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THE telegr aph.
JUCON, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, IS69.
Vinoenlli Amendment In Indiana.
\ special dispatch to the Louisville Courier-
jonnud, dated at Indianapolis the 24th, says
frrtlier returns iron* the special election held
* iterdr.y show that, in almost eveiy instance,
fvo resigning members of the Legislature -were
. e | ec ted without opposition. Senator Henry’s
V?trict was the only one in which the Radicals
ui" As ft determined fight, having gerrymandered
it ],v the apportionments of 1807 since Mr.
Henry' 8 regular election, so as to cut out the
peinocratic counties and secure a Radical ma-
• rit v of about 400. This, it was thought, would
secure them the district at the special election,
A ueoojdingly they put up their best man,
Col Asbnry Steele, a pronounced advocate of
tbe fifteenth amendment, and made a distinct
issue thereon, and the action of the Democrat
members i n resigning to defeat its ratification.
The result was a complete triumph for Henry,
he being elected by at least 600 majority. This
is the only case which can be regarded as a com
plete test of the sentiments of the people of the
State on negro suffrage, and it is believed that
cD a square vote it would be defeated by at least
-ywo majority. In every county in the State
many Republicans are regarded as voting with
lie Democrats. __
Calhoun ami Baker Counties.
\Ve havo just returned, says the Bainbridge
Sun. of Thursday, from a wading trip through
the counties above named and can safely say
they are blest with the largest amount of water
privilege of any lands we have beheld lately.
They am certainly in a better condition for the
purposes of navigation, fishing, and swimming
than they are for cultivation. The farmers are
greatly behind, owing to the immense quantities
of rain that has fallen during the present and
past month. The freedmen are working well,
w f ar as wo could learn in both counties. We
vere glad to find, that the citizens did not have
cotton on the brain very extensively, bnt were
planting com enough to bread them.
Busing St. Domingo.—The friends of this
measure have hired Parton, the husband of
Fannie Fern, to write a book advocating it.
Like his life of Aaron Burr and the book he
wrote trying to prove that Butler stole no spoons
when he was in New Orleans, it is a rich prodne-
lion. Butler paid him well for his labor. Among
a thousand choice expressions in that book, he
said, Jackson in New Orleans in 1814 and Butler
(here in 1802, were “history repeating itself.”
He is the best engineer of machine books now
living. Should any friend of the devil want a
iiook written in his defence, address James Par-
ton, care New York Ledger.
Cotton bales this year, it is reported, con
tain from fonr to five per cent, less weight of
cotton than they did in 1807, though the gross
weight remains the same. The difference is ac
counted for by the heavier quality of the bag-
ging and roping which are used in making np
the bales. It is asserted that this device, which
gives a profit of about fifty or sixty cents per
hale (the difference between the price of the
cotton and the material which envelops it) will
rednee the estimated aggregate weight of the
crop at least one hundred thousand bales.
Sad End of the Untvebsxty of South Caro
lina.—Radicalism, says the Edgefield Adverti
ser, has completely killed the University of
South Carolina. The University bill, which has
lately become a law, provides that there shall be
no distinction in this institution on account of
color. And among trustees lately elected, are
two negroes, Cardoza and Boseman. Of course
this puts tho finishing stroke to the whole con
cern: for certainly the young men of South
Carolina will not ait in classes with negroes.
This is wise and politic legislation with a ven
geance !
The President on Alaska.—President Grant,
in a conversation with the Committee on Terri
tories, made a sharp remark upon tho Alaska
disturbances. He said he saw by tho papers that
a war had broken out there between tho Indians
and the troops. If that proved to be so, he said
he thought the best way to end it would be to
withdraw the troops, and there being nothing
else there for the Indians to fight, the war must
necessarily stop.
To be Investigated.—"We learn, says the At
lanta Constitution, that at the next session of
Fulton Superior Court the attention of the grand
jury will be directed to the character of the tel
egraphic dispatches sent from this city to the
New York Tribune and other sheets. As they
are invariably a tissue of falsehoods, the parties
sending these dispatches lie designedly, and for
a purpose. Rich developments are expected
before the grand jury.
TnE Mongolian Race Excluded. — In the
Honse of Representatives recently, Mr. John
son, of California, moved to suspend the rules for
the purpose of introducing a resolution declar
ing that the Honse, in passing the joint resolu
tion proposing tho fifteenth amendment to the
Constitution, did not mean that Chinamen and
other branches of the Mongolian race should be
allowed to vote. It was negatived by yeas 42,
nays 100.
Off fob Florida. —Company E, Artillery, of
the United States forces stationed in Atlanta,
says the Constitution of the 27th inst., left yes
terday evening by the Macon and Western rail
road for St. Augustine, Fla. They were evi
dently “ spiling for a fight,” as twolof them had
& rough encounter before leaving. By the way,
Lave anticipated movements towards Cuba any
thing to do with their going to that point ?
A New Life of Bybon.—Tho Italian Countess,
Duiccioli, has just published a book- entitled
‘'ily Recollections of Lord Byron. ” Tho litera
ry world is familiar with the story of the intima
cy between the great poet and the beautiful
Conntess, and the announcement that she in
tended writing this book arrested a great deal
of attention. Tho authoress is not an impartial
historian, yet people wiH read what she has to
ssy of the man who sang like an angel and sin
ned like a deviL
Another Fish Story. — The editor of the
Knoxville Press and Herald acknowledges tho
receipt of two photographs of Master John Fish,
the big baby of Hawkins county, Tennessee.
The young gentleman is twenty months old, and
weighs fifty-one pounds. Ho wears a hat of 7^
measure, close fit
Hangs Fibe.—Some how the legislation of
Congress for re-reconstructing hangs fire.—
What is the matter? Is it possible Congress
•staking the sober second thought? We hope
so; but probably it is too much to hope for in
these cross-grained and disjointed times.
Newton County.—It is estimated, says the
Atlanta Constitution, that $450,000 worth of
fertilizers has been received at Covington Depot
■"ithin the last few months. If this be appHed
to com, what immense benefit will it be to that
oonnty. -
A Good Quotation.—Indignant Indiana Dem
ocrats are quoting from Gen. Toombs to the ef-
ect that “outrages against the Constitution
ave accumulated with such rapidity as to fa-
tigue the indignation of the people.”
Erode Island.—Lyman Pierce has been nom
inated for Governor by the Democrats of Rhode
island.
Cheap, Abundant and Reliable Labor.
