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THE < KDARTOW N RECORD.
W. S, D. WIKLE & GO., Proprietors,
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1874.
VOLUME I. NUMBER 13.
NEWS or THE WEEK,
SOUTH.
The entire business portiou of Green*
▼illo, Mien., destroyed by llro last week.
A dry, hot wind passed over a por
tion of Marion county, Georgia, lately, parch
ing up moat of the vegetation in leaa than an
The Memphis cotton exchange re
ports a depredation of 31 per cent, in the
cotton crop prospect in this district slneo the
last report.
At Oberokeo, Ala., last week, .young
Rodgers, a son of the town marshal, was shot
and instantly killed in a saloon by John Mo-
Oloeky, son of tho circuit eourt clerk at Tus-
cumbia. ■
The Arkansas convention has decided,
by a more decisive vote tban heretofore, to
leave tho question of tho legality of the Hal
ford bonds to tho legislature. The motion to
repudiate thciu outright received fen sup
porters.
Tho lower river pilots huvo advanced
wsgo« by action of tho Pilots' Association
and tho rates lierosftor will be advanced on
boats lens tban (WO tons, customhouse meas
urement, to $800 per trip or mouth ; on boats
over 600 tous to $350 ; and ou tow boats $400.
It is believed boat owners will agreu
to tho terms. It is said the pilots at Cin
cinnati and Loniaville have taken, or will take,
Tho Prico Current
nal
otto
other foreign ports, 610.811. Total exerts.
2,829,348.
Tho governor of Louisiana has called
out an extra regiment of state militia, to bo
composed of picked white men. Hie orders
were issued some days ago in view of appre
hended white loagiio disturbances and the on-
tiro absence of United States troops from tho
state. Recruiting has boon quioily going on,
and it is stated that a number of ex-soldiers
of both armies havo volunteered* Tho regi
ment will bn added to Longstreet's brigade,
and will Im> used mainly to keep down disturb
ances in and around tho city of Now Orloans.
The fire at Greenville, Miss., last
week, which is supposed to bo incendiary,
nrigiuatod in tho grocery store of Morgan A
Platt, then crossed Mulborry, going oast, and
Main west, destroying tho otitiro portion of
tho town from Mulberry stroot to tho river,
embracing nearly all tho business houses of
tho place—in all, sovonty-throo housos, valued
at orar a qnarter of a million dollars, with
about a hundred and flfty thousand insurance,
on which the Planters' of Mississippi and
Planters’ of Memphis had a largo amount.
There will bo considerable suffering, ns nearly
all the provisions in town woro dostroyod.
Tho house in which tho flro originated had
been previously sot on flro four different tiwoH
A man named MsJ. Thompson lias been ar
rested on suspicion of being concerned in tho
Tho following ift condensed from tho
o crop report f<
gu-t
In Mis
issippi
ml Tcnnesseo the crop
i drouth. Tho p
n at this time h
Ark a
lorally
iro less fai
uffor-
d, though a
mlii ago they wore generally later, tho j.ick-
,- commenced quite as early, tho drouth
using a prematiiro opening. In Alabamn.
ginin. North Carolina and Month Carolina
' condition is a« good as last year. In
orgia and Florida tho crop is injured by
■outb. Tho
uditioi
loss fav.
ablo than last year. In Missouri tho prospects
are unfavorable, and piokiiig will bo com
menced ten or tnolvo days eailior than last
year. In Indian torritory tho plant is suffer
ing from drouth and picking is ten or fifteen
days earlier than last year.
WEST.
Thn lending: western railwayH eon-
venod in Chioago and abolished all commis
sions to ticket agent*. This is vory well, if
they rodneo faros somowhnt in proportion.
The In’rber men of Minnesota ro-
solvo in convention, I hat tho huninoHnofde-
s'roving forests has l>eon ovordono. It does
not pay, oreu from their mercenary point of
The citizens of Honryville, Indiana,
have offered a reward of $1,000 for the ap-
irohension of tho murderers of Aug. Oard-
rer. who was robbed of his money and then
tM to tho railroad track.
A party of nix Rtirvoyors, from Law
rence, Kansas, was massacred by Indians last
week noar Lono Treo, forty miles soulli of
F' rt Dodge. Three of tho nnmbor were
scalped.
Agent Williama of the Kickapons has
applied for s military escort to bring bis Kirk-
apoos, mainly women and children, no from
tlio India
:errltoi
the Kai
ed in reaching the interior you are dirootod
send ouch a force of cavalry in pursuit as
will nccomplieh the purposo above named.
Should congress offer up the country for sot-
by extinguishing the treaty rights of
tlio Indians, tho undersigned will givo a cor
dial support |o tho settlement of tho lllaek
Hills. A duplicate or these Instructions ban
been sent to Oon. Ord, commanding the de
partment of the Platte.
EAST.
Tho cost of tho government of Now
York city for tlio year ending August 1 was in
round numbers $60,000,000. Tho debt in the
sanio time was considerably increased
At Mystic park, Hoaton, last week, a
special purso of $2,600 was offered to Gold
smith Maid to beat her cnvn record of 2:14\,
she to have three trials. The Maid ap|K<arcd
between the heat« of the second race and
do the first heat in 2:10Y. going easily all
ornpa
I'd by
si tn a bnggv and driven by James
on. Tlio second trial was made under
most favoraldo auspices. Tho trank had
scraped closo to the pole, and there
ilmolutoly no wind. Rudd Poblc nodded
Ue wont the flrat time he came down.
