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THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS.
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
EAST.
A dispatch from St. John’s New
foundland, says the steamer Tigress, of the
Polaris expedition, while seal fishing exploded
her boiler!. Two engineers and twenty of
her crew were killed.
A terrible explosion occurred at Pot
terburg, New Jersey, on the 9th, causing the
death of four of those employed around the
boiler and injuring several others. It appears
one of the five boilers used for compressing
air for the use of the drills being worked in
the Jugtown tunnel exploded, causing the
total destruction of the four others. As all
who were in the immediate vicinity of the ex
ploded boilers are dead, it is impossible to
show how the accident occurred.
WEST.
A dispatch from San Diego says Lieut.
Bache had attacked an Apache camp in the
Penal mountains, Arizona, killed twenty-five
warriors and captured about fifty women.
A boat containing nine fishermen, who
were setting seines in the lake, about fifteen
miles south of Chicyun, was oapsized on the
9th, and seven of the men were drowned.
A man named John W. Goodwin mur
dered an aged man and wife named Haywood,
near Ottawa, Putnam county, Ohio, on the 9th
inst. The murderer obtained about S2OO in
money.
SOUTH.
Seven reward is of
fered for the arrest of the Austin stage rob
bers.
The ice factory in MacoD, Ga., is
turning out six tons of ice every twenty-four
hours.
R. M. T. Hunter has been elected
state treasurer of Virginia, vice Mayo, re
moved.
Seven hundred and eighty officers are
to be elected by the people of Alabama next
November.
Lead ore of a superior quality has
been found in paying quantities in Randolph
county, Arkansas.
The Hushpuckany levee, near Sun
flower, Mississippi, has broke again. This en
dangers the whole of the Sunflower and Yazoo
river bottoms, which are among the richest in
the Mississippi valley.
The claim of G. B. Lamar, of Geor
gia, amounting to $200,000, for which judg
ment was given by the United States court
of claims and appealed by the attorney gen
eral, is about to be paid, the attorney general
having dismissed the appeal.
A special from Austin, dated the 9th,
says: Last night about dusk, the stage car
rying the United States mail and eleven pas
sengers, of whom three were ladies, was stop
ped about three miles from here by three
armed men, who cut the front horses out,
took all the passengers’ money and jewelry,
broke open their trunks and gutted the mail
bags, taking one of them and two of the stage
horses. Among the passengers were Bishop
Gregg and Mr. Breckenridge, president of the
national bank of San Antonio, from whom
they took SI,OOO. They secured about $3,000
from the passengers.
Turner Ardazol, an Italian, captain of
the sloop New Louisiana, entered the resi
dence of Mr. Jett, three miles from Orange,
Texas, during Jitb’s absence, and murdered
Mrs. Jett and two children. A daughter, near
ly grown, made her escape and gave the alarm,
when a Mr. Lyon and other citizens arrived
and found Ardazol endeavoring to barn the
bodies. He was immediately arrested. Soon
after the sheriff entered the jail to give the
prisoners their supper, when a crowd of armed
men rushed in on the officer, took the mur
derer of the Jett family out of the prison, and
literally riddled him with bullets.
The 'decision rendered by the Su
preme court regarding bonds issued by the
state to the New Orleans, Mobile and Texas
railroad under the act of 1871, did not pass
directly on the validity of the bonds, but inti
mated that if the allegations by the state
were correct the bonds would be void, and
remanded the case for farther proof. An ap
plication for rehearing on the ground that the
allegations of the state are plainly incorrect,
has been made by TV. TV. Howe, counsel fer
the road, and taken under advisement. He
claims that by the law the company had till
1871 to build the Shreveport branch, and that
the grant of state aid, made in 1870 and re
newed in 1871, caunot have lapsed.
A crevasse three hundred feet wide
is reported at McCullom’s, two miles below
Baton Rouge, on the left bank. The state en
gineer who was dispatched to the mouth of
Bayou riaquemine to cut the dyke which keeps
the waters out of said bayou, has returned
without executing his mission. The citizens
of Iberville parish and the town of Plaque
mine in a public meeting protested against
cutting the dyke, and resolved to prevent it
by force. They have a detail of armed men
guarding the levee. It is now positively as
serted by those best informed that the open
ing of Bayou Plaquemine woul 1 overflow tho
town of Plaquemine and the greater portion
of Iberville parish. Hence the opposition.
A dispatch from St. Louis says :' The
proposition to establish direct trade between
the Mississippi Valley States and Brazil, by
putting on a line of steamships from New Or
leans to Bio Janeiro, is attracting a great deal
of attention here. A speech recently made
before the board of trade, by Col. Sam. C.
lleed, of New Orleans, in which he fully ex
plained the project, and gave an elaborate ac
count of the benefits and profits which must
inevitably result iherefrom, is published, and
was the subject of general comment and ap
proval on ’change to-day. All classes of bu
siness men heartily endorse the scheme, and
the press speaks most favorably of it. A joint
committee of the board of trade and mer
chants' exchange, who have been examining
the matter for some days past, will report ap
provingly to-morrow, and there is no doubt
the enterprise will receive aid from the mer
chants of this city.
FOREIGN.
The Dutch have opened several Ac
heen ports to trade.
A Berlin dispatch represents that the
conservatives and Ultramontanes are activelv
intriguing to supplant Prince Bismarck by Gen.
Von Monteuffel.
Capt. Brown, witness f?r claimant in
the Tichborne trial, has been found guilty of
perjury. He and Luie were then sentenced to
five and seven years penat servitude respec
tively.
A special from Calcutta reports that
five hundred natives have died from disease
and starvation in Hatacaul. The mortality
from famine is sensibly abated by relief meas
ures of the government.
A special dispatch from Madrid states
that Serrano will return to that city and Gen
Concha will succeed him in command of the
troops operating against the Uarlists. It is
believed Serrano will call a convention.
A dispatch from the city of Mexico
states that six of the assassins of the Rev.
Mr. Stephens have been condemned to death.
The trial of the priest, Ochea, and others im
plicated in the outrage, is still pending.
Leouida Garcia, the local judge in the
Mexican town where the Boston missionary,
Rev. Mr. Stephens, was murdered by the
mob, has fled from the country. Soldiers who
took part in or connived at the outrage, have
been imprisoned.
I aptain General Concha has issued a
proclamation to the citizens of Cuba. He
says the war is only kept up in the mist
sparsely populated portions of the island ; it
has existed a long time and may continne for
sometime to come, owing to natural conditions
of the land. The populous and frequented parte
of the island will be preserved from its ravages
and the integrity of the territory will not be
compromised. He exhorts the people no to be
alarmed ; he will be deterred by no obstacles,
will pursue a policy of severity against the
enemies of Spain, protect and reward its
friends, and dispense justice and legality to
wards all. He considers the closest union of
Spaniards imperative under actual circum
stances, and will not permit the existence of
political parties of any kind. He asks the
people to trust in him, and declares his con
viction that peace will be restored under
the flag of Spain. He will wait for moie tran
quil days, when grave questions concerning
slavery can be settled.
GENERAL.
It is rumored that ex-President Jef
fc rson Davis, who is at present in Europe, has
a war book written, and that it will be pub
lished in England.
