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A Scene in China.
(Hr/.'fc.i/or the Telegraph and Messenger.
Tho Other Side, f. 'j
Xndby-lbe-by, I hear of lata . .
That‘-(he Texas Foyer’s” on the State, j
And it’s going to gull some folks away
Fromhsppy homes in Georgia. '' . | •
It is a strange disease, at best, ».
For its only cured by “going West.”
I had it once, you must understand, • ; . ■ '
And I “pitchod out” for “tho promised land.”
Bat after a brief year or two >
I came back cured—and so would yon.
Tu true her plains, stretch far away,
Bat a follow cannot live on hay, '
And minv a clear stream rippled by mo,
Bat the water was extremely limy,
And tho’ beautiful, it has its faults,
For it tastes much like a doso of salts.
And “tho cloudless skies” of which you hear
Continue almost all tho year;
And tho’ pleasing to the poet’s eye, .‘,
As bo lays in tho shade and looks at tho sky,
Are euro to make the seasons thy; i , ,
And then tho farmer’s in & dreadful state,
Unless he is able to irrigate, : i
Which I need not tell a man of senso,
Involves the heaviest expense
And when it rains it oomes like a flood,.
And theu you can’t get along for the mud;
And if yott take the United ,'states' mail
The driver will ask you to carry a Tail; y, ,r ,-|
And when you get home that bray plantation.. The market was.
Is ruined perhaps by an inundation; - I " '•
Even the rails you’ve hauled ten miles oir about,'
Have all gone np—or down—“the spout,”
And the very best part ofyour land
I* nothing nut a bod of gravol or sand.
Kow don’t anybody say that this isn’t eo,
For I’ve lived thoro my3alf ahdlreckon I know.
Bui if, in spile of all that I can say,
Oar people will not keep away, / ■ |
Let me adviso them to emigrate *' i
To the Western portion of the State.
And on those high and arid plains |
Where it very, very seldom rains,
They'd keep clear of tho “cUssed chills”
And langh at the Doctor and his pills—*
Which in passing along Fll bint to *Jwt—
In the rest of the State, yotfll never^do.
Then buy a thousand sheep <?r eo j
Not far from Ssn Antonjo, , r ' i. ,
(A Western Eden to those who view it; OI ;
With a chrystal rivor dashing through it. ’
Bat here of late it isn’t much, > 1
For its taken completely by tho Dutch.)
And I’ll sincerely trust at least, , '
“In raising wo. I yon won’t get fleeced. 1 '
Or better still is a cattle “Ranche”
Beside a never failing branch. -,;y j ...
Bat if you find a. “tip-top”on0 over there,
Look out for tho Indians, or “they’ll lift your
hair.” “: v ; .; '*l’ fJ - : '; , ** 71
But you musn’t inquire for branches pr creeks,
For those aro words that no Texan spb&ks.
Tho stream is a ‘•Rio”, if it floats a ship,
And the stream is a “Rio” ifitxcon't 'jXoat achlp
Oh. Lordy, how those folks can blow;
But you won't believe mo till you go. ! .-jt
It’s so healthy ’neath a Texas Bky
"You'll have to gp away to die. 1 * ' ! 1 “
AuJ a railroad u'lH pass—yes that's the tale—
By entry tract that is for sale. _
The water,’too, is “very fair,’’
And the Xorthcra “punfy tbe air,”
in 1 every farm that yon sso will make a
JUilc of cotton, to the acre* tit,< Iran j _•
I never heard'tlie like of “gass” < qq
Except when I lived in “go6d old Cass,”
Where a town I wot of “HlJe the bill,”
And.itgoes by the nauio of t—• ! ; ....
And whore, to. he brief, and save my breath,,
.1 Connecticut Yankee icottld starcc to.dcaJ.hr-•
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Hong Kong Correspondent Boston Traveler.1 r ’
I saw the sale of a‘ family last week for
n •’ w ^ e the husband and father was in
California; and perhaps I cannot do better
l 50 than to tell you_ about it. There were five
children—three girls and two boys. We had
passed them three times in our chair during
the day as they stood beside the road dressed
in their holiday attire of black. The silence
they observed whenever any .person passed,
and their downcast looks, created curiosity on
our part to know their business there. Arr
Hung (our waiter) was called up and asked
the cause of this little parade. “Why,” said
he, “the girls, and perhaps the whole family,
are for sale.” We stopped our chair and
stepped out to have a talk with them, using
Arr Hung as an interpreter. The mother
was wrinkled and gray, and hung her head,'
as if she were afraid to look us in the face.
15ut the children, with the exception of the
oldest girl, looked cheerful, and were quite
pleased with their holiday attire. The oldest
girl was sixteen and the oldest boy.filteen.' So
said the gruff old broker who had the party in
charge, and who seemed quite anxious to dis
pose of his wares. After a great deal of
quizzing and evasive answers, the broker told
us that the husband and father was in Cali
fornia, and had neglected; to. pay his note
given for his passage, and that bis family
wore now offered for sale to pay the debt He
hoped to be able to pay the debt with
TTTK SALE OF THE.IWO OLDEST. GIRLS, • ' .
But as yet had received no orders. ‘ He said
that the family became security voluntarily,
and lje never knew of a case where they did
not voluntarily offer themselves for sale if the
note they secured was not paid. In reply to
our questions he said that when a customer
bought a ohildor person, the person was inado
at once the owner of the child, body and soul.
No Chinaman would dispute the purchaser's
right to do whatsoever he pleased with the
human being he had paid for. The boys
would make good servants, he said, and in
the course of a few. years be worth a fortune
to the owner. The girls would make “arm-
ers,” (or nurses, as they are called in Ameri
ca.) He would show us their physical beauty;
would make them sing and play tricks if we
thought of buying.' How much would we
give? The oldest girl' he would sell for four
hundred dollars; tho next one for two hun
dred, and the little six-ycar-old for fifty.. The
boys ho oojild notaell untirthe girls were dis
posed of. We thought the price too high.
Tlie Victories of reace.
Tho New York Times say3: Erie aiid tho Now
York Central, as represented • by Vanderbilt
and Gould, mada peace and shook hands over a
gloss of Congress water at Saratoga last week.
According to thp Boston Boat, • the war between
the New Yorjc yribnbp^gnd Fisk,' of the Ij!rie,
terminated last week by the unconditional sur
render of the Trtbane. This was the how of it.
One fine morning tho Tribune found half of its
edition returned to its bands. YVhat was the
matter? Tho omnipotent Fisk had ordered
that no more Tribnoes should be transported on
the Erie trains. In this distressing statu of
things the Tribune “ went to see a man,” and
that man was Jimfi.sk, The Post says :
It is understood that the explanations of Mr.
