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MACON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23V 187a
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Volume LXVI-No. ?
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0 r*ii» Telegrapn Bonding, flaeon
... ^ I The following interesting report of the first
jelegrtph and Messenger, one year $10 00 trial of a dummy engine and car on the Bleeck-
gjj months..
One month
^.Weekly Telegraph and Messenger, l
Ornimoth Weekly Telegraph and Meesen-
sc columns, 1 year 3 (
400 '
200
®J®i* Street Railroad is from the Tribune:
1 00 j The car whioh was placed on the Bleecker
street line last Saturday is known as the Rem
ington steam oar. It was invented about two
years ago, in Newark, and one has sinoe been
. - - running on the Bloomfield, N. J., road. The
pr, 56 columns, 1 year 3 00 Remington Company has manufactured only
Six months 1 5< f two oars, one of which is now running on the
p.rable always in advance, and paper stopped ' road at llion, N. Y., though the track has only
ihen the money rnna ont, unless renewed. I slight curves and small grades; and the other
*** is the car now in the Bleecker Street Company’s
ffhAt be aays for Himseif-The Kev. on* shops in this city. The car at Hion has ao-
frt Kobertton’a Explanation of Ins commodated 40 passengers, and has drawn a
„ ! second car containing the same number. The
_ . ,„ n lelecTRms have already informed '> oa , r . haa , rn “ at » speed of 25 miles sn hour with
boaisvdle te gr , a ' a light load, and on a smooth, straight track,
gs of the result of the tnal of the above named it jj as the appearance of an ordinary street car,
son pastor of one of the largest Presbyterian ! and is of the same size. The machinery by which
” a'a in that city, and who was oharged it is propelled occupies the front platform, isen-
“inea* drunkenness and falsehood be- tireiy separated from the interior, and invisible
with lewdness, a , . .. , ... . , from that point. Itls provided with a compound
fore an ecclesiastical tribunal of that church. eil g me Q f five-hcrae power, which can be in-
Durioo the course of the trial he was allowed creased to twenty-horse power without any
. oL his defense which he did at some complicated mechanism. The cylinders are
.‘° from which we make this extract: P la< T ed und ! r ‘ he f roDt platform in direct con
nection with the forward axle. On Ihis piat-
lengfb, sod from which
I know I have dote a wrong. I know the in-
. I have done, the shame I have brought
noon so many, and I know what is becoming,
if necessary, in a minister of Jesns Christ. I
^row the chastity required of him, and I know
i'so the charity that is demanded. I know also
form is a small box containing coal snSklent
for half a day. It is said that the car can rnn
50 miles with 200 pounds of coal. The water
tank is beneath the rear platform, the water
being heated from the exhausted steam. The
car itself is heated by means of steam pipes
running beneath the seats on eaoh side of the
thstRfntleness and love are required. I know oar. No unpleasant heat is experienced from
jrnthfuluess is demanded of him, and yet to the boiler, as it is separated from
mow also that the graces of fairness and for- , the . mten " by a. non-conducting partition. The
l * are demanded. engineer stops the car by suddenly reversmgthe
^VVe I know that by my actions I have Even when the car is running at the
JAt di«hon r upon the ministry, I feel also "*• ?* f ml } eB “ b ?° r ’' “ can . be ,
li” the lack of tLeee other graces bring dis- “ ^o /eet and with the aid of brake*,
m V e cosr el within half of its own length. Two men only
Moderator. wheA I was overwhelmed with i a ™ r * on a car » a Cobdnotor and an en-
JlfwenKrt tottTfwtor ttesTvio®* \. ^ deS ° r1 ^ r ?° en ‘ C f. e h r '
S n“ve tried to find comfort and conso’ation , act>ve measures in this direction, nor would he
•t re bst Mr. Moderator, it was a bard thing i bav ® doae 8 ? ,f the horse disease had not earned
Re o make up my mind to come t efore each general panic. On the first appearance of
it s oo'.r.—these servants of Jesus as t trust- tbe d,8ea88 be ‘^graphed to the Remington
my confess,on before you.' It cost me °“W to forward oneofitssteamcfcrs The
f.troggIa; y it cost me anguishVat reached al- j a^erihot
•awafess my ,orrow, my shame, my penitence ' ««»as ready for use Air. Oonoyer tfished the
Mmj eetdof forgiveness, before God. ’ i t8st to be 88 thoro , n K h is possible, and, there-
1 nay now before 8 God, who judges me, and i J°re. caused no alteraHon to be made in the
* 5 track or any of its curves. The car was to run
xiZT, n ,hZn the track in its usual condition, andno horses
than this court that I went to OhiMgo I were fae taken a , toaid jn tnrning corDers
«U, the ) purestrend best motives^,n response to , or aKCending grsdes . K A t 10 o’clock Saturday
apfeted solicitations Yes, Mr. Moderator, I eVfnin th | p refiide nt of the Company, some
tbofther oin^ and fheir friends Stopped
into the car at the Bleecker street depot. When
all was ready, 70 persons were in the car, and
Mr. Cocover predicted that it wonld leave the
track at least three times before reaching Fulton
Ferry.
It was not supposed that steam without ex
ternal aid would propel a car around such sharp
tarns as were necessarily made at Howard,
Keade, Brekman, and other streets. Contrary
to expeditions the car turned every curve, and
ascended and descended every grade without
ingnieni. . T v_ -i~i once leaving the track, acd some of the curves
agam l have been told that I have failed ■ wer<J tame( f at ite 8 ’„ p , a rate 0 f motion. At
e any par.icular statements about the < the to of the | rade in E!ni Btree t-the steep-
_ tea, with the name of the lady annexed to
it, se t previous to my leaving on the Monday
sign before. She proposed to come and meet
se the next day here, and it was that which took
me to Chicago. I went only because of that I
did not want a strange lady to come here when
bv fitmly was gone, as it wonld not be prndent.
Satw.ng of her distress and trouble, and hav
ing known her iu her happier days I went be-
litvirg I might be of great be, efit. I went
tiron^h a wi-t iken judgment, bnt only a mia-
Uken judgment.
