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CEDARTOWN RECORD. W, S. D, WIKLE <fc 00., Proprietors. CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1875. VOLUME II. NUMBER 16. TIMELY TOPICS. Professor Tice maintains His reputa tion ns the great American weather- prophet. He predicted for September, lrigoriflc waves and voilent tempests on the sea. Facts sustain the Professor. There are 1,700,000 Baptists in the United States, and only 200,000 land. Virginia alone has as i Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts put together. The denom ination is very jxipular with negroes. i Eng- A withstanding the lapse of a whole century, and the exertions of all the epidemics, we are yet far from done paying the expenses of our first war. Nine widows of revolutionary soldiers are still drawing pensions at Hartford, Conn. One of them, the widow of Gen. Henry Burdick, dmws six hundred dol- Mafdlin sentimentality has not yet got as far as Thibet. There "they bury a criminal to the neck in the earth so that nil movement is impossible, keep his mouth forced ojtcned with a spike, and then drive all kinds of horrible insects to take refuge in the mouth, ears and The Chinamen in New York are cele brating a festival peculiar to their people. The occasion recurs annually and the idea of it is to furnish money, food and clothes to their dead ancestors. In order to ac complish this end a kind of subterfuge is resorted to by collecting a comparatively large quantity of mock money and mock clothing, which are turned at an altar im- provised for the purpose. Tiie monument in honor of Edgar A. h‘, which will be dedicated next month, described as of whits marble, eight feet high, resting on a granite base six square. On the granite slab are two other bases *f marble. On these rests the die-block, three feet two inches square, surmounted by a heavy cap, carved with ornamental lyre in the centre of each e. On the front of the die-bloek is a beautifully chiseled medallion of the]>oet, d in the purest Italiun statuary marble, after a plaster east by Volk, the sculptor, from a photograph in the pos ition of a member of Poe's family, New Oiu.eanh dispatches tells a hor rible story of the destruction of property at Galveston by the recent gale and ac companying Hood, and the disaster seems to be more appalling than those of 18117 and 1857, when the city was partially erged under similar circumstance^ Galveston is inconveniently located for such eatastrophios us that which his just occurred, hut admirably situnted for commerce, at the northeast extremity f Galveston) island, which is very flat, and twenty-eight miles long and one 1 one-half to three and one-half miles le, intersected by numerous bayous. The only remedy against a recurrence of this desolation would seem to he in ircctiou of a sea-wall around the ofsuUlcient strength to resist the plunging blows of such a flood. Tin: Berlin Wa have found out tl wiry military sen ill:’ (>flleo seems at last to way to make compul se thoroughly ^mpop- Having raised the physical stand- ird for the recruit so high that there is io longer in practicepuy chnrtiHsofescajH* lor those who come up to it—-nineteen •nt of every twenty who fully reached it last year were taken now making the autumn olls-it i ge oral < in the press over the number of sick pital from them. Many persons believe that Mrs. Min nie-Hlierman Fitch has, through s|H*eiiil favor of the government, lieen permitted to get her Khedive diamond necklace out of the New York custom-house without paying the large duty on the jewels. She has not yet adorned her neck, however, witli the necklace, although she has inter viewed Secretary Bristow several timet on the subject. < 'ongress will have to act on the matter next winter. The jeweh are quite secure in the custom-house, how ever, and, as burglarious (qierations art hi numerous just now, it is perhapslxettoi to leave them there than to risk them within the insecure walls of a private cure (M2 flit 1V i rapidly women wen indicted in Russia, of whom arrested for participation in tin movement. The Procurer G the indictment, says socialism spreading throughout the Kinj most ardent propagandists of the nu meat ls-lung to the upper clas Among the indieted nre retired oftic rofessors, justices of the jience, officials of nil grades, and [several ladies of high He the teialists onlv opjiortunity, such as foreign id put i i practice tlici at In extravagant f a compulsory abandonment of the ity to "Cuba lihre.” The insurgents in Bosnia andller/.c- govinia, who will not down, it seems, are doubtless actuated in their course by the llectioiUtlmt if they submit in view of the Porte’s promises of reform, they are ertain to have the brutal and remorseless nx-gatherer after them with redoubled Igor. Turkey will certainly make