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The receipt* this week are25/X» bale*. luxfxin.
rear, tad 3,000 lea The Mountain Signal says the crop pros-
than two jean since pet throughout the county is very flalter-
It it likely the receipts foment week will
be about 20J900 tala, compared with 18,000 The Telegraph and Messenger says: CoL
last year and 34/100 the year before; tad the Jim Holt represents the crops in hui section
receipts at the interior towns S^OObata, of Bibbconntyas being as good asheeyei
compared with SjOOO last year and 4,000 the “ w - .The wheat ia^U neighborhood, be
ATLANTA, TUESDAY, JUNE 10.
_ HTThe appointment^
noeqaiTocaTniS^CMB
1 office of the Credit MobUler, for he
Inure largely by the scheme than
most of Us colleagues, holding twen ty tharei
of tha “fit" to Ouhaid’s ten, etc. The retire
part that he took in tbs paage of the aalary
’ week of rain. The
_ id 80 degrees at noon;
three daya clear, cool and eery windy, and
four days clondy and warm; light ihowen
of the time three daya; with beaiy
apart of the time, both day and night.
This week, last year, the thermometer was
85 degrees at
day.
Next week, hut year, the thermometer wis
79 degrees at noon; demand warm most of
the week, with light showers on two days.
We hare now ha& six wdeks of rainy
The Georgia darkey that a trareling cor
respondent overhauls, furnished a very good]
text for s few practical remarks. He had I
left the little old cabin down the lane, with
all its attendant comforts and associations, to
catcha portion of the coidea shower that is
supposed to fall all orer the lame Star State. I
Be found plenty of work, and the wages all I
that had been promised. Tnatead of fifteen
dollars a month be received thirty dollars, 1
bathe was no better off at thoead of the
colored pMneopher. “7am geTthlrty dob!
lars s month chopping wood, but It takes it I
all to buy rations; and I can’t study itout
that I am doin’better than I did in old OeoM
giaouhalf so much a month.”
It la a eery green political economist wl
expects to finds land in whica he can gatlfl
high wages or profits, while he pays ont iowl
pSceaforwhatheneeds. TbemanuH |
•rdtrior who pays Mgh wagea,muatHBl
corresponding prices. Prices always go up
together or nearly together. The tendency to
wards equalization U steady and tnre; and
any branchof trade or Industry that does not
ahan thaganaral advanoa ineritably disap
pears.
A general rise in prices necessitates the
turning orer of more money, and thia often
leads unthinking people to believe that the
timfi in prosperous money abundant,
when the reverse is spt to be the esse. High
all around nerer bring incrcssi '
■to (hataffiag crowded mm sad
There are undoubtedly a few exceptional
esses of good fortune among the thousands of
men who have left the homes of their ances
tors in our good old commonwealth, for
Texas; but the general testimony cornea
back to the friends they left behind them,
that the Texan El Dorado is not over and I
above satisfactory, like the interviewed
African, thev badnotsnffldently investigated
the relative coat of living—the high price
of merchandize, machinery, uinri|
articles in a land so far
H of anpply. Aa a rale
no more money at the;
I of the year; but they or their loved ones
: to accumulate aorae of the
•wracking complaints that ac-
■ lands in new countries. If I
they could return to their old home, without
loss of pride or money, both Texas and
Arkamav would wilneaa a surprising exodus.
Aa the people are bound to have a cholera
scare, thia season, in the absence of a cholera
epidemic, we propose to help them ont by
exhuming a few facts relative to the malig
nant and dreadfully fatal diaettke—when it
really does prevail. If they are determined
to have the cholera, there la nothing like hav-
ing it Intelligently.
Like the plague, it Is of Asiatic origin.
1783 It prevailed extensively m Hindoos tan,
destroying 30,010 natives, and carrying off
8,000 pilgrims on the river Ganges in eight
days. It continued to appear occasionally
in India tram 1783 op to the great epidemic
of 1817, being very uncertain in its comae,
preference for water
On the 19th day of August, 1817, the dread
complaint broke ont In a small town in the
rice marshes at the mouth of the Ganges—
the town of Jeasore. From thia beginning
it traversed, with fearful effects, the whole of
Hindoatan, reaching Bombay in November,
1818. where It destroyed 900,000 p
Passing through Siam, It visited Chins, and
entered the African coast at Ztnguebar.
1831 It had reached the Tigris and Eu
phrates, slaying in the city of Bagdad 65,836
in six months. Shortly afterwards it entered
Bern; and all this time its desolating havoc
continued in India and Tartaiy.
After an absence of six yean It saddenly
re appeared la the Russian provinces, revisit
ing Astrakhan, spreading through Circassia,
and reaching Moscow in September, 1830,
and 8t. Petersburg in 1831. Berlin, Hamburg
and the principal towns of Prussia fdt Its
fatal power in the Fan of the same year; and
on the 3d of March, 1833, it was In London.
Calais was the first place attacked in France,
and in April Palis entertained theunwelcomo
guest from the month of the Ganges.
On the 8th day of June, 1833, the first cate
on this continent appeared at Quebec, fol
lowed quickly by cases in Montreal. Sixteen
days after lit first appearance in America,
was in New York; in Philadelphia on the
5th day of July; and in the cities of the
West—Cincinnati, Louisville, 8t. Louis—
during the succeeding months of the fan.
During the next rammer it spread to New
Orleans, Mexico and the island of Cuba—
leaving thia Continent to resume its ravages
in Europe. New York and New Orleans were
the heaviest sufferers from the American tour
of the mysterious and fatal fiend of the air.
In ISIS England and Scotland were revis
ited; and in 1819 it again crossed the wide
ocean to imp our cities. The deaths in
Cincinnati often reached as high aa 180 a
dty in Jane, 1849. It i subsequent visits were
not of an aggravated nature.
The disease, either in the mOd or severe
form, b not contagious. During its preva
lence in Moscow 40,000 persons left the city,
and yet not a case was transferred. J
when 10,000 persons Bed from Marseilles to
Lyons, no case occurred in the latter city.
The books trefoil of facts that prove the
disease to he strictly epidemic, originating
generally in tropical countries, and spreading
from thence, in a somewhat regular geo
graphical course, to colder latitudes.
While the doctor* disagree about the qnali-
tin of the air upon which epidemical mala*
dies feed, they all agree abont some local cir-
cumstancea that lend them additional force
and fatality. In India, exposure to nocturnal
cold and damps, great and sodden variations
of temperature and fatigue, are known to
have powerfully aided the disease. In Mos
cow it chiefly prevailed In most and low sit
uations. Filth, intemperance, want of phys
ical energy or moral courage, are all import
ant aids of the mystic poison in the air.
Chamber*’ Encyclopedia lays great stress
on the importance of pure drinking-water,
and its absolute freedom from contamination
by animal matters filtering through the soil,
or thrown into water courses by sewers, etc.
If water cannot be bad in a pure state it
should be be boiled before bring need for
drink, or indeed for any domestic purpose.
Speaking or organic impurities in drinking-
water, this Encyclopedia says that no single
local cause of cholera has been established
by so ranch evidence.
There b no longer any doubt of the
existence of a mild farm of cholera in some
of our neighboring cities; but it b dearly not
of aa epidemical character. It has cot come
to this country from anywhere else. It b
scattering, dos to 4
Let na pat our towns in the highest possible
, keep clean and cool our-
drink temperately, avoid
fatigue and exposure to inclement weather;
and the usually good health of Georgian
towns win not suffer from the sporadic com
plaints of the Mississippi Valley.
says, b as good aa the best ever made here-
graaa.
■The Sasdersville Herald says that rains
and storms have visited different sections of
the county, doing damage. Planters are ter
ribly preased by the gran. Aa a general
thing; the com crop blooking well, but the
wusaer has bees vmy wOsiffiblu tte
growth of cotton,
might be the case, thb week has been the
wettest of theaeaaon.
Loud complaints of too
graaay cotton are coming from all pans of
the country; also a scarcity of
dollar a day bring freely offered for farm
hands, when forty to fifty cents is the cus
tomary price.
Thb complaint of want of hands b not
because they are really scarce, but because
planters have over-cropped themselves, and
and It b impossible for the hands todo the
work apportioned to them this wet
If these rains continue the cotton will be
choked with grass; and not only will the
growth he stopped end the crop be late, bat
mnch of it will have to be abandoned, aa extra
cannot be procured. If the rains stop
now, and dry, hot weather comes on, the
crop can still be saved; but a few weeks
more of thb warm, wet weather will put
tuiyK of it post redemption.
The cotton that b clear of grass and has
been chopped out to a stand b growing finely
and looking as well aa possible, aa the stand
b fine everywhere; bat the whole crop b
from two to three weeks later than last year.
Blooms were plenty hit year a week earlier
than thb; but, so far, we have not heard of
one, whilst, last year, the first bloom bad
been reported for two weeks at thb time.
