the wreck were recovered and two bodies; one of the bodies was identi fied as that of Mijor John Walker,United States Paymaster, who was known to be among the passengers, and the other that of a small boy. The fate of the Wright was for years shrouded in mystery, though the conjecture of the murder of the survivors by the Flathead In dians has long been entertained, and this conjecture the present account makes certainty. She was built at Port Ludlow in 18G3, and was a propeller, topsail- schooner-rigged. Her length was 118 feet; registered at 215 tons, carrying 400. Originally the Wright was built as a tug, and after plying for some months be tween Portland and Victoria she was taken to San Francisco and sold to Capt. Bulkeley, of the Russian and Siberian Telegraph Company, serving as transport in the two expeditions made by tbe com pany, first to Sitka and second to Petro- paulovski, Kamstcfiatka, demonstrating the impossibility of erecting a shore line or laying a cable along the rockstrewn coast. Subsequently the steamer was sold to Ben Hailiday, who was the owner at the time the vessel was lost. The boiler, hull and machinery were in spected a few months prior to the time the Wright was lost, and all were pronounced to be in excellent condition. The boiler was low pressure, 18J feet long, 8A in diameter, constructed of boiler-iron 6-16 of an inoh thick. At the time the Wright was lost she was well provided with all the necessary life-saving appointments, having in addition to a number of life-preservers two large life boats.] [From the N. Y. Times, Radical] The dissatisfaction in the Republican ranks will continue as a depressing and demoralizing element, rather than a9 an active cause of hostility to the adminis tration. The really serious complications which we regard as not improbable will have a totally different origin. One that has been daily foreshadowed may arise at the opening of the extra session. Some of tbe more injudicious friends of the administration have conceived the idea of "organizing the Honse" in its interest. We have no specific knowledge of over ture's in this direction, but the rumors have been for some time past too posi tive, and withal too mnch in harmony with ascertained facts, to be summarily discarded. It is conceded that on a strict party basis the Democrats will have the House organization in their own hands. The question raised is, will the Democratic party remain intact, say, upon the ques tion of the Speakership ? We hope tnat it will. It represents a majority of the members on whom rests the responsibil ity of regnlating the machinery of busi ness. They have the power and must be held accountable for its exercise. We should deprecate as a misfortune, not to say a crime, any intrigue designed lo wrest from them the fruits of their op portunity or to gain for the administra tion an influence to which it is not legiti mately entitled. That some bargain might "be effected we admit. The Dem ocratic majority is narrow, and included in it are members to whose constituencies the party complexion of the Speakership is of infinitely less moment than the fur therance of some sinister scheme. Only let the right sort of agents be employed, with authority to adjust the terms to the exigencies of eaoh individual case, and the requisite number of votes might be changed. The process would he dis graceful to all connected with it, but the prevailing standard of political mor ality is not high, and questions are avail able which would render the arrangement of equivalents comparatively easy. Foremost among them is the sub id} question. It has many ramifications, and, once opened, will not be closed until the credit of the nation has been placed in imminent jeopardy. The Southern Pacific Railroad is made the test scheme, partly because it has great and widely diffused strength at the South, partly because it has the support of Northern combinations of capital and influence in an unusual degree. An oh vious basis of a bargain exists between the Northwest and tbe South, the former having in the Northern Pacific an enter prise which on its merits is certainly as much entitled to free access to the public purse as the route through Texas. Every body knows how these things are man aged. The Northwest will help the South aud will obtain help in return. The job bery and speculation which bring Messrs. Scott and Huntington together cover so wide an area that the scheme, fraudulent and ruinous as it is, possesses formidable strength. The best men of both parties will oppose it. Fatal Case of Lunacy.—Conrad Wo- ber, of Baltimore, a yonng man of Ger man parentage, lately married, was a sol dier daring the late war, and while in the service acquired a fondness for sleeping in the moonlight. Since the war, from the 1st to the 4 th of every month, always at night, he has had fits of the deepest melancholy. He would remain up all night gazing at the sky, the moon and its changes having a special fascination for him. A day or two since hj was attacked by melancholy for the first time in the daytime, and being left alone he was found dead, his head leaning against the wail. He had twisted several pieces of bine ribbon into a cord, made a noose around his neck, and fastened the other end of the ribbon to a picture hook, draw ing up his lower limbs so as to throw the full weight of his body upon the noose. ' Southern Claims.