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< >1(1 Series—Vol. 25, No. 122. SUNDAY CONSTITUTIONALIST. Our Sunday paper is always much sought for, and a very large issue has to be printed to supply the demand. Merchants and others who wish to reach the people by advertising their wares or their wants should take ad vantage of this excellent opportunity for so doing. A vest intelligent and enterprising gentleman, of this city, contributes to our columns, this morning, a well-rea soned article on the financial question. We should be glad to hear from him again. It is now thought in Columbia that Parker walked out through an open door. The evidence plainly points to the fact that the jailer turned him out. It does seem that it is impossible for Justice to do anything with the grand rogues of South Carolina. A dispatch from Philadelphia records the death a child and a dog from eat ing stale sausages. We are not sur prised at the deatli of the former, but confess to astonishment that a canine may not eat the flesh of his species and still survive. The recent rains in Georgia have been a groat help to the crops. There are some few sections slighted, but, as a rule, they have fallen everywhere. They came too late to be of much ser vice to early corn, but the late crop and cotton are now in fine condition. We publish a batch of crop news to which the reader is referred. - From the latest New Orleans papers received at this office, we judge that the planters of Louisiana are notafraid of being ruined by the flood in the Upper Mississippi. So irate does the Ficayune become with the gloomy dis patches recently received that it calls the telegraph man the “Agent of the Ass. Press.” Despite the hurly-burly raised over the O’Connell centenary, and the predu tions of bloodshed, every thing passed off peacefully. This is as it should be. The great man who always believed and advised that “the price of liberty was obedience to law,” has been worthily celebrated. The Fenians disgraced themselves; but that was only a spot on the sun. The Macon Telegraph publishes a poem called “First Love,’ - and, by way of introductory, says: “The following beautiful poem by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, the gifted authoress of “Pas sion’s Flowers,” seems the genuine ut terance of a woman’s soul—earnest, tender, sadly sweet.” If Mr. Watson will turn to a volume of the Miscella neous Poems of Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton) he will find that Miss Julia W ard Howe had nothing to do with those verses. We publish this morning a commu nication signed Mechanic which calls at tention to a remarkable covenant said to exist between some of the medical fraternity and the druggists. We know nothing of the matter,do not feel com petent to pronounce an opinion upon the subject, and leave to others the task of criticising the “ethics of the profession.” So far as we are individ ually concerned, Mechanic's exposition is of no consequence. If anybody thinks the “Big Ike” dailies do not have errors in their blanket sheets, read this extract from the telegraphic dispatches of the Balti more Gazette : Portsmouth, August 4.—'The Third Geor gia veterans, one hundred and twenty-live strong, Col. ClaborneLuck, commanding, arrived here from Augusta to-night. To have your name “misspelled in the Gazette ,” Byron used to say added another horror to death. It certainly adds a fresh exasperation to life. ■! ■ The escape of Parker causes quite a flutter in South Carolina. The Colum bia Register says he was such a tre mendous rogue that it is surprising “ that he left the lightning rod behind, especially as he was running away and had so much need of a good conduct or.” The Union-llerald states that he vamosed in the disguise of a negro, “ with a wig and other fixings neces sary to assume the role of an old field hand, and, with a real sable brother, left for some cabin, there to remain until the vigilance of the moment sub sides.” And now, boys, join in the chorus of “Governor, dear Governor, come home!” What were supposed to be secrets at the University are beginning to leak out. First, we heard that Dr. Tuckf.r saved his official bacon by two votes, and now' we learn from the Atlanta Herald's correspondence that Mr. Ste phens would have been defeated for Trustee “if it had not been for a start ling, feeling and beautiful ten minutes speech of B. H. Hill, Jr., in his behalf. He fairly electrified the boys, and at once the tide was turned. He spoke of his being the author of school books, of his interest in the education of young men (the old man, though infirm, had more influence at home than a host of other men, and it was due him); that Mr. Stephens had been spoken of as unable physically to attend to the du ties of a Trustee, but that, in his opin ion, Achilles in his tent was all-power ful. The mantle of the father seems to fall worthily upon the talented son.” That was a handsome thing in young Hill; but, ye gods! to think that Alexander H. Stephens should have required such an effort at the Athens University ! We bow in admiration to Ben Hill, Jr., but what must we think of the other boys ? Long Branch August 6.