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RECORD.
THE CEDARTOWJN
W. S. D. WIKLE & CO., Proprietors.
('EDA RTO YVN,
GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2G, 1874.
VOLUME I. NUMBER 15.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
EAST.
The employoa of the Beading railroad
have been put on half timo on aeconutof tlio
geneial stagnation of trade.
During the your, 15,320 members
liavo been initiated Into the Order of Good
Templar* in tlio state of New York.
The cattle disease in Connecticut has
attained such proportions that it has attracted
tlio attention of omlnent scientific gentlemen
of that state, and an effort will bo made to
leasen tlio shipment of western and Indian
cattle, to which tho origin of tho disease lias
been traced.
The discovery mndo a few day8 ago
that forged deeds of real cstato in New York
city and Brooklyn had been freely negotiated
in the market, threatens to produco a panic
among real estate dealers, Evidsneo is grad
ually coming to light that tho deed-forgery
business lias loon quite extensive, involving
many parlios, and having tho appoaranco of a
conspiracy.
WEST.
Twenty-five hundred coal miners are
on a strike in Hi. Clair county, Illinois.
Tho ludians in Nebraska are murder
ing tho dofrusclees settlors in tho western
part of tlio slate, and burning their homes and
running off tlio stock.
A dispatch front Bismark says Hint n
party of fifty nron will h avo that placo in about
thirty days; for tlio Black Hills. Tho party
will bo composed of experienced minors and
hunters, who not only know tlio color of gold
and the habit* of tho Indians, but aro sharp
enough to evado tho military, and who, once
In tlio lulls, can livo as rod men liro, and con-
sequent)}’ will not bother themselves with sup*
A large number of letters have been
Missouri, and nearly every ono contain n con
tradiction of tlio early ostimatos in regard to
tho extent of tho wheat crops. It is alleged
that tho general yield will fall very much be-
low tho published estimates. Tho crop In tlio
near ycinity of St. Paul is reported heavier
than any where cl*o in tho st»t o, and tho
threshing machines are already dispolling tho
expectations of a total crop of 25,000,000
bushels in Minneco'a for tho year 1874.
A correspondent in camp on tho
Wichita river, telegraphs that tho supply train
for Gon. Mile*’ expedition, in charge uf M»j.
Lyman, with ono company of infantry and
twenty men Of tho sixth cavalry, commanded
by Lieut. West, was carrollodon Wichita river,
on tlio Otli inht , by from -100 to 500 Comanches
and Klowas. After a fight of flvo days tlio
Indians wero lopulse], with tlio loss of from
25 to 30 killed. Lieut. Lewis, fifth Infantry,
was badly wounded in tho loft leg, and two
men yvoro killed mid fivo wounded. MaJ.
I’rico of tho eighth cavalry dofoatod a largo
party of Oomanchos on tho 15th inst., h.x
miles south, killing sovcial. List. Baldwin
a id throe Kioux, with dispatches for supplios,
git through after n dospurato light, killing
nvo and capturing ono ronogado. On tlio 12th,
s x cosiricis for wtipplios woro surprised by 150
Oomnnolios, on tho Wichita, and after agallant
(lefonso ami the loss of ono of tliolr number
killod, and nil but two woundod, repulsed them
with a loss of 12 killed.
SOUTH.
Thero am twenty companies of Btato
cavalry in Georgia.
Tho Arkansas democratic Btato con
vention nominated Gov. Baxter for ro-eioction
Tho governor of Kentucky has sent
tr >ops to Hreathill county to clear tho town of
Jackson of a band of outlaws.
Colonel Janus Coleman, for mat.y
years superintendent of tho tolegrapli lines
in Tennessee, diod la*>t week at Italoigb.
Conrad, tho Swede, charged with the
murder of E. I). Crosswoll, in Barlow county,
Oa , a short timo since, Las ffeon tried and
rc] fitted.
Tho attorney general ban employed
ox governor Parsons, of Alabama, to assi-t
tho United Stale* district attorneys in the
prosecution of tho parties Accused of viola
tion of the federal law in Alabama,
Montgomery, Ala., was crowded with
nogr.x s last wook, drawing ratIoiim in accord
ance with an act of congress appropriating
■710,000 for tbo relief of tlioeo made destitute
by tlio ovoiflow of tbo Tomblgboo and Ala
bama rivois, last March and April.
Postmaster-General Jewell advertises
tics who committed what is known as Gad’s
Hill robbery, in Missouri, on tho 31st of Janu
ary last, and #3,000 roward for tlio arrest of
tlio robbers of Han Antonio, Texas, in April
la-t.
Tho governor and treasurer of Vir
ginia liavo invited a conference of tho credit
ors, homo and foreign, at ltidimoml, the 10th
of November next, to consider sncli proposi
tions for a final agroomont as will afford tho
host attainable security for tlio rights [and in
terests lmtli of tlio public creditors ami com
monwealtli.
The September returns to tho de
partment of agriculturo show a very heavy
decline in tlio prospects of tlio cotton crop
in all tlio states oxcopt Virginia, where it
about bolds its own. Tlio btato averages are
as follows : Virginia 93, North Carolina 87, a
declino of 15 during August; South Carolina
8G, a decline of 13; Georgia 77, decline of 17;
Florida G7, declino of 25 ; Alabama 81, decline
of* 9; Mississippi 75, decline of 14 ; Louisiana
67, declino of 21; Texas G4, decline of 41;
Arkansas 47, decline of 40; Tennessee 48, de
cline of 35. Tho leading cause of tbo declino
in tlio prevalence over largo eections of tlio
c Aton area of severe dronght, accompanied
FOREIGN.
