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THE DAILY SUN
Friday Morning ........ . .June 7.
ALAUAMA.
An Indian Legend—The Same
Not Vouched For-
Its Past, Present and Future.
Correspondence of the Sun.
LaFayette, Ala., June 5£1871.
Editor op the Son: I write yon from
this place aud kiss my hand at 3-011. This
is Alabama. Yon know what that means.
Some very lengthy periods ago, a lot of
Indians had stolen some horses over in
Georgia or South Carolina, and were pur
sued by a lot of pale faces (who wanted
the horses themselves).- Well, the lo the
poor Indian outran their brother thieves
so far that the latter quit the drive and
went back to look after other horses. So
when the Indians found out this fact,
they sat down, perfectly exhausted, and
one old fellow remarked: “I’ll be denied
if I run any further—here I’ll rest”—
This simple expression of feeling of the
brave red man was translated by some
chap who was always looking into the
hidden mysteries of Indian mythology,
and he has figured out the whole of that
emblematic remark to mean simply “Al
abama.” This I get from an old settler.
Whether true or not, it is of little impor
tance to your readers.
But LaFayette is the Capital of Cham
bers county. It is one of the oldest and
pleasantest towns in the State. It was
named, I suppose, after Gen. Marquis de
LaFayette. Whether that gentleman
was ever here or not, is not put down on
the record. I suppose not. However,
that makes no difference; it is named
LaFayette, and the inhabitants are
not ashamed of it either. Why it
wasn’t called something else is not stated.
It might have been called Jonesboro’, or
Conyers, or Duluth, or Norcross, or any
high sounding name, and yet have been
as happy.
But things are beginning to change
about her wonderfully. About a month
ago the first train of cars ever seen in
this country, came puffing into town.
This alarming phenomenon vas by no
means unlooked for. It is rather a diffi
cult matter to build a railroad to a town
and slip a train ol cars there without its
being found out. So the rule held good
in this instance. Preparations were made
and when the train arrived, everybody
was out to greet it. This was a pleasant
occasion for LaFayette. A great many
good old souls never thought to see such
a thing in this town. But they did.
Everything began to assume a different
aspect. Houses and fenses were reno
vated—churches and academies repaired
—the town Marshal made him a' new
baton and painted that; the City Coun
cil began throwing great cart loads of
red dirt in the streets, and digging
break-neck ditches and established a
Fulton market—all under the head pf
“improvements. ” Various other reforms
are contemplated under the same general
head, and if strictly carried out, will
make LaFayette one of the first towns in
Alabama.
It is eighteen miles by rail north of
Opelika, on the East Alabama & Cincin
nati Bailroad. The road has just* been
completed to this point, but is destined
to connect somewhere on the Selma,
Borne & Dalton Bailroad.
Before the war LaFayette was one of
the most desirable places of residence in
East Alabama; and even now for purity
of water, good Society, church and school
privileges it is unsurpassed. The busi
ness done here is very large, but not a
tith to that expected by the next cotton
season.
For a summer resort this is the very
place for those seeking quiet and rest.—
Although not as well fixed up at present
as one could desire, yet very fair accom
modations can be secured here at mod
erate expense.
I would like to toll you some more
about this section, its prospects, its crops,
„its relations to other sections, its predes
tination, &o. The people are enjoying
all the things I have named above, and
yet they are, like other folks—“hot hap
py.” They expect to be, though, and I
hope the day is not far distant when
their expectations will be realized.
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FoUjr of Proscription. '
Cartersville is going ahead. She lias
u man wlio can temper a mill pick, and
still she has determined not to be happy
without a cotton factory.
For admirable specimens of fine writ
ing, we commend the Borne Commercial
ride its issue of June 6th, as follows: The
rain on Sunday evening was one of the
severest \\e iave ever seen. Torrents of
dirty water swirled madly through the
sewers, and several bridges went sifting
to the sea. Two hogs were drowned.
The Borne Courier boasts of the fact
that a tirm in that village received a bill
of lading dated New York, May 28tlj.
The goods were shipped by the Great
Southern freight line—via Charleston-
on the 29th, and were received at the
Borne depot on the 1st instant, mtdringr
the trip in less than four days and a half.
This is, we believe, the fastest time ever
made between this city and New York.
A heavy storm prevailed Wednesday
afternoon. The lightening struck a ma
jestic oak on Main street, plowing the
bark off on opposite sides for ten or
twelve feet.—Monroe Advertiser.