—Attorney General Pierrepont is here the guest of (he President. THE GALLOWS. A NEGRO DESPERADO QUIETED. The Murderer of an Old Clergyman and Other Persons Publicly Hanged. [Special to the Constitutionalist i Union C. H., S. C., August 6, 1875. Alf W T alker, the negro who murdered Rev. J. C. Miller, near Union C. H., in April last, was hung to-day in the pres ence of a crowd of over 5,000 specta tors, mostly negroes. He was attended to the gallows by two colored clergy men. In his last speech he made no reference to the crime for which he was about to be executed, but said his punishment was just and he hoped to go to heaven. There was no disturb ance. Walker is known as the leader of a desperate gang of highway rob bers, who have been infesting the upper counties of the State for five years, and is known to have committed at least two other murders. His victim was an aged clergyman, who was known and loved all over the State. About a week ago, he made a confession, which, how ever, has not yet been made public. Moroso. THE THIRD GEORGIA. The Boys Visit Petersburg and Get Another Ovation—More Speech Mak ing, [Special to the Constitutionalist.] Portsmouth, Va., August 6,1875. The Third Georgia veterans arrived here to-day on a special train fur nished by Gen. Mahone, at 10 a. m. Mayor Gregory welcomed them in a feeling and welcome address, which was responded to, on behalf of the veterans, by Col. S. A. Corker, of the regiment. The regiment returns to Portsmouth to-night and thence home. FROM NEW YORK. Mr. W. B. Duncan Still Hoping to Protect His Circular Notes—The Mexican Minister After Mr. Duncan with a Sharp Stick. New York, August C. —At an inter view last evening Mr. Duncan said he believed arrangements will be com pleted to-day in London whereby Mor gan & Cos. will protect traveling drafts issued by Duncan, Sherman & Cos. Ignacio Marishal, Mexican Minister, through counsel, made a demand on Judge Shipman for nearly §17,000 on deposit for the Mexican Government. Shipman refused to deliver it. Suit accordingly will be brought before the United States Supreme Court to obtain that sum, on the ground that the law of nations declares such money pro tected by the same immunity as the persons of foreign Ministers. Good News for the Tourists —Drexel, Morgan & Cos. Protect the Credits of Duncan, Sherman & Cos. —A Crooked Dispatch about Crates—Honors to O'Connell’s Memory. Drexel, Morgan & Cos. make formal announcement that traveling credits and circular notes, accompanied by a letter of identification, issued by Dun can, S. & Cos. ou the Union Bank, of Lou don, will be cashed or exchanged for new credits on presentation at the of fice of Messrs. J. S. Morgan & Cos., Lon don, or Drexel, Harjes & Cos., prior to November Ist, 1875. Yesterday 75 car loads, 400 crates to each ear, arrived and were sold at lal>£ per crate. The advice of the shipment of 100 car loals flattened the market, selling to wagon men at 15u20 cents per crate. |We are not informed by the above what the crates contain. —Editor.] A solemn Pontifical High Mass in honor of the O’Connell Centenary was celebrated this morning in St. Stephens Church, by Bishop Corrigan, of New ark, assisted by other clergymen. Masses were also.celebrated in a num ber of other churches. Locking the Stable After the Horse is Stolen. New York, August o.—At the suit of a creditor. Judge Westbrook granted a temporary injunction restricting Dun can, Sherman & Cos., from disposing of any more of their property. ■ i THE NIGHT SIDE OF NATURE. Destructive Fire in Chicago—Fatal Boiler Explosion—Death from Eat ing Stale Sausages. Chicago, August G.—A fire at Mount Pleasant, Michigan, burned the En terprise printing building and other houses. Loss, SIOO,OOO. Nashville, August 6. —The boiler of a steam threshing machine on Ben Har lan’s farm, in Murray county, exploded, killing Harlan, his engineer and a col ored man. Seven persons were wound ed, two of whom will probably die. Philadelphia, August 6. —One child is dead and ten children sick from eat ing stale sausages. A dog which ate some is dead. The sausage maker and storekeer were arrested. A Man Killed by a Stray Bullet—Ne gro Hanged in Selma, Ala. Rochester, N. Y., August 6. —Henry Smith was killed by a stray bullet from a pic-nic party target-shooting on the opposite side of the river. Selma, August G.—Eugene Archie Kelly, a negro, was hanged this morn ing for the murder of Andrew Cunuing liam, a negro. EDUCATIONAL. The National Association Protest Against Misuse of Public Lauds. Minneapolis, August G.-The National Educational Association adopted reso lutions against the use of public lands for the benefit of corporations or sec tions, and urging Congress to provide better facilities for Bureau education. PROM NORTH CAROLINA. Convention Carried by a Tight Squeeze. Raleigh, August 6.—Returns from fifty-four counties give a Democratic majority. It is generally conceded that the Democrats will have a good working majority in the convention. Washington, August G. —John C. Graefer has been appointed Store keeper of the Fourth Georgia District The crazy Indian chief, Lean Bear, died at Fort Marion, Florida. Memphis, August 6. —The river has risen three inches in twenty-four hours closing at three o’clock to-day. A.UGITSTA, GA„ SATURDAY MORNING, ATTGITST 7. 1875. FOREIGN DISPATCHES. The O’Connell Centenary a Grand and Peaceful Demonstration—Banquet of the Lord Mayor of Dublin. Dublin, August 6.—The banquet last night given by the Lord Mayor of Dub lin, in honor of the memory of O'Con nell was a brilliant affair. A dispatch was received from the Pope giving his blessing to all persons assisting at the Centenary Celebration. The health of the Pope was proposed first; the Queen’s health was proposed next. The toasts were received with loud cheer ing. The toast to the memory of O’Connell was responded to by a grand son of the Liberator and by the Arch bishop of Machale, who said England was once under the government of Fiance and yearned for deliverance from thraldom. It was not strange that Ireland should now yearn for home government as did England of old. In consequence of the illness of his daughter, Lord OTlagan’s address will be read to the people by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, after the procession through the streets, from a platform erected on the site intended for a mon ument to the memory of the Liberator. Dublin, August G.—The city is bril liantly illuminated and streets crowded with gay throngs. Everything passed off peacefully. A Tremendous Outpouring in Dublin —The Finnegans Prevent the Lord Mayor from Reading OTlagan’s Ora tion. Dublin, August 6.