Our Texas correspondent imparts a valuable
secret—how to make agricultural labor cheap,
abundant and reliable. It is not by importing
more Congoes, or sending after Chinamen,
Dutch, Scotch or Irish; or writing essays on the
scarcity of labor and the rapid decrease of the
freedmen. He says the way to procure cheap
and reliable labor is to go to work yourselves,
and abandon at once all idea of flanking the
primal curse by immigration schemes.
Our correspondent’s head is level on that
point We have not a doubt there are twenty
to forty thousand men now in Georgia, who, if
they would take hold of the plough nnd the hoe
manfully, and lead off in the grand enterprise
of making cotton, would find themselves the
cheapest nnd most reliable laborers they ever
employed. They would not only be the best
hands on the plantation, bnt vastly improve all
the others, by their countenance and example.
We think when a planter hires himself in this
way and has, say eight or ten other hands em
ployed, he will find his own labor equal to that
of at least three of them in pushing forward
plantation work; and besides all that, enjoy life
much better than if he lounged abont and mere
ly overlooked tho labor of others. He would es
cape all listlessness, ennui—all npbraidings of
conscience on account of idleness• he would get
plenty of wholesome exercise in the open air,
and eat and sleep with a purpose and heartiness
he never knew before.
If one could only persuade all these idle hands
to hire out to themselves, it might possibly add
twenty thousand to the • operative force of the
State, and probably much more than a hundred
thousand bales to the cotton product, worth say
ten millions of dollars—a nice, comfortable sum
for a Christmas frolic, which they would enjoy
all the more for having been busy during the
year.
Let the planters, one and all, take the earliest
opportunity to employ these idle hands. Let
them get rid of the nonsense that they “can’t
stand the sun,” or that there is anything undig
nified or unbecoming in good downright- field
labor. Why any man should conceive it to be
more discreditable to wield the hoe or the
plough than the yard-stick or the quill, or
weights and measures, is a point of practical
philosophy too deep for us to fathom.
To our taste there is not on earth so interest
ing and ennobling an occupation as that of the
farmer. We hope the day will come before
long when the hills and valleys of Georgia shall
be tilled by a white husbandry, made up of the
sons of the soil, and dotted all over with the
bright cottages of the industrious proprietors—
the homes of peace, plenty and contentment,
and of every domestic, social and reHgions
virtue.
This is the most valuable population on earth.
These constitute the strength of the State and
the Church, and the bulwark of society. This
great middling class combine all the elements
most respectable in manhood, and hold out the
strongest assurance of social order, progress and
prosperity. Trained in this school of hardy
physical and mental application and solid moral
and religions principle, it always produces the
brightest developments of intellectual and moral
eminence. Most of the great men and women
of America have sprung from this class, and we
must look to it mainly for the political salvation
of the State and country, if Heaven has destined
for us a brighter and better career.
The Fight for Hie Slaslcry.
Appearances indicate that the battle for the
mastery between General Grant and the Senate,
on the tenure-of-office bill, will end in the defeat
of the latter. The Senate has been, so far,
driven from every position it has taken on this
bill. First it refused absolutely to repeal or
modify the bill, and stood upon that for a month.
Driven from that position, it feU back in good
order upon a suspension during the Congres
sional recess. Defeated there again, it retreat
ed to the line of a suspension during Grant’s
administration, and here is where it stands for
the present.
After taking this last position, the Senate sent
over a flag of truce to Grant, and begged for a
compromise. We find this account of the em
bassy and its results in the dispatches of the
Louisville Courier-Journal:
Radical Senators went to Gen. Grant Thurs
day night, and said if a vote were taken in the
Senate on the Hpnse biU for the simple repeal
of the tenure-of-office law, that it would prob
ably pass by the vote of the Democratic Sen
ators, who' would thus have all the credit of
fulfilling the President’s main desire, and at the
same time place the bulk of Radical Senators in
an unpleasant position. These Radical Senators
proposed that the Senate should recede from
its position, somewhat, and that the President
should do the same. Grant, after much thought,
agreed to the compromise thus proposed, and
consented to take it in the shape of the bill that
passed the Senate on Friday. What the House
will, do of course remains to be seen, but But
ler has mustered, it .is said, sixty Radicals for
repeal, who, with fifty-seven Democrats, wiH go
for repeal and defeat this so-called compromise
bilL Nothing but the “co-hesive power of pub
lic plunder” will save the day for the Radical
party oh this important measure.
Whether this account be true or not, we have
seen what has been the action of the House on
this compromise. They killed it by a vote of
seventy to ninety-nine, and sent back to the
Senate the original House bill, demanding an
unconditional and final repeal of the tenure-of-
office bill; and that, we think, the Senate has
got to come to, however bitter the dose.
Thus, we see, old King Caucus, like the au
thor of all evil, is not always true to his adhe
rents. The Senate forced that iniquitous and
unconstitutional bill originaHy upon the country
under stress of caucus despotism. The same
body has caucussed time and again to maintain
it in force, but meanwhile the old King Pagan’s
teeth had been drawn, and some of the Senate
Radicals actually spit in his face. Congress is
already taking the road of Cromwell’s Rump
Parliament. -Good-bye to “congressional su
premacy.” A long road is before you, and it
will land you as far tho other side of the line of
your constitutional powers as you had advanced
beyond it. “ Jordan is a hard road to travel,
we believe.
The Gliinc.se Cocoons, Etc.,
Came to hand yesterday, and we find them the
same in aU respects as those sent us by Mr. John
son, of Jones county, and Mr. Hoggard, of Ba
ker county, both of which wo particularly de
scribed. * •
Wo are also indebted to the sender, Rev.
Young J. Allen, missionary to China from
Georgia, for copies of his paper dated Shanghai.
January 0, 1SG0, and also, apparently, of two
tracts or pamphlets for. educational purposes—:
school primers, perhaps. Wo find we cannot
read them—don’t know our letters.
Death of T. Bigelow Lawrence.
This somewhat famous and still more notori
ous man died at Washington last Sunday, after
a very short illness.
He was a son of Abbott Lawrence, the rich
old Boston millionaire and President Taylor's
Minister to England. Twenty-odd years ago
Bigelow Lawrence married Miss Sallie Ward, of
Kentucky, perhaps the most beautiful woman
ever bom in America. She had intellect, edu
cation and refinement equal and superior to her
personal charms. The marriage was not a con
genial one. The famous Kentucky belle saw
strait-laced, puritanical Boston, and hated it.
