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I.:i Ital .lSasqoe.
„ s t0 a heard, my friend, of the grand Maaqnrade
: .Vent o’er cur town so piona and etaid ?
•mcwmvaI’s rout could hardly outvie
wave of pleasure that ran so high,
vviit preparations went on for a week,
L| Utiles and Eeanx in costume complete.
tS iiorriel about, troubled and craz’d,
[Seen ttood around, perplexed and amazed,
Siss bitter and thither a dress for the ball,
tUrtrobee. "eomme il.faut" were demanded of all.
kgs were Kings and Queens in purple and gold,
^ditime bad not made the least lusty or old.
LgEjefcard the first, from tho.Oonrt of St. James,
rjmg ‘ Lion do Coenrs” with comely dames.
I»yp»i»'iin. the Turk, his old Moslem foe,
sjcri:<l truce, and promised to fight no more,
>-i along w-th the English Lion had come
fjstovr iff his dress, and have a little fun.
krswis 'irgin Queen Bees, in train and ruff,
kgleJ and elbowed till quite in a huff;
kiss Leicester came witn courtly grace,
te> recalled again the smiles to her face.
Ith Anne and Mary embellished the ecene
tsi beauty and goodness and high-bred mien;
him vis Eurleigh, a Lord of Elizabeth’s time,
tel her bright little Pago, who brought np the lino; I
kisFranca the first, just bteppedfrom St. Cloud,
[flitcour.ler a Ghost in sheet and shroud,
fcjqiick in royal train cams Lads and Lassos
j&mell, of all kinds and grades and classes; ■
hers w«a Maids from Turkey, and Maids from
I Spun,
tl Miidena from Scotia’s bonny blue main,
it .'hid of Lucemo with basket cf dowers,
tel Cjiderella, counting the bonrs.
:-re was an A pine Maid, and La Belle France,'
.'iicrapo-trailing banner and broken lance.
* Mud of Athens, so lovely and fair,
ib her ewceping veil of dnsky hair;
» Fiora McFlimaoy, too, was there,
r the Maid, I'm euro, with “nothing to wear,”
i quite devoid of all such distresses,
s conned all her gayest colored dresses;
s Belle of the Masque, with her sweet, pale face,
I ablest retirement bad taken her place |
. side the While Lady of Avenel fair,
htovw warning all the gay actors beware,
is pretence foreboding a coffin and pall
lione of tho guests of this Fancy Ball.
Zwika. in trowsen. j click and cymar,
lltocicng to her Selim in epito of Papa,
Itufodjwod by tfco lovoly Queen of llearts,
tottering here and thero her fatal darts ;
Kim, the huntress, fleet as the hind,
I hialy sought her Endymeon to Sad,
I tide Titania, the bright little fairy Queen,
I Blared a reule raise on tho moon-lit green,
■ IThero Rain-drop glittered in Iris crown,
■ lad mow-flake floated as softly as down,
Id Kymph from the sea, and a Nymph from the
I stream
I hopping pearls and shells from their robes of green.
■Rile a gay little Gipsy, in cloak and hood,
ICnne blithely and fresh from her nativo wood, I ■
I licensing her fortunes with liberal hand, '
lb wealth or love, as the case might demand;
I lad Inez, the dark-eved And alas Maid,
I iiaecd a “Highland fling,” in Scottish plaid,
I But why, I would ask, did she quite ignore
llerown pretty step—the light “Bolero ?”
I lien Emerald Spring came tripping by
I With her golden hair and violet eye.
I Hups, with her Anchor, had taken her stand,
I To watch for Aurora, eo rosy and bland,—
I Wile Night, in glittering and ehining array,
I Cingbt np hor dark robes and glided away,
I hearted by Peasants from Italia’s clime,
I Tbo in music and mirth laugh away time.
I Organ and “Jacko” loomed Into sight,
I Who with mnsic and tricks for “only one night.”
I la tartan plaids, with horn and Heron’s plume,
I i Highland Hon ter strode through the room;
I John, in robe and cue, of celestial race,
lb “broken China” was seeking a place;
I hd Romeo, too, who was to have been there,
I It borne was sighing in deopest despair
I Btcause his Juliet had got in a pout
I Fob Nurse or Mamma, and wouldn't come out.
I Ilea the Zouave came smiling aronnd,
I But the English Jockey could nowhere be found.
I Ibeard, tub rota, ho was playing his part,
I Out in the moonlight, “trading” his heart.
I There were Bobbers, Bandits and Pirates all,
I Kelt Turpin, Burbot, Conrad and Duval,
tod your heart beat a throb or two, more quick,
I ittbe gleam of a knife, or carbine’s click.
I Behind these gente, came trudging along,
The sturdy John Bull, with cudgel and song,
I Eyeing young Jonathan, strutting about,
tod playing “Munchausen”—Lord of the rout,
wbu brought in his triin a Sailor or two,
toittican Tars, in yellow and blue,
men a dark Indian Chiof came, sombre and sad,
b war paint and feathers gloomily clad;
While in crimson robe a Princess stood by
With Leaded belt and soft velvet eye,
"bote dainty feet, in Moccasins laced,
toning 1 ght as the fawns by hunter chased,
tot the oddest of all these comical folks
Jai Matilda and Pete, with qnibs and jokes,
brook, the laesy of olden time*
tod conein Turoipseod, tricked ont so fine
b Mtallow-taU’d coat and gay flower’d vest,
tod raffles that stood ont a foot from his chost.
With church-steeple hat and greasy wig,
tod cravat as wide as tho sails of a brig;
Granting his “Coz,” in yellow brocade
tod mantle of lace with flowers inlaid;
porting tho dress of her Grandam of yore,
when a maid she danced long years afore,
•toting and laughing with all whom they met—
towing somo in smileB and Borne in a pet.
tojrt hero I tbonRht I would leavo the gay scene,
Gble out through tho throDg unknown and unseen
Wien hearing a sudden buret of surprise,
Jhe Devil I saw, stalked in, in diegniso;
Sot the Demons of Milton, Faust or Foetus,
tot “Lo Diable Boiteux” Aemodius.
Earing met hie Satanic Lordship before .. M !
I made a low bow and went out at the door,
Sot wishing yot bis acquaintance to make,
Sor ever—unless the wrong road I should take;
tot afterwards learn’d from tbose left behind
He was tlio most gallant Beau of the night,
b his rich satin suit, of green and of white.
Boin music and in danciDg the hours flew by,
•ti wbiap’rings of love, ’neath the moon-lit sky
HR tho midnight chime rang out on the ear,
In warning unwelcome, sharp and clear.
