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sad, »t the expiation of
skM prerioc*Jy renewed, the
- # 1 fortunate. Hejudthe ability, the nerve, and
• onstitntion. experience to haye revived the old days,
* when Georgia had her best men at.'Wash-
I inglon.
Tcraaa •( Subscription: | yf c have not at hand the particulars of his
LT COXarriTUTlOW per mum $* 001 life, bnt he haa been for years representing
ttrltOy la ednualfcjacogntyin StateConventions. Hevras a
-forwhlch pajauatl dclegateat large to the Baltimore Convention
and member from Georgia on the National
of Tea SUM. tad a eopT of the paper 1 Democratic ExccuUtc Committee.
«lfreaUttTx«tto*p. As a soldier he illustrated Georgia in the
late war. He rose to be Brigadier General,
ATLANTA. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24. I “d proTed himself aa dashing and patriotic
1 in battle as hi dril life. _
He waa married twice. lie leaver a lovely
| wife srd several chitonc to monrn his lc»“.
The writer knew Gen. Wright well, and
I bad a high estimate of his qualities Gen.
Wright was s decided diameter. His nature
I was aggressive in its operations. He
I strikingly fearless, and had abilities to back
I bis courage.
We regard him as s large loss to Georgia,
I and profoundly regret Us sad and sudden de-
Fulton Democratic Ticket
res ordinary:
dajoel nmuK
A.1M. PERKERSON.
FOB CtKKK ILT1U10B COTJBT:
W. B. VENABLE.
C. M. PAYNE,
res tax seczitxb:
A/G.’. GRIER,
yon tax collector:
A H HOYLE.
Cstua-Sr. IO>
A 7. WALKER.
WILLIAM HTT.it
lELSCnOV JAXTAST 11
The receipts this week are 116,000 bales
114.000 leaa than last year, and 14,000 less than
1 two yevs since. It is likely the receipts for
I next week wOl be sbont 110,00) bales, com-
I pared with 127/MO last year, and 124,000 the
I year before, and the receipts at the interior
I towns SOjOOO bales, compared with 30/00 last
| year, and 39/100 the year before.
This week has been the first unpleasant
Now suppose the crop of this year ia only
sufficient to supply 40 per cent of the total for
next year, and the past three years is taken
a basis for the calculation, the price for
next year may average 11}, and the highest
price next summer 12) pence? The stock in
Liverpool and afloat for that port, February
4th, 1869, was 531/MO bales. Gold was 35
per cent, premium, equal to 5 cents a pound
above the present rate, and the price in New
York was 30 cents per pound. January 28th,
1870, the amount, as above, was 502,000
bales. Gold was 21, equal to 2 cents for
cotton above the present rate, and the price
waa 33} cents per pound. Now the amount,
as above, is 56\000 bales and steadily de
creasing.
Beginning with September 1st, the slock
insnd afloat far Liverpool decreased in fif
teen weeks for the following years as below:
1869, 300,000; 1870. 150/MO; 1871, 300,000
and this year, same time, 500,000 tales, and
still decreasing. Where is this to end 1
We do not believe in sensatien articles, but
state the above tacts for the tbonghtfnl to
digest. As to the future, our readers have the
facts before them, and they can judge for
themselves what is best.
IAISTALKT0P8ESIDES1GRAST. NORTHERN BUTCHERY!
He Must no Longer Hefose to
Hear the Truth.
Disgraceful Acceptance cf
Gifi a.
dla Want of Personal character and
Dlanlljr-IIla Nepotism—Tbe Atro-
claita Seaadal or Dent-Grani’a
Lore el Low Company—Ilia
Suspicion* Connection
with the “Black Fri
day.” Crime.
Ills Military Government—His Pall-
are to Beform Abuses-His Utter
Lack at all Statesmmaahlp-Tha
Presidency a Personal Per
quisite to him—A Low
Characters and a
The Celzay-Llgan Case la Cslamhas.
The case of Dr. Coirey for killing Mr. Ligon I and very bad week for cotton this season. The
in Columbus has just been tried and Dr. Col-1 mn has not shown its face in six days,and
zey acquitted. I no picking could be done daring the time on
The Ootambas popeta my that this esse has I account of rain. The thermometer has aver-
elicited more interest than any that haa been I aged 45 degrees at coon. One day dear and
tried for yean. We can well understand | pleasant, and six days cloudy and continued
this, and may be pardoned for a few rcllec-1 light rain, one night a very heavy thunder
tions upon the momentous lesson involved. I storm with wind and rain.
Cdzey killed Ligon for attempting to mis' I The market in New York thi* . eck has
lead his daughter. ‘And be did it after I been active with a rise of | of sceat a pound
waning; and persistence lathe wrong in I and medium sales caused by the same reasons
spite of Use warning. I given in our last circular. At the close the
The ItllUag was Justifiable under no poari- market was doll, earned by a vcy tight
Ue construction of the law. The Jury was money market, lower gold, and principally
under oath to give a verdict according to the I by the tightness of money in England and
law and lha evidence. The Judge fairly and Urn fear of a rise in the Bank of England
truthfully expounded the law. Yet the Jury I rate of interest, which is now 5 per cent, this
acquitted the prisoner in utter contempt of hast reason causing exporters to withdraw
the law and tkdr sworn duty. I from the market almost entirely. This
Yet who will dare claim that the Jury did always effects the market in the winter, as
wrong? And who believes for a moment I when exporters boy liberally the market is
that be himself would have done differently? flnn, and when they withdraw the market is
This brings the matter home to evety one’s dulL The fear of a rise in interest in Eng-
consdenca,and U presents one of those cases, I i-md is certainly well founded, aa the Bank
grounded in the fundamental Instincts of 0 f England has paid out this week $ 8,000,000
humanity and rising above all laws and or-1 morego’d than the receipts,
dinancoa of society or Heaven, that we occa-l We find one remarks on the New York
aionaUy meet with In the tragedies of human I market of last week would have answered
life. exactly for this week. If we were operating
Statutes seem unable to grapple with them, in cotton this is just the kind of a market we
The trammels of human legislation or Juris- should wish for, and U any of onr Mends are
prudence are as light and helpless as Uga-1 carrying any, wo would remind them of
menu of air in managing these matters, the tide upon the sea how it rises and falls
Courts are powerless. Judges are impotent. 1 every minute, bnt in six hours it will be cer-
Lsws are palsied. The great heart of nature tain to rise several feet This is the beat II-
tbrobs its irresistible decrees In the dreadcst lustration of onr idea of the market for six
language of blood, and criticism and punish-1 months to come.
mrnt cower helpless and unretributive before I The Liverpool market has been firm with
the awful arbitrament I large sales. As the cause has been the same
Them ore wrongs that no law reaches, as last week wo refer onr readers to our No.
Troop whose agony and ruin no redress can I Jg for the reasons,
cure, wrongs of unavoidable forget]css and I The receipts are so small there would be a
eternal horror. They blight with an infinite very active and excited market in New York
dun nation. The perpetrator of them sins at thia[Ume, if it were not generally believed
blackly and unforgivably against the victim, that the epizootic was the cause of the re-
If perpetrated they aro capable of no allevia-1 ceipti being so small. We believe this
tlon. If meditated their pnrpom is an offense largely over estimated. In No. 14. we stated
graver than physical assassination. the rccipts for November were 15 per tent.
What wonder then that a universal and over last year —me time, and if this rate
reverenced impulse cf humanity, leaps madly was continued the crop would be 3/5S2.0C0
to unrestrainable and appalling retribution? txria. jn No 13 wc , tMed if u, e receipts
The more honorable and sensitive that men I for December, were 10 per cent over last
are, the more do they recoil from such in-1 year, the total for five weeks would be 6*5,-
1 urics, and the more crazily and ruth-1000 tales. Now,fit ia almost certain therc-
lemly do they resent them. Where be I ceiptafor December, five weeks, will be only
yoor ligaments of lew then? Nature is stron-1 OOO.OOO tales. Hsstho disease caused the fali-
ger than law. Nature is of God. Lsw is of ing off in the receipts of 13,030 bales per
man. The tender conscience of religion tt- week? If so, wc arc still 5 per cent, behind
•df scema to lean to bloody murder, as un-1 for this month, of an average estimate,
godly as it la The monster that would make I There is always some excuse for tlic receipts
• shamekM rain of sweet innocence—whose being small. Bad roads, low rivers,
loathsome defacement when done, no time sick horses, or war. In 1830 the rc-
nor tears can restore to primitive purity—ap- ceipu were 4 per cent, behind
pears allotted try the arbitrament of all hon- the end of December, caused by a fall of k n
onblo Instinct, to ibo doom of a wild beast I cents a pound In the price and a belief in
higher prices in the spring. In 1870 Ibc re-
tta^SSabfe^o^ dritMSS^mJSd ceipta were 10 per cent, behind at the samo
pdrity to an eternity of vile garbage. ° I time, caused by a fall of fire cents a pound
Wherever the great ties of nature exist, the I la the price and the French war. In 1871 the
tiesitrf parental tom, ties content were foil np to an average at the
I- consequence of Oris mop being
fu, a yet spontaneous and uncontrollable I * week earlier than last and ail other circnm-
application. I stances about tho same, except the yellow
The tWement madoby Dr. Colzcy, which I fever last year, and the horse disease this,
we give below, is, we think, one of tho most ...
natural, eloquent and touching expressions of we * ,Un “ te ““ rccei P u will be this year 2 per
pathos and parental sensibility ever penned I ber, making the total crop 8,400,000 talcs.
at uttered. I cent, above an average at the end of Dccem-
— db. oolzey’s statement. I Oar calculations for weekly receipts have
OtaOmea of As Jury : In order that you I been based on a crop of 3,300,009, and as this
may correctly understand why I should take now seems to be too large, wc have missed it
m 5Rd!yS&S I*Su“a&I I and made our cstimalcmuch too largo f,
takenadedded interest in him. ingoing 0,0 P** 1 Wo b » vo «<lhrred to
Noticing the fact that General Longs tree*,
who fought through the war on the Confed-
ate tide, has been placed in command of the
State militia by the bogus Legislature of Lou
isiana, the Pittsburg Post says “he appears
ready and willing to do any dirty work that
may be allotted to him.”