She found her husband a sordid miser, refusing
to allow her to live in that style of ^magnificence
which he could well afford and which she de
manded as her due. A divorce followed, and all
the world rang with the scandaL Sallie return
ed to Kentucky and married Dr. Hunt, a rela
tive of Henry Clay, with whom she lived quite
happily up to his death a year ago.
Bloody Philips.
Brother Philip's kindly and benevolent nature
is waxing wanner with the advent of spring. His
last Anti-Slavery Standard is lurid with his Chris
tian philanthropy. Saith he:
We beseech Gen. Grant to send men South
whose very names shall mean vengeance—deep,
terrible and most effectual vengeance. * *
Hang twenty assassins in every Southern capital
six hours after they are arrested, and you will
empty half the bank vaults of Christendom into
the South; you will light up all its forges and
crowd its exchanges with business men. This is
the way, Soldierof the Wilderness, to “hammer”
the rebellion to pieces. If the South loves blood,
let her sup full of it, only let it bo the blood of
assassins. Sheath no sword until honest Union
men, black and white, native and foreign, alone
and in companies, on lonely prairies and city
streets, sit each under his own vine and fig tree
—the stars and stripes—with none to molest or
make them afraid.
What would the world do without brother
Philips! He combines in his single person all
the virtues of Robespierre, Danton, Marat and
Jack Ketch. He would like to wade in blood, if
it did not soil his pumps and silk stockings.
Mb. Lawrence, of Ohio, said in a speech the
other day, “I wish to God I could reach the
Senate, and the ears of every man in the coun
try.” There is nothing easier than reaching
the Senate. Stuff your duds in an old carpet-
sack or pillow-case, come down this way, get
ten or a dozen votes, go to Washington and de
clare the other candidate a rebel, traitor, Ku-
klox, etc. If you don’t get admitted yon will
be the most unlucky individual that has ever
tried it.
The Milk in the Cocoanut.—The New Era
asks: “Why doesGovemor Bullock wish to re
construct reconstruction? We answer, that he
may elect himself and Foster Blodgett to the
United States Senate."
BY TELEGRAPH.
From Washington-
Washington, March 26.—The Senate confirmed all
recent nominations except Longstreet and Ene--
moser, of Louisiana, and Plumb, for Havana.
There was a full Cabinet meeting to-day.
The President made several nominations, but
none affecting the Sonth.
Orders have been issued reducing the force at
arsenals.
Admiral Hoff reports all quiet in the vicinity of
Havana.
Washixqton, March 27.—In an audience with a
mixed delegation of Republicans and Conservatives,
Grant yesterday reiterated hia opposition to the
pending Mississippi bilL
Weather delightful.
Masterly inactivity regarding Cuban affaire is tbe
present policy here.
Grant favors a policy regarding Mississippi sim
ilar to that proposed by the Committee of Nine for
Virginia.
The Reconstruction Committee considered the
Georgia case to-day, and will consider Texas on
^Tuesday.
The indications are that the House will adhere to
the absolute repeal of the tenure-of-oifice bill.
Neither house was in session to-day.
The revolutionary envoy Limns represents that
the Cuban patriots have twenty-five thousand men
under arms, and would havo as many more if they
were able to provide arms.
Grant was indisposed and received no visitors to
day.
General Ames has been appointed Commissioner
of the Bureau for Mississippi, and Reynolds for
Texas.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Richardson,
was installed to-day.
Congressional.
Washington, March 2G.—House.—Tlio House is
engaged on private bills.
The Committee on Foreign Affairs reported a res
olution declaring sympathy with the people of Cuba
in their efforts to secure independence and estab
lish a republican government; also reports tho
former resolution authorizing the President to re
cognize Cuba, which was recommitted and ordered to
be printed.
The tenure-of-office bill was resumed, and after a
long and demoralizing debate, a motion to concur in
the Senate amendments was defeated by a vote of
70 to 99. Tbe bill goes back to the Senate as a sim
ple repeal.
Adjourned until Monday.
Senate.—An effort to take up the 3Iemphis and
El Paso Railroad bill failed.
A hill removing the disabilities of Jos. C. Taylor,
of Montgomery county, Ya., passed.
A bill enforcing tho Convention of July, 1868,
with Mexico was passed.
The currency bill was disscussed without action
to Executive session.
Senate adjourned to Monday.
From Louisiana. ; ‘-
Nlw Orleans, March 26.—Auditor Wickiiffe, who
was arrested and detained but a few minutes yes
terday, and released on bond, has published a noti
fication to the public against transacting any kind
Comes that of Dr. Bard’s own knowledge, or I of business with the Auditor’s office until he regains
XUEID BLNIFE,
KIT CARSON’S’LAST TRAIL.
By LEON LEWIS,
‘the wagon train." ""
UNDER,” “THE water woef.” eto^e-kT 011 zon .^th eager glances to assure* himself that
9 ’ no immediate danger threatened. A change
came over his face as he looked, and he uttered
a wild cry, catching up the glass Mr. Dane had
let fall, and looking through it.
The sight he beheld convulsed him with ter
ror.
is it derived from tho information of others?
Henry Wabd Beecher says “a newspaper is
a window giving men an outlook into the world.”
A good many of these “ windows” are patched
over with brown paper and stuffed full of old
hats, bonnets and boots.
«»—■
Cuba.—The Charleston News has a letter from
some point not given, announcing the arrival of
eleven hundred fiUibusters in Cuba, including
such Confederate officers as Major General
R-—, Brigadier General S , Colonel J
and Colonel B , together with several ex-
Federal officers, all thoroughly armed and
equipped, and under command of General C.
F. Henningson. We hope it is true, and that
they will soon give a good account of themselves.
A Washington dispatch, however, says General
Henningson is in that city, and we fear the whole
story is quite as apocryphal as this part of it.
[Savannah Republican.
A newsboy just arrived in Omaha is quite a
curiosity as a specimen of Young America. Ho
is but ten years old and has made his own way
through eleven States already. He t-avels, ac
cording to his own words, on his cheek. He rides
on roilroads for nothing, and eats at restaurants
ordering his meals first and looking for his
money afterwards. He is now anxious for the
Pacific Railroad to be opened through, and pro
poses to strike for the Pacific.
The City Council of Savannah has made it
“lawful for any person to seize and take, or kill
any hog or hogs, goat or goats, found at large in
the city of Savannah, and to appropriate the
same to his or her own use, so that the same
may be carried forthwith after being seized
without the limits of the city.”
