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Telegraph and Messenger.
MAO OK, FEBRUARY 8, .870.
Utenuy.
Tm Bubal Carolinian for Tuesday has been
on our table for several days. In its table of
ooriterits ire note the following: Dignity of Ag
riculture, by Wm. Pinckney Starke; Improved
Implements for the Farmer, illustrated; Value
of Smenoe to the Farmer, by Dr. Daniel See*;
Self-manuring Capacities of Soil; How to Grow
Tobaooo; Chemical Effects of Ploughing; Pre
paring for Cotton; Sorghum and its Culture, by
D. Wyatt Aiken; Bice Culture on Biver Rands;
Action of lame on Soils and Plants. The de
partment of horticulture is very full and hand
somely illustrated. Stock and natural history,
mining, mechanics, editorial department, corre
spondence, literary miscellany, hygiene, and
the household are all very industriously repre
sented. The Charleston Daily News gives a
glowing acoountof the success of the Bural Car
olinian. Published by Walker, Evans & Cogs
well and D. Wyatt Aiken, No. 3 Broad street,
Charleston, S. C., at $2 00 a year.
Peterson’s Ti mm’ National Magazine for
March has been received and may be bad at J.
W. Burke & Co.’s.
Good Woans fob February.—This is an illus
trated magazine for tho young, edited by Dr.
Norman Maeleod, and published by J. B. lap-
pincott & Co., Philadelphia. Numbers can be
purchased at the Macon bookstores.
A Romance op Modebn Egypt.—We have
from the author, Edwin De Leon, Esq., late
United States Consul for Egypt, advance sheets
of “Askaros -Kassis, the Copt, a Bo manes of
modem Egypt.” The work is in course of pub
lication by d.B. Lippincott & Co., bnt the de
tached sheets sent give us no hint of the story.
It is very handsomely printed.
The Sunday Magazine is a very interesting
religions monthly, edited by Dr. Gnthrie and
published by J. B. Lippincott & Co., of Phila
delphia, at $3.50 a year. The February num
ber can be had of the booksellers in Macon, and
is handsomely illustrated.
TheXTXth Century.—The February number
of *’"?» periodical has for its contents: The
Storm and the Sunset, by Henry Oleaveland;
L’Homme, by Geneneve Ransom; Possible
Fnture of the South, by Edward Mayes; Rem
iniscences of Public Men—continued, by Ex-
Gov. Perry; More Time for Tears; Early
Writers of South Carolina, by Wm. Gilmore
Simmes; A Plea for Old Maids, by J. A. Dick-
'Son; Recreations of an Invalid, by M. Elizabeth
Smith; Eternity in Time, by Sidney Lanier;
'The Bastinado of the Pavfement; Philosophy of
'Laughter; Will versus Power; The Drama;
Ex-Gov. Perry’s Beply to Judge Longstreet;
Editorial Departments. This is a sprightly
number. Published by the 13th Century Com
pany, in Charleston, at $3.50.
Engineering and Mining Journal.—Wo have
from Western & Co., publishers, 37 Park Row,
New York, the January part of the Engineering
and Mining Journal, a periodical of unrivaled
value in the branches of mechanical and physi
cal science to which it is devoted. Price $4.00
a year.
Louisville—A. V. Du Pont & Co.—One of
the leadmg features, as well as direct evidences,
of the increasing business enterprise and pros
perity of Lonisville, is tho removal of so many
of her largest and best firms into finer and more
spacious buildings.
At least a dozen such changes have recently
occurred. Prominent among these is the old
and extensively known firm of Messrs. A V. Da
Pont & Co., who, to accommodate their in
creased business, have just moved into their
new quarters, at No. 184 Main Street—one of
the largest warehouses in this ciiy.
Their mill, near the Falls, like the famous
Artesian Well which was bored under their di
rection, is one of the institutions of Louisville,
and has famished paper for the South and West
for over a quarter of a century, and Du Pont <fc
Co., are now prepared to make Lonisville the
chief market in the country for all qualities and
varieties of paper and snch material.
North Carolina Cropping.—Tho Raleigh
Sentinel says that Capt. W. E. Pierce, of Wake
county, with two horses worked by white labor
made last year, 21 bales of cotton, averaging
425 pounds to the bale, and which, at 22$ cents
a pound, realized $2,008 12, and 700 bushels of
corn, which, at $1 25 a bushel brought him
$875—making a total of $2,883 12, and an av
erage of $1,441 5G to the hand. On another
part of his farm with two mules, worked by
•negro labor, he made 9 bales of cotton, averag
ing 425 pounds per bale, which, at 22$ cents a
pound realized $8C0 62, and 500 bushels of com
which brought him, at $1 25 per bushel, $625,
making a total of $1,485 62 for the two hands,
-and a grand total of $4,408 75 for the four
^aands.
Who says there is not life, and plenty of it,
tin the old land yet?
?Xbz Public Printing.—Senator Anthony, of
■Bhode Island, introduced a bill in the Senate,
on Wednesday, to farther regulate the public
.printing and discontinue the publication of
books for public distribution, which provides
that hereafter bnt 1550 copies of the President’s
annual message and executive reports shall be
printed for distribution; that the publication of
laws and treaties in the newspapers shall be dis
continued, except certain laws that tho Secre-
•t&ry of State shall designate; and that all books
.and documents hereafter bound at the Govern
ment Printing Office shall be bound in the pining
-eat and cheapest maimer consistent with their
.convenient use.
The Nineteenth Century.—Messrs. Havens
Brown send ns this clever magazine for Feb-
■rnary, with an nnusually interesting table of
.oontenta. Ex-Govemor Perry continues his
‘ ‘Reminiscences of South Carolina’s Public
Men," taking up, this time, George MoDuffie
and Henry Middleton. W. Gilmore Simms
has an article on the “Early Writers of Sonth
•Carolina,” and Mr. Sidney Lanier of this city,
.contributes a poem—■“Eternity in Time.” Ex-
Govemor Perry also replies to Judge Long,
street’s .criticism of Gov. P.’s sketch of Mr.
Calhoun, published in a late issne of this maga
zine.
. ’’Cleansing the Blood,” -upon which charla
tans have harped so much, is not a mere catch
word and delasion. The mierosoope shows that
some diseases exist like parasitic growths upon
the globules cd the blood, and it is farther
known that some subtle substances destroy or
expel them. These substances have been com.
bioad to snake Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, which does
expel the disorders that breed and rank e in the
Mood to cot out as it were the mao inery of
life.—Mercer, Pa., Whig.
