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THE MA S Q UE/iADE.
Gaily I w**nt to the maaipipra'le,
Donned ray bright velvet*, and plaited ray hair.
“ Look now your faireat, O face,” I -aid ;
“ Itobee, be your prettiest—he will be there !”
“Maekn cannot hide us!” I laughed at the thought.
"l.aees and Glks k-r-p his eye from my fare?
Oavaller’e plume or the cloak of a king
Turn to a stranger’s his manhood and grace?”
Gay flashed the lightu and around whirled the
crowd,
Gli tering, changing, mysterious still;
Lauuhter and music now low and ho*’ loud.
Beauty to charm, hidden glances to thrill.
’Mid the soft music he eatue to my side,
“ ‘La Fide du Regiment,’ you do I know,
This glove te'ls the secret you thought it would hide.
Be mine in this dauce, now, my friend,” soft and
low.
.Swifter the wild strains swept out on the air,
Softer the weird rhythm crept out on the air,
Linking his light words to melodies rare,
Flooding my heart with love’s jubilant strain.
What (lid I see that my face grew so strange
When the gay maskers laid by their disguise ?
Others came hack to themselves in the change ;
Two masks had hidden my friend from my eyes.
Both fell at once. One was silken and white ;
Noble the features concealed in its flow,
I’ride In the lips, and tho eyes full of light,
Sweetness and strength; yes, this face did I
know.
“ The other 7” I fancied that constancy, truth,
Purity, honor abode in his heart—
Enough—thvas a mask ; it* fell, and, forsooth,
I, woman-like, showed my surprise in that start.
Think not I turned myself sadly away,
Deem me not heartless in that I still smiled;
Why should 1 weep that my idol was dav ?
Why should 1 mourn over fate like a child?
Yes. dear, I own there’s pain ’neath the smile.
Hearts won’t forget all their tricks in a day,
And mine will elude my skill once in a while.
Looking bach stlil, when I’d pass on my way.
MY FRIGHTS.
There aro some who aver that they
have never been frightened. As I am
far from being a strong-minded woman,
I cannot say as much. Perhaps I am
too easily alarmed. I am, for instance,
afraid of a cow. It may bo very silly ;
but I can’t help it. All the pleasured'
a country walk through a fine landscape
lias often been spoilt for me because of
cattle iu tho field. If I pass through
them without being tossed or gored,
the recollection that I have got to come
back again remains with me the rest of
the day. As for a bull, I would rather
never see the country than ruu the
chance of meeting with such a creature.
A dog is thought to boa very harmless
animal—a domestic animal—and the
“friend of man.” He is not, however,
the friend of woman—or at least a nerv
ous woman like me. I should be afraid
to write down how often I have been
prevented from calling at a friend’s
house by the presence of a little poodle
or terrier upon their doorstep. I should
as soon have thought, of disturbing an
ndder. The Homans (a people quite
remarkable for their courage) used, I
am tool, to paint Cave canem, “Bo
ware of the dog,” at their front doors;
but such a warning would have been
unnecessary in my case. I am always
fully “beware” of it. Every farm
yard in tho country has a dog, and that
is why I don’t like farm yards.
My Avidowed sister-in law (the fat
one) and myself once lived in such a
a plaeo a whole summer, during which
nYi'theVTmeln a*Turkisli
sunset to sunrise I was in a perpetual
fright, from fear of robbers; and Avhen
the days grew shorter, and the nights
longer, the place became insupportable,
and I fled from it. The usual nightly
programme was as follows : My sister
in-law, who occupied the same apart
ment, as myself, would fall asleep as
soou as her head touched the pillow, and
leave me, as it were, alone, a prey to
my terrors. She always reminded me
of the irritating bed-fellow described
in ghost stories, who will not wake
while the apparition is peeping through
tho bed curtains at you, and who, when
all the dreadful things are over, cannot
be persuaded that they actually occured.
Next to ghosts themselves I dislike peo
ple of this cast, and Avould as soou
almost have no companion at all. If
the wind was up lat once began to pic
ture to myself a band of ruffiaus effect
ing a forcible entry into all the rooms
below stairs, and giving shouts of
triumph at the ease with which they
accomplished their purpose. We could
not afford to keep a man servant, and
even if we had done so I should have
always imagined him the accomplice of
the burglars, or coming up stairs upon
liis own account with a carving-knife
concealed in a scuttle of coals, as I had
once read of in a book. Our house
pretended no means of resistance, and
I always phiced tho plate-basket and its
eouteuts upon tho landing of the stairs,
in hopes that the gang might take what
they came for and go away without ask
ing for my money or my life. On a
particular occasion, being unable to
sleep, I fancied I heard the approach
of robbers up tho stairs. Being no
longer able to contain myself, I with an
effort roused Charlotte, who, however,
pooh-poohed the whole affair, and
dropped to sleep again, leaving me to
mv fears.