Greeley were fall, complete, satisfactory, and
humble, and that ‘a peace was agreed upon
whereby tho Erie embargo would bo raised.
Not only was the apology ample for past injus
tice, bat it w ft3 agreed, on the part of Mr. Gree-
GLUTTED WITH SALABLE GIRLS,
And he mast not think; r of getting over one
hundred for the oldest and handsomest, while
for the little one he must not expect over ten
dollars. He sneered at that end said that En
glishmen always talked in that way when they
wanted to buy. While we were talking, a
party of blue-robed Chinese aristocrats came
up and began to inspect the family. They
opened the mouth of the oldest ; girl,' rapped
on her. white teeth to see if they were sound,
pulled open her dross and thumped her ribs,
laughed at her little feet, told, her to show the
whites of her eyes, ordered her to sing, and
to show them the trinkets which the fond
mother, had given her as .a parting gift. All
tho while the salesman kept up a constant
jabber, in which we took no interest. Time
pressing, we passed on, leaving the parties
disputing about tho price, and discussing the
probabilities of their running away if taken
to Hong-Kong. After making our call, -We
returned the same way, to ascertain the result
of the sale. Only the mother and the boys
were left. The debt was only $300, and $50
of it still remained unpaid. I have been of
ten told by residents in China that the parents
would as soon,sell their children as a cow or a
pig.' Audi had begun to believe that such
was the case upon passing the group the first
time. But the scene had changed. The girls
were gone, and riow a hoy. must go also. f The
mother sat in tfie dirt, witfl her.arms around
the youngest, wailing in a most ipitepna man-
net, andas Arr Hung said, , i-aodJjr—^ ■
• LisbiH-.iy CCBSING 4BB. MEN : I
&&epSJh^hu-huii'i a ticket to America af
$30^,* which cost, them but $40. The broker
sot listlessly by, smoking his pipe, and twirl
ing bis Cane, looking as it: it was the smallest
matter of business with him. The boys were
crying, and seemed very much afraid of us,
now it was ocmin that one of them must go.
But we passed on and left thein ia their
mb cry. We never knew whether the boy
was .sold to’a childless man-to be 1 treated as, ft
son, to 1 d Portugese to be carried,tp the IVesf
In'dicitinder a nominal contract,’pr.to a native
Tandbwbcrdo folds El&Vc. i>ut that ofi§°of
tfom wpsfCld into servitude lor the sum of
§p0. thcap(can be no doubt-. The gitls were,
doubtless,: purchased for. the vilest | of pur
pose-, unless they had tho raro luek to fall in
to the hands of some native in seabch. qf a
legitimate wife. I am told that the price of
girls has gonoup within a few months, owing;
perhaps, to'the.tact that - a- Jess ripmber of
emigrants bqve forfeited 1 tHeirn bond in Cali
fornia than tv is the ea?e six months ago. I
jg “ JMBMCd
urchased less
Tl»e Secret Treaty.
The following is a translation of this now
celebrated document:
“DBAraHT TEZATT.' ' - ■
‘‘His Majesty, the King of Prussia and His
Majesty, the Emperor of the French, judging
it useful to bind closer the ties of friendship,
which unite them, and so confirm the relations
of good neighborhood which happily exist be
tween the two countries, and being beside con
vinced that to attain this result, which is, more
over, ofa kind to insure the maintenance of the
general peace, it is for their interest to come to
an understanding on the questions concerning
their future relations, have resolved to conclude
a treaty to the following effect, and have in
consequence nominated as their representatives
the following persons, viz :
“His Majesty, <tc.
. “His Majesty, &c.” ; 1
Who, after exchanging their full powers, which
have been found in good and due form, have
agreed on the following Articles:. ...... j [LA
“Art. 1. His Majesty the Emperor of the
French acquiesces in and recognizes the gains
made by Prussia in the course of the last war
waged by her against Austria and that Power’s
allies. . j
“Art. n. His Majesty the King of Prussia
engages to facilitate the acquisition by France
of Luxemburg; and for this purpose His Majes
ty will enter into negotiations with His Majesty
the King of the Netherlands with the view of
inducing him to cede his sovereign rights over
tho Duchy to the Emperor of the French, on
tho terms of such compensation as shall bo
judged adequate or otherwise. The Emperor
of the French, on his side, engages to assume
whatever pecuniary charges this arrangement
may involve.
“ ‘Art: rtr. His Majesty the Emperor of the
French Shall raise no opposition to a federal un
ion of the Confederation of . North Germany
With the States of South Germany, excepting
Austria, and this federal union may be based on
one common Pariamont, due reservation, how-
er, being made of the sovereignty of the said
StatBKoq cL’ctco’cj BAtlSiw ijiy ■
“Art. rv. His Majesty the King of Prussia,
on his side’, in case His Majesty the Emperor
of the French should be led by circumstances to
cause his troops to enter Belgium or to con
quer it, shall grant armed aid to France, and
shall support her with all his forces, military
and naval, in the face of and against every pow
er which should, in this eventuality, declare
war. ’ • ■
4 1 Art. 5. To insure tho complete execution of
the preceding conditions, His Majesty the King
of Prassia and His Majesty the Emperor of the
French contract, by tho present Treaty, an alli
ance offensive and defensive, which they sol
emnly engage to maintain. Their Majesties
bind themselves, besides in particular, ,to ob
serve its terms in all cases when their respec
tive States, the integrity of which they recipro
cally guarantee, maybe'threalencd with attack;
and they shalLhold themselves bound, in any
like conjuncture, to undertake without delay,
and under no pretext to decline, whatever mili
tary arrangements may be enjoined by their
common interest coDformably to the.terms and
provisions above declared.” r Jn -- /, Td j ., j
ing girls yesterday, yifib"
Now
Victor Hugo oh the lVar H
man’s Duly. - ,; 7 J
Victor Hugo has addressed tho 'ladies of
Guernsey as follows:-' - 1 o»il*{uwl
Ladies: Again some men have condemned
a part of .the human race to death, and a des
perate war has commenced. This is neither
a war of liberty, or of . duty, hut a war of ca
price. Two peoples are about' to destroy each
other for the pleasure of two princes. While
thinkers are perfecting civilization, kings are
perfecting war. t This will be i frightful one.