We judge from the announcement that Bard,
late editor of the Atlanta Era, has been made
Governor of Idaho territory, either that the
place is not worth having, or that the timber
out of which such figure heads are manufac
tured by the present Administration, is nearly,
if not quite exhausted. We have a notion that
if turned looee and forbidden to ask questions,'
JJard would be hard put to it to find his way to
Idaho. v *>
Prosperous.—The sheriff’s sales of Fulton
county, for March, fill two and a half columns
at ooe of the Atlanta papers. Mast of these are
(tax A fas. for 1863.
Shift the Scene.
The great drama of the martyred African and
the Reconstruction of the Southern Rebels, will
shortly be withdrawn for a season from the
Congressional boards, after an unprecedented
run of five years. A new amendatory tariff
bill was reported to the House on the 1st in
stant, and upon a motion to print, was pounced
upon with such avidity from all quarters, as to
show the House was perfectly ravenous for a
new subject, and were especially hungry on the
matter of the tariff.
The bill is said to be, in substance, a pious
fraud of the protectionists to reduce duties on
all articles which they are compelled to import,
and so diminish revenue, and benefit the manu
facturers, while no redaction is made upon ar
ticles coming in competition with domestic
goods. The free trade interests denounced the
bill on the threshold, and could hardly be
choked down so as to allow the bill to lie on the
table and be printed.
The correspondents say it will elicit a long
and acrimonious discussion. In the coarse of
it, some light may be thrown upon the practi
cability of carrying Free Trade and Protection
upon the same party platform. It may test the
strength and elasticity of that great common
bond of negro equality which is relied upon to
tie tho East and West permanently together,
on the basis of ignoring all those great financial
interests and all thoso sound principles of trade
and national economy which underlie the pros
perity oftheWestand the whole country. Does
the West prefer negro supremacy to the inter
ests of her own agriculture—to the equal rights
of labor—to fair trade and free trade ? and will
she hold on with the New England sectionalists
at the sacrifice of all other interests? That is
the question to be settled—for the price of ad
hesion to radicalism is so-called protection to
manufacturing industry—in other words, dis
crimination against agricultural industry.
We shall be glad to see some topic in Con
gress which shall at least effect a temporary di
version in favor of the repose of this section
from the assaults of her enemies, let the East
and West settle their tariff differences as they
may.
Cnllom’s Polygamy Bill.
Cullom’sbill to squelch tho Mormons, reported
from the Committee on Territories, makes incom
petent as grand or petit jurors all who believe in,
advocate or practice bigamy, concubinage or pol
ygamy. The 13th section enacts that any man
in Utah who shall live or cohabit with one wo
man or more other than Ms lawful wife, as Ms
wives, shall be adjudged guilty of the crime of
concubinage, and on conviction thereof shall be
punished by a fine not exceeding ten thousand
dollars, and imprisonment in the penitentiary
at hard labor not exceeding five years. The
17th section authorizes the United States Mar
shal, if resisted or threatened with resistance in
the execution of any writ or process, to apply
to the commander of any military camp in the
Territory for a posse. The 19th section enacts
that no alien practicing bygamy, polygamy, or
concubinage, shall be admitted to Urnted States
citizensMp, nor shall any polygamist hold any
office of trust or profit in the Territory, vote
therein or be entitled to the benefits of the
homestead or pre-emtion laws.
The 23d section enacts that marriages in the
Territory may be solemnized only by Justices
of the Supreme Court, by Justices of the Peace
duly appointed and qualified, and by any priest
or minister of the gospel regularly ordained and
settled. It declares all consanguinous marriages
incestuous and void, and punishable by twenty
years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
Now let tho Committee on Territories report
a supplementary bill for the Southern States.
There is more polygamy among the negroes in
every Southern State ten times over, than there
i3 in Utah. We say what most men know to bo
true that the grand juries in the South are com
pelled to ignore inquiries into the conjugal re
lations of the blacks from the mere fact of the
universality of disorder among them.
Butler Tor President.
A Prominent Massachusetts Republican told
ns a day or two since, that Butler’s aim was the
Presidency, and that he had no fear at all of
Grant os an antagonist. He said that Butler ex
pected the nomination in 1872, and was now
working towards that objective point Butler
bases Ms idea that Grant will not be in bis way
upon the fact that, heretofore, no successful
General that was made President on account of
his military glory, has been able to secure a re-
election on that ground. One term is all the
people have vouchsafed for military success, no
matter how splendid. Bader says that General
Jackson was re-elected, it is true, but that his
second term was the result of popular satisfac
tion with Ms administration of civil affairs dur
ing his first term. It was the Statesman, and
not the General, who was re-elected.
Butler holds that Grant will not prove an ex
ception to the rule as a military man. Our
Massachusetts friend did not say Bntler thought
it impossible that Grant should bo as successful
as Old Hickory on the score of statesmanship,
bnt our decided impression was that he doubted
it most japitally, and that ho regards Grant as
completely out of the ring for tho succession
in 1872.
We hope Butler is right, and that be will lead
the Radical rapers and raiders at the next elec
tion. He is a representative man, and will
make the contest a representative one. Wo
want to see one more square fight made in this
country between moral, social, and political pu
rity, truth, and honesty, and moral, social and
political corruption, mendacity and rascality,
before giving up the sMp.
First Rate Notice or tbe Agency.
The Boston Post evidently has a very clear
perception of how Legislatures, so-calied, are
manufactured down South. Referring to tbe
manner in which the Atlanta Agency was set
agoing, it says:
The business of turning out Democrats and
filling np with Radicals goes on merrily in the
Georgia Legislature, and tho standard of loyal
ty in that body will soon become superfine. The
charges against the Democratic members, whose
seats were wanted for Radicals, were that, hav
ing held office under some general law of the
Stato, they had since given aid and comfort to
the rebellion. About half the Democratio mem
bers not being carpet-baggers, bnt generally
landed proprietors, had, at some time durini
their natural lives, under the old regime, holi
the Mgh office of Boad Commissioner. The
duties of this officer were very important. He
was obliged to see that tho roads in his juris
diction were kept free from mud holes,that fallen
trees were removed and that gullies were filled
up with brush and stones. Those who owned
land for long distances on each side of the pub
lic road would generally secure tbe office of Boad
Commissioner in their district, since tbe whole
burden of the business would come upon them
.in any case. But now the Attorney General has
decided that none of these can without perjury
take the oath required, if they have ever at
tended a Confederate barbecue or harbored a
rebel soldier. The rulings of the Attorney Gen
eral and the Military Board have put a premium
upon carpet-bagging, which is precisely what is
desired, since it operates to oust Democrats
from their seats and fill up the B&dical majority
with men who were never elected.