Long will we dwell on this bright winter’s eve;
And when fate through our lives dark threads shall
_. weave
>*« will turn with joy to memory’s scroll,
And from mouldering leavos this scene unroll—
Jjve over again this wild j oyone night,
"ten many fond hearts wero happy and light.^
• fctonton, March 28,1871. l‘
MACON, TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1871.
VOL. LOT—KQ 41
Binges.
nr the now. ants, nobton.
[By Request. \
Asoldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiors,
There was lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth
or woman s tears;
But a comrade stood beside him, while his life-blood
ebb’d away,
And bent, with pitying glances, to hear what he
might say;
Tho dying soldier falter’d, and he took that com
rade’s hand.
And he said, “I never more shall see my own, my
native land: ’ 1
Take a message, and a token, to somo distant
friends of mino,
For I was bom at Biogen—at Bingen on the Rhine.
“Tell my brothers and companions, when they meet
and crowd aronnd,
To hear my mournful story, in tho pleasant vine
yard ground.
That we foughtthe battle bravely, and when the'day
was done,
Full many a corpso lay ghastly pale, beneath the
setting eun;
And, 'mid the dead and dying, were some grown old
Tho doath wound on their gallant breasts, the last
of many scars;
And eomo wero young, and suddenly beheld life’
mom decline,
And one had come from Bingen—fair Bingen on the
Rhine. •- i.
“Tell my mother that her other son shall comfort
her old age;
And I was still a truant bird, that thought his home
a cage.
For my father was a soldier, and even as a child
My heart leap’d forth to hoar liim tell of struggles
fierce and wild;
And when he died, and left us to divide his scanty
hoard,
I let them take whate’er they would—but kept my
father’s sword:
And with boyish love I hung it where the bright
light used to shine,
On the cottage wall at Bingen—calm Bingen on the
Rhino.
‘•Tell my sister not to weep for mo, and sob with
drooping head,
When the troops are marching home again, with
glad and gallant tread;
Bat to look upon them proudly, with a calm and
steadfast eye,
For her brother was a soldier, too, and not afraid to
die; *
And if a comrade seek her Ioto, I ask her in my
n&me,
To listen to him kindly, without regret or shame;
And to hang tho old sword in its place, (my fathers
sword and mine)
For the honor of old Bingen—dear Bingen on the
Rhine.
“Thero’s another—not a sister—in the happy days
gone by,
Ton have known her by the merriment that sparkled
in her eye;
Too innocent for coquetry—too fond for idle scorn
ing—
O, friend I fear the lightest heart makes sometimes
heaviest mourning. ;
Tell her the last night of my life (for ere this moon
be risen.
My body will be ont of pain, my soul bo ont of
prison,)
I dreamed I stood with her, and saw the yellow
sunlight shine.
On the vine-clad hills of Bingen—fair Bingen on the
Rhine.
1 saw the -bine Rhine sweep along—I heard, or
seemed to hear,
Tho German songs wo used to sing, in chorus sweet
and clear; - - *
And down the pleasant river, and np the slanting
hill.
That echoing chorus sounded through the evening
calm and still;
And her glad, bine eyes were on me, as wo pass’d
with fritn lly talk,
Down many a path beloved of yore, and well-re
membered walk;
And her little hand lay lightly, confidingly in mine;
But we’ll meet no more in Bingen—loved Bingen on
the Rhine.
His voico grew faint and hoarser—bis grasp was
childish weak—
His eyes put on a dying look—he sigh’d and ceased
to speak;
His comrade bent to lift him, bnt the spark of life
had fled—
Tho soldier of tho Legion in a foreign land was
dead!
And the soft moon rose np 8lowly, and calmly she
looked down
On tho red sand of the battle field, with bloody
corses strewn;
Yes, calmly on that dreadful scone the pale light
seemed to shine,
As it shone on distant Bingen—fair Bingen on the
Rhine. • »: .Jk-sifar
and, we believe that the suggestion of his name
for the Comptroller Generalship will meet with
almost unanimous endorsement.' To those who
may not know him we can. say that he. isa-na
tive Georgian, a sincere and faithfnl democrat,
Can’t Aghee.—The Courier-Journal’s Waah-
bgton correspondent telegraphs as follows, un
der date of Thursday:
While the detailed proceedings of the Joint
High Commission are kept secret, there is .no
~tobt that the Commission has thus far utterly
'•Rod to come to any terms of settlementof the
toternational fishery question. The demands
Jf Canada, as submitted through Sir John Mc
Donald, are regarded as utterly untenable by
too American commissioners, and, unless the
United States are willing to concede liberal
«F®? of reciprocity, it is thought that toe com-
will find itself in a complete dead lock,
ibis is quite unfortunate, iu view of the fact
bto*thefl-!iing season will open in two or three
j^oatbs, when the belligerent acts of the last
i are likely to be resumed. •
Tns most modern and fashionable way to ac-
toaipliahed suicido is to fill your mouth with
b-a powder nnd then take a percussion cap and
•tow it hard. If the oap has your monogram
“ ll i so much the better.
merchant tailors .of Philadelphia have
uned n society for mutual protection, to be
own ns tho “Merchant Tailors’ Exchange."
j./^ister ia to be kept of ail customers, classi-
linl“ nd . 0 F, 111166 heads . “objeotionable,” “de-
^aent, and “troublesome.
of most industrious habits, an accomplished, ..
accountant, intimately acquainted with Hie del th - at ■ cor E_ and . lesa 00tt< ? 11 ** Pl ant :
tails of the Comptroller’s office, possessed of
substantial and caltivated mind and an honest
heart. His talents were appreciated by.the
Confederate Government whose interops, he
faithfully subserved, and with whose fortunes
he embarked and lost Ms estate. It may be
said that many others did likewise. This is
trne, bnt there are few, if any, to: be foqnd
who are so well qualified, for the position to
wMoh we refer. CoL Allan is fitted for this of
fice by nature, education and experience.
It may be considered premature to present
his name at this time. : We do thubeeause it is
often too late to do good but ia our opinion
never too early. The consideration of the sub
ject can at least do no harm.—ipnonon De
fender. ■ . v :. .-!i l.,tt ■«■•-„>..
\ihatiTrapads (jpon.
j The editor of the Savannah Republican bos
recently had a conversation with the Hon. Eras-
tns Brooks, one of the editors of the New York
Express, who is at present on a visit to Savan
nah, on .the prospects of a Democratic triumph
at the North next year, to wMchhe refers edito
rially In his issue of Sunday as follows:
Letter from Lumber City.
I/tmbeb Crrr, Ga., April 2,1871.