The Dalton Citizen calls the Macon Telegraph
“the Old Ship of Zion among the Southern
press." Well, we do-try to carry the people
safe through—that’s a fact. "Wherefore, get
your tickets and come aboard, every one of you.
. ' ■« i ■ '■ '
An old citizen of Baltimore said the other day,
“ The wealth of Baltimore has changed hands
almost entirely during my memory. Those who
were known for their wealth have passed away,
and the leading men now were poor working
men when I was young." This may be said of
almost all our cities and towns.
The Late Improvements in the American
House, Boston,< leave little to be wished for by
those who quarter under the roof of this lead
ing hotel. Everything fresh and nice; all im
provements added, and the unequalled manage
meat of the past continued.
Georgia in Washington.
A Washington correspondent of the Atlanta
Intelligencer, writing on the 23d, says:
We have but little to hope in Georgia until
the Radical party there is made to abide the
Constitution and laws of the State. It seems
that Congress is inclined to favor their schemes,
but it is understood by those who have had an
expression from him that President Grant is
satisfied with the situation of Georgia, and is
well acquainted with tho men and the motives
which prompt those who want her again distur
bed. It is to be regretted that the Legislature
of Georgia did not pass the law bringing on the
election for members of Congress in Georgia
in time to have passed over the Governor’s
veto, as it is understood here that ho pocketed
the bill. Georgia needs her representation now
baldy. Her members are nearly all here, but
are mere outsiders.
CoL Tift and Gen. Young are remaining here,
looking after the interests of their constituents
at home—both of whom are very active and at
tentive. The writer never met Gen. Young ul-
til after his arrival here. He finds him abund
antly popular with all parties, wielding an influ
ence possessed by very few. He is admired
by his political friends and respected by his op
ponents. His fine, handsome personal appear
ance is only equalled by his affability and snav-
iiy of manner. His influence and popularity
are attributable to his candid, frank avowal of
his principles, and manly bearing. High-toned,
brave, gallant, as he is, he cannot be otherwise
than deservedly popular. He is, indeed, aseful
to his friends here, of all parties, from Georgia,
and it is a littlo surprising to hear Republicans
inquiring for him, and asking his influence in
their behalf with their own friends, the Radicals.
One so sprightly and so prominent, his constit-
ents should be proud of.
Slavery the Main-Spring of our National
Peospebity.—Senator Spraguo in a speech in
the Senate on Friday the tilth, made the fol
lowing remarkable admission—remarkable as
coming from a New England Republican. He
said:
“The main-springs of our prosperity had been
slavery and foreign immigration. The former
had stimulated the growth of cotton and made
it an American monopoly, and so had built up
the manufacturing and commercial and railroad
interests of the North, and these had, in turn,
invited and grown upon foreign immigration.”
Again. He said:
* * The object of the majority in Congress seem
ed to be rather to perpetuate the existence of
a party than to promote the welfare of the peo
ple ; but no party could have support which did
not make tho prosperity and contentment of the
people its chief object. A party which fails in
this foils in the great purpose for which alone
it had a right to exist.”
In Time of Peace Prepare for 3712.—Mar
shal Neil, the French Minister of War, evident
ly adheres to tho old adage, “In time of peace
prepare for war.” In the Corps Legislatif, on
Saturday, the Marshal urged the completion of
the re-organization of the army. Peace, li8
said, was secure; but France would not tolerate
a government which was not fully prepared to
avenge insult if offered. Tho famous assertion
of the Emperor of the French, “1’Empire, c eat
Pair," may still be pronounced as if it read,
‘TEmpire, c,estV Pee."
possession; stating that the office has been illegally
seized and held by Gov. Warmoth, and the finan
cial department of the government is virtually sus
pended.
Upon presenting himself at tho Auditor's office
yesterday, with his appointment from Gov. War-
I moth, Mr. Delasaizo was refused possession by
Wickiiffe, when the latter was ejected by tbe Su
perintendent of Police.
Legal opinions are that Warmoth had no au
thority to eject Wickiiffe from office by the State
Constitution; this can only be done by impeach
ment,. or indictment and conviction; and that there
was no legal vacancy for Warmoth tb fill, conse
quently no action of the new appointee is legal or
binding:
Another race was made up to day for the spring
meeting on tho Metairie, to be run some time during
the races which begin on the Gtli proximo. The
match to be a half mile dash, for $2,000—catch
weights; Mr. Lipscomb, of New Orleans, naming
Nannie McNairy, and Sir. Williamson, of Mobile,
naming the horse Lewis E. Smith.
The hurdle racer Edinboro arrived here to-day,
and is entered for the large stake. There are six
entries.
From Atlanta.
Atlanta, March 26—“ A Republican” will have
another very able article in the New Era to-morrow,
which points out the status and future prospects of
tho Republican party in Georgia, and shows who are
to be looked to as the future friends and reliable
supporters of General Grant and his administration.
It shows how the fifteenth contitutional amendment
was defeated by a combination with Gov. Bullock,
Ben. Hill and Robert Toombs. The letter is cool,
calm and dignified.
The moderate Republicans take the position that
if Georgia he again reconstructed, President Grant
shall appoint a Governor.
“Bnt—your danger!” faltered Thompson.
“The Indians—”
■ Miriam again pointed to the saddle.
“Go,” she commanded. “Think only of your
family, and be gone."
Still Thompson hesitated, sweeping the hori
From Cuba.
Havana, March 26.—The Governors of Trinidad,
Villa Clara, and Col. Mendiano, who commands tho
forces near Romeolios, are accused of disloyalty.
Four companies of mobilized volunteers have
gone over to tlie enemy.
Gen. Letonar's advance guard was defeated by
tbe Rebels near Cienfuegos.
Several expeditions from the United States, well
equipped, and known to have left here, landed re
cently.
The Cuban accounts of expeditions to raise tho
seige at Puerto Principe are unfavorable to the
Spaniards. ,
New York, March 26.—Thero was apacked Cuban
meeting here to-day. Mayor Hall presided. Chas.
H. Dana read resolutions expressing sympathy with
the Caban patriots, and urged the Government to
recognize them as beligerents. They were adopted
with enthusiasm.
St. Louis, March 26.—The latest news from the
West is threatening. The Indians generally are dis
contented.
Greenville, Tens., March 26, evening. — Mr.
Johnson is very much better and out of danger.
From Cuba—Steamer Captured.'*
HavanX, March 27.—The regular steamer, Com-
andiaria, between Havana and Cardenas, which left
here on Tuesday, was capturod by the passengers,
who left tho lady passengers the Captain and apart
of tho crew at Eagnes. The whereabouts of the
steamer is unknown.
