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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION,
VOLUME V.l
ATLANTA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER IP.
Colonel B. V. !»•*«•
Wr mentioned yesterday the prominence
of lUior A. O. Bacon tar the tipeakerahip
of the Haase. Oar fellow-citizen, Colonel
E. P. Hoge, who was a laborious end able
member of the list Legislature, U also urged
for the position. He is capable and efficient,
and would fill tbe ebair with credit.
The S.lecterwt Veto of Georgia*
The Georgia electors split their vote. Gen
eral Henning, Washington Poe and CoL
Hodeun voted for Greeley for President
Gen. Wofford. CoL ‘Hartridge, Mr. Ely
Col Pat*. CoL Dorsey, and Major Graham
BOralx Brown for President
Col. Tomer and Dr. Casey voted for Ex-
Governor C. J. Jenkins for President
Gen. Banning, Mr. Poe, CoL Hndaon Dr.
Casey and Col Turayr voted for Grata Brown
for Vice President, '
CoL Hartridgy, CoL Pace, CoL Dorsey Mr.
Ely and Major Graham voted for Gen. Col
qvitl for Vice President
Gen. Wofford voted for Gen. N P. Banks,
of Mstsochnsetts. for Vice President
Vsnc« l>cfeat«4.
The defeat of Vance, the regolar Demo
cratic nominee for United States 8cnator in
Horth Carolina, by Merrlmoo, the Democratic
hotter, with the aid of the Radical vote af
fords matter for Democratic condemnation
A few dissatisfied and nnsallsfyable men in
the Democratic ranks, acting from personal
prejudice, have thas defeated the party ac
tion. Of eoane the Radicals, aU tbe time,
when injudiciously made a balance of power
will side with tbe Democratic bolter rather
than with the nominee, as they thereby di
vide the Democracy and defeat its authorita
tive and majority programme.
Uerrlmno could control bat 20 oat of OS
Democratic votes, a liitie over one fifth. Vet,
representing tne preferences of so small a
fragment of the party, he has been able to
win success by aid of the enemy, and be goes
into office, not representing the choice of his
own party, bat hardened and trammelled by
Obligation for bis success, to the bitter foes
of the party.
Can it be wondered at that the Democracy
fa out of power when it* members thas
wrangle and divide, and criminally constitute
the Rtdlcal faction as tbe umpire in its dia-
w—fi—i Tbe Democracy has some lesson*
to learn before it can return to power. It
i-lost learn to sacrifficc its prejudices and re-
We find tbe following interesting ata’e-
meat in the correspondence of a North
Carolina paper as to the personal features of
the contest between Mcrrimon and Vance:
Take It al in all. It is a remarkable fight
Judge Mcrrimon and Governor Vance hifre,
in sumo sort we believe, been rival* and com
petitors from boyhood. About tbe same ege,
and living m tbe same town, of the same po
litical faith, and both prominent men in tbeir
county and in the State before middle life,
H would, Indeed, be strange bad not each
found the other in his way in mounting tbe
ladder to fame, honor and riches. Tbe death
struggle would doubtless have occurred at a
much earlier day, bad not Governor Vance
breome a politician rather than a lawyer,
and had not Judge Merrimon become a law
yer rather than a politician.
Now, both are politicians, and the irre-
preealble conflict to being fought out to its
Utter end. The glittering prise of a seat in
tbe United States Senate seemed to be In the
grasp of one or of the other of them, and
tbe tight began. Vet, strange to say, how
ever, en far as we have been able to hear, not
a single angry or lll-tcmpcred word has been
spoken, Quietly and dispassionately even,
it would seem to a careless observer, have
the parties token their stands and fought the
fight. Men laugh and talk, and jest about
-w. uiu.idla, and then pursue tbeir purpose
e,ill, unflinching, unwavering determination.
As ins Here now aland, an election is i in pos
sible.
The President** message.
We gave our readers the full message of
the President yesterday in a supplement.
The document to a very practical one,
dealing in narration and statistics. It re
counts the acts of his administration for the
year. It states the Alabama claims settle
ment by the Geneva tribunal, and the San
Joan boundary decision, as fixing up two
nutters of serious difference between this
country and England. It however makes no
allusion to the ridiculous farce perpetrated by
Grant's administration In pressing the “Indi
rect damages" claim, nor how it stulifiod it
self by rejecting Rcverdy Johnson's treaty,
and afterwards substantially adopting 1L
The fishery matter to advised to be settled
and a recommendation made for fixing the
b mndary line of Alaska.
Our foreign relations are reported all serene.
Tbe suggestion to made to invito the Interna
tional Statistical Congress In this country in
1878.' Recommendation to made to appropri
ate money to have the United States repre
sented at the Vienna Exposition.
Appropriation is urged to carry on the
Mexican Claims Commission. A reference
fa made to Cuba, hoping that slavery will be
abolished there. Spain and the South Amer
ican republics are making peace; also Braxil
and the Argentine Confederacy. The United
State* to friendly with all these power*.
Venezuela Min owes us money. Japan to
very friendly with ua.
Grant urge* the transfer of the territories
tram the Department of State to that of the
Uterine. Aid to distressed seamen to reeum-
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY. DECEMBER 10, 1872.
INUMBER 36
The bill to give the sales of the public
lands for industrial services to commended.
The territories are reported in good fix, ex
cept in Utah where the extinction of polyga
my to desired. The planting of forest trees
to urged. Tho purpose to push aril service
reform to expressed.
The above gives tbe points of the message
There Is a noticeable avoidance of all allusion
to the South, to amnesty, or a- y of the mat
ters so vehemently agitated in the late
canvass.
The net receipts of theTreasuty for the
year ending June SO, 1872, are $374,106£67.
The Treasury balance is $109,935,7*5. The
expenditures, exclusive of debt, are $370,559,-
833. and including debt, are $477,478,216. A
net reduction of public debt is claimed of
$99,96QJS8. A reduction of the debt from
March 4. 1SC9. to claimed rf $363,696,999.
II -advises against any more reduction of
tax*.
The War Department ooet $35,373,157, or
$437,834 baa than last year.
The downfall of the navy I* alluded to,
mTui admUsion nudo that unless
early steps are token to preserve tho navy. In
a few years the United Stoles will be the
weakest on the ocean.
The Post Office Department cost $26,653,-
1*5, and received $31,915,426. The railroad
mail lines are 57,911 miles, of which 8,077
were put fa operation last year. Our foreign
letters numbered 34J52£00, or 4,077,50-2
man than bat year.
• The abolition of franking is urged. The
ecqntoitioq ef all the telegraph lines by the
our Washington letter
Letter No. 1, From Oar Regular
Correspondent.
All Sorts ol Interesting Washing
ton and Congressional News
—Jobs and Jokes. Facts
and Fancies.
Washington, December 1,1872.
Congress meet* to-morrow. Though the
salon will be a short one, It promises to be
full of Interest Judging from the temper
of Congreeamen already arrived here, a de
termined effort will be made to retain tbe
patronage which civil service reform threat
ens to wrest from the politicians. A Senator
or Representative shorn of the patronage
hitherto held by them would be in a sorry
plight indeed, and it to not to be wondered
at, that they should fight against “reform” in
Ibis direction. The President, on the other
hand, is said to be equally determined to en
force the present civil service roles and Con-
rreat wlU hardly go ao far as to repeal them.
It promises to bo a very pretty quarrel, and
one in which the politicians need expect
little sympathy. If it results in a judicious
modification of-the existing rules the peo
ple will be content.
TUB ANNUAL MESSAGE
oi the President will be completed to-morrow
in time for transmission to the Senate and
House of Representatives upon the official
announcement of their organization. Nearly
all that hat been written concerning tbe con
tents of the message to pore speculation, but
the Impression that it will contain nothing of
a startling nature will be found correct.
TUB RETORT or TUB SECRETARY Or THE
TREASURY
will be delivered about the same time as tbe
message, and will not be io readiness before
toe message to sent to Congress. Secretary
Boutwell has tbe well-deserved reputation of
being the most reticent member of tbe Cabi
net, and it to absolutely certain that he has
not intimated to any one, high or low, wbat
bis views or recommendations on financial
matters are
THE TOSTMABTER-GENEUAL’S REPORT
was in my possession last night, in tbe usual
namphlel form. Its more imp irtont features
have, however, been known for some time
| met He strongly urges tbe purchase by the
Government of the existing telegraph lines,
and tbe establishment of a postal telegraph
system similar to that of Great Britain. Dar
ing the past year he has thoroughly investi
gated the subject and presents a solid array
of fact in its form. He reiterates the recom
mendations of prtceeding reports for the im
mediate and unconditional repeal of the
franking privilege, and advocate* a large in
crease in tbe salaries of the heads of bureaus
in his department.
THE RETORTS
of the other Secretaries and heads of bureaus
are mainly of a routine character, and do not
call for special mention.
THE TRENCH SPOLIATION* CLAIMS.
