Georgia Historic Newspapers

    The Greorgia "W'eekly Telegraph and. Journal &c IVEessengcer.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON. AUGUST 8 1871.
' The Brnnswlcli isallroad Money. .
"V?e learn, upon inquiry, that the paragraph
in our local colamn, Sunday morning, in refer
ence to the bills of the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad Company,’was written at the sugges
tion of Borne loading mercantile houses in this
city, and that it is a fact that several of them
have been refusing these bills for some days.
The reason is that these bills are not bankable,
and cannot be nsed inthwpnrchaae of exchange
and in meeting business obligations. The bills,
however, are still received in small quantities
in current trade, (with, perhaps, more or less
reluctance,) because most people believe that
the principal stockholders of the company, be
ing men of large means, will protect its credit;
and, for our own part, we shall not doubt that
such will be the case. Indeed, projecting the
liberal expenditures which these parties are now
doing, to effect Western and Southwestern con
nections, the redemption of their money would
be as indisoensible to the prosecution of their
great enterprises, as it is insignificant in com
parison with their means and proposed under
takings.
Wo are informed that the company redeemed
five thousand dollars of their bills yesterday,
and hopo they will take measures to retire them
altogether, or to make them bankable in Macon,
which will quiet all uneasiness. The President
of the road, Mr. Hazlehnrst, is now absent, re-
tinning from a trip to New York, but will be in
Macon in a day or two. When he arrives wo
eh nil look for some satisfactory arrangement.
We may add, in conclusion, that the refusal to
receive the bills, arose from no hostility or un
friendliness to the Macon and Brunswick Eail-
joad company; but solely from tho fact that
considerable amounts of this money were ac
cumulating in private hands, which merchants
found it impossible to use for the reasons stated.
Alabama niul tlic A. C. Road.
Gen. Clanton, the Receiver on tho part of the
State of Alabama, for the Alabama and Chatta
nooga Railroad, made a speech to the people of
that city from the steps of the Burns House on
Friday last. He said the road had been built
at a cost to the State of thirty thousand dollars
a mile, and had received seven millious in en
dorsed bonds. The State had paid $600,000 on
these bonds in July and wonld have to pay six
hundred thousand more in January next. She
takes possession of the road, not becaus^ Bhe
wants it, but to protect herself from total loss.
In regard to the running of tho road, Gen.
Clanton declared that the authorities meant to
“mn the road in Alabama from one State line
to the other, if it takes five hundred men with
guns to every mile.” He asks to be allowed to
run the trains into Chattanooga without moles
tation, giving assurance that security would be
given for all claims of employees against the
road. A resolution adopted by a majority of
the employees was read, declaring their willing
ness to accept the situation and resume work
under tho new arrangement. This is a bad
showing for State aid in Alabama—how much
better will it turn out in Georgia?
The Cotton Figures.
The weekly report of Friday night show3 to
tal receipts 3,907,247. bales against 2,849,093 np
to the 6ame date last year—showing the increase
of 1,118,151 bales on last year’s crop. The
condition in Liverpool compared with last year
as follows:
1870 1871
[Stock 589,000 699,000
American cotton afloat 59,000 69,000
Indian cotton afloat 496,902 697,530
1,144,902 1,455,530
Excess this year 310,628 bales.
Tee Attorney General.—The Northern pa
pers are heavy upon a recent decision of Attor
ney-General Akerman, to the effect that the
black lines on the reverse side of envelopes, in
tended to facilitate the directing of letters, are
in contravention of the act of March 3d, 1871,
whioh provides “that no envelopes as furnished
by the Government shall contain any lithograph
ing, engraving, and no printing, except a
printed reqnest to return the letter to the
writer.”
The Postmaster General naturally dissatisfied
with this dictnm, referred the matter to M. B.
Field, a leading lawyer of New York, who says
in his reply that he cannot agree with the At
torney-General, or find any lawyer in New
York who does. If his opinion be correct tho
act would also prohibit the stamp and water
marks contained in the envelope. The object
of the act was to prevent these envelopes from
being used for advertising purposes, and not to
prohibit lines on which letter superscriptions
might be written.
TVri.fi akd Taxes—The taxes collected in Texas
(says the'World) for the support of the State
government in 1860 are given as $454,804. In
1867, under the Andy Johnson restoration of
civil government, they were $344,208. For this
year, 1871, the assessments are $5,837,953! In
1860 the tax rate was 12£ cents per $100; in
1867 it was 15 cents; and now it is $2 25. It
is not remarkable that a paper published in the
region tormented by reconstruction observes:
“The patience of the Southern people is a mar
vel in tho history of oppression/’
The AT.nuirk and Chattanooga Railroad.—
The news comes from Chattanooga that the
affairs of the Alabama and Chattanooga rail
road are abou^ assuming a satisfactory shape.
Governor Lindsay, of Alabama, acting in be
half of tho interests of his State, has appointed
Gen. J. H. Clanton, of Montgomery, to take
charge of the road as Receiver, and he is now
in Chattanooga for that purpose. The General
has been satisfactorily interviewed by the
Times, which expresses itself happy.
A Grand Blow-out at the Him.—Gilmore,
of Boston, is planning another grand racket,
which shall shame the Peace Jubilee. He is to
have 20,000 choristers, 2,000 instrumentalists
and a coliseum which shall seat a hundred thou
sand persons.
The genius of a Boston composer is at last
to supply the nation with a national hymn
founded on compromise principles. It is to be
made np of a combination of Yankee-doodle and
Dixie, and to be colled Dixie-Doodle.
Beeqh, the horse-hnmanitarian, writes that
tho best pavement in the world is the old Mc
Adams, composed of broken stone, and has been
so proved in London, Paris and Berlin. If itis
dusty, water it.
Clarke Countx Statistics.—Tho Athens
Banner gives the aggregato.of property return
ed in Clarke oounty at $3,555,145. White polls
1,108; colored 1,375, represented by $42,675
value of property enbject to taxation.
Thirty young Japs, all princes, reached New
York on Thursday and put up at the St Nich
olas Hotel, where a Sun reporter acknowledges
that he interviewed them well nigh to death.
The Louisiana Radical war goes on, but it is
said the Grant administration 1 has declared for
Dnnn against Wannonth.
A planter informs the Albany Nows that there
is n fair prospect for an enormous and over
whelming raid of the ootton caterpillar and fly in
Baker county this season.
. From Cnthbert to Atlanta.
Correspondence Telegraph and Messenger.]
“An ounce of experience is worth a pound of
theory with ns it is all cheap. I propose to
give it for the benefit of yonr numerous South
west Georgia readers, who are sighing for the
cool breezes of the up-conntry. That portion
of country traversed in daylight, say from
Cmhbert to Barnesville, is parched for want of
rain, and the prospect for crops most unprom
ising. A fair average for com along the line
must be under five bushels per acre, and of cot-’
ton under a bale to six acres, and all the vine
crops in proportion.
