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COAD-KIOHT. UOOD-BVE.
Say not good-bye! Dear friend, from thee
A word too sad that word would be.
Say not good-bye! Say but good-night.
And say it with thy tender, light,
Caressing voice that links the bliss
Of yet another day with this.
Say but good-Dight!
Say Not good-bye! Say Nit good-night;
A word that blesses In its flight,
In leaving bopeofmany a kind.
Sweet day like this we leave behind.
Say but good-night! Oh! never say
A word that teketh thee away!
Say but good-night:
Gsod-night!
I* It OF. J. C. WOODRUFF.
An exchange says; It is less than a month since
the “Woodruff scientific exhibition around the
world ” about which much has been heard for some
years' was abandoned for lack of public support —
To-dav Mr J C Woodruff, the promoter of the
enterprise, died from the efforts of prolonged anx
iety and disappointmet. For six years past the
proposed expedition was Mr Woodruffs sole
thought and ambition. He could not give up his
cherished dream, and hardly had the failures of his
endeavors to start the steamship (general VVerder
around the world been announced, before he was
at work on new schemes for the accomplisnrnent of
his purpose. It is stated that a week ago yesterday
he succeeded in placing his scheme for a floating
college on a solid financial basis, having secured the
necessary backing in Boston to enable him to set
his expedition afloat, regardless of the financial
question trusting to its results to insure the success
ol the enterprise in future. He died °f apoplexy,
after a week’s suffering. He was born at Auburn
N Y in 1X4O He served as lieutenant in the late
war and afterward removed to Indianapolis, where,
by the introduction of a new system of water-works,
he amassed considerable fortune and fame.
THE RESTLESS RACE.
What Will the Negro Do With Him
self.
BY HARRY EVHLYN.
The negro exodus from the South to Kansas has
attracted a great deal of attention in all parts of
the country, much more than any previous move-
ment of that race, anil it should be considered calm**
ly and in the light of reason and experience, so far
as we have any experience applicable to the case
by which to be guided. It has been treated as a
movement in the interest of a political partv to al-
fect elections in the future, and it has also been re
garded as having been instigated by speculators
and sharpers, who have looked upon the negro as
game to be plucked ever since he became a free
man There is probably a good deal of both and
considerable of neither in this movementamong the
negroes. Much of it is what, is denominated in the
slang of the time “pure cussedness,” so far as the
negroes themselves are concerned. It may be dif
ficult to ascertain “the true inwardness of this last
freak of the negro, but not to state results likely to
follow and who are to be the sufferers.
Col A. D. Banks, of Mississ ppi, who was recent
l v i n Washington, and who had suffered some on
his plantation from the irruption of the emissaries
of this movement, stated that somebody had gone
through the plantation and distributed miniature
United States’flags, such as are sfbld at the toy
stores an 1 the negroes were told that each one of
these flags stuck up anywhere in Kansas was good
for sixty acres of land, and they were all ready < to
go:” and that they expected to get to Kansas on
w'i it thev considered transportation certificates.
A lot of bogus transportation orders were distribu
te along with the flags, on which they confidently
expected to be taken to the laritt of promise. The
New Orleans Times states that the Negroes 111 Lou
isiana had been operated upon m a similar way .
The Lexington, Ky., Transcript says.
-An e.t tour years ago we were in the western
portion of Kansas, and saw the first black wave
that reached that locality. It was composed of
Tennessee darki* s, many of them entirely destitute
and who had barely money enough tc. pay^ then-
railroad fare to the Eldorado. The whole matter
ot negro emigration to Kansas was gotten up by
land agents, and for the enriching of their purses.
18 A Mississippi planter, who was .interviewed at
Memphis by a correspondent, of the Louisiana
(W Journal, gave this view as to the investiga
ted-ause of the exodus- “The first intimation I
tv The envelope contained printed circulars from
brought
out in the most extravagant manner on paper and
i 1 • tu.it- more negroes have not left than
thing to etch
*'ThH mnv-luom ol the negroes eosomed snel. pro-
r „o„s ..toel^n »Fjg5*-»SgC
cau^offf and to meet the demands of the negroes
if thev-had any to make that were reasonable. Ac-
cer.iihgiy
mtildU to rep e r.»...tHtive men ot both
races. \he committee on resolutions reported that
thev hail inquired into the causes which had given
rise to the recent exodus of the colored population
as far as possible within the limited
therm and that while these causes were d^etdt to
ascertain, owing to exceptional.^es of aU kinds
brought to their attention, they believed m e
S .0 include those which might be considered
that the colored race shall be accorded the practi
cal enjoyment of all rights, civil and political,
guaranteed by said Constitution and laws.