It most ever remain a strange thing that
men like Longstrret, who have shown the
possession of fine qualities, iliould develop
phsse of character so inconsistent with such
qualities. Loogstreet was a noble and success
ful soldier, brave, faithful, able and chivalric.
Amid n&any bright spirits he won a command
ing pre-eminence. The war left him with
an unusually brilliant lustre.
His cone since has been strangely variant
with bis character as a Confederate General.
He stood true to his section in her danger
and butties. In heff sobseq tent degradation
and ruin he turned against her, and made
money out of his subserviency to her oppres
sors. Perhaps this might have been charita
bly judged on the idea of bis jadgment com
pelling him to accept what was for the best.
But events have confirmed the darker con
struction to which his conduct was liable.
He joined the liberal movement at first
and supported Greeley. With characteristic
pliancy and readiness, he deserted the cans*
he thought to be (riling, and voted for
Grant. And recently he has identified him
self with the disgraceful and successful Rad
ical attempt to overthrow the Louisans State
government, and has even blatantly offered
to lead Federal bayonets to the slaughter of
Louisiana citizens.
His infamy is about as complete »s it
inexpressible; And the spectacle of his shame
carries with it pain and regret to every South
ern soldier.
about in the practice of my profession, I
heard had reports concerning him; hence,
whan I met aim at the Unw referred to '
Mr. McDougaid’s testimony, I told him
these reports, and regretted that such things
were circulated about him, but told him that to
long as those reports were in circulation, and
until he outlived them, he must not visit my
daughter—telling him that were he to violate
tho hospitality *>f my household I
kill him. Ho denied the report; bnt I
said, "Be it true or falso, you must not at
tempt to associate with my daughter.” I
thought no more of it until some time after
wards, when, while in attendance vm Dr.
r friend who was ill-I received
message from my wire to
Shortly afterwards I v
. ... t went home, rather np-
braiding myself for not coming sooner, fear
ing my wife was ill; bat when I got in the
house I, found my father in-law, and
concluded 1 had been lent tor on a matter
of business. Aa aeon, however, aa I saw my
wife, she said, “We are rained;” I asked
what was the matter; she handed me a note,
which is the tenth note - as introduced In evi
dence, and I read it; it completely over
whelmed me; I desired to b* alone under
such circumstances, and repaired to my par
lor with the note, followed by my wife; I
■at down and read each note. From that
moment I thought only of avenging my
daughter's wrongs—that daughter that! bad
raised—abe having been left an orphan by
the death of her mother when she was
only fifteen boon old; I neither dept,eat nor
drank, bnt set out to find the man who
had wormed himself into my daughter's
affection and then thought to rob her of her
virtue; I never had time to cool, nor am I
cool now when I think of (he great wrong
thaMras about to fall upon the head of my
child; it is more than human to aak that, un
do such circumstances, with such a fate star
ing my child ia the face, that I should be
cool; the impulse was irresistible no other
way could have saved her virtue.
Of one thing we may be certain. As long
as wickedness seeks to prey on innocence,
law will be impotent, and juries will refute
to avenge the penalty accorded to the vil
lainy even though it sacrifices life in its re
call. A. B. Wright.
The death of this very able and prominent
Georgian wOl be a large Iota to the Slate at
this juncture. His death waa very unexpec
ted. He waa in the prime of his very vigor
ous and intellectual manhood, and had the
promise a long, and useful, and brilliant ca
reer. We remember him hot a few weeks
bade ia the most lusty health, and robust,
mental vigor.
He has been prominent in Georgia politics
for many years. Before the war he had ta
ken part ia the political contests of that time,
and had made a state reputation as one of
the boldest, ablest and most effective stamp
weaken. Aa" Ruse Wright," he was known
on every hustings, and made himself a polit
ical power.
He was a lawyer in large and successful
practice, and exhibited the ability,zeal,
and eloquence as an advocate that he did as a
Sincetbe.war he was the chief-editor of that
popular and powerful old jonrnal,the Augusta
Chronicle and Sentinel, andhewieldedapen
aa ready and forcible as he was eloquent aa a
In the late contest he waa elected from his
district to Congress under dramstieces pe
culiarly flattering, and we had looked to his
advent in the national councils with a very
large degree of expectation. He would have
aide his mark there, and at this time we re
garded fab presence in Congress upccu’Jrriy
this because it seemed to ns a conservative
view, bnt find we are wrong and therefore
hasten to pat ourselves right sgaie. Onr
estimate now is that 43 per cent,
of the crop has been received, making
the total crop 3,400,000 bales, which is our
present estimate. Onr readers will recollect
that we alwaja allow, in all cur calculations,
to add 250,000 bates at tho end rf the year
for shipments overland and. Southern con
sumption.
The tendency of (he market is up; but the
estimates for the crop, varying as they do
from three to three and three quarter million:.
make the market extremely sensitive, to
much so that a very large or very small day’
receipts will put the maiket for contracts
down or np from } to 1*2 a cent a pound,
and this right in the f see of the fset that
every one knows one day's, or even one
:’i receipts, will not Dif-et the total
At th-s time last year gold was 8 per cent
premium, the lowest of the season, and did
not rise above 10 per cent for four months.
Daring the past summer we thought it likely
the price might be is low this year at this time
bnt now we do not expect to tee it fail much
telow its present point, and wc have many
good reasons for this opinion. We mention
this, because some persons arc expecting gold
to decline enough, soon, to seriously effxt.thc
price of cotton, whilst we think whatever ef
fect gold m ty have on the price of cotton,
his already passed for the winter. In
last Liverpool circular, published by these
very able gentlemen, W. U. Watts & Co., they
estimate the American crop at 3,02s,GOO tales,
aal say if this should be the total crop, the
supply of this sort wouldonly be equal to the
past year, including the amount held by spin
ners; and if the crop should turn cut 3,750,-
000 bales, there would not be too much.
Vhilst if the Bureau estimate of 3,450.000
taka should be the total, there might be a
cotton famine
A month ego wc made cn estimate, based
on an American crop of 3,700,000 taka,
which may be distributed is follows: spin
nets wiil take from the ports 900,000, also,
will take overland 125,C<K). Southern spin
ners wfll^take 135/09; expirt to continent
15/00 holes per week—780,000; export to
GrealBritaia 34,000bales per week—1,”70,040
Of the amount taken by Great Britain,
3.000 boles per week may be gp ported to I he
continent. Thus making total supply for
continent 230,000 tales or 18,000 per week,
and the sopply for Great Britain 1,014,000 or
31.000 per week. This would be a total sop.
ply. far all Europe of 49,000 tales per week,
and as the spinning power is 108,0 0 tales
per week—that is 45 per cent, of American.
Bat suppose oar present estimate of 3,400,OCO
should be correct, the supply for Europe will
only be 40 per cent
The avenge per cent of American cotton
taken by the trade boa Livcrpool,and avenge
price for the year, and highest price ia the
for the past two years, and this year
is as follows: (As the cotton year of England
begins and ends with the calendar year, this
calculation is based upon that plan.)
1870,03 per cent, price for year 9 7-8, high.
110 7-8 d.
1871,08 per cent, price Tur year 81-9, high
est 9 1-2(2.
1872, 45 per cent, pries for year 101-2
highlit 11 l-M
Tbe County: Election.
In a few days the people of Fulton county
will be called upon to elect county officer?.
The Democracy have a full ticket in the field,
regularly nominated and by s large average
majority. Indeed, with one or two excep
tions, the majority for the nominees, was
overwhelming in the nomination. There
utterly no excuse forfany Democrat to fail
in hia supporter the ticket. And none will
do so.
