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[i\ WEDNESDAY HOUSING, AUG. 80,1865,
H.usehcld Servants.
■ v truly surprising to see with what
E- the Southern people have accomd
[j themselves to the new order of
E and with what patience they have
I .1.. the/inconveniences and embarras-
E ■ ilting from the sudden abolition
E. rv in our midst. Forsaken by
I >Tv;ti»rs, all their domestic service
E M-hold arrangements have been
E 1 The delicate hands of out
■ i r-tci>. unaccustomed to knead
E _ii. lift the oven, cook, wash, sweep,
E clean, have in many, many in- j
E~’ .ci compelled t<» perfotin these j
E j-viecs in the household drudgery.
E . have done it, usually, with an
E urtK't alacrity. All praise is due
■ Sitla-rn women fqr their patience
this trying emergency,—
Bt:\.;i_' and severely embarrassing to!
Bti an anv other class.
E w liieui, we have sought to hire
K im-n as set vants; but elated with
Kudrin fiocdom —ignorant and, un-
B >r prehentl what freedom is—they
K i\v what to do with it. Easily
K and bv each other, impulsive, tickle,
i. f change, they seem to think
consist in going where and
■k} pleas*, without any obligation
K. „r anv regard, whatever, to their
Hi it rails. «>r tl»e convenience of!
I \Y«* »mploy them to-day—the
S'. - c’.oarlv understood uni satis-1
a signed, sealed, and de
■—tomorrow they are gone, or if
■ a—do well for a season, a very
Hi' : .—they soon think that they can i
Her elsewhere, get higher wages, J
H» w<>rk. and more time to gad j
H and become dissatisfied — |
H ;i< oitv . and it f»«*on becomes m re j
H t _< t (heir work done than it is to j
■ The consequence is that tlfcre are ,
Hi- of negroes without regular em-1
tlirouging our streets, doomed to j
Starring paupers or criminals, while
H - - are‘subjected to all the incon-
R 1 of irregular and uncertain service
H uestic work. This state of things
lc sciiiuo; and wo ask, as an echo
H- 't every household, is there no
■ h'rthe evil? Say you carry them,
H: to orders, before the Freedman’s
Hfor a violation of thoir contracts,
Hte tlrcm to stay with you in compli
Hd-.v« not know that they can, when
i. Jovise contiuually ton thousand '
vnneos which would render their
iufitiitclv preferahh; to their pres- 1
I N .v, notwithstanding all that the j
H n's bureau have done and are will-;
Hi —and l>r. French and those eon-
Bwuls him certainly deserve our high-
Hwtr.uatiou for their earnest, faithful
R' aud offo.;s in their department —
remedy may not be fouud iu dm
bureau alone, or iu geucr.ißfct
■ iu legislation, But it is, in a large
. in our own bands. Thou, say
R*e should employ white servants as a
Bute for negroes. If so, the negroes
Hi a uui midst, to live in idleness and
B-,u. to t*c supported by crime or char-;
Hioi.l-, iveil if this he practicable at
■ cam t W made generally available
time \o come. Nay, we must 1
>>' ■ m.jnst mi l wholesome, which
Btar.ifi-t’y render it , indispensably
to the interest of the freedmen to
HN ;r contracts, but how can this be
Vonply by adopting the system
-'at the North iu the employment
* ow a white servant can
employment without a
Li hona & former em*
He. to * ln *
IHtfy employer ia
Boiltt louriial.anO Jllcssraaer.
j the bond” from the beginning, that inch
j certificate of character shall be given them
j if they, keep their part of the contract
j May we not adopt adopt a similar rule,
; that we will not employ servants uni ess they
| bring from some responsible person a cor
ticate that Are honest, obedient, in
dustrious and keep their contracts. This,
simple plan, universally adopted, will in a
great measure relieve our difficulties, as it
will fiirnish the freedmen with a strong
motive and a reward to faithfulness, inas
much as such a* certificate will always se
cure them employment and the best wages,
and without it they, must suffer as the fruit
of their own doings. Teach them the
value of a good character—‘-that it is all-ee
scntiul to succesS in life—let this be the
first great lesson they learn: then—not
till then—may we hope to render them
useful, upright and industrious. Under
this simple plan the intelligence office*
which we t ee have been opened by Messrs.
Clayton & Gouldings might be made
available for such information as may be
needed. We urge this subject with em
phasis upon the consideration of our peo
ple, as it is one that we must meet continu
ally .face to face and at our hearthstones;
and it becomes us to act advisedly and in
eo operation with the Freedman’s Bureau,
for our own interest and that of those in
our piiclst, whose relation to us has been
suddenly and providentially changed.
Domestic Items.