them pay for their rebellion as she is going to the dogs as fast as she can, financially. year the whole debt of the Turkish government was $1,125,000,000, the in- rease in four years having been $ 125,000,- •00. The interest on this debt ill $110,000,- •00 and the estimated revenue for the present year is only $75,000,000. With abundance of natural resources the gov ernment will not*develop them. It ltor- moncy wherever it can to pay the interest on the debt at 12 per cent. The present spurt of war in the western prov- •es will necessitate further loans, hut the country is plunging into a hoindess bankruptcy, the prosjtect for relief is doubtful. The sick man is very near his nd. LATEST NEWS SUMMARY , Mas A fatal Wilbmhnii Ten thousii down with tin’ The investiture of Cardinal McCloskey took place yesterday at Borne. The remony of conferring the red hat seems have lieen dispensed with, as refer- ice is made in the dispatches only to io reception of the ring and title. The remony took place In the consistory of the Vatican, where the 1‘opo first closed the lips of Cardinal McCloskey with his lingers and then ordered him to open i, giving him a full right to speak in consistory. The ring which was ■rred was a sapphire ring, that stone lieing emblematical of the princely dig* of the Cardinal, and the church i to him was Santa Maria Sophia Minerva, one of the oldest ehurehes in tome splendidly decorated with works fart. Cardinal McCloskey, on ready ing the ring, presented, as is the usual custom, five hundred dollarn as a con tribution toward the expenses of the Bari lieu. Tint fast mail business is a very good tiling in many respects. It is pos. however, that the speed required b; post-oflleo department will, on son the western roads, prove a rathe lumitioiiH thing when .the frost begins fork i id culverts, The id ho i Now York ; plzootie. The government inspectors at Buffalo - about to him? mi investigation into (lie lent futitl disaster to the propellers Kqiil- x ami Meudota, by which thirty-four lives re saerifleed. It is said that the Equinox I not have proper Nailing papers, and ither of die vessels had eonfornied to gov- uniont regulations, for wliloh neglect of urse the government officers themselves While the internal revenue receipts of this mouth nre satisfactory to the treasury lit, those fiom customs ore less than corresponding month last year, i remain only $28,1)00,(KK) of now hoods for negotiation. No further dciiiption of bonds will lie made until demanded by subscription to the new. ion of the textile manul'ae- turiilg interests of Massachusetts is still far encouraging, Thousands of east printed calicoes on hand at the present it is said, will have lo lie carried over until next season. Manufacturers say tin > not do any business of importance ill present extreme low prices, and the refusal of operatives to work unless on their New York City is badly afflicted with* a horse jilagiie, hid the eastern shore of Maryland seems to lie also In a very desperate plight from the same cause. The disease is „ peculiar one, being no resemblance to the epizootic. The horse is suddenly attacked with diudiiess, and spins around until he drops dead. The disease has been especially fatal among valuable blooded stock, and tin Chief Ross, of the Cherokee nation, delivered an address nt the recent inter national Indian fair at < JcmuJgec, in which he stated that Indian Territory has has mi area of *1-1,000,000 acres and a popula tion of 70,000, divided into thirty-six nations and trilies. The Indians harv- «*stcd, last year, more tluyi six.million Bushels of wheat; property valuation is $ 10,000,000, and one-fifth of the interest accruing each year is do voted to public instruction. The fact thet these Indians i getting i ^ long as possible. ell has led to a v< ep the white man < The Two Republics, an American jM-r published in the City of Mexico phatically denies the rejiort which has been in circulation fora month or more, to the effect that Cortina, the KioGrande bandit chief, "is enjoying the limits of the City of Mexico.” It states that he i- cloudy guarded iu a prison, and not likely soon to be on the American border. It states, however, that there arc rumors to the effect that the only charge brought against him will be that of insurbordi- nation in disobeying the order to repair to the capital. His friend* arc endeavor ing to organize a strong 'outside influence to screen him from puni.An.. at. the St. I/ottis Times boasts that the V dalia "limited mail” made the stratling time of one mile jmt minute, on Friday, lietwcon Vundalia and cast Ft. Ixiuis, On one portion of the road the train ran flvo miles iu four minutes, and pa we ti gers had to hold on to their scats tc keep from lieing thrown about the cars A rejiortor who took the wild ride sayi