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AcfUg Uionstitnlion. Fulton Democratic Ticket TOR ORDINARY: DANIEL PITTMAN. NOR 8TTXRI7F: AfJL PERKERSOH. TOR CLKXK fCTERUMt «6CKI: W. R.VENABLE. roB OQU.ili nxAsons: a M. PATHS. to* tax SKcnrxs: A. G. GRIER. to* tax coluctob: & HZ HOYLE. B. 7. WALKER. to* coroner: WILLIAM KILE. Atlanta. Tuesday, December 10. DimqckaticTkiciifh ib Atlanta.—>The nMn Democratic municipal ticket wu elect ed In Atlanta on Wednesday jwith Hon. C. C. Hammock for Mayor. The vote for May or stood. Hammock, 2,133 ; T. Stobo Farrow (Independen ). 1837—majority for Hammock 799. We congratulate the Atlantese upon the triumphant victory of their regular tick et. It tni a deserTed n hnke to independent combination* to break the discipline of the party, and Atlanta Democrat* cannot do bet ter than to repeat the dose whenever occa rion offer*. It is a healthful purge, and will work off the entreating influences of IT- ched coalition*.—Augusta Chronicle <t mill'd tmantry el stats flews. WARRENTON. The “noblest work of God” Urea In Olaa cock county. He walked 14 miles through freezing weather to pay a lawyer in Warren- ton ten dollars. The gin house of Mr. J. A. Scruggs, of Warren county, was destroyed by Are on Wednesday. Eight or nine bags of cotton destroyed with it.—Georgia Clip per. WASHINGTON. Mr. O. Toombs, of this place, measured off forty-eight acres of land on his plantation ftair miles from Washington. He put on the laud, ms a miner*, ,'cciinn seed and plaster, no other being used, to the ralue of three doDan and a half u> the acre. This Mr. Toombs has gathered, ginned and packed from these forty-eight acres forty-seven bales of cotton, averaging in weight, 450 pounds to the bale.— Waekmgton Gauite. WATBZMtOBO. W. J. Wimberly, of Burke, has been nom inated by the Democracy as a candidate for Ordinary. The stable of Mr. R. H. Barr, of Waynesboro, was consumed by fire last Sun day night.—Waynetbora Expositor. Sunday morning the train on the Savan nah, Griffin and North Alabama Railroad ran to the Chattahoochee, nine mile* west of Newnsn, carrying about fifty excurtionbb. .Wwnan Herald. The epizootic Is on the increase in Barnes- ville. Several deaths among the hones in thbricinitT during the laat week. The crops cf rye and barley, sown a month or two since, arc lot ting exceedingly fine since the laat shower of rain. We do not believe the farmers are sowing as mneh land with wheat this season as they did last. Cotton will be the crop next year.—AtnumsZb Gazette. LUXTKCr. Dogs are dying freely around town. Some every day. Don't know whether it is the rpisooUc at not—Lumpkin telegraph. The horse disease, in mild form, is in Mad- ham. Waltons Bros™ have commenced mov ing their steam saw and shingle mill to Sa vannah. Morgan county needs an Agricul tural Association. The Georgia Railroad is evidently doing afincbusiness noth in frriahts and passengers. A good deal of real and personal property was sold in Greensboro on Torstlsy last Land told from $8 to $10 per sere, bought mostly by legatees. Union Point is doing a lively business. Cotton coming in, goods selling, and the place Improving. Mm. The horse malady exists in a mild form in oar city. The new bridge over the Etowah lathe' ‘ . The commissioners have let out the poor boose of Perry, for the year 1878. to Mr. R F. Avaunt, for two hundred and fifty dollars. The yoong people of Perry propose to have a maaqnrrade party on the 24tb or Decern her. Rev. A B. Gailliard and William McCay organized a 1’rfsbytcrian Church in Fort VaUey last Saturday. The Hawkinaville Bank end Trust Company baa been organized with Charles T. Latrop as President.—Home The Baptist Church 'of this city Is to be repaired and otherwise beautified. The citi zens of Americas have presented Captain W. N. Freeman, who has been Marshal of the dty, revlened and intends moving to Texas, with a silver salver, pitcher and two goblets, as a testimonial of thetr appreciation of his worth aa f citizen, and efficient discharge of hi* doty as an officer—Amerieue Republican. About $50j000 worth of property sold in Culhbast on Tuesday las'- Cuthbert now has #so tiro engines.—Cuthbert Appeal. Alim* A young lady walking down Broad street, Tuesday morning, dropped a certain article of dram. Upon being pit ked op and opened it was found to remain five numbers of the Georgian, three pounds of loose cotton, four towels and other article* The horse disease » abating la Athena There was a row at WatkinaviU# on Saturday last between some white men and negroes. A justice ordered the bailiff to arrest the negroes and hesnoceeded in arraatiag four of them. On Sunday night the bailiff’* wood shop was burnt and he lost about four bandied dollars in tool* timber, etc. To prove certain points taken Ire coun sel in a hog case in Athens, the animal wi introduced Into Court.—A’brtieajt Georgian. SAVANNAH. Miss Charlotte Cushman, and Miss Char- k*te Thompson, each, are to play in the city during the season. Allan's has contrived to get Profeasor Malloa from n* and now D.sh- loarga steps hi to entice off Mr. Perry. We ^aiaaonr voice against the interior gobbling tap onr teachers in this way. Their services are needed here at home, and we can ill afford •r las* in so short a time, two such men Malkm and Perry.—Sanmnah Repubtiean. The Committee of the Legislature to which was referred the matter of direct trade and immigration, met in this city on Fridas. After dtscmstiag sundry letters and docu ments they reached certain unanimous con- duai ns in regard to the trading points in lire scheme The establishment of direct commnaicatlou between European and tvuthsrn ports is con coded to be one of the first and most important desideratum* They resolved that it is necessary to organize and maintain steamship communication between Savannah and the part*' of Europe, with a View of inducing immigration on the part of are not dissimilar to our own. _ journal to meet in Savannah on.iheSStbinst , language, etc., iwn. They ad- Sheriff Bradford, of Mnecogre, shot and dangerously wounded, on the 7th, a cegro r carried from fall to the '. when be pulled loose Iran. TheBainbridge, Cuthbert and Col umbos Railroad is to be sold at pubUcoatery. Shippers alone bought 2,717 bale* of cotton In Columbus for the week ending Friday, and street operalo: s most hare purchased about 300, making a tots] of 3,017 bale* The United Stales of- ffrere are getiiag atone well in their survey of the Chattahoochee and Flint riven.—Cb- Cottnn—Be. 14. Tire receipts this week are 110,000 bale* 35.700 more than last year, and 12,000 las than two years sine* It Is likely the receip t for next week will be about 145,000 biles, compared with 121,000 last year, and 155,000 the year before; and the receipts at the inte rior towns 85/100 bale* compared with 40,000 last year, and 49,000 the year before. This week the weather has been clear and cold one day, cloudy and windy one day, and dear and pleaeant five day* Ho rale. The thermometer has averaged 53 degrees at noon—one day Iff degrees at 7, A it., and 30 degrees at noon. The market in New T rt this week has been active; large sales and a rise of f of a cent in the pric* This Is aa we expected, and b principally caused by estimates of the crop being redoced, aa there are but few per sons In this country who estimate the crop otct three and a half millions at this time. Many well informed persons pot the figures at much lea* This lowering of the figures for the crop has caused spinner* and ex porters to buy much more freely. In fact it b hard to supply the demand for good cotton at the ruling rate* The lightness of the mousy market, and the necessities of planters are the onlj^ai sons for the offerirga which have, so^V 1 only partially supplied the demand. Liver pool has risen again this week, but the rise for two weeks has been only 4 of a penny. Momy is still high in Londoif,' and many dealers in Liverpool and Manshester cannot understand how this crop can be a smalt one, when the receipts 10 far arc 200,COO bales more than the great crop of 1870, which turned ont nearly four and a half millions. We believe they will wake up, some time within the next month, to the fact of there belrg a abort supply of g». d cotton for this year’s consumption; and if they.ehonld, there will be eome very active buying. We have received a large number of letters lately which state that thedmmoge toall late cotton (which is about one-third of the crop) from the frost the 15th of October, was fully SB percent Last mouth the receipts were 15 per cent more than laat year for the same time. Add this per cent to last year’s crop, and this crop will be only 8,882/100 bale* The receipt* lost month were 55 per cent more than the year 1858 for the same time. Add this per cent to the crop of that year, and this crop will be 3527,000 bale* We must recollect however, that in the past four years many new railroads hive been built many new gins have been started, and planters all over the South are much better prepared with stock to haul their coiton than they were so soon after the war. If, as we suppose, all these things have caused the crop to come forward 10 per cent faster than four yean ago, this crop will be but 8,325,000 bale* 80 it would seem that our estimate sat week of 3,500,000 baleswss not too small and possibly may be too large. If there should not be an active maiket and much higher prices before the 27th of this month, we believe there will be a strong rise about that time; as it likely the stock in Liverpool at that date will be down to 300,000bales,compared with 567,- 000 same time last year, and the total for stock and afloat 050,000 bale* compared with 986,- tOO same time last year. It is likely the stock of American in Liverpool and afloat for that port, on the 27th of December, which is three weeks from this, will not be over 200,000 bale* compared with 356,000 same time last year. This will be 156,000 bales less of American, for Liverpool,and we know there was not a bale too much hut year. The exports to the continent are sni* prising to every one, and show the increasing demand for good styles of American cotton. If this apparently insatiable demand from the continent continues, it will most surely affect Liverpool and cause that mar ket t> go much higher, however, many persons suppose that as con tinental spinners are taking to much from this country they will take none from Liver pool. In answer to this, we will state the entire export of American cotton from Great Britain for the four months of last year, end ing December 81st, was only 25,000 bale* whilst this yeas, for the same time, it has already been 60,000 bale* and will likely be 10,0.0 more. The stock in Liverpool Is 882.000 bale* compared with 445,000 last year this date. We give the figures for last year and thi* and the quantity and kinds of cotton composing the stock* which show thst not only is American cotton scarce, but all the better kinds are lees than last year. 1871. 