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] Y P. F. LAWSHE. Gainesville Southron. Published Every Tuesday Morning, TERMS: $2.00 Per Annum. GainesTille City Directary. OFFICIAL. City Government. MAYOR. D. G. CANDLER. ALDKRMEX. C. A. Lii-i.y, \ pjret Ward. J. It kick, l f T. A. Panel, ) second Ward. 8. Lesser. > J. W. Davis, j Third ward. D. E. Banks, ) ;i.c. DORSEY Clerk. | T. N. Hanie, Chief Police JUSTICE’S COURT 411tli DIST. <. Henderson, N. P. and ex. off. J. P. A. J. Davis, J. P. J. A. Morrison, Constable. County Otticers. (J L. Waters, Sheriff, 1 S. R. Findley, Deputy. J B. M. Wixburn, Ordinary. U. j. Mayne, Clerk Superior Court, ! W. S. Pickrell, Deputy. J. S. SiMJtoxSjTax Receiver, N. B. CLARK, Tax Collector, S. Lesser, Treasurer, V. Whei-chel, Surveyor, ltnw’T Dowry, Coroner. Dr. 11. S. Bradley, School Commissioner. Post Otlice. , . ire open from 1% a. m. untn i2>i p. m., amj ju h. m. tor. p- m. Sundays—fiom until ir Atlanta Mail closes at 5 p. m. m. aii.uw* M u archer, P. M. FRATERNAL. .A.. Jp. JVL. •,. iseSvili.K I.opge No. 219, A. F. M., meets '.e Ist and 3rd Tuesday evenings in each A. Brown, Sec. J. E. Redwine, W. M. I. O. O. 3J 1 - . r-Link Lodge No 64, I. O. O. F., meets ev t: Friday evening. x. G. . (NESvn!i.e K KVe A C Memkn t No. 17, Diets Ist & . Wednesday nights in each ~ - S. Pickrell, s. c, A. Lilly, c. i . I. O. GK T. ‘USING star Lodge No. 313, 1. O. G- r., . . s everv Thursday evening * • acd Estes, s. I*. J. P- Caldwell, W. C. RELHHOIS. • ptist Church.— Preaching every Sunday at .*. uev. W. C. Wilkes, Pastor. • i-orvtkki an Church.— Preaching morning n Might at usual hours every Sabbath eximpt -id. sabbath School at 6 o’clock A. M.— ; meet ing Ar. M. ever -\\ cdnesday • Rev. r Cleveland, Pastor. _ thopist church.— Preaching everv Sun- F. ,til A. m. and 7:30 R. m.. Rev. D. I). Cox, *• . 'or. Sabbath School at 9 o’clock. A. M. scorAL Church.— Pleaching every 2d Sun .t 11 A. M. and 3 r. M., Rev. W. Epps, 1 astor. Fbofessional. Langston, Attorney at Law. U iuß-75] ~ Gainesville, Ga. |-Hprt*3NT. Dorsey, Attorney at Law. ° _:.S-75] Gainesville, Ga. uioaM.Tcwory, Attorney at Law, GAINESVILLE, - GEORGIA, • : 'l give special attention to all business cn t ed tonis care. [junß-75 f, Shatfev, Physician anil Surgeon, **' „i S " Gainesville, Oa. r) U. Adair, D. D. S., GAISKSVII.LE, - GEOIfGIA, VICK %( aiuiler Building, North-East corner I',-lilic Square. S. C. DXJITL^I 3 , Att’y At Ijaw, —AND— G EHfSSIt.jA.Ij COXiIiBCTOR Oj*l: <• North West Side Pub. Square, over E. S' V. Bey’s Store. inaySOif X3a,ile3r dz I_.on.gr Physicians & Surgeons. outh East Side Pub. Square; residence of 1 • near tlu* Square. Will promptly attend to _1- proper calls. >nay3otf _ _OO TO— rr. XT. I_iOd.en.’S, South Side Public Square, C— ainosvillo, Georgia, —ton — BOOKS, Stscti.on.el3r, <Scc. r l. XXK CHSAPEiST •A.3ST 13 BEST lalSif 1 DR. A..J. SHAFFER’S [nfirmary, For the the treatment of the x iseasesof wonvc^Eisr AN!) OPERATIVE SURGERY —IN THK— -- iiiofavillo Hotel, AND— RICHMOHSTD XXOTJSEJ Crainexvllle, CAa. Fehrtiarv 1. 187.1-lf AIjBSKT hope, aim 111 mi mu. Near the Depot, I . i.DKRH left at the Richmond House promptly I attended to. Horses, Hacks,Carriages, Bug l : >, to hire on short notice and low prices.— :iiises boarded by the day, week or month, at r i 'Oiiftble riltt'H. .stock bought and sold, or cx ckmligeil. i"" m C3r~ W. XTa-pier, IIARBEB SHOP. Cl Having, Hmir-ctttting and dressing done P" with neatness and dispatch. Shampoomng •eu desired. lie if* a HlblttAto Barber, < inrgea low, and work guaranteed, inaydt'lf The Southron FIRST JATsTID Xj-A-ST. “But tell me, dear,” she said— Aud coaxingly the soft eyas shoue, Ami ahyly dropped the modest head Beside lus own— “But tell me, have you loved before! 