—The organization for the procession commenced forming at an early hour in St. Stephen’s Green and vicinity. Much delay occurred in formin; on account of the immense number. The route was five miles aud the procession extended over the entire length. Forty thousand persons were in line and there was great cheering as tbe procession passed O’Connell’s house aud the City Hall, where the great Lib erator delivered bis first oration against the Union. Dublin, August 6. —The members of the Fenian Amnesty Association marched with a banner at their head hung with chains, and flags draped with crape. Other emblems of mourn ing appearance attracted general at tention. There were no demonstrations of disorder during the procession. Lord O’Hagan, who was to have de livered the oration, was not present. The Lord Mayor of Dublin came for ward to read it amid a great uproar from the Fenian Amnesty Association, which had moved to the front aud shook the chains attached to the ban ner in the Mayor’s face, and drowned his voice with shouts of “No Whig gery ! ” The Mayor made a second at tempt to read the oration, but lie final ly withdrew aud proceeded to his car riage under the protection of the po lice. Dr. Butt, in reply to repeated calls came forward and made a speech re viewing O’Connell’s career. After fur ther speeches the crowd dispersed. With the exception of the scene before the platform, no serious disturbance occurred. Napoleon 111 and the Life of Caesar. Paris, August 6.—The suit brought by the publishers against Napoleon’s heirs for non-completion of the life of Caesar, was dismissed with costs. Havana, August G. —Senor Zulueta has been re-elected President of the Casino Espinal. Transfer of Ecclesiastical Property in Italy—Passage of the Shipping Bill in England. Rome, August G.—The Opinions says foreign ecclesiastical establishments are preparing the necessary deeds for the conversion of their real property into Italian rentes, in conformity with the law of 1873. The sale of the pro perty of the Irish College will begin on the 11th iust. London, AugustG.—Numerous amend ments have been made in the commit tee to the Shipping Bill introduced in the House by Sir Chas. Adderly. The bill was finally passed this evening, without division. A Baltimore Sliootist Wins a Prize in Germany—Recovery of the Schil ler’s Treasure. Berlin, August G. —Fred Kramer, of Baltimore, won the silver cup at the International Shooting Match. London, August 6. —Two more kegs of treasure have been recovered from the Schiller. FROM WASHINGTON. —— Yellow Fever Bulletin —A Crooked Col lector—The Deficit in the Treasury. Washington, August 6.—The Presi dent signed the commission of H. H. Wells, District Attorney, vice Fisher. The following dispatch was received from Gen. Brannan, at Fort Barancas : “No new case since the 2d. Assistant Surgeon H. E. Brown has arrived. Dr. Sternberg is reported by his physician convalescing. This morning, 45 cases were under treatment—29 are conva lescent.” Wm. H. Johnston, Paymaster, has been relieved of duty in the Depart ment of the Gulf. The Bey of Tunis will collect three and a half centimes per ton on mercan tile vessels entering ports of his re gency to defray the expenses of a light house at Cape Bon. The Revenue Department has advi ces of the arrest of B. Wilkinson, Col lector of the Sixth District of Missouri, on the charge of embezzlement, signing false certificates and conspiring to de fraud the Government. He has been suspended on a bail of $15,000. Bristow has returned. The committee appointed by Bristow to examine accounts and count money have reported. The total deficit is $47,818, including $47,097 stolen from the cashier’s room July 2d, to which the commission furnished no clue. O’CONNELL. Demonstrations in the United States and Canada. Montreal, August G. —No distur bance. Ten thousand persons were in procession. Washington, August G.— Fine proces sion here and immense meeting on Smithsonian Grounds. Dispatches from North describe grand but peace ful demonstrations in honor of O’Con nell. Savannah, August G.—The Irish So cieties of Savannah celebrated O’Con nell’s Centennial at the Fair Grounds, two miles from the city. There was a large attendance. An oration on the life and character of the Great Patriot was delivered by J. B. Catherwood of this city. There was a base ball match, trotting race and other amusements during the day. Everything passed off pleasantly. THE FINANCIAL QUESTION. An Effort to Solve the Vexed Prob lem—Causes of Mercantile Disaster- How Money is Accumulated and How it Circulates—A New Era for the South—lndustrious Youth, the Pride aud Glory of a Country. [Communicated to the Constitutionalist.] A few weeks ago the papers were filled with accounts of English failures, and very recently the tidings came that a great American house has succumbed and which we fear will prove the pre monition of other failures, for under our extensive credit system no such monetaiy shock can occur without af fecting and sometimes paralyzing the financial community. While the fail ures of many prominent houses may be traced back to their seductions into speculation, it is well known that oth ers are borne down by the force of out side circumstances, their complication with others, the disastrous rise or fall of bonds and stocks forced up and down by rings and cliques, or the with drawal at once of funds and favor by panic-stricken customers, whose faith had been shaken by the downfall of rotten aud fictitious concerns, for un der excitement, the multitude c tnnot discern the wheat from the chaff. Some times, when we hear the complaint of “dull, hard times and ruin,” an exami nation will show that this is caused by a transfer of property, and that capital which was hitherto employed to pro duce more capital, and at the same time give employment to thousands of the laboring classes, has been forced out of these channels and is now locked up in the vaults of destructive specu lators whose gains can be reckoned by the losses of others, and yet who exert a monetary power that will be felt ali over the country. It is a reflection on the character of our Government— that its authorities, hoiding the highest offices of emolument and trust, often give