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BI« lIMUrS.
Tuo Washington correspondent of the
Kew York World, writes about the In
dian uelegaVion now on a visit to Grant,
as follows : y .
Spotted Tail, Swift Hear, Fast Bear,
and Yellow Hair, the four Sioux braves
who arrived hero yesterday iu charge
of Captain De Witt U. Poore, United
States Array, in charge of Whetstone
agency, and the Brule tribe of Sioux,
accompanied by the interpeter Gueru,
visited the Indian Bureau to cay to
smoke the pipe ot peace and nave an
informal talk with Commissioner I ar
ker. The party being some two hours
behind time, the Commissioner had lett
the building previous to their arrival,
and they returned to their hotel with
out seeing him. It seem3, from the
declarations of Spotted Tail himself,
that his visit to Washington has noth
ing directly to do with that of Red
Cloud, and that, instead of acting as an
avant courier to the latter, he comes
here specially delegated by his tribe,
the Brule Sioux, to see if the govern- i
ment intends to carry out the treaty
stipulations made by the peace commis
sion in 1808. He declares frankly that
the Indians mean either feed or fight,
and are almost indifferent to whatever
policy the government shall pursue.
This, lie says, is owing to the fact that
summer is now at hand, and the In
dians for six monthsat least will be able
to take care of themselves. The whole
Hioux tribe —and the story is corrobor
ated by Captain Poole, the agent he :
represents as very much incensed at the
peace commission, which, he claims, |
should never have been given power to
make treaties without the power to ful
fil them. In the absence of any special
legislation by Congress these Indians
have been fed out of the two million
fund, which is already exhausted, so
that on the 30th of June next, accord
ing to the statement of their agent,
there will not be a single head of cattle
left at. the Whetstone agency to feed
them. The agent trembles for the re
sult, unless the Indians are given to un
derstand that their rations will be con
tinued. To see whether the govern
ment intends to do this or not is now
the object of Spotted Tail’s visit, and
he holds the hatchet in his hand ready
to strike or bury it as the issue may de
termine. Red Cloud comes on a gener
al mission from the whole Sioux tribe,
numbering nearly forty thousand souls,
and will be empowered to declare war
or make peace, at his option. The In
dians now here are very anxious for
Red Cloud's party to make its appear
ance. They seem to have pretty much
gotten over the dislike of the whites
that they manifested on their first ar
rival. They already complain of a
want of air and moving room, and open
ly express a desire to return to the fron
tiers. On questioning Spotted Tail this
morning, through the interpreter, about
its experience since leaving his tribe, he
replied with evident satisfaction that he
was much pleased with the treatment
he ha.l received. The sleeping cars
particularly, in one of which the party
came most of the way to Washington,
afforded him the utmost satisfaction.
A finer looking Indian than Spotted
Tail it would be difficult to find. His
irame is massive, tailoring down gradu
ally from herculean shoulders to a well
proportioned waist, although his height,
which is fully six feet, is not apparent
until one stands close by him. His face
is broad and decidedly pleasant in its
expression. The others show the In
dian traits ol features much more mark
ed then Spotted Tail. The latter, in the
presence of strangers, sits with his
hands and feet crossed. His manner of
speaking is slow and dignified,
though not heavy nor particularly
impressive, lie receives the little
presents ottered him with a grace
ful courtesy and a look straight into the
eyes of the donor, as if he -would fix Ids
face in his memory beyond the possi
bility of forgetfulness. The party
smoke a great deal. The mouth piece
of the pipe is a flattened piece of wood
about two feet long, tastefully orna
mented with ribbons and deer sinews.
Thu material for smoking consists 01 a
portion of plug tobacco and dried red
willow bark, making a mixture decid
edly pleasant to the taste. The whole
party evince a good degree of cleanli
ness in their habits, using water as
freely and frequently as the whites.
The delay this morning in waiting on
the Commissioner was owing to the fact
that clean shirts had not arrived from
the washerwoman, and they wished to
make the Best possible appearance be
fore their great father. Their Bhirts, in
contrast with the rest of their attire,
which was decidedly savage,[gave them
a rather ludicrous appearance as they
walked through the streets, and a con
siderable crowd gathered iu their wake.
To morrow they will again wait upon
the Commissioner of Indian Alfairs,
but will not hold a formal consultation,
as Spotted Tail desires to have two or
three days to prepare his speech in.
llow Mu. Heck Got Thkough the I
Circumlocution Office. —Mr. Hcck, ;
of Kentucky, gave in the House the
other day a racy history of his experi i
ouces in getting through the “Oircum- i
locution Oiliee.” He said that in col
leeting a judgment of the Court of [
Claims, a lawyer had to go through the I
following devious ways :
I— Went to the Chief Clerk of the j
First Auditor; he stated the account and ;
computed the interest.
a—Went to another Clerk in the same j
office, who copied and numbered the j
account.
d—Went to another Clerk in the First |
Comptroller's office, who registered in |
l\is book the number and amount of the j
account.
4 Went to the Chief Clerk of the !
First Comptroller, who valued the ac- j
count and the computation of interest, j
5 Went to the lirst Controller, who j
signed it.
6 Went buck to No. 3, who again
verified it.
7 Went to tlm Register's Clerk, who 1
copied and registered it.
8 — Went to the Deputy Register, who
signed it.
o—Went to the Warrant Clerk and
obtained a warrant.
10—Went to Mr. West, the Chief
Clerk, who signed it.
ll Went to Hartley, the Assistant
Secretary, who signed it.
12— Went to Mr. Lamb, in the Con
trotter's office, who registered it.
13— Went to ttie First Controller, I
who signed it.
14— Went to the Register’s Clerk, ■
who copied it.
IC—Went to;Register Allison, who
signed it.
Hi—Went to Mr. Mann, in the draft
room, where the draft was made.
17—Went to Mr. Tuttle, Assistant
Treasurer, who signed the draft.
15— Went to the Register’s Clerk,
who recorded the draft.
19— Went to Recorded Allison, who
signed the draft. |
20- -Went to Mr. Maun, who took my
receipt for the draft and handed it over
to me.
2.1 --Ti rated Mr. Mann, to ft whiskey |
toddy. [Loud laughter.]
John liussell Young,of the New fork
Standard, nominates liana, of the Sun,
for Coronor of New York city. He j
thinks the man and the office would suit
each other singularly well. Asa speci ,
men of his reasoning, we print an cx
tract:
Mi . Dana prints an indecent sensa 1
lion newspaper, lor instance—and think
ot the “sensations” that would come
into his exclusive possession ! In the
matter of private letters, what unrival
led opportunities ! What rare columns !
of exclusive and interesting information! !
What chances to invade stricken house- i
holds, with a trial of familiars as a
“jury,” and write up the furniture, the !
bed-linen, the plate, the pictures, the I
jewels, the packages of letters in secret
drawers, the conversation of domestics,
the unguarded words of the woe begone |
survivors ! Such advantages are price- j
less.
Wendell Phillips is in favor of Sum
ner and Revels as the next Radical
Presidential ticket. Theodore Tilton
prefers Eutlerand Revels. Revels stock
is on the rise decidedly. Colfax is clear
out of the ring. He is as little thought
of as Grant. The Radicals are sick and
tired of free love and gift horses. They
want something fresh, and Revels is as
fresh as a daisy and twice as odorous, j
—Louisville Courier-Journal. I
Very Important to I>rn».Kar..* mna
Opium Eaters.