They still keep a good eating house at Fort
Valley, but have, greatly impaired it, as to rail
road passengers. Instead of having their bonn-
tifnl supplies spread out on the table, so that
gnest3'who cannot attract the attention of ser
vants can make a good dinner independently of
them, they now require ns to wait, in a bad
hnmor, between the whistling Of the engine to
start and tho prospect of getting the little dishes
a la city from an adjoining room.
Wo don’t even get a bow now from ourp&hte
friends of the Brown House. In conseqence of
the lease, or Bomethingelse, we are pnt straight
thorough to the Gate City by 10 and a half o’clock
at night—getting a good supper at Griffin at
75 cents. And we go to the H. L Kimball House
of necessity, as well as choice, it having dried
np the National, the American and the United
Slates, and tamed the balance into. boarding
houses. It is now to all Georgia travelers what
Jerusalem is to Palestine, and he who packs his
trank now does so for the Kimball House, of
course. Two of ns were assigned to No. 127,
whither, after long delay in the baggage depart
ment, we took passage by the elevator. It is
something less than a quarter of a mile from the
starting point, the office at the bottom of the
Arcade, and on being reached is neatly fam
ished, has two beds, about ten by twelve, with
one window like a port hole to a fort, and lets
yon look out over the tops of less pretentions
bnildings, and gives.you a peep at the clock
upon the Opera House, and when tho wind
blows at all and comes from that direction yon
got a breeze, without whioh you can perspire
freely at any hour in the twenty-four. Its a
gloomy distance from the centre of attraction,
and those who do not belong to any ring, and
whose appearance and manners do not impress
upon others an adequate idea of their greatness,
find it difficult to cultivate the acquaintance of
servants, and it may be they are without many
comforts and pleasure-giving attentions to be
met with in places of less notoriety. And while
this may bo the rich reward of a tiresome jour
ney, to a large number of travelers, still, to the
people, by and large, who have not many four
dollars a day to pay out, the Kimball Honse, to
the size of it, is not up to many other places I
have seen. Hence I changed quarters to a
boarding hbuse about 150 yards from the Pas
senger Depot, where I get fair meals, have a
corner room 20 by 24, with four large windows,
at $1.50 a day.
And it is alia mistake for low-conntry people
who are in healthful localities, to ran. off np
here. Aside from the money they spend, and
the loss of business at home, the weather hotter
and more oppressive, there are the mosquitoes 1
They are not only more numerous, but far more
persevering and unceremonious in attack. They
are as far ahead of the herd we have in the low-
conntry, a3 the politicians here are ahead of ours
in their assaults on the State TreastSy. Instead
of staging you a requiem that lulls you-to sleep
before they inspect yonr circulation, and take
out a supply fora moderate mosquito’s -stom
ach, they charge yon in force by the time yonr
gas is out and yon are straight in bed—yonr
face, hands and feet, all have to bear the assault
at once; and the killing and mangling of the
whole vanguard has no terror for the dense and
continually repletinglines of the main army, and
they charge as well over tho dead bodies of their
comrades, whose ghastly corpses are nnburied,
as if no' casualties had occurred at all. And
nothing but the guilding of the eastern horizon
by tho cheering beams of aurora, puts an end
to the fray.
I asked a 15th Amendment this morning, who
came to bring me water, if it was only a raid
upon the town or a regular seige. He said they
were “scacely as bad some nights as they are
ginnlly,” and gave me a piece of valuable infor
mation. It was that, ‘ ‘if I wonld pnt a piece of
raw beef in the room they wonld suck the beef
and let me alone.” And it stands to reason
that they will prefer tho beef to my carcass af
ter last night’s entertainment. H. F.
Letter from Sen York.
Correspondence Telegraph and Messenger.]
New. York, July 28.
I left Macon on the morning train, on the
22d, and arrived in Atlanta in time to make
close connection with the Western and Atlantic
Railroad. Hero I was soon snngly ensconced in
a magnificent Pullman palace car; and was soon
whirling over the great Southern mail rente.
To-night, only forty-nine hours after leaving
Atlanta, and fifty-six hours from Macon, I find
myself comfortably established in a fashionable
New York hotel, having made the entire trip
with but two changes of cars from Atlanta.
This line of travel is unquestionably the best
for travelers. The reads are all in excellent
condition, the cars.are all very palaces, and as
comfortable as cars can be made, the officers of
all the roads are courteous, and ever know how
to give a polite answer to a polite question,
while all the eating-houses are marvels in their
line. There is not an eating-house on the whole
route that does not keep a better table than
many of our first-class hotels, so-called.
Parties traveling this rente, and leaving Ma
con the train that I did, enjoy the lnxnry of
traveling by day light through that region of
Virginia in which are spread out those vast
mountain regions which are the special wonder
of all who see them. There is no finer monn-
tain scenery in the world than this is._ For
hoars and hours we travel with mountains to the
right of ns, mountains to the left, of us, and
mountains in front of ns. Which ever way we
look there are mountains after mountains, with
beautiful valleys and coves lying between them,
and some of them almost enBhadowed by moun
tains, bnt all of them fertile and giving evi
dence of the presence of man and the civilizing
inflnenoe of woman. It is worth the cost of the
whole trip to witness these grand demonstrations
of nature.
Again, the rente takes ns through that por
tion of Virginia which has been rendered
classic by the events of the war. We pass
Manassas—the scene of two of the bloodiest
conflicts of the war; pass over ground that has
received a copious baptism of blood from the
veins of the best Southern chivalry—all fruit
less it is trne, bnt none the less glorious. While
passing over this ground, I could not help call
ing to mind the many brilliant and bloody
scenes enacted here; their heroism; their
grandeur; their fidelity. And yet, though fatile
all this bloodshed, the lines of the poet are not
controverted— ,
“ Oh if there be on this earthly sphere
A boon, an offering heaven holds dear,
’Tia the last libation liberty draws -
From the heart that bleeds and dies in her cause.”
I write this letter from no other motive than
to point out to my friends the quickest and
most comfortable line of travel to New York.
I want it understood that I am writing'no.puff,
for a consideration; for I paid fall fare coming
and will pay fall fare when I return. I am thus
left free to express my opinion and it is
unanimously in favor of the great Southern
mail route via Knoxville, Lynchburg, etc.
_ X.
Bound Sense.—The Italians of New York
held a meeting last week to make provision to
celebrato the consummation'' of Italian unity
and the occupation of* Romo as the capital of
tho kingdom. One of their number' having
proposed a pnblio procession, which would, of
course, bo offensive to the Papal party,, the
President of the meeting remarked as follows:
It is wrong for the sake of empty pageantry,
that aliens should, provoke feelings of enmity
among classes and creeds. In making any
national display we should remember that this is
America, the freest and greatest land on earth,
where clanish demonstrations are insuHte and
where any cause of international disturbance
provoked by foreign peculiarities means in-
gratitude to the country that has sheltered and
been bonntifnl to so maDy millions wbo know
no comfort at home. Let us not therefore be
even the remotest cause of any unkindly feel
ing among onr fellow-men in this* broad arena
of freedom.