But the very confidence in success is the
danger to be apprehended, the defeat of in
dependents and malcontents in the late elec
ion pat a virtual stop to that busineos, and the
Radicals will now ran a tim'd pure ticket,
except perhaps for one or two offices. Our
people are apt to think that under this state
of things tbe contest will be easy; and msy be
come kdifferent, even stayingjfrom the polls,
thinking their votes not necessary. We,
therefore, counsel every Democrat and every
citizen who loves his country and seeks
prosper itsbest interests, to bo vigilant and'
active. Let ns roll np a majority of two
thousand for onr ticket, and thus insure the
election by a rousing vote for a ticket just
good as any that could be pot in the field—of
men, who for character, intelligence and fit
ness, stand among onr very best.
Corn (or Fact.
Iowa farmers ore laying in quantities
coru for fuel. They find it cheaper than
ccal. The Council Bluffs Nonpareil sayi that
a ton of corn, 33 bushels, costs $5 GO. This
is equal to a cord of hard wood at $7 00.
Three tons ot corn produce beat equal
that of one of hard coal, while in economy
of use it is equal to one and a half tons
coal. Tbe Nonpareil is farther of opinion
that it is better for the farmers to consume
their own products and keep their money
home which they would scud oil for coal.
We call the attention of people wild
on the subject of emigation West It is easier
to preduet, bnt the production is far less ni
mble thsn in onr own sansy Sooth. Stay
homo if you would prosper.
To What are We Camlet!
The high-hsndcd outrages of the Federal
Government inflicted upon the people
Louisians, arc evoking condemnation all
through the land. If these violations upon
the rights - f State; do not arouse the Ameri
can people, then ter the American people to
receive a blow from which there shall bo no
recovery save through blood
The TruthJFrorn
Friends.
His
“For Mercy’s Sake, Don’t
Kill Me!”
A Terrible Gash—A Knife That
Did Its Work Well—Aa In
stant Murder in New
York.
cried, her face convulsed with grief, and her
whole body trembling j “let me kiss him once
more.”
It was her last adieu. She took his hand
and kissed it affectionately, and then she im
printed one long kiss, full of love and sad
ness, on his cold lips. Then she was dragged
away.
In the afternoon Drs. Wooster, Beach,
Vandcrwatcr and Knox made a post mortem
examination on the body of the murdered
man, on which they found no less than four
teen incis'd and penetrating wounds, on the
face, hands, arms and body, only three of
them, howcTcr, being necessarily- fatal in
-their character.
From tbe Atlantic Eantbiy for December.
* * • * The
election of Grant is therefore the choice
of the lesaer evil. It is not an unqualified
indorsement of his conduct, nor a dccl&rtion
of popular contentment with the present
status for another four years. On the con
trary, his re-election liberates a reform senti
ment which was repressed tar the necessities
of the election contest. The sente of hav
ing been placed at a disadvantage before the
enemy by the shortcomings of the Adminis
tration will give the reform demand an energy
it did not have before. The wounds of the
battle will give on unwonted sharpness to
criticism in the Administration party- What
ever load the supporters of the President
have had to carry in the fight will now be
freely cast upon him, and his coninct will
be subjected to a severity of judgement which
will be something new to our party experi-
ZackE. Simmons keeps a policy shop at
No. 67 Libirty street He has a magnificent
country seat Ja. Port Richmond, Staten
Island, and lives like a prince. Champagne,
fast horses, diamond pins, suppers al
Delmoaico’s—hghas all the good things of
this earth. Some three or four months ago
he was in partnership withNicholas W. Dor-
yea, another wealthy policy dealer. They
frequently qommeled. Simmons thought
that Duryea wa* getting most of the profit
and Duryea thought that Simmons was not
treating him fairly. After many quarrels
they dissolved psrtnerriiip, and Duryea went
to Brooklyn, where he opened a policy shop
at No. 6 Boexum street
Duryea prospered in his business and when
ever he met his former partner told him that
be was glad he had left him, as he was mak
ing much more money now. Simmons told
Duryea never to speak to him again, bnt
Duryea laughed at his threats. They were
bitter enemies now. Last night they met
in front of Simmons' office, 67 Liberty street
They had some angry words. “You are a
thief,” Simmons said. _ . _
“Don’t you call me a thief,” muttered Dur
yea, with an oath.
“I will call you a thief, Simmons salu
with an obscnM^ath.
At this Duryea struck Simmons. They
clinched and rolled into the gutter. Sim
mons, who was the more powerful man,
seemed to hiTe the advantage, and Duryea
tried in vain to -free himself from the grasp
<ff his adversary.
“G— d— yoq£ he said, “let me up.”
“You’ll dio fiSt” Simmcns arid, giving linn
& tremendous blow.
Tho blood gushed from Daryca’s eyes and
nose and trickleJTaown bis checks.
“For mercy’s sake, let me up,” ho cried.
“ Go to heul” was Simmons’ answer, and
he gare Duryea, another blow. Tho blood
mrorml OnyvM’a for* and BtrMmPfl (ITfir hlS
necessity DlscvacL
Mr. George Smith, of tho British Museum,
has discovered among its retards an Assyrian
account of a deluge similar to that of Noah,
as recorded ia Genesis. Mr. Smith has pre
pared a paper onjthe subject J. which he will
shortly read before the Lsadon Society of
Biblleal Archaeology.
Bret flarte.
The author ol the “Hcatbra Chinee,” is a
gentleman of abont five feet nine inches in
height, with distinguished dark face, dark
side whiskers, dork hair sloping down on
bis forehead, a large, flowing and silky black
mustache, and attired in exceptionable even
ing dress, a white tie, having gold studs in
his shirt boson and a watch chain depending
from his vest pocket.
As a specimen of Mr. Uarte’s style of an
ecdote, one might be given in which he illus
trated the droll homo,- of the real Westerner.
A lady from the East was shocked at the
profanity of a miner who happened to be
near her, whereupon her male cousin, who
had been in the mines for cereral years,
remarked, “Ho, yon call that swearin’?
Well-1, yon onghter hear Bill Jones exhort
that impenitent mule of bia’o.” At one point
in the hclure, when Mr. ll.-irte alluded to
“ Wbatyou call the heathen Chinee,” the au
dience applauded loud and loug.
Tbe lecturer illustrated the manners of the
Argonauts by a story of Mr. John Oakhurst,
raised in a Puritan land and fostered bv Pu
ritan parents with Puritan principles and
transplanted to California ia the Hegira of
the “roughs.” He had been taught that
cards were sinful from early yontlr. One day
ho sat down to a game ot faro, and as he
rose, the winner of $5,000, he leaned overthe
table and lookieg around at the large assem
blage ia the gambling saloon, be said, in bis
charoctcrLtiq^ay, “And some people think
that keerdsis a waete of timer
The subject of Lynch law w|s next dwelt
upon, and as an instance of the utcampro-
■niaing manner in which it was carried cut
the lecturer related an anecdote of a jury
who he-itated so long when t ying a for
horse stealing that the crowd hocame impa
tient, ani the ringleader, patting his head in
at the doer, asked theta if they had agreed
upon their virdict. “No," replied the fore
man sharply. “Well, gentlemen,” said the
man, “take your own time, bat remember we
want this room to lay oat the corpse in.'
At Chippaqca, on Saturday, the
goods ari chaiucs cn Mr. Greeley's farm
were so: by auction. On the “Old Alder
ney cow being put up, the auctioneer said:
”1 will offer yon the <rid historic cow. [Cries
if ‘Where's Barnum T] she is twenty-four
years old and gives a quart of rich milk
daily. This as the cow that fed all Hr.
Greeley's children. This is the cow
whose milk Mrs. Greeley used to chum in a
cap. This, gentleman, is the cow of whom
Mr. Greeley said: ‘She is an Imported cow.
She has stood in the stable for several years
doing nothing bat eat, because my wife
she haa given milk to my children and she
shall not be killed f “Five dollars,” cried a
man in the crowd. “Where’s Bantam!”
shouted s dozen men at once, aa the aged
quadruped was knocked down to'Squire Ar-
There is in the Republican party, not ex
cepting even those public men who seem to
be personal adherents of Grant, a wide-spread
feeling of discontent with him, and among
all the thinking classes s feeling that we need
an deration ol tbe character of the adminis
tration. The removal of the outer pressure
of the election battle will liberate this feel
ing, and give it a rebounding energy of ex
pression which it will be necessary for the
President to heed, and which it would be
wise in him to anticipate fiy giving signs that
he ia alive to the public sensibilities. It is
necessary that free pubi c journals which de
sire the success of the administration should
speak plainly on these matters, for the Japan
ese Mikado is not more completely cut off
from all hearing of unfavorable opinion of
his conduct, on the part of his personal sup
porters than is President Grant. The power
which a President possesses, and the fact
that through his patronage he holds the politi
cal fate of every Administration Congress
man in his hand, would, to a great extent,
prevent any President from hearing the troth
trom those about him; but it is well known
that this evil is increased by tho disposition
of President Grant, which inclines him to
M wilh aversion any who speak to him
t of conduct
It was unfortunate that Grant came into
office with the conspicuous gifts of citizens
to tho successful General who in the line of
precedents was the coming President When
he showed an inclination to call the giveis to
high places in the government, it gave the
opposition a weapon against him. When he
took a share in the high gift3 that citizens
were contributing to General Sherman, and in
his eagerness involved himself in the scandal
with Jilajor Bowen, he compromised his per
sonal dignity, and exhibited qualities unbe
coming to ins station.
