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CEDARTOWN RECORD. W. S. D. WIKLE & CO., Proprietors. CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1875. VOLUME I. NUMBER 45. TIMELY TOPICS. Thb health of Key West is reported by tho health officer ns nnnsunlly good. There is nothing like yellow fever there. Tfik iron inamifnetnriug establish* monts in Pittsburgh are rapidly resum ing work, and in a few days ail will be in operation again. "Wrrn tho advent of spring the cru saders have broken out in Now York, visiting some forty up-town saloons lost Tuesday. Tite withdrawal of State subsidies from tho Roman Catholic church in Prussia, if consummated, will deprive tho church of $000,000 annually. Midshipman \V. H. Cox, of Jones boro, Tenn., was drowned on the 14th inst., by tho upsetting of u boat in the creek adjoining tho naval academy at Annapolis, Maryland. It is definitely set led that his royal highness, tho prineo of Wales, will go to India noxt winter, a country whioh, though forming a magnificent part of the British empire, has nover been visited by a scion of tho royal houso. Officials in Washington r.ny that moro than one hnndrod persons are now serving out a term of imprison ment for counterfeiting, or passing counterfeit money, who wero pupils of McCartnoy, the noted counterfeiter, nr- rested in Texas a few days ago. A HTniN.iKNT lull touching tho Oatho lie olergy has boon presented in the Prussian diet, designed to nullify tho appointments of tho Vatican in Ger many and still farther bring tho clergy under tho oivil laws. A remonstrance lms been presented, but remonstrances do not have any weight with Bismarck. The Ban Franoisoo Chronicle says that tho Lick revocation difficulty is to bo settled up by a new deed to new trustees, and Mr. Lick's poor relations are now to bo provided for. The rela tions, it seems, stirred up the whole trouble, ns they ooulil not bear to see $4,000,000 woitli of handsomo property going out of thoir hands for the public benefit. The United Bute* army consists of ‘AW1 enlisted men and 2,376 comrais- sioued officers, presenting the amazing proportion of less than eleven soldiers to each officer. West Point is hatch ing a now brood of 258 lieutenants, who trill bo out of thoir shells next Juno, and, with their accession to tho shoul der strapped gentry, there will bo less than ton soldiers to each commissioned officer. I he British admiralty have given orders for the immediate destruction of all vessels in the navy which do not come up to modern requirements. Bov- orul fine frigates whoso ribs aro per fectly sound, and whioh, but a few years since, wero recognized us oruck sailiug vessels, will be dein Imbed. England means to put her navy on a strictly wur footing. Tint pontoffico department, a fow days since, pinned upon sale three cont. post age stamps, manufactured upon nn en tirely new principle. They are made of two kinds of paper, one hard and the othor porous. Tho purpose in to provont tho possibility of tho washing of stamps. This end is accomplished by the new stamps, ns the porous paper absorb* the ink. Tho grouteat difficul ty is that the stamps cannot be made properly adhesive, and it is doubtful whether the experiment will prove suc cessful. The Indian commissioner throws all the trouble about tho Black Hills busi ness on Gen. Custer's expedition last fall, which he says was utterly uncalled for and unnecessary. Ho further ac cuses the war department of having little or no respect for the rights of the Indians, affirming that nothing would have been dono toward keeping intrud ers from tho nuriferous reservation, if the Indian bureau had not made tho most strenuous appeals for justice to its charges. One result of the raging railroad war between the northern trunk lines, is a marked depression of tho shipping in terests on the lakes, and the indisposi tion of ship owners to open up for tho spring business with their customary energy. The reason assigned is that the railroads are transporting grain to the seaboard cheaper than the vessels can carry it. Ovr.ers content them selves, therefore, with such repairs ns will keep their vessels afloat, while a large number will necessarily be laid up permanently for the summer, if the railroad war continues. The multitudinous adaptations of In dia-rubber in the manufacture of useful and ornamental articles ma y be sudden ly checked by the limited supply of the original material. The ever-increasing demand has led to a thorough explora tion of the forests of Darien for cont- chouc. The Indiana resist the move ment, but the collectors of the oozy liquid are furnished military escorts by the government of New Grenada. The present rate of consumption i’b likely to make India rubber much more costly in a few years, or perhaps lead to the dis covery of some substitute. Tt is quite