Some chefs d'ecuore - are announced—a gun
that will kill 12 men ; a cannon that will kill
ley, that never should the Tribune ; drive its ■ i()00. -It isno.longer thepnre.and,freo:WR-
jmoliatic lmy-rake over Mr. Fwk again. On ter 0 f t | 10 g rea t Alps that is to flow in tnr-
tha3o terms it was settled that the Erie road |j en f a j D j 0 the Bhibe, but Human blood. Moth-
shoald carry the Tribune. Greeley aoknowlrl daug hters, wives, shall .Whep. You
“ “ bear - trl : are all about to go in mourning; some because
„ ! of their own troubles: the rest because of the
Mom.™ Diplomacy U.vmsPBiVAcnm.-France of the others.
Ladies—what carnage! what a oombat must
eges
: IhS^Wd^uh^S iff “Vi! toUEnJ ! Lvitea-wbst canmge^na* a^oar mim
land on von ! Isay, England, he wanted me follow the meeting of the«i unfortunate com
lolurn a-dn von and help him to steal Bel- batants! Adow me to addressyou a prayer,
gium. ° Since the ignorant forget that they are broth-
England—’Ow? ’Ow’athat? That won’tdo,;ers, he their sisteM; come to their aid, and
you know. What d’ye mean by that* you mis-! make lint. All tho old linen of'our houses
■ U. frog-oater? : which is of no use can save the lives of the
France—O o-oh 1 what a nanghty fie-for- wounded. It will be fine to have all the wo-
•'•haiuo story 1 I never said such a thing; be- ; men 0 f (.his island employed in this fraternal
“dt.% l’rnssia said it first; and besides, Prnssia | work ; it will be a glorious example and a
made me say it—that is, I only said it for fun, benefit. Men «o evil; let yotr"women
jest cause Prussia wanted me to! | Didn11, ]® ply tho ’ m - ’
Italy ? (Aside to Italy)—Mind yer eye now, old
feller, or yer know what you’ll git! ) V- ’ ) ;
Italy—Yos, I seen him 1
France—And besides, Prussia’s sech a thnn-
'•‘-riug old liar that nobody can believe him.
-M: 1 know what he said about you, Russia. If
You only know—oh! 1 *"4 1 -ortoefttt
Russia—Fce-faw.fdm! What’s that? What's
“at? What’s that? *, .... .. ; J
Franco—Oh, nothing—nothing of any conse-
I'larnee. I’d prefer not to tell, I thank you.
J ii; mk the gracious goodness, I’m not one of
1)14 h ort of people who go blabbing secrets
ground, and making trouble between neighbors.
And now come on, jou bloody Dutchman: I’ll
“ t '* £ ,'ou anyhow. - *.r\ 1
. 1 be G inuecticnt is so low that teams ford the
iVer at Kart ford,- just abord the toll bridge, econsidered.
supply the remedy; and since on this earth
there are bad angels, let you be the good ones.
If you resolve to do so, and commence in a
short time, you will have a considerable quan
tity of lint We shall then make two equal
parts, and shall send one to France and the
other to Prussia.
Thb Vronnr.—The first -violin was made In
about 1600, and was Introduced into the concert
room about 200 years ago, when it was Consid
ered an instrument incapable of being used
with any success. ■ - * ■[aifthlti
Borstrd Aoaxk.—The Prolongstiooistsmade
an attempt to reconsider yesterday, but broke
down by twelve votes. They should have wait
ed for a thfn Hcrasej-conp ted
Tlio Proclamation of Infallibility.
A Rome correspondent of tlie New York Tri-
buhe Writes 10th July, a long and highly inter
esting letter upon the circumstances attending
the adoption and proclamation of .tko dogma of
Pap.il Infallibility. lie says :
On Friday (15tb> a deputation from the Inter
national Committee had nn audience of the
Pope, and entreated His Holiness on their
knees, I hear, not'to make himself Infallible.
The Pope received them kindly, and begged
them to leave their request in writing, which
they did. Tho prayer of their petition was that
His Holiness would cause to be omitted tho as-
sertion that the dogma was the tradliion of the
Church, and the ugly anathema at the end of
tho Church. It was a hard request to be pie-
ierred to a Christian Bishop, and ha tha Pope
of Romo, so tho curses remain for the eternal
sal ration of sords. The deputation consisted of
the Cardinal Archbishop Sohwnrlzenbnrg, the
Archbishops of Paris, Lyons, Milan, and Hali
fax, Monsignor Conolly, who has nobly distin
guished himself by bis manly and independent
conduct. The Cardinal Prince Schwartzenbnrg,
I am told, said in tho presence of tha Pope that
‘Hlie Dogma would not be worth the paper on
which it would he written;” nor will it be, as
events I shall have to narrato will convinoia yon,
THE IT. d.AMATIOX.
“At the conclusion of the Kyrie eleison, the
names of the ! Fathers were called over, and
Placet after Placet succeeded ad nauseam—but
what a storm burst over the Church at this mo
ment ! The lightning flashed and the thunder
pealed as wo have not heard it .this sqason be
fore. Every Placet seemed to h& announced
by a flash and terminated by a clap of ;thunder.
Through the cupolas the lightning entered,
licking, as it wfere,-, the very, columns of the
■Raldachino over the -tpmb of St, )P^ter, and
lighting up large spaces on the pavement.
Sure, Goa was there, bit whether approving or
disapproving what was going bn, no mortal man
can eayJ Enough that.it was a ^remarkable cb-
inoidence, and so it struck thominds^pDall who
were prespnt—and thas the roK was called for
one hour and a half, with this solemn accompa
niment, and then the result of the voting was
taken to the Pope, v .- •i.-UsLtoitoatq I •
The moment had arrived when he was to de
clare Jiimstjlf invested With the attributes of
God— nay! 0 God upon ba’rth'. Looking from a
distance info tfie hall,- which, was obscured By
tho tempest,'nothing was visible but thd golden
miter of the Pope, and so. thick .wa$ the : datfc
ness that a servitor was compelled tpjbribjj'h
lighted candle and -hold^it.by his side to enable
him lo read thol formula, fly wh'Ph h^^blfie'd
himself. And then—what is that indeporlbable)
noise?- Is.it the raging G f the storm above?
The pattering of hailstones? It jrapiUaifltt&i
nearer, and for k r minute, I most serioUsly say
that I cotdd hot understand whot that Swelling
sound was until I saw a cloud of white hand
kerchiefs waving in the air. The Fathers had
begun with' clapping—they wetb : the fOglemen
to tho crowd who took up the notes and signs
of rojoicihg until the church of God was con
verted ipto a theater ,for ;|he r .exhibition , of hu
man passions. “Viva Pio Nono,” “Viva il Pa
pa Infallibile," “Viva il trionfo dei Cattolici,”
were shouted by thi9 priestly assembly; and
oj^in another round they hadand yet another
was attempted as soon as the To Denm had been
sung and the benediction had been given. It
was a morning never to bo forgotten by the con
trasts between the absenoe of almost every ef
fect which man conld hate provided, j and; the
presenoe of those wonderful effects of nature
which !have attempted to describe. I ? -
A miserably small assemblage in the church;
no decorations, no proud procession ,- the ball
almost closed from the view of the public ; one-
third of the entire number of the Bishops, and
those the leading members of the Hierarchy,
absent; the Eoyid box nearly empty; the Di
plomatic box as much so, for France, Austria,
Prnssia and Bavaria had instructed their Minis
ters not to attend, nor to illuminate in the eve
ning—such were the external circumstances of
humiliation whioh struck the senses.