Tneu u
to make auy par.mu.ar “uTW*".” ! the top of the grade in Elm street—the steep-
pto aud occurrences connected wtth htsaffa r. , at jn l the oil b tbe oar stopped, reversed,
Ur. Moderator, I did not dare to tell publicly i md bflcked dow ^ , hn hm re tnrniDg without the
.here I met that lady, because I knew by tell- , a)lgbtest d . fficnl 8topp ing at the middle of the
? 7 h L fa 8 ? 4 ,D t T1, “ bly i, Wh ? 8h ? : grade, and starting again ea-ily. At the sharp
w* I had to keep that feet to myself I did a arTe > jQ Reade Bt b ee b tha oa / was 8top p ed a t
■\"r m ,",T Se ,°J r t0 COrer ap ,he nanie : the center of the curve, ai d again started and
°t tto other p»'ty. I went on without difficulty. The car was also
law , m8 re t er to 1 stopp. d on the rerurn ui P on tho down grade
BO treo lection of going to those cars but it is ou £ e - ter R(r „er, and was held firmly in poa-ti—
brongbt out by the nro>e.ui ton I was led there, i The car mi de the trj from Ten!l) avenue to
jnd I kiw the conductor, Mr. Brown, and was j FnUon Ft and BC00rd , ng to the President
fimilmr with him^ He knew me well and I of the> Hn ^ ^ satisfactr rily. He considered
* 1 at *y“»n«, that it, that the tbree ea , xeqnij-ements of a steam-
voild be certain extomreif we went; and now i oar were met It can turn sharp
how the facts in the case referred to, I know I , ascend grades and be managed
Idow the nltiaiate object of that payy; I know > a< ea8 ’, as a team of’ hon ea. He thon|ht
.. well but I daro not tell if, and I shall not; . that th J e was nflt the slightest donbt that on
Ll 1 Wa l. m r ' straight roads like those of the Third or Eighth
tew,birred condition, and was not capable of : UneR , he ,team car would prove all
Zo S if ^ a Tu° and prnden f 1 that CDuld be desired. Mr. Conover was satis-
X* “ J, ha r tb ® fa, ‘ k i fled that it had been demonstrated by the ex-
Diy senses, I could not have failed to ob- | p0rinieDt that 8team 0o - l]d b e nsed with success.
«w e theo ,nrT 0 n n,t deef„ P °l to disgrace, and , £ a fh 8(reet ral and that it WO nld not
»w the conn must decide wno was misled. It., frighten hors68 . As to the probability of its
f “ e - B , nt 1 "h* 1 “ ot dwe ! b 1 coming into general use in the city he couia not
Jri r L e y : n , tQS r the ‘K dy m QS ^ ; speak, a» that would depend upon the action of
r rt ; h- mind but I was not. I was bewildered ! t £ e c ^ mmon Connc n. neither could he speak
.nd not in my senses. Who was it misled the , w;th ce tainty of ita n ’ e 0 n his own road, as he
bn-. Was it tbe bewildered one scarcely , b ^ d co ^nj ted w ith none of the directors on the
bowing wb.v he »a, doing, and unconscions of j b - jbl they migh t oppose the
pmdsDce, and not capable of taking care of I pro j ect ’. bat a 7 for ^ m8 Jf he would advocate
aawlf; or was it the woman m her perfect {t e introduction of the car on the Bleecker street
w*s misleading the man ? You must decide Jine If conld be nsed oa that Une of sharp
•tota the facts. If Hits court shall decide I am cnr9e8 and 6 teep grades, its sucoess on any
w guilty one, then strip off these ministerial | other , ine in thi! f c f ty won i d bo a88nr ed. The
totes, never wish to wear them again if this is . cxperiment will be repeated at an early day.
A Model Governor.
The premises of Bev. W. H. Fleming, Pre
siding E'der of the Sumter (South Carolina
I ConfeTenoe) District, were recently broken into
AiTairs Iu Lonitiiaua.
1 freed hands ns the following interesting
fc»w-"»i—»■•*•».»»*»».;
abng in Monroe, Onchita Parish: | ding and“clotbing. His brother, J. J. Fleming,
Tbe “din and smoke etc.,” is beginning to ! 0 f the Sumter bar, undertook to work up the
tew away and it seems to be really a fact that t case, and soon had’two notorious offenders
'te Usdicala have been defeated and Jack Me- ' lodged in jail, proofs of their guilt in band, and
&ety is elected Governor of Louisiana. This, j the stolen property* 1 all traced, recovered, and
teal),leas seems to you, more like the recital of i restored to the proper owner. F. J. Moses,
tdream than a statement of facts; indeed it jj-., tbe Governor elect, went to the committing
teems very like it here, and it would be very j Trial Justice Hurst, and had one of the culprits,
U convince ourself the contrary if it were Jesse Ross, tamed loose upon the community
bt for the groans and howls of the wonnded, 1 upon a (straw) $500 bond, signed as follows;
jiablt-d and dyingei>rpet baggeis and scalawags j his
ward on every hand—showing that somebody Jesse m Ross,
te* ! *ten hurt, and that that somebody ain’t' m-rk.
*e’an«.” I bis
Tbe Conservatives have the lower house of i Shabpeb h Singleton,
te Le^isiatms by a good working majority and j mark,
atuaj rity on joint ballot, though the Radicals i F. J. Moses, Jr.
probably have the Senate by three or four ma- Upon inquiry at the rheriff’s office, the last
l°rity, by Teasim of so many Senators holding name is reported ntlUa bona. The second name
?*• The “Fusion” State ticket is eleoted is one well known to our criminal court, from
Jbtoaghont by 5,000 to 10,000. Penn's ma jori- the burglary committed on Mr. Snares's store a
J evtr that little bullet-beaded negro, O. O. ' few years since, and from other cases on the
iT i» per hips 15 000 to 20,000. Being calendar of late terms. The first name is a
bow *vtr, is one thing, and getting hold principal who figured on the criminal docket,
di ,t lra is l Q,te another. One thing is cer- waiting trial for stealing a bale of cotton—who
^ "1, the verdict of the people will not be ac- wonld have been tried at the late term bnt for
r Pitd tamely by the cormorants in power. 1 the report that he was in the Darlington jail—
hf iflce, legal and illegal, will be essayed and whose case will come np at the next term,
^fore surrendering the spoils they have been From present indications, however, it would
, 0E K ■“•tuning upon. Preparations are be- 1 seem that he has nothing to fear; for if con-
“g taade for wholesale arrest, throughout tho vioted and sentenced, his trip to Oolnmbia would
Even here, where they beat us worse probably result in an immediate pardon and a
'“BJ ever have before, threats are openly prompt engagement as attache to the Legisla
te that the United States Marshal will have tnre, with $(fper diem and other perquisites.
, bands fall in the course of ten days or It appears that Jesse Ross was a Moses (artisan,
‘ veeks. Tbe Radical papers in New Orleans and the other culplit, Antony Richardson, was.