A correspondent, writing from Ten ,
nessee, says that he is assured by the ,
most prominent citizens of Memphis j
that an efficacious remedy has been ;
found for the disease of intemperance, ,
whether prouuced by excessive use of .
liquor or opium. The following is his
statement of the fact:
During my pleasant sojourn iu .Mem
phis, Tenn , my attention was called to
a matter of great importance to the
great masses of the men who seem to be
vicing with each other iu efforts to ruin
themselves by intemperance, and we
really think they should be called upon
at least to reflect and learn for them
selves what I was assured by the. most
prominentcitizens of Memphis had been
found for the relief of those who are
unable to control their appetite * or
opium and liqyor. T n
During the cholera iu 1860, Dr. ■
Stillman, who now resides tn Memphis,
originated a theoretical piepara . >
; the purpose of injecting into the veins
ol collapsed cholera pattenis which was
a natural blood pabulum, holding large
ly the organic gases. The success of
the preparation induced him to .ry its
effects internally by the stomach. He j
found that it answered the purpose of
liquors, but produced no unpleasant ef
fects. The preparation is very pleas
ant, and i3 used in a great variety of
forms in beverages.- He found that by
using this once, the drunkard became
more desirous of it than liquor, and
that after he had used it for a certain
length of lime lie ceased to desire it, I
and found that liquors of all kinds, to !
bacco, and almost everything unnatural
to the system becomes obnoxious to him.
This becoming known, the experiment
was tried upon the most abandoned ;
cases of the city, who were in the state j
of delirious whreteheduess. The sue
i cess was just as complete with the most \
popu’ar gentleman as with others, and ;
the thing has become generally known ;
i in this section by success in every trial.
The idea developed in Dr. Stillman’s i
| mind, the philosophy of a natural sys- |
Item of reaching those ills of life.. This |
did not satisfy the theory of Dr. S , that j
this was available for every ill that roan
is heir to ; so his efforts were directed
towards the opium or morphine eater, i
i He had commenced treating a popular j
gentleman in Mississippi. Just a week ;
before a lady in Memphis had taken
twenty grains of morphine to poison |
herself. She took it at 4p. m., she was
abandoned by the most popular city
physicians as beyond any possibility of
1 cure. i
Dr. Stillman heard of the case, and ■
took it in hand at half-past nine o’clock.
; At two a. m., the reporters of the Mem
j phis Appeal visited her, and pronounc
ed her beyond all hopes of recovery, j
! yet Dr. Stillman continued until morn
ing, and finally succeeded in fully re
| storing her. The city journals gave
the.corrected account in their issues of
I the 24th and 25tb of May, 1860, which
j called the attention of many victims of
opium and morphine to this counteract
| ing power, perhaps available to restore
them to their original constitution.
The fact having become known through
I the medium of the press that it was in
i reality successful in relieving the worst
eases, many are now rejoicing in a per
fect freedom from those disagreeable
| habits, as the result.
From tho Noiv York Express.
Wlmt We Are Homing- 'SPo,
Not in the way of going to the bad,
but of “goiug ahead,” is thus illustrat
i ed by a pneumatic tube working be-
I tween Glasgow and London. Hays a
correspondent:
‘‘l had occasion to send a telegram
to London the other day, and in a few
minutes received a reply which led me
to suppose that a serious error had been
committed by my agents, involving
many thousand pounds. I immediately
went to the telegraph office and asked
to see my message. The clerk said,
‘We cau’t show it to you, as we have
sent it to London.’ ‘But.,’ I replied,
‘you must have my original paper here;
I wish to see that.’ He again said,
‘No, we have not got it, it is in the
post office at London.’ ‘What do you
mean ?’ I asked. Pray, let me see the
paper I left here half an hour ago.’
‘Well,’ said he, ‘if you must see it, we
will get it back in a few minutes, but it
is now in London.’ He rang a bell,
and in five minutes or so produced my
message, rolled up in pasteboard. It
seems that for some months there has
existed a pneumatic telegraph between
Glasgow and London, and betwixt Lon
don and other principal cities of the
Kingdom, which consists of an iron
tube, into which the messages are
thrown and sent to their destination.
I inquired if I might see a message sent
‘Oh, yes; come round here.’ He slipped
a number of messages into the paste
board scroll, popped it into the tube
and made a signal. I put my ear to
the tube and heard a slight rumbling
noise for seventeen seconds, when a
bell rang beside me, indicating that the
I scroll had arrived at the General Post
I Office, four hundred miles off ! It
almost took my breath away to think of
j it. If I could only go to Boston with
the same relative speed, you might J
j count upon my passing an evening every I
week at No. 124 Bacon street, and re- |
j turning home to sleep. Who knows
I but that we may be conveyed in this
j marvelous manner before many years ?
| Perhaps you are aware that there has
i been a large tube between tho General
| Post Office in London and the station
| in Eustic Square, in operation for a
number of years. Tho mail bags for
' the North arc all sent by this convey
! anco, So that the post office receives 1
! letters up to a few minutes before the (
train leaves, three miles off. The Iran- j
sit takes less than two seconds ! Surely !
i this is an age of wonders.”
The time is not far distant when the j
; United States mails, as well as all small |
! parcels, will thus be received and for
i warded between important parts of the
country and of the commercial world.
I Uncle Sam must wake up to the itn
j provements of the age. Wo are beaten
in commerce, ships, railroads, under
ground roilroads, ship canals, like
those of Suez, pneumatic tubes, Ac.
Wake up, capitalists!
Tbe Fault tug Bill.
Treasurer Spinner has written another
letter to the President ot the New York
Nation Bank, in which he says that the
i prospect is that the banks are refusing
a more liberal offer than will ever he
presented them hereafter. He says that
their blind and selfish course will, no
i doubt, force upon the country tho ques
tion whether banks shall be permitted
to issue any paper, to be used as money,
' or whether ail money shall not be issued
by the Government itself, and thereby
saving to the people, in interest, from
twenty to thirty million dollars in gold
annually, lie thinks It is'a mistake to
i claim that the banks can resume when
the Government resumes. Should the
Government resume, he says, the banks
could at any time compel it to suspend,
j unless it was prepared to Tedeem bank
i circulation and its own .t the same time.
Ho mentions a scheme that would boa
good compromise between the people
and the banks; but, as the banks are
now in earnest opposition to a plan
much more favorable to their interests,
with seeming success for the present at
least, he declares that there can belittle
hope for the success of any sort of a
i compromise that the banks w ill not qp
! pose. With the rejection by the House
of Representatives of the Senate bill
compromises between the Congress and
the banks will probably end, and the
whole question of banks and the finance
of the country may then be brought
I out at the polls.
1 Two Debuts.—Fifth Avenuedledom
has been exercised over the debut in
opera ot a Mrs. Imogen Brown (Brown
as a name for a prima donna is good but
gloomy,) in Verdi’s “Ballo en Masche
ra.” The event attracted a number of
, fashionables, and the lady sang, at
times, charmingly, but was, according
to the Tribune, "hardly equal to more
passionate scenes.” In addition to
Mrs Brown, a Signor Filippi, all the
1 way from the "golden South Americas,”
t made his first appearance, and mani
fested a voice of sweetness and uniform
ity. Having been “shaken up,” musi
cally, by these two debuts, society,
yawned, the opera season was closed,
and the precarious managers retired to
muse on the impossibility of making
o pera a permanent institution in New
ork. __
I Mrs. Jeremiaji Colbaith is dead.
A Mglil Beene in (lie Senate.
The Washington coriespondent of
tho New York Tribune furnishes a
graphic description of the all-night ses
sion of the Senate Friday night, the
20th inst., when the bill to enforce tbe
fifteenth amendment was before that
body. It appears that tue Radical man
agers had determined to sit it out that
night, unless the Democrats would agree
to some arrangement to take the vote
on Saturday. Tbe Senate accordingly
reassembled at ball past seven o’clock,
and if no further amendment short, a be
offered, there was a hope of getting
through at a respectable hour ; but
amendment after am, ndment was made
until a great bundle lay upon the Clerk s
desk. The Vice President, seeing how
things were going, and probably think
ing his new home duties required his
attendance, put a substitute in tbechair
and departed. Ju->t before midnight,
Mr. Stewart made a proposition to ad
journ, with the understanding that the
final vote be takcu at 3 o’clock on Sat
urday. Every one apparently agreed
to this, and there was a great rush for
hats and canes when Mr. Casserly put
in an objection. Shortly after he with
drew the objection, bu. Ml. Stewart had
in the meantime got his ire aroused, and
curtly declined to renew his offer. All
then saw there was to be a night oi it,
and made their arrangements accord
ingly. Several Senators who lived
near the capitol, aud who could be easi
ly summoned If their votes were neces
sary, went home to bed. The tactics
determined upon by the majority were
to preserve a “golden silence,” and
vote, and, leaving enough to watch and
ward, the rest snugly ensconced them
selves in the sofas, or went into the re
tiring rooms to chat aud smoke. Tha
correspondent says : “Then that small
band of Democrats, under the lead of
Thurman, girded up their loins for the
; contest. Their leader did wonders.