1871 American 41.001 ■mat Mono Kgjp'tao, etc 30,000 loo WrattedI* etc 10.000 T4.M0 Kart Inal* etc 300,100 rss.oor 44*000 28X000 The receipts of American cotton at Liver pool for (he month of December, this year, will not be over 150,000 bale* compared with 854,000 last year and 877,000 the year before tame time. The India crop is late, and the receipts at Bombay and auipments thence to Liverpool,compared with last year, for the past two month* is surprising—re ceipts 22,010 bales against 90,000 last year, shipments 11,000 bales against 67,000 last year. We give here the quantities and kinds of cotton bought at Liverpool by spinners for three year* up to this dale. Three figures are tie weekly averages: 1870 1871 1S72 amortize ~ Brasil. mitaam. ■ West Irdian. etc 1.260 *100 *120 Kart India* etc 11,780 *10) 11,810 MAM ’MAW It will he seen from the above figures thst whilst they have bought less American they have taken about the same quantity of Brazil and Egytian that they did two years ago. This they will not be able to do next yearns the firm prices of this year hare iwept the cotton conn tries of all old stock* The imports into Liverpool this je*r, compared with last year for the different kinds of cotton, have been of American 60 per cent, of Brazil 150 per cent, of Egyp tian 103 percent, of West Indian 120 per cent., of East Indian 100 per cent; total 84 per cent of last year, or 8,023,401 against 3/K4510. As to the future wo weald advise our friend* if any of them ere short on the mar ket, to cover at one* If they want to boy, to do to now. Our planting friends will al ways do well to sell their cotton when they con get sorb flue prices as they are now of fered. alerting of the Joint Committee on Direct Trade and Immigration. The Legislative Committee on Direct Trade and Immigration met yesterday morn ing, and after reading and discussing certain document* adjourned to meet at the City fVltvnoil ('KtmhdV thi a Amor mt Q n’eln W Prize-Fighting In the Eait-A Boltalo and a Tiger ta Conahat. ' A correspondent of lhe London £ tankard, writing from Hong Kong, on October 12,'des cribing one of the entertainments supplied by the Mnharajtr of Singapore to the Grand Duke Alexi* in honor of the visit of the lat ter to the island. He says: “ After luncheon the party proceeded to witness a fight between a buffalo and a tiger. Those who bare never seen a combat of this kind would have been inclined to bet freelly on the latter; but the natives arid the chances were in favor of the buff Jo, and indeed, that the tiger was never known to win. The arena in which the ani mals were to fight was of an oval form, some fifty feet leng by about twenty wide, in an enclosure of bamboo poles, fifteen feet high, firmly driven into the ground and strongly fattened together. Similar poles, laid across the top, form the root The whole structure had the appearance of a gigantic cage. A platform bailt outside, enabled the more dis tinguished visitors to have a good view of the interior from a safe distance through the space between the pole* while the general psblic crowded round the cage as dose as their respect f/rr the claws of the tiger would allow. The boflitlo was confined to one end of the csge by a canvas curtain stretched across the arena; the tiger was enclosed at the other extremity by po.esplaced across from one wall to the other. When the fight was to begin the curtains were withdrawn, the poles were removed, and the animals were for the first time seen by the spectat ra. The buffalo stood for some moments at his end of the cage, looking with little apparent interest toward bis foe. The tiger was sit ting on his bsnnche* seemingly unconsious of the presence of his formidable adversely, his attention being attracted by the crowd outside. After waiting some time, the buf falo seemed to think be might as well make a < laser inspection, and slowly and deliber ately walked to the other end. The tiger was now clearly aware of his presence, lor he turned his head over his shoulder and watched the approach of the buffalo with evi dent anxiety. His eye glued, but Be did not move a muscle. • • The buffalo wss almost near enough to touch him with his muzzle. But at length, and before the buff-Jo made any sign of at tacking him, he jumped up and galloped off aa fast aa his legs could carry him round the csg* The buffalo followed, and jammed him against the wall with his horns. The tiger, in return, gave the buffalo one scratch on the back and another over the eye, just as a cat. mightdo.aud then fell apparently dead. But his breathing betrayed him; he was only shamming. Noone seemed to understand this betterthan the buflalo, who stood close by, and kept his eye on him, bat disdained to touch him while he was down. For sometime the two ani mals maintained their respective positions, ■IQ at length the public began to be impatient. They stirred up the tiger with a pole, but that was of no use; then they tried crackers, and for some time they succeeded no better. It was not till a bundle was thrown close to the tiger’s nose Ibst he got thoronghly roused, But be had evidently no intention of fight- ing. He again ran round the csg* wu again pursued by bis relentless enemy, and wu severely gored, and once more sank to the ground. This process wu repeated several times, always with the same result—the tiger would not fight the buffalo, and the buffalo could not kill the tiger. At length the men on the roof lowered a rope with a noose in the end, in which they caught up the tiger by one of his hind legs, and while he »as hanging the buffalo completely finished him. But the Grand Dnke wu spared the pain of witneuing the latter part of the spectacle, u he left when the tiger counterfeited death for the second time. The natives were right—the tiger fights unwil lingly when he cannot surprise his enemy. But the Rajah has taken unusual pains le make the combat as rqual u possible, far the tiger was a very savage one, while the bnffa io, bat two days before, had been quietly drawing a cart along the road.” A Tolls Willi Tyndall. Tbns standing and looking ont, Tyndall TBOCILI IB TB1BD ITREKT. Mystertoas .Woolf eaustlona In a Hass: H4 Hama— Brickbats aa A Dishes Dancing a CTaltx-Cbank.af Coni Sped Across me Basms—Bo Solmtion •f ike Wystery. Charleston is determined not to be behind the times, even in things so unsubstantial as ghost* The excitement of the Surrency mystery hu hardly died away, and the mem- eve w o%9 tlm 5fsL as, a A ■ T a a—*—2— — . 7 WILD WAWKEEN. MORE REMARKABLE FACTS ABOUT JOAQUIN MILLER. HOKSES AND SQUAWS. -like a colossal porcelain-lined preserv ing kettle, without the lid—lying opposite to a* up, up among the peaks, between the Jungfrau end the Eigcr,.and called our atten tion to the massive walls of ice directly facing ns, over which, he said, he, with a small par ly, had been slowly and painfully making tneir way, at the same date the year before. The H-itb.il I think be called it, though in the AVGUSTA. R. F. Urqnhart hu been elected President of the Angtuta IceCompiny. Oa Thunder night Allen Branch, colored, wu robbed at the hones of Allen Pinckney, colored, of one hundred dollars. The epizootic is disappear ing from August* Mr. & P. Wei tiger lost, on Saturday, n pocket book containing three thousand two hundred dollar*—Okrwvefa and tSentineh. l>e Vr. Richard Gilbert,of Wilkes concty, died on Saturday lasL In Franklin, on the 5lh bet, Mr* M.J. Btittri Mr* Katin* of Athen* died one day last week. Judge Isaac Cherry,of Talbot county, pro prietor of the Chalybeate Spring* in Me.-n- n:y, died b Ootarabos on the «th Mr. S H. Smith, from Fatak* m, died In Mr. John BeddingHe!)], of Jefferson county, died one day last Week. Mr. J. W. Alexander, of Jefferson county, died 00 Monday last. Council Chamber this day at fio’clo. k. The committee have found it impossible to prepare a report nntU more ample informa tion hu been gathered, and in picturing thi* the co-operation of our merchants and others is invited. An interesting letter from Mr. Edward Farrenc, of Pan* wu read, extracts of which are given in another column. The Committee seem utb-fi. d that direct au am communication with Europe would be the first practical step towards securing the obircl submitted to them. Toe Direct Trade and Immigration Com tnittee returned their session yesterday morn ing, and alter further Consideration of im portant topic* adjourned to meet on the 23iD ot December, of which farther notice will be given. The proceed! n-rs have been harmonious, and the future labors of the Committee are likely to present valuable plans for legislative action. The Committee, expecting further information, have not yet made any report, bat have invited from the Auxiliary Committee of citizens a written statement of their views: and thi* when completed, will be given to the pres* The committee desire to express their thank* to the Cite Council and their courte ous Executive officer* and to the gentlemen who kindly waited upon them. The Rev. Wm. McKay, formerly of Man chester, England, took part in the deiibera- ** ' * ’ ’ matter of interest.