On the other hand, the God of Nature, and
perhaps, too, of the Pope, had entered the very
charoh of St. Peter clothed in his sublimest
form. Until 12 o’clock did this terrifio storm
continue, and then the Council broke Up. Grad
ually the sky became serene, and now the glori-
ually the sky f>C-_—_ _ , - T .. „
ons snn of Italy—thongh I wish it were shorn
of a portion of its glory—is shining down upon
ns as it did before the fatal day on which the
find Dogma of the Church was pronuflgated.
According to Sir J. Hersehei, the heat given
oat by the snn would melt a : pillar nfiice, 1/590
square miles at its base, and -194.62P miles in
height, in one' second of time. Acaording to
Pouiliet, It would liquify a shell of i<je' ten and
a half miles thiok in a single day, though it en
compassed the entire orb. •* io<»\nAoi' aSK
Gmso Aro BacBmsa.—Digby sayf it is true
that “there, is p»orejjl«ware in gi^iM re
ceiving;" but hs esp^ually sp- :
plies to
' Correspondence of Journal and Messenger. .
Letter from Kentucky.
Galt Hoote, Louisvxoj;, Kt., Ang., 8, ’70.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger : It is re
freshing to see so many broad fields of com as
one sees in the country between Chattanooga
and this place. But little cotton and plenty of
corn. Oh, that we could have it so in old Geor
gia. Now that cotton is declining and bread-
stuffs advancing, we presume all our people
feel so. ; ' “cur .TEdi OT a-.-viiaay j .o.ta
The day we spent in Nashville was election
day. No great excitement. The Fifteenth
Amendment was out in full strength, voting and
electioneering. •'We htopped - at the Knoxville
house, which we hesitate not to say is one of
the best in America. aoirf H ■ ,?v..
Between Nashville and-’Cave City we bad on
the train Hon. (?) A. Morgan, a‘ white carpet
bag Senator from Mississippi, and hia negro
wife. She is a dark, thick-lipped mulatto,
rather fine looking ; he a fall, Yankeeish bum
mer. We conld bat piry the poor colored wo
man .- The patty was looked uprfn by all the;
passengers—white and black—with great con-
tempt. A poor one-legged Confederate was
standing at the car window, in Bowling Green,
where wo stopped for breakfast-, amusing the
bystander with his reflections. He said, he was
a poor whipped rebel, but he felt proud of- hie
race, and despised the Senator with all hia hon
ors. (?) A passenger, from Wyoming Territory,
said, ‘“if that fellow was out in his country he
would bo tied up to a telegraph post quick.’’—
The newsboy had the Nashville dailies op the
train containing the following telegram, which
was no sooner read by a passenger than he went
to see tho show.
Jackson, August -t.
Hon. Albert Morgan, the white Republican
Senator, married last might Miss Carrie High-
gate, colored. The aouple left for Cleveland^
Morgan’s former home. Morgan was formerly
Colonel of a Michigan regiment.” r '- J ■
At Cave City, we stopped over to visit the
celebrated Mammoth Cave. There is quite: a
rivalry between a hotel at Glascow junction and
ono at Cave City, for passengers to the cave.—
Each parly represents his lino the best.—
We selected the : latter, and was carried
over in an old-fashioned four-horse coach,
very pleasantly along a high mountain road.—
Between Cave: City and Mammoth Cave we
stopped to Eea -a . new cave more; recently
discovered.. It is called Indian Cave, and wiU
pay anybody well to stop, and go through: it.
The -guide, Mr. Young, a son of the owner of
the cavQj carried us through, giving us an intel
ligent account of its discovery by himself, when
quite a boy,' by des:ending many feet through
a narrow crevice in'the rock to find all its beau
ties within and open it to the world. We pre
dict that this cave will yet excite tho world by
its beauty and grandeur. Upon arrival at ihe
Mammoth Cave Hotel we soon found that the
proprietor was interested in (ho other line, and
was not disposed. to give us much -attention.
After an hour’s begging and running round, he
furnished the ladies of onr party with a ludi
crous costume each, (for which he charged, us,
$100 each.) We wont into the great cave with
a green guide, who seemed to inotv'bnt little,
and communicated little of what he knew. He
carried U3 what is known as the “short route”—
about seven miles. I will not attempt to describe
this great curiosiiy. It has been often dope by
numerous writers; but you will never g6t',a cor
rect idea of its grandeur till you see it yourself.
The awful maguificenoe of its tremendous domes
aud huge caverns is equally grandand’appalingto
the timid at first witnessing, but after a while
one becomes accustomed to it' and never tires of
wulking and beholding. We say to all travelers,
never pas3 Cave Cicy on the Louisville and
Nashville road without stopping over and going
to see the Mammoth Cave.
I am here at the Galt House, one of fhe first
hptels in America. Good fare, attentive waiters
and elegant rooms. It matters not whether you
are in the first or fifth story, asyou go/iip on a
steam elevator. • r ,,s. t
I found an old-Macon friend hero, to whom'I
am much indebted for favors shown—Mr. Frank
Roberts, book-keeper for Fears, Bartley & Co.
Wd are off tp-morrow for Cincinnati. Will
write again, perhaps, from Niagara^
iFjfT
B.
War News aud Rumors.
From the special cable dispatches of the Cou
rier-Journal, of Saturday, we make these selec
tions': ; ] c.l: ■
MCMAHONS TREASURE CAPTURED.
A private letter says Marshal McMahon’s
treasure cliost, containing one million five hun
dred thonsAj’.d francs in gold, was captured by
ihn Pmcciona •"*' . * . . .:.r
I ho Prussians.
OVERWHELMED. j -.ICO 13 p
It is said that the.Prussians largelyjdutnum-i
bered.the French in every; engagement. The.'
French claim that at Wcusenbarg eight thou-
sandmen checked eighty thousand Germans with
one hundred aud twenty guns lor four hours, the
former losing 4,fl00 men, while the enemy -lost
10,000. they-also assert that McMahon-at
Froschweiter had only 40,000 men against 00,-
000 Germans, yet the French only yielded when
10,000 more Germans'were hnrled'.upon-them. '•
DAD MANAGEMENT OF THE FRENCH. ..J (:r
Our special coriespondent at Paris, writing
Thursday, statesIhat scraps of.ne,ws about the
recent defeats are permitted to Re printed. At
Roicbaffsn tha soldiers had no carlridges left.
