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J L 4* Th.<fe Greorgia ^Weekly Telegraph and. Journal & JNdlessenger. ^-cisco, March 31.—The drought ia craps . A heavy gale drove four s? *\ ore an d two wore totally lost. The / are increasing in Arizona. 31.—General Modesta Diaz ^ enlT Spaniards near Bayamo. All ^ 58 Spanish chief were captured and r also surprised a cavalry -force, [i L ‘ Tho insurgent loS3 was trifling, f^'^ses, following tho great victory at r" reiro fresh hopes in insurgent circles. ^- March 31.—Advices from Paris to ^ that the sub Central Committee have Pfll-r powers to the Communal Conn- ^ (inscription is abolished. AU able- belong to the National Guard. ^ , jf ir ch 31.—The Government 'cattle and mails entering Paris, rf',' ji irc u 31.—Arrived, The Ocean and Tybce. * < Marc* 1 3!.—A.n interviewer makes arc k say that the Beds now in pos- ' r PtI isare simply rioters. Tho Thiers Cent i3 the only legitimate one, and ^v -rinrgents transgress the conventions '^Germany and the Thiers Government f as will treat them as rioters and dis- *-t m by force. But while keeping within v- jtiona of tho treaty the Germans will f'I alone. Facilities will be given the " Government for tho concentration of Z In' German aid is also probable upon ’ Jy’ 1 : ilion o{ the Thiers Government f X' N -aiov. Mrrch 31.—The House to-day Ti lit discussed the Ku-klux bill; Pams- *• ilea legal argument in opposition to it Same business, but no distinctive f-ii-ere manifested. It is probable that ' ^jU n ot get to a vote on the Ku-klux $ te end of next week. -all. Koo'.s has been confirmed as Mar- jj. c Western Arkansas District iiaaton decides that persons whose gross daring 1S70, did not exceed in currency ••bsn $2,000, are not required to make in. jstnrns, nor need make an affidavit show- i* their gross income did not exceed that ijFuKdsco, March 31.—It is thought that itiir will not bo convicted of murder, al- p* ie facts of the killing of Crittenden by rC esct disputed. 53)10X1), March 31.—Tho Legislature ad- ■ u die. Voss, March 31.—Tho World’s special . Pels says: All is consternation. The fr:ti of the Commune is: “Death to the »!3Land Owners, and to Priests.” A de cile confiscation of church property has : p posed. Denunciations of suspected ss «:e hourly made. Tho guillotine will :>< freeled. Inmates of many houses are isdiortbe guillotine. afts on the Treasury will not be paid either iris or Versailles. asm, March 31.—The Captain-General ito liico has been ordered to hold an in in that island in July. Cuban elections been ordered as soon as Valmazeda ar- sila preliminaries. nsris, March 31.—The sittings of tho ; Commission have been suspended to iostroversy, and business hereafter will sleeted by au exchange of notes. Com al onestions are to be settled by French Srnuan delegations. stos, March 31.—There will be a great ktveen tho Oxford and the Cambridge on lames to-morrow. The betting is six to on 'ha Cambridge. s reported that Cardinal Antonelli has ro- 1 the Secretaryship of State in the Papal ti. sghai advices report that serious disturb- are expected in Japan. One of the Mika- snnsellors has been assassinated. The known to have been of a political nature, as. March SI. —A delegate to the Com- i National to-day surrendered the general fiee, preventing its transfer to Versailles, postal service is completely disorganized. «electoral committee demand a rigid scru- uto the actions of Sunday lost. sion,March 31—A bill was introduced in the i Senate to-day to suspend temporarily the :e danse of the Liquor Law. In tho State sabnlary investigation before the Legisla- Committee to-day, several witnesses testi- to paying sums weekly or monthly to ae- their liquor business from interruption, swx, March 31.—In the House of Corn iest night, Sir Chas. Delke, in continua- of Lis remarks upon Russia's repudiation of treaty of 185C,submitted amotion oxprossive sret on tho part of the House that tho Gov- Mt accepted the proposition for holding a fasace. Gilpin concurred both in the re- is ttl motion. He asserted that it was not mission of England to preserve the peace of W, and advocated general disarmament. Geo. Merinos continued his attack upon Hioistere who were defended by Sir Bobh - After being severely castigated by the *!«ial«is Delke withdrew his motion. •* House of Lords after receiving the chan- ®1 to unseat bankrupt peers, adjourned an il 20th of April. 1 the noose of Commons, Hughson gave c* that too Government was preparing a for the confederation of the British islands * West Indies. rditone announced that the House would iitaday next adjourn, for Easter holidays. Wne, Conservative, moved that in opinion fo House, Her Majesty’s Government in low existing tranquility in Europe, should Prussia to moderate terms of peace she ired of France. He said the indemnity M for expenses of war, was equal to one- lof the entire capital of France. Cochrane 3 that by her lack of sympathy with France, fond had lost her former ally without gaia- 1 Bother. tier Hoare, tho banker, seconded the mo- buying the payment of the indemnity to &tny imposed the additional burden of 000,000 francs yearly on the French reve- x kdstone replied that England’s conduct was haded by all Europe. France was wrong, *8*rd3 tho immediate cause of tho war, and fenny W as right, though the latter was not •of blamo. In the affair of the Duchies Jfond had applauded the efforts made for °a»n unity. He regretted tho resolutions Anting the so-called Benedetli treaty, and foadad Granville’s policy of neutrality and 1 wane in securing the neutrality of the [**re. Ho believed that through Granville’s ,#ts Prussia had already moderated her ^ He urged the inopportuneness of the *fon, and it was withdrawn without further kite. h *us, March 31.—The government has com- 7® the arrangements for moving against 7* Troops will move simultaneously with Germans along the line by Mont Matre and ■ -e T- Learning this tho Commune have agreed on Versailles to-night with 30,000 Na- j Guards via Montrouge and camp Saxtory, ^ 6 the infantry lines are stationed—over- T“S or fraternizing with these they will pio- fo> Versailles and disperse the Assembly, decrees by the Commune make the jj|° e n wild with delight. ‘ iv «i,March31—A southerly wind, almost ."jfeicane, is prevailing. It is the heaviest j. 6s P€rienced on the island. March—31.—Arrived—Steamers 1 " r 6men, Benita, Messina. It is understood that definite propositions have been made to the directors of tho great coal railroads for Chinese labor on a large seale for working Pennsylvania mines. Ottawa, March 31.—In the Senate, the Post master General stated that the Canadian claims for the Fenian raid expenses had been submit ted to the Joint High Commission at Washing, ton, and if they wore not entered tho Govern ment would press them on tho attention of the Imperial Government, in the Commons, after its rejection. Several amendments to the Government plan for the admission and construction of a Pacific railroad were adopted by a vote of 91 to 70. San Fsancisoo, March 81.