Among the bilb that will be prepared dar
ing the coming session of Congress, and
urged for speedy attention, will be the one
now pending for the relief of oar citizens who
•offered from French spoliations on their com
merce between the 1st of Jan.. 1702, and July
31,1801. This bill has been set for Wednes
day week. These spoliation claims have
been agitated for more than-"fifty years.
Senator Sumner advocated provisions for
their payment on several occasions last ses
sion. Forty-one committees of Congress
have reported favorably on. these claims.
Five times has a bill passed the Senate.
Twice baa Congress voted $5,000,000 to settle
them, and the bills b&ve been vetoed. The
Legislatures of fourteen States have sent
their requests for the passage of a bill, such
as is now pending,and the subject to still ac
tively agitated.
THE “MELtSH.”
A vigorous effort to to be made daring the
session of Congress, which commences to
morrow, to provide for properly arming and
nipping the militia of the different Slates.
_ jere Is said to be a atrong feeling extant Ih
official, circles in favor of preparing for war
in time of peace, and thto to one item in the
programme. As it to altogether probable we
•hall have a foreign war before Grant’s second
term expires, it to perhaps as well to get in
readiness.
nrvEsnoATiajm.
An organ of the Administration having
entered a disclaimer against investigations in
Congress this winter, the newspapers general
ly are discussing the question. The New
York Evening Post says that the greatest
danger that confronts the Republican party
to that its representative men will mistake a
negative triumph forapositiveone.accepting
a deed in trust for a fee simple. The Boston
Journal thinks there “will probably be the
usual number of investigation committees, in
cluding one of special interest, to verify ru
mors, well known, resecting Credit Mobil-
icr;" and the Springfield Republican, in dis
cussing thto same subject, says that it to plain-
- the duty of Congress to expel Mr. Oakes
_nes, of Massachusetts; and that in his case
no investigation to needed. In any event it
predicts boisterous weather ahead.
THE LORBT
presents a paragraph, and I find one to my
purpose in the Sunday Herald. It says:
“From letters and dispatches to various
tapers we learn that the lobby to exceedingly
tongry and will be very active this winter.
In this connection various mail subsidies and
canal schemes are mentioned. Ip fact every
man who has a bill before Congress is a
lobby ile himself; and tbe seedy adventurers
who “scoop in” a five dollar bill now and
then by professing to have influence with
this or that Congressman, really having no
influence anywhere or with any one, merit a
■re term than that of lobbyist. Doubtless
there are those, men and women, who may
be called lolfbytots; bat it appears to us that
tbe Third House exists in a great measure
only in tbe imagination of romancing cor
respondents.”
THE PARIES EXPEDITION’.
The falling off in the carrying trade to
Mated and five millions expenditure a year
advised to remedy it.
The necessity and salutory effect of the
election laws are briefly
Belief fas the existence of the Kc-Klax to
declared and continued war on it announced.
Tbe success at the administrat ion's Indian
policy to claimed. The plan teem* to be to
convert the territory South of Kansas into
an Indian *»«in and send all the Indians
Of the public lands 41,864,475 acres were
disposed of last year. The cash receipts
were $5318,196- There axe 22,016,603 sur
veyed and 583,984,790 unsurveyed acres of
public land.
There were 13,613 patents issued, paying
$900,904 ties. Since 1836 209,000 applica
tions fur patents were filed and 130,000 pat-
Or pensions $3),169,840 or $3,703,434 in
crease were paid. Of 2,688^24 soldiers cu
lt-led in the war of the rebellion 176,000 or
A per cent were pent toned. The whole num
ber of all soda of pensions granted last year
was 338,038.
A census in 1S7S to recommended.
Letter from Eon- Benj. H. HIE
From tbe Columbus Eaaulrex.1
The following letter was written by Mr.
Hill in reply to s communication which Jedge
Bigger*, of Harris county, published in our
paper over his own signature Mr. -Hill’s
letter to a private one to Judge Biggers, and
was exhibited by tbe Utter to us. iVe sug
gested to him to ask Mr. Hill's consent to us
publication. This was granted, and the
mission was communicated to us a wee
two ago, but we have delayed its publication
in the conviction that it wourd receive more
attention after the excitement of the Presi
dential election had subsided than while that
event was engrossing the attention of the
public:
Atlanta, G a., September 9,1872.
My Dear Sir: Allow me to thank xou for
your very kind letter in reference to myself
which I have read in the Columbus En
quirer.
1 have read and heard much of the caprice
of popular opinion, and of the facility with
which, for the smallest reasons, and. Indeed,
without reason, public men often become the
aunject of unjust vituperation. During the
last two years 1 have had an experience which
has brought home to me, in the most striking
manner, both tbe facts and the philosophy cm
which these truths are founded. We are lia
ble to err. And yet we are far more liable
to have errors ascribed to us which we do not
commit.
Two years ago I came to the conclusion
that “wbat was done, was done,” and tbe
business of apatriotwastosee toit,asfar as
be could prevent it.no more evils of tbe same
sort should be done: To prevent the multi
plication and aggravation of these evils, the
great, the only remedy, in mv opinion, was
to get rid of the rule of Radicalism in the
State and in the nation. To thto work with
earnest zeal and all my humble abilities I ad
dressed myself. I made one mistake—the
mistake of my life in one sense; and yet I
would again deliberately commit tbe same
mistake to accomplish tbe same ends. Tbe
mistake was this: With my record of 1867-8
before them, I did not suppose there were any
thinking men in Georgia who would believe,
or could be made to believe, that I could pos
sibly become a Radical. However many
might not for the time understand me; how
ever thoughtless or designing men for a pur-
nee might abuse me, 1 was confident in tbe
aith that good and wise would close their
can to calumny, and wait for the end to
judge the motive, (floods will hide the sun,
but sensible men will not therefore say the
son has gone out; and comparing small
things to great, it would be as natural for the
sun to change into an orb of blackness as lor
me to become a Radical.
Bat no sooner bad I entered on the work
before me, than the slander thills greased up
and began to grind. Enemies chuckled; fools
judged; wicked men calumniated; good men
got Sony; and even some friends became
afraid I And, to give edge and face to all
these, some Radicals, with keen relish to help
the defamation even to a final crushing, be-
;an to pram me. Not content with assault-
rig my political opinions and motives, they
most infamously libelled my personal charac
ter ; have charged me with acts inconsistent
with all the record of my life, and abhorrent
to every impulse of my nature. They have
attempted the impossible thing of invading,
by tbeir foul falsehoods, the confidence of my
family. Acts of kindness have been con
strued into motives of baseness, and even
black-mailing letters have sought to levy
contribution.
These things have not caused me to abate
one jot or tittle of my humble efforts to ac
complish the end in view. On the contrary,
I believe now that the most manly feeliug
ever vouchsafed to one In this life, to the
consciousness that he to unable to persist in
doing what he knows and believes is right,
in spite of all the arrows of hate, mauce,
envy, falsehood and folly. Tbe inward con
sciousness of right to the Arcbimidean lever
of the moral forces, and will lift a man who
firmly leans on it above all tbe fogs of life.
If anything could make me really vain (and
perhaps 1 am vain J it would be tbe very clear
and distinct light in which I have been en-
nabled to see how they have failed who have
been abusing me.
I have never doubted that time would be
my friend. 1 have never doubled that evenU
would be my advocate.
If I need any compensation, other than in
my own feeling of honest purpose, I would
amply find it In, the assurances of_ renewed
confidence which I am daily receiving. Very
many are sending me private letter^ like that
; rou have given to the public. Many contain
l rank and manly apologies for having ever
doubled me, and some assure me of greatly
increased esteem. “These are my Jewels’’
While the assaults of enemies can never tom
me one inch from what I see I ought to do,
and while I have equal, and perhaps too much,
contempt for the praise or blame of bad men,
I yet freely confess that words of kindness
and confidence from good men, and espe
cially from those who have known me as yon
have, fall upon my spirit like the sounds of
running water on the ears of a famished
traveler in the desert.
I believe nobody to abusing me now bnt a
few dirty scalawags, whom no decent man
will believe, and whose lowest abuse is the
highest praise.
Our condition is improving. We are rid
of Radicalism as the ruling power in Geor
gia. I cannot believe our people will ever
allow this monster to get power here again.
Order Isgreater, property is safer, and life is
freer already I 1 trust we are approaching a
deliverance from Radicalism as a ruling pow
er in the nation. I have faith and hope in
Mr. Greeley’s election. Then our deliverance
is complete and forever. But even if ho be
defeated, we shall, by bis candidacy, eeeure a
rxneer in Congreee which will break the arm - - - . , , .. .
of the oppressor and stay the rapid strides of The crowd was avmied one. As the time
desDotism. wore away it increased in proportions until
I hope a kind Providence will spare me to « 8 o’clock there could not have been lets
see that glorious day when we can all say than 1-560 I >eo P} e ***?. sS ^S? t between the
Radicalism is banished, and banished forever, Nuse House and the halL There were peo-
f romtbe ruling places-the State and the pie of all classes. Bankers trnd brokers were
Nation-and we shall again have freedom jostled by hoodlums and street gamins, and
for ourselves aud hope Io- our children. 1 even respectable old gentlemen, whom one
shall not on that day chum that I did more rarely sees away from the shadow of the pul-
th n others in bringing about this noble end; P ll » stopped ana waited for the sensation to
but I shall yield to none in zeal in this work come, if it came at alL
or desire for its success. And I am sure that, tote police arrangements.
f £ Chief Crowley, anticipating that their ser-
that bnght regeneraled day, therewUl not be vicejJ migtlt ^ needed, had twenty policemen
A NOLLE EXPLOIT.
