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The bill offered by Mr Garrard, of Muscogee, ,1, ,-s not look to any repudiation of recognized I* nds of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad, hut merely refers to certain coupons which were due from six to twelve months before the rad was seized by the State. They were not presented then, and the presumption in the bill is that if they had been presented they would not have i>een paid. This would have been notice to the State. The road couid have been seiz*-1 and operated for the benefit of the State sx or twelve months sooner than it was. The holders of the coupons continued to operate the road for their own benefit after their cou pons fell due and were not paid. The question as to whether or not the State is liable for these is one of great importance. The bill proposes to declare some policy on the ques tion, and it is now being considered by the Finance Committee. Two more good bills, a bill declaring a wife a comp enter, t witness against her husband where be commits an assault upon her, has passed the Georgia Senate. Likewise, one to make it a misdemeanor to carry intoxicating drinks to any public gathei ing. The Toeeoa News soys on Friday night Mr. She; herd, revenue officer, arrested Mr. B. F. Dooly, charged with violation of the laws, and placed him in a house with several guards to keep him safely till morning. During the night Mr. Dooly, minus hat, coat and shoes, j imped through a window and made good his escape. Luring last week Messrs. Asberry and Win. Holland, of Tattnall county, have each had a horse killed fcy lightning. Mr. Wm. Holland's h rse was standing in the stable when killed. AH right, brother of the Brunswick Adver tiser and Appeal. We will not divorce you from vour “first love." The Coroner's jury in the case of Moses and Piemonti find Daniel Moses guilty of willful murder in the killing of I’iemonti. ltev. Geo. G. Smith, of Gainesville, has pat ent* and a combined walking cane and auricle. With it a deaf person can hear au ordinary tone of conversation. Those who are slightly so can hear a whisper, and many who thought their hearing entirely gone are able to hear distinctly. It looks like an ordinary walking cane, and can be used as such. It has, it is said, though only patented the 2Sd of this month, already excited much attention. Rev. Mr. Smith will answer any questions on the sut ject, or he will send a plain tin cane, paint ed black and varnished, to any one for $1 50. Others of finer quality at higher prices. Columbus has maintained an open air re ligit us meeting for several years. It is con .falicted by all the prominent ministers of that city, and i- very popular. Seys the Augusta Chronicle: “Henry Ham mond, Jr., son of Mi*j Harry Hammond, of Beech Island, was thrown from his hor,e the other day and had his thigh broken. He bore the injury and surgical operation bravely, and told the doctor to be sure and put it in the paper." Griffin Vet es: "We learned late last evening that a fire occurred yesterday at Erin by which Mr. Geo. S. Mallory - lost his entire house and contents, valued at SI:S,LITI. There was no insurance, and Mr. Mallory was left entirely destitute. Veiy little was saved, and what there was was due to the timely aid of Mr. Babe Connor.” Cuthbert .le/x til: “Prof McNulty has re moved his family and household * fleets to Dawson, where he will open the South Georgia Male and Female College on the sth of Sep tember. May his brightest hopes be more than realized in his new field. A better teach er we never knew than Prof. McNulty, arid with his able corps of prof- ss >rs we predict a prosperous future for Law sot.'’ Dahionega Signal:' *A much large- nmber of min* s have been sold this season than ever be fore during the same period of time, and the buyers, pr.neipally eastern parties, are doing development work on the properties they have purchased. There are at ways opportunities f, r parties owning good mines to sell them, ibe day of selliog ‘holes in the gronn J,’ how ever, has passed. ’ Covington Enterprise: “Eddie Curshaw. nephew of Mr. Win. H. Evans, of Covington, was accidentally killed by the falling of a roll irg mill derrick in Birmingham, Ala., on last Friday. He was the on;y child of a fond and loving mo her, and at bis death the heart strings have been touched with a never-ceasing sorrow.” Brunswick Advertiser and Appeal: “A veritable devil fish was taken in our bay this week by the dredge hands it was found clitg ing to a buoy, and taken in ‘out of the wet.’ Its head and body is about six inches in length and its feelers from four to ten inches in length. We understand that Mr. A C. Ward will send it to the museum of Mercer Uni versity. at Macon.” Reidsviile Enterprise: “Pete Bsggs, color ed wa lodged in jaii here last Monday night, charged with rape As the story - comes to u-=, we learn that on lost Wednesday morning he assaulted Kills Johnson, his stepdaughter, on tile road, and she states carried out his de signs, bhe at once had a warrant issued for his arrft. and he was afterwards overhauled and tak**n before Justice Smith.” Ather s Banner : “The calendar of the 8u preme Court of Georgia for the September terra has been published, and from it we gather these facts: The Western Circuit comes second on docket. The number of cases in each county of the circuit are: Clarke 6, Gwinnett I, Hall 7. Jackson 2. Walton 1. White 1 City Court of Clarke county 1. City Court of Hall county l.or a total of SO in the circuit. There are 329 in the whole calendar." Henry County Wetkly: "George Couch, a negro man belonging to the railroad construc tion force at work at this place, got drunk lat Tuteday and made himself extremely obnoxi ous to the peace loving deniz-ns of the town by cursing, yelling and general disorderly con duct. An attempt of an officer to arrest him created a row. and very nearly a riot among the negroes, but armed citizens went to the as sistance of the officer and quelled the distur bance.” Ea.s*man Times: “Dodge county seems to be in a dilemma just now. The Ordinary hav.ng received no official information that the t oitn ty Court, which for the past year or two has had charge of coun’y affairs, lias been abol ished, he declines to assume the management of Ihe county business; while on the other hand the Countv Judge, under existing circum stances. feels that he. too. is incapacitated and also declines to act. So for the present it may be said that the county business is at a stand still for the want of information as to who is realiv the proper custodian of the county af fairs.” Augusta Chronicle: “Mr. C. has returned froai Washington, having been or dered back to the South on special duty. Mr. Zappone leaves in a few days to establish sta tions of the Signal Service in the country towns of the cotton belt. These stations w ill be or ganiz'd at Branchville and Yeniassee. S. C.. and at Union Point. Gainesville and Tococa City, Ga. By means of observations taken at these points each day, telegraphed to this Sig nal office, and bulletined in Augusta at six o'clock every afternoon, merchants here can tell the state of the weather in all the country round. These will give variable hints upon crop t.rospects and such matters.” Atlanta Constitution: “The contract for building the entire road from Rome to Atlanta was let yesterday by Mr. Met Taken, who rep resents Tnomas & t 0., to nill A McCechnev. of Chicago. There were sveral bids made for the contract, and the various bidders were yester day notified by Mr. McC'raken that the bid of Hilt A MeCeehney for the entire line was the lowest and mo<t s itisfactorv, and that the con tract had therefore been awarded to them. These gentlemen will begin at once upon the work and push the line through as rapidly as Kssible. The bed of the road will be sub let in order to have the work hastened.” Americus Republican: “We regret to record another killing in Sumter. Mr. Stamford Brancen had some word* on Tuesday last with a colored woman about the weight of some cot ton. Her reputed husband. Scott Kendrick, interfered and advanced toward Mr Brannen who quickly drew his knife and stabbed him in the heart Scott grasped Mr. Brannen, but in a moment relaxed hi3 held, fell down and expired. Mr. Brannen reported at or.ee to the officers of the law. and the Coroner held an in quest. A jury of good citizens, of which Mr. L. B. McTyier was foreman, returned a verdict of 'justifiable homicide.’ Mr. Brannen is a young man of quiet manner and disposition, and much regrets the occurrence.” Eastman Times: “Instead of letting the fruit—apples and peaches—waste and rot on the ground under the trees, why not dry the fruit and utinze this important crop? If cur R armors could only realize the necessity of itiiizing the entire products of their farms and >rcharaa.what a splendid achievement it would be in placing the agricultural interests of the country upon a solid f undatioo. Even in the matter of fruit, to say nothing of the valuable grass, pea vrnee etc., that are yearly allowed lo waste on the farm, if only a proper atten- |§atrtlt iWnrrottfl Seas. J. 11. ESTILL,' PROPRIETOR. tion was shown, hundreds and thousands of dollars might be saved annually from the fruit crop, which in our local ly seems in the main to be regarded as fit for use only in the summer. Pried fruit, as every one knows, goes far during the long winter months towards com pensating in the culinary department for sum mer vegetables ’’ Col. Cole has written the following letter to Col. S. L. Fremont. United Btates Engineer at Brunswick; “On my return to Chattanooga, I am in receipt of your esteemed favor of the 9th inst. Brunswick must be an important harbor, and ought to be favored liberally by the government in the expenditure of money in its improvement. Our Macon and Bruns wick Railroad, extended from Macon to At lanta. and from Atlanta to Home, will connect with a system of about 1,000 miles of other roads that we control, be ides perfect connec tion with roads we do not control, to Cincin nati. Chicago and St. Louis. No one is more competent than yourself to take up these lines, and the sections tapped by all of our connections, and estimate the importance of the improvements to be made by the govern ment at Brunswick. 1 trust you may get a large appropriation from the government for this wgjrfc.” Columbus Times: “Under the head of ‘Honey Dew- in Georgia," the Button (West Virginia) ■Mountaineer has the following to sav of the notice which we made some time ago of the shower of honey which fell on the place of Mr. John McKee, of Talbot county: ‘From the above it seems Mr. McKee is under a common delusion, yix: that what is called honey dew falls from the sky. If he had examined the limbs of the poplar referred to. he would have found their otherwise smooth bark full of what at first sight appears to be little knots, of the same color as the bark, and about as round and large as one-half of a small pea. A closer examination would have shown him that these s*-emiog knots are hard shelled bark lice aphi dii cineracei, the excrements of w-bich fall in a steady shower upon anything under the in reeted tree and is called honey dew. In this case, as often happens, a slight breeze was de flecting the falling shower from the perpendi cular Fiifflcienriy to carry it into the porch. The same insect is of ten found upon young growtby bi -kories as well as poplars, and in nearly every State of the Union, but mo it plen tiful in those having the dryest climates. If you doubt, examine for yourselves, ladies and gentlemen.” St Petersburg sLt Is. Correspondence of the London Times. What a town it is! How large, bow dismally empty! llow it squats like an immense alligator half in and half out of a swamp, modelled on Amsterdam and reminding one ot Venice! What miles and miles of ‘ prospects,” or, a3 the French would say, “boulevards;” what endless succession of wide, open spaces and magnificent distances, of long straight lines of wall) and rows of trees and interminable avenues, contrived, as it were, to allow the town ample room to run out of town! A city of churches, convents and palaces, of steeples and monuments, of gold, bronze, granite and marble, of buildings in ail styles, European and Asiatic, quaint originals, or indifferent copies, many of them grand and massive, yet strewn over space at haphazard, on a perfectly fiat surface, grouping no where, nowhere laid out for effect or with an eye to the picturesque. A town of princes, to all appearance, or of wealthy bankers or traders, with nothing mean, no back slums, no rag fair; the homes of the poor, if at all existing, carefully hidden out of sight; the whole covering scores of miles of ground, a maze of isles and islets, of bridges and embankments, of river, and branches of river and canals. , It is a town made by one man, made on a plan and for a purpose; and when that is said all is said, lt was not one of the cities of God’s own building; conse quently, it may be feared,not oneof those that abide. Its foundation was suggest ed by a great thought, and it turns out now to have been a mistake. It is questionable, indeed, whether Peter the Great ever meant St. Peters burg for a permanent court residence and capital. As late as 1724, seven months before his death, it was not here, hut at Moscow that he celebrated the coronation of his wife Catherine; and if he spent much of his time on this spot, it was chiefly because a work of such magnitude as he had undertaken requir ed the master’s incessant presence. For the rest, all that Peter wanted here was a port, and he could under the circum stances find no better, ne built on con quered ground out of all the boundaries of Old Russia, amid a Finnish population, the fotmtr subjects of Sweden. He drafted his workmen among the serfs of all his prov nces, and wasted 100,000 human lives in the achievement, labor being as cheap for him as it ever was for the builders of the Egyptian pyramids. The site was a swamp—an unhealthy swamp, so unsafe that some of its finest monuments—the monolith column of Alexander 1., and the Isaac church—show in their deep crevices the rapid decay of which the treacherous ground beneath is dooming them; so unsafe, besides,as to be subject to inundations, like the ground of ancient Rome, for the city has a'ready been destructively flooded eight times since 1703, the date of its foundation, and even last year the water rose more than ten feet above the ordinary’ level, driving people from their cellars and basement floors, as well as from the villas and gardens of the lower islands. There were even for many years ominous speculations as to the pos sibility of the whole town being sub merged. “The Gulf of Fiuland,” Peter reasoned, "runs westward from St. Peter burg, in the direction whence the heaviest storms always blow. Imagine a storm to set in from the west, in April or May, when the ice is breakiug up, and suppose that this should happen just when the water in the Tiver is at the highest. The masses of ice blown in from the sea would meet those that float down from the land side, and the col lision between the two opposite maasses could not fail to overwhelm the whole city, with its proud palaces, when princes and beggars would be drowned promis cuously, like Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea.” The town, however, has already stood one hundred and seventy-eight years, and the catastrophe seems indefinitely ad journed. As no such combination of storm, high water and great thaw as croakers conjured up has yet occurred, sanguine people have become perfectly skeptical as to the possibility of the orealed contingency. He Wanted It With the North Pole Painted in It. Salt Lake Tribune. A dilapidated looking tramp, with sixteen distinct patches on his clothes, and a plaster over his eye, yesterday went into a Main street saloon, slapped down a worn-out dime, and howled out in a voice loud enough to be heard in Ogden: “Give me a soda water cocktail with the North Pole in it.” A crowd outside, thinking free drinks were to be set up, crowded into the saloon and watched and waited. The man of rags, who had ordered the North Pole in his drink, ate up all the lunch he could find, chewed up the coffee and cloves, and was tackling the mint, when the bartender quietly asked: "What did you say you wanted in your drink. Mr. Gould?” Mr. Gould steadied himself a moment, grinned on the crowd and at himself in the looking glass, and replied: "If you please, sir, I’ll have the North Pole in it. ” The bartender remembered an old piece of gas-tubing, about three feet in leDgth, which had been left around; he got it and blew some cayenne pepper down the inside, put one end of it in the cock-tail, and smilingly handed it to Mr. Gould. Mr. Gould took it, gave a first preliminary pull, and then a hurricane arose. It seemed as though the com bined tornadoes of eight Eastern States had broken loose. An immense con glomeration of legs, arms, hats, canes, and bodies was observed piling out of the saloon a few moments after; and to day, when the saloon keeper reckons up the losses of a broken head, cracked mirror, scratched and stained counter, and liability of being sued, he will sadly remember the last words of the tramp ns he closed the door and shot up the ■treet. Lady Beantlflers. Ladies, you cannot make fair skin, rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes with all the cos mettca of France or beautifiers of the world whiie In poor be&lth, and nothing will give you such rich blood, good health, strength and beauty as Hop Bitters. A trial is cer tain proof* STEADILY SINKING EVEN I>E. BLISS HIVES CP HOPE. A Steady Lou of (Around - Death from Exhaustion All but Certain —No Immediate Danger—He .Hay Live Several Days—Col. Rockwell Stout lu Hope. Executive Mansion, August 27.