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Tlie Greoreia 'W'eeklv Tele£2*ar>h. and. Joumal &: Messenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, JUNE 7, 1870.
Railroad From Quincy to Bainbrldge
The Qainoy Monitor reports that Mr. Green,
trith an organized engineer corps, has been en
gaged during the past week in running an ex
perimental line from that point to Bainbridge.
Gen. M. S. Littlefield and several Northern
gentleman of capital are at the head of this en
terprise, and we have no donbt (judging from
the energy they displayed in the construction of
the road from Qainoy to Chattahoochee) bnt
what, with a little assistanoe, they will put it
through.
From the Florida line to Bainbridge, by unit
ing with the B. C. & C. B. B., they would have
the State aid of tw« road to the amount of $12,-
000 per mile.—Bainbridge Sun.
Hal ha! ha! Won’t the North Carolinians
laugh (on the wrong side of their months possi
bly) when they hear that Littlefield ha« quit
them and their squeezed dry, played out, bank
rupt old State—that he has shaken its dost from
his feet and dedicated his eminent talent as a
“deweloper” to the servioe of another State.
Why it’s a loss to sat down and shed ooeans of
tears over. Littlefield and “other Northern gen
tlemen of capital” developed the resources of
North Carolina to the tone of four or five mil-
lions^or thereabouts, and when the people, in a
transport of gratitnde, wanted to entertain him
at their expense the remainder of his virtuous
nr« v. _. -—- ——. uim uu is—nea to .Florida!
We have never known a people so non-plnssed
as wero those excitable North Carolinians. We
Shouldn't wonder if they didn't send a deputa
tion down -after Littlefield yet, and make bim
wear all these bl ashing honors, anyhow. We
ahonld hate to see any of the developers of
Georgia resources—his Honor, Judge Avery, for
instance—treat us in that kind of style. And
for fear General Littlefield might ^erve ns such
a shabby trick, we implore him to stop at Bain
bridge. Don't come developing any farther in
this direction, if yon please, Littlefield.
Ghosts of Prentice.
John Russell Young, of tho New York Stand
ard, comes out strongly in favor of electing
Charles A- Dana, of the Son, to the office of
Coroner. If Dana were quite sure that it would
secure him the privilege of holding an inquest
on the body of Young, he would rather be Cord-
ner than President.
Bullock says Forney’s Chronicle is very dear
to the people of the South. The people of Geor
gia certainly found it very dear to them when
Bullock paid, four thousand dollars of their
money for its influence against the Bingham
amendment. .
(This is a mistake. B. spent only his “pri
vate fortune" in persuading Fomey. And we
are going to take np a subscription to reimburse
him.)
To keep an American man-of-war in servico
costs $139,000 a year; to keep a British man-of-
war in servico costs $09,000 a year. Annual
American stealage per ship, $70,000.
Zack Chandles says he both likes and fears
Kentucky. He means by this he likes her whis
ky and fears her hemp.
Decoration Day at Andersonville.
We leam that about 700 negroes and proba
bly 75 white men, nearly all of whom were
U. S. Revenue and Post-office officials, assembled
at Andersonville yesterday, for the purpose of
decorating tho graves of the Federal dead at
that place. Bnllock and Terry, with their re
spective staffs, were of the number, and orations
were delivered by an Ohio preacher and ex-
Oonfederate Mayor, B. H. Whitely, of Bain
bridge. We judge that none, or very few of
the negroes of the neighborhood were present,
the crowd being gathered mostly from this and
other points on the railroad. There were no
whites present, that we could hear of, except
thoso holding office under the Federal Govern
ment in this State.
The Richmond Election.
The Richmond Democrats lost their munici
pal ticket by about 300 votes, but they carry 15
out of the 25 councilmen, which gives them
practical control of the city government, and
will enable them to nip all the nice little Radi
cal arrangements for stealage, in the bnd.—
Wherefore the trooly loil are wringing their
honest palms, and orying aloud for more recon
struction. There are many sorry sights in this
nun old world, bnt none sadder than to see the
faithfnl thus choked off when the pap was al
most within reaoh. It is enough to make a
Quaker kick his mother.
SU11 Afraid of the “Rebels.”
The Herald's Washington special, of Friday,
says:
It would seem that there is still little, if any
hope of a general amnesty measure being passed
at this session. Since the speech of Senator
Ferry on that subject a prominent Republican
Senator has made a canvass of the Senate, and
he gives it as the result of his efforts that not
more than half a dozen Republican Senators
would vote for a General Amnesty bill. Tho
Bame is also true of the House, according to the
statements of prominent Republicans in that
body. The President, as already stated, has
abandoned all idea of recommending such a
measure, so that there is little chance for the
ex-rebels being relieved of their disabilities for
the present.
“Plantation Manners.”—The Herald’s Wash
ington special, of Friday, says that in the de
bate the day before on the bill for tho revival
of American commerce, “Lynch moved the pre
vious question on the snbstitute, and a lively
debate followed, in which personal compliments
of the left-banded order were thrown around
promiscuously, and the lie was given and re
turned with interest several times.”
We thought all that sort of thing went ont
with tho retirement of “Southern traitors” from
the halls of Congress. We are very sure that
taking the lie, did.
Sats the New Orleans Picaynne ;
It is a bad thing for the Georgians to have
such a man as Bollock to rule them, but we fear
it will not prove any better for them to have
Sam Bard' as their champion to overthrow him.
If the Georgians canid only manage to have
the two agree to settle the matter by wager of
battle in their own persons, (hey might hope to
get rid of both.
That suits U3 exactly. We'll bo bottle bolder
for both, provided such championship promises
so refreshing a resalt.
Blacking.—Here is the very latest internal
revenue decision: Boot-blacks are required to
use their blacking just as they ilnd.it when tho
box is opened, adding nothing to it whatever.
The aot of spitting in the box and smearing the
contents with the brush, constitutes tho boot-
black a mixer, or rectifier, or manufacturer of
blacking, and he most pay the ordinary manu
facturers'- license.
Ur- THE Sroc-r.—The Western Union Tele
graph company has knocked . tho ‘.‘Postal Tele
graph” folks off their pins. Mr. Washburn,
the champion of the latter, has decided not to
make any report to the House this session from
the Postal Telegraph Committee—which means
that the humbug li;u gone “up the spout."
The editor of the Hancock (Kentucky) Mes
senger, in a farewell address in his expiring
journal, regrets that he “has not had the pleas
ure of writing the obituary of several of the
miserable skinflints of the town.” This'is the
bitterness of impecuniosity.