The Administration and the military have
forced Mississippi to adopt the Constitutional
Am ndoicnf, abolishing slavery. The Con
vention has also repealed the ordinance of
secession.
A silverware manufactory has been rob
bed iu New York, by burglars, of thirteen
th idsaud dollars’ worth of jowelry and sil
ver.
Gold closed at 1435.
Davis, it. is said, will be brought to
trial iu Richmond. ...
The Government machine shops at Nor
folk, Ya , have been discontinued by order
of the- Government.
’j he New York Herald has private advices
from England that the defect in the At
lautic Cable was intentional and caused by
a rival contract for the wire.
Postmaster-General Denison dcelines to
be a candidate for United States Senator in
place of John Sherinuu.
The paramour of Jenkins, the Phoenix
Bank robber in New York, has been dis
charged by the Court. ,
Gen. is petitioning for tfie pardon
of his wife, who is quite wealthy.
Graham & Cos. estimate their losb by the,
Ketehutu defalcation at a million and a half
—nearly a million of which was by the.
forged checks. -
Foreign Wema.
The Bank of France lost 7,000,000 francs
cash during tho last week.
The cholera continues its ravages.
The negotiations between Spain and
Rome about Italy liavo been concluded.—
Spaiu promises to protect the interests of
; the Legion in Romo.
They have had unsettled weather in
Great Britain, the rain interfering with har*
vest operations.
There are rumors of the potato disease
in Ireland. Tho prices of wheat and flour
havo advanced.
Austria and Prussia have adjusted their
i dispute over thc.territory they jointly stole
from Denmark.
.! The Emperor of Austria and -the King
jof Prussia aro to meet at Dresden. Tho
latter has injured his eye while hunting.
%
Au Alabamian, writing to the
New York Times, says:
Granted that we hate you with all con
ceivable malignity* short of the pitch of ut
ter insanity, when we look about und see
the ruins of what we once thought our
country, when we remember the fearful
demonstration of its inherent weakness in
the very hour of apparent strength, shall
we, unless lunatics, think to resuscitate it
in the face of the strong antagonist that
has done it to death ? ’ Or shall. we, with
suicidal frenzy, go on to goad intomadness
the champion that has already prostrated
us, thus focring him to crush us utterly ?
Shull men, regardless of their dear ones,
and of the cries of their own natures, still
flounder on after a light which, though we
; once thought it celestial, has proved an ig
jnusfutu B? . %
At the Democratic Convention of
Montgomery county, Ohio, the following
resolution was adopted:
Rooked, That in addition to the dele
gates and alternates appointed, we cordial
fy invite all. who are opposed to negro
equality, and in favor of habeas coitus,
trial by jury, State rights, tbs immediate
restoration of the Union of the Statee.equal
taxation, with reasonable hours, with Just
and fair comp»ns«tSon for labor, to attend
tbs Convention.
ear Atn imlß rt *»
iNf VMf WHUS pM Mlfi
MACON, GtA., WEI? ST ESI) A. Y. A.UGKTST 30, 1565.
[•* Love and Revenge.
“ Well,” replied my companion. “I don’t
go so far aB they say, that the press-gang
would go to burst a door open; but if they
found-it open, why, in they went. I know
to one case,” he continued, with the ac-
Gent and phraseology of Devonshire,
“ where one young fellow—aye, as likely
one as ever drawed breath—was took
away the very night before he was mar
ried, and in sight of his sweetheart and h s
friends, too. It was a strange matter, that
was, altogether,” ho muttered,' almost to
himself.
“ Pray tell it,” I Baid, becoming inter
ested. #
“ It’s a long story, master, and it’s dry
work talking,” he replied, with a significant
twinkle in his eye, though his face main
tained its gravity.
“ So it is,” said I, “ and the warm weath
er has made me thirsty. Suppose we step j
in here ami lay the dust; then perhaps you |
wHTfator me with it.”
My new acquaintance requiring no’fur
ther invitation, I led the way to a little
tavern I»had noticed standing apart from
the village, and there, seated in the cool
parlor overlooking the bay, supplied with
rum and a pipe of tobacco, while I confined
myself to the remarkably unpleasant com
pound which the signpost «proclaim<*i as
“homebrewed,” Sifter a few preliminary
draws and puffs, he began his story :
“ You see, mate,” he said, becoming
more familiar in his conviviality, “ this isn’t
altogether a story of the press-gang, as
you’ll see before I’ve done, and it made a
good deal of talk at the time, as I remcm
b r, though I was only a lad; but the crown
er’s quest set all things right, and after
that it was no use asking flny further ques
tions. It must now be nigh fifty years ago
—fifty years!” he repeated, half closing
his eyes, pausing as his mind traveled over
the space which had brought so many and
so great changes, e. en to that little vil
lage—“that an old seafaring man they
called Capt. Meredith lived —at least, that
is to say, lodged—in the house of a widow
named Penryn.