Cotton caterpillars are reported, on relia
ble authority, in Alabama, Florida and Geor
gia. These destructive insects have been re
ported in the cotton fields every year since
the war: I860, from Texas, July 1; 1867,
from Texts, July 15; 1883, from Georgia,
July 1; 1869, from Florida and Texas, June
18; 1 73, from Texas, July 15; 1871, from
Texas, August 4; 1873, from Texas, June 31
1873, from Alabama, May 28- The cotton
was stripped of iu leaves and young fruit
in 1866,1888 and 1873, in an average of ten
weeks from their flnt appearance. If they
should destroy any portion of the crop this
year, it will likely be about first week in Au
gust, which will be from two to three weeks
earlier than usual. The course of these in
sects b to appear in a few firida in the low,
wet place*, very early; in abont three weeks
they are reported everywhere, and from thb
time it b abont six to seven weeks before the
fields of cotton are entirely destroyed.
After they become general the different
crops of worms follow each other about
every fifteen daya, and it takes the third crop
to be numerous enough to destroy the cotton.
Five years since the war, they bave disap
peared at tbe end of from two to three
months without doing mnch damage;
If thb wet weather should continue for
two months more it b likely that half the
crop would bedestroyed south of latitude 33
degrees; but it is likdy we shall have hot
dry weather for some time, at the end of thb
rainy season; and if so, the caterpillar may
pass off without doing any' damage. The
The Covington Enterprise says: Farmers
over the county have commenced
wheat Cotton squares have a,.
Gram b monopolizing the time of the la
borers.
TALBOT.
The (Standard tells ns that cotton b
looking remarkably well, has attained a good
market in New York baa been quiet and
steady all the week with increased business.
Sales 8,000 bales of spots and 90,000 bales of
contracts. The cause of thia better feelirz
b the falling off In the receipts, the increas
ing scarcity of good cotton and the rapid de
crease of the stocks at our ports, as they
have fallen off 83,000 bales in two weeks.
Thb b the first time in five years
market has been dull the mles have been
24.000 hale* thb week. Tha principal cause I
of thb extreme dullness in the Liverpool
market has been the rise in tbe rate of inter
est to 7 per cent. On March 26lh the rate of
interest wu 3} per cent, and in ten weeks It
has risen to 7 per cent, with tbe fear that it
may go itQI higher. Bat, as the government
b about authorizing the Bank of England to
increase her circulation thirty millions of
dollars, it is likely tha highest point has been
reached. Thb high price of money in Eng
land is not certainly against cotton, as the
effect b to make gold and exchange higher
here and time enable exporters to pay more
for cotton. Last fail the price of money in
England was the same as now; November
7th it rose from 6 to 7percent,makings
rise of 3( per cent in eight weeks, and many
persons feared it would soon be 10 per cent
hot In five weeks It had fallen to 5 per cent
The effect of thb rim in money, hat year, I
was to depress cotton 1-3 a cent in one week,
in Liverpool; but the next week there waa to
sharp rise again.
There are now 311/100 bales of American
cotton afloat for Liverpool; of which 75,000
will be doe and should be received there next |
For the week ending Hay 30tb,the receipts
at Bombay were 35/XX); shipments to Great
Britain 37,000; to continent2,000. The total
receipts at aad shipments from Bomt
past four yean, are as follows:
1870
un
un
1873
Total receipts SS4.000 819,000
“ ihlpm’ts 550,000 080,000
681,000 WT,100
■The St. Lotus
Republican sits
t of a Boston ne
| per mys that It makes his heart jump dear
iaimmt Ms bH 1» look ataamaof the
belles of the Austrian capital.’ How that
fellow’s heart could get into that locality
whhtmt *MWs—ytotogy reasvhghb
brains or enlarging Ida boob b what pin ilea
us.” Does the Republican mesa to iniinuate
tbM tha ftUow’a brains are in kb heels,
331.000 1991000 198,000 177.000
From this it will be acen that the stock
hand in Bombay b less than at same time in
four years, and only abont half as mnch as
in 1870; and as it b now time for the Mon
soon to break, when the natives will be too
bnsy preparing their land for planting to de
liver their cotton at market, it b likdy the
exports from Bomby trill be small for aome
time.
The reedpts, particularly at those ports
which claim the west, seem to show exhaus
tion. The receipts at Memphis har
raddeniy, being only 80 per cent of w
they were three weeks since, whilst last year
ana the year before the decrease in same
time, waa very small.
Of the 85,000 bales, stock at New Orleans,
45,000 bales are either on shipboard or en
gaged to be shipped, and thb amount would
have been mnch larger but that vessels have
been very scarce therefor some time. Thb
accounts, in part, for the largo receipts at
New York (where vessels are plenty) of cot
ton that usually goes to New Orleans.
As aome of our friends wish to know the
amount of American cotton that Liverpool
will be likely to have, np to November lit,
we have prepared tbe following table, which
will approximate the amount. From May
30th—22 » ecks —to October 31st:
Stock at porta.
To be received up to September 1
s says that it bnoti
hao better stands of
OUR TEXAS LETTER.
“Acroes tbe Creek” — “Snakes
Alive Paradise Found— Ad
miration Fatigued—Moun
tain Home—Well Posted
—Gold tbe Clrcalat-
lug Medium.
Austin, Texas, Hay 38,1873.
EdJort Constitution : I resume where I left,
off yesterday. I dosed just as we were
about to go to view the country
tize, and shows signs of the guano at Us
root*. Tbe crops, both cam and cotton, are
in very good condition, generally free from
i rasa, and have been visited by gentle rains.
Fheat does not promise a good yield, as f
aa the harvesting baa progressed.
Tbe Americas BepabUcan reports that it b
arid that the caterpillar b patting in hb na
me appearance among the cotton Odds
of some of the planters. Rain continues to
fall in abundance. Itabosays: In
•atkra with onr planting friends throughout
thb and surrounding counties, we are pleased
to learn that crops are looking remarkably
welljrad promise to be as good, if not better,
than they have been for the past few yean.
POLS.
Tbe Rocs mart Reporter states that cotton
bray backward. The stand appears good
enough, bat the stand of
The com crop b also behh
the whole, not at all promising for thb
n of the year. Wheat will make abont
half a crop. Oats look tolerable well, but
don’t promise a foil crop. Nearly all the
fruit in the country around us was killed by
the last frosts, and our gardens generally aet
back two or three weeks.
COBB.
In speaking of the rains, tbe Marietta
Journal says: Abundance of rain baa Mien
during the present week. The crops of the
farmers, if not injured, most necessarily be
in the gnu to a considerable extent, as but
precious little time has been afforded suitable
or weeding out.
TROUP.
The LaGrange Reporter says: So much
rain has fallen daring the past week, that the
farmers have not been able to work their
crope. Better weather for allowing thegiass
to get ahead of tbe crops was never known.
Blessed are they whose crops weree’ean ten
days ago.
and will now proceed to tell "what I know
aboat the country across the creek.'
Trotting down the long alope and enjoying
the beautiful scenery, and the tail, green
gram waving in the evening ran,' like a flash
of lightning1 saw something dart across the
road, and looking again I involuntarily called
out, “Snaie! look at Oat mulctr There,
in the tall grass, with hb head erect, some
■ the grass, was a 1
As yon go from Austin, however, tho land is
better, and the prices lower, until you get to
Williamson county, where good unimproved
land can be had at from $5 to $10, gold, per
acre.
The lands in Bell are about the same price
and quality. In thb county Colonel Free
man’s land b offered at $3 for prairie and
$4 for creek lands per acre. Ail the prices
here are in gold.
CURRENCY IS TAKEN AT THE BEdtJLAB DI8-
• 4 COURT
now at about 87'centa on the dollar. Heave
here to-morrow for the city of Dallas, in
Dallas county, aad intermediate points. You
may hear from me again. I have written ten
times as much as I expected, but I am chock
full of Texas, aad I cannot stop until I boil
over. The Modocs hire not gotten meyeL
If the United States troops will just say they
can’t whip them I will take a few old Texas
Rangers with me and capture them, and
bring them before Judge Hofckin* to be pun
ished accord ingto their crimes.
Your friend, J. O. H.
OUR oxford" letter.
Tbe Accident of tbe KUline of CoL
Capon’ Little Son.
Instantly I was preparing to ms our breech
loader on him, when Colonel Freeman called
out, “No! no! Let him alone! He is per
fectly harmless and the deadly enemy of the
rattlesnake. That b the
“WHIP BN AXE, OB E150 SHAKE,’
and, in spite of my protestation, he drove on,
his beanlifol grays scarcely brooking the
alight delay. Entering the bottom of Brushy,
I was forcibly reminded of the wooded lands
of the Valley of Virginia, with its Tail pine
timber, and the green grass and rich, level
land—rich as a garden. Brushy creek b a
bold running stream of clear, pure water,
with great masses of white limestone border
ing its banka, and b fringed with fine timber
from its bead to its mouth. The settlements,
where we crossed it, are mil on the north side
in tbe moat beautiful valley it had, op to
that time, ever been my good fortune to be
hold. Emerging from the timber, an ex
panse of country opened to our view that
DEVIES THE POWER OP LANGUAGE TO DE-
From the Hamilton Visitor we learn that
the weather has been good for farmers during
the past week. A good shower fell in town
on Tuesday and several during Wednesday.