The report of a heavy battle on the road between
Remedios and Moron is untrue; only a slight skirrn-
ish. ■„ ' ..." . . . .
The Contocook, with Admiral Hoff on board, ar
rived to-day from Key West.
Horse Racing at Mobile.
Mobile, March 27.—To-day was tho fourth and
last day of the Spring Meeting of the Mobile Jockey
Club. Tho first race—mile heats for two-year-olds,
§25 entrance, §500 added—was won by Cottrell,
beating John Kilgour. The second lace—two mile
heats for tliree-year-olds, parse same as first race—
was walked over by Bayonet. In the third race, one
and three-quarters miles dash, for §250, Stonewall
Jackson beat Locust Pest. The fourth race—mer
chants’ post-stake, three mile heats for all ages,
8100 entrance, §1000 added—was won by Privateer.
Bettie Bay gained tho fifth race, purse §250, for
beaten horses. ________
Foreign Hews.
London, March 27.—Hong Kong telegrams report
the los3 of tho Pacific Mail Steamship Company’s
steamer, Herman. A large number of Japanese
aboard w6re drowned. ^ ^ *
Foreign News.
London. March 27.—No markets until Tuesday
from here or Liverpool or Paria.
Several large meetings have been held, and tliree
persons arrested for waking seditions speeches. . * •
Kansas in its haste to swallow the fifteenth
amendment, acted upon it from report by tele
graph, and, consequently, adopted only a part
of it. Its action, therefore, goes for nothing.
Wonder if the Maine Legislature had official
notification, or did it also go off at half-cock in
its haste to make voters of Indians, Chinese, the
Esquimaux of Alaska, and what not ?.
Negroes Ineligible to Office-
Savannah.March 26.—Judge Schley rendered a de
cision this morning, in the quo warranto case of
Clement vs. White, that negroes were ineligible to
office in the State of Georgia. Her quoted the Con
stitution of the United , States and the Code of
Georgia in reference to aliens; etc.
The decision by the Board of Arbitration to-day,
in the Mitchell ond Jones case vs. the cityof Bruns
wick, involving over one million dollars, was in fa-
vor of the defendant.
CHAPTER £ :
A LIFE GLORIOUSLY STAKED!
Toward the close of a beautiful day in June,
a man and woman, mounted upon fleet horses,
came galloping over one of the great plains of
tho West, and drew reinin the shade of a clump
of cotton-woods upon the bank of a beautiful
river. They had ridden far and rapidly. Their
steeds were panting, and covered with sweat
and foam-;
“ We must give the horses a breathing spell,”
said the fonner, slipping to the ground; and his
companion nodded a graceful assent, as she fol
lowed his example.
The couple were evidently father and daughter.
The man was in the prime of life, hale and
hearty, with a large frame, which was sinewy
and athletic, without ceasing to be refined and
prepossessing. He had the keen, shrewd look
peculiar to tho advance-guards of civilization,
and there was an honest, frank expression on
his sun-browned face that proclaimed his integ
rity and courage.
In her way, his daughter was equally pic
turesque and attractive.
In the early flush of womanhood, with a pure,
sweet and tender face, with eyes darkly glowing,
with coral-tinted lips, and cheeks softly flushed
with the hue of the rose, with amber curls float
ing behind her, she was as graceful as a gazelle,
as light-hearted as a bird, as lovely as a flower,
and as spirited as an untamed antelope.
The stream by which the couple had halted
was Wood river, a branch of the Platte, in Ne
braska, at a point fifty miles northwest of Fort
Kearny.
“Are you tired, Miriam?” asked the hunter,
George Dane, with fatherly solicitude.
“Tired, father ?” rejoined the maiden, with a
happy laugh. “Oh, no. How could I be tired
after a day like this ? Every minnte has been
filled with pleasure and excitement. I feel as
fresh as yonder bird.”
The father smiled nnderstandingly, with a look
full of the fondest affection.
“I can guess the cause of your lightness of
heart,” said he, smilingly. ‘*The return, now
daily expected, of a certain Hubert Earle, from
the mines of Idaho, may account, I suspect, for
your present gladness. ”
A heightened color appeared on Miriam’s face,
for the name mentioned was that of her lover.
She answered the glances of her father, howev-
ever, with a frankness that attested his entire
sympathy with her, and said:
“True, father, my heart has been unusually
light for several days past How could it be
otherwise, since I know that Hubert is coming?”
Mr. Dane did not reply. He was looking,
with kindling eyes, over the fair flower-dotted
plain; and his next remark showed how widely
his thoughts had strayed.
“I wonder what mother has been doing with
out us all day, Miriam. She must bo lonely
with no one to speak to or share her meals.—
Shouldn’t wonder if we conld see our home
from this point,” and his face lighted up with a
soulful glow. “Our cottage is not more than
seven miles distant; let me see ?”
Ho drew from his coat a pocket-glass, adjust
ed it to his sight, pointing it in a northerly di
rection, and gazed through it long and earnest
ly towards his ranche upon Carrey’s Fork.
“Yes, I see it,” he said, at last, with a long
deep, and joyful inspiration, as if the sight re
freshed him in every nerve. “There is our
cottage as plain as day. I can even see the vines
you planted before the windows, Miriam. And
there, on the grape-vine bench, under the big
elm sits yonr mother, busy at her sewing. Bless
her! She does not imagine we are looking at
her. Look, Miriam.”
He yielded the instrument to his daughter
who obeyed.his injunction, her lovely face glow
ing with smiles as she regarded the distant home-
scene.
“Dear mother!” she murmured. “It is a
treat to her to be able to sit out under the trees
without fear of molestation. There are no hos
tile Indianshereaboutsnow—are there, father?”
“ No. Red Knife, ns you have already heard,
was killed yesterday by a settler, and his band
has retreated towards the mountains. I will
confess, Miriam, that during all the time we
have been in the West, I have not felt so light
hearted and care-free as since we received news
of Red Knife’s death. You have thus seen how
this joy bubbles over in me. Red Knife was a
demon, rather than a savage.”
Miriam shuddered, and her features even
paled at the meinory of the Indian mentioned.
“He never spared a pale face.” sho said,
striving to speak calmly. ‘‘ Desolation and cru
elty marked his path. For more than three
years he has raged to and fro upon the plains
like a ravening wolf. He was the terror of the
border.”
“ You' have named him appropriately, Mir
iam,” said the hunter. “ He had a fiendish ha
tred of the white race, and his victims have
been many."