—Tho steamship Montana!, from Panama and Mexican ports, has arrived, jmd reports all quiet in Western Mexico and Panama. In consequence of the benefit to Mazatlan by the P. M. Steamship Companies, any steamer touching at that port the Custom authorities will permit to enter and clear from the port free of the usual charges. About 300 of tho colonists from Lower Cali fornia, were taken on board a schooner from the steamer when thirty mile3 from the main land, and were put ashore in Magdelena bay. Col. Lease, who went ont with the colonists, left the steamer at Cape St. Lucas. .The Moxican Government has appointed Gen. D^valors Governor of Lower California. This action, on tho part of Mexico, is thought to indicate a determination to assert her rights in case the Colonization Company attempts any overt act. New York, April 1.—Isthmus of Darien ad vices represent the newly discovered canal route on'y twenty-two miles long. The frigate Tennessee, the San Domingo ship, has arrived. LosDoix, April 1.—Paris dispatches, of the 31st contain information that a committee will leave Hcftel de Ville for Luxembourg, consisting of members of the commune, and the new Min ister of Affairs of the different anondissements. The inhabitants continue to leave Paris. Many of the streets look deserted. The Constitution al, a newspaper, was seized yesterday. Bis marck consents to an augmentation of the Paris army to 80,000 men. In tho boat race between Oxford and Cam bridge, the latter won. Washington, April 1.—Tho debt statement shows a reduction of $110,250 during the month of March; coin balance $105,607,800; curren cy $18,686,242. Tho House is in session to-day and again to night, and are anxious to come to avoto on the Ku-klux bill, and for that purpose will meet one hour earlier than usual on Monday. It is donbted if the Ku-klux bill will get through. Shober and Waddell, of North Carolina, spoke in*opposition to-day. Ex-Senator Howard of Michigan, was stricken with apoplexy, at Detroit yesterday. Tho Senate Committee on Privileges and elections will hold a meeting on Monday next, when tho case of the North Carolina Senator- ship will bo taken up. Judge Newcom, who was nominated and con firmed for Assistant Secretary of the Interior, in place of Otto, has declined the position. Orders have been sent from the Navy Depart ment to the commandant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard to fit out for sea immediately seven ves sels. Pams, April 1.—Bismarck asks Thiers, in a note, to dofino a time in which he would accom plish tho suppression of insurrection in Paris. Thiers resisted the demand by an expression of the hope that he would sucoeed in his efforts of conciliation, and concluded by asserting tho right to judge when other measures are neces sary. A Florence dispatch says Viscount Harcourt has been appointed French Ambassador to Borne, and Count Praslia Chaisend comes to Florenco in a similar capacity. Communication between Paris and Versailles is interrupted. No papers or letters passed between the two cities on Friday. A rumor having risen that a body of troops, intended for on attack on Paris had reached Nenilly and St. Cloud, all the western gates of Paris were closed and several officers of the orderly eighth battalionof the National Guards arrested. The complete isola tion of Paris is momentarily expected. The journals Francois and Electner Libre have ceased to appear. Tho Commune has sum moned Colonel Ghalleton, who surrendered Fort Mont Valerien to tho Prussians, to appear for trial, but ho has refused to obey. Pams, April 1.—At tho sitting of tho Com mune yesterday, M. Le Franoais was appointed President, M. Begult Ferry, Secretary, and M. Bergtt and M. Duval, Judges. The Commune proposes to admit foreigners to membership in council. The flag of the Commune will bo that of the universal Republic. Ten commissioners have been appointed by tho Commune to take charge of affairs as follows: Executive, military, subsistence, financial, justice, public security, public works,trade, public service,foreign affairs and educational. It has been decided that educa tion shall bo gratuitous, compulsory and secu lar. ' The Commune has determined to dispatch representatives to the various States of Europe, and especially Prussia, as soon as their-future is known. A London Times special dispatch from Ver sailles says Theirs pays 500,000,000 francs to Prussia on Friday evening, and the French Government will then be allowed to receive re inforcements from the North. A special dispatch to the London Telegraph says the 13th regiment of the line, after xeoon- noitering the bride at Sovres, and finding it de serted, entered Paris in a body, where they were receivedenthusastically.andfratemized with the National Guards. The fugitives from Paris aro increasing in numbers. London, April 1.—A dispatch from Itzohoz, Denmark, announces the arrival at Gluckstadt, capital of the Duchy of Holstein, of one thou sand French soldiers released from captivity in Germany. A similar number is expected this evening. Transports are waiting at Gluckstadt to carrv them to France. A dispatoh from Strasbourg says Bismarok has written the Chamber of Commerce of that city that Germany will compensate the inhabi tants of Alsace and Lorraine at the same rate that was accorded the inhabitants of these provinces when they were annexed under sim ilar circumstances to Franco. A dispatch from Beilin says the Kreitz Zei- tungof to-day announces that a proposal of the French Government to Germany for an increase of French troops in Paris, in conseqeence of disturbances in that city, has been agreed to. The German Government has also promised, in case, of the spread of disturbances beyond Paris, to place the departments occupied by German troops under a state of siege, according to French laws. Tho number and disposition of tho German forces in France is not to be changed. New Yoke, April L—The Commonwealth Fire Insurance Company of this city,. suspend ed to-day. Wm. M. Tweed, Jr., has been ap pointed receiver. ■ Gloomy Times.—The gossips report gloomy times' at tho 'White House. His Excellency, the President, is very morose over the attack upon him in the Senate, and the compound fraotures of tho party displayed in both houses. Never theless, he intends to “fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer.” Southern Ed ucational Institutions. Editors Telegraph and Messenger: We have always regarded it as unwise for Southern pa rents to send their children either to tho North or to Europe to bo educated; because, first, we believe that in our own schools and colleges they can be as well and as thoroughly instructed in every necessary branch of education, as they can in any Northern or European institution. Second, Because the education they receive at home is better suited to their wants, situation in life and future calling. Third, Because it ■ is important that a boy or girl should be brought up among those with whom ho or sho is to as sociate in after life; and fourth, because other things being equal, it is our duty to support our homo institutions, and not send our money to a foreign country which could be so usefully employed at home. » , Children sent abroad to be educated necessa rily imbibe tastes, habit3 and ways of thought and expression which are entirely foreign