Resolved, That, to this end, the members of this
Convention pledge themselves to use whatever
power and influence they possess to protect the Col
ored Race against all dangers in respect to the fair
expression of their wills at the polls, which they- aps
prebend may result from fraud, intimidation, or
bulldozing on the part of the whites; and, as there
can be no liberty of action without freedom of
thought, demand that all elections shall be free and
fair, and that no repressive measures shall be em
ployed by colored people to deprive their own race
of their fullest freedom in the exercise of the high
est -light of citizenship.
The resolutions were adopted. Only the white
members voted, as the negroes, under instructions
from their leaders, refrained from giving expres
sion. And thus ended this effort at “accommoda
tion ”
A fellow named Conway interviewed President
Hayes touching this movement to unsettle the la
bor of the South, who assured him that it was a
legitimate enterprise, and that Conway should be
protected in his efforts to remove negroes to Kan
sas- With this endorsement, this fellow hied off to
the North to solicit contributions of money to aid
in transporting the negroes to Kansas—not to aid
in purchasing homes for them and to make them
otherwise comfortable, but to transport them there
and leave them to destitution in a land where it
cannot be truthfully said they are wanted. The
following extract from a speech at Boston is a speci-
i men of the twaddle with which this lunatic—for he
is a fitter subject for the lunatic asylum than to be
i roaming the country advocating such a cause—en-
i tertains those people of the North who believe that
j nothing good can come out of the South;
| “VVe will go to Cincinnati in a few days with
; money got in Philadelphia, Boston, New \ork,Bal
timore, IFashington and elsewhere, and we will
is only necessary that he have the means to do so.
He will learn only in that severest of schools, ex- !
perience, and perhaps when he “sees the elephant,” j
as he surely will, he will be prepared to settle down '■
and make a better citizen. Already quite a num
ber of these deluded blacks have retraced their
steps, repenting sorely the folly which led them to
spend the little they- had saved of their earnings in i
an attempt to find homes among strangers in a j
strange land. They tell pitiable tales as to how j
they have been duped. A venerable old man told
an affecting story at St. Louis- “TFese done corned
back,” said he, “cozef we’d staid we’d all die,shuah. 1
Dar is de people at Wyandotte, lyin’ along de banks !
an’ dyin’ like sheep. De climate is somethin’ dey ;
ain’t used to, an’ dey gets pleurisy an’ pneumonia
an’ den dey dies. More’n two hundred has been
buried already, an’ dere wuz lots moah sick when
we left ’em. Dey begged, some of ’em, to come
with us, but dat couldn’t be, an’ so dey stays dar
ter die.” An intelligent young man gave to a
crowd of listeners on the levee an account of the
wanderings of himself and party. “We went out
there,” said he, “with some money, and they told
us that with a little start we could get along well.
They said there was plenty of good land and that
we could have it to work. Well, most of us didn’t
get as far as that land, but some of us did, and just
t j see it was enough. There was nothing but fiat
prairie alongside the railroad, no trees, no houses,
no nothing. If you had a house there you wouldn’t
have anything to live on, and if you could raise
any crops it would take you six weeks to go to
mill. It was j st starve, that was ail there was of
it, and we got back to Wyandotte as quick as we
could.” “Why didn’t you buy a place near one of
the towns, if you had the money ?” was asked.
“Some of you had money, you said. What did you
do with it ?” The man who had been in Kansas an
swered^ the last question very curtly; “We had to
eat it up.”
