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The Suu and Hie Rose.
Moving i« eoF'* 1 from a noannectipt slip
"'‘tvthe late Alieo Carey. It has never ep-
■‘'“ia print as one of her poems, but it is very
art critic and has a deep meaning tenderly ex-
<bo trades wherever he goes
EIHSr,P falRow
lrn.he.lb»ck the folds of the soft green hood
£ covered her modest grace,
■her as only a lover could,
jtbecrinswaburned in her face,
wo for the day when hie golden hair
•Hod her heart in a net,
t wo for the night of dark despair,
ftco her cheek with tears was wet!
.,v e i OT od him as only a maiden could,
.. i, e L ft her mushed and weak,
rxsiu win with her faded rood
locover her guilty cheek.
(irspbir Description of tlie Great
five by an Rye-Witness.
Cecigo, October 10.—The following descrip-
: of the fire has been furnished by a gentle-
a who aided in subduing the flames:
Xosebut an eye-witness can form an idea of
1 toy end power of the fire fiend as he re-
iled among the palatial buildings^ and ware-
•i£s on the south side. The wind blew a
"tone. At times it seemed but the work of
sc'mctt for the fiie to enter the sonth ends of
fronting on Randolph, Lake, and
iter streets, and reappear at the north doors
i victors, belching forth in fierce flames
ich often licked the opposite buildings. The
ca inning forth from the buildings on both
sof the street would unite and present a
J mass of fire, completely filling the street
uu side to side, and
SSoOTBiG UPWiBD A HUNDRED FEET
) the air above the housetops in their mad
itr. Thus was street after street filled with
jm. and a roaring sound, which conld only be
iwiltd by combining the noise of the ocean
swing upon a rocky beach with the howl of the
st. lingo walls would topple and fall into
snot fire without apparently giving a sound.
:e roar of the fierce element was so great that
sounds were swallowed up, and the
U cf lui!d ngs was only perceptible to the
ei If the reader will recall to his mind the
rcest snow storm in his experience, and inl
ine the snow to be lire as it surged hither and
before the fury of the wind, he will be
!e to Hrm a faint conception of the flames as
it ra;Sd through the streets of onr doomed
Many of the buildings situated along South
»ter street buried their red hot rear walls in
i water of the river, into which they
riXSGED WITH A HISS.
;e heat was so intense at times from somo of
s turning buildings, that they could not be
preached within 150 feet, which accounts for
i manner in which the fire worked back so
en against the wind. The fire, after reach-
; the business portion of Randolph and South
iter streets leaped the river to tho north side
> short time, and thence among tho wooden
sidings on that side, reached the lake shore
'ter touching block after block of dwellings
iih its fierce blast. A scene of such utter
werlessnMs in face of an enemy was never
sxnted than that of this people trying to
abit the fire fiend, for the combat wss not
iong duration; the people bowed their beads
ugnish of spirit and suffered the fiend to
"t untrammelled sway.
the meanest of human hyenas.
''tile there are many instances of generous
station on tho part of rich and poor in dividing
jsh the destitute, there are painful instances
' wanness and selfishness. One person was
"Jsg to remove valuable papers from an office,
1 asked two firemen to help him, bnt they
ksed unless he paid them $50. The papers
destroyed. Drivers of expressw.igons have
■isa «100, and even $500, for an hour’s use of
•fir vehicles in getting distressed people away
bn danger.
Among the sad scenes of the calamity was tho
Ijearance of hundreds of men and boys beast-
'tatoiicated aronnd the streets of the North
vision, where saloon keepers’ stocks of liquors
ere turned into the street, and furnished a con
sent opportunity for tho gratification of their
'fish propensities, and there can hardly be any
that many of these poor wretches found
•sir death in tho flames, from which they were
15 helpless to escape. One poor man had
w ded for refuge into the water main, lying
fto street near tho water works, bnt the
ses found him even there before he conld get
i*>dy wholly in safety.
Tlie Putnam County Fair.
Eatonton, October 14, 187L
Editors TdegraphandMessenger-. TheFourth
Annual Fair of the Putnam County Agricultu
ral Society opened here on Wednesday. A show
er of rain and the threatening aspect of the
weather in tho morning caused the first day’s
exhibition to be bnt slimly attended, and the
visitors became rather despondent as to the
success of the Fair. I think even a few of the
citizens of the county gravely apprehended that
their Fair would snccumb to the stringency of
the times and prove a failure. But when men
like Etheridge, DeJarnett, Yonng and Nisbet,
have a hand in an enterprise of thi3 kind there
is no danger of a failure. Nothing short of a
deluge or five dollars a bale for cotton would
have discouraged them. Thursday morning
dawned dear and pleasant, and by 10 o’clock
there was assembled on tho grounds a promis
cuous crowd of several hundred visitors.
' Tho entries for exhibition in some depart
ments were very large, and in others rather defi
cient. In the ladies department, for instance,
the display was as jood as I have ever witnessed.
The premium for the largest number of entries
was awardod to Miss M. P. Cogburn, of Putnam
county. The following is a list of ladies who
were competitors for this prize, with the num
ber of entries made:
Miss M. P. Cogburn, 30; Mrs. W. T. Young,
[; Mrs. Wm. Little, 22; Mrs. R. J. Wynn, 24;
Miss. A L. Reid, 18; Miss E. Baynes, 10.
The stock show was also very good. The fol
lowing is a partial list of premiums awarded on
stock:
Best Georgia raised stallion, Levi Ezell,
Jasper county. $10 00
Best mule, J. P. Key, Putnam county... 10 00
Best mule, Georgia raised, E. E. Kilpat
rick 10 00
Best horso in single harnes, F. S. John-
sod, Macon, Ga 10 00
Fastest trotting horse, open to the world
W. F. Anderson, Macon, Ga 50 00
Fastest pacrog horse, open to tho world,
W. O. Baynes, Jasper county 10 00
Fastest single harness horse, W. F. An
derson, Macon, Ga 25 00
Best saddle horse, W. F. Anderson, Ma
con, Ga 10 00
Best mare and colt, J. T. Mathis, Put
nam county 10 00
Best mare and colt, Georgia raised, Miss
Eva Reid, Putnam county 10 00
Best colt, three years old, A M. Pounds
Jones county 10 00
In the department of field crops the entries
were not so large as usual, and attracted bnt
little attention. The premium for the best bale
of short staple cotton was awarded to Mr. W.