• Editors Telegraph and Messenger: A recent
your fair city Tia tho Macon and Brnnsr-
wick liailroad, observations made along the
route and from information obtained from other
sources, I am led to the conclusion that the acre
age Jn cotton this year will approximate closely,
if it doe3 not equal, that of last year. Cotton
is indeed king, and his submissive vassals, de
spite the lessons taught in tho past, aro bowing
at Ms shrine and paying the homage dictated by
his iron wilL
At almost every station along the railroad
more or less commercial fertilizers were to bo
seen, which, if their value could be estimated
in proportion to the odor they emitted, would
certainly add largely to this year’s crop. Tho
fact that fertilizers, with a few exceptions, havo
maintained steadily the prices at wMch they
were held last spring when cotton was 21 cents
per pound, is proof that the demand for them
is nearly, if not quite as great, as last spring;
therefore, it is fair to assume, that with a tol
erable cotton year, we may expect a crop fully
as large as that of the past'year, to be sold at
prices ranging at, perhaps, from 9 to 12 cents.
Now Messrs. Editors, why it is that intelli
gent farmers invest so largely in fertilizers, at
such enormorons prices, with snch a gloomy
prospect for cotton next FaU, is a mystery too
deep for eolation. Experience and observation
have taught mo that almost any of the fertilizers
offered in oar markets will pay a small per
centage with cotton at 15 or 16 cents per pound,
providing a pore article is obtained, bnt when
cotton is below that fignre it is rarely Hie case
that any benefit i3 derived from them, and fre
quently loss is the result. This I think would
be the verdict of a majority of tha farmers
throughout the country. In this view of the
case I would ask where is the farmers renumer
ation to come from for the wear and tear of Ms
machinery, forage for Ms Block, land rent, eto.,
after paying Ms laborers, and settling up Ms 21
per cent. montMy.bitla with bis warehousemen
upon whose credit h'a‘ was enabled to buy his
guano. ' > ; o. t
It is admitted by mahy farmqrs- that it costs
from 7 to 10 cents to produce cotton and get it
ready for market. Tho laborer, therefore takes
within two or three cents of the present market
value of it. Still, with a more gloomy prospeot
ahead than ever, we- find many rushing wildly
and madly into the business of cotton growing
to tho exclusion, in a measure, of. forago and
provision crops. If the farmer’s cash capital
alone was invested in cotton growing the crop
would be curtailed to an extent that what would
be made would bear a remunerative price; but,
as it is, he goes it largely, makes hundreds of
bales, gluts the market, and with credit strained
to tho last notch comes eutin debt; to use a
familiar expression “he makes lots of money,
bnt it is all for somebody else.” For the pres
ent I think we will have to accept farmer Fogy’s
solution of the problem of the recklessness of
farmers, which is “that every man thinks his
neighbor is not going to plant any cotton this
year and now’s his time to strike.” Line upon
line has been showered upon the numerons
readers of your valuable paper throughout the
country in regard to tMs matter, but no heed is
taken. Time, however, will bring a change;
the truth of the situation will force itself on the
minds of planters. Only the available cash
capital will bo employed in farming; small
crops will bo made, and satisfactory prices will
be obtained for them. Then we shall be happy
to hear them, like the renowned Horaoe, tell
“what they know about fanning.’’
By the way, if you should wish to take a
pleasant ride southward, I would suggest' that
yon embark on the Macon and Bronswiok Rail
road, and take a ride to Brunswick. This road
can boast of as pleasant and comfortable coaches
as any road in tho country, and they are presid
ed over by the cleverest corps of conductors
that it-has ever been my good fortune to meet
with.
The facilities offered by this road to travelers
from the North coming South are unequaled by
any other line southward. Gloso connections
are made at Macon with the Macon and Western
Road, and at Jessup with the Gulf Road. Pas
sengers go through from Atlanta to Savannah
and Jacksonville, Fia., in sixteen and eighteen
hours, and it is now extensively patronized by
the traveling pnblic from the North and West,
coming Sonth. , ' -
Yours, etc., - ■ a -l> Sub scum eb.
The Way They are “Planting More
Corn and Less Cotton.”
Under this head the editor of the Columbus
Enquirer gives his 'experience of what it meanB
as follows
We are informed of an instance in wMch a
man, a few weeks since, rented a field with the
usual understanding that he was to pay the rent
with a portion of the crop. Being then asked
what he intended to cultivate, he replied “all
ooro,” as he did not believe cotton would bring
a paying price. TMs was no doubt-his inten
tion at the' time. Bnt as planting time comes
oh the temptation to put in a good cotton crop
always becomes hard to resist It was so in tMs
instance. Passing by the place the other day,
a neighbor noticed that corn had been planted
in tho poorest parts of the field, but the best
and freshest portion^' had not been plowed.
Asking the reason, he was told that the unplow-
ed portions had been reserved for cotton! . ,
Wo passed by a small farm a day or two since,
that had been rented to a couple of industrious
freedmen. They'were hard at work planting
Fitness for OHIce vs. Availability.
The interests of the public demand the selec
tion of officers with special reference to their
qualifications for the positions to which they are
respectively called. It is a source of regret that
this care hasnotbeen generally observed and that
tho question of availability, which is in this con-
nection the synonym of wire working and dem-
agogneism, has governed all parties in the pre
sentation of candidates for popular favor. The
only tenet in tho doctrines of Knownothingism
which ever met our sanction was embraced in
the avowal that “the office should seek the man
and not the man the office.”
Tha foregoing paragraph has been suggested
while considering a special case of fitness for a
certain offico which will be filled by election at
the meeting of the Legislature in 1872, We
refer to the office of Comptroller General and
to CoL Thompson Allan as the person who of
all others in Georgia we deem best qnalifiedfor
and most deserving this position. To those per
sonally acquainted with the character,. and
splendid qualifications of Col. Allan, our. com-
SsSSaKai'saS SH35S25E5HBH
of any kind. Asking why they
not use the manure whioh we knew to be on
tho place, we were told that they were reserv
ing that for the cotton drop!
And thus It is, we have good reason to fear,
The best portions of tho land
be, or have been, reserved for cotton. The
fact that the amount of commercial fertilizers
used is vastly short of last year’s consumption
does not, by any means, prove that the cotton
crop will be greatly shortened on tMs aooonnt;
because the home-made fertilizers will, this
year, be mostly applied to ootton, and tho corn
will have to go without manure. The failure
to buy tbe commercial fertilizers oan, in this
way, operate more to the curtailment of the
corn than the cotton crop. We venture the
assertion that, in a majority of oases, the plant
ing has been so managed os to make the lack
of fertilizers affect the com rather than the
cotton—either by the. selection of toe host
lands this year for cotton and the poorer for
com, or by the application to cotton of the
kinds of manures that were, last year applied to
OOTO. -br.r,v:‘.-j
■■,rj .
