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Chronicle and .Sentinel SATURDAY JULY 6, 1873. COMPLIMENT TO A YOUNG GEOR GIAN. We understand that Mr. Samuel Bar nett, a graduate of the University of Georgia, and at present Instructor in Mathematics in the State College of Agriculture, has been elected Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Univer sity of Louisiana, with a salary of $2,000. Mr. Barnett is a son of Mr. Samuel Barnett, of Washington. We congratulate our State University that other institutions are selecting her graduates as Professors. This Louisiana State University is the same institution over which Gen. Sherman presided previous to the late war. We learn that all the Faculty of the University united in recommending Mr. Barnett for the Professorshij> to which he has been elected. THE WALWORTH CASE. The manner of the termination of the Walworth ense—a cause cclebre of the criminal Courts—is another and striking evidence of the reaction against murder which is manifesting itself all over the country. It is true that the offense for the commission of which young Wal worth has been convicted is one which has ever been held in just execration by savage and civilized countries alike. Parricide has always been held infamous, as no people and no law have been able to conceive a justification for the willful homicide of a parent. But the Wal worth case was an exceptional one in many respects. It was a parricide but attended with circumstances which stripped the crime of all its revolting features. Frank Walworth was the son of the slain, but it is hardly paradoxical to say that Mansfield Tracy Walworth was not the father of his murderer. Since the early years of his childood the father had been estranged from his family, had been abandoned by his wife after she had endured at his hands every species of brutality which a cruel and selfish nature could suggest. After the separation his persecutions did not cease but became daily more odious. Insults the most vile and threats aguiust herself and her children the most atrocious were contained in his let ters and those who have read these disgusting epistles have had revealed to them a heartlessness, a malignancy, a •depravity which has never been attain ed before. Frank Walworth, the idol of his mother’s heart nnd loving her with a devotion passing that felt by most boys, even for a mother, grew up regarding his father as the worst enemy *.f h imself and his family, as the man whom ho hail most reason to dread and Jto hate. Day after day he saw his mother terrified and made miserable by the cruel outrages to which she was sub jected by the cowardly scoundrel who had been her husband. At last the end came. Maddened by conduct which it .seemed would never cease, determined to free his mother from further insult, he went upon Iris fatal journey to New York. Whether he went lo extort a promise from Mansfield Tracy Walworth or to end liis brutality and his life to gether we know not The jury which sat in judgment upon liis act decided that there was no premeditation of the crime and doubtless their decision is sustained by the evidence. Buttheparri ■cide’s conduct met with no execration Because he was a parricide. On the con trary, many attempted a justification of ttlre act and predicted the acquittal of the accused. A New York jury, however, lias dashed these expectations to the ground, and young Walworth—rightly we think—has been convicted of mur der in the second degree. Notwitli- Ktamling Ihe provocation, notwithstand ing the vile character and viler conduct of the slain, there was not sufficient justification for his death. Frank Wal worth has no right to take the law into his own ha ’ids. Having done this he must pay the penalty. It would be a dangerous precedent to establish had he been allowed to go .tree, and had a jury declared that a man m.iV murder ono who insults and threatens another, even though that other should be ids own mother. A DANGEROUS CUSTOM. If the example set by the two young men of Newurk the other (lay is to be generally followed the most disastrous consequences will result to the country. Two cousins bearing the anything but eu phonious names of Nadler and Bulcher becamo enamored of a lady belonging to that class of females of whom Mr. Samuel Weller, Senior, entertained such a profound distrust and deep-rooted aversion—a widow. After paying their addresses for some time to the lovely o’bjeet of their admiration they at last came to the conclusion, which would have occurred to some minds sooner, that there would be difficulty in both of them marrying her—even sup posing that she was charmed with each —unless they should attempt the prac tice of a sort of reversed Mormonism, which the laws of the laud would scarce ly countenance or tolerate. Having ar rived at this point and neither being willing to yield his claims in favor of his rival, they determined to cut the Gordian ilove-knot by mutual and simultaneous suicide. Carrying out this sage deter mination the affectionate lovers patrou ized the juice of henbane and the root of deadly nightshade, or the less roman tic but more swift and certain strych nine to such an extent that one of the noodles —Nadler—succeeded in extermi nating himself. Bulcher, with equally good intentions, failed and is now alive, sick and disgusted at present, but with a fair prospect of making it all right with the widow in the near future. But whatever may have been the result in this instance it is the principle of the thing with which we must deal. What is to become of the country if the ad mirers of every beautiful girl or blooming widow—sometimes ranging in numbers from two to a hundred—are to act after the silly and singular Newark fashion ? The suicidal mania would stop all mar riages and increase of population, and materially lighten the labors of the next •census-takers. If the contending par ties were to fight over the matter that course, though bad enough itself, would be infinitely less reprehensible than the conduct of the Newark swains, for in that event there would certainly be a survivor of the conflict, and the hand of beauty would be the prize of the victor. But there are no survivors of a suicide, and the lady whose charms instigate the self-murder is left desolate, and from a multitude of admirers is without even one. One must think of the lady as well as of the men. For instance, in the Newark case it is all very well for Nadler and Bulcher, but what is to be come of the widow ? THE SUPREME COURT. The Savannah Advertiser, of a recent date, contained a well-timed and emi nently sensible article on the Supreme Court. There is no doubt that the Court has become a very cumbersome machine, and that it stands sadly in need of remodeling. The Court now sits fully ten months in the year, and the docket is literally loaded with cases. These vary in magnitude from twenty five to thousands of dollars. Some of them involve nice questions of law— commercial and constitutional—but the great majority of them have nothing at issue which has not already