Mr. Dane held out his hand for the glass, ond
Miriam was in the act of restoring it, when a
strange, gasping, panting sound startled them
both, and sent them quickly to their saddles.
The hunter wheeled his horse and looked
down upon the river-bank, from which direction
the sound hud come, his manner self-possessed,
bnt his countenance indicative of alarm. The
maiden followed his example.
Her eyes were the first to discover the cause
of the sound that had sttfttled them, detecting
a man’s figure creeping along through the un
dergrowth of bushes lining the shore.
At the same moment, their presence in turn
was detected, for the man dropped suddenly
among the protecting bushes, as if he had been
sfcot.'
“An Indian?” whispered Miriam, drawing
from her bosom a revolver.
Tho hunter shook his head, continuing to
watch the spot at which the man had fallen, his
hand on his rifle, his maimer that of one ready
for action.
Suddenly, as the man showed a haggard face
peering cautiously from his concealment, Mr.
Dane’s anxious countenance broke into a smile,
and he cried out:
“Hallo! 1st that you, Thompson ?' Do you
take us for Indians, that you skulk there in the
bushes?” •• .
The individual addressed was: silent a full
minute, as it seemed, from sheer amazement;
then he sprang out from his hiding-place with a
cry of relief, and advanced swiftly towards the
father and daughter. •
He was a man of middle ago, of the ordinary
type of backswoodmen, strong and brown and
stalwart, of the rude rough type that seems
to belong to the border.' His face was haggard
and white, although covered with perspiration.
His breath came through his parted lips in quick,
uneven gasps. He had'run far and swiftly and
looked as if abont to drop from fatigue.
“What has happened, Thompson?” asked
Dane, with keen anxiety, the maws singular ap-
ance giving him a sudden shock of alarm.
“The Indians !” gasped Thompson, scarcely
able to command his voice: “They are com
ing! Red Knife and his band—divided—my
wife—my children! Help me ! Help me!”
“What talk is this?” cried Dane, agitated in
spite of his efforts of self-control. “Red Knife
was killed yesterday”—
“ He tvas only wounded,” interrupted Thomp
son. “He is coming to take his vengeance on
us settlers. He has divided his band into two,
They were up at the Deer Fork this morning,
and are now coining this way. ’ The points to be
struck are your house and mine.”
“ My Go*d J” ejaculated Dane, as his inform
ant paused in his excited, breathless narration.
“A horse a! horse!” cried Thompson, reeling
with fatigue. “I can go no farther on foot. My
wife, my children—God pity and save them!”
He looked from the hunter to Ms daughter in
agonized and mnte supplication.
Dane snatched the glass from Miriam’s hands
and placed it to Ms eyes.. :
He looked to the northward—saw Ms pretty
cottage, his wife bnsy at her needle under the
trees—and glanced at the dim line of the horizon
stretching away eastward and westward from Ms
home. to* ': g1 >
Suddenly the glass dropped from his hands—
Ms face blanched to the hue of-snow. From the
west, seeming toemerge from the'clouds of scar
let and gold^pe hacPbeheld a band of mounted
Indians ridiflg boldly towards’tliat . unprotected
home, towards that unoonscious and helpless
woman. Ena .elUR ■, z-j.sPib i
With a frenzied cty, he put spurS to his horse,
and dashed away like a madman, shouting to his
daughter to follow him; at the same instant
Thompson staggered forward and fell in tho
maiden’s path, holding up Ms hands in an
guish.
“My wife! my children!” he groaned.
There was no‘hesitation in the soul of the
brave Miriam. .2*~0 • ■
“Mine is bnt a single life : he has seven de
pending on him,” she said aloud.
As she spoke, she leaped from her saddle, and
with a gesture, commanded Mm to taka her
place..
Not a mile away, to the west, he. saw coming
OYer a ridge in the plain, and approaching rap
idly, a considerable body of mounted savages.
“They’re coming—a band of red-skins—di
rectly towards ns The gasped. “I’mlost! Fly,
Miriam, while yon have the time 1”
The maiden took the glass and gazed through
it an instant at the approaching foe. A strange
light appeared in her eyes—flight possessed
only by those upon whom God has bestowed a
consciousness of His great protection—the
light of a heroism wMch death itself cannot
master. •
“Sure enough,” she murmured, “they are
coming! The leader is Red Knife. Go, neigh
bor Thompson—on the instant!”
“We can ride together!” cried Thompson.
“No, the hors6 is tired. We have been to
Willow Island. We should be overtaken before
we had gone two miles.
' ‘Then we'll die together! ”
“No, no! Yon must mount!”
With a grasp so sudden and firm that it star
tled Mm, the maiden pushed him towards the
horse, and in another instant ho found himself,
more by instinct than by thought, seated in the
saddle. ■ ’■
“Away, Selim!” cried Miriam to her steed,
with an imperative gesture. “ Away!”
The horse broke furiously over over tho plain,
giving Thompson only time enough to flash a
look of gratitude towards the maiden, as he
dashed away to the northeast, towards hi3 men
aced home.
A moment later, Mr. Dane looked over his
shoulder—took in at a glance the situation of
affairs, recognizing the peril as well as the hero
ism of Ms child—bowed Ms head solemnly as,
one submits to the inevitable, in approbation
of her conduct, and then ho swept on to the res
cue of his wife, Ms soul tom by such emotions
as are seldom brought to battle together.
And Miriam, throwing herself flat upon the
ground, remained alone upon the plain, in the
very path of a score of mounted Indians, who
were galloping towards her with the swiftness of
the wind!
CHAPTER II.
A CURIOUS AND STARTLING MYSTERY!
Skirting the Black Hills, forty miles west of
Fort Laramie, a party of horsemen were riding
eastward.
They had loft Fort Bridger eight days before,
taking the rente of the North Platte, and were
now following the Oregom emigrant road, among
those long ridges, dry beds of rivers, and sterile
plains, by wMch the region of the Black Hills is
distinguished.
The bulk of the party consisted of ten cavalry
men, under a lieutenant, who were returning to
Fort Laramie, their post of duty. They were
well mounted, and hadsoveral led horses in their
train, loaded with their provisions and appurte
nances of travel.
The balance of the party comprised three ci
vilians, who had seized the opportunity of cross
ing the mountains under military escort. Two
of these were emigrants who had settled near
Fort Bridger, bnt who had tired of tho great sol-
itnde, or been frightened by the Indians, and
were now returning eastward in search of homes
nearer tne hannts of civilization.