The president deems the free banking
law, with redemption, and with a provision
for the retention by the banks of a portion of
their coin interest, to be applied to coin re
demption at some fntnre time, to be the best
measure attainable at this tession, under all
circumstances. A measure of that kind he
will approve. A bill such as that passed by
the senate, if.it ever reached the president
for bis action, would be very carefully scruti
nized, and there is at least a strong probabil
ity that it would be vetoed.
The following is the text of the bill
for the free exchange of newspapers by mail,
within the county of their publication, and
for free transmission to bona fide subscribers,
which passed the house on the 13th : That
from and after the passage of this act the
following matter shall be allowed to pass free
in the mail: Ist, newspapers, periodicals and
magazines reciprocally interchanged between
publishers, and not exceeding sixteen ounces
in weight, to be confined to a single copy of
each publication; 2nd, newspapers, one copy
to each actual snnscriber residing or receiving
the same within the county where the same
is published, but carriers shall not be re
quired to distribute such papers unless post
age is paid on them at the usual rate.
The steamship Europe, which found
ered at sea on the voyage from Havre, was
one of the finest ships of the fleet owned by the
French Trans-Atlantic company, and was con
ceded by all to be a fine, seaworthy vessel, and
well found in every respect. She was lengthened
last year at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, and
altered from a sidewheel steamer to a propel
ler. Her tonnage was 4,600; length, 426
feet; breadth of beam, 44 feet. She
was commanded by Capt. Leman, an able
and experienced captain, and who has been in
the employ of the company for a number of
years. Her value was about $1,250,000 and
she was insured in French insurance compa
nies for about two-thirds of her full value.
Her cargo was a very valuable one, consisting
chiefly of silks, wines and sardines. Her
agents think she probably carried a great
quantity of extra fine goods for the spring
trade, and that the value of her cargo could
not have been less than one million.
v CONGRESSIONAL,
In the senate, ou the Bth, a memorial
was presented from John Buson, asking for
the appointment of a delegation, composed
in part of women, to visit the Indian tribes
and devise means to help their condition
Mr. Dawes called up a resolution introduced
by him a few days ago. asking the . -.cretary
of the treasury to report to the so late the
amount of the defalcations of various dis
bursing officers of the gove ament, and it w..s
referred Amotion to reconsider the vote
by which the bill for the relief of a certain
Asbury Dickens was lost yesterday, and it was
diseased until the exi ation of the mornißg
hour Tee s' nate went into executive ses
sion and adjourned.
In the hoii3e, on the Bth, a bill was
passed, giving consent for the erection of a
bridge across the Arkansas, at Pine Bluff,
Ark. Also, to provide for a sale of the pres
ent marine hospital and the erection of anew
marine hospital at Pittsburg The cur
rency bill was discussed until the hour of ad
journment.
In the senate, on the 9th, the com
mittee on pensions reported, with amend
ments, house bill to increase pensions of sol
diers and sailors totally disabled, and it-was
placed on the calendar The bill to provide
for the incorporation and regulation of rail
road companies in the territories was taken up,
and occupied the time until adjournment.
In the house, on the 9th, the commit
tee on ways and means reported a bill to re
peal all moieties. It was ordered pr nted and
recommitted The currency bill was the
bone of contention for the rest of the session.
In the senate, on the 10th, the com
mittee on commerce reported adversely on the
petition of citizens of Indiana and Kentucky
for the passage of a law compelling bridges
over the Ohio river to be constructed with
four hundred feet span and one hundred and
sixty feet of pivot draw Consideration was
resumed of the bill to provide for the incor
poration and regulation of railroad companies,
and amendments providing that in any cor
poration for the construction of a road a ma
jority of persons applying for a charter shall
be residents in the territory or territories
where the railroad proposed is to be built, and
that the amount of capital stock of any road
shall not be less than SIO,OOJ per mile, were
agreed to.
In the house, on the 10th, a bill was
introduced to repeal so much of the law re
lating to army organization as establishes dis
tinctions lo the prejudice of American colored
citizens The currency bill afforded the
usnal amount of debate.
In the senate, on the 13 th, house
amendment to the bill to authorize aliens to
act as engineers and pilots, which provides
that they shall have previously resided six
months within the United States, was con
curred in The bill to provide for the in
corporation and regulation of railroads in the
territories, after the adoption of sundry amend
ments, was passed—2o to 18 The discussion
on Louisiana affairs, the objective point being
Mr. Carpenter’s bill, occupied most of the
session.
In the house, on the 13th, bills were
introduced in relalion to rates of freight and
passengers on the Pacific railroad; for the
construction of a ship canal from the Missis
sippi river to the gulf of Mexico ; for improv
ing navigation at the mouth of the Mississippi
river The bill for the free exchange of
newspapers by mail within the county of their
publication was passed—l7B to 41 A reso
lution reciting gross abuses and irregularities
in the letting of mail contracts came up, and
some lively sparring took place.
In the senate, on the 14th, the com
mittee on finance reported back the bill to pro
vide for the payment of the bonds of the
Louisville and Portland canal, with the recom
mendation that the house substitute for the
bill be adopted with certain amendments
The judiciary committee reported back the
civil rights bill, introduced on tho first day of
the session by the late Senator Sumner, with
the amendment and recommendation of the
majority of the committee that it be passed as
amended Mr. Carpenter’s Louisiana bill
came up for discussion, but no progress was
made.
In the house, on the 14th, a bill was
passed abolishing the office of appraiser of
imported merchandise at Providence, Port
land, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Memphis, Evans
ville, Louisville, Norfolk, Mobile, To'edo and
Pittsburgh, and providing that there shall be
only an appraiser of imported merchandise at
Baltimore, Charleston and Savannah A
joint resolution was introduced submitting to
the legislatures of the several states an
amendment to the constitution of the United
States, providing for the election of United
Btates senators by the people of the respec
tive states The currency bill came up, and
after discussion, and the rejection of various
amendments, passed—l2B to 116 The sen
ate currency bill, to amend the national cur
rency act and to establish free banking, was
taken up and passed—l4o to 102.
Chicago Times suggests a way
in which money may be made plenty
and “cheap” without the expense of
printing. Congress has only to enact
that all Confederate notes now outstand
ing shall be legal tenders, and receiva
ble for all taxes and all dues to the
United States.
BY AND BY.
What will it matter, by and by,
Whether my path below was bright,
Whether it wound through dark or light,
Under a gray or golden sky,
When I look back on it, by and by ?
What will it matter, by and by,
Whether unhelped I toiled alone,
Dashing my foot against a stone,
Missing the charge of the angel nigb,
Bidding me think of the by and by 7
What will it matter, by and by,
Whether with laughing joy I went
Down thro’ the years with a glad content,
Never believing, nay, not I,
Tears would be sweeter by and by ?
What will it matter, by and by,
Whether with cheek to cheek I’ve lain
Close by the pallid angel, Pain,
Soothing myself through sob and sigh :
“ All will be elsewise by and by ? ”
What will it matter 7 Naught if I,
Only am sure the way I’ve trod,
Gloomy or gladdened, leads to God,
Questioning not of the how, the why,
If I but reach Him, by and by.
What will I care for the unshared sigh,
If, in my fear of slip or fall,
Closely I’ve clnng to Christ through all,
Mindless how rough the path might lie.
Since he will smooth it by and by ?
Ah! it wifi matter, by and by,
Nothing but this : That Joy or Pain
Lifted me skyward, helped to gain,
Whether through rack or smile or sigh,
Heaven—home—all in all, by and by !