been ad judicated and re-adjudicated. Some thing must be done—some law must be passed—which will reduce the number of cases. The Judges cannot stand such arduous and incessant labor. The Superior Courts can determine no case where the litigant wishes for time, for delay, or where he is obstinate and un willing to yield. The evil is apparent ; cannot a remedy be suggested ? Wo hope to hear from some of our legal friends on the subject. THE SOUTH. The Chicago Evening Journal says : “It is exceedingly difficult to ascertain the real condition of the South. Dur ing a political campaign both sides are tempted to misrepresent the facts, and after the campaign interest in the sub ject flags. For months very little atten tion has been paid by the press to the South, Louisiana excepted. The great States which are free from any special disturbance jog on unheeded. “ A traveler, who has spent several weeks in going about iu Virginia, Ten nessee, Georgia and Alabama, writes that although he took special pains to listen to the conversation of groups at hotels, in the cars, etc., he did not once hear an allusion to politics. This shows that the people are busying them selves with the ordinary affairs of life. The less prominence they give to politi cal topics the better. The great mass of the people will not, in a healthy state of society, devote very much time aud thought to politics. “ The same writer says that the tone and manner of the people indicate no latent and irreconcilable bitterness in the hearts so powerful as to stand in the way of the most cordial co-opera tion for the advancement of their ma terial interests. They evidently begin to seo that free labor, while it makes a change of base in matters of industry necessary, by no mejuis cripples the material strength of thq South; but, on the contrary, increases'it. It is earnest ly to bo hoped that business relations will unify the North and South, as they already have the East and West.” Honor to a Georgia Baptist.—A Washington dispatch states that after an exciting contest the Board of Visitors of tho University of Virginia, near Charlottesville, have elected Noah K. Davis, President of Bethel College, Ken tucky, to be Professor of Moral Philoso phy. Tho new Professor, who is nn ear nest Baptist, graduated at Mercer Uni versity, Georgia, and at Yale. He was recommended in the strongest terms by Jno. S. Broaddus, the professors of seven Southern co'leges, and a host of leading citizens and scholars. MARK TWAIN HETS OUT TO “IM PRESS” THE “KING OF KINGS.” Terrors of the Undertaking—Gloomy Views ami Forebodings Leaving Lon don Shocking Discovery at Dover— Ostentations Remarks on Flanders ami the Flounders A Freshet of Children -Distressing Experience in a Flemish Hotel—First Appearance of the Boss Monarch and the Brim less Stovepipes. Uompon, June 18.—“ Would yon like to go over to Belgium and help bring the .Shah to England ?” I said I was willing. “Very well, then; here is an OrJer from the Admiralty which will ad mit ;ou on board Her Majesty’s ship Lively, now lying at Ostend, and you can return in her day after to-morrow.” That was all. That was! the end of it. Without stopping to think, I had in a manner taken upon myself to bring the Shall of Persia to England. I could not otherwise regard the conversation I had just held with the London representa tive of the New York Herald. The amount of discomfort I endured for the next two or three hours cannot be set down in words. I could not eat, sleep, talk, smoke with any satisfaction. The more I thought the thing over the more oppressed I felt. What was the Shah to me, that I should go to all this worry and trouble on his account? Where was there the least occasion for taking upon myself such a responsibility ? If I got him over all right, well. But if I lost him ? if he died on my hands ? if he got drowned? It was depressing, any way I looked at it. In the end I said to myself, “If I get this Shah over here safe and sound I never will take charge of another.” And yet, at the same time, I kept thinking, “This country has treated me well, stranger as I am, and this foreigner is the country’s guest— that is enough. I will help him out; I will fetch him over; I will land him in London, and say to the British people, ‘Here is your Shah; give me a receipt?’” I felt easy in my mind now, and was about to go bed, but something oc curred to me. I took a cab and drove down town and routed out that Herald representative. “ Where is Belgium ?” said L “ Where is Belgium ? I never heard such a question !” “That doesn’t make any difference to me. If I have got to fetch this Shah I don’t wish to go to the wrong place. Where is Belgium ? Is it a shilling fare in a cab ?” He ex plained that it was in foreign parts— the first place I have heard of lately which a body could not go to in a cab for a shilling. I said I could not go alone, because I could not speak for eign languages well, could not get np in time for the early train without help and could not find my way. I said it was enough to have the Shah on my hands ; I did not wish to have every thing piled on me. Mr. Blank was then ordered to go with me. I was not so ignorant as I appeared, but I do like to have somebody along to talk to when I go abroad. When I got home I sat down and I thought the thing all over. I wanted to go into this enterprise understandingly. What was the main thing ? That was the question. A little reflection informed me. For two weeks the London papers had sung just one continual song to just one continual tune, and the idea of it all was “how to impress the Shah.” These papers had told all about the St. Petersburg splendors, and had said at the end that splendors would no longer answer; that England could not outdo Russia in that respect; therefore some other way of impressing the Shah must be contrived. And these papers had also told all about the Shalistic recep tion in Prussia anil its attendant military pageantry. England could not improve on that sort of thing—she could not im press the Shah with soldiers; something else must be tried. And so on. Column after column, page after page of agony about how to “impress the Shah.” At last they had hit upon a happy idea—a grand naval exhibition. That was it ! A man brought up in Oriental seclusion and simplicity, a man who had never seen anything but camels and such things, could not help being surprised anil delighted with the strange novelty of ships. The distress was at an end. England heaved a great sigh of relief; she knew at last how to impress the Shah. My course was very plain, now after that bit of reflection. All I had to do was to go over to Belgium and im press the Shall. I failed to form any definite plan as to the process, but I made up my mind to manage it some how. I said to myself, “I will impress this Shah or there shall be a funeral that will be worth contemplating.” I went to bed then, but did not sleep a great deal, for the responsibilities were weighing pretty heavy upon me. At six o’clock in the morning Mr. Blank came and turned me out. I was sur