he held his breath, expecting every mo ment to lie "dashed into hug powder.' The western roads are not built with i view to such n strain as they receive from the passage of the fast mail trains. The first severe frost will render these lightning trijn dangerous in the e unless an uusual amount of thorough inspection of rails and ears is practiced ntinually. Foi.i/iwino closely upon the intelli gence of the disaster at < lalvcston, comes the startling information that the town of Indinnoht, situated 120 miles south west of Galveston, in Calhoun county, Texas, has lieen engulfed by the sea and almost entirely destroyed, with a large loss of life. Indinnola. is uu important coast commercial point, the terminus of the Gulf, Western and Pacific railroads, and the outlet of a productive country, the trade lieing chiefly in lumber, hides and wool. The census of 1870 gives it a population of 2,100, of which *101 were colored. The place has rapidly grown into importance. Steamers run regularly from there to Corpus Christ i and Galves ton. The fearful cyclone which has torn up the waters of the gulf and hurled them upon the Texas cost was marked by far greater violence than that which usually characterizes the autumnal equi noctial storms. remedy Inis as yet county, that of K amounts to $25,00 Postmaster G following telegru , the h.s • flesh •flea istal • Jewell has sent the to Thomas A Scott: eei-pt tin- thanks of this dcporl- thc rapid dispatch of our mails inaugurated oil your Hues the ltith other country except itiissia can pi esc il day proves the power of Virginia as igneous in 1861-1871 as iu all the century INI ISC H3I .LAN MOTTS, rite United States steamer Powlmttan, w at New York, will sail from here this ek for I’oi t-au-lTlnee, lluytl, in accordance with a request from the state department. During some troubles on the islands a short time ago, the American minister there gave belter to some of the parties, in consequence if which their adversaries threatened the minister, and the department deems it expe dient to send a vessel for IHh protection, If Ouo hundred and fifty recruits have been ordered to Fort Union, near Mexico, for assignment to the Fifteenth infantry. Captain Queen, of the Fulled States navy, throws light upon the Acapulco mas sacre. It was a Inilf-breed Mexican riot, and only one American was killed accidentally. The Mexican authorities promise indemnity. The president has appointed W a,lice • of i • the Sixth district of Tennessee, and Win. Cal- y, of Nebraska, receiver of public moneys (lie Wyoming land district, lie Inis also ned the commission of Alex. White, of ulmmu, to he chief justice of Utah ter ritory. * half those distances, at a stretch, without running oil' the edge. Considering the magnitude of our territory, I believe our dispatch of mails is now unoquulod.” The postnuistcr-gpnerul also sent a telegram to W. II. Vanderbilt, as follows: Please accept the thanks of (lie post-office department of the United Stales for (lie facilities yon have given il this week. The spec ilh which you are mix mails, are, I think, uneq world, and I believe i progress. I can already perceive appreciate the advantages of rapid pnrtntion bv responses from our official! the public, from the Atlantic to the Missis- »ij‘ph WEST. A fatal disease has broken • the hogs of Southern Indiana, 1 death of a large number within (lie last few SOUTH. The corner-atom; of the new cupitol of ,vas laid at Wheeling Hat- FOREIGN. A special reports the town of Valeseo, kiis, as entirely swept away by tin) flood. No lives lost. Hon. Benjamin II. Hill, of Georgia, ays he thinks that just nt this time there aight to lie but little, If any, public speaking nt political questions at the south. A letter from the steamship and rnil- ond agent at Imliauola reports 200 houses wept a war, and (lie steamboat and railroad wharf, which cost $200,000, alniriM a total wreck, and 150 to 200 lives lost. The St. lamia businessmen nre making active dibits to secure a wide-awake railroad convention in November, the object of which is to promote the construction of another Pneille railroad and give the great Northern monopoly a bitter taste of opposition mul competition. Dorregurny comes to the surface again as general-in-chief of the (,'arlisl iirmii seems to have paused iu the disgraceful (light so vividly depicted in the Madrid dispatches. There seems to he a lease of life for Don Carlos and his brigands, after all. The sultan of Turkey, iu view of the fact that in a recent gtiiird-hmiHe skirmish iu Iler/.eguviua, sundry letters were picked up showing that the Servians intend war with him, has repeated Ids demand upon Fringe Milan for the observance of neutral ity. The sultan retains the documents in proof of .Milan’s pei tidy. • f ' ■ Advices from Ht. Petersburg aimotinei Hint