to those which prevail where they are obliged to live, and after their return are made unhappy for a considerable time by the difference be tween them and thoso who have remained at home, nnril they unlearn the obnoxions, discor dant or unsuitable peculiarities which they have acquired abroad. The only reason which could justify Southern •parents in sending their children away to be instructed, would be the absence of good schools at home. But happily, no such reason exists. We have excellent schools in every Southern State, controlled exclusively by Southern men, eminent in overy department of knowledge; distinguished for their high character, pure morality, exemplary piety, and earnest devotion to the high railing in which they are engaged. Prudence combines with patriotism to .urge us to support these institutions, to keep our mou- eydn our own country, sustain our own people, and teach our children those principles of hon or, integrity and manly virtue, which have al ways characterized tho men of the South. Especially is it wise for us now to keep our children at home. We cannot afford to support Norhem schools and impoverish our own; and oven were we as affluent as wo aro poor, we do not want our children to leamahow to sing, “We’ll hang Jeff Davis on a sour apple tree,” “John Brown’s soul is marching on,” or “Bal ly ’round tho flag, boys.” Wo do not want them to hear their parents, friends, and kinsmen re viled and abused as rebels, traitors and assas sins ; we do not want them educated to believe that the cause we have taught them to rever ence as just, although defeated, was a heinious crime. In a word, wo do not want tho minds of our young men and women indoctrinated with New England ideas of politics, religion or ethics. We want no “Yankee notions.”' They may be very good in their way, and for the lat itude of Massachusetts, they may bo very pro gressive and comprehensive, but they do not suit our climate, opinions—prejudices if you will—or our habits. We want to raise our chil dren to be Southern men and women, proud of their country and its history, and resolved to maintain and defend their inheritance. And this can only bo dono at home, in Southern schools, by Southern teachers, identified with us in feeling and interest. Neither ought we to patronize Northern ad venturers who may come among us to establish sohools and academies, issuing flaming pros- pectuses, and promising to produce wonderful results. Like those who como here to “develop our resources”—that is, in plain English, steal whatever we have left of money or money’s worth—the school-marms of both sexes, who come to enlighten our ignorance and teach ns a higher civilization, como to fill their pockets and instil odions and antagonistic principles and ideas into the minds of our youth. To both forms of pseudo benevolence we are opposed. Wo have been prompted to write the forego ing, by the published announcement of tho in tention to establish in onr State a branch of the Eastman Business College of Poughkeepsie, Now York. We neither want the root or the branch of any Poughkeepsie institution in Georgia. We have good business colleges of our own, directed by Southern men, which are entitled to and should receive our support. We do not need to import Poughkeepsie. That is a form of enterprise for the development of our resources of which we most decidedly dis approve. If we cannot save our property from the spoliation of irrepressible intruders, we certainly can defend our children from con taminating influences. We can preserve the purity of onr homes, and teach our benevolent invaders that in educatingour children, at least, keeping them religiously free from all sorts of “Yankee notions,” we are and intend to bo in dependent. Just for the same reason that we do not expect a New Yorker to send his sou to a college in Georgia, where he might not find Butler, of Massachusetts, held in the same rev erence and admiration that he is in Boston, we refase to send a boy to a Poughkeepsie school or Poughkeepsie teachers, because Butler’s pe culiar mode of doing business, though held in high esteem there, is extremely opposed to the sort of education which we desire onr boys to receive. No; let ns educate our youth at home; let their teachers be Southern men, and let onr mosey bo spent in encouraging and building up educational institutions of which onr children’s children will reap the benefit, and of which we and they may feel just reason to be proud. The Latest Philadelphia Tragedy— Wife Murder and Suicide. The murder of his wife by a young man named John H. Murray, at his boarding house in Philadelphia, and tho suioide of the murderer, on Friday last, have been mentioned by tele graph. The accounts given of the tragedy slate that Murray was a city railway conductor, had endured the usual vicisitudes of that overworked class, and having been recently discharged sent his wife to New York to live with some friends. He afterwards discovered that she had returned to Philadelphia, and it was alleged, was living with another man. He visited the house in which he heard she was, found her there, and induced her to return with him to his hoarding house, Mrs. Miller’s, 449 north 5th street. On entering the boardiDghouse his first salute was: “Mary has come back, and all will now be welL” The wife ledthe wayupstairs and he followed her. In abont five minutes after, reports of a pistol were heard by Mrs. Miller in rapid suc cession, and immediately after the voice of Mur ray was heard on the stairs calling to the land lady for “God’s sake to come up r’ She ran up quickly, and when she entered the room she found Mrs. Murray extended on tho bed, and the husband by her side. After shooting his wife and himself he had snooeoded in reaching the second floor, and then had strength enough to get back to the bed and throw himself by the side of the murdered woman. He was writhing in pain, and during the few moments of rest he had turned over to his wife and caressed her, smoothing her faoe, and moaning out Us sor row for the frightful deed he had committed. Mrs. Murray was well and oomfortably dress ed ; a black alpaca skirt and a sacque of the same material was her outer attire. She laid on the bed apparently as innocently and hap pily as if she was asleep. The tipper portion of her chemise was stained with blood, and, shot through the lungs, her last breathings had ejected blood upon her chin and cheek to such an extent as to create the idea that she had been shot in the mouth. She had been shot three times—twice in the back and again in the breast, immediately below the collar-bone. The shots in the back were so dose that her chimese was homed and blackened by the explosion. Murray had shot himself through the left long. The internal hemorrhage gave him great agony. Between the paroxysms of his pain he would tom to his wife and smooth her face, and caress her. Nothing oould be obtained from him as to the cause of the tragedy. He expressed his sorrow for what he had done, but scud nothing against his wife, and refused all information. Immediately after the murder was discovered, Murray requested the presence of the dergy- man of the church to which he belonged, and the last rites of the church were administered to him. He was taken from the house to St. Joseph’s Hospital, where he died about 10 J a. m. on Sunday. _ Wheee ~Wtt.t. He Go?