prised at this, and not gratified, for I detest early rising. I never like to say severe things, but I was a good deal tried this time. I said I did not mind getting up tolerably early, but I hated to be called day before yesterday. How ever, as I was acting in a national ca pacity and for a country that I liked, I stopped grumbling and we set out. A grand naval review is a good thing to impress a Shah with, but if he would try getting up at six o’clock in the morning—but no matter; we started. Presently we reached the sea and came to a stand far out on a pier; and here was Dover and more history. The chalk cliffs of England towered up from the shore anil the French coast was visible. On the tallest hill sat Dover castle, state ly and spacious and superb, looking just as it has always looked any time these ten or fifteen thousand years—l do not know its exact age, aud it does not mat ter, anyway. We stepped nboard the little packet and steamed away. The sea was per fectly smooth, and painfully brilliant in the sunshine. There were no curiosities in the vessel except the passengers and a placard in French setting forth the transportation fares for various kinds of people. The lithographer probably con sidered that placard a triumph. It was printed in green, blue, red, black and yellow; no individual line in one color, but the individual letters were separate ly colored. For instance, the first letter of a word would be blue, the next red, the next green, and so on. The placard looked as if it had the small pox or something. I inquired the artist's name and place of business, intending to hunt him up and kill him when I had time; but no one could tell me. In the list of prices first class passengers were set down at fifteen shillings aud four pence, aud dead bodies at one pound ten shill ings and eight pence—just double price. That is Belgian morals, I suppose. I never say a harsh thing unless I am greatly stirred; but in my opiontlie man who would take advantage of a dead per son would do almost any odious thing. I publish this scandalous discrimination against the most helpless class among us in order that people iutending to die abroad may come back by some other line. Most of the shops in Ostend seemed devoted to the sale of sea shells. All sorts of figures of meu and women were made of shells; one sort was com posed of grotesque and ingenious com bination of lobster claws in the humun form. And they had other figure made of stuffed frogs—some fencing, some harboring each other, and some were not to be described at all without inde cent language. It must require a bar barian nature to be able to find humor in such nauseating horrors as these latter. These things were exposed in the public windows where young girls and little children could see them, and in tho shops sat hairy lipped young women waiting to sell them. It was an excellent hotel; the utmost care was taken that everything should go right. I wont to bed at ten and was called at eleven to “take the early train.” I said I was not the one, so the servant stirred up the next door and he was not the one, then the next door and the next—no success—and so on till the re verberations of the knocking were lost in the distance down the hall, and I fell asleep again. They called me at twelve to take another early train, but I said I was not the one again, and asked as a favor that they would be particular to call the rest next time, but never min i me. However they could not un derstand my English; they only said something in reply to signify that, aud then went on banging up tlie boarders, none of whom desired to take the early traiu. When they called me at one, it made my rest seem very broken, and I said if they would skip me at two I would call myself—not really intending to do it, but hoping to beguile the porter and de ceive him. He probably suspected that and was afraid to trust me, because when he made his rounds at that hour he did not take any chances on me, but routed me out along with the others. I got some more sleep after that, but when the porter called me at three I felt de pressed and jaded and greatly discour aged, So I gave it up and dressed my self. The porter got me a cup of coffee and kept me awake while I drank it. He was a good, well-meaning sort of floun der, but ready a drawback to the hotel, 1 should think. Poor Mr. Blank came in then, looking worn and old. He had been called for in all the different trains, too, just as I had. He said it was a good enough hotel, but they took too much pains. While we sat there talking we fell asleep, and were ealled again at four. Then we went out and dozed about town till six, and then drifted aboard the Lively. Now the train was signalled, and every body got ready for the great event. The Belgian regiment straightened itself up, and some two hundred Flounders arrived and took conspicuous position on a little mound. I was a little afraid that this would impress the Shah; but I was soon occupied with* other interests. The train of thirteen cars came tearing in, and stopped abreast the ships. Mnsic and guns began an uproar. Odd-look ing Persian faces and felt hats (brimless stovepipes) appealed at the car windows. Some gorgeous English officials filed down the carpet from the Vigilant. They stopped a long car with the royal arms upon it, uncovered their heads and unlocked th’e car door. Then the Shah stood up in it and gave us a good view. He was a handsome, strong featured man, with a rather European fairness of complexion; had a mustache, wore spectacles, seemed of a good height aud graceful build and carriage, and looked about forty or a shade less. He was very simply dressed—brimless stovepipe and close-buttoned dark green military suit, without ornament. No, not wholly without ornament, for he had a band two inches wide worn over his shoulder and down across his breast, scarf fashion, which band was one solid glory of tine diamonds. A Persian of ficial appeared in the Shah’s rear and en- veloped him in an ample quilt—or cloak, if you please—which was lined with fur. The outside of it was of a whitish color and elaborately needle-worked in Per sian patterns like an India shawl. The Bhah stepped out and the official pro cession formed about him and marched him down the carpet and on board the Vigilant to slow music. Not a Flounder raised a cheer. All the small fry swarm ed out of the train now. The Shah walked back alongside his fine cabin, looking at the assemblage of silent, solemn Flounders; the cor rjepondent of the London Telegraph was hurrying along the pier and took off his hat and bowed to the “ King of Kings,” and the King of Kings gave a polite military salute in return. This was the commencement of the excite ment. The success of the breathless Telegraph man made all the other Lon don correspondents mad, every man of whom flourished his stove pipe reck lessly and cheered lustily, some of the more enthusiastic varying the exercise by lowering their heads and elevating their coat tails. Seeing all this, and feeling that if I was to “ impress the Shah ” at all, now was my time, I ven tured a little squeaky yell, quite dis tinct from the other shouts, but just as hearty. His Shahship heard aud saw and saluted me in a manner that was, I considered, an acknowledgement of my superior importance. I do not know that I ever felt so ostentations and absurd before. All the correspondents came aboard, and then the Persian bag gage came also, and was carried across to the ship alongside of ours. When she could hold no more we took some where about a hundred trunks and boxes on board our vessel. Two boxes fell into the water, and several sailors jumped in and saved one, but the other was lost. However, it probably contained nothing but a few hundred pounds of diamonds and things. At last we got under way and steamed out through a long slip, the piers on either side being crowded with Flounders ; but never a cheer. A battery of three guns on the starboard pier boomed a royal salute, and we swept out to sea, the Vigilant in the lead ; we right in her wake, and the baggage ship yi ours. Within fifteen minutes everybody was well acquainted ; general jollification set in, and I was thoroughly glad I had come over to fetch the Shah. Mask Twain. “OUIDA.” Tlie Wild Franeo-Brltlsh Woman and Her Ways—Also Her Dnds mid Her Dogs. Louis de la Rame, for that is her name, says a writer in the Han Francisco Bulletin, passed much of her childhood in France. It was there that she picked up the name for herself— Yes, indeed ! Onida —that afterward became her noin dc plunie. She speaks that language with groat volubility, and is also mistress of German, Italian, and several other modern tongues. The father is said to have been a Frenchman—her name would signify that —and although he may be living, it is probable that he is at least dead to his daughter, for she never speaks of him, and is thought by those who know her best to depend nlmost en tirely on her own literary work for a maintenance. Her mother, an English woman, retaining few, if any, traces of youthful grace and beauty, still resem bles her dauglitersuftlciently to leave no doubt as to their relationship. She is a patient old lady, ns attentive to the whims and caprices of her distinguished and somewhat spoiled darling as any doting American mother with her hotel reared, wayward, hot house flower of a daughter. Mrs. de la.Rame may be an old lady of wonderful talent, but she never asserts herself. She has the air of 01*3 who has all liar life been frowned down and sat upon. She is meeker far than Moses ever could have been, for is she not a woman ?—one has only to go to Salt Lake to see what an infinite capacity they have for being snubbed —and milder than the fairest May morn ing that ever dawned upon her in her own fair laud. She lias many virtues, no doubt, but she certainly did not en dow her offspring with the talents that have given her her wide-spread noto riety, and as the latter could not have existed without a father, wherever or whoever that mythical personage may be, to him wo must ascribe the genius, or that portion of it which she pos sesses. Some have said that ho was a spy ; others a conspirator, a high Gov ernment official, and that he lost his life mysteriously in the service of his country. Whatever he was his daugh ter inherits from some one plenty of audacity, courage—even fool-hardiness —a wonderful gift of language, sort of grim, fantastic humor, aud a vivid and picturesque, if somewhat “ barbaric style,” as Matthew Arnold might say. But it is not Miss de la Rame’s merits or faults as a writer that are under con sideration now ; it is the lady herself— as she appears through her books—her personal appearance, her habits, her surroundings. Two or three years ago she lived, as sho doos now, probably, at the the Langham Hotel. Although she spends a good share of her time on the continent, she prefers London as a home. She clings with true British tenacity to English soil aud to English ideas. Indeed, .though looking as un like one as j ossiblc in every particular, her astounding toilets excepted, she seems a thorough English woman ; at least, one would never suspect her to be of any other nationality. Her accent and intonations are English, her ges tures, her modes of speech, her daily habits. She dines at eight o'clock in Summer—a little earlier in Winter. She drives out daily in a brougham—hired by the month—pays a visit or two, and brings up at Rotten Row some time be tween twelve and two. There she finds acquaintances—not many ladies—but an officer, perhaps, of the Guards, some young literateur, some old diner-out, or some diplomat. She whiles away an hour listening to themusio, assheloungesbya friend on one of the seats that line the walk, or takes a turn with tne promena ders, aud then she drives home. In the \ afternoon she wAtes. Her manuscript is odd in its way as Theopliile Gauthi er’s, But if his sign manual was micro scopic, hers is monstrous, and “ he who runs may read,” to misquote, as has of ten been done with the passage before. A few lines only sprawl over an entire page of foolscap, but it is very legible —more than can be said for the most of English handwriting of the present period. At 8 o’clock, as I said before, Miss de la Rame and her mother dine in the public eating-room of the hotel.— Both ladies, be the season what it may, are decolletee, and there is generally great sameness in their toilets. The younger woman, like her mother, is of ten attried in black, but she is extreme- Iy partial to white fabrics—generally silk, the froufrou of which always heralds her coming. She has laces floating about her, not perfumed or of rare costliness anil delicacy like those of her heroines, but of imitation or Yak— flounces and shawls that stream out on the wind as she marches down to the dining room with her trailing skirts tucked, English fashion, under each el bow to prevent their becoming soiled by contact with the matting of the corridor —black silks trimmed with white lace and ribbons, white silks trimmed with black nnd blue ribbons, always—and all ways, literally, sashes at her belt, bows at her corsage, and rosettes and narrow streamers of blue above each ear. Her hair, which is neither luxuriant nor wavy, is left unbound. It falls to her waist behind, but is rolled high above the forehead in Pompadour rouleaux.