® to concede they have come out of the lit- ; an active bolter, in the late eleciion. The Gov-
tf., °? horn, but say “ Congress at its emor eleot did did not bail out the bolter, but
u session will have to look into the vote for left him in jail. As soon as these f aots became
'^Ji-ntial Electors, and the revision’’ (which known to the profeenting parties they irnmedi-
you know, if the votes are against them atoly had the bolter discharged from durance
‘r? “nwt be made for them) of that vote vile, on the ground that if such contempt for
involves the revision of the vote for law and ihe publio security is to be inaugurated
» ®°fi>oers." Mercy knows what they will do. there is no justice in maxing “fish of one and
_ .hing could surprise me except their letting flesh of another.” So both these gentry are at
•Jobs, and allowing OoL McEnery to take his large agaiB, with a number of others of like
*5* 1 sable .innocence. The geatle publio can look
there is another question. Article 52 out.—Sumter (8. O ') News.
J®* constitution of '68, you remember, reads: j
member of Congress, or any person hold- i The Wat to get Your Monet Back —The
TjbOee under the United States Government following from the New York World, of Friday,
Jj* 11 be eligible to the office of Governor or will be of interest to all who found themselves
JMenutr.Governor.” Kellogg did not resign at the close of the “late unpleasantness with
^ Position as United States Senator prior to Confederate postage stamps on their hands;
flection. The New OrleanB Times shows 14 An auction sale of Am6rioan and foreign
^ conclusively, it seems to me, that votes postage stampa took place last night at Clinton
J';' 'or a person ineligible from any aanse are Hall. Among the stamps sold were the follow-
te an intents and purposes, and cannot be ing, mostly Confederate and Provisional, which
At any rate it is a very nice point and realized very high prioea: Five-eents, Livmg-
/v.. “oto quarrel over. The constitution of ston, Ala., $23; two cents, Mobile, Ala., $17;
m ar “ia has exactly the same provision—only Athens, Gal, $14; Carriers stamp, Franklins
CjuJ®. differently worded, and their Supreme head, $16; three cento. Marine, Va., $5; five
deoitled that “it excludes any per- cents, Marine, Va., $10; five oeptB» Baton
te a* B'^ible ot the time of election from hold- Rouge, La., $7 60; ten cents, Nashville, Tenn.,
jjs jmtee," and that “the subsequent removal of $8; three cents, Nashville, Tenn., $7 o0; five
U/ten existing ground of inuiigibility will not cents, Nashville, Tenn., $7o0; five cents, Ma-
^teffletenu" . con, Ga., $5.
TENNESSEE RAILROAD .WAR.
A Great Rumpus: Over the Management of the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Rail
road—The Mahone and Wilson Combinations
Already at Work—Ihe Erie Figh's Likely to
be Rivaled by the Knoxville Disputants—Tom
Scott with a Finger in the Pie.
Letter to the New York Herald.)
Knoxville, November 14,1872.
The annnal meeting of tbe stockholders of
the East Tennesse, Virginia and Georgia Rail
way Company assembled in this city yesterday.
For some days past ttere had been an intima
tion that an effort wo aid be made to displace
the present maiagemeot, at the bead of whioh
are the President, R. T. Wilson, of Broad street,
New York; Joseph Jaques, of Knoxville, Su
perintendent, and Char es M. McGhee, one of
the directors. These gent’emen, with a few
others; it is sa : d, own a large proportion of the
company’s stock, and it has been said that they
have sold the same to the Southern Security
Company; of which Tom Scott is the great head.
It is charged that the direot- rs have by this se
cret sale been enabled to get a premium on
their stock at tbe expense of the otter stock
holders, by purobasii g from small holders at
nominal market rates, ranging from 30 to CO
cents, and selling to the Security Company at
more than par.
THE EIGHT WAS COMMENCED
yesterday by Jos. B. Heyskell, attorney for cer
tain small stockholders, and in a few moments
the foot was developed that he also represented
General Mahone, President of the road from
Norfolk to Bristol, whish forms, with the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Road, the
grand trank line henoe to the seaboard. The
significant fact being proved that the great Vir
ginia Railroad King was really the power be
hind the small stockholders, it was at once evi
dent that there was a “oat in the meal tab,” and
that he meant business. t
WHAT MiHONE IS AFTER
is to control this road himBelf and to build np
Norfolk. The management of this road, on the
contrary, have pnrehased a Nor'h Carolina in-
completed road, aod by extending it into Ten
nessee to tap the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia road at Morristown, forty-two miles
from this point, obtain a complete line of their
own to New York, and leave Mahone’s road from
Bristol to Norfolk ont in the cold. Henoe tbe
fight. The preliminary skirmish resulted in
victory for tbe Tom Scott party, bnt there is
almost a certainty of a fierce litigation. The
small stockholders declare that the purchase of
tbe North Oarolina road is illegal, and that in
various ways Wilson has been building np a ring
to the injury of the
STOCKHOLDERS OF THIS SECTION.
Ou the contrary tbe management assort that the
whole opposition to their projeots looking to the
North Carolina route to New York, comes from
the Mahone combination. To day, through his
attorney, Mahone offers to purchase, with the
consent of the stockholders, every share at par
—a proposition which it is safe to say was put
forward as a feeler, it being certain that no
hopes of its acceptance were entertained. Tbe
sitnation is oritioal, and excitement rnna higb,
bnt the management fee! confident of sustaining
themselves.
California Snrgcry.
They have very “ smart” people in California.
In fact, that 'State when pat upon its metal,
rarely fails to come to the winning post in
handsome style. Whether it be gold or grapes,
pears or politicians she is always equal to the
occasion. In surgery, too, she sees the best
hand the East holds and goes several better.
For example:
In 1869, Luther Corey, in Santa Cruz county,
had bis arm broken in two places above the
elbow. One of the fractures knitted and
healea; ttHnittmr, «.tn 8 to a splint of thebone
being between the eiide of Uit-tcaninwi. Aid.
not. After suffering great pain, Mr. Corey
went to San Francisco, and the surgeons there
opened the flesh on his arm, and cut the cal
lous part from off the ends of the bones, pres
sing the ends together and binding the arm
in splints. So they remained for eighteen
months, but still tbe bones did not knit, and
the muscles of the arm became shriveled up
and useless Then Mr. Corey applied to Dr.
Line of San Francisco, who forthwith per
formed the prettiest job of surgical workman,
ship conceivable. He opened the arm, sprang
oat the end of the bones, and cutting off the
oallous parts, he beveled the ends of the bones
so that each would lap a little over the other.
He then rivited them together with a silver
wire, and set the arm in a case. The bone then
knit and healed, leaving the arm two inches
shorter. Mr. Corey now uses his arm at bin
work, and with the limb useful t again, is onoe
more a tip-top sawyer.