It is not a great draft upon the public purse,
nor a creation of dangerous family influence,
when the President appoints a dozen or more
of his relttions to office; bnt it is a bad exam
ple and shows a low view ot the Presidential
office. Butlar worse than this was thcscan-
dal of a President’s brothcr-in law at the cap
ital, following the profession of agent for
claims against the government, carrying his
family influence into the subordinate execu
tive departments where such claims arc
judged, and actually—as he testified before a
Congressional Committee—appealing cases
from the Departments of the President, and
appearing before him to argue them. In ef
fect Ihia was the sale of the President's influ
ence against the ends of justice by bis brother-
in-law.
The summer absences of .the President
from the capital are matters ot no great mo
ment in the affairs of the government, and
his frequent junketing excursions could be
excused for his proclivity for a pecular kind
of entertaincra'who bring him and the Presi
dential office into disrepute and expose him
to be made the instrument of designs upon
the government
When the gold conspiracy to make a pri
vate speculation at the cost of widespread
ruin of the innocent burst upon the public on
the memorable Black Friday, the public mind
was shocked by the intelligence that the Pres
ident had been caught in the toils of the con
spirators, and had been made to do their bid
ding by writing a letter to Secretary Bout-
well advising mm against increasing his sale
of gold. The effect was not mitigated by
the fact that the conspiritors had tangled the
President's family in the plot. Tbe public
party excused him with the charitable plea
that he was deceived by the sharpers GouTd
and Fisk; but there was a general feeling
that the President of the United States
should not have made companions of men
so notorious as public robbers, nor received
hospitality and other favors from them.
The American people do not fear that the
President’s surrounding himself with military
attendants means a design to subvert the
government, but jealousy of military sur
roundings and manners belongs to free insti
tutions and the spirit of free peoples, and the
disregard of this shows a lack of perception
of popular sentiment, or a contempt for it.
It is true that Congress is laggard and re
luctant in tbe work of civil service reform;
but the President has not the trammels that
bind Congressmen. He can wield a prevail
ing influence in promoting the noeded legis
lation. He con pat the methods of reform
into practice, by retaining and promoting
capacity, fidelity and experience, and by re
fusing to remove any capable and faithful
officer to make place In a partisan retainer,
without waiting for legislation. Bat while
he asks of Congress legislation to coerce him
to reform the mode of appointments to the
civil sendee, ho presents to the country such
a scandal as tho New York custom-house,
with Its disreputable official service and its
unofficial levies upon the merchants, regu
lated by his own hand.
It is true that when the President erased
our case to be presented to the GcnevaTribu-
nal with our consequential injuries extended
to the close of the war, he went no farther
than the speech of Mr. Sumner and the al
most unanimous vote of the Senate and the
general acceptance of the country, and that
his late competitor went beyond this with a
wild proposition that onr claims should be
made the ground for demanding the ces
sion of Canada; bnt it cannot be forgotten
that between these events the President’s os
tensible reasonfor the oeremptory dismissal of
Mr. Motley was that he stated to the Britiah
Minister the case of onr injuries too strongly,
although it came far short of the case pre
sented at Geneva. The Republican parly did
not seek a statesman for President when it
chose General Grant, for it could not have
expected a statesman in him. It chose him
because the glory reflected on him in the
popular view by the military triumph gave
him a political availability which would be
useful, and which, if not secured by it, might
be turned against it. It would therefore be
unreasonable to demand of him a positive
and leading policy of statemanship. But it
had the rigut to expect from him an example
of doty, dignity, regard for law, and a high
self-respect which would have a beneficent in
fluence on the other branches of government
and on the whole execmive^ervice. Yet
there is a common impression that Gen.
Grant takes a low view of the Presidential
office; that he looks upon it aa a personal
affair; that he makes a talculation of what is
due him from the value of the office he gave
up to take this; and that he regards it as a
reward cf merit
All these things and otheqi have made the
labor of the recent contest much greater to
the administration party than it would^iave
been with any Republican of fair standing,
without an administration record, for a can
didate. The election having given to Gen.
Grant another term of office, this feeling in
his party shotdd have free expression. Hia
friends cannot do him a greater service than
to subject hia conduct at every step to severe
judgment. At the best he will have a diffi
cult part to play. Whether he shall show an
amenability to intelligent public sentiment
and shall rise above the personal view of the
Presidency, will govern the event whether
he shall continue to have the support of a
successful party, and shall leave it in control
of the country when he retires to private
lifejor whether his re-election shall precipi
tate a disintegration of the Republican par
ty, which will make his administration help
less, and leave him to terminate bis official
career followed by the repioaches of the
tarty that elected him, and with none to do
urn honor.
Amendments.
According to the Boston Journal, there arc
now no less than twenty-four unenilmcnts to
the Constitution pending in Congress.
covered Dutyca’s face and streamed over bis
collar end his shirt.
“For mercy’s sake,” he cried, trying to
ward off the blow, “ don’t kill me 1"
“Kill youl” Simmons exclaimed, in
fearful paroxysm of rage. “ I’d kill you
dozen if I^ould.”
Duryea succeeded in raising himself
liltlo. He seized Simmons by the throat and
attempted to choke him. Simmons gasped
for breath. His face was livid, and it seemed
now as if Duryea was to have the best of it
after all. He trad to free his neck, but could
not. *
“G— d—youP he gasped; ‘Tilkill you I”
And he put hia hand into his pocket and
drew forth a knjfc. It flashed in the sir, and
in the next monjfent was buried in Dnryea's
“Oh! oh I” Duryea cried, as his head sank
back, bathed in blood.
Again the knlfi flashed in the air, and again
it descended. What a terrible gssht It was
right behind the left car. The arteries had
been cut— tbere.was no hope for Duryea.
The knife had 3vio its work well. As Sim
mons raised it the second time Duryea raised
his hands. - It was too late. The knife de
scended and Dtfyea writhed in an agony of
pain; his head sank bock, the blood rushed
over bis whole tady, then a few painful con
vulsions of thumbs, and then It was all
over—he was dead!
“By J , he’a deadP 8immons said
coolly, and he drew the reeking knifo out of
the dead man’s neck.
He looked at tho knife complacently and
said, “By G , I thought I’d do it once, and
Tm glad I’ve done it now P
The blood was all over his face, all over
his body. He put the.knife in his pocket and
calmly surveyed Uto corpse. What a ghastly
spectacle I The head, behind tho left car,
looked as if it had been cut to pieces, and tho
features, covered with blood as they were,
bore a terrible expression of agony. The
dead nun looked as though he were suffering
yet in liis death.
Officer Webber, of the second precinct,
rested Simmons.
“Give me tho knife,” the officer said.
“All right,” Simmons replied, in a grnff
tono; “you can have it now. I don’t want
it any more.”
He waa taken to the police station in Beck
man street, and t&ere he complained that he
had broken hia leg. It seems that he fell into
the gutter after having murdered Duyca and
sustained slight injuries. He was removed
to the Park Hospital.
He was very reticent and refused to say
anything in regard to tho murder. He was
apparently very, cool, and acted as if nothing
had happened.J- 11/ls.nn intelligent man and,
knew that han;in^.wa3 played out in New
York.
THE NEW YORK BUTCHERY.
Tho Touching Grief of
Victim’s Wife
HORRIBLE!
THK SODDEST 8CEXS
in a few minutes waa abont two inches in
length and located on the left eidcct the neck
the steel passing inwards and severing the
carotid artery.
Duryea was a handsome man, and even in
his death there was nothing repulsivo in his
look. His face was white as marble. The
eyes looked life-like, natural; they seemed to
glance at you, when they were opened, like
the eyes of one that was living. Hia month
was half open, so that his white teeth conld
be seen. The hair was dark and still clotted
with blood. The heavy mustache showed
also marks of blood. Altogether the expres
sion ot the face was tranquil, peaceful; he
looked like a man who hid laid down to rest
It was only when yon looked at the four
teen terrible gashes that the impression be
came one of horror.
“What a horrible butchery,” exclaimed a
gentleman who stood by the coffin, “when
YOU COIIEEKCS TO CARVE A lUiIP
It really looked as though Simmons had lit
erally carved Duryea. Fourteen times he
mast have plunged the knifo into the neck,
arms, face and abdomen of his fated enemy.