The great strike of cotton operatives
at Bolton. F.ugland, has begun.
A dispatch from Constantinople says
tho governor of Angara reports 35,000 people
uttoily destitute, who will rcqniro mainten
ance throughout tlio winter.
An official dispatch announces that
General Pavia has gained a victory ovor tho
Carlisle. Three thousand troops will leave
for Cuba t:.o preaont month, and fivo thousand
in October.
The London Standard pays that the
Bchleswig-Hokrtain question is afianiuiiig a
serious aspect, in coneequence of (li£ daily
expulsion of Danish subjects and the nostilo
tone of the German press,
By a railway collision in Euglaud,
Sept. 11, twenty person* woro killed outright
and fifty worn seriously Injured. This aooi-
dent occnrrod on tho Groat Eastern road,
which is nuppoeod io bo ono of tho host man
aged in tho island,
Tho government had received nssur-
ancos from its minister in London that thoro
was now great hopeH that tho Honduras rnil-
rnad would l>e finally flnichod. Ono section
of it, from tho bridge of Lavinta to Blanca 1
had boon contracted for at i.'1,000 per mile.
Early in tho afternoon of AuguRt 22, an
attempt was made In Lima to assassinato the
prosidentof Peru, wliilo proceeding from tho
palace to his liouso. Although sovoral shots
wero fired tiono took effect. Tlio loadorof the
band and thirteen other* have boon arroalod.
Tho great striko of cotton operatives
at Bolton, England, lin* began. Tho strike
stop* soventy-four mills, employing 13,(100
hands. Forty-eight mills, omploying 7,000
hands, continue operations. Subscriptions
for tlio strikers liavo been opened by the
trades-unions throughout tbo manufacturing
districts.
Guatemala ndvioos say that four Eng
lish vessols of war, including tho flag ship
Hopublio, wero at Han Joso. Tho government
had appointed Don Mincont Dardof, of Gua
temala, minister at Washington, to confer with
the United States centeuary commissioners as
to how Guatemala host could bo represented
at tlio centennial exposition.
Reports from Nicaragua show that
tlio country wrh at peace. Tho Official Gazette
remarks that tho moral progress tlio ropnblio
hi* made was shown in tlio orderly way in
which tlio pooplo coh-hr.ilrd tbo feast of Han
Domingo and Hnnta Anna. Ilundredn of pri
vate and public reports from the republic show
that it is beginning to enjoy somo tranquillity.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Michael Hays, of treasury (info-bur
glary fame, lias boon released on i 1,000 bail.
E.lnft Denu Proctor has instituted
suit against Francis D. Moulton for libel, lay
ing damage 1 at #100,(MX).
Inquiries in executive and diplomatic
quarters show thoro 1h no ttutli in tlio report
that Germany in Feoking territorial possessions
on lids continent.
Attorney-General Williams ban given
tho opinion that United Htates troops can bo
mod to romovo outlaw* and all unauthorized
persons from tlio Cheyenne and Arapahoo
Tho commissioners of tho froedmen’s
savings ami trust company nay Ihoy cannot
make a statement in dotnil, not having ascer
tained accurate'y tho indehtodnosa or assotH
of tlio institution.
Gen. Cowan, acting aocrotary of inte
rior, has given Ida decision that tho Chore-
Uuoh liavo tho rigid to tax Texas eatilo driven
through their reservation, and in default of
payment to teixo tlio oattlo an'd hold them for
tho taxes.
Army officers nay that tho army in not
largo euough for tlio protootion of tlio fron
tiers, and at tlio samo timo act as comitates to
tlio Judicial officers of tho south, and in on-
forcing process in extraordinary cbmoh, such oh
that or Louisiana.
Tho postmaster-general has directed
that no adrnnen on pajment he made to dorks
or employes on nocount of salary for HorvicoH
not rendered and for which compensation is
not fully «!uo at tlio llnro of payrnont. Tills
is coustruod as forbidding advanooa of sal art on
to dorks going homo to vote. A similar ordor
will bo issued by tlio treasury department.
The commissioner of tho pension
offloo lias decided, *s a preliminary to tliooon-
•adoration of tlio claim under tho act of Juno
1H, 1874, tlio provision of a pension of fifty
dollar* per month, alleging permanent and
total diaability. Tlio applicant must proaout
evidence allowing conclusively that ho roqnirott
tho regular aid and attendance of another
Complaints aro coming from various
section* of tlio west, and especially from
Pennsylvania, and Now York, of the suspen
sion. nr partial suspension, of mills and man
ufactories for tlio want of wator to run. Tho
trouble is rapidly extending, with prospets of
its becoming genera! unlo.-s rain soon falls.
Till* is not only truo of textile msmifa' lories,
but lb Hiring mills also, especially at tlio wont,
which are shutting down to an extent that
shippers say they find it difficult to obtain
their neodod supplies oifthls market, and that
thoy aro largely compelled to hold off for fear
of putting up prices without getting a supply.