An old fanner came in town yesterday,
driving his two sons, whe are about ten hands
high, with white spots on their foreheads,
where their hats wear the dirt off; and hitched
to a light wagon with frost-bitten pumpkins,
decayed potatoes, stovewood and other lux
uries peculiar to thto country. Both boys
bad been carefully groomed, and came gal
lantly prancing into town, when just as they
were opposite the dry goods store of W. H.
Andrews, on Spring street, several handsome
young ladies came out of the store, and ffm.,
who was on tbe “nigh” side, became fright
ened and began kicking, which so alarmed
his companion that he, too, snorted, and
soring tbe bits in their teeth, the team
started towards the post office, the wagon
striking against the telegraph poles, awn
ing posts and other obstructions, throwing the
driver out and causing stove-wood aadveg-
etables to rain upon the heads of the peo
ple on the sidewalks, in great profusion.
A policeman tried to stop them at the cor
ner of Washington street, but his noise and
gestures only frightened the team the
more, and they turned north up Washing
ton street, leaving the wagon box and hind
wbeeto behind. School was just out for
noon, and the path of the runnaways was
filled with children, and it seemed as if
several lives must be lost; but at this junc
ture a noble and daring lively horse, who
was out with his throat m a sling, taking a
walk for bis health, saw and seemingly com
prehended the situation, and though histhroat
waa so sore that be could hardly “whinner,”
and his ankles so lame it was with difficulty
he walked, he managed to throw himself in
front of the running men, and seised them
by their coat tails with his mouth and suc
ceeded in checking their care J, but not until-
the noble animal had been dragged several
rods. The father of the runaways came up
and took charge of his offspring, and offered
to treat the horse who had stopped them to a
bran mash or a brandy smash, but the horse
merely shook his head and disappeared down
an alley leading to his barn.
MIRACULOUB ESCAPE OF A CHILD.
Yesterday a child of John Hacgudgeon,
the gentlemanly pig butcher and importer of
satuage meat, who lives on Canine avenue,
was riding down Market street in a baby car
nage, drawn by a dark bay servant, when a
couple of poorly fed, gaunt looking chaps
hitched to a grocer’s delivery wagon, tamed
a comer suddenly, and threw.a kiss at. the
dark bay, causing her to shy and upset the
baby cart, throwing the occupant to the
ground right in front of the grocer’s team.
A lady who saw the occurrence gave a shriek
so lotid and shrill that it saved the life of the
child, for the two hired men hitched to the
delivery wagon heard it, and thinking it was
the noon whistle of the Titusville Manufac
turing Company, by a strong effort checked
their speed within two feet of the infant, and
around went todinner. Tbe prompt-
which these men Cease work and go
to meals, in this case avails something.
ONLY ONE MORE.
Yesterday afternoon a gentleman who lives
upon the Pk-assntvUle road, hitched up his
old grandfather, just as he bad twenty times
since tbe horse disease visited this section,
and drove into town to do a little marketing
The old man was foundered about a year ago,
by eating a warm meal on washing dady, and
it waa nearly four o’clock before they
reached town, when the driver, Mr. Fergu
son, drove up in front of a grocery store,
and, after hitching his grandfather to the
awning post, went into a saloon to see if
there had been any decline in beer since the
Boston fire. For some minutes the horse—
we mean the grandfather—stood quietly,
but becoming restless, (he had not been
blanketed), allowed hti eyes to wander
around until he saw in front of him a basket
of pears, in which as a placard, inscribed
“one for a quarter—or $18 by the peek.”
The price fo startled the venerable old man,
who wasn’t used to city customs, that, with a
wild snort of fear, he broke his halter strap,
kicked himself loose from the vehicle, and
galloped towards Pleasantville, running over
wo livery horses near the site of the Abbott
House, badly Injuring them and breaking his
own leg so badly that when his grandson ar
rived upon the spot a minute later, he shot
the old man to put him out of his misery,
and save wintering him on baled hay.
SILLY SANJFRANCISCO-
the Slob and tbe Murderess —
Scenes on t! e Nighc of Laura
Fair’s Proposed Lecture.
Stale Eggs Seen.
San Francisco Chronic' e, November 2S.J *
Mrs. Laura D. Fair's lecture did not come
off last night as advertised. As is well known,
the lessees et Pratt’s Hall had previously re
fused to upen its doors to the lecturess, but
as Mrs. Fair gave out that she would posi
tively appear aud demand admittance, expec
tation waa on tiptoe in anticipation of ex
citement. Accordingly, as early as half-past
six, the crowd began to collect about the en
trance to the hall, and various were the ru
mors put in circulation. “Will she come at
all?" “Will she kick up a scene if she does
come?” “Will she lecture if she gets into
tbe hall?” were questions heard on every
side.
THE EXCITEREN'T IH THE STREET.
As time passed the eager curiosity of the
throng evinced itself in many ways. The
people walked up and down, smoked, pa
tronized the saloons, discussed the matter,
but all the while watched closely every cor
ner for the carriage which it was supposed
would contain the lecturess and her friends.
The reporter walked off quite satisfied that
Mrs. Fair had escaped a disagreeable incident
by having the hall doors closed against her.
But while the crowd to waiting let us sec
what took place at the home of the lecturess,
on Kearny street.
ADONIS.
At a quarter to 7 o’clock last evenisg s
flaxen-haired youth of about thirty-two :um-
mera entered the door of No. 410 Ke.rny
street and bounded up the staircase line a
young gazelle. The spirit of genius shone
from his eyes, and his classic features jrere
ablaze With -poetic enthusiasm. He looked
like a wild young thing of nature. Hia hair
was arranged like Theodore Tilton’s and the
same quiet smile of satisfaction that so $?ten
lights up the face of the distinguished anti;
mentalist was observed dancing in fan£aue
dee around his -delicately 'chiseled mouth.
le had on apair-of tight-fitting kids'and
a poetic coat. He wore a hat of themed
which graces the heads of the gentle bandit
of the Alps, and a necktie which, in,'hue,
would rival the raven’s plume. ,, i
The young man stopped at the door of
room No. 6 and gave a soft musical tapbpon
the door.
VENUS.
The door was opened and a tall lad j with
S Iden hair extended her hand. “ Cqjte in,
r. Adonis,” she said. The lady was i
in a rich black silk, and had a roll of Manu
script in her hand, title had her baft and
shawl on, and was all prepared for the f .tract
There were several friends in her roomneady
to accompany her, and all that Venus seined
to be waiting for was her Adonis. j
Meanwhile, “Barney,” the liackma* who
had attended Mrs. Fair in her trial. d<vve up
with his white horses and stood waityig for
the party.
ANOTHER HOOTING! CROWD.
These horses were instantly
in less than five minutes a crowd ofl
hundred gathered about waiting f|
Fair to appear. The street was alnfost im
passable, and the greatest excitemen'-exd in-
dignation were manifest on all si \es It
seemed like the greatest temerity of % e wo
man to venture forth in that angry muti'fi d
and several persons who had no wfahfefwve he abandoned the effort to visit rhe office reg-
among earth’s inhabitants a happier man than
your grateful friend, Bksj U. Hill.
J. J. W. Biggers, Esq., Mulberry Grove, Ga.
EPIZOOTIC ANTICS.
A Chapter of Accidents—Tbe Result
of Calng Untamed Steeds.
Tbe following la a list of the officers at
tached to the Nicaragua Surveying Expedi-
Commodore Edward P. Loll, U. S. N.
OQBMBiadiBg,
Lieutenant Commander G. (1 Schulze, U.
S.N.
Lieutenant W. W. Rhodes, U. 8.N.
Lieutenant E. H. C. Leutze, U. S. N.
Lieutenant Jacob W. Miller, U. 3. N.
Lieutenant Jefferson F. Moser, U. S. N.
Master John M. Hawley, U. S. N.
Ensign Kossuth Nile*, V ti -N.
Ensign James H. Bull. U. S. N.
First Assistant Engineer, Geo, 3L Greene,
U.8.N.
Assistant Surgeon John F. Brantford, U.
as.
CIVIL OFFICERS.
Mr. A. G. Menocai, Civil Ewrinner.
Mr. L Foster Crowell, Civil Engineer.
Mr A. Pohlera. Draughtsman.
Mr. AL. McCrea, JrTcierk to Command
ing Officer.
Mr. W. V. W. Reily, Aid.