1 Or one, or more?” The eager, sparkling face Was full of tender, trusting grace; She did not fear his answer tiien. Her king of men! “But tell we, dear, the best and worst, Or, am I first?” lie turned his eyes away; Yet closer still her hand he pressed, Nor answered yea, nor nay; A blush confessed All, in one burning word, Unsaid, unheard! Quick came a burst of tears— A tempest from an April sky— And then: “Forgive my doubts and fears, He heard her sigh, “Why should £ cure what loves are past So mine be last?” METEMPSYCHOSIS. Antipodal Soul-Transmigration. Two Men Exchange Natures and Lan guages* 0,000 Miles. N. Y. Mercury: Members of the Medico-Legal Society of this, city are greatly astonished by the following events, the news of which has just reached them: By the direction of the Emperor of Russia, a scientific investigation is now . oing on into the most astonish ing ease of metempsychosis, or wan dering of the soul from one body into another, that has ever astonished the world. The instance referred to is vouched for by the Medical Weekly Journal, of St. Petersburg, by a paper printed at Westminster, British Co lumbia, by the Imperial Government ot Orenburg, by Prof. Orlow, of St. Petersburg, and several scientific gentlemen of New York, to whom Prof. Orlow told the story about nine months ago, and wiio themselves had an opportunity to see and converse with the two men whose souls were interchanged.. In September, 1874, in Orenburg, Russsia, there lay sick with typhoid fever, a wealthy Jew by the name of Abraham Charkoy, a native of the place, known to everybody, married, and the father of several children.— On the 22nd day of that month he seemed to be dying. At midnight he suffered greatly, and the physician pronounced him in the agonies of death. A number of Jews were call ed in, as is customary, prayers were said, wax candles lit, the wife and children were sorrowfully weeping over their bereavement, when sudden ly the sink man gave a tremenuons jerk, heaved a deep sigh, began to breathe freely, opened his eyes aiid looked with amazement at the doings of the people around him, and then fell asleep. The physician announ ced that now all danger was over.— He slept through the night, but what happened in the morning was most wonderful. When he awoke he re fuse'! to recognize either his wife or children, and pushed them away whenever they came i.ear him. Be sides lie spoke a language none could understand. Previously hehado.dy known a corrupted mixture of Ger man and Hebrew, and some little Russian, but now when addressed he seemed not to understand a word. In a week he was well enough to leave the bed, but utterly ret use to wear his customary clothes. The physi cians unanimously p -renounced him insane. Jn appearance he had not changed. He was the same tail, lean man, with dark, curling locks of hair, long black beard, and a dark furrow ; ed line across his forehead. Yet he spoke an unintelligible language, re fused to know his family, and even his father and mother appeared as 1 perfect strangers to him. liy chance one day he behold himse’f in a mir ror ami a tearful shriek escaped his lips, lie touched and pulled at his long Oriental nose, he felt his long black curls, his flowing black beard, and with a scream he fell to the floo* in a swoon. The case caused great excitement, and a full report wa made to the medical section of tin Ministry ot the interior of St. Peters burg. The order went to Orenburg to send the Jew and his family, his parents and the other witnesses at once to St. Petersburg to be examin ed by the medical faculty. The ex amination was conducted by Prof. Orlow, one of the most learned men of Russia. The astonishment of the Professor may be imagined when he found that this illiterate Jew from Orenburg spoke pure idiomatic Eng lish with fluency, and evenwiti^jome eleg| mall reetl sistil ■ > I but I soml othel tors. I fesscl ri ienw)^theJewhimself in English : that he was not Abraham Charkoy at all, that those who pretended to be his wife and children and parents were total strangers to him, that he was not a native of Orenburg, never ’ lived there, did not know how begot there, that he was not even a Itus sian, but an Englishman named Abra ham Burham, born in the town of New Westminster, British Columbia, where be resided as a fur dealer, and where he had a wife and a child liv ing; that for some inexplicable cause he found himself changed in appear ance, that he naturally is small in stature, stout in body, with fair com plexion, and blonde hair and whis kers. The Professor and his associ ated doctors did not know what t jnake of him, since he appeared t GAINESVILLE, GA., TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 27, 1876. them a very intelligent and educated Englishman; while the woman, her children and the other witnesses claimed him as the illiterate Russo- German Jew, Abraham Clrrkoy. 