However, one very wot aud dark night
she g>t a pretty fHerat hersolf. It was
a little past midnight. The drip, drip,
drip of the rain was ceaseless, but for
all that, as I lay awake, I could hear
men’s steps, as the wretches walked
tho house looking for the most conven
ient point of eutry. Then I heard the
back door “ go”—it burst open with a
sort of muffled violence, like the sud
den outpour of a waste-pipe—and then
that “ pit a pat” I knew so well, of feot
•mug up the stairs. Then a pause of
frightful significance.
“CharJoMe /” cried I, in an agony,
They are r ally here. They are re
uily are, this time. Wake, wake ! ”
1 Rubbish, ” cried she. “I am Avide
awake, and I hear nothing.”
“They are just outside the door,”
A' luspered 1 ; “ they are listening at the
key-hole. Hark! ”
“ I certainly hear eaves dropping ”
was her heartless answer (ehe was a wo
mau who enjoyed a joke, and her fat
sides wobbled with mirth at this one) ;
l>u f it’s only the rain from the roof.”
“ I tell you,” said I solemnly, “there
are robbers in the—”
Hete something fi ll in the draAviug
room beneath us with a hideous crash.
In an instant, and before I could recovej
bom the sort of collapse into which
Juis shock h-1 thrown me, Charlotte
hau flopped ou of bed, seized the lamp
and was about to hurry from the room.
No, said she, pausing in the door
■ay ; it is better that they should not
? Rut that I should see them.”
oe,, tainly much better, consid
?£?* very slight attire, that
,e YObbera should pci %ee her; htH;
Two Dollars Per Annum,
VOLUME TI.
why she should w T ant to see the robbers
was quite unintelligible to me.
“ Stop ! ” cried I; but the fatal deed
was done, onl I w.b le't in the dark
ness.
Dreadful as it was to accompany her
upon such such an expedition, it seemed
a thousand times worse to remain in the
room alone ; and, trembling in every
limb, I hurried alter her.
To reach the drawing-room, it was
necessary to pass through the dining
room. It was pitch dark, but I could
hear her breathing hard (for her stout
ness made her very short of breath) as
she made her way round the table that
occupied the center of the room. Fear
lent me wings, and I hurried round the
other way to meet her, and rushed into
her arms just as she was feeling for the
drawing-room door-way. Directly I
did so, she uttered a shrill scream, and
fell on the floor in a dead faint. I had
forgotten that the poor dear did not
know I was pursuing her, and she very
naturally took me for the robbers. I
suppose I fainted, too; for the first
thing I remembered was hearing a loud
purr close to my ear, which proceeded
from our favorite cat, who, having
knocked down the fire-irons in the next
room (which w T as the noise we had
heard), had come, as it were, to assure
us that there was nothing the matter.
That Avas the last night we spent in our
country house ; and I remained in town
for three whole summers afterward.
Though fresh air and “ change,” I was
told, were indispensable, I resolved to
do without them, since one might just
as well die as be frightened to death.
In the July of the fourth year, how
ever, I received an invitation to the
seaside, which I really thought it safe
to accept. My host aud hostess lived
at Disney Point, in Cornwall, a very
lonely spot, it is true, but one in which
no burglary had ever been committed
within the memory of woman. “There
Avere no bad people,” wrote my friends,
Avho were aware of my nervous peculiar
ities, “within a bundled miles of
them.” When I reached their house, I
was really incline! to believe that this
Avas the case. A more beautiful and
retired spot than the little village in
which they dwelt, nor one inhabited by
a more simple and innocent set of peo
ple, it was impossible to imagine. It
was situated in a wooded ravine,
through, which a trout stream
ran down to the sea ; aud upon the hill
top, between it and the ocean, were the
most picturesque church aud church
yard I, or auy one’s eye, ever beheld.
From the house we could only hear the
distant whisper of the waves, like the
murmuring hum of bees, but they were
giant waves, and the rocks were torn
and split with their fury into wierd and
horrid shapes. It avus tho grandest
sea-coast I had ever visited, and all day
long I sat beside it with my sketch-book
or merely watching the white wrath of
the breakers, and listening to the thun
der in the caverns at my feet. I was
iint. at all afraid of the sea—when I was
upon me mmt. mneea, i am nor
alarmed at anything (notwithstanding
what some people say to the contrary)
unless there is a reasonable cause for
fear. For instance, I am not afraid—
at least, I Avas not until the catastrophe
occurred of which I am about to relate,
of supernatural apparitions. When 1
announced my intention, one evening,
of going up the hill to sketch the
churchyard by moonlight, there arose
quite a rude titter in ray drawing-room.
“Surely not alone, Mary Anne? Let
one of the girls go with you,” said my
hostess.
“ What is there to be afraid of iu a
church-yard ? No, I thank you,” re
plied I proudly. “The miserable su
perstitions of the country do not afflict
me, I do assure you.”
“ But it is so lonely up there, my
dear.”
“ What of that ? Solitude aud still
ness are the fit accompaniments of such
a solemn scene. I had much rather go
there by myself.”
