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JOHN R. SEALS, - Editor and Proprietor W, b. SEALS, - Proprietor and Cor. Editor. HOS. MARY K. BKYAM (») Aanoclate Editor. ATT.ANTA, GEORGIA. SEPT. 21, 1878. The Red Cross. See the Red Mark on your pa per. It means that your subscription is out, and that we hope you will find it convenient to renew right away. Send along $2.50 without delay, and avoid missing a number of the paper. The Morals of Politicians.—It is cer tainly not much of a compliment to onr politic ians that the public are accustomed to judge of them by a different standard from that fcy which they judge other men. We often hear it re marked that such and such a man is honest for a politician, intimating that it is not expected that a politician should exhibit honesty of a very high type. Why is this ? Is it because they are placed in circumstances in which it is more than ordinarily difficult for one to be hon est? or is it that the practices of politicians: have brought them into such repute that people have ceased to expect integrity of them ? Well, somewhat of both. Since the game of office seeking has become what it is now, the politic ian must practice much of both simulation and dissimulation. He must, if he would move with the current, denounce what he believes and ap plaud what he abhors. Yet if this is now a ne cessity, it is of their own creation. They have followed the crooked when the straight might have done as well, until now it seems that devi ous ways only can lead to success. Onr people too encourage dishonesty by condoning so read ily the falsehoods and tergivisations of public men. The political acrobat, provided he exer cises judgment in making his leaps from one party to another, need not fear that bis record will be quoted against him very damagingly. Hfe can abandon his allies to-day and come back to them in a few months without serious loss of position or influence. If we are thus lenient in our judgments, how can we expect them to be honest? The remark of an Eoglish writer is en tirely too true, that the •American people care mnch for men, but very little for principles.’ Made Famous By an Accident - Fame is often due to some accidental circum stance. People go plodding along in an art or profession till some chance hit happens to strike the popular fancy and a wave of favor at once lifts the fortunate individual to fame and fortune. Many of the most celebrated authors, theii ckr.uuu to chance.” thought, unimportant stroke of the pen or the brush, some unpremeditated speech or action, some unlooked for incident or accident was the turning point of their fortune. The Empress Eugenie owed her prestige as a beauty—the pres tige which won for her the imperial crown which she has lost, and the millions of gold which she still retains—to a mishap. On her first appear ance at the court of Madrid, she attracted no at tention whatever, being simply a pale, quiet girl with no animation, and nothing of distinc tion about her. An accident brought her into notice and made her the fashion, ‘One day, the court being at Aranjuez, during a fete champetre, Mademoiselle de Montijo had the good or ill for tune to fall into one of the ornamental fishponds in the garden. She was taken out insensible, and her wet and clinging garments revealed a form of each statuesque perfection that all Mad rid went raving about her beauty. She plung ed a commonplace girl—she rose a Venus.’ Ma ny reputations for genius as well as beauty are due to such chance circumstances. * Aim at Deserving Bather than at Winning.—We once heard Hon. A. H. Ste phens in an address to the pupils of a school urge upon them that they should be more so- licitious about deserving than about winning the prize. The lesson is a wholesome one, and should be considered by grown np people as well as by youth. The opposite way of think, ing is one of the greatest evils of our day. Few, we fear, of the thousands who are seeking polit ical preferment have calmly considered their fitness for the positions to which they aspire.’ ‘I think, wrote a ‘ring’ master, ‘that our best men should be sent to the Convention, except myself; I wish to go anyhow.’ Such is the sen timent of a great many men who call themselves politicians but who are really only tricksters, who hunt office foi its honors and emoluments, without spending a moment in preparing for its duties. We have little patience with the cant about letting the office seek the man; this will do in Utopia, but not for our planet. There is no disgrace in a man’s wanting an office, and even using fair means to gain it, if he has faith fully striven to prepare himself for a discharge of its functions, and is earnestly desirous of do ing something for his country. The shame lies in there being an inordinate greed coupled with an utter lack of capacity. The school boy who is striving for the prize rather than for the ex cellence of which the prize is a symbol, would not scruDle to take advantage of his competitors in the contest if he finds that he can do so with impunity. As the boy is father to the man,this same boy, later in life will cheat bis opponents, and like our present acting Chief Magistrate, ac cept a position to which he is not entitled. Many men are no doubt induced to take office not by a sense of fitness for it, but because they find they can get it In a land where people choose heir rulers, it is popularity that seoures office, and popularity is no sure index of merit;—for the voice of the people is not the voice of God. The correspondent of theNsw York Dramatic News has been misinformed as to Joe Mortimer marrying Miss Ida Morris. Woman’s Heroism during tbe Pestilence —Dr. Holmes, somewhere in his •Aatocrat' Bays that the fine-natured woman is something like the fine-blooded horse—she rises to meet emergencies. The dainty Arabian, that starts and pricks her ears at every sound, steps gingerly, frets at the smallest fly-sting and seems utterly unfit for hard service, yet when the test comes that puts her to her mettle, will breast the hill, clear the ditch and five-barred gate,and de- velope a strength and endurance utterly beyond the capacity of the coarse, strong-looking cob. Something to this effect says the Autocrat,and his comparison is true as far as it goes. Women, whether of the Vere de Yere class or belonging to lower ranks of life, become heroic through their affections. Dainty, timid, or even indo lent as they may be in ordinary life, yet let an emergency call for courage, energy or self-sac. rifice, and these delicate women rise into hero ines. This was illustrated by the conduct of our women during the war between the States. It is now strikingly exemplified by the fortitude and fearless devotion of the women in the fever- scourged cities of the South. Instances are re ported of men deserting their trusts but women have been true to all the best instincts of wo manhood. Whil9 Donovan abandons his dying wife and children,and a son refugees to the Sprngs, leaving stranger hands to nurse and bury his parents, the mothers and wives,the sisters and daughters stand nobly to their duty, watch by their dear ones to the sorrowful end, or nurse them back to life, passing through horrors at which the imagination recoils and, in many in stances, prevailing upon their sons and husbands to fly from danger while they remain to face it that they may nurse some loved one already stricken by the destroyer. Numerous are theinstances of such devotion and courage on the part of women, that come to ns through the press of the afflicted cities, and through private letters—instances, not only of the heroic conduct of wives and mothers, but of women who have no tie of blood or previous friendship with those whom they attend so faith fully, and to alleviate whose sufferings they ex pose themselves to danger and death. Among these are the noble Sisters of Charity, and the women who have volunteered their services as nurses and who will accept no remuneration. Many of these have come from Northern cities, and their self-sacrificing charity will never be forgotten by our people. Of those who recently left Washington to go to New Orleans as nurses, the majority were women, none of whom were driven to what they did through poverty. They went from a sense of duty and an overpowering impulse of pity. Friends tried in vain to dis suade them from their purpose. ‘It is almost certain death,’ they said. ‘And you will be no better than menials. All the best people have left these plague-stricken cities; only poor per sons and negroes are there. You will have to wait upon them.’ ‘All the more need that we should go,’replied a quiet, determined-looking lady. The rich can hire service, the poor must depend on the char ity of their human brothers and sisters, and they must not count upon it in vain.’ So they went on their noble mission. It was more heroic than the riding of the famous six Fagging ami Hazing.