The tMrd civilian was Hubert Earle, the lover
of Miraim Dane, the settler’s daughter, whom
we have have just left in such deadly peril.
He was a splendid specimen of American
manhood, magnificently formed, broad-shoul
dered, deep chested, as vigorous as an atMcte,
and rode Ms horse, a fiery Mexican steed, with
the grace and ease of a centaur.
At the moment of his introduction to the
reader, he was riding in the rear of the little
train, busy with his own reflections, wMch were
evidently as bright as the morning itself—the
forenoon preceding the events we have re
corded. •
His thoughts were wrapt in the sweet memo'
ry of Miriam, who had wept so bitterly at his
departure, and who, he expected, would smile
so joyously at his return.
“The dear little soul!" he murmured aloud.
“Where is she now ?”
His eyes darkened with tender sweetness, Ms
lips quivered with the ineffable love'that flooded
his being with a happiness akin to pain. He
pictured their meeting, the pretty home they
would share together, the years they would
spend in each other’s society, the tender mutu
al love and care that would bless all their com-
ingdays.
He had left her a poor adventurer, to seek his
fortune among the mines of Idaho. He was re
turning to her a more than moderately rich
man, with bills of exchange in his chamois
money-belt of sufficient value to support them
both in luxury as long as they might live.
It was not to be wondered at that his thoughts
were pleasant.
Suddenly he was aroused from his trance-like
silence, by cries of delight from Ms companions
and by the fact that they had checked their
speed.
Looking around him quickly, he beheld the
cause of the unusual excitement. To the south
ward, at no great distance, a small herd of buff
aloes was grazing lazily, seemingly not at all
alarmed by the near presence of a" formidable
enemy.
The wind was blowing from them, the horses
were fresh, and, as he looked at the tempting
game, Hubert felt the spirit or the hunter grow
strong within Mm.
Giving rein to his horse, he galloped along
the line to speak to the lieutenant, but was met
half way by that officer, whose sparkling eyes
and eager demeanor attested to a kindling Nim-
red-liko zeal.
“What do you say to an hour’s • sport, Mr.
Earle ?” shouted the lieutenant, as he bore down
upon his friend, for Hubert was a decided fa
vorite with every member of the party.
“ItMnk it would be a downright shame to
hum our backs on such splendid game,” was. the
quick response. “Who could eat a dinner of
salt pork, with those fat buffaloes so near us?"
The lieutenant smiled, glanced up and down
the line, reading eager longing in the faces of
Ms men, and resolved to carry out his own and
the general desire.
At a word of command from Mm, the party
set ont at a quick gallop for the scene of action.
The buffaloes allowed the enemy to approach
quite near, the wind favoring the hunters; but
at length began to snuff the air uneasily, to
shake their heads, and to look for the cause of
their apprehensions.
A moment later they had beheld the enemy,
and, with frightful bellowings and mighty
tramp, had begun their wild, mad flight to the
southward.
The chase was a long one; and it was not tilL
the hunters had run the buffaloes upon the spur
of the Black Hills that they got a good chance
at them. They then hrought down several plump
young buffaloes, and dinner speedily became the
watchword.
■ “ It is noon and we’ll have dinner,” said the
lieutenant, observing that the baggage animals
with their drivers, were approaching. “Kindle
a fire, boys, and we ’ll have steaks and roasts in
abundance.”
While this order was being carried into effect,
Hubert and several others were engaged in sur
veying the scene.
“A lonely and desolate spot,” said Hubert,
thoughtfully. ‘ *Ifc looks as if man had never be
fore visited it.”
“And no wonder, returnedBrydges, “since
it's five miles off the rente. What could any
man want here, unless he might be in pursuit of
buffaloes ?"
There being no answer to thiB question, Hu
bert proceeded to find an excellent grazing spot
for Ms horse, tethered Mm, and flung Mmself
on the ground in the shadow of the' hill: The
lieutenant and a portion of the men followed his
example.
Plenty of low bushes were found dry enough
to burn, and several fires were soon kindled.
The choicest portions of the buffaloes were
readily prepared for cooking, and it was not
long before the odor of burning flesh was dif
fused on the air; four or five hungry soldiers
serving as cooks.
It was a wild picnic scene on those lonely
wilds, and every man there enjoyed it with true
gipsy zest. •
Suddenly a shout from one of the men who
were strolling around, arrested the attention of
the others. _ ", .
“Hallo, boys!” he cried. “I’m blest if here
isn’t a cave in the hill! Come, see the hole
under these bushes. You never saw anytMng
Mdden neater in your lifes,”
“Jones tMnks nobody ever saw a cave be
fore,” aaid one of the loungers. “For my part,
I think more of something to eat, than of a
hole in the ground.”
This sentiment was echoed by the others, but
the inquaitive owe disooverai, nothing daunted.
—.— in ,i .inq.HM. 1.1 — .
approached the fire, took from torch; <4* ,
turned to the butte, parted the. bushes, reyfcal- ■ >
ing a dark aperture in the faoe of the rock, anl
disappeared within it,, his light slung back a
yellow glare for a second after he had ceased to
be seen.
The camp revelry went on, the cooking pro
gressed, the minutes passed, end Jones dud not
reappear.
If that fellow had found a gold mine in *
there he wouldn’t call one of us," growled the
lounger who had before spoken. “I wonder
what Jones has found. I'fi jest take a look, as
dinner isn’t ready.”
He arose lazily, abstracted a stick of burning
wood for a torch, proceeded to the cavern en
trance, and disappeared from view.
' Probably,” said Hubert, “there’s a large
cavern under that hilL If we had time, it
might pay to explore it Under the present
circumstances, I am like Brown,' and prefer my
dinner to scientific exploration.
The meal seemed to be nearly ready, for the
rattling of tin cups and dishes began to be heard;
the lieutenant’s small camp-chest was unpacked,
and the cooks Bhonted to the strollers to come to
dinner.
“Have Jones and Brown come back?” asked
the lieutenant, as he rose to a sitting position,
and glanced towards the cavern, - ■*
The men replied in the negative.' ,
“Go after them King, and hurry them up,”
said the officer. We must resume the march
after dinner, and can’t afford to waste time
here;”
King, a fine young soldier, took a torch and
entered the cave.
The dinner was dealt out—hot savory steaks
and roasts—the coffee measured, and the meal
commenced, but none of the men who had en
tered the cave made their appearance!
“Howsingular!” ejaculated Brydges, testily
and impatiently. “ What can keep those men ?