Tho treasurer of tho United States
has issued a circular requesting tho national
banks to make an additional deposit of flvo
por rout, for tho redemption of their circula
tion, with tho instruction that United States
notes may bo sont to tbo treasurer under tlio
contract of tlio treasury department with tlio
Adams express company, and under the same
regulations as aro prescribed for tlio forward
ing of notes and currency of tho United
Staton, for redemption. If any bank shall
proler, it may forward the required amount by
its draft on Now York, Boston or Philadelphia,
drawn (o tho order of the treasurer of tlio
United Rta'.cs, and payable in United Htates
notes. Acknowledgment will bn mado to each
bank for its deposit when completed by re
mittance to it of certificate in proper form.
United States notes unfit fer circulation will
bo accepted in payment of the additional five
por cent, deposit. As rapidly as notes of
tbo banks making tho additional deposit Hindi
bo assorted, their amount will bo charged
against deposit and tho banks notified. Com
pliance witli this request ia optional with the
uational hanks, but it is hoped that a prompt
and general response will bo mode to It. It is
with great reluctance that this course has boon
decided upon. But it now seems impossible
to prevent any Interruption in tlio redemption
of national bank notes unless a further de
posit of United Htates nolos shall ho mado.
Some Fuels About Eels.
Eels, it has been proved, have both
Hexes in one, and spawn somewhat after
tlio manner of other fish. Like tho tur
tle they can travel out of the water for
Homo difltauce, from stream to stream,
bo that in almost every rivulet., however
small, they can bo found. Tho gills or
the breathing organs are covered up by
a most delicate curtain which acts like a
valve and a reservoir for water, thus en
abling tho fish to take in a gill-full of
water, so to speak, to keep its gills moist
during the time it is ont of the water.
It has a heart in the tail, the name that
is known to exist in the salmon, with
pulsations at about ninety-four the
minute.
THANKSGIVING.
THOSE TWO HEARTS.
Yes, it certainly was the door-boll,
"Do-liverouoo 1" Raid Miss Phrygia,
"ami I've just taken tho comb out of
rny back liair !”
In ouiorgenoioB of this kind Miss
Phrygia had a way of drawing back the
tidy chintz curtain just far enough to
peer through and buu whether it would
do to run down " just ns sho was,” If
it would do, down she run, and if it
wouldn’t, she culled softly through her
window " Immediately !” and then
Hushed through her preparations with
a speed, truly miraculous, for Mins
Phrygia lmd u love of promptitude that
covered tho whole superficial stratum of
her nature, and " Immediately I" wan
so favor ite uti expression of this quality,
that if hIio had boon asked graciously
to sot a timo for her own execution,
those who know her best would have
expected it in tho natural aud unhesi
tating reply.
But this time, ns tho chintz curtain
revealed a pony phuoton ut tho ante,
aud orr tho door-stop u Might, maidenly
figure, a sweet young face, and a mist
of golden hair, she only said "Dear
liearl!" and laying the comb on tho
drcHsiug lablo, tin* glided down stairs,
tier owtr locks fulling into an undula
tion of chestnut rings, that might well
liavo boon the envy of a goddess in her
own tmmesnko land.
"Ho glad you nro nl homo,” Raid a
voice from under tho golden mist,
“ I've just brought you my little book.
I’ve kept tho hurt page for you, you al
ways have everything so nice. Any
triile, ' light iih air,’ you know, will do.
It. was ono of those blessed old towns,
rare to find in theso days, where tho
loftly and the lowly kuowuml roBpootod,
loved and took nn interest in, each
o.hor, and Miss Phrygia, instead of
waiting for tho book, which tho maid-
oub of tho place, when about to assume
tlio dnlicH of wifo and housekeeper,
hud a fashion of circulating among
their friends for collections of choice
receipts, readied forth and took both
tho slender, guuutloted hands in her
own. As die did so, her right thumb
pressed a diamond on tho loft foroflngor
of her visitor, and her face, so beaming
iih iilie run down stairs, suddenly molted
into a different expression, as she gnzed
into the hnzol eyes confronting her with
a yearning tenderness pitiful to see.
"Poor thing 1” shouaidsoftly, "poor
littlo thing!"
"Why, what's tho matter, Miss
Phrygia? I know you don’t like en
gagement rings, but you can’t under
stand that I am, and urn going to be,
tho happiest littlo woman in the world."
"Poor little thing!" was all Miss
Phrygia said again, much nn you would
coo over nn unfledged doveling that will
fall out of tho nest.
" And then," with a caressing squeeze
from tho slender (lands. " I’m not go
ing far, you know—only a stop—you
can boo tiro chimneys right up thoro
through tho trees. You’ll oomu and see
me often, won’t you?”
" That's what they say when pooplo
die, but a pretty long Mop, I oill it,"
said Miss Phrygia ; "Mill, it’s always n
sort of comfort, to visit their graves,
and I’ll come with pleasure.”
"Oh, Miss Phrygia ! Well, I only
wish you did understand. I wish you’d
get. married yourself! You’d bo a
hundred times hotter oIT; didn't you
over feel so in your secret heatt?”
"Ye*," said Miss Phrygia, quietly,
" a great, many times."
" Don’t you think it would be plons-
antor tlian living hero all alone?"
" Yes," said Miss Phrygia.
" Then why haven’t you tried it?"
" There'll been always just ono dif
ficulty witli every opportunity I've had,"
said Miss Phrygia, dropping her eyes
thoughtfully—"you can't seem to find
anyway of doing it but by marryingsomo
man, and that," with a little shiver run
ning over her shoulders, "puts it so out
of tho question !"
