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MILLEDGETI LLEr
BASCOM MYBICK, Editor.
Tnes<1 ay, February 21, 1871
It appcrs ill at Bullock has been so
nearly driven to insanity by the well
directed thrusts of the Atlanta Consliln,
tion, that he actually scut a proclama
tion to Hemphill for publication! The ! IDUch char ' lt y> inasmuch as it seeks to
B- II. I! ILL, AND HIE OLD WI11C PARTI
[communicated.!
A few days since an editorial in the
Ailiens Banner, seeks at last to explain
Mr. Hill s recent political tergiversa
tions, and to define that distinguished
gentlemau’a present political status. The
editor evidently iecogniz:s the difficul
ties of his undertaking, ar.d is forced to
draw his conclusions from negative
rather than affirmative postulates. Mr.
lliil is not a Democrat because he equal
ly denies that party and is denied by it;
he is not a “Republican,” for although
now claimed and glorified by that party
he positively declares that ‘’he is a fool
who believes his connection with radi
calism, and a knave, who asserts it.”
Being therefore neither Radical or Dem
ocrat, he must he an old live whig; or
tn other words, being neither flesh nor
fowl, lie must he fish—fishy. This ap
pears briefly to be the argument of the
Athens editor; and however faulty it may
be, it cau claim at least the virtue of
Constitution of course refused to accept
the proffered dainty, and has thereby
closed the mouth of those who have
been constantly citing the new and
with fable of the fox and grapes. It
did appear as if the fable was applica
ble to the case; and the Constitution had
rather a tough time of defending itself;
getting rather the most of the affair;
but the tables are now completely turn
ed and the Constitution triumphant. NVc
should like to know the motives that
induced the ‘'Governor” to try such an
ex[eirment. Though he :is not over*
stocked with sense we give him credit
for enough, to know that the Ccn.tiluhos
would not publish his proclamations af
ter having waged such a. war against
those papers that did accept them.
The Constitution is iu a gieat glee
over the affair, and has sent the Gov
ernor a sweet note declining Lis eouite
sy until a more conveniei sea. on.
furnish some sort of grouud, however
debateahlc, for Mr. Hill to stand upon,
instead of flopping around loose in the
mud hole of politics. Is then Mr. Hill
really ambi ious of the office and duties
of a resurrectionist? Does he propose to
ro 1 away the stone from th% door of the
sepulchre, and bring back iuto active
breathing life, the giant corpse of a or.ee
grand and powerful, but now extinct
polit'Cat party? And cui bono) to what
end this sacriligious rattiiug- of dry-
bones ? Where now are those great
overshadowing political issues that gave
form and character to the old whig pirty
of this country, and distinguished its
policy as against
antagonist, the then Dsmocracy
knows better than Mr. Hill that these,
having sub-served their purpose, a grand
and noble one in the political economy
of the country, and aided to give shape
i and stability to our government, have at
: length gone down under the waters of
panv, which he wt* 11 knew that the Cer
tificate ol Gemgj W. Swepson, president
ef the road, s-titing that $1,692,000 had
teen subscribed, and that five per cent
thereof had been pail in case, a? re
quired by law, was false and fraudulent
[Fi nn the Baltimore Sun.]
il Change of Religious Views.
Rev. R. A. Holland, late associate
editor of the Baltimore Christian
Advocate, has officially notified his
presiding elder, the Rev. Dr. Ros-
zell, that he lias severed his con
nection with the Methodist Episco
pal Church South, by becoming
a candidate for orders in the Pro
testant Episcopal Church. In his
letter of notification, Mr. Holland
says:
“1 leave the Methodist Church
with a sorrow that shrinks from the
mockery of expression. It is the
church of my fathers. In it I was
born and nourished, and received
the enduring mold of my character.
From its pulpits I first heard the
Word of Life, and learned how to
prove by faith the preciousness of
Christ. While yet a youth, it gave
me a place among its preachers, and
since then, during a ministry of ten
years, it has honored me with pro
motion beyond my deserving. All
my intertwining flowers of frendship
have grown up within its borders
and beneath its genial culture. All
the diversified threads'of remini
scence combine to weave its image
in the very texture cl my life. To
leave it, is to tear the heart itself in
twain; but belter this than a union
which cannot be prolonged without
dissimulation.”