The Maid trotted tho tlrat quarter in Sd.Y «ce-
, and tlio half mile in LOfl.y, lifting her
once Just before she reached there. Thu
last half milo was trotted without tho least
how or a break, and alio made her host ro-
onled time- 2:14—amid the cheers of assem
bled thousands.
SPAIN.
Sidialla’H cabinet lias resigned. Ha-
osta will form a now ministry.
It is thought that 10,000 men will bo
dilod to the (Spanish army by tlio conscrip-
ill bo annt to
iree tho Spanish
Two thousand mon w
iiba in a few days to roinfi
The Carlists have abandoned tho siogo
>f Paycordo. Tlio failure of tlio Insurgents
!o capture the place causes great rejoicing.
Tho Carlists are entrenching thorn-
selves around Bilboa The damage done by
tho bombardment of Ruycorda was insigni-
The Carliata under Alvarez havo de-
re a od and driven off the column of Oon.
Loma, who wasattotuptlug to throw provisions
into Vitoria.
In Barcelona there Iirb burn riotoua
i>PI>osition to the coiiBcriploti mid tlio boxes
containing tlio names of persons liable to tin.
draft where in some Intanoes stolen and
burned.
The Garliats made two determined
Mills
(Tool. Roth attacks woro lepulsM
(■siegers, in tliolr rage, set flro i
troyod houses ontside of tho walls
A disputoh from Madrid
the
Bene
Additional correspondetieo botwoon
the British govovntuont and Us representative
Madrid concerning the Virgiuius outrage is
published. Mr. MePonnel, tho British charge
d'affalrs, writes to Lord Derby, July 9, that tho
Spanish govormueet appeals to England to
for pressing a settlement of her claims on
■ouiit of thu negotiations pending with tho
Unitod States. Spain will be liamporod in
dealing with the lattor power if tho American
government is ablo te cite as a precedent the
payment, of indemnity to England. Lord
Derby replies, July 17, demanding that a set
tlement be made by a fixed and not too distant
Mr. MoDonnel telegraphs to Lord
Derby, August 7, that Honor Ullva, the Span
ish minister of, foreign affairs, agrees that
Indemnity shall be settled immediately under
certain reservations.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Marshal Towetl has entered upon his
dutif
«r™
ioral.
The rivol trarm-Atlantio lines have
i'ome togothor, and eonolnded to stop cutting
down each other's rates. The chargo Uxod on
for passage this way is $26 gold.
Mr. O. II. Kelly, secretary of tho
national grange nrgahtftatioh, ro]>oits a steady
increase of the moiubership of the order and
of tho nnmbor of tho lodges. The IticroiiHO
of tlio Intter for August is about four hun
dred.
Tho attorney-general has decided that
tlio military foroos of the United Staten may
bo employed to remove outlaws,' thieves and
othoi unauthorized person/ from the Chey-
enno aiul Arapahoe Indian rnsorvntion.
A horse disenso similar to that of two
years hIiioo lias broke* out at Ht. Johns, N. B„
with great violence. A large portion of tho
working horses of tho city havo died. Tlio
disease, was introduced by horses attached to
a traveling olrous.
Tho secretary of the treasury oulla in
$16,000,000 of tho 5*20 bonds of 1802. Twolvo
millions are oonpon bonds and three millions
registered bonds. Tlio ten previous calls
commencing September 1, 1871, aggregate
$261,000,000, and with the present, or oloYouth
oall, $270,000,000.
Tho sixty duyu’ notice of tho Freod-
mun'ssavings bank expired last week,but affaire
remain unchanged, and business is still hiih-
pcmlod. Tlio commissioners to wind up its
usily engaged collecting
of tho bn
Tlio;
colloutod
dedal
Uni
divide!
and loi
when twenty po
shall be paid to tho depositors.
Tho attorney general has decided
that .thA proviso in tlio army appropriation
bill, to the effect that only actual traveling ex
penses Hliall tin allowed to any person hold-
api
protect them from tho I.ittle Osages, whob
visited tho agencios with hostile intent
expressed their determination to kill
white man in the territory.
Lieut. Gen. Sheridan has received an
order notifying parties now reported organiz
ing at various points on tho border to visii
Rla".k hills In search of gold, that tbev will nol
be permitted to go unless under authority of
the ee rotary of tlio interior or of cong
Rome efforts are reported as being made in
Chicago to organize an expedition for tho
B'ack hill country.
General Caatar roporta to Lent. Oph,
Sheridan tho ret rn to Fort Lincoln of the I
Black bill expedition, and says: Our rente
from Boar Butte was by way of tho Little
Missouri river until the hea l waters of Heart
river were reached, wbon wo moved almost
due eaat to this point. We explored and lo
cated that portion of the Little Missouri hith
erto unknown. Wo have marched about one
thousand miles, and my command, with re
plenished supplies, is in good condition to
take the field to-morrow.