As Old Bachklob's Will—Lea visa thx
Bcxk of as Estate of $400,000 to his Six
Hobses.—An old bachelor of Fassaio-Yillage,
N. J., named Marsh, died recently, leaving an
estate-Valued at about §400,000, including 80
acres of ehoioe land near Passaic, and six horses.
His last will and testament is a curious docu-
In a conversation with Mr. Brooks, held in hnent 'Neatly all of M^pri
our office a day or two ago,' the prospect of a
Democratic triumph at the North being the sub
ject of particular enquiry on onr part, he as
sured us that it depended solely on one cbndi-
tion, viz: good order and respect for law in the
South between now and the Presidential election.
The Radicals are divided among themselves on
nearly every pnblic question. The party has
been broken down with the weight of its own
political enormities, and nothing can save it
from utter destruction at the North bnt excesses
and lawlessness at the South, which never fail
to damage the Conservative cause by making it
appear that the spirit of rebellion still exists
amongst ns, and, as a consequence, a necessity
for a oontinnance of tho stringent measures of
the Radical party. The great body of the
Northern people desire peace and quiet, and
Radical demagogues have persuaded them that
harsh means are the only cure for snch diseases
of the body politic. The ‘fperseention of loyal
ciiizens” is a favorite theme with these partisan
rogues, and they never fail to magnify every
outrage at the South an hundred fold in order
to inflame the public mind against ns and our
friends at the North. '
leathed
to his horses. The farm of eighty acres is set
apart for their exclusive comfort and support,
and $300 a year.cash la also provided for their
additional welfare. . $1200 ayear is appropria
ted to recompense a man whose whole time and
skill shall be devoted to.their care. To clinch
the provisions, the executors, who are Dr. R. A.
Torhuno and a New York, gentleman, are be
queathed the sum of $10,000 each, to see that
the requirements of the will are carried into
effect. TMs state of things is to continue ten
years, when the farm is ordered to be sold. A
poor Hollander working on the place, and one
or two others, are beneficiaries to a small
amount, bnt a large portion of tbe legacy is left
to the hones. A poor boy, to whqm he was
attached, is handsomely provided for. He had
no near relations, and the distant ones do not
come in for their share until, the.specified ten
years have-passed.—Sun.
Miss Lizzie Boysroy, the leader of the In
diana womanlsTights.people, is now married,
and has tame)y subsided to the slavery of keep
ing house for a great horrid man at Des Moines,
Iowa. w mz
Scarlet Fever.
From a circnlar distributed in London, Eng-
Itmd, the Medical Gazette extracts the following
directions for the management of the sick room
in cases of scarlet fever and other contagious
disorders:
“1. On the first appearance of the disease
the patient should be placed in a separate apart-
ment; as near the top of the house as possible,
from which all curtains, carpets, ced hangings
and other noedless articles of furniture shoiud
be removed, and no person except the medical
attendant and the nurse or mothor permitted to
enter the room. 2. A basin containing a solu
tion of-chloride of lime or carbolic acid should
be placed near the bed for the patient to spit
in. 3. A large vesselcontaining water, in which
has been poured Condy’s fluid or tan solution
of chloride of soda or lime, should be kept
in the room, and into this all the bed and
linen, as soon as it is removed from the pa
tient, and all soiled towels, eta, should bo
placed; having been kept here some time
the things may bo removed and sent to the
laundress. 4. Pocket handkorcMefs should not
be used bnt pieces of rags employed instead,
for wiping the month and nose of the patient;
each piece, after being once used, should be izn
mediately burned. 5. A plentiful supply of
water and towels should bo kept for the nurse,
whose hands of necessity will become soiled by
the secretions of the patient; in one hand-basin
the water Bhould be impregnated with Condy’s
fluid of cMoride, by wMch the taint on the
hands may at once be removed. C. All glasses,
cups, plates, or other vessels used, in the sick
room should be scrupulously cleaned in boiling
water before being Used by other persons. 7.
Outside the door of the sick room a sheet should
be suspended so as to cover the doorway; tMs
should be kept constantly wet with a solution
of carbolio acid or cMoride of lime. The effect
of this will be to keep every other part of the
house free from infection. 8. The discharge
from the bowels and kidneys of the patient
should bo received into vessels charged with
disinfectants, such as the solution of oarbolic
acid or chloride of lime, and immediately re
moved. By these means the poison thrown off
from internal surfaces may be rendered inert
and deprived of the power of propagating the
diseaso. 9. The thin skin or cnticle wMch peels
off from the hands, face and other parts of the
body in convalescent patients is Mgbly conta
gious. The plan recommended for preventing
the poison from the skin being disseminated;
through the air is to rub oil or lard over toe
skin. This practice is to be oommenoed on the
fourth day after the appearance of the ernption
and to be continued every day until the patient
is well enough to take a warm bath. These
baths Bhould be administered every other day
for four times, when the disinfection of the
skin may be regarded complete. TMs, however,
should not be dene without first consulting the
medical attendant. The foregoing directions
wiU apply to All kinds of fever, smalLpox, and
all other contagions diseases.
The patient having been removed, all linen
articles, snch as sheets, towels, pillow cases,
and body linen, are to be disinfected as by di
rection No. 3. 'Ibis done, the blankets, coun
terpains and woolen articles of clothing are to
be suspended on lines, and the mattresses and
beds placed over the backs of chairs; the fur
niture also is to be removed from the walls, the
windows closed, and paper pasted over the
crevices; the chimney opening of thefireplaco
is also to be effectually stopped up. An old
saucepan lid or'other open iron vessel is next
to be placed in the middle of‘the room, into
wMch a quarter of; a pound of stone brimstone,
broken into pieoes, is to be put; and the person
who does it must immediately leavo the apart
ment, close the door, and paste paper over the
crevices. At the .expiration of twenty-four
hours the room may be entered, and the doors
and windows thrown open to allow tbe fumes
of sulphur to escape. By this process the room
and everything in it may be considered to have
been thoroughly disinfeoted.
MISGOVERNMEBiT IN THE SOUTH.
The Results of Excessive Taxation—Plant
ers obliged to Sell their Lanlla to Pay
tbe Taxes—Buhl Staring them In . tho
Face.
Prom a Private letter from a South Carolina'lady.
Sumteb Distbict, March 27.—I cannot forbear
alluding to the evils which the present tax sys
tem of our State entails upon landholders.