Ix Ms examination, Prince Pierre Bonaparte
was asked how it was that, when he saw M. de
Fonville draw a pistol, be had fired upon M.
Yietor. Noir, who was unarmed, “Because."
he answered, “I felt the outrage before I per.
oeived the danger.”
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A clergyman, preaching against marriage in
Wisconsin, has been found to Lave nine wires
scattered about over tbe country. How elo-
qaent he ought to hava been J
Fertilizers—More Legislation Needed.
The immense trade in fertilizers that has
sprung np at the Sonth, makes everything con
nected with them of great interest and import
ance ; not only to planters, bnt to dealers, also.
As there is notMng, next to the prime necoessa-
ries of life, more vital to successful agricultural
operations, so should there be a thorough know
ledge of the constituents of the numerous varie
ties that are offered for sale.
But the fact is, that very few persons have that
knowledge. The best and the worst, if equally
endorsed, stand pretty mnch on the same foot
ing in the eye, and to the smell of a large ma
jority of those who bny them. We do not
believe that by these alone, can on intelligent
conclusion as to merit he reached by hardly
one ont of every fifty planters. Nor do we
mean by this assertion to impugn either the
judgment or intelligence of the planters. Only
a rigid chemical analysis can guarantee such a
conclusion. It is only by snch a process that
the actual composition of the article can be ar
rived at with any certainty. Planters have
neither time nor inclination to fit themselves
for such duty, and hence their liability to be
swindled in making a selection.
Now, it seems to ns that all this may be ob
viated by judicious legislation. We have legis
lation on the subject, bnt it amounts to notMng,
particularly so far as the planter is concerned.
It only benefits the Inspector. The valuable
and the comparatively wortMess fertilizers after
they pass Ms hand3, are on the same footing.
They havo been branded and the Inspector has
handled Ms fee, wMoh is all the whole matter
amounts to. It is notorious that many of the
Inspectors appointed by Bullock know notMng
at all of their duties, and of course there is no
difficulty in getting them to pat on the brand.
We wouldn’t give a chew of tobacco for the
opinion—with a very few exceptions—of any of
Bullock's Inspectors. Most of them are after
Vargent, and the more barrels and bag3 they
brand, why of conrso the more profit there is.
We are sure there is no difference of opinion
among those who have considered and are in
terested in the subject, as to the necessity of
additional legislation upon it.
Since commencing tMs article we have had
onr attention called to some remarks on the
subject in the Chronicle and Sentinel, wMch
fully confirm onr impressions. Says that paper:
We published the statement a few days since
of Professor Willet, of Mercer Umversity, to
the effect that a fertilizer used extensively in
tMs State, and analyzed by him. contained up
wards of forty per cent, of sand. In speaking
of this statement of Professor Willet a few
days since to an eminent chemist of this State,
and an “Inspector of Fertilizers” under onr late
law, and expressing onr surprise at the extent
of the adulteration exposed by Professor W.’s
analysis, he surprised us still further by declar
ing that fertilizers were sold in this State which
contained over sixty per cent, of sand and inso
luble matter—thathe had analyzed the articles,
and spoke accurately. It is but just to state
also that this gentleman remarked further, that
a large majority of the fertilizers he had anal
yzed were really valuable. But what planter
can tell, if the article containing upward of
sixty per cent, of sand and one really valuable
is put before Mm, which is the inferior and
which is the better article ?
We want a law upon this subject similar to
that enforced in Maine. There each manufac
turer is required to stamp upon each sack, bar
rel or other package the full analysis of its con
tents—how much ammonia, how much phospho-
rio acid, how much phosphate of lime—how
much soda and potash, and how mnch sand each
sack or barrel contains. Then the planter could
tell what he was buying. The Maine law pro
vides that if any dealer or manufacturer shall
make a false publication of the constituent parts
of his fertilizer he is liable to a heavy fine, one-
half of wMch goes to the party who detects the
fraud. A bill containing similar provisions is
now before the Maryland Legislature, and we
trast that tbe military council now in session at
Atlanta may promulgate an order or law con
taining the main features of tbe Maine law. It
will, perhaps, be too late to do much good the
present season, as most of our planters have
made their purchases—some of them no doubt
of sixty per cent, of sand—but it will be in time
for the next season’s operations. A remedy for
tMs great evil is imperatively demanded. The
real value or cost of the various articles offered
in the market at the highest price, range, ac
cording the analysis made by the chemist of the
Agricultural Bureau, and of Prof. Johnson, of
Yale College, from three and a half to fifty dol
lars a ton. These sell for abont the same price,
that is to say from seventy to eighty dollars a
ton.
Until suitable legislation can be obtained plan
ters must rely entirely upon the character of
the manufacturer or his agents, and the experi
ence of Ms neighbors who have nsed the differ
ent brands.
Northern Immigration.
Speculating upon tho prospects of emigration
South, the Philadelphia Press of Wednesday
says:
Judging from the expressed affinity of the
English and Scotch, especially during the rebel
lion, for the Southern people, and their undis
guised interest in the success of the Southern
States, it is natural to suppose that those na
tionalities at least would evinca a preference for
their favorite section, and it is highly probable,
from present indications, that largo communi
ties of English and Scotch people will soon be
settled in the Northern belt of Southern States
from which the colored hands are now daily mi
grating towards the Gulf. But it is undoubted
ly true that the main hope of the South in its
present condition is the old free North. For
eigners did not and could not understand the
merits of onr struggle for self-preservation dur
ing the war, and it is not probable that they
will, in any great nnmbers, appreciate the rea
sons wMch ought to deflect their line of emigra
tion from the remote West towards the sunny
Sonth, now that the war has made Freedom a
national heritage. It is only Northern men who,
from their own observation or through the eyes
of other people, see the great field of agricul
tural and manufacturing enterprise wMch the
South now presents, that will have the sagacity
to step in and possess the tempting prize.—
And yet it is t>. fact almost incredible that there
are millions of tMnly-settled or wholly unoccu
pied Southern lands, of inexhaustible fertility,
within forty-eight hours of Philadelphia,
which can be purchased almost if not quite
as cheaply as lauds are selling for a thousand
miles beyond the Mississippi. These lands,
under the potency of Northern agricultural
skill, are capable of yielding the most profita
ble crops, and adequate facilities for transport
ing these crops from every section to the best
markets are already in embryo. Then with the
curse of slavery removed, the dignity of labor
achieved, the stimulus to domestic manufac
tures wMch Northern men and Northern capital
are certain to impart, and the political homo
geneousness of the nation secured by the dis
semination of Northern ideas and Northern
practicability, the question may reasonably be
asked, Why should not tbe lands in Georgia,
Alabama or the Carolines be as valuable and
sell as high as less productive lands now com
mand in our own State? And when that day
comes, the average selling price of Southern
lands will have advanced upon their present
values more than one thousand per cent Emi
grants from the Far West can hardly hope to
realize a more lucrative return.