Lieut. Gen. Sheridan hoa Bent the fol
lowing order by telegraph to Brig. Gen. Al
fred n. Terry at Rt Panl, Minn. : flhnnld the
companies now organizing at Sioux City and
Yankton trespass on the Rionx oountry Indian
reservation, yon are hereby directed to nse
tha force at yonr command to bum the wagon
train, destroy the outfit and arrest the lead
ers, confining them at'the nearest military
poBi in tbs Indian country. * Should they
president of tho council, persists In his resig
nation. Gen. Blauoo and other Isadora of tho
northern army, havo accompanied (ion. Ho-
bitlla to Madrid.
Russia has sent (special agents to tlio
Republican and Garlist general hoadqnartore,
to report on tho military positions of tlio con
tending parties. Tho Garlist Generals Trls-
tniiy and Mara were dofealod l»y tho Republi
cans near Roo Do Urgel on Hnnday last, losing
400 killod and wounded.
Over two hundred OarliatH havo boon
killed and many wounded In tho attack on
Pnycorda. The Republican garrison havo
ninotoon barrels of dynamite with which they
will blow up tho placo if tlio OarlUts succeed
in carrying it. A foroe of Carlin ts entered
CalacoiTa, twenty four miles south-east of
I.agrono, on tlio 25th ultimo, and aaoked the
hnnsos, levied a contribution of $1,700 from
tlio clergy, shot four volunteers, freed tho
convicts and burned tbo railway station.
FOREICN.
Dockery Iihh boon brought from
Panto Principo to Fort Gablncss, where lie
will remain nnlil sent to Spain.
The expedition from tho Unitod Htatos
to'obsorvo tlio transit of Venus arrived at
Cipotown on tlio 6th of August.
Monet Etna lion boon in a stato of
eruption since August 29th, and streams of
lava aro pouring from throe crators.
IT. M. Stanley has not ont from Eng
land on his African mission. His body guard
nnmWod nearly eight hundred inon.
Minister Bingham, in Japan, linn re
ceived instructions from Washington to de
mand tho full payment of tho old Indemnity
claims, and the amount has been deposited to
bis credit under oarnost protest.
Tho French barque C'orromaudol, of
Rordoaux, Oapt. France, went ashore at Bag
dad, Mexico, last week, in a galo, and became
a totsl wreck, breaking up In lfiSH than two
hours, tho cargo drifting ashore. Tho captain,
first mate and throo seamen were rescued.
Eleven of tho crew aro supposed to havo
perished.
Mail ad vice h from Yokohama aro ns
follows: Japan is rather disposed to avoid
war with China, on the Formosan question, if
possiblo. Gon. Legendre, nn American officer
who has boon interfering in the matter, was re
cently arrested in Amoy, by a United States
official. Recent presents from President
Grant to tlioMikado have arrived, among them
Gatlin guns, which will bo used against China
if war breaks out.
The members of tho Austrian polar
expedition, for whose safety fears were felt,
have been hoard from. They were ship
wrecked and took to sleighs, in which they
havo sncceedod. after a long Journey, in reach
ing tho Norwegian island of Wardoc. After
| abandoning thoir ship tho party traveled for
even months in sleds, and two winters were
assed on the Ico. The lilgliost point reached
, as in latitude eighty degrees. A large tract
f land was discovered to the northward Of
Nova Zambia. Tho expedition arrived at
Wardei on a Rnssi-n boat. Duly one death
occurred during the entire voyage.
Cabans of New York have informa
tion that shortly after tho battle of Iquara a
Spanish captain of regulars left tho city,
taking with him two companies of volunteers,
mostly natives, and passed over to the Cuban
army.* When tbo Cuban troops were ap
proaching the city the regular Spanish force
was ordored ont to oppose their advance. An
tmbnscade was laid by the Cubans Into which
tho whole Spanish column, which is stated to
havo numbered two thousand, fell, and were
either ent to pieces or found safety in flight.
The Cuban army captured a quantity of arms
1 Slates,
allmvaiico of mileage to Unitod Hiatus mai-
atiala us provided in the feo hill.
Arthur Glayden, intimately associated
with Josh. Arch in efforts to raise tho condi
tion of thn agricultural dosses in England,
lias arrived in this country, and will make a
liersonal inspection of the most promising
section of the country for Immigrants. The
result of his examination of Canada last yonr
as a field of immigration was nol favorable.
No formal order will bo indited from
tho wsr department as to Uio distribution of
troop* in the department of the south ; hut
the whole matter will ho left with the depart
ment commander, who will dispose of forces
so its they can bo used by United StaloH mar
shals in case of necessity. Tho federal troops
in the south are now distributed as follows :
Thr
omps
tbo 8o(
In fan
try In Alabama; tlio entire Third infantry
at Holly Springs, Miss. ; throo companion of
tho Sixteenth infantry in Kontnoky, two in
Arkansas, one in Mississippi, oho in Louisiana,
and one in Tenuosson; eight or the Eigh
teenth infantry in South Carolina and two in
Georgia ; eight companies of the First artil
lery in Florida, ouo in Georgia, two in South
Carolina, and onb tn Virginia ; Hix companies
of Uio Hocond artillery in North Carolina, one
in South Carolina, ono in Virginia, and four
in Maryland. This malms tho wholo number
of troops in tho sovoral sonthom statos bo-
2,600 and 3,000. Tho Third infantry
rdornd t.
lisianii
but on account of the warm woAtlior and lia
bility to fovor, it was decided that tho regi
ment should remain'nt llolly Springs until Hi
fall. It will now bo hurled to Louisiana.