— About 7 o’clock this morning the first Intelli gence bearing on the condition of the President was received from the physicians’ room. This Infor mation, though meagre, was discour aging. It was substantially to the effect that the President’s condition was a little less encouraging than at a late hour last night, that big pulse had not yet been taken, but that it was noticeably less firm. This feebleness of pulse was not noticed until Dr. Bliss went to his bed, about six o’clock this morning. He then observed that although the frequency of the pulse had not materially changed, Its character was weaker and more unsteady. He did not Interpret this as a certain evidence of the nearness of the end, but the circum stance is calculated to ns now still more the President’s chances for recovery. A painful period of suspense in tervened between the receipt of this Infor mation and the appearance of the morning bulletin, and the latter was waited for with an ominous foreboding that it would con firm the worst fears. The bulletin, when it made Its appear ance, with the positive statement that the President had grown feebler since yester day, and noting the marked increase lu pulse and respiration, extinguished the last ray of hope held by the general public, and cast a deeper gloom over those near and dear to the President. The physicians do not say, however, that hope is dead. THE SURGEONS DON’T GIVE CP. -10:30 a. m.—Dr. Keyburn reports that the President’s strength up to this hour has not perceptibly failed since the morning exami nation. He continues to take food about as well as heretofore, and the frequency of his pulse has not increased. He has just been sponged off and seems more com fortable. GENERAL SWAIM’S OPINION. 10:50 a. m. —General Swaiin, in an inter view with a reporter of the Associated Press at 10;40 this morning, said that the President’s pulse has varied a good deal since the morning dressing. The least exertion or any elipht movement of the body was enough to increase the frequency so that also its average rate might not change a great deal. It was occasionally higher for short periods. The swollen parotid gland, he said, continues to dis charge through the ear and through the in cision made several days ago, aud this dis charge seems to afford relief. The surgeons still hope that the nourishment which the patient takes will sustain him on the present plane of vitality until the glandular abscess becomes less threatening, when there will be, in General Swaim’s opinion, a chance, at least, of recuperation. All the members of the Cabinet came to the Executive Mansion at 9 a. in., aud most of them are still there. They were generally more reticent than yesterday with regard to their views of the situation.' Secretary YVindom said that it wss useless to disguise the fact that the morning bulletin was very discouraging. He was not ready, however, himself to say that the case Is hopeless. He intended to hope and think and believe to the last that the President will live. Postmaster General James would oniy say, "While there is life there is hope." Attorney General MacVeagh declined to converse upon the situation, but admitted that it seemed to him less hopeful this morning. THE NOON BULLETIN. Executive Mansion, 12:30 p m. [Official Bulletin.]—There has been no improvement iu the President’s condition since the last bulletin was issued. He continues to retain the liquid food administered by the mouth as well as the enemata. At the mornlog dressing the parotid swelling ap peared about the same as yesterday. No material change was observed in the wound. Since morning* the temperature has risen about a degree, and the pulse has fluctuated somewhat. At present the pulse is 120, temperature 99.6, respiration 22. I). W. Bliss. J. K. Barnes. F. H. Hamilton. J. J. Woodward. NO CHANGE. 11:30 a. m— The situation of the Preei dent has not changed much since the earlier par; of the morning, but continues very critical. The members of the Cabinet are all still here. GRADUALLY FAILING. Dr. Bliss reports, at noon, that there has been no matked ehauge in the President’s condition, but that he is gradually failing in strength. His pulse when last taken was 116 te 118, and slightly better iu'characler than at 7 a. in. ARTHUR NOT SUMMONED. 12;30 P. m. [Unofficial Bulletin ]—The members of the Cabinet are still here, but no decisive change has taken place In the President’s condition. Attorney Uen enj MacVeagh authorizes the statement that Vice Presideut Arthur has cot been telegraphed for, and that no decision to send for him has yet been arrived at. DR. BLISS GIVES UP. Dr. Bliss said to a reporter of the Asso ciated Press at noon that his belief is the President cannot recover. He thinks, how ever, that his death will not occur immedi ately, and that he may linger several days. REVIEW OF THE CASE. 1 p. m.—ln an Interview with a reporter of the Associated Press at noon, Dr. Bliss replied to questions substantially as fol lows: “What view do you take, Doctor, of the President’s condition to day ?’’ "I think he is no better to day than yes terday, and, when I say he is no better, it is about equivalent to saying that be Is worse, because the longer he goes on in this way without positive repair the less be comes his chances of recovery.” "Has he failed much this forenoon?” “Not a great deal tinco 7 o’clock. His time of greatest depression is early in the morning. It was so yesterday morning, and so again this morning. After: that he rallied a little, aud bis pulse fluctuated during the forenoon between 110 and 118.” "Does he realize his condition?” "I think be does to a certain extent. He has inquired about his pulse and about the condition of the Inflamed gland several times to-day.” "You do not think he has given up hope of his own recovery?” “No, 1 don’t think he has. He seemed more discouragedjabout himself this morn ing than usual, and I think his discourage ment has something to do with his physical depression. His mind seemed for a time to react unfavorably upon his body.” “Did he ask you how he was?” "Yes, and Mrs. Garfield and I gave him reassuring replies. That seemed to brace him up, and he soon afterward rallied.” "What is the condition of his mind to day?” “HU mind is absolutely clear.” "Better than yesterday ?” "Much better. He understands every thing that is said to him to-day, and is con scious of what goes on about him.” "What is the appearauce of the parotid gland to-day?” "It hss not changed much.” "Does it continue to discharge?” "Yes; it discharges rather more freely through the ear.” “Are auy of the other glands of the body affected?” “No.” "And there is no suppuration except in the wound and gland?” "Nowhere else.” "How does the wound look?” "Not quite so well as heretofore. The granulations were not so perfect this morn ing as they have hitherto Deen.” “Has the character of the pus from the wound changed?” "Not materially. It perhaps indicates a little more depletion of the 6y6tero.” "Has the chance of which you spoke yes terday, Doctor, grown any narrower since then? ’ "Yes, I think it has. He has less chance to-dav to recover than he had vesterday.” "You still hope for recovery?” "Yes, I hope for It.” "But what is your judgment—your belief in regard to it ?” “My belief is that the President cannot recover. If it were not for the local trou ble—l