—Charles Dick ens deserves the everlasting gratitude of school boys for having shown up m such strong col ors the wrongs to which they were subjected by tyrannical masters. But neither he nor so far as we know, anyother writer has sufficiently portrayed injuries inflicted upon the younger and weaker boys in school by the older. Fag ging has long been the custom in the English schools. By this is meant a system of bullying on tbe part of the larger pupils by which the younger or weaker are oompelled to perform for them many menial services. In our Southern schools this has been wholly unknown; nor are we aware that it has existed to any great extent in the schools at the North. We have been told however that it prevails at the Military Acade my at West Point under the name of hazing, and that every new Cadet who enters there is ‘brok en in’ until he is willing to sweep, or bring wa ter or brush the books for any one of the higher classes who may order him. This is kept up, we presume, without the knowledge or consent of those who have the institution in charge. Oc casionally some of them are caught ‘hazing’ and sent away in disgrace; but they are inspired with such a dread of being frowned down as in formers, that even those who snffer most are afraid to complain. The whole system is most iniquitous and no pains should be spared by the officers in breaking it up. If thought de sirable that all of army officers should be such as the oppressor ot New Orleans and the de stroyer of Columbia, fagging may be a very good thing. But it is utterly repugnant to that gen erous nobility of soul that should mark the character of every soldier. The “Spartan Sisterhood”—A New Society—Leap Year is not far off and as an early out-shoot of what it may bring we have a number of unmarried ladies forming them selves into a secret society called the ‘Spartan Sisterhoood.’ Their platform is a profound se cret, but there are whispers of a petition to be sent to Congress. What may be its purport we can only conjecture, but to assist our imagina tion it may be useful to rub up our history and remember what treatment was administered upon old bachelors and non-marrying men in the days of the Spartan Republic. History tell g us that if a man did not marry at a certain age in Sparta he was forbidden to present himself at any of the national games and festivities, es pecially at the athletic exercises of the young girls. This itself was tantamount to disgrace; but the punishment did not by any means end here: One wintry day in each year the miser able delinquents were brought together, strip ped of all their outer clothing and forced to go round and round the agora singing a song, set ting forth how disgraceful their own oondnet was in disobeying the laws of their country. The women also, at a certain festival, dragged these misguided individuals round an altar, in flicting blows on them all the time. This account of the treatment of non-marrying men in Sparta is enough to make the blood run cold in a bachelor’s veins when he remembers that history repeats itself—that onr women have taken to cultivating their muscles, and that a so ciety calling itself the ‘Spartan Sisterhood’ has come into existence. We do not like to assume the attitude of an agitator, but really it looks ominous for tbe bachelors. Mrs. Howard.—Few know of the later life of the mistress of Louis Napoleon who had been the partner of his days of exile and ill fortune, who had given him her earnings from her pro fession and empoverished herself in his service, and devoted herself to farthering his ambitions aims with a persistency worthy of a better cause. After Napoleon’s marriage with Eugenie, he de termined to get rid of Mrs. Howard. He would not go about this honestly. ‘A frank and open rupture was not in the style or the ideas of her royal and sphinx-like lover. A pretended secret mission to England lured her from Paris. She learned the truth at Boulogne, and hastened back to her home. There she found that her hotel had been visited by the police, and that a cabinet wherein she kept the letters of Lou is Napoleon had been broken open and rifled of its contents. Deeply wounded by the treatment she had received, she withdrew, not without dignity, from all attempt at contesting the po sition with her rival. ‘I go,’ she wrote to Napo leon, ‘a second Josephine, bearing with me yonr star.’ To do justice to the emperor, it must be confessed that he treated her in other respects with royal liberality. The title of Countess of Beauregard and a fortune of a million of dollars was allotted to her. She withdrew to England where she afterward married. In 1865 a great longing to behold Paris once more, came upon her. Her youth and beanty gone, a worn, dis appointed aud unhappy woman (for her marri age had turned out most wretchedly) she return ed to Paris only to die. Her oldest son succeed ed in the title of Count de Beauregard, and was made consul at Zanzibar. Since the down fall of the empire he has lived a sort of Bohemi an existance in Paris, where his striking resem blance to Lonis Napoleon has won for him the nickname of ‘the ghost’ tie revenant. Castle Stewart.