Among the returned refugees from Wyandotte
proximate'^“The low price of cotton and partial
FaUureffithe crop of the past year; the irrational
svstetn of planting adopted in some sections, where-
b'v labor was deprived of the intelligence to direct
and the presence of economy to make it profitable,
a victous s^tem of credit fostered by laws permit
ting laborers and tenants to mortgage crops before
thev were grown, or even planted; apprehensions
on the part of many colored people produced by
insiduous reports circulated among them that their
civil a mi politteal rights are endangered or likely to
be hurtful, false rumors diligently disseminated
that bvemigrating to Kansas the colored people
would have obtained land, mules, money, etc., from
the government, without cost to the .-selves, and
become independent farmers. . , , t) t ,i. e
The committee say they were astonished that the
colored people could be induced to credit the idle
stories* of a promised land, where their wants
would be supplied and their independence teenred
without exert ion on their part. It w as goin 0 to the
Stent of ignorance and c-edulitv to credit them
ye ,Widen?* Of an undoubted character was fur-
nisNd the committee that such was the tact and
that u was one of the factors of the movement. The
committee add that there are in the of M.s-
-issi:>pi alone s.500,000 acres ot land belonging to
tli* United States now subject to homestead entries
and that anv thrifty colore 1 man m the ^uth can
preempt one hundred and sixty acres of kndatthe
moderate cost of about eighteen dollars Land m
Kansas cannot be acquired foi ie.-s. thej believe
tint the legislation of the State should be -tiaped so
as to foster habits of industry among the colored
people elevate the standar i of -oca: mor Is. and
improve and preserve the common school system.
DLrevardi.n the past, burying its dead with it,
standing upon the living present, and *\ope_
fullvto the future, the committee hmk their duty
accomplished when they have adopted and report-
pd fche^e and other resolutions:
H sofvrct That the interest of planters, laborers
and landlords, and tenants are identical; that they
must i irosper and suffer together: that it is the du-
Fvot planters and landlords ot the fc-tate here lep-
. - > devise and adopt some contract system
v- - iborers and tenants by winch both parties
v ,[ iv,- ive the full benefits of labor governed by
iut IliRcnce and economy. .
, That this Convention does afhi m that
th l colored’ race has been placed by t he constitution
of th* United States and fee States here represent-
1 ml fee laws thereof, on a plane ot absolute 1-s
gai equality with the white race, and does declare
PROF. J. C. WOODRUFF.
charter a boat and have her carefully registered,
and we will raise the stars and stripes over her,
and we will have a crew of good Christian men,
and then we will attempt to go down the river and
do a work of charity and humanity. If we are at
tacked we will exercise the first right of self-pres-
ervation, namely—self-defense. Then we will ask
the President to keep his pledge and execute the
law, and, judging from the furor created in the
South when he told the Rev. John Turner and my
self that he would do this, I am led to think he will
do it, and do it as the successor of Lincoln and
Grant ought to do it.”
This author of this rigmarole means nothing good
to the blacks any more than to the whites of the
South, and it is not probable that the contributions
given him will be turned to any account from
which the negroes will derive the smallest substan
tial benefit.
One planter said: “I have advised some of the
negioes to stay at home and let well enough alone;
but they have got the Kansas fever, and I guess
the best thing for us to do is to let them alone until
the fever goes down. ” The experience of this plant
er is that of almost every planter in the South
where the Kansas fever has found a victim. The
negro has got the fever, and will listen to no one
who opposes the scheme. He will learn only by
experience that he had better not only “let well
enough alone,” but try to make even that better;
and so he will go to Kansas, if he can raise the
means to pay the expenses of the trip, and leave
the future to provide for itself. The negro is mak
ing where he is. It is certainly not all he should
make, but then none of the race starve, and it is
their own fault that they do not live better, for
their labor is always in demand at fair wages.