Tbe crop prospects in thb county are quite
favorable as a general thing.
WABBEN.
The Clipper says: Farmers give discour
aging reports of crops in thb county. Small
amount of guano, laziness of labor, washing
rains, backward spring,unprecedented growth
of grass, and one or two other drawbacks,
have materially injured cotton, corn and po-
Ocr spinners wilt tike
Export to coo Uncut..
■tuck la posts September I..
Afloat foe Liverpool ..'"""I."—'.'.9* tat
Export bat weekTT. M OW
b weeks* supply, 33,000per week 778.000
The amount shipped from August 29th to
October 3d, five weeks to be tbe amount o’
stock in Liverpool, probably 60,000 bales.
For the past three years the .amount ac
tually taken from Liverpool in the same 23
weeks, with the stock of the same kind in
Manchester, and the average price for np
lands in Liverpool for same time, b as
follows:
Taken
from Stock Averse*
Liverpool. Xudieskr.
Un 760.000 36.0(0
K71 976.000 llACOS
tore 568.000 46.000
1573 779.(00 05.000 ettle
Under thb head ire would refer to No. 39
of last week.
•0" Dr. Godwin Scott, m notable
his way, has just died in Mi
Alabama. He was with Lord Byron
the East, and subsequently made many
scientific explorations in remote and un
known regions. He came to thb country
many years ago as surgeon to a German
colony which settled in the mountains of
Tennessee. During the war he served on
the medial staff of the Confederacy. He
mu connected with soma of the bestpeo-
ple in England, and married a ester of
Prof. Huxley.
Front the Waynesboro Expositor we learn
that tbe recent rains have caused cotton
crops to become very greasy. A farmer of
nineteen years* experience remarked in our
hearing that he had never before seen as
much grass on tbe first of June, and that he
did not often, in the growing season, pray
tor dry weather, but that nothing else would
Bave him now.
JEFFEBSON.
The News and Farmer says: Aa was an
ticipated, already we learn from all parts of
the county, that General Green has marshaled
hb forces and every plantation and farm has
been simultaneously assailed. The showery
weather baa been very favorable to him, and
the complaints of “crops ran away with
grass” b almost universal; a week of not
sunshine would be vastly popular.
TEBBELL.
The Dawson Journal rays: We have had
and continue to have, a great deal of rain
said by fanners to be unfavorable to cotton
and favorable to com. So far as we have
been able to learn or can judge from observa
tion all crops are good up to date. The
earliest variety of oats are now bring used,
and it will not be many days before the
scythe will be ordered for a general harvest.
COWETA
The Senob Journal reports that it has
rained nearly every day for the last week—
nevertheless com and cotton are looking well
and growing rapidly. The Newnan Herald
says the recent falls of rain have been largely
in excess of the needs of gardens, farms and
plantations. Corn and cotton are grassy,
and from indicationsthU(Wednetday)morn-
ing, it will be long before they can be prop
erty worked. Wheat b good, but unless it
ceases to rain very soon that crop will be
lost. Oa’a were never more promising, but
will be injured daily by a continuance of
rainy weather.
DOCQUEBTY AND RANDOLPH.
On Friday last we made a flying visit to
CnthDert and took special notice of the crops
along the line of the Sooth Western Railroad.
We never aaw crops cleaner or in better con
dition. All kinds of grain were looking
healthy and vigorous, and cotton was fresh
and wril grown. Passing into the country
north of Crthbert,wen* corn five and even
six feet tall, the stands averaging waist high.
Squares on cotton have made their appear
ance on several places in that locality. Every
thing seems prosperous, and farmers are veiy
sanguine of an immense Yield. Crons in this
section are equally promising, though reports
of the cotton dy ing have reached us — Central
City.
BABTOW.
The Cartersville Standard and Express
says: the crope in thb section continue to be
flourishing, excepting the wheat, which is
doing as well as could be expected. We
have bean visited by fine seasons and farm
operations are being vigorously prosecuted.
We are gratified to learn from the farmers
that the wheat crop will exceed their anticipa
tion* considerably. A few weeks ago, many
thought that it would be an entire failure, and,
indeed, their opinions were well grounded, as
It b a conceded fact that a wet winter and
spring portend evil to the wheat, and the
past winttr and spring rains were unprece
dented for thb country; but, it b true, cold
nights are very favorable to wheat—which
seems to have had its desired effect The
yield waa pat down at two bushels to the
acre; bat it b thought that it will be
not less than five or six bushels.
There b a great hue and cry raised in thb
neighborhood among the farmers about
labor. They say that the various iron enter
prises in our midst are monopolizing the
labor question to racb an extent that it is
almost impossible to hire labor upon the
farms. If something is not done to remedy
the evil, and the rains continue, many a field
will have to be abandoned and suffered to be
destroyed by the grass for want of work.
He mortals.
In Senoia, May 28th, Mrs. Nancy L.
Sibley.
Mrs. Clarissa Bargainer, of Jefferson coun
ty, died on the 16th ultimo.
Mr. W. B Dennis, of Coweta county, died
on Tuesday last.
Mrs. Mary Floyd died near Albany on
Sunday last.
Mr. Wm. Glover, an old cit'z n of Augus
ta, died on Wednesday lasL
Mr. Julian L Evans, of Augusta, died
Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. Mary Floyd, of Albany, died June
1st.
Captain W. A Lee, of Barnesville, died
May 29th.
Mrs Jesse G. Butts, of Barnesville, died
May 23th.
Mrs. Polly Griffin, of Henry county, died
on Thursday last
Captain W. H. Allen, of Crawford county,
died suddenly on Sunday lasL
Mrs. Jwx Waterhouse, a highly esteemed
ladv. and lately a citizen of Barneaville, died
in Macon on Thursday bar.
In Wood county, Texas, May 28lh, E. W.
Dodgen, and within a few days hb wife,
both died of pneumonia. Formerly of Cobb
county.
DSf BoucicauU’s play of “Arrah-na-
Pogue” has been performed over 2,000
times. A "personal” more remarkable in
stage annals even than that b found in the
fact that daring the last sixteen years Mr.
So them has pbyed “Lord Dundreary”
2,150 times, "David Garrick” 900 times,
and "Brother Sam’’ 300 times. How ha
manages to remember them all b “some
thing,” as Dundreary says, “no fellow can
understand.”
Mattie Howard's time Was 3920Ji, in
harness, at San Franctscd; California; Do-
bor7, 1871;
even though it came from the lips of CoL Thos
C. Howard. The hilb that had been gradu-
' ing farther away, had now entirely
uropti'^red, tearing only a boundless plain
of aoch land aa I could never have conceived
of, and could not bave been persuaded to
believe possible to exist in Texas or any
where else.
.ret, in the midst of my amazement at
the extent and richness and beauty of thb
wonderful country. Colonel Freeman told
me he would show me further on
A COUNTRY STILL KOBE BEAUTIFUL.
Not bring able to imagine how it was pos
sible to be true, my mind had came to be pre
pared for almost any statement the Colonel
might make, fori could not, after what I had
seen, presume to place any limit to the pos
sibilities of thb unaccountable country; and
I did not know bnt that Colonel Freeman,
who, I was told, knows every inch of the
8tateasspigknows the acorn range, might
have found
THE BOAD TO THB GABDEN OF EDEN,
and was just on the outskirts and ready to
pat me into the midst of original Paradise.
In thb valley of the Brushy were some of
the finest farms I ever saw. The crops were
com, cotton, barley and wheat, and gave
promise of abundant yield. Haring traveled
some five or six miles, Colonel F. drew up
and called my attention to the
CIBCULAB FOBS! OF THE TALLET,
as defined by the skirt of timber following
the stream. Wecountcd, in view, more than
twenty-five farm homes dotted along the
course of the creek, a cistancc of ten or
twelve miles above and below us.
I do not exaggerate—I could not exagger
ate if I would, for no language can exagger
ate in a description of this country. lam
simply stating the deliberate, sober convic
tion of my mind, from actual inspection
that a
FIELD OF FIFTY THOUSAND ACRES
could be got there, with no acre that could
not be cultivated, and none except of the
richest quality. But night was coming on
and we must move onto the San Gabriel, a
large creek or river, abont 35 miles on the
road from Austin, where is the little village of
Circleville.