all their influence in these specu lations, and then pocket a large share of the profits. Iu England and many other countries, it is in die regular course of events for the son to succeed the father in business, and thus con tinue it with great prestige from gen eration to generation, while in this country it is unusual for any great banking or commercial house to con tinue its business into the second gen eration, aud all our regulating princi ples of commerce seem opposed to the ideas of stability and perpetuation. Indeed, all our ideas of value aud ex change seem contained in one word, “fluctuation,” and from a number of causes the United States has been pe culiarly liable to this condition for the last few years, from the Government attempting to adjust what commerce alone can regulate, from the controlling wealth-power of the country being centered iu one peculiar district, from the great frauds attending the man agement of so many railroads and cor porations, and particularly from the uncertain value and inflated condition of the national currency. Any country which adopts for its currency mere Government evidences of debt, whose expressed purchasing power or value in exchange is coufined to the country so issuing, thereby deprives itself of one of the greatest blessings of inter national commerce, namely, of keeping on hand just so much money as the business aud enterprise of the country demand, and no more. And why? Simply because money is only a commodity, and, like any other commodity, will seek and find the market where it can he most advantageously employed and pay the highest interest If French bus iness should stagnate, thereby placing a large unused surplus on the market, aud Prussian activity creates a demand for money, then the French capitalists will hasten to export their gold and avail themselves of Prussian enter prise, thereby securing interest on their principal, and at the same time aiding Prussian exchange. If England lias accumulated large savings which can not be profitably employed at home, the inducement of high rates of interest will even draw the money into South American and Asiatic, investments, un til enough has been withdrawn from the English markets to enable that re maining to be profitably employed, thereby adjusting the supply and de mand in the various countries, and this principle holds good wherever the legal tender of a country is on a gold basis. But our currency, which is not available beyond the shadow of its own flag, and can only compete with a gold basis currency at a fearful disadvan tage, is adjusted to supply and demand by the judgment of Government offi cers, who issue or recall it at their dis cretion. The relation of debtor and creditor therefore is always uncertain and vari able ; hence the aversion to negotiating long loans, for, before their maturity, the entire value of the transaction may have been changed. Currency is best regulated to the commerce of a country where just enough is employed to ac complish her exchanges with a reserve fund to be constantly employed in de veloping her resources. We wonder therefore at the cry of those who com plain there is no money in the country and who ciarnor for an increase of Gov ernment issue, not realizing that it is other elements of success, not money, that is wanting, and that any inflation merely causes the value of Government evidences of debt to fall in relation to all other exchangeable commodities, or in other words for the price of all pro ducts to rise, so that while our money has increased in volume it has declined in value and efficiency, and we are no better if as well off as before. The various departments of production and exchange are so intricately connected and dependent upon each other, that no division can meet with great profit or great loss without affecting the whole combination of capital and labor. If for instance the farmer is blessed with a bountiful crop it is not the farmer alone who is bene fited, but the manufacturer, the miller aud marketman, receiving greater sup plies, dispose of it, retaining a show of its profits in proportion to the farmer’s success. These same farmers, manu facturers, etc., now have money to pay out to the merchant, the tailor, the blacksmith, and all channels of ex change, and each party in the exchange will derive a share of the profit, aud this will continue until it returns to the farmer, who can now buy his necessa ries at cheap prices. But if the farmer fails, he has nothing to exchange, the miller, manufacturer, etc., from lack of business aud loss of profit, must contract their expenditures, and the merchant, the tailor, etc., being onfy able to sell a little, try to sell that little at high prices, and thus reverses will likewise extend around the whole circle, until they return to the farmer, who besides a short crop must now struggle against advanced prices. But on considering the uncertain and disastrous condition of business for the last fifteen years we must remember tliat failures and misfortunes have not been peculiarly visited upon us, but have pervaded and infected all Europe. And in seeking the causes, we think too little importance is attached to the im mense amount of property (the savings aud product of centuries) destroyed iu that time. As we remarked before, sometimes what is considered ruin has merely been the transfer of capital, but the capital remains in existence. Still ruin produced by flame and sword is the actual destruction of wealth and its producers, and which can only be restored by years of hard labor and from the fruits of the earth. In look ing for causes of our business misfor tunes we must consider the extensive wars of the last fifteen years, both in Europe and this country, and must re flect upon the amount destroyed in the destruction of others, the drain upon the few workers at home to support non-producers iu the field, the num bers of helpless ones who must eat up saving and, as in this country especi ally, the strength of the country, in her