likely that tho doplorable financial condition of Spain will shortly bring about another revolution. Tho government is running on credit and hat not got muoli of that. Tho daily outlay for tho civil wsr is $250,000, mostly disbursed to foreign countries for materials, and with 247,000 men under arms, the borrowing system, coupled with general dissatisfaction and tho slaughter of industries, tho crash can not be’far off. Spain ia in tho con dition of a merchant with a largo note to pay at bank at 3 o’clock " Ho funds.” Tho national dobt has incrousod in ten years from $800,000,000 to $1,875,000,- 000. The Chicagp Times of last Saturday contains a pftgo of special telegrams from leading towns in the northwest concerning the wheat prospect. These reports emhraoo 30 counties in Illinois, 10 in Wisconsiu, 15 in Town, 11 in In diana, 7 in Missouri, 7 in Michigan, 0 in Minnesota and 3 in Kaiman. Their general tenor is that the fall wheat was badly winter killed in places, and in others the farmers, discouraged at lavt year’s low prices do not look with favor on this crop. In many places, however, where tho deop snows la,% undisturbed, tho growth is thrifty and gives promise of an abundant harvest. The indica tions are good iu nearly all tho npiing wheat districts, and, reviewing tho en tire field, tho production in tho north west this year may vet come up to tho average. LATE NEWS SUMMARY. EAST. tTA bill is before tho Now York legisla ture requiring hired inilroait companinH to Tho governor of Pennsylvania lias dccidod not to withdraw tho troops until all danger of violonro in tlm I.iucrtw coal region ha* dtsapiwarod. Tho striking puddiors in Pittsburgh i resuming work, nud it i* thought that iu a ort tiiuo tho majority of tho mills in that city will bo in full operation. At fVittsville, Pu., tho minors’ strike regarded a« on its lad log*. Tho minors »t, and aro leaving iu considerable numbers r other paru of Die country. Notice of notion has Ix-on given in tho w six million suit against Win. M. Tweed. Tho list of property attached embrace* ovnry- iog known to be in t^e posae8*l<y; of Tweed the time of the oxpoeure, anti which lie sired into the bauds of other partU s. WEST Jas. B. Dougherty, pilot* died nt. tiro, Sunday night, from wounds indicted a <ok ago by ono Mcllrido; A strect-oar stable iu Oinolnnnti wan stroyod by llro last week, together with enty-threo street-cars, Hixtenn innlea and o horse. Tho slngo from Downiovillo to Baora- snto, Gal., Was robbed of Wells <V Fargo’s -usury box, containing $5,0(10 in gold liars d coin, by highwaymen. Bix companies of cavalry and two of Infantry have been ordered to tho baao of the. Black Hills, as an escort to Mr. Jaunoy, the government geologist, who will make a survey of that country. Tho trial of Jno. D. Loo anil W. H. Dame, for the connection with the Mountain Meadre will : pla. of tho court. They were arraignod and plead not guilty, thoir counsel asking for im mediate trial but tho prosooutton was not ady. In tho polygamy caao at Beaver, tab. Judge Boroman charge* that polygamy ■mmitted prior to 1802, i* punisbablo now; that bigamy 1* continuous crime, and that the statute of limitation does not apply. This is directly opposito to tho chargoof Judge Emer son of this district. A dispatch from Omaha says the num ber of emigrants westward bound tho pi ftdon nd. Nir r-thr dred have left that piano since March 1st. Over ono thousand wore delayed t here Thurs day for want of cars^bnt wero sent out on special trains yesterday. At the ineoting of the Pacific jookory dnh in November next, a purse of *3(1,000 in old will be ofTorod for four miles and repent, ho race open to the world; $15,000 to tho first horse, $0,000, $5,000 and $4,000 to tho 1. third and fourth. Horses from Europe allowed $1,500 for traveling exponas,/ and T the Kooky Mountains $1,000. n. G. It. Cowan, a 1 sistant secretary e interior, his returned from Halt Lake City, where, by direction of tho president, he officr :ontly b Ho ngaged in po xprofeed tho opin dis- further changes aro necc**ary, and that while ntagoni-m between the Mormon arid the Gentile elements will continue to excite con- rl ill-feeling, tho minimum of trouble, so far as the i.overnmont appointees ire concerned, has now probably boon attained. SOUTH. New Orleans estimates her coming ingar crop at 200,000 hogsheads. A telegram from the United States uirsbal of Texas reports tho recapture of Pete McCarty, the noted counterfeiter. Robt. Farris, aged 21, was shot and instantly killed near Hcmervillo, Tenn., last week, by Jno. Jones, aged 17. James F. Aycklen, formerly of New Orleans, was shot and killod at Lake Provi dence, La , on tbe 8th inst.. by one Tboreli. The murderer attempted to escape to Misnis- sippi, but was captured and lodged in jail. The New Mexico papers resent the charge of general illiteracy of the territorial population, and boast of 128 public schools. 