— It is dark brown in color, and, arranged by a Parisian coiffure, would materially improve her appearance. Perhaps, how ever, she agrees with Saint Paul that “if a woman have long hair it is a glory to her, for her hair is given her for a covering.” Her features are good; her eyes are fine and expressive—large, dark blue, and well shaded by strong lashes. Her mouth is well shaped, but the expression of her face is unhappy. It haunts one. It says as plainly as words could say, “I have missed everything that life is worth living for.” She is slender to thinness—below the medium height, and has hands and feet of the most diminutive proportions ever seen out of Andalusia or America; for the French say their smallest gloves and a market in the United States. Unlike most English women, she is always bien gantee—bien chaussec. In Louis Quinse slippeis of black satin and stockings—l suppose I should say silken hose—of pearly tint, her little feet are absolutely faultless. They have the same trick that all pretty feet have— they will “peep out like mice beneath her petticoat;” and, speaking of mice, we are reminded of her eccentricities, which was far from agreeable to her friends. Her parlor, on the ground floor of the Langham, was near enough the dining and store-rooms aud pantries to make it exceedingly accessible to mice, and with a little encouragement in the way of cheese crumbs and other dain ties she had succeeded in taming a perfect army of them. To say no thing of the misery of having a dozen or so of these small creatures scampering around your feet and run ning up your trousers legs, if yon were a man—or your petticoats, if you were a woman—the odor from them was far from agreeable. In spite of the many boquets and the perfume of the cut flowers with which her pretty bou doir was always filled, the peculiar mousey smell prevailed; it was only equalled by the boqtiet de Newfound land with which her favorite dog scen ted room whenever he was present. Owing to his having stolen so many times, because of the large rewards of fered,-Aus mistress had been obliged to deny him his daily bath in the Serpen tine, and the consequence was that the poor beast became unclean—not to say foul—and it was almost impossible for a stranger unaccustomed to the odor to remain in the room w ith him. The dog, the mice and a musical canary were all the pets this singular woman had. None of them were really objectionable, but the mice, for the poor Newfoundland was a splendid, great fellow, aud, in the country where he had his freedom and plenty of water, challenged the admira tion of everybody. Miss de la Home, al though a brilliant talker, although an ac complished, well read, traveled and ob serving woman of the world, is not an ageeable companion, and has few friends. She entertains, now aud then, her dinner parties, though hardly the ban quet “Idalia” presided over in point of spleudor, are yet thoroughly enjoyable aud Hex parlor, filled with the workJof art, her walls lined with pic tures, her tables covered with the latest books and periodicals, is, barring the mice, a charming place to lounge in. She is always hospitable, aud her im pulsies are warm and kindly. She has the real Anglo-Saxon hatred of a lie; she is ardent and courageous; she would de fend a friend fearlessly and with her last breath ; she has muuy good qualities, aud yet she has few, if any, to love her, and none to warmly praise. DONE BY A LUNATIC. The Biggest Case of Emotional Sanity On Becorti—A Putnam Countv Offi cer **ut Into the Utica Asylum by a Crafv Man. the Putnam County Courier.] Utva, June 25. —This morning I no ticed It woof your citizens get off the caf tkif*-»pluo«—Abraham M'ller aud Sam«x, Berry. Glad to see anybody from Ipome, I naturally hastened to give them a cordial greeting, after which Mr. Millet took me aside and said he was taking Berry to the asylum. Imagine my astonishment when Berry also took me aside and informed me in a very con fldentisl manner that he was taking Mil ler to the asylum. Perceiving no mark ed traoes of insanity in either, I was perplexed which to believe, or whether to believe either. After turning the subject over in my mind once or twice, I resolved to stay with them aud see the thing out. Wo first went to the hotel, procured some refreshments, and while there Berry called for pen and ink, say ing that he wanted to write home to his wife. Having prepared a letter, he call ed a porter, and dispatched him to the post office, as I then supposed, but, as subsequently appeared, lie was sent to the asylum with a letter, of which the following is a verbatim copy : Thursday, J uno 5, 1873. Superintendent of Insane Asylum: Dear Sib—ln about one or two hours from this time I shall bring to your in stitution for treatment a young man from Potnnm county. His insanity has peculiar modes of manifestation, and during lucid intervals is not perceptible at all. While on the cars last evening he abstracted from my pocket the papers given me by the authorities upon which to enter him in the asylum, and now as serts that he is going to lodge me in the institution. I thought I would write you in advance, in order that you may be able to properly estimate his talk when we arrive. Yours, truly, Samuel Berry. After dinner I accompanied the boys to the asylum, where we were met by the polite physician in charge and con ducted to the reception room. Almost as soon as we were seated Miller rose to his fcetfwrith quite as much dignity as any envoy extraordinary ever presented credentials to the oourt of a reigning po tentate. Drawing from his.pocket Judge Wright’s order and acoompanyingpapers, he handed them to the Superintendent, upon whose face gathered a pleasant but rather incredulous smile. After placing them on the desk he glanced at Berry, who returned it with a significant wink of the left eye. That silent but ex pressive language soon “settled the hash” of poor “Aby,” who was soon condncted to the apartment for new patients. Jn vain did he attempt to ex postulate and explain. The doctor’s only answer was that he understood his case, and advised him to remain quiet— that excitement was injurious and would only delay his recovery. Having at tended to our business Berry and I started for the depot. On the way down he explained to me the facts of the oase and said he would have a big thing on the Brewster boys when he returned. Deploring the unoomfortable position of poor “Aby,” and desiring to right mat ters as far as I could, I induced Berry to return to the institution with me under pretense of saying something to “Aby” before leaving. When we again reached the asylum I explained the true state of affairs to the superintendent, who seemed to disbelieve all of us. To extricate himself from the dilemma he telegraphed to Brewsters, and upon the receipt of the reply • immediately ex changed the positions of the parties. In South Acton, Massachusetts, Fri day, Geo. Curtis, a lad of eight years, enticed a boy named Lane, aged three years, into the woods and then beat him with a club in the most shocking man ner, leaving him insensible. He was soon discovered, but died of his injuries in twenty-four hours. The muderer fled, but was arrested last evening in Cam bridge. John Dennis, a driver of a market wagon, was found fatally beaten in his wagon at Jamaica, L. L, on Friday, having been robbed by two negroes, to whom he gave a ride on his way home from market. The people of Jamaica turned out and scoured the woods yes terday for the murderers, but they are not captured yet. BY TELEGRAPH. TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES AND MINOR TELEGRAMS. Specie shipments yesterday, $248,000. Five fatal accidents in Rochester, New York, on the Fourth. Vessels on the Vistula are submitted to a rigid quarantine. The report of an outbreak at