The “main hope of the Sonth" is in her own
people, and there never will be a day when the
Southern people (unfettered by Northern tyran
ny) will not control the South—morally, intel
lectually, politically and financially. But send
down your Northern immigrants, Mr. Press,
and let them eome and take lock with ns. Let
them come and show ns the “potency of North
ern agricultural skill]” and then we will show
them, what is more to the poipose, howto raise
cotton. But it looks to ns too much as if the
long-promised Northern immigration wsre mere
smoke without any fire.
Corporal Punishment in Schools.—Some
time since corporeal punishment was abolished
in the schools of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Eight of the teachers now report that the abol
ishment has been attended with favorable re
sults while forty-six of them report unfavor
ably. Wherever the experiment has been made
it has proved unsuccessful. Spare the rod and
you spoil the child is a scriptural injunction
wMch applies with as much force to the sohool
Mto
The Georgia Frees.
The lumber sMpdng business has been very
brisket Savanna^ during the present month.
One house alone lave cleared twelve cargoes in
that time.
Four thousand eight'hundred and thirty bales
of upland, and cae hundred and fifty-two bales
of sea-island coton, valued at $568,247,76 were
cleared for Liverpool, at Savannah, on Thurs
day.
The Atlanta Ihtelligenoer says:
A Colored Member Invests Per Diem in
Beal Estate. f-We saw a colored member of
the Legislature yesterday afternoon invest
ing his per dien in a lot in tMs city; he is to
piy the greater portion in certain installments,
probably as thi per diem aocrues and is paid
over. He wasalso exhibiting certain admoni-
document! from the imaginary Kn-Klux,
:h he clains to have received abont two
yeas ago. Tlis “cnllud gemman” is now a
t of AtUnia but represents a county in
\pther portbn of the State.
Th* Era says the Atlanta mule trade is very
lively* One hundred were sold, on Thursday,
at frou $185 to $2 .aoh.
The'Constitutiona’jst says:
Don’i Pay.—So exceedingly orderly, as a
generalRing, (despite tbe efforts of some wMte
skins to be contrary) have the colored people
of the citr become, that one of Bullock’s chosen
magistrate, Mr. John Reynolds, has so far lost
Ms judicU “svag,” that he contemplates, we
learn, at a* early day, to yield his commission,
close Ms jtflical shop in this city, and grace
fully retire ri Atlanta, where he can be nearer
the throne of Radical grace. He is now dis
posing of lis implements of trade, low for cash.
Some gmtlexaen of Colambns gave a compli
mentary prty on Wednesday evening to CoL
Hugh M. ling and his “ charming bride." The
Sun says he Colonel won Ms title by “hard
blows andrMvalrous fighting in tbe Confederate
army, at lensacola, in Tennessee, and on the
staff of th gallant Wheeler.” If he is onr old
college frind, we beg to offer onr congratula
tions, also
The Alhny News concludes, from the most
reliable daa it has, that there are more laborers
iu the toies counties of Lee, Dougherty and
Baker tMsysar than last; bnt they are not dis
tributed as key were, and many planters have
not as manjaa they want. Some have more
than they wrked lost year, and new comers
have also com in for a share, wMch, of conrse,
deprives othes of their full quota; whilst a few
have been unble to procure any at alL
Peace, hanony, and good will prevail gen
erally betweei employer and employes, and ma
terial interest are engaging the faithful efforts
of both races br mutual prosperity.
In a case tied at Columbus on Wednesday
where the conideration was $170 in Confeder
ate money, tb jury gave the plaintiff $3 in
greenbacks.
The Bainbrige Sun says the planters of De
catur county aiicipate larger crops this season
than any year tnce war.
The Thomason Herald says small pox has
broken out in fiat county.
Mr. Ben. Jofian, of Upson county, was shot
and mortally wmnded, a few days ago, by a ne
gro man namedElbert Denham.
The Atlanta Ira of Wednesday has this para
graphs
We learn tha Mr. Bryant, Mr. Miller, Mr.
Caldwell, Dr. Aigier, Mr. Hill and Mr. Osgood,
left for WasMnjton on Tuesday evening. It is
asserted that thB party have the impudence to
claim—usiDg tleir own language—to “repre
sent the ablest Xepublicans in Georgia.”
Cheap Land.—Last Tuesday there was a large
quantity of lanes sold, which brought very low
prices. A neatlittle farm of 160 acres, capable
of producing a Vale of cotton to two acres with'
out the aid of fertilizers, with a good log build
ing thereon, sold for $150. A few months ago
$700 was refuted for the place. Other lands
sold for a mere song.—Bainbridge Sun, 3d.
The Covington Enterprise says that Julia
Ramsey, colored, was outraged and then mur
dered by her step-father, Esquire Ramsey, in
Henry county, last week. The murderer con
fessed his crime, and was with difficulty saved
by the white people of the neighborhood from
being lynched bj the negroes.
An Aristocratic Wedding in Cincin-
I nati.
The grand danes, demoiselles and swells of
Cincinnati are just recovering from the delight
ful flutter of the most aristocratic wedding that
ever occurred it that city. That our readers
may not be betind hand in the very important
matter of knowing all about the bride and
groom, what tley wore, eto., we append the fol
lowing notice of the affair:
The groom Mr- Kenelm T. Digby, belongs
to an old fanily of the landed gentry of Eng
land, whose pedigree extends away back into
the troubloos times of CharleB the First Mr.
Digby is row a member of Parliament from
Ireland. ?he bride is a daughter of Hon. Wm.
S. Groesbeck, a prominent lawyer of Cincinnati.
Mr. Digby and Miss Groesbeck met at Newport,
and be sod bis friends were, in the conrse of
their tnvels, the guests of Mr. Groesbeck, at
Ms residence in Cincinnati. Last summer, Mr.
Groeabjck and daughters, traveling in England,
were joined by Mr. Digby, who accompanied
them upon tho Continent The wedding was
stricter a private affair, only members of the
family of the bride being present As Mr.