“Aktelopf. ” writes the Picayune, from New
York, that sales of new crop ootton in Liver
pool for September and October delivery have
been made on a basis of lOj- pence. In the
New York market, sales for September and Oc
tober delivery have been made at 20$ and 19;}
eats, respectively.
Central Rail read changes and Im
provements.
In company with CoL Powers, of the South
western Railroad, and Mr. Scattergood of the
Central, the writer yesterday made a reconnoi-
aance of the changes and improvements in pro
gress and contemplated by the Central railroad,
in carrying out its consolidated programme with
the Southwestern road.
Beginning Eastward, the change will com
mence some 3000 feet^beyond the Walnut Creek
bridge. From the Walnut Creek bridge io
Griswoldville there is an ascending grade of
about thirty feet to the mile. The road will
therefore commence, its raised grade through
Macon, which is about sixteen and a half feet
above its present level, half a mile or more be
yond this bridge. A short distance this side of
the bridge the old line of the road takes a curve
to the Southward to avoid the higher hills of
East Macon. Here the new track will diverge
and follow a pretty nearly straight line, until it
rejoins the old track at East Macon near the
mashine shop.
To accomplish this new and more direct align
ment a good deal of expenditure is necessary.
The hill beyond George Adams’ old place re
quires an excavation of fifteen hundred feet or
more in length, and thirty-five feet in depth at
the highest point. It is a good old fashioned
Georgia day hill and solid digging. The,- con
tractor, Mr. Ames, Is busv with a toa» ot *>>;<>
excavation, an .', has a serious work of time be
fore him. There are 70,000 cubic yards of ex
cavation to be done. Beyond this hill, which is
a mile from Walnut Creek bridge, the grading
will be light.
Between this hill and the noxt eminence ap
proaching Macon, is a fine running stream, and
hero tho ingenuity of Mr. Scattergood is provid
ing a grand Reservoir, for the supply of the
works at East Macon, and the great Freight
Station across the river. The embankment will
constitute a substantial dam. Two great culverts
of brick laid in cement, are connected with a
perpendicular escapement, fifteen feet high, af
fording two great water passages, each of six feet
diameter. Of courso, whenever, in wot times,
the water in the Reservoir attains this elevation
it will get immediate relief down these perpen
dicular passages and through the culverts be
low, thus keeping tho water to a certain height
in all weathers. This Reservoir* will cover a
basin of twenty acres or more, and make a right
good fishing pond, as well as furnish ample sup
plies of water for the purposes designated.
A£out ten feet from the bottom of this Reser
voir a ten inch iron pipe will conduct water
through the embankment to the lower side to
drive a ram or a water wheel, which will fill a
tank for the supply of locomotives.
Along the margin of this reservoir and on
the high hills of East Macon, it is the ultimate
design of the company to locate their most ex
tensive works for the. building, equipment and
repair of their motive and transportation cars;
but this is in the future. For present purposes
the joint works of the Southwestern and Central
Roads are being transferred to the East Macon
shop, and the buildings recently abandoned as
a freight depot in that place.
Following tho new track Westward, we find it
enters East Macon opposite the machine shop of
the company at an elevation of sixteen and a
half feet above the level of the East Macon
freight depot The new track is elevated on
tressel work, and the old one, where it intersects,
passes under. This tressel work will be filled
np with a solid embankment and where the new
embankment is cnmnlated upon the old one, a
double row of piles has been driven down, to
which the upper track will bo secured until the
embankment attains the necessary solidity.
But let ns stop in East Macon to see what the
Company is doing there. The Round House
and machine shops, os is well known, are very
spacious buildings. The Round House has nine
teen tracks for locomotives, but as the compa
nies employ abont sixty, the supply is short.
Every track ha3 its pit and hydrant, which will
fill the tank of a locomotive briefly. East of the
Round Honse are the machine shop3 and forges,
the former of which are now being filled with the
most improved machinery. Among it is an
iron planing machine which will work to any
concave or convex snrface; bnt perhaps the
most wonderfnl contrivance there is a hydraulic
press for putting on and taking off car wheels
from their axle-trees.
Probably every’reader of the Telegraph and
Messenger knows that, unlike a common carri
age wheel, a railway car wheel does not tom on
its axis. The axeltree turns in nicely fitted brass
journals, and the wheel is fixed immovably upon
the end of the shaft. - Should this wheel get
loose, (and the lateral strain upon it, especially
in curves, is very great,) the most disastronsTO-
snlls ensue.
Some years ago it was the custom, to fasten
the wheel with iron keys, bnt these wonld work
loose; and of late years the only reliance is
apon the cohesive pressure of a very close fit.
The hole in the wheel and the diameter of the
axle are precisely the same, bnt it has been
fonnd that in tbe course of boring the hole and
turning down the axle, the abrasion of the chis
el makes a bevil, so imperceptible as hardly to
be indicated by measurement, bnt sufficient to
obtain an immensely close fit in so unyielding
material as iron.
Now these wheels are put on and detatched
from the axles by means of a hydraulic press of
almost inconceivable power.' Two blocks of yel
low pine of three inches in thickness and say
eight in length, were splintered -to frazzles in
this machine, lengthwise and crosswise, before
onr eyes, as easily as the reader wonld flatten a
piece of soft dough between his thumb and fin
ger ; and this was done with a pressure in the
machine of300 pounds to the square inch. Bnt
in one case, a day or two ago the master ma
chinist assured ns ha used a pressure of 3600
pounds to the square inch before be was able to
detach an old wheel from the end of an axeltree.
It is wonderful that the greatest mechanical
power known should ho obtained by the use of
water and a foroe pump.
These machine shops rail employ a good many
hands and are under the superintendence of
Mr. Gugel, an accomplished machinist and n
very active and intelligent gentleman. The large
freight depot building in the same place has
been converted into a car shop. It is nearly 400
feet long including the offices in front, and will
be U busy scene of labor in the manufacture and
repairs of rolling stock.
The road will cross tho river from East Macon
over the present bridge upon elevated support
ers, and when it reaches the site of the old Court
House will bo very slightly below the level of that
building. The old track, elevated to tho new-
new grade, will be followed to the passenger sta
tion house by tho passenger trains, but the
freight trains, after leaving tho bridge, will di
verge northward a little, and take the line of a
track through the alley between Fifth and Sixth
streets. A little in advance of the site of the
old Court House, and fronting Mulberry street,
will be the new freight station. This will be a
fine building of brick, four hundred feet long
by eighty feet wide, and advancing from tho
centre will be a three story edifice for offices,
surmounted by a cupola, at -the top of which
will be a clock with illuminated dials.
