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[]{. CALHOUN, Editor and Proprietor. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1], is?:! YOU. XY— NO. -291). AB [pink (Milks O’IvEu.ey) favored us jvith ft manuscript copy of the fol- beauliful lines, which snbse- r hiul ft very extensive circulation, rotlnco again tho beautiful poem of JANETTE. Htiood Hint you wear, Janptto, [* a hand in your hair, my pot. ivn, with a fcolilvii kIo's, Janotl rolieat hair in tho world, my pel. tho arm of a Mown, Janette; y, bristled ami brown, my pet; ami softly ii loved to caress white nock ami your wealth of tress lautiful plenty of hair, my pot. i had a swimming glory, Janette, ro gray, with that chastening tinge of ko Spring is young and the i |e d«*w-drops In each rod bust suited your gold-brown h ogled my life in your hail failkoii and golden snare, juj utlo tho bondage, my soul , to continue your slave ovi lUIS MACON! A .HTOltV OF THE ,EJvS AND SEMINOLES, IN THE Sly days of Georgia. ^ rr por» or “duncan m’intorh.' ti tor the Sniidity Enquirer Toopy right secured. | CHAPTER V. E WOl.fr' liA.Hlt. some seconds Mirinm Troup stood Seed by the horrible picture pre- id to her. She collected her thoughts, made an effort to couviueo herself ,u "* E*" that the whole was not a distorted vision of her excited imagination, uud she felt * ■ satisfied it wits whon tho faco of HerdicL Wiljton Middonly vanished. .)CN t r *' Overcome with excitement, Miriam , dropped into tho chair from which sho 1 ’bad risen and rubbed hor eyes, ns if to rices, wipe out all thought of the horrible fui • • vision. Her eyes might be deceived, but ’• A1 now she was awake, and her ears could not be mistaken, sho heard the stamping of heavy feet outside, and thon a chorus of RDfjpty barks from tho dogs that came trooping around tho house. Hurried whis pers in hoarse voices, and then thero the pressing of a heavy body against her door. f Throwing a shawl over her ghoul tiers, Miriam flew to tho door and tried to it. but a strong band from without (t closed. She listened, and die tin- pd tho voice of Iiordiok Wilson il at her father's door. Spring! she extinguished tho light in her thon bolting tho door quietly purely inside, she opened one of the with remarkable presence of -Imind, to bo prepared for flight, if uoces- wm ■1 B< lather and Wilson talking iu excited \ tell you, old man, the Injuns is all Listen ! Thero go their yells, i from tho direction of tho ORwichee came fierce yells—yells of paiu and E and the discharge of rifles iu rapid fission. is lighting tho Iudians thore ?” Troup in nmnzonient. pTy men. I toll you tho red skins are nd ns by thousands, and your only i iininodiato flight." lot leave my servants, my homo, abovo all, my daughter,''said the iot the servants care for themselves, daughter wo will tako with us. Get •, I toll you! Five minutes more t will be too late/’ o: 1 will stand by my people. They stood faithfully by me, and, though and hoiiuded down, Henry Troup is oward ! Away, and caro for your self. 1 w ill face tho ludinus, if need bo, “Search the garden,” cried the lender, as he rushed out himself with a torch. Miriam saw the torch applied to the house, and tho baud of desperadoes that guarded it. Sho felt that her father was locked up in his room, and, in hor intense anguish, her ftrst impulse was to rush to hor father’s side and dio with him. In that moment of unutterable anguish a dosperato strength enmo to the poor girl, and, with tho quickness of a flash, sho reasoned, “I can never reach him. I will but run into tho trap they have set, and death is bettor in flight.” Bearded white meu and beardless In dians now, like demons, began to search tho garden. She could not remain long undiscovered, and so she determined on immediate flight. Crawling quickly and quietly back, she reached tho fenco, and sprang over it like a deer. She heard fierce Bhouts close behind her, and turn ing for an instant she saw the house ii flumes and a scoro of men speeding iutho direction she had takon. She knew sho discovered ; but this seemed but to add strength uud swiftness to hor limbi le ran in tho direction of tho tim bored uplands that marked the ancient boundaries of the river. There was no looking back now, and by a supernatural vision she avoided the trees and tingled vines that on every hand seemed spread like unavoidable ob stacles to impede her progress. On and , sho took no c.ognizauco of time, felt no «ense of fatigue. It was not to avoid death, that sho would have braved hero- ally could she die with her father; but was the horror of capture, worse than death, that nerved hor. Dark as tho Styx wore the jungles through which sho sped, nnd now aud then a rattlo-suake sounded his alarm noar