These officers will sail to-morrow, Decem
ber 2d. in the United Stats steamer Kansas
from Hampton Roads, Virginia, to San Juan
del Norte, Niearauga, where they will he
joined by Ensigns John D. Keeler, E. 31.
Hughes and Francis Winslow, United Slates
navy, who, with a steam launch and three
have been employed during the past
ier in running lines of sol-. lings *
Lake Nicaragua.
The following to a programme ef the work
to be done, viz: First, to complete the work
ao ably began last year by Commander Hat
field and party, of finding the beat route from
Lake Nicaragua to the Pacific, for which
purpose three parties will be put into the
field. After thto to accomplished, the atten
tion of the explorers will be turned to the
valley of the tiiut Juan river, which connects
Lake Nicaragua with the Cambean Sea. An
examination will be made of the river, and
timate* -and plans for improving
navigation, and on eligible route win
be sought for locating a canal as a more
feasible and leas expensive method of con
necting the lake with the sea, debouching
either at San Joan del Norte, (Gitytown) or
at Pirn’s Harbor, near Monkey Point, about
forty miles north of Ban Joan.
Nearly all of the naval officers have served
in previous expedition!, and, in consequence,
are not only experienced surveyors, but are
well issued to the climate.
We have thought all along since the horse ngrties. ^ P he looked up with immediate ra»gnition, nary business capacity, abo had become tbe DQ2zle( j tJm ECientific men of the world. At of playing at once the distinct parts on each
epidemic began to rage, that there would be The crowd waited impatiently fortheap- lifting his hand, grasped Mr. Reids, tmd proprietress of the socalled Volksbank QUT re quest he called in our office yesterday of the strings. It«equires musclesas strong
trouble from hitching *up oxen, men, boys, pearance of Mrs. Fair, but she came not. She feebly said dtotinctiy: You When asked (Peoples Bank;) that Adele Spitzcder (that an( ] ^ye ns his history, from which we glean as iron, and elastic as India rubber. Paga-
u lSd goats, who had never teSi property gSlSd acSdeSporterinXafternoon if he was in pain, he lMd his hMd upon ha fa ter name) had become a house- ^ a f ^ owing; J nini had sufficient elasticity, but not enough
'trained to thto kind of work, and now we are that she intended coming in a carriage guard- breast, but without otherwise replying, and hold word among the poor of her city, ji c was bom in Brazil, South America, on strength. Ole Ball is the only man in the
called upon to notice a aeries of runaway ed by a policeman, and would beaccompa- Rtumedto his semi-tmconsciom state, lying that she had established for the benefit of ae4th o£ M arc h, 1820. His father was an world who ever did it When the Parisians
accidents hat occurred yesterday, by which nied by a few friends whom she wanted as now with closed eyes and hands, sometimes the latter a dozen cheap soup-houses in va- Ethiopian and his-mother a Spanish woman, first heard tarn produce this wonderful effect,
much property waa destroyed, and lives en- witnesses to her demand for the opening of twitching nervously, but generally stilLAt rious parts of the place; and, finally even -\ynen four yearn old he was taken to Lon- of four violins with only one, it seemed ao
dangered. We hope it will never be oar 'the doors. hilf putsixhe stirred nnesstijr and began started* popular daily paper,^ entitled the do a , England, by hia.imother.jmd wasthera incredible that theycouldnot at first believe
duty to chronicle such a horrible chapter of
destruction.
THE FIRST OUTBREAK
occurred at the head of Franklin street yes
terday morning, about eight o’clock. It
seems that Mr. Pumpjerker, one of the nu
merous milk dealers who supply certain of
our Citizens with* coloring material for their
coffee and tea, was coming from his dairy
with his hand-carts filled with milk cans, and
(owing to the cpihippic) drawn by two sorrei-
nesded hired men, one a young spirited fel
low who had not been worked In harness bat
three days, and the other an older beast with
tamed from Brook street on to Franklin,
detailed to keep order in the Blreet. They
were stationed by the front entrance, and also
at the ride entrance on Bosh street, at the sa
loon of Siefried & Lohse, who had been in
formed early in the evening that a scene
would likely be kicked up by the fair Laura
and her friends. Chief Crowley was present
disturbance, sent word to Mrs. Fair not to
think of coming out tihe was wise'enough
to take thto advice, and then it was that the
embassador was dispatched to Chief Crowley.
At thto juncture Mrs. Lane and her daughter
returned from their ramble in tile street, and
after some difficulty squeezed through the
crowd and went up the staircase. They
knocked at the door, which was opened bv
the faithful Adonto. Mrs. Fair saw who it
WSS and called out, “Come in, old tody; yon
see they haven’t killed me yet F’ ;
ADONIS BENT OH A MISSION OF’PEACE
After a time the messenger seni to Chief
Crowley returned, and then a lonjj consulta
tion was held in the room, which, of course,
the reporter could not hear, being excluded
from its sacred portals. Adonis iastily ap-
icared, and,.crushing his Fra Diavolo hat on
tis Tillonian head, vanished down the stairs
—the reporters after him like bit.is of prey.
As he squeezed through the crowd he was
recognized, and instantly a storm of hoots
and yells went up, but Adonis w.ts en a mis-
sion'of love, and naught could stop him then
blit the cold, stem hand of dfcath itself.
Around the corner he sped lika tbe spirit
of Byron, and popped into the first saloon
for inspiration. Presently he came out and
sailed for Platt’s Hal], where ho saw
Messrs. Siegfried & Lohse, and told them
that Mrs. Feat demanded admission to the
hail They replied that on no account
would the hall be opened. IJ-. then said
that Mrs. Fair would hold thel/responsible
for damages, and asked them to inform the
crowd that she was going to Oakland, and
the lecture would be postponed./
THE CROWD DISPERSE
Mr. Siegfried made no pubili announce
ment as requested by Adonis, buiit soon got
out that the farce was over, and the crowd
once m her life kfrs^Fair* acted with some
discretion. Had she ventured oui in as defiant
a manner as she said she wouU, it is impos
sible to say what might have been the result.
The temper or the multitude at rife for any
thing. Hints of ail manner of vengeance were
boldly given out—even lynching was talked
of. The police were undoubtedly strong
enough to prevent anything at this kind; but
it is morally certain that they could not have
prevented the enactment oft ct comedy in
which corrupt'eggs, decayed v?^t.able*- *aad
defunct cats would have formed no inconsid
erable proportion of the properties.
STARTLING THREATS—GUARDING THE HALL
FROM INJURY.
All day yesterday the hall was strongly
barricaded from the inside, and net a soul al
lowed to enter. One reason of this was the
following anonymous letter received by Mr.
Platt,the owner:
Sah Fb» rcisco Nov 19th 72
Jfr Plat, Sm, as a friend of Humanity I
beg of you not to Let Laura D. Fair Have
your Hail for if you do it will be a sorryful
night to you and may be to others—and it be
the Last Lecture ever given in it.
I am a good woman and don’t like to see
blood shed on a cause of a wicked murdering
prostitute. I know a party who will use
giant powder or phosforus. I overheard
this plot A Friend to Truth.
Be careful They will bum the hall or
blow up the Btage.
This letter and other threats which came
to tbe ears of the owners made them very
watchful of tho building. But as there was
no intention of opening the hall for Mrs.
Fair, the danger was not considered immi-
nent _
n-TTFl cJXjET,
The SadStoryof His Illness
ms 1 curt Day on Earth.
New York, November 80.—The accounts
published of Jfr. Greeley’s last moments
represent him to have been conscious during
the day. As usual, in cases of inflammation
of the brain, his physical suffering was ex
tremely light, but the increased and morbid
action of the mind was evident from exterior
manifestations. At half-past five an old
family friend, known as Auntie Lawson,
entered and approached his bed. jfr.
Greeley, then roused by a friend ask
ing “ Do you know who tfiis ta?” he feebly
said “ Yes,” stretched up his hand in greet
ing, then relapsed into his reverie. Later
he was asked, “Do you know that you are
dvingP’ and in the same manner, without
. 1 b - - ton ananrar*H> t ‘Y«i”
alariy, and sent for the" faoflly physician at
Mr. A J. Johnson, tho friend with whom he
was a guest, and in whose house his wife had
died. Every effort was made to induce sleep,
but he grew steadily worse, until it became
evident that his case tvos critical Dr.
George C.- 8. Choate and others were
called In consultation, and finally it
was decided to take him to Dr. Choate's
residence, two er three miles distant from
Mr. Greeley’s own country heme at Chap-
paqua. Here he received the unintermitting
attention of Dr. Choate, andhereDr.Brown-
Sequard, Dr. Brown, and others were called
in consultation. The insomnia had developed
into inflammation of the brain, and under
this the venerated patient rapidly sank. At
times he was delirious; at other- times as
clear-headed as ever. He lost flesh and
strength with startling rapidity; andinafew
days tbe possibility of his speedy death forced
itself into unwilling recognition. It was not,
however, until Thursday last that his associ- who had dealings with her, suspected that she
ates and family brought themselves to admit jvas a mere! ess usurer. Already at that time
dature, “I don’t care for politics and would
not go on the cars to 'Washington to get the
commission as President. What I do feel is
the loss of my wife, who has been my com
panion nearly forty years. I have watched
by her bedside night and day. Now I am
completely worn out, prostrated from anxiety
and want of sleep.