Following the alley between Fifth and Sixth
streets the freight tracks will pursue a straight
course to and through the freight grounds of
the Southwestern railroad, which will be cleared
of their present buildings and relaid in new
tracks for the convenience of making up western
trains. Freight bound eastward will proceed at
once across the river and find a similar conve
nience and space beyond East Macon. All tbe
mechanical work of both roads will be done at
the East Macon shops, and the combined bus
iness of the two roads will be transacted at the
common Freight Station at the foot of Mulberry
street. Freight trains bound east will be made
up in East Macon, and those bound west will be
made np in West Macon, on the old Southwest
ern Railway grounds.
A large ootton yard will be laid out between
the passenger and freight tracks on the ground
of the company lying between Poplar and
Cherry streets. The new tracks of the railway
will be carried upon arches over the level of
Poplar street, bnt on Cherry and Mulberry the
streets and tracks will have a common level.
It will be evident from this hasty review of
the matter that the changes in progress are great
and expensive, and will require much time, as
well as money. They will hardly be completed
before a year from next fall, and will demand
constant labor and great expense to be accom
plished then. We are under obligations to
Messrs; Powers and Scattergood for conveyance,
information, etc., in making this review.
The Georgia Press.
Thomas Bams, an old and most worthy citi
zen of DeKalb county, died in a fit, Saturday,
aged 70 years.
The local of the Constitution has seen some
stalks of wheat air feet hicrh. crown in DeKalb
county. No fertilizer or manure was useu. -
From all parts of the State we hear reports of
fine rains last Wednesday and Thursday.
The Columbus cotton statement up to Satur
day, 28th inst., shows total receipts, C6,04G
bales, and total shipments, 59,54G bales, leaving
stock on hand, 6,500 bales.
The Savannah cotton statement, same date,
•hows total receipts 44G,659 bales of uplands,
and 14,071 of sea island cotton, and total ship
ments 425,875 of upland,- and 13,785 of sea
island cotton, leaving stock on hand 21,276 of
upland, and 286 of sea island cotton.
On Saturday, 6,152 bales of upland cotton
valued at $610,409 34, and 150 bags of sea
island cotton valued at $19,OGO 50, wero cleared
from Savannah, for Liverpool and Havre.
The Columbus Son has the following items:
Supposed Fatal Aitray.—There was on af
fray at 6} p. m. yesterday between a white man,
Wm. Underwood and a negro, Jack Williams.—
Both are employed in hiring hands for rail
roads, Underwood for the North and South Ala
bama. The difficulty arose about a negro. Un
derwood seized Williams and fired a pistol at
him. Williams drew a knife from his pooket
and opened it with his teeth and stabbed Un
derwood in tbe face, throat, left side, stomach,
and other places. The wounds of Underwood
are supposed to be mortal. He was carried to
the city hospital, where he is in charge of Dr.
Toggle. The negro was arrested and put in the
guard honse.
Death by Lightning.—Mr. J. L. Ryan, of
Lee county, Ala., was killed by lightning on
Tuesday afternoon last. He was the miller at
Leslie’s Mill, about nine or ten miles from the
city. It is supposed that he was killed abont
two o'clock in the afternoon, as he was alone at
the mill and his body was not discovered until
the next morning by Mr. Leslie. He bore no
marks or braises on bis person, bnt a small
tree near which he was lying, had been slightly
struck by lightning. The knife in Mr. Ryan’s
pocket, upon examination, proved to be thor
oughly magnetized, so much so that it would
attract a needle.
Fast Time by Hook and Ladder Company.—
The company was ont on Broad street, for drill,
yesterday, numbering 32 men, Foreman H. O.
Pope in command. They ran 100 yards and
mounted a 30 foot ladder, a member, Frank
Gnnby, ascended and descended, and the lad
der was back on the track and re-strapped in
42 seconds. They then ran 125 yards and did
the same work in 49$ seconds. The ran was
made through heavy sand.
Mr. Robert H. Greene, a resident of Colum
bus since 1837, and father of one of the propri
etors of the San, died in that city, Saturday,
aged 64 years and some months. Mr. G. was,
with one exception, the last of the originators
of the Columbus Fire Department.
Mr. Emory S. Dennis, Sr., for many years a
resident of Colnmbus, died Friday, aged 67
years.
The Early county News reports the health of
that county as never better at this season of tho
year.
In a difficulty between R. G. Stowe, white,
and Sam Alexander, a negro, in Early county,
Saturday, the* latter was shot and serionsly
wounded. Ho made the first attempt to shoo* - .
In Muscogee Superior Court, Saturday, 'Wil
liam 'Williams, negro, for the murder of Andrew
Boswell, a white boy in Harris county, last
March, was found guilty, and sentenced by
Judge Johnson to the penitentiary for 99 years,
or life.
Mr. Lemuel Ragland, brother of the senior
proprietor of the Columbus Enquirer, died in
Henry county last week, aged 63 years.
The Enquirer says:
Injury by the Hail.—Wo regret to leam that
the extensive vineyard and orchards of R. J.
Moses, Esq., about five mile3 from this city,
weremuchdamagedby the hail stoma on Wednes
day. The hail in that neighborhood fell much
faster, and tbe stones were larger, than what
we witnessed here. The damage to Major
Moses’ fine fruit will be quite a loss to this and
other communities. : . . .:
Colored Jurors.—The Savannah Advertiser
leams that under the act of tbe 15th of Februa
ry, 1869, ordering a revision of the jury boxes
biennially on the first Monday in June, active
preparations are being made for tbe drawing
of the jnrors of Chatham county, and that al
ready the names of some thirty colored per.-.ous
have been taken from tbe books of tbe receiver
of tax returns.
The Dickson Fertilizer Company, of Augusta,
have bought the old Bobbin factory, and will
use it hereafter for the purpose of grinding
bones and preparing phosphates to be nsed in
their business.
William Rushton, Jr., a prominent fireman of
Atlanta, died Sunday morning.
An incendiary fire Monday night, on the
premises of Mr. D^B.' Lane, of Morgan county,
bnraed two largo cribs, a two horse wagon and
a largo com sfielter, causing a loss of $500.
The Chronicle and Sentinel says, eleven hun
dred hands arc employed at work on tho Port
Royal Railroad. Tho work'is progressing simul
taneously at both ehds, and the rail is being laid
at tbe rate of half mile a day. So says the
Barnwell Jonmal. ——
Lightning.—We understand that the stable
of : Harmon Rowley, Esq., about .eight miles
from the city, was struck by lightning one night
last week and killed one of a pair of horses,
valued at one thousand dollars, and so shocked
the other horse that it is somewhat doubtful if
be recovers.