mean the condition of the parotid gland—be might gain strength and make progress but Ido not 6ee bow the process of repair can begin to go on ia the presence of that complication.” SAVANNAH, MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1881. Plf there should be no improvement, how long would the patient probably hold out ?” "I should think he might five two or three days. Ido not think death will occur suddenly.” "Yousay his mind today is absolutely clear. Is it not probable that his mental faculties will fall before the end comes ?” “Yes, I presume death will be preceded by a period of unconsciousness.” “Have you advised Mrs. Garfield to send for any other members of the family ?” "No; Ido not think it is our place to make tlfet suggestion. Mrs. Garfield knows perfectly well bow the President is.” “Has any one been admitted to the room to see him, yesterday or to day, except the surgeons and the usual attendants ?” “No one to my knowledge.” "If death occurs, will Its approach be recognizable for any considerable time in advance ?” "I think it will. It Is impossible to pre dict with certainty what course the case will take, but I think it likeiv that if the worst comes to the worst, the President will sink gradually, and that we shall have some hours’ warning of the coming of the end.” MUCH THE SAME. 2 I*, m. [Unofficial Bulletin.] —The con dition of tne President has not ma'erially charged since the noon bulletin. BLAINE TO LOWELL. 2 p. m. —The following has been sent, to Minister Lowell at London by Secretary Blaine: “There has been no change for the better in the President’s condition since morning. His fever has risen and his pulse at this hour (2 p. m.) is 120. His physicians do not regard the case as hopeless, but very dangerous and critical.” COL. ROCKWELL’S STOUT HOPE. 2:30 p. m. —The condition of the Presi dent remains substantially unchanged. Some of the President's intimate personal friends and attendants still cling to the hope of his recovery. Col. Rockwell, In conversation with a reporter of the Asso ciated Press this afternoon, said with much emphasis and feeling: “Notwithstanding the discouraging bulletins, notwithstanding ail that has been said, notwithstanding the dispatches which have been sent far and wide over tbe couhtry, I tell you tbe President is not dying, and shows no signs of dying. I don’t speculate as to the chances of the future. The present is enough for me. He is not dylDg now. Not ten minutes since X heard him tell Gen. Swaim, who stood by his bedside, that he thought he felt better than he did yesterday. A long while ago, in talking to me about himself, Gen. Garfield said: “With me it is always unexpected which happens. I be lieve the unexpected may happen once more in the President’s life, and that, he may yet surprise the cuuutry by getting well.” A LITTLE BETTER. 3:20 p. m. —There has been no marked change in ihe President’s condition this afternoon. GcDeral S vaim, who has just come from his room, thinks he is a little better. [Oning to the violence of the storm and the interruption of connections nothing was received from the President later thau 3:20 p. m.J OUR GREAT STAPLE. Reports from tbe Colton-Growing States. New Orleans, August 27. — Th e Democrat has Ihe following reports: Louisiana. —Cotton is fruiting poorly. The crop is generally earlier. Some dam age, is reported from both worms and drought. The acreage is unchanged, and picking Is general. One parish reports the same yield as last year, two ouly oae-tbird and one a half crop. Mississippi—Cotton is fruiting poorly. Some damage Is reported from rust and worms. ODe county reports two thirds and five only half a crop. Texas.— Cotton is opening fast, but fruit ing poorly. The condition Is not as good as at ill's time last year. Tbe crop will be about two thirds of an average one, but the quality is much better. Picking has begun and some cotton is coming Into town. A RIG CHICAGO BLAZK. Large Amount ot Cork and Uacon It u rued. Chicago, August 27.—A great fire broke out last evening in the packing eatablish ment of John C. Hately, formerly known as Ricker’s, at the Union Stock Yards. Four million pounds of bacon, tltyeeu thousand brrels of pork, and other miscellaneous stock, were destroyed, involving a luss of a million dollars. A Hark Aaliore. London, Aueust 27.— Tbe bark Path finder, from Coosaw, S. C., is ashore at Bootie. All bands are saved but the mas ter, who was drowned. The cargo may be saved, but the vessel will become a wreck. Possibilities of an Extra Session of Congress. New York Sun. If a proclamation for an extra session has been signed it has been done in view of Garfield’s death, the publication to be made while he yvas yet living, because such a proclamation otherwise would be by one who had ceased lo be President, and would be of no account. In case Garfield dies Arthur might, aud probably would, want the Senate to meet as early as possible to confirm cer tain appointments, perhaps Cabinet offi cers. If a proclamation has been pre pared, probably it is for the envening of the Senate only, though a full session is needed, and there exists the need, as we have seen, even if Garfield lives. So, after all, instead of being a mysterious per form ince of an extraordinary nature, a proclamation for an extra session of the Senate may be Mr. Biaine’s plain duty. But with an extra session of the Sen ate called, with Garfield dead and Ar thur no longer Vice President, an ex traordinary state of things would exist. We have seen that in such an event, whenever the meeting, the Senate will be without a presiding officer. By rea son of the death of Colonel Burch that body is also without a Secretary even. This could be overcome and an organi zition obtained by following the prece dent of 1877,when,under similar circum stances, Sena’or Morton offered a resolu tion that Senator Howe administer the oath to Senator Ferry, and thus that Senator be declared the presiding officer of ihe Senate. This being done, presi ding officer Ferry administered the oath lo Vice Pre-ident Wheeler. In the ab sence of a Secretary, who by parliamen tary law would do it, the motion could be put by any Senator. Mr. Winthrop was elected Speaker of the House on the motion of John Quincy Adams, on the refusal of the Clerk to put the motion. But another difficulty might arise. Senators Lapham and Miller are to be sworn in. Just when this shall be done makes all the difference in the world with the Republicans. Certainly they cannot lie sworn in before the presiding officer is choseD. Shall they be before their cases are referred and duly reported on? On the question when this is done, whether there be an extra session or not, will probably depend the complexion of the organization of the Senate. One can readily see that whenever the Senate meets there is liable to be another dead lock of an indefinite duration. A Time!' Warning;, or tbe Expe rience of a iTHnlstcr. If you suffer from general debility, brought on by too close application to busi ness and excessive brain work, or from in creasing prostration and sinking spells, that even a rest or removal of the cause will not relieve, make haste to do as did a reverend friend of ours. He secured from his drug gist a bottle of Biowu’s Iron Bitters, having heard of its merit from a physician, who told him cot to take any other Bitters or Tonic, for with the exception of Brown’s Iron Bitters they all contained alcohol, and had failed to give bis patients lasting re lief, nor should he take any other prepara tion of Iron, for with the exception of Brown’s Iron Bitters, they ali blackened the teeth, and often gave headache, which Brown’s Iron Bitters never did, but in fact cured headache. The i fleet was most satis factory; he immediately realized wonderful results. His old energy returned, his natu ral force came back, and he felt himself altogether anew man, full of health, strength and vigor, and be has continued to remain so ever since. Now he recommends Brown’s Iron Bitters to ail his friends, which we unhesitatingly do to all our read ers.