—The Administra tion papers all read Sumner out of the party, and say he has no bumness there hereafter for ever. But where will Sumner go to ? Certainly sot to the Democracy. We see no chance for Sumner unless the negroeB take him up and run Mm on a ticket with Fred Douglas on the broad platform of the supplementary “Enfostment” bill—universal equality with the negro on top. This ticket might carry Souf Carline, Backen- sack, Marsyaip and Marsychutes, wid de Bnro, de Cbnstitushnm, Masaa Howard, and de Lan’ ob Liberty. Unless Fred and Samnerget up some thing of this sort, Charles will be like the Southern States—nowhere. Neither in nor out of the Union. . ABOUT A BEHABEABLE STRANGER, Being a Sandwich Island Reminiscence. BY MAHK TWAIN. I had barely finished my simple statement when the stranger at tho other comer of the room spoke out with a rapid utterance and fe verish anxiety: “ Oh, that was certainly remarkable, after a fashion, but you ought to havo seen my chim ney—you ought to have seen my chimney, Bir! Smoke! Humph! I wish I may hang if—Mr. Jones, you remember that chimney—you must remember that cliimnoy ! No, no—I recollect, now, you wam’t living on this side of the island then. But I am telling you nothing but the truth, and I wish I may never draw another breath if that chimney didn’t smoke so that the smoke actually got caked in it, and I had to dig it out with a pick-ax! You may smile, gentle men ; but the high sheriff’s got a hunk of it which I dug out before his eyes, and so it’s per fectly easy for you to go and examine for vottr- selves. Tho interruption broke up the conversation, which had already begun to lag, and wo pre sently hired some natives and an out-rigger canoe or two, and went out in the roaring surf to watch the children at their sport of riding ont to sea perched on tho crest of a gigantic wave. Two weeks after this, while talking in a com pany, I looked up and detected tnis same man boring through and through me with his in tense eye, and noted again his twitching mus cles and his feverish axiety to speak. The mo ment I paused, he said: “■Beg your pardon sir, beg your pardon, but it can only be considered remarkable when brought into strong outline by isolation. Sir, contrast ed with a circumstance which occurred in my own experience, is instantly becomes common place. No, not that—for I will not speak so discourteously of any experience in the career of a stranger and a gentleman, but I am obliged to say that you could not, and you would not ever again refer to this tree as a large one, if yon conld behold, as I have, the great Yakma- tack tree, in the island of Ounaska, Sea of Kamschatka—a tree, sir, not ono inch les3 than four hundred and fifteen feet in solid diameter! and I wish I may die in a minute if it isn’t so ! Oh, yon needn’t look so questioning, gentle men: here’s old Cap Saltmarsh can say wheth er I know what I’am talking about or not. I showed him the tree.” Captain Saltmarsh: “Come, now, cast your anchor, lad—you’re heaving too taut. You promised to show mo that stunner, and I walked more than eleven miles with you through the cussedest, nggravatingest jungle 1 ever see, a hunting for it; but the tree you showed me fin ally warn’t as big around as a beer cask, and you know that your own self, Markiss,” “Hear the man talk! Of course the tree was reduced that way, didn’t I explain it ? Answer me, didnt I ? Didn’t I say I wished you could have seen it when I first saw it ? When yon got up on your car and called me names, and said I had brought you eleven miles to look at a sap ling, didn’t I explain to yon that all the whalo- ship3 in the North Seag had been woodiDg off it for more than twenty-seven years ? And did you s’pose the tree could last for-ever, con-found it ? I don’t see why you want to keep back things that way, and try to injure a person-that has never done yon any harm.” Somehow this man's presence made me un comfortable, and I was glad when a native ar rived at that moment to say that Muckawow, the most companionable and luxurious among the war chiefs of the islands, desired us to come over help enjoy a missionary whom he had found trespassing on his grounds. I think it was about ton days afterward that, as I finished a statement I was making for the instruction of a group of friends and acquaint ances, and which mado no pretence of being extraordinary, a familiar and hated voice chim ed in on the hoels of my last word, and said: “Bnt, my dear sir, there was nothing remark able abont that horse, or tho circumstance either; nothing in the world! ” I mean no sort of offence when I say it, sir; but you really do not know anything whatever about speed. Bless your heart, if you conld only have seen my mare Margaretta; there was a beast!— t/tere was light ning for yon! Trot! Trot is no name for it— she flew! How she could whirl a buggy along! I started her ont once, sir—Colonel Bilge water, you recollect that animal perfectly well—I start ed her out about thirty-five yards ahead of the heaviest storm I ever say in my life, and it chased ns upwards of eighteen miles! It did, by the everlasting hills! . And I’m telling yon nothing but the unvarnished truth when I say that not one drop of rain fell on me—not one single drop, sir! And I swear to it! But my dog was swimming behind the wagon all the way!” For a week or two I stayed mostly within doors, for I seemed to meet this person every where, and he had become utterly hateful to mo. Bat one evening I dropped in on Cspt. Perkins and his friends, and wo had a sociable time. About 15 o’clock I chanced to be talking abont a merchant friend of mine, and without really intending it, the remark slipped out that he was a little mean and parsimonious abont paying his workmen. Instantly through the steam of a hot whiBky punch on the opposite side of tho room, a remembered voice shot— and for a moment I trembled on the imminent verge of profauiiy: “.Oh, my dear sir, really you expose yourself when you parado that as a surprising circum stance. Bless your heart and hide, you are ig norant of the veryABCof meanness! igno rant as the unborn babe! ignorant as nnbom twins. Yon don’t know anything about it! It is pitiable to see you, sir, a well spoken and prepossessing stranger, making such an enor mous pow-wow here abont a subject concerning which your ignorance is perfectly ghastly! Look me in the eye, if you please; look me in the eye. John James Godfrey was tho son of poor but honest parents in tho State of Mississippi—boy hood friend of mine—bosom comrade in later years. Heaven rest his noble spirit, he is gone from us now. John James Godfrey was hired by the Hayblossom mining company in Califor nia to do some blasting for them—the “incorpo rated company of mean men,” the boys used to call them. Well, one day he drilled a hole about four deep and put in an awful blast of powder, and was standing over it ramming it down with an iron crowbar abont nine feet long, when the enssed thing struck a spark and fired the pow der, and