“ You blight see the spot from the brdw
of the hill, for the house itself has
been pulled down since then. Well he
might have been a Captain or not, I don’t
pretend to say; it is certain that ho had
a bit of money put by, and lived comfort
able enough. Home said he had been in
the smuggling trade, and made money that
way. However, it don’t much matter;
he was well respected, and though he- had
no wife living, he had a daughter as was
called Ellen, and the prettiest lass iu Craw
sand and lor miles around. Well, now,
this old widow had a sou named Paul, and
a strange article he was. I remember}
him—a little bandy-legged chap, with red !
hair, and the people used to call him
‘Doctor * ”
. “ Was he a surgeon, then ?” I inter
rupted.
“I am going to tell you. He had been
’prenticed to a surgeon in Devenport, (we
used to call it ‘Dock’ in those days) and
after his time was out he had been stop
ping with his mother to take care of her,
or perhaps because he couldn’t find a sit
uation ready for himself. The old widow
had put something by, I suppose. Paul
ha 4 been at home about a year when the
Captain came there to lodge with his
daughter. This Paul’s room was at the
top of the house, where his light would be
seen burning at time of night when honest
folks were in bed aud asleep. Sometimes
he would be met in tho morning returning
with his arms full of weeds and plants,
which he used to take up stairs to the
‘Doctor’s shop,’as they called it.”
“ Ah, a botanist,” I remarked.
«I don’t know about that,” replied my
friend, slightly puzzled, “ but th'e people
said he made poison out' of them. Any
way, once when Paul was seen passing by
the* blacksmith’s, the dog ran out and bit*
him, and tho next Paul was seen to give
him a piece of bread, and the dog was j
dead within au hour. The neighbors.
blamed him for it, ajid I recollect, when a |
youngster, calling after him, ‘there goes
Dr. Nightshade ! r and his stopping and
saying. ‘lf I bad to doctor you, my lad,
you wouldn’t • shout so loud.’ Well, very
shortly after Ellen and her father had been
lodging at the widow’s house, it was clear
to see that Paul wished to court her.
Wherever/she went, sure enough Paul
wasn’t far behind, and 'things went on in
this way for about six months, when one
dark and wintry night, the wind blowing
great guns and the sea running high, we
saw signals of distress from some vessel off
the point there.
“ There was no lifeboat in the place, and
our small craft couldn’t have lived an hour
in such weather. In the morning we saw ;
no signs of the-vessel, and we had sup- j
posed site had gone down, and all abomd j
lost* however, we heard in the day that j
one-of the poor fellows had escaped, and,,
though cut and bruised, had contrived to !
crawl up to the point there, where he had
been found by Captain Meredith, who
1 brought him home t • his own lodging and
l uursed him. He was a fine young ieilow,
an orphan, as he said, by name \\ m. lian
dall, and Lad been w .rkiug his way to
Liverp 01, in hopes to obtain employment.
The clergyman of the place —you may see
; the church on the right as you go toward
1 Edgecumb Perry—heard of this, and, be
coming a good deal interested in the young
man,, offered him a place as gardenei, us
general servant, or something or other.
“ Bill was a handy chap, and soon made
friends with the people,* and they persuaded
him to stop here instead ol going to Liv
erpool as he inteuded. He didn’t want
much pressing, for any one could Bee there
was a girl in tbe ease, and that girl was
Ellen Meredith, and it didn’t w ant more
than two eye# to see that she liked him.—
The folks used to jeer Paul about his nose
being out of joint, aud Tom Trevelaiu,
Iks Dlaeksmith, as owsd him a grudge for
Iks gog, used to say, 'Wsll, doctor, bow’s
ttafMMtytkitttnMt'
SRVJSIWB’SSSJff’S
1 the same thing when he gave the dog
: bread. \V*el!. things prospered’ so well
‘ with yoUng Randal!, that at last he made
up his-mind to ask the Captaiu for his con- ,
j sent, and as the old fellow was a jolly, easy
going old customer, and liked*Bill very
much besides, it -wasn't long before he gave ,
it- . * f ' |
J ust about this time the folks in the j
village were frightened by the report that !
tiie pressgang were out; that they had j
been as far as Plymptou, lour or five miles
from the town there, «nd had pressed
one or two men. The Captain and Ellen
wanted to put the marriage o'fi, Bill
wouldn’t hear of it, ands range to say,
: Paul sided with him. Well, on the very
day before the wedding, a strange man as
hadn’t been seen ia the village afore, called
tit the house to speak to Paul, and a
neighbor as haliened to be present at
the time, said afterward, that she had
heard them talking together, on the road
to Plymouth. Now rnind me, in- the
evening, and just as they were sitting
down to supper, and drinking toasts, Paul
who was late, ran into the room, leaving
the door open behind him, and entreated
AVilliam to look to himself, as the press
ing, were already in the village; and |
afore poor Bill could get away, the press- !
gang were inside, and had seized him,
and in spite of his struggles, and Ellen’s
cries, and Paul’s entreaties, carried him to
the beach, where a boat lay ready, and
took him away.”