Whatever may have been the cause of this move
ment of negroes toward Kansas, it is evident that
the people of that State do not want the blacks in
the numbers in which they are pouring in upon
them. The New York Sun stated in the early
stages of this movement that “however well dis
posed the people of Kansas and the Northwest may
be, they are in no condition at this time to have
thrown upon them thousands of idle blacks who
will herd in the cities and towns, and ultimately for
the want of steady employment, become a serious
burden on the communities where they may settle
down.” And now we have a verification of the
truth of this statement. The Kansas City Times
j says:
| “Kansas grappled nobly with the negro exodus
problem, but got badly floored. If any State in
, the Union has acquired a right to “kick” against
the negro exodus, it is the State of Kansas, and
Kansas is kicking lustily. She doesn't want any
| more negro immigration at present. Leavenworth
and Atchison have declared emphatically that the
negroes are welcome to every part of Kansas, ex-
j cepting these two cities. Topeka has all she can
accommodate unless the citizens offer their private
domiciles as barracks, and St. John converts the
Executive Mansion into hospital quarters. Law--
J rence is as philanthropic as ever, but will pay a
i liberal per capita on several hundred refugees to
anybody who will start a negro exodus from the
Historic City. Wyandotte has organized a citizen’s
committee to protect herself against any further in
vasion, and declares that no more refugees shall be
' landed at that point. The few hundred still re
maining there have been dying at the rate of three
or four per day, an i thirty on the sick list of yes
terday are reported past recovery. The treasury
is almost empty, and soou the citizens will be called
upon for further donations in support of these in
firm aud helpless creatures who would otherwise
die of hunger and privation. But in the face of
this wretched spectacle, and the general protest
welling up from all parts of Kansas that the peo
ple are unable to provide for this pauper immigra
tion, comes the notification that eight hundred
more negro refugees have been shipped from St.
L >uis, bound for "the happy land of Kansas.”
The negro is a free man, and it is his right to go
where he pleases. If he would like to try his for
tune in the great West, as many thousands of white
men have done, it is certainly his privilege and it
was a man named Wm. Nervis, who is reported to
be “exceptionally intelligent.” He was among the
first to go to Kansas, had sought work in vain and
became absolutely destitute,like hundreds of others.
He said that he had gone out in Kansas as far as
Topeka, aud had been also at Nicodemus, about two
hundred miles from Wyandotte. The colored
committee and white men who received the refugees
at Wyandotte and other places had said there
was work and land for them in the interior, and
such as had any funds left continued their journey
to where these promised lands were located. Nico
demus was one of these places, and here Nervis
went. He found a shabby little town, he said, no
work and no pay for any one, and lying about the
town a flat prairie, the very sight of which gave
him a chill. There was no timber to build houses
with, and, even with houses to live in, people with
no money to sustain them in getting a start must
starve. Nervis returned to Wyandotte, where he
was taken sick and where he got the chance to re
turn South as already discribed Among those
who were informed of his good luck was one who
betrayed him and who reported that he was trying
to persuade the refugees to go back to the planta
tions. The result was that Nervis had to hide at
night to avoid being set upon by those who were
anxious the refugees should remain, the colored
people who are operating with them being, averse
to any return of the emigration. In Wyandotte
now, Nervis said, were several hundred of the
refugees who were suffering from absolute hunger
and sickness, and among whom the mortality is ex
cessive. Eight men of the party accompaning Ner
vis on his trip north are dead and bnried, and others
are ill, with slight prospect of recovery. The
refugees at Wyandotte receive some aid from the
local colored communities, beg from the white peo
ple, and get such jobs of work as they can at any
price. The people in the country around Wyandotte
come in and get colored men to go out on the farms
to work for what they can eat, those who have
no families avail themselves of this chance to avoid
absolute starvation.
Such was the came of the return of these poeple
from the land that hal promised so much to them.
How dearly they paid for the experience they had
acquired may easily be judged from the tales they
tell. But many more of these credulous blacks will
have to “go through the rubbers,” just as these
imigrants did before they will learn what self-in
terest and the duty they owe their families should
teach them.
The old negro man refered to above, was asked
as to what he thought the reception of the refugees
would be upon their return to their old homes in the
Sonth, and he answered that he thought it would
be kind. They had been told, he said, that the
white folks would not receive them well, but he
knew better. Anyhow, they would be better off
than staying in Kansas. Not one of these return
ing imigrants appear to have any apprehensions as
to their treatment by the people to wbom they
were returning, and there was not one of them but
seemed overjoyed at the escape from the miseries
suffered at Wyandotte and other Kansas towns.