scat! away John Godfrey whizzed like a skyrocket, him and his crowbar. Well, sir, he kept on going np into the air higher and hieher till he didirt look any bigger than a boy— and he kept going on up higher and higher, till he didn’t look-any bigger than a doll—and he kept on going up higher and higher, until he didn’t look any bigger than a small bee—and then he went ont of sight! Presently he came in sight again, looking like a small bee—and he came along down farther, and farther, till he looked as big as a doll again—and down farther and farther, till he was as big as a boy again— and further and farther, till he was a full-sized man once more; and him and his crowbar came a wh-izzing down and lit right' exactly in the same old tracks and went tor-iamming down, and r-rammed down, and r-rammed down again, just the same as if nothing had hap pened! Now don’t yon know that poor cuss wam’t gone only sixteen minutes, and yet that inoorgorated company of mean men docked him for the lost time!” I said I bad the headache, and so exonsed my self and went home. And on my diaTy I entered “another night spoiled” by this offensive loafer. And a fervent curse was set down with it to keep the item company. And the very next day I packed np, ont of all patience, and left the islands. Almost from the very beginning, I regarded that man as a liar. * * * *• ? • a * The line of stars represents an interval of years. At the end of which time the opinion hazarded in that last sentence to be gratityingly and remarkably endorsed, and by wholly disin terested persons. The man Markiss was found one morning hanging to a beam of his own bed room (the doors and windows securely fastened on the inside,) dead, and on his breast was pin ned a paper in his hand writing begginghia friends tosuspectno innocent person of having anything to do with his death, for that it was the work of his o wnTiands entirely. Yet the jury brought in the astounding verdict that deceased came to his death “by tho hand of some person or per sons unknown!” They explained that the per fectly undeviating consistency of Markiss’ char acter for thirty years towered aloft as colossal and indestructable testimony that whatever statement he chose to make was entitled to in stant and unquestioning acceptance as a lie. And they furthermore stated their belief that he was net dead, and instanced the strong cir cumstantial evidenoe of his own word that he was’dead—and beseeched the coroner to delay the funeral as long as poesible, which was done. And go in the tropical climate of Lahaina the coffin stood open for seven days, and then even the loyal jury gave him up. Bat they sat on TjItti again, and changed their verdiot to “suioide induced by mental aberration”—because, said they, with penetration, “he said he was dead, and he was dead; and would he have told the truth if he had been in hia right mind?” No, tit.—April Galaxy. lVliat Then? What then ? Why, then, another pilgrim song; And then a hush of rest, divinely granted; And then a thirety stage (Ahme, to long!) And then a brook, just where it most ia wanted- What then ? Tho pitching of the evening tent; And then, perchance, a pillow rough and thorny And then some sweet and tender message Eent To cheer tho faint one for to-morrow’e journey. What then ? Tho wailing of the midnight wind; A feverish sleep; a heart oppressed and aching; And then a little water’s cruse to find Close by my pillow, ready for my waking. What then ? I am not careful to inquire; I know there will bo tears, and fears and sotrow; And then a loving Saviour drawing nigher, And saying, ‘T will answer for the morrow,” What then ? For all my sins His pardoning gtouo, For all my wants and woes His loving kindness; Far darkest ehades the shining of God’s face; And Christ’s own hand to lead me in my blind ness. What then ? A shadowy valley, lone and dim; And then a deep and darkly-rolliDg river; And then a flood of light—a seraph hymn, And God's own smile, for ever and for ever! —<»>—■ Tlic San Domingo Bnggists—Tbe Old War Horse Still Swearing like a Trooper. TPas7iinyfo7i Cor. Cincinnati Commercial.] From the storries in circulation about town, that reach here by letter and telegram, the Low- Lone Commission is not in a very harmonious condition with itself. The amiable old war- horse of the Bepublican party, Ben Wade, has been in a continual state of wrath and disgust at his scientific associates. While he has been occupying his gigantic intellect in considering the climate, productions, extent of the popula tion and character of the people, and trying to find out, if possible, the extent of tho indebed- ness, and how far tho lots have been staked off to the Administration, and whether in annexa tion we will have the consent of the natives or a chronic war; while, I say, he has been engag ed in these great pursuits, ho hasbeen interfered with and bothered by his scientific companions, who went off in pursuit of geological speci mens, natural curiosities, astronomical observa tions, and, above all, in pursuit of bugs. San Domingo abounds in a vast variety of bugs. There is no end to the bugs—little and big bugs, old bugs and now bugs—and the en thusiastic philosophers caught them and captur ed them, and pinned them up and packed them down, until old Ben was nearly driven crazy. Ho found bugs crawling over his bed, bugs in his pockets, bugs in his boots, and bugs in the dishes he had to eat out of. The consequence was that he fell to swearing, and he cursed the savants until all were blue. He broke in on them ono morning almost in the abstract. His aged person had in the way of a garment noth ing bnt a night-shirt, and, standing up before the astonished naturalists, who were busy pin ning bugs on a board, he orated in what one of them cafied the vulgar tongue, interspersed his remarks with the most diabolical oaths ever in vented by man or sanctioned by the devil. It is said that old Ben has written the report himself, and the other two Commissioners won’t sign it because there is not a word in it respect ing the wonderful hugs of San Domingo, and Ben says he will be d—d if anything shall bo said abont the bugs, unless it is to tell how he was tortured and persecuted and abused by the d—d creatures. I shouldn’t wonder if this bug business were to cause a disagreement in the Commission, and bring out a minority report that, beginning with Ben IVade and ending with San Domingo, will pronounce the whole thing a humbug—the only bug that the American people believe has been found in that tropical climate, in connection with this stupid business. Au Ictbyosaurns In New York. During the late war in Europe, when thou sands of the wounded Germans were lying in the hospitals, their friends at homo were striv ing to procure means to alleviate their suffer ings, and among other measures exhibited such cariosities as they possessed. Mr. Herman, a friend of the College of the City of New York, attended one of these exhibitions, and was as tonished with a sight of a remarkably fine spe cimen of the extinct fish reptile, from the dark bituminous marl-slate of the Iurassio formation, which had been dug out near Boll, in Wurtem- burg, but a few months