BJThe heavy andj almost incesant rains
the past week, greatly benefitted vegeta
tion, espeeially the gardens. Field crops
will also receive a new impetus, not even
excepting the grass, which will make
plantation and farm amusement quite
lively for some time to come. Appear
ances now indicate clear weather and
sunshine.—rMcmroe Advertiser.
Col. Jas. S. Boynton, President of the
Griffin and Madison Bailroad, addressed
the citizens of Butts county at Jackson
on Fridas-, and at Indian Spring on
Saturday. The subscriptions for a nar
row gauge road amounted to over fifty
thousand dollars.—Monroe Advertiser.
The 2-lth will be a gala day for For
syth. It is expected that a large number
of visitors belonging to the Councils,
Chapters and Lodges of the State will
be present. The brethren are making
preparations to extend their guests a fra
ternal and knightly greeting.—Monroe
Advertiser.
Savannah workmen dig up baby skel
etons. •' “' T ~ ; ;
Formal Expulsion of the Rev.
Chas. E. Cheney from the Pro
testant Episcopal Church.
The Spanish bark Marieat, Captain
Humbert, was cleared on yesterday by
Messrs. Chas.^Greene, Son, & Co., for
Barcelona, Spaio, with 450 bales of up
land cotton, weighing 606.770 pounds,
valued at 831,613 88; 3,820 staves, val
ued at §154 51; 3 sticks of timber,
measuaing 2,260 feet, valued at $30;
,100 feet of lumber, valued at 821; and
one sewing machine, valued at 825.
Messrs Charles Green, Son & Co., on
yesterday, cleared the Spanish brig
Amable Teresa, Capt. Julia, for the port
named above, with 397 bales pf upland
cotton, weighing 187,174 pounds, valued
at 828,753 99; 7,000 staves, valued at
8-108 «>!; aud one stick of timber, meas
uring six hundred feet, valued at 812.—
Savannah News 6th.
The New York Tribune closes an edi
torial on “ Decoration Day,” as follows
It is in view of all the solemn lessons
of the day that we express our deep re
gret that another anniversary has come
which shall not witness the completion
of the work for which the patriot dead
gave up their lives. The public mind is
not yet fully at ease in regard to the con
quests of right and justice achieved at
such enormous cost, and throughout the
South there are still the smoldering
embers of ill will and discontent, kept
alive by an unwise and impolitic pro
scription. Only when the impotent pro
test* against the course of events has
ceased among those who appealed years
ago to the arbitrament of the sword—
•only when all distinctions as to civic
rights and duties have passed away
:among the victors and vanquished in
that mighty strnegle, will the living be
:at peaca and the dead be justly glorified
Xet us earnestly hope that in the closing
■days of future Springs we may seefi
■whole nation doing homage in harmony
±0' its de d, and reconciled enemies stand
ing by tne graves in which their resent
ments are buried, united by the lessons
of bitter experience, in patriotism and
religion, in peace and good will.
[From the Chicago Republican, June 3.]
Bev. Charles Edward Cheney is no
more a reverend in the Protestant Epis
copal Church of America. The irrevo
cable sentence which removes him from
his ministerial office has been pro
nounced, the pronunciamento of the
Bishop of the diocese informing him of
the unpleasant fact that he is expelled
from the pulpit has been delivered, and
THE EXTREME LIMIT
the diocesan authority has been
reached by Bishop Wliitehouse.
Mr. Cheney received the letter of ex
pulsion on Thursday night, at the un
seasonable hour of 11 o’clock, when all
peaceably disposed people, clerics and
others, are supposed to be in bed. In
the Cathedral, yesterday morning, the
Bishop formally pronounced the sen
tence recommended by the Ecclesiasti
cal Court. Mr. Cheney was not present
to hear his doom sealed. The reverend
gentleman looks upon the whole affair
with very philosophic eves, and has not
altered his opinions a whit. The same
may be said of the wardens and - congre
gation of Christ Church. Mr. Cheney
will
CONTINUE ON AS BEFORE,
and endeavor to increase the Episcopal
fold in the South Division.
Next Sunday it is expected, that Bev.
Stephen Tyng, Jr., of New York, will oc
cupy the pulpit of ChriBt Church. He,
too, succeeded in making a breach be
tween himself and Bishop Potter, and is
at present at the head of the indepen
dent church.
The following is a copy of the Bishop’s
letter to Mr. Cheney:
Chicago, June 1,1870.
My Son in the Chnrch:
You have been made fully aware how sore a judg
ment hangs over you in the verdict and sentence of
the Ecclesiastical Court—'•‘Degradation from the min
ibtry ol
, THE CHUBCH OF GOD!”