A Startling Exhibition in Cincinnati.
From the Cincinnati Commercial.J
Quite an interesting exhibition took place on
Elm street yesterday afternoon. A couple of
grown men, who ought to have known better,
went in bathing in the canal, near tho Vine
street bridge. About three o’clock, just when
they were having tbe best of the fun, a police
man made his appearance upon the bridge, and
before they could reach tho bank the blue coat
bnd their clothes and 1 was leaving with them.
The incautious bathers made a very pathetic
appeal for their raiment, but tho watchman was
unyielding, and carried the garments away and
hid them. Returning to the canal he stoned
the pair until ho drove them out of the water.
He then chased them, stark naked as they were,
along the canal to Elm street, and down Elm,-
through crowds of people on every square, to
Seventh street.
The procession then moved, east on Seventh
street, to midway between Elm and Race streets,
where one of the naked individuals rushed into
a little dwelling, closely followed by his friend.
The bathers did not stop' to look at the door-plate
to see whether either of them lived there or was
acquainted with the occupants of the honse, but
threw themselves unreservedly on the mercy of
the family. They had reason to congratulate
themselves on their choice of a refuge. .The
gentleman of the house loaned each of them a
suit of his clothes, and wonld not hear of their
leaving until the “beak" has disappeared.
The Feniaa Battlw-Herele Candact
of General O’Neil.
From the Herald, of Friday, we get the fol
lowing description of the first Fenian fight near
St. Albans, Vermont. It is contained in a let
ter written from that, place under date of the
26th inst.
THE DEFEATED ABMT.
The route of the Fenians at the Cook Corner
battle yesterday was most complete, and by
daylight ihia morning the whole minatnre army
of less tii»« taro hundred men was en route to
this town, and they are now lounging abont the
streets in a a most pitiable condition.
Some are discouraged, all are indignant, and
few are anxious to join the other branches of^
the invading forces when the prospects of suc
cess are more reasonable. The men justly
blame General O’Neill for hia indiscretion in
patting them against a superior, well intrenched
force, and his loyalty to Fenianism and devo
tion to the welfare of his command are very
sharply criticised.
THE BRITISH TROOPS
numbered about 200,' being composed abont
Balf of volunteers and the other half of armed
citizens living in the immediate vicinity. They
were protected not only by a dense forest, but
by hundreds of ponderous and impregnable
rocks, and had the additional advantage of ele
vated position, which, claim many of the Feni
ans, with good reason, might have been offset
by a Binular coign of advantage on their part.
Either through stupidity or ignorance, General
O’Neill neglected to improve the natural advan
tages of position which he assumed, and formed
his men m column of fours in the highway.
un manntr.nTB vnu GENERALSHIP.
The freedom of restraints from military dis
cipline which has characterized the movements
of tho Fenian troops was most glaringly exhib
ited in this instance. Although the attacking
party were well informed of the number of their
antagonists and the strong’ of their position,
they yet neglected to take *. a the common ex
perience of military life. The. advance guard
consisted of but three men, who marched bnt
six feet in advance of the main body, and the
entire force were huddled together like so many
sheep. Every available man was pressed into
activity, and there were no reserves on which to
fall back for support. When all was ready for
the slaughter, General O’Neill, true to his repu
tation, committed what was perhaps the greatest
blunder of the Fenian campaign. Instead of
deploying his men as skirmishers along the line,
which afforded every facility for employment of
such a force, and even intrenching them behind
the rock fences, bark piles and buildings which
abounded, he gave the order to charge in
solid column on the heights above. The oc
casion reminded one forcibly of the fatal
movements upon Fredericksburg during the war
of the rebellion, except that in the present in
stance the stronger force occupied tbe more for
midable position. The men slowly bnt steadily
moved forward, their commander deftly taking
himself ont of the way and placing the whole of
a big house before his body to avoid the danger
which might arise from bullets which were ex
pected from the brow of the opposite hill. The
Canadians, however, had calculated their chances
with care. Every point of the. situation had
been carefully weighed, and they were deter
mined that whatever others might do there should
be no charges of violation of the neutrality laws
preferred against them. Accordingly they waited
patiently till the last man passed over the line,,
and then the firing commenced. One volley
from the muskets of the Canadian troops, which,
by the way, made John Rowe the first victim of
tho campaign, [spread consternation among tjje
Fenian troops, and they scattered like chickens
in search of a shelter from the rain. Some of
them found harborage behind the stone fences
with which the locality abounds. Others laid
themselves down behind the piles of bark, while
an unfortunate few, headed by Brigadier-Gene
ral J. J. Donnelly, of Utica, sought protection
within the walls of an old barn at the right of
the road. A scattering fire was then instituted,
with no effect on eiither side.
O’neIT.T. AGAIN COMES FORWARD.
Finally some of the Fenian officers tiring of
this dilatory method of doing business, unearthed
General O’Neil and demanded permission to
charge upon the hill in front. This request was
peremptorily refused. Sensible, however, of
the fact that something must be done to rouse
the waning spirit of his men, General O’Neil
ordered a retrogade march to the top of the hill,
and here again he displayed his utter want of
military tactics, as well as a total disregard for
the lives of his men. There were methods of
reaching the summit which ought to have been
manifest to the merest novice, even before
the opening of the fight. But General O’Neil
either could not or would not perceive them.
This order placed his men in the position of
.clambering a steep hill with their backs to the
enemy and at short musketry range. Brave
men they were, it is true, bnt they could not
withstand such a terrible hail of bullets. Thos.
Murray fell dead in his steps, and the rest,
dreading the future, faltered and seemed half
determined to fly from the- fire. Then it was
was that General O’Neil made tho inflammatory
speech which I telegraphed you last night. Its
effect was to hasten the bravest of the men; bnt
after they had reached the top of the hill they
seemed disinclined to take any farther action,
and looked only for the best methods of self-
preservation. Collecting themselves together
in something that looked like a heap they talked
over the situation. General O’Neil, however,
held himself somewhat aloof, and, in company
with one Boyle Reilly, walked slowly down the
decline of the hill.
o’NEECi’s' ADVENTURES.