I was resolved to exhibit my inde
pendence, as well as to do away with
any false impressions my excellent
hostess might have received from Char
lotte ar others with respect to my cour
age ; but at the same time she need not
have reminded me that it was “so lone
lv up there.” I did not expect to find.
Disney churchyard the center of fash
on, or the scene of an excursion picnic
at ten o’clock at night, of course ; her
remark was officious and unnecessary,
and at the same time it made my blood
run cold. However, when the moon
rose, so did I, and, sketch-book in
hand, toiled up to the old church,
which was also, from its prominent
position, a landmark used by sailors,
which taught them to avoid the rocks at
Disney Foint. Whatever might be the
matter, there was always a wind up
there, and even in that still summer
night it was wandering about the
grasses of the graves, and whispering
into the ears of the stone gargoyles of
tho church, which seemed to grin in
malice at its news *of storra and wreck
to come.
I seated myself on ray camp-stool,
just in front of the porch, and began
what I intended to be a hasty sketch,
just a few strokes, to be filled in at my
leisure, for I felt the situation to be
“uncanny,” and already wished myself
at home. My fingers shook a little,
certainly not with cold, and, though
the architecture was said to be a “fine
specimen of tho perpendicular,” it did
not appear so iu my sketch-book.
Suddenly I heard a subdued sob ; the
utterance, as it seemed to me, of some
poor creature of my own sex in distress.
It came from an obscure corner of the
churchyard, where the graves were not
so well cared for and tended as the
others were— a spot, I had been told,
where those were laid whom the piti
less sea had drowned. When a ship
xvas cast upon the rocks yonder it was
rare even for one of its crew to reach
that rock-bound shore alive ; and after
a great storm whole ships’ companies
were sometimes buried at once in the
churchyard of Disney head.
I listened with beating heart, and the
sound Avas repeated ; and this time I
felt sure it was as I had supposed.
Doubtless some AA'oman had come to
weep in secret over the grave of her
sailor son or husband ; there was no
need to be frightened in such a case. It
might be that I should be able to give
her comfort. I rose, and moviDg to,
w. r ird the tyreek-oorirer (ass it wpsj^led).
EASTMAN, DODGE €O., GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1874.
could dimly make out a woman’s figure
kneeling at the bead of a grave. In the
presence of so great a sorrow, I seemed
to lose all selfish fear, and ventured
softly to address her. She did not
reply, nor even so much as tu.n her
head, though I felt certain she must
have heard me; and since she A\as a
woman, and did not speak, I felt there
must be something very wrong with
her. As I drew nearer, I beheld a
spectacle that overwhelmed me with
pity. The unhappy creature before me
Avas naked to the waist, and with her
arms straight down by her side, was
gazing on the grave beneath her with a
look of indescribable despair. She shed
no tear, but her eyes wore a look of
hopeless woe and yearning beyond all
ordinary sorrow.
“You are killing yourself, my poor
woman,” reasoned I, “to kneel there in
such a plight. The dead you mourn
can ask no such sacrifice as this that
you should join them.”
But again she answere l nothing ; and
then, to my horror, I observed that she
had dug another grave at the head of
that she was watching, and was already
buried in it up to her waist. Was she,
then, bent on committing suicide, or
was she herself an inhabitant of the
tomb, like those around her, and were
the graves indeed giving up their dead
at that witching hour of night, as I had
read of, but had not believed ?
In an agony of terror, such as even I
had never before experienced, I flung
down my sketch-book, and rushed from
the churchyard and down the hill.
“What is the matter, Mary Anne?”
cried my amazed hostess, who was sit
ting up for me with her husband in the
parlor, as I tore into the room shrieking
for help.
“ Matter !” cried I. “ There is a poor
young woman, with nothing upon her,
half buried alive ia the Avreck corner of
the churchyard. She has already lost
her sight aud hearing, for she took no
notice of me at all.” •
“ Impossible !” cried my hostess.
“But I’ve seen her,” shrieked I.
“Not a moment is to be lost.”
“Ah, bless you, we’ve seen her too,”
aid my host, laughing; “it’s the fig
urehead of tho Bella. When the ship
came ashore we stuck it up at the cap
tain’s grave, by way of headstone—poor
fellow ! She has not got much on her,
it’s true; but I don’t think she’ll hurt.”
Congressional Manners.
Many journals and critics are from
time to time finding fault with 1 he man
ners of the house in debate, and some
think it would be better to cease report
ing their proceedings unless the mem
bers can govern their tongues and tem
pers in decenter fashion. Coarseness
and intemperance in debate do not,
however, constitute more than a more
moderate proportion of the offences of
t.iat body against good taste. The of
fences of indecorous speech and churl
ish temper are simply in keeping with
t.Wo Tjersonal deportment of a cons dura
ble squad of memoers upon the floor.