1 But while the matter was being further investigated, and the entire family kept in close confinement in St. Pe tersburg* Abraham was missing one morning, having escaped on board of an English ship bound for Hull. The case ivas quietly dropped after If is ffiglif In 1875 Professor Orlow was sent to A inerica ’by tbe Russian Govern ment! to make inquiries concerning the in til pupil copil Presl u A rencl can* the I bia. I 18771 a dyl phoil fdiyj hopil coven ried J derfij an ill gottel a hull no is recognized by an inhabitant of the ,city to be a jargon of bad Jewish German. The patient refuses to rec ognize his wife and child, but insists that he has a wife and several chil dren somewhere else. The man is believed to be insane. All at once a European traveler arrives, marked with a genuine Hebrew countenance, ami claims to be the husband anil wife of the fur-dealer. He speaks to her in the same language her hus band was wont to speak her; he gives her and even her parents, who live in the city, but who, of course, da not recognize him as their son, the most detailed and minute description of by-gone events, and insists upon see ing the woman’s husband and the parent’s son. The poor woman is in almost peril of her reason, the effect of the trying ordeal. She incessant ly asks: ‘VVho is this man? How does he claim to be my husband?’- When she hears liim speak, and does na: look at his figure, she is ready to th ink he is her husband, but as soon as she looks at him the spell is bro ken; for surely this stranger with the Jewish face cannot be her husband whom she had just nursed in his sickness. But the man continues to press his claim, and tells her the most delicate and secret facts, evi dently known only to the husband and wife.” ; Prof. Orlow read and reread this account, and the thought struck him that this seemingly impossible occur rence may have some connection with the strikingly similar case of the Orenburg Jew, Abraham Charkoy, |he investigation of which had so puzzle 1 him at St. Petersburg. lie sent a brief extract of it to the Home Minister of Russia, and asked per mission to go to British Columbia and continue his examination there. Leave was granted him, aud June last found him at New Westminster.— ‘There, to his utter surprise, he found the same man, lank, black haired, Jew, Abraham Char koy, who had escaped from St. Pe tersburg, but now claiming to be Abraham Durham. But there he al so found the very representative of tfihe man described to him by the Jew |as he, himself, ought to look, a small Iman in stature, stout in body, with a (fair complexion and blonde hair, jwhom all his neighbors and wife and child said was Abraham Durham, an 'intelligent, educated Englishman, but ;.who since his paroxysm of the 22nd 'of September, 1874, at high noon, had seemingly forgotten all his (knowledge of the English language, And was since speaking in a tougue none could understand. Addressing l O '■him, the Professor at once ascertain ed him to speak the Germau-Jewish ‘dialect prevalent at Orenburg; and ■asking him who he was, the man 'promptly replied that his name was 'Abraham Charkoy, a Jewish trader of queans, born and resided at Oren burg, in Russia, where his parents stili lived, giving their correct names, stating also that he had a wife and ‘three children there, describing them minutely by name and feature. was no fraud in the matter, se each of the two men were lingly earnest in his assertion It e was not himself but the other I A strange circumstance was bat the change in both occurred [ely an the same day, the 22nd i September, 1874; both were with typhoid, and both were in nudes of death. The distance fen Orenburg and New West- minster is about 9,000 miles, but the places are exactly opposite each other, direct antipodes. Hence Prof. Orlow came to the conclusion that if such