I approach with deepest pain the hour of pronoun
cing my first and only disciplinary sentence in an
episcopate of nineteen years. But I have now de
layed the judgment for four weeks. I have done
what I could, though without effect, through admoni
tion of my own and counsel with others, to bring yon
to appreciate the irrevocable Fall, and to induce
such
GODLY SUBMISSION
as might afford the occasion, which I would thank
fully have accepted, for the mitigation or remiasiom
of the sentence. All has proved in vain; and now I
inform you that, with the Divine permission, I shall
pronouuce the sentence recommended by the court
to-morrow morning, in the Cathedral, at 10 o'clock.
In sorrow—for the last time, your father in God,
HENRY J. WHITEHOUSE.
WHAT AN AGGRESSIVE FEMALE SAYS.
A female member of Dr. Cheney’s con
gregation says: “I don’t know what is
going to happen. I go to church every
Sunday, expecting to find the doors
looked against ns by the Bishop’s orders,
But if we do, we will open them, if we
have to scratch them down with our fin
ger nails.”
Milledgeville has to boast of the recent
capture of a shad and a beaver.
Lightning has been doiDg some dam
age in this vicinity recently. On last
Monday a tree on the lot of Dr. Green
of the Asylum, was struck and a horse
underneath was killed. The next after
noon the Augusta road depot was struck,
and considerable damage resulted. Strik
ing the northern end .of the warehouse,
the current ran down, tearing off the
planks, passing through the floor, and
rifliiig.a calf that had taken refuge un
derneath. Several persons were in the
house at the time, but fortunately they
escaped unhurt.—Milledgeville Recorder.
TJp to the time of our last notice of the
crop prospects, everything was doing fine
ly, but the floods of rain since that time
have greatly altered the aspect of affairs.
Many farmers are discouraged and have
given up their entire crops as a failure.
A great deal of the cotton has been
drowned out, and that which remains
is overrun with grass. Some have plow
ed np the cotton and planted instead peas
or com. Yery little cotton will be made
with the present prospects. Corn looks
very fine, in fact too fine. The rain has
caused it to run up rapidly, and the stalks
are too sappy to stand a drought.—Mil
ledgeville Recorder.
Savannah has but one public billiard
room.. I
It is thought by many of our citizens
that if the Central does not succeed in
getting the Macon & Western that it will
oppose .the building of the Macon &
Knoxville Railroad. We trust that in no
event will this be the case; for that Road
would be of vast benefit to the old -Cen
tral, but not-to the Macon & Western.—
This city sorely needs this new line to
the northwest, and we must and will have
it in spite of opposition coming from any
source whatsoever. And should the Cen
tral-interpose any obstacle, it would only
have the effect of stimulating its friends
with fanatical zeal.—Macon Telegraph.
The London Times of • May 16tb, has
an article on the government of the fu
ture of France, when the Commune shall
have been suppressed. It says that an
impatience of slow progress, and a conse
quent resentment of compromise, consti
tute the standing difference in the pro
gress of France. The yearnings after
order and peace of a nation wearied by
dissension and disaster appear just now
to support a movement in favor of Henry
V, and it is even said that the Assembly
at Versailles is prepared to accept him as
King. The Comte defas .
never manifested any disposition “to abate any in Northeast Georgia. The people
one jot of his hereditary pretensions. He are intelligent, enterprising and indus-
One of the editors of the Macon Tele
graph writes from South-West Georgia
“The damage to the cotton crop of this
section can hardly be estimated. In
careful survey of fifty acres by the writer,
he is satisfied that not less than five have
been completely washed up and des
troyed. The laud, too, where the least
undulating, has been greatly injured.—
Thousands of gullies now fuirow the soil
with unsightly rents, where washes have
lii-vor occurred before. The stands of
cotton are defective, and the plant
sufft ring from grass and the lack of work,
though looking more healthy since the
weather has changed warmer. In point
of time it is fully three weeks later than
usual. The corn crop, unless a sudden
diouth seisin, will be overwhelming.—
Everywhere it looks green and flourish
ing, and is beginning to shoot the tassel.