A glanoe from the gallery reveals to the
eye of a gentleman or lady, if the ses
sion be a lull one, the spectacle of mem
bers scattered here and there in every
attitude of indecorum and boorislmess
—some sprawled along the sofas, with
one leg on the floor ad the other pro
trudi g a foot of undue proportions
over the back of tho temporary couch,
where it besmears the delicate tints
upon the wall ; seme smoking in the
doors of the cloak rooms, and even at
their desks ; some chewing tobacco, and
voiding tlieir rank expectorations upon
the pretty carpet, or firing it Avildly at
the bright ventilating registers in the
floors ; some gathered in groups with
their backs toward the speaker, or any
other man whom it might concern, rela
ting stories, stale, smutty, or other
wise, and breaking into occasional whin
nies and guffaws ; some gazing at the
galleries, and strutting up and down
the aisles and passages with a conscious
ness of themselves and their new clothes
that suggests a speckled circus horse on
court Aveek ; some munching apples and
the like,*or diligently strewing the floor
with bits of paper, torn very fine ; some
complacently combiug their whiskers or
paring their nails ; some, and they were
not a few, tilted back in their swivel
chairs, with their feet thrust so far
across their desks that the legs of their
pantaloons were pretty effectually
skinned up over their boots, giving their
shanks a picturesque effect; and all
over the house goes on the endless
scribbling, the reading of newspapers,
the hand-slapping for errant pages, and
the unintermitting jabber, generally
unnoted, of the man who is supposed by
a parliamentary fiction to be occupying
the floor.— Washington Herald.
A Comma that Cost $2,000,000.
The importance of correct punctua
tion was strongly illustrated at a meet
ing of the ways and means committee
of the United States house of repre
sentatives, when it Avas shown that a
comma in one place was worth $2,000,-
00 '. Iu the tariff bill which went into
effect August 1, 1872, the free list was
extended by the addition of several
hundred articles. Among the number
was “ fruit plants, tropical and semi
tropical,” for the purpose of propaga
tion and cultivation. In engrossing the
bill, or in the process of copying it for
official printing, a comma was inserted
after “fruit,” and all fruit was thereby
placed upon the free list. The customs
officers, however, uoticing the change,
continued to oollect duties on fruit
until the error was discovered. The
ways and means committee have now
agreed to report a bill to remove the
comma, in accordance with the iutent of
the law of 1872. The amount, of tax
illegally collected is not far from $2,-
000,000'.
—The other day, in Ohio, a yonng
lady died of what a thick-headed old
doctor said was “ heart klot, or em
byolism of the main flue of the heart.”
She revived in an hour, however, and it
was found she had been temporarily
choked by a piece of gum she had been
chewing.
—The editor of the Griffin News
makes it a point to inquire of the lead
ing Georgia planters who visit that of
fice as to their prospects, and they all
concur in the determination to so pitch
their c&pa the present year as to be
able to control their vsufcon nex f ses
sojj. wfeen they please,
Iti God Jfe Trust.
GRANT AND LEE.
A Xtw Story ot tle Surrender of Lee at
Appomattox.
From a London Review of Lieut. Col. GUesney’s
‘‘Essays in Military Biographies.’’
Four or these essays relate to the
great war in America, the events of
which, perhaps in themselves as inter
esting in a military sense as those in
any war the world has seen, have not
received the careful attention which they
merit, owing to the distraction of the
more recent continental campaigns. As
Col. Cliesney truly remarks: “ There is
a disposition to regard the American
generals and troops which they led as
altogether inferior to regular sol
diers. This prejudice was born out of
the blunders and want of coherence
exhibited by undisciplined volunteers
at the outset—faults amply atoned for
by the stubborn courage displayed on
both sides throughout the rest of the
struggle; while if a man’s claims to be
regarded as a veteran are to be meas
ured by the amount of actual fighting
he has gone through, the most seasoned
soldiers of Europe are but as conscripts
compared with the survivors of that
conflict.”
The'essays on Generals Grant and Lee
are mo'st valuable and exhaustive studies.
His strictures on Grant’s reskless sacri
fice of his troops in attempting the im
possible by fighting the battle of Cold
Harbor, after he should have learned
by the experience of tie long and
butchering battles of the Wilderness
and Spotsylvania, that the “ continuous
hammering ” in which he had some
what boastfully trusted might break the
instrument Avhil its work was yet un
finished, are b, th severe and well
founded. He calls the battle of Cold
Harbor “ the darkest spot on the career
of Grant as a commander. * * *
It requires,” he continues, “more ex
cuse than has anywhere been offered
for the sacrifice. It may be that Grant’s
usually imperturbable temper was ruffled
by the continued readiness with which
his adversary mot him; or that he believed
the Confederates already so worn down
by their unsupplied losses as to be un
able to man tlieir Avorks; or that he
judged that his new command had not
been suficiently put to the proof by the
stern doings of the month just past; or
that all these causes acted together.
Possibly he was influenced more than
all by the uneasy consciousness that he
had brought the criticism of the world
upon his strategy by his famous dis
patch, * I propose to fight it out on this
line if it!| takes all summer ; ’ for had
not this line been already abandoned,
and no result Avon? ” Col. Chesney ac
curately apportions between Grant and
Sheridan the merit of the final effort
which forced Lee to surrender, of which
merit Americans are becoming more
and more prone to assign an undue
share to the subordinate commander.