a thing as metempsychosis or the transmigration of souls from one body to another be within the range of possibilities, the case of the two Abrahams in Russia and America seems to be an evidence of it, since the soul life or inner consciousness of the one has completely changed to that of the oilier without any out ward change in the appearance of the men. He was still more inclined to this belief from the fact that not only the day but the very moment of the change in the two men agreed. The Russian suttered this change on the 22m! of September, at precisely mid night; the Englishman in British Columbia underwent a like transform ation on the same day at noon, and the difference of time and 1+ gitude is such that when it is midnight at Orenburg it is noon at New West minster. May not the cause for the occur rence be found in some ygt undiscov ered influence of terrestrial'magnet ism? was one of the thoughts of the laarned Professor, and he concluded to make exhaustive inquiries in the affair. For this purpose he.qi re vailed on both the men to accompany him to Russia, which they did, remaining some time in New York, where the riiittilfsor finished the work for which tinaliy was sent to this country Is government. While in this Prof. Orlow told the account to [l gentlemen whose acquaint ke had made, and they also to the two mixed-up Abrahams g to the same conclusion with rofessor, that here,, indeed, was |e wholly inexplicable to any L law of nature. Since last No- Ir Prof. Orlow and Yhfc two won f the age have bee a at St. Pe |rg, where the inquiry is pro ng slowly. I * Hi >i —-- I How to go to Sleep. - I Adeler: Mr. Butterwick, of ■rough, had a tit of sleeplessness tht lately, and after vainly try [lose himself in slumber heliap- pened to remember that he once read in an almanac that a man could put himself to sleep by imagining that he saw a flock of sheep jumping over a fence, and by counting them as they jumped. He determined 4o try the experiment, and closing his eyes he fancied the sheep jumping, and began to count. He had reached his one hundred and fortieth si eep, and was beginning to doze otf, when Mrs. But terwick suddenly said: “Joseph!” “O, what!” “I believe that yellow hen of ours wants to set.” “O, don’t.bother me with such non sense as that now! Do keep quiet uud go to sleep.” Then Butted wick started his sheep again, and commenced to eout. He got up to one hundred and twenty, and was feeling-as-if he would drop oil'at any moment, wlftu, just as his one hundred and twenty-first sheep was about to take that fence, one of the twins began to cry. “Hang that child,he shouted at Mrs. Butterwick'; “vvliy don’t you at tend to it and out it tr*4 s4?ep. Hush up, yon little imp, of I’ll spank you!” When Mrs. Butterwick had quieted it, Butterwick, although a little ner vous and excited, concluded to try it again. Turning on the imaginary mutton, he began. Only sixty-four sheep had slid over the fence, when Butterwick s mother-in-law knocked at the door, and ask.wl Jf he was awake. YV lien she learned that he was, she said she believed he had for gotten to close the back shutters, and she thought she heard burglars in the yard. Then Butterwick arose in wrath and went down to see about it. He ascertained that the shutters were closed as usual, and as he returned to bed he resolved tfhat Mrs. Butter wick’s mother-would leave the house for good in the morning, or he would. However, he thought he might as well give the almanac plan another trial, and setting the sheep in motion he be gan to count. This time he reaohed two hundred and forty, and would probably have got to sleep before the three hundredth sheep jumped, had not Mix’s new dog in the next yard suddenly become, homesick, and be gun to expiess his feelings in a series ot prolonged and exasperating howls. Butterwick was indignant. Neg lecting the sheep he leaped from bed and began to bombard Mix’s new dog with boots, soap cups and every loose object he could lay his hands on. He hit the animal at last with a plaster bust of Daniel Webster, and induced the dog to retreat to the sta ble and think about home in silence. It seemed almost ridiculous to re sume those sheep again, hut he de termined to give the almanac man one more chance, and as they began to jump the fence he began to count, and, after seeing the eighty-second sheep safely over, he was gliding gent ly in the lands of dreams when Mrs. Butterwick rolled out of bed and fell on the Moor with such violence that she waked the twins and started them crying, while Butterwick’s mother-in law cam.