Chalesa, Munich, is contradicted. One brother-in-law killed another at Greeusburg, Indiana, yesterday. A new trial has been refused in the Picayune libel suit in New Orleans. The laying of the cable of 1873 was successfully completed yesterday morn ing shortly after midnight. In Memphis there were thirteen cholera interments yesterday. The dis ease is spreading in the country. Juo. Long was arrested in New York last night for fatallv shooting John Hearring. Both are boys of seventeen. Numerous cases of sunstroke occurred in New York on the Fourth, including several militia during the morning pa rade. The young man and woman who went over Niagara Falls were to be married yesterday. Their bodies have not been recovered. In Brownsville, Texas, the first bale of cotton raised on the Rio Grande this year was brought to that market on Thursday. The Shah made an unofficial visit to the Crystal Palace yesterday. Immense preparations are making for his recep tion at Paris. The Hnmilton Woolen Mill at Cincin nati was struck by lightning Friday. Loss, SOO,OOO. A falling roof killed one or two persons. Twenty-five or thirty small fires oc clured in New York yesterday—the damages done varying from fifty to one thousand dollars. The lightning burned a house and killed a woman at Wolfboro, N. H.; and four men out fishing were drowned at Deer Island, off Eastport, yesterday. Thirty-one nccidents to persons from carelessness in the use of fire-arms and fire-works occurred in New York on the Fourth, and nearly as many in Brook lyn. The Paris correspondent of the / Tines telegraphs to that paper that the trial of Marshal Bazaine will probably take place at Compeigne in the latter part of September. Several accidents happened in Chicago, on the fourth, the most serious of which was the shooting, and it is thought fatal ly wounding, of a boy by a young man who was shooting at a mark. Martin Evans, attached to the United States Signal office, was shot and in stantly killed, in Wheeling, West Vir ginia, yesterday, in an altercation with a man who was visiting a lady to whom he (Evans) was paying attention. A dispatch from Bombay brings intel ligence of a rising among the Hindoo peasants in the district of Poonat. Tlioy refuse to pay their rents, and have plun dered and burned several houses. Two bands have been dispersed by the po lice. There wore large gatherings of farmors at Springfield, Galesburg, Pontiac Champion, Knoxville nnd other places in Illinois, Friday, who celebrated the day by listening to speeches upon the farmers’ movement and the railroad question. In New York two cases of cholera were reported yesterday—both fatal.— They were reported as asiastic cholera by the attending physicians, but the doctors attached to the Board of Health say both wers aggravated cases of cholera morbus. In Binghamton, during the display of fireworks I relay evening, Welford Thayer and his son, of Montrose, Were probably fatally injured by a runaway horse that went through the crowd.— Three children and a woman were also hurt by the same horse. Mrs. Charles Carman was drowned in Little Chocnut creek while returning home from the celebration. Her husband was drunk and drove into the creek. THE STORM KING. Terrible Tornadoes in the West—Trees and Houses ISlown Down —'Telegraph Poles Shivered by Lightning Hosts Capsized—Twenty Persons Drowned —General Destruction. Cincinnati July s.—The storms of the past three days have seldom if ever been equalled in severity in Ohio and Indi ana. Hurricanes and tornadoes, with floods of rain, liavejfollowed each other in rapid succession. This city and its immediate vicinity escaped the fury of the storms. The country north of this and parallel, in Indiana, suffered severely by the furious storms which passed over it on the 2d, 3d and 4th instants. The telegraph wires have been generally prostrated. At Springfield, Ohio, it is reported that the telegraph poles were blown down across the turnpike so thickly in some places as to entirely ob struct travel east of Springfield. On the Pacific and Atlantic telegraph line there were more than a hundred poles down. Some of them were struck by lightning and others prostrated by the wind. Passengers from Logansport say the storm yesterday levelled trees nearly all the way from Logansport to Rich mond, lud. In Richmond trees were blown down in the streets. At Wash ington, Indiana, the storm was exceed ingly fierce. Spears of wheat were scattered about wildly and carried many feet in the air. At Colum bus the storm was very severe and destructive. The general prostration of telegraph poles is without parallel in the history of the telegraph. An alarming ly large number were shivered to pieces by lightning and totally destroyed, while others were partially destroyed and many prostrated by the wind. To-day will be a busy day in repairing these lines. By to-night they will bo ready to tell their history of the storm. Dayton, 0., July 5.—A terrific storm of wind and rain passed over this city to-night, blowing down trees and chim neys. In the oountry damage to grain, fencing and sheds is said to be exten sive. The Miami river is full and still rising. Milwaukee,July 5.—A terrific storm passed through Wisconsin yesterday, which proved very disastrous to pleas ure parties at Green Lake, Wisconsin. A number of pleasure seekers on the lake were struck by the storm, their boats were oapsized anil twenty persons drowned. The following are tlie only names that could be obtained : M. ti. Russell and daughter, of Berlin, Wis.; Jennie Olin, a child of Mr. Allen; Mrs. A. P. Corwin, Mrs. Geo. Harding, Wm. Bearham, wife and child, and Mr. John Bain, all from Hartford. Chicago, July s.—The weather to day is clear and beautiful. Meagre re ports received from the various points in the country show that the storm of the last two days has been one of the most severe kind ever experienced here. Au immense quantity of water fell, and there has been a good deal of damage done to telegtaph poles by lightning and wind. New York, July s.—During a heavy shower in Andover yesterday afternoon the lightning struck old South Church, and stunned Rev. Mr. Abbott, who was delivering the oration, and also Mr. Carter, the tenor of the choir. Both recovered in a few minutes. The church was not materially damaged. Several other buildings were also struck. It was the most violent storm experienced here for fifty years. Portsmouth, N. H., July s.—Several houses here and in the vicinity were struck by lightning yesterday. CIROLEVII.I.E, Ohio, July s.