They had-beepwithouthany "for ini . flour, arid-
had made repeated bayonet charges. . .ffhe Pros
aists mowed them down in masses. . Ammuni
tion was on tho way ; but the way of conveying
it by rail waB stopped the station nearest' the
battlefield by the exptosoafoVfombs (ft)
Prussians. Prussian spies , had signal!
train to their friends.. The Frengfl soldiers and
officers are furious at the want of organization.
On the Gth instant, no .qoffoa was distributed
until six b’clook at night, i The soldiers fought
fasting, and after tbe battle there was no distri
bution of food. For four days the, soldiers
dined Upon potatoes gathered from the neigh
boring fields. . i oorsiaomloakr j .
,/tfchcalv
DEMOnAilZATIOX. Mot
London, August iff.—One. of the twd special
correspondents who left London Monday,
replace the two others who had been nrxesfed,
sends from Chalons, Wednesday, an account of
the disorder and demoralization in the'French
army. He says: -‘ AU we entered Chalons it
was dark and the rain falling. The aonnd
of drums w.is heard accompupying the] hoarse
shouts of the drunken.conscripts. Everything
was in fconfunion.' After groping aboqt.fn^thp
mud, I found an omnibus,-and in itiwq gentle
men just returned from camp. They say the
road is lined: with stragglers and drunken sol
diers belonging to the Garde Mobile, . The lat
ter are being drilled with the greatest dispatch.
Only a small portion are armed. Tho remain
der are exercising with sticks. The camp is full
of wounded from the front. It is believed here
that Prussia has offered pease. No news is al
lowed to reach here from the front, and con
stant suspicions are expressed.
The wounds made by the Prussian guns are
not severe,bnt the effects of the mitraillenrs are
fearful Numbers of men had both legs shot
off, aud still live. J£t e ^' e / br:, v; j
mm hn$i$uadk. cvi1
Berlin, August 12.—It is reported to-day that
a proclamation ie forthcoming which will declare
the intention of the Prussian forces to bum a
French village for eaoh place destroyed by
French fleets in the bombardment of Gorman
* v>rt8 l — % **
Scolding.—What good does scolding do ? It
does no one the least service, but it creates in
finite mischief. Scolding servants never do their
work welL Their tempers are rerased, as well
as the mistress’, and they very often fail in their •
duties at awkward moments, simply to spite her
and “ serve her oat” Very wrong ia them,
doubtless; bnt human nature is frail, and ser
vice is a trying institution. It does no good to
husband or child, far itsimply empties the house
ol both as soon as is possible.
An astronomer predicts, for this year, * com
et of stick brilliancy, and so near the; earthy that
onr nights will -be. almost as bright Us our days ■
In a recent .test of rapidly of firing,! the Clias-'
pgtjrifls gavam-ronwla ip
Hints to Persons Contemplating
iuiai$ tno<Lto -, BankrnpUy. iia pl®
We are permitted to make the following ex
tract from the chapter on “Hints to Persons
Contemplating Bankruptcy,” from advanced
sheets of Gazzam’s Treatise on the Bankrupt
Law, for Business Men,” and do so because par
ticular attention is called to some of the sub
jects alluded to since tbe reoent amendments to
the Bankrupt Act. . . /off Lea eolamxaaK 1 dmx
“So soon as adjudication of bankruptcy has
been mpde, the bankrupt if he has property
other than is exempted by law Bhonld request
the register to accept a surrender of the same, outrages inflicted upon a few poor frightened
ai. A.n J~ ill AV.a* 1.onrl tialnlofia HKinaan Af Qon onri nloa
and if there is danger to the assets from loss or
otherwise, the bankrupt is bonnd to notify the
register thereof, so that proper precautions for
the protection of the proper may be taken by
him until it can be turned over to the assignee,
who shall be chosen by the creditors or appoin
ted by the register or judges t-d.i.l bto tan T Lyw>
“The bankrupt should also apply to the
Court, or a creditor should do so for him, when
there is any danger of the bankrupt's property
being seized on legal process, whioh would pre
vent itesettling into the hands of .the assignee,
and the Court wiilissne an order restraining all
such process until the appointment of an assi
gnee, if there shall appear reasonable cause for
the-samnii Ihw-hiw sn ■ rraiioh f < ?; -I
“The register may summon the bankrupt to
appear before him at a suitable time and place
for examination, and while the bankrupt must
obey all suoh orders he will not be unnecessari
ly harassed by examinations, nor will creditors
holding, claims provable, tender tlie Bankrupt
Act be permitted to harass and annoy him on
examinations under a creditor’s bill or in sup
plementary proceedings issued out of a State
Court. In such cases the Court will on appli
cation restrain the further prosecution of the
proceedings in the State Court until a sufficient
time has elapsed to determine the proceedings
olxmial nutqAU oh l_
“The bankrupt will now be entitled to reoeive
a discharge if his assets equal fifty per cent, of
his debts, but should the assets not equal fifty
per cent, of the debts, and the majority iiinum-
ber and amount of the creditors whose debts
were contracted subsequent to January 1, 1869,
who hare proved tJieir debts, give their consent
in writing, to the bankrupt’s discharge, the
Court will grant the same upon filing such con
sent and application At the proper time, unless
opposition is made by non-consenting creditors
on the grounds pi acts of bankruptcy committed
by, the bankrupt^'prohibited by. ift, ihfrpudof
the bankrupt law.
“A discharge, however, may be obtained from
debts which were contracted prior to January 1,
I860, oven though the assets do not equal fifty
per cent, of tho bankrupt’s debts, (where there
has been no act committed denounced as fraud
ulent by the Bankrupt Law), but such discharge
will not affect debts contracted subsequent to
January 1, I860, where the,.erditors represent
ing those debts withhold their consent.
fWhore .'.no, assets havp’.pbjne into the hands
of the assignee within sixty days after the ad
judication .of the debtor’s Bankruptcy, he may
make application to .the Court for. tne discharge.
If, however, tho assignee has assets for distri-
butio.Hj ths Court will no't ohtertairi, such peti
tion for discharge until after six months have
elapsed.
“These are the minimum periods in which
application for a discharge may be made, al
though at any time witlffn one year rfftep' these
.periods have respectively elapsed, the Court will
entertain such an application “r_s of course.”