143 teacher*, and 5,420 pupils. Ip. forty of the public schools Spanish is taught as well as Knglieb. There are fifty private schools be side* chose of a public nature. Col. John M. Powell, of Mississippi, who committed suicide last week by taking morphine, was, previous to our civil wai of tho wealthfost and most influential pla in Mississippi. Wondol Phillips once remarked of his estate, that “Colton and slaves grow spontaneously on Powoll’s plantation.” A destructive lire took place at Green ville, Miss., on tho 8th inst., supposed to hr tho work of an incendiary. A heavy wind win blowing at tho ttmo, and the lower portion of tho town was in groat danger. Tho oitlzem worked with wonderful energy and detormina tion, and saved much property. Tho loss will ho inside of $50,000, partly iuanrod. Hover# 1 men wore badly injured by falling chimneys, Mrs. E. I/. Irwin, a highly respect- able young widow of Hannibal, Mo„ tiod « clothos lino around herself and little girl, six years old, and fastened tho othor end to stnko in the ground, and then took the chi iu her arms and deliberately walkod into He; creek. Both were drowned. Financial or barrassment and disappointment in love hi understood to he tho eauso of tho act. On the night of April 2d, seventeen rogi*tf red letters wero stolon from tho t for (ifllco *t Grand Junction, Tenn., and tho postofllco department sent Hpcolal Agent J It. Miutiia to work up the ease, who amisted Henry Parks, Frank and Low is Mooro, Dick Dancy and Henry Goodwin, all colored ployes or tho Stonewall hotel there, as guilty parties. Goodwin turned state's donoo and told where tho greater portion of tho monoy was buried in a tin con, which recovered. At Charlotte, N. 0., on tho 16th, n flro destroyed about 8,000 halos of cotton, th depots of tho North Carolina and Oharlott and tho Columbia ami Augusta railroads, urn a number of prlvato residences. Loss, $250, 000; about two-thllds insured. The tiro i supposed to have originated from spatks froti the enpino of the .-.itton compress, standing near a largo platform capable of bolding ovei 3,500 bales of cotton. It was booh boyoiu control, and there being a high wind from the west, tho flro passed over the thinly-built pari of the city, a distance of throo-quarlors of v mile, mostly of cotton and railroad depots. For Homo time past numerous robbor ios have boon committed in the neighborhood of Chicot, Arh., and tho citizen* hcliovin they wore perpetrated hv a regularly organize hand, have quietly boon on tho qut vivo f< them. On last Thursday flvo men wero di< •red iu the G. Martin, h alarm lining the buildiiq them whioh « killod, another Jumped the river bank, ho cltlzons Biirrou robbers opened Hr 1 th dow ii remaining twr is pel of the nod, i captured. Tho next suspected or being in itli tho band, worn found to have dis appeared, having fled from fear of tho prison ers Implicating them. ( ro REIGN. Bombay diHfmtoheH niinotmqp that the cholera lias made its appearance in tho prov- of nude. Agents of tho Froncli government havo made contracts in Hohonila for 10,000 horses, to ho delivered in June noxt. Tho Fronob government lms seized a numbor of Courbott’a pioturon under a doc confiscating his property to defray the oxpc of restoring the Vendome column. Tho French government lms sent Hlriictinns to its consuls to summon for last timo Froncli subjects abroad liable military service to have thoir immoSroglstc at tho consulates. It is reported tho Turks havo n dorod 270 Ghristiaiis iu Itoumolia and Bulgi during tho last three months, and tho nai of tho victims Imve boon communicated to foreign representatives In Constantinople. The Rothschilds have issued it pros pectus of the now Ilussian loan or XI8,000,000, with interest at 4por cont. per annum, to he issued at 5)2. Of tho amount, .£8,000,001) |h ofTorod for subscription In London ; tin muiudor in reserved for Ht. Fotorshurg. The condition of tho expelled i in Italy is most pitiful. Many of thor their old ago, aro totally without inoar resource, and thoir numbor adds to the cn itv. Charity fails to roliovo thoir distress, and those whoso lives wore devoted to the succor of tho poor, tho sink and tho ignorant, aro now without homo and sholtor. A dispatch from Paris stntos that ii party of throo persons as.