0. Leverett, of Jasper county.
A poor show was made in machinery and ag
ricultural implements. We cannot comprehend
why the entries were so few in this department,
unless it was because the premiums offered
were so small. A diploma for the best cotton
press was awarded to Messrs. Wheeless & Co.
of Augusta—no competition; diploma to F. W.
White, of Milledgeville, for best cotton-planter;
diploma to the E. Carver Co., for best cotton
gin—no competition. Oar young friend, O. C.
Guilford, of the firm of Guilford & Hill, was
present with a specimen of the Florence Sewing
.Machine. He readily convinced the ladies of
the superiority of his machine, and was award
ed a diploma by tho committee. Mr. J. A.
Pugh, the popular Macon artist was also here
for tho double purpose of showing his fine spec
imens of photography and witnessing the peer
less array of Putnam county beauty to be seen
here. I also bad the pleasure of meeting here
Messrs. Speights and Herd, of the Atlanta Sun,
Gentry, of the Savannah News, and Turner, of
the Press & Messenger, all clever and affable
gentlemen. The citizens of Putnam generally
and the patrons of the Telegraph and Messen
ger particularly will please accept many thank3
for their kindness and attention. May they
live long and prosper. M.
A “Lost River.”
Abiding article in a lato number of the Sk
’hiPrws gove tho following mournful account
He coition of things at the “head of navi
iUon
Mississippi has almost dried up. The
♦jsstic river whose magnificent volume two
tosstnd miles from its outlet, has been the
“*®e of the tourist's admiration; so broad and
**«p that it seemed some grand estuary of the
f* on which the navies of tho world might
[J; h»i shrunk to a mere ridiculous creek,
-3 its thin and attenuated current crawls lazily,
’ if it were ashambd of its shrunk shanks,
»g low, red, bare submarine ridges and
*>dies of sand that have never seen tho snn
♦•ofo, so far as bnman knowledge goes, since
s *p*rated the waters from the dry land. The
Jft* has never been so low within the memory
wo oldest inhabitant. Herds of cattle bask
■- Line of the dry bed of f he great river
fifteen feet under the level of the waters,
“Me a few months ago great fleets of steam-
Jr* rode at will. Boys with their trousers
; “ op to their knees, sonnd with their feet
grand mysterious depths which have engulf-
ro many wayward boys and hapless men,
accidents or rashness has entangled in
--Btrong* swift undertow.
'*k«enpon the Duluth Minnesotian observes:
i- the meantime, we notice, that boats con'
arrive at Stillwater; showing that the
J~^head of navigation is still alive, and goiDg
Gi eenwood writes from Denver: * ‘Na
jjar 1 " antelopes an ill turn originally, in af-
to them a mark by which they can be seer
S* ^beaddr-
seen
It' • “eau drawn on them” at a great distance.
« “Oders them especially liable to attacks in
Uch reminds me of a little story. A
boy who had been out playing,
tttirT .ho house iu a Btate of great excitement,
Sa he had ‘ '
went
was
no naa seen some antelope in
Vby. At his entreaty his mother v
; Jj' ‘ k them, but nothing of the kind
1 oho became incredulous, and said
."i don’t believe you saw any antelope
To th;' ,? vo been your imagination, my child!
the little mountaineer indignantly re
ha’l “Humph 1 I guess my imagination
■His Wife’s Mother.
He stood on his head on the wild sea-shore,
And danced on his hands a jig;
In all his emotions, as never before,
A madly hilarious grig.
And why ? In that vessel which left the bay
His mother-in-law had sailed
To a tropical country some distance away,
'Where tigers and serpents prevailed.
He knew eke had gone to recruit her health
And doctor her rasping cough,
But wagered himself a profusion of wealth
■That something would carry her off.
Ob, now he might look for a quiet life,
And even bo happy yet.
Though owning no end of neuralgical wife,
And np to his collar in debt;
roads wherever they are wanted, but would
rather encourage it—we desire them to be built
without State aid. To be built solely by private
enterprise. When suoh measures are underta
ken by the people, and carried on with their
own money, or what they can raise with their
own means, they are apt to be conducted hon
estly and economically, and managed success
fully.
For ehe of the specs and curled false front,
And the black alpaca robe.
Must pick out a sailor to Eiiffer tho brunt
Of her next daily trial of Job.
He watched while tho vessel cut the sea,
And bumpishly upped and downed,
And thought if already she qualmish could be
He’d consider tho edifice crowned!
He’d borne the old lady through thick and thin,
Till elie’d lecture him out of breath;
And now, as he gazed at the ship sho was in,
He howled for her violent death—
Till over tho azure horizon’s edge
Tho bark had retired from view.
When he laapod to tho crest of a chalky ledge,
And prancad like a kangaroo.
And many a jubilant peal ho sent
O'er the waves which had made him free,
Then cut a last caper ecstatic, and went,
Turning somersaults, homeward to tea.
THE
STATE IN DANGER OF BANK.
KDPTCT.
Nico Little Children.
A writer in the Boston Voice says: The other
day, in an unguarded moment, I accepted the
charge and custody of a young gentleman who
wore half gaiters and a Charles II. hat and
feather. His sponsors in baptism had given
him one name, circumstances another. His
latter appellation, “Buster.” His age, as he
informed me, was “going on seven.” When he
made up his mind that we were to be left to
gether, he eyed me malevolently a moment, and
immediately commenced the following system
of torture: ,
What was my name, and my brother s and my
father’s name, and why ? Did I have any little
boys? Why didn’t I have any little boys? Didn’t
I have any little girls? All this was put as
one question, with no stops, and a gradual ris
ing inflection.
Was them buttons gold in my sleeve, and
why? How much did they cost? Did they
cost $155? If they didn’t cost cost $155, what
would bo the price of a gold house with gold
furniture an gold stair case ? Did I ever see a
house with auriferouspeculiarities ?
No.