“Apalach.”—For the benefit of ye mariners
and fishermen of this city who sailed last May
from the above port on that glorious cruise
down in St. Joseph and St. Andrew’s bay, wa
print the following latest intelligence concern
ing the manner in which the old town is “com
ing ont of the kinks.” It is from the Eufanla
Times, of Saturday:
Apalachicola—Oar friend, Mr. Dan Row
lett, Eufanta’s benefactor in tbe fish and oyster
line, gives us a glowing description of the pro
gress of Apalachicola. A gentleman from Phil
adelphia, who commands a capital of several
millions of dollars, has established extensive
lumber mills there, which run ten boilers and
one hundred saws, necessitating tbe use of all
the water which flows into the Apalachicola
River. In consequence of this, the river steam
ers have to ;asa directly through tbe mills, and
it requires dexterous management on tbe part
of the pilotetoavoid having the steamers dashed
into the reseivoirs and wrecked. An entire
pine or cypress tree, by some nnacoonntable
means, is rammed into one end of the mill and
comes ont at tbe other end, all made np into
buckets, tubs, barrels and numerous other
things, while the leaves and branches are mag
ically turned into a multitude of brooms, all
handled and ready for tbe use of the indignant
housewife. Than a number of steam barges
and toga snatch np those mannfaotnrea and go
rashing out into the Gulf with them, where
they are disposed of to the unwary mariner,
who immediately proceeds to Cnba with them.
This unparalleled lumber business has so “ en
thused” the oitizeuB of Apalachicola, that they
have set to work diligently brushing.ont their
stores, blocking their dogs and combing their
Thomas cats, all of whioh arc readily rented at
$75 to $100 per annum. The hammer and saw
awake the ancient rat from his meridian slum
bers and wam him of the approaching revival
of those gTand old days of commerce, when
ocean palaces traversed the bay regardless alike
of tempests and of rats.
Fatal Accident.—William, a son of Mr. Wm.
King—a lad fifteen or sixteen years old, living
a few miles from this city, while ont gnnning
on Friday last, had the whole top of his head
blown off by the accidental disobarge of his -
gun. The charge of shot entered under the
chin, and literally tore the top of his head
to fragments, and cansing instant death.
We clip the foregoing from the last Eufanla
Times, and it is one of many paragraphs of the
same kind tending to Buggest to parents the
great danger of patting fire arms in the hands
of young children.
Cotton Picking.—The Chester (8. C.) Re
porter of last week relates the following inci
dent : “A friend of onrs a few days ago hired
a colored woman to pick cotton, agreeing to pay
her fifty cento per hundred. He casually asked
her how muoh she eonld piek in a day. She re
plied, something -over three hundred pounds.
He told her to go ahead and he would pay her
one dollar per pound for every pound over
three hundred that she wonld piok. On weigh
ing the resnlt of the day’s labor, she had three
hundred and eleven pounds. The one day’a
work oost him twelve dollars and a half.
Our Indian Policy.
Hon. Thomas Fitob lately gave a public leo*
tore in St Louis on the Indians of tbe West, in
the coarse of whioh he is reported in the Times
as saying:
A tithe of the millions spent on the worth
less Indian-would send Ml these poor people ont
into the far west—into tbe great vest, where,
none who will work need starve. Horace Gree
ley had advised, young men to go west, and for
that ad vice alone he onght to have been eleoted
President. On the head waters of the Arkansas
there is room for three, millions of people, and
the cost of one year of our mistaken Indian
policy wonld auffioe to send them there, while
the oost of one year of onr eastern prison sys
tem would suffice to keep them there-till they
had made self-supporting houses. The speak
er was utterly amazed at the patience of St.
Lotus, Memphis, Cairo, and other cries of tbe
Mississippi Valley, that they sboul-' M.ffer tbe
fairest territory on their west to be fenced from
settlement. What would Chicago av>f South
ern Illinois ware converted t-into -.mia W|ta res
ervation ? 7 -
The money expended in troops ms-te neoessa-
ry through the present system would suffice to
take every Indian to New England and plant
them where the humanitarians woMd have a
chance of daily converse with their favorites,
and the land wonld then be thrown open to
settlement. Let the Indian take his chance
with other men; if willing to work be should
have the same privileges as other workers; bnt
if not, let him starve, let him euoonnter the
fate of the drone; if he persisted in behaving
like a drone—let him die. The best polioy in
treating Indians was to place them striotly on
the same level with white and blaok men, giv
ing them rights and privileges as they get them,
as the meed of honest woik. Let tbe Indian
have his quarter section as any other citizen
has it, od condition that te cultivate it. The
speaker concluded with a glowing peroration
eulogizing the American pioneer end depicting
the future greatness of the couutryof the West.”
. Hark Twain's Troubles.
It turns ont now that the real canse of Mark
Twain’s recent funny and ferocious protest
against the words of Hatton in introducing his
works to the English publio, with his (Hatten’s)
swash interlarded, was not wholly literary rage
— for it is related that Hatteo, when in Califor
nia, made a whimsical reference to - Twain’s
marriage. The bnmorist never could abide him
afterward. Hatten’s “notice” wes not without
humor, as it will be seeD. It runs: “Mtrk
Twain, who, when he has been Been long euough
sober to permit an estimate, has been nnifoim-
ly found to bear a spotless oharaoter, has got
marrit d It was not the act of a desperate man
—it was not committed while laboring under
temporary insanity: his insanity, is not of that
type, nor does he labor; it want he cool, me
thodioal, cumulative calculation of human nature
working in the breast of an orphan hankering
for some one with a fortune to lovo—some one
with a bank account to caress. For years he
has felt this matrimony coming on. Ever
since he left California there baa been an under
tone of despair running through all his letters,
l'ke the sabdned wail of a pig beneath a wash-
tub. He felt lhat he was going, that no earthly
power oould save him; bnt as a concession to
his weeping publishers, he tiiad a change of
climate by potting on a linen ooat and writing
letters from the West Indies. Then he tried
rhubarb, and daring his latter months he was
almost constantly nnder the itflntnce of this
poVei-fnl drug. Bat rhubarb, while it may give
a fitful glitter to the eye and a deceitful redness
to the gills, cannot long delay ihe pangs of ap
proaching marriage. Rhubarb was not what
M.rk wanted. Weil, that genial spirit has
passed away; that loviDg, bright smile will no
more greet tbe early bai-keeper, nor the old
familiar ‘chalk it down’ delight his ear. Poor
Mark! Ho was a good scheme.^ but ho oouldn’t
be made to w-*ik.” ■
A’ Di ousted Cmoooilfa g<5od inion of the
Boston Fiee —Tbe Boston Qiobo tells this sto
ry of the great fire:
An amnsiog diversion was created by a tall,
wsll knit, and rather rugged specimen of hn-
manity, who stood gazing at-^iyi fire with the
deepest interest. Every now aud then he would
take a vigorous bite at a large hunk of tobacco,
and chew with an energy that knew nofl g-
ging, but without taking his eyes from the fire,
which appeared to fascinate him. As the flames
made headway he moved uneasily, shifting his
weight from one foot to tbe other, and chewed
with renewed animation. Etch new building
that fell .a prey to the fire seemed to cause him
to experience the most poignant despair. His
glacoe was not so strongly marked by sym
pathy as by anxiety. His fallow j .ws seemed
to elongate with every fresh building that
wont down. His dress and appearance did not
betoken a man who had any enormous amount
of property at stake there, aod the general im
pression among those who observed him was
that his alarm was caused by a prospeot of
losing his sitnation. Presently, when the flames
seemed as though they won'd engulph the
wfco'e oity, he tnrned his pale face from the
flames, and addressing a party by hia side, ex
claimed with no lers pride than disgust, Psho!