—Siran- t3T Olive Logan says: “I am not fickle; lt»t do yon know that whenever I get a beau and come to like him I find axotl.er m.w t like.better?" face of the dazzling, sheeney whiteness, which wu all we could see, the name seemed Ametbing of a misnomer. It wu the old story—slow, careful cutting of steps in a steep diagonal, the guide going ahead, hack ing away in the almost perpendicular surface of the glacier wall the few inches of indent ation which offer a bold to the hobnailed boots of the climber—one from which the tyro would shrink and fall in sheer terror, or be bruised by tiro slightest gust, but to which the trained mountaineer clings with the te nacity. and almost In the attitude, of a fly on ■hewalL I could not but remark, in looking at him, the spare but well-knit, elastic figare; the firm jaw, and keen, determined glance of the clear, gray eyes, which spoke the man ready for all emergencies, and wu curious to know how long be trad been training for his moun tain work. It wu somewhat of a surprise to leant that his clambering wu almost of a recent date, and wu first taken up in com paratively middle life, on occasion of a jour ney to Switzerland to recuperate bis nervous enetgy, exhausted with overwork in bis Lon don professorship. Since that time, he said, he came over every season, frequently very seriously out of condition, bat never failed to return, af’er a few weeks’ glacier work, completely re-invigorated in mind and body. The same testimony to the inestimable value as a nervous tonic, of high glacier sir and exercise, was afterwards furnished me by that admirable scholar and moat amiable of diplo mat.-, Geo. B. Marsh, wh.we habit i* or was, on all pr-ssible occasions to pass a considera ble part of the summer in expeditions above the snow-line. From climbing we drifted on to books and literature, especially in America. I found my comDan.on singularly well-informed in our literature, and (specially enthusiastic about Ralph Waldo Emmerson, who he pronounced with some energy by fsr the greatest mind in onr literary annul* Such an admiration, coming from a professor of physical science, sounded a little surprising. It hu been am ply explained, however, by later utterances of Tyndall, which have made plain to us that, along with bis study of material forces, he has always maintained a lively and sym pathetic interest in the subtler refinements of imaginative or metaphysical thought, and that side by side witb’his scientific formnlie hu always lain, bait hdden, a spring of fresh poetic feeling and appreciation which ha* in an evident way, permeated and adorned all his severer labor*—From Scrib- oar’s Monthly f.r December. South Carolina flew* Nearly every horse in Abbeville is down with the epizooty. Mr* R. H. Martin and daughter, of Gra ham* on the line of the South Carolina Rail road, were burned to death by their clothes catching fire, on Wednesday last. The ehoets have rescued Charleston and are puzzling the reporter* ory of the dish-thrdwing brickbatting and clock-twisting Is still fresh in the popular mind, when a genuine Carolina spirit, which makes no distinction on account of race, color or previous condition, awakes from its slumber and drives a whole household into a state of frenzied terror. THX SCORE or TBS TROUBLE is a quiet looking two-story house on the north side of Tradd street, three doors west of Meeting street It hu long been looked npon u a haunted house, because of the pranks wh ch ghostly visitors were said to playatnight One of the former tenants wss startled by seeing live coals hop out of the fire-place and skip across the room; unearthly noises were heard in rooms, the doors of which were locked and bolted; just before cock-crow thecoveriDg was violently dragged off the beds, leaving tne hapless slumbertrs to shiver in the cold. The subjects of these pleasant experiences moved away in a hurry, and the house, which is now rented by a col ored woman, named Emma Moultrie, rested m peace until last Monday at noon, when THE BFIRITOAI. high-jocks began. Emma Moultrie was at her shop in King street; two of her friends, named Priscilla Simmois and Carry Butler, remaining in charge of the hytse. The front door, which opens “n the gardbn, was not closed, and, soon after midday, a lamp of coal was thrown into the front room, and fell upon the floor. A little later a small piece of the mineral whizzed into the room. Ho attention was paid to these occurrences, it being thought that some bad boys outside were the culjfrits. But Priscilla Simmons grew tired of the one- sid£ game, and sent a child to the door to drivethe boys away. Ho one was to be seen. The child remained on guard, and while it was there another Mece of coal flew across the room, coming, mis time, tram the oppo site or north side. The two women hastily closed and fastened the doors, and rar* stairs to a small room on the second Bt every door and window in which they care- fuliyshut. Theyhadhsrdlycomposedthem- selve* when, in quick succession, TWO CHUNKS OF COAL BARGED ACROSS TEE ^■Boarc,^! and these had hardly come to a dead stop when a child’s doll ou the mantel sprang from its place and flew across the room, striking heavily against the wall This was too much for ordinary nerve* The two women made for the door, but before they could get out a hair brush, os if instinct with life, darted after them. They flew down stairs, closely fol lowed by a glass medicine bottle which reached the ground floor at their heel* PALSIED WITH FRIGHT, * the women sent for some of their friend* and dispatched * messenger for Emma Moultrie, who is a quiet, sensible woman, not easily scared When she reached the honse,-with several acquaintances, she closed the outer doors and set to work to investigate the mys tery. This wss about half past six. As the conclave weie listening to the astounding history A DISH DARTED FROM THE CORNER of the room, in full view, and fell, without breaking, it a rocking-chair, which chair rocked steadily for several minute* The myterious part of the operation is that the dish was known to be outside of the house, in a tub. When Emma Moultrie and her friends came in. Just before this a quantity of nubbinsof ■ COAL CLATTERED DOWN STAIR* to the surprise of the whole party. These were growing rather weak in the knees, but tbey managed to keep up their courage until a large brick was thrown with great force from the back room into the front Tula demoralized the ghost-seeker* who beat a hasty retreat The few who remained witnessed pieces of coal and bricks darting across the room at intervals of five or ten minutes, and latest night Emma Moultrie sent to the guard-house and asked for help. A detective went to the spot and examined the whole building. Doors were found locked and windowsbarred. Every hcle and corner was looked into, and the dust of aces severely scrutinized. There were the brick- backs and the lamps of coal, but there was NO SION THAT HUMAN AQE5CT had anything to do w th the mysterious busi ness. Things were quiet for the rest of the night. Early yesterday morning a number of curious persons flocked to the spot. Twenty perrons or more were standing in the rooms peering about when a brick was thrown from the north room into the south room. Immediately afterward a similar brick was thrown from the south room into the north room. There was a general stampede. Later in the day an old man came in who declar&l that Sluuta, CaL,Letter to the Cinrian&ti Comaercijl ] Here and in this vicinity are the materials for the unwritten history of Mr. Heiner Mil ler, now better known to the literary public as Joaquin (vVswisen) Miller. He resided hereabouts for three years—1836 to 1859—aud did not adopt his poetical title till some time after bis hurried departure. His achieve ments are still celebrated in local chronicles; his Sbasis squaw still 1 ves near her* and in the county are many traces of him. particular ly in the county clerk’s office, the following remarkable document: “Slate of California, Shasta county. The people of the State of California v* Heiner Miller, in the Court ot Session* in the county of Shasta, July term, 1859. “Heiner Miller is accu-ea by the Grand Jury of the couDty of Shasta, by this indict ment. of the crimeo-f grand larceny, a felony committed as follows: “ That the said fifciner Miller, at the county of Shasta, oa tbe-lOth day of July, A. D., 1859, one gelding hprseof the value of eighty dollars, one saddle of the value of fifteen dol lars, and onebridittof the value of five, of the property, goods and chattels of one Thomsa Bass, then sod there feloniously and willfully did steal, drive and take awsy, contrary to the statute in such cose made and provided, and again*! the peqee and dignity of the peo ple of the State. | "’Names of witnAes: ThomasBtss. Wil- 1 JAMES D. MIX, District Attorney. came back after bis return from Europe he employed the Brock previously mentioned to steal her and take her to San Francisco.' She was soon missed by Kallokello, who sp illed to Judge Rosborough, and a writ of lia- teas corpus was issued to Brock, who.-fled into the mountain* where he still remain* Bat the child was on her way to San Fran cisco, where she wss taken m charge by a l ood family and given the name of Carrie : iiller. She is attending school and making rapid progress in her stndie* Being half poet and half Digger, the onion of two such tribes out to produce some remarkable tal ent* John S. Fo'.ansbee, Esq., attorney has in his hand for collection a claim against Miller for her maintainance while watting to be forwarded, iill er seems to be tike the great poet in the sentiment, “Bus is the slave who pay*” Such in brief U the history of Joaquin Mil ler in Shasta, and t ike it all In all if is about ea beautiful a mess of romance and nastiness as I have ever been called on to investigate. WALD BLASTS. The Lyon asd Tiger Trade-How the BAonmrebs ef the Forest are Bought and sold. TENESSEE’S QUEEN CITY. A Graphic Description of Knoxville From Our Own Correspondent. An Interesting Aggregation el Facts. “Bountiful Knoxville ” lismKappeL [Indorsed.] “Indictment—A True Bill. “D. D. Hahhill, Foreman Grand July. “Filed, July 19,1859. “0, J. Van Horn, C. S. , “By A. C. Taylor, Deputy." 