Arriving at thb place a little after dark,
we found lodging with a Mr. Enbanks, a
preacher of the same persuasion aa Colonel
Carrington. After breakfast we passed
throngu Circleville without a halt, and crossed
another stream of clear, swiftly running
water; now easily forded, bat at times, as
indicated on the timber in the bottom, wont
to get ont of bonds and swell to a wide and
angry river, the Ban Gabriel. As at Braihy,
the high lands were on tho Booth side and to
the north stretched far away
THE ILLUOTABLE TALLET,
not so level as the valley of Brushy, but more
beautiful because of the gentle undubtion of
the surface and the groves, and single trees
dotted here and there all Trier the elevations
for miles in every direction. We pssed on,
ADMIRATION HATING BEER ABSOLUTELY
TIBSO OUT,
and I felt somewhat like I fdt when a boy,
after I had feasted too much on good things
and there was still an abundance left
After parsing on orer a country better and
prettier as we went, each mile adding some
new and aa yet unseen features, we crossed
Willb creek, with its fringe and timber and
its belt of farms and dwellings, some seven or
right miles from the Gabriel, and then some
prairie branches and then Don shoe’s creek
with its fine timber and its elegant farms, all
on tbe north ride of the stream; and abont
11 o’clock we reached Indian creek, at the
settlement now just beginning to be made by
Mr. Horriajand where are>i tut ted some three
thousand acres of splendid land owned by
Colonel Freeman. Through thb land, In
dian creek, with its unequaled valley
and its frirge of timber, and its high
bods southward, runs almost central
ly. We examined thb land more
minutely than any other, became 1 had some
idem of making a settlement; and thb seemed
to be a favorable point About six milea to
the east, in the midst of a heavy body of
timbered land, bordering Little Biver, b the
town of Darille. Four milea to the north of
Indian Creek, and near the north end of CoL
F.’a land b
THE VILLAGE OF MOUNTAIN HOME,
the former in Milam county and tbe latter in
Bell county- The line of Williamson county
rant south of Indian Creek a few miles. We
took dinner at Mr. Mill’a home, on the east
of Colonel Freeman’s land; and after dinner,
after feasting onr eyes on the valley of In
dian Creek, and going to. the comer* of the
surveys, we turned east to go to Cameron, in
Milam county, some twenty-five milea away,
aa I wished to take the main branch of the
Central Railroad for Dallas, and CoL F. in
tended to go to the eastern part of Bell
county to survey some lands.
A KNOWING SIAN.
1 mmt say that CoL F. seemed to know
each individual spear of grass, and to be on
intimate terms of acquaintance with every
separate hog-wallow. For, starting from a
point in the prairie at a pile of stones hid in
the grass, to which he had driven without
heritation,‘asif he had seen it when he started
from Austin, fifty milea away, he pointed
away southward to some object invisible to
my eye, and drove abont a mile to a rock
punted in a bog-wallow, and marked as a
corner—the southwest corner of hb land.
With equal ease and readiness he drove to the
other corners of hb lands. He told me that
for the last two years, knowing the general
trouble apprehended from imperfect surveys,
he had devoted himself to the business of
resurveying and establishing the corners of
hb surveys Hb long acquaintance with
land locating and the land system of Texas,
and hb personal knowledge of tbe original
surveys fit him pcculiary for such work.
From thb point Belton, the county seat of
Bell connty, lies nearly north,abont20 miles,
on Folend's Creek, a branch of the Leon,
one of the three forks of Little River. Thb
town I rid not see, but I learn that it b a
thrifty village of some2,500 inhabitants, with
good tdrools, churches, etc. A little nearer
to m, on the Saldo river, another of tbe
three forks of Little River, where the road
from Waco and Austin crosses the Salado, b
the village of Sabdo, abont the same size aa
Briton and ten miles southward on the road
to Austin. It be flourishing village, and
settled mostly by persons who have gone
there became of the excellent high schools
for boys and girls situated there. Bntaslwas
anxious to get to the railroad, we, aa
I said above, turned to the east towards Cam
eron. About two or three miles in thb direc
tion brought us to Mr. McKay’s place, on
Donah oris Creek, where we found a country
store, and
STOPPED TO GET A DRINK—,
of water. Here we learned that tbe recent
reins had swollen Little River out of its
banka, and tbe ferry boats were not availa
ble for crossing it. Thb made a change of
programme necessary. Upon doe considera
tion we determined to return to Austin; and
taming onr hones to the south we retraced
onr steps, and reached Austin on tbe everting
of the third day, having traveled more than
a hundred miles over tbe richest of land and
the most beautiful country I have ever seen.
These lands, of the richest and most pro
ductive in the State, can be bought in
TBACra OF FSOK FIFTY TO FIFTY THOUSAND
Oxford, G a, Jane 4,1873.
Editort Constitution: One of the most
teaching accidents ever witnessed by us oc
curred in our village thb morning. Little
Charlie Capers, the bright and universally be
loved son of our fellow-citizen, Colonel H.
D. Capos, came to a moat untimely death by
the accidental discharge of a pbtoL
Hb father having read in the morning pa
ler* of theeaptnreof the Modoc chief, the
Have little spirit became fired with the sub
ject, and went about the bouse crying out in
youthful ardor. "I am for Captain Jack I”
He waa showing the pbtol, with which he
said be intended to fight, to a painter, who
was at work on the home, and Just as it waa
being returned to him the report was beard,
and poor little Charlie’s light went out for
ever.
The hell entered hb left temple and ex
tended towaiA tbe ear, ranging downward.
Dra. Gaither, Evans, Means and Anderson
were present to do all that human skill could
suggest, but the messenger had come, and tbe
darling boy could not linger though the plead
ings of mother and father and sbter and
brothers called ever so loudly.
Thus a dark shadow has ftllcn over one
of the most lovely homes, in all of its re
lations, we hare ever known, and a loss sus
tained which can never be appreciated ex
cept by those who knew tbe many excellen
ces of dear Charlie and the beautiful and
delicate tenderness which, as a silver chain,
bound every member of thb delightful family
ther. God, whofcas taken the life away
rh waa jost beginning to shine here below,
will add new lustre to its splendor beyond
the skies. May he also send a ray of com-
fort to thb darkened household.
A Friend.
WALWORTH PARRICIDE.
Interesting Particulars of this
Latest Sensation.
A Tale of Harrowing Itomance.
Frank H. Walworth b but a very young
man. Heb tall-and slim, with large blue
eyes that are very frank and winning, a
smooth face, fair complexion, light whbkcrs
and refined features. No one to look at him
would hare thought that he could commit ao
terrible a crime.
Mr. Mansfield Walworth was a man of
fine stature and portly bnild, with delicate
features, oval face, light moustache, blue
eyes, dark brown hair, and high forehead-
man of striking appearance.
At a quarter past six o’clock, Mr. Walworth
came. He asked tho clerk to send bis car)
up to hb son's room. The bell boy took the
card up, and knocked, and a voice said “ Come
in!”
The bor entered, but recoiled from him
when he glanced at hb pale face, that seemed
to hare
ACQUITTED.
The Nelaan-Clanton Homicide at
Knoxville—Col. D. Id, nelson
In His Own Bel erne •
A CARD TO THE PUBLIC.
It was my mbfortnne in September, 1871,
to take the life of General James H. Clanton,
in a street rencontre in Knoxville. In doing
so, a jury of Knox county have, on the 30th
day of May, * ' J ' ’ ’
at ail prices from $3 to $10, gold, per acre,
unimproved, and from $10 to $20, gold, per
acre, improved, according to position, tize of
tract, advantages, eta. eta Abont Austin
the lands are worth $50 to $100 per acre, im
proved,' and from $10 to $50 unimproTCdi
.. after a fail investigation, de
clared I was not guilty of any offense what
ever against the laws of tbe land. In the ex
citement which immediately succeeded the
difficulty, the grossest misrepresentations
were published as to the manner in which
it occurred. It wu represented in some of
the newspapers published in Alabama, thatl
had been entity of assassination, and in one
or more of the newspapers of Knozviile, that
I stood behind some kegs and rested the gun
against the post of an awning, shot General
Clanton unawares, and fled the country. For
nearly two years I have rested under these
imputations with the painful sense that the
greatest injustice had been done me, but in
the firm confidence that although tiny arc
often alow in their development, "truth b
omnipotent and public justice certain.”
It wu established, in tbe evidence upon
the trial, that I had no previous acquaintance
with General Clanton, and that hb death oc
curred in less than fifteen minutes after our
first and only introduction. It wu proven
that without any provocation whatever, he
challenged me to mortal combat, cursing me
and standing over me at the time, with bis
hand under hb coat and on hb pbtol—a
navy revolver—that I wu unarmed, went
into Eiflat’a saloon and tried to obtain
a pbtol, but bring unsuccessful, went
into the counting room of Mabry,
Turner & Qa, at tbe suggestion of a
friendfreized fr shot-gun belonging to Gen.
J. A Mabry, which had been loaded two or
three months ; that|[Jrnshed back tl Hugh tbe
saloon, carrying tbe gun in an inclined posi
tion and holding it with both hands; that
when I reached, or u I wu abont passing
oat of, the door, oral I Stepped upon the
pavement, Clanton aaid, “ I am ready;” that
I advanced diagonally across the pavement,
and made one step acrou tbe gaiter; that the
first barrel of the gun wu discharged acci
dentally; that Gen. Clanton fired at me just
u the gun was discharged or instantly after-
wards; that u he wu in the act of lowering hb
pbtol for the second shot, I raised tbe gun
to my ahonider and fired the second barrel,
tbe contents of which shattered hb arm above
the elbow and entered hb side and breast;
that he attempted to hold up hb pbtol hand
with bb left band, and while in the act of
doing so, slowly sank to tbe ground, dropping
bb pbtol between hb feet, and expired in a
fewjscconds. It wu also shown in evidence,
that the whole time which elapsed from Gen.