What then would be the cost of a silver car
riage and a gold harness ? What then would be
the cost cf a leaden cariage with iron harness?
And why ?
Did I know why iho flies walked on the ceil-
ing? Conld I walk on the ceiling? Not if I
had one man to hold my head and another my
legs ? Why couldn’t I ? Couldn’t I if I was a
giant? Was I ever personally acquainted with
any ? Did I ever see them eat ?
How far was it to New York ? Wa3 it a mil
lion miles ? Fify million miles ? If he (Buster)
had a balloon, and shonld start off, would he
get there to-night ? Nor next week—and why ?
1 soon found out that this why was a simple
form of closing all questions, like the usual noto
of interrogation.
What was my business, and did I know any
stories, and why?
This afforded a plan of relief. I instantly
started into a history of my previous life and
adventures. I invested all my relations and
friends with supernatural attributes, and mado
myself, a creature something between a genii
and Robinson Crusoe. I made tho most aston
ishing voyages and saw the most remarkable
occurrences. I drew liberally from the Arabian
Nights and Baron Munchausen. When I saw
the open month “ad3 :ess itself to a motion, as
though ’twonld speak,” I brought in a Roo or a
Genii or a casket of diamonds, and took away
the unhappy child's breath! In an animated
description of the. Hoarhound Islands and ad-
venlures in the damp caves, where tho candles
bung in long stalactites, the parents happily
returned. I hurriedly received their thanks
and left. But I have the secret satisfaction
of knowing that all that pentnp torrent of ques
tions burnt on the unhappy father, and that
geographical inquiries regarding the locality of
“Floating Island,” the “Blanc Mange Archipel
ago,” and the “Valley of Cream Cakes,” will
henceforth be his dreadful lot to meet and an
swer!
“Pabtubetion Without Pain.”—A little work
with this title, by Dr. M. L. Holbrook, editor
of the Herald of Health, is another work whose
excellence surpasses our power to commend.
He shows tho essential healthfulness of child
birth, by citing examples, that painless parturi
tion is possible, through a healthful preparatory
regimen, dependent chiefly on theFruit Dietsys-
tem. In important surgical operations, the first
care of the best surgeons is to prepare the con
stitution of the patient, sometimes six months
before an operation, to stand the_ shock; the
criminal neglect of those approachingtne most
important natural physiological operaUon, is
strikingly in contrast The study of such books
as this should be the first duty of married per
sons, wise suggestions to the husband as well as
the wife being included in it It is plainly and
popularly written—if we except the sentenoe
‘ Truth inosculates,” which surprises us as Irorn
this writer—and cost bnt a dollar; It is to be
had-from Wood <fc Holbrook. Dr. Holbrook and
that school, we should add, deserve especial
commendation for having proved how.easy it is
to write with the utmost delioacy upon the most
“questionable” subjects.—Exchange.
The Biggest Scheme of All.
From the Atlanta Sun of tho 17.]
The last Legislature granted charters to a
large number of Bailroads, which were intended
to traverse almost every section of Georgia; and
in these charters obligated the State to indorse
their bonds. %
The granting of these charters, and this State
aid, is only a part of the general system of
plundering the people and bankrupting the
State, in which that speculating body indulged
so extensively; and, unless the masses of our
people, and their representatives, wake up to
the importance of this subject, and apply a cor-
reclive, we, and onr children, and children’s
children, for fifty, or perhaps a hundred years,
will not reach the end of the burden of debt and
taxation which this measure will entail, if it is
consummated. The consequences are absolutely
appalling to one who looks at them in all their
magnitude. ...
It is too often the case that those who indorse
havo the bill to pay. Generally, those who de
sire indorsements are not as able to pay prompt
ly as those who indorse. It is sometimes the
case that those who got others to indorse for
them, do not make the effort to pay which they
shonld, and are not as sure of their ability to
meet the engagement as they ought to be. If
such be the case with individual indorsement,
what right have wo to expect good things of
thoso who seek State indorsements—especially
of corporations, which are generally considered
soulless, and which, by corruption or other im
proper means, induce a peculating'Legislature
to give the State’s indorsement to the wildest
schemes? .. ... .
Such indorsement is too often sought for, ana
obtained, to aid schemes in which capitalists
and men of common sense will not risk their
money. They are not legitimate enterprises;
and too often the men who go into them never
expect to benefit the country, or build a road
out of whose earnings they can hope to reap a
profit; but only to gobble np what they can
while the money raised on the indorsed bonds
of the State and contributed bj the stockhold
ers, is passing through their hands; and save
something iu the wreck, when the crash comes.
Such men are not to be expected to try, in good
faith, to save the State hamless, or to do any
thing else but fill their own pockets by any safe
Wo do not hesitate to toll the people plainly,
that they will have either to pay these endorsed
bonds out of their own pockets, very nearly to
tho uttermost farthing, or repudiate them, if
they are ever issued and used for the purposes
for which they were granted by the Legislature
and iu the way contemplated. We tell them
plainly that a stop must bo put to this whole
proceeding. If it is not done, we will either be
disgraced, or bankrupted, or loaded down for
generations to come with a burden of debt and
taxation, too intolerable to be homo.
And, just heie, we again lay down tho propo
sition, that railroads which will pay for run
ning expenses, and a profit on the investment,
after they are bnilt, can be built by private
capital and enterprise, without any assistance In
the shape of indorsement by the State, or any
one else; and that roads which cannot be built
without such indorsement, will not “pay when
completed, and must inevitably go down, and
the loss fall on the indorser.
The men who have gotten up these schemes,
expect to sell the bonds which the State may in
dorse, handle the money which they bring, and
which is otherwise raised, and make a good
thing out of it while it is going on. This is the
motive which prompts most of the principal
leaders and prime actors in all such enterprises.
The people along the line of such proposed
roads will, of course, deBiro them to be built.
This is bnt natural. They will be called upon
to subscribe liberally, and most of them wifi do
60. Those who do not comprehend tho whole
scheme, in its financial bearing, and almost
certain results, will be doped. Those who do
understand it, will either refuse to subscribe,
or will do so with the expectation of selling
their propertj at an advanced price before the
roads break down.