young men mutilated or destroyed, and we can readiiy account for a large share of the consequent disaster. Then following tliis, the terrible fires (whether of property insured or unin sured) and floods which, devastating whole cities aud districts of the United States, have destroyed an amount of property which only years andyears of toil can restore. Anew era is dawning upon the South, which iu a few years will transfer the Northern balance of wealth aud power into Southern legislation. Much has been said of Southern indolence and Southern extravagance, but it is well known that it was Southern cotton which supplied Northern manufac tories ; that it was in a great measure the Southern consumer who relieved the Northern markets, at great profit to them, of the fruits of their indus try, and that it was the Southern visi tors who contributed most largely to the wealth and popularity of Northern Summer resorts and watering places. The sudden breaking up of the South ern institution of labor, which had been in active employment for years, the turning loose of several millions of paupers, attended by evil aud forced legislation, upon a country already pillaged and wasted by four years of bloody civil war, was succeeded by a temporary stagnation of business and paralysis of effort or hope. The war, which, on the Northern side, had been almost entirely waged ou the offensive, told very little in its immediate effects upon them. What cottou had been saved during the war went on to feed the Northern loom. The Northern markets poured their produce into the famished South, relieving us of much of the gold and silver we had saved, and it seemed for a time as if we had been deprived of all our wealth and our position, and had merely retained our dependence on Northern enterprise. But the Southern planter, though it will be long ere he can conduct his operations on an extensive and mag nificent system which he enjoyed before the war, and is now forced to manage with a spirit of invention and economy which he formerly disregarded entirely, and the Southern capitalist aud pro ducer, jealous of the power of the Northern receiver, are beginning iu a measure to manufacture and consume their own commodities thereby keep ing the profits at home, while Southern pleasure seekers are beginning to show a knowledge of Geography in their na tive States of which formerly they were entirely ignorant, aud wo need but a few years of activity and economy to place us on an elevation of power and wealth that will make us the envy and admiration of the world. The North is now in turn realizing her losses from the effects of the war which for a time so completely destroyed our efforts as producers. Her manufactories are ly ing idle for lack of business, Northern laborers are striking and starving for want of employment, and w'th a large class of people a feeling of distrust and depression prevails. We only want to see an early estab lished trade and an equalization of wealth and power over the country. — We want to see the young men of the South practising industry and economy. We would find them not loafing round street corners and complaining that they are running in debt, looking for something to do, wo would see them established under their vine and fig tree, not riding and followed by dogs, issu ing orders, but making themselves leaders by work and example, and ear ning a living from the ever-willing soil, for after all, from thence the wealth and power of a country spring. J. B. Seven Hundred Slieep Literally Frightened to Death. [From the California Alameda Independent.] Last week we mentioned the loss of a large number of sheep in the hills back of Mission San Jose, belonging to Mr. Ashurt, but were misinformed as to their death. It was not by rushing down a precipice, but in another and most singular way that the misfortune occurred. The sheep to the number of about 2,500, were quietly feeding on a hill about three miles east of Mission San Jose on Sunday afternoon, July 4, when a man who had been a short time working for the owner of the sheep, suddenly uttered aloud yell, which had the effect of frightening the sheep. They immediately commenced running down hill as fast as they could, At or near the bottom of the hill a large patch of poison oak was growing, and they rushed pell-mell into it. Here their legs got so entangled that they could not move. Meanwhile the others behind still came rushing down upon them, until they were piled in layers six deep, one upon the other. Of course the most of them were soon suffocated and dead. One of the owners came to the spot within ten minutes afterward, and with the aid of a Spaniard succeeded in pull ing out and rescuing about fifty head. But the number that lost their lives in this strange way was seven hundred in all. It is supposed that the yell of the hired man was done for the purpose of starting the sheep off to camp. The three brothers Ashuist, who own the sheep, had recently brought them from New Idria, in Fresno coun ty, and arrived with them at their pas ture, near the Mission, only on the Ist day of July, four days before the acci dent. The sheep were worth $1.50 to $3 per head. One of the brothers, the gentleman from whom we got our in formation, is so disgusted with the re sult that ho is determined to sell out his share in this herd and in another here in the same hills. He has about three thousand in all for sale. The most of those lost were mutton sheep ; the most of those left were stock sheep. Miss Clara Rose, of Philadelphia, had $7,000 expended on her Latin, French and German education, and then mar ried a man who has to buy his butter half a pound at a time. A DEAD “EMPRESS.” A Queer Cadaver Under the Scalpel —An Eleven Thousand Pound Ele phant on the Dissecting Table at the “Zoo’’—Her Checkered Story-Last of an Old Sight for Boys and Girls. [Philadelphia Times.!. Her Majesty is dead—the Empress has finally succumb to old age, and her carcass was last night iu the hands of the disarticulators. Darkness