King has been gone ten minutes. Here, Ser
geant Halsey, hurry those men up.”
The sergeant, a brown, strong man of middle
age, hesitated, and ventured to stammer:
“I beg your pardon, Lieutenant, but I thinl-
there’s sometMng wrong inside the cave. There’s
three men in there—all hungry and knowing
that dinner’s ready. Surely they’d come back
if they could. Perhaps there’s wild beasts, or
some strange kind of gas that' smothers ’em,
or—’
‘Nonsense, Sergeant!” interrupted the lieu
tenant, frowning. “I give you five minutes to
bring those men back. Go!”
The sergeant’s face paled, but, without anoth
er word, he took up a. torch and entered the
cave, disappearing from the gaze of his friends.
The minutes passed, the lieutenant and the
men ate their dinner mechanically, awaiting
anxiously the expected return; yet none of the
fonr came back.
The words of the sergeant had made a deep
impression on the minds of his hearers. A gen
eral gloom fell upon.the camp, and the men
cast frequent and fearful glances in the direc
tion of the cavern. Even the lieutenant and
Herbert felt a strange depression creeping over
them, wMch neither could resist.
“■What can be the batter?” at length demand
ed the officer. “The sergeant’s in trouble, I
should judge, by tins long absence. There can’t
be gas in the cave, or if so, he would probably
haye had time to cry out. There can’t be wild
beasts, for those four men were all well armed, ■
and would at least have fired. WMch of all you
men will go into the cave and learn what the
matter is?” • . V • 'V 1
There was a general shrinking back!. Every •
soldier was bravo in an Indian fight, but not one 7
dared to face a mysterious and unknown dan
ger. Not one wished to risk the complete and
total disappearance from earth and human
knowledge that had befallen his comrades.
“Whoever will venture in search of the miss
ing men shall receive from me a hundred dol
lars in gold!” exclaimed Herbert, in Ms clear,
ringing tones. “Who speaks first for the
money ?"
The offer was tempting; but it was not ac
cepted. Not a word of reply was made to it. ' • t
Hubert hesitated, giving a brief thought to
Miriam, Ms loved and waiting Miriam! . His
face then glowed with a heroic light, and he said,
in tones that did not falter:
“I will go in search of the men, Lieut. Brydg
es. Only your party is now small and if I do
not return in twenty minutes, you may resume
your journey.”
“But Earle,” espostulatadthe lieutenant, ‘.‘this
is positive madness.. You must not risk your •
life. We will wait a while, and if the men do
not return, we will move on!”
“They may need help,” replied Hubert,
steadily. “They may have encountered—well,
God knows what, I can’t imagine. If I fire
my rifle, come to me. If I fail to return with
in the time appointed move on!”
He went up to the nearest fire, picked up a
blazing stick, arranged his rifle for instant use,
approached tbe mouth of tho cave, peered into
it cautiously, and listened intently for some
sound of life within.
No sound came. All was still as death within
the cave.
The next instant Hubert had vanished therein.!
All was now breathless suspense.
The lieutenant and his men gathered around
to listen for the report of the rifle. The minutes
passed, but it came not. Five minutes dragged
by—ten—fifteen, and still no sound reached
their ears. They could see a brief space into,
the cavern, by the light of their own torches, but
nothing but rocky walls and floor.inet their gaze.
Twenty minutes were thus passed. The time
was up, and Hubert had not returned.
The men looked at one another with pallid
faces. As if tamed to stone, they stood an awel
stricken group abput the cavern’s mouth, unti
the minutes had more than made up an hour—
and still they lingered. • : tJ-o
During this time they had cleared away the
bushes from the month of the cave. They had
tried again and again to peer into the dark
depths of the opening, but could not. The lieu
tenant had called repeatedly to Hubert,' but re-3
ceived no answer. At length he proposed to tie
a rope around his waist and descend into the v
sinister abyss, but his men objected unani
mously. PM
i “What’s the use?” asked one. “There’s
something here that no mortal man can. con
quer." ,
!-“We can't risk your life, Lieutenant.’' said
another. “Just thinkhow few there are of us.”
The time continued to dragon.
At last, when two full honrs had passed,
Lieut. Btydges staggered to Ms feet, and said:
“ This is horrible—terrible beyond expression!
We have lost four of onr comrades, and this
noble young stranger, whom I loved as a brother.
This fearful cave must hold the secret of their
fate, be it what it may.- Lotus go.”
Withont a word, but with wMte faces—in a
sort of mute terror, the men mounted their,
horses and resumed their journey. The. above,
is all of this story that will be published in our
columns. The continuation of it from whore
it leaves off here, can be found only in the Now
York Ledger, which is for sale at all the book
stores and news depots. Ask for the number
datedApril 10, 1809, and in it' you will find the
continuation of this beautiful trie. The Ledger
is mailed to subscribers at three dollars a year.
The publication of Rev. Dr. Tyng’s great story,
which has been written expresdy for the Ledger,
is just commenced in the Ledger, so that, our
readers will get the whole of'these two stories
in it. The Ledger has the best stories of any
paper in the world: and Henry Ward Beecher,
James Parton and Fanny Fern,' have articles in
every number. ;
About Horses and Foot Disease.—At a recent.
discussion before a Kentucky farmer's club some
interesting statements were made by Cokmel
William Estill. He said that the foot dianeee in
mules was in a great degree to be attributed to
too liberal feeding with com. The Colonel’s
treatment is simple and rational. He washes
the parts affected with soap, and then applies
powdered verdigris; after wMch the animal iB :
turned ont to grass. A rapid recovery gen
erally followed. The keeping up of uirfiwy
and horses, and over-feeding on corn, has a
bad effect. The mules soon show it in tight
ness and nervousness, instead of being free,-
elastic and natural. They require a certain
amount of roughness to preserve a condition of
perfect health. Dr. Spurr advocated a medium
course of feeding: avoiding under-feeding,
which injuriously affected stock in many ways,
and over-feeding, which led to barrenness. He
added an important fact, that it was impoHdfaie
ever to procure a really fine, colt after the dam
had been bred to an inferior animal—Richmond
Dispatch. JeatoD
Ad vie* to those who are about to gotOrlsw:
First, ask yourself this question; “ Are.you
morally in the right ? If the answer is -“No,”
go to law by all means, you’ll be sure to win. - -
W* have known many, a young lady to be bor
ed of a violent tooth-ache by a hrief .application
of satin vest to the side of the face affected.
H. W. B- talks of
health. What intern
doing in Eurico i