His sketch of Gen. Lee cannot be
condensed. “ Like Napoleon, his troop
soon learnt to believe him equal to
- —-r ■ — -- - *— •“o
Like Hannibal, he could speak lightly
and calixly at the gravest moments, be
ing then himself least grave. Like Rag
lan, he preserved a sweetness of temper
that no person or circumstance could
ruffle. Like Ciesar, he mixed with the
crowd of si ldiery freely, and never
feared that his position would be for
gotten. Like Blucher, his one recog
nized fault was that which the soldier
readily forgives, a readiness to expose
his life beyond the proper limits per
mitted by modern war to the comman
der in-chief. What Avcnder, tliep, if he
commanded an army in Avhich each mai
would have died for him; an army from
Avhich his parting wrung tears more bit
ter than any the fall of their canse could
extort; an army which followed him,
after three years of glorious vicissitudes,
into private life, without one thought
of further resistance against the fate
to which their adored chief yielded
Avithout a murmur ?” But with all this
warm eulogy he impartially points out
the faults and failings of Lee—how he
made no attempt to check indiscipline ;
never used his authority to purge his
command of inefficient officers; failed
to enforce on the government the vital
necessity of bringing the furnishing of
supplies more directly under his own
control, so that his army starved in
Richmond while large supplies were
available had proper energy been used
by the war department; and, lastly,
how he so marched his cavalry off their
legs, that in their last campaign the
confederates were left almost destitute
of that most necessary arm. But these
shortcomings, although the military
critic must notice them, are but the in
evitable specks on the bright surface of
an illustrious military character; on
Lee’s personal character there lingers
no breath of tarnish.
Inexpressibly pathetic in its simplic
ity is Col. Chesney’s brief account of
the bitter ending of his long struggle
aud matchless strategy. Gordon had
sent back the word that the way of
escape was completely barred; and now
there confronted him but the inevitable
capitulation. “ For a moment those
who looked on him saw him almost
overcome ; and the first words of com
plaint ever heard from his lips, during
the war, broke sharply forth, ‘ I had
rather die a thousand deaths !’ Musing
sadly for a few seconds, as his men’s
favorite cry broke on his ear, ‘ There’s
Uncle Robert!’ in deep, sad tones be
said to those near him, ‘ How soon
could I end all this and be at rest! ’Tis
but to ride down the line aud all would
be over.’ Then pre ently recovering
his natural voice, he answered one who
urged that the surrender might be mis
understood : ‘ That is not the question.
The question is whether it is right.
And if it is right I take the responsi
bility.’ Then after a brief silence, he
added, Avith a sigh, ‘lt is out duty to
live. What will become of the wives
and children of the south if we are not
hete to protect them?’ So saying, he
sent in Ins flasr of truce wituout further
hesitation to Grant. The coming action
was stayed on the instant, and the
struggle of the confederacy Avas virtu
ally over.” __
Italian Beggars.— A writer from
Naples says : “ There is no disguising
the fact that, although there is much of
poverty and suffering here from real
want, yet begging is chronic with the
common pe- pie. The petty shopkeepers,
after selling you an article and reeeivng
the agreed price, will beg for a few sola
in addition. Your guide, well paid at
his own rate, will beg for a trifle over at
the close of the day’s service ; the coach
man, liberally compensated, like 01 ver,
asks for more ; and so throughout all
the departments of employment. In
deed, one cannot turn round without
meeting an extended hand asking for
money. Thus is the stranger absolutely
fleeced from the hour his arrival until
that of His departure, which is almost
always hastened in the attempt to avoid
such teasing annoyance.”
Khivan Proverbs.
He who steadies himself between two
ships will certainly be drowned.
Shame is worse than death.
He who weeps from his heart will pro
voke tears even from the blind.
A lean horse and a hero in a strange
country each look amiss.
When you go to law against the em
peror, God Himself should be the judge.
The wise man strikes twice against
one and the same stone.
You may praise the Russian a thou
sand times, but his eye will still be
blue (the reverse to handsome, accord
ing to Usbeg taste).
Young men may die ; old men must.
The over licking (flattering) tongue
soon makes a wound.
He who fears the sparrow will never
sow a millet.
When the ass bears too light a load
he wants to lie down.
The spoken word cannot again be
swallowed.
He whose heart is full soon finds a
ton£ ue.
Smoke rises only from large blocks of
wood.
A living mouse is better than a dead
lion.
Him whom God has marked, the
prophet strikes him Avith his wand.
He who is on horseback no longer
knows even his own father. (The armed
man on horseback spares not his near
est relation.)
When you die, even your tomb shall
be comfortable.
Men speak to each other by words;
animals by signs.
Man is caught by his tongue ; an ox
by bis horns.
That which is taken in with the milk
only goes out with the soul. (Faults
contracted with infancy disappear but
with death.)