Always full of dash, and quick at re
partee, he fairly excelled himself. Not
once through the long vigils of that
night did his eve-lids droop, hut, oa his
feet almost constantly, he fought inch
by inch the multifarious propositions of
the bill, and so forcible and ingenuious
were his arguments, thatmorc than once |
the friends of the bill were compelled
to forego their resolution and answer j
him. And go the hours wore on, the i
galleries deserted, except by a few of |
those houseless wanderers to whom an
all night session is a grateful godsend,
and who were enjoying the unwonted
luxury of a nap on cushioned benches.
On the floor the scence was one worthy
of a painter. Eight Democrats sat
there stiff In their seats, glaring with
lynx eyes, the venerable Messrs. Davis j
and Vickers, with the weightof seventy
winters pressing upon their fragile
forms, as wide awake as any. Opposite
to them sat perhaps as many Republi
caus, watching aud being watched,
while on every sofa lay the prostrate
form of some dignified and slumbering
Senator. From out the retiring-rooms
came great clouds of tobacco smoke, the
chink of glasses and loud conversation,
which sometimes drowned the strains
of Democratic eloquence. It could not
be said that those eight grim warriors
“filibustered” or that they fought like
guerrillas, but rather as a well trained
hand of regulars, and tinder the lead of
the adroit parlamentarian, Thurman, it
mast be confessed that they fought
well Seizing every opportunity of at
tack that Was presented, and aiming at
every unguarded point, the representa
tives of the majority were constantly
obliged to send for tb ir reserves.
It was no doubt irritatim: to those
who were taking it so easy in Hie
retiring-room, listening to one of Mr.
Nye’a refined stories, to be called off
just as the point was coming in ; and it
was certainly anything but pleasant to
those who were settling themselves for
a good nap, to be constantly roused up
to vote. Sometimes it required two or
three to call a sleeper from his dreams,
and more than one ludicrous incident j
occurred. Once Revels, when not en-1
tirely awake, created considerable j
amusement (in which ho himself join
ed) by answering first ‘aye’ and then i
‘nay’ for several times, before he ascer
tained the right side of the question.”
A Marvelous Spring.
A correspondent of the Athens
Watchman gives to that journal some ;
interesting reminisicences in the past j
history of that burg and vicinity, going j
hack fifty odd years.
We clip the following account con
cerning Mrs. Uriah Humphries, one of
the first settlers of that section, and of
the “Humphries Spring,” a modern
rival of Ponce de Leon’s fabled Florida ,
Fountain of Youth;
Mrs. Humphries was the mother of
eighteen children, of which fact Hum- j
phries was very proud, and when a lit- j
tie excited, (he took a dram occasion- 1
ally) made his boast of his wife’s won
derful success in that department of!
home industry, saying; “Sir, she had
twins twice, and once she had three at
a breath," (meaning at a birth, I pre- j
sumo—lie was an illiterate man.) Aud
this brings me to the reason why some
of the ladies were desirous to visit j
Humphries’ spring. Mrs. Humphries’ I
very remarkable power of reproduction !
was attributed by some, in part, to the
use of a spring of exceedingly delicious
water, containing a little more of car
bonic acid than is usually found in com-,
mon springs equally cold, and hence
more of it could be taken into the stom
ach without producing oppression, j
Well, the puny, sickly ladies from the
miasmatic districts, who came to com
mencement, hearing of Mrs. -Humphries
and the spring, used to ride out to test
the virtue of the water. Our own
healthy, strong up country women did.
not seem to consider that they needed
any such adjuvant, and consequently
did not attach much importance to its
use. But Mrs. Humpries, whether ow
ing to the spring, water or to some other I
cause, was a hearty, strong woman at ;
the time of her husband’s death, and
would dash into town on horseback,
and looked as if she were abundantly
able to bear half a dozen children more,
t do not remember whether she mar
ried the second time, but it was sup
posed that she was not at all averse to it.
Tile Armory Jlaiinfiictory.
We are pleased to be able to announce
that the contract between the city au
thorities of Macon and Col. John T.
Snead, Secretary and General Agent of
tha “Armory Manufacturing Compa
ny,” was legally closed ou Friday.
This arrangement secures for the city
another strong manufacturing enter
prise, the benefits of which will be real
ized within a very brief period.
The capital stock of the Company is
$500,000. The city has conveyed to
the association land to the amount of
23£ acres, which includes the Armory
buildings and the improvements. The
consideration received is stock certifi
cates to the amount of $75,000, to be is
sued to the city. The balance of the
stock—s42s,ooo—is paid up ; conse
quently the Company starts with build
ings far advanced toward completion,
and ample space of grounds paid for,
and a cash capital to prosecute further
| improvements, of $425,000. The iuter
-1 ests of the city will he represented in
■ the Board of Directors by one member.
The Company designs to proceed, at
once, with the work of repairing the
buildings, and placing the machinery.
The latter will comprise works for the
manufacture of cotton and woollen fa
brics, yarns, etc. The grounds will be
enclosed, and the dwellings for opera
tives erected within the enclosure. The
capacity of the machinery, it is content
plated to use, will require the attention
of 300 operatives. These, with their
families, will no doubt comprise a total
population of from 1000 to 1500 souls;
so that we may soon expect to witoess
the addition oi an average town, made
up of a producing community, to the
already substantial city of Macon.—Ma
con Journal.
Lum Ling Wau, an exceedingly
skillful native Chinese physician, has
located in Xew York to practice his
profession. Dr. Wau, whose maiden
name was Skinner, was born and raised
in Boston, where his woo'den nutmegs
were long recognized as the best in the
market. Asa native Chinese physician
he cannot fail to do well. —Louisville
Courier-Journal.
From Ohio.
Cleveland, June I.—The oil train
approaching this city took fire and the
train was destroyed. The bridge over
the Cuyato was destroyed by the fire
caught from the passing train.
Sadden Rise of ■ ■Streum
comcn a Raertuß River— R eary
Travelers Swept Away.
On3 of the most terrible calamities of
its nature that has happened lately is
narrated by the Austin (Texas) Jour
nal. It reads almost like a romance, as
it seems impossible for a small stream
twenty feet below its Danks to rise with
such rapidity as is stated. It is, never
theless, a truth that is far stanger than
fiction;
We published some time since a brief
and necessarily imperfect account of
this strange and most painful calamity,
which we now correct, with fuller par- -
ticulars, as we receive the statement
from the lips of Brevet Colonel Mer
riam, Major of the 24th Infantry, who
is now iu Austiu. The Colonel, after
four years of military service on the
frontiers of Kansas, New Mexico and
West Texas, had received leave of ab
sence, and was journeying with his
wife and child from El Paso to the Tex
an coast.
They had reached the head of the
: Concho river, and camped for the night
on Sunday, the 24th of April.
The river is formed by the junction
of the rills of water from several large
springs, which have been dammed into
ponds by the wild beaver, and are well
filled with large fish.
The stream at this point is so small
that a man can step across it anywhere.
The hanks were twenty feet above the
bed of the water. Fatigued with the ;
long journey of sixty-eight miles in the
| previous twenty-four hours, without
water, the party were pleasantly restiug
when, early in the evening, Col. Mer
riam was roused by the signs of an ap
proaching storm. The tent was fasten
ed and made secure as possible, and
about 9 o’clock a hailstorm burst upon
them, accompanied by some rain and a
strong wind.