—The Sciota river has overflowed extensively the broom corn fields in this vicinity, probably ruining some live hundred to a thousand acres. Broom corn is flattened down and washed on, so that much of it cannot riso. The stream is so high that the roads are impassable between here and Columbus. No trains hare arrived from the East since Thurs day. PULL PARTICULARS OF THE . RHKTT-COOLKY FIGHT. The Preliminaries—Quick Work on the Field—The Sceue Described by an Eye Witness—Bearing of the Principals—The Fatal Fire—The Re turn. Col. George W. Carter and Mr. It. Mcßea Self were selected as the seconds of Judge Cooley, Col. liliett being rep resented by Col. Charles Roman, his brother-in-law, and Dr. Brnns, formerly of Charleston, S. C. On Sunday it was mutually agreed between the seconds that the meeting should take place after the motion for a new trial in the case of Hawkins vs. the New Orleans Printing and Publishing Company had been made. Judge Cooley, thoroughly en grossed in his legal business, and con trary, we learn, to the earnest solicita tion of his seconds, made no preparation whatever. He had been suffering some what severely with an injured foot, and according to the same story required all of the time not necessarily devoted to business to lest. Col. Rliett, who is represented as an excellent marksman, we hear devoted some time to practice, making, we are told, some excellent shots. When the train stopped twelve or fif teen persons descended. lam not per sonally acquainted with all. They seemed to be friends of the two gentle men, but a majority camo more in the capacity of spectators. Upon their land ing it was intimated quietly by one of the seconds that, according to the terms of the agreement, no one but those im mediately interested should bo admitted to the grounds, and, of course, in obe dience to this suggestion, a majority re mained quietly at the station house. The party brought with them two col ored servants, who carried two sets of double-barrelled guns, the ammunition and other accoutrements. They moved to a spot between eighty and one hun dred yards distant from the station, and about twenty yards to the right of the road, that is, on the side nearest Missis sippi Sound, which is probably a mile and a half away. The site chosen is an ordinary strip of piny woods land, with little or no peculiar characteristics. Upon a toss Judge Cooley won the word and choice of position. And very shortly afterward Colonel Rhett was placed by his second with his back to the rail road, and, as seemed to me, near a pine tree. Judge Cooley was placed forty yards distant, with his back to the bay, and facing Col. Rhett. Two of the seconds then occupied positions facing each other, and equil-distant between the two contestants, but outside of the line of fire. The other seconds, I think, took positions near their principals, but I was so deeply interested in watching the others that I did not particularly ob serve them. The two gentlemen stood gazing at each other with the breeches of their shotguns drawn up to the shoul der, and the muzzles pointed to the ground, while Dr. Bruns, in a clear and audible voice, rend the articles of agree ment which had been previously signed by the seconds. The Doctor took some little time in explaining clearly what was required of each, and seemingly was very desirous that no possible mistake should occur. So excited did I become, that I did not catch the exact words used, but my impression is the Doctor cried, “Are you ready ?” "Eire.” “Ono, two, three, halt.” At tho wonls “ are you ready,” both weapons were slightly elevated, at tho word “ lire” they were brought to a level, and betweeii the words “ one” and “ halt” both weapons were dis charged. Judge Cooley, I think, fired at the word “ one,” but Colonel Rhett’s weapon was seomiugly a littlo hard on tho trigger, and was discharged between tho words “ one” and “two.” Neither party being hurt, the friends of Colonel Rhett demanded auother shot, which was promptly accorded, and the seconds at once reloaded the pieces. At the seoond discharge the same for mula was repeated, and both guns were simultaneously discharged. With a con vulsive turn to the left, Judge Cooley fell. The friends and spectators, who in the meantime had remained at the station, now approached. The seconds of both parties publicly proclaimed the fact that everything hud been conducted in strict accordance with tho terms of the written agreement, and without any attempt at unfairness on either side.— Saying this, they shook hands and part ed. On behalf of* Col. Rhett, his sec onds tendered the seconds of Judge Cooley the use of a carriage, but it was declined, and that party retired in the direction of Bay St. Louis. When I reached Judge Cooley’s side I found him lying on his back in sensible, and gasping for breath. His face did not appear to be dis torted with pain, but ho was evidently dying. The ball, a musket ball, one ounce, IJ-lOOths of an inch in diameter, penetrated his left side about the region of the heart, and ranging upward. Dr. Holliday was leaning ovor him, and ice and a little raw cotton were being ap plied to his wound, but it was evident that all medical aid was useless. He remarked, before I reached him, to Dr. Holliday, “lam shot in the breast.” These were the last words he spoke. He expired in a very few minutes. A messenger was dispatched to the neigh boring house for six yards of cotton cloth, with which they enveloped the body, and it was then borne on a door to the station, where it romained until the train to New Orleans arrived. The duel took place at thirty minutes past ten o’clock, and the train arrived at one. Remembering the scene as I do now, I am under the impression that the injury to Jndge Cooley’s foot placed him at a terrible disadvantage. 1 observed that he sat down while the seconds were measuring the ground, and I do not think he could bear the weight of his body upon his foot without feeling acute pain. Both gentlemen, however, exhib ited the utmost coolness throughout, and not a nervous tremor from first to last could be detected in either. THE PARRICIDE. Termination of the Walworth Case— The End of the Case—Graphic Ac count of the Proceedings -Waiting for the Verdict—The Closing Scenes- New York, July 3. —Long before the Judge showed any signs of concluding his charge the jury had several times gazed wistfully at the clock, but the Court continued, and the jurors were fain to fan themselves frantically and rock desperately in their chairs, when at a quarter past four Judge Davis, without any warning, said: “ Now, gen tlemen, I think that is all I have to say.” A sigh of relief was plainly au dible and everybody craned his neck to find out how long his Honor hud really spoken. Mr. O’Conor, just before the jury retired, asked the Court to charge on certain points, and Judge Davis hav ing requested the jury to bo specific in rendering their verdict, they filed out of the Court room at twenty-five min utes past four. Judge Davis put on his hat and walked away, and the counsel immediately set to work to fill three carpet bags with legal documents that lay strewn about the desks. Young Wulwortli was led into an adjoining room, his little brother following. Then the ladies stood up and had a secret session, very decided opinions being ex pressed, if facial expression is indicative of sentiment. The Court room emptied slowly, but a number of persons anxious to secure desirable seats, so as to be near the prisoner when he heard the verdict, remained and whiled away the time by smoking and chatting with each other. Judge Davis, before going home to dinner, left word that if not previously sent for he would come down town again at 11 o’clock. When the jury had been out for two hous and a half a flutter of excitement ran through the Court room and corridors, and it was whispered that the jury had agreed.