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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. 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