Who will deny that there was sound sense, _
well as liberality and patriotism in this sug
gestion ? - ,
About the only person we ever heard of that
wasn’t spoiled by being lionized, was a Jew
named DanieL
A Remarkable conftmion or a Radi
cal from the Scaffold.
Ned Meyers and Lewis Goppedge, both
negroes, were hung on the 21st July, having
been convicted of the murder of James W.
Redfearn, a white man and an estimable citizen,
on the 21st instant, at Wadesboro, Anson
county, North Carolina. On the scaffold Lewis
Goppedge made the following speech to the
multitude of spectators':
“Isay, I went to the store on Wednesday
night, and I stayed there until Saturday night,
and I killedMas’r Jim Redfearn. I bad a mother
then, and from her I got something to eat, and
and then it was that I told her goodby. She
knew nothing about my going to kill Mas’r Jim.
I think that she thought I was gone over the
river. I stayed there until .Saturday night I
killed Mas’r Jim myself, and none bnt God and
myself knows anything about it They say that
I wanted to kill Sam Redfearn, and that I said
I wanted to kill him. That ain’t so._ I never did
say any such thing. MyJirother Jim and N^d
Myers, who now stands by me on tho gallows to
be hung, had nothing to do with it and knew
nothing about it Where is Mas’r Townley Red-
fearn? I knows that I wronged the Red-
feams. * I knows I wronged them badly, and
now I ask their forgiveness for it I abased
them by my acts and I know I did wrong, and I
ask forgiveness. —-I hope- th6y will all for
give me, as I am soon to go to meet my
God. There was nobody there bnt me. I tell
all yon black folks yon must never steal any
thing, and if you have stolen anything never
steal anything more. Never go where there
are bad men, wicked men. Look and see where
it has brought me. There is a party they call
the Union party—the Radical party. They
never do ns no good. They do ns harm. They
make ns do mean things. No Radical ever
come to me and say, Lewis, here is something
before you die. I advise yon all to take care of
yourselves. Good many of yon may think my
brother Jim and father had something to do
with it, but the God on hiRh know3 that no one
else had bnt me. I picked up a piece of plank,
slipped up behind him and knocked him down.
I took Ins money. It was all he had. I hope
to meet yon all in. the kingdom. I know there
is a Saviour on His throne that will save me.
I am not afraid of them ropes and this plat
form. I am afraid of my soul. My time is
short, but I hopo to meet you all at a better
day. ___
The pnblio will bo glad to loam from the an
nexed dispatoh that the President’s horses ore
to be properly provided for. As a “horse”
President this branch of the pnblio service is
important: •>.
Washington, July 27.—A fine location ad
joining the new State Department building has
been selected for the President’s new stable.
The plans have been prepared and the founda
tion is being laid. It is to be two stories high,
and 78 by 58 feet; with an elegant front. There
will be wings for carriage houses, and the whole
establishment will be fitted np with every mod
ern convenience for horses and attendants.
Now we feel easy.
Editorial Wit.—We clip the following from
the New York Commercial Advertiser, of Fri
day:
The New Orleans Republican is sarcastic.
Hear it:
One of the liveliest newspaper paragraphist in
the country is Alec Stephens, of the Atlanta Sun.
He lftd a squib in his last issue which was only
five columns long.
Bnt Alee is a sharp paragraphist in spite of
fbig sarcasm. Witness—the Louisville Journal
allnding to the report that the little man had
gained nine pounds since he was last weighed,
remarked that he must have had one of his
editorials in his pocket; whereupon Aleck keenly
retorted: “If the Journal editorshonld put one
of his editorials in his pocket, he’d go up like a
balloon.” We have not had the Journal ed
itor's reply yet, but we rather think he won’t
‘go” Aleck any better.
Youdooissi.—The Memphis Appeal reports a
case in that city as follows:
According to the witness, the sorceress had
sprinkled some “curious dust” in the yard of the
si >k man’s dwelling, said dost being composed
of “dead men’s bones andfinger ngils and some
thing else, all beat np fine," forming a spell of
tremendous power. The bottle containing this
mixture was discovered in the honse, and with
fear and trembling taken to the river and thrown
in, “cause you know de spirits can be drowned.”
Bnt still tho patient became no better, and an
unwise woman gave this prescription: “Cat a
chip oaten de top of de door bar, and pnt one
piece on lef 1 one on de right, and move his pil
low and bed outside de honse, and he’ll git easy
by de hour of twelve.” This also proving ineffi
cacious, a Voudoo doctor was called in. His
experienced eye led him directly to the pillow
of the sick man’s bed, from which ho extracted
some half a dozen fetiches of hair and feathers;
bnt the sufferer was too far gone, and even this
relief oonld not prevent his death. Naturally,
such conclusive evidence of maleficet sorcery
was sufficient to bring tho woman up for trial
Hon. Thomas A. Hendbicks.—The Commer
cial Advertiser pays the following compliment
to Mr. Hendricks. Coming from a Republican
source it is appreciable:-
TtdS distinguished statesman, whom the Dem
ocrats of Indiana have just indicated as their
first choice for the Presidency, is perhaps, with
tho single exception of Judge Thurman, of
Ohio, the ablest man in bis party. His speeches
while in the United States Senate, as well
as those delivered from the stamp, indicate
a.broad, catholic, liberal mind, quick to detect
every species of sophistry; comprehensive in
its grasp; clear, penetrating tmd logical. He
is one of the very few men who possess the facul ty
of being great politicians without the least
flavor of charlatanry. Mr. Hendricks- makes
np his mind as to what is right and then advo
cates it without regard to any selfish motives.
He is about as far removed from a trimmer as
any man could be, and the only disadvantage
under which he labors is, that not a tenth of his
party is able to appreciate him.
- Asking One Thing and Getting Another.—
When the railroad Knklux-rnn off with the
engine of Stanton’s road, that worthy telegraph
ed Gov; Lindsay stating the fact, and asking
“Will yon protect the road and property of this
company ?” Lindsay replied forthwith:
The Alabama and Chattanooga . Railroad
and property will be protected, and in order
the better to accomplish this object and to
protect* the interests of the State, and other
parties concerned, I have proceeded in the
name of the State and under the laws authoriz
ing me, to take possession of tho road and ap
purtenances.