before. Mr. Herman immediately secured it for tho college, and sent it reoently to this city. Yesterday it was placed on exhibition in the hall of the college, and was viewed by many scientific gentlemen, who pronounced it the most perfect specimen known in America. It lies imbedded in the shale in such a maimer that the entire form is distinctly seen from the point of tho snout to the end of the tail. The head is large, shaped somewhat like the dolphin’s, twenty-two inches long, swelling from the ta pered snont backward to the eyes where it is large and thick. The eyes were very large and round, probably enabling it to see well at night. It had no neck. Immediately behind the head the body is expanded into a large belly which again be comes thin and ends in along tapering tail. On each side are two fin-web paddles like the whale’s, directed downward, with the bones, like fingers, well preserved. The vertebral column is distinctly seen ifs entire length from the head, and is well marked. The long lash or tail, once so covered as to be used for rapid propulsion, is extended, giving the visitor a knowledge of the whole length and form of this singular and interesting animal. The jaws of the head are closed, and the num ber of teeth, usually about forty, cannot yet be counted or examined. A curious feature of the fossil is, that a close examination reveals another ichthyosaurus about two feet long, either con tained in the belly of the large animal, or lying close against its side. The snout of the smaller one is pointing toward the pelvis of the other, and the tail lies in the same direction. f Journal of Commerce. Tbe President’s Sontk Carolina Proc lamation. The New York Commercial Advertiser, (Badi- cal) speaks as follows of this doonment: * The effect of the proclamation will be visible in several directions. It is, in the first place, an official recognition of a gang of ruffians who are of the same kidney with the “Plug Uglies” of Baltimore, but who are not likely to b caught. It holds the people of a whole State under the threat of an armed occupation of their territory, as in a time of civil war, and therefore humiliates the lovers of order. It forbids the introduction of capital into a State which is doomed to undergo martial rigors. It revives partisan hates, at the moment when conciliation should be the first care. It will produce a feel ing of distrust abroad, and so work injury fo our finances. Had the . President sent a few companies of troops to South Carolina, at the requisition of the Governor of the State, to aid in the work of guarding disturbed districts, the case would not have been so serious. But to declare, by formal proclamation, that a new in surrection has broken out, and that the Federal forces are to re-enter and re-ocoupy, is simply mischievous. When loll journals are inspired to otter such words of soberness and truth, be Bure there is great hope for the country. A column of ar gument could not more truthfully and trench antly picture the result of this last outcropping of Badioal malice and stupidity. A Pnm Statement.—The New York World, which has a peculiarly matter of fact way of viewing things, alludeB to Grant’s Kn-klnx pro clamation after the following blunt way: Gov. Scott, from Ohio, armed the negro mi litia in South Carolina and sent them raiding over the State, to the terror of all women and children. They have had some small collision* with disgusted white men in two of the upper counties in consequence of their depredations. They have since been disarmed, »*»d South Car olina been as quiet and serene as Vermont for the past month. Now comes a tremendous proclamation from President Grant command ing the “insurgents” (whites) to disperse and retire peaceably to their re spective abodes within twenty days from this time, or the army and navy will be sent into the State to suppress the “insurrection.” What insurrection ? A Louisiana Lxgislatob.—The New Orleans Times tells the following: At the meeting of the late legislative session, one of the Senegambian members professed a great anxiety to be introduced to 1 'de Gubernor,” which was at last gratified. Ushered into the Executive presence, he was met with a “glad to see yon, sir.” With a flourish that embodied all the native grace of a Chimpanzee, he ad vanced with a profound bow, and then drawing himself up with rigid ramrod dignity, answered: “Tank you, Gubernor, de depreciation is cor roborated. I hab perspired yon for a long time.” That fellow subsequently helped to make laws for the people of Louisiana. Negro Outrages in Charleston. The negroes of Charleston, encouraged by thetr white Badical allies, seem to be going be yond all endurable bounds. Monday night a negro firo company, who persisted in occupying the track of the street railroad, upon the cars moving forward attacked the driver, knocked him down, then the conductor, smashed in the windows, and otherwise showed their defiance to everything like law and order. The same party tore down the fence of a farm on the west side of King street, just above Line, trampled the growing crop under foot, thereby utterly destroying it, and, when remonstrated with by the colored man who was in charge of the place, threatened to kill him. On Sunday last MY. Gates, “the proprietor of the Magnolia Omnibus Line, was attacked on the shell road by a party of nine negroes. Mr. Gates made a manful resistance, but was terribly beaten. The negroes then set upon a young man named Spragpe, who had gone to Mr. Gates’ assistance, and gave him a brutal beating. - Saturday last, after tho races were over, and a man named Finley was peaceably driving off the course in his buggy, he wa3 cursed and abused by a drunken negro, and, on resenting the affront, was set upon by a negro crowd and mortally wounded, it is believed. When such things occur, a war of races be comes inevitable, and from present appearances we think our Carolina friends may make up their minds to such a result and prepare to meet it—Savannah Republican, 30th ult. BOS. E. A. N IS BET. A Worthy Tribute to a Worthy Iknn-Tcs- timontnl from Rev. I>. Wills, I>. l>., 1-res ident of Oglethorpe University. From the Atlanta Sun. Editor Sun: "Will yon allow mo a small space in your columns to record a tribute of affection to tho memory of the lato Hon. E. A. Nisbet, whose death is universally lamented? For more than a decade of years onr relations were of the most intimate and tender nature, and no idle eulogy is intended when wo ven ture to pronounce him an exalted type and model of whatsoever thiDgs are pure, lovely and of good report. Greater men have doubtless adomedthe ages; men of mote mcntalrobustness andvigor; men who have figured mere brilliant ly on Die broad arena of the world’s history and who have won a larger share of the high- sounding panegyrics of the multitude. But it was a combination of excellencies which con stituted tho crown of glory in tho subject of this notice. In his social, intellectual and moral qualities he rose as a prince in the pres ence of his fellows. As a father and friend none were more sympathetic and true, as an office-bearer in the church he was exemplary and faithful, and as a Christian he was meek and lowly as the little white flower which smiles and sweetens the breath of spring. In scholarly attainments he confessedly stands as the Cor inthian column in the noble temple of learning in Georgia, and in relation to the character and extent of his legal acquirements and juridical lore the Supreme Court in which he ably pre sided will soon pronounco an official utterance. The death of such a man is a pnblio loss, which cannot bo easily repaired. An ornament to the State has been stricken from the diadem of its beauty and strength, and a star of the sanctuary has been translated to a loftier shhere to shine with peerless effulgence forever. Happy! thrice happy! will be the young men of this generation, if they shall be wise enough to covet the gifts and graces of the great and good who are calmly reposing in the dust of the valley. Very truly yours, David Wills. Atlanta, March 31,1871. P. S.