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Tlie Greouffia. Weekly TelesraiDh. and Journal & IVIessenger.
MACON, JANUARY 4 1870
Jadg<> Cabanisif,
In response to a circular from the Constitution
office, inquiring “vat you tink?" sends that
paper a brief and sensible letter, wMch we copy
and commend tothe reader. Wo agree with all
he says, nnd furthermore, never was and never
will be the advocate of the policy of standing
aside in dignified disgust and letting the Radi
cals work their will with Georgia. Self-interest
demands that we shall contest the ground to the
last as effectually as we can; and if that had
been done from the first, in all probability wo
should be in a better condition now.
Change of Front on Cuba.
The Washington quidnuncs are giving out
that the President and Secretary Fish are going
to “Bight about Face” on the Cuba question.
This may bo true, but it trill place their excel
lencies in a very humorous position. Nothing
certainly has happened in Cuba, since the mes
sage, to brighten the prospects of the rebels
so-called, and yet that document roundly as
serts the absence of every characteristic in the
struggle which should entitle the Cubans to be
recognized as belligerents.
A Potent Ram.
The New York Tribune correspondence from
Hayti says that Salnave is well-nigh gone np,
and his only hope now is the Bam Atlanta,
which he is now daily looking for with anxious
expectation. All Hayti, np to within eighteen
miles of Port-au-Prince, is in the hands of the
revolutionary niggers. Salnave’s best general
has gone over to them, and ho himself, shut up
in the city, is frotling like a caged tiger—hated
and distrnsted by everybody, and swearing des
perate expedients in case he is driven to tho last
extremety.
Atlanta Items.—The Atlanta New Era is
authorized to announce CoL E. Hulbert as a
candidate for the United States Senate—in
whose place we are not advised. Both Hill and
Miller are ruled out by the decision that all Leg
islative proceedings are null and void; and so
far as the destructives are concerned, Joshua
Hill stands no better chance than Dr. Miller.
Hill is a decided Bepnblican, bnt he is an hon
est man and a gentleman. He could never bo
used in any schemes prejudicial to the public
welfare. He is not such a man as the destruct
ives will support.
Tho some number of the Now Era announces
that John Flynn has resigned his position on tho
State Boad.
We have Radical authority for the statement
that there is immense disgust, alarm, confusion
and excitement among the “Republican masses”
in Atlanta—the “nastiest state of things con
ceivable,” according to the voluntary testimony
of Bepnblicans themselves.
Boston is making the effort of desperation to
organise an American Steamship Company, with
a capital of $1,000,000. Tho enterprise in
cludes tho purchase of the steamers Ontario and
Erie, for the purpose of placing them on a line
to be established between Boston and Liverpool.
It is understood that the steamers can be had at
the recent auction cost, which is about one-
third of their estimated value. The balance of
the capital will be deposited with the Treasurer
of the now organization, or otherwise disposed
of as the company, when formed, may deter
mine,
Egyptian Cotton.—Recent letters from Egypt
State that the Viceroy is undoubtedly in earnest
about increasing the supply of cotton, so says
tho London correspondent of the Financial
Chronicle, who writes uuder date of the 11th
instant. He intends to give every possible
facility for extending the cultivation of cotton
in his dominions. To that end he has lately ap
pointed a European manager, delegated with
power to effect any changes he may think de
sirable in the present modes of preparing cot
ton for shipment to European markets.
An Untucex Boat.—A Memphis dispatch of
the 10th nit, says that Henry C. Baker, an old
Citizen of Arkansas, was found dead in a state
room of the steamer Ozark that morning. Two
colored roustabouts, of the same steamer, while
•wrestling, yesterday, fell overboard and were
drowned. A deckhand of the same steamer,
while handling a box of torpedoes to-day, ex-
exploded them, tearing him into fragments.
. Emigration in Texas.—Letters from Texas
gay that the tide of immigration now flowing in
to tho State is without a parallel. It comes from
many directions, and is filling np various parts
of the great State, but the larger share of the
new comers go to the northern and northwestern
counties. They become grain farmers, and are
greatly increasing, both the product of the re
gion and the price of lands.
In foe a Second Teem.—A Washington cor
respondent says: “In a conversation to-day
with one of tho Jndges of the Supreme Court of
tho United States, who enjoys, in a high degree,
his personal confidence and friendship, Presi
dent Grant made known that it was his earnest
wish and desire to enjoy a second term in the
office of chief magistrate of the republic.”
Public Debt.—The Tribune says the public
debt statement for last month will show about
the same, decrease as November—$7,500,000.
Tho gold in the Treasury up to date is $107,-
228,000; gold certificates, $37,882,060; curren
cy, $10^10,000.
. Seven thousand Saxons, livftrg in Transylva
nia, bavo determined to emigrate next spring
to the United States. Hard times and the gen
eral maladministration of the country led them
to take this resolution.
Flare Up, In Atlanta.
The Constitution formally announces a flare
up in Atlanta, which has been looked for, some
weeks. It is at least to the credit of Hulbert,
that the assigned cause of bis decapitation was
opposition to the scheme to make Bullock Dic
tator. Hulbert is said to have opposed it in the
Radical Caucus, and he ought to have blown it
then and there, instead of resting qniet under
the false representations that the Radical Cau
cus was a unit in the demand that Congress
should put Georgia in Gov. Bullpck’s breeohes
pockets.
We take Hulbert to be one of the shrewdest
men in Georgia; but shrewd men miss it some
times, and Hulbert missed it badly when he
took tho “Hon. John A. Wimpy, of Dahlonega,
Georgia, member of Congress elect from that
State,” into his confidence. He should have
seen throngh Wimpy, bnt did not. He wrote,
(according to the Constitution,) a confidential
letter to Wimpy, “remonstrating against placing
all power in Bullock’s hands,” and made two
mistakes in a single throw—ono in supposing
Wimpy would respect any trust of that kind,
and another in believing him accessible to any
patriotic motives.
Wimpy, according to tho Constitution, car
ried the “confidential” letter straight to Bul
lock, and thus played the same game on Hul
bert which Wimpy says he intended to do as an
amateur detective upon the renowned counter
feiting house of Wogan & Co. It is clear Hul
bert should never have trusted Wimpy even
upon such repeated, ample, copious and gush
ing assurances of good faith os the latter poured
out through all his prolix correspondence with
Wogan & Co. Wogan & Co. were not to be
caught by Wimpy. Noyes & Co. were not caught
by Wimpy. On the contrary, they caught Wim
py and nipped Wimpy severely. Noyes & Co.
sold Wimpy a wad of old newspapers for a hun
dred dollars instead of the thousands of counter
feit greenbacks “mostly in ones and twos”
which Wimpy expected to find in the box. Ah!
that a Hulbert should have ever been caught by
a Wimpy. And who knows but Wimpy has sold
out Hulbert for enough to indemnify his losses
by investment and travel in the counterfeiting
business.