HI3 POLITICAL VIEWS.
On November 15, Mr. Greeley was at his
home in Chappaqua, and a prominent Liberal
Republican from Connecticut! visited him,
and found him in very broken health. Con
venation waa had as to the campaign. Mr.
Greeley manifested much unconcern on the
subject, and to tins inquiry whether tinder
the circumstances it would be better for tbe
Libera’ Republican Committees to take ste;
at once toward the maintenance and consol
datum of their organization or remain quiet
and await the turn of events, he very
promptly replied; “Better keep quiet,” but
beyond thto there was nothing to indicate
'hat he felt any interest, in enneat events.
FROM THE TRIBOHK.
8a far a* any of his associates knew, Mr.
Greeley was in almost as good healtii *s
usual when, on the day after the election, he
wrote the card announcing his resumption of
the editorial charge of the Tribune. His
rieeplessness was known to have become
greatly worse, but for years he had suf
fered more or less from the same difficulty;
and, as to now clear, sufficient allowance had
not been made for the intense strain upon
him throughout tbe summer, and especially
during the last month of his wife’s illness,
but it soon became evident that his strength
was unequal to the bard task to wl4^i he
set himself. He wrote only, three or”four
careful articles, nfi one of them half a col
umn in length.ir.iThe most notable, per
haps, waa that''' entitled “Conclusions,”
wherejn he summed his views of the canvass.
In all, he wrntc less than three and a half
columns after his return, contributing to only
four issues of the paper. Two or three times
he Lauded his assistant short articles, saying,
“ There is an idea worth using, but I haven’t
felt able to work,B out properly. You had
better put it in shape." At last, on Tuesday,
had repeatedly beaten and abused her when
under the influence of liquor. So site wrote
him a note in which she told him she could
no longer live with a man that could treat
her so brutally, and with her four trunks left
Paris for Strausburg.
It had always been her desire to visit Ger
many, her native country, and so she went
in tbe first place to Baden-Baden, which has
always been a rich field for the confidence
women and adventuresses of all countri s.
Alighting at the Hotel dc Hollande, she was
uot long In foiming such acquaintances as
she was in que, t of. A Russian nobleman of
considerable wealth was her first admirer,
,nd with him she visited various German
watering places in the course of the next
few months, always taking care to add to
her funds from' the always open purse of her
Ai Ems, in June, 18<IC. tie two parted; An-
come for her to carry into execution a p-u-
liar scheme which she had conceived for
making a fortune, and which, thus far, has
proved successful ‘beyond expectation. It
was,to lend her money in small Bums at fash
ionable watering places to aristocratic men
who ifud lost at the gaming table, at exorbi
tant rates of Interest, for a few weeks, on un
doubted security, coupled with the written
narolenf the borrower. She ti ed this gams
first at Hamburg, where she assumed the airs
of an eo.-eatric American woman, and sat ail
day long at the rouge-et Loir tables, rising tri
fling sums, but keenly waichinfbthose play,
era whof were unlucky, and whose aristo
cratic appearance denoted that they were in
good circumstances. AYlien they left the
table with empty pockets she would follow
them and ofler them assistance. As a gen
eral thing it’was only too gladly accepted,
and the borrower, after .giving Annio an 1.
O. U. and his watch, would. reium to the
gaming table, without caring about it that he
had given the fair lender not only his written
had also promised to return to her in two
weeks doable the Bum he had received from
her.
For three weeks the female usurer carried
on this business with eminent success at
Hamburg. About one-half of the borrowers
redeemed tbeir tO.-TJ.’s, etc., but the pledges
of the others were of sufficient value to in
demnify her, and she, moreover, employed a
pettifogger to collect the money. Many of
the poor devils sacrificed tbeir watches and
rings, aud, moreover, paid the full claim,
rather than have it known that they had vio
lated their paroles.
Suddenly an officer of the Hamburg ponce
called upon Mme. 8pitzeder, as she now call
ed herself, at the Hotel of the Four Seasons,
where she was stopping. He asked her busi
ness, and told her that what she was doing
was illegal tihe avoided arrest by bribing
the officer, and hurriedly loft Hamburg.
For the next three years she visited every
fashionable watering place in Germany and
Belgium, pursolngherbusiness with extraor
dinary success. During the Exhibition of
1867 she was In Porto, where she attracted
much attention by the expensive style in
which she lived. Few persons, except those
it, and even then they still clung to his filth in
the vigor of his constitution. AYcduetdaynight
he failed rapidly. Thursday afternoon and’
evening he seemed somewhat easier. Duripg
the night he slept very uneasily, muttering
occasionally and frequently raising his right
hand. Toward morning he wo* more quiet,
and between eight and nine o’clock he fell
into a nearly unconscious condition, jwhiRi
continued with some intervals through the
day. He made occasional exclamations,- but
many, of them, in Consequence of his ex
treme weakness and apparent inability to
finish what he began, were unintelligible.
About noon, however, he said quite distinctly
and with some force, “X know that my Re
deemer ltyetb.” During the day he recog
nized various people, his daughter many
times, the members of his household at
Chappaqua, Sir. John R. Stuart, and
Mr. Ileid. On the whole, he suffered
little, and seemed to have no more than the
ordinary restlessness which accompanies the
last stage of disease. During the day his ex
tremities were cold, and there was no pulse
at the wrist The actlen ot the heart was
very intermittent, and was constantly dimin
ishing in force. He had uot asked for water
she had accumulated a fortune of thirty or
forty thousand francs.
In 1879, Annie Spitzcder received news that
relative of hers, living at the small town of
Stadlingen, in Bavaria, had left her a few
thousand florins, tihe went in prison to col
lect the money and on that occasion found
out that some of her relations were living at
Munich. She visited them, and was so de
lighted with the attractions of that beautiful
city that she resolved to Bcttic in that place.
She provided at first with some ostentation
for her relatives, who were in needy circum
stances, and then opened a loan office in a
fashionable house at No. 88 JDachaver-st. She
had plenty of customers and made money
rapidly. Finally she conceived the idea that
she might advertise for deposits, and estab
lish a regular bank, tihe offered depositors
enormous advantages—for large sums of
money a* much as ten per cent, a month—
and after advertising this in nearly all the
Bavarian journals, luge sums of money, es
pecially from the rural districts, began-to
pour into her coffers. Tho attention of the
authorities was called to her doings,but after
some difficulty, she managed to quiet them.
The newspapers attacked her violently,
threatened to prosecute them, and the
it frequently. Up to within half an hoar of
the end he manifested in various ways his
but she threatened _
people of Munich being on her side, bccsui e
she paid them so enormous an interest, most
- -j- - . of her assailants were, reduced to silence:
consciousness of what was going on around a nJ, besides, she threatened them with libel
him, and even answered in monosyllables, su itg, ghe, moreover, established a cncap Belknap has not i i j l ss»n> of_rha tv'.' .
and intelligibly, questions addressed to him. daily paper to defend her, and it Is said to occurrences of the neighborhood, and, al-
About half-past three he said very distinctly; have reached a* circulation of upward of fif- though he has spout frur yeara dutifully and
It to doneand, beyond tho briefest an- teen thousand copies. It is written, set up quietly here, he has lost his estimable wife,
swers to questions, this was his last utter- and printed exclusively by women. The and his eldest son to seized with a disorder of
oumals of the remaining German States, the lungs, and has had to go to Santa Fe for
towever, denounced Mme. Spiizeder in un- recuperation,
measured terms, as a fraud, and predict that
ANNIE SPiTZEDER.
FROM A SALOON CIRL TO A BANK
PRESIDENT.
Tbe Most Successful Adventuress
of the Age—The Story of
the Female Usurer
of Munich.
and that large numbers of poor people will
be utterly ruined thereby. .
The female usurer herself still affects to be From the Uoion and Recorder/!
utterly unconcerned about it. She says she
feels perfectly safe, because she can afford to
>ay enormous Interest to her depositors, and
tecause the people are on her side. She
spends her money lavishly, and recently es
tablished twelve soap houses, where the poor
of Munich may obtain nourishing food at
merely nominal prices.
that time noth! „
until the other day it became known that the
former New York concert saloon girl was th4t the flesh feels as hard as wood. Ole Bull plays the four distinct parts on
iremur or ciuouou, living in affluence at Munich, in Germans; jt r Thomas is certainly a wonderful sped- the violin at once. No person who has not
way S3 to preserve the peace and protect all Again when ssked if he recognized Mr. Heid, that, strange to say, through herextraordi- men ‘ 0 f physical construction, and he has tried it can conceive of the extreme difficulty
A DEMAND FOB PROTECTION.