hor flying feet, and the Roared wolf started from his lair and apod away with yelps of fright. During the black hours of that toniblo night sho heard—it might have been an oeho—but sho certaiuly heard the beat of footsteps behind hor, and the hoavy breathing as of a pursuer. The excite ment kept hor up ; but there was a limit to hor strength, and as the gray dawn came the speed of tho little feet lessoned, tho gait became unsteady, and Miriam Troup staggered through the thicket, im peded at every step by the obstacles through which she had passed with such apidity and case in the darkness. The sun came up, aud tho golden rays stole through tbo locked branches of tho s, and surrounded us with a halo tho j of tho beautiful child, who luy us deed at the foot of a monarch of tho forest. chapter vi. taken, whon, in tho light of tho burning building, bo saw an old man with gray hair and blood-covered faco standing at a window and trying to got out through the smoko and flame ; but ho tottered and fell back with a groan that was hoard above the roaring of tho flamos. Louis recog nized Mr. Troup at once—tho man who had spurned and hated him—the man who had kept him from his threshold on the pniu of death. The daring youth for got all this now, and, oalling to the faith ful Batty to plant himself against tho burning logs, Louis sprang on his shoul- ders nnd lonped through the open win dow into tho furnace of smoke and flame. Tho old man was lying sensoloss on the charring floor, anil to pick him up and lift him down to Batty was but tbo work of a niomont, and thon, with hair and hands and faco scorched, Louis looped out, aud fell fainting on tho ground. The servants nt once carried back both men from tho tiro and light, and back to a spring that Roemed to bubble from tho knotted roots of an overhanging oak. Tho yonug man should have beon tlio first to recover under tho chafing nnd tho water dashed iu his face ; but no, ho lay as one doad when Houry Troup opened his eyes and stared around on his terror- Btrieken servants. It was some moments beforo tho old man could collect his thoughts, and, thinking of what had happened, recon cile it with his present surroundings. As ho stared about him his eyes fell on the inanimate form of Louis Macon, and, weak as ho was, the old man staggered to his foot. “Who is that ? In God’s nnmo v brought that wretch hereto curse mo!” ho asked, as ho glared on tho faco of Ma con and appealed to the alarmed servants for nn answer. “ ’Twits Man flnh,” said an o “Ho take me “Yes, Muusb." “Sayho lit it! Say'it Indians to tho attack! rob mo of my daughter: not dare to toll me I owe value not to one of a rnc Louis took ych from do negro in explauation. :om tbo lire!” was he led tho Sny he camo to But you must tho life which I 3 I have hated." nor v 9 ; "gt alone! Then io indecision in the old taau’s voice now, but clear an a bell it ■itltnff out, liu, l B-e tones thrilled tho listen- iite Miriam. OLD ENEMIEK. “Stay near mo, Batty,” whispered Louis Macon, as ho hurriedly transformed the I t ^ nt canoe into a breastwork and dropped down behind it, his servant, with rifle ready, as quickly following his example. The action of Louis Macon wan not un observed. Black Nod at tho moment bo- caino aware of the vioiuity of his game ; and ho knew that everything depended on u quick onset. “Here’s Macon! Blaze away, boys!” shoutod the dosperado. The w’hite men rushed forward at tho biddiug of their leader, though tho Iu- diaus ovinced no such impetuosity. Beforo Black Ned’s men could even get their weapons ready two rillos blazed out, and two men went down. “Use your pistols, Batty.” There was no need to give Batty this advice, for beforo the hurried words had ceased the negro, with marvelous cool ness, fired, and Louis doing tho same, Black Nod, with a yell of pain, discharged his rifle at random and ran back among the Indians, leaving his two white com panions dead noar the canoe. ‘Load your rifle again, Batty. They won’t attack before we are ready." The riflos woro soon loaded, the pistols woro loaded; but, though Louis could hear the whispering of the men near by, ho became convinced they were alarmed, aud would wait for daylight to renew tho fight. Believing that this would bo ruin, he determined to force it, though ho might havo made good his escopo, woro that his object, by tho river. “Let us crawl up on them, Butty. Muko every shot tell, thon club your rifle." “Use dar, Mauss Louis,” whispered Batty. Tho two men with more than tho stealth of Indians crawled out, and soon hud the pleasure of ueeiug iu tho indistinct light tho outline of a group of men not twouty foot away. Tho old mau looked, in his anger, as if he would rend (he uinu whose head Batty was holding and bathing. Batty was in no mood to bo respectful or mild-tompered with tho mnu who owed bis life to his young master, nnd who now slandered him. The fuitbful fellow i-poko hurriedly nnd indignantly as ho told the story of their coming to tho Great Bend, and ho was right iu tho midst of the de scription of his master’s roscuo of Mr. Troup, whon Louis opened his oyes and looked up at the man who had boon his lifo enemy without a cause. “A curse on tho nnmo of Macon ! Why cumo you here i* "Was it to sou my home iu ruins, aud to gloat over tho calamities pursue mo through the acts of yo race !’’ A strange greeting, truly, to tho young hero, who had risked his lifo to save his accuser. But Louis had no thought for tho old man's wrath, as ho asked, “Where is Miriam “Dead, I pray God, os I w’ish I wore. I took her away Irom tho blood hounds who have boon tracking her down, aud sho is dead.” “Dead!" “Yes, doad, Louis Macon. Leave mo ; for I would not mote out to you tho death you dosorvo in tho shadow of my burn ing roof tree! Up and away from my sight if you would suvo your worthless, wicked life." Louis roso nnd looked nt tho old man as if bo doubted his own sonsos ; from him ho looked about on tho astonished ser vants. “Henry Troup. I have never been your enemy. I hnvo never wronged you. In the name of a just God, who must judge us both by our acts, reason. I do not ask your friendship, but let mo aid you to find your daughter, mnl to punish the outlaws who hnvo brought ruin to your homo," said Louis ploadiugly. “Then punish yourself ; go dio in tho flames, for you are one." The old man, supported by a servant moved awny, and loft dumbfounded Lour surrounded by tho greater number of the servants, who woro unmistakably 1. friends. IIB- rTO*- ,vl* £tPo ns y,u please, Henry Troup. Sac- . yourself : but. may I die if I allow ' your child to remain. She is miue’by every right, and 1 will protect her!" ex- • claim,:' 1 Iiordiok Wilson. ’ ftfhcu Miriam hoard a scuffle as of men gling ; the clashing sound of n fierce , t: o falliug of a body with a groan, l the banging to of her father's door. ^Barst upon this door, mon !' shouted after a vain eff ort to enter Miri- ^’h chamber. But Miriam did not wait tho result. Two thoughts now Lt hor soul, and the timid girl became |«1 as a lioueas. Tho first was tho safety r father, tho next her own escape, e a doe startled from its lair by tho of (he hounds, she fastened her jptwl quickly about her form, ami then nng through the wiudow, und d' fcough the dense nutivo shrubbery in I garden. Hiding for a moinont, she tho sound of fighting about the . Sho know the servants were I, and were now hastening to the j of tbo m istor whom they l«>ved. i-r. were lit, and iu tbo light ahesaw Um . >rms of Wilson’s l>und, ami trooping up from tho river came the Indians by K«por, . Her first hope was that they •Would attack Wilson ; but this was soon nclled, for they soon showed thorn- liia allies, nnd the servants were “Now." Batty heard tho low whisper, bothriffos banged, and four pittolH Hashed, and then with clubbed weapons master and mau dashed on tho two mon who were left standing beforo them. One of them wont dow’u, but the other, with a savage oath, turned aud fled. Louis restrained Batty’s impuiso to cheer over their victory, for at that mo ment ho saw a light to the northwest, and hoard the sound as of battle. Bonding again, beforo thoy started Louis, with Batty by his side, started liko war horses, that scent tho battle afar off. “That is Troup's houso, and it is at tacked, ' said Louis, as ho hurried on. Ho was right in both conjectures, and tho thought of daugor to Miriam added lightness to his fleet limbs. As they neared the house he saw men rushing about the shrubbery with torches, and tho flames rising from the larger building. In the gardon, illuminated by the light from tho burning cobins, he recognized llerdick Wilson, and he hoard him shout to his compunious, “This way !” and then dash over the fence, fol lowed by a troop of Indiana and white meu. Louis ran into a body of the alarmed servants, and the moment the}’ him a shout went up of, “Brens de Lor ! Heah's Mauss Li hinted down. How long Miriam lay at the root of tho great tree she did not know, but whon she oponod her eyes they mot tho faco of Patsy, who whs holding hor mistress in hor black arms. “Where am I, Patsy ?" “Vo's away out in do woods. Do good Lor ony knows how fah wo is from de rivah.” “I feel stronger. Let mo sit up, and tell i Patsy helped her young mistress to a more comfortable position, aud then, with tho white little lmnd sandwiched lovingly between hor black palms, tho black woman, in n voice broken by sobs, which sho vainly tried to suppress, told the story of her