Many farmers are preparing to give it
the finishing work, a * H
The crop prospects between Elberton
and Washington are very fine—far better
than any I have seen. The wheat fields
are numerous anH no appearance of rust,
the stand is good, the stalk tall, with
heads large, full and heavy, and, with
favorable time for harvesting, the yield
will be abundant. Oats, corn and cotton
all look well. Some of the planters talk
about squares oj the latter, which,
suppose, are not very common. The
productive qualities of" the land along
the route are equal, if not superior, to
is a one-ideaed, man, whose hobby m that
legiance to the family of which he is the
head.
trious, as may be observed from the good
France must necessarily return to its al- order and taste displayed on their farms
and" about their homes.—Cor. Augusta
Chronicle <tiid Sentinel.
TIIE CHICAGO BIGOTRY.
BLOODY AFFAIR.
A 'Wilkinson Comity Shooting
Affray.
Some Pennsylvanians wrote to Horace
Greeley to j ascertain whether he would
permit his name to be used inconnec
ion with the Presidency. An attempt to
translate his reply resulted as follows
“Dear Sir—I am vaccinated and yawn
ing at Ishmael; he surely is not fishing
shad all the while at Sims’, but I wrote
a line to fetch her forth; deception is
thus underrated viciously if Idaho fails.
Carrots promise to wait. Perhaps spirits
are ended—entirely; my bow. Bores.
“Horace Greeley. 1
Two friends of a pastor were discuss
ing the liberality of his people in pro
viding for his comfort. “Why is it,’
said one, that they are so much more
generous toward their pastor than other
churches in proportion to their means? r
“Because,” said the other, “he has
schooled them to such liberality toward
the various benevolent causes of the day
that they have come to apply the same
scale to himself and family.” The an
swer was correct, and the principle is one
of universal application.
One of Marshal McMahon’s aids is an
excellent officer, but lazy beyond expres
sion. Some time ago his servant entered
his tent and said: “ Colonel, the Gene
ral is up and dressed. “Really, the
General is up, dressed, and I am stil
abed ! I am a wretch, unworthy to see
the light—so draw the curtains, boy.
A gentleman called on a rich but mi
serly friend, and found him at the table
endeavoring to catch a fly. Presently
he succeeded in entrapping one, which
he immediately put in the sugar-bowl and
shnt dowit the cover. The gentleman
asked for an explanation of this singular
sport-. “I’ll tell you,” replied the miser,
a triumphant grin overspreading his
countenance as he spoke, “I want to as
certain if the servants steal sugar.”
Another Terrible Organization for the
extermination of all carpet-baggers and
scalawags, says the New York Herald, is
said to be in process of formation down
South. It is different from the Ku-Klux
in some respects, bnt has the same object
in view. It is wonderfhl what risks these
carpet-baggers are willing to run just for
the pleasure of living in a neighborhood
that evidently does not won’t them-
They might better sell out and “go.”
A countryman stopped on Broadway,
in front of the telegraph office, the other
day, bent his head in a listening attitude
for some time and then muttered : “That
must be a darned big clock store, for such
a ticking as is goin’ on in there I never
heard.”
Lord North, who was not fond of sci
entific music, being asked to subscribe to
the Ancient Concerts, refused. ‘‘But
your lordship’s brother, the Bishop of
Winchester, subscribes,” uiged the ap
plicant. “If I were as deaf as he, I would
subscribe, too,” was the reply.
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A Quaker, intending to drink a glass
of water, took up a small tumbler of gin.
He did not discover his mistake until he
had swallowed the dose, when he lifted
np both hands and exlaimed: “Verily,
I have taken inwardly the balm of the
world’s people. What will Abagail say
when she smells my breath ?”
- Senator elect Goldthwaite of Alabama,
whom the Senate did not admit on ac
count of his rebel antecedents, became
very dissipated while he was in Washing
ton, and is lying at the point of death at
his home in Alabama. He is delirious at
times, and will probably abandon all at
tempts to get a seat in the Senate if he
Uvea.
WAITING FOR THE TRAIN.
Singular Religious Delusion
Among the Negroes of Wil
liamson County.
From the Milledgeville Recorder.]
Just in the edge of Wilkinron county
a little cross-road grocery, rejoicing in
the euphonious title of Lickskillet, kept
by a Mr. Davis. On Friday evening last
this place was the scene of a fatal en
counter between several men of that
county. Mr. Daniel Tucker, Jr., passing
along the road in the direction of the
grocery, saw Jack Parker in conversation f
with some negroes in the employ of the
former. Nothing however was said by
either until they met some horn's after
wards at the grocery.
Mr. Tucker then demanded an expla
nation of what Parker meant by talking
to his negroes, thinking that perhaps
Parker wished to induce them to leave
Mr. T’s employ. High words were the re
sult, a quarrel ensued, and with threats
they separated. Jack Parker going off
about half a mile after his brother, Rob
ert Parker.