The Assault on the Sub-ku-Klux Commit
tee.^— ’Washington July 25.—An‘eye-witnes3 of
the assault-on Representatives. Wallace and
Stevenson, at Yorkville, S. G., gives his version
of the affair. Messrs. Wallace, Stevenson, and
Van Tramp were sealed on one side of a hotel
table, at sapper, when two citizens came in and
sat opposite, one being Major Berry, a rebel,
and very bitter in his fellings. Upon seating
himself he saw Wallace, with whom he had a
personal acquaintance, and without saying a
word, caught np a pitcher of milk and threw it
at tain. He missed Wallace, however, and
poured all the contents over Stevenson. Wal
lace drew a revolver to defend himself, when
Berry was taken ont by his friends. There was
great excitement abont the hotel, bufc-no gener
al disturbance.—Special to the Cincinnati Ga
zette. ■ . c
- Oil Not Struck.—A San Francisco dispatch
says:
It is estimated that the government income
from the Alaska seal islands duty will be greatly
curtailed from the fact that no seal oil is being
saved. The contract binds the lessees to pay
the government*62^ cents per gallon for all the
oil taken, bnt does" not bind them to take any;
and as the oil is worth only 37 h cents in San
Francisco, none is taken. The seal carcasses
are being allowed to rot after tho pelt is stripped
off. ^
1 Harter's "Weekly. — The Mobile Register
says: “The late New York riot has stirred np
all tho deviltry of Puritan Radicalism in this
incendiary sheet. The last number is illustra
ted by wood cuts representing Catholics, and
especially the Catholic Irish, in every form of
ridicule, hatred and savageism. If tho editor
and his artists had Ret themselves to get np*a re
ligions war, and to keep np and intensify the bad
and dangerous passions evoked on the 12th of
Jnly, they could not have been more diabolioally
snooessfnl. Harper’s Weekly is one of the most
extreme and virulent of the Radical papers in
the North."
BY TELEGRAPH.
Washington, July 89.—Pleasanton decides
that the borrowed capital employ ed by hankers
is no longer subjeot to taxation. It is estimated
that this decision reduces the revenue ten mil
lions, and will doubtless lead to innumerable
suits for reclamation. The deposits heretofore
thus employed were taxed five per cent.
Up to the latest hoar ‘the financial policy of
tho Government remains unannounced.
It is'known that since 1869 no proposition,
direot or indirect; has been made to the United
States for the acquisition of Cuba. „ •.
The Government purchases a million bonds
each Wednesday and sells a million in gold on
the first, third and fifth, and two millions on the
second and fourth Thursdays of August, making
five millions of bonds and seven millions gold.
The Times estimates the killed outright by
the steamboat explosion at forty.
Cotton Movements of the Week.
The cotton movements show a very slight in
crease in reoeipts and a marked failing off in
exports. The receipts at all parts were 10,990
against 10,661 last week; 15,386 the previous
and 18,468 three weeks since. The total
receipts since September are 3,967,247 against
2,849,093 the corresponding period of last year,
showing an increase of 1,118,151 bales in favor
of the present season. The exports from all
ports for the week are 5,314 against 9,613 the
same week last year. The total exports for the
expired portion of the ootton year are 3,0S3,762
against 2,169,512 for the same time last year.
Stock at all ports 156,002 against 115,165 same
time last year. Stock at interior towns 15,870
against 23,223 last year. Stock in Liverpool
699,000 against 589,000 last year. American
cotton afloat for Great Britain 69,000 against
59,000 last year. Indian cotton afloat for
Europe i3 G97,580 against 49G,902 last year.
Weather south during the week was generally
hot with occasional rains. Tho condition of
the growing plant is reported more favorable
in many sections.
Terrible Catastrophe in Mew York.
New York, July 30.—The Staten Island ferry
boat, Westfield, crowded with passengers, ex
ploded her boiler at 1:20 to-day, in the slip at
Whitehall street. The concussion was terrific—
scattering the forward part of the boat and kill
ing a great nnmber of people. The hurricane
deck was blown overboard, and a large nnmber
of persons fell into the water and were drowned.
The entire Dumber lost is supposedto be a hun
dred and fifty. y
Later From the Steamboat Accident.
New York, July 30.—The -Westfield wa3 leav
ing the slip at the foot of Whitehall street when
she exploded. Abont three hundred of the nsnal
Sunday excursionists were aboard. A yawning
abyss extended from abaft the engine room to
the stem—the deck seemed to have opened and
tho dead and dying were lying in every direction
among the timbers, splinters and heavy ma
chinery. Her whole upper works were shivered
into a thonsand pieces, and many people blown
into the water and were hauled in by boatmen
with hooks. A large party are dragging the
bottom of the river, and constantly bring np
bodies of men, women and children which are
scorched, bruised and mutilated. Col. Murche,
formerly a partner of Garibaldi, is badly scalded.
Mew York Cotton Market.
Cotton has been quiet tho past week, and
prices have declined, especially on low grades.
The total transactions reached 73,000 bales,.of
which G2,000 bales were for future delivery and
11,000 bales on tho spot and to arrive. Of spot
cotton exporters and speculators took CO bales.
Hog products have been depressed with a deavy
decline in mess pork. Beef products have been
quiet. Dairy products have improved. To
bacco has been firm, bnt less active. Petroleum
has declined in consequence of tho large supply.
Whisky has advanced. Tallow has been active
for exporting. Tho activity in hops has sub
sided, nnd tho market is doll. Wool has been
firm, but less active. Naval stores have declined.
In other domestio products there is nothing
new to notice.
. Navasota, Texas, July 29.—A construction
train bound north this evening of nino cars and
eighteen laborers was precipitated into the
Navasota River. The derrick of tho wrecking
car striking the lateral braces and rod3 of the
bridge caused the accident. The superstructure
of the first span was carried away. The seoond,
third and fourth spans went to the bottom with
the cars and engine in a mass of rains. Five
were killed instantly, two fatally injured and
twelve more or less injured. One man was
thrown twenty feet into the air, and falling, was
instantly killed.
New York, July 31.—Arrived, H. Livingston,
Emily B. Louder, New Orleans; Regulator,
Wilmington. The latter reports that at 4 a. il,
July 2Sth, off Cape Look Ont, she passed the
steamer Catherine Whiting,. having in tow the
Huntsville—disabled—both from Savannah for
New York. The same steamers were spoken on
the next day at 6 p. m. by the Herman Livings
ton twenty-five miles off Cape Henry.
General Grant has postponed his California
trip to next spring.
Synopsis of Weather Statement.
War Dep't, Office Chief Signal Officer,)
Washington, D. O., Jnly 30, 7:30 P. M. )
The barometer has risen since Saturday on
Lake Superior and fallen slightly in the South
ern States. The temperature has fallen on the
upper Lakes, bnt is elsewhere rising somewhat.
Light winds have everywhere prevailed, and
local rains have been reported from Maine to
Virginia and Minnesota. Local storms are now
reported in the Middle Atlantic States and
Western Tennessee. Clearing weather from
Kansas and North Carolina.