-ondod in the balloon Zenith on tho lflth, for tho purposo of making Hciouliflo observation*. Tho balloon attained tho extraordinary height of 8,000 met re*, or 20,000 foot. Two of tho aeronauts wore suffo cated to death, and when tho balloon reachod tho ground tho third was almost iusonsible, and lins since boon so ill that his recovery is doubtful. Tho Roman Catholic bishops soon after thoir conference nt Fulda add rot sod u petition to the F.mpcror William, in person, romon*lratii.g against tho withdrawal of state grants, to tho maintenance of which they de clared tho honor of Prussia was pledged. They also protested against being requir ed to obey, unconditionally, the state laws. The .ministers, authorized by tho emperor, have replied, expressing regrot Hint the bishop* slionld object to obey tho law* which alw otho rldjng that tho bishops would havo pro- “rved the fatherland from peaco-dictnrbing infusion if they hnd remained faithful to ioir own convictions and to tho warnings which they proclaimed before tho Vatican :onnoil. Tho treaty between China and Japan vith regard to tho Island of Formosa was that Jhina should pay to Japan 500,000 taels ($750,- 000), Japan surrendering tho inland of For mosa. During the period that Formosa was under tho rule of Japan, tbe aborigines had become qnlte friendly, but now that China wrthes to retake hor territory, the former country say* “All right, take it." Thonativen nay, “Take it. if you daro." In February a slight attempt wan made, and the result of it was a battle in which tho Chinese troops were defeated with a loan of noveral hundred. For mosa in rich in natural resources, and the Chinese thought they had made a splendid bargain, hut they aro not so sure of it now. —Oordler, a French sculptor, has de signed n monnment of Christopher Columbus which is pronounced n grat ifying success. It is to bo erected in the city of Mexico, opposite the new railway station. Cordier visited Italy and Spain, and executed his design after u careful study of what are sup posed to he the authentic portraits of Columbus. A WOMAN’S LpVK-DREAM. dng still, ttolo it) ' wm> ii*l u 'i U> i llf ' ,, i while I think AMoni* f j-'h-k' doavl'n "lit ro ** , ^*° 1,11,8 m W'*, t would bo lovoiUn oflmmS™ Ho whom I lovo should bo my klug And not my slave. ^ ‘ klug, like Hauk*auiong Uufaouii'td^im'n, Amt kinglter o’or htimwlf. Norstlmtdor if'ni othor 'I' 7 HlnVin’iho‘Vi* 0 “ orav ” l " y ■‘ u,,c -- Fot-1 am w.-ary of m-rvllliy. 1 . ~ l w ould not rule, nor would t yrt ho ruled- I icorn tho tyrant a* 1 ncoru til* *l*v.« - i; »ro I* a lovi. of awoot (quality; For fi wm To'/* V °td' 1 ' Not only by my w-onmuhood, but tty all gontlono Look mifforliig, tho patient Sweotuim.i V d'wouhi'n »t imri '"t!" H^rmtloa, H V« a'pdlfi h "bn 'i! *' r o 1*1! f' ^ Tn\' ;l atiiouK lint lowly and tho poor, from'ttiofl'rst'truits^Muy bwart’* WILL HE DRINK WINE? '1 'jo following essay, whioh ia of po em. '.r i ntorest just uow, iu view of the proanut agitation of the ton porauoc question, was read by Dr. Swan 1\‘ Burnett of Knoxville*, before tint Tot. lies see Medical Bocioty, tho subject of the essay being “ Dipsomania”: “ ' Will tho coming man drink wine?” A question inure pregnant of iutoroHt, or more important in its boaring to wards our future civilization, could quoBtiou assumed that it is now, by general consent, given over to the man of soignee for his earnest investigation, and to him wo look for an answer. Of course we mean, shall he drink wine to oxuosb? not shall ho nso it, butjshull he abuse it? For tho suppression of intemporunoe, we havo trusted to tho influences *f moral reformers and leg islative ouaofmentH long enough to havo demonstrated thoir utter futility. Btatisties show that, iu spite of tem perance organizations, (to sny nothing of crusaders) and Maine liquourlaws, the vice of intemperance is as rampant iu our land as ever before. Wo cannot, then, look to those for any help iu stay ing its progress, hut must rovert to tho scientific investigator who shall study the subject in all its hearings, hunt out its causes, and mark out its natural li's- tory, just, as he would that of aiiy ollmr form of disease. “ R has always been fhns jn tko his tory of tho world. Wlton pestilence has stalked abroad, leaving death and devastation in its train, effort Ii were first made to stop its onward march by prayers and inennfations ; and later, by ill-advised legislation. Tt, was only, however, whon the subject was handed ever to the scientist, who nought the fom cl orlf/o and applied his remedy thereto, that uny amelioration was ob tained. And tuns, it seems, must he the case with intemperance, which in its effects is as terrible as the ‘pesti lence that walked in durkness.” “ It is only one form of this evil that we shall present to your consideration at this time. The general influence of alcohol upon tho human economy in health and disease, and drunkenness in the form of alcoholism, we shall leave out of consideration, except an they may bear upon the one form of intem perance upon which we havo the honor to report to you, viz., dipHomaniu. “The first question thut jnrqsentH it self is, is there such mi affojtion as dipsomania per nn / This must ho an swered in limine, for if there is not, any further investigation will bo only n Ions of time and labor. • “At. present the opinion on this point, f the majority of those who havo made the subject of iuebrioty in its various forms a special ntndy, seems to bo fixed, and the Mineral verdict in in fa vor of tho existence of u true mania for drink. “Dr. Morgan, in a recent work on alcoholism, its various form, (tc.,” says, that dipsomania is a distinct form of instinctive mono-mania. Quoting Trilah, he snys that drunknrlK aro men who get drunk when they get the ohunce of drinking, dipKomamc-i are people suffering from disonse w).