It can’t 1-6 done. The place ain’t big enough!
The Obioago firs knocked this all to to splin
ters. Yes it did, I tell you. I was bom there,
and I ought to know. I tell yon, sir, Chicago
is bound to be ahead on this fire yet,” and he
walked away, his fare glowing with patriotio
fervor and an expression of the most unbound
ed contempt overspreading bis countenance
for the miserable failure that was certain to at
tend all envions attempts of.Bo ton to rival
Ohioago in the matter of fires.
An Interviewer Foiled.
Mr. Charles Franois Adams arrived at New
York on the steamer Ru-sia on Wednesday
night. When he reached the wharf a Herald
reporter sainted him and drew forth his gimlet
to perforate him; but Mr. Adams proved to be
iron clad, and the reporter put away his gimlet
and left disoomfited. He tells his own story
cheerfully, showing that men of his profession
are well kynized and insensible to things that
might penetrate other people. It is their trade
to make capital ont of every turn in affairs:
“Herald Reporter: I beg jour pardon, Mr.
Adams, bat in my anxiety to serve the pnblio
interests I desire to a-k yon on behalf of the
Herald, which I represent, three qnestions,
with your kind permission. First, to whathotel
are yon going to-night ? Second, will yon go
direot to Washington, after yon have rested
over night, to oonsn’t with Mr. Fi h ? Third,
can yon give me your views on the Geneva
Conference ?
“Sir,” said Mr. Adams, drawling back affright
ed at being interviewed before he had tonohed
American soil, and very mnch saddened at the
news whiob had jnst been told him of the dea -
traction of the business portion of Boston.
“Sir! I am now a simple private citizen, and I
desire to 1 have no communication with the
press. X am going to the Brevoort House to
night, and I will answer no further questions”
(with emphasis.)
Grand Democratic Revival.—At the expen
diture of over two columns space the World
states “some reasons for our opinion that the
chances for. a revival of Democratic principles
and the victorious re-establishment of the Dem
ocratic party have not been bo promising at any
time within the last fifteen years as they are at
present.”
Among these reasons the World omits one—
to-wit: that “it is a long lane which has no
turning.” We must come to tbe turn at last,
unless the Rads have cat it off, as Hans’bad
neighbors did with the end of hia well-rope, so
that he conld find “no end at all.” The Rads
are bound to go down nnder their load of in
iquity some time or other—for it will be getting
heavier every year. ^ ,
Adooo the Lue.
Upon sue storm; Bund tv,
Coming adoon the lane,
Were a some of bonny lasses—
And tbe sweetest I maintain,
Waa Caddie,
That I took beneath my pladdie
To shield her from the rain. 1
She said the daises blushed
Foi the kiss that I had ta’en;
I wadna hae thought the lassie
Wad sa of a kiss complain.
“itow, laddie!
I winuie stay under your paddie,
If I gang name in tbe rain!”
Bnt on ane after Snnday,
When cloud there Was not ane,
This self-same winsome lassie—
We chanced to meet in the lane—
8aid Caddie,
“Why dine a ye wear your pladdie ?
Who kens bnt it may rain ?’’
for using the former when they might employ
a mineral combustible. The Exohange Gasecte
lately-printed a aerie* of articles on the rabject.
According to these tbe oost of wood for building
and heating purposes on the banks of the Volga
has ad vanced almost a hundred per cent, sinoe
<f 1865.' Experiments in that vicinity, in search
of ooal, gave no result. But other mineral
combustibles have been found in aome quarters
near the same river. There is a quarry in the
province of Samara which supplies a combusti
ble schist containing a large amount of in
flammable gag. j The oompnlsory use of this
substitute for wood is advocated. Meantime a
meeting of proprietors and sylviculturisto is
being held at Moeoow, and it is expected that
stringent rnlee will be adopted by them to
regulate and moderate the felling of wood for
railways, distilleries, and sugar mnnnfaoturies,
whioh are at present the ohief consumers.
r J ARNO.
Foreign Items.
PREPARED FOR THE TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER.
The session of the Prussian Landtag, whioh-
was prorogued toward the end of October, has
been reopened, a Cabinet Minister reading the
spceoh from the throne. The royal message is
divested of all declamatory pomp—brief and
business like. A redaction of the income tax
is promised, and bills for settling the relations
of the State to the religions societies are an
nounced. The Oonntry Reform Bill will again
be submitted, slightly amended; and thespeeoh-
ooncludes by declaring that the government is
firmly resolved to carry out its intention of im
proving the local administration of the Union.
The official Provinzial Oorrespondenz thus
expres es tbe views of tbe government on “the
Upper Chamber of the Landtag aud the Ad
ministrative Districts Bill.” This measure, as
it has been submitted to the Upper House, is
unmistakably the frnit of an earnest and con
scientious compromise between the different
parties; it is the result of a more oomplete un
derstanding than bad previously existed, aud
one which could only be attained in a specially
favorable conjuncture. The government had
therefore reason to believe, and still believes,
that the tince has come for the fruit to ripen.
The members of the government are nnani-
mously of opinion that a failure now, when
nothing has been left undone to secure a satis
factory arrangement, wonld be an irreparable
misfortune for the steady development of onr
internul polioy in a conservative sense, and at
the same time a fatal blow -for the conservative
party in Prussia. Tbe government is conse
quently rot only mo.-t anxions that this bill
shall at last become a law, bnt is also confident
that the Upper Chamber will give a new proof,
on tbe present occasion,- of the oalm and
practical spirit that has hitherto never deseited
it in the decisive moment ”
Th9 Conservative parties in the French As
sembly have formed a coalition and adopted a
programme declaring that, the restoration of
the Monarchy being impossible, tbe issue lies
between the Conservatives and the Radicals;
and after demanding pledges from tbe President
that he will adhere to a Striotly Conservative
line of polioy, they notify him, that he must
oonnt no longer upon their support, should he
refuse to give the assurances required.