If all those roads were fully completed,.and
in operation to-day, it would not bo a great
while before they would be unable to pay the
interest on their indorsed bonds. Then the
Governor would have to pay the interest out of
the State Treasury, and proceed to seize and
sell the roads; and, when that would be done,
they would not, upon an average, bring one-
fourth—perhaps not a tithe—of the amount of
tho indorsed bonds. Most of what they would
bring would bo absorbed in attendant expenses,
and then the burden of -payment would fall
upon tho whole people of the State, who will be
taxed for generations to come, to pay these
bonds—principal as well as interest.
If the general system is carried out, accord
ing to tha present programme, this will be the
inevitable result, in almost every single case.
Mark the prediction! .
The State of Tennessee has gone througn tne
same experience that we will, if we do not ap
ply a corrective to what has been done. She
indorsed largely for railroads, and lately a num
ber of them, were sold. Some whole railroads
brought only $10,000—less than the cost of con
structing a single mile—and.the people of Ten
nessee are left to pay the last dollar of the
bonds. Here is the summing up of the whole
matter, after a result has been reached, taken
from a Tennessee paper: , . .
“The State’s interest or property in tne de
linquent railroads, which have been sold, has
been done at figures, whioh for all practicable
results, will reduce the debt of the State so lit
tle, that this part of the financial policy of the
last Legislature, may be said, to be a failure.
The fact that the sale of the various delinquent
roads will not retire more than one-tenth of the
minimum amount fixed by tho Comptroller, is
an unanswerable argument against the policy
as at present carried out."
'We ask the people of Georgia, and especially
the incoming Legislature, to carefully contem
plate this picture.
And we specially ask those who live near the
line of such proposed roads, and who are ex
pected, naturally, to favor their construction,
to consider whether they are willing to fasten
such a load of debt upon the whole people for
a very doubtful benefit.
We would be glad to see a railroad running
Bv the door of every man in the State who de-
oir«B it if the State would not be damaged . ..
thereby!. We do dot objeot to the building of fans eighteen inches long,
A Brave Han.
Marshal McMahon, Duke of Magenta, .has
just done what no other officer in all France
cared or dared to do; he ha3 fully, freely and
frankly vindicated the honor of Napoleon ILL
Ihe world knew before that McMahon was he-
xoio; to-day, he is regarded as the most chival
rous man inEurope. WhatDucrotfailed to do;
what all the other marshals and generals failed
to do, MoHahon has done in his blimt soldiery
way. American readers have not forgotten yet
the peculiar features of that unaccountable cam
paign which culminated at Sedan, and which
cost the Emperor his Empire and his throne.
He alone, of all men, received the blame, and
went away into exile preserving a silence which,
while it was sorrowful and dignified, in no man
ner seemed to seek other victims than himself
npon which to cast tho terrible responsibilities
of the overthrow. Some pity might have still
remained in French hearts, even then, if the
truth had been known, and if the true relations
between Napoleon and his army had been un
derstood by the people. Gen. Wimpffen, the
signer of the terms of capitulation, shonld cer
tainly have known better when he declared that
the Emperor prevented a sortie which might
have preserved the bulk of the army, and com
manded an nnconditional surrender.
McMahon, however, tells the whole truth. In
his testimony before the committee on the con
duct of the war, he declares on his oath that he
alone is responsible to the country for the march
from Chalons to Sedan; that by his orders
alone the army marched; that the Emperor in
noway whatever interfered with his plans, or
those of the other commanders; that from the
first he, MoMahon, had been left free to man
age the army in his own way—the most the Em
peror ever attempting to do consisted of sug
gestions and recommendations; that he always
received the Emperor’s cordial support; and that
during his entire connection with the army he
was actuated by but one motive—that of devo
tion to France at the sacrifice of everything
else—his throne, his family, the hope ' of his
dynasty, and his own personal safety. The
Marshal continues by sajing that his army de
ceived him. Ho thought it could make eighteen
miles a day, while it only made ten, and that to
this cause alone shonld the disaster bo atlribu-
tod. Had it been otherwise, and had he suc
ceeded in obtaining such marching results as
he had a right to expect, a junction would have
been made with Bazaine and the issue might
have been different.
This statement of McMahon has made a pro
found impression in Franco. It wa3 at first at
tempted to suppress its full force by tho com
plete silonce of the newspapers; but the army
took it up and cast it forth broadcast, com
menting upon it in every garrison, and express
ing open *and undisguised sympathy for tho
fallen Emperor. Especially was this the case
in the ranks of the Imperial Guard, who toasted
MoMahon for his generosity, and declared with
rather moro emphasis than discretion that one
empire was better than forty republics. Cer
tainly tho Marshal has done the Bonaparte
family no harm by this frank avowal of his, and
has greatly increased the admiration of all for
his own honorable and unselfish course.
How Red Hot Iron Hay bo Handled
Mons. L Fontelle, President de la Societe des
Sciences Physiqueset Chemiques de Paris, etc.,
has left the following on record : “About the
year 1800 one Lionette, a Spaniard, astonished
not only the ignorant, but chemists and other
men of scienco in France, Germany, Italy and
England, by the impunity with which he
handled red hot iron and molten lead, drank
boiling oil and performed other feats equally
miracnlous. While he was at Naples he at
tracted the notice of Professor Sementeni, who
narrowly .watohed all his operations and en
deavored to discover his*secroL He observed,
in tho first place, that when Lionette applied a
piece of red hot iron to his hair dense fumes
immediately rose from it, and the same occurred
when he touched his foot with the iron. He
also saw him place a rod of iron nearly red hot,
between his teeth without burning himself, drink
the third of a tablespoonful of boiling oil, and
taking up molten lead with his fingers, place
it on his tongue without apparent inconve
nience. Sementeni’s efforts, after perform
ing several experiments upon himself, were
finally crowned with success. He found that
by friction with snlphurio acid; diluted with
water, the skin might be made insensible to
the action of the heat of red hot iron; a solu
tion of alum, evaporated until it became
spongy, appeared to bo more effectual in these
frictions. After having rnbbed the parts which
were thus rendered, in some degree, incombust
ible, with hard soap, he discovered on the ap
plication of hot iron that their insensibility was
increased. Ho then determined on again rub
bing the parts with soap, and after this fonnd
that the hot iron not only occasioned no pain,
but that it actually did not bum the hair. Being
thus far satisfied, the professor applied hard
soap to his tongue until it became insensible to
the heat of the iron; and after having placed an
ointment composed of soap mixed with a solu
tion of alum npon it, boiling oil did not burn it;
while the oil remained on the tongue a slight
hissing was heard, similar to that of hot iron
when thrust into water; the oil soon oooled, and
might then be swallowed without danger.
