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TCESUAT MORNING, JUNE S.
Bkthel. —We would be pleased to
hear frequently from our correspondent,
“Bethel,” whose communication ap
pears in another column.
Mb. Spbagok’s Speeches.— We are
u lebted to the Hon. Wm. Sprague for
a pamphlet compilation of his famous
speeches, delivered in the Seuate of the
United States during the months of
March and April.
Ala. Supreme Court.— This tribu
nal says the Montgomery
meets at the Capitol, Monday, June
7ih. Chief Justice Peck and Associate
Justices Peters and Saffold are all in
the city. Mr. Booth, the Clerk, and
Mr. Ragland, tho Marshal, are also at
their posts.
Tennessee Wheat.— The Nashville
Union of the 3d inst. says : “Two crops
of wheat, containing about one thousand
four hundred bushels, for early delivery,
were sold at one dollar per bushel.—
■phis is regarded as cheap, and new
flour will open at low figures.”
The Rome (Ga ) Courier, of the sth
inst, reports that wheat in that market
has declined to one dollar and thirty
cents per bushel. A number one arti
cle only, commanding that price. We
shall expect a decided downward ten
dency in flour shortly. Holders had
better hurry off their stocks.
AFire in Washing ion. —Another
fire occurred in Washington, Wilkes
county, last Tuesday night. The Ga
zette says it Consumed the stables of
Uapt. John T. Wingfield and the black
smith shop of Mr. Lorenzo Smith. Two
mules and one horse perished in the
flames. The loss is estimated at about
twelve or fifteen thousand dollars.
Dickson Cotton Seed.— The Ches
ter (S. C.) Reporter says that persons
who bought and planted Dickson Cot
ton seed, in that and York county,
agree in the statement, that tho plant
from this seed has suffered more from
the cold weather than any other kind of
cotton. Asa general rule they have
failed entirely in getting a stand.
Negro Candidates for Office.—
The Washington correspondence of the
N. Y. World says: The Ward Radical
Nominating Convention here completed
the selection of the Radical tickets last
night, and the result is that negroes,
mostly barbers and bootblacks, are
named to represent every ward in the
City Councils. The ticket will proba
bly be elected, as it is supported here by
three papers, who exist by corporation
and government plunder.
Accepts the Odium.— Tho Cincin
nati Commercial says: General John A.
Logan assumes the responsibility of
placing a guard over the graves of a
few Confederate soldiers buried at Ar
lington, with instructions to allow no
flowers to be strewed on the graves,
while those of the Union soldiers were
being decorated with flowers. It makes
no difference whether it was General
Logan or any other General who issued
that order. It was a very small business
for him to be engaged in. No generous
man pursues his enemy after he is dead
aud the sod piled above him.
How Grant Retrenches.—A Wash
ington letter says: “Under Andrew
Johnson there was a very clever official,
named Cushaw, who acted as grand
usher to the President. For SI6OO a
year he consented to take the whole
White House on his shoulders. For
that mouest sum he was content to bear
the abuse of countless visitors, and to
repay all with uniform politeness and
courtesy. How is it under President
Grant ? There is Dent, full Brigadier,
with a salary of SSOOO per annum ;
Crook receiving SI6OO ; Price, likewise,
$ 1 GOO ; young Douglass, $2500 ; Adams
(not George W., but another man,)
SIOOO ; and Simmonds, a gentleman of
color, SOO per month for simply bearing
curds ot visitors from the eminently
polite Dent to the President’s private
"ffice. All these officials combined, dis
charge the duty which Cushaw monop
olized under President Johnson. In
other words, it now requires $13,380 to
accomplish the laborious business of
attending the White House visitors,
while it only cost SI6OO under John
son. There is nothing like economy.
s»vannah Bank and Trust Com
t'ANY.—We noticed yesterday, says the
Savannah Republican, from the books
now open at the Savannah National
hank, that quite a large amount of this
stock has been taken by large capital
ist” in New York. Among other names
“o P. C. Calhoun, President Fourth
National Bank; A. H. Trowbridge,
[’resident Second National Bank; Geo.
Opdyke, banker; J. & J. Stowart & Cos.,
Hr. Willard Parker, Morris Ketchum,
Chits. L. Anthony, John A. Stewart, H.
B. Claflin, and others.
This institution goes into operation
under a charter granted by the State,
and by increasing the capital of our
city, it will benefit all classes of our
merchants.
The subscription list will be closed on
the 7th inst., so that all who desire to
avail themselves of the opportunity,
have but one day left. Fifty per cent,
is to be paid up at once, thus giving the
Bank a cash capital of a.half million
upon which to commence operations.
The Zeigler Estate. —The Macon
Telegraph says: Mr. Wm. Zeigler, a
wealthy bachelor, died in this city in
1855, and his remains were deposited
in a handsome vault in the Rose Hill
Cemetery, but it was infamously and
meanly defaced and desecrated by the
Federal soldiers who entered the city
about the time of the surrender of Lee
and Johnston. But to the estate of Mr.
Zl niter:
We are informed that a mulatto wo
man. whom he kept in life, and by
whom he had three daughters, returned
to this* city yesterday ;morning, from
near Cincinnati, with her oldest daugh
ter, and claims, in accordance with
Zeigler’s will, his estate, or at least
twenty thousand dollars apiece for the
three daughters. We understand, also,
that Mr. Crutchfield is the guardian, or
trustee, for the oldest daughter of Mr.
Zeigler, and that he has within immedi
ate reach, $20,000 for her, if it shall be
decided that she is entitled to it.
Staggers Among Hogs. —Take one
leaßpuonful of sweet oil (or any good
ni ',) and half the quantity of spirits of
turpentine. Mix and shake the oil and
turpentine well together, then lay the
hog down with the affected ear up, and
Pour this mixture into his ear, holding
him in that situation a moment or two,
until it gets well into the head. No
■urther attention is necessary. I have
not lost a case thus treated for seven -
teen years.
Massing the time— going by a clock.
YOL. XI.
Improvement in Cotton Gins
Cotton Planters, &c. Yesterday
we saw tried at the establishment of
W. G. Clemons, Brown & Cos., exten
sive manufacturers of gins, an impoyer
ment invented by Mr. John King, a
young but experienced mechanic, who
has been for many years connected
with the establishment. The improve
ment consists of an adjustable arrange
ment by which the alternate blank saws,
the kind suitable to ginning long staple
cottons, such as the Peeler, Peabody,
Sea Island, and other varieties, can be
fixed in five minutes upon the common
gin. It also involves some change in
the blank saws. The mode is very
simple and easily understood by the
dullest intellect. On yesterday the
cylinders were changed in less than five
minutes. The advantage is that the
payment of SSO above the ordinary
price of a gin he secures, vertically two,
and by the simple change of the cylin
der, the purchaser is enable to gin either
the long or short staple cotton. The
one tried yesterday was a forty saw gin
which did its work quickly and well.
Tho firm is uow engaged in repairing
old and making new gins, and prepar
ing for the fall trade. Their work is
deservedly celebrated. By machines
invented by Mr. A. D. Brown, the
manufacture of saws is greatly simpli
fied and expedited. Major Clemons
told us that this discovery of Mr. B.’s
had been stolen and patented in Eng
land recently.