Probabilities—The conditions are favorable
for farther local storms on the Eastern Gnlf and
South Atlantio coast as also from New Jersey to
Massachusetts. On Lake Huron and Missouri
and Arkansas partially cloudy and warmer
weather will probably prevail on Monday, and
also very generally east of the Mississippi.
London, Jnly 29.—Tho French Ambassador,
Duke de Broglie, gives a dinner this evening to
the Count de Paris. Royal honors will be done
the Prince, apparently by order.
Paris, Jnly 29.—Gambetta has laid before
Thiers a proposition for the reorganization of
the army and the civil service. The army plans
are supposed to come from Faidherbe and-
Chausey, in cod junction with the Dnke d’Au-
malo and Prince de Joinville. Thiers and Mc
Mahon approve the plans submitted. Some
snrpriso is expressed at the co operation of the
princos with Gambetta and Thiers. Americans
visiting Europe must buy passports—especially
naturalized citizens a3 the latter oannot got
them here without showing proper papers.
London, Jnly 30.—John Slidell is dead. Rus
sell Guerney, the British Commissioner under
the Alabama Treaty, leaves shortly for America.
Havana, July 30.—Valmazeda is here. It is
expected that the family of ex-President Aguo-
losa will surrender. Colonel Boitel has surren
dered. Charles Qnesada, a cousin of General
Qnesada, and Figneradi, the Insurgent Governor
of Bayomo, have been taken to Santiago de Cu
ba for trial. The reports that the blacks in the
Insurgent districts are killing the whites, are
exaggerated and mostly untrue.
New York, July 81.—'Thousands of people
are congregated around the Bellevue Hospital
this morning, eager to hear, something from
friends supposed to be killed or injured by yes
terday’s explosion; and a large force of the
police are engaged in preserving order, amid
the general rash and excitement of the occasion.
Of the forty dead bodies brought to Bellevue
Hospital yesterday, twenty have already been
removed by friends for interment. Nine of the
bodies, still at the hospital, have been recog
nized and willberemovedto-day. In the Morgue
are eleven victims of the (explosion yet unre
cognized. On one slab are. the bodies of a
woman and two children. On another slab are
those of a woman and a child; and on another
that of a woman and five men. Most of tho
bodies present a frightful appearance; for, in
addition to the fact that they are swolen and
their features distorted by water, they have, in
most cases, been terribly scalded. Since early
this morning a regular stream of people have
been passing in solemn file in and out of the
Morgue,, either from curiosity to witness the
awful spectacle of the unrecognized dead lying
there, or withpaiuful interest trying to discover,
an i yot fearful of recognizing amoDg the yet
unknown victims the features of a relative-or
friend. There are abont sixty injured victims
of the explosion in the wards at Bcllevne Hospi
tal. Surgeons state that at 'least half of them
are beyond recovery. About -9 o’clock this
morning the body of Matilda Nilson, aged seven
years, killed by the explosion, was found in the
water at the slip of Staten Island Ferry.
Washington, Jnly 31.—Tho government buys
$5,000,000'bonds. and sells $7,000,000 of gold
in August.' :
The latest from the steamboat disaster reports
50 killed and 120 wounded.
n. \V. Wilson, merchant of Louisville, Ky.,
is seriously scalded. Col. Muchi will die.
New York, Jnly 31.—Charles Fochter pro
poses to lease tho Fourteenth Street Theater.
Paris, July 31.—Tho fact that bnt few ballots'
were cast at the municipal elections, and that
the great mass of voters abstained from the ex-
eraise of the franchise, is generally attributed
to the oontinuanoe of the state of siege of Paris,
which exercises a baneful inflnenoe on all
classes of society. The immense poroelain fac
tory at Sevres, work in'which has been entirely
suspended Bince the commencement of the siege
of Paris by the Germans, is to" be at once re
established.
London, Jnly 31.—The chief theme of con
versation in all circles to-day, as well as edito
rials in journals, is the expected introduction
in the House, of Commons to-night of a propo
sition to censure the Government for abolishing
the system of purchase of army commissions by
royal warrant
London, Jnly 31.—The meeting at Hyde Park
to agitate against the allowance for Prinoe Ar
thur, was a feeble affair. Another meeting has
been called, which tho government has prohib
ited.
London, July 31.—Dispatches from Dublin
report great enthusiasm manifested over the
expected visit of the Prince of Wales. The
Prince is already en route, accompanied by
Prinoe Arthur, Dnke of Cambridge, Marquis
of Lome, and a number of other members of
nobility and offioers.
Rev. Henry Longueville Mansell, dean of St.
Panl’s Churoh, is dead; aged.51 years.
Thirty of the New Castle strikers have gone
to the United States.
In the Honse of Lords to-day, Earl Granville,
in moving for a favorable answer to the Royal
message on behalf of Prinoe Arthur, urged that
the demand merely fulfilled a contract made at
the beginning of the reign of tha Queen. He
spoke in warm eulogy of the Prince whose visit
to Canada had secured the affection of the col
onists, The Duke of Richmond heartily sec
onded the motion, whioh was carried without
division. The Dnke of Riohmond then moved
a vote of censure of the Queen’s message as un
worthy of ministerial resort. He denounced in
strong language the speeches made'at the ban
quet at the Mansion House on Saturday, in re
lation to the treaty of Washington, and claimed
that the Royal prerogative was mnoh strained
in ratification of that instrument, without the
assent of Parliament. Earl Granville spoke in
defence of the message as responding Bimply to
the previous aotion of the House of Commons.
In the House of Commons Gladstone stated
that unless the bill relative te elections was
passed by Tuesday, an October session of Par
liament was imminent. Peter. Alfred Taylor,
member of Leicester, denounced the makingof
appropriations for Prince Arthur, who, he said,
had Seller serve the country than be its. pen
sioner.
The Honse ef Commons to-night passed the
bill granting an allowance of 15,000 pounds per
annum to Prince Arthur by a vote of 276 to 11.
Washington, July 31.—The Kn-klnx Commit
tee has adjourned to the 20th of September,
leaving the snb-Ooznmittee, Poole, Blair and
Buckley, to examine witnesses.
Bontwell has ordered an investigation into
the Westfield explosion..
Customs for the week $4,000,000.
New York, July 31.—The ship Artartio
brought one hundred bales of Mobile cotton
for Liverpool. Thirty-five bales came, last
week from Sherman, Texas, via Missouri,' Kan
sas and other railroads.
Wilmington, July 31.—John F. Pickett, the
New York broker, now in jail hero will bo
brought before Judge Rodman on a writ of
habeas corpus next Thursday.
Memphis, July 31.—R. B. McGee, a promi-
nont citizen of Trenton, Tenn., and prior to
the war President of the branch State Bank at
that place, was arrested here charged with pass
ing counterfeit money. On searching his bag
gage $1,200 of counterfeit United States notes
were fonnd. Owing to the high sooial position
enjoyed by McGee, tas arrest h?s caused con
siderable sensation.