The fall of hall was unprecedented,
lasting until nearly 11 o’clock; the
stones being of the size of hens’ eggs,
and striking the teut and prairie with a
noise like near an incessant musketry.
The Colonel, who was not ignorant
of the sudden and extreme overflows to
which the mountain streams of Texas
are liable, went out into the darkness
as soon as the storm had ceased, to note
what effect had been produced on this
riverlet. To his amazement, he found
in the formerly almost dry bed of the
creek a resistless torrent, loaded and
filled with hail, rolling nearly bank-full,
white as milk, and silent as a river of
oil !
He at once saw the danger and ran
back to the tent, shouting to the escort
and servants to turn out. He placed
Mrs, Merriam, the child and nurse in
in the carriage, and with tho aid of three
men, started to run with it to the higher
ground, a distance of not more than six
ty yards. Scarcely a minute had elapsed
from the time the alarm had been given,
hut already tbe water had surged over
the bank in waves of such volume and
force as to to sweep the party from their
feet before they had traversed thirty
yardH.
The Colonel called for assistance on
some cavalry soldiers, who had just es
caped from the United States mail sta
tion near by, but they were too terror
ized to heed or to help.
Col. Merriam then abandoned the
hope of saving 1119 family iu the car
riage, and tried to enter it iu order to
swim out with them, but he was swept
down tho ice-cold torrent like a bubble.
Being an expert swimmer, ho succeed
ed in reaching the bank about 200 yards
below, and ran back to renew the effort,
when he received the terrible tidings
that the moment after he was swept
; down, the carriage, with all its prec
i ions freight, had turned over and gone
1 rolling down the flood, his wife saying,
as she disappears, “My darling hus
band, good-by.” The little rill of a
few hours before, which a child might
step across, had become a raging river,
covered with masses of drift wood a
mile in width, and from thirty to forty
deep.
The bereaved husband procured a
horse from one of the cavalry and rode
far down the torrent, but could see
nothing in the darkness, and hear
naught but the wild sounds of the
waves. So passed the long and wretch
ed uight.
Before day the strange momentary
flood had passed by, and the small
stream shrank to its usual size, and ran
in its wonted bed. The sad search be
gan. The drowned soldier and ser
vants, four in number, were found* aud
the body of the wife taken from the wa
ter about three-fourths of a mile below,
and prepared for a journey of fifty-three
miles to the post of Concho for tempor
ary burial. Not till three days after
was the body of tho child found, four
miles down the stream, and a long dis
tance from its bed. Mrs. Merriam was
a lady of fine culture and attainments,
valued and beloved by all who knew
her. The little girl, not three years
old, was remarkable for the maturity of
her mind and the sweetness of her dis
position.
The carriage was drifted by the cur
rent about a mile, and lodged in a thick
et. The storm and flood was represent
ed as frightful beyond description. The
beaver ponds from which the Concho
takes Us rise were so filled with icy
• hail, that the catfish were killed by the
! congelation, and were swept in wagon
| loads, together with the myriads of
smaller animals of the plain, such as
rabbits and snakes, all over the country
by the sudden and rushing flood.
Three days after the storm, when the
party left Concho, the bail still lay in
drifts and winrows to the depth of more
than six feet. A calamity more sad,
strange and tragic, it has s’eldom been
our lot to narrate, and our deepest sym
pathies go out to the father and husband
thus suddenly stricken to the heart by
the ghastly loss of all that he held most
dear.
The New Crusade. —Wendell Phil
lips is on anew scent, and is off in full
cry on the fresh trail. Having ex
hausted the slavery question, he has
now, like “Mr. Micawber,” “turned
his attention to coals” in the shape of
the “Rights of the Workingman.” His
new cry is the “Tyranny of the mon
eyed aristocracy,” and the grinding des
potism of capital over labor the burden
of his song. The society which has
been built on the ruins of the Anti-
Slavery Society, that is henceforth to
agitate the new hobby, is called the
Eight-hour League, and embraces
among its members Mr. Mary A. Liv
ermore and other sheetiron minded
parties. Having arranged the pro
gramme of the “impending crisis” be
tween the “bloated aristocrats” and
the “horny-handed” of the “nation,”
and announced the commencement of
the “irrepressible conflict” between
money and muscle, Phillips has, in a
dreadfully long speech, inflicted his
views on “the measure of civilization,”
which he says is composed of men and
women, “Crime in New York,” “cor
ruption among rulers,” “what labor
demands,” “working with hands vs.
heads,” “the reign of the moneyedaris
tocracy,” etc., are howled at with as
much rabidness as ever the slave oli
garchy was.
Comparative Irish and German
Emigration. Official tables, taken
from the books of the commissioners of
emigration, and riving the comparative
number of Irish and German emigrants
during the last twenty-three years,show
that there have arrived in this country
from Ireland since 1817 only 7,755 more
emigrants than have reached herefrom
Germany alone during the same period.
For example, there arrived in the last
twenty-three years from Ireland,
1,644,009; from Germany, 1,639,254.
More than this, during the first five
months of the present year the emigra
tion from Germany has amounted to
25,500, against 24,461 from Ireland. To
these figures are to be added those rep
resenting the Swedish, Danish, Nor
wegian, French, English, Scottish and
Welsh—not to mention the Chinese.
So that the Irish emigration to this
country evidently does not overbalance
that of all others combined, as some
have supposed.
The Capital Question. —The St.
Louis Democrat warns Congress not to
be spending money in putting up Gov
ernment buildings at Washington, and
argues that the West will never get
justice at the hands of the Federal Gov
ernment until the Capital is removed to
the Mississippi Valley. Os this the
Western people are said to be convinc
ed, and it is predicted that they will,
before another decade has passed, settle
the question in favor of the removal.
Senator Tlmrman's Speech.
We are indebted to Senator Thur
man, of Ohio, for a copy of his able
speech in the Senate against the bill to
enforce the Fifteenth Amendment. He
closes his effort with the following pro
test against the use of the military arm
of the Government to secure Radical
majorities at the South :
Why, sir, everybody knows that in
England it is a punishable flue for any
troops to be within a mile of a voting
booth when an election is going on. It
is a punishable offense to have the
troops of the realm within a mile of the
place of voting ; but under this law,
forsooth, we are to have the troops of
the United States surrounding the bal
lot-boxes to see that the judges of elec
tion discharge their duty ! You pro
pose to surround every polling-booth
with the troops of the United States, to
see that no voter is deprived of his right
to vote 1 I say that such a thine as that
is wholly inconsistent with free institu
tions and with a republican form of
government. You are putting the civil
under the military authority in its most
vital point, when, in the very choice of
your civil officers, everything is to be
done under the supervision and liable
to the interference of the military. Sir,
I have seen the time when every man
would have been utterly shocked at such
an idea, that you could surround the
place of election with troops of the
United States, under the command
of anybody to whim the Presi
dent of the United States saw
fit to confide them, that they might
interfere; because if they are there sim
ply as a show they are of no use at all
but only an injury, afid if they are there
to act, then they are to act by some
body’s command 1 This bill does not
provide that they are to act upon the
call or demand of any civil authority
whatever, Upon whose command,
then, are they to act ? Who is to au
thorize then; to iutertere ? It can only
be upon the command of the military
officer .who commands them, or this
person holding the letter of attorney
from the President of the United States,
and he cannot be everywhere. He
must, therefore, send his officers. Here
a lieutenant with a squad of troops at
the ballot-box is to decide, this lieuten
ant of infantry, artillery, or dragoousis
to decide when he shall interfere with
an election of the people that we used
to call the free aud sovereign people of
the United States. Senators, if you
can pass such a bill do it. If you can
do it in this country, and quietly and
patiently aud approvingly do it, then
all I have to say is that this country is
lost to all sense of freedom, of liberty,
and of love for the Constitution.