After a while the two Parker brothers
returned, armed to the teeth, and made
an attack upon Mr. Tucker. He was struck
with a stick by one of, the brothers, the
blow at his head being arrested in its de
scent by his left arm. The other then
fired at him, the ball entering his left
cheek, just below the eye. He then drew
his pistol, wnich contained only three
loads ; being disabled in the left arm by
the blow of the stick, he cocked the
weapon by pulling it against his side.
Just at the moment that Tucker com
menced firing, Davis, the keeper of the
grocery, rushed out to separate the com
batants, and save Tucker’s life.
The Parkers immediately began to fire
upon Davis, knowing that he was a
friend of Tucker’s. Davis then drew his
pistol and began to shoot also.
All this transpired in about a minute’s
time, and it is impossible to state who
fired the fatal shots but of the dozen bul
lets fired, eight took effect; three entered
Mr. Davis’ body, four Mr. Tucker’s, aud
one pierced the heart of Robt. Parke*,
killing him instantly. Jack Parker, be
tween whom and Tucker the disagree
ment originated, took to his heels, and
while running off Mr. Davis snatched up
shot gunjkmded with bird shot, and
poured the contents into him. The shot
were too small to injure him seriously,
merely peppering him a little. Beside
the ball already spoken of as entering
the cheek of Mr. Tucker, during the sub
sequent part of the fight, three other
balls took effect upon him, one entering
his left shoulder, where it lodged, one
passing through the fleshy part of the
left arm above the elbow, and another
through the pgJm of the left hand. He
is badly wounded, but not seriously. Mr.
Davis’ wounds, though dangerous are not
thought mortal. All three balls passed
through his hips, two passing through his
body, and the third lodging in the right
kidney. He was able to sit up on Mon
day morning and is thought to be recov
ering.
The Coroner’s Jury gave in a verdict
of justifiable homicide, in the case of
Messrs. Tucker and Davis.
Robt. Parker who had nothing to do
with originating the affray, but merely
came with his brother, was the victim of
this terrible tragedy, the other brother
escaping cempara/fciyely intact.
All ike shooting w&s done in a narrow
passage .about four feet bj twelve, which
was so filled with smoke that nothing
could be seen. Some of the wounds seem
to have bees. dnflicted by antagonists in
the most tmaoeountable positions, sojne
balls ranging .directly upward, and oth
ers in the opposite direction.
It appeal's that for a moment or two
the scene was one of half a dozen men
down in a scuffle for life, each firing in
every conceivable direction. The Parkers
seem to have been cooler than their an
tagonists, as seven of their shots took-ef
fect, while only one from the other party
was accurately aimed, causing the death
of Mr. Robert Parker.
[From the Fiank'in Review.]
For some time past a stirrriug revival has been
going on among tho colored Ipeople of our town.—
According to their belief, they have been biased
with an abundance of spiritual blessing, aud the
Church has been greatly strengthened, at least in
numbers. We have grave doubts, however, as to
the amount of good accomplished. In their reli
gions experience the negroes are so full of supersti
tion aud strange delusion, that they ore easily made
to believe any doctrine or assertion of their preach
ers anil leaders.
In proof of this, the following veritable incident
connected with the present revival, is related. Our
informant is a gentleman in whoso veracity we placo
the utmost conlidence, and who was one of the par
ties to the conversation hereinafter related.
Approaching one of the sisters who had been a
regular attendant at all the meetings, and who had
been especially blessed w.th the outpouring of the
spirit, he inquired concerning their success. She
told him that the Lord had done great things for
the Chnrch, and that many sinners had been snatch
ed from the burning. He asked her about the close
of the meeting, what was the cause of the stoppage,
and when could it commence again. She informed
him that it never stopped, that it was going on with
renewed vigor, and that next week would be a great
time with all who could ‘*como through.”
Upon inquiring of her as to what was the particu
lar excitement of the programme next week, she
gravely informed him that their preacher had told
the n, aud the Lord had solemnly promised them
that, at the conclusion of the meeting, every solita
ry sinner who had found joy in believing, and had
•■got converted,” would be entitled to a free ride
from here to Washington and back, and that a long
train of cars was coming to take them.
The gentleman found upon further investiga
tion, that this was the actual belief of the entire
crowd that assembled every night at this church.—
Under this delusion they were crowding the altar,
calling upon the name of the Lord and “ getting re
ligion” by the wholesale, firmly expecting at the end
ot the week that a train of cars would take them
from Franklin to Washington free of cost, and bound
for a regular.bran-dance picnic.