search, or rather pursuit of her mistress. She- had retired for the night, and was awoke by tho barking of tho dogs und tho voices of strange men. Acting on tho first impulse, Pulsy started to find her mistress ; but sho was prevented by Wil son’s party from entering the house. Bho board Miriam’s chamber door broken I was moah skeered dan in do nito. I felt mighty bad, an' sot. down an' 'gin to cry, an’ whin I looked 'bout agin I seed yeb, honey, a lyin’ liouh, wid do sun makin’ yoh look liko what olo Miss said long ’go de angols was.” Miriam thanked the faithful creature fervently; then asked, “Do you know what became of father, Patsy ?” “No, honey. I ony heerd dem Wilson mon say de was gwine to flnh do houso an’ do qtmhtnhs : bud we ll git back an'lino out all. Don’t bo skoorod, honey." Patsy, hearing the murmur of water near by, helped hor young mistress to rise, and thoy walked over to tho margin of a clear stream that had its origin in a spring a few hundred yards above. Reach ing it, sho made Miriam sit down, ami sho bathed the blistered foot aud wounded hands, and was made happy by seeing tho palor leaving tho white, rounded cheek#, and a semblance of the old glow coming back. “Is yek hungry, Miss Miriam ?" “No, not nt nil, Patsy ; only anxious to get bnck and learn tho fato of my father.” “Den, honoy, we'll bo movin’; bud wo must bo koerfui, fob wo don’t jist know wliar ho is, or what road to take, if dar was any.” Tho strength of despair that norvedhor the previous night had departed, nnd now Mirinm, with jaded body, and mind and heart saddened and perplexed, look the strong arm that Patsy offered, and giving herself up implicitly to her servant, him permitted herself to lie led and half car ried along. On till tho high tfun shortened the shadows of the trees; through jungles that required for (heir passage tho every precaution. Every stop h more painful to tho little blistered feet, and tho blue eyesstrnined in vain to tho never-ending forost and discover an opening beyond; but tlio hope was so long deferred that the bravo heart became sick. Patsy’s foot were sore, but the faith ful creature never complained, and with encouraging words and a stronger hold on Miriam’s arm sho kept patiently forward. It seemed it would never ond. Tho sun sloped slowly down tho west; another hour and tho shadows of night would bo settling over the gloomy, tangled forost. “Wo are getting near home, Patsy ! T. recognize this placo!" said Miriam joy ously, as sho pointed to a giant tree, whoso gnarled roots, like a protecting fortress, roso iu knotty protuberances around it. Both slopped to look, aud tho first ex clamations of joy speedily gave placo to a cry of despair. It was tho very place they had loft in tho morning, tho vory tree nt whoso roots tho exhausted Miriam liud fallen. To make tho fact donbJy aim.*, with a louder murmur tho little stream near by broke tho stillness. Thoy had traveled in the fatal cirolo so often fol lowed by thoBo lost iu tho woods. Neither could speak. It wns useless to attempt to suppress their feelings: so Miriam and her servant, sitting with clasped hands on tho ground, did what ninety-nine women out of a hundred would do under tho cir cumstances—that is, cried. And, after all, tears aro tho balm of wounded hearts, tho floodgates of sorrow, that leave body uud soul bettor, as storm aud rain drivo away tho black clouds und shadows, leav ing tho sky clear and blue. It was growing dark, tho troubles woro thickening, nnd now tho heroic heart of Miriam proved equal to the occasion. “Lot us got a drink of water and rest for a few hours, Patsy, and then wo will try to get back ns wo came in tho night." “In do night, Miss !” exclaimed tho as tonished Patsy. “Yes, iu tho night. 1 can find tlio way, there aro some stars that never change. 1 can toll tho north from the south by them. Wo will move south ; that is where the river is. But let us first rest." Patsy had n sublime faith in the astro nomical ability of her young mistress, and, acting ou hor suggestion, she lay down, insisting on taking tho beautiful, troubled Load in her lap ; und no mistress and maid, unmindful of their surround ings, sank to sleep. It might havo been midnight—they might have been asleep but ail hour— when both were wakened by the de baying of a dog. Without uttering word, they sat up and listened breath lessly, and soon tho deepening baying came nearer, and apparently from the roots of the great tree, whoso dim out lines were visible. A hoarse voice uttered an oath, and soverul men near by wore hoard to con verse. • “Waal, this beats nil. Why, this is the very tree wo tracked thorn to at noon, ami i swar heah wo re back.’ “That’s nil right,” said the unmislnka- blo voice of Wilson. “'J’hu dogs made no mistake. The girl started back, (rav eled in a circle, and so came to tho stint ing point. I'll bet a rifle they aro not two hundred yards away. Get a light some body.” No time for the fugitives to talk. Flight was now their only thought. Patsy bccHino strong as a tigress about to be robbed of its young, and, picking up Miriuin in her arms, she walked into the stream. Straining tho slender form to her breast, sho whispered, “Keep still honey: I'll walk down the stream. No scent dar!” Down tho stream with iucroAriug speed, staggering over stones and roots, but open, and from tho angered Wilson learned “that tho bird had flown.” Putsy stole away stealthily, believing her mistress was hid in the garden, aud soon ufter sho for an instant saw the light form with tho golden hair flying over tho fence. “I kno'A-’d 'twas you, honey, an' I couldn’t help from hollerin’ whin 1 seed yeh jist goiu' liko n wounded bird. I bcerd dem men shout, an’ I turrained I'd g'long an' dio long sido ob yoh, if so be do good Lor wiilod it! Neber seed nothin’ fly as you did. f kep Hight for a long I still guided by tho murmur of the water Lights flushed behind. Iu a thousand echoes tho baying of tho hounds wout down tho forest, blending with the fierce imprecations of Wilson’s desperadoes. —Sir Henry Thompson, tho British surgeon, feels that it is uot proper for him at present to r< fute the court charges that have bectfi made ogniusl him of im proper treatment of tho late Empe ror Napoloon. After remarking to this effect i did. 1 hmn>h. at a recent mipporof the Midland Me heal A III ri'AI.O FltillT. It is not often that wo find so good a pieco of word painting as the following, from tho Kansas Magazine: Appearances indicated that this shaggy old fellow had been making u vory good fight of it for several days. I daro say that in tho maiuteuauco of his social sta tus ho had gone back into the herd uud stared at his descendants, nnd pawod nnd groaned, as much as fifty times. The long hair upon his Inigo nock wns tangled and pullod until tufts of it hung loose nnd unkempt. The outer fibres of bis huge black horns hung in filauienta nnd splinters. His wicked littlo oyes had a redish glare, aud his beard was limp ami froth-wet beneath his chin. Nor was this nil. Sundry Iodr, oblique, hairless linos appeared on his flank, and ho put his loft forefoot down tenderly, vory likely re membering, at the same time, a square jounce lie had got yesterday on tho shoul der from some strong-flecked youngster that had taken it upon himself to whip his fatbor. lie stood a littlo upou the outskirts now, his head toward me, protending to eat grass. It was ns uico herbage as a bull, whoso tooth wore probably none of Ilia very beat, could wish—tho first ton- dor growth of the early spring. But still lie did not seem to on joy it. At intervals of a minute or so ho would look round quickly over his shoulder and groan, aud stand thinking, nnd then pretend to oat again. To this distressful pantomime the ton thousand shaggy grazers pniil not tho least, attention. They were busy. I could hoar thorn cropping tho grass, as I lay thore, with n continuous rasping sound. It was only too evident Hint of all those cows whom ho had so often combed into curliness with his long tongue of sunny mornings, and led and horded nnd fought for; of all the little, stupid, hump backed, stump-tailed calves, his own off spring, there wns not one who did not wish him disposed of according to buf falo destiny, or who cared how soon his last fight with tho coyotes was over, aud his monumental skull loft standing upon his jagged base on the bleak hill top, with hoi roe so much as a thigh bono or a tuft of brown hair by way (it obituary. But this old one was still a buff alo nml a bull, aud ho kept surreptitiously getting nearer and nearer to tho ragged border of tho hord. Presently a calf cumo toward him slowly and in an investigatory sort of way, its little black nose wot and wrinkled, its lit tle brown Hanks distended with fullness, and tho white milk froth depending in long threads from its mouth. Gradually and slowly he went up to his father, amt tho two hud just touched noses amicably whon tho rnothor ulso took it into her lioad to be friendly, aud came too. Then camo auother cow, and another, ami presently quite a littlo wing of tho hero had gathered thero, aud the button d old warrior looked around him complacently. This kind of thing had doubtless hap pemod so often that 1 wonder lie did uol seem to think of the result, bill tie did not. Ho might have known that he had urrived at tho ago when the young bl-’odk of tho hord would not look complacently upon his heavy gallant rim. Ho was sim ply laying tho pluns for another