—Globe. A MILLIONAIRE: BRIGAND. Lerada, wbo In Lore,War and Gold getllng Made Tlitug* Hum. Alta Californian. There are many interesting incidents related of Lerada, the remarkable Indian who for eighteen years ruled the Tepic part of the Mexican republic. When a boy he was engaged in herding sheep and cattle on a ranch near the town of Jalisco. Every day there passed on her way to and from school a very pretty girl, of a good family, and an acquaintance began between them. She always had her boqks, and on her return from school the two would retire to some quiet place, where she would teach him to read and give him his first ideas of arithmetic and geography. He was exceedingly apt in learning and anxious to acquire knowledge, and he improved it in such a manner that he soon be came recognized among other Indians as superior to them. His master often ill treated him, and Lerada was often heard to say he would revenge himself. The acquaintance with the girl ripened into love, which was reciprocated. He hail asked of her parents that he might marry her. a proposition that was scorned, the family calling him a beggar. But he one day killed his master and then fled to the mountains, taking a number of Indians with him. After in creasing the number to eighty men, he one night entered Jalisco, went to the house of the girl, took her out, and killed those of the family whom he deemed had insulted him. He forced the Cure of Jalisco to go with him to the camp on the mountains, and, when there, made him marry him to the girl. Lerada afterward took to the road as a brigand, and was a terror for miles around. Many times troops were sent after him that never returned. About this time came the French, who, hearing of liis many exploits and influence with the Indians, made overtures to him to join them, promising $30,000 per month to pay his men. Lerada accepted and went, with eight thousand men, to Ma 7-atlan, received the first installment, came back to Tepic, disbanded them, and put the money in his pocket. He after ward received ihe same sum regularly, and as regularly he pocketed it. This was the beginning of his political promi nence, and he rapidly made advance ment in his endeavors for a com plete control of the government of this section of the republic. He appears to have been a terribly revengeful man, and any one that he imagined had done him any injury lived but a little time after. On one occasion, at a ball in Tepic, he observed an official of the gov ernment in conversation with a senorita with whom he was enamored. He di rected one of his own officers to go to him and tell him to leave the house. Lerada, seeing the official still conversing with the young lady, again called his officer and asked if he obeyed him, and at the same time pointed to the pistol which the officer carried, asking if he was aware to what use such an instru ment was put "Now go to that man,” he said, “and take him by ilie beard and lead-him from the house.” The officer, well knowing that if he disobeyed his owu life would be for feited, did as he was told. On another occasion, he sent an Indian with a watch and a sum of money from his place at San Luis to Tepic. The Indian stole both, pawning the watch. He was ap prehended and shot, and so, too, were the poor ! pawnbroker and the innocent purchaser of the watch from the latter— both were arrested and shot by order of Lerada. But his ambition for extended power ruined him. His frequent suc cesses had led him to believe he could capture Guadalajara, and with eight thousand Indiaus he started for tliht city, when, after a well fought battle, he was routed and obliged to return to Tepic, having lost the prestige he had gained in eighteen years, as well as the confidence of his officers. The latter "went back on him,” and one "gave him away,’ - receiving, it is said, a considera ble sum for the informatbn; and so at last Lerada was captured, and soon after was shot near the bridge crossing the river passing this city. He begged ear nestly for his life, one person assuring me that he offered to liquidate the American debt if released. But it was of no use; his death was inevitable, and whiie protesting that his actions had len for the good of the Indians whose Chief he was, the drums were rolled, a volley of musketry was heard, and the career of Lerada was at an end. As to his wealth during his lifetime, there are many stories. One is that bar rels of gold and silver were carried at his order to the mountains and there deposit ed by four men, who, after finishing the work, were, of course, shot, that it might not be divulged. There is at Santiago an old man that tells that he, in company with another Alteiro, came to Tepic in the night time, escorting Lerada and six mules heavily laden with gold and silver bars, brought from the mountains iu the vicinity of Santiago, and which were de posited in Lerada’s house; that after their arrival he was sent out to buy mescal, aud as he had a weakness for the "vine celestial” he drank too much, got drunk, and did not return to the house. In the morniDg the mules were found astray. Lerada was on his way to Guadalajara, and the other rnan, his companion, never was heard of again. His ideas of discipline were as severe as his ideas of many other things. It was his custom to review his 54,000 Indians on the first Sunday of every month at 8 o’clock a. m., and it whs expected that every man would be present or with a sufficient excuse. As they had to come from many leagues away it would not seem strange if there were mny delinquents. On one occa sion, at one of these reviews, when those present were in the line, one unfortunate arrived ten minutes late. He was called before the chief, and, after being repri manded before the wholej army, was led to a tree and shot. The family of Lerada, his wife and two daughters, reside at San Luis. She is in very comfortable circumstances, and is represented as a very lady like and amiable person. How a Pretty Jewess Saved Her Like.— There is a very pretty story told how a lovely Jewess in a Russian town saved her property and her life during the recent attacks upon the Jews. A great, hulking ruffian entered her shop and bought a loaf of bread. After swallowing a couple of mouthfuls he threw himself on the ground outside the shop aud began to howl piteously that he was poisoned—the Jews had poisoned him. Of course an infuriated crowd immediately assembled, and it would have fared ill with our Jewess if she had not dashed out of the shop, and, snatch ing the bread out of the impostor's hand, began to eat in sight of them all. The crowd stopped, thunderstruck. A broad grin dawned on every countenance. One of them called out to her: "Alosha, lend me your knout, will you?” Then the impostor started to liis feet and scudded off, pursued by a mischievous but no longer sanguinary crowd. They organized a debating club in Dead wood last week. The fact that the President was a dead shot and sat with two revolvers in hand and kept the so ciety in comparative quiet while the questions, "Ought a flush royal beat four aces?” and “la it wicked to lynch Mexicans on Sunday?” were debated. But when they touched the question, "Ought you to fire when a man reaches for his hip pocket, or are you bound to wait till you see whether it’s a revolver or whisky bottle he’s drawing?” the President couldn’t control them, and five funerals was the result. —Boston Post. The Norfolk Virginian lately mentioned, among other cases, that of a prominent druggUU of Warrenton, N. C, who on a business trip to Norfolk, severely Injured himself l-y falling on the ice. By advice, he used Bt. Jacobs Oil with such happy re sult that lie went on his way cured and re joicing. GRAVEYARD LIFE INSURANCE. How Aged men and Women are Duped by tbe Agents. A case heard before Alderman Graul, of Reading, Pa., on Saturday last, re sulted in an exposure of the methods of those engaged in the business of grave yard life insurance. An old man, bent with infirmities and a misspent life, brought suit against an agent to recover $25. The money, he said, had been promised him for the privilege of insur ing his life, but the agent refused to pay the amount. The prosecutor is a ‘‘pro fessional” in the business of having risks taken on his life, he playing the part of a dying man, when in reality his health is as good as the average man’s at his time of life. These professionals charge $5 per SI,OOO but it seems that they are duped by many agents in the following manner: A professional consents to lie insured for SI,OOO, and is paid $5 cash. Gen erally speaking, he never reads what he signs, nor does he care much what it is. He thinks the papers are for an applica tion for a single policy