The firm is also manufacturing large
ly the Cotton Seed Planter and Guano
Distributor, invented and improved by
Mr. Brown, to which has been added
machinery, making it suitable for drop
ping peas, &c. This simple machine
which so rapidly expedites labor, is
growing speedily in favor, and large
orders are anticipated.
Railroad Survey.— The survey of
the Bainbridge, Cuthbert and Columbus
railroad will commence from Bain
bridge next Monday. Col. C. B. Har
kie, who has been connected with many
important railway enterprises, and not
very long ago with the Savannah and
Memphis road, will have charge of the
survey. Connected with him will be
probably several young men, engineers,
of this city. Col. H. was in Columbus
yesterday, and will return to day. The
road will add largely, when completed,
to the interests,' especially the local
trade, of this city. In its inception,
however, the manner of selecting offi
cers, &c., the affair has been managed
very unfairly. Not a director was taken
from Muscogee or Chattahoochee coun
ties. Both directors and officers were
taken from the lower counties, and the
election of officers was so managed at
Bainbridge that the corporators of this
section, by brevity of notice of meeting,
could not be present. With all this,
however, we are anxious to see the
road started in that direction from Co
lumbus.
City Council. —The body transacted
a great deal of business in a short time
yesterday. A tax ordinance was pre
sented. It differs little from the former
one. Factories outside city are taxed
on their sales; those inside It
was resolved to adopt the Surveyor’s
views and build a five foot sewer
through Franklin street. Estimated
cost $16,000. Cost of ditch across the
North Commons $7,000, and would not
serve purpose. The action of the Board
of Trade in appointing a committee to
attend meeting of Atlanta and West
Point road, was approved, and the May
or authorized to appoint a committee of
three Aldermen to attend same meeting
and endeavor to have the Columbus
and West Point road built, pledging the
city would use every legitimate means
to have it built. Aid. Colzey withdrew
the velocipede ordinance. Other action
to-morrow.
Large Sales of Cotton.—Yester
day over six hundred bales of cotton
were sold at prices, which, supposing
each bale weigh 500 pounds, brought
about $85,000. Prices are three to four
cents higher for lower grades than they
were a week ago. This puts a large
amount of money in some pockets, and
will be the means of circulating a good
eal generally.
Cures Hog Cholera. —Dan Deni
son’s Condition Powders will cure Hog
Cholera, as well as everything else.
Don’t let your hogs die, but use the
powders and save your bacon. See
certificate of John M. Murphy.
Negro Disturbance in Ogle
thorps County. —The Macon Tele
graph has been permitted to copy the
following extract from a letter from a
gentleman in Elbert county to his son
in Macon. The letter is dated May 31st.
The writer says:
“There is a report in Elberton of a
threatened insurrection among the ne
groes at Lexington, Oglethorpe county,
but that it was suppressed before any
damage was done. A negro gave notice
that the blacks threatened on a certain
night to kil’ some of the most promi
nent citizens c.’ the place; and then fire
it; but the timely information put the
people on their guard and the negroes
did not rise. A warrant was issued for
the arrest of the leaders. One of them
refused to surrender to Wm. Edwards,
the officer, and drew his gun. Edwards
then shot him through the body, and he
fell dead, and is still laying by the road
side. I have not heard that any of them
have been arrested.”
State Governments in the South.
—The Cincinnati Gazette, in a long
article on Tennessee politics, concludes
that no safe Government can be set up
in the South “by excluding the proper
ty holders and the natural leaders of
society.” It appeals for a general poli
tical amnesty. It must be borne in
mind that the Gazette is an extreme
Republican newspaper. Here is a
strong passage coming from such a
quarter:
We have seen a full trial of this sy s
tem of establishing loyal government in
Tennessee, and it has become a question
whether such loyalty is not exhaustive
to the State, and whether we may not
have to relax the loyal rigidity in order
to save the State from ruin. In general
the Radical rule has been marked by
profligacy in both State and Municipal
Government, as is shown by the great
increase in State and municipal debts,
besides the great floating debts which
they are carrying along at ruinous rates
of interest. In this we realize the evil
of disfranchising the great body of tax
payers, and thus losing their conserva
tive influence in public affairs. Ana
this is aggravated by an agrarian spirit
which takes possession when they who
are hostile to the property class have
control of the Government; who are
apt to regard every burden they add to
property as so much toward its equal
distribution, and toward securing their
share. And in this case there is the
feeling that these burdens are in the line
of retribution upon the property class
for their disloyalty in the civil war.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
For the Sun and Times.
Bethel, Muscogee Cos., )
„ June sth, 1869. j
Editor Sun and Times :
Thinking that a few “dots” now and
then upon the state of crops and topics
connected with the agricultural interest
of the country, would be acceptable to
yourself and to your readers in adjoin
ing counties, has induced me to pen
this letter.
We can hardly look into a newspaper
now but what we find alarming para
graphs about the condition of the cotton
crop. Some boldly assert that there is
not a half stand of cotton upon the
ground; some even say less than that;
whilst you find none claiming more
than two thirds. Occasionally you will
find a man that will admit he has a full
stand of cotton upon his fields. Some
men are hard to satisfy, be their occu
pation what it may. I have now a man
in mind who would assert that he did
not have a stand of cotton even if every
cotton row in his field measured pre
cisely two feet six inches, and the plants
stood in each row just ten inches by the
square apart. lam free to admit that
the stands of cotton generally in this
vicinity are not so good as we wish, but
I am satisfied that they are much better
than was published to the world several
weeks previous.
Prior to the fifteen days of hot, blis
tering weather just past, cotton present
ed a sickly appearance, and that vera
cious old gent, the “oldest planter,”
was ready to pronounce the prospects
miserable indeed; but the invigorating
rays of a scorching sun have dissipated
the imaginings of the old man; our cot
ton is healthy and strong, and now
growing rapidly; the young forms are
being rapidly developed and are becom
ing quite plentiful in our fields.
Crops generally are quite clean. Corn
is doing well. With favorable seasons
from now until the middle of July, we
will very near make corn enough to
carry us through next year. Wheat is
being harvested. The crop will be
about an average one. I hear of but
little complaint from rust, smut, or
blight of any kind. Freedmen are
working very well; indeed, there is so
little complaint that I feel satisfied that
they are doing better than many are
disposed to give them credit for. “Give
the devil his due;” if they work well,
praise them; if they don’t, charge them
up for laziness. The negro has the
“pocket nerve” as strongly developed
and as sensitive as any Yankee; touch
that and you will bring him to his work
quicker than by scolding.
Bethel.
Tbe Line Bridge qaestion.
Ed. Sun: —l find in your issue of
Sunday morning the agreement entered
into by the joint Commission of the
counties of Muscogee an Chattahoochee,
regarding the relation of the two coun
ties to the line bridges across the Upa
toie. The agreement is intheso words:
“We, the undersigned, commissioners
appointed by the ordinaries of Musco
gee and Chattahoochee counties to de
cide upon what bridges should be built
and kept up across the Upatoie creek,
the line between the two counties, re
spectfully report, that we have agreed
to have a bridge built across said Upa
toie creek, known as Bussey’s, said
bridge to be what is called a swinging
arch bridgo ; and to be built by Musco
gee county as soon as practicable.—
Muscogee county is to have entire con
trol of Bussey’s, Woolfalk’sand Schum
perts’ bridges in keeping them in good
order for travel. Chattahoochee county
is to have the entire control of Randall’s
bridge and keep it in good order.”