(Uxalllati ucx, buuiu ub*c gtuuuu uu usac ou
wind gafts'on Ins head, and blind in the-off jS^hed^^ntl? jSt*as wdl be^nmde
eye. Mr. Pompjerker was^ushmg behind, thresh *n agent The Chief, moreover,
teSg°toiu5^rith f s'STtofctog i‘ ntigtl I-** ^ » seriouf bnm£h of the peace. he woald o{ten doze ta the caTand catch
ta£* rfSSbted and started off down mbs. lank on the scene. “ "
not street, bnt the now thoroughly maddened
soon kicked themselves loose from the
■wreck, and with the togs flapping about the
halves of their legs fled out on the Pleasant-
ville road, where they were stopped by a sa
loon keeper who hell a couple ef cocktails
before them. Mr. Pumpjerker’e lots was
about six dollars, mostly for tin-ware and
wasted chalk.
another accident.
A Swede man who was attached to a red
wheeel-barrow, while trotting down Spring
street yesterday forenoon, became frightened
at the feet of a young man who was haring
hi* boots blacked in front of the American
Hotel and before tbe bystanders could stop
him ran away at break-neck speed towards
Monroe street. A man in front of the Par-
shall House y died, and threw a dub at the
frightened man, but it struck the latter in a
different spot from that which the thrower
intended to hit, and only seed crated the run
away’s progress, and he broke into such a
gait that he bioke a gate near Spring and
Pony streets, and left the wheel-barrow a
wreck on the top of E. T. Hall’s sewing ma
chine rooms. At last accounts the fright
ened Swede had not been captured, and it ia
thought that he has returned to his native
land.
to mutter indistinctly something which People’s (Jazette, which is advocating ex- eiamim*! by Surgeon'Kem. The latter took it, but thought that three other musi-
friends around him could not catch. His treme Democratic prindples, and which has rjf?, Edinburg, Scotland, where he made cians were concealed behind
A few minutes before 8 o’clock a messen- daughter Ida, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, Sir. already attained a circulation of upward of incision near the heart, and discovered scenes playing the other three parts,
ger came to Chief Crowley from Mrs Fair, Carpenter, Dr. Choate and Auntie Lawson 15,000 copies. It to true, some of the Munich junt be had no diaphragm, and that the heart The romantic history of his violin to no
asking that a fores of policemen might be were all in the room, around to hear the last papers have called her a magnificent confi- _ eoclosed in a pericardium, but to fiction. This remarkable instrument is over
sent to her house to escort her to the hall, words. Mr. Greeley indistinctly murmured d ence woman, and cautioned the depositors Jnsuended by two cords instead of one. Some three hundred years old. It was made by
___ _ “ _ . for a while, and at last feebly said: “It is of Mile. Adele Spilxeder’s bank againBt in- a { [er wnri3 hewasgivenan examina- Gasper da tialo in Crescia, one of theoblcst
returned word that he could not furnish the done.” . trusting their money to her: butjby threats of Bonin Paris by Surgeon Lois with same re- violin makers on record, and it was consbl-
escort; that he did not believe it absolutely There was no evidence of pain in the last libel suits she has succeeded in silencing them ,, Wone of the scientific men of Europe un- ered the b&t one he ever made. Its original
ttol that Bhe should come to the halL moment The face hardly changed, only all, and she now pursues her business undto- ^^tood his structure, and they advised him cost was over six thousand dollars—now no
fls he understood it, she merely wanted to settling a little into a look of perfect peace, turbedly, to the utmost wonder of all who tocomo t» America to see if our learned men amount could buy it When Inspruck was
come to make a formal demand for the open- Dr. Choate was by the bedside, and putting have known some of her antecedents. could comprehend his formation. But no taken by Napoleon in 1809, it was carried to
ing of the doors which had been closed hto hand to Mr. Greeley’s heart, said: “He to Thto extraordinary woman has indeed led rrr here ^ before seen such a creature, Vienna and waa aold to Rjheazhek a
against her, so as to have ground to base an gone.” a most eventful life aince she disappeared an dcoa i dn ot understand hto organization, wealthy connoisseur
” '* ' the progress of KI3 illness. from New York. It was in October, 1865, Xt W03 in 1863 when he came here, and in struments. He
of stringed in-
. HL_ offered immense
T .t »t two o’clock in the morniDg, when she toarho'^ent back to” Europe. In ’1867 he sums for it by English, Russian and
In an account narrating^t length the clos- wended her way f rom the concert saloon U al the Paris Exposition, mid was exam- Polish noblemen, but to all such offers he In
The crowd were greatly excited, and hoaI8 tint* Through the diy ^ c^-prop^ roher.
his western- tonr to have never slept
halL The old lady replied grandly: “Yes,
air; my daughter will lecture in thto city if
ahe has to remain here twelve yeara todo it 1”
The couple elbowed their way through the
throng and seemed in no wise abashed.
PREPARING AH OMELETTE.
The Ross House windows were aU filled
with people anxiously awaiting the result
Underneath one of them stood a man in a
frowsy coat waiting for the door of the hall
to open that he might enter. On hto arm
hung a covered bast * ’ * ”
particularly careful
way from being jot
annoyed when anybody gave it a km -ok in his last labors.
passing. The Chronicle man noticed the OaNoveinbtrfl,onedayaftcrlLeprintingof
man’s singular actions and finally asked: ; Ills fanners card, an editorial article appeared
“My lriend, what have you in that bask-, in the Trtirj It. headed “Conclusions.” It
rlycareful ot. He guarded!: m every
t being jostled, and seemed terribly; ^
when hia wife died lie’ begun to show mani-
fesialiona of great grief and it was then he it
said to have shown the first positive evidences
of mental derangement. The Novem 1 er elec
tion teeming>y did not interest him. His de-
feat did not seem to surprise him. He de
cei. ed his friends by receiving the news witt-
et?”
“Eggs,” was the laconic reply.
“What are yon going to do with them?”
“Take ’em over to the lecture.”
“Ohl” said the reporter with a whistle,
“Bad eggs?”
“ Well they ain’t very fresh. I’ve had the
devil’s own job a gettin’ ’em, too. Hunted
all day in the markets for ’em, and now I'm
afraid I ain’t agoin’ to get a chance to use
was simply a summing up of the resultof the
elections. Icy Void style: This was
hto last p ieff>rL About thto time
he revise ; fire articles which he had carefully
prepared for an en cyclopedic. They axe en
tided AboJlinn, Agriculture, Anti-masonry,
on the Bowery by a young man in gray, who
made certain proposals to her. She rejected
them firmly; bat, struck by her very pretty
face and lady-like
ass eem m w. a.m SgSlg&.gBWSa'iS SgSSBnJ’.iSSS ““rirStSSSWlSS
with their coat tails in that horizontal post- mother^ accompanied by her younger aster, ing, andU was passing sleepless nights meet him at ^ e^y hour on the following married, and' his parents are now But the musical antiquarian could not bring
tion necessary forthe game of chequers, and appeared on Montgomery street en foot, at her bedside that he first tx^an to show a t a confectionery on Broome street. "Lm He has a brother whotorix feet three himself to sell it, but promised that if ever he
their soap locks flying In the breeze. Jpte They were ret»gmzeilbat no^instfltjwas of- aig-'sof great mental depression, On^one The interview was held, and the young j n height, but who can contract him- did part|with it the Minstrel of Norway should
if her daughter would lecture If she gotjhe dxing hto Pittsburg speech, he haid, “If they ^the had been an officer in the rebel navy, Sl~Thtofa Msonlv” peculiarity. There
'» Y“" wa s nothing remarkable about their mother.
3HIt. SEWIBS'S LITTLE BELL.
A Perverted Private Conversation—
Some Foktliumoaa tiossip
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Tribune writes:
I met Ed. Webster—who used to be Assist
ant Secretary of State—at tho Fifth Avenue
Hotel a day ago, and I asked him seriously
whether Seward ever said that he had a little
bell which he could ring and send ajman
instantly, at the touch of tho .bell, to Fort
Lafayette or Fort Warren.
* I'll tell you,” said Webster, “just how
that happened. In a familiar conversation
between Lord Lyons and Mr. Seward, the
former contended that republican forms of
government gave no power in the hands of
the Executive at the proper time, and, there
fore, while all such liberty as ours was good
enough in time of peace, Americans must be
necessarily weaker than England in lirno of
war.
Seward said tie, Ale contrary was tho case
and that a rcptiftican form of government
waa the strongest of all, for warasfor peace;
and then he gave the Ulnatraticn of thq little
beU, which happened to he betide him. Said
he: “I can touch this be! > aa Secretary of
State, and, backed by a general .and reaolutt
public opinion, I can arrest %ny person At-
this continent, because no man is of conse
quence when the whole thing to imperiled as
we see it now, and no individual’s wrongs
can stop ilia machinery which I direct. This
conversation,” said Mr. Webster, “got out,
and the Democratic press made a great
grievance of it. whereas Seward was always
a kindly, well-disposed man, and the last per*
son in the world to be a despot.”
WEED TO SEWARD.