4 [Authentication.] - State of Califoraia»county of Shasta. “I, Wm. H. Bickford, County Clerk in and for the county of Siiaata, do hereby certify the foregoing to beajtrue and correct copy of the indictment as (he same appears on file id my office at this time. “[Seal]—Witness my band and seal this twelth (I2lb) day of -November, A D., 1872. “WM. [I. Bickford, Clerk.” The document, although not strictly gram matical, is suffleientir explicit; and alt the till reside in this State, and the In the course of my wanderings around the city I cam* the other day, across a mon opolist pur et simple. He is a trader on a large scale, but is generally very careful not to handle that live stock in which he deals; nor for that matter, do any of his employee* His business is the importation of every va riety of wild beast and bird, from an elephant to a guinea pig, from an ostrich to a Java sparrow. Does the proprietor of a menagerie lose his elephant, he repairs to this gentle man’s repository. He states whether he would prefer an African or an Asiatic ele phant. He gives his order according to his fancy, and in due time the animal arrive* and Is immediately shipped to wherever his new owner’s caravan may happen to be. If an African lion is wanted, a di-patch is at once sent to Capetown; if horned horses giraffes, or rhinoceroses are' in demand, otders are at once sent out to ship to New York all that can be bought or found. The fact is, this gentleman has some fifteen employees, who are scattered over Africa and Asia, whose sole business consists in collecting rare wild animals for him. So complete are ail his arrangements that none are found to com pete with hixXt in the business. He has the entire trade to himself, and '.rre'i-ea every menagerie in this country with such animals aa they need, from time to time. There are over thirty menageries traveling about the mnntrv event vear. Everv tear tiiev lose HE DID NOT BELIEVE IN SPIRIT* Id his opinion it wss a stupid trick; he wasn’t afraid, not he? As he spoke a broken bnck came from from the dead wall in the northwest comer and sped across the room, Just missine the top ot THE BCORKER’S ROSE. That old man stampeded and has not since been seen at No. 64 Tradd street This was st about 4 o’clock. Later in the evening another brick flew ont, striking a woman on the wrist and foot. The coal and bricks were thrown with amazing force, and were seen by at least twenty person* All day long crowds fif visitors hung about the spot, but at 12 o’clock last night THE HOUSE WAS PERFECTLY QUIET. The News has no theory to offer in expla nation of the strange occurrences above re corded. Tbey Were seen, and are vouched for by Emma Houltri* Priscilla Simmon* Carrie Butler, Susan Dovle, Thomas McPber sou, and other* who tell a straight forward tale which cannot be shaken by a severe cross-examination. These are the fact* The knowing ones most make just such explanation of them as will suit their own idea* It is certain that the cause of the Bar renly doings has not been discovered, and, in the way of ghost* 8onth Carolina is able see Georgia and go one better. General News. Russia depends upon wood for fuel, and that is giving out. New York fire insurance companies lose $13,000,000. It takes four tons of candles per month to Illuminate the Hoosac tunnel. B wtoo will erect a monument in memory of the men who lost their lives at the fire. During the next fire years Philadelphia will build five millions of dollars worth of bridge* Z3T A gentleman said to an old lady who had brought up a family of children near the Merrimac river: “I should think you would have lived in constant fear thst some of them would hare got drowned.” “Oh, no,” re sponded the old Isay, “we only lost three or four that ^ay.” Crasbkkbies—t here are now planted in New Jersey, according to the most reliable (Uthority, ti.t.-OO acres with cranberries Two year* from now there will be in full bearing, the value of this crop the past year is esti mated mt about $6.10,600. There will be large additions made 10 there acre* daring this year. Hundreds ate now preparing to plant, and the price of improved as well as nnim- provid hogs has rapidly advanced.—Vineland f. tSTCdeb Cushing, while in Pari* last May, is said to have devoted three hours daily to the study of French, trader guidance of an eminent teacner with a view “to ac- qaire a greater facility of expressionMr. t 'ttsuing has spoken French for more than forty years, and is seventy-two years old—but not too old to learn. Editor—A poor wretch who empties his brain to fill his stomach. It is said that corkscrews have sank more than corit jackets have saved. Some one speaking of the red nose of an Intemperate mas, said: “It was very expen sive {minting.” Bow to Bead. Thomas Wentworth Hlgginson say* in recent number of the Woman’s Joarnal: I was once called upon to prescribe intel lectually far a young girl of fair abilitie* who showed no want of brains in conversa tion, but bad a perfect indifference to book* She read dutifully and torpidly whatever was set before her—novel* travels, history, all were the some; each page drove out the pre vious page, and her memory was a blank. Her parents asked me to teach her to read she Joined in the request, and I consented u the experiment, on condition that she would fai Jifully read a single book in the way I should direct. She consented. It wu the time of Kossuth’s visit, when everybody wu talking about the Hungarian revolution. The book I chose wu “Hungary in 1848.” by Bruc* of fsr more interest then than now. I prescribed it in daily doses of onechapter. 11 possible she wu to read that —the chapters being short—bat under no conceivable circumstances wu she to read more. After each chapter ahe wu to put down. In a blank book I gave her, some re mark suggested by it. She must mention something that baa interested her, or seek tbe explanation of some word, or anything else she pleued. Her comment might be only to isy that Gorgey wu a traitor, or to inquire how his name should be pronounced; but at leut there must be one sentence of remark per chapter. From time to time I wu to see what she had written, and answer her ques tion* tf any. This wu the prescription and she took it courageously. I knew in advance what would be the greatest difficulty. It wu to keep her to one chapter. It seemed to her such a mistake, such a waste of opportunity, when she could so easily manage live or six chapters in a day. Had she done so, all would have been lost, so I wu inexorable. The consequence wu that she never failed to read her chapter; and when she got to tbe end of it, for want of anything better to do. she read it over again, or went to work with her note book. It wu a very nice note book and she wrote a beautiful hand. When I came to look over the page* every few day* I wu uton- ished at the copiousness and variety of her note* On some day* to be sure,there would be but* single sentence, and that vi-ibly written with effort; but al most always there were question* doubts aud criticisms til of which I met u I could. I found my own mind taxed by her* and finally re-read every chapter carefully that I might be ready for her. And at the end she told me with delight that for the first time in her life she bad read a book. Where wu the magic of the process? I suppose mainly in the restraint, the moderate pace and the necessity of writing something. “Reading,” sayi my Lord Bsc-m, “msketh a full man, writing an exact man.” To clearly define and systematize all yon know, write. tsf The New York Commercial, which as sumes to be well informed on the subject, uys there are ten different organizations in Ctitadg haring in view annexatisn to the United .State* and that they are working steadily Sfid efficiently to that eni The Montgomery City Council bu some objections to granting right ot way and other franchises te a street railroad company. Decatur wants a lodge of Good Templar* Two German* who settled near Toscum- bia not quite a year ago, rented a farm and have rai ted and sold 126 bushels of wheat, 600 bushels of com and 8 bales of cotton. Seventy-eight prisoners are confined in the Selma jaU. A floor company, with a capital of $250,- 000, hu been organised in Dali** The Birmingham water works or" progress ing rapidly. ^ * witnesses still _ _ foreman is onaqf the oldest citizents of Shasta. The facts, as related to me, are these: «. Thomas Bis* the principal witness, was st a Democratic meeting at Churutown, a little mining camp a few miles from here, when his horse and accoutrements were stolen. Pur suit was made; the trail was discovered that night, and late next day Miller wu found in possession of the horse on Cloud river. He wu arrested by Nelson Babcock, constable, and William Kappel, brought to Shssta, bad a preliminary examination and wu commit ted to the county jail .The Grand Jury, sit ting a few days after, found a true bill, but before the day set for his trial. Miller broke jail and escaped. H. .Clay Stockton, then sheriff, now resides at. Susanville, Lassen county: Ksppcl lives ia Humboldt county, and Mix is now an attorney at Walla-Wall* W. T.; and all identify the poet positively. After his escape, Miller found it Impossible to live with the Shuts* and went to the illamaths; thence he went to a logging camp i 1 the Siskiyou Woods, an£ hired u cook to John C. Carrol & Co. Proceeding thence to Dead wood creek,he cooked tor a mining camp aud having some difficulty about getting his pay,took ahorse belonging to tbe company, and went into the mountain* Bradley, the constable, pursued qim there and shots were exchanged between* Bradley getting a slight wound in the leg. Miller then left California, abandoned his wild lit* and went to Grant county, Oregon, where he studied law, too rank as a respect* ble citizen and wu elected County Judge— which office he held one year. The indict ment here, and the charge in Sisltiyon, were allowed to sink into forgetfulness; and when Miller came back from Europe and came to this country after his halfebreed daughter, he wu not molested. This girl’s mother is of a Pitt river band of the Digger* and now lives with au old mountaineer named Block, in the upper part of this county. Miller joined the band in 1350, and lived with them nearly two