THE LATE WAR.
Interesting Extracts from Gen. Jog. E.
-Toll list oil’s Book.
SUMMARY OF THE RESULTS OF THE BAT
TLE OF “BULL RUN.”
The preceding narrative shows how
great were the odds against which the
southern volunteers contested in the
early stages of this action ; their num
bers engaged, gradually increasing,
amounted at its close to about thirteen
thousand men of all arms. But two of the
superior officers of General McDowell’s
army gave in their reports the numbers
of their troops, General Heintzelman and
Colonel Porter; the former led nine
thousand five hundred men into batttle
that day, in his division, and the latter
three thousand seven hundred in his
brigade. From these indications it may
reasonably be inferred that the three
federal divisions on the field were two
to one compared with the confederates,
at four o’clock, and four to one at noon;
at eleven o’clock the disparity of num
bers was much greater.
Considering the length of time in
which the troops were engaged at short
range, the losses were small in relation
to their numbers. That of the confed
erate was : In the army of the Shenan
doah, two hundred and seventy killed,
nine hundred and seventy-nine woun
ded, eighteen missing; in that of the
Potomac, one hundred and eight killed,
five hundred and ten wounded, twelve
missing. Total, three hundred and
seventy-eight killed, fourteen hundred
and eighty-nine wounded, thirty miss
ing.
That of the federal army could not
be ascertained by us accurately. In
cluding prisoners, it must have been
about four thousand. * Twenty-eight
pieces of artillery, four thousand five
hundred muskets, almost half a million
cartridges, a garrison-flag, and ten reg
imental colors were taken on the field,
or near it in the pursuit, besides sixty
four artillery-horses, with their harness,
twenty-six wagons, and camp-equipage,
clothing and other military property.
The southern infantry had great a<
vantage over the northern in thei
greater familiarity with fire-arms. }
was the reverse, however, in relatien to
the artillery ; for that of the south had
had neither time nor ammunition for
practice, while much of that of the
north belonged to the regular service.
Still, ours, directed principally by Col
onel Pendleton, was more effective even
than the regular batteries of the United
States army, in that battle.
The pursuit was pressed as long as it
was effective. But when the main col
umn of retreating infantry was encoun
tered, after the parties in its rear and
on the flanks had been dispersed or
captured, our cavalry found itself too
weak to make any serious impression,
and returned with the prisoners already
taken. The infantry was not required
to pursue far from the field, because by
doing so it would have been harrassed
to no purpose. It is well known that
infantry, unencumbered by baggage
trains, can easily escape pursuing in
fantry. The victory was as complete
as one gained by infantry and artillery
only can be.
If the tactics of the federals had been
equal to their strategy, we phould have
been beaten. If. instead of being
brought into action in detail, their
troops had been formed into two lines,
with a proper reserve, and had assailed
Bee and Jackson in that order, the two
southern brigades must have been swept
from the field in a few minutes, ©r en
veloped. General McDowell would
have made such a formation, probably,
had he not greatly under-estimated the
strength of his enemy.
DIGEST OF EVENTS OF THE YEAR 1861.
The confederate troops fought bravely
and well wherever they encountered
those of the United States, in 1861. At
Bethel, under Magrnder and D. H.
Hill ; at Oak Hill, under Price and Mc-
Culloch ; on the Gauley, under Floyd;
on the Greenbrier, under H. E. Jack
son; on Santa Kosa island, under K. H.
Anderson; at Belmont, under Polk and
Pillow; on the Alleghany, under Ed
ward Johnston, and at Cbastenallab, un
der Mclntosh. On all these occasions
they were superior to their adversaries,
from greater zeal and more familiarity
with the use of fire-ar: s. The thor
ough system of instruction introduced
into the United States army gradually
established equality in the use of fire
arms, and our greater zeal finally en
countered better discipline.
Had the confederate troops in Arkan
sas been under a competent, or even a
merely respectable commander, their
fighting would have been effective, and
valuable to the southern cause. It
might have gained the powerful state of
Missouri to the confederacy, and
brought sixty thousand of its martial
inhabitants into the southern armies.
Such an accession to the southern con
federacy might, and probably would,
have made the northern and eastern
borders of that state the seat of war,
instead of Mississippi and Tennessee.
Among the measures to hold Tennes
see and gain Kentucky were entrenched
camps, made at Columbus, Island No.
10, Forts Henry and DonelsoD, a .and
Bowling Green, each of which required
an army to hold it; and, consequently,
a respectable army divided among them,
gave each one a force utterly inadequate
to its and fense. Begular forts, each re
quiring a garrison of one or two thous
and men, and constructed with much
less labor than the entrenched camps,
would have held Ihe ground much bet
ter, and made it practicable to form an
active army at the same time, capable
of facing those of Buell and Grant,
one after the other. As it was, the con
federates were alike weak at every point,
and, when the federal armies advanced,
they were captured, or abandoned the
country precipitately, after much mis
directed labor had been expended in
preparations to defend it.
Johnston’s aggressive plan overruled
IN CONFERENCE.
At the conference in Richmond, at
which were President Davis, Secretary
of War Randolph, Generals Lee and
Johnson, and Majer-Generals W. G.
Smith and Longstreet, General John
ston proposed that instead of only de
laying the federal army in its approach,
it should be encountered in front of
Richmond by one quite as numerous,
formed by uniting there all the avail
able forces in the confederacy in North
Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia,
with those at Norfolk, on the peninsula,
I and then near Richmond, including
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1874.
Smith’s and Longstreet’s divisions,
which had arrived. The great army
thus formed, surprising that of the
United States by an attack when it was
expecting to besiege Richmond, would
be almost certain to win; and the en
emy, defeated a hundred miles from
Fort Monroe, their place of reiuge,
could scarcely escape destruction. Such
a victory would decide, not only the
campaign, but the war, while the pres
ent plan could produce no decisive re
sult
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General Lee opposed it, because he
thought that the withdrawal from S®uth
Carolina and Georgia of any consider
able number of troops would expose the
important seaports of Charle°ton and
Savannah to the danger of capture. He
thought, too, that the peninsula had ex
cellent fields of battle for a small army
contending with a great one, and that
we should for that reason make the con
test with McClellan’s army there. Gen
eral Longstreet took little part, which
I attributed to his deafness. * * The
discussion was continued until 1 o’clock
in the morning, when the president,
who previously had expressed no opin
ion on the question, announced his de
cision in favor of General Lee’s opinion,
and directed that Smith’s and Long
street’s divisions should join the army
of the peninsula, and ordered me to go
there and take command.
WHY THE ARMY FELL BACK FROM DALTON.