—The Board of Trustees of Oglethorpe University, of which Judge Nisbet was the pres ident for a quarter of a century, are arranging for a eulogy on his life and character, to be pronounced at the approaching commencement of the institution. Governor Jenkins, Hon. Herschel V. Johnson, and Judge Warner, are each spoken of in this commotion. D. W. Above ob Under Geotjnd.—The New York Legislature has passed both the tunnel and via duct bills. Great efforts are used by the rival parties to induce the Governor to veto one of bills. The papers generally predict success to the viaduct bill, which we believe contemplates a railway through blocks in the general direc tion of Broadway and raised at an elevation suf ficient to permit passage under it through the cross streets, as well as warehouses under the track. Upon this road will belaid a double track upon which trains will ran at the speed of twenty miles an hour through the city. Connecticut.—-The eleotion for Governor, members of Congress, State officers, and mem bers of the Legislature, takes place in this State to-morrow. The Democrats expect to re-elect English, Governor, and three ont of four members of Congress.- The Congressional dele gation now stands three Badicals and one Demo crat. Gov. English writes to his friends at Washington that the Democrats will carry the State ticket, and gain certainly one, and per haps two, members of Congress. Other ac counts are still more favorable. TheMiutaby Diotatob Bill.—Shellabarger’s bill to create the President military dictator of the Sonthern States, with power to supersede the governments—declare martial law and erect an independent civil administration in each of the States, is drawing out the anathemas of all sensible Bepnblican papers in the North. They all declare it will kill the party as dead as a her ring in the Northern States, whereas if the party would only let the Ku-klux .alone, the lat ter would do the same good service to the De mocracy. v The Weatheb.—The three last days of March tried to see what they oonld do in the way of raining, and made out very well. They rained heavily, constantly, supremely. April then came on the tapis, and dried them up. April set in with a fierce wind from the North, which now, at this moment, say 5 p. m., is blowing almost a gale. The mercury is sinking fast, and if the atmosphere were still and dear we Bhonld have a heavy frost. Perhaps the tender vegeta bles may catch a nipping before we issue again. The Sun’s correspondent at Columbia, South Carolina, says the true cause of all tbe troubles down there is a class of political shysters who hang abont waiting for something to turn np, and exoite negro insurrection to provoke the retaliation of the Ku-Klnx, hoping in the dis turbances that follow to gain their own selfish endB. He proposes that General Bntlor intro duce a bill to hang these scamps instead of the Ku-KIux, as they are the men who make suoh organizations as the Ku-KIox possible. There can bo little doubt that this is the whole truth of the matter in a nut shell; but politicians in Congress don’t want to see it in that light, be cause such an opportunity to make capital for the next eleotion ia not to be lost. So says the New York Commercial Advertiser of Monday. The extent to which the fossil bones of the elephant are scattered over the world is very re markable. They are found in the norm of Europe, in Scandinavia, in Ireland, in England, in Central Europe, in Greece, in Ibtiy, in Africa, in Asia and in the frozen regions of Siberia. Off the coast of Norfolk England, 2,000 ele phants’ teeth were flaked up between the years 1820 and 1823. sene number found in Siberia, a region alt°g eUl8r Uninhabitable for the ele phant »> onr days, is immense. New Siberia Qua me islands off the month of the river Lena are, for the most part, only an agglomeration of sand, ice and elephant’s teeth. At every tempest the sea casts ashore new quantities of mammoth tasks, and the Siberians carry on a profitable commerce in this fossil ivory. ■ Who Knows Best?—Not many weeks ago Governor Soott, of South Carolina, informed tbe world that everything was getting along in his State as well as oonld be expected, and that there was absolutely no need of Federal inter vention, as the local authorities possessed all power necessary to preserve order. But it seems the Governor didn’t know what he was talking about, and the powers at Washington, hundreds of miles away, declare South Carolina In a state of anarchy.—New York Com. Ado. (.Rad.) FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, Dally Review of the Market. OFFICE TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER,) Amn, 1—Evening, 1871. ) Cotton.—Receipts to-day 138 bales; sales 171; shipped 215. The market is quite unchanged. We still quote Liverpool middlings at IS cents. ^ . . “acon cotton statement. Stock on hand Sept. 1, 1870—bales.. 2,334 Received to-day 133 ’ Received previously *.'.*."".'.95,204—95,840 Shipped to-day 215 Shipped previously 89,070—89,285 Stock on hand this evening 8.339 There was a moderately good trade to-day in epring goods, provisions, eto. Prices are without change. We quote: Clear Bib Sides (smoked) Shoulders - 11 Hams (sugar-cured) BULK MEATS—clear sides Clear rib sides Shoulders 9 GRAIN AND HAY. CORN—Whito. 105 MEAL 115 @120 GRITS 1 25 @ 1 30 OATS 75 @ 1 25 WHEAT—For bushel 1 40 FIELD PEAS HAY—Northern Tomiesso Timothy Herds Grass.... Tennessee - 13% @14 . 13 @ 13% . 11 @ 11% 18 ® 20 12% @ 13 12 @ 12% ® 93* @ 1 10 & 1 60 1 75 2 00 2 00 2 00 20C Horning market Report. New Youk. April 1.—Gotton quiet; uplands 15X; Orleans 15%; sales 1000. Turpentine quiet at 51%. Rosin dull at- 2 70 for strained. Freights steady. Flour quiet and unchanged. Wheat firm. Com quit. Mess Pork steady at 2125. Lard quiet at Stocks steady and quiet. Money easy at 4. Gold steady at 10%. Exchange, long 9%; short 10%. iondon, April 1, noon.—Consols 92%. Money 92%@93. American Securities quiet. Bonds 92%. Ltvektool, April 1, noon Cotton dull; uplands 7%; Orleans 7%; sales 10,000. London, April 1,1:30 p. at.—Consols closed 92%; Money 92%@92%. American Securities quiet and steady. Bonds 92%. Liverpool, April 1, 2:30—Cotton closed easier; uplands 7%@7%; Orleans 7%@7%; sales 10,000; export and speculation 2000. Markets—Evening Report. Augusta, April 1.