Several soientifio men have since successfully
repeated the experiments of Professor
Sementeni.
The Weatheb in Mabs.—The planet Mars has
recently been the objeot of unusually oarefnl
inspection by English astronomers, and some
curious results have been reached. The oceans
are easily distinguished from tho continents,
the former generally wearing a green-bine tint
and the land a well-marked red hue. Over
these pass olonds at times, or what the observers
consider to be such whenever they see a whitish
light gradually replacing these oidinarj colors.
On a recent occasion, comparing tho observa
tions of two astronomers, it was fonnd that a
certain well-known sea was partially concealed
from view by a great cloud-mass spreading over
many thousand square miles of the surface.
As the hoars passed the cloud seemed to be
melting away, whether by the sun’s heat or
because they had fallen in rains was, of course,
not determiiiable, until the shore that had been
coBcealed was wholly restored to view. . Refer
ring these phenomena to. the day of the planet,
it was ascertained that the clouds had come np
Foreign Notes.
PEEP ABED FOB THE TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER.
The ratification of the customs treaty for
Alsace and Lorraine may be considered certain.
Ponyer Qaartier and Prince Bismarck are now
discussing the payment of tho fourth half mil
liard of the war indemnity. Most of the mem
bers elected to the General Gounoils will sup
port the government. About one-tenth part are
Bonapartists. The appointment of Perier to
the Department of Interior has given the true
Republicans much umbrage, the new-miniater
being an Orleanist and mnoh opposed to liberal
ideas, . •
Gonnt Bsnedetti, well known as the bearer of
the French ultimatum to King William while
staying at Ems, has published a book entitled
“ My Mission,” in which he states that the fa
mous secret treaty, proposing to remodel the
map of Europe, which Bismarck asserted was
offered by Napoleon in 1867, was really the
work of the Chanoellor himself, and that he had
laid it before Napoleon in 18GG.
“The principal aim of the Frenoh policy just
now,” says the Bordeaux correspondent of the
Polish paper “Kray," “is to find a powerful ally,
who, in the eyes of M. Thiers, can be no other
than Russia. The Frenoh journals consequently
vie with each other in flattering that country
and literally denouncing everything that might
cool her friendship for France. They even con
demn, ont of deference to Russia, the federal
movement in Austria. This change in the Frenoh
policy has, of course, had a most injurious effect
on the position of the Poles residing in France.
The Frenoh show them no sign of sympathy,
and the poor Polish prisoners have suffered bit
terly on this account. After having already en
dured tho tortures of Tantalus for months, they
are to be tried last of alL In a political view,
the alliance of Russia and Franoe is equally
ominous for Poland, as no help can be expected
from the latter under existing oircnmstances.”
The writer thinks, therefore, that the Polish
emigration having lost every hope, it becomes
the patriotic duty of the exiles to return home.
“We have never,”-he continues, plaoed great
confidence in foreign aid, now every hope is
lost, and a wide field for onr patriotic exertions
is only to be found at home. If Galicia extends
us her hand in fraternal greeting we will not
hesitate to seize it, thus allowing ourselves to
be led back by her to onr country, whioh so
sorely needs onr labors.” That the ancient
kingdom of the Jagelons conld ever be restored
again seems, indeed, a chimera. Also the Gaz
Tarunska complains that everything Polish is
fast disappearing in West Prussia. Capital and
intelligence of the Germans in WestPinssia are
weighing too heavily, while the Poles are giving
way to indifference and iuertion.
Emperor William will open the German Par
liament in person. Every effort is being made
to increase and improve the Imperial navy, as
tho late war showed how greatly commerce may
be injured by an enemy who rules the sea3.
The government is, therefore, anxious to place
tho country in a secure position for all even-
tnalities, even in regard to first class naval
powers. The construction of two great'men-of
war, the Sedan and Metz, will be commenced
next Spring.
In reply to the numerous demonstrations
clamoring for tho release of the remaining
Fenian prisoners, Gladstone has stated that the
Government will not yield to such appeals, the
offendes not being of a political kind.
Tho International seem to be moving every
where. In Pesth, Hungary, some workmen ar
rested for minor offences were found in pos
session of orders froin the Paris Commune.
The documents ore said to compromise three
members of the Extreme Left in the French
Corps Legislate. ., t1 „ _
“Count Andrassy s grand nail, says the Pes
ter Reform, “has been the scene cf a strange
and important event. A Hungarian Bishop was
summoned there before the Ministers, as repre
sentatives of the King, in order to receive a
reprimand and to listen to the expression of his
Majesty’s displeasure and disapproval, because
his episcopal zeal had lead him to violate the
laws of the country. The ministers in full gala
dress, wearing the national costume of the
magnates, with sabre and ralpak, met in the
grand halL Shortly after one o’clock Yinoenz
Jekelfalussy, Bishop of Stuhlweissenburg, ar
rived in a common cab wearing the usual epis
copal dress. The Bishop was led into the pres
ence of the assembled Ministers, and, after
listening to the reprimand, whioh he said, he
would submissively consider, ho left the hall
and the palace. A writen copy of the royal
admonition was sent to the Prelate. There are
but two precedents in Hungarian history for
such a royal reprimand; bnt the royal power
over tho Church has never been deputed before
to a responsible ministry, the purely secular ex
ecutive power.” .
There is nothing so unreliable as Spanish"
policy. We have hadly been informed that a
new ministry, composed of able and patriotic
meif, willing to subordinate the interests of
their party to the welfare of the country, have
come into power in Spain, before we hear that
the Cabinet has already succumbed again to a
palace intrigue. It is a strange coincidence
that this change occurs at the very same time
Eugenie, the ex-Empress, makes her appearance
at the conrt of Madrid, and as the party repre
sented by the new ministry shares her reaction
ary views, popular opinion attributes her a lead
ing part in those lamentable machinations.