It was the rivalry between Duryea and
Simmons that lead to the death of the wealthy
policy dealer. Mr. Peter Duryea, a nephew
of the deceased, states that Simmons told
him three weeks ago he would kill Nicholas
W. Duryea “as soon as he cot a chance.”
Peter Duryea told hia nncle ol Simmons’
threats; but the murdered man laughed at
them, and said these were idle threats. He
said he did not believe Simmons would be
bad enough to commit murder. Captain
Caffery is of tho opinon that the
IIUBDEB WAS mEMEDITATKD.
Why should he have carried thia murder
ous bowie-knife if it was not to kill Duryea?”
he said. Mr. Peter Duryea is willing to swear
that Simmons said, ‘Til kill Duryea the first
chance I have.”
Simmon3 passed a sleepless night at the
Park Hospital. An officer of the Second
precinct-station watches at his bedside. Sim
mons is a powerful, broad-shouldered man.
He has a bulldog face, with heavy black
whiskers and moustache, and shaggy eye
brows, and eyes that have a fierce, dogged
glance. His leg is fractured near the ankle-
joint. Dr. AmabUe is of the opinion that
Simmons will be able to walk on crutches jn
a few days, but ho cannot entirely recover in
less than four weeks.
Coroner Keenan visited him yesterday af
ternoon. “Take core,” he said to tho officer,
“that he don’t jumpout of the window,"
“Yes, I will, the officer said with a laugh.
'How is your health ?’’ the Herald reporter
asked Simmons.
‘My leg ia very sore,” he answered-
“ You are a reporter?"
“Yes, sir," the reporter answered bat
have only come to inquire about yoet .ealth.”
“TliAp.lt you," Simmons said, in a grateful
tone;
'How did you cornu to break iyour leg?”
the reporter asked.
“I can’t answer you any questions," Sim
mons said curtly, and ho turned to tbo wall.
TYNDALL’S TBICKS.
Tho Beauties and Wonders ct the
Salontllic World as Told by the
Famous Engl sh Lecturer.
HIS BRILLIANT RECEPTION IX NEW
YORK.
was when Mrs. Duryea came. But a few
hours ago she was a wife, beloved by her
husband, and now she was a widow, and bis
blood-stained corpse lay before her. Mrs.
Duryea is a prepossessing lady. She is young
and good-looking, of medium height, with
beautiful dark eyes. How sod she looked.
She was dressed in black. A long black veil
covered bcrfacc. As she entered the Beck
man street police station Captain Caffery im
mediately thought that this was Mrs. Duryea'
“Where is my husband?" she said, in a
trembling voice. .She supported herself on
the railing, she was scarce able to stand.
Captain Caffery informed Mrs. Duryea
politely that’the body had been removed to 31
Sixth avenue. 8ta thanked him, and, accom
panied by her nephew, she went to the un
dertaker’s shop. 8he was overwhelmed with
grief. Her husband had left her the day be
fore with a smile snd a kiss, and now
SHE WAS TO SEE IU3 COEFSE!
A Herald reporter conversed with ber
She said, with tears trickling down her
cheeks, that she had never thought her hus
band would die so terrible a death. He
kissed her affectionately before going ont,
and said, “If it is Very rough to-night I think
I’ll stay in New York.” She followed him
to tho door, and said, “Perhaps it won’t be
rough, and then vou’fl come home, won't
you ?” He gave her another affectionate kis«,
and said, “Yes, I will; goodby.”
These were the last words she heard him
say. As he shut tbe door she did not think
that she never would hear the sound of that
voice again, of that voice which had spoken
so many words of 'love and kindness. She
remained at her raidence in Port Richmond,
Staten Island, all day. She thought abont
him and about
THE UEHBY, HAPPY TIKE
they would hava in Christmas. “How
greatly pleased ho will be,” she said to her
self, “when he receives these handsome pres
ents.”
Night came. “He will probably stay in
New r ork over night," she said to her ser
vant girl. At one o'clock yesterday mnrnini:
a policeman knocked at the door. He saic
he “wanted to' see Mrs. Duryea.” He asked
her if her husband had returned, and when
she said “No,” he said he was afraid some
thing dreadful had happened. This was all
hesaid. She passeda sleepless night. What
conld hare happened to her husband? In a
few hours her relatives, who were living in
Jersey City, came and told her that her hus
band was dead—that he had been murdered
by John E. Simmons. She fainted. After a
few minntes she arose and said she would
immediately start for New York. Perhaps
he was alive yet, perhaps he was yet breith-
ing, perhaps she could catch his dying
There he lay before her—cold, lifeless,
stained with blood. She stooped over him
and took his hand, y
SHE KISSED IT ASP KISSED IT AOAIS,
and looked earnestly at his features. His
eyes were half open—it seemed as though he
was looking at her. She gazed at him as
though she could not believe her eyes.
“My husband V she said, passionately,
“my dear, good husband 1“
She bent over him and kissed him many,
many times. She conld not speak—her voice
was drowned in tears. Sae kissed his lips,
his hair, his eyes—she kissed every wound
which the knife had inflicted. And finally
she laid down ber bead on his and pat her
hands round his neck as though she wanted
to fold her dead husband to her heart The
tears trickled down her cheeks and mingled
with the blood that waa still on his face.
‘My good, kind husband,” she cried; “and
this is my Christmas, this is my New Year.”
She opened his eyes, and they looked at
her so coldly. She called him by a hundred
>et names; she pat his hand to her heart; she
listed him passionately;
SHE WAS WILD WITH DKSFAHL
She was asked to go, bnt said that ahe
would never leave hia corpse—that ahe would
" illow him to the grave.
“I cannot live without him,” she cried, and
ate added, as though speaking to her dead
husband, * You left me yesterday bale and
hearty, anil hero you are, dead and cold.”
She was told that it would be better for her
to leave. “Let ms kiss him once more,” she
Long before the hour announced for the
beginning of Professor Tyndall’s lecture, the
great hall of the Cooper Union was packed
to its utmost capacity with a most brilliant
and appreciative audience. His greeting was
most coidial, every person in the room join
ing in the ovation to the lecturer.
Tyndall’s task was a hard one. His lec
tures have become famous not only when
ever the English language is spoken, but
wherever physical science has been heard of.
His originality in research, hia ingenuity in
overcoming obstacles in nature or in hisai
paratus, his eloquence and simplicity I
presenting scientific results, have been eulo
gized again and again. All who had seen tbe
man on the platform of the Royal Institu
tion, the scene of his labors and successes,
had agreed that even Faraday, “the prince of
experimenters,” was not hi3 superior, if in
deed he was bis equal, in the art of trans-
biting recondite science into popular lan-
the guage, which should be rendered still more
impressive by suitable experiments. Tyn
dall’s audience expected perfection from
him, and they obtained it His lecture was
a complete success. Not a person who
heard him—albeit college presidents and
professors of all orders were among his
audience—but went away with a clearer
conception of the processes of the environ
ment in which we live and the devices to
which man has resorted to make them plain.
Tyndall has himself said in hi3 fine address
on “The Scientific Uses of the Imagina
tion “I take it to be well wortji the while
of the scientific teacher to take some pains,
and even great pains, to make those whom he
addresses copartners of his thoughts. To
clear his own mind first from all haze and
vagneness, and then to project into language
which shall have no mistake as to his mean
ing—which shall leave even his errors naked
—the definite ideas he hasshaped.” Through
out the lecture of last evening the lecturer
gave evidence that he had taken his own ex
cellent precept to heart. He brought bis au
dience behind the drop scene of the senses—
he showed them some of the connections be
tween thought and the radiant forces.
Tyndall has reached the mature age of
fifty-three years, though few persons would
take him to be more than forty-three. He is
of medium height, of.spare build, and as his
“Hours of Exercise in the Alps”—not the
record of them but the events themselves—
have shown, he ia of exceedingly active hab
its. The poetic word “lissone” well describes
both bis physical framework and bis mental
apparatus. There is nothing stiff or con
tracted about either. He is constantly adding
to his knowledge as he is constantly exer
cising his muscles. In dress he is scrupul
ously nest. He betrays the English gentle
man in his mutton-chop whiskers as in bis
every movement on the platform. His voice
is a singularly pleasant one to listen to. All
our readers know that the great hall pt the
Cooper Union is not constructed for acoustic
effect—it is very tiying on most speak
ers. Tyndall waa heard with perfect ease in
the corridors. His intonation is animated
and though he emphasized very few passages
in his lecture, it is not monotonous. His pro
nunciation is very distinct, and betrays very
little of that peculiar accent which we
couple with the Englishman. The most re
markable thing to an auditor was hD perfect
command over his voice, his repertoire of
words sad hia apparatus If the apparatus
had been moved by hia mere volition aa his
hand was, it conld not have responded more
promptly or accurately to hia calL No words
of ours can give a distinct idea of the beauty
of the experiments and the facility with
which they were performed—though many
ot them required delicate manipulation—but
a sketch will give them a conception of the
keturer’s purpose in delivering the lectures as
well as his mode of presenting some of the
facts of optics.
In answer to bis inquiries Tyndail was
told that experimental lectures would be pre
ferred by our people, and he set to work to
meet our assumed preferences. His appara
tus was very costly and worked to perfection.