Thousands are either on the brink of rnin or aro
barelyable to provide their families with the ne
cessities of life. My son’s place of 28,000 acres,
most of whioh is a swamp utterly incapable of
cultivation, is assessed at $5 per acre, and the tax
this year amounted to $287. In old times it was
only $8. M——y, which brings Mr. B. in $28.50
ayear, istaxednearly$300. Another plantation,
formerly taxed $3.50, now has to pay $190, and
valuation pnt upon them, bnt are coolly told
that the State will not give over fifty-cents per
acre for them, as “that is all they are worth”’
From the small sum remaining from toe sale of
our houses in , about $1,200, I have
been obliged to draw $500 to pay taxeB. My
husband has been trying hard to collect small
sums owing him, to lessen if possible the bur
den of taxation, bnt with small success. All
our neighbors and friends appear to be in the
same predioament. All are leaving their other
debts unpaid to pay the outrageous taxes im
posed upon them by the State. .
Sonth Carolina is in a deplorable condition.
Plantations unoccupied by their own owners
are taken possession of by negroes, and the
houses oocupied by them. The latter pay noi
rent, and will not leavo when they are bidden,
and as they have no money, it is useless to at
tempt legal proceedings against them. Further
more, they will not work if they can help it.
Hundred of planters say they willnot again pay
the unjust taxes'that are now extorted from
them. They even threaten armed resistance
unless some change for the better takes plaoe.
The negroes would hare given us no trouble
if they had not been subjected to the evil in
fluence of the incendiary carpet-baggers, who
are fattening at toe people’s expense. This is
no overdrawn picture of our oondition, and I
think the people of the North ought to know
how much we suffer. It costs more than the
net proceeds of a crop at present prioestozun
a plantation, and land has constantly to be sold
at a saorifioe to meet the taxes. When the land
is all gone, we shall be cast penniless upon the
world.—If. Y. Sun.
Blub AM) Mobton.—Gem. Frank Blair Mt
toe virtuous Morton, a sockdolager between
the eyeB, last Thursday, aswitness the follow
ing: . J.’ya ..taiH |:i . ufw ... . j : i
Mr. Blair desired Senator Morton to answer
candidly one question: whether the negroes
had not been entrusted with toe ballot in order
to bbtaimRepublioan rotes ? . to-. [
Mr, Morton replied that it was well to know
that reconstruction could not be accomplished
on a white basis. The white people of the South
would not accept the situation.
Mri Blair (empbatieally>T-They did accept
the situation. They did abolish slavery, and
never have lifted a hand against the Govern
ment since, and any one who asserts the' con
trary asserts that which ia not true. [General
applause in toe galleries.] -S. ■> Ti
A Case in Point.—A case has lately been tzieA
in London wMch concerns the advocates of wo
man’s rights. A man named Torpey induced a
l For the- Telegraph and Messenger.
Lines on the Death of So n. Eugenios
A. Nlsbet.
bt vmaiNfus.
No more, no more, shall he be known
Tho patriot, jurist, father, friend!
His body to the dust has gone,
His soul to where the good ascend.
No mcro with sage forensic lore
He’ll plead the cherished rights of men,
No more on Southern page will pour
Tlieewoetness of his graceful pen.
He ehono o'er earth like some pure light
Sent to illume this lower ground ;
And now as ho retires from sight, ' •
A mortal darkness hovers round,’;/ ■ ■
His course through life was calm, serene,
Unmarked by turbulence or strife,
His eyes were placed on things unseen— w t
His was a pore, believing life.
He’s gone to join the loved and wept,
Who went before him to the sky,
Whose memory he so sweetly kept,
Whoso star alone had fixed his eye.
And now on Heaven’s ambrosial MU
HoHl share that one’s eternal rest,
And there when joyB celestial thrill,
They and their children wiU be blest.
He sank to rest as sinks the sun
That leaves a golden smile behind,
His works cf love and mercy done,
His memory tints the drooping mind;
Or, like tho frnits that ripeet grow,
Bat faU when by tho tempest driven,
Though earth receives the crushing blow,
The sweetest odors rise to heaven , -
Eufaula, Ala., March 81,1871:
JOHN PAUL’S WHEAT PURCHASE.
I Chapter of Trade—Buying- Long and
Selling Short.
Generally speaking, wheat is a very good
gram.. It shows well in the field and in the
statistical report; it looks well in stacks, and es
pecially well in granaries; and when well ground,
methodically kneaded, judiciously baked and
properly browned and buttered into toast, there
is no one who wiU speak more respectfully, not
to say enthusiasticaUy, of the vegetable toan I
wiU, for I am, in the main, too well bred to do
otherwise. Bnt as an artiole of commerce, a
medium of speculation,.! am emphatically down
trn til A xrhnln fneftfnfinn hsth
on the whole institution, both “winter” and
“spring”—the one has proven “the winter of
my discontent,” while the other has “sprung”.a
trap onme not unlike that projected over unwary
birds which nibble at the same bait. These re
marks may seem severe, but they drop as nat
urally from mb as the kernels would from a head
of wheat that has been well thrashed.
As everybody knows, I am the son of rich but
respectable parents. I started in life with this
talismanio maxim for money-making: Buy
when every one is selling; sell when every one
is buying. Well, some weeks since, wheat,
wMch had been very buoyant, suddenly fell.
Every one . was seUing. I had a little money,
and confiding in my golden rule, “pitched in”
and bought’ at “eighty-five.” Very soon the
staple commodity dropped to sixty-eight. Now,
thought I, is the time to get an “averageso,
mortgaging the first lot, I bought more. And
I’ll venture to say that no old lady ever prayed
so devoutly for her bread to rise as I did for my
wheat. The fault, they said, was in the East
(excuse the pun, if the pun is obvious,) until,
as it 8till kept dropping, I thought it my duty
to go into OMcago and put a stop to it The
first greeting that met me as I stepped into the
Tremont House was a telegram on the bulletin-
board: “Wheat is flat” Wheat probably was
flat enough, bnt. this announcement struck me
as being rather a sharp truth. At half-past 11
I.went down:on ’Change. It is, perhaps, need
less tossy that I found things materially changed
since. I had bought Wheat had “heated” Jn
toe warehouses, they said. Enigmatic reference
was made to.“stump-tail.” “Buyers -were of
fering Vfifty-fiyeeverybody appeared to be
buying; therefore, following ont my aphorism,
I sold.:-? n •
The result maybe summed up thus: Two
months ago I had money and ho wheat. Sub
sequently I. had wheat and no money. Now, by
toe Lord, I have neither ! The second lot was
a poor lot—as poor, in fact, as the seoond edi
tion of Pharaoh’s kine, since it swallowed the
first Bnt I bought it to make an “average,”
and I made it
For the past few days my friends have noticed
a remarkable echo* Jn my vicinity. .Whenever
we chance to meet, some chap will say, “Ahem,
another pays over $800 in lieu of $16.60. We wheat !” and tha reverberation rolls back, deep
would gladly sell these lands to tho State ate the and distinot, “Dam wheat!” The eoho may be
Foreign Note*.