Besides all this it should be remembered that
while the fight was the sharpest, when the bill-
lets were flying the thickest and his command
were penetrating the British soil, General
O’Neil was safely intrenched in the upper room
of a neighboring brick honse, from where he
could obtain an excellent view of the exciting
scene. This Honse was owned and occupied by
a muscular farmer named Richards, and when
ho found the Fenian chief in one of his bed
rooms, he very peremptorily ordered him to
leave the premises. O'Neil was most reluctant
to comply with Mr. Richards’ request, when tho
old man with firmness and determination told
him that he wonld accelerate his movements if
he hesitated, and as he was abont suiting the
action to the word the Fenian chief gave a par
tial illustration of discretion being the better
part of valor, and showed his presenco^of mind
by a sadden absence of body. The General
then took to a piece of woods in the direction
of St. Albans, and, having gono rearwards
through the forest for abont half a mile, he ven
tured again on to the highway, taking his coarse
through the yard opposite another farm honse,
oconpied by a Mr. Vincent. As he was turning
around the corner he discovered the presence
of General Foster, tho United States Marshal;
but ihsteatTof turning back he approached the
Marshall and saluted him, and was at once
taken into custody. There were a large num
ber of .O’Neils men in the neighborhood at the
time, butffie gaye n<? alarm or signal for them
to come to his resoue, bnt seemed to become a
voluntary prisoner. Whether the General did
actually or not give himself away to tho United
States authorities it is impossible to determine;
but men openly denounce bim as not only a
traitor, bnt an nrbilrary ignoramus. Many'of
his followers, particularly his staff officers, sacri
ficed good positions tc engage in this promis
ing attack upon Canada, and the,shame and in
dignation at so early,and ignominious a defeat
causes them to direct the most' profane and
abusive epithets towards bim whom they be-
lieve to have been the cause of their failure.
BURIAL OF THE DEAD.
The three men who were killed in tho fight
were-buried early this morning. John Rowe,
of Burlington, who fell on the Canadian side of
tho line, was pulled from tho pooi of water
‘whore he was sent by' the fatal ballet, and
dragged, partially by the hair and partly by the
clothing, up the brow of a hill, and, without
shroud or coffin, interred in a grave about three
ftet in depth, and when the earth had been
thrown over him '^detachment of tnon pitched
a quantity of stones upon tho grave sufficient to
form & pile a foot and a half or two feet high.
He wore a badge of the Burlington Fire Depart
ment, which was taken by the sergeant ineliargo
of tho burial party. Tho other two victims
killed wero bnried on the American side, and
were famished with rude coffins by thoir com
rades.
THE WOUNDED. ' ‘
Among those injured; not already mentioned,
are Gen. J. J. Donnelly, of Utica, who received
a wound in the spine, which will prove fatal.—
He is being cared for by his friends at the
Franklin Hotel, in Franklin. Among those
slightly wonnded are James Keenan, of Fort
Edward, N. Y., in the ankle; Daniel Ahern, of
Burlington, in tho left hip; Charles Carlton, of
Cambridge, in the leg; Lieutenant Hallaba*,
of Boston, in the face. A man named Morphy,
of Skowhegan, Me., was taken prisoner after
the fight, and also two others whose names are
unknown.
THB FRONT RIVER FIGHT. U*yS-’l
The World’s Toronto 27th special Bays this
morning at 8 o'clock tbe 69th regular*, the vol
unteer garrison of Montreal and Huntington
battallion, all under CoL Bogart, advanced on
the Trout river lines where the Fenians had
made breastworks of rails leading across the
field on the north bank of the river.
At 9:30 Bogart ordered the Huntington vol
unteers to deploy across the field. The 69th
was ordered to advance along the road and the
artillery to cross the river and go up the south
bank. These movements were performed at
once, and the whole li'iA opened fire. The Fen
ians fled at once, not firing over twenty shots,
the Canadians following and firing as they went
till near the boundary, when they stopped. 'The
Fenian offioers tried to reform the men on cross
ing the line, using swords and revolvers, bnt in
vain. None of the Canadians were hurt,, and
the Fenians had bnt few wonnded. One is said
to have been killed and one taken prisoner. The
Fenians number from 1,000 to 2,000, and the
Canadians 1,000. Be-enforcements arrived dar
ing Hw day, including Prince Arthur, who
created enthusiasm by marching to the front
with the volunteers and regular* along the New
York and Vermont frontier.
SUNDAY DISPATCHES.
From Washington.
Washington, May 29.—The Treasury will sell
five millions of gold and buy eight millions in
bonds daring Jane, at New York, viz: a million
of gold every Wednesday and two millions in
bonds the first, third and fifth, and one million
the second and fourth Thgrsday. A cold rain
all day.
The decrease in the publio debt this month
will be folly equal to that of last month.
w— Movement.
The Fenians have advices to send funds in
stead of men to the front, to bring the destitute
Fenians back. ■;
Malone, May 29.—The Fenian invasion is
abandoned as hopeless. Father McMahon says
he has telegraphed to twenty places for men
and money. He advises the men to Btay here
until Monday or Tuesday, when a fight can bo
had*
Montreal, May 29.—The Fenians are in jail
at various points. The feeling is intense against
them.
St. Albans, May 29.—Marshal Foster crossed
the lines yesterday to intercede for the sen
tenced Fenians.
General O’Neal will be bailed on Monday.
Cincinnati, May 29.—At a large Fenian meet
ing, several hundred dollars were subscribed
for a hundred and fifty men who were waiting
transportation to the front.
Ogdensbubg, May 29.—The Government has
information that a simultaneous rising of the
Canadian Fenians is expected. The poor sue
cess of the invasion causes alarm. Father M0'
Mahon passed to St Albans yesterday with a
party of Philadelphia Fenians.
Foreign News.
Paris, May 29.—Labonlaye has suspended
his lectures before the law school. The High
Court commences the regicide enquiry to-mor
row.
Lisbon, May 29.—The popular demonstrations
in favor of Peninisnla unity are renewed.
Salt Lake, May 29.—The Mormons refuse to
allow the United States Marshal to use their jail
for Federal prisoners.
General News.
St. John, May 29.—A drunken party degrad
ed the American consul’s flag yesterday.
New York, May 29.—It is reported that assis
tant district Attorney Fellows Bncceeds Morris-
sy in Congress, and that Collector Grinnel and
Sickles will exchange places.