—Orders have re cently been issued by the Quartermaster General of the army, directing the sus pension of the investigation of claims under the act of July 4, 1874, for property taken by the United States army during the civil war. These claims are for the fuel, forage, etc., taken from loyal citi zens in loyal States, and are almost en tirely confined to the States of Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, West Virginia, Maryland, Ohio and Pennsylvania. It is understood that this action is in anticipation of legislation by Congress at the next session, transferring these claims to the Southern Clams Commission. Similar action will probably be taken by tho Commissary General of the army, relative to claims for subsistence stores which are being examined by him under the same \a.vr.—Washington Special to the Cincinnati Commercial. Recent developments in the failure of C. H. Taylor, the great Kentucky distil ler, which was reported by telegraph the other day, show evidences of the grossest fraud, and the dishonest merchant has since disappeared. His family is one of the most noted in the State, and Taylor, for several successive terms, was Mayor of the State capital. He is cnarged with obtaining large sums of money on raised warehouse receipts, and his liabilities will reach half a million. Admirers of Russian literature will be pleased with this scrap of poetry written by Alexis upon his departure from New York: “ Owata jollitimiT ad Sicci tooklevov mioldad! Owata merit covive bin— Ives pen ta nawful pilovtin! Damsorri tolevami now, Bnt landigoahet.jingo vow, Thetor k.ahwar mustavaatop Gotele graptutoff topop." Senators Saulsbnry and Windom left Washington to meet Senator Morton at Indianapolis, where the trio will take a pleasure trip to Oregon for the purpose of investigating the lata Gov. Grover. The Vicissitudes of a Mosque. Twice the Temple of St. Sophia was destroyed by fire and twice rebuilt; twice the great dome fell and twice it was restored. The arches, having resounded to the music of Chrysostom’s voice, came at last to echo the blasphemies of the in fidel and the groans of the wounded and dj ing. At the capture of Constantinople the clergy, the virgins dedicated to God and a multitude of people of all classes crowded into the church and sought refuge before the high altar. Mohammed at the head of the Osmanlis rode into the sanctuary, forced his way through the affrighted throng, and leap ing from his horse at the alter he cried. “There is no God but God, and Mohammed is his Prophet!” A bideons scene of slaughter followed and the tem ple was desecrated. The Sultans have despoiled it of its pictorial beauty; have added minarets and abutments to sup port the tottering southeast wall; have caused the rich frescoes to he plastered over with a yellowish substance; have chipped away wherever it was possible the carved symbol of the cross; have hung great disks graven with the names of the four companions of the Prophet over the seraphims nnder the dome with their slender wings crossed above and below them. Beneath the cupola is in sonbtd in fantastic and beautiful charac ters a line from the Koran : “God is the light of the heavens and of the earth.”—- Stamboul Letter to the San Francisco Chronicle. A Startling Scene on a Street Cab— A New York Physician’s Death.—Dr. Israel Randolph took breakfast at the St. Nicholas Hotel, where he had lived for twenty years, at an earlier hour than was usual with him, and then went to keep an engagement up town. He got into Third avenue car at Spring street, and paid his fare. As the car approached Eleventh street a lady, who had been sit tiDg by his side, hurried to the rear plat form, and said to the conductor: “That man is dead.” The conductor found Dr. Randolph sitting braced up in the corner, with his eyes open, and without any per ceptible pulse. The body was carried into the offioe of the Superintendent of Out-door Poor, and thence taken to the Morgue. Subsequently it was removed to the St. Nicholas Hotel, where an exam ination by Dr. Goldschmicdt showed that death resulted from heart disease. No relatives of the dead man are in the city. It is said that he had none, except two nieces in Massachusetts. Mr. James Williams, who was agent for the Doctor in a business enterprise, estimates his wealth at very nearly a million dollars. Most of this, he thinks, is in bonds, stocks, and other personal property.—A. 7. Sun. Army of Crickets.