This hegira to Kansas will prove disastrous to the
negroes, and only to the negroes, and the evidence
of this is already cumulative. It is evident that the
negroes are not wanted in Kansas; their irmption
into that State has been regarded a feeling some
what of dismay and horror, because the people of
that section in which they settle, as a swarm of
bees settle, regard themselves as getting decidedly
more than thev bargained for; while their places in
in the South will be speedily -upplied by an enter
prising and thrifty class of laborers. Yet the self-
constituted leaders of the race fail to see the great
injurv that is thus being inflicted upon their peo
ple. but rather encourage them to leave the sec ion
to which self-interest should bind them as with
hooks of steel. It is the spirit of unrest which this
movement begets in the unthinking, unreasoning
masses that will work injury to the race. The
lower stratum cannot think and reason, and so they
follow the "blind guides” until they will topple
over into the ditch that swallows up so many of
like character, whether they be black or white.
These wrecks are strewn all along the stream of
life, but they have no warning for such men as
composed the late conference at Nashville, for in
stance. The drift of that conference was to en
courage this very spirit of unrest, by making the
negroes dissatisfied with the South and holding up
pictures of ease and comfort aud social position in
"other lands” that can never be realized.
There is a spirit of unrest among the negroes,
which it kept alive to their detriment. A year or
two ago a bomb shell was thrown among the ne
groes, especially those in South Cariina, in the
shape of a scheme to emigrate to Liberia. The ad
vantages of that country over the South were
painted in colors of the most attractive hues, and
the simple-minded negroes were made to believe
that it was a real paradise, where they could live
upon the fat of the land almost without labor, and
enjoy their rights free from interference by white
people. That was the land for them, and the emi
gration fever raged then as it did during the spring
and early summer of this year. Thousands were
preparing to hie to this land of promise, when it
was discovered that there was no transportation
for them, and so a vessel was purchased which took
out a considerable number of emigrants. The en
terprise, we are told, was badly managed, many
emigrants died on the passage, and the ship was
run so deeply in debt that it was libelled for all
that it was worth by creditors on its return to
Charleston. Misfortune appears to have followed
the enterprise from its inception, and with its fail
ure the scheme of colonizing the negroes of the
South in the land of their ancestors appears to
have been abandoned; not, however, until wide
spread distrust had been excited among the plant
ers that the negro could not be relied upon to cul
tivate their fields, for he had, in various ways and
on many occesions, demonstrated that he was a
volatile, excitable being, who was liable to break
his contract with his employer at any time and
upon almost any pretext. This feeling, on the
part of planters, was not confined to South Caro
lina alone; it permeated the whole South, and
therefore worked injury to the negro race. Now
let us see how this warning, for it certainly ought
to have been accepted as a warning, has been treat
ed by the negroes.
Conventions and conferences composed of those
who assume to speak and act for the negroes are
getting to be quite common, and thev keep the
black element in a ferment from which no possible
good can result to that race. These conventions
and conferences, instead of endeavoring to still the
troubled waters, are themselves a disturbing ele
ment. They do not advise their people to go to
work with a will, and win respect and confidence
in the only way these are to be won—by upright
conduct and hard labor. Instead, they are making
demands upon the white race which they know
will not be complied with in the spirit and to the
extent to which they are made. A convention at
Richmond, Va., furnishes a fair illustration of this
spirit. The “Committee on Grievances” made a
report on May 20, setting forth at length “the
wrongs and grievances of the colored people and
submitting a resolution recommending the colored
people of the State to organize societies for opening
the legislative and judicial department of the
State for the fuli recognition of their rights as citi
zens, and if such rights are not fully accorded they
are advised to emigrate to other States or Terri
tories where there is no distinction on account of
color. They deuy that the constitution of a State
has the right to prohibit marriages on account of
color; expre-s sympathy with Edmund Kinney and
wife, now in the penitentiary for intermarriage,
and pledge every effort to have the obnoxious and
unconstitutional law wiped out. They recommend
the thorough organization of the colored people
for benefitting their political, financial and com
mercial condition, aud finally endorse the efforts of
their suffering and oppressed colored brethren of
the South to leave States of oppression and find
other homes where their political rights will be re
spected.” The Kinney here referred to is a negro
who married and lived with a white woman, which
is a violation of the laws of Virginia, and for
which offense they were tried and convicted by the
county court of Hanover county, and sentenced to
imprisonment in the penitentiary for five years.