Zonlla, the late minister President, was a true
friend of the yonng Italian dynasty. He had
sincerely tried to reconoile the monarchy with
the Democracy and to win the latter’s support
against reaction by introducing liberal, almost
radical reforms. He conld already boast of
having made great progress; for, however nn
willing the Republicans were to support the
ministry, they conld not help confessing, that,
but for the form, there was no essential differ-
oncQ between the Kepnblican platform and that
of the Government. These very same reforms,
however, which promised to develop the re
sources of the country by freeing it from the
sinister influence of despotism and priestcraft,
aroused tho opposition of the clerical party;
and as the Unionists headed by Serrano, whom
the popular voice accuses of having plannedthe
assassination of Prim and tho attack on Zorilla,
feared that the probable alliance of the Progres
sists and Monarchists would totally destroy
their influence, they formed a coalition with the
Clericals in the Cortes to whioh the ministry
succumbed. _
Though Sagasta, the new Minister President,
properly belongs to the Progressists, he, &ft£i
having long wavered between Zorilla and Ser
rano, has finally joined the latter by adopting
the programme: ‘‘Reconciliation of the. State
with the church and the Pope, persecution of
tho Socialists with all possible means, strioter
organization of public order and carrying ont
the so-called national policy in the colonies
A Love Letter.
BY BUBWELL WINSTON.
What shall I write thee, Love?—so far away,
And yet so very near. What can I eay
That thou hiBt not already heard a thousand times?
Shall I compose for thee unmeaning rhymes,
Like this I send to thee to-day ?
What can I do for thee that thou wouldst have ?
What can I tell thee that thou fain woulda’t hear?
My love for thee gives mo a heart so brave
That far from thee or near
To thy dear side, I gladly hold my life,
A tenure lent from thee, my soul, my more than
wife,
For thee to save;
Or else, through thee to lose,
Shouldat thou to save refuse.
I love thee, Sweet, supremely; more I cannot tell,
What words remain to write tbeo, Love, that thou
would’et hear?
Ah! listen to the tolling of the bell *
That tolls within me solemnly the knell
Of my past years. And laid npon the bisr.
See my dead self! Lament with me his death;
For ho was valiant, yes, and not untrue;
But he must die, because he knew not you.
Auuoii vAAUf uugaiuuui
And so his breath
Passed from him, and his soul is well.
And then rejoice with me that I have fonnd
A new self and one I hold more dear—
A self that bids adieu to hope or fear,
Save when they both are centered here—
Here in my boundless, endless lovo for thee.
But 8honidst thon tnm aside
In negligence or pride,
Bis spirit free
Metliinks will, ere a little time; havo died;
And thou tho loss must''mourn with bitterest
tear.
Forgive me, Love, I fear I sadden thee
When I would cheer.
I love thee, love thee; moro I dare not tell.
I love thee, love thee, love thee, beats my heart;
And like a mountain cataract, my blood
Foams down its courses, till that funeral bell
Grows faint and fainter for the gurgling flood
That drowns its melancholy music. Then with
sudden start,
I wake to life again, to world and worldly things;
Bnt they in haste resolve themselves to this—
Absence, yearning and the farewell kiss
That sealed onr parting, and the doubt which brings
Tho writhiegs and tha agonies of hell.
I love thee, love thee, lore thee; more I cannot
tell. '
Ideas In NortU Carolina.
Our friend Engelhard of the Wilmington
Journal, who is also chairman of the Democratic
Executive Committee of the Third Congres
sional District, in his paper of Saturday, says:
There can he little doubt of tho almost unan
imous re-nomination of President Grant. He
can be defeated, but it can only be done by the
utmost prudence upon the part of his oppo
nents. At the North a very considerable and
influential portion of the Radical party is op
posed io his re-election. This party is headed
by such men as Senators Trumbull and Sohnrz,
Governor Brown of Missouri, Horaoe Greeley,
and others of the more moderate wing of the
party. Of course, at the South, the ignorant
negroes and unprincipled whites, who compose
ninety-nine one-hundredths of tho Radical
party, will vote for the nominee, without regard
to the mau. If a nomination is made that can
nnito the Democratic vote with the moderate
Republicans, President Grant can and will be
defeated.
The question then arises is there such a man?
We believe there is. If we go into the Presi
dential election to win, we must ignore all
smaller considerations. We must not lilt againot
the wind. Tho Southern people, at least, are
tired of such useless sport. They have neither
the means nor the time to waste. Their mate
rial prosperity, more and more, demands their
entire attention. They will make no base sur
render of principle, but they do not care to
farther exhaust themselves in a useless contest.
If, then, the lesson of the late elections shall
be heeded by the National Democratic party it
may be as fortunate as their successes four years
ago were disastrous. Blessings frequently come
in disguise. It requires prudence and wisdom
to profit by misfortune.
We suppose that Judge David Davis, of Illi
nois, and of the Supreme Court bench, who has
the reputation of a very pure a3 well as a very
able man, is the candidate proposed for such a
coalition.
“BOASTED ALIVE.”
Awful account of the Fire In Siehl|M
and Wisconsin—Twelve Hundred People
Burned to llcatb.—Misery of the Sun.
vlvors,
’ Chicago, October 15.—The latest reports from
the terrible fires in Northern Wisconsin and
Michigan represent the loss of life as being
fearful. Some seven to eight hundred dead
bodies had already been recovered, and it is be
lieved the number will reach fully one thou
sand, and the wounded two hundred. This
comprises at least three-quarters of the popu
lation.
Milwaukee, October' 15.—Later accounts
from Northern Wisconsin confirm all previous
reports and rumors. The loss of life in tho
neighborhood of the burned village of Peshtigo
will reach over twelve hundred, tor fifteen per
cent, of those injured cannot recover.
The fire tornado was beard at a distance like
the roaring of the sea. Balls of fire were soon
observed to fall like meteors in different parts
of tho town, igniting wherever they touohed.