shroud ed the earth when the Times reporter endeavored to gain admission to the Zoological Garden iu order to gather facts in regard to the deceased “Em press.” He whistled loud and long, but met no response save the hoarse, hard laugh of a restless hyena, and the occasional deep-bayed growl of the magnificent Bengal tiger. At last the fence bordering the gar den was climbed, at the expense of half a yard of coat-tail, and (.’apt. Thomp son’s house was reached, after shins and garden seats had been in frequent collision. At length a light glimmered through the trees, and Capt. Thomp son, pipe in teeth as usual, came along the wire-girded pathway leading to his home. “Want to see the remains of her Majesty ? Come with me, sir,” and thtrbe-bearded Captain led his visitor along dark pathways aud by corrals containing sleeping antelopes and kan garoos until he came to the miry spot where “the Empress” drooped aud died. “She went like a shot out of a gun, sir,” said the superintendent, “and as she fell over when released from the slings which you know have up held her for the last few weeks, she broke the tusk you were playing with in my office just now short off. Her weight, sir? Eleven thousand pounds; though she fell away considerably du ring her illness. She was born in Ceylon, and her age we believe to be about 85 years. She was purchased by us from Dr. Spaulding, a former part ner of Rogers, the coach builder. Does her chum, the St. Bernard, miss her? I don’t think he realizes the fact that she’s dead as yet. Don’;, go too near him, sir; he’s ugly after dark. No lie’s not thoroughbred, and never saw the Jungfrau or St. Got hard.” Carefully following the will-o’-the wisp carried by the captain, the re porter waded through the slush and mud until he reached the place where the old elephant was lately in the slings. Here, busy at work with cleaver aud knife, were several butchers stripping the ponderous bones of the huge ani mal of the flesh that has so long covered them, piling the intestines in tubs, and unscientifically disarticulating the poor old Queen of the “Zoo.” “We are goiug to have her skeleton properly prepared for exhibition,” said Mr. Scattergood, with a deep-drawn sigh, as he gazed ruefully upon the huge chunks of ruddy flesh that were being torn from the carcass. “Yes, it might come in useful during a siege, might not be unpalatable, still I think that her old friends in the garden would rather starve than eat a mouth ful of her.” “What are you going to do with all this flesh that you are carting away, Captain Thompson ?” “M. L. Shoemaker is taking it away to render down for the sake of the grease, and ho will return the bones when they are pretty well cleaned to tho Zoological authorities. Mr. Nash, of the University Hospital, will articu late them and make up the skeleton.” “Did you save her brain ?” “No, sir. We could not have done so without destroying partially the cere bral cavities. That’s a tumor, and it must have been a great affliction to the poor old girl.” The speaker pointed to a pulpy mass, weighing about eighty pounds that was lying upon a bench hard by. “Here is her heart —it was in the right place -and there is her liver. No tubercles in that, sir, though she was an East Indian. Do I regret her? I do, indeed ! you, get out;” and the Captain gave a kick at a little fox, which was fortunately far out of his reach, in order to vent his regret, to re lieve himself of the sorrow that was evidently affecting him. The “ Empi’ess ” was an unwieldy brute, and has of late been a source of great trouble and annoyance to the keepers of the Zoological Garden, but. her loss is a severe one to the Society, as her value, on account of her bulk and age, was great. The deceased “ Empress ” had a checkered oareer; but amid all her trials and troubles she was always good tempered and exhibit ed a kindly disposition that made her a favorite with all, Some years ago she fell through a bridge while on her travels with a me nagerie and sustained the spinal in juries which ultimately resulted in hex having to bo placed in slings under a derrick. Her ponderosity and great age were the final causes of her collapse. “La reine est mort!" murmured the re porter, as he left the dissecting place and followed the glare of the captain’s lantern down the asphalt path ways and out into the l-oadways leading home. A Northern Girl’s Opinion of South ern Girls. [Miss Constance Fenimore Wolston in the Cleveland Herald.] You can tell a Southern girl at once. She is rounder than her Northern sis ters, indeed, she is never thin or lank; sho walks with a languid step, and all her movements are slow and indolent; she is never alert. She has fine soft eyes with a serene expression, very different from the quick, keen eyes of the North; she has not the beautiful white and red complexion of New York and New England, rather is she sallow, with a few rose tints; you might call her cream-color. She never looks anxious, no matter what happens; she does not think she can help matters by her advice or interference, but sits back calmly and leaves everything to “brothel-,” or “pa,” pronouncing the latter word in a way I defy a Northern girl to imitate. The vvoi'd might be used as a shibboleth; it is not exactly “pay,” but half way between that and the sound of “a” in “cat.” Our South ern girl dresses picturesquely rather than trimly, and has brighter colors and more floating ends and curls about her than a Northern belle allows. She has pretty, plump hands, but she is not particular about the gloves that cover them—l mean particular com pared with Fifth Avenue rules. In short, she is a more voluminous sort of a girl in every way, and cares less about “the fashion.” She has one de cided advantage over the Northern girls, however, and that is her voice; it is sweeter and lower, a little triuante, perhaps, but essentially gentle and womanly. Sister Rose Everett, a niece of Ed ward Everett, is about to establish a convent at Dallas, Texas. She is at this time Mother Superior