Commercial Fertilizers in Cornice
ticnt.
The legislature of Connecticut at its
last session enacted the following law
concerning the manufacture and sale of
commercial fertilizers in that State:
Section 1. Commercial manures sold,
or kept for sale in this Slate, shall have
affixed to every bag, barrel, or parcel
thereof, which may contain fifty pounds
or upward, an especial name or trade
mark by which the same may bo known
or designated, with the name and place
of business of the manufacturers or sell
er, together with a true analysis or spe
cification of the chemical elements, and
their several amounts contained therein,
and also the quantity contained in the
package.
Sec. 2. Any manufacturer or trader
who shall sell or offer for sale any such
package, and who shall neglect to affix
such stamp, impress, or card, as is
Vided in section first of this act, or who
shall affix a stamp, impress, or card,
claiming five per cent, more of any fer
tilizing ingredient than is contained iu
the package, shall forfeit ten dollars for
each aad every one hundred pounds of
the material so sold, or offered for sale,
without the proper mark as directed in
section first, to be recovered before any
tribunal of competent jurisdiction, one
balf to the State, and one-half to the
prosecutor of the same.
Sec. 3. The provisions of this act
shall not apply to fish pomace, hor to
any manure prepared essentially from
fish and sold as such, nor to auy other
commercial manure, which is sold at a
price not exceeding one cent per pound.
Sec. 4. Tho secretary of the Connec
ticut Board of Agriculture is hereby
authorized, at his discretion, to procure
the analysis of any fertilizer offered for
sale in this State, and to prosecute per
sons who violate the provisions of this
act.
Heavy Bile of Mortality.— The
Macon Telegraph and Messenger, of
Sunday, publishes tho following list of
deaths in that city ;
Death of Mr. Broughton. -rlt is
our painful duty this moruing to an
nounce the death of Mr. John Brough
ton, who was shot on the evening of
the 15th inst., iu this city, by Mr. Hen
ry G. Ross. He expired quietly and with
out pain yesterday morning at 15 min
utes after 5 o’clock. Strong hopes were
entertained for his recovery up to the
time when a negro who, one day last
week, was shooting a pistol near Mr.
Broughton’s residence, threw a ball into
the wounded man’s room, which excit
ed him very much and produced a
fever, under which he began to sink
rapidly until he expired as above stated.
Death of Wm. C. Evans.— This sad
event occurred about 1 o’clock yester
day morning, at Mrs. Freeman’s board
ing house on the corner of Second and
Poplar streets. Deceased was a most
worthy and highly respectable young
man, about twenty one years of age,
and was a son of Judge J. 11. Evans,
of Monroe county.
Mr. W. I. Causey, an old engineer
on the Macon and Brunswick road, who
was well and widely known in this com
munity, departed this life on Friday
night last, at his residence near the
Macon and Brunswick depot in this
city.
Mr. J. M. Proctor and wife, of Tal
botton, who were stopping at the Brown
House oa Friday night last, lost their
little daughter during tho uight. The
grief stricken parents left yesterday tor
home, and took the corpse along with
them. _
A Quill Driver Essays to Drive
a Mule. —Major Napier Bartlett, of the
New Orleans Times, gives to the read
ers of that journal his experience in an
attempt to plow a mule, near this city :
Becoming enamored, along with ev
ery body else through this country, in
the cultivation ot cotton, I occupied my
last day iu Columbus in guiding tho
plow and in urging through the furrows
a long-eared and stubborn mule. A
dozen men, women and children were
in the field to keep me company, and
and throwing the whole of my weight
upon the handles, spraddling over the
newly-turned ground aud whooping
and halloing at my slow paced team in
the manner pursued by the brothers, 1
was literally soon up to my knees in
work. Still the faithful anirm.l that
acted as principal in the experiment
had his theories about the matter,which
were not those laid down by Virgil,
and from time to time gave utterance to
his dissent iu discouraging cries. Prac
tical experience soon began to prove
that it was just as difficult for scribes to
keep from working crooked furrows as
it was with straight sentences, and that
anew pair of boots might be enclosed
in the success of the experiment, not to
speak of occasionally pulling up small
stumps with the bottom of your pants.
I found it was annoying to be bit by
flies and to melt with perspiration un
der a sweltering suri. Lastly, the mule
became goaded to madness at the sight
of a sassafras bush, which I cut with
the object of explaining my opinion to
him. Without waiting for the conclu
sion of the explanation, he set off at
full speed for the stable, and I have had
no curiosity whatever to see him since.
Stephen A. Douglas, jr., is a carpet
bagger in North Carolina, and has be
come an officer in the “loyal militia” of
that State. When he is ordered into
action we trust that the memory of hi3
father , no matter to whom the hen-roost
to be plundered may belong, will prompt
him to resign his commission without
a moment’s delay.— Louisville Courier-
Journal.
From Xew Hampshire.
Concord, June I.—The Legislature
has organized, and elected M. Wheeler
Speaker of the House, and N. Gordon
President of the Senate.
J, * _ ~~ rmm • W. »
The Sew York. Election In Washing
ton.
Radicalism II Ms Under Democratic
Sunshine.
D. P. writes from Washington to the
Cincinnati Commercial:
There is no denial of the fact that the
late election in New York has had a
somewhat depressing effect upon the
Government people here, who, up to
that event, counted their two-tliirds
majority in Congress, and swung on as
if there were no constituencies taking
note of their short-comings. That the
City of New York, under the corrupt
control of the most infamous organiza
tion known to political humanity,
should exhibit a huge majority in favor
of the Democracy, was expected. But
the result in the rural districts fills our
lrieuds with day. It is the handwriting
on the wall, and means death.
And yet, judging from the talk of Re
publican officials heretofore, one would
gather that the defeat of the Republi
cans in a triumph of the Democracy,
was an event to be expected, and,
whether pleasant or not, one to be re
garded with philosophical indifference.
But death, however long anticipated,
! cannot be made familiar. We look the
inevitable calmly in the face until the
face assumes that form, and then we
shrink in dismay. I take my meals at
Welcker’s, where quite a number of
Congressmen feed, and tho morning
the news reached us and each man
opened his morning journal to read the
news, a dead silence, a deep gloom fell
upon the room, so marked that a stran
ger would have taken us for a collection
of undertakers, refreshing ourselves
upon the cold baked meats of a funeral.
The mass of thieves and swindlers
that have crowded upon the Republican
craft, until it is fairly swamped, for the
first time began to realize that their
days are numbered —tbeii doom sealed.
Wbat with this iniquitous protective
tariff that grinds down the multitude
that a few may prosper; wbat with the
hard times and the thousand aud one
gigantic legislative swindles for a few
! monopolists, the people sicken and cry
out for a change.
Old Pig Iron says, in the deepest tone
of a voice that sounds like the echoes
from a rotten coffin: “Tbe Demo cralic
1 partee will never consent, sir, to a re
duc-tion of the tariff The leaders may
advocate such a ru in ous pol i cee
when out of pow er, but. when in pow
er, s i r, they dare not.”
'File S'resbj teriaiis.
Southern General Assembly — Rxr.om i
inunication.
Louisville, May 27.—1 u the Gener
al Assembly the Judiciary Committee
made a majority and minority report on
tiio overture from Montgomery, (Ala.)
Presbytery. The overture reads as fol
lows :
“May a member of the Church in
consistency with the constitution rule,
bu suspended or excommunicated from
the Church without trial for charges
brought before a court to which he is
amendable, but simply upon tho report
of a committee of the court that he had
confessed to it that lie was guilty of
crimes worthy iu their nature of suspen
sion and excommunication ?”
After considerable discussion, the
majority report was adopted. The ma
jority reported to decide that the session
may excommunicate such party without
literally and rigidly going through with
all formalities.
The report of the Committee on Re
lief Funds for Ministers was received
and adopted.
PROPOSED UNION.
Nearly the entire day was taken up
in the discussion of the majority and
minority report on foreign correspon
dence.