But passing by this matter, which we confess
bears upon onr mind, (becanse we never conld
have believed that Hulbert would have been so
taken in and done for by Wimpy) tho next
thing which astonishes us, is tho way Yarney
Gaskill turns up in the general wreck. The
last we heard of Yarney in a political capacity,
he was one of the Secretaries of the Seymour
and Blair National Convention and a doughty
champion of Democracy. From that sublime
height we suddenly find him down among the
wreckers, tied to Blodgett’s raft, and busily em
ployed in stripping the old hulk Georgia of her
copper, apparel and fastenings. How did Yar
ney Gaskill get down there ? Who employed
him ? When did the engagement commence,
and what is the rate of compensation ?
As to the report upon the proposed distribu
tion of the proceeds of this great venture, it is
not so surprising to us as tho reality is likely to
be to the “moderate republicans” described in
the Constitution bill. We think of all people in
Georgia they are like to be the most sorely mor
tified, chagrined and disappointed. We hope
as they have been tho most deceived, they will
at least assist the Democrats in fighting the firo
and saving as much from the wreck as posible.
Closing Up the Old Year, and a Happy
New Year.
The King is dead! Long live the King! Time
hurries ns along with steady speed, and wo can’t
pass one of its great boundaries a second with
out entering a new ono, which, in its turn, is
soon far behind ns in our rapid career to Eter
nity. We are now closing np the year 1809 in
penning these lines, but they will be printed
and read in 1870.
What a dream has been the flight of these
successive years to us seniors, who spent early
childhood in tho first quarter of this century.
The young cannot appreciate those sculptured
similitudes which compare time to tho flight of
the weaver’s shuttle, and human life to a pass
ing breath, a tale that is told—hut we have no
difficulty in apprehending their force.
We enter the new year with a good deal
of foreboding about tho political condition, but
the material situation is promising. Our people
have but to follow their industrial pursuits with
the continued vigor, energy and judgment, and
in a few years we shall have all that is necessary
to material comfort. If we will improve upon
the past, with tho addition of a sounder farm
economy, which shall produce all the bread we
consume, we shall grow rich.
As to our political future, we are not disposed
to borrow trouble or cross the bridge before we
come to it. The chapter of accidents is all be
fore ns, and the schemes of tho enemies of
Georgia may find a defeat in their very audacity.
The signs are promising that the Republican or
Radical party in Georgia will be widely divided
in the course of this war upon the State, and
we make bold to say, if the plans of the de-
structionists are consummated, it will be done
against a combination of moral influence and
power such as was never yet effected in Georgia.
The triumphant party, in such a case, will rep
resent a mere handful of adventurers against
every intelligent and patriotic man in the State.
Then let ns work with resolution, energy and de
cision, bnt with caution and judgment, for our
own deliverance; and it may yet be seen, that
an apparent evil has been overruled for the
benefit of the State.
A Happy New Year to our readers—one and
all.
Muscogee County.—Col. R. J. Ivey, Sheriff
of Muscogee county, died after a brief illness
in Columbus on Wednesday. Mr. Jesse J.
Bradford, late deputy,has been appointed to tho
vacancy.
Impost ant Capture.—A Musketoe was cap
tured in this city the other night He had evi
dently just arrived from Macon, as he was very
thin.—Constitution.
Allowing the editors of the Constitution to re
present the fatness of Atlanta, what advantage
in point of flesh have they over that “Muske
too J” We submit that question to tho Atlanta
College of Cardinals.
Veby Bad.—The Griffin Star of yesterday re
grets to learn that the store of Z. B. Blalock &
Bro., at Fayetteville, was destroyed by fire last
week. Loss between four and five thousand
•dollars.
A Lawful Fence.—The News says.a negro
member of tho South Carolina Legislature has
introduced a bill compelling planters to make
heir fences “horse high, bull strong, and pig
tight.
■Bad"State ot Facts.—The Hudson River
Bailway Company has discovered robberies
amounting to a hundred thousand dollars, bnt
cannot detect the thieves.
Toe Savannah Republican announces that it
will soon, appear in a new dress, and that Mr.
T. W. Lone, of Eufaula, is engaged as assistant
editor. _
Cotton States Insubance Company.—This
company is sRid to be meeting with great suc
cess and doing a heavy business. The character
Ltbebty County, Ga., October 18, 1809.
Messrs. Wm. JL Stark & Co., Savannah,
Oa.—Gentlemen—Your favor, asking informa
tion as to results in the application of Marry-
man’s Raw-Bone Phosphate, is at hand. In
reply, I have to say, that I used this year two
tons on cotton, on thin, worn-out, sandy land,
and I have no hesitation in saying that it did
better than four other kinds of commercial ma
nures, that I used alongside of it, at a much
higher price. I have used the Peruvian for
several years, and find that Merryman’s pro
duced the best crops. I shall use no othor kind
next year. I did not use it on corn, bnt have
no doubt it will bo fonnd profitable on com.
applied 200 pounds per acre, sowed it on the
list and covered it with tho plow, then opened
the holes with the hoe and covered the cotton
with tho foot. I am highly pleased with it at
200 lbs. per acre, but think 250 pounds would
do belter.
I would remark that we went throngh a terri
ble drought, and the Phosphate did not have a
fair chance. As it is, I am satisfied that the
crop was doubled by it.
Yours truly, Wm. B. Gaulden.
The Blacks is South Carolina.—The Charles
ton News publishes a letter from a country cor
respondent which says:
The negroes have started some kind of an or
ganization here of a religious(?) character, in
which only females are allowed to officiate—the
membership being composed of the same sex.
Your correspondent has not been able to find
out the specific purpose of this new association.
Those, we suppose, are the “voodoo” rites
and ceremonials.
The Suez Canal—An Interesting Fact
—The Level of the Two Seas
It appears from the report of a careful sur
vey by a nautical man, published in the Lon
don Shipping Gazette, that the Suez Canal in
every respect is a great success and is working
handsomely; bnt the most interesting fact re
ported is that throughout the canal a steady
current move3 from the Red Sea into the Med
iterranean, varying in its velocity, from three
knots an honr, near Suez, to a knot and a half
at the Mediterranean outlet. This current
proves that the level of the Red Sea is higher
than the level of the Mediterranean, and the
question naturally recurs, if so, why?