A rippling laugh, that made tlio
golden mist seem like moonlight on the
lake, answered Miss Phrygia.
" Then if you could eomo across an
angel you think you would venturer?"
"Immediately," said Miss Phrygia.
"Well, I’m sorry I’m ho fond of tho
only one, in the world that I can’t give
him tip to you, but it does seem as if
you might find something," and with
another littlo squeeze, tho dainty hands
left a marble-covered book in Miss
Phrygia’s, took up tho pony-reins, and
drove away.
Mips Phrygia went slowly np fitairs,
put iti her comb, ond sat down to thp
receipt book, for "immediately” was
deed as well as word with her. A soft
evening cloud that alternately lots fall
a few drops of refreshing rain upon tho
flowers, and then illuminates its whole
surface with a heaving flash, direful to
bo encountered, is a fit type of Miss
Phrygia’s face, ns, gazing at tho open
page, her thoughts turned first to the
gentle heart that would ponder its pud
dings, and then fo tho " man" into
whoso keeping that heart’s happiness
waa to bo confided.
" Poor thing ! Sweet heart!’’ she
murmured, with a tender moisture in
her eyes, and then, witli a dangerous
flash, " Tioirid creature! I wonder what
he looks like 1”
Tlio alterations went on for a few
minutes, and then a sudden gleam of
humor lighted tip her face, aivif some
stray, belated sunbeam had tipped the
cloud with pink.
" A trifle light as air," sho said, "I ll
writo it for her 1" and seizing a pon,
Miss Phrygia wrote :
MORTALITY rilFFH—N1SVB1I KNOWN TO FAIL.
Eggs (oookatrioe), 1.
Milk (human Kindness), just ready to
sour, 1 drop.
Occam of tartar-caught, 2 largo
spoons, heaping.
Flower (of un hour), 1 full cup.
Suit (of tho earth), very small piuoli,
mere dusting.
H tiso with fermentations browod ns
follows :
lIop(e)s realized, 1.
" disappointed, 09.
Hwoolen with faith and submission.
Bpioe with variety.
Bake in earthen vessols, under a slow
lire, till tho vosaels ornok, j
A week later, Miss Phrygia put on a
pair of black gloves, u blnojs bonnet,
aud a blank lnoo veil to lot down in case
aho should cry, and wont to;churoli to
see a plain gold ring take prooodouoo,
of the diamond she had pressed, and to
hear the hymeneal blessing pronouuood
over tho mint of golden hair.
Hire had to drop her veil oiiooortwico
as aim guZUd at the cloud of laoo and
oraugo-bloasomR boforo tho altar, ami
when aho couldn’t, help soeiug the new
broadcloth suit that stood bosido it,
sho kept, herself down by repeating as
fast as hIio could, " Charity liopotli all
things, enduroth nil things, is not easily
provoked." Thou aho went homo, put.
on the brightest dross sho had, and
went, to nurse a Hick neighbor who could
obtain no assistance for monoy, and
therefore must have it. for love.
Tho bright, dress had almost timo to
fade before Miss Phrygia saw'tbo way
clear to go homo again. If was a long
null, and neither aho nor tho invalid
know bow they would Imro got through
had it not boon for the strength and
comfort of tho doctor’s daily visits.
Six feet in height, two hundred pounds
iu weight, strong as a tower, Ann as a
rook, cool un n hygrogrnpb, jmd yol
when pain or discouragement oallod for
it, quick with a brooding tenderness,
more beautiful, Miss Phrygia thought,
oven than a woman’s.
Twilight, in the sink room Roomed
lonely to Miss Phrygia, and nlio fell in
to tlio way of watching for a light to
gleam through tlio elms that shaded
the dootor’s house just opposite, but.no
light over appeared, and she had just
mado up her mind that ho was never at
home in tho evening, wlion she had to
send for him two or throe times after
tlio stars woro out, and thoro ho wax.
"Oh dear 1" film Raid, "I hopo ho
doesn’t sit thoro without bo much as a
cimdlo lightod, thinking about those
Main i on of his that woro drowned, and
tho wifo in tlio insane asylum that only
died a year and a half ago. Ho can't
or ho never oould eomo ovqv horn on ii
moment’s call, all ready to olmhr us up
and lie snob a comfort I" This " cheer
ing them up and being a comfort" con
tinned until Miss Phrygia began to
wonder what (lays nt homo would seem
with ut it, when her season of duty
should be ended. What tho doctor
thought about losing his nurso, ho did
not say, but ho instated upon soeiug hor
home, when tho timo came, although
the moon was as largo us u curt-wheel,
and shining eloar.
As thoy oatuo out, they both iuvol-
uutarily glanced up nt tho house under
tho shadow of the elms.
" Dark," said Miss Phrygia ; " it al-
" Yes,” said tho’dootor, " it 1ms been
for a good many yours now, very dark."
" I know it," said Miss Phrygia, soft
ly, feeling ns if stie ought to liavo on
her blnok gloves again.
"Don’t jou think," said tho dootor,
adjusting hor hand it trifle moro olosely
to his arm, “ don't you think I might
bring in it bright, warm light boforo
long, if I could And it?"
" Immediately !" Haiti Miss Phrygia.