.Clanton's challenge until hb death did not
exceed four minutes, and that while I wu ab
sent to procure a weapon, be stood near the
middle of the street with hb eyes directed
to the door through which I bad passed: that
herefased to be pacified; he stamped hb
foot upon the ground, declared bo would
have satisfaction, and inquired in a load and
angry tone,"Vt by don’t he como ont?” It
wu abown farther, by the proof, that Gen
eral Clanton wu under the influence ol
liquor at the time, and that when drinking
his reputation wu that of a desperate ant
dangerous man. There wu aome conflict in
tha opinions of the witness as to which of
tbe combatants fired the first shot, or u
which of my shots took effect; but as it wu
clearly established, by the weight of
evidence, that my first shot was acci
dental: that it missed General Clan
ton eight or ten feet, and that u be wu ic
the act of lowering hb pbtol for the second
fire, my second shottook effect It may be
fairly inferred from the evidence that 1 wu
also under the influence of liquor at the time
of the unfortunate occurrence; thatl, at first,
refused to make my escape, bnt immediately
started on my way to my borne in Cleveland,
eighty miles distant, declaring on my way
that, from the situation of my family, I wu
anxious to be the first to communicate the
melancholy intelligence to my wife; that so
soon as I had done ao, I would return, and
that I did voluntarily return and surrender
myself to the Sheriff of Knox county within
three daya
Thb, aa I b.-l eve, is a true statement
the results established upon my trial; but it
b my intention, so soon as tbe reporter can
write out hb notes, to erase a fall and truth
ful report of the entire proceedings to be
verified and published, ao that the whole case
may he fully understood.
I cannot hope to disabuse the minds of all
who read the first excited and exaggerated
porta which were so universally published
and circulated to my prejudice, u many of
them will never see or hear of my vindica
tion. Bnt the press, which b swift to pub-
lbh articles of a sensational character, should
not be alow to repair an injury committed
through mistake, u I hope, and not through
any personal unkindness to me, and I there
fore respectfully appeal to ail editors who
have published an account of thb fat ti trans
action to do me the tardy justice of publish-
ing, at leut, thb brief vindication.
It b, and always will be, a source r f deep
regret to me that General Clanton fell by my
hand, having no desire to do injustice to
hb memory, it b proper for me to state that,
from what I have learned of hb character, I
donotbe-ieve any difficulty would have
occurred if wc had been better acquainted
and perfectly cooL General Clanton had tbe
reputation of being a gallant man, had proven
it on many a hard field, and 1 would not cut
npon hb memory a single imputation. I
had no malice against him while living, and
have cherished none since bb death, bnt I
think it will be clear to every one who reads
the evidence that if he had not fallen I would
have been killed the next instant
D. M. Nelson.
Clipping..
The murderer, Lusiguani, lately hung in
New Jersey, had some native wit. Jut be
fore he was led ont to execution one of the
priests uid: “I wculd willingly be in
your place; you will be in heaven soon.”
“WelL take my place.” said the prisoner; “I
will get under the bed ”
A very young Emily recently received tub
letter from her favored admirer: "DeerEmly,
I can’t meet you too Day 4 I hav jut bin
whipped, and pat in Bed. I am Ritin thb
under tbe Bed Clffie and will send it by John
the fntman. So no mere at Present from
ynres till deth—Jonny.”
Recently a young man, who wu attending
a n’ght writing school near Danville, wu
smitten by the charms of a lady who wu
present, and at the close of the ethool buttled
forward to solicit the pleasure of escorting
her homa “Yes,” said the lady, “if you
will cany my boy.” wiltotfj hnd (fie
young matron walked home alone.
GROWN HAGOABD IN A NIGHT.
There seemed to be a terrible light in his
eye.
He looked at the card, and said: “Show
the gentleman up.” „
The boy returned with the answer, and Mr.
Walworth walked quickly up to his son’s
room. He wu in high spirits and hammed
a tune u he ascended the stairs. The room
ing wu so beautiful, and health and strength
were throbbing in his pulsa
Heinocked.
"Come in,” a voice uid. It was a voice
that fell with a familiar sound on his ear.
He remembered it for many years. It had
once stroken to him in accents of aflection
and kindness.
The father entered the room. Hb eyes
met those of hb son. They stood
FACE TO FACE.
The first rajs of sun lighted up their features.
What a contrast Here the smooth,soft face
of the son; there the sober, manly counte
nance of the father. Tbe father extenied
hb band, but the son cut it off. The young
man placed hb back agaiut the door
AND DREW HIS PISTOL,
which be pointed at hb father’s breast.
“For heaven's uke, what do you mean
the father cried, placing hb hand before hb
breast. “Do you mean to murder me F*
The pistol wu still pointed at bis bread,
and there wu no mercy in the son's face.
“Think of what yon are doing,” the father
raid.
A pang shot across the sou's face. "I
know you are my father,” he muttered be
tween hb teeth, "but you must dia”
“Die!” the father shrieked in a yell of ter
ror, "have you called me here to murder me,
your own father?”
He cocked the pbtol. hut now ihc brilliant
rays of the run streamed into the room, and
the son’s face wuvbible in all its terrible
fury.
“May God have mercy on your soul,father,
but I have nona”
The father trembled. Hb face became
perfectly white with terror and cold drops of
agony started from hb brow. His lips quiv
ered.
"You have insulted my mother,” the son
pursued, bb eyes
FLASHING WITH RAGE;
and insulted my
rag or frightening hb wife into signing a pa
per surrendering all claim to their property,
wu the climax which bro.ught about his death.
The son doubtless brooded over hb pwn mis
fortune, hb mother’s struggles, tho trouble*
which were upon hb brother and sisters, and
of course the terrible truth that the deceased
wu the author of all their mbfortunes wu
apt to tear out from hb heart the last spark
of fraternal feeling.
Mansfield Tracey Walworth wu born in
Albany in 1830, and graduated at Union
College in 1849. Educated under the direc
tion of hb father, be studied the law, and
wu admitted to the bar; but the practice of
the legal profession becoming irksome, he
abandoned it for literature, and began hb
career by contributing short sketches to The
Home Journal. In 1853, his first novel, “The
Mission of Death," was publbbcd, and hu
since ran through twelve editions In 1803,
hb next novel, “Luin,” a tale of national hotel
personality, was issued, and several editoriab
were pnblbhed. In 1864, hb third work
“Hotspur,” a novel, appeared, followed in
1868 by another novel, entitled “ Stormdiff.”
Daring1869, hb moat important novel, "War
wick, or the loet nationalities of America,”
was sent out from the press. In this novel
he showed a predilection for the Roman
Catholic faith, and hb brother, Charles Wal
worth, wu soon after converted to the Ro
manCatholic religion by Rev. Father Hccker,
and b now a Panlbt priest in tho Fifty-ninth
street monastery. Thb wu followed by
" Dclaplatino,” a novel, and " Beverly ” hb
last novel, publbhcd by Cartcton & Co.
IN THE LINE OF BIOCRArUY
he publbhcd a work entitled “The Chancel
lors of New York,” compiled from facts fur-
nbhed by bis father. At present a serial
‘you have threatened
mother.”
There wu a motion of his finger, as if he
wu going to pull the trigger. The father
sunk on hb knees.
Mercy I” he cried, “you cannot murder
your own father!”
“You have threatened and insulted both
my mother and myself. Even if you would
promise me not to do it again, I could not be
lieve you.”
"I promise it,” the father exclaimed, tremb
ling in every limb. There wu such agony
in hb ashy face that it would have pierced a
heart of stone. But hb son felt no mercy
for him.
"Yon bave lied before and you could He
again. I cannot believe you,” wu hb son's
answer.
It wu a solemn moment There wu the
farther on hb knees praying hb son to spare
hb life, and there wu the son pointing the
revolver at hb father’s breast. Hb eyes
shone with a steady determination.
"Father, yon must die,” he said. 'Say
your lut prayer.”
It wu all in vain—no prayers, no entrea
ties would move him.
- NOTHING BUT DEATH BEUAINBD,
and the father bowed bb head. The son
lbtencd calmly. He heard every word, and
hb grasp of the pistol did not relax. His
eyes were fixed on those of his father.
A fltilh—another, and the father staggered
hack u if struck by lightning. Three more
shots, and
THE WORK WAS FINISUED.
The murdered man raised hb hands above
hb head and fell.
“Mr eon,” be breathed faintly. A deadly
pallor overspread hb features: hb breathing
wu short and heavy. He wu dying at the
hand of him tu whom he had given life and
who had so crnelly taken hb own.
“MY SON” W*BK HIS LAST WOHDS
The blood rained down frown from his fore
head and from bis temples and trickled down
on ;tbe face of tbe son. At lut the dying
man gave a gup and fell to the floor.
The young man looked calmly at the bloody
form of hb father and aaid, "Well, it’s done.”
Then he walked quietly down stairs and mid
to the night clerk, “Will you have the good
ness to tell me where ihe nearest police sta
tion is? I have killed my father, and want
to give myself up”
He wrote
A DISPATCH TO HIS UNCLE,
in Saratoga, telling him that he had killed
bis father, and ukio'g him to break the news
u gently u possible to his mother. Then he
walked to the Thirteenth street police
station. Sergeant Keating wu at the desk.