He chose the science of optics for the sub
ject of his course of lectures because in it
he could start from a few elementary and
easily remembered phenomena and trace the
growth of the theoretic principles by which
such phenomena are explained, take root and
flourish in tho human mind. Professor Tyn
dall was aided in his experiments by two as
sistants, and the optical phenomena which
were illustrated were cast on a serene in the
rear of the platform by means of an electric
light and lenses suitably placed on a stand
erected on a bridge projecting from the left
centre of the platform.
The lecturer entered into his subject by re
ferring to the notion of causality, which he
traced to the savage seeirg in the fury and
serenity of natural phenomena the transcript
of his own varying moods, and his ascribing
them to beings of Tike passions with himself
but vastly transcending him in power. With
this point placed, he proceeded to trace in
few graphic woris the growth of the sciences
of observation; how the apparent motions
of the sun and stars first drew towards them
the questionings of the intellect of man; and
how astronomy, consequently, was the first
science developed; and hew mechanical
principles were at last applied to celestial
phenomena. Hipparchus and Ptolemy, Co-
lemlcoB, Tycho Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, and
j fewtou were the great lights of astronomi
cal science, ancient and modem.
But these were not the only objects which
attracted the attention of man. Light was a
familiar phenomenon, and from tbe earliest
times we find men’s minds busy with the at
tempt to render some account of it. But
without experiment, which belongs to a later
J of scientific development, no
be made in this subject. The
accordingly were far less successful in dealing
with solar and stellar motions. StiUthey
did make a little nrocrcss. Thev satisfied
themselves that light moved in straight lines;
they knew also that these lines or rays of
light were reflected from polished surfaces,
and that the angle of incidence was equal to
the angle Jof reflection. These two results
of ancient scientific curiosity constitute the
starting point of our present course of lec
tures. Before proceeding Professor Tyndall
called attention to tho electric light, which
would be his sun during the experiments—
due, be said, to the combustion of zinc in
water. He illustrated the generation of
heat and light by a voltaic battery on the
stand xr\naa has been mentioned. Ho cut
the thick wire which united the two ends of
the battciy, snd united the severed ends with
. thin wire. It glowed with a white heat.
Whence comes that heat?” said the Prcfes-
or. And be answered that though the total
amount of heat developed by the chemical
action was tho same, yet that the work in
the batteiy—that is, tbe combustion ot a
certain definite number of grains of zinc—
would be so much less than that total by the
heat developed in the external wire. “We
may burn,” said tho Professor, “zinc at one
place, and exhibit the heat and light ot its
combustion at a distant place. In New York,
for example, wc have our grate and fuel; but
the heat and light of our fire may be made to
appear at SanFrancieco." Ho then removed
the thin wire, and attached to the severed
ends of tbe thick one two thin rods of
cake. Tho projection on tho screen
gave brilliant globes ofpight, in which [the
reflection of the carbon points were almost
blurred by a bright hallo. And this phe
nomena permitted tho lecturer to atop to de
nounce a common delusion that the works if
nature, especially the human eye, are theo
retically perfect. “The degree of perfection
of any organ,” said the professor, “is deter
mined by what it has to da Locking at the
dazzling light from our large battery you see
a globe of light, but entirely fail to see the
shape of the coke-points whence the light
issues. The cause may be thus illustrated:
On the screen before you is now projected an
image of the carbon points, the whole of the
lens in front ot the camera being employed
to form the image. It ia not sharp, but sur
rounded by a halo which, nearly obliterates
it. This is due to an imperfection of the lens,
called spherical aberration, due to the fact
that the circumferential and central rays
have not the same focus.
The human eye labors under a similar ob
ject, and when you look at tho naked light
from fifty cells the blur of light npon tho re
tina was sufficient to destroy tho definition of
the retinal image of the carbons. A long lUt
of indictments might indeed bo brought
against the eye—its opacity. Its want of sym
metry, its lack of achromatism, its absolute
blindness in part. AU these taken together
caused an eminent German philosopher
[Helmholtz] to aay, that if any optician sent
him an instrument so full of defects he would
send it back to him with the severest censure.
But tho eye is not to be judged from the
standpoint of theory. As a practical instra-
ment, and taking the adjustment by which its
defects are neutralized into account, it must
ever remain a marvel to the reflecting mind.
The rectilineal propagation of light—that
is, that the rays from any luminious surface
aro always emitted In straight lines—was
known to the ancients, and also the law that
the angle of reflection of any ray is always
equal to tho angle of incidence. The recti
lineal propagation of light was stamped npon
the memory of tho lecturer's auditors by a
simple but beautiful experiment. A piece of
tin-toil was used to cover the aperture of
the camera, in which tho carbon points—
Tyndall's sun—were situs tod. As tho lec
turer made pin-hole after pin-hole in the tin-
fob, point of light after point of light ap
peared on tho screen, until at last a perfect
image of tho carbon point! was. punted in
light upon the canvass.
With a rotating mirror on which abeam of
light was thrown, and a lath perpendicular
to the mirror, Tyndall demonstrated the law
of the equality of the incident and reflected
rays. The lath was an index along with
which the mirror turned, and in the oust of
the room the beams were plainly visible, the
angles being seen by mere inspection to be
S uaL By means of tho dust and the faces
some of his audience tho lecturer again
showed that when a mirror rotates the angu
lar velocity of a beam reflected from it is
twice that of the reflecting mirror—in other
words, by moving tho mirror through an
angle of forty-five degrees the beam is moved
through an angle of ninety degrees.
The science of optics stood still for a thou
sand years. The men of the middle ages
were so occupied with their inner contcious-
ness and the concerns of a future life that
they looked down with a lofty scorn on all
things pertaining to this world. An Arabian
philosopher named Alhazocn resumed the
inquiiy as to refraction about the year 1100.
Roger Bacon followed. And VitelUo and
Kepler pursued the inquiry, though the hon
or of tho discovery of the truo prraeiplo was
reserved for Snell, who made it in the year
1621. Tyndall showed the fact of refraction
by means of a shallow circu'ar vessel with *
glass face, half flHed with water, rendered
barely turbid by a precipitation of mastic—
mint might be employed aa the lecturer
thought it was sometimes used both hero and
in England to render beverages turbid.
This vessel was placed on its side and
through a slit in the hoop surrounding it s
beam of light was admitted! It tracked it
self through the liquid in a sharp bright
band, but passed unseen through the air
above the water. Tyndall, though he ac
knowledged himself no smoker, puffed three
or four limes just above tho vessel, and tho
(rack of beam appeared in brilliant outline,
thus showing that light is invisible except
where there is someting to disperse it. When
the beam waa vertical to the surface of the
water there waa no refraction—that is, no
bending from the right line which tho rays
formed on entering the water. But when
the direction of the ray was obliqne tho de
flection or bending at the common surface of
tho air and water was plainly visible.
Tyndall threw a picture of refraction of any
ia turbid water upon the screen, and while ft
was under (heir eyes pointed out to tho au
dience the lines known as the sines of the
angle of incidence and of the angle of refrac
tion, and stated Snell's discovery that the
quotient obtained by dividing the one by the
other is-always a constant quantity for tho
same medium. Thia is known as the index
of refraction and is one of corner-stones of
the science of optics. Descartes applied
Snell's discovery to the explanation of the
rainbow. He showed that the angle of forty-
one degrees which the bow always makes
with a line drawn through the spectators’s
eye and the sun’s centre is the particular an
gle at which the rays emerged from the drop
of rain almost perilled to each other; all the
other raya are lost to the eye.
With the rainbow was introduced the phe
nomena of colors. And to those Newton
turned his attention. His celebrated experi
ment by means of a lens placed behind a
small hole in a shutter through which the
sun shone was given. Subsequently white
light was further analyzed by means of
prisms, which showed tbe various colon of
the spectrum more distinctly. The synthesis
of light was also shown. Nothing can ex
ceed the brilliancy of these effects. Tyndall
then demonstrated that blue and yellow
light, when mixed, do not produce green
light, though when mixing pigments—owing,
as Helmholtz has shown, to the imparity of
our colors—wc find a resultant green. He
showed how colors arose from the portions
of the spectrum which certain substances
did not absorb—for instance, a thing ia red
because it quenches or absorbs all the blue (or
violet) end of the spectrum and transmits the
red end.
The distinguished lecturer closed by com
menting npon the complexity of the solar
beam, of tbo suhtancea on which it fails,
colors resulting from the process, and of the
human eye and brain which are so organized
as to distinguish them. “Would it not seem,”
■aid be, “that nature harbored the intention
of educating os for other enjoyments than
those derivable from meat and drink? We
find ourselves here os the issue and upshot of
her operations, endowed with capacities to
enjoy not only tbe materially useful, but en
dowed with others of indefinite scope and
application, which deal alone with the beau
tiful and the true.”