Robert Bonner’s Famous Ken
tucky Trotter in New York.
The Chicago Tribune discusses Mr. Greeley’s
chances and availability for the Presidential nomi
nation, and thinks stranger things have happened
than singling him out as a candidate. The Tribune,
however, thinks Greeley’s ambition and self-esteem
knows no bounds. It says:
Mr. Greeley's ambition is of the imperious kind.t
He believes that he is one of tho greatest men tha
this country has ever produced. Ho is surrounded
Dy many who assure him of the truth of his theory.
He docs not say it, but he “goes for” auy man or
party that fails to discover it. His vindictiveness is
as active as his philanthropy. It is, therefore, his
behef that the American people, voting singly, would
give him a larger vote than auy other candidate,
and that only the politicians stand in the way.
The Southern Claims Commissioners in session at
Washington have published a list of those who have
declared under oath that they remained loyal adhe
rents t-i tho cause and the Government of the Uni
ted States during the late war, and that they never
yielded voluntary support to the Confederate Gov
ernment. The last embraces 1,000 names, toe grea
ter number of which belong to Virginia and Georgia.
A quaint old gentleman of an active, stirring dispo
sition, had a min at work in his garden who was
quite the reverse. “Jones,” said he, “did you ever
see a snail?” “Certainly,” said Jones. “Then,”
said the old boy, “you have met him, for you never
could overtake him.”
An auctioneer at a sale in New Haven, Connecticut
Saturday night week, produced a statucte of toe
“Greek Slave,” and said : .“Now, gentlemen, how
much am I offered for this beautiful Madonna ?”
The war of Republican factions in New York lias
broken out afresh and with greater virulence than
ever. Tammany looks on with serene composure
White laborers are cultivating cotton and sugar on
Bayou Sale and Cyprcmort, Louisiana, with no tsick-
or mortality above the average among the negroes,
On and after Jnne 15th, trains will rnn from
Lyachburg to Chattanooga without change, and
sleeping and palace cars from Chattanooga to Or
leans without change.
Still Flourishing.
Father Hyacinthe.
A Paris dispatch of the 4th says : “A
letter from Father Hyacinthe in the
Gaolois acknowledges the sympathy Italy
feels for France, and advises a union of
the Latin races, as the balanee of Europe
is menaced by a preponderance of the
Germans. The acts of the Commune
were the result of negotiations negative
of God by the people. The nineteenth
century is an age of working men. The
second Empire treated social questions in
the spirit of the Csesars, instead of seek
ing to solve them by dissemination of ed
ucation. It moreover imposed prolonged
cilibacy on soldiers, and legalized prosti
tution. The church also failed in its
mission.” Father Hyacinthe concludes:
“Paris is in ashes; the work of people
who have no God, or say it is impossible
for them to believe in or love Him. Let
rulers with their whole heart and brain
consider these problems, and labor for
the restoration of France, faith, prosper
ity and peace.”
»■ <»■<
Mr. Phillips, the author of “Local
Sketches,” writes: “ On paying a recent
visit to the grave of Charles Lamb, in
Edmonton churchyard, I* found it cer
tainly not in the state an admirer of
Elia ’ would wish to see it. The mound
beneath which he and his loving i«nd
beloved Bridget lie is half trodden down
and broken, and what is left of it is any
thing but ‘ the bank where daisies grow,’
as Moxon wrote. To remove the gaunt
nettles and to order new turf was my
first object; but something more requires
to be done. In a year or two, unless-the
letters are re-cut, the words of the in
scription will have passed away.”
John Graham has a great taste for fine
horses, and his stables contain some of
the fleetest trotters in the city. The'otil
er day he added another to his stud, for
which he paid a round sum. When
was brought home he gave directions to
the hostler concerning its treatment, and
accidentally mentioned the price for the
horse. At this a smile, “childlike and
bland,” crept over the good-humored hos
tler’s sable countenance, and he said that
it reminded him of an old saying. “What
is it ?” asked Graham, a little curious.—
“Well, ’deed, den, mass’r, I misremem
her de fust ob it,” was the reply; “but
de last is, ‘and his money is soon part
ed P ”—New York Sun.
We are glad to announce that this
famous three-year old trotter arrived
safe and well at Mr. Bonner’s stables
iu this city. On Monday afternoon
we went up to look at him. He is all
that we expected, and more too,
although no one has considered the
able description given of him by our
Cincinnati correspondent, “ S. T. H.,”
more attentively, or more highly ap
preciates his breeding. We found be
fore us a splendid looking dark-brown
colt, with tan muzzle and flank, and
no white save a small star, standing
fifteen hands three inches. He is
long, strong, and high behind, with
the best back and finest arched lions
that were ever seen.