This arrangement is abont in accord
ance with the taxable ability of the re
spective counties, and left to itself,
should meet the approbation of every
citizen of the two counties. But the
commission did not stop here. They
proceeded to complicate the arrange
ment with the following additional
provision, which entirely unhinges the
whole affair. They say :
“It is further agreed that the counties
of Muscogee and Chattahochee shall
pay, at the end of each year, their pro
rata share of the expense of building
and keeping the said bridges in repair
according to the ratio of taxation.”
In the first paragraph they agree de
finitely as to the duties of the respective
counties. That Muscogee shall build
the Bussey bridge, and have control
over and keep in good order for travel,
the Bussey, the Woolfalk, and the
Schumpert Bridges. That Chattahoo
chee shall exercise like control over and
be responsible for the Randall bridge.
Then what means the provision that
each county “shall pay at the end of
each year, their pro rata share of the
expense of building and keeping the
said bridges in repair according to the
ratio of taxation.”
In this matter, complication, I think,
has been complicated.
Os the bridges set down to Muscogee,
one, the Woolfalk, has been rebuilt and
paid for by Mnscogee. The Schumpert
bridge is being rebuilt and paid for by
the same county, and the agreement is,
that Muscogee shall build the Bussey
bridge at her own expense. The one
allotted to Chattahoochee—the “Ran
dall bridge,” an old crazy structure, is
now standing, but in the very nature of
things, will have to be rebuilt in a year
or two. Mind you, Chattahoochee
county, by this agreement, is only re
quired to keep the present “Randall
Bridge” in good order, but should it
fall down or be swept away, then the
last provision obligates Muscogee to
contribute three-fourths of the money
necessary to replace it. All reflecting
minds must see the point.
I suggest that the Commission have
the matter re-committed, with a view
to a difinite arrangement—for Musco
gee to build the Bussey Bridge and keep
up that and the “Woolfalk” and
“Schumpert," and Chattahoochee, the
“Randall.” This will remove all com
plications and misunderstandings.—
Each county will then definitely under,
stand its duties and perform them.
Muscogee.
Destroying the Cotton Worm.—
The Goliad (Texas) Guard is informed
by Mr. T J. Tally that he has been very
successful, so far, in destroying the cot
ton worm, or rather the miller which
produces the worm. We give his
method: Mr. T. has constructed a large
number of shallow pans, of about two
feet in diameter and not more than one
inch in depth. These he fills with coal
tar, and in the centre he places a small
block of wood that reaches just above
the tar. On this block of wood Mr. T.
places a glass lantern of his own con
struction—any kind of glass lantern
will do—which is lighted between sun
down and dark. The light attracts the
miller, which, striking against the glass
of the lantern, is thrown into the tar,
when of course, its power for mischief
is done.
Exclamation of one who had seen
Niagara—“Oh, water falling off was
here !”[Judy.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY 7 , JUNE 15,1869
By Telegraph from Europe.
Madrid, June 7. —The constitution
was promulgated yesterday with great
pomp. The Executive Council and the
Cortes appeared on the platform, where
the Secretary of the Cortes read the
Constitution. The immense concourse
applauded loudly. Returning to the
Chamber each member of the Cortes
swore to protect and support the Con
stitution. Some hisses were heard after
the promulgation of the Constitution.
A tumult ensued, which only subsided
when the military fired. The Gover
nor of the City of Madrid rushed among
the foremost rioters, crying “Viva So
veranna Naccual.” This changed the
feelings of the fluctuating mob, which
joined in cheering the Governor, and
the tumult subsided. Only two killed
and several wounded. Subsequently
the Deputies returned to the platform
and reviewed 30,000 troops. The en
thusiasm on all sides was very great.
It was noticed, however, that none of
the Republican Deputies participated in
the proceedings. A civil procession
followed, with a grand banquet and fire
works. Over one hundred thousand
people from the country visited Madrid
during the day.
A bill will be introduced in the Cortes
to morrow creating Serrano Regent of
Spain, but without power to sanction
the laws or dissolve the Chambers.
Direct taxes in Spanish colonies have
been reduced one half, and a small ex
port duty ou sugar, rum and tobacco
imposed.
London, June 7. —The conservative
peers have agreed to oppose a second
reading of the dis establishment instead
of rejecting the bill, thereby gaining
time and avoiding excitement. The
majority in the House of Lords against
the bill is 80.
Madrid, June 7-—Much anxiety is
felt about Cuba. The Government is
unwilling to publish the telegrams from
Cuba, which increases uneasiness.
Paris, June 7. —Glanarwon the Prix
de Paris. The Emperor, Empress,
Prince Imperial, Queen Isabella of
Spain, Queen Sophia of Holland, and
other notables, were present.
Several arrests were made, attributed
to anew political conspiracy. Details
unknown.
From Wasliinictou.
Washington, June 7. Treasurer
Spinner has dispatches announcing the
plundering of the United States Depos
itory at Santa Fe. L. J. Collins, the
Depositor, was found shot through the
heart. The last statement from the
Depository showed nearly half million
to the Government’s credit. Depositor
Collins had been removed and his sue
cessor, who had just arrived, telegraphs
the tragedy.
Delano decides that States have no
right to throw convict produced arti
cles on the market until the Federal tax
is paid.
The President has submitted a Beries
of questions to tho Attorney Genera)
regarding the political position of Geor
gia.
The recent massacre in Kansas is
attributed to the shooting of a squaw.
Eleven citizens are known to have per
ished in retaliation.
The radicals carried tho election ; op
ponents made little contest and the
polls were abandoned to negroes. A
very serious riot occcured in the 2d
Ward. The negroes chased a conserv
ative man to a house and assailed the
house. The inmates escaped to their
friends, and found refuge in the upper
story. The police surrounded the
house and brought the conservative
down ; enclosed him in a hollow square
and took him to the poll where he voted.
The negroes now became furious and
threw a volley of stones and fired occa
sional pistol shots. The Chief of Police
was hurt in the arm. He ordered his
force to fire over the mob. This in
creased the mob’s violence, when the
police were compelled to fire a volley
directly into them, killing one and
wounding three, when the mob fled.
Earlier in the day a policeman was cut
with a razor and seriously beaten in
the 6th ward. A free fight,with several
harmless pistol shots, occurred in the
7th ward. In the 2d Ward Julius Wal
lace, colored, was knocked from a bug
gy and beaten for having scratched his
ticket. The Police rescued Wallace
but were badly battered. Timothy
Rogers was also badly beaten for vo
ting the citizens ticket. The rioting
was confined entirely to the negroes.
The police have behaved well. Negroes
show no disposition to molest whites so
far, but they are drinking freely which
causes much apprehension for safety du
ring the night.
The turbulence seems to be subsiding.
Prompt action of the police seems to
have subdued the more violent, while
orders to the marines to hold themselves
in readiness quiet the fears of the peo
ple. It is just to say that no respect
able colored citizen of Washington par
ticipated in or encouraged the violence.
From New York.