of the Convent of St, Vincent de Paul, Jefferson, Texas, HOW TO DOSE YELLOW JACK. Mount Vernon, July 30, 1875. To the Editor of the Ohio State Journal: During my residence iu Buenos Ayres, I passed through that fearful pestilence, the “ yellow fever,” where 25,000 died in ten weeks. After the following treatment was adopted many were saved : Put the patient into a hot bath, with plenty of mustard mixed with the water. When taken from the bath rub him with flannel, put to bed and cover with five or six blankets. The result will be, in a few minutes, a profuse per spiration. Be careful not to chill the patient. Soon after the bath give a large dose of castor oil. After this guard the appetite well, for there is strong desire to eat. If the patient is much exhausted after t.he operation of the oil, give small quantities of cham pagne. I think most cases can bo cured by this treatment if taken in time. R. C. K. An Arkansas Fisherman Finds the Dead Body of His Little Daughter Fastened to a Trot Line. [From the Memphis Avalanche.] A little distance below the ferry landing on the Arkansas shore, oppo site this city, is moored a boat owned by Dave Robinson, a fisherman, on which he and his family live. About 8 o’clock Wednesday evening, his little daughter Ada, aged about ten years, fell from the boat into the water and was drowned. Every effort possible was made to recover the body, but without success, and it was given up for lost, in the belief that the current had carried it down the stream beyond recovery. About daylight yesterday the fisher man made his daily visit to his trot lines, which were laid iu the river about 200 yards below his boat. He threw out the grappling hook, caught the lines, and proceeded to haul in; but, before many feet of the line had been recovered, he drew to the surface the dead body of his little daughter, fastened by the dress to one of the fish hooks. The child’s body had been carried down by the current until caught by the trot line, where it was held fast, and fished up next morning by the father. That Sneaking, Skulking Mr. Jaskins. (From the Detroit Free Press ] “Can I be protected here, Mister ?” asked a woman yesterday as she en tered the office of the Chief of Police. “Yes’m.” “Can my family—my innocent child ren—also be protected ?” she demand ed, striking the floor with her um brella. “Yes’m.” “If there is any law I want it,” she went on, dropping into a big arm-chair; “if there isn’t, I propose to take a club to him!” “My dear woman, this world is full of sorrow,” said the Captain, as he looked up from his writing ; “each one of us has his own separate and dis tinct grief to grieve over. Tell me yours !” “Do you know Joskins’” she asked. “Jaskins? Jaskins? Seems as if J had heard the name sometime.” “Man with a limp—one eye gone— red neck —sandy hair—got a skulking, sneaking way with him,” she said. “And he has stolen your poultry, eh ?” “Poultry? Naw ! It’s worse than poultry—it’s next to arson or murder!” “Go on, madam-go into the particu lars !” “Well, he boards next to me. I’m a widow. Been alone these fourteen years, and if I do say it myself, I’ve always had the respeetablest kind of name. I’ve a daughter Jane. She’s seventeen. She’s a good girl.” “Yes, madam.” “And that sneaking, skulking Jas kins is after her!” she exclaimed. “Possible !” “He just is! Was after me first. For weeks and weeks htAl hang around our gate, and smile at me and inquire if I wasn’t lonesome, and send up straw berries, and look his lovingest out of that one eye!” “And then ?” “ And then, when he found I wouldn’t marry him to save his neck, and he couldn’t get my property to run through with, what d’ye s’pose he done?” “ Cut his throat ?” “Naw! He turned right around and went to loving Jaue! He has sent notes to her in those pink, envel opes ; he has sent her bouquets and coeoanuts, and perfume and cherries, and he’s skulking around yet! I’ve talked and talked, but it don’t do no good. If sunthin’ ain’t done 1 believe Jane’ll marry him!” “ How does she act?” “ She’s grinning around and looking soft and loving like, and she won’t mind half I say, and is getting notes and writing answers, and—and—!” And she broke down. She wiped her eyes, softly rubbed her nose, and after a moment jumped up and demanded : “Is there any law !” “Lots of law—dead loads, madam.” “And you’ll put the law to him ?” “I will, madam—l’ll make this towm a voleano for him before he’s a week older!” “And you’ll break up the match ?” “Either that or break his back !” “Good! The police are worth sun thin’ after all! If you say you’ll wait on him and tell him he’s got to back right down or go to jail, I’ll chain Jane to the table-leg and sit by her for four weeks, but what I’ll make her forget him!” “I’ll do it, madam.” “Think of my Jane marrying a man with one eye ! and a red neck ! and a limp! O-h-h! when I think of that skulking Jaskins sneaking around my innocent Jane to make her his wife I could t-e-a-r his house down !” She sat down, and they fixed up a plan, and Mr. Jaskins had better leave for the West this very day. The Escape of Parker, The Columbia correspondence of the Charleston Neivs says: “Parker left his trunk and all his clothes, showing that he went off in disguse. A 15-inch cold chisel was found in his room, showing evidence of recent use. The Attorney General was sent for this momiDg, but telegraphed to Col. Rion to act in his place as he was unwell. Col. Rion arrived hero this afternoon, and has offered a reward of SSOO, in the name of the State, for the capture of Parker, and has telegraphed this fact to Charleston, Port Royal, Augusta and Wilmington. Sheriff Dent this evening has offered an additional reward of S2OO for the lodgment of Parker ip qqy jail of the State or the United States, and refers to Edw|q J. Scott & Cos., bankers, as to his responsibility for the prompt payment of the reward.” -New Series—Vol. 3. Mo. 5. WIT AND WISDOM. Tom Scott doesn’t bathe. Condensed beer is the latest. Most people are like eggs—too full of