tight, and the troublo began in the very midst of his content. A follow as big ftH the old one must have scon (bis social gathering I rom Home distance, nnd throw out oortniu intiiwi- tionH of his approuch by Jitth puffs of dust which How high into the mr abovo tlio crowd, and by ominous Mioitings and lugubrious groans. The old one Hopped chewing with a green mouthful between his lips and lisioued. The cows looked round with tho complacent expression which seemed to any that the light w**h none of theirs, and crowded, off upon either side, and very soon the antagonists stood lacing each other. Tho old boy straightened out his wisp of a tain to a lino with his back, gathered his four black hoofs together, arched his spine, and placed his nose close to tho sod, shaking liis hugo lioad ns though he wished to sat isfy himself finally of its iiemiom ft on any entanglement which would liimle him from just tossing that ambitiom youngster over his hack and breaking bin in two. Tho otlior camo slowly, twisting his tail from side to side in sum' which woro very deliberate ui.d grand for so small an organ. I to took pains to make it distinctly appear that every hair ho woro was angry. Jlis eyes rolled in constant increasing redness. His black, sharp horns wore onc.rti-.tod with earth gathered while lie had beon tearing the sial in eestaoy of valor. His nost ril • were distended, aud ho halted in his slow ad vance to toss tlio broken sod high over his shoulders with his pawing. He was, in natural way, a tactician. Ho made flank movements, nnd turned his shaggy sides, first one and then the otlior, to ward his huge antagonist. But this by play of battle only hin dered the final onset : they by no means intended to tako it out by vaporing. The challenger advanced within some four feet, getting angrier nml angrier as lie came. Suddenly there was a crash which had in it something Homeric. One rat tling ousot of tluit kind loaves one iu no doubt as to why tin* short, strong horns of tho Imffuloos have u splintered appear ance at the upices. Thon there w»h a long, steady push, in wifi, h every tendon of tho huge bodies was strained to tho ul termont. Then there was a stragotic casing off, then a sudden, gladiatorial thrust, which pressed tho lingo heads to the ground in uneven balance t ,f urength. Neither beast duiod relax muscle or re treat nn inch, for tear of that fatal charge upon tho flunk, or that dangerous twist of tho nock, which means defeat. Ami now tho cows relumed urnl looked complacently on, amt tho very . .dvos be gan to shako their Ik uds iu the first vague instinct of romlmtivouess inspired by tho battletho bulls. And the young lord lings of th" he'd distended their nostrils and elevated their tuils, but forbore ony interference. It was a duel a 'loutruno. A momentary relaxation of the tremen dous strain only resulted in the shaggy heads coming together again with a dull thump, and a renewal of the dogged push ing which might have moved a freight train It was a mutter ot lungs and en durance, and the white froth began to drop iu long, tenacious strings from thcii lips, uud the rod oyen to glum dimly through what seemed clots of blood I could hour the labored breathing where I lay, nnd see tho tendons stand out uorosi Hit! thighs and nloug the thick nooks. But this dead set of strength could not last s ways. Every moment of time was telling disastrously upon the shorter wind and decoying strength of the old cru sader, who still fought for tlio loves of his youth. Jits foot slipped, and tho in telligence of this slight disaster boomed to reach his antagonist quicker than a Hash of lightning. No gladiator over urged his advantage more suddenly. There was a hugo lunge, u sound of horns slipping upon each o'hor, a spring for- ward, and tho horn of tiio younger halt had made a raking upward stroke 1 ougli his antagonist’s flank. I Tie fight / be (j .me brink. Aga.n md ag un tho old one turned and tried to make riio old stand of head to Lead, and as of ton his more active antagonist caught him behind the shoul der. With the red Agony of defeat in his eye, and the blood trickling from the long wound in his flanks, ho still refused to be conquered. With failing strength uud limbs which refused any longer to and shook thou* heads, ami gavo him occasional dig in tho ribs by way of pressing their contempt for him. T cows camo and snuffed at him. ami dulgod iu spitoful feminino huts, i walked awny. Their manner implied i thoy lmd always regarded him as a disa- grcoablo old muff, and they were glad lie finally understood their heal li cit seuti lneuts in regard to him. gh all this tlio old follow stood unresisting, whipped, bill still obstinate. uduully they all let t him to himself. I the herd wandered further awny. He l not even look around ; ho was proba bly forced at last to accept his sentence of bauislimuut, and go uud live as long ns bo could alone, and fight his last light with tho coyotes, and die. But tliut calf came out to see him again. 