The disposition of the confederate
army about Dalton was predicated on
the belief that the federal general
would attack it there with his whole
force. For that reason its entire strength
was concentrated there, and the protec
tion of its communications left to
Lietenant-General Polk’s troops, then
on their way from Alabama, through
Rome, to join us. I supposed from
General Sherman’s great superiority of
numbers, that he intended to decide the
contest by a battle, and that he would
make that battle as near his own and as
far from our base as possible—that is to
say, at Dalton. On general principles,
that was his true policy. It is evident
that he did not so act, because he
thought as I did—that, in the event of
his assailing us, the chances would have
been very strong in our favor. My own
operations, then and subsequently, were
determined by the relative forces of the
armies, and a higher estimate of the
northern soldiers than southern editors
and politicians were accustomed to ex
press, or even the administration
seemed to entertain. This opinion had
been formed in much service with them
against the Indians, and four or five
battles im Mexico—such actions, at
least, as were then celled battles. Ob
servation of almost twenty years of ser
vice of this sort had impressed on my
mind the belief that the soldiers of the
regular ermy of the United States—al
most all lorthern men—were equal, in
fighting malities, to any that had been
formed in the wars of Great Britain an-
France. General Sherman’s troops,
with whom we were contending, had re
ceived a longer training in war than any
of those with whom I had served in
former times. It was not to be sup
posed that such troops, under a saga
cious and resolute leader, and covered
by retrenchments, were to be beaten
by greatly inferior numbers. I there
fore thought it our policy to stand on
the defensive, to spare the blood of our
soldiers by fighting under cover habit
ually, and to attack only when bad posi
tion or division of the enemy’s forces
might give us advantages counterbal
ancing that of superior numbers. So
we held every position occupied until
our communications were strongly
threatened, then fell back only far
enough to secure them, watching for
opportunities to attack, keeping near
enough to the federal army to assure
the confederate administration that
Sherman could not send reinforcements
to Grant, aud hoping to reduce the odds
against us by partial engagements. A
material reduction of the federal army
might also be reasonably expected be
’ore the end of June, by the expiration
of the terms of service of the regi
ments that had not re-enlisted. I was
confident, too, that the administration
would see tha expediency of employing
Forrest and his cavalry to break the en
emy’s railroad communications, by
which he could have been defeated.
THE BATTLE OF* KENESAW MOUNTAIN.
In the morning of the twenty-seventh,
after a furious cannonade, the federal
army made a general assault upon the
confederate position, which was received
everywhere with firmness, and repelled
with a loss to the assailants enormously
disproportionate to that which they in
flicted. At several points the character
istic fortitude of the northwestern sol
diers held them under a close and des
tructive fire long after reasonable hope
of success was gone. The attack upon
Loring’s corps was by the Army of
the Tennessee ; that upon Hardee’s by
the Army of the Cumberland. The
principal efforts of the enemy were di
rected against Loring’s right and left
brigades, and the left of Hardee’s corps.
The attack upon Loring’s right—
Scott’s brigade of Featherston’s divis
ion—was by troops of the seventeenth
corps, advancing in three lines, proceed
ed by skirmishers. They received five
or six vollejs from Nelson’s (twelfth
Louisiana) regiment, deployed as skir
mishers, in rifle-pits, six hundred yards
in front of the brigade. This regiment
held its ground until the first federal
line had approached within twenty-five
paces. It then retired to the lfne of
battle. The federal troops advanced
steadily, and two hundred paces from
the confedi rate line met the first of
Scott’s infantry, and received in their
flanks that of four batteries. This con
centrated fire compelled them to halt.
Unable to advance further, and unwil
ling to retreat, they remained where
they had halted almost an hour, before
withdrawing ffom the shower of mis
siles.
During this time a single line of fed
eral infantry was engaged with Wheel
er’s troops, the skirmishers of Feather
ton’s own, and Adams’ brigades, and
those of Quarles’ brigade of Walthall’s
division—all in the shelter of rifle-pits.
The firing was always within easy, and
very frequently short range. A body
of the assailants charged into Quarles’
rifle-pits, where most of them were kill
ed or captured.
In the assault upon Loring’s left
(Cockrell’s Missouri brigade) the assail
ants advanced rapidly from the west—
their light extending* to the south of
the Burnt Hickory and Marietta road,
and their left encountering the brigade
(Sears’) on Cockrell’s right. Their right
dashed through the skirmishers of
Walker’s right before they could be re
inforced, and took in reverse those on
tho right and left, while they were at
tacked in front. In a few minutes
about eighty of Walker’s men had been
bayoneted or captured in their rifle
pits. The federal troops approaching
Walker’s line on the south of the road
were driven back by the fire of artillery
directed against their left flank by M
jor-General French ; but the main body
dunchecke by Cockrell’s skirmishers,
pressed forward steadily nnder the fire
of the brigade, until within twenty or
thirty paces of its line. Here it was
checked, and ultimately repulsed, by
the steady courage of the Missourians.
The action had continued with spirit
for almost an hour, during most of
which time fifty field-pieces were play
ing upon the confederate troops.
But the most determined and power
ful attack fell upon Cheatham’s division
and the left of Cleburne's. The lines
of the two armies were mtich nearer to
each other there; therefore the action
was begun at shorter range.
The federal troops were in greater
force, and deeper order, too, and pressed
forward with the resolution always dis
played by the American soldier when
properly led. An attempt to turn the
left was promptly met and defeated by
Cheatham’s reserve—Vaughn’s brigade.
After maintaining the contest for three
quarters of an hour, until more of their
best soldiers lay dead and wounded
than the number of British veterans
that fell in General Jackson’s celebrated
battle of New Orleans, the foremost
dead lying against our breastworks,
they retired unsuccessful because
they had encountered intrenched infan
try unsurpassed by that of Napoleon’s
old guard, or that which followed Wel
lington into France, out of Spain. Our
losses were :
IN HARDEE’S CORPS.
Divisions. Killed. Wonnded. Missing. Total.
Cheatham’s. 26 75 94 195
Cleburne’s 2 9- ll
Walker’s, killed or taken 80
286
in lo ring’s corps.
Divisions. Killed. Wonnded. Missing. Total.
Fetherston’s 8 13 1 22
French’s 17 92 77 186
Walthall’s 6 12 lB
226
The comparatively severe loss in
French’s division was accounted for its
position—on the descending crest of
Kenesaw—where it was exposed to the
fire of about fifty guns ; and by the
turning of his line of skirmishers.
That of Cheatham’s was principally
in the reserve, which fought in open
ground, unprotected by intrenchments.
From the number of deiid counted
from his breastworks, Lieutenant-Gen
eral Hardee estimated the loss of the
troops engaged with his corps at five
thousand; and in his official report,
dated July 30th, Major-General Loring
estimated that of the Army of Tennessee,
which assailed his corps, at twenty-five
hundred.
I think that the estimate of northern
officers ot their killed and wounded on
that occasion, “near three thousand,”
Goes great injustice to the character of
General Sherman’s ar ny. Such a loss,
in the large force that must have been
furnished for a decisive and general at
tack by an army of almost a hundred
thousand men, would have been utterly
insignificant—too trifling to discourage,
much less defeat brave soldiers, such
as composed General Sherman’s army.
It does injustice to southern marksman
ship, too. The fire of twenty thousand
infantry, inured to battle, and in
trenched, and of fifty field-pieces
poured into such columns, frequently
wi bin pistol-shot, must have done much
greater execution.
DEATH OF GENERAL POLK.
The death of General Polk is thus re
counted :
Id the evening, of the thirteenth Lieu
tenant General Hardee expressed ap
prehension that Bates’ division, posted
on Pine Mount, might be too far from
the line occupied by his corps, and re
quested me to visit that outpost, and
deoide if it should be maintained. We
rode to it together next morning, ac
companied by Lieutenant-General Polk,
who wished to avail timself of the
height to study the ground in front o"
his own corps.