—A large army of crickets attacked our town this week. They are traveling in a westerly direction, and no doubt came here for the purpose of crossing the bridge in order to get on the south side of the river. On Thursday there was a steady stream of them float ing down the river. They are probably going to the Sacramento Valley, and concluded they could go quicker by wa ter than by land. A few stragglers started np the stairway leading to our sanctum We met them at the door and told them “ there was nothing green here,” and they turned back.—Susanvtile (Cal.) Ad■ matte, Map 26/ A superior tramp made his appearance in Norwich, Connecticut, the other day. He asked for breakfast, and having re ceived and eaten it, he was requested to cut the grass in the front yard. He at once went cheerfully to work and labored three hours in the hot sun. The neigh bors were called in to look at this unpre cedented phenomena, and. such was the admiration which the spectacle excited that the industrious tramp received a good dinner, twenty-five cents in oash and a tolerable pair of pantaloons. An Australian Heroine. The bravest girl in Australia is Grace Vernon Bussell. The steamer Georgette was wrecked off the west coast, near Perth ; a small boat had been capsized in the surf, and women and children were struggling in the water. On the crest of a precipitous cliff appeared the figure of a young lady on horseback. To the sail ors on the stranded vessel it seemed ut terly impossible that a horse and its rider should be able to descend that precipice. But the young lady never faltered. She plunged down at fnll speed, and reaching the shore, spurred her horse into the boil ing surf. There were two lines of roar ing breakers. With splendid pluck she dashed through them and reached the boat, to which the affrighted women and children were clinging. Her horse stumbled over a hawser which stretched between the wreck and the small boat; but she clung to the sad dle and brought the women and children to land. There was still a man left on hoard the boat. She plunged into the breakers again and brought him safe to the shore. While those whom she had saved were rescuing those who remained on the wreck, the heroic girl, drenched with the sea foam and half fainting with fatigue, galloped a dozen miles home to have relief sent to the half drowned, half- naked folks whom she had left on the beach. Her sister, Mrs. Brockman, took horse, galloped that night through the woods to the shore, taking tea, milk, sugar and flour for the destitute people, and the next day the rescued were brought to Mr. Brockman’s house and cared for. The anxiety and excitement proved fatal to Mrs. Brockman, who took a severe cold, and died eventually of brain fever. Graoe Vernon Bussell still lives. Pillow’s Mexican Plan. [ From the New Orleans Times.) The Mexican question has been ab sorbing mnch of the time at Cabinet meetings lately. The discussions are on account of the perplexing nature of the border difficulties. Thirty-one years ago Mr. Polk endeavored to adjust these mat ters by the same remedy—which it is possible may be applied now—a war. Bnt he failed, it is said, because Mr. Nicholas P. Trist, of Louisiana, did not obey the special instructions of the Pres ident in making a treaty. General Pillow, of Tennessee, has sub mitted a plan to the President which seems to have met special favor. There iB no man living who is better able to advise intelligently abont Mexico and its territory than General Pillow. He has marched over all tbe country from which tbe bands have issued that have given such annoyance and trouble to the United States, and has submitted a letter in regard to the plans to be pursued in settling this Mexican matter to the Presi dent. The views embodied in it were first expressed to General Sherman in a casual conversation. The General of the Army, who is an old friend of Gen. Pillow, was mnch im pressed by his clear and valuable knowl edge of Mexican topography, and asked that the substance of these views be pat in writing lor presentation to the Presi dent, which was done. The most inter esting features are of lines of defense that might be available. Of some of these, Gen. Pillow says: “Daring the Mexican war I marched my division from 61 at&moros through San Fernando, San Martin and Santa Barbara to Tampico, passing through a tract of country embracing also New Lion and Tamaulipas. The first three hundred miles bore off to the interior to the capi tal of Tamaulipas and along the base ■ of the Sierra Madre mountains, there an un broken chain, siz thousand feet high, of basaltic stone, with but two passes in them for six hundred miles, these but mule passes, abcut three thousand feet above the sea level. “A single company with a battery could defend thtse passes against an attacking force of twenty thousand men. The Pernambuco river, on the south, is the boundary of Tamaulipas. It is four hundred yards wide, and deep enough to float a large man-of-war; at the distance of nine hundred and sixty miles from the mouth it cuts the Sierra Madre moun tains; from thence it runs in a straight