"I have come here to give myself up,
Frank Walworth said, in a tone of tho ut
most coolness, “as 1 have shot my father.'
He handed the sergeant the revolver.
Mrs. Walworth wu a daughter of General
Hardin, of Illinois, a military man of promin
ence in the Mexican war, and having espe
cially distinguished himself at Buena Vbto.
Mansfield; Tracey Walworth, the deceased
wu a brother-in-law of Brigadier General M.
D. Hardin, now practicing law in Chicago.
Hb father, Chancelcr Kcuben Hyde Wal
worth, one of the greatest minds of New
York, married Mrs. Hardin, the General's
mother, in 1856. Some few yens later the
son, who wu murdered on yesterday, mar
ried Miss Hardin, then his Btcp-sbtcr. Their
marriage resulted in six children, five of
whom arc now living, three daughters and
two sons, the elder of ihc latter, who is also
the eldest of the family, and now in his nine
teenth year, b Frank H. Walworth, who
committed the fearful crime of parricide. It
b safe to say that the seeds of
THE FAMILY DISSENSIONS,
which resulted in the tragedy of yesterday,
have been planted almost from the date of
the birth of the unfortunate young man,
whose passion, and tho sorrows he and bb
mother had so long borne, drove him in:e
the committal of the crime. The Chancel
lor (eft property (enough to ^provide
for bb widow and the family of the deceased
son, Mansfield Tracey Walworth. The latter
hu lived what wu generally described u
A FAST LIFE,
was fopd of loud dress, good suppers, and
wu generally addicted to extravagance. For
many years he hu done nothing but squander
ail tbe property inherited from bis father,
and all that hb wife's relatives gave her to
provide for her family. When other means
failed, he used threats, and at times went
far as to declare he would
BLOW HIS WIFE’S BUSINS OUT
if she would not give him tbe means
gratify hb vanity and extravagant tastes.
He wu a man much given to bragadocio, and
used to write threatening letters in b’ood
mixed with powder to *11 those who be
friended hb wife and sought to protect bb
children from their father’s rubbery—for it
cannot be spoken of in a more mild manner
and be consbtent with truth.
GENERAL HABD1N-,
who wua gallant soldier, lost an arm in the
late war, and wu shot through tho b .iiy and
in the head, retired from the army some years
ago and hu been
PRACTICING LAW IN CHICAGO
for two years. The General has for years
been almost the sole support of hb sister and
her family and if the world but knew how
mildly and patiently be hu borne with her
husband's abuse and threat*, in order to save
those near and dear to him Jrom unpleasant
publicity, and the continued zeal with which
he labored for their comfort and welfare, ’
would look npon him u a moral hero and
Christian gentleman who had shown i
peace a higher order of bravery than wu
called for in tbe days when the God of bat
ties conlroled hb fate.
Mrs. Walworth, wife of the deceased and
sister of General Hardin, lives at Saratoga,
New York. One of the lut interviews she
had with the deceased wu
ABOUT TWO MONTHS AGO,
when by threats he compelled her to sign a
paper relinquishing for herself and children
all chums to tbe property inherited from
their grandfather. It should be borne in mind
that in 1871 Mrs. Walworth applied for and
obtained a divorce from her hnsband. Still
he pursued and annoyed her, and got all he
could from her, and then left again till it wu
squandered and tbe credit it gave him wu
exhausted. Probably thb lut act, compeU-
story cnlitied “ Married in mask,” one of the
characters of which is alleged to be a satire
on hb wife, is in course of publication in a
weekly paper. In addition to these works he
publbhcd numberless short stories in maga
zines; and wrote general lectures, which were
delivered in thb city. Of Mr. Walworth’s
literary ability it may he said that ho wu
one of the foremost of the class of prolific
oovcl-writera, ao numerous of this country.
Perhaps, with the exception of Prof.
William H. Peck, no American novel-wri
ter of the present time hu written and puto
fished more literary matter. Hb talents
were principally directed to descriptive
writing, and the finer and more attributes of
construction of plot and conception and dis
tribution of characters, if not wanting inhb
works, were wuted to suclya marked degree
that situations, dramatic, and telling of them
selves, and which in the hands of Dickens,
Collins or Rcade, would make the work five
u ore of merit, were nullified for want of
udicious treatment and proper phrasing,
iis works were only intended for, and only
bought by, the numerous class of persons
who admire glittering and gaudy description
and sentimental story-telling. In thb respect
ihey were admirably successful, and netted
the author a fair incoma
Dueling In Chicago
Is thus described by a French newspaper:
If ever a nation considered dueling u a seri
ous business, it b the American nation. One
day a Cincinnati merchant was challenged
by a Chicago banker. The challenge wu
sent by telegraph, and these telegrams were
exchanged:
Cincinnati to Chicago—"Challenge accep
ted. Come to Cincinnati to settle the condi
tions.”
Chicago to Cincinnati—”! shall do no such
thing. Why should I, and not you, take the
trouble to travel ? ”
Cincinnati to Chicago—"Because my wife
b in child-bed.”
Chicago to Cincinnati—“All light. Expect
jae in the next train.”
The Chicago banker found the Cincinnati
merchant at the railway station and asked
the latter:
Well, arc you ready for the fight ? Why
in the deuce are you so pale ? ”
“Because I am afraid I am a ruined maD.
My correspondent at Havre lias ceased mak
ing me his usual rcmittancss.’
' -By Jove! that’s bad!”
I set out for Havre to-morrow; we will
fight when I return.”
“ I shan’t quit you.’
They embarked on the same steamship.
When they reach Havre the Cincinnati mer
chant finds his correspondent has ran off to
Canton with all the money he could raisa
They go after him; they find and arrest him
at Canton, bring him back to Havre, and
have him tried, convicted, and put in the
penilectiary. Thb proseention lasts six
months. After they have seen the rogne put
in the penitentiary, they return to America.
They had now been traveling together for
two years, and had come to love each other
like brothers. Nevertheless, the day after
they reached Chicago the banker said:
“By the way, we have almost forgotten our
duel. Wc have to fight”
“To be sure we must”
The following day they fought on the lake
shore with rifles. The dbtancc was twenty
paces. Both fell mortally wounded, and their
last breath expired saying: “All right.”
Slaughter House Butter.
WHAT TUE GUESTS OF FASHIONABLE HOTELS
EAT DAILT.
From the New York Sun.
A company has been organized in this
city, with a capital of $5UO,000, for the
manufacture of butter. It is claimed that
tho butter is genuine, tho means of pro
ducing it being alono artificial;'in other
words, the discoverer affirms that the arti
cle is not merely bntyrous, but in every re
spect tho complete and perfect thing, as
agreeable, nutritious, and usablo as the
best Orange county butter.
A gentleman of recognized ability as a
chemist is tho fortunate introducer of this
new wonder. Several persons of wraith
have bought stock, and in a week or two
tho manufacture will bo conducted on a
very largo scale. The temporary offices of
tho Oleo-Margarino Manufacturing Com
pany, as the corporation is called, arc at 40
Broadway, and their manufactory in For
ty-fifth street
Arrangements have been made for.se
curing better accommodations in Fiftieth
street and very soon the market will be
fully supplied with tho new product At
present tho demand for the article is so
great that it is beyond tho capacity of the
company to supply it Tho profits are ex
pected to bo over 100 percent
FASUIONABLE HOTEL BUTTEIL
As this city-made Grange connty butter
is used in many of tho most fashionable
hotels and restaurants, both for cooking
and tho table, it may be interesting to the
readers of tho Sun to learn something of
the method in which it is made. In tbe
first place, agents arc employed to visitthe
slaughter houses and to buy all tho beef
fat usually styled suet. This suet is cart
ed to tho butter factory and cleansed. Then
it is put into ordinary meat choppers and
minced fine. It is afterward placed in a
boiler, with as much water in bulk as it
self. A steam pipe is introduced among
the particles of tho suet, and they are
melted. The refuse or membrane goes to
the bottom of tho water, the oily substance
Uoats and is removed. This latter consists
of butter matter and stcarine. A temper
ature of SO degrees melts tho former and
leaves tho stcarine at the bottom. Tho
butter matter, or cream, is drawn off; then
about thirteen per cent, of fresh milk is
added and the necessary salt, and the whole
is churned for ten or fifteen minutes. Tho
result is Orange county butter at about
one-half the usual cost.
BUTTER FOB SUMMER TOURISTS.
All tho leading steamship lines between
hero and Europe aro to be supplied this
summer with the newly-invented butter.
In tasto and appearance it is precisely sim
ilar to the finest country butter, made from
tho milk of tho live cows. Several of tho
leading men in tho butter trade bave pur
chased stock, as have also many of tho
Presidents of tho steamship fines and the
proprietors of tho leading hotels.
Prof. U. Ogden Dorcmus has testified to
the success of the new method of butter
manufacture, aud prophesies great prosper
ity for tho now corporation.