Application for a decree of certificates!of dis:
charge must be made to the Court, for tho reg
ister has no authority to grant the same. r "
"“It frequently occurs, that there is detention
in the issuing of a discharge because, there are
unpaid, costs, in which case the bankrupt or his
friends must not blame*the attorney or counsel
for the bankrupt, who ishot bound to pay the
samq, unless made by his directions, and should
not proceed until'their Is sufficient- money ad
vanced to cover suoh costs.-.: • .hraitlijs-i I -t/rntj,
• “A per.son.uan frequently save himself much
trouble and annoyance, by. filing"hip betttlon
promptly on/ascertaining nis insolvent 'condi
tion, and in so doing wilt not only be perform
ing a duty he 1 owes his creditors and (the colnr.
munity by obedienoe to the law in its spirit,and
full intent, but he will also enhance his oppor
tunities for a discharge from his debt's, and tbe
ultimate regard of his own creditors and of bu
siness men. Tbe Bankrupt Act has been fram
ed with a view as well to the distribution of
the debtors estate amongst his creditors os -to
the restoration of an honest, although unsuccess
ful, person to a position in the community in
which ho can odd to the general wealth of the
countrybyM£tuirMtrained exertions:’ j -
“As a legal discharge : from debt does not re
lieve tho debtor from his moral obligation to
.pay .what hp trifly a and justly owes, and the ppm-
munity has atjengthlearned,to realize,thisaxi-
oin, it rifiiyniSr’be'many yearsifire^jhe 'taking
the benefit of the Bankrupt Act, will be as lfefii-
ently regarded ^ pne:,wha, in times of general;
temporary embarrassment, took advantage of
stay laws to save as much of his property as pos
sible from those to whom it justly belonged.”
.COlS-t dmim Id Morfooq j « t‘
;r , Oops in Jones.. *(
eldahiol
Jones, Co., August 12,1870. .
o ^Editors Telegraph and firessengcr.;- L
irigfBebh : tfbWp-^fepKrfcy! fromlthia .-tt
30vdralweeis,‘’witbyburp6nnisai'ofiW<
ir. tiiaeaeWroiL-atr . .
By universal consent the corn crop is the best
that has been raised for several years. The
area planted is not so large as it should have
been by one-half, and many farmers will have
to buy corn again next year, bnt the demand
wilt not be so great as it has been this year.
tot.hav-;
atyf>f®r<
twill give
rpTher exclusive:cotton-planters(.are heartily . , _ f __.
sick of the business, and have generally deter- tho “Journal of the Farm," a few days ago,
mined to . return to the old “self-sustaining” writer in that paper says he lost nearly all of
rule. This every. fpn»ei: call do by planting his fowls by this very sam<5 disease, Ha used
equal areas in porn and cotton, and, by sowing J powdered charcoal, scattering it promiscuously
large crops of small grain. We- know several : over his. fowl house floor. Whether this cured
Tlie War Against the Chinamen.
From the Xew York Mercantile Journal. \
The past few years have produced in the
United States many phenomena, social, political
and even religions, whioh are most perplexing
and disoonraging to the philanthropist and the
believer in progress; bnt among .the most dis
tressing of them all, none to our minds has been
more utterly tmworthy'of a decent, riot to add
a Christian people, than tbe miserable crusade
of calumny and violence commenced against
the Asiatic laborers now arriving among ns.—
The threats boldly and publicly made, in de
fiance of national treaty, local law, and the
most ordinary ideas of civilization ; tbe actual
kf’U fr. J
— »rV.\
- -\ > *>
and helpless Chinese at San Francisco and else
where, and the pitiful arguments with which the
attempt is made to defend this ferocious op
position, are simply a disgrace to those com
munities that tolerate them. It is, indeed, per
fectly legitimate for any body of men, any trade
or interest deeming itself jeopardized, to ap
peal to legislative protection, and to use all
rightful means to secure it But hr individual
or combination of individuals has a shadow of
right to prevent or harrass the honest, respect
able labor of any other person, resident or for
eign. The moment that violent interference is
tolerated in one direction, a precedent is set
that may prove fatal to all law and order, to the
rights of property, and, at last, to the very lives
of citizens. This country is too loosely con
stituted, in many points of view, to be safe for
any length of time after we shall have allowed
the turbulent and rebellious elements of society
to get fair headway. We must arrest them now,
if we would save much blood and tears, here
after.
Only a few years ago, the better sense of the
country rebuked the local persecution of for
eigners coming to the United States from Eu
rope. But now, outrages exactly similar to
those'then denounced, are threatened to be per
petrated on the far weaker and far less numer
ous Asiatics. Now, we may reasonably ask :—
“In equity, what.is the distinction as against
them ?’’ Have they not also come here by invita
tion, and are they not, in a majority of cases,
quite as intelligent, quite as akillfal, and quite
as peaoeabledn their lives and manners as many
of their European rivals 1 These are questions
.which the records of California most conclu
sively answer in tho affirmative, arid the report
concerning them, since they began to flow into
the Eastern States, is quite as good in all places
where they are to be found actively at work.
But, in addition to the injustice and rank folly
of abusing these people, there is something
excessively mean and cowardly in it. We well
know that had China steam fleets and armament i
proportionate to her vast population and enor
mous wealth, she conld make short work of nil
onr seaports and, of the whole navy that:, might
attempt to defend them. Four hundred mil
lions of quick, skillful, shrewd and both war
like and maritime people will not be loDg in
availing themselves of the tactics and appliances
which modem science offers, and wo must re
member thattheroare always scattered through
out the world a, goodly host of adroit adventurers
—the free lances of, mankind—who, are ever
eager to fight for the master who pays them
well, no matter who he may be. Indeed, it is
a question whether China could not- hire, to-,
morrow, if she chose, a fleet that would blow
our pretence of a navy, as it is at present,
onii of the water. ... * j o1 a
!We repeat, then, that it is something not to
be endured—this'selflsh wickedness of. rowdy
ism which; in persecuting the Chinese, stultifies
our own institutions,; shuts ont,immigration
from the East, and makes, for ns, perhaps, im
placable enemies by millions, in precisely those
regions of the earth Where we expect the richest
and most .’lasting: trade that this country has
ever enjoyed.; « <fro .>-, r o -m:J
Finally, there is another grand material argu
ment, whibh. wo have repeatedly used before
Tho Chinese workman, in this country, is a la-
lor-saving machine. He .prepares the way for
& higher range of work; and a nobler life for
our laboring classes. He is to be their help
meet in a thousand ways, and for them to fight
against him to to strive fiercely against^ them
selves and them own;best:frituro.iotefests, like
blind madmen.- .Bnt; worst of all, they will ut
terly fail,.sinca.np humas power, cqu. roll baok
the wheels of progress,
r
The Democratic Execntive Committee to more
efficiently organized, and is doing more work
than any resident committee of tbe laet‘eight
yean. • Its two rooma at the capital arc filled
with clerks, messengers and others, opgyyA in
answering letters, distributing documents sad
attending to other details of the Impending
campaign.“ aa «**|wisoei . -
Advices from all parte of the coon try, even
from Maine, were never more flattering. The
prospects are excellent that aTDempcratfc mem
ber will bo elected in' the Portland district of
that State. ‘oqtnx •“> k>> 8qjM^ - •
From the Sonlh letters indicate that tbe ma
jorities will be greater than in North Carolina.