Gru. Lee and iiis Biographers.
A number ot Southern literary
the p.licy of iti great U en,lemen haVR undertaken the del-
, ,, ,vr“ n „ irate and responsible task of writing
lieu Democracy? Ao one , . * ... „ =>
biogiaphtes ol our illustrious Cap
tain, and canvassers trying the res
pective merits of each work.
The Lite of General Lee, written
by J. S. McCabe, Jr., of Richmond,
Va., and published by the Southern
Publishing House of Memphis.
After all that has been sai.l on the j time, of revolution and new political I John Estin Cooke’s Life of Gener-
subject of the steamer Tennessee’s safe | needs; and to-day the country stands j tl1 E^i which CoiOnel Cooke, claims
arrival at San Domingo, and in spite ot confronted with new parties, new issues, l ,a »-l the app.oval ot General Lee,
the many surmises that it had been lost, and alas! new dangers. But having
a telegram has been received at New I revived the noble dead, is it likewise
York announcing the safe arrival of the j Mr. Hill's purpose to cloth his new crea
Commission. ! tion with the poli ical piinciples enuu-
Tho annexation of San Domingo is \ ciated and set foith in his manifesto giv-
now - on the tapis, a.id tje Tennessee, I en to the public just prior to the recent
having on board the Commission, were j Stota elections—among others, the l’res-
watched with consii^rable anxiety.— idcntial prerogative cf alone determining
Nothing was heard ol the vessel for some | upon the validity of Constitutional
time, and the public became considera- j Amendment, and of establishing their
bly exeicised on the subject. Every liability, Ly Presidential proclamation ?
W ;H j Shades of Webstir and of Clay, defend
thing, so lar, is safe; and
soon hear the full details from the U. S- i us! No! Ju>
Commission and the Govt rninent of Man \ doctrines ot
Domingo.
.As there are no political topics of very
great mocn?nt to engross the attention of
our journals, they are amusing them
selves pretty generally Ly shooting their
feathered arrows at each other. This
may be very interesting r.nd amusing to
themselves, but the great majority of
their readers care nothing at all about
the personal disagreements ot the edit
ors; and it has a tendency to lower the
standard of literary ability, to be con
stantly searching out the faults and pec
cadilloes of an antagonist. It does not
benefit the writer, while his readers arc
disgusted.
Something sensational scerns fo be
demanded, and if the, subject is not fur
nished, they will make one of each other.
It is to be hoped that this species of
ged by the dogmas and
his recent declaration of
faith, Mr. Hill is “anything e’se” lut
an “old live w: i_\” He vows that h6 i-
neithcr Radical or Democrat; and so
still is left to us the agitating question
“what is he? ’ It will be rememlered
that a few yeais since that celebrated
showman, Bai nuin kept in a cage a won
derful non-di script that he called the
great “what is it.” Can that animal
have escaped his master? But if Mr.
Hill and his confederate claim really
to have organized a third party that
stands yet in need of the sacred rite of
baptism, let the Bantling he called the
great “Railroad leasing party,” and let
his Bonnie majesty Gov. Bullock, if he
dares approach so ne-ar to holy water,
officiate at the ceremony’- and stand God
father for the mis-shapen brat, lorn of
public plunder and sired by official
corruption. bit the old whig party
journalism will give way to something j alonc> g Pn tl 0Uie ii, and run your new par
better and more palatab e to the public
taste.
As many of our readers do not see
regularly a northern exchange, they
have no full conception of the misrepre
sentations which many cf those papers
contain. Every little fist-and-skull fight
is worked up with a liorihle butchery in
which scores of the “trooly loil” are
killed. If a rascally negro caught in some
body’s smoke-house, inerts his just de
serts and “comes up missing,” they harp
on Ku Klux oi.t'ages, the unsettled state
and rebellious condition of the country,
and keep the minds of the populace con
stantly excited by tales of horror moic
suitable to the Inquisition than to the
people of the South. One has only to
read the Police Gazette of New Yo:k city
to be satisfied that there is more “re
bellion” Ku Klux outiages, butcheries
&c., in the North, “loil” ns it is, then in
the South still in a state of “open rebel
lion” as Sumner & Co. have it.