It is simply because of the tremendous evap
oration of the Mediterranean. This groat in
land sea is fed from the east by the powerful
current of the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles
from the Black Sea, and from the Atlantic
Ocean in the west through the Straits of Gi
braltar, and by numerous rivers on both sides,
and yet the hot and thirsty winds which sweep
across it from the great Cr'.erfof Africa keep it
down by evaporation below the general ocean
level Tho evaporation from the Bed Sea per
square mile, with a roasting desert on each
side, and nearer tho equator, is immensely
greater than that from the Mediterranean; but
as the Bed Sea is only a narrow gulf running up
from the IndiaD Ocean, its aggregate loss is
comparatively small and easily supplied. At its
Northern extremity, at Suez, therefore, it is
kept nearer the general level of the ocean than
is the Mediterranean along the African coast.
But, granting all this, what does it signify in
a practical view of the Suez Canal ? It signifies
that the canal has become a river or an arm of
the Indian Ocean flowing into the Mediterrane
an, and that unless this continual current be
checked, the flow of this inlet will in time wash
down the sandy banks of the canal into its
channel and fill it up. That is what it signifies
in a business point of view. If the report in
question is correct (and we have no reason to
doubt it), a pair of locks will be necessary at the
Suez Inlet to regulate the flow fromtiie Red
Sea. Otherwise a heavy wind np this sea of
several days’ duration may create such a cur
rent in the canal as to fill it np with the wash
ings from its banks in a single night.—New
York Herald.
Remarkable Caves in Iowa.
From the Dubuque Times.']
A natural wonder was lately unearthed on
tho Maqnoleta, abont eight miles northwest of
the city. Thisnatural wonder consists of a suc
cession or continnation of caves. These caves
were discovered some months ago, one hundred
feet below the surface of the earth, by men
who are now busily engaged.with a large work
ing force in prospecting them for minerals.
The largo cave is over one thousand two hun
dred feet in length; and the smaller one six
hundred feet, the two being separated from
each other by an east and west bar, about sixty
feet in thickness. No lead ore has yet been
discovered in the large cave, it being filled with
large bodies of iron rust rock, which have fallen
down from the roof and sides in great masses.
In the smaller cave, however, the mineral
shows itself quite freely, and largo quantities
have been taken out, while tho prospect for
richer leads than any yet found grows daily
more flattering.
Mineral also abounds in considerable quanti
ties through the bar mentioned, and the indica
tions are that it will soon be developed here in
paying quantities. That these caves thus dis
covered but lead to a continuation of others is
demonstrated by the fact that a current of air
puts in from tho west so strong that work can
not be prosecuted without stopping up the open
ing. This volume of air is perfectly pure, and
comes in with a rushing, roaring noise, resem
bling tho roar of distant thunder. As soon as
the proper arrangements can be made we un
derstand that tho work of draining will be com
menced and continued until a thorough survey
is made of the whole range. It is quite prob
able that some, new and striking natural wonder
will be developed. Perhaps another Mammoth
Cave is waiting for the torch of the explorers.
Who knows ?
Railroad Travel ia Egypt—A Ride
with Moslem Chiefs.
Cairo Correspondence New York Herald.]
The journey from Ismailia to Suez was not
eventful, though tho Bitter Lalkes are imposing.
Suez offers little other interest than that it is
Suez, and that the crowd was almost intolerable.
Eventful, howover, was the return from Ismailia
back to Cairo. Tbe train was to have started
at half-past eight, but actually left tho station
at half-past three. A wonderful arrangement
in Egypt i3 that of their time tables; a figure
marking the honr stands for nothiDg. It is
perfectly useless to suppose a traveler will be at
any place at the hour specified; it is cither
three hours later or two hours before. If a
goods’train, full of the Kursy’s cotton, has to
pass, the passengers’ train stands by; then it
stops in the middle of two stations, with no ap
parent cause, or frisks on, or suddenly slackens
pace. Tho Emperor of Austria was to follow
ns, and we were jerked aside every other quar
ter of an hour on a false alarm. It was far
from comfortable. •
Mile. Imperia had been put into a car with
five Moslem chiefs, all squatting and smoking
long pipes. She made friends by accepting one
of the shorter pipes, in which she puffed three
whiffs. Upon this grand show of sisterly fra
ternity they sainted her by placing their hands
on their hearts, lips and heads. Their admira
tion went so far that sho had to divide their
goats’ cheese, their bread and Nile water with
them. They oven prepared a cloak of rich fnr,
in which she had to allow herself to be buried
till the journey’s end, while a branch of palm
tree was agitated over her by each in turn to
keep off the sand that oozed in through every
chink. I was meanwhile equally pent np with
eight of my fellow-creatures—all equally dis
posed to keep cool if they could. Fortunately,
an American lady was my vis-a-vis, and to hear
her lively, flashy talk about Turkey was a treat
to all her listeners—an entertainment that she
wittily kept up until we arrived. Here was a
contrast—an Amerioan belle amusing a whole
carriage with her sprightly observation and
keen perspicacity, while another lady, Mile. Im
peria, was entertaining tho Orientals with her
pleased looks only, for conversation among the
Arahs is not essential to make one agreeablo.
A European may sit cros3-legged by a Turk und
smoko his pipe without the exchange of a sylla
ble, if he looks but brotherly.
Discovery of the Site of Teajanopolis.—Tho
often-sought site of tho Roman city of Trajan-
opolis has recently, it is said, been discovered.
Tho remains have been found in an extensive
marshy district near Enos, a league nnd a half
from Dymes, at the mouth of the Hebrus. To
the unhealthy nature of this region is attributed
tiie fact that tho ruins of such a large city have
remained undiscovered, few travelers caring to
incur the risk of catching a fever or ague by
traversing it. That these are really tho ruins
of Trajanopolis is supposed to be proved by an
inscription found on a stone built into a monu
ment erected by the Romans, and, on their
being in exact accordance with the position as
signed to tho city in ancient books of travel—
Tho ruins are very extensive, and a mere curso
ry inspection shows that an acropolis formerly
existed there, the remains of edifices of tho
third century, consisting of architraves, broken
columns, pedestals, and some inscriptions, fnl
Iy establishing this. Tho remains of ramparts
also bear witness to tho groat magnitude of the
city. In the middle ages the ancient city was
replaced by a Byxantino city, which at a very
early period of its existence, became on arch
bishopric, that has loft many proofs of its
power.
Mr. Albert Dumont, a member of the French
School at Athens, has been able to make ont the
inscriptions on tho rocks, one of which records
the sacred character of the place wheroit exists.