The open mouth never remains hun
gry-
Do not fasten up your garment until
you see the water.
Time does not bow to you ; you must
bow to time.
A great head has great cares.
A Leper in Detroit.
There is at present in one of the pub
lic institutions of Detroit a genuine,
well-defined case of leprosy. The vic
tim is John McCarthy, a native of Buf
falo, aged twenty-one years. He has
been afflicted with it ever since his ear-
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life, wandering, a hopeless out-cast,
from city to city, occasionally dropping
into alms-houses and frequently finding
refuge in penal institutions as a vagrant.
McCarthy is covered with white scales
which fall off constantly,and are as con
stantly'reneAved. r lliese[are on the scalp,
face, and hands, and also over some por
tions of the body half an inch in thick
ness, having the appearance of dried
codfish skin.
Physicians, accustomed as they are to
sad sights, have turned away from the
contemplation of McCarthy’s horrible
case, sick in body and in spirit. Tlie
patient is rapidly becoming imbecile
from disturbed nutrition and want of
rest, for until'recently he has scarce been
known to sleep. The entire affec
ted region is a mass of leprous irri
tation, and a shower of scales flies off
with the least motion, the bed present
ing the appearance sometimes of hav
ing been liberally strewn with coarse
bran. Medicines thus far have had but
little effect, owing in part no doubt to
bad hygiene, poor food and insufficient
clothing. Now, even should he improve
for a time, the disease would probably
return with all its original virulence.
McCarthy long since reached a con
dition of mind where he regards the
prospect of death as a blessing infinitely
to be preferred to longer endurance of
his present pitiable condition. Such is
leprosy.
Alexander Dumas and His Son.
The recently elected member of the
French Academy is described, at the
age of twenty-one, by his father, as fol
lows : “What shall I tell you of my
son ? He has come into the world at
the melancholy hour when it is no
longer day and is not yet night; so the
assemblage of antitheses which forms
his strange personality is one composed
of light and shade. He is idle, lie- is
active; he is a gourmand, and he is
sober ; he is prodigal, and he is econom
ical ; he is mistrustful and credulous ;
blase and innocent; thoughtless and
devoted ; he has a cold tongue, and a
prompt hand; he mocks me with all his
wit, and loves me with all his heart.
Finally, he is always ready to steal my
cash-box like Yalere, or to fight for me
like the Cid. Moreover, possessing
a nerve the maddest, the most attract
ive, and the most steadfast that I have
ever seen sparkle on the lips of a young
man of one-and-twenty, and which,
like a flame poorly shut down, breaks
out incessantly in revery as in agitation,
in calm as in danger, in smiles as in
tears. From time to time we fall out,
and, like the prodigal son, he takes liis
inheritance and quits the paternal man
sion ; then I straightway bay a calf and
fatten it, quite certain that before a
month he tfill return to eat his share of
it. It is true that evil tongues affirm that
it is for the calf he returns, and not for
me, but I understand all about that.”
—-Sydney Smith said : “Among the
smaller duties of life I hardly know
of anyone more important than that of
not praising where praise is not due.
Reputation is one of the prizes for
which e encontend. It is, as Mr. Burke
calls it, “ the cheap . efer se and orna
ment of nations.” It produces more
labor and more talant than twice the
wealth of a country could ever rear up.
It is coin of genius, and it is the impe
rious duty of every man +0 bestow it
with the most scrupulou iqvt>e and
the wisest
Payable in Advance.
NUMBER t).
FROM WASHINGTON.
Indian Appropriations— Slew Bounty A:t
Confirmations and Appointments.
Secretary Richardson reports to the
senate, in response to their inquiry,
that it will take four [ years to have sil
ver enough coined by the miuts to re
place the fractional currency.
The house committee on appropria
tions has completed the Indian appro
priation bill. It appropriates five
million dollars, being a reduction from
the estimates of $1,500,000.
The joint committee on library
have decided it is not expedient to rec
ommend the purchase, this season, of
the Catlin collection of paintings and
implements of North American Indi
ans. The price asked is said to be
about SIOO,OOO.
The president has approved the act au
thorizing the secretary of war to ascer
tain the amount of expenses incurred by
the territorial authorities of Dacotah
for arms, equipments, military stores,
supplies and all other expenses of the
volunteer forces of the Indian war of
1862.
The senate has confirmed John W.
Jenkins, of Virginia, to be secretary of
Colorado, and Tom. B. Searight, of
Pennsylvania, to be surveyor-general
of Colorado, but the nomination of Gen.
Edwin McCook, to be governor of Colo
rado, has not been confirmed. The
President has nominated William A.
Simmons to be collector of the port of
Boston, vice Thomas Russell, who is to
be minister to Venezuela, The senate
has, to this time, failed to confirm Gen.
Van Buren (oft Vienna fame) as con
sul to Kanagawa.