Prof. Paraf, tho discoverer, expects that
the new product will drive live cow butter
out of the market altogether. Tho few
unscientific outsiders who aro acquainted
with the facts now first made public, re
gard the whole tiling with amazement, it
seems extremely odd to them that tho same
carcass which furnishes a fresh steak for
breakfast should also supply the Orange
county butter which they spread upon their
accompanying hot rolls.
TBE ANSWERED QUESTION.
[From the Library Paper.)
A little maid bealde the ml
Which mannered anna for her and um.
Looked In the wavelet* at herrnet—
Looked and *n«w*r-d, low and mreM,
"I dor
The summer moon hung atilt and low
Above the *d. lone jmtra aim.
To hear the wavea taoah merrily.
And echo in glad symphony,
“I do!"
I thought It waa mummer dream.
And but a dreamer did I term:
Wntrhtnp the moonbeam* ku* the tea.
Which murmured ever tenderly,
“i dor
Two live* commingled into e
Two heart* Intonlnr Uil* alone,
"I do”
Royally flowed the enjeweled tide.
An* the days Uke queenly galley* glide,
With pennant* flaunting bright and wide
Over the twight enchanted aide.
ifHSSsssi
ra breathe low and awmet.
Then on a night X stood <
Where the carries**'
And the feel aro.
Where the flower* t
And Ihc promise at tore's alchemy.
High in the amber, orient sky,
W'liere Ihc gold and purple etoudteta lie.
Hung Uke a throbbing sky >
And the wrdded days do come and go;
Koch pointing bark Inngyewrango.
When n summer moon hung bright and lot*
And the sen wave* ktaaed her reel. .
OREGON.
CAPTAIN JACK INTERVIEWED.
Boyi.es Camp, June 7.—Ihacl an interview
with Captain Jack through the medium of
an interpreter. At first be was reticent—in
fact, he did not even notice me. Finally his
sister Mary prevailed on him to talk. His
first remark was in relation to his shackles.
He said it made him feel mean to he hobbled
np like a horse. He was not afraid to die
and had no idea of running away. As he
spoke his eyes snapped, and be looked a very
lion in a rage. All questions pertaining to
to his fighting he declined to answer. When
I asked him his age be gave me to under
stand that lie waa thirty-six, and hu then
voluntary started upon a statement of his
grievance and those of his (icrplu. With
reference to the Bcu Wright affray, he said
that white men murdered his people years
ago, and that what lie had dime was only in
payment of old debts. He did not enter into
details, hut left tho interpreter, Scar-faced
Charley, to patch up the story.
A critical study of Jack’s features corrob
orates the impression denied at first sigliL
He is a thorough (Indian. Ilis head is large,
quite square, sits firmly on his shoulders; his
eyes are black and bright, and his face broad
with prominent check hones; his nose is
symmetrical and slightly nequiliue; his lips
are thin and clean cut, and, combined
with bis chin, indicate that resoluteness of
purpose that has won him such notoriety.
His complexion is dark and his face has a
pleasant look. Take him all in ail, he is a
striking man. Place him among thousands
and he would be taken for a chief liy any
observing stranger. Those who have seen
him do not wonder that be is leader of the
Modocs. Though in chains and on the brink
of eternity, he is yet feared and respected
by tho Indians about him.
His nearest companion in chains, Schon-
cliin, is about fifty years of age, is wrinkled,
and has villian depicted in cvciy line of his
face. He wears his hair short, and stands
about fire feet in his moccasins.
Boston Charlie is about twenty years old.
His face is expressionless.
Jack would atu mpt to eschpc if he had a
chance, even at Ihc risk of being shot down.
Probably he never realized that his death
waa inevitable until irons;wcrc pi iced on his
feet.
Scar-Faced Charlie says Jack told him he
could get clear when the while men were
asleep. Tliis was before irons were brought
into use.
General Davis is satisfied that Jack did try
to escape last night through aid of confed
erates on the outside. Upon examination of
his shackles this morning it was found that
one of the rivets had been filed nearly in loo.
His legs are only confined.
At four o’clock Ibis evening, Col. Mayaon
arrived here from Fairchild's ranche, wilh
infantry in force of tbe expedition, and the
70 Modocs who came in there; thus we haye
here 128 captives. Boyle’s camp, 4th mid
night News has reached here that Hooker
Jim and Steamboat Frank made a success
ful sennt yesterday by cooperating with
the Oregon Volunteers. They trailed three
warriors and five squaws to Timber
mountain, north cast of here, and
assisted in making a capture. One of the
captures is
11LACX JIM.
He is the Modoc who bull cd t'uc settlers in
this region for two or three years ami com
mitted cruel murders T he Oregonians re
gard him with special hatred.
Only five or six of the Modoc warriors are
now missing.
The Warm Spring Indians held a war
d&ncc this evening, wbi: h was witnessed by
a large audience of officers and men.
Death of a Well-known Confederate
Officer— Major Wells J. Hawks died at
his residence in Charlestown, West Virginia,
on Wednesday lasL Major Hawks waa a na
tive of Massachusetts, but for more than
thirty years he had been a citizen of Vir
ginia. At the commencement of the creii
w*r he entered the service of the Confederate
States, and upon the promotion of General
Jackson became a member of bis staff; com
missary respectively of his brigade, division
and corps. It will be remembered that just
before the death of General Jackson he was
heard to tay quickly, "A. P. Hill, prepare
for action: tell Major Hawks to send for
ward provisions for the troops.” Perhaps
the most comprehensive description of Ma
jor Hawks’ character is embraced in the
statement that General Jackson had entire
confidence in him.
Paris correspondent of the New York
Express gives an account of the brilliant
wedding < f the Viscount de Montauban and
Miss Jennie Butterfield. Tbe correspondent
says:
"Miss Butterfield was dressed In one of
Worth’* chef doeucra of white satin, etc.,
while the Viscoant, ia his beautiful uniform
—blue coat aud red trousers—with glittering
sword and golden epaulets to add to his
beauty, was a picture of a soldier,”
Tire Internationale.
MilEING A VAST FORTUNE
How Thomas Coutts Secured
tho Patronage of the
Nobility.
A Samoa* Old Huk-Tk* Strei*
ICoom that Coat SA0,000- A Licky
fl.ancani.htre Vlrl-ln Even,
lag Drcas Worth tiOO.OOO-
A Woman Worth Tan*
of Gold.
Everybody baa heard of Lady Bnrdett;
hut few people know anything about the
family to which ahe was indebted both for
her name and %cr property. She was the
daughter of Sir Francis Burdrtt, the eminent
Whig statesman, who left a large family and
a small estate. He had married the dangh-
of Thomas Coutts, the founder of tbe for
tune now possessed by bis grandanghter,
and of the famous banking house that bean
his name; but as the old banker kfl kis prop
erty to bis widow, who married again, Ms
granddaughter’* chances of being a rich
woman were by on means Ottlcriog. Fortu
nately for her, Mr*. Coutts, whose «*«*il
husband waa tbe Duke of SL Album, second
her vast inheritance in brrowo hands, aad,
at her death, showed her respect for tbe mem
ory of old Thomas by leaving it tu his favor
ite grandaughtcr on condition that aba as
sumed the name of Coutts.
THE BANKING HOUSE.
Down ia the Strand, near Temple Bar, ia
lie great banking house of Court* 4b Co, as
slid amt strong as in tbe lifetime of its
founder, and retaining and increasing the
Aristocratic patronage which he secured for
it. The building occupied by tbe firm ta mas-
sire snd gloomy. Inside and out,everything
about it is heavy and solid. Tim strong room
where the sife* are kept cost 1710,000. Hero
arc fairs within safes, containing tbe title
deeds, rent nil's, aud priceless valuables of
the highest nobility in England. More coro-
ncted carriages drive up to this smoky old
building than all the other banking houses to
London. You may elbow a duke to them
quarters, and brash royally itself, if you aro
not carefni.
The following 13 an extract from the
blasphemous programme just put forth by
the Internationalists, or Communists, of
Spain. In that country they take to them
selves the title of Dcscamisadot—the
shirtless:
“ Disembarrassed from that bugbear
which is called God, and His mission re
duced to that of frightening children, wc
will see the end of those industries called
religions, which only servo to maintain
thoso buffoons, the priests, whose mission
consists in cheating and deceiving; fools.
This is our programme, but before it is put
in progress it is accessary that society
should be purged. A blood-letting is in
dispensable—short, but grand and extraor
dinary. The putrid branches of tho social
tree arc about to bo cut off, in order that it
tnay grow vigorous and sound. Such are
our desires and aspirations; and now that
yo know them, tremble, yo citizens, for
your tyranny is nearing its end. Mako
way for tho Dcscamisadot! Our black
banner is unfurled. War to tho family !
War to property! War against God.”'
Tho Largest Cotton Claim Yet
Allowed.
By reference to our telegraph colnmns it
will he seen the Court of Claims lias al
lowed a claim of Thomas 8. Metcalf’s es
tate of $ 185,245, being tho largest cotton
claim yet allowed.—Exchange.