for SI,OOO. The agent who has him in hand gets his sig nature half a dozen times on as many different papers. He is told that it is necessary, as the company is a very strict one. The truth is, the old man has signed for three or four policies for SI,OOO, $2,000, $3,000 and $5,000, for which, however, he receives a single fee of $5 only. He imagines that he has been insured for $4,000, whereas the amount on his life is $14,000. Tnis is the way in which such large sums of insur ance are placed on the lives of the old people. Old women, helpless and paralytic, poor and palsied, are hood winked in the same way. The agents then peddle the policies around the country to whoever will buy. This “watered stock,” as it is called, forms a leading article for barter in many back country marts. It is a common expres sion that you can’t throw a stone in Eastern Pennsylvania without hitting a graveyard life insurance agent with policies to sell. He has paid $5 to the subject and owns SII,OOO worth of poli cies. They are in AI companies that pay full face value of the policy. The agent thus carries on his sale: “Now, sir, privately, you know, be tween you and me, this policy for $2,000 cost me $lO before I got it issued by the company. (Lie No. 1). The subject is a good one, first class; won’t live six months. (Lie No. 2). Now the policy Just as it stands cost me $25. (Lie No. 3) I will let you have it for S3O, and I wouldn’t be a bit surprised but what you’d hear of the old paralyzed skeleton being dead in less than six months!” (Lie No. 4). The policy is sold and duly assigned, for which the company receives sl, the agent makes S2O, and the holder of the policy hunts up his subject to inspect him and speculate upon the probabilities of his early demise. It is safe to say that there is more money made in the sale of policies than in any other branch of the nefarious traffic. An aged woman consents to have her life insured five times by as many differ ent purt'es for SI,OOO each. She then supposes there is $5,000 insurance on her life, whereas she has been tricked and duped, and in reality there is $55,- 000 on her, which, if she kpew all the facts, would startle her out of her wits. These aged people never do know how much insurance is on their lives. An old woman down the country boasted the other day that she was insured for $20,- 000. The fact is (but she does not know it), she is insured for $220,000, and the policies are held by her neigh bors, who are anxiously watching and praying for her death. She is lively as a cricket, and laughs at the idea of her dying for the next ten years. To her intimate friends she says: “Oh, they’ll all get tired of this business before i’m half ready to die.” Policies in these crooked companies vary in value just as speculative stocks are affected by the changes in the bulle tins from the Executive Mansion. A dozen men holding policiesoon old peo ple meet at an insurance exchange. Some of their subjects are reported dy ing, others slightly- better, others about the same. The policy on the subject that is dying appreciates in value, and a sale is either made at an advance or the holder concludes to keep it. He refuses a good offer to day oniy to regret it to morrow when he learns that his subject is not in a dying condition, but getting better. Cotton Seed OIL Montgomery Advertiser. Those who have never used this article as a substitute for the grease of swine have little idea what an improvement it makes in culinary affairs. We do not mean, of course, the unclean and un savory oil as it comes from the huge press at the oil mill, but the nice, pure, delicate article which the refinery fur nishes. Its superiority over lard in the matter of sweetness 1 and cleanness cannot be questioned. The refined oil is absolute ly clean, and so pure is it that now, as w*> have heretofore stated, it is exten sively sold and used as pure olive oil. It is quite the equal of that famous oil— no epicure, however delicate his palate, being able to detect the difference. For frying fish, and indeed for frying of all sorts, it is unequalled. A gentle man of Florida, whose table is rarely without fish, long since substituted it for lard, and declares that it leaves the genuine flavor of the flh entirely un touched. A lady of this city, whose table is noted for its delicate dishes, says that for all frying purposes it leaves lard clear out of sight. What is more,the same oil that has fried a fish, if set aside, may be again used for the same purpose. Of course it would have the “smell” of fish and could not be used for anything else. A gentleman of Mongomery managed to smuggle a small quantity into his kitchen and counselled his cook on the sly how to use it. When the biscuits and battercakes, which had never known the smell of hog’s grease, came to the table the next morning, they were dis cussed and decreed to be first class by all the female members before the "lord” dared to make known how it was that cotton seed oil and not lard had en tered into their composition. It was bard to believe his revelations, but there was no going back on the joke, con firmed as it was by the cook. In fact, the testimony of all who have tried it, pronounce it equal to the very best article of lard. And it is said that our Hebrew friends use it now ex tensively as a substitute for goose grease. And what is of particular interest, it is said that this pure, delioate vegetable ex tract costs only about half as much as the extract of pork. Ihe Crop Outlook in Wilson. Tucker’s Cross Roads, Wilson County, Tenn. , August 24, 1881. —This evening a heavy rain is falling, and has been falling during the last half hour. It is the first rain that has fallen for tbe last eight weeks in this section of coun try. The country will be greatly bene fited in the way of stock water, bringing on fall grasses and softening the ground so that farmers can commence to fallow their wheat land. There has been no land broken for wheat sowing as yet. The corn crop in this, the eastern division of Wilson county, will be almost a total failure. Some of our most experienced farmers claim that the drought has killed out all the young clover and meadows. There is but little hay and oats here to maintain the stock, and an abundance of young stock, such as mules and cattle, to be fed. A great many hog men are shipping their hogs off to have them fed. The State debt and taxes has been dropped out of every day gossip, and nothing has beeu talked of for some time but the drought. Groccra tad druggists every v,h< re sell Mellln’s Food, tbe most reliable article tor Infants and invalids.—Ada, ALONE WITH THE GORILLA. Standing Near tbe Beaat on tbe Crackling Stalra of a Burning Museum. New York Commercial Advertiser. We heard from a straggler in the street that the fire was at Barnum’s Museum. This gave renewed force to our feet, anti we fairly flew along the street. When we reached the spot what a sight was before us? The great build ing was ablaze on the two top floors,and several streams were already pouring water on it. The night, or rather morn ing, was bitter cold, and every bit of water that struck the lower part of the street would freeze at once. Even long stalactites of ice were beginning to form on the adjoining buildings where the hose was played on them, and the red glare of the fire, now under strong headway, lit them up like gold. The suffering animals within the museum, imprisoned and caged, be gan to moan and roar. The fire, the ice. and the wild cries of the poor ani mals, made the night one of horror in deed. Just at this moment, with a great crash, right through a plate glass win dow on the first floor, a splendid tiger 4 prang. He lit in the street and stood or a moment at bay, and many a voice in the crowd cried: "Hhoot him! shoot him!” We had given our hose to a steamer, and the water being just let into it the fireman with the nozzle put the stream full against the animal. Its force and wash carried him off his feet, and amomeet afterwards "one of the finest,” with a revolver, put two balls into his body and finished bim. I then made my way into the burning building from the basement and gained the first floor. A flight of steps was be fore me, and at the top I could, through the smoke, make out a door. I mounted the stairs to render what aid I could. As 1 got about to the middle the heat warped and cracked the door, and it fell