As to the edifices, they are supposed to have
crumbled away entirely at the time when the
fine fortresses of Dymes andEnos were erected.
The suburbs covered a superfices of two square
leagues at least, and extended away from the
city down to the seashore. Popnlar tradition,
moreover, asserts the existence in formor times
of a great city in the locality where these ruins
have been found. The question was raised as
to bow it happened that a people like tho Ro
mans should have founded a city in such an un
healthy spot, and it was suggested it must form
erly have been drained, a conjecture the truth
of which has been fully established by subse
quent researches.—London Times.
No Go.—The suit to oust Fisk, Gould, Lane
and five other directors from the management
of the Erie Railroad has broke down. '
Judos Hoar.—The Tribune says Judge Hoar
notwi
THE GUILLOTINE AT *TORK.
Gov. Bullock on a Rampage—Hulbert Re
moved—State Road Gone Up—Blodgett,
Harris, Hoyt, Stallings, Mullen and Ga»
kill, to Run the Machine—Sway *e to Start
n Radical Paper in Atlanta—Halbert for
the United States Senate—Radical Party
Bifurcated.
From the Constitution.]
Superintendent Hulbert of the State Road has
been dismissed from office by Gov. Bullock, to
take effect from January 1st, 1870. The Gov
ernor assigns as a reason for the removal, a
confidential letter written by CoL Hnlbert_ to
John A. "Wimpy remonstrating against placing
all power in Gov. Bullock’s hands, which Wim
py, in violation of the confidence reposed in
him, exhibited to Gov. Bullock. The reason
stated by the Governor is only a pretext, as
Hulbert’s removal was agreed upon several
months ago, and the Governor only waited for
the passage of the Morton bill. Governor Bul
lock says Hulbert blowed too much for himself
and never tooted any for him!
The new officers of the road are said to be:
Foster Blodgett, Superintendent; A. L. Harris,
Master of Transportation; W. H. Stallings,
Treasurer; Henry O. Hoyt, Supervisor; James
Mullen, Master Machinist; V. A. Gaskill Attor
ney for the Road.
It is hinted that the new regime ensures the
payment of tho Colo claim against the State Road
and the Railroad paTk to the heirs of Mitchell,
whereby the State will lose over one million of
dollars. ‘ ' ’
It is reported that Swayze, assisted by an edi
tor of this city, will soon commence the publi
cation of a “bitter-ender” Radical organ, with
the earnings of the State road to back it.
A current rnmor on the streets assigns CoL
Hulbert as a candidate for the United States
Senate, and knowing ones predict his election
on the first ballot, by a large majority, over
Blodgett
Moderate Republicans are expressing them
selves freely in opposition to Bullock and Blod
gett’s ruinous schemes. Some of them favor
the impeachment of Bullock for his outrageous
conduct.
The Legislature is considered safe against
Bullock’s plundering schemes. Bullock’s last
move has sundered the Radical party.
JUDGE CABANISS.
He Urges the Democratic nnd Conserva
tive Members not to Resign.
Forsyth, December 28,1869.
Gol. I. W. Avert/, Atlanta—Dear Sir : A
press of business prevents me from replying to
but one question propounded in your circular
of the 27th instant:
“ What is tho course that patriotio members
of tho Legislature should pursue for the inter
est of the State ?”
My opinion is, that all who are embraced in
the proelamaiton which has been recently is
sued, couvening the Legislature, and are eligi
ble to seats, should attend promptly, and quali
fy and partake in the business of legislation. It
may bo in their power to prevent much harm
being done; from a contrary course, incalcula
ble injury may result.
When the Constitutional Convention was call
ed, the conservative portion of the people stood
aloof and declined to tako any part in the elec
tion of delegates. It is now generally admitted
that that-was bad policy. It is hoped that such
policy will not now be repeated by the Democra
tic and conservative members of the Legislature
refusing or declining to take their seats. Let
every one attend, and let all who can conscien
tiously take the prescribed oath take their seats.
They are very nearly, if not quite equal in num
ber with those of opposite politics, and they
have the preponderance of intelligence and in
fluence. Let it be exerted for the good of tho
State.
Upon the other question propounded in your
circular, I have not tbe time now to give my
views. All that I have to say is, that the mem
bers of the Legislature should meet the case as
it is, and legislate accordingly. If tho Legisla
ture is provisional merely, accept the situation,
and do the best in their power for the interest
of the State. My policy is, prevent harm from
being done; that cannot be accomplished by
non-action. Very respectfully,
E. G. Cabaniss.
Accident on tlie Georgia Rond.
Tbe down through freight and up way freight
trains on the Georgia Railroad attempted to
pass eaoh other on the same traok, about half
past 8 o’clock yesterday morning, between tho
17 and 18 mile post, from this city, while making
a curve. The locomotives butted square up
against each other, and were greatly damaged.
Six cars were smashed in the two trains, one of
them, in the down train, loaded with sheep,
forty or fifty of which were killed and a num
ber crippled. Sheared wool and inanimate mut
ton, were thickly distributed around the wreck,
and it is thought that the throwing of such a
large supply of mutton so suddenly on tho mar
ket will have a very depressing effect on prices.
No other freight was injured. Mr. Maurice
Rooney, engineer on the down train, received
slight injuries. No other personal damage re
ported.
Superintendent Johnson dispatched a train to
the point of accident, to meet the down passen
ger train duo here yesterday afternoon at 3:45,
bnt the passengers did not reach the city on
schedule time.
The cost of damages accruing to the road will
be considerable from this collision, as the loco
motives and cars are badly wrecked. The
promptness and energy of its management will
soon, however, have everything all right again.
The cause of the accident is attributed to the
failure of tho up train to remain at tho IC mile
station until tho down train had passed, in ac
cordance with the schedule.—Constitutionalist.
Gloomy.—A New York correspondent of
the Charleston Gourior thus writes of tho fore
boding of business men:
“Nolens tolens, they look upon tho future as
dark and doubting, and withdrawing from the
strife before the imaginary storm breaks loose
over their heads. They take shelter while yet
there is time, and are unwilling to risk their
capital any longer. These are ugly facts, but
they are true nevertheless." :- r ■ • •
Now, friends, you have a good ohance to pre
cipitate that storm. Cat off the enemy’s com
munications. Do this with unanimity and firm-
lib
Tbe Great French Murder—A FnH
Confession.