JOAtiVIN MII.I.Mil’S I.AST.
llriow Ofltinvft. Mile on mile,
Au4 set wltU many a aklnlng town,
Tww’nl Deni <In Midi danced Hie wa<
HenealU the moon. Winds went and
And fnnneil the stars Into a flame,
1 heard tho far lake, dark and deep,
Itlxc UU and talk as In Its sleep.
1 heard the (anghtuff waters lave
And lap against the farther shore,
An idle oar. and nothing more
Have that the Isle had voice, and aav.
That round about Its base of stone
There plashed and flashed Uio foamy
A stately mail, as black as tan,
Myhoad." ThonliaU
ICELAND'S MILLENNIAL.
Tho first of tlio two iluya not apart fo
tlio oounnomorntivo fostivitipH dawned
cloudless and Hplondid. A flhurp
from tho north, bnfor(< tmnriHo,
nwav every realign of miHt or cloud ;
Hnrofoll gleamed like nu opal ov
water, and when, at H o'clock, a gun
Iron, tlio king', frigate «vo •Igiml. thn llr(ltioll UinH Tho nong
gleam and sparkle of tho linked (Inga, - •
native Toolander, I am told—produood
a powerful offoot. In whichever direc
tion I looked, I saw eyes tlllod with
teara. Tho repetition of the refrain ;
.Island* Ihutttnd qr—“Ioolaud’s thoue*
and yours,” rang through tho cathedral
in tones which woro solemn rather than
proud, and gave expression to tho oar-
no! t, religious spirit in which tho peo
ple havo oomo together.
At tho University building a laokey in
Hoarlot oont took our lmta and inautleH,
and directed us to tho waiting-room up
stairH. A number of teolnnaors from
tho country wore allowed to go up and
down, to peep into tho diuing-lmUs,
iuspoot tho musioianH and their In-
Htrumonts, and otliorwiso indulge thoir
curiosity. It, must havo boon an extra
ordinary sight to most of thorn. The
royal pantrios, extemporized out of the
recitation rooms, seemed to attraot, them
especially, and even tho empty dish
had ith interoBt, for them uutil t he viands
began to appear. B.v twoB and threes
and itflif dozens tho guests gathered.
Exoept, tho Icelanders, tho Danish poet
Carl Anderson and ourselvos, all were
in civil, military or naval uniform. Tho
Royal Marshal, Baron Holton, who
aetuns to havo boon ohoson, like bin fel
low-marshals at all courts, for lovo of
good cheer and good-fellowship. Gov.
Flusson, Ministor Klein, Oapt. Malta*
Brun, Admiral Lngororuutz of tho
Swedish navy, tho Bishop, Ohiof Jus-
tioo Johnson, and finally our halo and
hearty friend Dr. Ajaitalin, were among
tho uumbor. Liiat- of all oamo Madaino
•ding the King and Priuoo
\YaldeniaV. Tall and statoly, in lior
blank moire robe, she wan as otmiposed
and pnrfeot in manner as when we saw
er descend tlio garden stops to woloome
bis majesty.
The king walked around the oirolo
it,bout any oorotnony, exohnugtng a
w words with each person as ho passed.
Tho marshal did not malm his appear
ance when our turn oamo, so wo woro
solf-introdocd us American guests and
im individuals. Prinoo Waldomar
_ ounger than I thought-not more
that 18 or ID—-and still boyishly diffi
dent in his manner. ITo soomod in
clined to keep in tho background as
much ns possible. I found Christian
IX. ns frank, simple and cordial as he
appeared at first. What, he said it is
not noeossary to repeat, being tbo usual
eommonplaeen indulged in whore both
sides aro restricted by otiquottoof placo
and persons. There was no more than
was necessary for politeness on oitho
side.
Not,king was done, of course, until
the king's arrival. Then, in filing a
salute with hand gronadoH, two gunners
woro badly wounded, ouo losing bis
rig,lit, hand. Finally, when tho royal
progress had boon made through lines
of eagerly sLaring and embarrassed na
tives. tho singing began. In Iceland
nothing in done without singing, nml it
is tho most altrnotive part of tlio oolo-
fob
A Retiring Yetornn.
A rumor oomes from England that
tlio dnko of Cambridge in about to
tiro from the command of tho British
army. Ho lias fallen a victim to gout,
ami for throo months has boon unable
to tako any exerciss. George William
Frederick Charles, second dnko of
Cambridge, is tho grandson of Ooorgo
Fir. and a cousin of Qnoen Viotoria.