* down stairs, four steps at a time, to ask if they felt that earth quake. The situation was too awful for words. Butterwick regarded it for a minute with speechless indignation, and then seizing a pillow he went over to the sofa in the back sitting room and lay down on the lounge. He fell asleep in ten minutes with out the assistance of the almanac, but he dreamed all night that he was be ing butted around the the equator by a Coltswold ram, and lie awoke in the morning with a terrible headache and a conviction that • sheep are good enough lor wool. The President and the Widow. Burlington Hawk-Eye: In the Pat ent Office there is a very pretty wid ow, recently appointed to a clerkship. Fate has been good to her in every way, and now, crowning all other mis fortunes, her health is failing; a ter rible cough haunts her, kbhiotimes producing hemorrhage, which alarms everybody else more than the plucky little woman herself. As pretty wid ows will always have beaux in abun- dance, our little widow often drives oift with her admirers, and Saturday afternoon she started to ride to Ar lington. ( I’m not sure that it wrs Saturday, but we’ll “play” it was.)— Reaching the Long Bridge over the Potomac, ihat terrible cough began; there was no stopping it, so the poor little lady was very weak wheu the bridge was passed. There is a little hostlery there, and stopping his horse her friend gave her the reins and rushed into the house for lemons, whisky, anything to stop that cough. Still she coughed, the reins were slip ping from her nerveless fingers, the horses were restive, aud she was look ing with weak terror for her friend’s return, when President Grant came driving to the scene. His quick eye “comprehended the situation,” he threw his reins to his groom, leaped from his buggy, and, telling our little widow to give herself no uneasiness, the President ofjthe United States stood there and held the horses until relieved by the widow’s astonished es cort-. Meantime, the bright blood was dyii.g the lady’s handkerchief —mute looks of gratitude was all she could give. The President ejaculated, in tenderer topes than one wonld think, “What if my Nelly should ever suffer so!” Then, giving her his card and bidding her come to him for any ser vice he might render, our silent Pres ident drove off over the bridge. A Suicide without a Parallel in Truth or Fiction, James A. Moore, aged about 35, living on a farm near the Farmers’ Institute, about 15 miles South of La Fayette, Ind., committed suicide at the Lahr House in that city on the night of the 10th. He leaves a wife and three childr -n. No cause is known for the deed. The manner in which it was accomplished is perhaps unparalleled in horrid ingenuity. He came to the Lahr House Saturday, said he was perfecting an invention, and would probably stay a week, but would visit his home Mondaj”, and prepaid his bill till that time. He called at the machine shop of Har ding & Sons, had a large new broad ax anil two iron bars of three inches wide by one inch thick, sixteen inch es long, which he had riveted to the pole of the ax. On either side, fas tened to these bars in the shape of a handle to an ax, he had a syste.i. of wooden bars eight feet long, the ex treme end of which was fastened to a cross-piece, secured to the floor by hinges. The ax was raised and held to its nearly perpendicular position by a double cord‘fastened to the wall. Between the cords’stood a candle ar ranged so that when the candle burned down to the cords it would burn them off and the ax would fall. Where the ax would strike he placed a small box, open on one side, in which, when found, was his head, with some cotton, which had been chloroformed. His chin was held up from his neck by a stick run across the box through holes on either side, holding his head firmly in position. He was strapped tightly to the floor with two straps, one around his legs, another about his arms and breast. — the straps were both screwed to the floor, rendering it impossible to move. It is supposed that he set his ax, lit the candle, and strapped himself to the floor, put his head in the box with the chloroformed cotton, and was probably insensible vyhen the ax fell. The ax and fixings would weigh about fifty pounds, and would fall a distance of from ten .to fifteen feet.