Just when we had concluded our ex
amination, and the abandonment of the
hill had been decided upon a party of
soldiers, that had gathered behind us
from mere curiosity, apparently tempted
an artillery officer whose battery was in
front, six or seven hundred yards from
us, to open fire upon them; at first
filing ' ot very slowly, Liei'tenant-
General Polk, unconsciously exposed by
his characteristic insensibility to dan
ger, fell by the third shot, which passed
from left to right through the middle of
his chest. The death of this eminent
Christian and soldier, whp had been dis
tinguished in every battle in which the
army of Tennessee had been engaged,
produced deep sorrow in our troops.
Major-General Loring, the officer next
in rank in the corps, succeeded tempor
arily to its command.
Davis, Foote and Quitman.
These gentlemen composed the trium
virate which ruled Mississippi politics
for twenty years. Henry S. was the
fifteenth governor, and did once pace
ihe streets of Jackson, proud as any
Henry of Navarre; and well he might,
for in November, 1851, he defeated
Hon. Jeff. Davis, though by the small
majority of 900 votes, taking his stand
firmly on union and compromise—meas
ures which, ten years later, found few ad
vocates in Mississippi; while, upon the
reverse doctrine of states rights, his
late rival rose to the presidency of the
new confederacy, Foote going into tem
porary eclipse. Gen. John A. Quitman
had been the successful competitor for
gubernatorial honors the term before;
having come to the people with his
laurels gathered fresh from the fields of
Mexico, he was invincible. In Februa
ry, 1851, however, Gov. Quitman ie
signed th? governorship. The ensuing
summer he was placed at the head of
the state rights ticket against Foote;
drew off a few weeks before the elec ■
tion, after making a hot canvass, and
Mr. Davis was substituted in his stead.
This victory was esteemed a great tri
umph for Foote and the “union men ”
of Mississippi. During the canvass a
correspondent for one of the Quitman
organs, published in Jackson, went the
rounds signing his communications,
“Peter,” and often giving Mr. Foote
the benefit of his sarcasm. At Carroll
ton, where the friends of either party
gathered in great crowds, Foote, when
his turn to speak came, read from “ Pe
ter,” and made running comments as he
read, expressing a desire to get one
sight of that individual.
No sooner said than a young man of
twenty, square built and muscular, with
sun-burnt cheeks, sandy hail, and mod
est demeanor, walked up on the stand
behind the speaker, laid his haud upon
his shoulder, and remarked :
“ I, sir, am the man.”
“And is thy name Peter?” queried
Foote, in his comico-sarcastic.il style.
“My name is Peter,” returned the
impertubable.
“Art thou indeed Peter?”
“ I am, indeed,” was the rejoinder.
“ Then give us your hand,” shrieked
Foote, while the crowd roared its laugh
ter and hurrahs. “ Give us your hand,
Simon Bar-Joan-Ass; for thou art Peter,
and upon this rock will I build my
church, and the gates of h—ll shall not
prevail against it.”
There was n ore in the manner than
in the speech, but Mr. Foote’s friends
fairly roared as that gentleman turned
upon Peter and bowed him gracefully
off the stage at the end of the episode.
The entire campaign was hot, and in
the little fisticuffs that interrupted de
bate it was first Foote and then Quit
man on top. At Grenada, Foote walked
up behind Gen. Q. (while that, gallant
old soldier was pouring in hot shot,
right and left) and struck him a sting
ing blow on the cheek with his open
hand. Turning upon his assailant,
Gen. Quitman applied his right boot
suddenly to Mr. Fooie’s coat- tail, and
lifted him, head-foremost, off the ros
trum. Friends interposed—and the
good work went od. — Cor. Coirier-Jonr.
The new horse disease, which was
prevalent in the New York itrbles, has
attacked the horses of the Brooklyn car
lines, and of the animals ai many as
two hundred are laid up wi,h the dis
order, The disease is known as pinke
and farcy, and occasions a (welling of
the legs of the animal, a mining of the
eyes, and a stiffness of the joiits. There
is no specific cause of the disease as
cribed. It does not last, as a general
thing, more than three or fmr dyas,
and although apparently pawfq] to the
animal is not dangerous.
THE WORLD'S PAST AND FUTURE.
What Prof. Proctor Has to Say on the
Subject.
Prof. Richard A. Proctor delivered a
course of four lectures on astronomy,
in New York, last week. The subject of
his first lecture was “The Past and
Future of the World.” The professor
premised by saying that the mere edu
cational aspect of astronomy, important
though it be, was by no means the high
est in which that science could be re
garded, and was insignificant compared
with the questions which astronomy and
every other form of science brought be
fore us—problems as to what we are,
what this earth is made of, and what it
is that is that is going on around us.
These, he maintained, were the ques
tions that brought astronomy before us
in its noblest aspects. The doctor who
by his science guarded the body against
numberless evils, and the anatomist
who demonstrated the mysteries of our
wonderful structure, did well. But
man did not live alone by bread, but by
God, and God spoke to us iu the reve
lations of science. By the study of
scientific facts, the lecturer said, we
were brought into the presence of in
conceivables. If the appearance of
God was inconceivable we were not,
therefore, to reject it; and science
showed that it was but one of many in
conceivables. Dealing with the more
immediate subject of his lecture, Mr.
Proctor proceeded to refer to some mat
ters explained in his previous course of
lectures, concerning nebulous matter as
the basis of his discourse, and with the
view of tracing the earth to a nebu
lous origin. With this purpose he pro
duced a series of stereoptican views of
various forms of nebulas. These he
considered as primary conditions, and
then passed to the consideration of the
earth as a sun. He referred to these
views, he said, in order that his audi
tors might know what the star depths
convey, and form an idea as to the
firobable past condition of our own so
ar system. He also showe i views of
comets upon which, he considered, one
seemed to see the prior condition of
matter. There, he said, we found the
first traces of the existence of the earth
in masses of glow'ng gas. These com
ets were of immense extent, that of
1811 having a diameter of 70,000 miles,
and a tail 12,000,000 miles in length.
In these vast bodies of glowing gas are
formed the fisrt idea of the earth to which
we could carry back our thoughts. In
this condition the earth was continually
gathering into it masses of nebulous
matter from everything that came with
in the distance of its attraction. From
its earlier existence it had thus been
gathering in matter from all parts of
the universe—from this planet and
from that, by a process continuing for
millions of millions of ages—drawing
in matter that now formed the nutri
ment of our bodies from inter-stellar
and inter planetary space. The next
condition of the earth was that it was
gradually becoming globular—small,
of course, as compared with the sun—-
but still having a great many of its
characteristics. Our earth was, in fact,
once a sun, and it may be that at that
time the moon was a satellite. They
should not, however, be guided too
much by analogy, and believe that
necessarily this earth would pass
through all the stages of the solar sys
tem ; and he mentioned this without at
all intending to destroy the instruction
which analogy afforded, but that we
might not be guided by it too far. The
contraction of the earth was the next
process—whether, it was regarded as a
liquid or solid globe. The analogy of
ice-water might lead to the belief that
the contraction was in the first instance
by the formation of a crust on the sur
face. He believed, however, they would
be right in assuming that the first for
mation of solid matter was in the cen
tre of the earth ; that then the liquid
matter became denser and denser ; that
that then an outside c rust formed, and
that between the solid mass in the cen
tre and the solid crust on the surface
there was a plastic ocean. The theory
had been advanced that there was a
solid globe inside, rotating, but not
exactly in the same proportion as the
outer crust, whereby the earth wou’d
have four magnetic poles, two for the
inside globe, and two for the outer
crust, and this theory would account
for many of the irregularities on the
earth’s surface. There was anotlie
theory, too, that these irregularities
had been produced by great meteoric
down-falls, but there was nothing
against both these forces operating con
currently. The lecturer next referred
to the nature of the atmosphere sur
rounding the earth, to the first appear
ance of vegetable life, which was long
in advance of animal life, and which,
he said, must have been of far greater
extent and luxuriance than a present.