to one side, and there beyond, making right for these stairs, was the big gorilla! Oh, never shall I forget that dread moment. The big flames began to lick the walls, and the whole space beyond that dread ful beast was a blaze of fire. The heat and smoke were awful, and I felt my limbs shake as palsied as I looked, spell bound, at the awful hairy mass at the top of the steps. I could hear the heavy thud, thud of his huge foot as he moved or glided to the stairs. I could see his great monstrous body writhe almost with heat. The stairs were narrow, and, great Heaven! when he reached me what would become of me? I stood transfixed, spellbound with an terror. One hand clasped the banisters and one the wall, and 1 could not have moved one finger on either of those hands to have saved my life. 1 heard still the shouts of the now maddened animals within the Jbuilding. I heard the axes of the firemen breaking through the floors. I thought a thousand thoughts in a second, but I could not move a hair's breadth. I even counted the steps between the monster and my self. There were but six—only six little short steps between me and grim death. The beast came slowly on, glaring hor ribly at me. There were but four steps. Will he seize me in those horrible arms of his, thought I, from which the matted, coarse hair hung, and toss me into the burning, seething mass of fire and flame beyond us? Another step he came. Oh, heaven! but one little short step now. I made a superhuman effort to move, if but a muscle; but alas! I could not. The loath some body of the brute touched me. My breath came in gasps and my heart stood still, awe stricken. One dread claw like hand griped upon my shoulder as the other arm of the wild beast was raised to his neck. He tugged there a moment as if for breath and strength. Now I sickened and shuddered as he threw the great mass of hair and hide over his head aud revealed a rough Celtic face within, and asked in hurried, frightened, and strong Hibernian tones: “For the love of St. Patriek, show me the way out of this I” The Death of General Lee. The Philadelphia Times prints the fol lowing letter from the wife of General Robert E. Lee, describing her husband’s death: Lexington, November 20,1870. My Dear Mrs. . * * * That Wednesday night, at half-past seven o’clock, after a day every moment of which had been filled with care for others and the closing hours to the vestry meeting of the church, my husband came in. We had been waiting for him, and I remarked: "You have kept us wailing a long time. Where have you been?” He did not reply, and stood up as if to say grace, but no sound pro ceeded from liis lips and he sat down in his chair perfectly upright and with a sublime look of resignation on his coun tenance, but did not attempt to reply to our inquiries. That look was never to be forgotten, and I have no doubt that he felt then his hour had come, although he submitted to the doctors, who were immediately summoned and had not even reached their homes from the same vestry meeting. His whole demeanor during his illness showed one who had taken leave of earth. He rarely attempted to speak except in his dreams, and then he wandered to those dreadful battle-fields. Once, when urged him to take some medi cine, which he always took with reluc tance, he looked at her and said, "’Tis no use,” but afterwards took it. When he became so much better, the doctor said: "You must soon get out and ride your favorite gray.” He shook his head emphatically and looked upward. He slept a great deal, but knew us all and greeted us with a kindly pressure of the hand, loving to have us around him. For the last forty-eight hours he seemed quite insensible of our presence, breathed heavily, and at last quietly sank to rest, with one deep drawn sigh. Oh, what a glorious rest was in store for him—the humble, consistent Christian, who, not many weeks before, had said, when we were talking of the assurance of heaven, he wished he could feel that assurance. He will be surprised at the welcome: “Well done, good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.” Had he been successful instead of the “hero of a lost cause,” he could not have been more beloved and honored. I am content and would not have him back, though I must continue my weary pilgrimage alone, without the support on which I have leaned with such perfect confidence for more than thirty years. We shall continue to make this our home. I could not bear to move into a new house, and my own Arlington is not open to me. Believe me always truly and affection ately your friend, Mary Custts Lee. Mr. Stephens’ New Book. Augusta Chronicle. Says the Washington City Post: "Hon orable A’exander U. Stephens, ex Vice- Pre-ident of the Southern Confederacy, is busy in writing a book in reply to ex President Jefferson Davis. It is re ported that he has a secretary and several stenographers and copyists at work at ‘Liberty Hall,’ in Georgia, and is turning out copy as though he were an ordinary newspaper correspondent who is forced to hurry up to catch a mail. ” Mr. Stephens is not writing an answer to Hon. Jefferson Davis We understand that Mr. Stephens considers several of the arguments of ex President Davis as ■scholarly and convincing, especially complimenting his article on secession. What Mr. Stephens is writing, we be lieve, is a political history of the United States. It is being prepaied at the earnest request of the Messrs. Appleton, pub lishers, who were delighted with his school compendium, and were anxious that he should compile a history on an extended scale. That it will be a val uable work, no one can doubt. Mr. Stephens is now hard at work with sec retaries and stenographers. ESTABLISHED 1850. CArr. HOWSATES DOWNFALL. Hta Defalcation* Two Women Drawing Salaries From the Got ernment. Washington Cor. Nete York Sun. Capt. Howgate’a fall has let in light on forbidden things in connection with the public service in Washington and exposed some things that could no., be nakedly set forth. Still the curtain has been withdrawn but just a little. Until quite lately he was the disbursing ollicer of the signal service, and when (Jen. My ers died he aspired to be his successor. Within the last two months a social scandal has led to his en forced resignation. The rightful Mrs. Howgate became possessed of the knowledge that there was another establishment. As few of these scan dalous particulars as possible have been given, but enough to show, what the Sun has repeatedly stated as one of the characteristics of the public service, that the mistresses of officers and others are borne on the rolls of departments, anti that the wages of sin are paid out of the public treasury, duly certified by heads of departments' or other responsible offi cers of the government. Howgate’s is a comparatively insignificant case. The difference is, it has become known. lie is a defalter in a sum ranging between $50,000 and SIOO,OOO. It is already es tablished that two women drew money directly which was charged to the signal service fund, for which they are not known to have rendered any service. One of them is the woman in the Howgate case; the other is sufficiently known to establish all that any decent man wants to know. It is not probable, however, that it will be known how many fallen women were supported in this way. No one doubts that the num ber was very considerable. If the heads of departments are ignorant of it, it is to their discredit. It is there as much as anywhere the crying shame is. The presumption is it is a species of know ledge no one wishes to be possessed of. Perhaps Capt. Howgate was subjected to less than the usual oversight If this is not the fact, then there is a fault in the method of disbursing money that ought to be cured. Certain checks there are as to money. But wbat checks are there as to immorality and vice? Mrs. Lincoln’s Hallucinations. Springfield (III.) Letter to Cincinnati Com- Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is not sick, in spite of paragraphs in one thousand newspapers of the country. She is pe culiar, mentally a little “off;” “hyster ics,” other old ladies call her complaint. But her pursuit of happiness is hardly more eccentric now than much of the time during her entire widowhood. How is she, really? Well, she took a carriage ride of several miles the other day, re turning to her home with a healthful glow upon her