ITo was born in Hanover in 1819. At
tho ago of eighteen ho wus appointed a
colonel in the British army, and eight
years aftor was promoted to tho rank of
major goucral. In 1850 ho stieccceded
his father as duke of Cambridge ; in
1854 ho was made a lieutenant general
and in 1850 ho was made a goucral. He
commanded the first division of the
army sent to tho Crimea, and led his
troops at tho battle of the Alma and at,
Inkerman, in which latter engagement
he had a horso shot, under him. Tn
July, 1850, ho wan appointed oom-
raander-in-ehiof of the British army,
und in 1862 ho was created ft field
marshal.
The duke has been a fast liver, while
he has been a good soldier, and now ul
tho ago of only fifty-fivo it scorns he is
compelled to retire from active service.
For many years ho has been living with
n Miss Fairbrothor, who was an actress,
and, in her youth, quite celebrated for
her beauty. The relationship has been
known to the public for so long a time
that Miss Fairbrotker is generally re
garded as the duke's wife, though no
marriage has ever taken place, and she
does not reside in his official residence.
They have a number of children, who
go by the father’s name of Fitz-Georgo,
and some of tho sons aro officers of the
army. Borne of tho queen’s sons have
! been considered a little loose in their
morals, but with snch an example sot
before them by tho oldest member of
the family, it is not Hnnrnsing that tho
moral teachings of their mother should
have been sometimes forgotten.
as they ran up to peak and yard
and down to tlio water, was something
lly glorious to behold. On shore
re woro signs of gathering and pro
paration, and tunny a line of moving
spooks on tho far hills showed that the
oountry people were betimes
way.
The programmo of tho day eonnisted
if coinmomorativo services jn tho oatho
lral, ii banquet jn tho hall of thn uni
versity, and a popular festival on tlio
hill of Asturvolli, a mile from tho town.
Tlio last feature promised to bo the
most attraotive, since, after songs and
HpooohoB, thoro wore to bo danoing nnd
Jhifjr.ldrar inyktir—“ grent flying tires.”
The new constitution, whioh went into
force yesterday, has not boon announced
with liny special oermnonios. Oopi<
it have already reached Iceland, tho
people were very generally acquainted
witli tho provisions, and content to no-
oopt it as tho beginning of n reform.
Tho oolebratious hero to-day, and on
Friday next at Thingvallu, havo there
fore a historical rather than a political
character.
Hix o’olook, and tho people’s fostival
had commenced on tho eastern hill.
Wo went nsbore at 10:80 o’olook, and
found everything hastening toward tho
onthedral. The open, grassy squnro
around the old building was covered
with pioturesquo groups of people;
the lake in the rear of tbo town glit
tered in tho sun, and tbo high pnnks of
Koylur slept in tho blue distanco.
Genuine Ioolandio costumos appeared
at last, snd original and graceful they
were. Tho women wore white hoi mots
of a eurions pattern, tho horn ourving
over in front, six inches above tho head,
the baso richly ombre idcred with gold,
nnd a white vei^ thrown ovor nil ami
floating upon the shouldors. They had
also closely-fitting jackets of darknloth,
heavily bruidod with gold or silver, and
broad belts of silver filigree work.
Not more than half a dozen of tlio men,
in all, wore tho old uutional costume.
It cousistfv of a jacket and knee
brooches of dark gray homespun cloth,
stockings of tho samo cloth, soul skin
shoos, sod a round hat with the brim
turned up. The only ornament is u
bow of red ribbon at the knee.
Thn king and his cortege had just en
tered tho cathedral as wo reached it,
and the foreign naval officers who had
been invited to tho ceremony were
crowding with tho natives into the low
northern portal. Wo had been furnish-
d with slips of parchment as admission
tickets to seats in the main aisle, and
tho sacristan placed us in front, oppo
site tho bishop s pnlpit. Tlio choir was
singing ouo of ten new anthems com
posed for tho occasion; lights were
burning in tho dli an deli era,"on the altar
and between tho galley-pillars; wrenths
of heather decorated the walls, choir
nnd galleries, nnd thoro was a glow of
flowers around Thorwaldsen’s baptis
mal font. Tho dull rodot tho walls and
dark panes of tho wooden ceiling har
monized woll with those simple adorn
ments; the building woro os aspect of
obeorful solemnity, becoming the occa
sion. The seats filled rapidly during
the chant, men and women sitting to
gether as they conld find places. Then
tho service commenced, after Ancient
Lutheran fashion. In foot it was nearly
an exact repetition of that we had seen
in Thcrshaven, except that theloelandio
language was used. The hymns were
vory simply nnd grandly sung; and tho
“Psalm of Praise,” written by Matthias
Jochnmnson and composed by Svein-
bjorusson—tho first musical work of/a
lowed by speeches from the rostrum,
ohiofly greetings to tho people, winding
up with soutimonts and cheers. Admi
ral Lugorornutz spoke for Hwodeu, Rolf-
son, tho author, for Norway (and his
eloquence awoke a real enthusiasm),
and then various others followed, tho
admirablo male ohoir of Kejkiavilc in
terrupting the spocohos with national
songs.