Eleven thousand emigrants arrived here las
week. _ _
A Drunken Man Sent up in a Balloon
—Narrow Escape from Deaihi
From the Rock Island Argus, Hay 18)]
The balloon ascension last evening, caused a
large crowd of people to assemble in the vi
cinity of the open lot adjoining tbe Baptist
Church. It was to have transpired at half
past one o’clock in the afternoon, but owing
to the high wind, was deferred. One of the
poles that sustained the balloon broke before
the performance began, and a new pole had to
he substituted. This delayed the ascension
until sundown. A furnace to convey hot air
to the balloon had been built, and a great
wood lira was roaring underneath. The bal
loon begaa to fill, and soon rounded itself into
an immense oval- A dish of alcohol was
placed underneath and the smoke burnt out,
and everything was ready to. “let go.” The
balloon was a patched up affair of hemp linen
and the basket little larger than a market
hand basket, was fastened to it by small ropes.
When everything was in readiness, a bustling,
tall, thin man, with a blonde mustache, who
was the proprietor, of the balloon, as we
learned/and who was supervising the affair,
,walked to the hack end of the lot and said,
“Come oq, Bill,” and a wretched, blear-eyed,
drunken man came staggering up, his hair
and garments dripping with the water that
had been dashed upon him to waken him
from his drunken torpor, and he mechanically
came forward, as one whose ideas were con
fused, and, staggering up to the basket put one
foot in. The word was given, the ropes were
loosened, the poles dropped, and the balloon
shot into the air, and the drunken man, stand
ing up and clinging to the rope?, waved his
handkerchief to the lessening world below. As
it was a hot air balloon of small dimensions,
it took its own course, and came down any
where as soon as the'hot air that upheld it was
cooled aud exhausted. Everybody expected
him to drop in the river, but it sailed over and
beyond it, and when it reached the^Davenport
Bluff, it began to descend quite rapidly, just
grazing the roof of Otto King’s house. When
over Mr. Claussen’s premises. Western ave
nue and Seventh street, near Mr, Iving’3, the
balloonist, who was hanging to the netting,
let go, and fell a distance of thirty feet, in lus
fall breaking through the roof Mr. E. Claus-
inU’s summer house, and very badly injuring
himself. No bones were broken, but he was
hurt internally, and may possibly die of the
injuries received.
A Timely Prayer.
Before the adjournment of the Alabama
Legislature i.i Montgomery, at its last session,
a pious divine, who was in the habit of pray
ing for the convicts in the renitentiary at We-
tiunpka, having the love of truth and the fear
of God before him, was requested by the
Speaker of the House to open the: proceed
ing with prayer, which ho did in the following
manner: ’ " c
“0 Lord, we pray Thee that Thy mercies
may bo extended to these poor men, who have
been sent here from all. parts of the United
States, convicted of various crimes and mis
demeanor.-; have meroy upon them, we be
seech Tike, while they are here serving out
the time tor which they were sent, and when
they have served and are dismissed from these
walls, may they return to their Northern
hotues better men," and in. time may they be
come useful and upright citizens and honora
ble^ members of the society from whence they
came, we ask in the name and through the
merits of Christ, our Redeemer. Amen.”
As soon as he had closed, old one-ami
Richardson, alias Steel Trap, so called mem
ber from Wilcox, sprang to his feet, aud in a
stentorian voice exclaimed, “Mr. President, 1
move to strike out Wilcox countyHis
amendment was unanimously rejected, amidBt
a scene which can be better imagined than
described.— Wilcox Vindicator.
The PifteM «■< HaMyrtwfc
Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial. ] .
Columbia, & CL, April 24.—“What floe large
honse is that standing over there, surrounded
on three sides by a high brick wall, and in front
by an ornamental iron fence with marble pillars
at each corner ?” I inquired of a citizen.
“Oh, that’s old General Preston’s and it is
said to be the finest laid off grounds in the
Booth. There’s a whole sqanre or four acres of
it, and all inside is every kind of shrubbery
that yon can think of. with gravel and shell
walks running all through it.”
“Does Preston live there himself?”
“Yes, considerably, bat I believe he spends
most of his time in Europe. Has got consider
able money invested there in one way and an
other. He prophesied the war wonld oome np
along time before it did, and so to be on the
safe side he sold the most of his niggers, and
Invested his money in Europe.”
What relation is he to the Hamptons ?"
CoL
been speaking of."
“The old original Preston of all of cm came
here years and years ago. He was from Virginia,
and was on his way to Florida to get cured of
the consumption. He was a young man then,
about twenty years old, ana traveling along
towards Florida, he passed through here and
concluded to stop, as he liked the climate. He
went to school here awhile,- married and settled
down. About that time old General Wade
Hampton, who had been a Colonel in the Revo
lutionary war, settled here, raised a large fami
ly, and got rich. Preston also got rich, and the
families afterwards became connected by mar
riage. They owned a great many plantations,
ana kept gettine richer and richer until the war
come up. Of course they all wen: wUli tho
South, and many of them lost nearly all of their
property. General Wade Hampton owned a
very costly residence just out of town, which
the Yankees burned np. Ornamenting the
grounds around his honse alone cost him sixty
thousand dollars. Now, all his fine shrubbery
are turned out and the ruins look bad enough.
On top of the war came a lot of security debts,
and the General had to take the benefit of the
bankrupt law. They say he is now getting
started again in Mississippi, and will come out
right side up.
“The Hamptons and Wades are great work
ers. Yon may make them, poor, but they won’t
stay poor. Wade has one brother in Mississip
pi, I believe, who is very rioh. Besides being
rich, they are all popular men, and if it hadn’t
been for the war, there’s no telling what the
two families would have come to. They wonld
have owned the State after awhile. But they
were very much set back daring the war, and
some of them killed. Thomas Hampton, son of
the present Wade Hampton, was killed in Vir
ginia when he was only twenty-one years old.—
His remains were brought home, and passed
right along the street, followed by over a hun
dred of his negroes, most of them crying, for
they loved their young master. This was in the
fall of 1864. The following February here came
Sherman with fire and sword, and destroyed a
great deal of property belonging to the two fam
ilies, so that they were crashed by all kinds of
misfortunes. It was all that could be done to
keep the army from burning that tine honse that
we were speaking of. Bnt they left it, and
that’s abont all they did leave.”
There are several graveyards in and around
Columbia, belonging to different churches, and
in one of them are the graves of the Hampton
and Preston families all in one corner and par
tially to themselves. Finely wrought marble
slabs are over them all, upon which is engraved
the name and date of death. The insatiate reaper
has been at work among these families, for side
by side repose the ashes of some twenty-five or
thirty of them.
They are fighting stock for one of the oldest
tombstones bears this inscription:
“General Wade Hampton, colonel in the rev
olutionary war, and major-general in the war of
1812. Died in Colombia, February 4,1835, aged
•ighty-three years.”