(FBEPABED FOB THE TELEOBATH AND MESSENOEB.)
The English Parliament will shortly adjourn
for the Easter holidays. The. House of Lords
received the Chancellor’s bill to unseat bank
rupt peers. The Cabinet seems to follow the
plan of- confederation to consolidate the British
Empire. Tho government gave notice of a bill
providing for the confederation of thei British
islands in the West Indies. The attitude of the
administration during the Franco-German war
was made the subject- of lively debates in the
Honse of Commons. Mr. Cochrane, after call
ing upon the Ministers to .urge upon Prussia
to moderate tho terms of peace, concluded by
expressing Ms belief that by England’s lack of
sympathy with France she had lost a firm ally
without gaining another. Gladstone replied
that England’s conduot was applauded by all
Europe. Franoe was in the wrong as regards
the immediate cause of the war, and Germany
;was- right, though the latter was not free of
blame in the affair of the DnoMes. England
had applauded the efforts made for German
unity. He regretted the revelations concerning:
the so-called Bonedetti treaty, and defender
Lord Granville’s policy of Neutrality, and Ms
oonrsein securing the neutrality of other pow
ers. He believed that through the efforts of
the noble Lord, Prussia had already moderated
her terms.
Lewis Doxat, probably the oldest member of
the London press, died—age 98 years. In the
commencement of this oentnry he was.editor of
the “Morning Chronicle,” and continued editor
of the “Observer” for fifty years.
The personal property owned by the late
Nathaniel Rothkohild, in England, amounted to
£ 1.800,000.
The reports fromParis ore sad indeed.' Civil
war has fairly begun, and threatens to make
unhappy Franco a prey of lamentable anarchy,
should the TMera Governmentnot soon succeed
in overpowering the insurgents. What we may
anticipate from a consolidation of the Commune
is foreshadowed by the recent decrees of the
Revolutionary Committee initiating the’erusade
of labor against capital. We expect to hear
next from a division of all property, pnblio and
private, on the principle that property is rob
bery, and consequently no man has any right
of holding anything of Ms own. The simplicity
of the revolutionary leaders is truly astounding,
when we read that the Commercial Council is
deliberating upon a proposal to pay the Prus
sian indemnity by selling Versailles for one
million francs to an Anglo-American Company;
St. Cloud for 800,000,000 franos to a German
gambling - proprietor, and Fontainebleau for
500,000,000 francs. The-aspect of Paris is
sinister and evil-boding. Thousands are flying
from the capital to save themselves from the
approaching reign of terror. 1 “
In the German ReiohBtag an address to the
Emperor was passed by a large majority. Six
of the Polish members who will play the part
of the French “Irreconciliables,” abstained
from voting. The address was chiefly opposed
by the Catholic members,' who themselves
moved an amendment, expressing the principle
that Germany should intervene with the Italian
Government in tho affairs of Rome. -TMs
proposition was rejected. A motion proposing
that Prussian Poland should not be inolnded in
toe German Empire was algo lost, .The proper
form of Government for Alsace and Lorame,
has not yet been deoided upon.
The Germans have bought their 'victories
dearly, for their losses in the war just dosed
are appaling, a convincing proof that toe French
fought valiantly. Most of the regiments of the
Guard lost one tirird of their men, and by far
the greater number of these fell in the single
bloody day of St. PrivaL The 48th regiment
suffered most severely. Its nominal strength
consists of 64 officers and 3000 men. Of these
57 officers, 3 ensigns, and 1497 men have been
either killed or wounded, while one ensign and
46 men are reported as missing.
In Warsaw a pamphlet is in circulation advo
cating a Sclav® Confederation under Russian
leadership, and calling upon Alexander IL to
_ ■ ... - , mountains are cultivated to the very summit,
of his policy. The anonymous writer thinks —«... . . ”
the Bcl&ve question is tobe solved by the down
fall of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, whioh
Russia should promote by all possible means.
He is asking for perfect autonomy for the king
dom of Poland, with toe exception of toe mil
itary and foreign affairs. The same rights are
advocated for the Russian provinces of theBaltio,
on the ground that the ties binding them to Rus
sia would be the better cemented. In conclusion,
toe writer reminds toe Czar of toe fact that toe
decay of Poland dates from Siegmnnd the
Third, when the Poles first began tq oppress the
Germans in the west and Russians in the east
And, warningly, he calls to the Emperor that the
persecution of the Poles and Germans initiated
by toe ultra-Russian party might lead Russia to
toe fatal doom of Poland.
The warlike preparations of. the. Russian Gov
ernment continue with great vigor. A decree
of the Minister of War orders the formation of.
the fourth battalions. The departments for the
railway and telegrapMo service in the field and
toe sick-bearer companies are being .organized
after the Prussian system. The troops com
manded for this service are receiving systemati
cal instructions-and toe sick-bearers are even
taught the rudiments of chimrgery.
According to the Madrid correspondent of the
London Times the Spanish authorities have not
succeeded yet in traoing toe would-be assassins
of Zarilla. But the Government is said to have
made important discoveries about the murder
of Prim. The situation of toe oountryis far
from being hopeful. Though Amedeo has dis
played great tact and personal amiability to win
toe hearts of his newuubj«cts, hia dynasty does
not take root. The fact that he is a foreigner
will form toe greatest obstacle to the consolida
tion of his throne. There are signs of growing
dissatisfaction in the army, wM»e the Oarlists
and partisans of Alton** are in high glee over
the anticipated downfall of toe new monarchy.
In Rom* the Italian Government continues
making preparations for the final transfer of the
capital. Officials of the various ministries have
selected the most suitable plsoes far the admin
istration of pnblio business. There is a more
itnay l
profane, but it ia the expression of a very gen
eral sentiment. For I think that ihost opera
tors will concur with me in the following con
clusions.:.. - r .-n. -, . ‘ ' : *
That to buy at “eighty-five” and sell at “fifty-
five” will not pay unless a man does a very large
business. That wheat, when it once begins to
fall, is a good, while reaching bottom. That
when it once begins to heat, it very soon be
comes too hdt <to J hold. That,’after aQ, toe
snrest way to make money in wheat is to plant
It in good soiL And, lastly, that a man going
into the. wheat market, with even a small capi
tal, if-he is industrious and perseveres, may
very'soiJn succeed ih 'owing -more than it is
probable he will ever be worth. -
Color Prejudices in Puerto* Prince.