— Some unfortunate individual had wan dered up to the top story of the Court House, and from the small room in which the jurors were locked up sounds of wrangling and discordant noises were heard to proceed. Each juror was ad dressing his follow' in a speech, and this betokened disagreement. A rumor to this effect spread among those in the Conrt room, and another gentleman vol unteered to play the eaves-dropper in the Court House attic. Then came the report that the jury stood nine for mur der in the first degreo and three for murder in the second degree, and that there was no possibility of agreement. This was subsequently ascertained to have been the condition of the jury for some time after being locked up. Shortly after eight o’clock a movement in the lobbies denoted that some decision had been arrived at, and the renewed activ ity of the Court officers betokened that Judge Davis was about to take liis seat on the bench. Slowly the procession entered, the Judge, accompanied by Mr. Sparks, his clerk, leading. Then the jury filed into their seats and everybody awaited the coming of young Walworth. In a few seconds Frank, his mother and brother had taken their accustomed seats. Con trary to expectation, the female friends of the family came into Court, followed by the prisoner’s counsel. During an unbroken silence, while every one held his breath, the clerk called out suddenly, “The jurors will answer to their names.” Young Walworth turned deadly pale, then turning in his chair, he braced himself up and gazed fixedly at the jurors. His mother raised her veil, dis closing a set of features white as marble, and with her lips tightly compressed, looked resolutely at the faces of the twelvo men who were to decide the fate of her son. The little boy craned his neck, and, with staring eyes ami hands tightly grasping the chair in front of him, seemed unconscious of everything passing around. In a firm voice each juror answered to his name, and then the question “ Have you agreed upon a verdict ?” was asked. The foreman, in his nervousness, answered. “We have— a verdict in the second degree ?” “Os what?” “Os murder!” Mrs. Walworth, who had sat rigid while this conversa tion took place, turned in her chair and smiled upon her son. Frank’s breast heaved, and, taking three long breaths, he threw his head back suddenly and seemed about to faint. He recovered liimßelf, however, anil looked straight at the Judge, expecting his sentenco. Charles O’Conor, with his head bowed, advanoed, and when within a few feet of Judge Davis asked that sentence might be deferred. The Court was inexorable, but General Davies and ex-District At torney Garvin joined in the plea, and Assistant District Attorney Rollins hav ing interposed no objection, Frank Wal worth was led from the Court room to a carriage and driven to the Tom ns. New Yobk, July s.—Frank Walworth was to-day sentenced to the State prison, at Sing Sing, at hard labor, for life.— Judge Davis, in addressing the prison er, said he had fearful doubts whether his case did not justify a conviction of murder in the first degree. The prison er stood the trying ordeal with firmness, without moving a musdeof his features, and left the Court with his mother im mediately after tho Judge had conclud ed. New York, July 5, night.—While on his way to tho Tombs after sentence hau been pronounced, young Walworth retained tho self-collected appearance by which he was characterized through the trial. He remarked to the deputy sheriff, “I am glad that I did not have to endure tho long lecture I had expect ed that Judge Davis would inflict upon me. I thoroughly understand my posi tion, and did not desire any instruction in relation thereto. I simply wish time to arrange my affairs, and I shall then submit myself to my fate with all the equanimity I can command.” The dep uty sheriff had previously received in structions to take throo convicted crimi nals to Sing Sing on Monday, and it would be impossible for him to return for Walworth before Wednesday. Be sides this, the sheriff is disposed to grant the wish of Walworth’s friends and relatives, who are extremoly anxious that lie should not be removed before, in order that he may settle his affairs. Mr. O’Conor, it is understood, intends to move at an early day for a now trial, or for such farther proceedings as may give tho case a new phase; and, in addi tion, to move that Walworth may be pcnmttod to remain in tho Tombs till the questions raised shall have been de termined. THE FOURTH OF JULY. Observance of the Day. Wilmington, July 4.—Business is en tirely suspended and the streets almost deserted. A largo proportion of the population are absent on excursions and attending; a regatta on the sea coast. No business will be transacted until Monday. Washington, July 4.—AH the mem bers of the Cabinet were out of town to day, and no public celebration was held. The Oldest Inhabitants’ Association, in accordance with their usual custom, met and had appropriate ceremonies. Nu merous pic-nic parties passed the day in neighboring groves. The Knights of St. Patrick paraded in full regnlia, and marched to the Sohutzen Park, where they held a pic-nic, which was attended bj a large number of people. The Colored Sunday School Union held their annual celebration at Lincoln Hall, and the Catholic Colored Sunday Scho >1 celebrated the day in the White lot, south of the Executive Mansion. There was a fine breeze blowing all day, and the weather was much more com fortable than yesterday. New York, July 4.—The day was very quietly observed to-day. Business en tirely suspended and will remain par tially so until Monday. There was a fine parade of the military this morn ing and the usual anniversary exercises by the Tammany Society. There are dis plays of fireworks to-uiglit at various points in the city. CUBA LIBRE. Oerrltt Smith on the Cuban Cause— The Administration Arraigned—The Resolution Passed. Syracuse, N. Y., July s.—At a great Fourth of July celebration hero yester day, Gerritt Smith, in his address, touched on the Cuban question, arraign ing the Administration for its coldness towards the cause of Cuban indepen dence, while allowing gunboats to be fitted out in New York for Spanish use. Cuba, by maintaining sucoes-ful resist ance for nearly five years, had earned a recognition of her belligerent rights. He hoped that sinco the Government hesitated, the people would tako up the Cuban cause and force the Government to act. A resolution was adopted ex pressing sympathy with Cuba, and call ing on the Government to acknowledge the belligerency, if indeed not the inde pendence of Cuba. Nashville, July 5. —There were only four deaths from cholera in this city to day. Memphis, July s.—But two deaths from cholera occurred in this city to day.