"Even,"—anil the doctor stooped to
eomo ns near as ho could to a look un
der MifiS Phrygia’s hilt,-"even if I
should leave your house ompty and
dark to do it?"
What Miss Phrygia said, or what
oil her or both of them said after that,
will never bn revealed ; but certain it is
that when Miss Phrygia ought to liavo
boon going to sleep that night, Mio
wasn’t going to sloop at all, but saying
over and over to herself: " Oh, what
have 1 done ? Wlmt liavo I done ? IIow
oould I ever do it? What am I going
to do ?’’
Tho perplexity thickened and dark
ened, to tho peril of Miss Phrygia’s
night, when suddenly u ray of light
flashed forth upon it.
"Why, of course 1" film said. "ITo
isn’t exactly a man, after nil; lie’s a
dootor ; ami that’s just how I eanm to
do it 1" and with this satisfactory con
clusion in her soul, and a wonderful
whirl of now sensations in her heart,
Miss Phrygia turned on hor pillow, and
wont o sloop like u kitten.
The village wan bo astir with the nows
tho next week, that Miss Phrygia was
thankful her first walk,—leaning on an
arm that wasn’t her’n, and yet claimed
to bo,—camo in tlio twilight.
Tlio eh ad own deepened as filio wan
dered on, listening to a great many
things tho dootor had to nav. until at
last, just an Miss Phrygia npoko for tho
first, timo, u glow-worm enmoin sight.
" I must stop and tie up my shoo 1”
was what Miss Phrygia said, and
whether tho doctor heard it or not,
he stepped forward a few paces to see
about tlio glow-worm, and Miss Phrygia
put up her foot on a stone by the way
side. As she stooped, a noiseless step,
accompanied by ono a trifle heavier,
came behind her; something misty
touched her oheok, anil a voice whisper
ed in horear:
"Is that your mortality pufT?"
"Hush ’fill!" said Miss Phrygia.
"Yes, for a breath might blow him
away. Bring him round to visit my
grave, won’t you ? Homo evoning about
tea-time ; and we’ll have—puffs !"
" Immediately !" said Miss Phrygia.
Burt Hartb is said to bo a suffVrer
from a chronic complaint that is by no
means uncommon. Ho cannot keep
money. He has no bad In bits, and yet
raonov molts away as soon as ho touches
it. His work commands a higher prioc
than that of any writer of tlio day.
Waste of wealth is sometimes retriev
ed ; waste of health, ia seldom ; but the
waste of timo never,
A PERUVIAN SHAKE.
Tho Tenor* of " K1 Temblor**-How tho
Pei»l»lo Act.
Lima Cor. Chicago Trlbuiio.
Since I wrote vou my last lottor wo
have had souio of our customary earth-
quake shocks, passing over Lima in tho
direction of Arequipa, and not folt nt
all, or very littlo. iu tho western part of
the oitv. Nor did tho shook roaoli Oal-
Ino, although it was folt among tho
shipping iu tho harbor, and tlio wavos
woio agitated for a fow seconds, ns if a
whirlpool wore about to form in tho bay.
The morning camo damp, lowering and
cloudy ; so that our friends, as wo met
thorn iu tho streets, said, with a shrug
of tho shouldors: "Regular earthquake
weather this!" Exactly as wo would
flay to our friond in the United States,
on mooting him, "Wo shall liavo u storm
by aud by." At about 2 p. in., low, Bill
ion clouds’ settle lower and darkor,
birds wheel wildly in frightened cir
cles. oh tokens and turkey-buzzards fly
in hnsto to somo sholtor, and the rivor
Rimao moans noisily as it rushes ovor
its stouy bod. Tho .donkeys iu tho
street bray with tromondouH frequency,
and a cloud of dust, through tho feo*t-
dosorted stroots, warns all podostrians
that somo calamity is at hand. Hlmt-
tors flap and croak ; tho distant bluo
hills surrounding Lima darken and
scorn lost iu gloom ; my liorso, standing
at my paved court-yard gate, unhitched
aud free to wander at will up aud down
tho paths, ns is the onstam. suddenly
begins to tremble, giving shrill neighs,
and a cold sweat runs down his shapely
nook and logs, us ho shudders aud grows
nnro and moro uneasy. Now my dog
begins to howl, anil orouohos with
trembling limbH, and mute, imploring
eyes, at my foot. Tho wind walls, tho
sky darkens, aud a hoarse, muttered
murmur comes on tho air, near and more
»onr, low and ominous. Now tho doors
begin to quiver, tho windows jar and
rattlo. My hird-oago, with its fright-
euod ocoupautB, sways and falls; the
parrot shrieks, "El temblor! El tem
blor 1" (tho oarthquftko I tlio earth-
quako I) and buried his bead under liis
wing. Now tho vory houso timhors and
joists oraolc and strain. Ohimnoya fall,
with adobe plontoring flying; ami all
the frightonod inhabitants, Peruviau
aud foroigu, rush madly, pell-mell, into
tlio stroet. Many run to the opon plaza,
or square, to usoano tho falling build
ings, should any fall.
A sudden lull, a hush of wind aud
moaning sound, and again, loiulor and
noaror, tho dread earthquake oomos
again. Hero are frightened women,
with disheveled hair and toars of peni
tence ; hero aro wealthy aonoras, half-
olad, aud just from their toilottos,
kneeling in common fright and suspense
most trying, side by aide with tho Chi
nese pbggnr, sore and loathsome, or bo-
siilo a negro Gliolo, fairly pale with ap
prehension. There nro cries aud pray
ers, clasped hands and kneoliug figures,
in long, black mantas, looking more
ghastly from tho funeral aspect.