Referring to the first appearance of ani
mal life on the earth’s surface—a spon
taneous life—he contended that it was
in no way inconsistent with the inter
pretation of the scriptural account
which said that God made this creature
and God made that, for might it not be
that God gave certain laws to the Uni
verse, and that His creatures were made
by the operation of these laws. It
seemed to him that when animals began
to improve there was a process of evolu
tion going on, but as to man being con
cerned in that evolution he did not ven
ture to express any opinion, simply be
cause his opinion on that matter would
be utterly woithless. The remainder
of his lecture was conversant with the
proposition that so far as we are con
cerned, there was reason why we should
see our way to the final condition of the
earth. Besides, what men and animals
were doing in the matter of consump
tion, it was also parting with its central
heat, as the great central sun was also
losing its energy. The earth was no
doubt gradually tending toward an end,
but not such an end as the moon, which
was already in a dead state, and not to
its condition of aridity and barrenness.
He could not see how the earth was to
continue to the end to have an atmo -
phere, and neither did he think the
could look forward to the time wher
would be absorbed in one great central
sun. He did not think they could look
'onward to the time when there wonV
be one great cential orb, for it seemed
to him that the cycles were unending,
and that they might believe in an eter
nal progression, when the present earth
would have its place in some new form,
and under changed conditions.
The Arlington Estate.
The memorial of General G. W. Cas
tis Lee, in relation to Arlington, pre
sented in congress by Mr. Johnston, of
Virginia, sets forth that the estate was
devised by Mr. Cost,is to his daughter,
Mary Ann Randolph Lee, for life, and
at her death to the memorialist, her eld
est son ; that Mrs. Lee has recently
died, and the title is now vested in him;
that during the war a direct tax amount
ing to $92.07 was assessed against the
property ia the name of Mary A. R.
Lee, and the estate sold and purchased
by the United States. The tax and
other charges were tendered to the eon
missioners when due, and were repri sd
under a rule adopted by the commis
sioners that the tax could not be paid
by another person for the owner, but
must be paid by the owner in person.
The memorial insists that these and
other facts set forth render the title of
the United States invalid, but General
Lee disclaims any desire to disturb the
purposes to which the property is de
voted, and he only asks that the govern
ment will pay him a fair and reasonable
price for the estate. In the Arkansas
Hot Springs case, where property was
similarly situated, a law was passed re
ferring the adjudication of the question
to the Court of Claims, and it is pro
posed to follow the same course with
reference to the Arlington estate.—
Courier-Journal.
HEAVEN AND HELL.
VVliat Helue Says ot the Abodes ot Bliss
and Woe.
In heaven people amuse themselves
altogether superbly. There they live
from morning to night, and the cookery
is as good as Jager’s ; roast greese fly
around with gravy-boats in their bills
and feel flattered if any one condescends
to eat them. Tarts gleaming with but
ter grown wild like sunflowers ; every
where there are rignlets of bullion and
champagne, everywhere are trees of
which clean napkins flatter wild in the
wind, and you eat and wipe your lips
and eat again without injury to health.
Nothing disturbs your feeling of per
fect happiness); no pain no vexation ;
nay! when one treads on another’s
corns and exclaims “excusez !” the one
trodden on smiles as if glorified, and
insists : “ Thy foot, brother, did not
hurt in the least; quite au contraire, it
only causes a deeper tbrill of heavenly
rapture to shoot through my heart.”
But of hell you have not the faintest
idea ! There it is infernally hot, and
when I was there, in the dog-days, it
was past endurance. Still, it is rark
calumny to say that there the poor
souls are compelled to read all day
long all the dullest sermons that were
ever printed on earth. Bad as hell is,
it has not quite come to that. Hell
appeared to me like a great town-kitch
en, with an endlessly long stove, on
which were placed three rows of iron
pots, and in these sat the damned, and
were cooked. In one row were placed
Christian sinners, and incredible as it
may seem, their number was anything
but small, and the devils poked the fire
up under them with especial good-will.
In the next row were Jews, who contin
ually screamed and cried, and were oc
casionally mocked by the fiends, which
sometimes seemed odd enough, as, for
instance, when a fat, wheezy old pawn
broker complained of the heat, end a
little devil poured several buckets of
cold water on his head, that he might
realize what a refreshing bjpefit bap
tism was. In the third row sat the
heathen, who, like the Jews, couid take
no part in salvation, and must burn for
ever. I heard one of the latter, as a
square-built, burly devil put fresh
coals under his kettle, cry out from his
pot: “ Spare me ! I was once So
crates, the wisest of mortals. I taught
Truth and Justice, and sacrificed my
life for Virtue.” But the clumsy,
stupid devil went on with his work and
grumbled, “Oh, shut up there ! All
heathen must burn, and we can’t make
an exception for the sake of a single
man.”
The Gold Fever in Arkansas.
For some weeks past there has been
a deal of excitement in Western Arkan
sas, growing out of the discovery of
gold on the north fork of the Ouachita.
It is not our province to minister to the
greed for gold, still less to give curren
cy to statements which may be grossly
exaggerated. It is only proper to say
that there is every reason to suppose
that the district of Arkansas in which
these discoveries are alleged to have
been made are distinguished by every
geological feature peculiar to gold pro
dacingdistricts of California. Itmay be
well to add, as a matter of historical in
terest, that from time immemorial the
opinion has obtained that rich mining
districts were once known in Western
Arkansas. Newspapers of the earlier
years of this country, often refer to the
system of spurious coinage of silver
practiced in Arkansas. Genuine silver
was found by counterfeiters, ard, mixed
with too much alloy, was scattered, eve
rywhere in the valley of the Mississip
pi. It was supposed r„c a later period
that Murrell’s clan had access to silver
and gold mines in Western Arkansas,
used in manufacturing spurious coin
which they diffused throughout the
south. At a remote period DeSoto,
from the day he began his tedious, des
perate march from Florida to the west,
was constantly told that inexhaustible
gold and silver mines were to be found
in the western mountains. He crossed
the Mississippi and entered Arkansas
in search, perhaps, of the very mines
now discovered. In 1723 the paper cur
rency of France, as managed by Law,
the Scotch adventurer, was based upon
the supposed mineral wealth of this
very district of country. Gold in great
heavy ingots was taken to France and
shown upon the streets of Paris, and
the people accepted gladly promises to
pay based upon supposed boundless re
sources of golden fortune. But Law’s
currency, as has been the fate of most
paper money, became valueless, and the
gold mines of Arkansas were wanting
when French greenbacks were to be re
deemed. The mines of St. Barke, in
Arkansas or Missouri, of which French
men talked as earnestly and confidently
one hundred and fifty years ago as we
do of the gulches of California, still re
main undiscovered, unless the present
sensation has some foundation.—Mem
phis Appeal.
A Convention of Confederate Surgeons.