Tranpmann, the murderer of the Kinck fam
ily at Pantin,' near Paris, has made a full con
fession. After killing John Kinck, on the 25th
of August, on a plain near Guebweiler, and
burying the body in a place minutely described
by the prisoner, Tranpmann thought of ridding
himself of the oldest son, Gustave, who had been
to Guebweiler to claim from the postoffice an or
der for 5000 francs, sent there by Mrs. Kinck
for her husband. Gustave Kinck returned to
Paris, was induced to go to Pantin, and was as
sassinated two days before his mother, a few
yards from the ditch which was to be the grave
of the whole family. On September 20, after
completing his preparations, Tranpmann took
tho Kinck family, in a fiacre, to Pantin. On
reaching the Chemin Vert (Green Lane,) he
made Mrs. Kinck and the two youngest children
get ont. After passing the last houses on this
narrow, crooked and dark street, they came into
theplain. Thoditchhadbeenduginahollqwdeep
enough to prevent what was going on in it from
being seen / from the Anberrilliers road. The
fiacre stopped at the comer of the Chemin Vert,
and the driver could have no intimation of what
happened a short distance from him. Traup-
mann seized first the little girl, ripped her open
with a knife, and flung her, still alive, from a
distance into the ditch. Then he rushed upon
the mother; a short, terrible struggle ensued,
the youngest boy holding on to his mother’s
dress, and uttering piercing cries. But soon the
cries were silenced. The murderer, to complete
his work, went for the oldest and the two young
er children, who had been left in the fiacre
and suspected nothing. Traupmann sent the
two young ones ahead, who walked, with hands
clasped, toward the ditch, the older one follow-
inga fewpacesbehindthem. This was the strong
est one of the three. Traupmann commenced
with him, throwings noose around hb neck and
strangling him, cut the throats of the nvo others,
and finished the older one, who showed signs of
life, with a knife.
The Prince of Wales and the Free
masons.
The Prince of Wales was on Wednesday eve
ning admitted a member of the United Grand
Lodge .of Freemasons of England. A large
company of Masons assembled at Freemasons’
Hall, London, under the Presidency of the Earl
of Zetland, and the Prince was introduced and
welcomed ns a member of the Lodge. His roy
al highness, who wore an ordinary Master Ma
son’s apron and the Order of the Garter, was then
invested with tho “clothing” of a Past Grand
Master, his titles being announced by Sir Albert
Woods. The Prince remained to hear the busi
ness of the evening, which was the resignation
of office by the Earl of Zetland, tho Grand Mas
ter, and the nomination of the Earl do Grey,
and Ripon as the Earl’s successor. In the
course of tho evening the Prince was “saluted”
with tho royal sign, which, we are told, “ap
peared to give him great gratification and no
little astonishment.”
In tho oourse of the proceedings, the Prince
of Wales said—Most Worshipful Grand Master,
Deputy-Grand Master, Grand Officers, and
Brethren, allow me to tender you my warmest
and most sincere thanks for the great honor
you have conferred upon mo this evening. For
a long time past it has been my wish to become
a Freemason, a member of this ancient craft.
Although, brethren, I was initiated in a foreign
country, I at the time felt—and you will all agree
with me—that Freemasonry is one and the same
in all countries; we are all follow-craftsmen;
and I can assure you I feel it a great honor to
bo here to-day, admitted a member of the Grand
Lodge of England. [Cheers.] Allow me to
thank you once more, Most Worshipful Grand
Master, for the kind words yon have spokeD,
and for the cordial manner in which you and
all the brethren have received mo this evening.
[Applause.]—Liverpool Mercury, December 3d.
Doctor Mary Walker and her Pa
tients.
Doctor Mary Walker hung out her profession
al shingle at Leavenworth, Kansas, recently,
and tho Commercial of that city records an
amusing incident in her professional life, in
which she seems to have turned tho laugh on a
trio of would-be wits most admirably:
Three gentlemen called to see Dr. Mary, sim
ulating sickness. One of them is a legal light,
remarkable for the length of his head and also
of his beard. This one feigned rheumatism and
sat down in an afflicted manner. They then all
sat down, and the lady eyed them askance. By
and by they spoke, saying that they had heard
of the doctor’s fame, and came to be healed.
They each held ont a baud, desiring her to feel
their pulse. “Gentlemen,” said the lady, “I
will undertake to cure you, but I want a fee,
please. Five dollars, in advance.” “ That’s
cheap,” said ono. “Anyhow, it’s the regular
charge,” said another. Tho lady looked on,
saying nothing. Conversation began to flag,
and tho visitors made as though they were feel
ing round their clothes for the five dollars. The
silence grew embarrassing to all but tho lady,
who sat looking like a sphinx. Then ono of
her visitors got np and went out, then the othor
went out also; finally the third got np and ran,
without even staying to say good-bye to the
doctor, or waiting for her to write out her pre
scription. He did not, however, get away so
quickly but that he heard the lady calling after
him : “ It takes three smarter men than you
to come fooling round me.” Her patients hav
ing gone, the lady looked round, smiling like a
saint.
A Georgia Senator Instilled. •
ll’iis/iitigton Correspondence Cincinnati Etupiircr.
Passing along the corridor of the Senate gal
lery the other day, I was attracted by a slight
verbal altercation that seemed to have arisen
between a stout, swarthy darkey, and oneof the
door-keepers. The former desired to enter the
gallery, but the latter had checked his progress
with a bint that colored men mnst go a little
further to tho left.
“Why so?” inquired the gentleman from Af-
nca.
“Because the Sargeant-at-arms gives the or
der.” was the door-keeper’s reply.
The colored person now began to assume a
tone of haughty indignation; so, straightening
himself np, and pulling the wrinkles out of his
gorgeous vest with a slight jerk of the lower
end of that article, he inquired if the door
keeper knew whom he was talking to. This
with genuine Congo accent, which I cannot well
translate.
“No, sir, I don’t know, and I don’t care. I
must obey orders. Colored people are to be put
all together in that part of the gallery”—point
ing to the seals reserved for tho purpose.
“Well, sab, I’se from Georgy—a member ob
de Legislature ob dat State ; an if I had my
rights, I’de be on de flo’ ob dis Senate."
And then the sable individual related his dis
appointed aspiration, and told in a strain of
haughty anger how he had been cheated out of
the United States Senatorship by the “ rebels
and copperheads,” after it had been agreed to
elect him. He was deeply moved by the reci
tal of his own wrongs; but was glad to hear that
under the President’s recommendation the old
Legislature, of which he was a member, was to
bo recalled, and he still had hopes. I pity that
poor doorkeeper if he ever Bhould be elected.