— His head was completely severed from the body, and ,’tlie ax buried in the boards beneath.. An Eye Witness’ Account of Corn wallis's Surrender. Fredericksburg , f News: Not long since, being at Yofktown, Va., I fell into a discussion \yith a very old ne gro man, who was-quite communica tive. As nearly ais I can recall the words, his narrative was as follows: “I see Gen. Washington? Yes,sah! Why, I was here all de time. See do British." See Cornwallis? To be sho’; wasn’t I here—right here—all de time? Butteuly—1 see ’em all. Now, 1 tell you, massa! 1 see Gen’i Wash ington, and he was a settin’ on his boss, and aeatrn’ofa peach; and Cornwallis lie come out. a siippin’ around to get away, and he start out down dc creek, and he start to run, but Gen’i Washington, he see him d’reetly, an’ he started alter him; and Gen’i Washington he didn’t want to take no advantage of him, so he run well—an’ pretty soon he catch Corn wallis, an’ he catch him by do neck, and say, “You damn seouudril, I got you!” And Cornwallis he turned round, and handed Mr. Gen’i Wash ington his sword, and Gen’i Wash ington he jest took it and cut his head off! See it? To be sho’ I see it. I was right here all de time, massa— how I gvviue help see it? Jess as I tell you. Gen’i Washington was a settin’ on his boss, an’ eatin’ of a peach —” But it is not necessary for me to repeat the old man’s story as often as lie did. Suffice it o say that he nev er varied it in any particular, thus furnishing one of the best indicia ol varacity and accuracy. The Centennial Novelty. Mr. Conway says a novelty intend ed for the centennial has been exhib ited in London. It seems intended to recover for English invention and enterprise some of the ground they lost in having been so far behind American in the use of street tram ways; it is a street car moved by steam in such a way as to conceal all that horses or human wayfarers may regard as objectionable in steam en gines. There is a patent condenser which condenses the steam to a tem perature of two hundred deg.; the steam from the safety valve is also ta ken into the tank and condensed, and the locomotive is not only noiseless but consumes its smoke and steam. The engine works independently of the tram car, weighs little over four tons, aud runs six miles without need ing more water. The boiler and ma chinery ar • all enclosed so that the car is not distinguished from an or dinary street car, except that it moves without horses. The engine is of twenty-horse power, capable of run ning twelve miles an hour, may be stopped in the spaee of four and a half yards. It runs up gradiants with great ease, and on the whole is a very clever application of steam. The movement of the car without noise or smoke is marvelous enough. It was invented by a man in Leicester. A Lively Assassin in Constantinople. Constantinople, June 16. —The following is the official account of the assassination: A Circassian named Ilassan, who left the military school four years ago with the rank of Lieu tenant and was appointed to a Cap taincy in the army of Bagdad, for certain reasons was retained at Con stantinople, where lie was variously employed. When Hassan recently re ceived an appointment to the grade of Adjutant Major, and, on .assignment to duty with the army at Bagdad, he alleged various pretexts for remain ing at Constantinople, and was conse quen ly arrested and imprisoned. He was released yesterday on condition of proceeding to Bagdad to-day (Fri day). Yesterday he called upon the War M inistcr, when he was informed that the Minister was attending Council at the Prime Minister’s resi dence. lie