Digby is a Catholic, the ceremony was perform
ed by Bishop Rosecrans. The bride’s ward
robe was made by Worth, the celebrated man
milliner of Paris. She was dressed in a foil un
der dreis of wMte tulle, composed of several
skirts, trimmed with wMte satin ribbon, put on
lengthwise. Elegant court-train, trimmed
around die bottom with three or four narrow-
pointed flounces, very full, headed with trim
ming. Corsage, cut surplus, coat sleeves, and
trimmed over the breast with puffings of tnlle
and app'ivue lace. Bonnet Marie Stnart shape,
with lovely wreath of orange blossoms setting
close to tho head. Magnificent veil of point
appUgue lace, very fine, put on very full over
the top of the bonnet, forming a high tuft, and
fastened in front at the point over the forehead
with a brilliant duster of diamonds. Cluster
diamond ear-rings and diamond pendant, with
gold chain. The bridegroom was dressed in
the English style for morning wedding—light
drab pantaloons, black frock coat bnttoned over
the chest, blue silk cravat tied in sailor knot,
and wMte kid gloves. HU winter residence is
in London, and he expects to sail from New
York homeward bound with bis bride on Wed
nesday.
Horrible.—The Savannah Bepublican of
Thursday says:
Mr. Mercer, agent for the contractors on the
Bainbridge, Cnthbert and Colambns Railroad,
was in the city on Wednesday for the purpose
of hiring laborers for that road. He left the
city on the afternoon train for Station 1. Be
tween nine and ten o’clock on Wednesday night,
when the down Brunswick train was near Sta
tion 1, the engineer notioed somethingon the
traok, wMch he supposed to be a calf. He blew
the wMstle, but the object did not move, and
he proceeded. On Thursday morning the body
of Mercer was found on the track, in a fright
fully mangled condition. The remains were
gathered np as well as they could be under the
circumstances, and deposited at a point near the
place where they were found, and at abont two
o’clock p. h., yesterday, the Coroner of Chat
ham county was notified, bnt for some reason,
at a late hour last night, no inquest had been
held. The Superintendent of the Atlantio and
Gulf railroad, procured a coffin and sent it to
Station 1 last night, for the purpose of having
the remains decently bnried.
There is a rumor, wMch we give for what it
is worth, that Meroer was murdered a short dis
tance from the railroad, and Ms dead body
placed on the track. The reason for tMs sup
position is said to be that a pool of blood was
found, and tbe inference is that the murderers
placed the dead body on the track for the pur
pose of concealing the crime.
A Bohan wit has discovered the habits of rll
the Western bishops at the (Ecumenical. The
English are always taking ont something to eat;
the American bishops are retiring to smoke; the
French bishops are passing abont and talking •
tbe Spanish bishops are in little groups, talking
their own politics; the Germans are silent am
doing nothing. The Italians, if we may con
clude from the example of the wit himself axe
making their observations.
33Y TELEGRAPH.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, Febmaiy 4.—Nominations to-day:
Dr. Sam Bud, late of Atlanta, Ga., Governor of
Idaho; Belg&r, Assessor for the Third North Caro
lina District; G&bin, District Judge of Florida.
Revenue to-day over $1,000,000.
The seizure of tho contents, and a large quantity
of whisky removed therefrom, of the dietUlery of
Bingham & Barton, Hazleton, Indiana, has been
ordered.
L. J. Durant is again urged for the Supreme
Bench.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, February 4.—Senate—A bill- was
passed ordering the Secretary of the Treasury to
withhold moniee due defaulting States.
A resolution was passed calling on the President
for information regarding Georgia.
The bill abolishing the franking privilege, was
taken up.
The Cooper Institute meeting at New York aBks
the recognition of Cuba.
Several bills affecting the District of Columbia
were reported.
The Franking bill was resumed. Mr. Sherman
moved as an amendment that the bill should not
interfere with the free circulation of papers within
twenty miles of publication. No action.
The Census bill was resumed, and the Senate ad
journed to Monday.
House.—In the House private bills were under
consideration.
The Committee on appropriations heud Boutwell
—nothing transpired.
The Committee on Military Affairs was ordered to
nquire what members of Congress had offered for
sale the appointments to the military or naval acad
emies.
The following important action, showing a soft
ening in regard to test oaths, was reported folly
“Mr. Bingham, from tbe Judiciary Committee, re
ported a bill to relieve Francis E. Shober, Repre
sentative from the Sixth North Carolina District, of
the necessity of taking the iron-clad oath, and that
he be admitted to his seat upon taking an oath to
support the Constitution,” etc.
Mr. Paine made the point of order that this was
not a private bill; but it affected the organization
of the House.
The Speaker overruled tho point of order.
Mr. Paine appealed from the decision.
On motion of Mr. Cox, the appoalwas laid on
the table.
Mr. Paine said the matter was now before the
Election Committee, and this purposed to relieve
Mr. Shober of his disabilities.
Mr. Bingham said that the Judiciary Committee
had investigated tho matter, and was satisfied that
Mr. Shober labored under no disabilities imposed
by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
He was a member of tbe North Carolina Legisla
ture and could not, therefore, take the oath; but
his course bad always been that of a friend of the
Union.
Mr. Dewise said Mr. Shober was not subject to
any disabilities under the Fourteenth Amendment.
The Chair, in answer to inquiries, stated that the
passage of the bill would not prevent the Election
Committee from farther examining Mr. Shober’s
credentials and reporting upon Ms right to a seat.
Mr. Arnold, of Tennessee, moved to lay tho bill
upon the table, which was agreed to—ayes 89;
nays 78.
The bill for the relief of the poor, and authorizing
the Secretary of War to issue rations was passed.
The House meets to-morrow for debate only.
ALABAMA LEGISLATURE.
Montgomery, February 4.—The House to-day
voted down, by a vote of 55 to 35, the bill for the
State Treasurer to issne bonds for three million
dollars in aid of the Alabama and Chattanooga
Railroad. The Constitution requires a two-thirds
majority for such laws. A motion was made to re
consider to-morrow, and there is heavy lobbying to
night. The bill passed the Senate some days ago,
and was amended by the House by requiring, in ad
dition to mortgage on individual security, that the
work should be completed in a specified state.
The House passed, yesterday, the hill extending
the time in wbien Railroads can complete twenty
mUes, to get State endorsement of $16,000 per mile.
GENERAL NEWS.
Augusta, February 4 The Green Lino Excur
sion from Cincinnati, Lonisville, and other cities,
were entertained to-day by the Board of Trade.