<- get drunk whenever they have an attack of their peculiar disorder. There arc too many histories on record of this mo/bid pulse to drink to admit of n doubt of tor and tho ruin of his hoalth, to which 1m replied: ‘My good frioud, your marks are just: they aro indotul too trim ; lint I can no longer resist tempta tion. If a bottlo of brandy stood at one hand and tho pit of hell yawned at tho other, and I wore oonvinood that 1 should bo pushed iu as Rttro as I took ono glass, I could not refrain.’ Tho late Dr. R. D. Mussy, of Oinoinnati, relatoB nnothor case. A few yours ago a tipplor was put in an alms-houso iu this State. Within a fow days lm had tried various oxpedionts to got rum and failed. At length, however, ho hit upon ono which was Bnocossful. Ho wont into tho wood-yard of tho estab lishment, placed ono hand upon tho block, and with nn axo in tho other struck it off with a single blow. With the stump raised and streaming, lm ran into tlm houso nud cried, Hint mo rum! Got mo rum I my hand ia off.' In tho uiftisfon and bustle of tho occasion, a bowl of rum was brought, into whioh ho plungod tho blooding momber of his body; then, raising tlm bowl to his mouth, drank freely and oxultingly ex claimed, ‘Now 1 am satisfied I’ Dr. J. E. Turner relates a ease of n gentleman who, while under treatment for inebri ety, during four weeks sooretly drank tlm alcohol from six jars containing morbid specimens. On asking him why he committed this loathsome not, ho replied: 'Sir, it is as impossible for me to control this diseased appotito as it iH for mo to control I ho pulsations of my heart.' “Almost every ono can point out, among his acquaintances, oim or moro ortHCR of this morbid craving for drink. Can we consider it anything but an irre sistible impulse that makes a man risk everything—health, friouds, fortune, and, more than all, tho happiness of liis wife and children, and his own self- respect, inordor to gratify t his appotito? What sano man would subject himself to the agonies of body and miuti which the indulgonoo always entails, and which ho knows always entails, upon tho indulgcr ? A young friend of miuo, who lms boon habituated to ‘ sprees, for some years, had abstained for six months. Ho wont to hod ono night at his house, under oiroumstnnoes in no wiso different to those to whioh ho had bo u aeoustomed. At 1 o’clock ho got up, wont up town and ontorod upon a • u»i-<wg 0 f 8 j x W onks’ duration. Another veiling previous to his the disastrous oonsoquoneo that would inovitably follow. “ It would thus apronr that It- is not tho poouliar and spooial notion of aloo- hoi on tho nervous system that arnusep tlm dnniro, lmk Homo changes in the nutrition of tho nerve centers, which agoids othor than alcohol can bring about. “if wo have arrived Jit llio enrrent pathology of tho nfiodtivo, it. i treat ment tired not detain us long. When wo eomo to reoognizo dipaomania i disonse, and not a vice, we aro on high road to the accomplishment of good in its rational troatmont. “ Obviously ilin first thing to do is to romovo tlm eausos, and os thnsn may be various, oneli ease should bo made a subjoot of special and elosn study. Of oourso tho question of inebriate asylums comes in here with pertinency. Tlm advantages of these are admirably summed up bv Dr. T>. T. Orothers, of Albany, N. Y., in an article in tlm American PraeMtioner, for Novemhor, 187-1, as follows : “ ‘ They will enable tlm patient to isolate himself from all exoitomont and allow orininlotn rest of tlm nervous system. They remove all euro and re sponsibility from tlm patient’s mind, except that of recovering his lost hoalth and make him n party with tlm phvsi- oian to bring about thin result. This of itself is a powerful faotor in the treatment. Tlosnitnls and asylums give tho medical man complete control over the habits and surroundings of the pationt, and offer facilities for superior hygionio ami medical troitmont.’ ” A Baudit.’s Warning. ts existence. In tho Decombor )or of the New York Psychologies and Medical Burgery Journal, Dr. George Burr communicates in a pupor n the ‘insanity of inebriety’ several interesting cases in point. Dr. Bush records a case in which lie says, in reference to an habitual drunk- ird in Philadelphia, who, whon trongly urged by ono of his friends to leave off drinking, replied, wero a keg n in ono corner of a room, and a cannon constantly discharging hills between mo and it, I could not re frain from passing before that cannon der to get nt the mm. Dr. McNeish describes in his Anatomy of Drunkenness a care where a friend printed to him the distress of his fam ily, the loss of his bnsinesi and chnrrm- frieml, marritigo to a most estimable Indy, who had consented to tho mnrringo only on his most solemn promise to reform, was in a beastly state of intoxication, though ho knew that if it wero discov ered tho happinosH of Ids whole future life would he wrecked. “ Tho mania for drink may rest in various degrees of intensity, just as any other mama may be either very mild in rils dogrott or very* violent. ItP is also evident that it may have many influ ences at work in its production. The disease lms recently been mado the sub ject of invepligation for its etiology to be clearly understood. Borne points, however, havo been protty definitely settled. “ Heredity has for a long time held a prominent plaoe in the list of causes. The fact of numerous drunkards being found in the same family could not be 'Hooked, And horcaity dons un doubtedly play an important role in the innsatlon of tho diseaHo,but not always is puro inherited dipsomania. "Tho clinical history of the affootion places it among tho neurosis, and we find that its causes and tho laws govern ing its development also give it a simi lar place. As an inherited neurosis may display itself in ono member or branch of a mtnily in tho form of nn ilepsy, in another in general insanity, another iu some simple occontricity marked monomania, so undoubtedly many cases dipsomania may ho only nauifostation of a neurotic diathesis which has oxistod in his progenitors in entirnjy different type. And, on tho lior hand, it soonis highly prolmblo- funt, it i*t iu strict acormlnuoe with this law of inherited neurosis—that tho lipsomauine may bequeath to his off spring some nervous disease widely dif ferent from his own, us a marked pre disposition to hysteria on the part of females, or, ns has been frequently ob served, epilepsy or idiocy. It is as much perhaps, to the operation of this law of inhontanoo as to the general do- ooy of tho vital powers that tho oft occurrence of theso forms of disoaso in the families of drunkards must ho at tributed. Physical disease has an important inflnonco in tho production of morbid raving for alcoholic drinks. Dr. 3rown, in his testimony before the committee of parliament, said : ‘I havo known dipsomania to be produced by rios of the brain in perfectly sober ; also, I have seen it produced by sunstroke and othor causes. I saw a of a sobor man who became a dip somaniac by taking a draft of cold water on a hot day which caused faint ing and an entire change of character.’ I have a friend, a physician, who told mo that often he was ablo to toll when an attack of dipsomania was im minent. Ho foil, bilious; and frequent ly ho hnd been able to forestall the at tack by taking a merouriul. There are also other disturbances, especially of tho nervous systam, which led to u craving of artificial stimulus in iiomo of tho forms of alcohol, “ But by far tbe most active agent, In the production of the disease is the nee of alcohol itself. The exact marnior in which Ibis is brought about is not clearly understood, hut it must be through the agency of the nervous sys tem. Let the dipsomaniac take ever so little alcohol, and immediately an irresistible craving seizes him for more. It is well known of some kinds of drinkers that if they take one ghiFs they are gono.’ I know a most estimable man, a man of fine attainments and liberal in culture who tolls mo that he does not take a glnss of boor for fear of bringing on an attack of dipsomania. Borne years ago he visited an inebriate institution and afterwords abstained for some six or Hevon years. Ho was troubled, however, with a very puiuful affection of tho rectum, and for its re lief look chloroform. As soon as ho recovered from the chloroform narco sis, he felt the irrepressible desire for alcohol, which in spite of everything ho gratified, though he was fully aware of Tiburolo Vasquez was a bandit. He and bin band ravaged at will sCvoral of the lowor counties of California. In the wild, free, Andalusian life of Los An gelos and Santa Clara, thoHO brigands found ample room and verge enough for exploits whoso rooital takes us hank to tho mediovnl times whon robber barons and predatory knights Hwooped down upon tho plains and valleys, and boro away to their mountain fastno.sHos the spoil of beauty and polf. An advon turous ami romantic onreor wns that of Vusquez and his company, Thoir ex ploits havo furnished forth material for cheap novels nud “ blood-and-thundor” dramas. They stole, ravngod, burned, plundered, and murdered in that gay and