“ Whore may wo go?" cry ono and all
as the ground rises and fi lls in billowy
undulations ; anil children mingle their
screams with tho general uproar. Yot
all of it'pusses ovor in loss than a sec
ond of timo, loss than I liavo taken
to describe it; and whonngnin tho sun,
bursts forth, the clouds disperse, and
all fours aro allayed that tlio enrtliquulce
will oomo again this day, then tliokneel-
ing figures jump up ns lively as thoy
knelt down, and tho laughter and tho
gossiping begin. Beside the publio
fountains, tlio dark-eyed sonoritn, with
tlio powder on half of her face, gathors
and rolls up hor masses of heavy hair,
anil, smiling, flits into tho liouso to
oompleto hor toilotto ; and tho vocifer
ous orios of tho water-men, tho calls of
tho cake anil dulco vendors, and tho
hustle of busy olty lifo commence ox-
aotlywhoro thoy woro interrupted an
hour boforo I
Such is tho levity of theso people, so
accustomed liavo thoy become to those
oarthqhako shocks that they will dance,
and flirt, and sing; go through all tho
different gradations of horror, terror,
abject despair, faintings, prayings,
kneelings, mea-oiilpa orios and shriek-
ings, during the few short seconds of an
earthquake vibration; and forgot its
terrors as soon as it has passed quiver-
inprly by.
But with n foroignor the ease is very
different. Ho may have boon through
lire and flood, through tho dangers of
shipwreck anil through hairbreadth es
capes on land and sea ; but tho longor
lie lives in this volcanic country, tho
more ho treads its thin, lava-crusted
soil and studies tho inner voloanio forces
of its strata, tho of tenor ho exporioneos
an ovor-so-slight vibration of nn earth
quake, tho moro lie dreads and fears it,
the moro solemn nro his roflootionH as
tho earth and sea rock and jar ; and, ns
to becoming used to it, only a native-
born Peinvian can say that with any
shadow of truth.
Of all tho horrors of an earthquake,
those shocks which occur at nigiit aro
the most terrible. Your bod rooks you
like i^yery cradle ; and, throwing on
the first clothing that lies liaudy, you
attempt to draw with trembling "bauds
tho bolts of tho doors of your hours—
that meanwhile aro jarring and crashing
so that you seem every moment in dan
ger of being buried in a living tomb by
tho falling timbers—and then, when
.fosporato fear has given you superhu
man strength to pull tho displaced bolts
from their fastenings, you rush head
long, impelled by the oscillating lateral
motion, into tho dismal stroots, with a
darkness that can bo folt all around
you—your knees quaking, and tho cries
of kneeling, awe-striokon wretches sing
ing in your oars.
Such a feeling of insecurity comes
ovor you, such a sonso of your own lit
tleness, when tho solid ground rolls and
quiveis under your foot 1 Such a feel
ing of awe, anti shrinking pi very soul,
aftor tho shook has passod on and over,
and you aro left pallid and dazed, to
think of it all.
Oppressive Brilliancy.
" Madame Podsnap," says the Sara
toga correspondent of the Washington
Capital, "descends to breakfast with
tbo diamonds good society counten
ances in those who owned gems before
the days of shoddy, sparkling as soli
taires in her oars, and representing
§5,000 on hor fingers, and beneath her
heavy silk, of a shade dark enough for
wintor wear, is oonooalod a small for
tune, say $50,000 worth, of diamonds in
a muslin bag, Sho daro not leave thorn
iu hor room, of oourso, and onnnot put
them iu tho liotol snfo without giving
up tho pleasure of wonring them cnoli
evening, so sho oonoonlfl them until
oveuiug, when sho disnlftys thorn every
one; nnd sloops with thorn beneath tlio
mattress. So sho is doomod to din
monds for eonstnnt companions. It iB
tlio only brilliauoy sho understands,”
Tlio Colors of Animals.
Color is often the protector of tho
lifo of tho orouturo. In this respoot.
the principle of utility, which is much
spoken about by tho partisans of the
theory of indefinite transformations
manifested in all partn of the organism,
requires littlo consideration to bo
doomod iiulispntablo. The hunter rea
dily bolioves that tho animal .has bug-
aooded iu osoaping from him in oonse-
quonoo of tho gray or tawny color of
the fur, whioh was scarcely to bo dis
tinguished from tho soil, of its
plumage, wliioh was almost identical
with th > foliage of tho trees. In num-
borloRS oases, hares and rabbits, flying
over tho naked soil, nro ablo to ovailo
their pursuors from a similar cause.
Tho antelopes of Africa and tho kanga
roos of Australia have coats that pro
cure for thorn equal advantages. The
liou may bo oitod ns a magnificent ox-
amplo of conformity or coloration.