New York, June 7.—lt is reported
that a clipper ship, with 800 men, com
manded by Wm. Hendenny, of Cincin
nati, sailed Saturday, to join Cespedes.
The men left New York for an excur
sion to Fishing banks, on the Showers,
and boarded the clipper below light
ship. The majority are Western men
who served under Sherman or Thomas.
From Augusta.
Augusta, June 7. —The crop ac
counts are more favorable. The cotton
plant is small hut healthy. Weather
for the past week all that could be de
sired—warm and showery.
From Kansas.
Leavenworth, June 7.—The colo
nies in Jewell and Mitchell counties,
Kansas, have been driven into Wash
ington and Republic counties, and 20
killed. There is a panic in the North
western part of Kansas.
From New York.
Oswego, June 7.—The Erie Railway
shops, for the construction of bridges,
burned. Loss heavy.
From Ohio.
Cleveland, June 7.— The tug Asa
Covell exploded. The captain and
several others killed.
Josh Billings has joined the woman’s
rights movement- He says : “Yu kant
git a rooster to pay enny attenshun to a
young chicken. They spend their time
in crowing, struting, acd occasionally
find a worm, which they make a re
markable fuss over, calling up their
wives from a distance apparently tew
1 treat them, but just as the hens git
there, the cuss bends over and gobbles
up tbe morsel, for all the world just like
a man.” m
Wine is cheaper than milk in the
i California wine region.
Washington Letter.
Correspondence Charleston Courier.
Washington, June 1.
The statement that Lord Clarendon
had notified our Government since the
rejection of the Alabama Treaty, that
no treaty on the subject would ever be
assented to by the British Government,
unless bound upon the principal ot ar
bitration, is not yet confirmed by any
advices received from our late minister,
Mr. Johnson. This notice or declara
tion has not yet reached the Secretary
of State, but may reach him before the
end of the week, through Mr. Johnson
himself. It is not improbable that Mr.
Motley will be promptly advised of this
determination, and therefore, when he
shall be ready to re-open negotiations,
hejmay know upon what basis to pro
ceed—to wit—that of the rejected treaty.
Meanwhile, the extreme Radicals, and
their organs are engaged in “preparing
the hearts of the people for war,” and
in making hostilty to England the chief
issue of the Radical party Upon this
issue they expect, and not without rea
son, to secure the Irish vote, which
may be a turning point at future elec
tions. The experience of the opponents
of the war of 1812 is also a caution to
politicians against resistence to any war,
especially a war with England.
The alarm sounded at Memphis of a
conspiracy abroad extinguish the
cotton culture of the Southern States
will be increased by the threats of war.
England and France will certainly re
double their efforts to procure cotton
from Egypt and India, if the American
cotton trade is to be disturbed by war.
Tbe Radicals do not expect the South
to unite cordially in a crusade against
England, and this may serve as another
pretext for the exclusion of Southern
States and statesmen from Government
councils. One of the Radical schemes
is to declare non-intercourse with Great
Britain unless she comes to the Sumner
terms within six months. This would
serve their purpose by giving to the
North the exclusive control of the cot
ton crop at merely nominal prices,
while cNorthern manufacturers would
take the places of those imported from
Great Britain. Leo
From the New York Tribune.
Con Fuoco.
The programme of the Great Musical
Peace Jubilee in Boston is out, with, if
we may say so, a sort of typographical
slam bang. It is a fortissimo in type.
We have not ventured to read it aloud,
but to read it even silently is deafening.
It used.to be thought quite enough to
speak of volumes of sound, but here we
are to have voices out of all compass,
and a tone which will impart a treinan
do to the solid earth. If any deaf man
wishes to know whether he is absolute
ly, completely, hopelessly and lapide
ously deaf, now is his opportunity.
We notice from the numbers in the
programme, which would seem to indi
cate that there may be danger of shak
ing the Coliseum down, to the destruc
tion of the company, the four hundred
and twenty-four fiddlers “all in a row,”
and the immeasurable base-drum.—
What, for instance, do our readers
think of this ?
National Air. “The Star spangled
Banner,” with an additional verse, by
W. T. W. Ball.
“Not as North or as South, in the future
we’ll stand,
But as brothers united throughout this broad
land.
And tbe Star-Spangled Banner forever shall
wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the
brave,”
Sung by the full Chorus with Grand
Orchestra, Organ, Military Band,
Drum Corps, Chiming of Bells, and
Artillery Accompaniment.
“The additional verse,” by Mr. Ball
is good, and Ball is a very appropriate
name. This discharge of cannon, to
help out tho music, is a Russian custom,
and we trust that some Professor from
Alaska will be on the spot to time the
touch holes.
“My country, ’tis of thee,” has been
sung before several times, but it never
was sung as it will be on the 15th of
June in Boston. Observe :
National Air. Words written by
the Rev. S. F. Smith, D. D.
“My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty.”
Sung by the entire Chorus, accompani
ed by tbe Grand Orchestra of five hun
dred, Military Band of five hundred,
Great Organ, Full Drum Corps, Chim
ing of Bells, Infantry Firing, Cannon
Pealing in the distance in exact time
with the music. The audience are
respectfully invited to join in the last
verse.
The sonority on the third day, how
ever. will probably cap the climax, for
there is to be given that rare and almost
unknown piece, “The Anvil Chorus,"
which the excellent Yerdi must have
written with a prophetic eye to the
Coliseum and Mr. Gilmore. It is thus
announced :
Scene from “II Trovatore” including
the Anvil. Chorus Verdi.
Will be brought out with Grand Chorus,
Full Band of One Thousand, One
Hundred Anvils, Several Drum Corps,
Artillery, Bells, &c. The anvil part
will be performed by One Hundred
Members of tbe Boston Fire Depart
ment.
To engage one hundred firemen to do
the anvils was a fine idea, but why not
one hundred blacksmiths, all like “the
harmonious blacksmith”shadowed forth
in Handel’s piece of that name which
our grandmothers used to thrum upon
their rattling old harpsichords ?
We think that we must agree with
the gentleman who wrote the pro
gramme. This, as he says, will doubt
less be “the greatest feast of sublime
and inspiring harmony that has ever
been heard in any part of the world.”
A Distinguished Arrival by the
“Holsatia” The Largest Ele
phant in the World. —The elephant
Empress, formally the property of the
Emperor Alexander of Russia, arrived
at this port on Monday by the Holsatia,
from Hamburg. She is about 20 years
old and stands twelve feet and a half
high. At an early hour the Hamburg
steamer dock at Aoboken was crowded
with an eager throng, who waited pa
tiently for the enormous animal to come
forth. At last came the Empress slowly
and deliberately ; turning sharp at the
gang-plank she .suddenly gave a snort
and a roar that sounded like distant
thunder, and seemed disposed to make
trouble. The keeper sprang ahead,
and, in the most endearing manner
persuaded her highness to descend.