line between high perpendicular rocks, without a trace of verdure upon their summits, to S-ltillo.” He goes on to say that Mr. Polk spe- cially instructed Mr. Trist to make no treaty with Mexico that did not make the Sierra Madre the boundary, and cede all the country lying north and east of this mountain range to the United States, as it was the intention of Mr. Polk to secure the mining region of North Mexico. But the treaty author izing the present boundary was made, and although Mr. Polk refused to ratify it, it was finally adopted by the Senate after a long discussion. General Pillow’s plan has the merit of extreme simplicity. It is to acquire in some way the territory which should have been taken in 1847. He says this is the only way the thieving upon Texas can be prevented, and that the orders of Gen. Ord to pursue the marauders will soon bring on a war. He could never catch anybody, for as soon as the thieves were pursued they would scatter in the chaparral like so many rabbits. As to the method of acquiring this ter ritory, General Pillow proposes two plans. The first is that tbe United States shall offer to buy it for $10,000,000. If this amount is refused then the second plan is simply to go and take possession any how. The latter plan would perhaps be the most attractive to the mass of Americans. General Ord has been ordered to follow the raiders across the Mexican border and punish them whenever he can find them If he does very much of this, it may not be long until the vigorous foreign policy of the President may bring about a casus belli that will cause a change in bounda ries and settle the question of marauding and the zona Ibbre forever. A SUDDEN RISE IN LIFE. Front the Position of a Poor Factory Girl to that of a Wealthy llelreeo. He Must Have His Pay. [Washington Special to the Cincinnati Enquirer.) The true inwardness of the appoint ment and resignation of the Fnnchal Consulate by James E. Anderson is vastly different from the published accounts, and not at all to the credit of Secretary Sherman and Garfield. Anderson was Supervisor of Registration in East Feli ciana Parish, and one of the most active tools in the returning board. Naturally, he wanted pay for dirty work done there, and came here to get it. While here he bragged that he would get what he wanted, and threatened to bring some prominent Republicans to grief if ho didn’t, by telling what he knew about the purchase of the electoral vote of Louisiana by the Republican managers. Sherman and Garfield knew alt about An derson’s performances, and the oharges against him since made public, bnt never theless recommended his appointment to the Fnnchal Consnlate, signed his papers, and personally advocated it, as is now as serted, to get Anderson out of the way and shut his month. Anderson declined the place because he thinks ho knows enough to force Sherman and Garfield to give him a better one. He is again threatening openly to tell what he knows if Sherman and Garfield do not come to terms. The Sutbo Tunnel —The San Fran cisco Stock Reporter publishes a rpport of an interview with Adolph Sutro about the Sutro tunnel. He states that the “head er” is now in about 17,000 feet. The fu ture rite of progress is expected to aver age 300 feet a month. The work has been prosecuted eight years, at a cost of about $1,000,000 a year. It is estimated that the Comstock lode will be reached in about ten months, though the exact time cannot be definitely stated. Mr. Sutro expressed the opinion that before the Comstock lode is reached the tnnnel might be expected to cut some valuable ore bodies. As to lumois of a change in control of the stock of the company Mr. Sutro said emphatically that the man agement could never he wrested from him. Jubilee Offerings to the Pope. The contributions to the Pope, exclusive of presents of articles of value from va rious countries, which have already been presented to His Holiness, are very large. It may be mentioned that the subscrip tions of the people of Ireland were made up of Bmall earns, although one county (Wicklow) contributed $5,0#0. Cardinal Cullen took to Rome $35,000, collected in Dublin alone. The principal offerings were as follows: France United States.. Spain. 42550,000 ..160,1X30 ..130,001: . .120, <XX .. 100,oot Germany Belgiam r*oriugal luslrmla anada .. f70,000 .. t3,000 . 42, t OO .. 76,000 .. 30,000 ...100,001 .. 75,000 .. 15,000 loll and ■M’otland Switzerland.*.. .. 32,000 .. 30,000 .. 