Lying upon the sand of tho dosort, or
squattod among tho rocks, tho animal
at a short distanco would bo almost in
visible, and tlio gazello would aimroaoh
him without a foar of danger. Tho po
lar boar does not stand out conspicu
ously upon tho glaciers ; tho arotlo fox,
the ormiuo, tlio alpino liaro, wliioh have
earthly tints iu summer, Jiavo in win-
tor tlio whitouoss of the Holds of snow
whioh thoy travorso. Nooturual boasts,
bats, rats, aud mice woar voHtmonts,
whioh are woll suited to obscurity. Al
though tho tlgor, tho loopard, tho pan
ther have, it in true, vory visible mark
ings, yot they hido themselves beneath
trees, whence thoy spring upon tliolr
proy. Among birds protective oolors
aro vory common. Evon without the
testimony of travelers we should liavo
good reaaon to suppose that paroquets,
fcournoos, and parrots, colored with all
sorts of boautiful shades of greon,
would bo vory difficult of discovery in
tropical forosts. In tho dosort whero
thoro is no sholtor, aud where noithor
troo nor bush is to bo soon, swallows,
quails, linnots, and gangas, which in
habit such localities, wear plumago of
various similes of gray and " Isabella”
similar to tho sands and gravel. Ia the
mountains pf Europe the tagopede (a
spooion of pnrtridge)[(during tho sum
mer has a plumage which oxaotly har
monizes with tho tint of rooks oovored
with lichens, Tho bird delights to har
bor among snob rooks, and sportsman
say that frequently a largo flock of
them escape notice. In tlio winter,
however, the lagopodo changes his oos-
tumo and becomes as white ns tho
snows; ho again Hiioaeeds in warding
off attention. The yellows, browns,
and "doad-lraf" tint4 of groupo render
tho auirnal almost invisible when repos
ing among tho trocs in tho woods. A
species of goat-suokor found in South
America is of Hnoh peon liar tints that
when it is lying upon the little rook is
lands of tho Rio-Nogro it cannot bo
porooivod by the koouest vision.
Tlio First Steamboat..
At Bhepliordstown, in Jefferson coun
ty, West Virginia, tho first steamboat
was built. Goneral Washington and
Governor Johnson, of Maryland, wero
tho patrons of tho enterprise. After
tho war they prootired together tho in
corporation of tho Potomac company
by their respeotivo states. And in 1T85
Rumsey demonstrated to them on the
Potomac, above Shophordstown, his
groat disoovory that a boat oould bo
propolled by steam up stream against
the ourront. Tlio boiler and machinery
for Butusov's steamboat woro mado at
tho Oatootin iron furnace, in Frodoriok
county, then ownod bv Johnson and
some of liis brothers. Tho gentlemen
of tho Potomao country thou used to go
to tho Baltimore (now Berkeley) springs
to drink the waters, and this experiment
of Ramsey’s, of steam navigation, was
certified to liavo been a success by
Washington, Johnson, and othor emi
nent men then present. Tho first steam
boat was propelled on tho Potomao;
tho first boiler was mado in Frodoriok
county, twenty years boforo Fulton per
fected tho idou and applied it on the
Hudson.
Discoveries Near tlio North Polo.
According to accounts in lato London
journals, tho Austrian north polo expe
dition was frozen in at tho north point
of Novu Zambia in August, 3872, and
was driven in a northwesterly direction
with ico. Tho crew worked flvo months
in vain during tho summer of 1873 to
free tho ship. In tho autumn of this
year, north o: tbo 80th degree of lati
tude, ail unknown land waa discovered,
whoso boundary lino, north and west,
was not to be scon. A t hin lino was ex
plored in sledges from tho 9th of Match
to tho 4th of May, 1874, up to tho 83d
degree. In honor of the emperor of
Austria, this was named Franz Joseph
Land. Thoro woro woro no signs of an
imal lifo. On tho 20th of May, 1874,
the crow loft tho ship to got off in four
sledges, and after traveling ninoty-six
days, reached Nova Zombla, whero thoy
mot with some Russian seamen and
wero taken to Wardoe, iu Norway, aftor
undergoing indescribable sufferings and
privations.
Almost invariably tho ory of a short
cotton crop comes up in Soijtombor
from various sections of tho country.
Reports from Augusta, Memphis and
Galveston this year toko similar gloomy
views; but from Mobile and New
Orleans a considerable inoroaso is an
ticipated. A review of the entire field
ofc the present timo would probably in
dicate nearly, if not quite, an average
orop. •
Trip, handsomest men in tho union
aro Kentuckians, and tho preservation
of their good looks is said to b • duo to
tho fact that whilo all tho Bourbon
whisky is manufactured in Kentucky,
the groat bulk of it is contained else
where.
ENGLAND'S QUEEN.
Hor tiorgonu* Aimnuionti nt Windsor
t'aillci
The London correspondent of the
Chicago Intor-Oooau writoH of a visit to
Windsor Castlo and says: " Tho Wator •
loo ohamber is 93 foot long, 45 feet
high, and 47 broad; it is lightod by a
lantern of ground glass extending the
whnln length of tho room, and is divided
into five oompartments by light, grace
ful arohes. At each ond of tlio room
thoro nro galleries for musicians, formed
of richly oarvod oak. Tho walls and
ooilings are decorated in wliito and gold
roliof with armorial bearings, and in-
sortod in tho pnnelling ronna tlio room
are portraits of all the eminent mon
who woro oonnootod with tho battlo of
Waterloo, Lions, masks, and grotesque
bonds holding wreaths of flowers and
fruits ombollish nH tho mouldings, and
tho doors, mantle-pieces, anil piotnro
frames aro adorned with beautiful wood
carviugp by Gibbons. Tho carpet in
dark ranrroon, pnnnelled and figured
with tho stars of tho oivil and military
orders of the Batli, aud tbo furniture is
of ohk (corresponding with tho stylo of
tho room) covered with crimson velvet.