dashing manner whioh fascinates onllow youth, and sets romantic maidens to sighing for “snob a man.” The oonntry through whioh those banditti ranged is thinly populated, ranches and trading-posts, dotting at long intervulB tbe vast treeloHH plains whioh lio bo- tweon woody hills and mountains deft 'by Heoi'ot gorges nntl canyons. For yours thoso precious rascals dolled the law, and subsisted on a country laid uudor contribution an thoroughly as Mexico was under Cortez. Mothors seared thoir children into silence with the name of Vasquoz, and young mon toiling in tho vineyard or sultry gloho, looked at tho dust arising from the hoofs of his rough riders on tho moun tain side, half iu fear and half iu ad miration. The chief hurnlit boro a charmed life. Ho was thought invul nerable. No bn Hot, ovor reached him, and no deputy-shei iff came near enough to boo tho color of his horse. In nn evil hour for the young robbor, he fell into tho toils and was captured, tried, convicted, and hanged by the nook until he was dead. The bold, duelling, hundsome naballcro died the death of a dog. He carried himself with lightness and jolly rcckloHsiious to the scaffold ; but when ho was bunged, no man in tho throng that looked at his taking off lamented his ignoblo end. Tho general verdict was, “Borved him riwlit.” And so it did. Tho night before this wroteh wan hanged, he asked to sea his coffin. It was shown him. He read curiously tho inscription whioh sot forth that ho died “to morrow,” and he felt tho lining tondorly, saying: “I shall sloop long and well here.” Then lie discoursed of that silent land into which ho was to travel, saying, with some show of seriousness, that ho .was not sure of an eternity. “Tho sages nay tlioro in one," lie remarked, with a nlirufa; of tho nhoulders ; and he added that if there wero an eternity of life, he nliould meet nil bin swoetnoiirtn next day. Knitting his brows, ho dictated an addresn which ho wished dirootod “ To fathom and mothers of ohildron.” This sinpnlar document began thus : “ Bfcauding at tho portals of the un known and unknowable world, and looking Imelc upon tho life of this, as I have neon it, I would urge upon you to make your grestost cure to ho train, influence, instruct, and govern ilio young to whom you havo given life, that they he kept aloof, as fur rn in the of things is possible, from the degrading companionship of the im moral and vicious. Tho general welfare ity depends upon tho strict per formance of ibis part of your duty.” This was tho bandit’s homily and irning. To his former associates*he dictated an equally unique address, iu which he deprecated thoir reputed in tention to make bloody r< partition for his death, and hade them to take warn ing by his fato and change their course while life was left them. On the fol lowing day, accompanied by a priost who bade his heads and puttered prayer, the brigand chim stepped lightly to the fatal tree, joked about tho droad boro- fter, told tho hangman to bo quick about it, and bo was launched into oternity. .’egniu ih dead. Ho built tho first railway in Franco (from Lyons to Bfc. Etionne); ho invented iron wire sus pension bridges and the tubular boilors of locomotive engines, by which in vention railway trains havo been able to attain thoir present great speed, for tho tubular boiler generates steam rapidly onotigh to supply the vapor as fast as it is wanted. Ho lived to attain tho ago of eighty-nine years. His mind had decayed somo years before his body. He was a pupil and a nephew of Montgolfier, the paper maker, so well known by his connection with rorial navigation. —Success is said, by a western sige, to greatly depend upon the poesession of tliree qiulttiea—grit, grip and gnmp- FAOTS AND FANCIES. —“John, John, wnko tin, thoro’s a burglar in the house,” said tho wife. John sat upright in tho hod, “ Burglar, b-u-r-g l-e v—rbnrplar,” and ho rolled over waiting for a hat dor word. —Julian Hawthorne says of a moor- sohnura pipe : “ Tt is like woman’s honrt—as soft, ns light, ns brittle, nml ns onigmntie, nnd only time and uro can prove it truo.” —“ Ma,” said nn intelligent, thought ful bnv, “ T don’t think Bolnmon wn« so viol) ns they snv he was.” “ Whv, mv dear, what could havo put that into vour head ?’’ “ Whv, tho Bible says ho slept with his fathom ; and I think If he line! been so very rich ho wonld havo hnd n bod of bin own.” —A shaft lms boon sunk at Lawton, England, for tho purpose of pnmpiog tip brine, to bo convoyed by pipes to the coke ovens in connection with a colliery, a distnnoe of two or throo miles, there to be converted into salt by moans of the wasto heat from the ovnns. Tho cost, of tho undertaking will, it is said, oxceod $200,000. A Boston man, who is described ns possessing uncommon “intellectual ability,” lms become disgusted with tho “ blue stockings ” of tlmt. city, and declares that his future wife must bn perfectly ignorant, and f u lu’cot, sho must know nothing and believe every thing. T should wish to havo her onll to mo from an adjoining room, “ My dear, wlmt, do two nnd two make ?” —Tito last letter ovor written by Gen. “ Stonewall ” Jnokson is in tho posses sion of the Bonthcrn Historical Society, ft was addressed to Gen, Leo under date of May 2, 1863. and reads ns fol lows : “ General :—The enemy has mnilo a stand nt Olmucellor’s, which is about two miles front Uhancellorsville. T. hope soon as practicable to attack. I trust that, an ovor-kind Frovidouao will CSS US With HUOCOFB.” —An antiquated benf-hoad of tho English parliament having denounced “old raaidn” as sooial failures, Mrs. William Gray calls tho attention of tho English poopln to that, part of tho Bibio in which St. Paul says : “ Tho nnniar- rlod woman careth for the things of tho Lord that sho may be holy in body nnd in spirit; but sho’tlmt is married oaroth for tho things of tho world, how sho may plenso her husband." —Ohnvohill oonnty, Novadn, is poor and pious. It never possessed a jail, and, until vory renontly, it’nevor felt tho want of ono. But last week a real, bounoing criminal invaded its inno- oenco. ITo was soon stopped in his mad career—nrvostod, in short. Not having any jail, tho county authorities confined Uim in a shaft 200 foot, in depth. Hu \yiLH hoistt-d to the. sutfoeo three-.'. Union n day, and given his meals, aftor whioh he was lowered again.to meditate and prniso. —The varioty of kisses introduood in tho Beecher InisiiiOHii is calculated to nmnzo peoplo who do thoir kissing without analysis. Thero havo boon tho paroxysmal kiss, the inspirational kiss, tho impulsive kiss, the onthusinstio kiss, and tho holy kiss ; tho kiss of rec onciliation, tho kiss of grace, mercy and peace, and tho kiss mutual. Tho othor kiusos are reserved for tho rebut tal and le-rulmttal testimony. It would not do to bring them out all at onoo ; thero is a limit to human endurance. -Tho French government oan’t get along without the column Voudomo, and proposos to mako its destroyer pay all the cost of its reconstruction. It has just soized a number of paintings belonging to M. Courbet, and will offor them at public venduo, npplying tho proceeds to tho fund for iho rebuilding of the monument. Aftor all, this is about as effective a way as any to pre vent incendinrisin. Make the authors of tho mischief pay for repairing the damiigo they have done, and there will bo far less misoliiof done. —Tho Chinamen, who walk ovor bridges built two thousand years ago, who cultivated the cotton plant centu ries before this country was heard of, and who fed silkworms before King- Bolomon built his throne, have fifty thousand square miles around Bhang- hoi which are called the Garden of Oliiuu, and which havo boon tilled by oountloFs generations. This area is as large us New Yorknnd Pennsylvania com bined, is all meadow land, raised but a fow feet above tho rivor—lakos, rivers, oanals—a oomploto network of water communication; tho land under tho highest tilth ; three crops a year har vested ; population so dense that, wherovor yem look, you see inon and women in bluo pants and blouse ho numerous tlmt you funoy some fair or muster coming off, and all hands havo turned out for a holiday. Origin or the Barber’s Polo. To the curious in small matters, a trifle of antiquarian research relating to the aneiont and honorublo guild of tho barbers may bo worth noticing. Those who think that a harbor’s polo is painted red. white and bine in respect to tho national colors, will please find them selves corrected. In Mr. J. Cordy Joaffroson’s “Book About Doctors,” wo find the following: Lord Thurlow, in a speech delivered tho Iiouho of poors, July 17,1707, opposing tho surgeons’ incorporation bill, said that, “By a statute still in foroo, tho barbers and surgeons wore each to use a polo. Tho barbers wero to havo thoirs bluo and white striped, with no other appenduge ; but the sur geons’, which was tho same iu other respects, was likewise to Imve a gallipot and a red rag to denote tho particular nature of their vocation. TJio reason why tho surgeons’ polo wns adorned with a linoof blue, red and white, wind ing around its length in a regular ser pentine progression, was this : I he blue represented tho vonons blood, the moro brilliant color the arterial, and tho white was symbolic of tho bandage used in tying up the arm after with drawing tho ligature. The stick itself is a sign that the operator possesses a stout staff for his patients to hold, ac celerating tho flow of blood by the mur- oular action of tho arm. Tho phlebota- mist’s staff is of great antiquity. It is to be found amongst his properties iu illuminated missal of the timo of Edward I., and in an engraving of tho Oommenii Orbis Pictus.