“Is that all ?” I asked.
“Not exactly, mate,” said my friend,
finishing the rum. “The strangest part
has to come.”
So replenishing his glass and refilling
his pipe, he continued :
“Well every one, of course, was very
much cast down at this, but poor Ellen
particularly; however, for many months
she kept a brave heart, always telling the
Captain that William would return, and
they would yet be happy; and d’ye see,
no one liked to tell the poor tiling different,
although but very-few thought they’d ever
see,him again. At any.rate it was clear,
Dr. Paul didn’t, for after awhile he began
again to pay his addresses to her, and
this time more in earnest than before; but
it was no use. Ellen Would have nothing
to say to him at all.
Now about two yosrs after they had
pressed poor Will, was getting on
toward the winter time—there lu.d been
a good deal of dirty weather about, and
several had been lost on the coast—there
was a report that several crews had been
paid off, and Ellen had made up her
mind more than ever that William would
i return, when one day a neighbor come3 in
i and says she has heard that a vessel like
| the Spitfire—that was the one that William
went out in—had gone down off the
Sioillys, mid it wne feared that <<li Imud? i
had. perished; he had it, he said from a
party who was told so by Paul, who had
learned it when he was over to Devenport
the day before on matter of business.”
This was bad news for the poor lass, but
I believed she still hoped and prayed for
her sailor sweetheart-, and all along kept
on telling the Captain that he would live
to see her and Will Randall bride aud
bridegroom yet; but about a fortnight;
after this, Paul comes in, in a great taking,
and shows the Captain a buttle which he
said he picked up on the Cornish coast, no
doubt and ifted in, and in it was a paper
saying the Spitfire couldn’t live through
the night, and praying that whoever found
the bottle would, for Heaven’s sake, send
it to Captain Meredith, of Cowsaud, with
the last prayer of poor Will,
This -was dated back, and was aboutt
square with the'dav when ihc Spitfire Was
said to havo gone down ; and so now there j
seemed no hope at alt, and so poor Ellen ■
seemed to think at last, for she got* paler 1
and weaker every day, and moved about J
like one who had nothing to live for. To !
make matters worse, the Captain had gone !
into debt, and difficulties got bigger and
bigger. Well, one dpy, all on a sudden,
the Doctor goes to lwm and offers to marry
Ellen out of hand, promising to discharge,
all the Captain’s obligations, and stating
that his long attachment had induced him
to make the proposal! The Captain as
you may believe, didn’t much fancy Paul
for a son-in-law, but at last he relented,
and pressed by his debts and troubles,
urged ‘Ellon to accept him. The poor
lass refused for a long time, but when she
found her father’s welfare and liberty de
pended on it, and besides, had lost all hope
of ever seeing William Randall again, at
! last consented.
“ But you don’t mean to say that they
were married at last?” I interrupted.
“ In two or three months, they were mar
ried, and a pretty couple they must have j
made —she with her tall figure and pale
face, and he with his red head and bow
leg-s, shambling along by her side.. They
were married at Milbrook Church, on the
hill, sir, and Will Randall’s old master fead
the service. They said Ellen didn’t cry
or faint, or have any nonsense of that kind,
but went through her share quietly and
calmly enough, while the Doctor seemed
'all abroad.
’ “ Now, it seems this very evening, just
about desk, when the Captain had
out to smoke his pipe, that Paul, who had
gone up stairs, head a terrible loud scream,
and, rushing back into the room where he
had left Ellen, finds her fainted dead away
i on the floor, and William Randall himself
kneeling by her side.
“ William used to say afterward that he
could not forget Paul’s face when they
saw each other for the first time; he used
to dream of it, lie said; and he had many
and many a time seen the faces of ‘Strong
men who had been struck down in tbe
heart and passion of battle, or who had
died violent deaths iu various ways, but j
Paul’s face, he said, reminded faim of a;
picture be bad once teen, when quite a lit*
tie lad, of tbe devil, which be remembered
bad frightened him tben, hut which be bad
forgotten till their eyes met that night.
When Paul had recovered from bis eur>
priet be m!4 sol ft word about lb# oar*
riage; but-when V\ lift am said he hud just
lelt Plymouth, aud hadn't seen a soul in the
| village,yet^he suddenly seemed delighted
i at meeting him again, and insisted on their
i drinking together.