At a meeting of the physicians of At
lanta, Ga., presided over by Dr. J. P.
Logan, resolutions were adopted, call
ing a convention of surgeons, field and
hospital, of the confederate army, to be
held at Atlanta, on the 20th of May
next. The co-operation of the medical
staff of the ex-confederate navy is also so
licited. The convention is called in order
for the advancement of science, to rescue
from oblivion all the important medical
and surgical facts developed in the con
federate army and navy record. The
resolution says :
“ Immediate action is considered ab
solutely necessary. Since the war,
many of the most talented of the
‘ medical staff ’ have died, f and yearly
others are added to the list, and their
valuable medical and surgical experi
ence entirely lost to the profession.
For the success of this great scientific
and historical association, it is earnestly
recommended that the ex-confederate
surgeons of each of the southern states
at once take such steps as will secure a
delegation. Besides the contributions
to science, the social features of the or
ganization, the revival of old army as
sociations, will be of no secondary in
terest. The railways of the south, with
their usual courtesy, will no doubt grant
excursion tickets for this most impor
tant occasion.”
The call is headed by Dr. S. P.
Moore, surgeon general 0. S. A. ; Dr.
Hunter McGuire, medical division,
Jackson’s army; and Dr. 8. H. Stout,
medical division hospitals, army of
Tennessee.
The medical and surgical history of
the federal army, during the civil war,
is preserved in a very large gathering
of official records and anatomical draw
ings and samples, in a government mu
seum at Washington City, and is con
sidered invaluable by the students and
professors of medicine and surgery.
The proposed confederate record,
from the lapse of time and the difficulty
of obtaining the official records, will
not be so complete as that st Washing
ton, but cannot put present incidents
equally as valuable to science.
Tenderly stroking the soft, silken
curls of his innocent boy, and gazing in
to the liquid depths of his blue upturn
ed eyes with a glance that told what
fountains of parental love were running
over in his breast, Mr. Marrowfat affec
tionately murmured : “No, Artaxerxes,
you can’t learn to chaw tobacker as long
as your dad is boss of this ranche,”
Patrons of Husbandry.
This is eminently a farmer’s social
organization, composed of both sexes,
who shall meet once a month as mem
bers of the same family, for the purpose
of social and intellectual enjoyment,
which is one of the most desirable fea
tures in anew slate where we seldom
truly know our own neighbors, end to a
great extent deprived of true sexual and
intellectual culture. The reading-room,
the farmers’ library, the secret price
list, the beautiful ceremonies of initia
tion, and the music of the grange, add
a charm to the granges which the club
seldom possesses, and the universal sat
isfaction it brings to thousands of
farmers’ home is a sufficient proof of
its meeting a long-felt want. Every se
cret organization is stronger thaa any
open organization, hence all our neces
sary business is done in secret session,
where sharpers, political shysters and
those whose interest oonflict with the
farmers’ interest can not come. Should
inexperienced deputies admit such, the
organization has power to control them,
or expel them, but great care is usually
taken to keep them out. In the club
there is no bond of unity except that
which is purely speculative, while we
are bound together “as with a band of
iron whose application is as gentle as
the silken thread that binds a wreath of
flowers.” The grange has a treasury
worth having, kept by itself, and under
its own control, around which all natur
ally cling. It is ready at a moment’s
notice to employ an active agent ef
their own choice, or to apply it as stock
in any manufacturing or any other en
terprise as their interest may seem to
demand.
“ That which is nothing costs noth
ing,” is trutt in any undertaking, and we
venture the assertion that no other se
cret society ever intended to convey one
half the benefit to its members for the
same amount of money expended in
sustaining that the order of the Patrons
of Husbandry does. The Patrons re
present a complete organization, nation
al, state and subordinate, and expe
rience teaches ns that we have hardly
money enough invested in this state to
carry out the great plans of the organi
zation. Yet by economy, we are pre
paring plans that will eventually save
the farmers of Kansas thousands of dol
lars, the same as in lowa, where the last
grange reports a saving of five thou
sand dollars on two kinds of sewing
maebines, and a reduction on supplies
of from fifteen to twenty per cent.
Their executive committee report that
their agents have bought and sold $5,-
000,000 worth of machinery.
The Patrons all work under the same
charter, the same constitutions and by
laws, peaceably and in order, and they
work systematically and harmoniously,
and with a unity of purpose that makes
them the most powerful farmers’ organ
ization in the world. Avoiding party pol
itics or sectarian discussions in the work
of the order, they are molding politi
cal parties who are now ready to work
for the farmers’ interest, to respect their
petitions, and enact just laws for their
benefit. Oar object is to exercise a
moral suasion over members, prevent
cruelty to animals, nurse the sick, in
struct the youth, establish wholesome
reading, encourage the cause of educa
tion, expose humbugs, and protect, by
all available means, the farmers’ inter
ests. May we not ask every true farmer
in Kansas who can see good in his fel
low-maD, who has a generous heart and
open hand to help the need, raise the
fallen, and able to help make the tabors
of this life cheerful, to unite with the
noble army of patrons ?—Kansas Far
mer.
The National Agricultural Congress.
A call has been made by General
Jackson, president, for the third ses
sion of the National Agricultural Con
gress, which will be held at Atlanta.
Ga., on May 13. The congress hac. its
rise in 1871, by the consolidation ol the
“Agricultural Congress,” a purely
southern institution, with the Tennes
see Agricultural and Mechanic’s Asso
ciation. Under the auspices of these
bodies, a meeting was held at Nashville,
Tenn., at which eleven states were rep
resented, and where the national agri
cultural congress was formed.
In 1872, the meeting of the congress
was held at St, Louis, where the St.
Louis Agricultural and Mechanical As
sociation was amalgamated with it.
Last year the congress met at Indiaaap
olis, where, after a very successful meet
ing, it adjourned to meet at Atlanta,
Ga., on May 13.
This gathering, representing every
state in the Union, and every form of
farmers’ organization, will be of im
mense importance. “In view,” nays
Jackson, in his call, “of the represen
tation, aims and objects, and necessity
of such an annual convocation of rep
resentative farmers and scientific gen
tlemen, and especially Bince the farmer
mind is thoroughly aroused to the ne
cessity of considering with the greatest
deliberation the mauy questions touch
ing the industrial interests of the coun
try, and has now become ready for vig
orous and effective action, there it
every reason to expect a full represen
tation, and I therefore urge upon all
the constituent bodies, and especially
the Patrons of Husbandry, to be rep
resented.
“It is especially requested that noti
fication shall be made of the appoint
ment of delegates to Charles W.
Greene, secretary, Jacksonville, HI.,
at as early date as practicable.”
a Chinaman.
We asked him if he didn’t want sjme
advertising done. He stopped work
long enough to say that he charge and a
dollar a dozen, without ironing. We
explained that it wasn’t washing we
wanted, but advertising. We told him
how much liiß business would be in
creased, how he’d be richer than the
king of the Sandwich Islands in six
months if he’d only advertise. This
seemed to be clear to him, and his face
brightened up as he said : “ Busi iess
belly slow ; nobody got no money. ’ We
calmly took out a paper at that. We
carefully explained to him all abon. fif
teen cents a line—one of these things
clear across here every time the piper
was primed. The people, we told him,
would read this and then come to him
for washing. He took a deep intt rest
in the whole story, and paid marked at
tention to our few remarks.
