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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.