Capt. David H. Todd, formerly of Lexington,
Ky., and a brother of Mrs. Lincoln, died at
Huntsville, of consumption, to-day.
Savannah, July31.—Arrived: steamersBapi-
dan, New York; Amorica, Baltimore; bark
Torxybnm, Havana. Oleard: schooners W. K.
Beebe, Baltimore; Frank Eacas, Boston.
Charleston, Jnly 31.—Arrived: steamer
Empire, Philadelphia. . r
Further Particulars of tlie Explosion.
New York, Jnly 31.—The ferry-boat West-
field attracts largo crowds to where she lies.
She has been moved to the foot of East 13th
street, in oharge of Coroner Young. All human
remains, bits of clothing, etc., have been re
moved by firemen to the Morgne. The force
of ibo oxploaion was upward, blowing away the
main deck, cabin deck and hurricane deck, in
almost a straight line across, and little forward
of tho centre of tho boat. The bulwarks for
ward were blown away," and the metal shade
around this funnel, lies crumpled like paper.
An iron pipe one inch thick, joined to the steam
supply chest, was tom away like cloth, andhurled
against the side of the boat. Two water-tanks
were thrown backward towards the stem a con
siderable distance. The after part of the cabin
is comparatively uninjured. Deaths thus far,
59 ; injured, 142. _ •
The base ball game between the Savannahs
and Eckfords has been postponed on account of
the condition of the grounds.
London, July 31.—A meeting at Trafalgar
Sqnare, to protest against .the proposed allow
ance to Prinoe Arthur, was held to-night. Five
thonsand people were present. Speakers ad
dressed the masses at different points andtanch
excitement was manifested. The entire polioe
reserve was called out, and they seized a Com
munist flag carried by one Ohebs, amid boister
ous demonstration.. Some fighting is reported
and arrests have been made. The meeting ad
journed in disorder. .The crowds were dis
persed by the police.
Paris, July 31.—The acceptance of tho
resignation of Jules Favre, as Minister of For
eign Affairs; is confirmed. . *
President Thiers is consulting with General
Cissy with a view to increasing the army. _
The nnmber of Communists awaiting trial is
32,000. In order to render possible a disposi
tion of so great a nnmber of cases, a bill has
been introduced in the Assembly increasing the
nnmber of judges, and removing all restrictions
from those judges who have, at any time, com
mitted themselves against the Versailles Gov
ernment.
The result of the first and supplementary
elections for members of the Municipal Connell
of Paris, has been declared. The-Council is'
composed of 38 Conservatives, 7 moderate Be-
pnblicans, 27 Republicans and 10 ultras.
Thiers, replying to a delegation from the oc
cupied provinces, intimates that in six weeks
the occupation by German troops would be lim
ited to Champagne and Lorraine.
Berlin, July 31.—The journeymen masons
of ibis city have struck work and appointed a
committee to confer with their masters, .with a
view more speedily to accomplish the object of
the striko. A resolution has been adopted that
it is the duty of all unmarried masons to leave
Berlin and seek temporary places for work else
where. ■ .
Konigsbubg, Prussia, July 81.—The Arch
bishop of Eitnband has pronounced sentence
of major ex-communication against Dr, Woll-
man, and direots that it be read from all the
pnlpits in his diocese.
Eccentric Request.—The daughters-of the
late Henry Morris, of Philadelphia, have lately
received a legacy , of bonds and stock shareB
amounting to’ £19,000 from a Mr. Horatio Ward,
an American, long resident in London. The
will says: ,
“As these ladies are the grand-daughters of
the celebrated Robert Morris, of the Revolu
tion, it will not be difficult to ascertain their ac
tual residence. It will doubtless surprise them
to get a legaoy from a person they never knew,
and, perhaps, never heard of; therefore, it
seem3 bnt proper they should be informed that
the bequest is made through compassion for
their misfortunes, and in return for the kind
nesses shown mo by their father when. I‘was
a boy; and it may be as well that Miss Amelia
Morris should be informed that it was I who
Kent some money to her and her younger sister,
under the name of. ‘her father’s friend,’ a few
■years ago.” ' - ' ,
Mr. Word also devised $100,000 to the Na
tional Soldiers’ Home, in Btate bonds. He also
gives $10Q,000 ir. railroad and Southern city
shares to the various Soldiers’ Orphan Asylums
in tho United States. .,
Me. Beecher.—The Herald fires a centre shot
at the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher in the follow
ing:
How like the Apostle Paul, is this apostle of
Plymouth church! Said that sturdy old saint,
who neve,r quailed before the face of any man,
“If meat make my brother to offend I will eat
none while the world standeth, lest I make my
bother to offend. ” Says tho Plymouth apostle,
“If the Orange banners and procession* make
my brother to . offend I will repeat them year
after year until he Bhall learn not to be offended.”
Paul would give np his most cherished rights to
avoid offending a brother. Beecher wonld bold
on to such right because it give offence. Onr
readers can-draw their own inferences.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Concerning the loose ideas matrimonial of
the enfranchised, the Chroniole and Sentinel
has the following:
A New License to Marry.—At an early hour
yesterday morning a party of colored persons,
consisting of one man and three women, be
sieged the honse of the Ordinary and begged of
that official a marriage license. They seemed
to be in snch a hurry about the matter that the
Ordinary went to tas office earlier than nsnal to
issue the document for the man and one of the
women, the other two females coming down to
officiate as housemaids. Before filling ont the
license he asked if the woman had been married.
She replied that she had been, bnt that she bad
a license to marry again. Upon tas inquiring
what she meant, she produced a paper from her
employer, stating that the present husband of
the woman was willing for her to marry some
one else. The Ordinary decided that a license
conld not be issued to those parties; and jnst
abont that time the woman’s lord name rushing*
in, exclaiming that he “dejeoted” to the mar
riage. The party then retired, the lovers in
high dndgeon and- apparently very much dis
gusted with the law which wonld not let people
marry when they wished.
Crops Prospects.—The Elberton Gazette
says: “Reports from farmers in this section
are generally favorable for both cotton and
corn. In some sections it has been rather dry,
bnt as a general thing the seasons have been
good; and with one or two more good rains the
corn crop will be matured, ar.d cur farmers will
make plenty to do them and to spare. If cotton
will bring a good prioe next fall, there is cer
tainly a better day coming.”
Fig Syrup.—The Columbus Sun says: ‘ ‘ The.
fig grows in abundance in this seotion, bnt we
did not know until Wednesday that delioious
syrap conld be made from them. Mr. John
Mnlford, on tas Alabama farm, has pressed
several gallons this summer. The syrap is very
olear and tastes very pleasantly—if anything,
being more palatable than that from the cane.
One bushel of figs will yield two gallons of
syrap.
Earliest Grapes.—The earliest received at
New York this summer were from Georgia. The
vineyards around hero are doing very well.