“He led Ellen into another room, when
,be told Wili his mother w uld attend her,
and shortly returned with two glasses of
strong grog, wlfteh be put on the Vablobe
tween them. ‘Now, Iliil, old mate,’ says be, |
bvo’il drink to your return home.’ ‘But j
what about Nelly, my poor girl V says Will, j
•Never mind her,’* s.-tys Paul, ‘mother will j
soon bring her round, aud r meanwhile, driuk j
the grog ;’ but first ui' all, he shut the door, j
and coming back to the tabic, says, ‘Now,
Bill, here’s your jolly, good health, and no
j heeltaps!’ and -they both empti.d their
• glasses. ‘William,’ says Paul, after awhile,
I ‘how do you feel V ‘Quite well, Paul, my
i hearty, thank ye,’ says Will. ‘Do you,’
says Paul, griuniug, ‘then you won’t for
long. William llandafr/ says he, gettiug
white, and trembling, ‘we’ve a long account
to settle, aud now it’s doae.’
“‘Whatd’ye mean.?’ asked Will, in sur
prise, as you may be sure ‘l’ve never in
jured you!’ ‘Yes you have!’ says Paul.—
‘Didn’t you step in between - me and the
j eirl 1 had set my f.e.ln on?' Didn’t the
; neighbors jeer and mock tne, and drive me
almost mad? And didn’t I swear to be
even with you, come what might? And I
am IJam ! Wb.-n you wore pressed,’ said
he, getting worse aud wor.-., ‘I put the gang
o i you ! l brought the account that made
them think you were dead ! and uow that
you have returned alive, you find the wo
man you loved ti e wile of tho man you de
spised.’ ‘lt’s a shameful lie,’ cues Will 4
‘and I can’t believe it.’ ‘lt’s true,’ says
Paul,‘for we were married this morning ;
but true or. false, it’s all the saute to ypu,
fori tell'you; Will Randall,’ and Paul
turns very pale and rubs his hands, ‘you
are poisoued. You drank the. brandy, and
iu an hour’s time you are a d*ad man.’
‘“Paul Pccrhyn,’ says. Will, speaking
ea’nt and low, ‘you’ve played t deep game, i
but you’ve made one mistake ; I heard of
your trick with the press-gang, and knew
you to bo.a rival of mine, and you’ve just
owned to other treachery. But when a man
that I knew hated me, aud who looked as
you did when we u»ct ju.-t uow, suddenly
became my friend and asked me to drink, I
grew suspicions; and while you chttpi the
door, I—changed the glasses.'
“When Ellen hoard the fearful cty that
Paul gave, she ran iu, pale and weak as she
was, and fouqdhim all twriled.togother like,
with rage or pain, and foaming at the i
mouth from the poison he had swallowed. 1 ”
“Aconite ?” I asked.
“I. don’t know rightly what it was !
called,” fjairl the coast gmidmau, “hut it,
was very strong, for Paul, they say; died
within the hour, and before the two he had
tried to keep asuodoi 1 .”
“A strange tale,” I said, rising to go,
“it’s as good as a play.”
“It’s better than most of ’etn,” said he,
knocking the ashes out of % his pipe, “for
this is true. Good night, sir.”
The German Muddle. —lt is at least a
fair subject fur notice, even tbdugh the dan
ger be very remote, that the States of Ger*
many are discussing the probabilities of war,
growing out of the high-handed measures
of Prusiia in defining her claims to the con
quered duchies. The question approaches
a crisis of some kind. The imperial gov-'
ernmeat of Austria was looked upon as hav
ing performed a masterpiece of diplomacy
when Cumae Blonie was dispatched to the
King of Prussia with a plan by which all
interests might be reconciled. Heconceded
the port of Kiel as a naval station and
ttendsburg as a fortress —two prominent,
points*a dispute. * The propositions seemed
liberal, and little doubt was entertained of.
their acceptance. Bat no Herr vou Bis
marck, in reply, declared 'ho could abate
nothing from the conditions already laid
dopn, one of which was the right to levy
soldiers and sailors in the aforesaid duchies?
\be “minister president,” as he is some
times called, is “evidently riled.” A few
days ago Bavaria, Saxony aud ilcsse-Darm
stadt jointly propounded certain questions
touching the sore topic which were cousid-
I ered impertinent, whereupon the semi-official
I Nord Dautsche Allgeuieine Ziitung (Herr
| von Bismarck’s organ) publishes a brief
j exposition of the policy of the Berlin Gov-
I eminent, terminating in the following curt
paragraph :
“For fifty yoirs Prussia has fulfilled her
federal duties with earncstnces, fidelity, and
all kinds of sacrifices. She will not swerve
in future-one hair’s breadth from those du
ties. however arduous, however unjustly dis
tributed, however iitile they may conduce to
her private interests; but if the interna
tional basis of the country is abandoned
tlirouah the inequitable a-sumption of oth
crs J_jf treaties are to be tern up, the day
will undoubtedly have dawned when Prus
sia will only allow her policy to be guided
by her own well understood interests.”