the Russian General KanHinan occupied Kilobaud nu the liilh of the present month without resistance. A greater portion of tlx Russian troops remained outside in a forti fied camp. All the prisoners have been de livered to Gen. Kiiull'man, and tin- khan has accepted all tin millions of peace. A Greek priest has jiiHt started an other insurrection among the tramps o Bosnia, ami they are said to la- applying tin torch quite freely. As their country is char izrd by [rocky ridges several lliotisaili high, nothing lint light-footed Turkisl infantry can operate against them. Tin* Emperor AVilliani will leave Get* many certainly by October Jlrd, to visit tin king of Italy. I’rincc Bismarck will prof ably attend him. The emperor will set on from Badeil-lliidcil noon after tin* birthday of the empress, .September .TO. T meats of the emperor have for u past been regulated to a great extent by his medical advisers, and a determination to visit Italy has been made. An English co-operative cotton muiin- fnctiiring company at Hpartaiilnil'g, South Carolina, lias succeeded iu interesting the Fall River, Mass., cotton operatives in the subject of emigrating lo the south to such an extent that a colony is being organized to settle, near Spartanburg, where good farm lands can Ins bought at from >, I to $50 per acre, and the country presents very superiorj advantages to Massachusetts laborers. THE GULF STORM. llcYiiMlHlIoit III To \ ns li.s XVI ml nml Witter —Gnlvesloii n( (lie Ml'IS',1 ol' Hie Non— .11 Hen ol’ Nti-eet* la hi Winli' in Hie pnlli of llie I'nlnl Flood—One lliimlreil nml Fir- (.» llnllillntrs Fiii-i-letl from Tliele Fomi iIiiHoiim, llin-.vlnu I’oi-Ij lliintnn llclnun in Hie Ueia-riil Itnln. New Origans Sjmclnl to Clilengu Times. From passengers who arrived IVom Gal veston to-night the most harrowing ac counts of the effects of the cyclone were gathered, as it. is estimated that some for ty lives were lost and near 200 houses re swept away by the flood, which eov- d the city for fully two days, besides others made untenantable by the losing of their foundations by the water. The scene between the hours of 12, mid night, on Thursday, and I o’clock on Friday morning, witnessed THE MUSI' FEARFUL 8CF.NKH inutile island city, the events occurring then being of the most thrilling and heart-rending character, houses being un dermined and sent with their inmates whirling through the streets, some lodg ing and others being turned over in their progress to bury alive the inmates in the debris or drown them as they attempted cape. Not until 7 o’clock Friday morning, did the wind change to the tenth and drive the water from the city, the fall being almost as rapid as had been ‘ie rise, and at 8 o’clock scarcely any 'liter was left in the streets, boats in the meantime being used, and busily plying between the suburbs and the heart of the ity REMOVING WOMEN AND CHILDREN to places of safety, the greatest alarm ex isting, as the waves during the night it with immense force from the gulf ... Jio bav. Scarcely had quiet been re stored, wit h the disapjiearanee of the wil ier, when the wind slutted, and increasing n force gradually wore around to the MiuthwoHt, again sending the water through tin* city from the west end, mid by !l o’eloek iu the afternoon the strand and hay front, which hut a few hours be fore were nearly dry, became covered with water to the second floor, covering lie wharves, the wind blowing at forty dloH an hour, and sending the water up with immense force, and AGAIN FLOODING EVERYTHING. The storm continued until nightfall, when the wind went down, and the water fell as suddenly as it rose, leaving innumerable wrecks of churches, houses, barns, and leaving many ships and sloops high and dry in the streets of the city, upon the bench, and damaging the stock of goods iu some of the stores lo a large extent, hut to what exact amount could not lie ascertained up to Saturday morning, when the steamship Mary left the humor. At that time the stores were closed, tho merelmhts and citizens generally assembling to devise wii the immediate RELIEF OF THE DESTITUTE in. the way of fond, shelter, etc., hun dreds n! them being without homes of anything to eat. The Howard associa tion was also lieing organized, hut even with its full force they would hardly he able to meet the wants of the distressed, who immhci;cd at least live hundred. Every house in tho city, east of .South street, from A street to the Gulf, wrecked or damaged to such an extent that they were, iiiitcnaiilahlc. Till: RAILROAD lHUDGKH, it seems, were badly damaged, some slating that it would require a week in repairing them, while others wuro equally as confident tlint, it would roq Miss J» West Virginia wa xrdny. Tremendous storms have prevailed all through New Mexico for the punt ten days, mid the town