Narrow Gauge.—The Sun, of Sunday, prints
a letter addressed to Gen. Banning, Col. Smith,
Dr. Bnssey and others, by Col. E. Halbert, re
garding the importance of the Albany and Co-
Iambus Railroad. He advocates that the gange
should be ef three feet. He conclusively proves
thejmmense value of the road to Coiambus, and
why it should be built now; that Columbus can
now easily constract it and do it better than she
everoan; that if she negleote this dntynow,
her business will certainly depreciate. Included
in the letter is a table showing the popnlation,
value of the farms and the principal productions
of theconntry through which this and other
proposed roads centering at Columbus pass.'
From it we learn the valneof the farming inter
ests of the connties along-the Albany and Co-
lnmbns Railroad $17,130,514, and the popnla
tion 88,945 sonls. Col. H. shows that the road'
will be part of a grand trank line from the
Northwest to the Gulf and Atlantio and to the
West Indies.
North and South Road.—Tho Son, of Son-
day Chronicles the arrival of a large nnmber of
laborers to work on the North and South Road.
The streets yesterday were well filled with
freedmen. Mr. F. W. Hazlehnrst, brother of
Colon§l H. of Lane & Co., is here with 90 men
and 20 carts, and Messrs. Towles with 45 men
11 carts. To-morrow’s boat from Eufaula is
expected with Hammond & Davis’ force of 80
men and 17 carts. These make a corps of 215
men and 48 carts, to commence work on Mon
day, whioh, during the week, will be increased
to 600 men. The contractors say they have re
ceived applications for work from men con
trolling 1200 laborers, and it will be their polioy
to pnt them on the line as rapidly as possible.
Work was to begin on Monday morning with
300 men. * " . -
The Columbus Firemen.—The Son says tho
subject of jury service will bo submitted to the
Board of Control this week. Chief Engineer
Mollhenny is in favor of holding a convention
of the firemen of the State at some accessible
point—Macon perhaps being the most con
venient. The convention might draft a bill,
brief and general, giving bona fide firemen
certain privileges, among them exemption from
jury duty, and present it as soon as the Legis
lature meets. This is the best plan we have
heard proposed and much the speediest to effect
the object desired.
Sports of the Ring.—The Son chroniolesa
foot race on Saturday by six stalwart darkies—
a quarter mile heat. The time made was 4:14.
Phil. Rowe, the blackest of the six, won—show
ing that now-a-days black is tho winning color.
Opelika is looking fora large immigration
from the business men of New York this fall.
The total property valuation of Riohmond
oonnty, according to the tax returns of this year,,
is $15,651,470. This is an increase of $1,617,837
since last year, and an increase of about $3,-
700,000 since 186S, when the depression follow
ing the war was greatest; bnt it is a decrease of
abont three millions compared with retains
shortly before the war, when the slave valuation
was included. 7-
The Columbus Enqnirer says that at the steam
mill of Mr. McCormick, on the Eufaula and
Montgomery Railroad, Saturday, there occurred
a sad accident—snch as are of ten recorded abont
machines ran by steam. A laborer (colored)
in the employ of Mr. MoOormick, while moving
some plank from-the mill, allowed the plank to
tonch the saw, and was thrown down, and before
he conld rise was caught by the saw, and was
immediately killed; the saw cutting diagonally
through tas body from tas shoulder to the waist,
catting through the lungs and heart Mr. Mc
Cormick was standing near, and made a desper
ate effort to save the unfortunate man, but was
too late. It was bnt the work of a second—so
sndden and terrible that the lungs and heart
were observed still in aotion after the body had
been torn asunder.
Bainbridge News.—The Bainbridge Sun has
the following:
An Episcopal Church to be Built.—We are
told that this long prospective edifice is soon to
become an accomplished fact The lot. has
been donated by a prominent citizen of the city,
and it is the most desirable that conld possibly
be got. The work, so we learn, is to begin im
mediately..
Open Cotton.—Cotton is opening very fast
in this county. Guess there will be some in
market in a week or so.
There has been considerable sickness in this
section for the past month, bnt no dangerous
cases. As a general thing this is the healthiest
portion of the State.
Pleasant Weather.—For the past few days
the weather has been quite pleasant It is cool
enough in the mornings to get under a blanket,
which we would do if we had one.
, Col. Felix G. Arnett, an old and prominent
citizen of thiB county, Is lying quite ill at his
residence near this city.
We hear there are to be some new steamers
put on the river as soon as the busy season
commences. • -
Huge Snake.—We learn from a gentleman of
this place, who has a plantation some three or
four miles ont, that a rattle snake seven feet
long and weighing fifty-seven pounds was killed,
bnt not nntilhe had killed his favorite dog.—
Dadeeille Jtfem. ?Y"?
The Philippine Island-EarthoQ^T'l
The Herald’s telegraphic report of this
derful and fearful occurrence is as follows ■ S
^?? os u£ u 1 , y 27 -—A terrible earthquake * it
tted the Philippine islands in the manual
May last. It commenced on the small
Camlgnm, five miles in length, near the Si
of Misamis. There had been a successions
violent shocks for some months, which omJI
several extensive crevices.
°f the ground were egpcci,n.l
fett in-March, till finally, on May 1, tffj
plain near the village of Catanffin
began to subside, until the tops of the hon*.
were on a level with the surface of the eartL
A crowd or people were attracted by zxaia
pd remained for several hours eagerly W,
*be phenomenon, when suddenly fertAz
Shooks, accompanied by thundering reverb-?!
tions, burst upon the island.
The earth was tom asunder and thswUi
level plain fell in. At the same time a volca-y i
with a crater fifteen feet wide, which liad CS
for several days in an unusual state of active?
broke ont into a terrible eruption, sending
columns of white sulphurous smoke and Ki
rents of lava and boiling water.
Masses of rook were hurled aloft into the
columns of fire shot forth, and stones andasU
vrere thrown np to the height of thousands,
^l ar w fifty P arsons were engdJ
in the vent which opened at the base of tM
cano. Several other large openings were msi ’
in the ground, from which proceeded a tens
explosion ana jets or. flame.
The explosion, which sounded like the the
der of heavy artffiery, had lasted for seven
hotns. Then suddenly there ensued a pause t
dark, when another explosion broke out.
JSngZZm veK °i> 6t >ea, more lava flow*
jfejfrfegy* engulfed houses on its i
ra iTt*? witha hisBing sound into the s
Black dust was driven up and overhung ,
island like a cloud, and columns of Binoke »■
Me, with brilliant displays of light, contiam.
to.issne from the crater. It seemed literally h
rain fire, while strong exhalations of"'
poisoned the air. •
- wo °da caught fire, the men and cattle S
ing before the flames. The spectacle was frig]
ful. The whole village was destroyed;^
houses either sunk into the ground or were!
shapeless rains.
The eruption of the volcano still contin;i
butall the inhabitants have left the island.