years. His half-breed daughtsiuwu bom early in 1857, when Miller and OH squaw lived in a cabin on Cloud river, a branch of tbe Pitt, at the foot of the Shuia Mountain* He and Brock were good hunters, and supplied them selves and Indian companions plentifully with game, but in other respects lived exactly like the Indian* The staple food of The »Diggep4f*i*»,' of (acorns, grass-seeds, pine-nuts and kamu-roots; but in times of scarcity they eat ser vice-berries, manzsnita-berries and the balls of the mountain buckeye. These last, in their natural state, are s deadly poison; but toward spring they become compartively barmies* Then the Diggers gather and pound them in a m ess, which they allow to freeze; then it is made into a sort of pute or bread, which is highly nutritiou* Their great luxury is dried or tainted salmon; and while men, strange enough, team to eat it so, and like it even more tainted than do the savage* But this Fitt-river hand appears to me one of tbe very lowest of the Digger race; and from the specimens I have seen, I should Say the sight, or rather tbe smell, of one of their squaws would turn the stomach of any man not a poet. Nevertheless, many old mountaineers, and even some later comer* are to be found cabined among these hill* living each con tentedly with his sqnaw; and it. is common testimony that after a white man hu lived with one of them two or three year* he would not leave her for the beat white woman in the country. Tbey learn to do housework after a fashion, and on gala days rig up in hoops and waterfalls of most fantastic pat tern. But they boil or roast the carcasses of their dead relatives; mix the grease with tar, and mat it on their beads and necks, making a sort of hamlet, with onlv the eyes and mouth free; then for seven weeks they howl on the hill-tops evety morning and eve ning to scare away the evil spirit* I saw one of these “ in mourning” to-day, and am convinced that if she don’t scare the devil away, he must be a spirit of some nerve. A white man, disposed to Indian life,can adopt all their custom in a month, while au Indian cannot adept ours in fifty year* Arithmeti cally speaking, it is a hundred times as easy for a white man to go wild as for an Indian to civilize. It was amid snch associations as these, and in a wild life among the beautiful scenciy of these mountain* that Miller first tried his band at literature. A pile of his first manu scripts is in the possession of a lawyer here, but nearly all the material is gross in charac ter, and unfit for publication. His reading while here wu exclusively of French ro mance* amatory poetry, and the livea of pirates and robber* From one of the lut he adopted his present name. Joaquin Mu- rietta wu a noted outlaw and murderer, some years befote the American occupation, and wu long the terror of the Upper Joaquin Valley. He appears to have been of the “dulling, chivalrous” Clusde Duval style of bandit* and spent his gains freely with the senoritu of Montery and other Mexican town* This character seems to have fascin ated Miller. The most charitable opinion nere about the latter wu that be wu slightly insane and crazed with an affectation to imi tate the heroes of Spanish romance. But while Miller wueDjoying himself and absorbing poetic fire from the companionship of Sbata squaws, a serious tragedy wu en acted, whicn nearly proved the death of the incipient poet. In January, 1857, a colony of twelve white* on Fitt river, were massa cred by the Indian* some of the same race with whom Hitler wu living. Among tbe settlers were twin brothers named Harry and Samuel R. Lockhart, but the latter being ab sent down tbe river escaped, the only survi vor He swore undying vengeance against the whole Pitt river bund, and pursued them for nine yesu* until he hod killed twenty-five, every ODe of the hand concerned in tue mu- sacre. He became a monomaniac on the subject, and though often arrested by the Federal authorities, u soon u released took to the mountains “ homing for Shuu*” He stole two Indian children and made them spies and deciys, and by their aid killed sev eral of the family with woich Millet wu connected, and captured Miller himself. Un certain of the poet’s guilt, he titd him and brought him to Yreks, and into the office of Judge Kosboroagtf, where he stood guard over his pti-oner for two nights and a day, until the Judge could collect the evidence. There wu hone to criminate Miller, and Lockhart was with difficulty persuaded not to shoot him. The fateof Lockhart wuamelanchoiy one. After the last of tbe gn Ity band wu killed be went to c-iiver City. Idaho, and w.<s em ployed by the noted Hill Be-.cby u a guard on the Ida Elmore Mine. When the battle took place over the possession of the mine, Lockhart wss shot through tbe left arm. Amputation wu delayed by hia ohstinaev until Beschy had convinced him there would still be enough of the urn left to rest a rifle across ond take aim. It wu then too late; mortification followed, and he diei a terrible death. Meantime Mille's Indian daughter wu taken captive by me Klamath Lake Indian* in one of their raids upon the lower Diggers, and carried into the mountains cut of Yreks. Itwu reported injhat place that “a white child had been seen among tbe Kkunitha.” Upon which Judge E. W. Patten.’of that city, went out and ransomed the child; bat learning who she wu seat her back to the Indian* and the wu attached to Kallo- ktllo's hand of Digger* Whe> Miller country every year. Every year tbey lose a certain percentage of their animals from natural death or by accident. Same ct the more rare animals are generally dciicat-:, and never become acclimatised, consequently do not live long. This makes them ^ery costly. Others again, like the giraffe, o u die of sea sickness on the voyage. The giraffe, too is so awkwardly built that it does not lie down with its legs undet it like other of the ante lope tribe; consequently if the vessel rolls at sea it losses its balance, is swung against, the side of its cage, and frequently breaks its long, ungainly neck. This runs up the price of giraffes to a high figure.- A year or two ago a well known showman, who had im ported four giraffes through the gentleman’s agency, but who took the sea risk on himself, lost them on the voyage. He could not now get four equally good specimens under $25,000. But when a cargo does come safely across, the profits to the importer are vety ‘Tis a great mistake to suppose that any of these animals are captured when full grown. Afullgrownllon.couldhebetrapped and put in a cage, would soon pine awsy and die. A full grown, wild elephant is the most savagely treacherous of animal* Even when captured young aud trained in a circus the elephant betrays those inborn qualities more and more os he grows older. It is only of late years that elephants have been im ported from Africa. Many persons will recollect P. T. Bamum’s advertisement of the first one, a dwarf, which was to appear iq his menagerie. The animal, however, died on voyage, and wss consequently never seen in this country. Our monopolist dealer iu wild beast soon after obtained four young elepuants from Africa and retailed them here to different showmen at about $3,000 apiece. They were “ babie*” The elephant ia an an imal of very alow growth when five years old it does nof stand more than three feet high; and one out of the alluded to above was only thirty inches high. They were, howerer, a perfect godsend to showmen in the way of startling noveltie* One, the thirty-inch on* was cooly exhibited aa a dwart. Another was shown as an offspring of an old female elephant, which had been in this country years before the youngster saw the light m hts native African jungle. Three of these young elephants are still alive and ia this country, but they have grown ont of all knowledge, especially the dwarf. The showman who exhibited the calf, asserted to have been bora here, made a great bit as it is pretty generally known that elephants will not breed in this country. Lions breed freely, in fact, there are few menageries which do □ot have a litter of cu>>s every year. But the mothers always destroy or desert them, aud they are obliged to be brought up on milk given to them in a bottle similar to th'&t u\cd in rearing babies by baud. The bippolamus has also been known to breed in the Zoological Gardens, in London. Like the lioness, she distroys her young as soon as they are bora; but the attendants in Lon don did once succeed io rescuing a young one from its mother, and in bringing it up by hand. But animals brought up in this artt- fici d way, and bora in a confined cage, never grow up to be such fine specimens as those bora in a state of nature. At a general thing, all animals are captured when young by the natives, acting under in- sliuctions from tbe white .agents. If lions are wanted the natives tally up the country, and either kill the parents and then secure the cub* or track the lioness to her den, and then, waiting till ahe gOcs for food, size the opportunity of stealing tue cub* In captur ing elephants they drive them, old and young, into an inclosur* hamstring the old so as to disable them from protecting their calves, and then easily secure the young one* An Afri can lion commands a higher price in the mar ket than aa Asiatic lion, on account of his more noble and commanding appearance, his mane is much thicker and longer than that 01 his Asiatic brother, and is blame Tbe quan tity and length of the mane is the test of the value of lion* An African linn sells for $30U0, au Asiatic only sells fur $2090. The same with tiger* Royal, Bengal tigers wil command $0liU0 apair; Brazilian only $4Uj0 a pair. C mels and Dromedaries bring about $1.20 ) a piece, but white camels have been sol-1 mt $35119 each. A good ostrich can be bought for about $400; elephants $6000 to $8000; homed horses, socalled. though they aro really only a variety of anteloji* from $1500 upward* Tbe importation of animals is only a branch of the business; but it is. in tbis cos* very extensiv* for the last fifteen years the value of tbe animals imported having averaged over $1,000,000 e reu Ofjcourse, the need