The Atlanta jEra proposes to com
mence a series of articles upon the Fran-
co-Prussian war. The author of these
articles has been in Paris during the
whole war, and doubtless his informa
tion is correct and extended. As a
newspaper, without regard to politics,
we like the E/a finely. The editor is a
ty strictly according to the schedule of
the “Western and Atlantic Rail Road ”
THE IIOES>£.\ IMPEACHMENT
TECIAL.
Dccison bij the Chuf Justice—A New
Article <>J Impeachment—Alleged
Attempt to Defraud the Stale.
Ralliuh, N. C., Feb. 9.1S71.—In the
Court cf Impeachment the Chief Justice
ruled that evidence showing secret po
litical oiganizations brought about a
state of affairs in Alamance county as
set forth by the act under which Gov
ernor Holden issued his proclamation
of insurrection was admis ible for the
defence. Nine witnesses for the prose
cution were examined, who testified that i fo
the condition of affairs in that county
duiiug the year 1S70 was peaceable,
quiet and orderly throughout, the courts
in full operation and the civil authori
ties in unrestrained exercise cf their
functions. None ef these w itnesses had
seen disguised bodies, nor known of the
existence of any secret political organi
zation having for its object the intimi
dation of voters, either black or white.
A new artide of impeachment, mak
ing the ninth, has been drawn up by
Manager Johnson. It says that al out
the 9'h June Governor Win. W. llol-
aiftl quotes a passage from a ietter
received Irotn him on the subject.
Besides Mr. McCabe’s and Col
onel Cooke’s, there is still another
which is shortly toappear, which is
frotri the pen ot Colonel Marshall,
who v as on General Lee’s staflj and
has at the request of the General’s
family, prepared it from papers
furnished him by them.
Of the merits of the several books
we will re I ra i ii from speaking for
the present, as it would be hardly
fair to do so until they are all is
sued, when their authenticity will
come up for discussion.—Constitu-
lion.
Our Relations Willi Great Britain.
The dijfci ence Between England and the
United States.
The President will send a message to
Cingress tomorrow explanatory of the
present condition ot the fishery question
and accounting for the extraordinary de
lay in the departure of General Schenck.
Tiie m< s-age will state that England has
shown a disposition to make nearly all
the concussion* demanded ou the part of
this government, so far as the fishery
question, and the navigation of the St.
Lawrence are concerned. In this con
nection it is stated, on good authority,
that the Queen’s messenger will arrive
at New York to-moirow with despatches
to Minister Thornton, empowering the
latter to settle this question oil the basis
mest satisfactory to our government.
The favorable disposition of the English
government in sctiing these matters is
said to cause much bad fading in Cana
da, whose citizens fed aggrieved at
w hat they arc led to consider is a com
promise of their rights In diplomatic
circles it is now the strong conviction
that the Alabama claims will also find a
speedy and amicable solution. It has
been mentioned heretofore in these des
patches that negotiaiions were being
conducted here with regard to this mat
ter in which the utmost secrecy was ob
served. The messenger alluded to above
also bears despatches containing iastruc
tions from the British government on
this much vexed subject. Tho only
difficulty* now in the way seems to be
that England desires to separa’a the Ala
bama claims from those arising from the
uepfadations committed by the Florida,
Shenandoah and others. The President
is in favor of this flan, Lut Mr. Sumner
and several other So atoi's are oppo»ed
It is thought that the ir,C3sens
er’s despatches will cover this disputed
point, and will appoint a satisfactory
basis of settlement lor both CoDgross
and tie President to act on.
Wnsbinglon-Le* University.
Inauguration of G. W. C. Lee as Pres-
dent
I.cxigton, Va., Feb, G, 1871.