From tho San Francisco Chroplde-I
A. P. Van Duzcr delivered an interesting
lecture on Arizona before the Temperance
Legion last evening. The largo hall was
crowded to overflowing, and many who came
lato were unable to procure seats. The lec
turer began an entertaining account of the
trip to Arizona via- Los Angeles, and his ob-1*
serrations on the way. Ho described the
wonderful geological character of the great
Colorado desert, for the possession of which
water and fire eontended for ages, os b at
tested by tho formation of the strata and the
remains of marine animals found there. He
then proceeded to enlarge upon the charac
ter and general appearance of the murdering
Apaches, ot which he said there were several
varieties, known as the Mohave Apaches, the
Tonto Apaches, *c, according to the por
tion of territory occupied by them. There
were two general classes of them— the will
Indians who roam over the country, murder
ing whites for amusement and plunder, and
the tome Indians, who stay on tho reserva
tions, only slipping off occasionally to mur
der unsuspecting travelers, and steal back to
the government post to avoid suspicion and
detection. The lecturer said ho never before
saw so complete a picture of everything mean
and low as that furnished by these Indians.
The Apache was not tall lixe the Sioux, nor
quick and active like the Pawnee. He looked
more tike an animal than a man. IDs lingers
were long, slim, and bony, and hb head was
covered with long, heavy coarse hair.
Hb face was black, not a soft, unc-
M.Mr tike the negro's, bnt
ugly, repulsive, and more tike the
back of a toad than the faco of a human
being. It was a mistake on the part of the
'overnment to try to conctibu th em and re-
ormby kindness, on tho supposition that
because the Sioux had been pacified and_par-
tially civilized tho Apocho could bo. They
possessed no semblance ot humanity in -their
characters, and if a person treated -them
kindly they imagined that he waa afraid of
them, and would improve the first opportu
nity to murder and scalp him. They were
perfect gourmands, amt could stuff away an
astonishing quantity of food at one meal.
Tho lecturer said he once saw threo of them
sit down and eat up half of the carcass of a
concluded their mad they" rolled around on
tho ground for somo time before they were
able to rise to their feet. The Apache would
not live in a house. If given clothes he
would tear them up, and as a people they
woio utterly incapable of cultivation or civil-
zation. Tney went a cowardly, sneaking
tribe of assassins They had a wholesome
respect for a double-barrelled shot-gun, and
were careful to avoid tho range of Henry
and Coil's revolvers. They never attacked
a person unless they .could do it white under
cover. There had scarcely era been a mur
der committed in Arizona by them except
when they were within ten feet ol the victim.
Their usual course was to hide in a canyon
and fire upon a party while in ambush, and
so cowardly were they that they would not
dare to leave their cover if any of the at
tested remained unharmed.
Cumulative Voting In llltnola.
The trial of the cumulative system of vo
ting, aa applied to the election of Representa
tives to the General Assembly at the recent
election in Illinois, b claimed by those who
were previously friendly to tho innovation as
a triumphant demonstration ot the practica
bility of securing equitable representation by
the means adopted in ihb case. On the other
hand, there are a great many people, amonj;
whom will be found a number of defeatet [
candidates, who are intensely disgusted with
the operation of the new method.
The general result of the experiment in
thb instance has evidently fulfilled the ex
pectations of those who advocatecumulativc
voting. The strength of the two parties in
Illinois, as shown by their votes at this elec
tion, was in the proportion of about 250,000
to 200,000. Tho whole number of Repre
sentatives in the Assembly b 153, there being
three Representatives from each electoral db-
trick In tbe election of Representatives the
Republicans have carried 33 districts, and by
the old system of voting would doubtless
have elected 99 Representatives, leav
ing the Liberate only 51. The actual result
b 85 Republican and 68 Liberal Representa
tives, which b precisely a fair representation
of the two parties according to their relative
strength.
There are some curious circumstances in
thb election. Usually the party w liich elect
ed the Senator in any dbtrict also elected
two of the three Representatives; but there
were a number of exceptions to thb rule, and
in several dblricb the party who were in the
minority on the general State ticket elected a
majority of the Representatives, la these
districts the majority party lost the second
member in consequence of the natUlity shown
by the friends of certain candidates. These,
In order to make the election of their favor
ite sure, cumulated all their votes on the one
man, instead of dividing with another on the
same ticket, thus giving him au unnecessary
majority, and leaving hb colleague in the
race entirely out of the running. As a na
tural consequence tho votes of the minority
party, being equally divided between their
two candidates, carried both of tho latter
through.
In one dbtrict tho Republicans elected all
three Representatives, this being the only
instance of the kind that occurred in the
Statu In the third Senate dbtrict, where
the Liberals have a .majority on the popular
vote, the Republicans, to make a sure thing of
having a Representative in tbe Assembly,
nominated only one candidate, who of course
was elected, leaving the Liberals the other
two. The count showed that if the Republi
cans had caually divided their vote between
two candidates they conld have dieted both
of them.
The fact that in Illinois tho introduction
of cumulative Toting has in thb instance re
sulted in returning an Assembly divided po
litically in proportion to the relative strength
of tho two great parties, may perhaps be
taken as an indication that when only two
tickets are in the field there b a probability
that a more equitable representation may be
secured by ihe new system. But it is only a
probability. In Illinois, as wo have seen,
the minority dected a majority of the R?p-
resenutives in at least six dbtricts, and the
same thing might have been done in every
dbtrict in the State, when we would have a
Liberal Assembly dected by votes which
were Republican in the proportion of five to
four.
If tho Iliinob experiment has shown noth
ing else it proves how impracticable waa the
idea of introdndng the system of cumulative
voting into onr municipal elections in the
manner which was ptopoaed last winter in
tho new charter, resulting from Ihe cumula
tive wisdom of the Committee of Seventy.
It would bring an dement of uncertainty in
to all polikcal calculations when practised
under the most favorable circumstances; but
applied to municipal elections in thbdty m
the cumbersome manner provided for in the
defunct charter, it conld only have led to
bribciy, fraud, and eadleas ctmfusion.
gfliflionfl.
Aro the? but dream ?
The hope of bettor Says, of happier hoars.
The Inflacnee of esreet ranslc or bright flowers;
Tec hipplacMof floirg good.
The strcngih of tool when, wrens withstood.
Life eoaee note races, tit of twrot, rare power;
The vtrieai, hope* of that ears heavenly hoer—
Arc tecy bat dreams J
Is life a jest!
Are the beginning and the end both hoe.
#*— friends of life?
Are all tbe loogtng. ton lad strife,
f r.nnac.1 Bn In this exUtenee, aU to fade.
As Ufa dose, amd with ns to sleep he laid—
£» strife e Je* t
Is there M hope?
Meet eocrow foUow evety eteadfsat heart ?
Mart dety, nobly minted at, hear the rmtit
Of deep, keen angetsh to eoaee somi >
la life m mystery to beyond control.
That whra the dety ceil-, ard wo mast go,
btUl to eotae hatrt are bring bet cere mod wo
It there no hope?
Knehrondcd all In mystery.
Bnt In come happy hoar ihe light
And warm yon with the etreegth
Yea! thcrelamhspe,
Ufo to net here nee the.<ybot srlthlhe Lord,
And lie la everywhere. With pereoee broad.
With love, amd gentleness, end zeal.
Lira thou for outer a, end thy woe or west
Shall ae aa then dost make them happy; then
Lite wtU he tweek aad strong and tree again.
Yeel there la hope.
Beyond, above,
let home, where all the love
a aa here trely bleat.
That left ol aad end mat teat.
When « departed, than hr foitd ernes mere.
Tbtva la another life, e happier shore.
For God la good.
And throagh the gloom the I
Of those we love will took w 1
Atelier Ule'e eadesvor. mn aad
They meet ae there tt lite’e bog Joaracy's cloee-
A happy hose I
MS^tlre.
ladwoii.
Making People Happy.—A poetical
writer has said that some men move through
life as a band of music moves down the
street, flinging out pleasure on every side
through the air to every one. far and near,
that can listen. Some men fill the air with
their sweetness, as the orchards in October
days fill the air with the ripe frnik Borne
women cling to their own homes like the
honeysuckle over the door; yet, tike it, fill
all the region with the tnbtie fragrance of
their goodness. How great a bounty and
blessing is to hold the royal gifts of the soul
that they shall be music to some, fragrance
to others, and life to all! It would be no on-
worthy thing to tire for, to make the power
which we have within us the breath of other
men’s joys; to fill the atmosphere which
they most stand in with a brightness which
they cannot create for themselves.—AC T.
Commercial Adecrtucr.
tST It is estimated that there are at least
ten thousand drummers, as they are usually
called, employed in the United States, and
that they are maintained at an annual ex
pense of $50,000;000, including salaries and
traveling and hotel expenses. Thia is a
heavy tax upon our domestic commerce, and
the interests at stake in tbe movement are far
greater than might be at first supposed.
~ If Mr. Colfax consents to take Ihe
editorship, it will be on the condition
of perfect freedom to act according to his
jadgment and his convictions. On any
other terms his editorship would be a de
ception, and a serious mistake. It seems,
therefore, that Hr. Colfax’s terms are abso-
late editorial control.