The Temps,'one of the ablest Paris papers,
makes some serious reflections in reference to
Gambetta’s latest manifesto and the Radical
suooesa in the recent elections. “The Radical
viotory,” it pays, “unmistakably proves that the
nation is inclining more and more to Republi
can ideas, and yet the candidate of the Legiti
mists believes himself obliged- to annonnoe his
solidarity with all that is opposed to the spirit
of the age. That is not polioy; it is, on the
contrary, a political suicide; and the partisans
of Legitimacy wonld infallibly oommit an act
of sell-destruction, if they, too, refused to ac-
knuwtodgo that Radicalism in France can be
held to oheok bv the Republio alone. If the
the C>mto de OhamBora nenevea Tint tbe re
commendation he gives the Monarchists not to
lend auy assistance to the Republicans will have
the effeot of isolating that party, and tbns pre
pare the way for its total collapse, he falls into
a new error. Even were his catenation correct,
it is not tbe Legitimist; that wonld be the'gain
ers, for there are more active and skillful “sa
viors than the Gomte de Chatnbord.” “France,”
says the Temps, in conclusion, “has at present
but one alternative, tbe conservation of the Re
public er the restoration—not, however, tbe
restoration of Legitimacy, bnt that of Caeaar-
istn.”
The reorganization of the French army con
tinues to absorb tbe attention cf the Govern
ment, and Monsienr Thiers never tires of devo
ting a great deal of his time to the minutest
details in military matters. To win the army
be has bestowed promot’ons and deoorations
with the most lavish hand, and even surpassed
the empire, whioh was not sparing in distribu
ting orders and crosses among its faithful fol
lowers. Generals have been promoted who bave
only excelled by their defeats in the late war,
and minor di6tinotionB have been conferred
npon individuals who are unable to account
for their orders. The military medal f. L has
been bestowed upon no less than eight bold
aeronauts who had distinguished themselves in
the convey auoe of the-post nnder difficulties
during the siege of Paris. Two bther gentle
men, eaoh of them being described in tbe offi
cial announcement as an attache au service des
pigeons voyageurs, have received the same dis
tinction. j ..
The Oorsioan deputy GaHioni d'Istria is said
to bave declared his willingness to resign to
give room for Prince Napoleon, who would
probably be eleoted in his stead.
The Parliamentary Commission charged with
exnmining the French arsenals bave published
their report. After having dwelt again on the
corruption and abases under the Empire, they
propose that the unserviceable material estima
ted at abont fifty millions, should be sold. It
consists of six hundred thousand rifles, old
wooden carriages of various descriptions, cannon,
mortars and so forth.
Turkey his a new Grand Vzier, Mehemed
Rnshdi Pasha, a man of great intelligence and
integrity. The reason why his predeoessorlost
the favor of his Imperial master is characteris
tic for Turkey. Abdul Aziz sent for him and
demanded fifty thousand lire, bat the Grand
Vizier refused to furnish this amount, and a
subsequent examination of bis Majesty’s civil
list established the fact that he was already in
debted to the pnblio Exchequer for the next
sixteen months, while most offioers of the gov
ernment had not received any salary for above
a year, and were on. the point of starvation.
This refusal on the part of his Grand Vizier
so exasperated the Snltan that he appointed
Mehemed Rnshdi Pasha his successor a few
days afterwards. The new administration- is
preparing to introdnoe many reforms. It has
also determined that instruction in the Imperial
School of medicine in Constantinople, shall be
given in Turkish, and has removed all the pro-
fessois who oannot speak the national language.
This has occasioned an outory on the part of
the friends of those French-speaking professors
wbo have spent many years in the country,
without deeming it necessary to acquire its
language. The Turks say (hey started their
school as a national Bohool and not aB a foreign
one; that the pupils reoeive inadequate instruc
tion from its being conveyed in a foreign lan
guage; and that they have, not been supplied
with manuals in Turkish. The authorities have
therefore, determined to* rim the -risk-of the
ohange, and attempt to get for this school, as
for others, books and teaching in the vernacu
lar. They maintain that, as medioine has for
ages been taught in Arabic, it oan be taught in
Turkish. ;i
While alarm is felt in England, Franoe and
Germany lest there should be a failure of fuel
through the exhaustion of the coal Reds of
Europe, a similar fear begins to prevail in
RasBia, whiob depends almost^ wholly npon
wood. The rapidity with whioh the foreets are
being e’eired in soma of the provmoes threat
ens a severe and not veiy distant soarcity of
the indispeiuable material. Soma of tha pa
pers propose to substitute ooal for wood in the pany with Catherine Bsngels. Before hia de-
pro 3 notion of steam, and blame the railways parture his wife instituted suit for divoroe. Oa
“1 'lv I fo-'o: baoD4» bsoirina i eoiri >« tmui -.-1 >-<oD tvb 1w *U«:wO V.a Eg .
The Great Canal Project.
As apropos to the Great Atlantic and Western
Canal scheme now nnder serious consideration
here and elsewhere, and in which Gov. Smith
and onr Chamber of Commerce are actively
and intelligently oo-operating, we republish the
following editorial from the St Louis Republi
can, which shows the interest felt in this great
project at' the other end of the line;
CHEAP CARRIAGE.
Every cent taken off the oost of carriages of
western grain to the Atlantio coast is a cent
added to the western farmer’s pocket. The cost
of carrying the cheaper kinds of grain to New
York te frequently greater than the prioe whioh
the farmer getB for them, and for this reason,
while .the eastern oonsnmer pays two prioes for
western corn, and three prices for western oats,
the producer only receives one of those prices—
the other going to pay the exorbitant cost of
carriage. To prove that the railroads charge
too mnoh for what they do does no good; it
does not indnoe them to lower their rates. They
have all the carrying they can do at thejr own
prioes—indeed, they have, at times, more than
they .can do to carry the constantly increasing
produce of the West to the East, and bring
back the increasing supplies of goods whioh the.
West needs in exchange. The multiplication
of great trank lines of railway does not keep
pace with the increasing demands of the two
seotions on each other, and this places it within
the power of the combined roads to decree an
increase of freight rates whenever they choose
to do so ''
The East and West need a multiplication of
oheap agenciesof transportation between tbr>m.