To-day being the day appointed for
the inauguration of General G W C Lee
as President of the Wasbington-Lee
. ..... , University; made vacant by the death of
den did conspire with one George M il- j hig fathoI f Gcn . R E Lee, notwithstand-
ham Swopson and others to defraud the , ■ lh j nc l e mcncy of the weather, by
State by signing and issuing;, as Presi j A M a large crowd had assembled
tnan of extended information, and his memt^an order directing the treasurer to | ^ iia P cl to w itness lll «
style is almost as pure as Macaulay’s. It subscribe, on behalf of the state, the sum , “g”™'j Lee Wa8 conducted to his
is quite a pity that our hiother of the of $-.666,000 and to itsue bonds of tl,e L eat by Mr. J Randolph Tucker, aud
Era should prostitute his talent in such State to that amount to the 11 a | tcr the usual chapel services, conducs
a bad cause Division of the W estarn North Carolina . fc , . Gci , cral who made
Railroad Company .though he well knew an ' nC8t for God ’ s bles6i
that the president of that road had no n „ lhe 5te / ab J ut t0 be taken, Mr. J W
certified, as required, to the Board that j Blickeubr0 u-b made some appropriate
solvent individuals, corporations, com- r , mar j ig
lS,"yd j
a.ry costume for lh s season of the cent amount to autbome tho nwue, of| ke ,. 8 ,„„ d in lu audible voice re,-
year; but the pent up fires in her said sum. It charges, aiso, that he knew j ouded as f o q 0Ws .
that the five per cent required by law , , Ut bl / Icful sir f, jr the
had not been subscribed; that in Ue kind scnllmeiit y„a have teen pleased
manner he directed the 1 return* to Is- „/behalf (however little
sue bonds of the State to the amount of | j J. j cscrI0 them ) and am sincerely
fjur millions to the same railroad com- j >> *
virgin breast doubtless keep her at
the boiling point, so that she bids
defiance to the inclemency of the
weather.
anxious to meet your expectations to the
fullest extent.
■Soiemuly realizing the duties air! ress
portabilities of the position I am about
to take, I ask of the honorable body
which you represent, aud of the faculty
and students of this institution, their
promised existence and co-operatim, and
earnently pray ing for divine guidance,
accept the trust committed to my charge.
Smith as a Fireman —That interes
tfng quadroon cadet at West Foint sur-
named Smith, whose eccentricities iu
regard to the truth and other trifling
peccadilloes have already cost the Gov
eminent somewhere iu the neighborhood
of $10,000, is not, it appears, much of a
success as a firemen. Contrary to the
nature of his race, be doesn’t seem to
like warm places. A correspondent of
the New York World, writing about the
recent fire at West Point, which des
troyed a portion of the barracks, saddens
u« with the following story:
“In all this turmoil and confusion
the reflective mind at once inquires,
Where was Smith? Alas, poor Smith.
My reluctant pen would shirk the
mournful tale, did not hero worship com
pel its felling. The flames broke cut at
two o’clock, and from then until half past
four the busy whisper circling around
imperatively demanded the presence of
Smith. But no Smith appeared. He
was needed for duty with the squad to
which he belonged, but was nowhere to
be found. At length one of tho cadets
happening to go iuto the gymnasium
there discovered Sinitkskulking to avoid
his work. What a pTciuic was there!
“The colored troops fought nobly”—
but Smith did not.
A prominent surgeon of Berlin states
that a new disease has broken out among
the French prisoners held in that c ty.
It consists of a terrible iwelling of the
head and the gathering of pus in the
ears and the cavities of the nose, and is
very painful and dangerous. It is of a
most contagious character, and is sup
posed to have been caused by the great
fatigue they had to undergo, and by the
entire change of diet. More than forty
patients were suffering of this horrible
malady in one hospital.
Emmanuel Arago, who, by a decreet
of the French Government at Bjrdeax,
has been appointed Minister cf Interior,
in place of Leon Gambctta, is the eld
est son of Francis Arago, the celebra
ted astronomer, and is about sixty years
old. He commenced life in the career
of letters, wrote many popular plays,
and published a volume of poems. At
the age of twenty-five he began the
study of law, and. entering on the prac
tice of his profession as advocate in
f 837, be«ame prominent as the c innael
for the deleudeuts in the political and
criminal trials of the latter years ot the
reign of Louis Philippe.
tySome idea of the rapid formation
at aud near the mouth of the Missis*ippi
may be formed from fact that at a point
near what is kiiown »3 Cubit’s Gap
where some four years since were lour
feet of water, there is now' an island near
ly if not quite a mile long by several hun
dred yards wide. Capt. James McC.
Baker, of the steamship Florida, informs
us that in 18GG he tock a liver steamer
over the place where the island now is,
and found four feet of water.
On Sunday 1 , August 24, 1 SGI, Cap
tain Raphael Scmmes hoisted the Amer
ican flag on tne Alabama, took full
command of the piivatcer, and proceeded
to accomplish the work of his mission.