This is a strange story, and a true one—and
not half as strange as hundreds that might be
told had I the gift of omnipresence to pick
them up. Yerily, old things are passing away,
and a. now world is - beginning.
University of the South.
A number of the friends of this enterprise met
at Holmes’ Lyceum last night in response to a
call made in the daily papers. On motion of
CoL B. H. Rutledge, Hon. W. D. Porter was
called to tho eliair, and in a few remarks stated
tho object of the call was to enable the friends
of the proposed institution to hear a report from
gentlemen who conld give full information.—
Rev. A. T. Porter stated as one of the trustees
he attendedthe last annnalmeeting at Sewanee,
Tenn., and was surprised to find that a nucleus
had been formed and the school was in active
operation, with an attendance of one hundred
boys. The institution was located on an elevated
platen, some sixty-eight miles from Chattanoo
ga,and was delightfully healthy. Seven buildings
had been erected and a fair progress made to
ward the end proposed. The trustees decided
at that meeting to employ an agent who would
canvass the Southern States and urge upon the
members of the Episcopal Church the necessity
of aiding tho institution. The Rev. O. P.
Thackara, of Femandina, Fla., was selected for
this important work, and bn that gentleman was
present he would ask him to address the meet
ing.— Charleston News.
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The EmpressEugenie had to borrow two hue
dred thousand francs at Alexandria, she having
exhausted her funds at Constantinople, where
The Gift System.—The New York Sun (Radi
cal) has been quoting for the benefit of General
Grant, the example of Mr. Jefferson, who in
sisted upon paying the duty on some wine sent
him from France. Tho St. Louis Republican
tells the Sun he need not go so far back for an
example. He will find one in the following re
ply which one of Jefferson’s successors sent to
some gentlemen of Now York who desired to
present him with a carriage and horses :
"While I fully appreciate the purity of your
motives in thus tendering to me such substan
tial evidence of your regard and esteem, I am
compelled, solely from the convictions of duty
I have over held in reference to the acceptance
of presents by those occupying high official
positions, to declino the offerings of kind and
oyal friends. Tho retention of the parchment
conveying your sentiments, and the autographs
of those who were pleased to unite iu this mani
festation of regard, is a favor I would ask; and
I assure you, gentlemen, I shall regard it as one
of the highest marks of respect from any por
tion of my fellow-citizens. Trusting that I shall
continuo to merit your confidence and esteem
in the discharge of, tho high and important
duties up on which I have but just entered, and
with the best wishes for your health, etc., in
dividually, I am, gentlemen, yours truly,
Andrew Johnson.
Enjoying, the Joke—A Marriage ' in
Fnn that Turned Ont Happily.
Thirty years ago, when Charleston, Illinois,
was in an embrio state, Dick Stoddard was
caught napping for the first time. Dick was at
a party, a country dance, and had been playing
his tricks on the boys and girls, when it wss
proposed to enliven the company with a matri
monial soene. All things being ready, save
the bride and groom, two very essential parts
of the ceremony, they were soon procured in
the persons of the aforesaid Dick and the beau
tiful and accomplished Miss , the belle of
the whole country, who, like Dick, was full of
fun and of a romantic disposition. The license
was procured; so was the justice. The cere
mony was performed and the bride and groom
pronounced husband and wife. This, of conrse
was considered the best joke of the season.—
Dick Stoddard and Ms bride enjoyed it;
so did the spectators. The justice, how
ever, who had performed the ceremony;
had the license and knew the penalty for a fail
ure to return as. the law directs, and being
sworn to discharge the duties imposed upon
.him as a justice of the peace, was legally and
morally bound to return the license to the coun
ty court clerk, wMch he did, and where it is to
this day with Ms certificate properly indorsed
thereon to the fact that he had “duly joined in
the bonds of holy wedlock” the parties afore
said. Dick and his wife soon learned that what
they had conceived to be a joke was a sad or
joyful reality. So the matter was talked over,
and they concluded to make the best of it.
They have been living together ever since,
blessed with a bountisnl supply of this world’s
goods—a large family and a host of friends,
and, as Dick says, they have been enjoying the
joke ever since.—Missouri Republican.
Tbe Man-Eaters.
Du Chaillu described how he met the first
Fan, the name of the man-eaters. His hair
was drawn down into an immense queue, wMch
was well larded,^rnd ornamented with six large
iron rings. About his neck there hung a string
of shells. On Ms arms and ankles were heavy
bracelets of iron. He carried upon Ms left arm
an elephant hide sMeld, and in Ms right hand
he held two iron-pointed spears. By his side
was a little pouch of poisoned arrows, and over
Ms back was siring a long cross-bow. Hanging
from a belt about his waist were broad knives.
His teeth were filed sharp and blackened, in
order that they might not be like the teeth of a
dog, which were to the man-eaters ineffably
disgusting. The Fans received Mm as a spirit
from the moon. They were astonished at Du
Chaillu’s boots, believing that they were the
sMns of Ms feet. He presented the King, who
was tattooed all over, and looked indescribably
fierce, with beads, a musical box, which he re
garded with great awe; a flaming red eap, old
fashioned yellow-lined swallow-tailed coat with
brass buttons, which, when placed upon the
form of the King Nashnmba, made Mm appear
most laughably grotesque, and a looking-glass
which startled Ms majesty when, upon looking
into it, he discovered Ms own ugly face. He
believed the glass to be “hardware.” They
gave Du Chaillu a hut and a bamboo bed. "When
he opened Ms door the next morning he was
greeted with the sight of thirteen skulls before
it. His feelings were none of the pleasantest,
when a woman passed Mm with the tMgh of a
little cMld under her arm for a noon-day stew.
There were bones about the streets and skulls
on the fences. Du Chaillu said that he would
tell the children what portion of a man’s body
they liked best, and how they cooked it, but
feared they would have the night-mare. He
spent a delightful time with the Fans; hunted
elephants, gorillas, koolakembas, jaguars, etc.
An English Revolution.
"What some of the Loudon papers dignify by
the name of a social revolution, has begun in
England by the introduction of fresh meat from
the mutton and beef-producing farms of Aus
tralia. A method has been fonnd by wMch the
comparatively valueless carcasses of sheep and
cattle can be sent to England and made to do
good service in feeding her Majesty’s subjects.