The senate committee on public
Lands agree to recommend the passage
of a bill extending until December 1,
1876, the time for the completion of the
Wisconsin Central railroad. The law
now requi es its completion by next
May under penalty of forfeiture of its
large land grant. The committee also
took action on house bill amendatory
of the act to encourage the growth of
timber on the western prairies and will
report amendments limiting the amount
of land that may be thus required by
homestead settlers, in addition to the
160 acres of homestead, to 40 planted
with trees contiguous to said home
stead.
By a full vote of the judiciary
committee, a bill has been presented to
the house providing that whoever, being
a creditor of the United States on ac
count of any contract made on the 14th
of April, 1861, or a claimant of any
bounty of the United States given by
law for military or naval service, done
before the 14th of Ajiril, 1861, shall be
entitled to receive the amount due and
payable* notwithstanding any participa
tion or sympathy in the rebellion, or
the exercising of the functions of any
office whatever under any authority or
pretended authority in hostility to "the
United States, and all laws and parts of
laws contravening the provisions of this
act be the same are hereby repealed.
Aoconipaujrlug tills Dill In n rt?pui( from
the judiciary committee, to whom was
referred a house resolution of March 1,
1867, prohibiting the payment of debts
due by the United States before the
war unless loyalty is proved, and also a
house bill to repeal the oath at present
required of applicants for pensions, and
to prescribe another oath. The com
mittee, having considered the above
msntioned resolution and bill, report
that “It seems to your committee that
as all o'her property and rights of pro
perty of persons engaged in the late re
bellion have by general acts of the am
nesty and laws of the United States,
been exempted from confiscation, there
can be no reason for now retaining on
the statute books such acts and parts of
acts as were very properly enacted to
prevent aid and comfort to the enemy
of the United States during the war,
which, by their impediments to the
creditors "of the United States in re
ceiving their just dues, amount to con
fiscation, and also such acts to the same
effect which were passed to hinder aud
prevent disloyal persons whose disabili
ties had not been removed because of
their participation in the rebellion from
making any claims against the govern
ment for debts due, aud claims not aris
ing out of the rebellion prior thereto,
should also be repealed. Therefore,
your committee have reported the ac
companying bill covering the resolution
and referred to them, so as to remove
all disabilities in that regard.”
Pre-Historic Man.
A possible addition to the controversy
concerning pre-hi toric man is fur
nished by a Viiginian newspaper, which
asserts that its information was ob
tained from gentlemen of the highest
character, who saw with their own eyes
and tested with their own bands the won
derful objects of which they make report.
A railway is in progress of construction
between Weldon and Garrysburg, and
while the workmen were employed on a
river bank, about a mile from the for
mer place, they discovered a vast heap
of skeletons, packed closely together,
tier on tier, and interminrl' v 5 '-it li *the
human bones a let of sharp stone ar
rows, rude mortars and pipe bowls.
The skulls were nearly an inch in thick
ness, the teeth were as large as those of
a horse and filed sharp like those of
cannibals, and the leg bones indicated
that the statxire of these remnants of a
“ lost and forgotten rac6” must have
been as great as eight or nine feet.
The newspaper from which we obtain
those facts hopes that “some effort will
be made to preserve authentic and ac
curate accounts of these discoveries,”
and if they are honestly reported, we
have little doubt that there will be.”
—M. Lachaud, who defended Mar
shal Bazaine on his trial, has declined
to take any fee, and the ex-Empress Eu
genie has sent Lira aprestntasa souvenir
of the affair. The Queen of Spain has
assumed the costs of the trial, and has
offered fo provide for the education of
Bazaine’s children.
—A Kansas gentleman has thought
fully put his fr >nt gate in the parlor,
so that his daughter and her young man
can swing on it without taking cold du
ring the cold weather. This is a (n.mane
suggestion to h 1! fathers A trout
in the p trio? n_ v save a good manv pi
firs that w( other" is hi p i u*
fpr soothing aitii •;
EASTMAN TIMES.
RATES OF ADVERTISING:
J" " ■■ VWi.—
6m. 12 m.
HlO 00 $ 15 00
18 00 35 00
' 28 00 89 99
One-fourth coL U6O 22 60l t 34 00 46 00
Oue-half e0L......... 20 00 82 60 ,86 00 80 00
Oneoolumn.. 36 00 60 00l 80 00 180 00
Advertisements inserted at the rate of $1.60 per
square for the first insertion, and "5 cents for each
subsequent one. Ten lines or leas constitute a
square.
Professional cards, $16.00 uer annum; for lAx
months, SIO.OO, in advance.
GRAVE AND GAY.
—The London Morning Post declares
that Mark Twain, as a humorist, is a
fraud, not fit to be mentioned the same
day with Artemus Ward.
—Russia is about to adopt a general
conscription law, which, it is thought,
will bring the strength of the army up
to 2,000,000 within fifteen years.
—The scarcest fur in Alaska is that of
the black fox. Of 21,000 skins taken in
1872 there was cnly one black fox skin,
which sold for the large price of $l5O.
—A Springfield (Mass.) firm who have
already supplied the Russian govern
ment with 40,000 cavalrv pistols, are
now completing and order for 20,00
more.