Another, but recently erected, has this in
scription :
“Lieutenant Thomas Preston Hampton, son
of General Wade and Margaret Hamptom, bom
November 26,1853, killed in battle near Peters
burg, Va., October 26, 1864.”
Upon this tomb was lying a large wreath of
flowers, but the warm April sun had partially
faded them, and they were fast dying. Like
the body under the slab, they had been cut down
in the spring time of life, just as they were
blooming into fragrance and beauty, Young
Hampton fell when he lacked but a few days of
reaching man’s estate, which makes his death
the more sad. Death is a cruel monster any
time; but when he cuts down the young, buoy
ant and hopefrd, he seems doubly so.
The Hamptons and Prestons all espoused the
cause of the South when the straggle began,
and, considering their location and interests, it
is bnt justice to say that such a coarse upon
their part was naturaL They were in earnest,
and not actuated by selfish motives, let their
deeds testify; when the die was cast and the
battle came, they were not fonnd shirking.
The families are both very popular with the
negroes; their old servants will not leave them,
bnt remain as faithfnl to their interests as before
the war. Wade Hampton is as staunch a friend
to the negro as he can be, and remains in the
Democratic party, and he always befriends them,
both in public and private, when occasion de
mands. The negroes appreciate his noble stand
in their behalf, and I am not sure bnt that he
wonld make inroads into the ranks of the Loyal
League, if he should ran for an office. There is
no danger of that, however, as he is too busily
engaged in trying to build, up his shattered for
tunes, to go into politics. Nevertheless, as loud
ly as we may shriek .“Rebel’* and lash ourselves
into fury over the misdeeds of the great families
of the South, on sober, second thought, it is evi
dent that it would be better for the colored peo
ple, better for the State and better for tbe nation,
to have Wade Hampton in Congress rather than
Cadet Whittemore; at all events it would save
the Republican party some disgrace, which is
desirable. When it comes to such men as Whit
temore, the party might cry ont with one of old,
“Oh, deliver me from my friends!"
,i ... Avert.
A Mam Who Believed he
Hteoveo. "•* I
The Muscatine (Iowa) Journal tl
instant publishes the following »IvU* 1*
scene at tbe death-bed of Major Pv*? <3
Fulton, who died at Uttumwa. in
on the 28th of last March: "
At about 6:30 o’clock he sank
the arms of death, all thinking th
heard the last whisper from his KnT*
lying thus for some ten minutes he
with the exclamation, faintly n !uL?7
auto us, O, Father, but unto' TheeA” A
glory. Pausing a moment, he t • i
“Five millions I R His wife, lraninv^H
said, “Newton, what does ie
Then followed the conversation W ..
in tho familiar terms in which it
rately reoorded by the members of the *
within a few hours aflerftis death
His wife then asked, “are they ~
spirits?” Answer—“Yes. Some
terday; others just getting in.” rpl
then arid, “Andyou, darlm! swell
ber. Assented to by “yea.” She the?
“are they coming to welcome you
Answer— yes. Newton asked l
do you know them?” Answer—
that I knew on earth.” His wife tdSPj
you see father?” Answer— 1 “which ^
(During the night anddayp revio ^
his failing sight, he had been repeated J
if he could see certain persons standir-
Father Mast was then standing hr
aide—hence his reply—he doubtim. ,
•he meant spiritual tight! Jr*
“FatherFulton” (diedlx ieam J *
swer-‘ W Question by the
you see li ttle sister Mary, who died wi
ago in Virginia? * Answer—“yes.” s c. i®
exclaimed, “then we do know earl, 1 «i“?i
with a faint smile, expressive of I “
and surprise at the doubt, and whis
tainly.” Newton then asked, “ChnWl
heaven then a reality?” Answer-'T^
His wife then asked, “Charlie, do mfZ]
Answer—“Yes.” (At this point the iWj
over death seemed complete—the trinau
great thAt glory rather than gloom fiM
death chamber. A . feeling ofexulS]
nearness to and symjpathy with spirit^
possessed each heart in a degree entiitiya
known and unexperienced before.) Ben*
gasps he then whispered, “I am so-vajo
me rest, and then I will answer your *
tions.” _ 11
After waiting, a moment Newton tfc
“Charlie, have you any strange feelia
Answer—“Yes.” Question by same- 1 ]
you any pain?” Answer—“Onlv gei
pausing, he proceeded between gasps, a,„
“Understand me—I mean corporal suJtS
not spiritual.” Question by Newtoa-'rJ
lie, is there any fear, any trenidation'.
Answer—“Oh, no.” Question by the si
“Then is it so terrible to die?" Awn.
“No.” His wife answered this hy
door that opens to admit us into a better 'iji
Answer—“Yes.” Question by the a*|
“Darling, are you happy?” “Oh, yed
.By the same—“Does it look bright?’’ AwJ
—Sunnv and fair,” admitting aninstactria
ward “I am just catching glimpses.” Qj
tion by his wife, “Brighter than anything^
ever saw on earth ?” Answer—“Oh, jaj
He' was again asked if he saw Jesus. Ae
—“Yes.” Question by his wife, “Is he t
you?” Answer—“Yes.” She then exelaia
“O death, where is thy sting; 0 grave, v!
is thy victory ?” Newton asked, “Charlie,!
death any sting ?’’ Answer—“No.” And*
sank away and. the last word had fallen fe
Jus lips closing in death, and thus ended i
triumph which was the natural outgrowtif
a life, the motto of which had been the goids
rule and “Peace on earth, good will io its
The queens of song have their differences, as
persons have who follow less fascinating occu
pations. A week or two ago the publio were
charmed to hear they were soon to be visited by
the new “Swedish Nightingale”—for.even poor
Jenny Lind’s soubriquet is taken from her—
Mile. Christine Nilsson. Since them we have
heard that Mile. Nilsson is disposed, as a jock
ey would say, to “fly the track,” her reason be
ing that she had discovered that Mile. Adelina
Patti, who is also soon to come to the United
States, was to receive higher terms than her
self. , The increased terms were agreed to by
Mite. Nilsson’s proposed-manager, when lo!
it now appears that Mile. Patti refuses to oome
over, claiming that by her own engagement,
with the same manager, no one was to receive
terms so extravagant as her own. The quarrel
as it stands, is a pleasing one.
When John O. Calhoun’s body lay in state at
Charleston, Col. John T. Sloan, of Colombia,
took up a white rose from among the profusion
of flowers that lay upon the bier, ca.Tied if
home and planted a slip. It throve, and, after
four transplantings, is a fine large, tree in CoL
Sloan’s garden, and is called the. “Calkotm
Rose. 1 * ’ '
From Baker County.