of evety menagerw are known; and when one wants tosell« *”*rplus animal or two or to replace them with finer specimen* they are almost invariably anld direct to this gen tleman, or titrough him, on commission, to the proprietors of other menagerie* Avery- fair menagerie may be bought for $30.000; but some few of the giant abows value their stock of animals at two and three times that figure. The aggtegata value of all the wild ani mals In the different caravans in this country must approximate $2,500,000. In no oihei country :a the world are there 90 many kept in confinement The show business is esoen tially. American, and as a general thing ia » very profitable one—-N. T. lime*. Literary Items. Godey’s Lady’s Book has been conducted forty-two years by tbe same editora and pub lisher* Tbe number of volumes in press is said to be unusually large fur the season. Alexander Dumas was nrobnbly the most incurably extravagant nun that ever lived. When he died he left twenty fran a—he who had earned millions by bis splendid talent and energy. It is said thst nearly 30,000 copies of Mr. Teanysoo's “Gareth and Lynette” were ordered. tST Tbe statistics as to the Dickens’ Read ings in America are furnished. The Ameri can Reading Tour of Mr. Dickens extended from December 2, 1887, to April 26.1868. The number of readings given was 76. The assemblages aversged lfiuO prisons—the net receipts, $3, r 00 a night. The whole number of persona who heard Dickens was 144,000. The total net receipts were $218,000. The largest audience wss a$4,000 one; tbe small est—at Rochester. New York, a $2,700 one. At the first sale of tickets in Boston, on No vember 18, Mr. Dolby sat at the pigeon hole 13 consecutive hours, and took in $ 12,001. The Little People. Bored of Education—The truant “ When does tbis horse car run ?” said the old gentleman from the country to tbe little boy. “ Dunno,” said little chap,” “ the horses runs at the nose.” borne children at tbe dinner table were dis cussing that which has often troabled the beaus of older and wiser persons: “ Wasn’t Adam a good man before he got a wife J ’ “ Of course he was,” answered a lirile girl. “ How long was he a good man after he got a wife?” At this juncture a little fellow spoke up Miss Ann, I can’t answer that question.” “ Well, what was it ?” “ Eve made him eat the wrong apple.” 13T Titusville girl* with an eye to mat rimonial matters, stain their fingers with shoe bronze, and, when their gentlemen ac quaintances ask the cause of the asm* softly whisper. “I have been helping mother put up canned fruit,” Editor* Comtitution: I involuntarily ex claimed, as I stood upon one of the many knoll* commanding a fall view of the city no wonder thy gallant sons and noble daugh ters are satisfied to spend their lives amid the wild and rugged grandeur of thy mountain scenery, tempered down as it is by the soft sweet pastoral beauty of the valley—every where grand or beautiful. This picturesque city is situated on the north bank of the Tennessee river, and is the county site of Knox county. The Smoky mountains on the south; the Cumberland mountains on the west and nnrth; and the Clinch ou the east; all of which are from ten' to forty miles of tbe city, and in full view; while the beauti ful river winds its way lovingly along its Southern boundary, all conduce to its romantic grandeur. There are two beautiful streams of water trickling along gently over their pebbly beds, now'Hulling like silver threads iu the rays of the sun; now gurgling plaintively in the shadow of tbe mountains, which stand on every side like grand old fortification* Along the banks of these streams are almost iunmnennle perennial springs of limpid water leaping forth from tbe earth, aud in viting the thirsty, tired pedestrian to pmse and drink. The climate of Knoxville, Tennessee, especially at this season of the year, is unsurpassed in healthfulness aud purity. Its location is midway between Cbaitapooga aud Bristol, and in importance and population it is the third city of the State, (it contains about fifteen thousand in- hibitunta) Upon lofty eminences overlook ing the beautitul river are erected many ele gant and imposing mansions whose observa tories command a view of as picturesque and lovely scenery as any of which tbe Hudson can boost. In other portions of the city, also, are elegant residence* while in every direction mav be seen tbe bumble cottages in which dwell tbe honest sons of toil. COMMERCIAL INTEREST. Knoxville is the great commercial center of East Tennessee, and- ia supported on every hand by fertile lauds ana an industrious, moral and thrifty population. It ia to this grand division of the State what Nashville is to Middle and Memphis to West Tennessee. It has already pushed its trade throughout East Tennessee and penetrated far into ad joining State* Gay street is the principal business street in the city, extending from the river on the south, a distance of more than half a' mile, to theE. T. V. and G. Railroad on tbe north. On cither side of this street stand many bus iness houses, woile here and there are grand and'elegnnt four-story buildings occupied by wholesale establishments, one of which does bordered on either side with luxuriant grasses run through it in every direction. Many humble slabs and modest tombstones mark the last resting places of the beloved dead, while here and there is to be seen the elegant monument of some more favored son or daughter of fortune. . „ , . One mile east of the city are the Confed erate, Catholic and pauper cemeteries. There is nothing imposing in any of these receptacles of the dead. But In the middle one lie the remains of many a noble brav* who took his stand for Dixie. Holy angels guard the spot. Taking into consideration he social, com mercial, manufacturing, educational, and moral advantage*; salubrious climate and central location, with her net work of rail road* Knoxvil-e is destined to bee ime a great and important city. - * * gjtligious. AT CHURCH. With mind* all.wearied witfc our fix With heart* rtorm-toeaed upon llie’a troubled tea, This day we eome upon Thy holy ~ * 'ms our rett, our rc*t,0 Lord, ia Thee. We lay oar troubles down before Thy throcte. a larger business than any other in the State. Ita ealea this year will approximate two millions. N. B.—The United States Custom House, made of Tennessee marble, is a grand and imposing structure. MANUFACTURING interests are becoming quite extensive. Prominent among these are the Nail Factory, the Rolling Mills, the Founderies, the Ma chine Shops, the Sash and Blind Factories, and more recently the Carriage Factory. The materials in the adjacent country are so abundant that Knoxville will ultimately be come one of the great manufacturing em poriums of the South. EDUCATIONAL advantages are good. Just outside the cor porate limits, and west of the city, is located the East Tennessee University, a State insti tution established in the early part of this century. The buildings, though antique in style, are commodious and imposing in ap pearance. The college is in a prosperous con dition. Its past history has been bright, and with ita present faculty and trustees its future is destined to be even brighter. There are now about two hundred and fifty pupils con nected with it. Many of the most learned and eloquent professional men of the State, in the pu’pit, the doctor’s shop, at the bar, and in the halls of learning, not only in this bat in other Southern States, look proudly this institution as their beloved Mater.” The Deaf and Dumb Asylum is also a State institution, erected for the amelioration of the woeswf an important part cf our race. It is situated iu the northwestern p irt of the city. The building four stories high and very commodious, accommodating witu the greatest comfort two hundred inmates. The campus covers an area of seven acr,js, a part of which is sown down in blue grass, the remaining portion ‘ laiu oil in beautifully terraced plats, flower beds and gravel walks. The present number of inmates is about one hundred and twenty. The l&d Tennessee Female Institute is a time-honored Institution of learning and af fords good advantages to young ladies. An able faculty and a large number of pu pils daily grace its halls. It is devoutly hoped by many that the wealthy cit'zens of Knoxville will, at no distant day. endow the Institution with at least two bundled and fifty thousand dollars. FREE cmr GRADED SCHOOLS. Within the last fourteen months a thor ough system of graded free schools has been inaugurated. There are about seventeen of these schools, and nearly two thousand pu pils. Being sustained by taxation, they are patronized by a good clas9 of society. Be sides these schools there are a number more select ART GALLERIES. A love of the fine arts has in all ages the world characterized people of refinement and culture. Knoxville, therefore, must pos- s -ss a large proportion of that class of citi zens, judging from the display of beautiful paintings ot rare artistic excellence, with which her picture galleries abound. The handsome collection of James C. Btuigis, formerly of LaGrange, Georgia, is worthy of special notice. In connection with thin gal lery is his large book store, known as the East Tennessee Book Store. Among the artists of tbe city, Floyd Bran son, a youth of eighteen summers, takes the foremost rank. Youne B anson, familiarly known as ** The Boy Artist,” is the child of plain country parents, who came to Knox ville just after the close of the war. Up to that time he had known but little of letters, and nothing of painting as an ait. At tbe early age of ten ye-irs, with coarse brush and house p$int of different colors, he painted likenesses of persons that were recognized by their friends. ' A promineut physician, four or five years ago, being called in to see his sick father, observed some rough looking portraits of well known persons in the city. Upon inquiry he discovered them to have been tbe work of this remarkable child. He asked to see him, and was so pleased with his sprightly, manly countenance, and man ners, that he posted off up town and invested several dolUrs in paint, brashes, eta, etc, which Ae presented him with many kind and encouraging ] marks. Soon he called the attention of some of the wealthy citizens to this wonderful genius and now fatherless boy.