“You see, Mr. Hong Lee,” we faid,
thinking he was getting along first-rate
in English, “ this is a paper —this here”
(putting a finger on it). “ When peo
ple read they rush off frantically and
buy of everybody whose name they see
in the paper. Do yon understand ?”
He said he <sid, and wanted to Inow
how many pieces we had—whether they
were big or little. We felt discouraged.
We had worked hard for half an aour
a 1 ready, and he all the time thinking
that we were talking about washing !
With an imprecation on the whole race
we went over the rhole story again,
even going so far as to figure out to him
how many papers we printed and how
many we expected to print. He was all
attention as before, but when we stop
ped for breath he spirted water in a
batch of clothes through his teeth and
then said, as coolly as a mummy, t tat if
we brougnt the clothes on Monday he
would have them done on Wednesday.
Mb. Marrowfat's remark to hit son
Alcibades, who is studying for a law
yer, is a good illustration of the
city of that extraordinary man : “ Yes,
the world owes yon a living, my Itoy,”
said he, “ but be careful that it dc esn’t
take advantage of the statute of li nita
tionfl.”
VOL. 15--NO: 17.
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.
Thebe are at present in Baltimore
harbor thirty-one Italian vessels.
The importation of champagne fell off
30,000 dozen last year, oompared with
1872.
Only nine 'families out of its former
population of ten remain at
Pithole City, Pa.
Rhode Island has passed the law giv
ing discharged convicts one-tenth of
their actual earnings.
The first vessel of a new line of steam
ers between Liverpool aDd Galveston re
cently sailed from the former port.
Mr. Pichard, a Frenchman, living in
Leon county, Florida, has imported
worms, and is engaged in raising silk
The Dowager Duchess of Richmond
is dead. She led an uneventful life,
but was passionately fond of boiled
salmon.
In England a Mr. Galton has had the
boldness to publicly assert that the fe
male mind is incapable of sustained
scientific study.
When the Indians catch a bald-headed
man they cut off his ears to compensate
for the loss of scalp, and it’s about as
well to be scalped.
There is a prejudice in human kind
against large ears. As the poet says :
“Man wants but little ear below, nor
wants that little long.”
The Supreme court of Indiana decides
that negro children must be admitted to
white schools where no separate schools
equally good are provided.
Last year was a bad one for marine
insurance companies. It is said that fif
teen English companies lost $3,640,000,
not one realizing any profit.
A New Jersey tobacconist, with com
mendablefrankness, advertises: “I shall
continue to keep on hand imported ci
gars of my own manufacture.”
The municipal authorities of Yeddo,
Japan, have written to the mayor of
New York, asking him to transmit cop
ies of the municipal laws of the city.
The New Orleans Picayune wants
some of the female crusaders to visit
that city, and try and remove some of
the bars from the mouth of the Missis
sippi.
Michigan is happy. A resolution
has been passed by the legislature,
that in view of the large balance in the
state treasury no tax shall be levied for
this year.
In a recent trial in .Baltimore it was
shown that patent medicine men esn
get almaiac certificates of the wonder
ful virtues of their medicines for fifty
cents per head.
An Oswego paper describes a fire by
saying that “the red flames danced in
the heavens and flug their fiery arm
about like a black funeral pall until Sam
Jones got on the roof and doused them
out with a pail of water. ’
The surgeons of the Confederate army
and navy are to hold a convention at At
lanta, Georgia, on May 20, for the pur
pose of embodying in permanent form
tne important medical and surgical facts
brought out by their war experience.
The senate committee on postoffices
will shortly submit a bill to establish
the postal telegraph system, from which,
they promise, will be omitted all the ob
jectionable features of the original bill
which the committee has been consider
ing for the last three or four months.
There was an increase of 9 4-10 in the
area sown with winter-wheat last fall in
the states of Illinois, Indiana, lowa,
Kansas, Missouri, and Ohio, according
to the National Crop Reporter. In Illi
nois the increase is 22 per cent. lowa
shows a decrease of 19 per cent., to be
attributed to the severe drougth of last
summer.
There is a small community of Eng
lishmen in Patagonia who are thriving
most prosperously. Not only is land
offered free to the settlers without capi
tal, but it is said that South American
capitalists make all advances for twelve
months of provisions and implements,
the only drawbacks being a scarcity of
hands and the occasional risk of locusts,
and, it might be added, the fact that it
is Patagonia.
The observations of a married man
have led to the conclusion that money
put into mirrors is a good investment,
as they afford a marvelous amount of
gratis cation and comfort to a womar.
He says his wife thinks just as much of
consulting her glass when she ties on
an apron as when she ties on a bonnet;
and while he goes to the door at once
when there is a rap, she exclaims,
“ Mercy ! Joseph, who is that ?” and
dashes for the looking-glass.
Perhaps love is never so potent as
when it seizes upon those who have
passed the prime of life. The choice
made is then likely to be thoroughly
suited to the nature of the man; ana
any intellectual gifts on the part of the
woman are likely to be more attractive
to a man of this age than to a younger
person. Besides, there is a feeling that
as life is not likely to be very long, this
late love is the last thing to be clung
to ; and that after it, should it be lost,
all will be desolation. —Arthur Helps.
The real mesalliance is that of souls;
and even, as more than one young man,
without home, or birth, or fortune, is a
marble column which sustains a temple
of grand sentiments and grand iders,
so you may find a satisfied and opulent
man of the world, with polished boots
and varnished speech, who, if you look
not at the exterior, but the interior,
that is to say, at what is reserved for
the wife, is nothing but a stupid joist
darkly haunted, violent by impure and
debauched passions : the sign-post of a
tavern.— Victor Hugo.
A wbiteb of the last century relates
that Mr. Yon B , envoy at St. Peters
burg, went one morning to pay a num
ber of visits. Among other houses at
which he called there was one where
the servants did not know him, and
consequently he was under the necessi
ty of giving his name ; but this he fonnd
he had entirely forgotten. Turning
round to a gentlempn who accompanied
him, he said, with much earnestness,
“ For God’s sake, tell me who I am !”
This odd reqnest excited laughter, bnt
he insisted on being answered, adding
that he had entirely forgotten his name.
A corbrkpon'deet at East Windsor
Hill, Gt., has just learned of the colored
people’s republic of Liberia, in Africa,
and wonders if the colored people know
that for SIOO one may have a passage to
Liberia, six months board, and 25 acres
of land. As pictured by him, the little
republic is quite an Utopia. The soil is
rich; valuable crops, coffee, sugar, palm
oil, etc., flourish finely, and find a ready
sale; the climate is pleasant and health
ful for Africans; schools and churches
are numerous, and the goverment is well
estab ished and wholly in the hards of
Africans.
The Superb, the latest monster vee
vel of the British navy, is an iron built
broadside ship, having a load displace
ment of 9,800 tons, and engines capable
of working up to 8,000 horse power.
Her estimated first cost is £418,000.
The Fnry, which will likely be
launched in October next., has a load
displacement of nearly 11,000 tons, and
is to be a turret ship, with only four
guns. Her engines are to work up to
8,000 horse power, and her cost exceeds
that of the Superb, being as much as
£457,000. Her lour guns will be ‘ 4 Wool
wich Infants,” so that in figtatirg power
she will equal the Devastation. The
Temmeraire is another embryo mon
ster, designed as a broadside ship, to
carry eight guns.