Tremblings of the grounds were felt all c
the neighboring islands.
The island of Oamiguin had, until lately,
000 inhabitants.. [
It prodnneed Manila hemp, the quantity^
which amounted to one-tenth of the vb
quantity grown on the Philippine Islands.
The Philippine Islands are in the bfl
Archipeligo, and abont 1,200 in number-
of them very small. They, however, contaii|
population of about 5,000,000 — comprisi
Malays, Chinese, Spaniards and negroes.
Bat is Goot.
As a gentleman from New York was fakir; I
glass of wine at the St. Loots, corner of Fts
man and Hopkins street, Cincinnati, about lb
weeks ago, he observed at another table sea;
with other Germans, a man who seemed s
easy and anxious, as if there might have bee:;
Franco-Prussian disagreement between his It
and himself. Presently in ran a little girl, 1
face radiant with smiles, exclaiming:
“ Ob, father, we have a little poy at hone
“Datisgoot,” said the Dutchman as P
anxiety disappeared from tas countenance, 1
tip der glasses.”
Not many minutes elapsed before in rush i
the little girl again with the announcement:
“ Oh, father, we have two little pojs i
home! ”
The Dutchman looked a good deal astonish* j
and not at all gratified at Ms little family:
dnndanoy, bnt rising at length to the magniti
of the ocoasion, he said:
“Veil, den, dat is also goot. Fill npJ
Assault on the Sub-Kuklux Committee.—The
Herald says the following private dispatch from
Yorkville, S. 0„ dated Jnly 24th, was received
by a gentleman in Washington:
The Sob-Committee on Southern Outrages
arrived here yesterday evening. At the supper
table at the hotel the Hon. J. E. Stevenson, of
the committee, and the Hon. A. J. Wallace, the
representative of the district, were assaulted as
they took their seats by Major James Bairy, a
prominent oitizen, and a pitcher of milk was
thrown over them. Wallace drew a revolver,
bnt Major Barry was snrronnded by friends and
he left the hotel. At nine o’clock the committee
was serenaded by a negro band, and a crowd
collected.. As the band was retiring an affray
took place and one negro was shot, receiving
three wounds. No arrests have been made.
It is very singular that this pieoe of news
should be confined to private political circles of
the Radical type. We apprehend, when the
truth is known, the story will be fonnd to pos
sess a slender foundation, or to be an invention
throughout of the slander-mill order.
The ©ensue returns show that the number of
persons of Chinese birth in the United States a
year ago was 63,196. As the aggregate of the
population of the country at the same time was
38,549,987, we find that China has contributed
bnt one in 610 to onr popnlation, or *Jess than
one-sixth of one per oent.
In a few minntes again appeared the radia
messenger with the astounding proclamation;
“ Oh, father, we have got three little pop,
home! ”
This was too much even for Teutonic impi j
sability. There was no further call fer gla.-i
Veil, den,’-’ says he, “I goes np dere, at;
stopt der whole tampisiness.”
TIae Proper Distinction of Woinai
A writer in Lippincott’s Magazine says:
there any barrier against presumption, *
thoroughbred courtesy? “Do what you i
yon can never be so thorough a lady as I az t
was the impression made upon me by the si; 1
humility, the plain dreBS, the almost fork
snrronndings of Mrs. Cnstis, the former mistra j
of Arlington. It was more what she did noti*
the absence of effort, coupled with the desired
make you happy, the thorough-breeding, t‘
self-abnegation, the graceful dignity, that miij
this lady a duchess in her faded realm. S
breeding and 6uch manners as hers are
within the reaohof everyone—they are ps
natural gifts—bnt the virtues which lead >
them are to be cultivated by everybody v.
some hope of success. Miss Sedgwick wass
of ‘ these wonderfully well-bred women. 5
woman in America was more famous thane
in her prime, and she had much of the i
with little of the formality, of those “old-sch*
manners in which she mast have been trai
Flattery never tamed her head: she was ha
and modest as a village girl, graceful and c
ly as Madame de Sevigne. Her manner of;
traducing two persons has never been surpass
she made them both feel honored and dist
guished. Her attitude of listening was in it*
a compliment, and ( to the very last she at
tained a charm beyond beauty, the chant-;' 1
perfect manners.
Monday's New York Tribune says a religi
paper publishes a carious appeal in the foil
ing words:
“It is asked of all newspapers, del
the spread of truth, and the destruction
error, that they publish this request and pr;*;
to Almighty power, that on the three first Sri
day nights in October, 1871, there shall ap?
in. the heavens a distinct light in the shaped;
great cross.”
There is something like an answer in adn
to snoh a petition already written: “Except.’
see sighns and wonders, ye will not believe.
Patrick burns was reoently convicted of a
der in Sri Louis, and sentenced to death.
Governor afterward commuted his sentences
ten years’ imprisenmenri It was necessary *
the commutation should be accepted, bat
couldn’t decide whether be should wait a def
in the dungeon for the light, or take his cb
in another world in much less time, and a i
or two had been granted him in which tor
np tas mind. -
Improvements in Chattanooga.—There a
present in the city .erecting and under#
completion six fine dwellings, at an average*
of $1,000 to $65,000; eighteen stores, aUb^
three story,' at on average cost of
$90,000; the new postofflee building_, $W l
new Methodist Chnreb, $15,000; Union “A'
$50,000; gasworks, $70,000; opera house, s"
000; newhotel, 150,0000; total $600,000.-4
Times. ..X - - ...
It is claimed that Louisiana will soon hi”
large Chinese popnlation. The Asiatic ck*
already upon the African. One thonsand M
ers, in addition to those already there, awl
gaged by an agent in China, and it i3 heu«s
that in a short time Louisiana will have i&J
thousands of Chinamen performing tho 15 1
hitherto done by the blacks.
In Vicksburg hundreds of colored P e °Pj*!j
been attracted to the shanty of an old peg
who believes she can see angels in the air. 1
visitors do not pretend to see the oeles-wj
ings, bnt they have the satisfaction of
upon one who does, and this fcss proved
traction sufficient to draw ignorant crew
from all directions, and in some oases frofflt
distances. _
, The PatoeaviUe Telegraph says there*
young and intelligent lady of eighteen ,
in Lake oonnty who will harness her sp
horses in the morning, hitch them heio* J
mower, let down the fence in the meaao ij
cut her six acres of grass before noon, b j
then food and take care of hot team and
cate he? morning’s work in tho afternoon*
Koopmansceap, the famous importer ofj
heathen Chinee, has been to Tnscalooss.
to look after the interests of abont 3u0
men who were taken there to work on a »
and have reoeivsd no pay. He found th«l
ing on blackberries and crawfish, and pr®"T
deemed the diet healthy for the Mongol)® j
atitntion, as he left them to continue the
f.-gimen.
A Quebec cat sitting In a girl’s lap
by lightning; the girl was uninjured, l n ' j
j do for lightning items.