—Of this huge and cost ly architectural pile, built by the rich Nevada senator, Stewart, and lately unroofed by the storm, a recent Washington exchange says that though a palace with an interior as gorgeous as its outer look, is uncouth and barbarous, it bids fair to be a ruin, for men, these hard times, shrink from either its rent or purchase. Then, an ill odor seems to attach to this pa latial mansion and the writer alluded to says: ‘Probably there is nothing about Washington that so fairly lepresents the social period under Grant; the power of mere money, the influence of a coarse sort of play, with all their suggestive ness that fetch np to the mind’s eye the Robe sons, Belknaps, Williamses and that host of fast men and fair women, in their ruddy counte nances, rustling silks, velvets, satins, diamonds and flashing display. And all are gone, as if a century had swept over them,and this huge pile alone remains a record of their reign. We walk ed through the lofty halls on heavy carpeting or costly floors of rare woods, and heard our steps echo along the painted ceilings and saw the dust gathered on beautiful furniture gradually going to decay. About us were the ghosts of tbe bu ried past. The throng returned to the mind’s eye, of scheming men and intriguing women, some bent on love and pleasure, but mostly in triguing to defraud the people, not only of their hard-earned ta'vea, but, as a necessary conse quence, of their liberty and rights. Did real life ever before exhibit such a romance of strange people and strange adventures ? The ^^djkndJroD^^the offdDding, the man upon short time previous an inebriate, making a pre carious living by hauling wood into St. Louis, and avoided as a nuisance by all his fellow-men. Of those who followed, flattered, sought and sued, there was scarcely one who has not left his memory for bad a stain upon our govern ment. They are all gone, let us hope, forever.’ * Taste versus Money.—‘All taste, I assure sir,’ the cost has been but a trifle,’ said a lady, as we were admiring the elegant suits of three young misses whom she introduced to us as her daughters. Tasteful they certainiy were, and spoke highly in favor of Demorest of whom the mother is an admiring patron. But being both critical and a little skeptical, we were disposed to ‘investigate’ a little into the triflingness of the cost. It was indeed cheap enough valued by the yard—not more than twenty-five cents. But oh the number of the yards! In that complicated mass of folds, ruffles and plaitings there could not have been less than fifteen or twenty yards —quite enough to have made two dresses in the days of our mothers. Moreover when the mate rial has been cut up into all these diverse shape it cannot afterwards be utilized when the next new moon shall bring a change of style. So, good madame, while we heartily admire the taste displayed in making up your daughter’s dresses, do not ask us to commend it on the score of economy. The prevailing mode for misses or for grown up ladies is not suited to slender purses of our day. Tlie Grave of Admiral Sciiinies — The following letter is from a distinguished lady of Alabama. The regret and surprise she feels at seeing the grave of the brave, good and world-famous Admiral Semmes ‘unmarked by stone or carven line’ will be shared by every southerner: ‘While in Mobile, a few weeks since, I visited the grave of Admiral Semmes. Only a mound of earth, covered with rare flowers, marks the last resting place of Alabama’s great hero !—No mar ble tablet records his devoted patriotism chival rous heroism, and self abnegation, in sacrificing all save honor, in defence of his country! His indomitable courage, love of truth, justice, and liberty,(.indigenous to his noble nature) enabled him, to perform deeds of wondrous valor, in the strife of the right with the wron g —’ which will live in soDg,and story—. Truly ‘His fame on brightest pages,’ Will go down to future ages,’ and no other monument is needed for the illus trious dead ! But the South, ought not to let her national horizon, be darkened, by the cloud of ingratitude.