Tho prononoo chamber is 90 foet long,
33 foot high, and 84 foet broad; nn im
mense Orillia window forms almost ono
ontiro ond of tho room, and commands
uu oxtoneivo view of tlio park and nd-
jnoent country. Tho stylo of tho room
is that of tho timo of Louis XIV., and
tho workmanship is admirable. Tlio
coiling is a nmrvol of beauty, as are
also the oornioos, which aro ornomonted
by noroUwork of tho moat exquisite do-
soription. Largo, richly oarvod doors
opon into tbo throno room, tho Water
loo gallery, and tho banqueting hall.
Tho walls aro hung with six superb
specimens of Gobolln tapestry, repre
senting 4 Tho History of Jason and tho
Goldon Floooo.’ Splomlid looking-glas
ses occupy othor portions of tho room.
Four ohaudeliors of ormolu, intorBpors-
od with eut-glnss branches and pend
ants, aro suspouded from tho coiling.
Tho floor is of oak. parget, tho oak be
ing inlaid with Jfour-dr.-Nn in ebony.
Tho furniture is solidly gilt, and is vory
gorgeous. At ono end of tho room
thoro is a largo malachite vnso, which
was presented to Queen Yiotoria by tho
Emporor Nioliolns of Russia. Tho ban
queting hall is 200 foot long. 32 foot
high, and 84 broail. On one side of the
room thoro nro thirteen windows, and
opposito to thorn thoro aro reoesses con
taining lifo-sizo portraits of tho Inst
cloven ’sovereigns of England. In a
music gallery at ono ond of tho hall
thoro is an organ, and under, upon a
dais, is tho qnoon’s oliair of state, mado
in imitation of tho coronation oliair in
Wostminstor Abbey. In tho spaces bo-
twoon tho portraits thoro nro largo brass
shiolds, with tho cross of Bt. Goorgo
and tlio Gartor motto. Brackets sup
porting lamp3 projoot from each side of
tho shields, and abovo them arc stool
helmets with cross spears. Tho ceiling
is almost entirely oovored with shiolds
omblazoned with tho armorial bearings
of all tho Knights of tho Garter, from
tho institution of tho ordor down to tho
present timo—-a period of about flvo
hundrod yoars. Tho names of tho
knights aro painted between tho panols
of tho windowsl; to enoh of them is
affixed n number corresponding to that
attached to the arms on tlio coiling.
On each sldo of tho window there nro
two knights (In stucco) in oompleto
armor. Tho furniture (of whioh thoro
is but little, tho ball being very seldom
usod) is of oak, oovored with soarlot
velvot, and tho oarnot is an oak pattern,
in small panols, with tho cross in tho
contro, and a rich border of tho Gartor
aud motto. In one of tho departments
wo wero shown an ebony cabinet, inlaid
with onyx, whioh had belonged to Mary
Queen of Boots, and two largo tables of
solid silvor, ono of which had been
owned by Charles II., aud a portrait,
by Rembrandt, of tlio famous Countess
of Desmond at tho ago of one hundred
and twenty.”
Dost Organs on Most, Favorable Terms.
Cftbinot or Parlor Organs aro capital
things for peddlers to work with, be
cause vory poor ones can be made at
half tho cost of good ones, and few peo
ple arc competent to tell tho difference
from a first examination. Manufac
turers print in their catalogues prices
which aro throo or four times as high
as tho valno of suohohoap work. Then
tho peddler starts out and puts tlnm on
tho pooplo in various ways. Ho sells
at nn ouormous discount, if ho cau got
cash; takos part trade, if necessary, or
loaves tho orgirti awhile on trial, and
soils it on long timo at "manufacturer's
prices,” exhibiting the catalogue to
show that it is snob, or evon nt a dis
count from this, wliioh ho can well af
ford.
Tho Mason A: Hamlin Organ Co.
have recently announced a'plnn which
is likely to interfere with this business.
This Company, as is woll known, makes
only the best work, whioh,tby its uni
form excellence, has obtained tho high
est reputation for their organs. They
proved tho best, and obtained tho high
est awards at the recent Vienna and’
Paris World’s Expositions, as thoy
have uniformly done in American In
dustrial competitions. Tho fact that
theso organs are tho best in tho world
is, indeed, too well established to need
further endorsement.
The Company have now added a largo
now factory to their former extensive
works, and design to greatly increase
thoir business. This thoy propove to
do by offering organs for timo pay
ments, or for rent with privilege of pur-
ohaso, at barely sufficient advanco on
tho cash prices to afford a reasonable
intorest for tho time. An’organ may
bo hired by tho quarter with privilege
of purchase at any time in ono year or
longor. H purchased within tho yea#,
tho whole cost, including rent paid, is
only five to ten por cent, moro than if
tho cash had been paid down at tho bo-
ginning.
Persons having any idoa of purchas
ing, will bo wise to send a note to tho
Mason A Hamlin Co., at either Boston,
New York or Chicago, and obtain their
now circulars, before purchasing.
Tbuth ontors tho heart of man when
it is empty and still; but when the
mind is shaken with passions, as with a
storm, you can never hear the voice of
the charmer, charm he ever so wisely.