I asked Webster how Thurlow Weed and
Seward compared with each other.
“ Well,” said he, “Weel is the greater of
the two. Seward’s scholarship, and the fine
tone it gave him, qualified him for high and
-lonorabie positions such as he held; but Weed
was a man of original character, splendid
judgment, and great power of combining
forces' and detaching men from wayward
currents. As a writer. Weed is scarcely re
membered among you young fellews, because
you all know him better as a politician; but
iu that literary aspect, lie baa been a wonder
in bis time, and Seward always admired his
clear, strong diction. 8eward aud Weed
never forgave Greeley, not for attacking
them, but because of the manner of it,
WEED AND GREELEY.
Said I: “Would they not have given Gree
ley an office if they had known he had want
ed one in those days?”
“Yes," said Web-ter, “anything within
their estimation of hto capacity; but, as to
making him a leading Cabinet officer, neither
Iman would have said aye to that proposi
tion.”
“ At the same time," said Mr. Webster, “ I
think they were all a little In the wrong.
Greeley's behavior in thto last campaign has
astonished the oldest chaps. Hto resources
are greater than we snppo9«l and hto prompt
ness, fluency and general good nature have
left him out of the campaign, although badly
beaten, still, on the whole, no disgrace to the
[folks who nominated him.”
THE HOCSR OF DSIIKlt.
I From Seward to the tie ward House to but a
short jump. I was walking up the street
with General Belknap the other day, and we
pa-sed under the mansion where Seward re
sided so long, and where Payne stabbed him.
“General,” said I, “do you remember a re
ception you gave one night when those four
rooms in the second Btory were all crowded?
I call it to your mind because perhaps you
did not know that a whisper ran suddenly
around the room that the old house was
mighty shaky and might fall down'with the
weight of guests, and that a good many got
out”
■Yes,” said Belknap, “I did bear about it,
and It wus a shaky old place. We were par
ticular after that about bringing so many
people into it.”
Mr. Belknap then said that a distinguished
S nblic man had cautioned him about going
ito that house to live.
8ahl thi* man: “Belknap, no man ever
lived In that hoose who did not meet with a
death, assassination or something. Seward’s
occupation of the place was a scries of mis
fortunes and deaths. When it was a club
house, the Sickles murder and a lot of other
events of a dark cast, took place in it and
about it”
Tbe consequence has been that Seward’s
house to given up as a residence, and it is
now one of the military office. General
From a New York Paper.)
About eighteen years ago the habitues of
the Continental Concert Saloon, on Chatham
Square, in this city, were
tractca by the pretty face and' winsome man
ners of ono of the waiter-girls, who called
herself Annie Spitzer, and who spoke both
English and German fluently, and who dis
played so much business capacity in “beat
ing’the customers of the place cut of money
by selling them worthless cider at five dol
lars a bottle, and causing them to treat ad in
finitum, that the proprietor of the saloon
gladly paid her double wages, and waa not a r Tba, one of which he can move from
little chagrined when one afternoon, at the its noeition tQ the front of the body, cover-
' hour, Annie did not make her appear- - -- - ■ - ■ w- —
Race.
All inquiries for her at the cheap boarding
house on Chrystie street, where she lived in
an humble room, led to no information other
than that she had left the place at an early
hour in the morning with a young man,
dressed in a suit of gray, with whom she had
said she was going to Philadelphia. Since
' ier was heard of her
Man with s Portable Heart* Hc-
volving Bowels, and awo
Seta of Blba.
From the Port Jervis Tit-8tates Union.
The most remarkable specimen of physical
organization we have ever aeenis Mr. George
Thomas, a Brazilian, who has been in Port
Jervis since Thursday of last wtek. He has
been exhibiting himself in various places in
the village, and has puzzled not only the
people but the physicians and surgeons—
they are unable to understand hto anatomy.
He can move his heart to any part of the
body at pleasure, and even stop its beat-
imr for nearly sixty seconds. He has two
P . •. • mown
Mean. Editon: In view of the perspec
tive visit of the “ Ampkion of the North,"
the following brief sketch may not be unin
teresting:
Ole Bull’s passion for violins, manifested
itself at a very early age. When only five
years old, hto uncle (a violinist) bought him
a very small fiddle. To the surprise of the
family he immediately played well upon it,
though he had never received any instruc
tion. He played a quartette of Pleyel’s to
the assembled club, and they inquired with
astonishment who had taught the child, for
they knew not that God had taught him, by
a process as simple as that of the mocking
bird.
Ole Boll never learned to read music by
the usual method. From infancy he had
been accustomed to hear music, and he knew
the sound of each written note, long before
he was able to pronounce it by name. At
ten years of age a foreign music master
urged upon hto rather the necessity of having
hi® taught scientifically. The attempt was
accordingly made, hut nothing would come
to him by mechanical process, Hto genius
positively refused to go into the straight
meu uv ~—a——» „—o
them Professor Smith of Baltimore. Since
that year he has been in thto country. His
home to in England, and he says he likes that
motion of the bowels, both upward and and scolded, the nervous child actually
downward, the abdomen undulating and re- screamed with agony.
semblinc the corrugating motions of a flag It is this abhorrence of fetters which now
or a ni«» of cloth when disturbed by the imparts to hto genius that freshntss and over-.
wind/ He can so arrest hto pulse that for a leaping life which constitutes its greatest
short time one cannot discern that he has charm. Critics constantly complain that he
any Another wonderful thing that he does pays no attention to the rules, but the public
to to bend an iron bar five-eights of an inch everywhere agree that they don’t care for
in thinckness by striking it across his left this, so long as the glow of hismusic warms
arm. The muscles of hto arms he so con- and electrifies their souls.
For tbe ConistitatlML]
UNDER TEE8N0W.
O, Beautiful, bc’.utiful now.
Do je not know,
Your pure white fleecy creat
Coven our darling's place of (cat.
Do ye not know t
Y c ought to know,
O, pretty, pretty snow.
She ewoetly sleeps with folded hands,
Flowers nestling In her black hair bands.
Ye ought to know 1
O beautiful, pare white *now.
Spring's roty glow
Is not bo lit as thou to keep
A watch where our bdOTcd one sleeps;
O, ao, no!
For lovely, fleecy snow,
Sho that's lying low,
W&s just as chise In life m you.
Spotless, transient, bright and pure,
O, lovely enow I
> Pretty white, white snow,
Do ye not know.
She was the best beloved or all!
Gently nurtured, yet doomed to flllj
Do ye not know!
O, beautiful, beautiful snow,
Fhll soft, fall slow.
Tenderly wrap her bod in whit©,
1 Shut out the cold bleak winds to night,
O beautiful snow 1
O winter’s pure, pale bride.
That light on the breesoa ride,
We leave our dead in thy epoUeas care.
Tenderly cover her grave so dear;
O winter's beautiful bride I
■vorgrecn Pottage. - ;
rBENSlSDfAVCUI.
The terrihle Tali
From the Titusville Press ]
A gentleman engaged in tbe for trade cfl
this city informs ua that (here seems to be
some kind ot an epidemic raging atfioeg the
cats in town, and it hto opinion that unless
strict sanitary precautions are take* at voce,
we arc liable to lose every feline pet in tbs
city. With the idea of ascertaining the
truth of this statement, we visited several
localities last evening, and obtained the fol
lowing information regarding the “catalepay-
kippic.”
THE FIRST SYMPTOMS.
Mr. Speller, who keeps a boarding house
and cut feed will upon a back alley, informed
ua that he fir-t noticed something wrong with
the cats a wei k ago. He had twenty of these
household pets about his establishment,
which he k.- its for the comfort of his single
male lodgers, who, upou cold nights, take a
cat to bed with them to keep their feet warm.
No additional charge is made tor this luxury
by Mr. Spelter. AbpUt a week since a change
iu Ike demeanor ol these animato was obser
vable. A young geutiemm boarder waa
about, to retire for the night, as.has been his
custom since cold weather set in, called upon
the landlord to furnUh him with a cat and a
candle. The proprietor,procured a candle,
but upon reaching under the stove for a cat,
found none there. He began to search for
these living warming-pans in the pantry,
the wood box, tho bag of dried peaches, the
oven; but tbe only sign he could discover
was a circular cavity or depression in a pan
of bread that had been set to rise by the
stove. The result of the search was in vain,
and the inmates of tho house went catless to
bed that nighl Speller says the next day
hto pets all reappeared, and acted as if noth
ing had happened, hut about sundown a
change seemed to come over them.
THEIR EYES TURNED OREEN,
and sounds began to emanate from the older
animals, similar to the more delicious strains
of Italian opera. Tho younger animals also
caught the operatic infection, and the entire
feline tribe began to walk slowly around the
room in couples, maintaining very orderly
behavior, but seemingly suffering extreme
mental anguish, which occasioned the cries
they tried to repress. . All at once, Baid Mr.