Senator Samncr, who has, evidently,
calculated the Alabama claims account
in 3 compreben ive manner, and with very-
greatcare, states that England owes the
Ameiican people, in round totals, the
sum of one hundred and ten millions of
dollars on account of the depredations
of the Alabama.
A Hazardous Leap.—Out* John Har
ris, a notorious thief, in custody of an
officer and three detectives, on the ex
press train of the Pennsylvania Central
Railroad, escaped by leaping from the
car while moving at the rate of thirty-
miles an hour. Harris was handcuffed
at the time. The train was stopped and
backed in tbe expectation of finding a
maimed and lifeless body where the jump
was made, but Harris had fled—appa
rently unhurt.
RkcKlessnisS.—About as lively an
illustration of popular recklessness of
danger, as we have read ot lately, oc
curred on East River, New York, last
Saturday, where the ice became sudden
ly a thronged thoroughfare for men, wo
men aud b >ys, upon the most inadequate
experiments of its strength. All of a
sudden, at half past two in the after
noon, the ice began to move aud break
up, and but for the steam-tugs hundreds
would have been drowned One large
cake was freighted with a bundled men
aud boys, but after numerous hair
breadth escapes, the reckless multitude
on all the floating cakes were landed and
no lives lest.
Tiie San Domingoes.—The Herald
of Sunday entertains no fears whatev
er, of the safety of the Tennessee and
the San Domingo commission, and be
lieves the latter are now sitting under
the shade of the umbrageous palms, and
drinking pulque, or capering nimbly to
the lascivious pleasings of lute and banjo
with the sable beauties of the Domini
can court. Give Old Ben his rations of
corn juice and few can beat him on the
light fantastic toe; and as for the rest of
the commission, they were born to be
drowned.
The 60 minutes between 11 and 12
o’clock on the night ot the 81&t ot De
cember. were memorable as the last bora
of the last day of the last week of tho
last month of the last year of the decade
ending witn 1870. Such a coincidence
will not OJcur again in over eighty
years.
The First Game Bagced.—The Le
gislature of Mississippi set a trap to
catch the Ku'klux, and the first game
bagged was a “trooly loil” Radical ne
gro schoolmaster of Meridian, named
Price. Disguised, with eight or ten
others, he dragged an old negro from his
house and nearly beat him to death.
The Life of Locomotives.—At
a recent meeting of the British Insti
tution ofCivil Engineers, an inter
esting paper was read, on the main
tenance and renewal of railway
rolling stock. The author of this
paper stated that observations ex
tending over forty years, had ena
bled the average life of each individ
ual part of a locomotive and other
rolling slock to be accurately ascer
tained. The lives of the different
parts of the locomotive engine vary
considerably, the break-blocks and
other small parts requiring renewal
every six months, while the side-
frames, plain axles and other parts,
will last for thirty years. The first
series of extensive renewals which
occur at intervals of five years, con
sist in the replacement of the brass
tubes, and the cost during thirty
years amounts to $4,S55. The re
newal of crank axles follow in pe
riods of six years, and the cost dur
ing thirty years amounts to $1,2S0.
The principal renewals, however,
lake place at intervals of seven and
ten years, and include the substution
of new engine tires, boilers, fire
boxes and oth*r expensive portions,
and the cost during thirty years a-
mounts to S 10,-595. The whole net
cost ol renewal during thirty years,
however, amounts to $24,450, or
$S15 a year. The total original cost
of the locomotive is placed at $8,940
and it is therefore calculated that
ilia “mean money life” of the loco
motive described is practically ele
ven years, the phrase ‘‘mean money
life” being understood as the period
during which a suin equal to the cost
lias been expended in repairs. Again,
taking the number of miles run as
the measure of life, and considering
20,000 miles per engine as tbe aver
age annual woik, it follows that when
a locomotive has run 220,000 miles,
an amount equal to its first cost has
been spent in repairs. Jn reference
to the method of expressing the wear
and tear of a locomotive by a curve,
it is proposed to assume that the di
lapidation increases as the square of
the time and the curve alluded to
becomes a parabola, the mean ordi
nate or average running value be
ing taken at two-thirds of tbe original
cost.
General News.