of Las Cruces was nearly de stroyed by the bursting of what is culled a waterspout. The tidal wave inundation at Galves ton, according to later advices, extended over the entire island, devastating small farms, and flouting off houses in the suburbs, and seriously damaging splendid homes iu the residence portion of the city, where the destruction was greatest. In the business portion of the city, where stocks of goods were stored on ground floors, a vast amount of valuable merchandise has been ruined. It is si deplorable calamity in the most aspect ill which it may be presentc will take a year to repair damages erty, and perhaps several years t< from lljc effects of the serious h The Cubans propose to ■ eighth anniversary of Cuban indcp deuce on October 10. Probably the re cent receipt of eight cannon, two thou sand rifles, three thousand swords, six hundred thousand cartridges, three tons of gunpowder and a quantity of army medical stores, by the insurgents, will add considerable zest to the proposed celebration. It is said that, even with the prospect of getting re-enforcements to crush these rebels, stout old Valin; soda keeps several men-of-war in coi stant readiness in Havana harbor to r reive him and hi- plunder in the event There is a sort of grim melancholy in Spotted Tail's statement of his price for tin; Black Hills. Six millions in money, a suit of clothes for every Indian, and a guaranteed annuity for eighty years; " for when that is gone,” nays Sjiotted Tail, " there will lie no Indians.” This estimate of the probable duration of the Indian trilies is interesting, coming as it does from the greatest of living aliorigine chieftains. Like many of his predeces sors, he foresees the inevitable fate of his race. Eighty years, lie thinks—not more than two generations—will suffice for the greed, the cruelty, tin- diseases of the white "man to exterminate the Indian. But Spotted Tail, unlike most of his pre decessors, does not indulge in any oratori cal pathos about the last Indian following the setting sun until he disappears in the (-i far western seas, etc., hut simply stipu-1 w jjj • the swords ami portraits o lutes that his people -hall Ik- well fed and j fn-hl Scott, Robert E. Lee, Htoi clothed during the few remaining years on, .!<•)». Smart, Turner Ashby of their existence. ' George II. 'I h« i, of Jncki died mi tin; 2d of August, a s. Him Imd never spoken i any use of her limbs, had any take of i uhl i fond . ept i her from a teaspoon ; had not sat np in twelve months previous to her death, and never weighed exceeding twenty-live pounds. A dispatch from Darin states that u formal conference of the Honiipartlst party at Arenenlierg has been abandoned. The cause assigned is that popular cxeitcnieut is so threatening it was considered more pru dent to remain quiet for the present. The Itoiiapnrdiii organs and leaden preserve the slrietc t silenee in regard to the affair. The government is closely watching the move ments of the BoiiapartibUi, and is prepared l< act with vigor should circumstances require The families of some of his most in fluential partisans are endeavoring to induce Don Carlos to conclude peace. Bauds o: Carlists, encamped near Tolisa, refuse u fight, and their commander has been ar ested. Gen. Bradley T. Johnson Is desirous that Virginia should make ft creditable dis play at the centennial, and gives these perti nent suggestions: " Let us have u memorial containing historical relics and treasures, and collect there such riches as no other people i badge of . Hpotts' >d’s order of knighthood, the instituted iu (he American colonies; maps and surveys made bv George Washington for Ixird Fairfax; the original draft of the hill of rights of George Mason; tiie very Magna Charta and declaration of il liberty on this continent; Kosciusko’ Gen. Win wall Jack \. I’. Hill, is—all the line which It was announced land intended to oeeiq whole of Papua, or Nc and valuable region -? that i - the de. cnliy that Eng- iid appropriate the iralusiii, lint i n of Preside!. the Dclugou Bay case that she o. The award to Portugal in made on the ground Hint the laim of a nation to territory, based on first overy, and even on temporary oeeiipn , was a valid and inextinguishable one, as the Portuguese discovered New iieu in the sixteenth century, they can he dispossessed of the country by Eng- that land. — I appears that there an: 8,000 paper manufacturers in the world, employing 80,000 men, 180,000 women, besides tho 100,‘000 employed in the rug trade; 1,800, 000,000 pounds of pajierare produced an nually. One-half i- used in printing, a sixth in writing, and the other for pack ing and other purposes. to repair the new Santa Fe bridge, and u much longer time to re place tho Houston bridge. Tho elty lil’idgoH were entirely swept away, some of them