‘ Correspondence of the Baltimore American.] S j
: Puebto . Panics, March '7. 1871.—Notwith
standing the indication givenin my last letter
of Jho deoided feeling of, animosity to ' Ameri
cans among toe peopIaT of Puerto Prince, we
have continued to perainblate the city, and’ to
return their soowls with smiles, and to. be rather
amused with their evideneea of dislike. They
are undoubtedly an ignorant' people, ’but they
entertain the same prejudices against a wMte
skin that some people at home do against a hopeful feeling in the Vatican in oonaeqnenoe
black one. So long as those who claim to be of recent reports whioh arc said to have arrived
- ®rl
his honse with * quantity of rich diamond orna
ments, that his wife might make a selection
from them. Mrs. Torpey met the clerk, and suc
ceeded in administering cMoroform to him tod
robbing him 'of toe jewels. Torpey escaped to
the Continent, bat hfij rrife. was captured and
tried for the crime, and escaped on the ground
that she acted under toe compulsion of her has.
band. 5 If toe had enjoyed all tho rights of wo
man, which some of her sisters so earnestly
claim; itoe iWQnid/hftve-had toe pleasure of
pending a few months in lodgings provided at
.er Majesty’s expentoT "
An Evansville schoolmaram’s ideas of pu:
ment are confined to lifting toe scholars by
ears, and butting their heads against the wall.
,<ku Bom aelsW’ 1* enetraT *
enlightened uphold and defend this prejudice,
and ministers have preached it from their pul
pits, we must not condemn the negro of the
tropics for considering a white skin as the mark
of an Inferior race. That they do so is an un
doubted fact, and any shade lighter than utter
darkness is graded, as it with us, as one step
towards the degraded color. No man with a
white akin oan hold property here, as was the
case in the Sonth before the war with regard to
the blaok race, and all intermixture of race is
equally degrading. It is a singular fact that
they adhere to their prejudices more closely
and praotice them more faithfully than their
American pro-slavery brethren, as the almost
nniveral shade here is so blaok that charcoal
would make a wMte mark on the faces of most
oftki natives. z vacua aeodi
Mbs. Annie D. Caroa* has reoentlz visited
the Mormons, and writes to the Pioeent Age a
account of tho delis’* 1 * 8 Lake
from Franoe. The Peter’s Pence are again
increasing, thus keeping the Papal treasury well
filled. On the other hand, toe partisans of toe
new order of things pay little attention to toe
aims and hopes of the Papal party. To unite’
toe friends of toe Italian Government still
dloeer, they proposed to celebrate the King’s
birthday by a patriotic banquet to wWto all
should be invited who either with toe sword, pen
or word have battled for toe deliverance of Rome
since 1870. Stormy soeneware skid to haTe oc
curred in toe Ghprto of Jesus between the Lib
eral and Papal elements of toe Assembly. ,- J i
Garibaldi, at«*unp&nied by Basso, his private
‘adferetaxy; has disembarked again in Ms island
home ot Caprera and resumed at cnee hiaagri-
ositural pursuits.
Cardinal Antonelli is reported to have re
signed the office of Secretary of State in the
Papal Cabinet. Janno.
Houses in Philadelphia.—The Philadelphia
strong and beafiny. It is not necessary, .how
ever, to attribute the sturdiness of Mormon
child^n to toe practice - -of - polygamy. -The
Mormons are exceedingly anxious to increase
their number, and, indeed, adopted polygamy
__— i-.ni-.cr - r , avowedly as a means to that end. They there-
firm of jewelers to send one of their clerks to f or8 naturally make the rearing of children a
matter of peculiar care and interest, and chil-
-. She claims to haw discovered that the Ledger exults in the following fasMon, and
children of polygamous parents are unusually -With some reason : o tugoiertflodlo f
At the beginning of the present year, toe
grand total of houses of all kinds in Philadel
phia was 122,746. After deducting from this
great aggregate the four hundred and fifty-one
church buildings, the factorisa, foundries, thea
tree, pnblio halls, school buildings, shops, mills
and all other houses, not oocupied by families,
there remains more than one hundred and fonr-
dren, instead of being dreaded’ and provided ■ teen thousands dwellings. This return of dwel-
against, as in some other communities, are de- i lings is about’ fifteen hundred greater toan toe
sired and welcomed. In these circumstances it j return made by the United States census mar
ls to be expeoted’ that the cMldren will be ia J shale, bnt the difference is not greater than toe
better physical condition than the unwelcome ; rapid progresa-of building from June, 1870, to
“mring of monogamou^IMassachusetts pa- J the closed! that year will aooonnt for. This is
rente. The Mormons have realty been experi-1 certainly a magnificent display of homes for a
menting in Btirpicnlture, although it is hardly • dtv which the - same census marshals returned
probable that many of their number are ao- 1 as containing but six hundred and seventj'flve
quainted with toe word.— World.
Bibsiabcx, while homeward bound, was
thousand inhabitants.
Fobeion Ikpokis.—The foreign imports into
New York for toe month of February last were
sen ted in Frankfort by an - enthusiastic wine New xorx ror me f - r‘T*
merchant with a Gootinger sausamVyard f<W}g t { $86,491,324, against .$25,867,-198 in February,
which, like Grant he sC'oepted with thanks. 1870.
Jdgtn von^-Gt’ *txt) rirfcj Haafalhoz ftgpoa j
Interesting Letter from Haytf.
Mr. 0. 0. Fulton, the editor of the Baltimore
American, writes as follows from Puerto Prince:
THE MABErr 6CESK. -
Of all tho scenes in and about the oity, noth
ing is so amusing and attractive to strangers as
toe market square. There are three market 1
squares in tho cityybut toe centre market is the
principal one, the ether two being attended
only on Saturday evening. From daybreak till
noon toe centre market presents a scene of ani
mated' nature, being an intermixture of men,
women, children and donkeys, every woman
preeent having at least one of these industrious
little animals. All the marketing is brought on
toe backs of donkeys, and the venders are taken
hdtne on toe backs of the same animaia. If
one of them brays all toe balanco respond, and
the women halloo and scold at them, occasion
ing a confusion worse confounded toan any I
have ever before witnessed. Then at almost
every step yon encounter a couple of women
quarreling ml Creole French, with gesticulations
and contortions of body that ore truly ladicrons.