To this committee was referred the
communication from the United As
sembly of the Northern Presbyterian
Church, iii session at Philadelphia. The
majority report favors the appointment
of a Committee of Conference, with in
structions that tho difficulties which lio
in the way of cordial correspondence
between the two bodies must be dis
tinctly met and removed.
One of the resolutions of the majority
report say they must purge themselves
of error in regard to political utterances
deliberately pronounced, year after
year, and which in our own opinion was
a sad betrayal of the cause and kingdom
nf our cnmmnn T.orrt and hoar! NTor
can we by official correspondence con
sent to blunt the edge of this, our testi
mony, concerning the nature and mis
sion of the church as a purely spiritual
body among men.
Decoration Day at Anderson
ville. — We learn that about 700 ne
groes and probably 75 white men, near
ly all of whom were U. 8. Revenue and
Post-office officials, assembled at An
dersonville yesterday, for the puposeot
decorating the graves of the Federal
dead at that place. Bullock and Ter
ry, with their respective staffs, were of
the number, and orations were deliver
ed by an Ohio preacher and ex-Confed
erate Mayor, R. H. Whitely, of Bain
bridge. We judge that none, or very
few of the negroes of the neighborhood
were present, the crowd being gathered
mostly from this and other points on the
railroad. There were no whites pres
ent, that we could hear of, except those
holding office under the Federal gov
ernment in this State.— Macon Tel. .§
Men.
The Local of the same paper, has
this to say about the affair.
Gov. Bullock and staff and some six
or eight women, together with a band
of music, arrived from Atlanta, at an
early hour yesterday morning on a
special train on their way to Anderson
viile. The train stopped here for two
or three hours, and the party took car
riages and rode through the city on a
tour of observation. The band while
in the streets played several pieces of
music, among which were “Down with
Traitors,” and “Rally Round the Flag,
Boys.” It had a mollient and assuag
ing effect upon our people. It remind
ed them, in dulcet strains, that they
were still considered traitors by the
distinguished, houorable and polite vis
itors, and that the patriotic’ squad were
ready to rally around any flag that
would place within their reach the of
fices and treasure of an oppressed de
fenceless people. It was just such a
piece of magnanimity as our citizens
had the right to expect from the mighty
Rufus.
Tlio Census of 1870.
The ninth census of the United States
will be taken, under the provisions of
the act of May 23d, 1850, on the first of
June next. The assistants are paid as
follows :
Two cents for each name taken ; ten
cents for every farm ; fifteen cents for
every productive establishment of in
dustry; two cents for every dead per
son, and two per cent, of the gross
amount of names enumerated for social
statistics, and ten cents per mile for
travel.
It will he seen by the foregoing that
the compensation allowed an assistant
or enumerator, provided the district
allotted to him shall not contain less
than 20,000 persona, will bo about SOOO
or more.
The law provides that each assistant,
after qualifying, shall perform his duties
by a personal visit to each dwelling
house and to each family, if any one
can be found capable of giving the in
formation —but if not, then the agent
of such family, the name of each mem- i
ber thereof, the age and place of birth
of each, sex, color, otc., and shall also
visit personally the (arms, mills, shops,
mines, or other places respecting which
information is obtained and entered in
his blanks, then his memoranda shall
be read to the person famishing the
facts or revision.
There is a penalty for refusing to fur
nish the required information to the
assistant. The act provides that . cry
person more than twenty years of age
belonging to any family, in the case of
the absence of the heads and other
members of the family, shall act as
agent of such family, and is required
to render a true statement of the infor
mation required, on pain of forfeiting
thirty dollars, to be sued for and recov
ered in an action of debt by the assis
tant, to the use of the United States.
Spicy. —The Louisville Courier-Jour
nal gets off these spicy paragraphs :
Martin Farquhar Tupper is writing
and printing some more Proverbial
Philosophy! And yet not a solitary
London policeman has thought it worth
his while to interfere !
Zac Chandler says he both likes and
fears Kentucky. He means by this that
he likes her whisky and fears her hemp, j
THE SINGER.
Tbe revels reigned In kingly halls,
The mirth was fast and free:
They called the hard to lend the feast
The charm of minstrelsy.
He came and sang of knightly deods,
Os battles lost and won.
Ol hero deaths aud laurel orowns;
And still the feast went on.
He sang of beauty and of love,
Os poet-dreams divine,
Some boasted of their steeds and swords,
Same praised tho purple wino.
The melody unheeded rose
Whore j»st and laughter rang;
Who heard the minstrel or his lay 1
Who heard the song he sang !
Ah ! there was one who sat apart
Silent amid the throng,
Whose changing cheek and moistened eye
Goniessed the power of song.
And as the music died away
In ea loncc low and sweot,
The richest gem that youDg knight woro
Fell at the minstrel’s feet.
So sings the poet In the mart,
Where jest and scoff are ringing,
Nor knows what sympathizing heart
Kespondeth to his singing.
If one amid the careless crowd
Pauses to hear his strain,
And better, nobler, turns away,
He has not sung in vain.
And though unheeded he may sing,
And win but sneer and blame,
Hereafter at his feet may fall
Earth's purest jewel—Fame !
AGUM.VFES.
Ectween the pillars! lot him stand
Knight of tho jaw-bone and the brand,
With lireless eye and fettered hand.
The world is weary of the jest;
The daylight darkens down the West;
Between tho pillars lot him rest!
Aye ! dream that on oach sacred hill
His leet of triumph trample still;
Philistia ravaged at his will.
To-morrow, and the night is short,
Refreshed in rage, our gentle court
Shall summon him to make us sport.
Pcaco from pinnacle to porch !
Not a jaw-bone or a torch,
Evermore tu smite or scorch !
Ho tween the pillars ! Ye have read
Tlio simple prayer tho oaptlve said
And how the blind man bowed his head.
FIRST AN IF EAST.
They sat together, hand in hand,
The sunset flickered low ;
The tickle sea crept up the strand,
And caught the after glow.
He sang a song, a little song
No other poet knew,
And she looked up and thought him strong,
Looked down and thought him true.
Tbe lickle sea crept up tho strand,
And laughed a wanton laugh—
Took up Uio song the poet planned,
And sang tho wilier half.
'Times change ; the two went divers waj s ;
The evening shades increase
On him, grown old in fame and praise,
And her in household peace.
The echo of the false sweet words,
He spoke so long ago,
Has passed as passed the summer birds
Before the winter snow.
Hut as to-night the angel’s hand
Loosens tho silver chord,
And calls her to that other land
Os love’s supreme reward,
She hears but one sound, silent long,
A whisper solt and low—-
The echo of the false sweet song
Ho sang so lODg ago.
Tlio Stiito Fair,
The Albany News, In the accompa
nying article, gives shape to sundry
unpleasant rumors which havo been
floating about lor some weeks:
It will be remembered that Col. B. C.
Yauey,about two months ago ordered an
election for Secretary of the Society, by
the Executive Committee, and directed
the members to seal their votes and send
them to Col. T. O. Howard, Assistant
Secretary at. Atlanta, in whose office the
count would take place on a certain
day. Cos). Yancey it seems, had a favor
ite whom he desired elected, and to fur
ther his wishes in that regard sent a cir
cular to each member of the Committee
—naming several of the candidates, and
closing with the name of his friend Col.
Wm. M. Brown, of Athens, setting
forth his peculiar claims and superior
ability. Col. T. C. Howard and others
had their friends, and the name of Rev.
C. W. Howard, one of the best and
most capable men in Georgia was urged
with modest zeal and courteous confi
dence.
The election wen! on, and the ballots
were all received at tho office. Col.
Fancy, learning tuat Col. x. o. How
ard, Assistant Secretary had been urg
ing the claims of his friend, C. W. How
ard and that that gentleman was probab
ly elected, permitted passion to get the
better of his judgment, and under great
excitement seized the ballots, carried
them from the office, counted them else
where, and refused to proclaim C. W.