Tho writer well remembers being in Au
gusta one day during tho war. Sherman’s
nrnty was abreast of Hillcdgcvillo with its
wings on the Central and on tho Georgia
Railroads. Augusta was defended by five
Generals and six proclamations. Every
body supposed it would be burned as At
lanta had been. All tho cotton in town,
including the Metcalf lot, was piled in the
middle of tbe streets. Metcalf that day
offered us ail he had at $1 per bale in gold,
which offer was declined. “Thera is a tide
in affairs of men which if taken at the
flood leads to fortune.’’—Macon Enter
prise.
(Hurray County Crop Nim.
SrniNo Place, Ga., June 3,1873.
Editors Constitution: Crop prospects in
Murray sorry. Com small, though n rmall
stand. Wheat will not yield a half crop. ..... ™-
Oala late and not very many planted. Cot-1doihea it w** a rainy, dirty day, aud
ton small and stand not good. The latc|il**5* to^havc the work look
heavy rains and cool weather the
the first DKrosrr.
The first article deposited in I
was a magnificent aigrette of diamooda,which
the Sultan of Turkey look from his tu '
place in the hat of Ncioon. Lady 1
Coutts, whose vast fortune is mainly i
in the bonk, keeps here all her v*
Tom Moore writes in bis diary, tint, on <
ing one day on the heiress whom bebadssen
in all her splendor the night before, he found
he.- preparing to tend it all back to the bank.
She asked him whether he world Uke to are
it by daylight, and, on tin asrcnliag, took
him to a room up suit* where the treasure
was deposited. Among it was the famous
liaraof Marie Antoinette. On Ihe past’s in
quiry ss to Ihc total value of b«r dreif, sho
answered In her quiet way," I think about B
hundred thousand pounds”
a shrewd move.
It is curious to know bo* Thomas Coutts
first secured for his banking bouse the pat mo
ngo of the aristocracy. At oae at bis din
ners, a city man. gossiping abuut hla busi
ness, raid a nobleman hod applied to him
that very day for a loan of 1710,000, which
he refused to make, became Urn security
offered was not aufilcicaL Coutts said noth
ing, but after bis guests had gone scat a mas
sage to the nobleman requesting the favor
of his lordship's at'cn laane at bis banking
house in the Strand 011 ihe following morn
ing. The next day lie Innker was gratUed
by receiving a call In-in the peer, who was
himself equally pie oil liy the tender of a
loan tor £30000. A ihc mile* were banded
to him, be asked ;
“But what secuiiri am I togivcyou?”
"I chill be satisloil,” answered Court*,
"with your lordship’* note of band.”
The astonished nobleman gave tbe Bote,
and said at present be ebonht require only
£10,000, and wished the Innker to open an
account with him for the remaining £10,000.
Contis consented to this arrangement, and
had the satisfaction not long alter of receiv
ing, in addition to tbe amouat borrowed,■
deposit of £20,000, the proceed* of the wile of
some family estates which Ike loan had
enabled the nobleman to effort. At hi* recom
mendation other member* of the aristocracy
transferred their accounts to Court*, who
nowhccam* the favorite banker of fash
ionable London.
A LUCKY LANCASnUK LASS.
Elizabeth, or Belly Starkey, aa she was
called, was Ihe daughter of a .small ianca-
shiro farmer, and to good links added the
more valuable attractions of good acasa aad
good humor. A few days before her marriage
she was scrubbing the stain when oae of her
master’s clerks was about going up to change
though the acreage planted is one-tbird
larger than last year. I am yours.
W. Luffman.
tw ll is rumored that the work upon the
life and limesof the late Chief Justice Chase,
which was in progress vtith a view to speedy
publication by Judge Robert Warden, of
Ohio, will not appear, in consequence of seri
ous disagreement between the biographer and
the surviving relatives of the Chief Justice.
Betty told the young man to uke off hie
shoes ao as not to soil ihc stairs. Instead of
doing so, however, the dcrit took rspccial
pains to stamp and scrape at every sun, ia
order to dirty them a* much as possible. This
was too much for Betty, who shouted after
him:
“i’ll make you pull off your shues. sad
your stocking too, whenever 1 cboore k.”
On hearing of the approaching marriage
the young maa expected to he dtoaSeder
made in aome way to suffer tbe consequences
of his indiscretion. Tbe young Mr* Coutts,
however, so far from showing her dl plrsi
t^*Tlie diminution of theological atu- Bre,wos particularly gracious aad friendly to
dents iu Germanv has begun to attract scri- hl J?’ . . . , ....
ous attention. Berlin, which counted 370 her tact and capacity that, noL
students ten year* ago, has only 214 now; w i}h«tanding her deficiency In cultnre sod
the six evangelical faculties of the ancient
kingdom, which then counted 1,063 students,
now muster only 625.
0* There are eight kinds of kisoea men
tioned in the Scripture. The kiss of saluta
tion (1 Sam xx, 41k of valediction (Ruth i,
9); of reconciliation ([[Sain, xiv, 23); of sub
jection Ps. ii, 12); of approbation (Prov.
xxiv, 26); of treachery (Matt, xxiv, 49); of
affection (Gen. xxix, 13;) of holy charily (I
Thera, v, 26).
tiJTlic difficulties (consequent on tbe
death of Sir Henry Buiwer, Lord Dulling.)
which retarded the completion of the “ Life
of Lord Palmerston” have been overcome
through the energies of Mr. Bentley; and
the third voinmc, bringing this life down to
1857. will appear next September. Lord
DaTling’s "Sketches of Pee), Melbourne and
Lafayette” will also appear at tbe same time.
XS~ Wconcc read an incident of a distin-
guithed lawyer, who observed that bis wife
always delayed ten nr twelve minutes before
she came down to dinner, and being loth to
lose so much time daily, lie commenced the
composition of a work, which he prosecuted
only while he was thua kept waiting. The
result was, at the end of a few weeks, a book
in three quarto volumes, which met with a
large sale.
HT When Charles Beade told of a lady’s
stockings being pulled off her feet by the
force of a Hood, be invited the incredulous
smiles of his readers; hot he would have
found even less believers if he had told of -
hurricane that absolutely blew off the featbt •
of a fowl, and left it as bare aa if it had beei
picked for the pot Yet such an incident i<
seriously narrated in the detailed account <4
the Iowa tornado.
refinement, rbe soon became the tqaal to
manners and intelligence of the ladies to
whom her fortunate marriage introduced her.
Her daughters were 10 well brought up that
they became the ornament* of ike aristocratic
circles into which their liberal dowries
helped to gain them admission. Sophia, tha
oldest, married Sir Fnnda Bardett; Susan,
Ihe second, became the Cuuntra* of Guilford;
and Frances, tbe third, warn made tbe wife of
tbe Harqui* of Bute.
MABBTINO AN ACTRESS.
Coutts’ liking for bright as well as aristo
cratic company diew to bis dinners many
wits, especially those of the theatrical pro
fession, of which be wc* very fond. In this
way be became acquainted with Harriett
Mellon, the well known actren. whom ha
married on the death of hia first wife, in 1815.
She proved an excellent wife to him, and at
hia death, seven yean after their marriage, at
the age of nmetyooe,wi» left in unrestrained
possession of all bis personal and landed
property including a very large share in the
immense annual profits of the braking bouse.
Though sbe afterward married tbe Duke of
SL Albans, Mrs. Courts did not part with tbe
control of her vast property, which she left,
in supposed accordance with her first hus
band’s wish**, to his favorite graadsughter.
Lady Bardett Coutts atilt retains ber inter-
est in the booking bouse, and her valuables
are stored in the strong boxes built by her
eccentric grandfather. Some ten years ago
it was estimated that her wealth, in the form
of coveieigfir, would weigh thirteen tons, and
fill a handled and seven floor sacks. The old
fiim of Coutts <fc Co., in which she is tho
principal proprietor, is still the most ariito-
«T»tte. of Loudon bankers, and has just ad-
miitei! as o partner Lord Waiter Campb-JJ,
tLc brother of the Uarqis of Lome.
C57“Fred Emmons, a Buffalo wag, under
took to prove that he could procure the >ig-
uatures of the best men to the most absurd
request. At that time there was a large sun
dial in front of the church on Main street
It had been there long enough to get weather
beaten. 80 Fred drew up his petition to tbe
Common Council of the city, asking for a
shed orer the sun-dial to preserve it from tbe
effects of the rain and aun I He circulated
it and presented it to the Board of Aldermen
with the names of more than two thousand
persons (tome of tbe btat in the city) signed
to It.
Newsfapeb Enterteisk.—A novel news
paper enterprise is proposed in Philadelphia.
At the present time shout ten thousand copies
f tte lfew York daily paper, me drcSSed
in Philadelphia. There papers reach Phila
delphia about 11 o’clock cachmorning. it is
now proposed to charter a locomotive and
one car to leave New York city at I o'clock
York morning papers in Philadelphia at half
past 5, tints enabling these pap< r* to be dis
tributed in that city before bre-t but. Car
rier* will accompany the train and fold the
P*r«5 whilo cn route. When it is known
that Philadelphia has seven dolly morning
newspapers, the boldness of this enterprise
trill be appreciated. '