25,000 [Acte York Ilerald. Mr. Will Carleton, ot Michigan, is re ported to have incensed the colored peo ple of Washington by calling the race, in his Decoration Day poem, “jet jew elry”—as thus: “Jet Jewelry of your olon. Yon showed with what good grace A man may die tor man." Tbe Administration aud tbe Rio Grande Troubles. A Washington special to the Baltimore Sun says: Extreme Republicans like Blaine, Butler, Wade, Phillips, Boutwell and their followers, who seek cause of quarrel with the administration, find in the instructions of the Secretary of War to General Sherman, concerning the marauding raids on the Rio Grande, basis of attack, which they believe can be worked np into a formidable move ment. ' They profess to see in this mili tary demonstration a disguised feature of Hayes’ “Southern policy,” the result of which will be the annexation of Mexican territory, and ultimately an increase of representation in both houses of Congress for the advantage of the Sontb. To stimulate the fears of the North aud to excite sectional prejudice, they assert that the carpet-baggers, who hold the balance of power in the Senate, will, to revenge themselves on Hayes, vote for the admission of Spofford and Butler, and by that means, with the aid of Conover, Dorsey, Spencer and Patterson, who are all in the market, transfer the majority from the Republicans to the Democrats Of course the carpet-baggers would ex pact to be rewarded for their patriotism by a reorganization of the official corps of the Senate and a division of the spoils According to this plan of the extrem ists New Mexico would be admitted into the Union immediately, to be followed by Arizona as soon as the necessary popula tion might be “counted in,” and after wards by the new States to he acquired by the present scheme of spoliation, as Wade and his fellow agitators represent it to be. This programme has elements well calculated to rouse the old bitterness of The abolitionists, who fought the an nexation of Texas so persistently and oh stinately. It is true, they cannot de nounce the “retention of slavery,” but that cry will be substituted by the “ex tension of Southern power," and, as will be claimed, the practical overthrow of the amendments to the Constitution. Evidences increase every day that thos who oppose the double standard of silve and gold are going to try at the approach ing session of Congress to strengthen their own proposition by an ingenious and deceptive scheme that will bear the appearance of a concession upon their part, whereas it will really be quite the contrary. To understand what the Re publican means, the reader mast re member that the bimetallic standard silver and gold, has never been repealed by any act of Congress, bat that the practical result was reached in 1873 by a trick in omitting the silver dollar from the coins which the mints were authorized to cast. The bill ex pressly provided that nothing in it should be construed to affect any “right accrued,” and therefore especi ally gives to the people their old right of paying their debts in silver or gold at their own option, bnt took away trom them all power to avail themselves of this right by refusing to make the only silver coin that was unlimited tender. Now the second trick contem plated is to authorize the coinage of the silver dollar, bnt at the same time take away its character of unlimited tender. This will destroy the right that now re mains and establish a direct demonetiza tion, by making the silver dollar a sub sidiary coin. To-day a debt of any amount can be paid with silver dollars if anyone can get hold of them, bnt if silver dollars are made a legal tender for twenty or fifty dollars only, the poor man’s wages will be paid in silver, bat the debts to the rich man will ha^e to be paid in gold. This will be one of Sher man’s steps to resumption, but Congress will hardly want to go that road.—St. Louis Republican. Tbe greenbacerks of Minnesota, under the command of ex-Congresaman Don nelly, are to hold n convention Jane 20th, for the purpose of nominating a State ticket. The London law conrts have recently brought to light a romantic story, some what like that of the Annealey peerage case—which Charles Reade seized upon in his story of the “Wandering Heir”— though in this case the heir is an heiress. Some years ago Mr. Gardner, a well-to-do farmer at Melrose, in Scotland, married a young lady of the neighborhood, and in a very few weeks after the marriage his wife presented him with a daughter. Mr. Gardner was an elder of his Presby tery, and being well aware that a fierce light beats upon that office, and being anxions to save his reputation and bis wife’s, he hired a discreet nurse to take charge of the child. The scandal was thus averted, and years went by without the girl herself or any one else discovering the secret. Meanwhile the daughter. Margaret Gardner, had become a mill hand in a factory and at the age of twenty-one discovered by some means the story of her birth and parentage. She at once sought out her parents and de manded recognition, but Mr. Gardner disputed her legitimacy, declaring that her father was a shepherd named Laidlaw, and that he (Gardner) had married her mother, whom he loved, to save her repu tation. The girl, however, like immortal Harry VIII., thought this was “too thin and bare to hide offenses,” and declining an offer of a thousand pounds to hold her tongue, brought an action in the Scotch courts to compel her recognition as a legitimate daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gardner. The case was decided against her by the Judge Ordinary,whereupon she appealed to the full Court of Session, who gave judgment in her favor. Against this her parents appealed, and the case found its way to the House of Lords. This court of ultimate appeal decided as the lower court had done—in her favor— holding that when a child is born after marriage the presumption of its legiti macy, in accordance with the old legal maxim, “Pater est quern nuptia demon- strant," is prima facie so strong that the onus of disproof rests with those who deny it. The romantic generosity claimed by the father in marrying his wife to save her reputation did not quite jump with the offer of £1,000 after the wife’s reputation had been irreparably damaged, and looked, so their lordships thought, more like a desire to screen himself. At any rate, the fact remained that the court acknowledged the legitimany of the girl, and she becomes the natural heiress of her father’s wealth, which is consider able. Ihe Men Who Caused the War. Gen. Rogsr A. Pryor, in his speech in Brooklyn on Decoration day, indulged in a good deal of clap-trap about politicians, which is a cheap way to the popular heart and rarely fails to bring applause when well managed. It is like the cheap flings at lawyers and doctors. There are good and bad and medium politicians, but it is the merest moonshine and the most illogi oal and unpbilosophical moonshine, too, to say that the politicians brought on the war. If they did, there are many who could recall Gen. Pryor's part in it. We do not do so to his discredit. He was not creator of event i, a shaper and moulder of destinies—neither he nor his com peers. Every man, woman and child in the United States—almost every one—did his or her Bbare towards bringing about the terrible clash. None can be ex empted. All were as much free, intelli gent moral agents as the politicians, so there must be no shifting of responsibili ties all to one class—that class a promi nent one—an active working one—cer tainly largely instrumental in any effect produced, but only responsible, each, as a little more influential one of many agents. General Pryor, once an arch politician, an agitator and a fire-eater, and an early war provoker, does not well to attack poli - ticians and cast the burden on them. The masses applaud. They do not know or do not recall that General Pryor himself chief among those denounced by himself. They see in him only the mouthpiece of their own views, as they are themselves seeking a scape-goat They accept the politicians blindly, as the goat prepared lo take the sin of fratri cidal war. But what does General Pryor take? Nothing for a man of ability, learning and culture. He has been il logical, inconsistent, unphilosophical, in declaring causes, and he has not declared the truth. And then when an old poli tician begins to denounce politicians, one begins to suspect it is a politician’s trick. —St. Louis Republican. Mr. Hayes and His Minstrel Chum. There was an interview at the White House this morning, which was not down on the books. The sable knight of the pasteboards had carried in a bushel of cards, more or less, and was engaged in his diurnal effort to keep good natured a room full of impatient offioe-seekers, all of whom wanted to go in first. The President within was undergoing his daily torment. To him perspiring and sighing for a breeze came a card bearing the superscription: “Charles Backus and wife.” The fame of the minstrel was talismanic. “Admit him,” said the President, and Charley, round formed and jolly, rolled in. “No, I don’t want an office, Mr. President,” said Charley after being duly presented, “I’ve come to do you a favor.” The President sighed a sigh of relief, in two minutes had forgotten the cares of office, and was laughing at some of Charley's impromptu minstrelsy. A dozen poor bnt proud gentlemen from the South stood about saying: “Be Gawd, Bah,what a letting down of offioial dignity, sah. It is disgraceful, sah! ” But Charley joked and the President laughed. “Well, Mr. President,” said the jolly minstrel rising to go at last, “there’s a box at the theatre at your service.” “Mr. Backus,” replied His Excellency, evidently speaking from the bottom of his heart, “I would goto see you three nights in succession if 1 could get the time:” and be looked at the impatient waiters within and without. “Come if you can,” said Charley, bowing himself out and vowing as he departed that he had never seen so many seedy- looking Generals and Colonels in shiny black clothes gathered together before in one place in his life.