being curried several miles from their original location. Not a tree, not a shrill), is left standing upon the island, the scene presenting, iih the Mary left the harbor. A BARREN WASTE, not unlike a desert, excepting that the standing houses gave a token of life. The steamship Mary started from her wharf at Galveston on Wednesday morn ing while the wind was blowing a gale, nml evidently it was the intention of ic Galveston agent to send her to Bra- lear, hut knowing it perilous to put to -a during such a storm, (Jupt. Benson included to go no further than the hay, and, after getting n safe distance from the dliwarf, let go both anchors, Ids iidginent forbidding him from proceed ing further, notwithstanding the, ns your reporter learned, "imperative order” to go lo sea. Had he done so, the boat with all on hoard would doubt less have, been lost, as she could not have withstood THE TERR MILK GULF HKAH that prevailed all that night. About one o'clock on Friday morning, when the gale raged the fiercest and the seas dashing over the boat, and when noth ing could lie seen a boat’s length dis tant, the English bark Mary McDowell, a three, mast vessel and the largest in the harbor, was driven against tin steamship Mary, even while the lorinei had her anchor out. Hoiifltoii Mjicclnl to New York Hcnilil. The following dispatch was soilt by a special reporter, who pushed through to the city on a schooner. It is the lit liable news from Galveston since storm began: "I reached boro about five o’clock this evening (18th), coming over in a schooner from Virginia Point. The city shows but little signs of the storm. In the business part of the town the wharves are safe and sound, and tho streets show hut little sign of the forty eight hours’ inundation. THE I’KOI’LE J'HKf’ARINC "As soon as the jieople saw the storm coming they began to prepare for it. or nearly all, of the goods on the h floors were hoisted to tho second and third stories, and thus saved. The dam age to goods is very light- On the east end of the island the storm was tho se verest, and did most damage. All the houses down in what is known cast end, are destroyed or nearly ► Ocean 1 louse is no more. The To: Gulf City cotton presses are destroyed, and uiso iii< factors’ press, -orliy’s new block of three story hoit.-es was badly damaged by the wind. 'I’Jic street track in the east end are torn up and huvobeen demolished, this time, except what may he standing in tho low places. The (lest met ion of life in the elty was small. It cannot he truly estimated yet, hut not more than a dozen lives have been lost. A woman was crushed by the falling of her house. Dr. Feet, tho city physician, was lost at the quarantine station, together with his grandson, Willie Blunt. Ho moved his family into tho elty and then went hack to tho station, which was destroyed. Sixty men at work on the breakwater were cut off from tho elty. A NINE MILK DRIFT. All were saved hut four. One of these, Patrick Landagnn, drifted to Virginia Point on a plank (nine miles) and struck the Santa Fo bridge and hung to it. Three vessels in port dragged their an- hors. One of them is known to he wife. The safe vessel is the Memory, an Eng lish brigantine. The steamer Diana weathered tiie storm nobly. One of tho dredge boats from Redllsh is on the prairie near Virginia Point . Two schooners drove through the Gal veston railroa’d bridge and tlioir crews .to lost. Seven houses vrero destroyed at Vir ginia Point. The. storm was tho fiercest over known to by any citizen. A numlKT of wrecks are reported on the island coast, but nothing definite is known concerning t hem. Funeral Rites of an African of Rank. A correspondent of the London Times gives the following vivid description of the'scenes which attend tho death of a "eahoeeor,” or man of rank, in Ashantee: Well, immediately after demise, the body of a ealxieecr is washed, anointed with sweet oils and grease, and sptinkled with gold-dust. The oils ami grease cause the gold-dust to st ick to the corpse, which being black, throws off the bright eelor of the gold to perfection. The beard is trimmed into knots, and upon each knot are tied small heads of glass and thin particles of gold. Tho Ashan- tccs, you perceive, are as dainty in the decoration of the heads of tlioir dead as tho Assyrian dandies were of their own when living. In cloth of costly silk- embroidered damask, or in velvet or in other k rich garments, the body is dressed and ornninontod with armletw and necklaces of gold and silver. Very of ten purolunipsof unwrought nug gets of gold, bored through and through, are strung upon a piece of hempen string and twisted round tho forearms in tin* form of bracelets. Thus gay ly bedizened and performed and demised tho body is placed upon a chair in sitting attitude, or is shown recumbent upon a