Alabama and Georgia Conservatives write that
they do not believe the Republicans will elect
more than two members of Congress out of both
delegations. From Ohio, Pennsylvania, and
New York the newa is more encouraging, and
New Jersey promises a full Democratic delega
tion for the Forty-second House.
The address of the Democratic State Commit
tee of Texas arrived to-day, arid its arraignment
of the-Radical role in that State caused consid
erable surprise, as it comes up fully if it does
not exceed that of North Carolina.
If the Georgia Democrats don’t elect six out
of the seven members the State is entitled to,
the fault willbe theirs. We fail to jeff where-,
the Jacobins have any show, , at all; outside tha
'coast'dlstrio£—-provided the-Democrats, exercise
even a moderate amount of tact and-prudence. -V^-V •
Nothing but the most drivelling imbecility, or *
jacflassical 'hurrah-arid besotted Bourbon ism \ .J
can change this result. We" have great oonfl- ---**^"- ^T-
dehce iritlie thrusting aside;-by'the approach- '
ing convention,'of all such obstacles to'a splen- - \.y. ';. * *»
did and permanent victory;
A Rebel and a Loxal Leg —We have a live-
• :..s. v
ly recollection Here in Georgia, of the J gentle
man to whom the Nashville Banner refers in
the following ridtifeaV''^'* ~. , .
“Colonel John H. 'Savage, of Warren, do- -V
dines a nomination fi*r Congress, because of
the Fourteenth Amendment. Neverlheless, he
thinks the United States has no sufficient cause *
to hold him, in law and morals, an enemy and a
rebel, for he hasa rebel leg and a loyal leg— one
shattered under the United States flag at Molino
States hag at Perryville.
We agree witft the gallant Colonel. The
United Bates Government has,-neither in law
nor moTals, the right to hold him, nor any oth
er Southern man, now that the war is over, to
be an enemy and a rebel. It should be mag
nanimous enough to forgive aud forget.—At
lanta Intelligencer, Htln ncil.-t vacS
Hello! Are yon going to “rat” again? Has
the defeat'Of prolongation' turned your stom
ach? Have a care ! B. & B.‘ will not tolerate
snoli “treason”as-'the.-abor&A -.if
tied!
From Taylor County-Crops—ffeine-
dies for ChicUea^Cliolern.. -
‘3-.it t Reynolds, Ga,-August IS, 1870.
Editors TdegrapJeand Messengtr : As it has
been a month'or two since you have had a re-
port from this fcorifity in regard to crops, I will
venture : to say a littlej which I hope some of.
your many readers may profit, by.- Cotton,
.“domes first, as it seems to be the albajisorbing
topic of .conversation with farmers at 1 present.”
,Tt ia not doing vety ‘well. The long dry "spell
: tfre‘hti<l tt shtjrt lime ago, and the continued wet;
w.eather Binoe that time, have -given: the plant
the rust, which will injure the cotton consider
ably. Some farmers say that they will not
make a full crop. Guano has not paid as well
ithto year as Iaat.'- I have heard several remark
that ihe cotton IhftfrWtt? well guanoed has stop
ped growing entirely, while the unguanoed cot
ton was just the reverse, looking green and
.luxuriant; arid still blooming.
" (jdtton being sb low, a great many farmers
-'alFovrir the country, are begining to feel a little
nervous about thoir bacon and gnano bills.
When will tbe people work to their own inter
est. Corn, as a general thing, is dotog better
than cotton, anu a good yield is anticipated. I
saw a letter in your paper a few days ago from
a correspondent from Crawfurd county, about
this terrible chicken disease, “oholera.” Kero
sene oil, in | teaspfoonful doses, is said to be
— invaluable remedy. Happening to pick up
farmers in this oomtty who have farmed upon I them or not, they stopped dying immediately,
this plan since.the war cU$ed. They have never j This is a very simple remedy, and it will not
bought any corn, and bpt very little bacon, ! cost much to try the experiment,
some of them none at alC These men are out j The Taylor County Agricultural Clnb will
of debt, have money ahead and are livihg on the j meet again to-day. Every progressive farmer
fat of the land. What afew can do, so success- j should attend this meeting. Flint Bivsb,
fnllv nil aan rln if Kwi. Avmitia wifVt a * • -CfiBCB fit ViCiiwKI l
fully, all can flo, if they bnt determine with a
trill?--" . :1 bostAsu oJ Ifiw i tefoqx-utto 1 3 '
At this juncture the prospect of the cotton
crop to decidedly the poorest we remember to
have aeen for many years. The - plant is small
and sickly, and bare of fruit. The causes are
v doUiw
The North Carolina War.
Holden's war still rages, but it has in a meas
ure shifted the object and subjects of hostilities.
The CamiBf .CmvaeGHriglH g|d«i
for the Democracy, ,
A Washington special of the 12th inst-, to
the Conrier-Jouroal, say:
‘->2
; " v -^-
Del Bey, and the other, under., the Confederate
From Ecfaula.—We clip the following items
from tho Eufaula News, of Saturday. '
Suicide of. Mb. Hamiteb. —Ou Wednesday
night last, young Mr. Hamiter, of Fort Browder,
nephew’of ‘Mr; Joel 'Hairiiter, comrmfted sui-
eide by taking opium and laudanum. The cause
of the sad act to believed. to> be disappointment -
in love, he having for some time past beou en
gaged to Miss H’amiter,'a cousin, which was af
ter wards broken np. 7H ( .V
Sunstroke. — The Clayton Courier learns
from Dr. G.-O. Reynolds that two cases of sun
stroke have occurred within the past week.
The first was a little daughter of Mr. Harrell
Flowers, and the other a negro boy on the plan
tation of S. F. LightneT, E3q.i They are both
doing well and will recover. The Dr. saya
these are the first oases of sunstroke he has
heard of since he has been in this section of
the'State.