Boon afterwards tho dances bogan ;
but as tbo national dance—if thoro ever
was any -is now lost, nnd waltz, polk
and qmidrillft provail horo asolsewhoro,
there was uothiug pioturesquo in tlio
speotaolo. Our llojkiavik acquaintan
ces woro all thoro, and tho hulios, es
pecially, wore very lively and oommu-
niontivo; only tho sharp wind from
Greenland’s icy mountains, which blow
without ooasing, ohillod our very mar
row. Boforo tho “ groat flying fires ”
were lot oil’, we found it prudent to re
turn to the landing place and signal our
steamer’s boat.
Tlio New King of tho Turf.
Not having soon tho great rnco, tho
CATTLE TRADE OF THE WEST.
rti« Increased Tran*|»nrtat Inn ot Tram*
Mississippi stork.
A largo proportion of tho cuttle from
Texas are drivou westward into tho ter
ritories. Thoro thoy fatten for tho mar
ket, and provide boof for the growiug
oitioH and towns, mining regions, and
military posts. It is thought that the
otitiro drive from Texas this year into
Kansas will uumbor ovor 600,060 head.
Perhaps one-fourth ot thoHo go into
Colorado nnd Wyoming nnd westward
to Utah, while most of tho hulanoo seek
the eastern market. At this season of
tlio year ono will bo Btruok with tho ap-
poaranoe of the numerous nnd lino-
looking herds grazing along tho Arkau-
vnlloy from Wiohita as far west as
Sargent, and thouce scattered at inter
vals to tho foot of tlio mountains.' As a
samplo of tho size of these herds I
might mention that a list of forty-three
herds in tlio vicinity showed a totsl of
52,908 head of cattle. While it is olaim-
od that tho drive to Wiohita this year
will not exceed 160,000 head, not much
ono-half what it was last year,
some of tho othor towns ou tho lino of
tho railroad having been found more
accessible for shipment, yet it is uotioo-
ablo that tho quality of the stock is ap
parently much bettor than that of form-
seasons.
The further the Hooks get westward
ie greater thoir tondonoy to inoronHo in
size. lu tho vicinity of Hugo,-on the
Kansas Paoifio, about 100 miles beyond
t he custom borders of Kansas, some of
Uio old pluiusimm have formed a stook
company, autl control from 20,000 to
80,000 head. Thoro aro huge herds also
r Ellsworth mid Bunker Hill. Down
.in tho Arkansas, near Fort Lynn, the
children of Kit Oarson and one or two
of his old omnradoH own hords of from
1,000 to 5,000 head. On the Laramie
plains, northward, Oroighton Co. have
a herd of 15,000 oattle; .1. W. IlifT,
12,000; E. Oroighton, 51,000; Taylor,
Gaylord & Co., 5,000. There are over
twenty herds, numbering from 1,000 to
5,000 each. In the parks of Colorado
extensive Hooka will also ho found.
Throughout tho middle nud southeast
er'll portions of Kansas a large amount
of stook iH now being drivou eastward,
the oattle being allowed to grnzo along
the way. The drovers will soon be
hurrying forward thoir hords, hownvor,
for Iced is short, and it will oost too
muoh to winter whole in Kansas, owing
to the short corn crop. Where last
winter there were thousands of cattle
scattorod throughout Kansas, and the
winter hoforo still greater numbers, to
fatten on tho surplus grain, this year
t-hero will be vory fow. Tho full oorn-
oribs of Missouri and Illinois tempt the
drovor that way, and in the spring he
will be nearer tlio great mnrketa. Thoro
are various OMtimatus of the numbers
that havo boon wintered in Kansas in
formor seasons, hut the range is from
100.000 to 175,000.
You will, at this time of tho year, see
the Colorado speculators prying thoir
way into the broad pastures or by-ways
of Kansas and Nebraska, buying np
hero a fow and thoro a few in nn appa
rontly indilToront way, as if tho cattle
weri) hardly worth thoir onro ; getting
thorn at low-down priooB, and finally
arching with a great, herd hack toward
the mountains to donblo and quadruple
their purehases. Just now stock at
some points rules fabulously low. You
nnn pick ont Texan heifers from a herd
at $6 to por head, oows at 810, and
sheep at sixty omits. Boef cuttle havo
boon sold at Wuohitu at live omits per
pound on foot.
Tho KunBns city market hue for tho
past two or three years hold a controll
ing position with regard to the Texas
oattlo trade. This is a groat distribut
ing point, and stook men seek it from
Illinois, Mistouri, Iowa nud Indiauo,
making it during the season thoir point
for selecting and shipping stook into
their sovoral states to feed, or to tho
Chioago nud Bt. Louis markots for boof.
Thoro are extonsivo yards into whioh
tho various railroads run, uud good on*
next thing was to boo tho victorious portunities for shipment. A largo pack-
to-day I drovo out to call intr interest has also sprung up horo. A
upon Fellowcraft. Followoraft is
fjenllt) nn n llttln dog, and nfibmiltnd to
being kissed and patted with aquiotness
that almost became patronizing oontfcv
aconsion. Ho has not a proud air, how
ever, liko some of the racers of bis
family, notably his uuolo, Asteroid, who
always strikes an attitude when visitors
approuob him. Fclloworuft looks rather
meek, hut yet has an air of determina
tion, as if conscious that when things
become serious ho would show wiio was
who. Ho is a chestnut, and has some
of tho Lexington marks, a pair of very
long white stockings on his hind legs,
and a good-sized star on his forohoad.