bed, trimmed with gaudy drapery. When this combined rite of purification and garniture bus been completed the rela tions assemble and begin to dance mid sing. While tho relations and friends are making merry a fetishmau, or..priest, is led slowly into the festive throng, and tho female slaves of tho dead eahoeeor are brought before him. Alter the utter ance of .various incantations he pretends that the' fetish has denoted, bv means of his mediation, a certain slave for election lo follow her master to the next world ; hut I need not he a much trouble to suggest to you that the members of the family always decide beforehand among themselves which unfortunate wretch shall accompany the. deceased chief. Be ing chosen, ami by the choice condemned to die, the slave is stripped naked. Around her neck a wisp of hay is wound and her arms are rudely pinioned with a rope of straw. She is now roughly dragged a second time to the pre the letishmmi, who recommends her, in a speech of blasphemous rhodonioiilades and rhetorical parade, to serve her master dutifully through the mazes of the unknown sphere to which he has been summoned on a journey. During the delivery of the jHirtentons exhorta tion he is busily employed in daubing a white-colored earth over the face of the ping slave; and when the admonitory harangue has been exhausted he strikes icr severely with his open palm upon Jthor cheek. In benighted zeal .thecom pany snatch up the sacerdotal cue. They strive to rival one another ill repeating the assault with the harshest violence and in dealing tho keenest pain on he nude and trembling person. the executioners, moreover, are I>1chh<m and the congregated hand of enhoeeers manifest their profound respect by raising tin! foot of each executioner with both hands and by rubbing tho sole upon the crown of their heads. The natives of the Gala coast have a loose conception of a state of purgatory or probation, and en tertain the idea that the soul of the dead wanders iiurestingly for many yenrsahouL the world, and requires a servant for the performance of menial duties iu Iris long and ceaseless wanderings. Hence comes the custom of killing a slave at the death iftbqccor, for a ealioceer may not draw water,' nor hew wood, nor cook food. Having been removed by dint of cuffs or manual force from the sight of the fe- t ishnian, t he slave is hurried to a wooden box, into which the carcass of flic cabo- ceer will eventually lie squeezed. Along the lid of tho box the slave is ;-t retched upon her stomach, and her feet and head are grasped by two executioners, so that her struggles may he subject to control. A friend of the dead cttboceer approaches the prostrate creature and slashes her with a sword just below the right /boul der-blade. Catching the blood that flown from the wound, lie smears the box. When a sufficiency of blood has been drawn for this purpose she is lifted from the lid, and is reviled, struck and covered with spittle by tho bystanders. AH the while she utters the loudest and most grievous lamentations; und the louder and more grievous they are, the more ac ceptable (lo (lie torturers deem the sacri ficial gratuity to the dead citbOcacf. She b then driven to the sjsit whore she is to lie slain. When tho head has lieen cut off tiie heart is plucked out through an opening in tho hack. An executioner re ceives the head with yells and frantic signs of joy, and runs with it through the town. Savagely and furiously lie tosses it to the ground mid kicks it like a hall before him, snatches it up in his flight, ! spits u|hiii it, flings it into the air, catches ’ its descent, or, permitting it to drop FACTS AND FANCIES. —The first medal that Bismarck evor got was for saving tlie’Jifo of a drowning Two million bushels of oysters are an nually taken from Chesapeako Buy and tributaries without any perceptible dimi nution of the supply. Hand-knit goods manufacturers have held a meeting and agreed to hold their goods for higher prftes, stopping produc tion if necessary. —For the memorial statue of C’harles Hum nor, twenty-six models have been offered. Of these fourteen wero at once rejected by the commit tee. —"Was not her death quite sudden?” said a condoling friend to a bereaved widower. ‘|Well, yes, rather, for her.” — A Pennsylvania camp-meeting was recently broken up by six poor little skunks. The devil comes in various gui- —Russia goes for a Communist like a wild lolieeman for a mad dog. Long terms of imprisonment or Siberia is tho penalty for lieing a Communist. —Tho King of the Friendly Islands in the Pacific Ocean is a licensed local min ister of tho Methodist denomination, and his wife. Queen Charlotte, is a class leader. —Barry Sullivan is fifty-one years old. and is a nntivoof Dublin. Ho performed iu tho United States from the lull of 1858 to the summer