cheek. She wants to go again; and if this want does not wear out it will be humored often. She said it was the best ride she had had for a long time. And sure enough it was, for she had only just let herself out from continuous, self inflicted confinement in an upper room during six months and more. Not even the kindest sisterly entreaty could persuade her feet to cross the chamber threshold till one morning early she descended the stairs, attired in pink silk and French laces, and scolded her servant for not having breakfast ready. “A pretty hotel,” said she, scornfully, “to keep guests waiting for meals until after train time.” Of course the kitchen m.iid went nearly daft herself at sight of this “guest,” and ran to apprise her mistress that Mrs. Lincoln had turned over anew leaf; and sure enough, on returning to the kitchen, the maid found that this strange “guest” had no thought of taking the “train” on an empty stomach, but had turned the steak in the broiler and was removing the jackets from the boiled potatoes with all the housewifery skill of her early days. Many will remember that, in those critical “sixties,” it used to be one of the bugbears of the press that this lady had a warm side for the Roman Catholic faith; and now it appears that during much of the period of her late seclusion the Sisters of Mercy, at her request, have spent much time with her, generally one or more of them passing the night in her room. Her reputed illness has also brought her many letters of condo lence from old friends of herself and husband, and some of congratula tion on the appointment of her son to a position in the President’s Cabinet. But although she has seemed to lake pleasure in those commiserating herself, she has very rarely attempted to reply. Once in a while she indicates a quite touching and considerate answer to lie penned by some member of her sister’s family. And as she has, from time to time, been reported sinking, the auto graph fiend has felt inspired to clutch the signature of Death and paste it in his little book. Ilia application has been frequent, and his disappointment has kept it an even tally. But she has not smiled over congratu lation on Robert’s honorable account. She sighs and broods upon his official holding as a Hew family risk. She often sits and repeats, “Secretary of War? Secretary of War? Then he’ll ire shot, sure! That’s always the way in war.” And when told of the shooting of the President, she manifested no surprise, but calmly remarked, it is said, “I told you so; good men have to be shot some times; don’t you know how the Jews killed Christ ?” She has plenty of money, but it is in the hands of a banker here and is zealously guarded by family friends, that she may not have it to lose or squander. Of course the wicked, gossiping busybodies say that this friend ly zeal amounts to the personal self in terest of residuary legatees. But that this lone woman of national interest has had more loose rein than under restraint in the use of her funds, her store house of great trunks packed full would seem to attest to the satisfaction of the aver age man. There followed her hither from Europe a train of sixty trunks, whose immensity and iron bindings sorely aggravated the men of baggage. Some of these, however, are filled with domestic dedrt'and relics of White House life, and it is a part of the peculiar diagnosis of her case that she has lugged these things about the world with her as the weeds of distinguished widowhood, or amulets against harm. Some of these caskets stand in her room by her special command. And often during her late seclusion, she would pass a forenoon in affectionately inspecting the contents of one of these reservoirs, replacing them in anew order, or she would light upon some worn and tom vestment, then pass an hour in patch work upon it with as much sincerity as if its wearer were waiting to put it on. Mrs. Lincoln’s look of health is better now than then; in fact, her general health is good for one of her age, and she promises fairly to reach three score and ten. But her mental strangeness will probably also last as long as her body, though there is no indication of its ever assuming a violent form, and the public may safely leave her in the hands of her Springfield frienda, whose love for her is older than that of the na tion at large. Chronic Looseness of the Bowels Results from Imperfect digestion. The cause lies in the torpidity of the liver. A regular habit of body can be secured bv taking Simmons Liver Regulator to aid digestion, to stimulate the dull and slug gish liver, and rid the system of excessive and poisonous bile. The Regulator corrects acidity of the stomach, cures dyspepsia, and permanently creates regularity of the bowels alike free from laxity or costiveness. “I have never seen or tried such a simple, efficacious, satisfactory and pleasant reme dy In my life as Simmons Liver Regulator. “H. Hainbb, — Adv. “Bt. Louis, Mo.” How heavenly must be anew collar which Is described as “glowing with a blushing loveliness that has a lending influence and sends over the complexion a tender ray which is bewitching 1” &4KIH* POWDER Absolutely Pure. MADE FROM GRADE CREAM TARTAR.— No other preparation makes such light, flaky hot breads, or luxurious pastry. Can be eaten by Dyspeptics without, fear of the ills resulting from heavy indigestible food. Sold only io cans by all grocers. ROYAL BAKING POWDEROO., New York. Hew dMmtttraesu. Tie Rain Falls Ale os tlii Jnsl and Hie Host. VND the winds came and the floods des -Bceuded. but the house was built upon the corner of Congress and Whitaker streets, and it didn’t budge an inch. Has anybody seen our Tin Roof? It’s gene. Will be much obliged to any one who will bring it back. Daypght is good, but we don’t like to see it through the few boards left us on top. Water all around, in the cellar, first floor, to floor, middle lloor, on our Pianos, on our Or gans, in the office, everywhere and plenty of it, but not a drop to drink—unless one is a £s.i and don’t mind the salt. Three Ares, one epidemic, and now a cyclone —but so long as the walls stand and there’a a shingle overhead we shall BOCK ALONG! Thankful that there’s enough left to rock. AND WHAT NEXT? L,ri)l)E\T kV bates. iuniisluufl 6ooas. LaFAfi, HATTER, AND DEALER IN Men’s Fine Goods, Is now preparing to alter and enlarge his store, 83 Bull street, and will open about September 15th TIIE FINEST STOCK OF GENTS’ HATS! Ever shown in Savannah, comprising the LATEST NOVELTIES IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH GOODS. And a fine line of Children's Fancy Hats & Caps, Besides the usual complete line of GENTS’ NECKWEAR in SCARFS and TIES and COLLARS, of which he makes a Specialty Thanking his friends for past kindness and patronage, he solicits a continuance of the same. LaFAK, 2.‘5 BULL STREET, Agent for Devlin & Cos., New York. (Srormrs aua ?rerisiotts. 2,500 BUSHELS GENUINE Mexican Rust Proof Oats. IDA BUSHELS SEED RYE. 100 s,ooobushels MIXED CORN. 5,000 bushels WHITE CORN, 5,000 bushels OATS. 50 sacKs BLACK EYE PEAS. 50 sacks VIRGINIA PEANUTS 50 sacks TENNESSEE PEANUTS. 500 bales NORTHERN HAY. 500 bales EASTERN and WESTERN HAY 40,000 pounds BRAN. CORN EYES, GRITS. MEAL, etc > £?t, A -S >LE8 ’ ONIONS, TURNIPS and CABBAGE. For sale low by T. P. BOND, 15116, 153 AND 155 BAY STREET. fflilh. Tie Suriniflfilfl Dairy Farm CAN now fill orders for MILK, CREAM and CURD, It left at G. M. HEIDT & CO.’S Drug Store. G. K. PRED.tIORF,, Manager. PEA heal; ' TRY IT, THE BEST FEED FOR COWS. It in creases and enriches their milk. Manufactured by SAUSSY & HARMON. Cotton Account fiti A PARTY well and favorably known to the , \ t J ade wishes to sell COTTON in New Eng land for some Southern House (on commis sion). Best of references given. Address W. E. D.. 1 Central Wharf, Boston. Maas. TANKH. KEROSENE OIL TANKS For sale by c. L. GILBERT & CO. COPARTNERSHIP. WE, the undersigned, have this day formed a copartnership, for the purpose of carrying on the stevedore business, under the Arm name of CHURCHILL, WARD & BUT UEH. A. F. CHURCHILL. JAMES WARD. TONICS. WYETH’S Elixir Callsaya, Iron and Strych nia, Hegeman’s Elixir Calls -ya and Iron, Hubbel’a Elixir Calisaya and Iron, Wheeler’s Compound Elixir of Phosphates and Calisaya, Caswell’s Beef, Wine and Iron, Wyeth’s Beef, Wine and Iron, and other Tonics, at STRONG’S mtUG STORE, Cor. Bull and Berry street lane.