His nrnno and tail nrcdcoidedly blondo,
just the rcd-yollow with which the
blonde of the period Jins familiarized
ns. Tie lmd on hia traveling olothes of
red flannel, but ono of his attendants
kindly removed his bonnet to show hia
face. Fellowcraft hurt himself not a
whit in tho race ; ho oamo in—tlioso
present at. the finish told mo—perfect’y
fresh, and looking us if ho could run
another four miles. He ate a, good
square meal, full rations, as soon as it
was offered him after tho race, and no
bettor sign of health oan a horse evince.
—Saraloya TsMcr.
l'erteHlrhiiiism In Europe.
European pedestrians aro remarkable
not so much for their rapid walk, ns for
their powers of ondurance, It is truo
that tLey aro not trained for that spe
cial purpose—in fact, they are not pro
fessional men at all, and havo no other
training than thoir habit of walking of
ten to attend to thoir ordinary business,
Thus, lately there arrived in Paris a
pennant from tho Bpnnisli sido of tho
PyraneoH,who had walked nearly 1000
miles in a very short time, and not
knowing a single word of Fronch.
Moro recently, a Dutch gentleman, H.
Dudook do Witt, who had already spent
some years in visiting, stick in hand,
tho two Americas, Japan, China; and
Cochin China, 1ms also arrived in Paris,
after having walked in nine days, tho
405 miles whioh iutervono between Am
sterdam and tho capital of Franco.
There ho has become acquainted with
Ortoig tho Catalan peasant, and both
of them will soon start to undertake a
walking trip of three months’duration,
from Paris to Russia, and then through
out Russia itself.
ing iutoroHt has also sprung nn
diroot connection with Texas has lately
linon obtuinod, and tho business of for-
wnrding stook dirootly from their native
pastures to this point has boon under
taken to Home extent. But this experi
ment bus already, it is cluimod, proved
unsatisfactory. Tho cattlo rarely attain
a good marketable condition in Toxns,
and when thoy do, rail transitover snob
long distances reduces them to a condi
tion unfit for market when they roach
horo. As tho production of cattlo is
one of tho main interests of tlio groat
state of Toxas, whoso herds aro counted
by millions, its pastures will doubtless
for years continue to furnish tho west
with boof. Tho oattlo will bo driven
as formerly across tho plains, fattening
as thoy go, and ronohing tho railroads
by tho trnilH whioh for months hnVoboon
alive with the “long horn/'j” and taken
to Kansas city for distribution into tho
various states. The supples whioh the
different markets require, and the pro
portion going into the various state-H,
may he ouloulated from tho following
figures, whioh show tho shipments of
oattlo eastward from'Knnsns City duriug
last year: Hannibal and Ht. .loo rail
road, 73,f)58; Bt. Louis, Kansas City
and N. railroad, 82,674; Missouri
Pacific railroad, 16,142; drivon out,
45,441. Hhipmonts woro also mado by
various other roads, showing a total of
227,686 lioad. Tlioso via tho Hannibal
and Bt. Joe road went to tho Chicago
market; by tho other railroads to tlio
Bt. Louis market; while those drivon
out wofe distributed to u largo oxtont to
feed throughout Missouri and Illinois.
Power of Roaring Heat.
It is generally supposed that tho hu
man frame cannot endure much heat,
and if exposed to it will Boon sink in
exhaustion. This is truo in hot climates,
to which people have been accustomed.
But in this amt) tho effect may bo duo
to influences from vogotation, or to somo
disturbance of nature.
It is certain that artificial boat, far
greater than the boat of the sun of tho
torrid zone, may bo borro without
special suffering or harm. Tho British
Journal of Science says that men in
iron establishments work without in-
convonienoo with tho thermomotor con
stantly at 120 degrees, end in pits for
making tho Bessemer stool at 140 de
grees. In Turkish baths tho sham-
pooners urn often busily engaged for
four or live hours in buooobbiou, with
tho tomporaturo at 110 degreoB. Tn tho
Bod Ben stoamors the Btoko hole mnrlcH
145 degrees; and in ensmol works tho
operators aro oompolloil daily to ondnro
a lioati of 200 degrees. Tho olastio pow
er of tho human body in accommodating
itoolf to oxtromos is wonderful.
FROM WASHINGTON.
l’rncluntntlnn of /Vttorncy-Uniiornl i\ll-
IIimiih Letter from I’rmldrnt Urnnt.
DkPAUTMKNT OF JuSTIOB, WASniNOTOff,
Sopt. 8,1874.— AIr: Outrages of various
descriptions, nnd, in somo oases, atro
cious murders, havo been committed in
your district, uy bodies of armed mon,
soiuotimeH in disguiso nud with a viow,
it is behoved, of ovornwiug and intimi
dating peaceable and law-abiding oiti-
zons, depriving them of tho right gunr-
nntood to them by tho constitution nnd
laws of tho United Btates, Yonr atten
tion is dirootod to an uot of congress,
passed April 9, I860, ontitlod an not to
protect all persons in tho United Statos
in thoir civil rights autl furnish tho
moans for their vindication, nnd to an
other pnssed April 20, 1871, entitled nn
not, to onforoo tin' provisions of tho 14th
amendment to tho eoustitntion of tho
United Btates und for other purposes ;
also to ono passed May 6,1870, entitled
an net to enforce the right of eitizons of
tho United Btates to vote in tho Hovoral
states of the union and for othor purpo
ses, whioh with the amendments mako
tlioso deeds of violonao nnd blood with
in tbo jurisdiction of tbo general gov
ernment.