proceeded there and the guards believing him to be an aide de-camp, permitted him to enter. Has san fired point blank at Hussian Av ni Jhisha, Minister of YYar, with a re volver which he had in his pocket, and while the other persons present were pressing forward to seize the as sassin, Richid Pasha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, a servant and a sol dier were killed, and Koisserli Pasha, Minister of Marine, and another sol dier wounded. Almost too Dutch to Believe. A Yankee, while footing it towards out west, got very hard up and was cudgelling his brain to see how he should make a raise of a little money. Finally he met a Dutchman who was followed by a great ugly, cowardly do**, and he entered into conversation with him. “Nice dorg you’ve got there,” said lie. “Yaw, he peese a fine tog.” “I’ll bet you a dollar that I can tell what his name is.” “What ish dot? Andt you nafet see dat tog pc fore?” “No, of course not, but I’ll bet a ilollar I can tell you what his name is.” “Py tarn, I dakes dot bet,” said the Dutchman, eager to make an honest dollar. “Well, call him up here and let m£ have a look at him,” said Yank. “HereFritzy! Fritzy! Gome here and make me von tollar,” said the Dutchman, calling his dog. - The Yankee patted him on the head and finally forced open his mouth aud looked down his throat. ' “His name is Fritzy,” said he, with deliberation. “Donder and blixeu !”exolaimed the Dutchman with open eye and mouth. “Am I not right?” “Yaw, py tarn,” said lie, handing over the wager. “Py Jinks, I know not dot my tog carry 1/is card down his droat, I chnst choke hj/i tarn neck for him,” and away he marched, try ing to get a kick at the poor dog, whose name he had given away him self. Half an hour later, that Yankee was looking for another victim. The Meanest Man iu the Senate. Cincinnati Enquirer: To-day, as I was coming out of the Senate wing of the Capitol, I saw, drawling along in front of me, a figure which might have once been that <>t a man, but now lacked the projection of the ver tebra? beyond the coccyx bone to form the Darwinian link of connection be tween man and the fa mu. Theshoul ders bent not only forward but in ward, as if the bosom had undergone a collapse consequent upon the re moval of the soul from its seat. The head was canted forward from the spinal column, as if the being no long er dared look mankind in the face, but perpetually surveyed the ground to find some hole to drop into, l’he thin legs wobbled about like the hind legs of a sick cow, and the toes were turned outward nearly to a right an gle with the line of inarch, as if the instincts ot the man’s feet, better and nobler than those of his head, were trying to lead him off into new and more honorable paths than those to which he clings. He was clad in a nasty old swallow tail coat and pants that had become glazed and greasy. His stovepipe hat was old and dusty. His face was the color of a badly tanned piece of sole leather, aud as he walked his fin gers kept up a nervous twitching as though he were trying to grab some thing. In his mouth he held the stump of a Connecticut seed-leaf ci gar (price five cents.) It is seldom that one sees such a picture as this. It was Hannibal Hamlin— the VOL. 11. -NO. 16. meanest man in the Senate, which is saying a great deal in a few words, and one of the meanest me;, in Maine, which is exhausting the vocabulary at once and forever. The Colored People at Cincinnati. On the first day of the Convention, the Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, a colored delegate well known and es teemed in this city, made an urgent appeal in behalf of his race for an act of justice to which the plundered freedmen are entitled. He said: “There were men from whose hands fetters were stricken, who had got io gether their little earnings, and by the advice and directions of their friends had laid it away for a rainy day. But by the mismanagement of the men who had deceived them they had been deprived of their little earn ings, and to-day there are aching hearts all over the South because of these losses. If you can in your de liberations put in a little plank in your platform that will give security to every man in the South that the sufferings he has endured in conse quence of the rascality of the mana gers of the Freedman’s Savings Bank shall cease, it would be very satisfac tory unto them. Don’t forget that.