* At their own expense those benevolent gentlemen imme diately sent him to college, where he remained until recently. In the meanwhile every mo ment he could spare from his studies he <' voted to tbe work of his choice, in which has, indeed, made wonderful proficiency. HU pictUies are in many of the most elegant parlors of the city; while in his studio are some of the ee?t portraits of the dty. At the late East Tennessee Fair he took an elegant premium for the best portrait on exhibition, tie has just finished a life-like and beautiful portrait of our bt loved and only brother who fell for the “Lost Cause ” at Franklin, Ten nessee. With the advantages of observation and travel, he is destined to lake rank with the very first of American artists. CHURCHES. Knoxville has her full share of Churches. There are two Baptist; two Presbyterian, two Episcopalian; two Southern Methodist, two Northern Methodist; one Roman Catho-’ lie; one Congregational; one Zninglean—in all fourteen, besides quite a number for the bl^ick population. Tne buildings in which different congregations worship are generally good, while two or three of them are magnificent edifices for a city numbering _ more inhabitants. By way of parenthesis, I would pause to pay “honor to wnom honor is due.” One of the churches of this city is favored by having for its pastor mine host and friend. Rev. LaPayette Lloyd, son of Rev. Bei jimin Lloyd, eo widely known in Alabama and Georgia—an honored clas»mate of the Hon. W. G. McAdoo, of Georgia, he was graduated in the East Tennessee Univer sity, in 1857; eubseqaently married Miss Mary A. Henderson, the accomplished and amiable sister of W. A. Henderson, Esq., a young, wealthy lawyer, of Knoxville. He is now about thirty-seven years of age and has been in the ministiy thirteen years, .shortly after the war he became pastor of the Baptist Church at Athens, Alabama. In 18 *8. removed from there to Meridian, Mississippi, assuming the pastoril care of the church there. Daring bis administration there about seventy members were added to the church. From Meridian he was called to the pastorate < f the First Baptist Church of Knoxville, where be has been preaching three years. His style is solemn and impres sive and full of the unction of gospel truth. Two hundred have been added to the church since he has been laboring for it, and to day, in point of moral power and influence, tbe First Baptist Church of Kooxville ranks in ferior to none in the city. THE CEMETERIES in the city number four. Gray Cemetery is in the northern part of the city, and is very handsome. Beautiful gravel walks and streets O blessed daVt O day of all the seven 1 Fortsais uT all that Heaven i*eelf will be; perfect peace 1 that to out aonlUjrivcn, _ our rest, onr rest, O Lftrd»in Thee. THE WIDOW’S SON; OR, A Light in the Window for Thee In nearly all of our Sunday-school publi cations of music will be found a piece enti tled “ A Liitht in the Window for The*" This beautiful hymn wss written from the history ot“The Widow’sOnly Son.” Iiwas originally printed, we beliere, in one of the New York papers some twelre years ago. Wc think it will brer rereading, containing, ss it does, many beautiful sentiments: “Mother, I will be everything to you that I can be; I promise yon that.” The boy lifted hu head. A look of high resolve made the young brow manlike in ex pression. Not yet had ten summers deepened the gold on those fair lock* The earnest blue eye looked fondly in the face that bent over him. There was a world of love in hia soul—a lore that was not only lip-deep, but wa. proved by acts of self-denial. They were poor—that mother and son—oh, how poor they were You could almost we how poverty had drifted over everything about them—drifted whitely over the pine chairs and tables—drifted over the humble quilt thst had grown so faded—drifted over their clothes and through them, till patch after patch was placed on the sad havoc that pittiiess, drifting want had made But iu holy heart-love they were richer than the Rothschilds; ye* out of thetr bank ia heaven—that bank directors here might sneer at—they drew every day, every hour, uncounted treasure. Mother, I will be everything to you that He had kept himeelf as f potless as if at every nightfall li’s feet had oeen turned to- wards the door of his mother’s cottage. How his heart bounded as he tUouvbt of her. Stranuely enough, he never dreamed she might be dead. It did not occur to him that n-rliaps her silver l.icks were lying under the id of the coffin. Ob, no! be only thought of the pleasiDt light in the window that her hands had trimmed for him. Beautiful and bland wss the day on which he traveled again the long accustomed roid. How pleasant now to go home with sufficient to provide for the comfort of thst dear motner. She would never want again. He would take her to a better home, and give her the luxuries he bad once longed to see m her possession. That old arm-chair-*he should have a new one. easy in motion, ele gant in material. The faded-shawl, that ho had been folded and refolded year after year: the old-fashioned bonnet, with ita one band of crape; these,ye* eyenrthing, should be replaced with newer and better The flowers on the road all smiled as be lo ked toward them; the very klne seemed to him turning their meek eye* at the sound of strange footsteps, to know that his heart wa* glad with love and anticipation. Hope on, dreamer I Yonder cornea one who trudge* on laggingly—a farmer in heavy boots and frock, his whip in his hand. He cheers the lazy oxen, but suddenly stop* amazed. “1 see you know mef said the young sailor, smiling. “Well, fanner Brown, how la—- “Know ye I why, how tall ye are! So”— his eye drop* his mouth trembles—“toye ve got home” . ... “Ye* and glad enough to get back again— It w*s my mother P* ... -Your—mother”—he says it in that slow, hesitating way that telegraphs ill tidings be fore they are told in word* “Yes—is she well? Is she expecting me? Of course she is; we’re late by a month. Your mother, Henry, weil—the old lady ’ He plays with his whip, or, rather. kes it hard on the dusty road. How can he crush that hippy heartl “There,you need not speak! cried the voung man in a voice of sudden anguish, and he recoiled, almost staggering, from the farm- el’s side, and buried bis face in his hind* Henry, my poor lad, your mother is—-a Don’ll don’t I” cried the other, showing now a face from which all color had fled. I can be; I promised you that.' The words are beautiful enough to be re peated. Henry Locke smiled^because ms he spoke there came tears to his mother’s eye* He had that morning been promised s place in a little country store, five miles from the cot, or rather cabin, where they lived. It was but a small pittance; but of lato the mother had grown so feeble that she could earn nothing; could ecarcelv do the little that order and neatness called for at her hand* One dollar a week ! It was a very little sum, but better, much better than nothing. Beside* Hcnty was to have his meals with his employer, aud could, if he chose, sleep in the store. But he did not choos* For glad smile from mother; for a pressure of tUat feeblo hand; for the tender Christian wonla that came from those pale lip* be was bravely willing, after his day’s hard work, to walk the five,miles, dork and tedious though the nay wa* Often became bringing some little delicacy that he had earned, and which was sweet to the invalid, because he brought it to her. One night the sky was curtained with cloud* The widow looked from her little window facing the hilly road along which the hay wagons went on their way to the city, and said, as he saw the twilight deepen ing earlier than its wont, “ He will notcome to-night.” No, he would not surely come that night The wind blew fiercely, and sent the branches of the old apple tree rattling against the clap board* and threw the rain, as with a spite, over the little windows, sheeting them, aud making dreary music So the widow, quite confident that Henry would not venture out in that storm, read her Bible till her heart kindled with tbe holy word* and putting out her little light, went to her rest She knew not how long she had slept, when a voice awakened her. The sweet voice, so dear to her was crying, “Mother I mother P At first she thought it a dream, but listening intently she heard, blending With the wail o the wind, that cry, and a sound against the Ulch greeted her. Instantly rising, she groped fra light, unfastened the door, and behoid, there stood Henry, a piteous sight in deed, covered with mire, lite ally, from head to foot. His face was wet, but the honest, happy smile was no ways abated. “jly boy, how could you come on such night 1" exclaimed the widow. “ Why, mother, storm couldn’t keep me from you,” was his hearty response. “ I’va had the greatest time, though, you ever did see—lost my way, got into a creek, and it must be midnight; but I meant to come, for S. gave me a trifle over to-night, and I knew bow much you needed it.” - “ My dear boy ” sprang from the mother’s full heart, with a tear or two that trickled down her pale cheek* “ i wonder I haven’t thought before," sbe said, musingly. “ After thi* I’ll put a light iu the window. To be sure, it won’t show far; but when you get to the top of the hill it will be pleasant to see it, and know that I am watching for you." For three years the lamp was placed in the little window every night. People often re marked it; and “as bright as Mother Locke's little window” became a favorite saying. At the end of that time young Henry was offered'* good chance on board of a whaling vessel, and he resolved to accept it. It cost him none knew what a struggle to part from the being beloved with an almost worshipful affection. But he knew thst the time had come when he must go forth into the world to do battle for himself and for her; and sailor’s life was his coveted calling. “It seems to me, Henry," said the mother, when with trembling lip, she parted from him, “as if I must still put the light in the little window. I shall think sometimes 1 hear the sound of your footssep* the click of the latch, and your pleasant vote* Oh, Henry, Henry, if I could but light you over the stormy wa- ten!” “ Mother, God will do that," said Henry, pointing to the glowing heaven. “ God will light me Uirougn storm and through calm; but, mother, I shall think every night that the lamp is in the window; that you sit near it; that somebody blesses yon for tbe guid ing ray, aud, above all, that you are praying for me.”