The ship almost careened as she ad
vanced a little more to the side, and one
huge foot, like a pillar of the Custom
House, rested on the gang plank. There j
was something absolutely touching in
the way the gigantic beast would reach
forth her trunk and put it around the
keeper, who would pat it and again j
invite the Empress to come on and not
be afraid. The huge animal slowly \
descended, the crowd parting silently
as she advanced. When she reached
the dock the people cheered loudly, and
the keeper put his arms around her
trunk, and kissed it with delight. As
for Her Highness, she trumpeted out i
her pleasure in a series of whistles and :
screams. Then advancing stately up 1
the wharf, and reaching terra firma
once again, she expressed her satisfac
tion by taking dirt in her trunk, and
tossing it up on her back. On reaching
the stable provided for her, the Empress
appeared delighted with her quarters,
and pranced and whistled, and seemed
well pleased with everybody. After a
short rest, Her Highness will accept the
freedom of the Central Park, tendered
by Andrew H. Green, Esq., for the
Commissioners, and on and after Fri
day will be happy to receive her friends
near the Mall.—W. Y. Times.
Suicide. Mr. Andrew Flynn, the
well known theatrical manager, (sajs
the Huntsville Democrat of the 3d,)
died last night, in this vicinity, of
wounds, voluntarily inflicted by his
own hand with a pistol, on the 30th of
April last.
Infellx— A Melancholy Case of Do
mestic lucougeuiality.
From tbe Louisville Courier-Journal.
The divorce case of Lucy Gray vs.
Wm. M. Gray, in the Chancery Court,
excited considerable comment in conse
quence of some of its peculiar features,
and the opinion redered by Chancellor
Wolley has given it more than usual
prominence. The opinion is peculiar,
too. It has few or none of the dry old
phrases common to the edicts of courts,
and is comparatively a novel piece of
work. It embraces all the facts in the
case, and we give it here entire:
LuC v, <sray \ Opinion and order re-
Wllllam M. Gray. $ manding to the rules.
This case exposes and illustrates the
judical error in granting divorces for
trivial or undefined causes.
At the first reading of the voluminous
record I thought that, contrary to my
idea of ethical rules and civil policy, I
should be forced to separate two people
who had agreed to live together by every
bond that is sanctioned by all laws
which men obey.
An earnest and able appeal in the
written argument by the young and
worthy counsel for the defendant in
duced a second reading of the record,
and the case is altogether different from
that which I thought it was. I see it
now.
In March, 1866, a marriage was sol
emnized between two young people of
good standing in social life. The hus
band was a physician, not more than
twenty-five years old, and commanded
an unusually large practice for one of
that age.
He was remarkable for his industry,
thrift, generosity, and religious habits.
The young counsel who has defended
him so ably in this case, was his school
mate, and I lay much stress upon his
earnest statement that the defendant
was a manly fellow while at school.
The respected minisier of the church
of which the defendant was a member,
declares that he was and is a genuine
Christian, and a good citizen.
Six or eight witnesses of undoubted
character, testify fully to the excellence
of the defendant as a man, and to his
just conduct as a husband. Looking at
him simply through the testimony of
his witnesses, he not only does not de
serve a shameful decree divorcing him
from the wife whom he says he still
loves but he is an example for many
husbands to follow.
The plaintiff' was a young girl, not
more than twenty years of age. Her
father was a gentleman in social rank,
and possessing a comfortable estate of
seventy-five or one hundred thousand
dollars. She received an excellent ed
cation, and all her witnesses, not less
than ten, describe her as gentle, tender
and loving.
The two young people married, wor
thy then, and with a future which seem
ed propitious. The husband had the
consent of his family, and the wife
more than the approbation of hers, for
the brother took an active part to se
cure the alliance.
They had but one child, that lived
long enough for the father and mother
to see their images reflected from a
common object of mingled love.
Scarely two years had passed before
the wife filed her bill in this court,
charging that her husband was cruel
and inhuman, and praying that the
bonds by which they were united might
be broken forever.
The husband answered and declared
that he always loved his wife, and fliat
he could not be cruel to her.
Her witnesses, not less than ten in
number, prove that he was cruel, inhu
man and mean, and that she was faith
ful, suffering, patient and tender.
His witnesses, almost as numerous,
prove that he was affectionate, attentive,
laborious, and loving his wife above all
things; and that she was a petulant,
quarrelsome and insupportable terma
gant.
Two of them go so far as to say that
she waved a white handkerchief from
her window to allure young men on the
street.
How is this ?
The answer is easy. The husband
was not cruel and inhuman. The wife
was not petulant or quarrelsome, and
the story of the white handkerchief
should not have been by fami
ly passion into the record, because it is
false.
Had these two people been allowed to
live and love together they would still
be faithful to the vows they offered,
which received a sanction higher than
that given by human law.
All her witnesses who prove anything
are her-family, her physician, her fami
ly friends, or the enemies of her hus
band’s-family.
All of his are of exactly the same
character.
Each family seemed to think it was
its right and duty to govern and control
plaintiff and defendant, or to make them
hate each other and then separate. I
never knew two stronger swearers than
the brother of the plaintiff and the broth
er of the defendant.
The tribes became hostile, and these
two people, so young, and so bound by
every thing to make man and woman
love each other, became the objects
which were used to gratify family rival
ry, hate and spite.
And now, without crime, but merely
misguided, with affections withered,
vows broken and the future blackened,
I am invoked to perpetuate this shame,
and let the man go marry another wo
man, and let the woman go marry an
other man. I will not do it.
And I have not given the only reason.
The civil law is supreme on this
bench. If the Chancellor believe in
other laws, which conflict with and are
superior to the civil law, he must aban
don his opinions or his place. This is a
place solely for human justice accord
ing to human law.
But if discretion be allowed—and in
cases of divorce the Chancellor has large
discretion—then all laws can be con
sulted which elevate mankind and ad
vance moral civilization—under such
circumstances what he thinks becomes
the law in the case. I have my views,
and, not now wholly fettered by human
statutes, I will enforce them to the hon
or of society.
Throughout the civilized world great
temples have been erected and conse
crated to the enforcement of a creed
which declares that there are other laws
besides human which govern the sacred
contract of marriage. If I were to de
clare that creed to be true, I should go
beyond my business. Were Ito deny
that it is true, I should be unfit for this
place. But many wiser and better than
I, believe it, and I must be careful lest I
offend a law higher than that adminis
tered in this court, and usurps jurisdic
tion higher than mine. Better to be
careful in tearing asunder bonds which
may be indisoluble elsewhere.
To dismiss this suit might not be right.
The proper course to take is to leave a
locus ’penitential.
This is the spring, and if they will go
to the grave of their dead child they will
find flowers there, and flowers suggest
forgiveness and love. They may yet
obliterate from the past all that was
painful, and obtain from the future all
that was so brightly promised.
Let the case go to the Rules.
R. W. Woolley, Chan, pro tern.
Advice to Cotton Planters.—A
correspondent of the New Orleans Pic
ayune, who says that he has been for
thirty-eight years “a trader of cotton in
New Orleans,” condenses into one sen
tence the true and only wise policy of
the Southern planters under the circum
stances at present surrounding them.
He says : “We have but two modes to
select from—the one to labor to increase
the product at large, reduce prices and
fall back to servitude; the other to plant
a few acres and increase product to five
fold, make all supplies for land, man
and beast, sell for gold, build up home
mechanics, manufactories, schools,
churches, neat and tasty homesteads,
work up the cotton crop into yarns or
cloth for export, and be independent of
i ‘profitable.’ Profitable trade! with a
, vengeance : our part being bread and
meat, a log cabin and common clothing,
1 and theirs, palaces and champaigue.”