They leave for home to-night.
Memphis, February 4.—The fast freight lines aro
again in trouble. The rates now on cotton to New
Yoik is 90 cents; to Philadelphia 85 cents; to Bos
ton $1*
Fortress Monroe, February 4.—It has been
blowing a northeast gale all day.
Tallahassee, Fla., February 4.—In the Legisla
ture, to-day, the committee appointed to investigate
the official acts and charges against Gov. Reed, re
ported for impeachment—4 to 1. The minority re
port is said to be weak. The evidence was read to
tho House in secret session this forenoon and to
open session this afternoon. The vote on impeach
ment will be taken to-morrow, perhaps to-night.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Parts. February 4.—Hugo’s Lucretia Borgia was
heard by a disorderly audience. Paul de C&sagnac,
the author, was hissed.
Dispatches from Rome state that the death of
the Archbishop of Lyons is momentarily appre
hended.
Alexandrta, February 4.—Vessels drawing over
seventeen and a half feet cannot safely pass the
Suez Canal. t
Southampton, February 4.—The steamship Bre
men arrived yesterday from New Orleans.
London, February 4.—The recent delays in the
telegraph service is attributable to the change from
private to public control.
It is reported that the Viceroy of Egypt leaves out
Greece in the alliance.
Rome, February 4.—The Pope announces that ho
will decline participation in the controversy respecti
ng Ms personal infallibility.
New Castle, February 4.—Two negroes named
Jones and Carpenter, were hung to-day, for rape.
fromTcuba.
Havana, February 4.—Two men were killed here
on Wednesday night.
Romantic Story of a Remarkable
Piece or Hair.
A magnificent piece of human hair—the larg
est, finest and most valuable in America—is now
hanging in toe window of Thompson & Oo., in
Canal street, near Broadway. It is of a dark
brown hne, soft as silk, weighs seven ounces,
and is sixty-four inches in length—5 feet 4 inches.
On a medium sized woman, this would sweep
toe floor. The longest piece of Mur on record,
exhibited at the London Exposition in 1851, be
longed to Leon Fellery, of Paris, and was 72
inches in length. The story of this one that
measured 64 inohes is rather romantio. It came
from toe head of a Swabian peasant girl, who^
had two suitors for her hand, one a poor farm
hand, who earned six kreutzers a day, and the
other a rich miller. The miller owned the oot-
tage in wMch the 8wabian girl and her widowed
mother lived, and being as selfish and unscru
pulous as he was wealthy, threatened to drive
Ms tenants ont of their home unless he was suc
cessful, although they had already paid part of
tho price demanded for the cottage, and were
saving and working to pay toe remainder. In
tola emergency a traveling hair merchant ap
peared in the village, and sooner than marry
the wealthy miller, or on the other hand have
her aged mother driven from house and home,
she determined upon the sacrifice of her beau
tiful hair. It was taken to the Liepsio annual
fair, sold there for $175 to an American dealer,
and from his hands found its way to its present
owner. It is valued at between $250 and $300.
Don Piatt thus describes the personal appear
ance of Jas. Fisk, Jr., while before toe “gold
oomer” investigation committee at Washing
ton : “Fisk, Jr., rolled into toe oommittee with
the life and uproar of a steamtng. His short,
fat person was set off in the londest of clothes.
A diamond gleamed,from his cascade of white
linen, like a head-light from a locomotive, while
a huge cable gold chain fell in festoons from
his neck, as far down as that part of Ms person
where the leg ends and his body begins. His
plaid pantaloons, of the most pronounoed pat
tern, and the bleok velvet jacket were of toe
sort, in the way of ooetume, one sees in low
comedy upon toe stage.”
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Tlae BUI Abolishing- tbe Franking privil
ege— Retrenchment Qnarkerjr—Contested
kieettons—Stokes, of Tennessee—Gossip,
Etc.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:
Washington, February 2,1870.
The speeches of Mr. Dawes in the House, in
which he exposed the extravagance of the fiscal
estimates, have not been without their effect
The administration was surprised, astounded,
dismayed. Something must be done to delude
toe publio with toe belief that there was to be
reform and retrenchment somewhere; and so
Mr. Cresswell came forward with his scheme
for abolishing toe franking privilege. A bill
for this purpose has passed the Honse, which
forbids toe carrying of any free matter whatever
through toe mails. It is not probable that the
bill will pass the Senate in tMs shape; bnt if it
does pass, toe departments, members of Con
gress, and all government officials must be
furnished with a greater or less quantities of
postage stamps, and it will soon be found that
tois privilege will be abused to an even greater
extent than toe franking privilege.
Another economy is proposed by Gen. An
thony, who introduced a bill in the Senate yes
terday wMch provides that 1550 copies only of
the President’s message and reports of heads of
departments, and 500 copies additional for toe
head of a department, on his own requisition
only, for the proper service of toe department,
and not for distribution, be printed. The pub
lication of the “Biennial Register,” “Abridge
ment of toe President’s Message and Accompa-
ing Documents,” “Laws and Joint Resolu
tions,” shall be discontinued. Also, toe publi
cation of laws of the United States, and of toe
treaties with foreign powers in toe newspapers;
though toe Secretary of State is authorized to
publish in toe newspapers snoh laws as in his
judgment should be published for public inform
ation. All binding at the Government Office
must be of a plain, substantial character, and
no extra binding executed, except on the order
of the President of toe Senate, Speaker of the
House, or head of a department. The bill was
referred to the Committee on Printing. It is a
step in toe right direction, and if passed will
save many thousands of dollars yearly. Mr.
Anthony will speak at length on toe subject
shortly, and will present some interesting facts
connected with toe public printing and toe gra
tuitous distribution of doenments.
A bill will soon be introduced in toe Senate
for catting down toe naval orgamzation to toe
basis of 1862, whereby a saving of a million
and a half of dollars per annum will be effect
ed ; and Gen. Logan is said to be preparing a
bill for presentation in toe House, which will
cut down toe army to a peace footing, and save
a few millions more per annum.
Mr. Wells, of the House, is preparing a bill,
wMch he will shortly introduce, with a view to
prevent some of toe innumerable contested
election cases wMch occupy so mnch of toe time
of toe Honse, and put the country to great ex
pense. The billwUl make it obligatory upon
the contestant to give bond in toe penal snm of
six thousand dollars—that, in toe event of Ms
not being able to make out a case against the
sitting member, he will reimburse him the
amount expended in procuring testimony, etc.,
to prove his right to the seat which he occupies.