1 Hay that, calf, because it seoincd to me tbo same llmt had brought ou Hus limt, un pleasant ness, though for that matter they arc all alike. Tho call' camo and arched its back and pawed, and elevated its nine inch tail in front of him, nml gave him to understand, by the plainest, kind of Iftn • gunge, that it held itself in readiness to give him a most, terrible drubbing, if he had not already had enough. It was comi cal to see him imitate tho notions of his seniors, while tho pm.r old bull did not so much as look nt him. But his cali'ship was inclined to push matters, and finally made a puss which placed his foolish lioad with a considerable thump ugninst the soft port of the old man’s uoso. Thou lie stood a moment with Die air of having hurt hiiuself u littlo, and toddled off to his mother. Tho old one did not movo nn inch, and seciued hardly to notice this babyish per secution. But I suspect it broke iiishcurl He wandered, limping and slowly, down toward tbo sedge, and J ay there, forgot- ful of the long army uiusket beside me. regretting that there had been no one else there to hot with during tlio battle, or t.* stand up liko a man ami confirm tho story afterward. The sun rose high over the prairie, the wind veered, there was a sud den panic, nnd the hord vanished beyond tho hills, loaving mo to plod lmclc to camp. MilMIIK lll'MS. Emualmino the Dead.—For tho follow ing concise description of tho “Brunotti Process” for the preservation of the dead wo aro indebted to the Journal of Aj>j,linl ('/inninlrg. Tho steps aro as follows : First. Tho circulatory system is cleansed by washing with cold water till it issues quite clear from tho body. This may oc cupy from two to live hour*. Hoooud. Alcohol is injoatod, so ns to abstract ns much water ns possible. This occupies about a quarter of an hour. Third. Ether is thou injected to ab stract tho fatty mutters. Ibis occupies from two to ton hours. Fourth. A strong solution of tatinin is then injected. This occupies for imbi bition two to ten hours. Fifth. Tho*body is thou dried in a cur rent of warm air, and passed ove chloride of calcium. This tuny two or live hours. The body is thus perfectly j reserved, and resists decay. Tho Italians exhibit specimens which are as hard as stone, re tain tho shape perfectly, and arc equal to tlio best wax models. In this process it will be noticed that those substances most prone to decay arc removed, and the re maining poitious arc converted by tho tanninintoasuhstanco resembling leather, and Hi us effectively protected against de composition for yours. SoiENTmo Education.—In tl nil address before the French A for tho Advancement of Soil President, M. do Quatrofugos, Hit devotoos of literature accuse i stifling sentiment nnd imagination. What!" answers tho President, “scionco stifle sen timent, imagination -she who brings tis "very hour into the prosecco of wonders ! She lower intelligence, who touches on all tho infinities ! When litoratours and po- Spccial !»i-i>nt( li. PEACE! \ irgiuiiis SiinvtiJiTcd! War on High Prices lOVIlMIS AT • honied occupy lnnugii- hutto the i her living fount; ill < they will borrow agery description! lm doubled by tho gra Like ' truth. No, tho study of an inspired pool, of a truo painter, of a great sculptor. But she will bring more light to tho path of nn erring soul. Who will, perhaps, transform into a wise mini or. at least, into u citizen, useful to him self and others, ..no who, without her, would only have been one of tlinno pre tended, incomprehensible geniuses, due. tinoil to perish of misery, of iuiputoncy. and of pride.” Consumption.—In a new work c n con sumption, by Dr. Homy Mnc.Coriuue. of London, the theory is maintained that consumption, or tubercular dis-uno, is caused solely by breathing air which has alroady been brcuthe.l either by unimalh or human linings. Tho hourly elimina tion of carbonic noidby the lungs amounts elvo hundred cubic inches. JOSEPH & BRO.’S, "Tin, Imvliifc Mimic m11 ilieiI* iniutlH lltltfr'.vm AIII.Y lo quit (lie IIry (icoiIn ltiiHlncft*, iu*n mcII- hilt on( (liclr SPtCNDlD ASSORTMENT 'Dry Goods Tilt: I.ATKST STYhltt, At the luwost Hates in the South Call and l>o convinced that tiioio was novora bettor op portunity to socuro superior yoods at lower rates for cash. Hundreds daily assort the truth of this, and go away satisfied with tho truth of the above, and happy in their unequaleu bargains. Open early and late, and counter attendants always ready, at JOSEPH & BRO.’S, G9 Broad St. Columbus, Ca. BANKS. MERCHANTS’ A KCHMICS' BANK, Columbus, 6a., Docs a General Banking Business. DKAl.H IN llxrliiuiKO, hold. Silver, Mock*. Ac. *l>«»eiiil attention Klven to Fuller- lions, nnd prompt return* toaUd. New Yoke Correspondent: Ninth National Hank of Sew York. SAVINCS BANK. Dl'.POHITH rrc.lTM In ,uui> ur a', cent* and upward*. SB',YEN per rent, (per tiiiiiiuuj In terest, allowed, payable l*t Jmiiiimi’v, April, July and Oetaber, compound ed lour time* annually.; IIEPOSITN PAID ON DEMAND. DIRECTORS; IV. h. 8ALI8HURY—Fuimcrly ..1 Wnrn>.ek a lv A. IM.GBS—Of freer, Illg.s X Co. W. It. HROWN—Of Columbia Iron \S..ikil C. A. It HDD—Of C. A. Redd A Co. (J. L. McllOUUH—Of .Tulin McUutigh A (’•». Mi !lU HE!I Cotton Factories. .MIHFOhCE ill AN Pfr'AFT I’ HI NO U Manufacturers «r flllEKTINQB, SHIKTINlM, YARN, KOI*B, Ac. COI.I'M HUS, UA. . I*. SWIFT, President. W. A. SWIFT, Becrotury X Trcan till l Livery and Sale Stables. IIOIIEUT THOM l*SO.\, 1.1 very, Male and Exchange Mtnl»lea, OOLF.THORVE, NORTH Or ItANDOl.PII SlB., OCt:iO Collllllhllrt, On. A. HAMM EL, l.svcry and Male Stable*. OflLRTIIORl'B ST., OOLUMKUh, 0.1. Inr attention given to Ponding nml s if >r stock lloimv nml Mu hu hoHnlwl month or ilny. Doctors. Residence ro OHIon n ho|»27 iltf DIC. COIJBEY. rner of St. Clair rioI Oglethoi ext to ruuldoiier, on Si. OI»li h Dll. J. F. COOK, r Kills X Harrison's Comnuiiion first door to left. Dentists, w. t. pool, Dentint, h'-.J.l. HU Hio.ol St., tie. W. J. I’OM.i:, Dentist, H-*pr»] Uoorgitt Homo Dulldiug, Coluuilna, tJa. 1 tot and if tho air is al with that gfiH ami will substances, its powoi from tho body is ho tho (letrihiH of dog' tuinoil, becomes tube, Aftor reviewing th fnront capital*, tho J). ;ver ventiluled. Tho St. Potoihburgli, v/lit tal S of (lif. drs that Vienna lonsumpt i< tality of .vino, L'.ioo lapitai don and windows, i very interstice lx fully closed wilh wadded doth, . exclude tho currents of tir, ai CROCCR!l£S. (;. W. BKOWN, DEVI.Fit IN FAMILY GROCERIES. MEATS. filers, MlM Onred It Ili. I EOS It AND MI A0.. YEAST I'OtYDT.ItS. A N NED DODDS. ith Hie do ! sto Stinted, I ivaly hi. without, and, in tin ..e.ourgo of tuborcui no class or condi'n exempt. has Hiibinittf<1 tho i of the Michigan A analysis. Jlis i.mi ath-foulcd utmof-phi and than the <. croftso in the an ing tho plants i i ot oxygon by :i enclosed space, that plants in i ot unhealthy, so far ns the oxci winter is com regarding the during tho period of ro K »r.lin(i tlj„ other ing night tin 1, but lie soys po fn often havo lately dele > is silent that 6h- id whidi nploasant, if not al - i by Holt. ; which ho loading English publishing house.! nn< heir founders, with notes on their priu ipal book 1. Tho announcement is ac I companion with tho portinout motto froi | Curlylo, “In those days ten ordinary his kings nml courtiers woro wol nmgod Hgainst tho t. nth part <»f on .1 hist Lawyers. L. T. DOWNING, Attorney anil Solicitor. . 8. Coni’r ut.d ItogiHtur iu Jluuki uptoy . OIU« « HivtWj over Riook(*’_Di hK St.x-, Coliuubuu, (la FIAItODY A lilt A \ SON, Attorneys nt Enw. •erica over J. Ennib A Co.’s Store, Hikud auvlHj West Side. K. J. HOSES Attorney and Founwollor nt l.aw, i corn in Homo luaurance Coiuiuuy building. «• • or!7 lyj oud story. 1.01 IS fr\ tJAKHAltD, Attorney nml FomiM'llor nt l^iw. •lilco No. (17 11 road street, Columbus, *»»• Will rucllco in tho Sluto mid Kcdci.il I’oiirM. 9|x»cUl Of AN. it. WILMA MN, Attorney nt Isiw, Foliimbu*, ( Will iiruetico in uuy Court. Umco over A coo A Murdoch’* *t"i”. in Dealer i *** > Crocers. DAN E It. kll/E. utility tlrocvihnn II,fn . Ual"tl.Ol|.r A Jock *1 J. II. HAMILTON, WIioloNnlo nml Itctnil Grocer, action of Franklin, Warn ., a Ogl«thur|>H to charge for drayagH. s-l ISIIA.M FOOI’Elt, M I S’l'A III). l.r.OI N D NIMFES. K\ Tit AFT'S. . ItVES AND .lEI.I.IES SOAPS. Fresh Meats. J. T. FDD It. all Monts ol All Kind*, Stall* Nos. 15 and ' Rags, Hides, etc. JOHN MEIIAI EEY, Dealer in Hnirn, Hide*. llro*wn* nml nil kind* of Jiiuk. Corner IIridoe and <• .1 i iioki'e n Druggists. N (fit hi 11 right of sout! rosTl.it S. CHAPMAN. DriiR'K l*t- Itumlulpli, cct of liio.td 8U. 0I. (’.dumliu. A. M. lilt AN NON, West 81m:, Rroad Strect. Coiumuit, d.i.. Wholesale nml Itotnil Dealer In Drug* and Medicine*. Toilet Article* and Perfumery . JOHN W. IIKOOKS. Wholesale nml Itctnil Driiuwlit- 107 Hr ond St., Columbus, tin. si'MiitiE.s. Dental Notice. N • I 1:*.,,, M... k. 1. I. Iii.l, l’,.ul... •, Ou.ui P)K. M!KUW I..., IT ■ K* Oil, New Orleans A and Kmc % Nilgai*, | XJ ' * „ ,j t , ("• mid Rio ('oil...', New It!.---, 1 " : ' 1 ' ' ' 1 '• - - - MILLINERY. *~t.oo(ls delivered free. G. W. BROWN. To Suit the Panic Times! .■S. *1 * HI SSKY, Millinery Goods at Cost!