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rchlp EorcstitntHra. cg> Tem* «f lakacrlptitB: LY CONSTITUTIONS per axmsm .$100 AU ratecilpUofv are payable strictly in ©drone* t»4,otthe«xplm«o*of the time for which payment t—lawWx prerlonsly renewed, the name of the ©Otcrlbcr will be stricken from oar books. %r Claim «T Ten |15 00, anil a copy of the paper 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.”