People rushed with their children in their arms
for-a place of safety, bnt the storm of fire was
upon them, and enveloped them in flames^
smoke, burning sand and cinders, and those
that were unable to reach the river were suffo
cated and roasted alive.
This terrible soene happened on Sunday night,
the 8th of October, already made famous by the
Chicago horror. A member of the relief com
mittee sent from Milwaukee with supplies says
the only survivors were those who were fortu
nate enough to reach the water, many throwing
themselves into a mill-pond and clinging to
floating logs. A number of these were drowned
by being thrown from the logs by maddened
horses and cattle that rushed into the water.
The fiery cyclone swept over a tract of country
eight or ten miles wide. Every building, fenoa
and all the timber were lioked up clean by the
tongue of fire. The town of Peshtigo number
ed two thousand, one-third of whom perished
on that fearful night.
Reports from the east shore of the Green
Bay place tho loss of life fully as high as at
Peshtigo. The same account Btates that the
immediate wants of the people are supplied,
but large amounts of provisions and clothing
will be required for the coming,winter. Mayor
Ludington, of Milwaukee, publishes the follow
ing;
“Milwaueee, October 14.—The calamities
that have befallen onr State and some of our
neighboring States are truly appalling. Over
1,500 men, women and children have been
burned to death in Wisconsin alone; their bus
iness, houses and farms, to a large extent en
tirely destroyed, the very soil having been
burned, and all their Autumn and root-orops des
troyed. They are utterly destitute, and will re
quire full support, at least until another season.
Seven counties in our own State are thus, in
great part, utterly desolate. Whole regions of
country in Western Michigan are in the same
condition, and these fires are still raging and
destroying.”
It would seem that, as a rule, the mornings and
evenings are misty, and that, as with ns, Win
ter is more cloudy than Summer.
Cube fob Nervous Headache.—A well-known
Kentucky minister, subject to severe spells of
nervous headache, was in owe office the other
day, says an exchange, during^ one of those at-
chiefly to the Queen Maria Pia. who is said to
have great influence over the King. This ex
plains why a crowd, shouting “Death to the
traitors," colleoted, and were only prevented
from making a demonstration before the royal
palace by the interference of Zorilla. The mem
bers of the new Cabinet, Sagasta excepted, are
men little known. The dissatisfaction with the
" J , D “ - » w#r nresnnt men little Known.
and proposed to relieve him in’five minutes, ! change seems to be far spreading,
which hedid most effectually. The following ! provincial Governors have sent in their resie-
ta tte orescriDUon: Take a desert-spoonful of nation, while many demonstrations In favor ^
common soda* such as is used in making bread, 1 Zo^iaaretaking placethronghon ho la
and dissolve it thoroughly in a quart of .cold | -^jmiBunaerstanding^threatened bet^^ _
water. With this thoroughly shanipoo tL h^d | ^
A Beautiful Incident.
On a beautifal summer’s day, a clergyman
was called to preach in a town In Indiana, to a
yonng Episcopal congregation. At the close of
his discourse, he addressed his young hearers in
A good cause often suffers more from an un
skillful advocate than from the most skillful
opponent. A striking illustration of this adage
is to be seen just now in the war upon grogshops,
which is waging in California, as almost every
where else. Tde advocates of temperance have
started a paper under the management of one
Blob, who writes screaming editorials in this
style: “O brother, why will ye, and why will ye
not! Lo 1 the chrystaline liquid drippeth from
the rock, and wastetli npon tho plain, and ye
will not. Tho fiery poison moveth itself in the
glass, and ye will. O, miserable and blind;
there is no safety for thee but in onr band of
teetotalers 1 Come up and teetotle! Come and
join your thirsty spirit unto ours, even as a drop
is joined unto its ocean!” Upon which the News
Letter comments as follows;
“ Mr. Blob, as a philosopher you are
without a parallel; the verb ‘ to teetotle’ is the
grandest conception of the age. Hereafter it
shall be the dearest pleasure of our existence to
visit the pubiio schools and hear that delicious
part of speech conjugated. Fanoy the rapture
of hearing from the rosy lips of some young
thing such verbal musio as this : .‘I teetotle,
you teetotle, he teetotles,’ &o., through all the
moods and tenses.’ We have never teetotled
any, Mr. Blob, but your touching picture of the
water going to waste on that nnappreoiatite
prairie affects us to tears. We know at last why
the ocean was oalied “ a waste of waters; it was
christened so by a teetotler, who grieved because
he could not drink it all.”
But the manner in which the critic proposes
to punish the enthusl'-atio drinker of water is,
we think, a refinement of cruelty that oould
scarcely have been conceived outside of Califor
nia ; “John Blob, if we had your mouth drawn
such words as these:
“Learn that the present life is a preparation .. - . .
for and has a tendency to eternity. The pres- over a bnmp-spout and soldered water-Ugnt
ent is linked to the future.throughout creation,
in the vegetable, in the animal, and in the
moral world. As is the seed, so is the fruit; as
is the egg, so is the fowl; as is the boy, so is
the mau; and as is the rational being in this
world, so will he be in the next; Dives es
tranged from Gol here, is Dives estranged
from God in the next, and Enoch walking with
God here, is Enoch walking with God in a calm
and better world. I beseech you, live, then,
for a blessed eternity. Go to the worm that
you tread upon, and learn a lesson of wisdom.
The very caterpillar seeks the food that fos
ters it for another and brighter state; and
more wisely than man builds its own sopulohre,
from whence in time by a kind of resurrection,
it comos forth a new creature in almost an
angelic form. And now that which crawled flies,
and that whioh fed on comparatively gross food,
sips the dew that revels in the rich pastures, an
emblem of that paradise where flows the_ -river
of life and grows the tree of life. Gould the
caterpillar have been diverted from its proper
element ana mode of life, if it had never
attained the butterfly’s splendid form and hue,
it bad perished a worthless worm. Consider her
ways and be wise. Lat it not be said that ye
are more negligent than worms, and that your
reason is less available than their instinct. As
often as the butterfly flits across your path, re
member that it whispers in its flight, “live for
the future.” . „
With this the preacher closed his discourse;
but to deepen the impression, a butterfly, direct
ed by the Hand which guides alike the sun and
an atom in its coarse, fluttered through the
church, as if commissioned by Heaven to repeat
the exhortation. There was neithej speech nor
language, but its voice was heard saying to the
gazing audience—“Live for the future. ’’
about the edges, we should exalt «Bd depress the
handle of that useful machine with unwavering
oonstanoy, until your skill should be equal in
tension to the head of a drum. Then we
should beat upon the same an exceedingly lively
air.”