—Cotton market dosed dull and prices shade lower at 13%@13% for middlings; sales 225; receipts ISO. Savannah, April 1—Cotton in good demand; middlings 14; net receipts 1135; exports to Great Britain3971;coastwise—; sales 1500; stock 50,698; New Yobk, April 1—Cotton dull and heavy; sales 1431; uplands 15%. Flour quiet and steady at 6 90<a>7 50 for common to fair extra. Wheat firm; sprmg 158@I61;new spring 167; winter red and amber western 169. Com firm at 82584; new mixed western chiefly 83 @83^. Mess Pork heavy at 21 00@2125. Beef met. Lard 11%@12%; steam 12@12%. Groce- ieB dull. Naval stores quiet. Freights firm. Money active at 5@6 on call. Exchange dull. Gold 10%. Governments dull. 1862’s 12%* State securities generally, very dull. Tenneesees and Virginias very strong and active. New South Oaro- linas had a slight reaction to day and sold as high as 61. Tennessees 66%; new 65%. Virginias 73; new 73 Lonisianas 68; new ’62. Levee 6s 72; 8s 81; Alabamaa 102; 5s 68. Georgias 82; 7s 89%. North Carolinas 46%; new 23, South Carolinas 72; new 61. Bonds: 64s 17%; 65s 12%; new 11%; 67s’ll%; 68s 11%; 10-403 8%. Cincinnati, April L—Mess pork, demand fight; holders firm at 20 50. Lard, full prices asked, but no demand. Bulk meats dull but unchanged. Bacon, only limited jobbing demand; shoulders 7% @7%; clear rib sides 10; clear sides 11. ' New Obleans, April 1—Flour firm; superfine 6 25, double 687%, treble 712%'«725. Comeaeier at 71. Oats, St. Louis 65; Galena 68. Bran easier 120. Fork doll at2150. Bacon, shoulders 8%; clear rib sides 10%; dear sides 11%; sugar-cured bams 15%@16. Laid, tierce 12@13; keg 13%@13%. Sugar firmer; fair.7%@8%; prime 10%. Molasses, fermenting 30@45; plantation reboiled 32%@50. Whisky, western rectified 85@95. Coffee steady at 14@15%. Sterlingnominalat2I%. Sight % premium. Gold 10%. Cotton quiet; middlings 14%; net receipts 2567; gross 2677; exports to Great.Britain 3164; coastwise 2772; to Liverpool —; to Bremen 1032; to Antwerp 1300; Havre 5512; sales 4300; Btock 241,424. Charleston, April 1.—Cotton dull; middlings 1S%@14; net receipts 826; exports to Great Britain —; coastwise 173; sales 100; stock 22,134. Wilmington, April 1.—Cotton quiet; middlings 14; net receipts 53; exports coastwise 21; sales 45; stock 2810. Baltimore, April 1.—Cotton quiet and steady; middlings 14%@14%; net receipts 100; groes 118; the continent ; coastwise —; sales 395; exports to Great Britain 135; stock 10,485. Boston, April 1—Cotton steady; middlings 15%; net receipts 210; gross 715; sales 200; stock 12,000. Mobile, April 1.—Cotton dull; middlings 14%; net receipts 631; gross 1628; exports to Great Britian 1450; coastwise 156; sales 800; stock 57,285. Galveston, April L—Cotton quiet; good or dinary 12; net receipts 1374; exports to Great Britain—; eoastwiee—; sales 1160; stock58,874. A London establishment, on Thursday night, at 9:08 p. ar. received a message which had been sent via Teheran, from Kurraehoe, India, on Friday morning, at 12:43 a. k. The message as therefore received in London the day before » was sent from India. The time actually oc cupied by the message in transmission was fifty minutes. The sun would require 3h.26m. to do •’ e game distanoe, and as-the message was sent soon after midnight, the extraordinary effect produced of Us arriving the previous evening. Mb. Thomas Gill, a veteran newspaper re porter who died in Boston a week or two ago, in bis life time was very fond of a .joke, and pos sessed a keen sense of huiuor. The Washington Chronicle gives an amusing instance of his drol lery. The Hon. Eobert Rantoul, Jr., was deliv ering to an immense audience an oration-at a a celebration on Bunker Hill, in the coarse of which he described with great pathos and effeot the famous battle which had occurred on the very spot where they were assembled. As he resumed his seat, Gill, who was seated near him, carelessly remarked, “My father was in that battle.” iiantonl immediately sprang to his feet and announced this fact, whereupon there were vehement calls from the crowd for the son of the revolutionary hero. Mr, Gill modestly rose, and after acknowledging the vo ciferous cheers which greeted him, quietly in formed his hearers that it was true that his father was in the battle of Banker Hill, bat—he was fighting on the other side! The scene that followed “ beggared description.” Mr. Gill was an Englishman by birth, and one of tho first professional reporters who came to America. A Determined Voter.—A New Hampshire paper tells of a gallant Democrat of that State who deserves to be immortalized. It says: “On theeveniDg before electionjMr. John W. Lyon, of Bath, a brakeman on the Montreal road, expecting to turn back at Wells’ river, found himself compelled to go on to Plymouth, where he arrived at 8 o’clock. Had he aocepted the situation he would have been unable to get home in time to vote; but he didn’t. Without stopping for a cold bite even, Mr. Lyon got a hand car, and, by clear muscle, propelled^ him self over forty-eight miles of track, part of it on an ascending grade of eighty-five feet to the mile, till he reached home at 1:30 o’clock. On learning the facts, his friends turned odt of their beds and gave him a hot oyster supper, and that day one more ballot for James A. Wes ton wes the result of the indomitable energy, muscle and determination exhibited by Mr. Lyon. It is this spirit that has carried our party through years of defeat to final victory.” Romantic Suicide.—Miss Mary Jane Lovell, a beautiful young woman, who for some years past has been the mistress of John S. Blackburn, a pork merchant of Greenfield, Ohio, commuted suioide on the 22d nit., near that place, by taking poison. Blackburn is a man of family, forty-five years of age, and his intimaoy with the young woman had created such scandal among their respective friends that it is said they both determined upon suioide. They pro vided themselves with poison, and, having ar rayed themselves neatly, drove out sight miles from Greenfield, and went into a wild wood called Cliff Bun. The young woman swallowed her share of the poison and died. Blackburn’s heart misgave him, and he returned to the town and informed the young woman’s friends of the circumstances, and they prooeeded to the spot and found her body. Blackburn, it is stated, him become hopelessly insane. A Frenchman, who owns a house in the vi cinity of Paris, tinted the premises after the siege was ended. He found that all the closets and drawers had been forced and pioadred. Quantities of linen, ladies’ dresses, and infanta’ olothing had been carried away. “It was evi dent,” remarked the reporter of the case, “that the person who committed this pillage was the kind father of a family, who did not forget the wife and daughters and the baby at home. It was very touching!” The Western Wheat Crop.—A Western press dispatch, dated Chicagq, 30th lust, says; Reliable reports say that never, perhaps, in the history of the country, were the prospects of the wheat crop so splendid at this season. Every field promises a large yield. There is no exoeption to this. Wheat growers prediet the eaiUest year kopwo einoe Iffiuois was seated.