—A great drinker being at a table
they offered him grapes at dessert.
“Thank you,” said he, pushing away
the plate, “ I don’t take my wine in
pills. ”
—A “public adjudication,” alias a
foroed loan, of twenty-five millions
pesetas is decreed at Madrid. It is
guaranteed by the revenue from the
stamp tax.
—A lengthy article is in circulation
telling how to make a good mustard
plaster. An article telling how to suc
cessfully dodge one is what a smitten
people want.
—Richmond’s* (last census having
footed up only 51,000 names, it is pro
posed to have it taken over again by a
man from Chicago, who guarantees a
population of 74,000, or no pay.
—The following is the latest obitu
ary :
Here lies interred Priscilla Bird,
Who sang on earth till sixty-two,
Now, upon high, above the sky,
No doubt she sings like sixty, too.
—The Normandie cap, which iised to
be worn by babies and little children,
has been modified and worked over into
a dainty bit of head-gear for newly
married ladies. It resembles an in j ured
kite.
—The prayer reform movement seems
to be a sort of high moral epidemic.
A crazy darkey in Troy entered the de
tectives’ office the other day, and offered
up a fervent petition for the graceless
and unappreciative officials.
—lt is stated by the New York Price
Current, on the authority of the secre
tary of the treasury, that a number of
prominent English manufacturers con
template the removal of their manufac
tures and capital to the United States.
—With a number-one Bogardus, a
kicker and a copy of the Dead Beats’
Directary recently invented by some
body in Chicago, every nespaper office
ought to enjoy a degree of serene hap
piness which until now was impossible.
—At a recent golden wedding in Nau
gatuck, Conn., the old couple showed
the young folks liow “ courtin’ ’ was
done fifty years ago, and those of the
young folks who know how it is done at
the present day couldn’t see that the
metnod nad cliauged. much.
—The Red river saloon, New Mexico,
*is an exciting place for lunch. A ruf
fian known as Chunk amused himself in
shooting the eyes out of pictures and
opening champagne bottles with pistol
bullets. His eye became fixed on a
stockman named Allison. At the srup
per-table they sat opposite, each with
his pistol in his lap. Allison dodged
Chunk’s ball, and shot Chunk through
the right eye before he had time to en
joy his coffee. The sheriff arrived.
He waited Chunk for a murder in
Texas.
The Ypsilanti Commercial tells
this story : A few weeks since two of
our prominent citizens swore off from
drinking. One of them had occasion to
visit Chicago. Meeting some friends
they urged him to drink. He pleaded
bis agreement wiih B. in Ypsilanti. The
friends of A. in Chicago were not satis
fied, and telegraphed to B. in our city,
saying, “ A is getting awful dry.
Can’t you let him off this once ? ” The
noble f“fpir tan’s reply telegraphed back
was : “No!if he must die, let him
die sober.”
—The Cheynne Leader says the
Arapahoes and Cheyennes at present
located near the Red Cloud agency,
who assume the right to roam at will
ovir northwestern Wyoming, and who
have committed many murders
and depiedations upon the citizens,
have resolved not to abandon their
hunting grounds for a reservation on the
Arkansas river. The Arapahoes num
ber about 2,000 and the Cheyennes more
than 5,000, and there will be trouble if
the Indian department insists upon its
purpose to send them south.
Hints to Advertisers. —When peo
ple see a man advertise they know he
is a business man, and his advertising
proclaims that he is not above business,
but anxious to do it. Customers, like
sheep, are gregarious, and flock where
they see others go. If nobody else were
engaged in the same business, it would
be important to tradesmen and dealers
to advertise in the paper, because peo
ple are tempted to buy what they read
of. But others are engaged in the same
business, and even if they do not ad
vertise, it becomes the more important
for you to do so; if they do advertise
it becomes doubly important. —A non.
Without the aid of advertisements I
could have done nothing in my specu
lations. I have the most complete faith
in “ printer’s ink. ” Advertising is th
“ royal road to business.” — Bamum.
A Carload. —What constitutes a car
load? Asa general rule, 20,000 pounds,
or 70 barrels of salt, 70 of lime, 90 of
whisky, 200 sacks of flour, 6 cords of
hard wood, 7 of soft wood, 18 to 20 head
of cattle, 50 to 60 head of hogs, 80 to
100 head of sheep, 9,000 feet of solid
boards, 17,000 feet of siding, 12,000 of
flooring, 40,000 shingles, one-half less
of hard lumber, one-fourth les6 of green
lumber, one-tenth less of joists, scant
liup and all other large timber, 343
bushels of wheat, 360 of corn, 680 of
oats, 4°o of barley, 360 of flax seed, 360
r f 430 ot I'osh potatoes, 360 of
s . e„t potatoes, LOOO bushels of bran.
The foregoing table may not be exactly
L ., j, reet, for I he reason that. iailioa>ls do
i .-x erjx agree in their rules and es
ie pro ,r annroxiroates so closely
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