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'i
Private Secbbtaries GanTOG Wealth. •— •
Grant’s private secretaries flourish like green .
bay-trees. It is not a very long time since they - '•
were one and all as poor as Job’s turkey. Now
theyare waxtog fat and hold both bonds and
real estate. Doorkeeper Dant recently pur
chased a residence iu Georgetown, for which
he paid $20,OOfi or $30,000. General Porter
hag purchased a cottage at Long Branch. Next p- *.
eoines General Babcock, who ia repaid to have •
made a good thing of his missioato Ban Domin- - ‘
go. He has just bought a fine residence on the
corner of Twelfth and K streets, known aa
“Hamilton Place,” and formerly owned by.
Count Wydenbrucfc These"gehtlemen are ail*’.
private secretaries to the President; and, be
fore obtaining their present position, might
have found it difficult sometimes to pay their
washerwomen. Next to being a “gifted Presi
dent,” one would naturally elect to be a “gifted - V
private secretary.”
> ,*aoitq
>.j
Self-Reliance.—Infancy conforms to nd-
body^-all conform-toit, so that one babe com- ; ' . X
monly makes four or five, out of the adulti ;. *
who prattle and play to it., So Heaven boa' \ .’
armed ^outb, and puberty, apd manhood no
less with its own piquancy and* charm, and a
made it enviable and gracious, and its claims
not'to be put by, if it will stand by itself. Ho ■ -
not think- the youth has rio fores because he *
cannot sj>eak to you and me. Hark! in the
next room, who spoke so clear and emphatic?
Gold Heaven! it is he, it is. that very lump .
of bashfulness and phlegm, which for weeks
has.done.nothing but eat when you were by,
that now rolls out those words like bell strokes. . .
It seems he knows how to speak to his cotem- . a .* - .
poraries. Bashful or bold, then he will know ,
hdwJojnrikeius.seniors.veiyonneoessaiy.—R, .'■* ’
)f.'£ihertohi '■an.xnoettoeiaamlqia ‘
several—a late, cold spring, excessive rains in Holden s Standard to furious upon United States
the month of June, which produced a rapid and District Judgo Brooks, and denounces him as a
luxuriant growth of grass and weeds, 1 to over- sympathizer with the Ku-Kl ox murderers. Last
come which, neoe«ai«tod <toep ploughing and we ek one of Kirk’s negro sentinels shot a Uni-
during this month, there wilt be a falling off of, ■ amob effort was needed to prevent the “boja
at least, one-third from lost year’s crop ia this in blue,” from coming down on Kirk’s raga-
oounty. Notwithstanding the cotton crop is nrnflins. A correspondent of the World gives
-«»-
ly manured, rapidly and judiciously cukirated, lustratinfl Kirks mode of sec or mg evidence
which are an exception to the general crop. Oar against the people of Aliamanoe county:
young frtohdr Jii ;A.r.Walker, has a “brag WUllam Patton, whose name bw already fig-
patch ” of twenty-Jibe acres, which excels any- ured in telegraphio dispatches, is k voang man
thing we have seen. The writer, in company a plain countryman, timid of dhposstioo and
with several gentlemen, practical farmers, in- eseily impoMd upon. Ho was arrented and U-
spected this “ patch Tsc few days ago, and after ken to the comp, where a fellow by the name of
careful measurements and counts, decided that Bargio, acting as lieutenanlaoloneJ, told him
“'patch ;' would average fifteen, hundred he must confess all he knew about the Kn-Khix.
tbe
pounds tp the acre, provided n» disaster should He replied that he knew nothing of them. A
occur. The land was prepared, guanoed and rope was then put round his neck and the end
cultivated npon the “Dickson system.!'. Anno*- thrown over the limb of a true, and he was told
bei of- our largest plan tors andbegt citizens ore that-ho hod bat three minutes to lirei unless he
taking stops tv t0 disclosed all about the Ku-Klax. tjnder the
this cohnty. 'The success of,the movement, threat and immediate prospect of death, he
and the wisdom of the pol i cy,- the ^ f a tare mast. fainted. On being recovered, the 1 rope was
determine. - -ReipeeWrilly, etot-OoriruLomu. again drawn up, and he again fsiotecl Oabe-
1 ' '• -it to*' 1 ' — i ~ing reooverad the aeoond time, a pistol was
In the Vienna Ceotrafl Stenographic. Society placed against hie head, arid he was asked if he
lately, at a trial iff speed, thirty competitor* ani not befetag to the Ko-Klox; &t[tho same
were entered f<» 90 words to A minute, sixteen time being assured that if be denied it he was
for llO words in a minute, and eoly one man .to.'die, Under these threats.he ackjaowledRed
tried-to write 180 wortto in a minute. he bdonged to the organizstioii 1 Then under
Tffa “fleort” to thri best card 'in tfce chance the-some ttaeete he was erdotrod ta’ give the
Kirn of matriinonv—-sometimes overoome 3»y. names of olthe kuewto be memba
A California paper says: “All who have M*
tempted to swhn in the waters of Lake Tobos *"
mu8f have been Startled at their strange lack of ’’ V
buoyancy. Good swimmers launch forth into ' ; * •
the lake with the utmost confidence in their
skill, and at once find themselves floundering^ * V -
and only able to keep themselves afloat by the
mostutrenirius-ererrions. The bodies of pei-
sons drowned in ihe lake art nCker seen after
they nave onoe sunk. Of the five white persowa -
drowned in'the lake, riot a single body has ever
been recovered of even seen. Fine logs float
in the take hut n very short time, then tint:-
never again to rise. In places fer down through
the crystal fluid are to be seen, resting npon the *• *
bottom great quantities of slabs,' logs’ and lam- '- •* *
ber.”
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Among other treasures at Delhi is a piece 1
of marble bearing upon it what the faithful
declare to fo the impress of the prophet's
foot When these curiosities were being ex- •*
hibited to the Duke of.Edinburg, An hia re
cent visit, one of the suite asked the man who
showed the objects: . -
“How could Moh&o?nicd make on impres
sion with his joot upon marble
“As your, prophet raised men from tho
dead;’’ was the feply, delivered with the ut-
aoet edeamity.
, A «i«toter went reoent^to * well known
lawyer and engaged map to manage a suit fee
her, in which «he claimed a legacy to whieh
her right waa disputed. The suit wa&kafc
and tho poor makien said fo ftris^wyer:
“How cam I ever repay yotf feiufil the time
and trouble which yomhriva teksfe on mya#-
oount ? 2 hove fioGtiog hot^!^ heart to gire
you.” .. . •;« .. J, i*.u ie* c-ya
“My clerk takes thq^s—him,’
swered the lawyer, grtifr*-
vrir ,
Nothing, w« tbislr,
of if, oed |utoGy to'a peXaantohojbMt
pother scenes andhotfor i