The Germans employed hawks to catch
the cairier pigeons that were sent to
Parris, and were so successful that it was
almost impossible for any pigeon to
evade them. But the French, equal to
the emergency, set a number of traps for
the hawks,which weie now captured in
their turn.
When the title of Count was sjiven to
Gen. Von Moltke, the counsel of King
William deliberated on the motto which
the new Couut was to emblazon on his
coat of arms, and at the proposition of
the Kiug himself the following war se
lected: “Erst icagen, dann wagen.”
(Think before you act.)
While the Catholic clergy and the
professors at the Catholic universities of
North Germany have gradually, one by
one, gone over to the Infallibility par
ty, the clergy of Austria is becoming
more and more opposed to the dogma of
papal infallibility. Some of the most
prominent advocates of the dogma,
among them the learned reetor or the
Catholic Faculty of Prague, have gone
over to to the opposition.
The German secret police is said to
have discovered a plot to assassinate
Emperor Napoleon and the young
The British Minister, by inaw^—
from his government, and in a = “-. ,10rt 8
friendship, proposes to tl, e United"Sut° f
the appointment of a j,int U ! es
to sit at Washington, to settle
eries and other questions. Onr „ u '
- Jll . r govern*
in »
inis-
merit has accepted the proposition ,
cordial manner, and the British \j-
ter replies, under date of Februsry "w
that the settlement of the lat ’
claims will also be essential to the
toration ot cordial and amicablo 9 IT
tions between the two government- ^
Mr. Secretary Seward, dating og.
Department, Washington. August 4*
1866,” transmitted au iucomp'.etc \
icau bill to Minister Adams, in Load *
In this paper individual lossei wLq
were sus:a : ned by our ci izcns by the 4
tion of the privateers were set forth c ffi'
daily.
This account footed up SllO.000,000
A fresh attempt has been made at r »v-
olution in Huyti—this time by the r e ] a .
tives and adherents of Salnare, who
reported to be marching on Purt
Prince.
The track of tbe Pauams Railroad hi s
once more been submerged, so that afl
traffic was stopped on the Sitb, 25th and
26th of January. The w ter has
subsided and trains are c
•re
au-
•mce
more rau^
Prince Imperial. It is proposed to car .
ry out the project as soon as any efforts. * c "
are made at a restoration of the Empire, Tim war cloud which hang o?ar the
Gambetta and other Republican lead- j republics of Central America ha* beeQ
era being suspected of having furnished dispelled, the roubles between Honduras
money for this purpose. Tbe eonspira- aQ d Salvador baviug been satisfactorily
tors are said to have accomplices at adjusted.
Wilhelmhothe, and the murder can be
done a momenta notice.
The city of Pensacola i3 improving
every day. There are almost always
from fifty ta sixty large, square-rigged
vessels in the harbor, loading with lum
ber for domestic and foreign port.
The rebellion in Cuba being over,
large number* of Cuban refugees ar«
returning by every steamer to the “Ev
er Faithful Isle,” their beautiful and
sunny home.
A Western gentleman is under medi-
The steamship Crescent City, from New
Orleans, is aground off the coast of Ire
land. A total loss is apprehended. The
passengers, crew, aud specie are safe
There is a little hope of saving her car<*o.
It is reported that a number of wo
men have formed a Joint Stock Com
pany in Omaha, Nebraska, and opened
a faro-banking house.
Among the unruly urchins singled out
for exp ah ion from West Point Academy
is a son of President Grant.
Australian papers are chuckling be-
ical treatment for the lead colic, induced j cause they discover that a leading Wash-
young lady of improved
River Falling.—The river enn
tinued to rise on Monday night, (says
the Augusta Constitutionalist) until
it reached a height of 27 feet 6 inch
es at the city bridge, the highest
point attained by the water. Yes
terday morning it commenced falling
gradually, much to the comfort of
those citizens resident in localities
most exposed to overflow, whose ap- j tumn.
| prehensions of danger were excited j . .
1 by the rapid rise of the river on Mon ' u ‘ 1,n l * ie ‘ a5t
day. At 3
river had receded
feet at the bridge, and all apprehen
sions of a present overflow may be
dismissed. There was no fall or
lain yesterday, the sun coming out
as a token that the recent protracted
rain storm had spent its force.