A Vienna letter of the sth inst. says the
Emperor is pr. siding oyer a cabinet council
* at which matters of high moment will be
disen-sed. Gentlemen uiuit keep cool.— N.
j Y. Journal of Commerce.
Kejro is. Mexican Troops. —l have men- !
\ally compared our colored troops with the j
Mexican, and rnv opinion is that the for- !
rner would decidedly lick the Mexicans ;
though our arms are not so much better
than those of the Mexicans. The latter
now have Minie rifles and are drilled, hut j
badly officered. Let the Hon. Hecretary |
bear this in mind.
To pit against the French aud Austrian
troops, the very best corps would be nec
essary; and I feel suretHat unless the dis
cipline in our army should be bettered, an
action between the French and our best
troops, on open ground, would result in
defeat to ours. I knew very well the qual
ities of both troops, and sav this to give
timely warning to the >Var Department.-
Cor, Nl Y, Herald.
W9T May not a bird who sleeps upon the
wing be saw W esenpy a feather beef
, B?ju A long train of cars loaded with
i Howe’s truss bridges, to replace the bridges
recently dertroyed on the Union Pacific
Railway, Eastern Division, by the unpre
cedented high waters in tho Kansas rivers,
passed West a few days ago in charge of
Major Herring, the General Agent. Mean*
time the business of the road continues
without interruption, temporary bridges
having hceu constructed to enable trains to
pass along. The present energetic directors
of the road are sparing no expense to make
the road first class
i&r Henry Coleman, late treasurer to Jean
Francois Gravelet, alias “Blondin,” has been
odhe more before the London bankruptcy
court. His unsecured debts amount to up
wards of £32.000, of which nearly £13,-
000 are due to the celebrated rope-walker,
who is now amusing the Spaniards in Mad
rid. The examination of Coleman was
again adjourned, in order that certain dupli
cates of pawned jewelry might be given np
and the accounts amended.
A gentlpnmn living on the bank
oJ the Mississippi, a few miles below New
Madrid, says that during the earthquake ,
last Thursday the river was violently agi
tated. The water seemed to rise in a body
severa 1 feet high, and was forced back
ward up-stream. The current was actually
stopped during the few seconds the earth
quake continued.
A fatal disease somewhat resem
bling cholera in hogs, prevails among the
sh6ep in the northern section of Monroe
county, Missouri. Lambs lively and frisky
in the morning are found dead in the even
ing. One farmer'has lost thirty head froth
the disease, others, iu the same neighbor
hood, a smaller number.
The Louisville Journal admits a
Democratic majority in both branches of
the Kentucky Legislature. It will be a
fair working majority. They have also a
majority of . the members of Congress.
With a free election, they would have car
ried nearly every candidate in the State.
The Bureau of Employment fordis
iibl -d ami discharged soldiers and sailors in
New York, have organized a corps of mee
ieugers from among deserving veterans, who
arc furnished with certificates of thoir merit
and trusLworthmcHF, aud recommended to
down-town merchants and knsiness mon for
employment iu carrying messages and par
cels.
A female candidate for the De
troit penitentiary, who was bound there iu
the cars the other day, was asked for her
ticket by the conductor, while the officer
in charge of her was temporarily absent
in another car. She wouldn’t disgorge,
and the ticket rhap threatpnirig to put her
off, dared him to, and he did.
JfcjST’ A large meeting of the oldest
planters of Lafourche, La., was recently
held, when they resolved to quit trying to
raise sugar. Tim report of their commit
tee argues that cotton cannot be raised
with the presqpt labor force in the State,
and they recommend planters to turn their
attention entirely to corn.
The immense iron plates on which
will rest the “saddles” for the cables of
the CoviDgton and Cincinnati bridge, were
hoisted to their places on the towers of the
Cincinnati side on Saturday. The plates
for the toWers on the Covington side will
be raised to their proper places next week.
They weigh 16,000 pounds each.
* 6&Y' The Louisville Democrat estimates
that over 60,000 slaves have crossed over
the Ohio river, under Gen. Palmer’s passes,
since the Ist of May. At this rate the
whole slave population of Kentucky will
“pass away” in less than one .year.
Hon. C. L. Vallandigham ad
dressed a Democratic Convention held in
Montgomery' county, Ohio, on the topics
of the day.. lie was one of the delegates
selected to attend the State Convention to
be held at Columbus.