themselves to hold anything else. Now that glass which is not brittle has been invented, people who live in glass houses will be able to throw stones as safely as other people. About two thousand aged eggs awaited Messrs. Moody and Saukey if they had addressed the Eton hoys. What an eggs-ample for the youth of England. The report of a wedding in Kentucky concluded in this wise: “The bride was far from being handsome, but her fathei threw in a span of horses and seven mules, and the bridegroom was satisfied.” The aged father of Colonol Gilder sleeve publishes a card denying the statement made by certain Irish pa pers that the Cnlonel was born with a rifle in his mouth. A Jamaica boy, who was hit iu the stomach with a ball, retained breath enough to observe: “It’s lucky I j’ned the Sunday school;” and then curled up for the balance of the season. When you observe a lady drop a handkerchief in the street and not stop to pick it up, the chances are ten to one that she hasn’t got her stoop-over dress on.—Whitehall Times. She leans over the counter now and tells the clerk he had better cut off two yards for that drees pattern, as she will not have the skirt made as scant as some wears them. —Norwalk Chronicle. Most of the papers are a little tardy with their recipes for the cure of hy drophobia this year. Who can correct ly estimate the number of lives that have been lost in consequence of this neglect Fulton Times. “John, I wish you’d close that door,” said an irritable father to his son. Your mother must be scolding some body at the other end of the hall, there’s such a draft from that quarter.” “A child who was told that God was everywhere, asked, “In this room?” “Yes.” “In the closet?” “Yes.” “In the drawers of my desk ?” “Yes, everywhere. He’s in your pocket now.” “No, He ain’t though.” “And why not?” “Tauth I ain’t dot no pottet” “Maria,” observed Mr. Holcomb, as ho was putting on his clothes this morning, “there aiu’t no patch on them breeches yet.” “I can’t fix it now no way ; I’m too busy.” “Well, give me the patcli then, an’ I’ll carry it around with me,” added Holcomb. “I don’t want people to think I can’t afford the cloth.” The editor of the Cleveland Leader, when attacked in his office a few nights ago, bent an iron cane over the head of his assailant. If editors continue to receive belligerent visitors in this way, half the excitement of journalism will die out, for the bully with a grievance will never come arouud to have a little fun with the boys. Death of Alexander Hamilton’s Sou. Gen. Alexander Hamilton, son of the great Alexander Hamilton, of Ameri can history, died at his residence in New York, on Monday evening, after a long and painful illness. Mr. Hamilton was born in New York on May IG, 1786, and was consequently in his ninetieth year at the time of his death. He served in the war of 1812 as general in command of the old Sandy Hook Fort, and took active part in many of the minor engagements which were fought at that time. After the close of the war here he visited France, where he resided for a number of years. While in Europe he made a tour through Spain, which was then almost com pletely in possession of the French Government, and was present at the memorable engagement between French troops and the Spanish and English soldiers under command of the Duke of Wellington before Badajos. Ho re turned to New York in 1820, where he continued to reside with brief inter mission up to the time of his death. At the tune of the lamentable duel be tween his father and Aaron Burr, which was fought at Hoboken in 1801, the late Mr. Hamilton was attending school. He leaves no children behind him, so that his personal effects will probably be divided among his broth ers, of which three survive him, Joseph Alexander, aged eighty-eight years, John C., eighty-five, and Philip, seventy three. The Baby’s Weight. —Dr. Groussin, of Bellevue, has contrived a machine which he calls a berceau-balance or pesebebe, by means of which the anx ious young mother may assure herself from day to day, or even from hour to hour, that the baby is going on satis factorily as regards increase of weight. It consists of an ordinary cradle, to suit the taste, fitted with a balance un derneath, which will tell the exact weight of the cradle and its contents, without any need for disturbing the child. It is said that after two complete day’s life a child weighs about four ounces less than at birth. When a week old, it will be of the same weight as at birth. From seven days to five months the average increase should be three quarters of an ounce daily. At five months the weight should be double that at birth. At sixteen months the weight should be double that at five months. Of course, infants vary from time to time, and each individual has a rule of its own ; the great point is that growth ought to be constant. A. T. Stewart Deals with Mixs. O’Fjlanaoan.— Mrs. O’Flanagan is said to be the name of a lady who owned a piece of the Congress street property at Saratoga recently purchased by Mr. A. T. Stewart, the merchant prince. They are telling how she outwitted the great merchant. Mr. Stewart called and offered her $22,000 for her lot, in his usual brusque yet business-like way, and gave her till 4 o’clock to ac cept his offer. “Shure, Mr. Stewart, a brewer from Albany has offered me $33,000 for the pi-operty, and given me as long as I want to think about it. But I told him he could have it for $34,000 if he was back here by 3 o’clock. It is now ten minutes to 3. Ye can have it for $35,000 if yo get back be fore the brewer does.” The thought of a “brewry” in the neighborhood of the Grand Union Hotel did the business. Mr. Stewart closed with Mrs. O’Flana gan on the spot. A woman walked into a house iii Rutland, Vermont, where two red flags were displayed, and, sitting down, ask ed when it would oommence. “ What commence?” “ The auction, of course.” When told that the flags meant small pox, and not auction, she jumped up at least six feet., and then ran howling down the street.