— Washington Star. Nude photographs of children are be ing taken for proud Hartford mothers, according to tbe correspondent of tbe Boston Herald. Only a short time ago a lady brought to a leading photographer two handsome little girls, aged four and six respectively, and had a number of stereoscopic views of them taken in a node state, the little ones first being poised in various attitudes. From the ease with which they placed themselves it was evident that they had received preparatory training at home. With a strong light thrown open them, splendid effects were produced, the figures standing out as clear and dis tinct as statues of marble. At other times photographs of three or four younger children of a family have tieen made in varied groupings, the little youngsters, both boys and girls, being quite as well pleased with the results as their admiriDg parents. When the practice first came into favor infants only tfere photo graphed, and their pictures were, and are now, frequently displayed in the photo graphers' show cases. As the custom grew in popularity, elder children were thns photographed, but seldom beyond the age of five or six years, after which period, as they began to grow rapidly, they lose some cf the beautifully rounded outlines of early childhood, and develop angles and sharp lines, which detract from the pleasing effects of tbe pictures. Care is exercised by the parents in the case of children who have passed babyhood to prevent the piotnres being seen be yond the sacred privacy of the family circle, and in the case of the two little girls above mentioned, the negative was demanded and taken away by their mother. The whim which prompts this practice is a singular one, and those pos sessed of it seek to and do deprive it of all features of indelicacy. The mother, proud of her little one, seeks to perpet uate by the camera the beauties which time and advanced growth will destroy. It is a whim attributable solely to mater nal pride, pure and above reproach, guarded as it is in its developments by true delicacy in preserving the picture from the publio eye. A Fine Distinction.—A young man whose attire was clean and neat, and whose appearance was rather prepossess ing, stood before the bar of the Jefferson Maiket Police Conrt yesterday morning. By his side stood a youDg man of about the same age, with a coal black face and wooly hair, and who was dressed in all the gorgeousness of a “swell.” “What’s your name, white man ?” ask ed the conrt. “McFinnigan, sir." “And yours, my man and brother?” “Gawge Washn'ton Jones, sah.” “What was the matter, George Wash ington ?” “Sah, I’ll tell yo’ de truf, sah. I was a goin’ np de street, sah, las’ night, when I met this man an’ I kine’ of jostled agin 'im, ash, an’ he turn’ right roun’, sah, an’ fetch me a clip on de nose, sah, den I calls an' offsa’ an’ had dat man ar rested, an’ data all de treof, foa’ God, sah.” “How was it, McFinnigan ?" “Shore, yer Oner, an’ it was all the nayger’s fault, sor. I was a cornin’ dowD the av’nie quiet as a lam’, sor, sayin’ nothin' to nobody, whin tha! sphalpeen came forninst me, sor, wid his elbie, an’ I np an’ hit im upon the spur av the momint” “No, sah, be hit me on de nose, sah!” “On the spur av the momint” “On de nose, sah.” “Never mind fine distinctions,” said His Honor, “it costs a man $10 in this court to hit a man, whether it be upon the spur of the moment or upon the nose. George Washington yon are discharged.” —New York World. Governor Stanford, of California, au thorizes the announcement that be is not a candidate for United States Senator. He “could not afford and would not be willing to accept the position if it came to him without solicitation.” Some Russian customs. [From D. Mackenzie Wallace's “Russia. ”1 “To celebrate a parish fete in true or thodox fashion, it is necessary ta prepare beforehand a large quantity of braga, a kind of home-brewed small beer, aud to make a plentiful supply of piroghi or pies. Oil, too, has to be procured, aud vodka (rye spirit) in goodly quantity. At the same time the big room of the izba, as the peasant's house is called, has to be cleared, the floor washed, and the table and benches scrubbed. The evening before the fete, while the piroqhi are be ing baked, a little lamp burns before the Icon in the corner of the room, and per haps one or two guests from a distance arrive, in order that they may have on the morrow a full day’s enjoyment. “On the morning of the fete the pro ceedings begin by a long service in the church, at which all the inhabitants are present in their best holiday costumes, except three matrons nnd young women who remain at home to prepare dinner. About midday dinner is served in each izba for tbe family and their friends. In general, the Russian peasant’s fare is of the simplest kind and rarely comprises animal food of any sort—not from any vegetarian proclivities, but merely be cause beef, mutton and poTk are too ex pensive; but on a holiday such as the parish fete there is always on the dinner table a considerable variety of dishes. In the house of a well to do peasant thore will be not only greasy cabbage soup and kasha, a dish made from buckwheat, but also pork, mutton, and perhaps even beef. Braga will be supplied in unlimit ed quantities, and more than once vodka will be handed round. When the repast is finished, all rise together, and, turning toward tbe Icon in the comer, how and cross themselves repeatedly. The guests then say to their host, ‘Thanks for your hospitality,’ or more liberally, ‘Thanks for bread and salt;’ and the host replies, ‘Do not be displeased, sit down once more for good luck,’ or perhaps he puts the last part of his request into the form of a rhyming couplet, to the following effect • ‘Sit down that the hens may multiply brood, and that the chickens and bees may multiply.’ All obey this request, and there is another round of vodka. “After dinner some stroll about, ohat- ting with their friends, or go to sleep in some shady nook, while those who wish to make merry go to the spot where the young people are singing and playing, aud amusing themselves in various ways. As the sui. sinks toward the horizon, the more grave, staid guests wt_nd their way homeward, but maDy remain for supper- and as evtning advances, the effects of the vodka >ecome more and more appar ent. Sounds of revelry are heard more frequently /from the houses, and a large proportion of tbe inhabitants and guasts appear on the road in various degrees of intoxication. Some of these vow eternal affection to their friends, or with flaccid gestures and incoherent tones harangue invisible audiences; others stagger about aimlessly in besotted self-contentment, till they drop down in a state of complete unconsciousness. There they lie tran quilly till they are picked np by their less intoxicated friends, or more probably till they awake of their own accord on the next morning.”—Vol. L, p. 149. “No class of men in the world are more good natured and pacific than the Russian peasantry. When sober they never fight, aud even when nnder the in fluence of alcohol they are more likely to be violently affectionate than disagreea bly quarrelsome. If two of them take to drinking together, the probability is that in a few minnteB, though they may never have seen each other before, they will be expressing, in very strong terms, their mutual regard and affection, confirming their words with an occasional friendly embrace.”—Vol. I., p. 165. “As tbe village assembly is really a representative institution in the fnll sense of the term, it reflects faithfully the good and the bad qualities of the rural popula tion. Its decisions are, therefore, usually characterized by plain, practical common sense, but it is subject to occasional un fortunate aberrations, in consequence of pernicious influences chiefly of an alco holic kind. An instance of this fact oc curred daring my sojourn at Ivamka. The question under discussion was whether a kabak, or gin shop, should he. established in the village. A trader from the district town desired to establish one, and offered to pay to the commune a yearly sum for the necessary permission. The more industrious and respectable members of the commune, backed by the whole female population of the locality, were strongly opposed to the project, knowing fail well that a kabak would ultimately lead to the ruin of more than one household; bnt the enterprising trader had strong arguments wherewith to seduce a large number of tbe members, and succeeded in obtaining a decision in his favor.”—VoL L, p. 198. “When the sheep had been devoured, partly by the company in the tent, and partly by a nondescript company outside —for the whole hamlet took part in the festivities—koumiss was served in un limited quantities. This beverage, as I have already explained, is mare's milk fermented; hut what here passed under the name was very different from the koumiss I bad tasted in the establish ments of Samra. There it was a pleasant, effervescing drink with only the slightest tinge of acidity; here it was a “still” liquid, strongly resembling very thin and very soar buttermilk. My Russian frieDd made a very wry face on first tasting it, and I felt induced at first to do so like wise, bnt noticing that his grimaces made an unfavorable impression on the audience, I restrained my facial muscles afid locked as if I liked it. Very soon I really came to like it, and ltarned to ‘drink fair’ with those who had been accustomed to it from their childhood. By this feat I rose consider ably in the estimation of the natives; for if one does not drink koumiss, one can not be sociable in the Bashkir sense of the term, and by acquiring the habit one adopts the essential principle of Bashkir nationality. I should certainly have pre ferred having a enp of it myself, bnt I thought it well to conform to the habits of the oonntry, and to accept the tug wooden bowl when it was passed around. In return my friends made an important concession in my favor: they allowed mo to smoke as I pleased, though they con sidered that, as the Prophet had refrained from tobacco, ordinary mortals should do the same.”—YoL IL, page 41. On Saturday afternoon a yonng man snoceeded in stealing a package of money variously estimated in amount from $2,000 to $10,000 from the New York National Exchange Bank.