The meat is boned, salted and spiced, and rolled
in close packages, wMch are again packed in
casks, with tallow run abont them. There is
already established in London an eating honse,
where over a thousand diners can be accommo
dated, in wMch the Australian meat alone is
used, and the establishment is meeting with such
success that the manager proposes to lease the
City of London Theatre for Ms saloon. Half a
ton of the mentis used each day,sold both cooked
and in its raw state. The cMef recommendation
is the cheapness of the meat and the meals fur
nished. A good dinner, soup, “nugget” or sau
sage, and Irish stew, costing three pence, while
tho meat is sold at four pence a pound. Labor
ers, bank clerk* °r. <;l - u gaas already patronize
tho estaH u>v a;ont, an( j the poorer classes seem
to ha\ guaranteed it a success; wMle the only
fiepreciating comments come from those Eng
lishmen who can know no meat except as a joint
or roast of huge dimensions.
A Negro Labor Bureau.—A "WasMngton let
ter of Monday says: “Our colored brethren
here have organized a National Bureau of La
bor, and appointed the Rev. Sella Martin (col
ored) as financial agent. They have also ap-
ointed a committee to procure the passage of
onator "Wilson’s bill in relation to immigra
tion. One of their principal ostensible objects
is to perfect a system of co-operation: but all
here well understand that the scheme is purely
political one, in the interest of a few white
carpet-bag members of Congress from the
Southern States, who stand conveniently be
hind the organization, and that the true intent
and meaning of the business is to perpetuate
negro rule in the South. The National Bureau
of Labor is the offspring of the late Negro La
bor Convention held here, and Saunders, Cress-
well’s negro special mail agent, who lives in
Baltimore, and Hamilton, wMte M. O. from
Florida, and a few other choico specimens of
Southern Radicalism, are running it. Under
the manipulation of such disinterested patriots,
who shall say that the last state of the late ne
gro chattel may not be worse than the first.”
Chi'less Imitattveness. — His imitativoness
is well illustrated by the current story that once,
when employed as a cook, he saw his mistress
break fonr eggs, throwing one away because it
was bad, and dropping tho three other into a
pudding, and he never afterwards made a pud
ding himself without first carefully breaking
one egg and throwing it away. Hero is another
example: A San Francisco Lady hired a Chinese
boy who spoke no English. The CMneso keeper
of the intelligence office said to her: “Just tel-
lee him once what you like Mm do every day,
and every day he go right along and do it ” The
next morning when the lad came sho pointed
out to him Ms various duties from collar to gar
ret. When these were all done, she noticed
that the glass of the transom over the front
door was soiled, and, showing him the stop-
ladder, made signs for Mm to clean it Tins
done, he was dismissed. Bnt he cleaned that
glass again the next day, and the next, and the
next. At first she fancied that he had fonnd
some defect in the work of the first afternoon,
and wished to make it perfect; but she soon
saw he regarded it as a part of Ms daily duty.
All her attempts to explain the matter to Mm
proved fruitless, and she was finally obliged to
go back to the intelligence office and have the
keeper of it to instruct the boy that the transom
was to be cleaned not every day, but only when
it grew dirty.—From ihe last article written by
A. D. Richardson.
A secret touching the fall in printed muslins
has just leaked out Sprague, of Providence,
has in his employ a young German named Praff,
who not long ago invented a method by wMoh
the printing of cotton doth in the Providenoe
mills is done at a saving of from ono to two
cents a yard. "While engaged in his experi
ments he made a discovery, of still greater im
portance, whereby the bleacMng, which now re
quires forty-eight hours, may be thorongMy
completed in much less than one honr. These
discoveries enable Sprague to undersell dl
other manufacturers of calicoes, and give Mm
virtually the control, of the market. Praff’s in
dustry and practical scientific knowledge have
already been liberally rewarded; but it is said
that his share in the result of the valuable dis
coveries he has made will be little sheet
Wmftflflft-.... a.- ■
The Hoar Nomination.—A "Washington cor
respondent tells the following:
Senator Wilson, who likes to be friendly and
confidential with everybody, went np to the
WMte House to converse with the President
upon “this sad business of the rejection of
Hoar.” He fonnd the Executive unamiable, dis
appointed and surprised. The newspapers, he
said, had informed him that the nomination had
been laid upon tho table, and he naively inquired
if that was equal to a rejection ? The ubiquitous
Morton, who happened in, kindly explained that
“ under the circumstances it waswhereupon
the President expressed Ms “regret,” and slid
he thought Hoar would be an acquisition to the
Supreme Bench. No reply seems to have been
made to this modest avowal, except by adding
insult to injury, in proposing tho removal of
Hoar from tho Cabinet, and pressing Judge Er-
sldne, of Georgia, for the Bench. Judge“Hoar
takes matters very oooly. He is reported as
having said that if the Senate preferred to have
Mm three years and a half in the Attorney Gen
eral’s office instead of confirming Mm as a Just
ice of the Supreme Court, he was willing. The
question arises, however, that with a President
so complaisant towards the Senate, is he abso
lutely sure of his three years and a half of office?
A Clirfstmns Eve Frolic,
Mr. Jenkins, of the New York Sun, gives a
very long and elaborate report of a unique en
tertainment—a Phantom Bal Masque—at the
Townsend Mansion, Murray Hill, last Christmas
Eve. The ghosts were numbered by hundreds,
and stood in every social grade, from the Cock
Lane ghost to "the Prince of Denmark—from
the WMte Lady and the Maid of the Mist to the
Witch of Endor. We have room only for the
denouement, as follows:
Tho unmasking at midnight was very jolly.
Full half an hoar was devoted to enjoying it.
The whole company at once resolved itself into
a mutual admiration society, and joy was un
confined. Suddenly an immense floral globe
suspended from the ceiling bursted with a loud
report, and out jumped a
MINIATURE SANTA GLAUS,
followed by a shower of beautiful presents
which rained down upon the astonished and de
lighted throng without cessation. Another ex
plosion was heard, followed by others in rapid
succession, until half a dozen globes had ex
ploded and fairly flooded the rooms with superb
Parisian gifts. • * -
Geo. D. Prentice.—The Nashville Banner
reports George D. Prentice critically ill with
rheumatism of the heart.
[For the Telegraph and Messenger.
ELEVEN YEARS AGO.
BY JULIA BACON.
Eleven years ago, Janet,
Eleven years ago,
I was a merry hearted lass;
No sorrow did I know.
My life was one bright summer dream,
And Robin was my “ Jo
Say, do you mind the time, Janet,
Eleven years ago?
I rambled in the wood, Janet, »
To cull the flowers fair;
For well I knew who liked to see
Them braided in my hair.
I sat beside the tinkling rill,
Its gentle, soothing flow
Spoke to my soul of him, Janet,
Eleven years ago.
The birds that trill’d their lays, Janet,
Bang sweetly to my ear,
Of coming joys and happiness.