The steamer Clyde arrived at 7
o’clock Monday evening, and receiv
er! a full cargo of cotton yesterday,
preparatory to her return trip.
by kissing a
complexion.
The Golden Age is the title of Theo.
Tilton’s new weekly—devote! to the
free i iscussion of all living question* on
church, S’atq society, literature, ait an!
moral icforrn. He has severe! his con
nection with the Independent and the
Brooklyn Union.
Worth, the Parisian man-milliner,
it said to contemplate seiling up in
business in New York.
mg ton lobbyist, who is pushing through
a big land subsidy for an Australia
line of steamers, is an escape! convict
from Van Diernan’s Land.
Jules Favre, thanking the Mayor cf
London f'r provisoes, write?, February
Sth, that the distress is very great and
still continues, btftthe city is tranquil.
In Costa Rica the coffee crop La*
been very seriously damaged by the
heavy rains.
Martha Haines Rennet, authoress, is
London dispatches say that Queen dead from pneumonia. Her remain* go
Victoria’s unpopularity has never j to Norfolk for interment,
reached such an alarming point as
at present.
The Harrcn's H’ocJcenschrijt con
fidently predicts aTurkish war in the
Spring, and another between Eng
land and the United States next Au-
montii five hum
A Michigan woman found a live lizard
in the heart of a potato, with no visible
means of ingress, an! has become insane
in an attempt to decide whether the po
tato hatched the lizard from the seed, or
the lizard grew the potato as a sort of
overcoat.— Chicago Rep.
The editor of the Petersburg Index
parts his hair in the middle# because
!, p- m., yesterday, the I dretl colored persons have applied | John Randolph. Milton, Charles I., Dwd
iceded to a register of 27 ! t0 the American Colonization Socie- Pt-t?rbor-ng a. Aieibudes and Julius
■ i i , iv (nr aid tr> on tn T.IKori-i \r,-,ro i Caesar u;s.. Miat do exhaust tne argu-
mmt.
A Sahara Sand Storm.—I want
ed to see one of these awful storms
which are said to be so violent in the
great desert that men, and some
times caravans, are buried alive be
neath the immense masses of sand.
The men were not mistaken. The
wind which had been blowing light
ly iti an east northeast direction, be
gan to increase gradually, till at last
it ’blew a perfect gale. The sand
began to Hy, and the storm increased
slid more. The air soon became
murky with sand wich flew toward
the sea like a thick fog. It was a
grand and splendid sight. The light
of the day had become quite dim,
because the sun’s rays could hardly
pierce the clouds of sand. It con
tinued blowing for several hours.
Tbe wind was hot; my lips became
parched and my eyes sore, as, in
spite of my thick veil, the sand pen
etrated every where. Now that I
had seen a genuine sand-storm, 1
hoped that the wind would mode
rate. Little hillocks and mounds
were formed here and there, and our
wells were filled up with the drifting
sand. The sand got into my clothes
through every opening in them. It
filled my hair, my nose, my ears, and
even mouth. It covered every thing
in our camp, and completely spoiled
our food ; but we had to eat it as it
was, as there was no choice. To
wards evening the wind gradually
calmed down, and by the time the
sun set below the horizon, nature
became quiet again. The sand-storm
of the desert was over, and I was
glad I had seen il.—Du Chaillu.
The Bowen Murder Affair.—
A warrant was issued in Charles
ton on Saturday by Trial Justice
Magrath for the arrest of this cele
brated member of Congress from
South Carolina on the charge of be
ing an accessory before the fact to
the murder ol'Col. William P. White,
and the officer in charge has gone to
Columbia to obtain from Gov. Scott
the requisition necessary for the ap
prehension of the said member of
Congress in Washington, or any
Stale.
The Chinese at North Adams,
Massachusetts, have a Sunday-
school. They are very eager 1q
learn, and the classes are always
full.
ly for aid to go to Liberia. More
negroes are now practically attract
ed te the colony than ever before. ! The circulation of the London
Certain prominent physicians are i Telegraph is nearly two hundred
just now perfecting a scheme for the thousand a day’. Since the war the
establishment of a State Inebriate Daily News has made great strides
Asylum at Richmond, Virginia. It j 1,1 consequence of the superiority of
is to be incorporate by act of Assern- its war correspondence. Lately it
bly, and the plan is to admit patients j !,acI thirty-eight columns of adver-
of not less than one tisements. L’he Standard, the onlv
for a period
year, on the affidavi* ol
the inebriate.
relatives of
WHtTE Labor Wanted South.—
White labor is in demand for the
Tory morning London daily,declines
in estimation.