TylSu The sentence of Major Herod, of
the 16th Indiana cavalry, who was to have
been executed for the murder of Lieut.
Col. Loomis, lias been commuted to ten
years in the Penitentiary.'
The on ty part of a white lady’s
gear that the colored sisters have been en
abled to imitate is the “waterfall,” and on
tViat account it is the subject of all the ridi
cule they can command.
The Chicago Journal (Republican)
calls for SIOO,OOO for the Northwestern
Freedmeu’s Aid Society, “to carry it tri
umphantly over the obstacles ‘ which now
beset it.”
jfrfUr A W asbiigton paper announces »
court-martial on a leave of abeence. We
should be glad if all the military courts
could go on on leave* of abeence and never
get leave to come back again.—Pm**-
J&r A young lady's first lqte kbjjbse
the same iflni on her as being elsetrilsa.
Xt'sa great ibeeb, bgf toes ever*
Vol, LXIII — No. 126
The Banian Murrain
D«ep concern is now fck throughout the Cain 4
Kingdom oo account of tbo sodden appearance of
di * t * m P« r •noug horned cattJ#, m *4
which is rapidly extending. Entire Her-is bare
been swept away by its ravages, aad tbo alarm is
farther aggravated by tbo aimuJußeows appear
c? sSrsahasrsars
moetir prevailed, aad wTu*h U character, *d by
exactly the aame symptoms. The «*; -—-
under the name of RindOrpest, or ria -ie
but opiniona differ in regard to !ta origin. A Am
mittae of the Loudon corporation market, alter aa
interview with the largoet meat salesmen believe
that the disease watsti imported, hoi hA its ori
gm In tbe dairies, whereas tbs Scotsman my. t£
dweass, beyond dotibt, was ooumnnieaisd hv in
ftttiotf from anfntak brought from the comment.
However thta mavf bo, farmers and breeder are
meeuqg in different iocaißies to check its progress
aftd dawk* a remedy. The lamke ?'»r a» , ap
parently with no desirs to exaggerate, that “noth*
»ng caS exceed the gravity of the qtusuoa nor the
extent of the intereete at stake. A dkwa.se like
"df with aimoet untan -d
rapidity, and of a most iofecUooe character, r ght
destroy half the cattle in the kingdom, and bo-
COn ?*’ , witkoM “7 ®ffore of speech whete*.* a
netloaal salamky, mm* disastrous in its eff cts
than tbe cottou famine, or an adui:.oo of twea.y
millions to tbo national debt." Kenorts are r*-
ecived respecting tbs progress ot this ma;t
mdsdy from nine ooaaliotf in logknl tail from
tho county of Boxburgshire, in Scotland, inJ •>
'“f ** e < ? U fi° n h W1d4,17 Heii
cal officers of health and cattle doctor',o-op e
as for a common interest, bolding fre M nent seaaal
tattoos, and using every means to Jith.s- informa
tioa, to secure the isolation of aoapected or dm
•ssed cattla. No animals except tbo-*.’ of the » .-
™»* •« affected. .Prof. Stmoods, of tbo
Royal Veterinary College, has fully and. crbtw !ta
symptoms, showiog them to be of a stro-g tvpe
easily detected, and sufficiently rspalatve to smso
i * general abstinence in the see of b**f a mT - .
ol© of food, woese there k tbe least rrason for
suspicion. Indeed, English people ilrea ir, if ««
are not mistaken Tare content to forego the pleas
ure of “roast btef*’ for tbe time, so »©» $ ».» t ,
are sure of the “plum pudding.” This Kos- n
murrain or whatever its name, must be remar.a
bly vnwleot, if we may jedge from s nbmmmifia
tion eigned “Physician" in one of tbe London pa
pers, the writer of which spook* of rTrr
experiments with small animals who had her- f. t
withoogleaina ted milk. Two kittens wer.< aor.ru
upoa milk from a cow slightly diseased Ore
died Ik a few o*ys, but tbs outer wee restored by
feeding it with tbe row yolk of eggs. The . a
experiments wsss tried noon two rabbit* at. 4 a
whelp With similar results. This physician r*m*' <«
“The origin of those experiment* amee through
two young infante in my own famiiv b- .r :
wcked with tbe infection and presenting unu-. and
symptoms wbiok baffled every mean* of tree* it.
The sight of the little coos was grievous in .he
extreme, cadaverous and ghostly, eccori.n*- ed
with delirium end severe pains. Vo he
lives were astaruioed. Their milk w.» iavarfeblv
vomited, although reduced with lima and otrer
water. The ruggeetion to analyze k was made,
when it wm found to be impregnated l»rsr-lc w t»
pus, thin, decomposed, and adeiteraieo with ar
rowroot, fat, and glycerine ;o thicken i_
was then dispensed with, and the intro ts were f* *
upon the yolks of raw new laid egg* with tba nun
cases salts sparingly intermixed. lmmedi.ue re
covery took place. Thi* is not ao ireUt-1 ic •
stance, as every medics! practitioner can avow.”