—Especially Alabama, the state he loved, the name he made world-renowned she should not suffer this odium to rest on that name-, in thus neglecting the grave of her great champion! I believe, if solicited, every true woman, and brave man will gladly aid in the erection of an appropiate monument for one who has done so much for our liberty. G. Closing of the ‘Bloody Chasm ’-The prompt response of the North to the fever-af flicted South, the heartfelt sympathy that has been expressed by Northern communities and the abundant aid, money, provisions and per sonal service that they have given to relieve the distressed occasioned by the terrible pestilence —these spontaneous tokens of brotherhood and kindly feeling have done more to heal the old wounds made by the war and the newer ones inflicted by party malice and injustice since the surrender than all the reconstruction policies and peace speeches of politicians. In this way, the South's awful affliction has been beneficial. The prompt and earnest manner in which the North has come to her relief, closes the old chasm of resentment and restores the unity of feeling more effectually than costly Centennial Exhibitions or political sops to Cerberus, con cessions that had no heart in them, and were wrung from cold and calculating policy. Now, the people speak to the people through the elec tric medium of sympathy and not through po litical mouth-pieces. We can understand and appreciate this kindness. It has nothing hid den and crafty in it. The messages of compas sion and comfort sent from press and pulpit, the days set apart for fasting and prayer in be half of the ‘distressed South,’ the generous do nations of money and provisions aud of personal help from the North have done more to restore unanimity and brotherhood of feeling than all the eloquence of assemblies or the machinations of policy. * Are we all Insane f - A Roman Poet having considered the different weaknesses of men, was led to utter the sweeping declaration that we are all insane. Perhaps he was correct; —he was certainly so if the standard of sanity be one who has equal ability in everything, without a weakness or a special aptitude in any direction; for such people are not to be found. But we should erect no such standard. Twere folly to pronounce Pope insane because he was much concerned about the making of verses, while he cared very little for the making of shoes, and it would be quite absurd to pro nounce all unsound of mind who are too deeply engrossed in the rearing of corn to care for the wonders of the phonograph. The truth is that either a perfectly sound body, or a perfectly sound mind is hard to find in these days;—but from the very nature of the case it is more diffi cult to determine the character and extent of mental than of physical malodies, Many a mind is like a chime of bells all out of tune, while no one is wise enough to tell of its de rangement. Pariflcatioh by Fire— Letter from New Or leans.— Dear Sunny South:—I read and heartily indorse your ‘Suggestion’ (in last week’s paper) that fires be kindled on the premises as a pre ventive of yellow fever. I had read a similar suggestion from you in the Sunny South two years ago, and remembering it I have had fires kindled in my yard and bedrooms at nightfall ever since the fever became epidemic. My fam ily of six persons have escaped the dreadful dis ease. I sent my copy of the Sunny South with yonr suggestion marked to one of our daily pa pers yesterday, but I see in this morning’s Times that a general purification by fire has been ear- nnnn the Citv authorities by a communication purporting to express the wishes of many citizens. I clip the article from the Times and send it to you. It is entitled ‘The Whole City to be Thoroughly Fumigated.’ To the Editors of the New Orleans Times; Gent lemen:—It being the universal opinion of our old citizens that a thorough fumigation of the city of New Orleans will immediately destroy the fevers now prevailing in our midst, will you, for charity’s and humanity’s sake, advertise for three consecutive days that all good citizens are requested to build fires, of anything that will make plenty of smoke and flame, from a half to one hour in the street in front of their premises, also in their yards, if possible, twice a day for a few days—say at seven o’clock punctually, every morning and evening, beginning Friday morn ing, the 13th instant. Since the first publica tion of this nature a great many people have built fires, but to produce good it must be uni versal . The purifications and disinfecting such as we have had never did nor ever will do any good, any more than a mans’s washing his feet to cleanse his dirty face. D. E. M. The Prayer of Balaam.