From the Savannah News.
The Sadden Death of Dr. James T.
Patterson, on May 16th, IS6».
It has been truly remarked that Fate
turns the kaleidescope of humanity
most curiously, while we poor mortals,
the pieces, fixed in between the glasses,
called accident and circumstance, are
tossed about and meet in odd or beau
tiful contrast of size and color, and so
form the sometimes graceful, sometimes
angular figures from which Time weaves
the World’s human tapistry called social
life. Since this time last year, Fate has
turned the kaleidescope, and one of the
figures in social life, who was believed
to be in seclusion mourning as one that
would not be comforted, and received
the heartfelt sympathies of our citizens,
has been brought before the gaze ot the
public upon the charge of murder —the
grand jury of the Superior Court yester
day indicted Mrs. Catherine A. Pater
son, for the murder ot her reputed hus
band, Dr. James T. Paterson.
All of the statements which we pub
lish below have been known to us, and
many of our citizens, for several months
past, and many of them since, if not be
fore the death of the deceased. We re
frained from publishing them at the
time by request of friends of Mrs. Pat- |
erson, and for the reason that we did |
not wish to unjustly accuse, or wound ;
the feelings of one who might be iuno- I
cent. The lawshaving taken cogniz j
ance of the matter, and indicted Mrs. j
Patterson, we now deem it but our duty \
as public journalists to mention it, and j
would state that upon some of tbe state- j
ments, sworn to, we suppose, ol course, |
the grand jury found the indictment.
May God judge between her and her
accusers.
ACCOUNT OF THE DEATII OF DR. PAT
TERSON.
The following account of the death
of Dr. Patterson was published by us
on Monday the 18th of May, that be
ing the first issue of the paper after the
death.
'■'■Death of a Well-Known Citizen—lt
is supvosed that he committed Suicide. —
About one o’clock Saturday it was ru
mored that Dr. J. T. Patterson had
committed suicide by taking laudanum,
in his room at the Pavilion House.
“On making inquiries at the proper
sources we learned that Dr. Patterson
had died a few minutes before twelve
o’clock. The night before he came in
about eleven o’clock, apparently in a
very nervous condition, and laid down
with his clothes on. Between twelve
and two o’clock he arose and took three
or four drinks of spirits. His wife who
was lying on a lounge, being aroused
by movement or remark of the Doctor,
asked him what he had taken. His re
ply was “Laudanum.” She asked him
how much he had taken, to which he
replied “Forty drops.” “Is not that a
large dose?” she asked. “No, not for
a man of my nervous condition,” fie
replied. This remark quieted his wife,
and, after some further conversation
both went to sleep. About 8 o’clock in
the morning the proprietor ot the hotel
came in and asked the Doctor some
questions, to which ho made answers,
but none of them very rational. He
did not get up then, hut laid ou the
bed and sunk into a deep sleep, breath
ing very heavily. About 11 o’clock
his wife became alarmed at bis sleeping
so long and breathing so heavily, and
tried to awake liiui to consciousness.—
Failing in this she sent for Dr. Fish,
the attending physician, who arrived
about half past eleven o’clock. He
found tho patient in an insensible con
dition with all the indications which
follow the taking of laudanum. Reme
dies were found useless, and in a lew
minutes after tho Doctor arrived the
soul of James T. Patterson winged its
flight to another world.
“It is supposed by many that the de
ceased committed suicide, and there
are many rumors afloat on the streets
relative ;to the causes which prompted
him to ’end his earthly existence, but
we are not advised that any of them
have a just foundation.
“It is the opinion of Dr. Fish that the
deceased did not intend to commit sui
cide, that he had been drinking and
was nervous, and finding that he could
not sleep had recourse to laudanum, a
bottle of which was always kept on the
sideboard; that unwittingly he either
took more than he intended, or thought
that the qvantity taken would only pro
duce the repose of which he stood in
need. The Doctor states that he at
tended the deceased two or three days
previous, and had several conversations
with him and saw nothing either in his
conduct or conversation to indicate that
he was at all depressed or that he in the
le&et meditated killing himself.
“The deceased is a Scotchman by
birth very intelligent, and at the time
of his death was thirty-six years of age.
Several years previous to the war he
came to Boston, Mass., and engaged in
his profession of dentistry. There he
married and also there his wife died,
after which he removed hhe Charleston,
8. 0., where he worked as a dentist for
some time and then moved to Augusta,
Ga., where he worked at his profession.
While there he married his prosent
wife. At the breaking out of the war
he went to Richmond, Va., and, we
learn, was for some time a surgeon in
the Confederate States Army. During
the latter part of the war he was em
ploped in Richmond, Va., and Colum
bia, S. C.„ lithographing Confederate
money. After the close of the war,
some time in 1865, he removed to this
city. He bad been carrying on au ex
tensive lumber business for some time
past, having his mills at Darien and his
ofike here.”
Two days after the above account ap
peared a correction of it was published
in the News of Mrs. Patterson’s friends,
and at her instance, against which the
writer of said account protested, being
at that time fully convinced of the cor
rectness of his account.
the burial and the will.
Dr. Patterson died at 12 m. on Satur
day, and the remains were carried to
Augusta, on the Central train, the fol
lowing morning, and interred in the
family lot, in the cemetery of that place.
The will of the deceased, dated about
two years before his death, bequeathed
two-thirds of his property to his “belov
ed wife, Catherine A Patterson,” and
the remainder to his parents. Shortly
after the interment, Mrs. Patterson ap
plied to the Ordinary for a twelve
months support under the statute of
Georgia. The Ordiuary granted her a
large temporary allowance. The cred
itors of the estate resisted, and a day
was appointed for passing upon the ap
plication. The creditors argued that the
estate was insolvent, and the allowance
therefore, too large, and further that as
the law only allowed a twelve months
support to the widow, Mrs. Patterson
had no right to claim it, because, as
alleged by the creditors, she was not
the wife of the deceased, but had been
married before to a Mr. Talbird, and
had separated, but was not divorced
then, nor even at the death of Dr. Pat
terson.
Here Hie matter rested, excepting
that au aliv-v ■ m-.-, mm I, less than was
at first giantcd, » :;s in.vde for her sup
port.
EXHUMATION OF THE BODY.
About fivejdays after tho death of Dr.
Patterson his brother, Dr. Geo. Patterson
came to Savannah and made special in
quiries regarding the death of his broth
er, and having his suspicions aroused,
determined to have the contents of
the stomach of the deceased analyzed.
He went to Augusta and had the body
exhumed in the presence of the coroner
and the stomach taken out, after which
the body was reinterred. The stomach
waß then brought to Savannah, but for
some cause unknown to us, was taken
to Charleston without examination.—
Dr. Geo. Patterson applied there to have
the contents of the stomach analysed,
but the chemist asked such enormous
prices for so doing that he took it back
to Augusta, at which place Col. Rains,
Professor of Chemistry in the Medical
College there, made an examination
'and consented to make the analvzation,
which he did and found morphia.
the former marriage.
The creditors and Dr, Geo. Patterson
NO. 14.
claim that Mrs. Catherine A. Patterson,
reputed wife of Dr. James T. Patterson,
was the wife of J. H. Talbird, that she
was a Miss Catherine A. Browne when
she married him, and they had separat
ed but had never been divorced. Re
corded in the book of marriage licenses
in the Ordinary’s office is the following:
“J. H. Talbird to Catherine A.