It k shocking to think not only of enure b**rfe
SSItC being swrpt away by iLi*
malady, but of families being invad' and and ! • >
onev prostrated with the same lo*th«omo nn,.
tonML It yrewtd be an art of prudence 0.. ~.. t
of the officers of Mr leading agricuh; iral ,
to take the subject in fund and volunteer
suggestions as might be useful at toe v.nous
quarantine station* on the seaboard — .V . y J v ,,
of Com.
No Religion in the BcUgi oua Paper* I
Our Sunday editor complain* th«t tber>> mno
religion in the religious paper*, aD d M "
°¥* h ® , lhiok * «ho*Uu'. c .no,, .i
fce done about it Jt’a * bard <-**. -- "
We .hall hare to uke up Te^-e
our religion brethren of the qiffl spoo their Uck
of y*»>» ■-ag-TrTj
exhibit an itching to crowd upon aud »« •
province of us political editor*, the eioncr*
are supposed to have no oentderu Ti
brother Beecher, for instance, wH-
Ucs every week in the Independent insieMeluls
learned bebdonndal from New York, th*; w«
open ,and the other day in tbe expectation offindu.g
Journal, when lo J the first * nd to.dit n - etlton*.
iu it was beaded, “What Kind of P e ««." Wc
read on and on unUI we bad flushed it. and to i
it til politics, politic!'*. much so as anvtl",, z th u
ever appeared in the Journal. Ao 1 th u- »> • „
gious papers go on. Now, brethren, this will a ,v- r
do. You must repent and reform. You mi. t
become religious. You muei set u. good
pies. We look up to you as example*, and rr ,
els. Imagine our feelings, therefore, when, while
perusing your lucubrations, we Lave to Co* at
ibe name of the paper to find out whether h - *
religion* or politiod sheet we are reading! When
"uti£; w ** i?eu ***' 1
Home of our religious cotempcraiies that she ’d
certainly be peaceful seem to strath*.’ uor.
gercntly inclined than many of those i -U
sinners, the polical editors TcM :•
Th., n
•at<( the red rod of wroth applied toil! who\l V-.
from them—m politics. The* ... ‘ ~ ‘ r
rere on the poor ex rebels, and we
suspect that they want the door of mercy
against them both here aud hereaiteV* tTT.
sure the e,-rebel, are eeftS* + £2* sM 5
saved, but tbe rather questionable terms used is
iLh thn^h 0r !i 8 ’ U “ to f«*red, will never
reach those bard eases. The effir. v of |
as a mean, of grace may well be double J
pray our religious editor, to bethiu* them of
matrumentahtiea. The ex-rebel*“ie V "
good deal already, enough, it would aeem ;n n.r>-:
msunces to satisfy.nyChri-Uanman. iorei.m
pie, the Vicksburg Cadets” went Into the war t- e
hundred and twenty-three strong, and nwuil
® ,x - . Tbe Vicksburg Sharpshooters” went or e
hundred and twenty-four at lO cg, and returned
"tu™ Jv ***“. th#t re,urned "•
w 7 Et&THi q,Jt ’ * Dd berwafler.
We are told, however, that they, and all hkwdbem,
baven ‘7*‘ «Pf nted, and that there i. no trwS
them till they do. Perhaps no t, but it is aomewl.*t
problematifj whether tbe peculiar and:
which our religious co temporaries wogld «..i j. .*t
them to is the best way to eflect so desi-*l,!e an
object. If we mistake not, a certain old book,
which has fallen somewhat into desuetude of ;*ua
years—whose perusal we would recommend to ocr
religious editors—hints about me«ho<J.
It inculcates, If we recollect aright, the to- ,ve
neaa of enemies, returning good for evil, a- 4 u.wcb
more unfashionable doctrine of that kind. Oir
dearly beloved brethren of the Independent, tho
Methodist, the Examiner, etc., may procure the
book,, we believe, in some of the stall* of thw
bibUopolirtts of New York. They will fiod in it
much interestihg matter with which they mv-ht
fill their page, to the delectation, no doubt, of
tbfcir numerous readers. Novelty I.always charm-
Ing.
W# let off tiie bretbreb mildly to-day, hot If
they don’t repent by nest week we shall be uadoe
tbe painful neeoMity of rMortiog to a*v*r*t die
cipUna.—Louituillt Journal.
tST What io th# boo oi eighiof ttd
weeping ae we fioat down ibe etream eC
time? Why make the veyage es hie ft
{wsfifeg veyaftf