Such a bill as tMs will, if passed, tend to put a
stop to many contests wMch are instigated by
penniless politicians with a view to obtaining
toe bonus usually awarded by Congress to nn-
■iccessful candidates.
How many of these reforms will be carried
ont, it is impossible to say. The saving they
will effect is afier all very small, compared to
toe amounts wastefully expended in other ways.
But if these bills do pass, it is Mr. Dawes, of
Massachusetts, a tax-burdened people have to
thank for the slight relief afforded them.
Congressman Stokes, of Tennessee, has had
printed in pampMet form Ms “personal expla
nation,” in reply to the tirade Senator Brown-
low had read in the Senate on tho 13th of De-
comlwr laot. WMle not using oa » h violent and
abusive language as tne Senator, Mr. Stokes is
personal and severe. He recites the facts con
cerning the late election, or rather gives Ms
version of them, ana says:
“In voting for Governor Senter under the
circumstances stated, Mr. Brownlow i3 justly
subject to one of two charges: either want of
political sagacity ov a desire to secure toe de
feat of Ms party. He disclaims toe benefit of
as charitable a judgment as the former, and we
are therefore warranted in holding Mm respon
sible for toe latter.”
And again he says:
“It was well known and understood that if I
was elected Governor I was elected to expose
and punish toe gigantio railroad frauds and
peculations by means of wMch some of the
Senator’s particular friends were enabled to
buy np by the wholesale the leading Republican
newspapers of the State andnse them to defeat
me and break down our party. Every one of
the newspapers bought np by such means and
used to support Messrs. Brownlow and Senter
havo either suspended publication or gone over,
like toe Knoxville WMg, to toe extreme rebel
wing of the Democratio party. Under toe pa
tronage and peculiar Republican triumph of the
Senter party every Republican daily paper in
toe State has either been forced to suspend or
advocate Democratio principles for support.
These are better tests by which to judge the
character and temper of Senter Republicanism
than toe cheap praise and indorsement of the
few crippled and weak-kneed Bepnblicans who
survived the contest.”
Mr. Stokes concludes as follows:
Now, Mr. Speaker, bnt a word more. The
other Senator from Tennessee (Mr. Fowler)
makes the following statement in a speech afew
days since in the Senate. He says that the
“Republican party of Tennessee stinks in the
nostrils of every honest man in toe State.”
TMs I will not trouble the Honse with at this
time, but will at some future day take occasion
to defend the fifty-five thousand true Union
men and Federal soldiers who stood trne to Re
publican principles last August
If, sir, this House will but go into an investi
gation of the frauds in the late August election
they will find, to use too language of the honor
able Senator in conversation, “that it was car
ried by wholesale perjury,” toe term fraud be-
too mild.
>ucb quarrels as tMs among leading Radicals
make interesting reading matter, as it is a mat
ter of utter indifference wMch side wins.
There was a sound of revelry by night on
Oapitol Hill last evening, at the residence of
Downing, the colored caterer. Colored Senator
Bevels, of Mississippi, was entertained by his
host, the aforesaid Downing; and some forty
arsons were assembled, Senators Wilson and
arris, Congressman Kelly, toe entire Missis
sippi delegation, Mayor Bowen and various of
ficials and others to toe number of forty. The
negro worshippers hung upon the lips of Revels
in social converse, filled their bellies with toe
good things Downing provided and then depart
ed. Bevels is soon to be torch-lighted and sere
naded. Madame Bevels was in toe Senate gal
lery to-day.
Mr. Sanlsbury presented, in toe Senate yes
terday, a memorial from a Mr. Patton, of Penn
sylvania, against negro suffrage. The memo
rial says : “The amendments to the Constitu
tion wMch have given equality to the black with
the wMte race, were adopted under dures», and
by forcing upon the Southern States, illegally,
an unqualified voting element, and those States
are not pound to abide by such forced adop
tion.”
The Senate passed toe currency bill to-day,
with numerous amendments. The bill, as
passed, provides for banking on a coin basis,
increases the amount of national bank notes to
be issued to forty-five millions, iu lieu of the
same amount of three per cent, in oertifioates
to be redeemed, (this increase to go to toe South
and West,) and also takeB twenty millions of
banknote currenoy from theNew England banks
and transfers it to the South and West The bill
now goes to the House.
The House to-day discussed toe oases of the
Fenian prisoners in Great Britain and toe Ca
ban question, and afterwards took up the bill to
provide an electioneering fund for the City
Hall wing. It rails for an appropriation of $30,-
000 for the poor of the District, and has passed
toe Senate.
The revenne blanks for the annual inoome of
1870 are now ready for circulation, and will be
forwarded to the revenue officers throughout the
country without delay. The answers will be re-
? [aired this year in writing, and the details are
ar more explioit than heretofore.
Hon. James G. Blaine, Speaker of the House
of Representatives, entertains the members of
toe press in this city on Thursday evening next.
Dalton.
A Talk With (‘areals.
I know thousands of parents who have re.
oeived from God a cMld, and then they turn the
young immortal into a dressmaker's doll!
if God had not made the little creature beauti.
ful enough, they must overload it with uphob
storings of silk and laces, and then torture it*
graceful freedom into the tongs and screws of
arbitrary fashion. On a certain Sabbath these
parents brought their cMldren to chnroh, and
formally devoted them to the Lord in baptists.
Bnt all toe rest of toe time they .are conseert!
ting their offspring to that other trinity—fashion
finery, and folly! I tell you that this overdress
ing of toe body strikes through into toe heart
It poisons the mind with affections and most
unchild-like greed of admiration and vain glory
How can a stop ever be put to the crop of foi
and fasMons, if cMldren are to be trained into
foppery and ooxcombery from their cradles?
How can onr cMldren be taught self-deniaL
frugality, humility, and spiritual-mindedness,
while their graceful forms are smothered under
the artificial trappings of pride and extrava-
gance ? I am quite sure that when tbe sensible
Hebrew mother “made a little coat” for her
lovely boy, she remembered that he was “lent
unto the Lord,” and not the “lusts of the pride
of life.”
But there is another meaning wMch I wig]* ^
give to this “little coat” In the Bible, dress
is an emblem of character. Christianity y
spoken of as a raiment; we are exhorted to
“put on Christ," to be “clothed with humility ”
and to keep our garments unspotted from the
world. Nor is it a mere pun—a playing
sacred words to remind you that habit both tip
Miles dress and signifies disposition of the mind
and its tendency to good or evil. The habit of
doing right is the essenoo of godliness.