Howard elected. It seems that this ex
traordinary demonstration of Executive
power was based upon tho ground that
Col. T. C. Howard, being an officer of
the Society, acted improperly in writ
ing to his friends in behalf of a candi
date, and that the election was there
fore void—at any rate he assumed that
it was void, and ordered anew election
to be participated in by every member
of the Society.
But this is not all that causes Mr.
Howard’s “self-respect” to recoil from
contact with the organization in the
capacity of Secretary. Col. Yancey’s
conduct towards Col. Lewis, late Secre
tary, and Col. T. C. Howard, present
Assistant Secretary, has been that of the
master to the menial, and without a
parallel among gentlemen.
We do not blame Mr. Howard forde- 1
clining the office; nor can we see how
any gentleman who values his reputa
tion, or who has a particle of self re- :
spect. can accept the position under |
Col. Yancey, with a full knowledge of |
the facts.
We do not mean to champion the
cause of any man, though some of our
friends have been insulted, outraged
and grievously wronged, but we do
mean to champion the cause of the State
Fair, and if, in the interests of that in
stitution, duty requires us to say and
print unpleasant things, those who pro
voke them must take the consequences.
Wc believe that Col. Yancey’s con
tinued connection with tho Society as
its President, will result disastrously to
the October exhibition, and therefore
respectfully call upon him to resign,
and allow the members to select a suc
cessor at the same time they are called
upon to elect a Secretary.
We disclaim any personal unkindness
to Col. Yancey, and would not do him
a wrong intentionally; but as a public
functionary, we arraign him before the
State Society over which ho presides,
and if the facts we have but vaguely
stated be questioned, we stand ready to
present them verified by tho most indu
bitable testimony, and a thousand fold
intensified.
An “Insolent Nigger.”—At a big
Emery ratification meeting in Washing
ton City, one night last week, a man
and brother named Hatton spoke his
mind after the following fashion:
“There is one thing that I shall be
glad when the majority understand,
and that is, that as citizens of this Gov
ernment, whatever party at this time or
in the future we may cast our lots with,
wc will he looked at by .that party as
other men. [Cheers. Voice—‘That’s
so.’] The lime is passed for the corrupt
individuals who desire to ride into office
on the back of the black man, to crack
the party whip and say, ‘Niggers, wheel
into line.’ [Laughter and cheers.] The
time is passed for them to say, because
my face i3 black, and because the face
of my brother is black, ‘Here, nigger,
vote that ticket.’ [Voice—No, sir ; "we
don’t see it.’] We are living in a bet
ter day.”
- Another Monopoly.— Washington
dispatches state that tbe Finance Com
mittee of the Senate havo agreed to
incorporate the Loan and Trust Com
pany of the United States. Secretary
McCulloch, Hon. J. D Defree, P. C.
Calhoun, of Hew York, John Young
Scammond, of Chicago, and others are
corporators. The principal office is to
be in Washington. The company is to
receive money on deposit, pay three
per cent, per annum for it, and perform
generally all the powers of trust com
panies. The bill in all its details, it is
said, covers a very valuable franchise.
A Chicago woman says she has tried
both, and being well dressed gives her
more peace of mind than religion.
The New York Tribune calls for Con
gressional aid hereafter in the New
York elections.
Fremont In Trouble.
The most extravagant man in tho
world, for a small man, not even except
ing Ishmeal Pasha, is JTolm C. Fremont.
When the w T ar began he was made a
Brigadier General iu the Federal army,
and stationed at St. Louis, whero lie
proceeded to erect temporary barracks
for his troops at an expense to the Gov
ernment of about four million of dollars.
He had an idea that war was all glory
and glitter—that he could travel in a
coach aud six and put up every night at
a first class hotel. He found out his mis
take about the time the Government
found out that, as an officer of tho army
he was a remarkable -instance ol the
wrong man in the right place, and he
was permitted to hang up his silver
plated arms for monuments, much to
the satisfaction of all concerned.
Since the close of the war Fremont
has been engaged in the building of rail
roads, or rather in sinking the funds of
men w r ho were engaged in trying to
build railroads. His heaviest transac
tion in that line seems to have been
carried out by him while acting Presi
dent of the Memphis, El Paso and
Don’t-Care-a-Continental Railroad, or
some such outlandish name as that.
Tho particulars are given in an article
in the St. Louis Times which says:
Fremont went to Europe to negoti
ate $6,000,000 of Memphis aud El Paso
railroad bonds. To realize handsome
ly on the “promise to pay” of a railroad
existing only on paper aud in the pa
pers of its advocates required finesse.
It was no trivial undertaaing; and with
the rare acumen of projectors possessing
the glimmering of an idea, the compa
ny selected as their agent Fremont, who,
having lunched on the peak ot the
Rocky Mountains, was once considered
eminently qualified for the Presidency
of a nation, and, having proved a Mili
tary failure had won a Major General’s
star and the command of a vast depart
ment. The'bonds were presented, and
improbable as it may seem, they were
negotiated. The accommodating cable
conveyed the comforting assurance that
tho agent had succeeded, and that the
building of the road was a foregoing
conclusion. This was cheering, but
time passed aud no vessel steamed
across the Atlantic freighted with Fre
mont’s millions. He had obtained $4,-
500,000 in gold, but where was the
money ? Among the purchasers of the
bonds was a French banker, who
bought 174 for $116,000, and was cog
nizant of the negotiation of the whole.
He subsequently ascertained that the
company, believing a fraud had been
perpetrated in some manner, were dis
posed to repudiate all the bonds. This
brought monsieur to America. He is
now in New' York, where, not only
verbally, but by affidavits in the courts,
he has made most damaging allegations
against the distinguished John Charles.
He alleges that the illustrious financier’s
negotiation with him was a fraud, and
produces evidence of tho $4,500,000 in
gold paid Fremont for the $0,000,000 in
bonds.
A Duel I lint I»I<I not Coin*' OH.
We give below an account of a duel
that was not a duel, taken from a late
Washington dispatch. The Hutchins
referred to was a Yankee officer, who
is now lobbying against Georgia, in the
service and pay of Bullock. Mr. Wash
ington is a Virginian, editorially con
nected with the New York World, and
was at one time appointed Secretary of
State, of the lato Confederacy :
There lias been quite a little excite
ment for a few days past over negotia
tions which it was known were going
on for a duel between L. J. Washington,
who is connected with the World as
correspondent, and Col. Ben. Hutchins,
formerly Lieutenant Colonel of the
sixth regular cavalry. The latter chal
lenged the former for what he alleges
was insulting language directed to him
by Washington at the close of Senator
Morton’s Bpeecli in the Senate on
Thursday last. Each was a total stran
ger to the other till they met in the
Senate reporter’s gallery, when Col.
Hutchins made a complimentary allu
sion at the close of the speech. Senator
Morton had been severe on the Southern
people, and Washington, who is a Vir
ginian, and was Assistant Confederate
Secretary of State, becoming irritated
at TTntrhiriM’ rtmath, lurual upuu liiuj,
and, with a profane adverb, denounced
him, and further expressed the wish
that he had the power to hang Hutchins
and all like him. Some excitement
followed, but no collision, and the next
morning an apology was demanded by
Hutchins of Washington through a
friend. This was refused, whereupon
Hutchins promptly challenged him.
Some difficulty was experienced in
getting seconds, owing to the act of
Congress punishing dueling. No less
than three sets of seconds were obtained,
but one or another led them to decline.
Col. Wintersmith and Gen. Jones, ex-
Confederate officers, were Washington’s
seconds, the latter remaining on hand
until negotiations exploded. John
Coyle, formerly of the National Intel
ligencer, was the last of Hutchins’ ,
seconds, but as he only desired a friend- 1
ly mediation he declined to go on the
field. Col. Hutchins, failing to procure
a second, then challenged Washington
to meet him on his terms, and to name
time, placo and weapons, but the lat
ter’s seconds decided that this was not
according to the code, and it was not
accepted. Surgeons were engaged by
both sides. Hutchins made his will, and
every preparation for mortal combat
was nearly concluded on Saturday last.