of 18(10. Since then he has been in Europe. —Gov. Hart ran ft is trying to break up "hangman’s day ” in Pennsylvania, not by pardoning murderers, hut sentencing them to he hung on other days of the week than Friday. —The three wonders of tho world at present arc—How fluff accumulates in vest pockets; where pins go to, and why, when a man comes out of a saloon ho lonltH one way and goes the other. —Few women are like Mary Ann Davis, of Ismisiaua. When she found that her bread was "heavy” sho hung herself with a bod-cord and gave Davis a chance to marrv a French cook. — Italy is having four monster cannon made, hut they will he of no use except as curiosities. It costs $1,200 each to lire them, and one salute would bankrupt tho corf i try. —A fierce war is raging between tho allopathic, homeopathic, and eclectic schools of medicine in St. Louis, nml while the <loetov»»rc thus employed their patients are exhibiting alarming symp toms of eoiivnlesonco. Immense deposits of iron ore are said to exist in nil parts of the Russian em pire. Tho consumption of iron by tho Russian people iH now enormous, ami an energetic development of tho mines is probable. —Win. Coulter, the oldest railway con ductor in the United States, having re fused to wear tho uniform and .ticket satchel recently ordered by Pennsylvania railroad company, will retire and build a $50,000 house. A subscriber ask for the derivation of tho word " Bonanza.” It is a Spanish term, and, we believe, means favorable ■ze, and metaphorically a stroke of I luck. It is used in the mining ’districts with reference to rich fields of •Tho population of Rond Island shows n gain of over eighteen per cent, in the last five years, and establishes the laim of that state to being the most tensely populated slate in tho Union. — By a decree of the Khedive of Egypt, tho calendar iu use among Chris- talii nations will henceforth he used in Egypt, instead of the Malioiiiiucdnn cal cium r, (luting from Lite Hegira. —Lead and silver have been found a Haverhill^ Mass., on the farm wlioro the poet Whittier was born, and a shaft twenty feet deep has been Hunk, from which ore equal to that found at New bury lias lieen taken. —Here is a elm n enterprising ghost, to aid some impocunioiis friend who still lingers in the flesh. A $100 gold note has been deposited in a hunk in Han Diego, California, and the {Spiritualist who can toll tho number of it can havo it. —It was an old bachelor who declared that tho conventional representation of a cherub was Ihh idea of a model infant. "No nasty little lungs to scream with, no dirty fittle hands to meddle with, no horrid little legs to run about on—just a dear little pairoflhifly wingsand a head.” —Iu the garden of tho late Andrew Johnson’s residence is a magnificent willow, growing from a twig taken from the willow which bonds over the grave of Napoleon Bonaparte on Hi. Helena, and sent to tho president. A twig from this noted tree will lie planted over Mr. Johnson’s hill. —A New Orleans gentleman has sued tho Times of that city for libel, claiming two hundred and fifty dollars damages, for calling him a "midnight ruffian.” Probably he would not have objected to the simple epithet ruffian, but "mid night ruffian”—that was a grain too much. According to the London correspond ent of the Liverpool Post, a marked cliango seems to havo taken place iu the domestic life and habits of tho male members of Queen Victoria’s family, and their almost complete retirement from fashionable circles is much spoken of. —At Dolmen the Germans pointed four of ICrupp’s cannon} loaded with halls that collectively weighed twelve hundred weight, against a target made like a sec tion of the skin of the best English iron clad, and the cannon were then discharged simultaneously, by tho electric wire, and the target was annihilated. buildings nre also ruined. Home of the henvify, kicks it again and again sewers of the city are badly damaged and ! Body is never buried, hut is spurned aside of the outer streets washed away. t 0 De eaten by wild beasts or vultures. i OF LIFE. A great many houses were unroofed, and a great nuinlier of shade trees were blown down, Tiie water has subsided at —Wanted—the name of a race horse which hasn't "made the quickest time on record” this summer. —Bishop Ames tell a story of a slave- master in Missouri, in olden time of negro vassalage, who said to bis chattel: "Poinpcy,! hear you arc a great preacher." " Yes, maHsa, do Lord do help mo iKiwerl'ul sometimes.” , “Well, Pompov, don’t you think the negroes steal littfo things on the. planta tion.” ., , , n "Ps mighty fraul they does, massa. “Then, Pompoy, I want you to preach a sermon to the negroes against steal- brief reflection, Pompey rc- mg. “ You see, massa, (hit won’t do, ’ciiaso t’would throw Hueh a coolness over the meotln’.”