- err Newton, Ga , May27, 1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger : Presum
ing yon wonld like to bear from the condition
of the crops in this section, I take occasion to
say through the columns of yonr valuable Journ
al that the prospects are good, and the promise
is for an abundant yield. The cotton is growing ra
pidly, and is looking well, and from the amonnt
planted, I wonld say, that in Baker oounty, at
least, an overwhelming crop will be made. What
little corn there is planted, is progressing
upwards with surprising rapidity, and from
the present stand point, promises to do all that
oonld be expected. Bright anticipations of the
future, however, are but seldom realized ; and
disappointment larks in the paths of the expect
ant men. From what I can hear, very little com
is planted, the example of Madam Ceres, in this
respect by her disciples and followers being oast
aside and forgotten. Corn is her favorite, be- - , . -s hib*»
cause its the bread of life, She invented and ori- than the writer s countrym . i
ginated the art of its production. And of it hex '“’'hann nnrl tar more .,1
golden tinged erpwn is made. -It ia a great pity
to see the old woman, in this age of progress,
so rndely neglected, none bowing at her throne,
and in worshiping tones saying:
‘‘To thee, fair goddess, we’ll a garland plait,
Of ears of corn, to adorn thy temple gate,”
Abide thy time, , oh, Geres, spare thy anger,
the day is coming when thy worshipers will be
many, ancLwfcsu thy wayward sons will throw
off their allegiance from King Colton, aud
again swear for thee—Obedience hi thy preoipt
will then be esteemed a privilege—hasten tbe
day, for where thou raleat, oh Queen, plenty
reigns, 'lonitivw ru * tva t 411 ”’* ^ ■
For the first time in many days, we were on
Wednesday last visited -by a heavy shower of
rain, aooompanied with one of the most terrific
hail storms ever witnessed in this country, even
by ■ the oldest inhabitants. The stones were
large, solid and oompaot, and the earth was liter
ally covered with these congealed masses of
water. And the blades of corn in the very small
belt of country over which the storm swept, were
torn in shreds. * Fortunately, it extended over a
very small, scope pf country, thereby doing very
little damage- The (storm lasted about fifteen
minutes, daring which time old Jupiter was not
idle, bnt moment after moment was belohing
forfib btete#! paala at, thunder, like the roaring
of ^rtiliery, and brandishing hia lightning flash
aftsr flash, as if though, warning the frail in
habitants here of the power and strength of his
empire—Ite will, avar^be-remembered by those
who witnessed it, as one of those remarkable
and not often reonrrlng phenomenon of nature,
such as is seldom beheld bnt once in & life time.
Respectfully Dudley.
f. Prize Candy.—Commissioner Delano has de
cided that dealers in prixe eandy are subject to
the same interaai revenue tel as gif t enterprises,
vfz-. $150 per ttudm.
In Beliair of the Birds.
The great value of birds—suck as ties
ling, the sparrowB, the crows, the jay?, e!t-
that feed upon the most destructive lid 1
i.i sects, has been, until very recently, uui
predated. Most of them have been treasdi
outlaws, and in repayment for their sia
services have been neglected or jjerseaui
until the unchecked and enormous increisei
the most noxious insects, throughout the®
tinent of Europe has become a subject of id
founded alarm, calling for the intervention
the Government, both for their immediatei
struction and for the protection of those 1c
that feed upon them.. From these fact? a
prominent conclesions have been pretty set
reached: first, that birds are indispensiHe!
European agriculture; and second, that tin
birds most generally protected and know
the “useful birds” are as a general tbinji
very little service in arresting the iGcreaa
those insects the ravages of which are j
most to be dreaded. These lessons are u s
nificant to us of America as to the agrifl
lists of Europe. When will our own in!
gent farmers awaken both to their danger's
the only Temedy ?
An agricultural journal, the Bund, .
lished in Berne, with much ability and ft
demonstrates that the enormous losses I
ing’European agriculture can only be s
when man himself'shall not only cease til
turb the great equipoise of Nature, asj
longer iu mere wantonness, prejudice,W
stition, or on other equally worthless gr«
persecute mid destroy the natural exten
tors of insects, but instead shall estadj
them the greatest possible protection, £«]
the nourishing and caring for them in»
wintry season.
While this same journal finds much tel
joice at in cantonal laws for the protectitfj
useful birds, and yet more in the generi c
iu which they are observed, it urges cts-
attention to instructions upon tke;e satfl
in schools, and dwells wita much pern:
upon the radical incompleteness of tleK
The following is as well adapted to oar ;
meridian as to that of Switzerland: “W*
ample, when we see the-sparrow (whis*
been acclimated at such great expense in A**
ica,) the crow, the raven, and others#,j
most useful birds still outlawed in inatn'*
cantons ; when we sec the hunting of our®
ing birds still allowed at certain
Others, and in yet others, that prote’ll
only given to the smaller ones, omiung
far more useful owls, buzzards and jaw®
we can hut admit the. incompleteness oi,
enactments, and are forced to an earner.,
that in all those cantons where this
islation exists, a change may soon K
that shall place them more in contonM
the present stand-point of science- .
These exhortations are pregnant witn.
ing and with warning to us, for we !
intelligent legislation, and far more ^ ;
careful investigation, the diffufK®
and the dissenunation of truth, foe*
of the Bund would surely demonst^,
fhe farmer’s best friends are the veg _ ^
now most frequently persecutes. j,
between his crops and their destroy^ j,
are his standing army, his
admirable powers of flight, their yet • ,
derful gifts of vision, and their inStl ,
mity to his foes, most marvellously
to do duty in a field where maa
powerless.—Atlantic Monthly.
Human Taste yob Blood.—In
rian Countess, named Elizabeth, ^
girls into her palace „on varioos P ^
then coolly murdered them; for tfl
bathing in their blood. The spe ct ®,. y ts
suffering at last became such a “ Ayd
that she wonld apply with her o ,^1
most excruciating tortures, kaemy j,*
shrieks of her victims. In this way ^
to have murdered 650 persons beto
was brought to an end.
Black Sj iscks.—Those black
face, usually supposed to be smaJ ,
squeezed ont by a gentle pressure, (
again in a few days. A pennane
effected by the use of the following ! 5 ^
White brandy, 2 oz.; oolonge, X ’ ^
teas, i oz. Wash the face wrtfj> ^
a rough towel, themapply » kitle ^
ration. This reapelhas
hundred dollars, and m certainly
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