MISS. UNCLE TOM STOWE
Sho la a Dead Failure an a Reader—
Ilcr Mimic of Yankee Brawl
and negro Patois is Bldlc-
atone and a Bore.
The New York correspondent of the Chi
cago Tribune writes:
Mrs. H. B. Stowe was advertised to give
readings from her own works, a few nights
ago; so I invested half a dollar, aad went to
hear her. Bnt the investment was a poor
one. I didn't get the worth of my money
and went home sadly disappointed. In her
books, Mn. Stowe’s delineations of Yankee
and negro character ore admirable; bat her
rendering of them on the pisiform is exe
crable, Sho has no voice for reading, no
talent for mimickty, no facial expression.
In a word, she docs not possess a single
qualification of a good reader, actor, or lec
turer. Her characters all talk in the same
tone, and that a worse one than tbe tradi
tional stage tone. Her attempts at the Yan
kee dnwland the negro dialect were miserable
failures; and I can select a dozen momcn
from my acquaintances, who have never
thought of reading in public, that can, with
out a moment’s preparation, step upon the
platform and distance her immeasurably in
evety respect. Mrs Stowe has mistaken her
vocation in coming before the public as a
reader and the sooner abe descends from the
rostrum the better it will be for her reputa
tion. As a matter of course, her name drew
a crowd, and packed the hall to its almost
capacity; bnt it required no acuteness of
vision to see that her audience was terribly
bored. The laugh waa very feeble, and was
by those who can laugh at the stalest jokes,
while the applause was rapturous only when
the Young Christians, in whose employ she
read, clapped and stamped lustily.
Be Mortals.
Mrs. Josephine E. Carroll,of Madison, d!
n the 18th teat
CoL T. T. Swan, of Blakely,'died one day
last week.
Mr. William McClellan, Marsha’ of Carrol-
ton, died on the 17th test.
Mr. Daniel Kirkpatrick, of Augusta, died
on Saturday, December 21st test.
Mr. George W. Lamar, of Savaunab, died
December 21st teak
Varieties.
Ought a strong boy be paid a weekly
salary?
The late fire in the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
New York, caused no suspension of fcosi-
Therc are in Austria, twelve prisons for
men and six for women. The number of
prisoners at the end of test year was 10,422
of both sexes. The number of persons who
died in prison during the year was 553.
iicd
Religions Information.
METHODIST CHUrtCtl ITEMS.
There are three colored Methodist churches
in Loutivillc.
The number of Methodist churches in Penn
sylvania Is 1,271.
The grand total of Methodists is officially
put at 1,905,55? persons.
Bishop Daggett of the Southern Methodist
Episcopal Church, regards the work in Ten
nessee os in a very proaperoos condition.
The General Committee of the Methodist
Church Extension Society, ask contributions
to the amount ot $140,330, to enable them to
cany out their plans for tho year 1873.
The Mount Vernon Place Methodist Epis
copal Church, Baltimore, just dedicated, is
one of the moat imposing structures belong
teg to tho denomination in thia country, hav
ing cost about $400/00.
The Free Methodist have Just erected a
church at Dover, being tbe Unit established
by this denomination in tbo State of New
Jersey. The seats will bo forever free, in ac
cordance with the principles of tbe church.
The oldest Methodist Church on the conti
nent is know as SL George’s, on Fourth street,
Philadelphia. It waa built by a German Re
formed congregation, and when partly finish
ed was purchased by the Methodists, Novem
ber, 1769.
BAPTIST CHCBCII ITEMS.
The number of Bsptial Churches in Penn
sylvania ia 680.
Louisville, Kentucky, has threo colored
Baptist Churches.
The Baptist Church in Louisville it to be
disposed ot on the lottery principle about the
middle of next month.
Rev. George F. Pentecost, of open com
munion notoriety, has been installed pastor
cf Warren Avenue Baptist Church, Boston.
The Memorial Baptist Church, Philadel
phia, Rev. Dr. Henson, pastor, which was
formed five yetra ago with 183 members,now
numbers 550, the Sunday School COO.
The Colgates, of New York, have prerent
ed to tho Baptist Society with which they
worship at Yonkers, New York, a fine church
costing $200,000.
per. George Johnson, formerly connected
with the Methodist Episcopal Church, has
been ordained as Baptist Minister at Patera-
vtile, Minnesota..
rnESBYTEBIAM council items.
There is one colored Presbyterian Church
in Louisville, Ky.
The number of Preabylcrian Churches in
Pennsylvania, including the various divisions,
is 1,675.
Tho Presbyterian Churches of Philadel
phia raised over a million of dollars for
church purposes, during the past year.
The Cumberland Presbyterian estimates
the number of ministers of that branch of
the church on the Pacific coast at forty-eight.
The Presbytery of 8outii Alabama has
just organized five new PrczbytcriiteChurchra-^ r-
and made arrangements for the organization
of three more.
There ore 0 24 ministers in the United Pres
byterian Church in this countty. They dif
fer from the Preabylcrian Church, North and
South, in nothing bat their psalmody.
A Presbyterian preacher in Newark, New
Jersey, refused to allow Mn. WUteumyer to
lecture in hia church in behalf of the Homo
for the Friendless, for the reason that women
should not speak in the pulpit. _____
episcopal cnuitcn items.
The Episcopalians have 234 churches in
Pennsylvania.
ltcv. Dr. Norton, out of his own pocket, is
erecting a colored Episcopal Church in
Louisville.
John Jacob Aster hia given $50,000 to
ward tho endowment of St. Luke's Hospital
(Episcopal) in the city of New York.
bishop Cox, of Bnffalo, bsa gone to nayti
to admit several colored mtn into the priest
hood. Episcopal missionaries were first lent
there in 1862.
Five bishops of the Protestant Church
were graduates of Princeton College; Biah-
ops Claggclt, Hobart, Heide, McUvano and
Johns.
CONQREUATlOltaL CUUKCU ITZM&
The famous old 8oulh Congregation
Church, Boston, will likely be turned over to
the Peat Office authorities
Tbe new Congregational Church, at Mans
field, Ohio, la approaching completion. The
organ is to cost $0,000.
The Clinton Avenue Congregational
Church, in Brooklyn, after a protracted de
bate, agreed to introduce responsive Scrip
ture reading by pastor and people in their
Sabbath schools
LUTHEnAE CHOnett ITEMS.
The number ot Lutheran Churches in
Pennsylvania ia 84L
There on twelve pastors and twenty Ger
man Lutheran congregations in Ohio con
nected with the German Synod of Iowa.
The German membership of the Lutheran
Church in this country U nearly 300,000.
Tbe Scandinavian membership is abont
90,000.
The Lutheran Church, within tbo last
twenty-five years, has dismissed about forty
ministers desiring to attach themselves to
other churches.
CATHOLIC CHUncn ITEMS.
In Paris there are 1,732/29 Catholics.
There is one colored Catholic church in
Louisville, Ky.
The Roman Catholic* have 310 churches
■n the Slate of Pennsylvania.
The ceremonies of enshrining the relies of
St. Juttteus at the Paulist church. New York,
Nov. £Glh, went ot an unusually impressive
and interesting and impressive character.
The Catholic Miraion of Norway and Lap-
land comprehend abont four times the extent
of Ireland, with a population of two million
souls.
The diocese of Cincinnati haa sent out
twenty Roman Catholic bhliops. No other
diocese in the United States has such a re
cord.
MJSCXLLASEOUS nXLTOrooa REMS.
Mbs Smilie la still preaching, in the even
ings, at different churches in Chicago, to
crowdo,: audiences.
There are 6.4S6 churches in the State of
Ohio, including 206 Roman Catholic, capable
of seating in all 2,084/86 people;
Every letter of the alphabet except “g." ia
contained in the twenty-first verse of the
seventh chapter of Ezra.
Bishop McUvatee has yielded to the advice
of friends, and will remain abroad dnrieg the
present winter. 1
Henry Ward Beecher’s congregation lias
raised $30,000, by sniacription. toward the
memorial fund, to be devoted to the church
missions
The present Protestant population of the
world Li estimated at one hundred and twen
ty-one million. Of this number thirty-lhrco
millions are in the United States.
FOREIGN CHURCH ITEMS.
Eflorts are making to raise $100/100 for a
Baptist College in Nova Scotia.
A church in Amsterdam, Holland, haa had
the same pastor for the last seventy years.
A religions census of Paris developed the
fact that only two persons were willing to
declare themselves “free thinkers.”
The new Protestant chapel in Madrid
Soaia. continues to be \rcll attended, the
audience numbering from two hundred and
fifty to three handled persons.
At the Ute meeting of the Baptist Union
of Scotland, there were reported sixty
churches, an increase of five within the
year.
A correspondent of the Christian Era says
that the professors in all the present Baptist
Colleges in England favor open communion,
■nd that most of the ministers whom they
Rain for the pulpit follow their lead.
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