Unclouded by a fear;
And echo caught the wild refrain—
'Twas in my heart I know,
But still tho song was sweet, Janet,
Eleven years ago.
I loved the birds and brooks, Janet,
And loved young Robin, too;
I loved his cheerful, handsome face
And tender eyes of blue;—
And wavy locks and Eunny smile,
And voice so soft and low,
When telling me his love, Janet,
Eleven years ago.
Think you his words were true, Janet ?
And meant he what he said,
That no one else he’d ever love,
And no one else he'd wed ?
That I was all tho world to him.
Because he loved me so ?
Was he in earnest then, Janet,
Eleven years ago?
O, yes, for he was true, Janet,
And honest, proud and brave:
Ah mo! perchance he’s sleeping now,
* Cold, in a distant grave.
He left us for tho western land.
When roses were in blow,
To seek his fortune there, Janet.
Eleven years ago.
He said he’d make a home, Janet,
A home for him and me,
An humble one,—but blest with love,
It would a palace be;
Where forest minstrels music make.
And honey-suckles grow;
He promised this, and more, Janet.
Eleven years ago.
Impatiently I wait, Janet,
But fear I wait in vain;
He’s either dead or loves me not.
And ne’er will come again.
No letters from him now at all, r
What can it mean? Heigh-ho! 4
Minds he the vows we pledg’d, Janet,
Eleven years ago ?
Hark! rapping loud, I hear, Janet,
Somebody at the door, ,
And creaking boots, with heavy tread,
Upon the sanded floor:
I see a bearded, eunburnt man,
His face I do not know;
Would ’twere the one I loved, Janet,
Eleven years ago.
Ho smiles—’tia[ROBIN! Oh Janet!
He calls me by my name,
And folds me in a warm embrace,
And tells me he’s the same.
He’s changed in looks, but that is all—.
Not changed in heart, O no;
He loves me as he did, Janet,
Eleven years ago.
High mass at St. Peters.
The celebration of High Mass on Advent Sun
day, in St. Peters, at Rome, gives an oppor
tunity for a descriptive letter in the London
Times. Forests of candles in the church, ladies
in foil dress black, Swiss guards, priests, monks
and bishops from the four quarters of the glebe,
patriarchal, bearded and dignified cardinals, and
lastly, the Holy Father, himself, make up the
animated part of the scene. Pius IX is pictured
as pale and aged, but walking steadily and look
ing determinedly. Military and sacred music
blended together. A shrill-toned monk deliver
ed tho sermon, and the service, lighted over
candles, four feet long, were placed before all
the bishops, and with the Pope and cardinals,
they passed in precession out of the edifice.
The varieties of character and costume, the
scarlet and goatskin, the commingling of tour
ists, worshippers, dignitaries and peasants, the
streets alive with priests and monks, the whirl
of gaudy equipages, are the delight of this
soribbler; and be reels off a full column of
word-painting with all the ecstacy of a penny-a-
liner in a field of literary clover.
Virginia has the largest debt—$45,000,000—
and is the least able to pay for it. New York
comes next, with a debt of nearly $40,000,000.
Pennsylvania owes $35,000,000; Tennessee
$34,00,000; Louisiana $12,00,000; Massachu
setts $12,000,000; North Carolina $11,000,000;
OMo $10,000,000: Connecticut $8,000,000; Mis
souri $7,000,000; Illinois, South Carolina and
Georgia, each $0,000,000; Texas, Michigan,
"Wisconsin, Rhode Island and Kentucky, each
$2,000,000; Maine $5,000,000; New Jersey $2,-
000,000; Kansas $1,000,000: Iowa, Delaware
and Maryland are out of debt; Minnesota, Ore
gon and Mississippi are blessed with very small
debts. The total debts of all the States amount
to about $250,000,000.
Butler and Scripture.—Quite a laugh was
had over an attempt Belligerent Benjamin made
to quoto from the New Testament. It- 13 said
that the devil can quoto Scripture. Bnt this
devil cannot. “ We all know, Mr. Speaker,”
roared Tappertit-Mirabeau, “that the good
Book tells us that there is more rejoicing in
heaven over one lost soul returned to righteous
ness that over tbe souls of a thousand just men
made perfect." It was evident to the ears that
Benjamin had seriously mixed up things. When
the laugh subsided, it is said that Ben asked
half a dozen members for Bibles, and, getting
none, addressed a tittle note to Mr. Spofford,
the accomplished librarian, asking him where
he would find the quotation, whereupon Spof
ford returned a copy of the New Testament, and
the celebrated sermon on a “Harp of a Thou
sand Strings,” so that Benjamin conld separate
Ms quotation in time to serve the Congressional
Globe.—Don Piatt.
A Substitute fob Tobacco.—A correspondent
of a Calcutta paper makes a curious suggestion
to tobacco smokers. Alluding to the alleged dis
covery, by a Parisian chemist, that- watercress
is a perfect antidote to nicotine, he Bays: It
lately entered into my head to try how some of
it dried would smoke. To my great satisfaction,
I found that, when put into my pipe, after b
couple of days’ drying in tho snn, it had all the
flavor of the*best Cavendish without the treacle
—and it was even strongor than Cavendish.
Here, then, is a perfect substitute for tobacco,
without the deleterious and deadly poison so
freely contained in the latter; and it is at the
same time cheaper. Watercress, with its fine
stalks and leaves, when dried, requires no cut
ting to fit it for the pipe; and while a pound of
cut tobacco ranges from 2rs. to 4rs., here we
have an article a rupee’s worth of which when
dried would weigh more than a couple of
pounds.—Bombay Gazette.
Equal Rights.—A WasMngton correspondent
tells the following good story :
A negro member of the Council recently of
fered and secured the passage of an ordinance
denying license to any restaurant or piaoe of
amusement that refused to treat negro custom
ers on a perfect equality with the whites. The
father of that measure is the owner of the prin
cipal barber shop in the city. While one of his
workmen was scraping my chin the other day,
I asked him if he ever had any colored custom-
ai-a “ Ko, Bah; we don’t shave no niggas in
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Portland has pot a singe ship afloat,
last one was sold a few days since.
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dis shop,” was the prompt reply. . ,
I, “ suppose a colored man were to come in ana
sit down in one of your ohairs Hie I do, wnat
would you do?” “Put Mm avt, saE. 8°me
shops shave niggss, but dis is too SP 60 ^ 1 *
dat” “You wonl^’t refuse to shave tiie 0^
ored congressman from Louisiana, would you.
“Yes, nh; wouldn'tabay* no niggas, nohn».
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