. The long voysge was almost ended, but another voyage was to the end before than The widow Locke was taken ill. Yet, with unfailing regularity, with feeble step and treuralous hand, nightly the dear woman trimmed the little lamp and placed it in the window. Still, when the bended form could no longer totter about tne cottage, when she lay helpless upon her bed, and the neigh bors came to care for her, she would say, “ Put the tittle lamp in the window; my Henry will be th nkmg of it” Night after night, and even until ber eyes grew dim, ahe would watch the radiance of the flickering light, only saying sometime* “Shall I live to hear his footsteps? Will that feeble flame still burn when my life’s light has gone out?” “Pray with me” she muttered, “that I may see him before I die. Uh for this most precious boon 1 ” In vain all prayer. Slowly, more slowly, the wheels went round, and the pulses, like ebbing drops, fell fainter and fewer, until, one calm night in summer, the waters were scarcely stirred. She lay quietly, a smile upon her lip* her eyes closed, her hands folded. “I have longed to see him,” she said: “I have prayed earnestly; but 1 have given it all up now. I shall not meet him in this world." “ Hsae you pot the tight in the window I" the asked suddenly, earnestly,a few moments after. “ It is growing dark." AJasl it was not the light that was growing dark. Her hands grew cold. Over her counte nance came that mysterious shadow that falls but once on any mortal face. “Oh, my boy, my boy I” she whispered; “tell him —they bent lower to catch the failing words—” tell him 1 will put a tight in the window of heaven to .guide his footsteps there.” The thrilling sentence was hardly spoken, when tbe snadow dropped from the suffering face, and it smiled in the calm majesty of death. A funeral followed; humbled hearts at tended the body of one who was loved for her sincere goodness, all tnrough the hamlet; and on tbe hillside, in a tittle graveyard, she was buried. Not many days after a great ship came into the port of a busy city. Among all those who stepped from her decks none were more hopeful, more joyous, than young Henry Lock* He had passed thronqU the ordeal of a sea life, so far, unscathed. No Plight el Immortality had fallen upon Wffl, “ Oh, my mother 1 my mother 1—sbe is bom, gone—and I am coming home so happy. For some moments ho sobbed as in agony. How < reary the world had grown I The flowers had lost fragrance, the tun warmth; his heart seemed deal “ Henry, she left a message for you," said the old farmer, wiping his eyes with the sleeve of bis frock. “A message for me? it seemed ss if the white lips could hardly speak. “ Yes; says she—eo my dame told me,and so tbe minister said—‘Tell Henry I will pul a tight in the window of heaven to guide his footsteps ther*’” “Did she, oh, did she say that? Godblesa you for telling me! All my long voyage l have thought of the tight in her tittle win dow. I have seemed to see It streaming along, along down to the foot of lhe bill, til. it grew brignter and brighter as I drew nearerl A light in the window of heaven. Ye* mother, I will think still yon are wailing for me. I could not see youln'theaelong yean; but I knew the light was burning. 1 cannot see you now, butl know the light is burning. I will come, mother.” Slowly and reverently he went to the hill side graveyard, and there he knelt and wept upon her lowly grav* But not there ho thought her. A sweet vision was vouchsafed him. All robed in he vcrly garments he saw the beautiful soul he had called mother, and streaming from the brightness of her glorious home a slender beam seemed to come trembling to his very feet Th-n he knew that the light was placed in the window of heaven. Once more he knelt in the little room where he had last left her. Nothing was removed, but, oh, how much was wanting! There on the window-sill, stood the tittle bmp—that bronght the tear* afresh. But be took hit mother’s well-worn Bible, and, kneeling by the (bedside, as if she could hear him, be sought her Savior, and consecrated himself to a life and work of tighteousnesL From that cottage be went out Into the world, car rying hb grief aa a sacred memorial, bat seeing always, wherever hb work led him, his waiting mother, and the little lamp in the window of heaven. Sir Alexander Cockburn. However, I have no intention of writing an ssay upon a system. I merely propose to draw, after my own fashion, a few sketches of living men belonging to a particular data —thst of English lawyers who have made a reputation in Parliament 1 cannot perhaps do better than to begin with oae whose name has been recently very prominently set before the world, Sir Alexander Cockbun* the Lord Chief Justice of England, who represented hb country at the Geneva arbitration. Cock bum b now rather more than seventy years- of age; bnt although hb health b not good, lie has the brain, the spirit, the ani mation, and the freshness of youth. He b a man of very varied culture aud accomplish ment* well acquainted with many nurture* and having indeed a great deal of tbe liter- ateur or the artist in his composition. Every thing he does is done with such an apparent ease that he alsrays impresses one with the idea that he b really only trifling with bis own power* that he never put* forth hb real strength, that he coaid do much greater things if be tried, I do not believe that thb is so. I feel little doubt that all this bright- some ease of effect b the result of patient thought and study as well as natural endow ment A man does all that be can in any case; and if he has no: the gift of plodding labor, it b not likely that any amount of plodding labor would add a cubit to the stature of his fam* Cockbura'a handsome face, hb bright, sweet manner* his dear voice, hb free; facile style, are all in keeping with that int> Ueclual character which makes toll itself seem like easy and natural play. Perhaps from hb mother, who was a French woman, be derived some of that graceful and polULed e-.se and vivadty of manner which lend such a charm to hb speaking. Cockburn belongs to a fine old family, and bad ancestors distinguished in war ufloit and ashore, one of whom wss killed at the battle of Fontenoy. He inherited hb baronecty, and did not receive it aa a re ward for public services; be b in evety sense what people in England call a S ntleman. I believe, however, that be began e without much fortune, and that bis eaily career at the bar wss a rather hard straggt* If report does not greatly belie him, young Cockburn varied the monotony of hard study by a good deal of fast bring. Indeed, all through hb career he hu been the subject of a succession of rumor* and jokes and more or less apocryphal anecdotes—of which I shall not narrate any—tending to prove thst public opining places hb personal discretion and sdf-comrol considerably below hb po litical and judicial wisdom. Cockburn was al most unknown to the public at large until he left hb youth far behind him. He was. nearly fifty yean old when he won bb celebrity; and he won it all in a flash. He had found a seat in the House of Common* and made not much of a way thereuntil the famous “D m Paciflco” debate in 1850. Tbis wa* the memorable occasion when Lord Palmerston, defending a pert of his loreign policy which waa arraigned for high-handed arrogance, captivated the House and the country by hb boast that a citizen of Eigland might, by virtue of hb protection, para phrase the immortal “Ctris Homan us sum.” Palmerston's defense of himself was one of bb happiest effort* if it be right to describe at efforts those extraonfi. nary ebullitions of easy and seemingly care less force which were LI* peculiarity But even Palmerston's speech wu thrown into the shade by the unexpected brilliancy, 5J*’ spirit, and grace of the speech in which the almost unknown advocate, Alexan der Cockburn, surprised and delighted the House. When the orator sat down tbe minis- tciial benches were in a moment almost desert ed, such was the rash of members to con gratulate him. That speech waa the setua- tion of the session. I doubt whether ary speech delivered within my memory ever created such a sensation. For.sltbougL tjere have been many far greater speeches yet these came from lips to which tbe ear of the honse already tamed with the natural and well-justified anticipation of great thing* But Cockburn rose to speak that night an ob scure man, and be sat down a celebrity. f/toBU Engiith Lawyers," by Jrattee McCarthy, in December Galaxy. ■Wedding cards are now breed with the notice, “No plated ware," printed in one corner. “ Where’s my wile?" inquired Nil, on re turning home early one evening and mbting hia better bait “ She has gouj to bed with • u»th achfc” “Well," said the indignant Nil. if she had rather go to bed with the tooth ache than with me. let her go,” and he forth with settled himself to the perusal of the la test new* A young drug clerk committed suicide in Bristol a few days ago. At the inquest the oironer.asked a fellow-clerk of the deceased H he knew of any cause for the suicide. No,” wu the reply: “ he wu getting along nicely, and wa» going to be married next month.” “Going to be married, wm he t" exclaimed the coroner. “Tbat will do. We’ve got at the bottom of the business” Hews Condensed. Tbe Boeion Coliseum sold for $18,692. . New York pays $1,00*000 annually for gas Cleveland, Ohio, has had a fourteen inch snow storm. The Baptiste of Iltinsb have a membtrship of 60,000. Boston wia valued at six billions before the fir* Cornell University pays 2b etudenls $10,. 000 a year for work.