— If vou can do it, oo it, and you will have the gratitude and the love and respect of that much injured and abused people.” Surely this was not asking much. It was a reasonable and proper request, because Republican philanthropists, Ring chiefs, preachers and pious ex liorters, had stolen three millions of the earnings of these poor ignorant people. Delegates were sitting in that Convention who had their wallets stuffed with this plunder. And oth ers were there who abetted in the ras cality. Not a voice was raised to second the request. The Convention treated it with contempt, looked upon the speaker as an intruder and his sug gestion as an impertinence. But they found time a:.d opportunity to make anew plank in the platform for the benefit of Effigy Sargent, and of fered that to the colored people as a recompense for an insulting neglect: “XI. it is the immediate duty of Congress to fully investigate the ef fect of the immigration and importa tion of.the Mongolians on the moral and material interests of the conn try.” Tins is the consolation offered to seventy thousand black citizens who have been robbed by a combination of Republican thieves, of their little sav ings. And it is alt they will, ever get from s.ich a source. A Frightful Spectacle. Nevada (Cal.) Tribune: A ten mule team, drawing lumber, while coining from the vicinity of the lake this morning, went over the grade near head of King's canyon. * The driver sprang from the saddle, there by saving his life, lie then stood still,-a horrified and speechless wit ness to one of the most terrible scenes possible to imagine. The muh s, wag on, and lumber pitched downward in one confused, rolling mass, nearly 2,000 feet into the bottom of the gorge, wild cries from the crushed and mangled animals rending the air as they were hurled madly down the steep mountain side, until when near ing the bottom, and life becoming ex tinct, the agonizing sounds ceased and all became silent in death. The man says that after the lirst hundred feet had been passed the entire mass became hidden in a great cloud of snow torn up and scattered through the air, but that he could distinctly hear all sounds proceeding from the white cloud as it rolled swiftly on ward, until it struck the bottom of the canyon with a crash like that of an earthquake. lie and his new wife visited his good old aunt, and she asked a hun dred questions on the all-important subject to her. lie was profuse in his answers, being only too happy to extol the good qualities of his young wife. He concluded the eulogy by telling the old lady that his wife had a wonderful sweet voice, and a “mez zo soprano of extraordinary compass.” The good aunt looked over her spec lades with concern in her eyes and said: “Hez she? Well, now, yer aunt Lucy used to be troubled with that a long while ago, and she used to put a mustard plaster to the soles ot her feet and take eatuip tea and it give her a sight of easiness, .lust have your wife try that and l m sure she will git better." Lawyers are sometimes very par ticular" The other day one was waited ou by a young man, who be gan by saying: “M v father died and made a will—” “Is it possible? I never heard of such a thing,” answered the lawyer. “I thought it happened every day,” said the young man, “but if there is to be any difficulty about it I had better give you a fee to attend to it. The fee was given, aud then lawyer observed: “Oh, I think I know what you mean. You mean that your father made a will and then died/’ _ ■>. mm At the Centennial, the Philadelphia ladies cry out, “Isn’t it cunning?” New York ladies, “How superbly love ly.” Boston ladies, “Ah, how exquaw site!” Louisville ladies, “Be utiful fo’ shuah!” Chicago ladies, “Oh, my I wish I owned"that!” The genuine Yankee girls from the rural district exclaim, “Gee-whimminy, but ain’t that’ere a stunner, neow,” while the average Georgia girl would say, “Oh, it’s fearful nice.”