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- -■ AND GEORGIA JOTJUTN^AL & MESSENGER. 'TgY JONES & REESE, Proprietors. The Family Journal.—Nets—Politics—Literature—Agriculture—Domestic Affairs. GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING SHUSHED 1S26. MACON ; TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1871. Volume LXV-No. 17 Zqh TclcgrapU Building, Macon ^ ana Messenger, one year $10 00 i 100 Telegraph and Messenger, 1 i* ^ \Vf eviy Tel e graph and Messen- ; columns. 1 year sths 400 200 3 00 1 50 15 Tito win advance, and paper stopped money rnns out, nniess renewed. .rRASGEMENTS WITH J. W. CUBES & l 3Bl^ v * __ * 0 onnT.Ti CO.’S PUBLICATTONS• i i Messenger and Farm # Telegraph & Meewngar anaxarm^ jB( S*j^iph"*nd Messenger and 00 eft Tr ;S" .7. 4 00 « T Telegraph and Messenger -. T r-1 ami IIOJUO 5 00 o^^Sian Advocate with Weekly 5 0 0 £ 400 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.