They differ bnt little in the usual billingsgate
style and manner of their moro civilized cotem
poraries, exeept, perhaps, that they never oome
to blows, toe nearest approach to it being the
shaking of their fists in each other's faces.
HATTIEN BHZNPLASTEBS.
The display of provisions for sale is very
light, and probably oach separate display might
bo purchased at sot overt wo or more than five
dollars in silver, provided they would take sil
ver. Bat the fact is you might as well go to
market with pebble stones as with silver coin.
The-market people know nothing of toe value
of coin, and will sell for nothing but Haytien
shinplasters, which are called gourds, each
gourd originally representing one dollar in epe-
oie. It has now degenerated so as to represent
the three hundred and eighty-sixth part of a
dollar;, that is to say, thebrokers will give you
for one silver dollar three hundred and eighty-
six gourds. The country people when they sell
an orange get four gourds for it instead of one,
cent, and imagine they are getting wealthy, and
are doubtless hoarding it nnder toe supposition
that it will some day be worth what its face calls
for. It has been much more depreciated than
it now is, however, having within a few months
been as high or as low as six hundred for one.
Only tMnk of paying $500 for a breakfast,
$3,000 for a straw hat. If yon Bhould get a
dollar changed for paper, you have to buyj a
basket to carry it in, as the pockets of an ordi
nary suit of clothing would not contain one-half
of it. In appearance it is ragged, greasy, and
offensive, and resembles as near as possible our
old continental notes. In the stores they throw
it into flour barrels, first tying it into small par
cels ; and if you ask for change, a coffee-bag is
often palled forth as the receptacle of the cash
of the establishment.
The silver and gold coin ia circulation ia prin
cipally American, with some Spanish and French.
A great deal was left here by our party, who
take with theca a'museum of Haytien curiosi
ties.
SUBSET STALLS.
The market stalls consist of little piles abont
five feet square of cobble stones, on which is
spread a mat, and on the mat are laid articles
of produce offered for sale. On a large stone,
in close contiguity, site the vender, with a large
bandana hackerchief on her head, the ends
starched and floating byhind. Others have im
mense rimmed straw hats on top of the inevit
able bandana. Their clothing is generally of
the finest quality of English linen and lawns,
and in some eases they, keep it very cleanly.
The trail is universal, and, whether it passes
through mud or water, is never raised, it evi
dently being contrary to etiquette to do so.
THE cm AND ITS BUBBOUNDINQS.
The oity of Puerto Fringe is located at the
head of the broad bay, two peninsnlas extend
ing ont into the sea, each. 100. miles in length.
Near the end of the western cape is the port of
Cape Haytien, and near the other Jacmel—both
having considerable commercial standing. These
two peninsnlas are thickly settled, and the
make toe execution of this plan the sole purpose
mostly with coffeo, tho cultivation of sugar be :
ing nearly abandoned. The deep green of the
mountains and the tall trees on their very sum
mits indicate toe extreme richness of toe soil.
At night the glimmering ot lights over the
mountain sides and the burning of brush pre
sent a fine panoramio view from our deck. In
the centre of the bay, between these two wings,
is toe island of Gonaives, apparently, about
twenty, miles wide and thirty long. The soil of
it is good, - bnt it is neither inhabited nor culti
vated, and as far as I could observe not a tree
was visible.
• THE PEOPLE or HATTL
We see people from all parts of the Republic
daily in the streets, and although intensely
blaok, they have not much of the African fea
tures and very little of the air and carriage of
the American negro. They regard themaelVes
as toe superior-race,- and they certainly look
like free men. ’ They are tall and atMetic, and
the women are Smooth-faoed, good-featsred,
and rotund in form, perfect specimens of health.
The harbor is lined with sail-boats morning and
evening, hundreds of them coming in and going
ont with the sea and land breeze, crowded with
men and women. A great many.of these boats
are abont the size of onr Eastern-shore pnngeys,
and are handled with considerable skill by their
skipper^ considering that their decks are usu
ally orowded with people, mostly women. Then
thonsands come to toe city daily on donkeys
with loads of produce, each bringing small bags
of coffee, and everything that can be turned into
money, returning in the evenings.
HAXT1XN CANNIBALS.
There is no doubt that cannibalism at one
time had considerable sway among toe moun
taineers, and that some vestiges of it still re-
main. During the reign of Geffard four men
and four women were brought to the stake and
shot for the offence, who died with all the en
thusiasm that Christian martyrs have displayed
in their last moments. The sacrifice of children
to their God is the essence of their religion, and
they partake of the flesh and blood with all the
fervor that She Christian sacrament of the Lord’s
Supper ia partaken.
-There is a priestess.of toe order in Puerto
Prinee, and it is believed that the kfcrifiee is
now performed in secret. Since the exeoatien
of the eight martyrs toe sect is said to have in
creased to snch an extent, especially in the
mountains, that it is not now regarded as safe
or politic for the government to persecute them
any more. ■ ■ ■
Aft ExTBAOBPmABT DENOMINATIONAL Law
suit.—A lawsuit of great interest, and of an ex
traordinary kind for this country, involving the
title to toe valuable property of the First Re
formed Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia,
has .for several weeks occupied the Supreme
-Court of Pennsylvania, now in session fa that
city. The case grew out of a declaration ef
Geo. H. Stuart, of Philadelphia, a member of
the First Reformed Presbyterian Church, who
openly-said he “was in the habit Of singing
hymns.’- -For this “use of human psalmody”
he was deposed from Ms place in tbs Synod and
his eldersMp in the church, and was denied toe
right to partake of the oemmonton. Tbe Pres
bytery with whioh Mr. Stunt’s church was oon-
nected refused to acknowledge theaotion of the
Synod as binding, and his pastor, toe Rev. Dr.
Wylie with a majority of the congregation, sJso
sustained him, and continued to treat Mm as a
member of the church in good and regular
standing.- A minority of the members of the
First Church, who approved the action of the
Synod, thereupon seceded, calling a new pastor,
and holding Bervioes in the Hall of the Academy
of Music. They claim to be the true First
Church, and that the majority, by thair dis
obedience to the Synod, have forfeited their
title. On this ground they have brought suit
for the possession of toe ohuroh property. Tbe
case has encitod great interest in PMUdelphia,
and among the Presbyterians everywhere. .
Two ladies orra Missouri railway train got
their babies mixed, and oouldnt tell them apart
They tossed up a cent to deride tha matter.
Causal, aooordmg to Ben Wade, faa.ahiohen
thief. What Ben Wade is, aocording to Caftttl,
we don’t know. ’ “ V