Now, we parents not only clothe onr little
ones; we also provide, in no small degree the
habits of their souls. We help to clothe them
in garments of light and loveliness, or else in
garments of sin and sorrow and shame. W e
make for them coats wMch no moth can con-
same—coats which they shall bo wearing after
we have mouldered into cas!! Our childre-
put on toe example we set, and wear it. Hg
only what we say, bnt what we do, will be re.
peated in their opinions and their conduct. On;
character streams into our cMldren. It enter;
into their eyes and through their ears every
moment. How quick they are to copy trs!
No photograpMo plate is more exquisitively seal
sitive to toe images wMch lodge there. Our &
simulations make them tricky and deceit.
fuL If a boy is handled harsMv, ati
jerked into obedience, he will likely turn out ]
a sulky, obstinate nature; he will be jnat whs:
our impatient rudeness makes him. If maii.j
cions tattle sour our conversation at the table.'
our children’s “teeth will be set on edge.” ^
we talk only “money, money, mensy,” the:
will be greedy for sharp bargains. If we ts5i
‘•horses," and “base-ball,” and “race-courses,-3
etc., they will be on fire with a rage for sport?
ing. If we give our boys a dollar for the to-,
shop or place of amusement, and only a dr,
for toe contribution-box, we shall teach the:
that self-indulgence is of ten times more imper.
tance than charity. If we live for the woriiH
they will die for the world, and be lost forever r
The mind-garmenis which we weave they
wear. Long after we are dead, our childrsj
will be clothed in habits we helped to fasMctj
My fellow-parents, we are weaving our ciij
dren’s habits every boor. "We do it as clothe;
are made, stitch by stitch. We do it byliiii
things and through unconscious influences. M
are making the “little coats” which shall n;
worn not only in this world, but in the world i
come! Oh, how much it depends on us whelk
they shall “walk in wMte” among the glorife.
in Heaven! The property we can leave os
children may be small indeed. We mays:
afford them an expensive education. Bati
by day we can be prayerfully, patiently wean8
for them that garment of goodness which shf
grow brighter and still brighter until they^ 3
on the shining raiment like unto those thatet^
before the Throne!—Rev. T. L. Cuyler.
Exchange of Civilities Between Jndr
Underwood and Governor Wise,
Something out of the ordinary routine
court scenes was witnessed in the TJuiitiSt*
Circuit Court yesterday. Judge Underwood
delivering the judgment of the court in
case of Nelms vs the John Sylvester, tooko
sion to compliment in toe highest terms fit
gument of ex-Govemor Henry A. Wise, com
for the plaintiff, characterizing the effort
one of the ablest he had ever heard in s
cause before Mm for trial. From this
he passed to eulogy upon the character of
emor Wise in terms wMch struck nearly e
auditor with surprise, when it was recoil:.;
that the speaker was John C. Underwood, c
that the subject of the eulogy was none a'
than he who has been immortalized in 6ong
history as toe signer of the deato-warmtj
that old sinner Ossawattomie Brown. ThcJ:
said that when he came to Virginia, twenty-
years ago, as a school-teacher, Governor '
was then a young and prominent politi
about to enter Congress, and that ever sine
had watched his career with interest; aude
they had differed to some extent in politics,:
might be due to difference of training. As
himself, he had been brought up in the t&
of William Penn, and, indeed, his ideas c!
be called Puritanical. This, however, dill
affect Ms personal relations with his Si
guished friend, and he was prond to hav:J
opportunity to say so.
These remarks called np their subject]
venerable Governor, who was one of the taj
ished listeners. He very gracefully, audit]
style peculiar to himself, acknowledged tie
pi intent paid him from toe bench, and said J
on his part, he could not complain that 1:1
ever seen anything but a disposition to 4
fairly and justly in Judge Underwood's 4j
ions, in cases in wMch he was counsel. He
branched off and made what many vt:
present say was one of the happiest effc
Ms life, reviewing at length the grounds d
ference between Mmself and Judge Und
and illustrating his position with well-tii
ecdotes. In conclusion, referring to the Ji
antecedents as a life-long and avowed opp
of human slavery in form, he called upfil
to redeem Ms promises and make good his
ly known professions by using his iuflnt:
strike from hia (Governor Wise’s) wrist
bonds of servitnde worse than the slavery f
African. He alluded, of course, to the
disabilities imposed upon Mm by Con|
enactment.
Judge Underwood bowed, and the case
the court was then disposed of; end f= ; J
were present were less pleased than astc:
at an incident which, if rare in a court
certainly afforded an amusing and unob;! :
able entertainment—Richmond DispatA
The Probable Error in the Sun'i]
tance.
In order to give an idea of toe extrao:
interest that is attached to toe next traj
give toe results of the two last in regard 1
sun’s distance. In Ferguson’s Astronocll
ten about the middle of tne last cenMr
earth’s distance from the sun is given as :■]
000 miles. The transit of 1763 gave a r
95,000,000 miles. The same result waso|
by the transit of 17G9. We are now de|
alone upon the transit of Venus. The 1
system has been applied to Mars, and H
velocity of light has been made to bear]
problem. 1
The result of modem investigation «j
error of 4,000,000 miles. This might »!T
be a great fault in astronomical calct4
but even tois error in the sun’s angukjj
ter, if it be an error, is no greater
breadth of a human hair seen at the dis*
125 feet. Moreover, a Mr. Stone, of tb<J
wich Observatory, has discovered a
toe calculations of toe transit of
brings the son’s distance down to 9-I
miles. For his research a gold medal ^
awarded to Mm by the Royal Geogr*?
ciety. .
The next transit of Venus will tbe?]
anticipated and observed in every J
quarter of toe globe, with an intensity]
est wMoh no natural phenomenon bai j
cited. Distant stations have aM'i
chosen; the best accurate instrumetq
ing constructed; the arrangements
fit of expeditions have been oonuaecT
nearly time for those designed for
regions to commence their long jotfji
The English astromers have selected]
tions, and have petitioned Parlis®*!
grant of $30,000; the French Acadc®:!
ously at work; the German “ Bub*
ously in the field, and the other Eu^r
ties will contribute their share to 1
ject. The wonderful sgenoies of
scope and photograph as indicate** J
be brought into requisition, and 1
main to perfect toe arrangements^
ing made for toe purpose.—-T~
Tub Paris executioner is over® 5 ]
with the proportions of a Hercu
arid strong hand, well formed •‘" A
formed. He is always ill for ]
performing his duty at the guillo* 15 ' ]
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