If there were tbree broad, deep rivers between
the Mississippi aud the Atlantio, each as large
as the Mississippi itself, not one of them 'wonld
be supeifluous—all of them would be considered
indispensable, for every mile of each of them
would be nsed every hour of every day. But
we have no such cheap highways, and we have
to bnild railways to do the work. Even tho
multiplying railways, however, are fonud inade
quate, and one of the ohief wants of the West
to-day is an increased supply of agenoies of
transporthtion. The Western fanners n6ed
higher prices for their produce and lower prices
for their go <ds, and this want oan be supplied
only by muoh cheaper carriage. A canal be
tween the Kanawha and -James rivers is one of
the new lines of transit proposed, and a similar
canal, or>a chain of artificial canals, connecting
the Tennessee river at Gnnter’s landing with the
Coosa, tbe Etowah and the Ocmnlgee, and Sa
vannah is another. These two water lines,
constructed on a plan to insure the passage of
boats of 300 tonB burthen, wonld oonnect the
Mississippi with the Atlantic at two important
points—Norfolk and Savannah Tho former, it
is estimated, would cheapen the carriage of
western grain to the Atlantio from 7 to 50 cents
a bushel; and the latter wonld according to the
estimates, cheapen it 35 cents a bushel. To
state the master differently, tbe present cost of
railway oarriage from St Lonia to Mow York is
S13.28 per ton, wntrreus, by the Kanawha and
James river canal, it would be only $6 70 per
ton; and tbe present oost-of.railway carriage
brtwei n St. Lonis and Savannah is $16 50 per
ton, whereat by the proposed Georgia canal it
wonld be $4 88 per ton. The immense saving
whioh these differences wonld annually amount
to wonld go mainly into the pockets of the west
ern farmer, for every dollar saved in the cost of
getting his produce market is a profit to him.
The Georgia canal scheme is exciting mnoh
interest at the Southeast, and Gov. Smith, of
Georgia, has invited the Governors of the South
ern and the N. rthwe-t- rn States to meet at At
lanta for consultation on the subject to day.
BOHANTIC MTIT.
A iAwanlt Involving a million Dollars—
Trntti stranger tban Fiction.
Fiom the Louisville (Kv.) Ledger]
A very remarkable lawsuit, which has been
fer some time pending in the eonits of Kentucky
and Indiana, was brought to a termination a
day or two ago by the agreement of the parties
to the suit to a compromise.
It will be remembered that some years ago a
German gentleman named Gostavns Sobnrman
resided in Louisville. He was the possessor of-
a considerable amount of property, lived ita 1
goad style, drove fine horses, sported a footman
in livery, and claimed to be a German noble
man. He was married to a German lady, had a
young and interesting family, and to all
ances waa properous and happy. Bat, ’
many families, there was a ghost in thii
the secret of whose existence did' not
light until the death of the principal aetor in
this little social drama.
Gustavos was a resident of Aix-Ia Chappelle,
a little city in Bheinish Prussia, pursued the
business of cloth manufacturer, and was wbat
might be oonaideied well off, his real and per
sonal estate being worth about 140,000 thalers,
or about $100,000^ . He. loved, or thought he
loved, a lady named Amelia Eberhsrdine GolL,
daughter of one of the royal counsellors, and
in 1845 he proposed marriage, was accepted,
and the marriage ceremony was performed in
that year. An ante-nuptial contract waa enter
ed into between tbe two, according to tbe Code
Napoleon, whioh was in force at Aix la Chap
pelle, by which, in oase of the deatN of the
husband before the wife, she became entitled
to one-eighth in fee simple of bis entire estate,
aud one fourth of the estate during her life
time, besides havirg a community of interest
in all acquisitions to the common fund after
m Triage, whioh eommuoity of interest would
eutttle her to one half.
The two lived happily together for some time,
or apparently bo. The life of the wife, how
ever, was soon render, d wretohed by the dis
covery that another bad supplanted her in her
husband’s affections. 1 This, however, was not |
exactly the care; it was she in reality who had i
taken the place whioh nature had assigned to
another. Sohurman had in his employ a num
ber of factory girls, one of whom, Catherine
Bengels, was possessed of more than ordinary
beauty. The impreasible young bachelor was
smitten with har beauty, bnt the inexorable laws
of society governing the little Rhenish province
in Which he lived held over him • terror of pro-
scripttoiLiwhieh prevented him from domg that
whioh hia heart prompted. He loved Catherine
Bengels, and his love was returned, bnt he mar
ried Amelia E. Goil, who brought to him a
proud name and an extensive dower. But for
the crime which Schnrman had committed
against his nature he was amply punished. His
married life waa unhappy, while his love for the
lowly Catharine Bengels became more intease,
to* that it was impossible for them to be legal
ly united. They met clandestinely, and tbe in
tercourse coming to the knowledge of the un
happy wife, ahe became distressed beyond
measure upbraided her husband with his per
fidy and threatened divorce. This rendered the
husband desperate, and, openly avowing his at
tachment, took Catherine into his domicil. Be
coming discontented with this condition of things
Sohurman decided npon emigrating to America,
and car-e to this oonntry. He returned in 1849,
and-gathering together what propetty he oould,
departed in 1850 for the United States, in ooin-
the arrival of Sobnrman in America be prrteaad
ed to Louisville, where he took up htereatdeooe,
and sued for e divoroe from hie wife Imlia,
which was granted, when be immediately mar
ried the woman who had eloped with him.
Goetavna Sohurman purchased real estate hi
Indianapolis and Louisville, and by hia teat
and business management increased hie wealth
to over a million of dollars. At the tha* of hia
death he had seven children, two by hia fleet
wife and five by hia aeeond wife. In making
hto will he left hia Prussian property to hia
two German heirs, and hia Amerieen property
to his American heirs.
The first wife, Amelia, teaming of the death
of her husband, obtained possession by legal
prooeea of the Prussian estate, and arsed for
her share, as per marriage oontraot, of the de
cedent’s estate in America. Her son, Gusta
ves F. Sohurman, represented her with power
of attorney, and the ablest lawydro in the oity
were employed to proaecnte the case. The
pleadings were voluminous, and as a vast
amount of property wm involved, great in
terest was manifested in the result It ap
peared, however, that as the ease progressed
the plaintiff w.'ih- -«d somewhat in enforcing
her claims. Being in a foreign oonntry, and
copies of proceedings in foreign oonrtg being
frequently rendered neoe&ary a; testimony in
tbe American courts, she became wearied and
finally agreed to a compromise by accepting, In
lieu of all claims, the sum of one hundred
thousand dollars. , ■ t .
NEGRO HIGHWAYMEN.
Bold Bobbery Near Nashville—Owe of tho
Ruffians Meet* a Deterred Fate.