The details of the affair are the town
talk and gossip.
A Remarkable Story.— A few days
since, there was a colored man in the
city with a scar entirely around his
neck. It is stated that during the dos
ing days of the late war he was tried by
a drumhead court-martial, found guilty,
sentenced to death, duly hung, and pro
nounced dead by two surgeons in at
tendance, one of whom secured tho
body. He then restored the hanged
man to life. Although he was to all
appearances dead, yet tho vital spark
was not quite extinct. The hanged
man hid himself until the war was over,
and then settled on a farm within thir
teen miles of the city, where he is now
work. The scar alluded to is but tho
marks of the rope by which he was sus
pended. Tho execution, it is alleged,
took place i:i Kershaw countv. It is
also stated that the surgeon who re
stored tho man to life is now a resident
of this city.— Charleston News.
Chattahoochee Factory —We have
been shown a communication from the
Superintendent of the above Factory,
in which he speaks very favorably of its
present operations, and encouragingly
of its future prospects. He claims that
although they havo now only half tho
number of hands, they have had here
tofore, yet during the past week, they
have done more work than any week
since the Factory was built, and also
that the yarns they are now turning
out, cannot be beat, and he will leave
it to experts, by auy mills in the Unit
ed States. He furthermore states that
he expects to go to weaving in a very
short time.— West Point Shield.
A Glorious Rain !—After a protract
ed drought of nearly seven weeks, wo
had a glorious rain on Wednesday
afternoon, which will be worth thous
ands of dollars to this section of coun
try. Much cotton, planted weeks ago,
has not come out of the ground; but
we may now look for it to come up and
grow off rapidly. Vegetation was much
parched, but our gardens look fresh and
greetn now.
As we go to press the indications are
that we may liavi a “wet spell."— La
Grange Reporter.
“Is my face dirty ?” asked a young
lady from tbe backwoods, while seated
with her aunt at the dinner table on a
steamboat running from Cairo to
New Orleans.
“Dirty? No. Why did you ask?”
“Bccauso that insulting waiter insists
upon putting a towel beside my plate.
I’ve thrown three under the table, and
yet every time he comes around ho puts
another one before me.”
In the case of a negro who sued a
confectioner in New Orleans, last week,
for $5,000 damages for not entertaining
him aB if he woro a white man, the jury
failed to agree and were discharged.
They stood six to six—fiye negroes aud
one whito man for the plaintiff, and six
white men for the defendant.
CniNESE Girls in Society “F ni ;
ly” sends this to tho Sacramento it "
from Hong Kong :
The musicians were concealed
different apartment, but ~u 111 11
enough to suit our fastidious t,7«? r
though there were really some pleasi ’’
strains extracted, iu an ever lastii., • R
or key. The hot tea, served us ~v "‘f
two or three times, made l!a w ‘‘ ,- v
somewhat if this were to be ti K . ( j.." 1 1"
Our hopes regarding more subsUm ;r
food were about flickering away «7,
plates of preserves and comfits w .
handed around, and presently tin.,V ru
dinner followed—sweetmeats and
rice and sweetmeats, 'clone up j u ’
Chinese way of doing up everyth!!!
which manages to leave the epi (li , ,
in an exquisite state oi uncertainty!
to tho identity of the articles he j a as
suming. During the courses,
soemed interminable, we were’unn, . i
by a party of dancers, who learned ii,„
terpsichorean art and hire themselves
out for tho entertainment of the weald
and aristocracy of China.
Their movements were extromely
graceful, but their dancing wasnotcon
fined to their feet; faces, hands and
arms monopolized tho motions. I cau
not imagine who originated such faut aß
tic postures. Tho dancers were called
young girls, but paint, powder and oth
er cosmetics were, in our opinion, high
iy conducive to their youthful appear
auce. Their dresses were long purple
silks, brocaded and caught in at the
waist with a scarlet silk sash. Their
wrists and hands were laden with
bracelets and rings, of which they were
very proud. Their hair was done up in
a sort of “screw” style, tipped off with
gilt ornaments fantastically cut. \v u
have since seen many troupes of dancers
sotno really young, but tho first retains
the most pleasant impressions. The
novelty wore off with it, and besides no
others seemed so perfectly self-eompL
cent or transported that they were call
ed to entertain the foreign ladies.
When the dinner was through with,
Sin pulled out her fan, whereupon the
other ladies brought out theirs, which
are carried on all occasions. It is a rare
treat to see these dark-eyed ladies hamfio
their dainty little fans. They do not
bestow their whole attention to them
neither do they hold tharn carelessly
as do the Caucasian races, bu t it is readi
ly seen that fanning is an art from every
wave of the hand, which is both easy
and elegant. There is no meaning a t.
tached to the art —I mean flirtations by
“girls of the period”—but is practised
with tho sole intent of adding to the ac
complisliments and graces of both wo
men and men.
Then we had another chit-chat ami
lounging around, interspersed with
more music and dancing, moro hot wine
and tea, and “Pigeon English” with
Yuen and Maug, which put the Chinese
ladies in a merry humor, when wo
found that tho gentleman's party was
about breaking up, and we arose to go
If wo could believe in protestations of
friendship, regretful looking faces aud
sorrowful salutations, our departure was
certainly a very trying ordeal; hut the
Chinese are so hypocritical, and all
these things have to be said and done so
according to law and custom, that their
sincerity was somewhat a matter of
doubt.
A Useful Table. —To aid farmers
in arriving at accuracy in ascertaining
the amount of land in different fields
under cultivation, the following table
is given by an agrecultural cotemporary;
5 yards wide by 968 yards long con
tains ono acre.
10 yards wide by 484 yards long con
tains ono acre.
20 yards wide by 242 yards long con
tains one acre.
40 yards wide by 121 yards long con
tains one acre.
160 yards wide by 30j yards long con
tains one acre.
220 feet wide by 168 feet long con
tains one acre.
110 feet wide by 398 feet long eon
tains ono acre.
60 feet wide by 726 feet long contains
one acre.
Groceries! Groceries!!
I have In Store and am constantly rooeivlny
CHOICE GROCERIES ANI) ST APIA
GOODS, such as.
BAOON anil Bulk MEATS, Oliolco I.,eaf 1.-A
SUGARS and COFFEES, all gradoJ:
BAGGING, ROPE and SALT:
■ 1.0111 or ail icrnileN,
MEAL from Ihe Heat Country Mills
100 bids. Northern PLANTING POTATOES
ONIONS,
Now Buckwheat Flour, Oysters, Snrilnos,
Pickles, Orackors, Factory Cream Ciiec.-o,
NEW MACKEREL, at wholesale and retail,
GOSHEN and COUNTRY BUTTER.
Fresh GARDEN SEEDS, Onion Buttons an,l
Sets,
SYRUPS of all grades,
WINES and LIQUORS,
Crockery, Shoes, Wood Ware, Staplo Dry
Goods, Tin Ware, Kerosone Oil and Lamps,
besides a variety of other woods not. enume
rated. Allot which 1 propose to sell VERY
LOW FOR CASH.
’lease givo mo a call before purchasing.
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Why is it that so many children die under
the ago of live years’? That a largo jiroportlon
of children die under that an:o, has long been
a subject of remark, and without a satisiaotury
cause ascertained, it ia certain.
Also, it la known that worms exist In tho hu
man system from itn earliest infancy; there
t fore parents, especially mothers, who
inoro constantly with their children, cannot
be too observing of the first symptumi oj woi m*.
so so surely as thoy exist, can they be
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Worm Confections, made more for the im
pose of pleasing the palate than of overoomlm
the disease, have been manufactured all over
tho country, but their short leaso of life
nearly exhausted, and B. A. Fahnestock’s Ver
mlfugo continues to grow In favor daily.
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