Spelter, without a word of warning, a large
gray and white cat of the Thomas variety,
elevated the central vertebra; of hto spine, his
tail expanded like a hot air balloon, and with
an exclamation that sounded for all tho
world like, “come, boys, comeli-e-a-h 1” with
the last word drawn out like linked sweet
ness or sausage,
PLUNGED TimOUGH THE WINDOW,
and was immediately followed by the other
nineteen in rapidsuccession,sotlratitseemed
to a boarder who happened to be standing
outside, as it one variegated cat about thirty
feet long, and with twenty tails located at
regular mtervals along its spine, had jumped
through the window.
Mr. Spelter mado every effort to discover
the cause of thto unusual behavior, but could
not do so; tho cats have now for Beveral
nights indulged in these eccentricities, and it
is the belief of their owner that they are
affected in some manner by the same atmos
pherical causes that have produced the horse
disease, though Professor BolOgna, the cele
brated naturalist and cat expert, thinks it is
simply the pleasant evenings and love of ex
citement that calls them out.
OTUER FELINES AFFECTED.
A visit to other-parts cf tile city developed
the fact that some peculiar complaint is cer
tainly raging among the cat tribe, or else they
arc enjoying unusual good health and an ex-
ice of c
half of Vienna. About thirty years ago Ole
Bull gave fifteen concerts in Vienna—Rjhe-
’azhek was enthused by his performance, and
uberance of animal spirits justnow. House
keepers tell us that cats who have long since
arrival at the ago of discretion, ami have
been exceedingly domestic in their habits
heretofore, now prowl around the house
after dark, and utter cries that would cause
a sewing machine agent to weep, and skir
mishing to continually going on upon the
house-tops and other available Lpots, where
on these animals love to indulge in teeth and
toe-nail contests. The prevailing sentiment
among tkc cats seems to be a desire to
RATHER FIGHT THAH EAT,
and as a consequence the rats hare become
so bold in some localities as to have things
ail their own way. One gentleman, whose
mendacity to unquestionable, assures us that
he saw a series of cat fights in his back yard
the other night, where, upon oyster cans,
bricks and other elevations, sat great num-
oers of spectators in tho shape of rats, who
held pasteboard tickets of admission in their
paws that had evidently been provided by
the cats themselves. But whether it to owing
to any atmospheric changes or not, one thing
to certain, there never was so much cat
warfare going on as now. The night to
made hideous, and sleep impossible to nerv
ous humanity. More than a thousand boet
jacks have been sacrificed to quell these noc
turnal disturbances, bnt without effect. Grey
cats patrol the house-tops, while black cats
howl and pull fur on the ground below. Yel
low cats sit on the fence posts and warble
serenades to spotted Tabbies who roam
among the weeds in the garden be
low. Thp belated traveler on any of our
streets 5pes ghost-like forms flit across his
pathway, while from shadowy lurking places
comes * wail that to cheese curdling in its
effects. Is there no relief Irem these woes?
Is there nolhing in the shapo of a nitro-glyc-
erine boot jack by which even an unskillful
thrower can annihilate every iiving thing
within ten rods of them?
That Goose.—A pious negro woman was
once caught by her master stealing a goose,
and the next Sunday she partook of the com
munion, after which her master accosted .her
follows:
‘Why, Hannah. I saw you to-day at the
communion table.”
“Yes, Unk de Lord, massa, I was Towed to
be dare wid de rest ob hto family.”
“But, Hannah, I was surprised to see you
there,” he said. “How about that goose ?”
She looked a little surprised, as if she did not
understand the question, but, catching the
meaning, exclaimed:
' Why, sah, do yon tink I’so agoin to let
ole goose stand atween mo an* my
maker P m m
Touneaioe Pcroonals*
Chinese smugglers buy pretty Corean girls
for a measure of millet each.
Miss Army R , of Iowa, weighs 862
pounds.
A woman named Mary Tabor has acted as
mate on a Missouri 6leamboat for two years,
earning $56 per month.
Massillon, O., has 121 widows and 200 mar-
^Womar?* rights are practically exemplified
in Spain. A correspondent tuns describee
the loading of the iron-ore at Bilboa: “It to
curious sight to see the women loading the
ship* with their bulky cargoes, carrying it in
baskets on their heads, singing gayly the
while, and tripping up and down the steep
flanks with their short petticoats, brown bare
egg and straight, supple backs.”
make the issue i that I’m the Rebel candidate, ” dlhlt h to folks lived in Lynchburg,
lm bound to be d-feated. This couaidera- gjafa, became so enamored of the girl that he but the fattier was apparently destitute of
, .-. , , nioLOsed afail months’ trip to the Old World. -i he latter at one time—a great many
when he suppled he was alone, he would j£ e satisfitd her that he had plenty of money, vear3as ,o_worked upon the Eriecaual and
pat his hands to hta brad and.cry out Oh,_ and, after considerable hesitation and much ^ v ed mLockport. George has a cousin who
as though suffe jne intense pain. At length (joaxing on his part,she consented to go with ™ throw hto°left hip "iufhis right side and
him, and the following day the two Bailed in una _ The former to in good health,
the steamship Fereire for Brest Van weie ha 165 pounds, is about five feet eight
Dosen’s conduct toward her was unexcep- ^ height, and appears to be not over
tional; but Annie, with a woman s keen per- ** yean 0 ldT
ception, was not long in discovering that her v r Thomas goes to Middletown to day.
lover was of fickle disposition, and subject to He'w’illvtoit Albany at * - —
choleric fits, tihe concluded that it would three or four weeks,
be best for her to get rid of him as soon as in^ntto to bid farewell to America.
possible, and, with an eyo to bosi- —
ness, she managed adroitly, to obtain from
him the sum of twenty-five hundred francs
in gold as a proof, as she said, that he did not
intend to send her adrift in a foreign com-try.
They arrived in due time at Brest, mdp o-
ceeded from thence to Faria, where for two
or three weeks they reveled in mil the amuse
ments in which the French capital abound.
At the end of that time Annie Spitzeder
Caucus. Confederacy, Southern--the latter found herself in possession of a rpleudid war-
being his history of the American Conflict drobe. au elegant watch, and valuable jewel-
condensed. One day late, while in couveraa ry, and nearly three thousand francs in cash. „
tion with a friend, he b< came visibly affected She thought it was about time for her to character to bis father, and will do no dis
and said, touching a remark as to his candi- “shake” Mr. Van Dusen, the more so as he creditjo his name,”
rw The St Louis Democrat sav: Lieut.
Fred Grant is in the city, stopping at tbe
Planter's House. In a day or two he will
leave for Texas, and join his regiment at
Griffin, one of the frontier posts. He is a
fine looking officer, taller somewhat than his
father, bat in feature disclosing the unmista
kable lineaments of the President. After his
bolliday in Europe, he will find it no child’s
plav in doing duty on the Texas border; but,
if we mistake not, he is foil of the same de-
terminea stuff that has given world-wide
have it. He died two years after, and his
son sent it to Ole Bull, then at Leipslc.
The wood of this violin was so old, and
vibrated so thoroughly, that Ole Bull for a
long time, was unable to obtain a sounding
post adapted to it. This post is a small piece
of wood, not as large as a man’s little finger.
When Ole Bull first performed in Philadel
phia, his delicately sensitive ear, at once de
tected that the doable bass viol in the or
chestra, was a very old instrument. Some
time after the horse and rider that represented
“Gen. Putnam’s leap down the precipice?’
plunged into the orchestra and crushed the
old bass viol to splinters. As soon as Ole
Bull heard of the accident he hastened to
buy the fragments, with a small piece of
which he was enabled to remedy the slight
(but to his sensitive ear, great) defect of his
own famous instrument. Its upper covering
is of an exceedingly rare species of Swiss
pine, celebrated in tbe manufature of violins.
It grows on the Italian side of the Alps, for
snnshine and song seem inseparably con
nected, and the balmy atmosphere which
makes Italy so rich in music, and imparts'
Queen of hia own native land.
G.
General Kewi,
A Prussian dreus is to visit the United
States next year.
The business of Dr. Evans, the American
dentist in Paris, nets him $50,000 a year.
Kim«« can’t keep her schools supplied with
female teashers. They are demanded for
marriages.
The new school board of Natchez is com
posed of four negroes and one white man.
The majority of tho body can neither read
nor write.
Do flXortuls*
On the 22d ult, Mrs. Charlotte Daggett, of
UUledgeviUe, of disease of theu- irt.
On the 29th ulL, in.Hiilcdgevflle, Mr.
John Teeling, of that city.
Mia. Bailie A. Hughes, of Talladega, Ala
bama, died in Calhoun on Sunday last
Mrs. Mary A. Lernel, of McDuffie, died on
Saturday last.
_ , . t3S~ The Philadelphia North American
her language such liquid melody, seems havingstatedthafabiglndianoftbeArra-
breathed into her very trees. paho persuasion has embraced Christianity
The diamonds in his bow—forty-five in m Washington," tho New Orleans Times re
number—were presented to Ole Bull by the marks that a mighty small Indian could em-
~ trace all the Christianity there ia there now.”