From the Nashville Union and American, 12.)
Accounts reach ns of a bold and villainous
robbery by unknown, negro highwaymen who,
seoreting themselves in the undergrowth fring
ing a lonely part of the Colombia road, about
six miles beyond Franklin, Bonght nnder oover
of darkness, to rob aud murder whoever might,
pass along the rente. Between twelve'and three
o’clock yesterday morning, as a gentleman ap-
proaohed the apot t he heard a rustling among
the leaves on the ground, at which his affrighted
horse gave a plunge'that almost unseated the
rider. Being unable to peer through tbe dark
ness. of the night he soaroelv had time to
imagine the canse of hia animal’s fright when,
with this simnltaneons clickings of pistol-oocks,
he heard several persons say halt. At this flvtt
negro men sprang up to his side, and while
ono seized the reins of his bridle, two or mo;o
dragged the terrified traveler from bis horse
threatening instant death in oase he uttered
ories of help or offered resistance. In order t >
make sure that no human being conld be ap
pealed toevenif theirvictim nnder such threeta
desired to cry out, he was choked to the ground,
and white firmly held robbed of a gold watch
and $120 in money. Not satisfied with thi t
booty the villains commenced to search his per
son closely, intimating to the powerless mart
that his life would be taken. While thus er
gaged, the demons, though in the night gloom
scarcely less blaok than themselves and thei>-
own depraved hearts, were startled by the ram
bling of wheels a short distance from the spot
After a hasty deliberation, during which thev
suspended the work of search, they determined
to assail the ocionpant or oocupants of the vehicle
with a view of augmenting their illgot gain %
and, if necessary, oonsign the anticipate-*,
new captives to tbe fate—that of a hor
rid, death—already awaiting the unfortonat.
man now in their power. On came th •
veht^e, whioh proved to be a buggy in which
were seated two brothers, Messrs. Henry ami
Tom McLemore, returning from Franklin 1-»
their home, near Spring Hill. As it nenred tfc •
spot, one of the negroes, with the quiokness rf
a wild beast, sprang from the bushes and seize -1
the bi rse by the bib Two others, followed,
whereupon Tom McLemore jumped from b ■»
buggy, and, realizing the intention of the m -
known assailantB, drew bis pistol, A sharp it
port, followed by a quick flash of fire, whir -
steamed like a 8niDi.of retribution mid tt
gloom, revealing for a moment the brutal com -
tenances of the highwaymen, one of whom, v -
tering a soret-m whose echoes seem to vibra>
long upon the ear, sprang forward and fell dei. i
by the side of young MoLtmore, who lost 1
time in firing Id: the accomplices, all of who;«
flvd quiokly. In the exoitement of the tnomer
McLemore, having exhausted his pistol wad-,
drew his pooket-knife, with which he cut the ft> -
len negro’s throat from ear to ear, althoup ‘«.
unknown to him, the prostrate form,' whir
but a moment before, in all the savage strong'
of brutal power, had endeavored to oommit ..
horrid crime, was bnt a corpse, its life havit «*
gone out ’mid tbe dark shadows of the nigh'.
Wb/Ch the pistol fired so unexpectedly, the u
holsed gentleman was forgotten by h>s oaptoi
w^o, releasing their hold, fled into:the wood.-,
though it was believed one -or more of the r —
m,lining four was hit by the subsequent she. *
of McLemore. Upon searching the dead neg -
the $120 taken from the gentleman were! font t
tightly held in the left hand of the corpa-
Much exoitement was oansed when it was know t.
how narrowly the three gentlemen escaped b.
ing murdered, and all say McLemore was just -
liable in acting as hedid. Hia oocl conduct si
promptness doubtless saved bis life, ea well -
that of his brother and tbe other gentteme .
whose name we did not learn.
BIDING ASTRADDLE.
Shall Ladfm Bide Man Fashion?-Grace
Greenwood hay* Yea.
From the Home Journal.
The decision of the question how lsdieB sla (
sit on the horse rests, of oonrse, ; with the.- -
selves. The arguments in the matter, what pi. -
sloians, physiologists and practical horseni’
assert regarding the superior healthfulness. ea '»
and safety of the natural mode; all this 1s b -
yond cavil. There is now lacking only the s-
tnal experience of horsewomen to convin; .
their doubting sisters—with, of course, a pr
er inauguration of the fashion for the thrci ;
of fashionables. Aoorae'spondent tells ns that - -
is a common sight to see ladies riding astride
the larger towns of Wiaoonsin; and from >1 t
further toward tbe setting san there comet v
note of example from one whose word will c -
tainly command the respeotfol attention 11
every lady in the land. .. No one will snap < *.
Grace Greenwood of a weakness for assn mi
mannish ways, or of sacrificing taste and d -
cacy for mere vulgar notoriety. In her jot-
neytng lately in the Yosemite Yaliey she, v-■ •
three other ladies, rode all the way from So >.->
Merced and back on horseback, and cavai'- -
fashion. 8 ; de saddles were not to be had, r •
how the ladies acoepted tbe situation, and ev 1
liked it, the authoress thus writes:
“With a tt ar for the modest traditions of -
sex, and a shudder at the thonght of the flgn -
we should present, we four brave women ne
oepted the situation, and, for tbe nonoe. rode .
a woman used to ride in the happy, heroic da-
before'Satan, for her entanglement and enslM -
meat, invented trained skills, oorsete and t>
Baddies. We were fortunately provided wi ll
strong mountain salts, of dark flannel and v -
terproof, which fitted ua for this emergen- .
and for any rongh climbing we had a fancy t-
ai.d thrre waa not a little. Well, afteratri : f
some fifteen milee tbe first day rnd twenty - >.
the second, we all came to tbe conclusion 1
this style of riding is the safest, easiest, s «t.
therefore, the most sensible for long mourn: «
expeditions,-and for steep, rongh and narir- »
trails. If natare intended woman to rid hor-
back at all she doobtless intended it shouV: -
after this, fashion : otherwise we should h *•
been a sort of land variety of the mermaid.’’
The soldiers of Floyd Goan ty, Ga., are t>
have A reunion soon, and the Oommeroial sa« e,
eloquectly/upon this subject: “It te belief.d
that ont of twenty-one companies who enter rf
service from this county there are now near 4t“>
surviving residents. Of these 400 every . u -
has a tale of service and suffering to tell W.i-u
a gathering it would be if they were all bivou
acked around old-fashioned camp-fires for -
night, whet smiles, what tears, wbat jokes, wb«*
epitaphs, wbat hair-breadth escapes, whet p* .-
rious victories, what various memories would ire
revived and rehearsed 1”