A Beautiful Jury System;
A case proceeding in the First District Court
©f Louisiana, at New Orleans, in which two
persons were being tried for murder, was inter
rupted on Thursday last by an extraordinaiy
event: ... .
A warrant was served upon one of tua jurors
sitting on the trial of the ease, charging him
with a felony oommitted in the pariah of tit.
Mary, and the Sheriff of Vermillion holding this
warrant, appeared in Court to take his prisoner
into custody. The question arose immediately
what should be done in the matter, whether s
juror conld be taken from his seat pending a
trial, and borne off as a prisoner, to answer
A_ — t«t ennlhav r*rtTU*t. 'JL’Xie
for abont five minutes, scratching, the
the head and the back of the neck well with the
finger-nails. Then rinse the head with clean,
cold water. Major Brown says that he has used
this remedy in perhaps a thousand cases since
1853, and never once failed to give relief in five
or ten minutes. This remedy is for nervous
headache, and is not for those affeotionsof
the head arising from deranged stomachs.—
American Rural Home.
At a recent fair in Portland some fine needle
work was exhibited done by a lady 96 years of
age without the aid of glasses.
three Spaniards murdered hf th0
the Emperor. There Is, bowevei-.furtlier^JU-
ble apprehended, astheMoorish inltabitanta of
the country have made «x assatdt upon the
Spanish fort of MelilU, lying on the mast of
Morocco, and the government will Bend a di
vision of the army to Morocco to protect the
honor of the Spanish flag. Jabno.
The Home of Mint Jumps.—A Tribune cor
respondent writing from some point on
Chesapeake and Ohio railway, in West Virginia,
illustrates the necessity for a G. T. <>cu3ade in
that country as follows: „ "
It was in West Virginia, in “ I .^ v ®
assured, and not in Arkansas, that mi oia gentle-
man died of mixioR tin-* delotenous gr&ss
wfih his whisky^ and tradition asserts that it
wata native of Chotaot, in the tide-water coun
try who taughthow to compound the dead-
to mintjule* Ohotapk,” said one of onr
comuanv “they say it is impossible to escape
drtokta&" T ho mocking birds in that country
wake you up in the morning with an invitation
to a julip so mellifluous that it would tempt a
stint. They begin at early dawn, and their
song is tiros:
Getting late! getting late!
Getup! getnp! getnp!
Julip, julip, Julip, julip!
Sweet, sweet, aweet, sweet, sweet!
Taste, taste, taste, taste!
• Getup, getnp l
Julip, julip, ju-wl-i-i-l-p!
to an indiotment in another court,
legal effect of suoh a proceeding appeua
to have severely puzzled the lawyers and the
court, and the case was continued to examine
the precedents. The counsel for the aoeuaed
contended sturdily for, their right to retain the
juror, and tho Attorney-General exhibited a like
ardent desire to get him off the jury. This is a
significant manifestation which suggests grave
doubts and suspicious as to the manner in whioh
juries are made up in this court. When a man,
under indictment for shooting another with in
tent to kill, can be installed on a jury to set in
a case wherein other* s*® . w , T®
crime of killing; "&en a Sheriff is driven into
the jury-room w execute a warrant for felony,
we thin a- ttore is strong reason to believe that
the nrooess of organizing juries in this oourt
mtu obe subject to great abuses and very til-
regulated. | '
As evldenoe of the vast and dangerous extent
of Ku-kluxism in’the South, Radical papers ad-
anoe the faot that two depperate South Caroli
nians, aged respectively 70- and 81, have been
arrested by the United States authorities. On
The Paris demi monde have again revived the the other hand, many cbildren tender yeag
fashion of oarrying short cause, and also green «® suspected ofparticipation in the dark designs
of thqse conspirators.
Courage and Perseverance.—A remarkable
instance of courage and preienoe of mind is
told of Mr. E. L Tinkham, of the Second Na
tional Bank. On Monday morning, before the
fire had reached that building, Mr. Tinkham
went to the safe and succeeded in getting oot
$600,000. This pile of greenbacks he packed
into a common trunk, and hired a colored mift
for $1,000 to convey it to the Milwaukee depot.
Fearing to be reoognized in connection with the
precious load, Mr. Tinkham followed the man
for a time at some distance, bat soon lost sight
of him. He was then overtaken by the fire
storm, and was driven toward the lake on the
Sonth Side. Here, after passing through
several narrow escapes from suffocation, he
succeeded in working his way, by some mens,
to a tugboat, and got round to the Milwaukee
depot, where he found the colored man waiting
for him with the trank, according to promise.
Mr. Tinkham paid the man the $1,000 ana
started with the trunk for Milwaukee. The
money was safely deposited in Marshall & Blia-
ley’s bank, of that city.—Chicago Tribune 14..
Fbom the spire of the cathedral at Metz the
Frenoh tri-oolor still‘waves, or did so three
weeks ago, although perforated by a thousand
ballets. And so the inhabitants eonsoled them
selves with the thought that they were stfll un
der the Frenoh flag. Money oould not bribe
any to risk his life in attempting to re
move it; and there was said to be but one man
in Metz skillful enough to do it, and he was the
man who put it there. Five franos was his
charge tor raising it; but fire thousand oould
not indnoe him to lower it.
A well managed elopement came off recently
in the vicinity of Gilman, Hi. The lover want
after the girt in a light vehicle with muffled
wheels, while an aooomplioe drove a heavier
machine adapted to making as mnoh noise as
possible. The lady being duly received at the
window and deposited in the muffled vehicle,
the heavy one dashed off towards Gillman at a
furious rate, with papa in hot purauit, while^e
lovers were noiselessly driven »» the °PP®®“*
direction. Before morning Mr. Ward and Migs
Green were “ made one flesh.