T iY ith all his size, strength and sub
stance there is not a point anywhere
about him upon which an oiince of
material has been wasted. His shoul
ders are good, with plenty of muscle,
and his forearms are peculi rly long, 23
straight and strong, while his cannon
bones are very short. His quarters
are good, and his thighs very long
and broad. In his arms he reminds
us of the description and portrait' of
English Eclipse. His thighs are like
those of Lexington.' Cast-steel look
ing legs, clean :is a foal’s, are under
him. His head is just the sort we
like to see—not small, nor tapering
off to a snout, but large, resolute, with
big nostrils. It is lean and bony, and
wide between the eyes. His neck is
strong and muscular, and he has the
perfect game-cock throttle, the wind
pipe large, and loose below the meaty
part of the neck until it enters the
chest. The plates of the jaws are
ather deep, which denotes hard stick
ing, and very wide apart, which is
one of the essentials to clear wind.
His eyes are large, hold and full.
We were much impressed by this
colt—so large, well furnished, sym
metrical, and blood-like. Interest in
the new-comer did not cause us to
forget our old friends. Dexter is big
and sleek, and as usual full of mag
netism. Peerless, the fine old mare,
dear to memory, and destined hereaf
ter to maternal joys, looks well, and
as ready as ever to take a wagon and
two men along at her unequalcd rate.
mg Pocahontas was bright and
gay. And the evergreen Lantern
was strong and fine as though his
light would ne’er go out—N. Y. Sun.
Henry P. Moody hanged himself in
Boston, yesterday.
An ingenious biped has a machine to
make a man rise early in the morning. A
six months’ baby can beat it to death.
The skive trade on the east coast of
Africa is said to he flourishing, notwith
standing the authority which the Eng
lish government has assumed to exercise
over it, and the means which, chiefly
through the agency of Dr. Livingston,
have been adopted for its suppression.—
Iu a treaty with the Sultan, it seems
England bound herself not to interfere
with domestic slavery, and thus left the
matter substantially in Syed Majid’s
hands, vhose sovereignty extends over
several hundred miles of the coast, and
protects slavers so that they can be sore
of running four out of five cargoes. A
royalty of two dollars a head upon sales
of slaves in Zanibar enables the Sultan to
maintain himself handsomely, and to pay
the annual subsidy of fifty thousand dol
lars besides. It is said that the atroci
ties committed in the capture and march
of slaves coastward exceed the horrors of
the middle passage; that from 200,000 to
300,000 lives are annually sacrificed; and
that large tracts of country, once well
peopled, have been completely depopu
lated by the traffic. For all which, the
Englash government, by its voluntary as
sumption, is in a certain degree respon
sible. It omitted, against the advice of
Dr. Livingstone, to limit the number of
slaves allowed to be imported, and left
the way open for the terrible abuses
which nave succeeded the treaty. The
remedy is with England, for Syed Mad-
jid is the creature of its power alone.
“I weeded my friends,” said an ec
centric old man, “by hanging a piece of
stair carpet out of my first-floor window,
mth a constable’s announcement afifeed
It had tiie desired effect I soon saw
who were my friends. It was like firing
a gun at a pigeon-house. They forsook
the building at the first report, and
have not had occasion to use the extra
flaps of my dining table since.”
An ice-making machine in Philadelphia
lately inclosed a bouquet of rich, fresh
flowers in a block of ice. Every leaf and
petal was distinctly visible, with a bril
liancy and delicacy of coloring greatly
enhanced by the refractive power of the
transparent inclosure. This result was
produced by the earre-ammonia process,
a French invention lately imported.
While you are living be very kind
generous, and do as much good as you
can to yonr relations; bnt leave them
nothing when you do die, and you will
be sure to be missed by them.
In the case of the crew of the Manito
ba, accused of attempting to murder the
captain and mate, testimony was intro
duced to show that the pistols in the
hands of the captain and mate were acci
dentally discharged.
Rev. Wm. H. Davis, of Richmond,
will deliver the commencement sermon
of Monroe Female College in. July, and
[Rev. James T. Robert, LLD., of Wilkes,
' the literary address.—Monroe Advertiser.
An old lady gave this as her idea of
great man: “ One who is keerful of his
clothes, don’t drink spirits, kin read the
Bible without spelling the words, and
eat a cold dinner on a wash-day without
grumbling.”