Browne, March 20th, 1854, by Rev. J.
P. Tustin.”
Mr. Talbird is now living in Alabama,
and last fall was written to upon the
subject, and, we learn, replied confirm
ing the statements (as above mentioned)
of Dr. Geo. Paterson.
MRS. PATTERSON
Is a lady whose extreme beauty,
graceful manners, and intelligence have
been the theme and admiration of all
who have met with her. She is at pres
ent in Baltimore, but will of course, be
brought to this city at au early day, to
confront her accusers. She has many
friends in this city to whom this indict
ment will be as startling 8s a thunder
bolt from a cloudless sky. But they
must remember that au indictment does
not always by any means end in con j
viction. It will give her an opportuni
ty, if innocent, of quelling tbe numerous j
suspicions which have been afloat re- j
garding the manner of the death of Dr.
Patterson.
From tho Rome Courier.
Nutcnr Can bo Made from Narxliaai
ami Wttli Great Frolit.
When at Louisville, Ky., last week,
wo visited the works of the Southern
Sorgo Company, for the purpose of ex
aming the process by which they man
ufacture sugar from sorghum. We have
for a long time believed a process would
be discovered by which, under certain
conditions, sugar could be made from
the sorghum as certainly as it is from
the tropical and West India cane. We
were most happily surprised, on our
visit to the above works, to fiud our
faith so soon realized, by discoveries
that have already been tested by exten
sive experience iu the successful manu
facture of sugar from the sorghum plant;
and this, too, in quantities that place it
among the most profitable of all crops.
The process by which this is accom
plished has been patented, yet it is very
simple, and without the use of cherni
cals, or complicated machinery; the es
sential conditions being chiefly such
manipulations as shall not destroy pr
injure the granulating principle natu
rally existing in the syrup, and the re
moval of the gummy or glutinous matter
found in all sorghum molasses.
One of the most interesting features
of the whole process is the manuer in
which the latter object is accomplished.
The viscidity in the syrup that makes it
stringy, and to some extent prevents
granulation, is removed by precipita
iing the ingredient, causing it in the
form of a pulp, or coagulum, wfiich is
easily removed. But we cannot go into
a minute description of the process—
suffice it to say that the entire machine
ry that one would necessarily purchase,
beside tho crushing mill, costs about one
hundred dollars The disagreeable sor
ghum taste is removed from both syrup
and sugar, and every gallon of syrup
yields from four to six pounds of beau
tiful sugar—equal to the best New Or
leans brown, and four to six pounds of
syrup.
” Mr. J. H. Leebolt, ou whose premises
the works are situated, last year raised
40 acres of this cane. His crop yielded
an average of one hundred and fifty
gallons of syrup to the acre, and the
syrup six pounds of sugar to the gallon.
We have a sample of the sugar that
any person desiring to do so can see by
calling at our office; also a pamphlet,
containing tbe certificates of several ag
ricultural committees and scientific
gentlemen who have examined this
process of making sugar. The price of
the patent, for individual rights, we un
derstand, is one hundred dollars.
The Exiled Sheriff of Warren
County Returns and Claims his
Office. —From a reliable correspon
dent in Warrenton, we learn that the
self expatriated Sheriff of Warren coun
ty has, by and with the consent of Gov.
Bullock, returned to Warrenton, backed
by Gen. Terry’s military, to claim the
office which he so ignominiousiy aban
doned a few months since. Os the scene,
our correspondent writes:
“Old Warren county has been rein
stated in the Union, at least one would
surmise as much from “appearances.”
J. C. (‘Chap’) Norris, the party who
forfeited the office of sheriff, and who
has been remaining in Atlanta since,
returned yesterday. He was escorted
by a colonel and twenty men, and took
up bis quarters with the military during
the day. Last night he visited his house
being guarded by twenty men, and re
mained till this morning, when he mar
shaled his troops and returned to camp.
“It would have excited your facial
organs to an unlimited degree of risibili
ty to have witnessed this grand and im
posing display of Imperialism Jin the
Republican county of Warren. The
venerable ex-High Sheriff, with an im
mense cane in hand, and with tbe air of
one who comes to conquer, took posi
tion twenty yards in front of his escort,
waved his baton, and the procession
moved off.
“It is impossible for me to give any
thing like a description of this redicu
lous affair, and will trust to your imag
ination more than my ability.
"Governor Bullock has written to
Major Van Voast, that Norris is entitled
to the office of sheriff, but the law aud
people say otherwise; therefore, Mr.
B.’s letter will not accomplish much.
“The military examined the record
concerning the appointment of Mr.
Raley (Norris’ successor), and, up to
last night, were of the opinion that Nor
ris could not be reinstated.
“We expect some lively times here
during the day—that is, pulling among
the lawyers.
“Bullock’s object in sending Norris
here, is plain, and seeing it we hope to
defeat it.
“They can’t knock the pegs from
under civil law in Warren, unless they
can get Norris back. Once reinstated,
he would declare himself unable to
execute the law, and call on the mili
tary for assistance. Securing that
(which he undoubtedly would) an in
discriminate arrest would follow.
“This is a grand move on the part of
Bullock, Norris and the Radicals, but
it is too near the surface to succeed.”
Up to the closing of tho mail yester
day morning, at f) o’clock, no other
developments had taken place. There
was an unreliable rumor that a squad
of soldiers were to visit the Adkins
neighborhood yesterday, for the purpose
of making some arrestß.— Aug. Const.
Repudiation in Florida— The New
York Herald says the Radical factions
in Florida, “after a sanguinary contest
among themselves, have come to the
conclusion to repudiate the debt of the
State. It appears that under the Glea
son Osborn dynasty bonds were issued
to the extent of $30,000 to run the State
government. The money was raised
and covered into the State Treasury.
The last Legislature authorized the
issue of bonds at six per cent, running
thirty years, to the amount of $500,000.
They were to be negotiated through the
State Comptroller at not less than 75
cents on the dollar. The present Gov
ernor Reid, who seems to be at logger
heads with the Legislature, learning of
their action, set about to manipulate
the Comptroller so as to prevent the
negotiation of the bonds. He not only
succeeded in this, but got the State
Treasurer to refuse to pay the interest
on the $30,000 issued by the Gleason-
Oaborn taction. The result is that the
State Treasury is bankrupt, and parties
who bought the first bonds are likely to
lose both principal and interest.”
This is bad businegs for Florida. Re
pudiation is the worst thing that can bo
done by a State. In the case of Florida,
however, the act is one of officials, and
not of the people—radical officials who
have thus far done more to destroy the
credit of the State and retard the pros
perity of the people than they will ever
be able to repair or atone for. Alas,
poor Florida, when will the oppressor
cease to trample upon you ?
Love-lntrlgnM in Egypt.
An Egyptian girl or woman, con
cealed behind her shu-bak (window),
sees pass a man who pleases her fancy.
She calls, and as the head of the un
known is raised, a flower, a note, or a
handkerchief is dropped at his feet.
This is not yet a rendezvous, but au
invitation to come again near the place.
At tbe moment the favored one leaves
tbe spot, the door opens and a enuch or
negress follows him. This servant is
charged to know who he is, where he
rests, what is his name and condition in
life.