I consider it my duty, in view of theso
oirouinstanoes, to instruct you to pro-
need with nil possible eoouomy nud dis
patch to detect, expose, arrest nnd pun
ish the perpetrators of tlioso crimes,
and to that end you are to sparo no ef
fort or necessary oxponse. Troops ot
the United Btates will bo stationed n!i
different convenient points in yonr din.
triot, for tho purpose of giving you nil.
needed aid in tho discharge of your of-
lloial duties. You uuderstuud, of course,
that no interference with any political
or party notion, not in violation of tho
law, is designed, but protection to all
classes of citizens, white and black, in
tho free exorcise of tho olootivo fran
chise nnd the onjoyment of tho other
rights and privileges to which thoy ar-J
entitled uudur the constitution nud
laws as eitizons of thn United Htntes,
Those instructions uvo issued by au
thority of the president anti with tho
concurrence of tho seerotary of war.
Vory respectfully,
Guo. H. Williams, Afct’y-Gou.
Tho above is addressed to Unitod
Btates marshals and attorneys, and il
prepared with the approvid and endorse
ment of tho president, to whom thoBtilj-
nl,initial points woro mibmitted during
tho visit, of tho attorney-gnnornl to
Long Branch.
Tho following letter has baonrocoived
from President Grant:
BuANorr, Bopt. 8.— IF. IK
JJellcnap, Soarolavn of War: Tho re
cent troubles in tho south, purtioularly
in Louisiana, Alabama and Bonth Caro
lina, show disregard for law, oivil righto
and personal protection that ought not
to bo tolerated in any civilized govern
ment. It. looks ns if, unless spofldily
checked, matters must beoomo worse,
until life und proporty tlioso will roooivc
no protection from local authorities un
til snob authority ’ eoomes powerlosj.
Undor suoli oivou*mstttnnoH it is tho duty
of tho government to givo all tho aid for
the protection of life and oivil rights le
gally authorized.
To this end I wish you would oousult
with the nttoruoy-gonorul, who is woll
informed as to tho outrages alrondy
committed and tho localities whero the
groatost danger lies, and so order tile
troops as to bo avnilabto in case of ne
cessity. All proceedings for tho pro
tection of tlio south will bo undor the
law dopnrtmont of tho govornmont, and
will bo dirootod by tho attornny-goncral,
in acoordunoo with tho provision of the
Giiforooinnnt not. No instructions uood,
therefore, bo given to tho troops ordored
into tho southern states, oxoopt as they
may bo transmitted from timo to time
on advioo fiom tho attornoy-gonnrnl,
or as oiroumstanoos may dotormino
liorenfter. U. B. Git ant.
Railroads and Panics.
Mr. Thomas Tooks, in his “ History
of Prices,” attributes tho rooont punio
in this oountry to tho fact that too much
of our floatiug capital had been convert
ed into fixed oapital in riilrond enter
prises, and asserts that this was tho
oaiiso of tho fbmnoial crisis in England
in 18-17. England recovered rapidly
from tho shock, and tho Unitod Btutos,
lie predicts, will soon do tho samo thing,
Tho Railway Monitor divides tho rail
road dovolopmonfc in this oountry into
throo stages, and shows that Mr. Tookfl*
theory holds. The first period, botwoon
1829 nud 1849, but 7,305 miles of rail
road wore built; evouthisslow progress
was too much for tin' financial strength
of tho oountry, and tho railroud pro
jectors were ruined. Then the simulta
neous How of gold from California and
Australia infused fresh strongth into the
civilized world, end at tlio end of the
next poriod, in 1859, tho railroad mile
age was 28,789 miles. The third period,
which closed in 1873, found a total of
71,565 milcfl of railroad, and tho
strougth of tho country is again ax-
hanstod. Tho present conditions differ
from those of tho first poriod. Then
wo had tho lifo-giviug flow from the
gold mines; now wo aro struggling
against tho perilous excitement of pa-
por-monoy inflation. Tho Monitor con
cludes that for many years tp como tho
extension of our railroad system ranet
stop. In tho hurry of speculation the
work has boeu poorly done, and tho re
sources of tho oountry must bo expended
in bettering what wo have ins'.oad of
adding to it. This advioo is sound,
and probably indicates tho railroad pol
icy of the country for somo timo to
oome, for tho roanon that it is about tho
only policy left,
Bayard Tayloi» writes from Iceland
that ho offered an Icelander a pieoo of
money for some small sorvioo and the
man laughed and ran away I It is then
in thia remote laud that tho hotel oer-
vant of the future is to bo Bought.
What a paradise a watering-place would
bo .whoso servants laughed at tho offer
of a gratuity.But they must be taught
not to run away. atlil