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A sailor, whose sweetheart had a very
handsome' set of teeth, attempted to kiss
her, but she eluded him and gave bam
box on the ear. “Just my luck,” said
the good-natured sailer; “I’m always
getting wrecked on the coral reefs. ”
A little girl, busy in making a pair of
worsted slippers for her father, said to
young companion near her: “You are
very lucky, yon are; yonr papa has only
one leg.”
An attorney observed to a brother in
court that he thought whispers very un
professional. “You are right,” replied
his friend; “a lawyer cannot bo too bare
faced.”
Five boys attempted to escape from
Albany jail, yesterday. James McIntyre
jumped from a window and was severely
injured. -,. c . ^ >*' -.SS-In'.
Edward H. Heard, a veterinary sur
geon of East Broadway, was committed
by Justice Led with, for assaulting one of
Mr. Bergb’s officers.
A curate having been overhauled by
bis bishop for attending a ball, the for
mer replied: “My lord, I wore a mask.”
“Oh, well,” returned this bishop, “that
puts a new face on the affair.”
4 Jfcrotc Brakesman.
The Mobile sad Ohio Bailroad carry what is called
a combustible car. oue in which they transport, coal
oil and powder. Yesterday mopniiig as freight train
No. 8, Jack Baker, conductor, was going south, at
Rutherford Station, before day, with his lamp, Baker
went in toe car to get out a barrel of gasoline. From
some cause the gas became ignited, and in a moment-
the barrel, side aud floor of the car were In flames.
Notwithstanding (here were forty kegs of powder in
toe car, E. Tiffany, brakesman, ran and seized his
blankets, dashed into the car, and actually smothered
out the flames. His blankets, liia hands, clothes and
face were burned, while the car was badly scorched.
Captain Sprout, of the ice car, assisted materially.
Too much credit caunot be awarded Tiffany for his
coolness, his devotion to duty. As a mail of a family
he risked too much, and President Murdock cannot
prize such a man too highly.—Jackson {.Tennessee)
Democrat.
Assassins, ted.
Ad Athens (Tennessee) correspondent of the
Chattanooga Times writtog on the 4th instant, says:
On the evening of June 2d, all things were as calm
as usual in our little town, but the news of murder
was swiftly passing from ear to ear. It was soon
known that Mr. Byram Alien, a citizen of this
county, had been shot, while going home, by some
one lying in ambush, about one mile from town,
from which wound he died within an hour. There
was a young man with Mr. Alien when he was shot,
said young man testifying that he only saw the
smoke of the gun a short distance from them in ,he
bnshes. Some tracks were found where the mur
derer had necessarily to cross the road in or ter to
escape. No clue, as yet, as to who the murderer
was. '
A1 altimore poet taking np an old theme, gives
the end of Cleopatra in this style ;
“ She got a little p'ison snake,
And hid it in her gown ;
It gave its little tail a shake ;
And did her job up brown.
She tumbled down upon her bed,
Where she was wont to lie,
Removed her chignon from her head
And foll-iwed Antony.”
Military.
A Washington dispatch of June 3d,
says:
Upon toe return of General Sherman from hie
Southern and Western inspection tour, toward the
end of the month, tho expected reorganization of the
military divisions and departments into which the
country is divided, will probably take place. The
details are uot ycj; fully arranged, but it is under
stood they involve the transfer of Lieuteuat General
Sheridan from Chicago to New York, from which
point he will exercise a command extending over a
territory embracing in its limits all the geographical
possibilities arising out of the enforcement ol the
Ku-Klux act of the late session of the old and new
Congress. From the Pacific coast, General Schofield
will probably be called to command the division of
the Missouri, wisely enlarged to include all ot the
Indian couutry, and thus to terminatetbe evils of a
divided Indian jurisdiction.
General Meade will be likely to succeed to the com
mand of the Pacific division, unless he snould prefer
to remain on the Atlantic slope, in which case he
could receive a department command Jinder the
Lieutenant- General, and General Halleck, now in
command in toe South, will be restored to his cov
eted post at San Francisco. The department of the
lakes will, in Ml probability, be discontinued, aud
its commander, General Cooke, find the reward of
long and faithful service in the repose of the retired
list. Other cluiigi^jji contingent upon those now
foreshadowed, are also probable, but they are in an
inchoate condition at present, and do not afford
enough ground for a safe prediction of their charac
ter.
Seven hundred thousand men 13 what
is esteemod a peace footing for the Prus
sian anuy.