The President’s room and the bri
dal chambers in The H. I. Kimball
. . House, are still points of attraction
cotton and su^ar olantalions near r . i
.. „ , . 1 “ . u llcai tor strangers, who go away lmpress-
New Orleans. The Picayune says Lj w Rh
orders are constantly received from
the cotton and sugar planters for
white labor, and that while hands j liistori, the famous Italian actress,
will be employed next year to much ! ma(!e firsl appearar.ee the
gieater extent than ever before.
Messrs. Locket & Jordan, of
Dougherty countv, will cultivate
ten plantations the present year. It
the season is a good one, they will
make thirty-five hundred bales of
cotton. ’and wears his leit eye iu a sfn
Mr. Alex Fountain, of Washing
ton county, shot, and it is feared,
fatally injured his light hand, while
carelessly handling a pistol, one day ! fren” of his.
last week. I
* . I Many of the planters of Georgia are
II. '' • Burner is being tried in preparing to plant this vear without tin
Macon for an attempt to incite a liot i use of guano, or any other fertilizer.
during the recent election. j . , . „ „ ^ .
j Advices from fct. Domingo state
It is stated that Hons. H. \ . J that Cabral has been driven to the Hay’
Johnson and A. H. Stephens have t' cn frontier, and that his troops are ia
been converted to the Swebenbor- a bad plight.
The wife of Marshal Canrobert has
been sued for damages by the German
tbe luxurious magnificence
of these apartments.
| stage in her naiive village of Civi-
dale, at the advanced age of two
monlhs-^theearliest debut on record.
A Tennnssea temperance lecturer de
nounced rcmsellers as worse than mur
derers. He had a subset lent interview
w ith the urbane an! ge r d hotel-keeper,
A Senegambiam, arrested iu FbiladeL
phia, had tour chickens in his carpet-bsg-
Hc said “de man dat put am dar was no
gian faith.
An embryo negro in Sandersville
l .it° • , . . . authorities tor having writl
. recent, .v been a mus.ng himself ! pll9raptpr : 7hv them a? “
ritten a letter,
, . - . — characterized by them as “libelous.’ t®
y serving Ixuklux "warnings on his ' the London Times, concerning t- e
colored acquaintances.
Augusta is getting to be right
lively. Six men have been shot
lh«re within the past five weeks,
and the amusement knows no abate
ment. A negro from South Caroli
na was shot last W•dneseav l>v a
constable from whom he was en
deavoring to escape,
! treatment of Frcuch prisoners iu Gera* 4 '
j ny.
There are 10 i7 American claims
against Mexico now before the Amer
ican and Mexican commission m
i Washington.
If cleanliness is, as some folk S3V,
one of the arts, all that helps it should
. | be made known. Doors, walls, or
* Democratic exchange says: anything that is painted, may he
! 1 l,e I f a ‘ l, 1 cal P art >’ 13 evidently go- j cleaned with a piece of soft flannel,
i dipped in warm water, then \vrun_,
and sprinkled with finely powdered
ing to the dogs.
Poor dogs.
| aim qjiuiMCU won liiieiy j”-’”
The artesian well at the Terre i chalk. The paint on being
Haute House., Ind., yields from ru ^l'ed with this will become q ullc
forty to fifty gallons of coal oil per ! c,ean: will be saved from tne
day. destructive action of soap.
An Illinois newspaper app ear ?
with three blank columns heade
“Special Notice:—These column*
ate reserved for those merchants
who ought to advertise.”
the
—Major General Daniel E. Sickles,
Ambassador of tho United States of A
merica in the Spanish capital, had audi
ence of his Majesty Amedeus, King of
the Spaniards, at the palace to-day, when
he formally and officially renewed and
continued tho diplomatic relations which
exist between the American govern
ment and the Spanish Crowu, by pre-
A revolt has broken out among ^
Tartars of China, and at.last accou^
it had reached alarming proport |0B *f
sentinghis Ministerial ciedentials^toW ; The rebels bad seized many point=°
K‘ n g* importance.