The day after, in passing by the same
house, if a flower or other token again
falls from the same window, the lover
knows that the report of the servant is
made, and that his suit is favorably re
ceived.
“Now,” adds Nahmoud (I translating
into fairer English his odd expressions),
“is the dangerous time. Sometimes at
the case, sometimes in the street, you
are met by au old woman, who tells
you that such and siM a man has a
beautiful daughter wtro wants to marry.
She has the beauty of a princess and all
the charms that can tempt tho imaglna
tion.”
“I wish to see her !” says the lover.
“Impossible,” replies the old dame.
“Gaze upon tho beauty of a child oi tho
faithful before marriage—Mohammed
forbid !’’
“1 wish to see her,” repeats the lover,
unmoved, and he slips a piece of gold
into the woman’s hand.
“You shall behold the glory of her
eyes,” replies the woman, softened.
“No more ?” asks the lover, and
another backshish is pressed on the
woman.
“You shall behold her rosy mouth,
filled with teeth beautiful as the pearls
on the sultaua’s neck."
“More !”
And, at the third gold pieco, tho wo
man leaves the lover, saying, “You are
a prince and I am your slave 1”
From that the interview is determined
on.
The best occasion is generally that of
the mosque or baths. In the shadows
ol the former, at a proper moment, the
girl will remove her veil, even so far as
to expose her neck and shoulders, that
is if some jealous enuch i9 far enough
away. As to the bath—that is a thing
more full of danger and coquetry. The
master of the bath is nearly always iu
the intrigue. He has two backshishes
to gain; one on the part-of the woman,
another from the lover. The enuchs,
or slaves, rest at the door of the bath.
These immense halls have a cupola ou
high, pierced with a thousand little
holes, each of wfiich is supposed to bo
covered with glass; but the lover disco
vers that some are not thus closed when
he is led by the master to the roof of the
building, where, if he be wise, he will
be able to judge of tbe beauty of the
woman he loves as she rests in all the
charming neglige of the bath toilet.—
“Sentimental Idler," in Appleton's Jour
nal.
From the Schenectady Recorder.
UriiiKlc Lose* 111 m Oldest Boy.
I lost mi boy a spell ago, and I didn’t
kno -where tew And him.
The sunny hared Sumyul, him it wuz
who made himself scarce and Ailed hiz
parunt’s bozoms full of severe grief.
1 bed notist the boy some time afore
ho disappeared giving a dim mustas his
tcnderest care—caressin it fondly at
times and stealing oph to sum quiet spot
to view it with a critick eyo in a piece
of broken lookin glass. Then again
when he knew not his parunt’B eyewaz
on him, he wud take impreshuns ov it
in putty and then complacently kount
each filmy hare. He bed mustash on
the brain. He didn’t hev enny tew
speak ov on his upper lip.
But Samyul disappeared vanisht
from hum and left not si trace behind
exceptin hiz ole kloes and the rest of hiz
effects that he didn’t have on.
We searched for him hi and 10. The
cisten’s depths wuz explored, but un
fortunately Sarnyul was not found. The
town crier did hiz dooty but all tew no
a vale. Sarny ul wuz lost and our house
hold contained a vacant chair.
I wuz just on the pint ov offerin a
large reward for hiz cold korpse, when
Kusick (a friend of mine) came tew mo
one mornin fore I wuz u?p and sed—
“Krink, I hev found your son 1”
Sez I, “You don’t say so. Bring
him hither till I smother him with a
kiss.”
“Not so fast,” said Kusick. “I will
inform thee ov his whereabouts and you
kin hasten tew him.”
And then Kusick told me that mi son
wuz lyin sad and lonesum in a koal
room adjacent to a barber Bhop. He bed
went and got hiz mustash colored, and
after the deed wuz did bed not the kur
ridge tew appear onto the street. On
williu tew hev it shaved off, and thus
lose what hed bin the object ov his ten
derest care for several months, he had
bribed the barber tew konseal him and
bring him cold vittleß till hiz mustaßh
hed resoomed its normal hew. And
thus I found him. I went into the bar
ber shop and confronted the head sha
ver. “Hev you got enny ov mi offspring
confined in this place?” (I heard Bam
yul heave a despairing groan through
the thin board partishun.) “A young
man languishes in the adjacent coal
bln,” sed the man with raizers, “but I
don’t know whose offspring he is."
I entered Bamyul’s prison cell, and
stood before him in a stern, dignified
Bhape.
He looked up very sheepish with his
disfigured upper lip and sed:
“Dad, don’t tell nobody."
“Sez I, “Samyul, how could you go
and get yure mustash colored without
the consent ovyour parunts ?” Ho bust
intew tears, and I raised him by the
coat collar and give him a squared-toed
leather medal. I made him walk thrue
the streets in brod daylite, but he kept
his hat over his face.
Kusick commenst tew poke fun at him
when we arrove at hum, but, sez I,
“Kusick, let up; the boy hez suffered
enuff.” Kringle.
Remarkable Disinterestedness of
an English Capitalist.— The Wash
ington correspondent of the New York
Herald, says:
An extraordinary case has come to
the knowledge of the Treasury Depart
ment. It is not exactly a case of con
science, but a remarkable instance of
justice from one of her Majesty’s loyal
subjects. An Englishman, formerly a
member of Parliament, has written to
Secretary Boutwell, saying that he is a
holder of one Government bond to a
certain amount which bears six per
cent, interest. He says that this is a
higher rate of interest than the Govern
ment ought to pay ; that three per cent,
is quite enough, and in proof or his
sincerity he encloses a SI,OOO bond and
some coupons, amounting in the aggre
gate to about $1,500, for the purpose of
reducing the interest to three per cent.,
in accordance with his idea of justice.
Since sending this enclosure he has
written another letter asking to ex
change his six porcent. bonds for bonds
bearing three per cent., and reiterating
his conviction that our Government
ought not to pay interest to exceed that
rate. Secretary Boutwell has written
to him and invited him to visit this
country, with a view to a conference
upon a subject in which he has taken
such an extraordinary interest, and in a
direction so contrary to his own. It is
certainly a remarkable circumstance,
and unless it can be accounted for upon
the theory that it is the inauguration of
a plan to pay off Alabama damages
without the bother of Government ne
gotiations, the solution of the mystery
will havo to be deferred until the arrival
of the honest ex-Parliamcntanan.
Savannah Postmaster.— We learn
from the Washington Republican that
A. B. Clark, J. J. Waring, Joseph
Titcomb, Benjamin Rogers, F. Stand
ish, W. R. Clift and H. Tilden are the
bondsmen of W. L. Clift, the newly
appointed postmaster at Savannah. —
These parties, with the exception of
Dr. Waring, who is a well known citi
zen of Savannah, (says the Republican)
are supposed to hail from somewhere
in the neighborhood of Boston.
Stand from Under Kimball’s
Opera House Falling Down. —We
received a letter last night in which it
is stated, “yesterday morning the plas
tering began falling all around and it
was dangerous to stay in it. Near the
Governor’s office the foundation of the
2d story gave way. Workmen are now
trying to repair it, but the great defect
ia the foundation and it cannot be re
paired so as to make it safe.
Udgevillt Unio.n