—The Prophet into whose mouth Goil put blessings when he was urged and perhaps himself wished to pronounce curses, utter ed no uncommon prayer when he besought that he might die the death of the righteous. All men de sire to die well;—doubtless there are few who do not flatter themselves that they will do so. But not many are willing to purchase a good death by living a good life. Amid the pleasures of doing wrong they forget that each sin must inevitably entail suffer ing, and thus they go on forgetting that day of reck oning that will surely come. To the outward seem ing however, there is no striking contrast between the death scenes of the righteous and the wicked. Hope does not always hover with radiant wing around the departing saint making all bright and glorious by the light of his presence. On the other hand many whose lives have been marked by shame and guilt have died calmly, with strong faith in a better state beyond the grave. We have no assur ance that in the extreme moment the conscience is any less swayed by that self-deluding sophistry which persuades one that wrong is right than at any other period of existence. Men must be judged not by the manner oftlieir entrances or exits, but by the way in which they discharge their duties while on the stage of existence. Adopt the prayer of Balaam if you will;—but supplement it by trying to live a good life. Yellow Fever Memphis, Sept. 12.-Weather cool enon|J for over-coats, but fever still unabated. Ninety- eight deaths, among them Herbert Landrum city Editor of the Memphis Avalanohe, a young and talented man, who stood to his post of duty through all the trying time of the pestilence. His father, Rev. Dr, Landrum, well known and beloved through Georgia, was smitten with fe ver while watching at the bedside of his dy g son and is now very ilL New Orleans, Sept. 12.-Two hundred and seventy-seven new eases reported by tne U - ards. Ninety-four by the y°ung men s^ Chris tian Association. From noon till 6 p. m. there were twenty-two deaths. Vicksburg, Sept. 11.-Weather quite cool, but little abatement of the plague. Deaths 42 yes terday-31 to-day. Drs. Potts, Blitchfield and Norris who voluntarily went from Chattanooga to aid the sufferers are dead and so are several of the nurses who went from Chattanooga. Mr. Norvell, one of the Editors of the New Or leans Democrat, died of yellow fever under very pathetic circumstances. He was a native of Lvnchbnrg, Va., and had served gallantly through the civil war in the Confederate army. At the beginning of the epidemio, he refused to leave the city and allying nimself with the How ards, did all he could to alleviate the sufferings of the sick and destitute. His philanthropy was the cause of his death. He was smitten with fever at the same time with his little boy. To gether they lay sick in the same bed, together they died. The tie that bound them together was unusually strong. Norvell was a devoted father, wholly wrapped up in his boy; the child, handsome, precocious, extraordinarily develop ed for his age, was glad to lie by his father. He had often expressed a desire to die at the same time with his father. Heaven granted his pray er- The little boy expired yesterday morning, and the father, shocked by the child’s death, soon followed. ‘In death they were not separ ated.’ He leaves behind him a widow who has shown her heroism in this terrible catastrophe, which tore from her her husband and her only child. With strength of mind and courage pos sessed by few she nursed these, her dearest ones, to the very moment of their death, refusing her self rest or sleep. Augusta, Ga., Sept. II.—Augusta has con tributed S3,300 to the fever sufferers. Thomas- ville sends $640 to the Howard association at Memphis. Boston, Sept. 11.—The Wenhem Ice company, having offered to load ten cars with ice daily for fivd days for the Memphis sufferers, the connect ing railroad lines agree to transport it free. The first five cars will leave Boston to-night via the Boston and Albany railroad, marked; ‘For the Yellow Fever Sufferers, Memphis, Tenn.’ Chicago, Sept. 11.—The receipts from yester day’s great picnic were over $10,000. The en tire amount goes to the afflicted southern cities. The total amount raised here up to noon to-day, and regularly reported, is $57,838. Holly Springs, Sept. 11.—Deaths yesterday and to-day, 18; new cases, 12. We need doc tors, supplies and money. Grenada, Sept. 7..—J. G. Fountain, Herald correspondent, and W. F. Ball, railroad agent, were stricken to-day. Since last report there have been eight deaths and four new cases. The malignity of the fever surpasses anything in the previous experience of the oldest physician. Very few escape when attacked. Grenada is no longer a city, it is a morgue. How They Buy and Sell in Madrid. A nut-brown maid is attracted by a brilliant red and yellow scarf. She asks the sleepy mer chant, nodding before his wares: ‘What is this rag worth ?’ He answers with profound indifference: ‘Ten reals.’ ‘Hombre ! Are you dreaming or crazy ?’ She drops the coveted neck gear, and moves on apparently horror stricken. ‘Don’t be rash ! The scarf is worth twenty reals; but for the sake of Sanctissima Maria, I of fer it to you at half price.—Very well! You are not suited. What will you give?’ ‘Caramba ! Am I a buyer and seller as well ? The thing is worth three reals—more is simply robbery.’ ‘Marie! Jose ! and all the family ! We can not trade. Sooner than sell for eight reals I shall raise the cover of my brains ! Go thou ! It is eight in the morning, and still thou dream - est.’ She lays down the scarf reluctantlv, saying, ‘Five. ’ But the outraged merchant snorts scornfully: ‘Eight was my last word ! Go !’ She moves away, thinking how well that scarf would look in the Apollo Gardens, and casts over her shonlder a Parthian glance, and bids— ‘Six !’ ‘Take it! It is madness, but I cannot wa r my time in bargaining.’ Both congratulate themselves on the opera tion. He would have taken five, and she would have given seven. Fall Fashions, Amusements—The various entertain ments given in the city daring the week for the benefit of the yellow fever sufferers have all been quite successful and realized handsome sums. The Templeton Star Alliance will begin an engagement on Monday Evening which will be brilliant in every particular. John Templeton is an old favorite with Atlanta audiences and his little Fay is one of the prodigies of the stage. They will probably give an entertainment daring the week for the yellow fever fund. The Citizens’ Entertainment has been post poned until next Thursday evening. It will take place at the Opera House and consist of a Singing Match between the two excellent Quar tette Clubs of this city; the recital of a drama tic poem (original) by Mrs. Bryan and a lecture, not exceeding an hour in length, by Dr. Browne, of the Jewish South. A splendid gold medal has been made and engraved to order and will be donated by Mr. Haas to the young lady sell ing the most tickets for the occasion. It is on exhibition at the jewelry store of Mr. Stevenson, Whitehall street. The New York Herald gives a map of the in flicted districts of New Orleans, which the Times of the latter city says is incorrect. The Herald asserting that the greatest mortality has occur red in the ‘old, ill ventilated houses of the French quarter and along the canals and basins which are the filthiest in the United States, the Times corrects the statement and says the French quar ter of tne city is not badly ventilated, and that along the canals and basins there is not mnch fever. ‘The resoirvoir and hot-bed of the dis- ease is the low and badly drained, but compar atively new quarter between Magazine street and the river.’ What is Going to be Worn. The short frock will be short indeed, clearing the pavement perfectly , and necessitating the wearing of the neatest and most jaunty of boots and encouraging the use of fancy stockings’. ‘Tne kilt’ will be varied by the short, round skirt, trimmed with a kilt plaiting at the bottom; overskirts will accompany utility costumes, varied by trimming appliances on more dainty confections, with the general ef fect of the overskirt; polonaises will assert claim to the notice so long held by them • while the prevailing fancy, it seems, will run into jaokets and vests;-the Louis XIV. style, not ably. On all woolen stnffs, the garniture will be applied as flatly as possible; and indications 8 ®?g est ‘ or later ’ the ne »t. simple finish of the stitched hem—effectiveness being relied on in drapery rather than in extraneous trim ming. Jetted and fancy beaded garniture still pre sent the luxuriousness which both charmed and astonished in the Spring, while the former will , have precedence m popularity oyer the lat- *«•„ Th ° s m °ch from information at hand: we shall perhaps oe compelled to modify our pre- dictions m regard to what will definitely remain as distinctive of the coming season, aud further TIT- 68 lntrodnce to notice many things' esting! 1 fabncs and trimmings, novel and iuter- waTs^te^whif tyl6 ’ "reprehended in the long waist fatted with corset-like exactness and of a make Thel« Zm £ Ce !| tain aust erity of cut and n e » in gZS l‘*™ h d,gtM ° f mJSES - ! has g0ne from North Carolina olaiminc? nnrBe yellow-fever patients, “Fl- 411 dootor8 will agree from thedisease.* 118 1 “ b,t 84788 ““ immunit yj