They wore brought before Judge Hughes of the
United States Circuit Court at Richmond, upon a
writ of habeas corpus, with a view of testing the
law of Virginia by the civil rights law. It was al
leged in the petition that the prisoners were mar
ried in the District of Columbia (they having
gone to Washington City where they were united
in the bonds of matrimony, and after their mar
riage returned to Virginia and lived together as
husband and wife,) and are citizens of 1 he United
States; that one of the privileges and immunities of
citizens of the United States, guaranteed against
invasion by hostile State legislation, is the right,
fully and freely, to contract among themselves, ir
respective of race or color; that marriage is a civil
contract, and that, therefore the act of the Legis
lature of the State of Virginia, making it a penal
offense for white and colored citizens to intermarry
is contrary to the constitution and laws of the
United States and void; that the marriage having
been celebrated in the District of Columbia, and
valid there, it must be valid throughout the United
States. The petition was dismissed by Judge
Hughes who held that the laws of marriage are at
the sovereign control of each State, unffected by
any provision of any article of the Constitution of
the United States; that absolute and entire power
over these laws is necessarily left all over the
world, and in this Union of States, to the govern
ment of local society; that the law under which the
parties were convicted was with the unrestrained
legislative power of Virginia to enact it, and that
it is not prohibited by any provision of the Nation
al Constitution. As to making contracts, the
opinion holds that section 1,977 of the Revised
Statutes, which secures to all persons within the
United States the right in every State to make and
enforce contracts, etc., can only refer to contracts
lawful under the law of the States wherein it is
proposed to enforce them. Admitting that mar
riage is a contract, the opinion holds that the privi
lege of enforcing it extends only to lawful mar
riages, and that if a citizen of Virginia went to the
District of Columbia, or to the Territory of Utah,
and was there married in accordance with the
local law, he could not return with his consort or
consorts to Virginia and expect to subordinate her
laws of marriege to the laws of the other jurisdic
tion. Thus ended, for the present at least,, this
effort to make miscegenation lawful in the South,
Concluded next week.
PERSONALS.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOING AND SATING
ALL OVER THE WORLD.
A Convincing Woman.
I remember once hearing from the IrDh Chief-
Justice Bushe how a young lady, a relative of his
own, was brought back the day after her marriage
by herhnsband, who addressed her father thus: “I
have come, sir, to restore to you your daughter.”—
The father, startled an ' shocked, as well he might
be, could only find words to conyey his astonish
ment, but after awhile mildly asked for some ex
planation of what he meant. “I mean simply, sir,
that it is impossible for us to live together; we are
like-minded on this point, and no more need be
said.” “Pardon me, ” interposed the father, “but as
I am a party in the cause„I too ought to be satisfied:
will you then favor me with the reason for this
grave decision ?’’
After a considerable hesitation and delay, and
with evident reluctance to open the case, the hus
band declared that he and his wife held opinions so
diameirically opposed on the most momentous of
all subjects, that all thought ot agreement and hap
piness between them was utterly hopeless.. Being
further pressed, he owned that the matter on
which they stood opposed was the question of eter
nal punishments. *she maintains them, sir,” cried
the excited husband; "she has the bigotry and the
cruelty to declare that they are essential to Chris
tianity—that tiie whole system of Gospel truth
crumbles to dust without them—that they are the
rock on which revealed religion is based. 1 cannot,
I never will believe it.”
“I'm not so sure of that,” said the father, thought
fully; he remembered certain traits of his daughter,
and grimly smiled to himself as he recalled them
—“I'm not so sure the case Is hopeless.” ‘‘What,
sir; would you say that she might yet lead me to
her opinions?” “It is just what I was thinking;
and if you only go back and live with her, you'll be
lieve in them yet—she'll convince you!”
At the conclusion of a song bv Miss Ida Burt
at the Academy of Music, in Bradford, Pa, on
■ Sa'urday night, a young man threw a bouquet
■ upon the stage, which he immediately withdrew
J with a string when !he actress reached for it.
i Miss Burt had her revenge by emptying the
i contents of a sack of flour over the offender in
j presence of the audieuce-
Shirley H. France, an old actor, died recent
ly in Boston.
Francis Murphy, the temperance apostle, opened
a grand ^temperance rally at Round Lake, N. Y„ a
few days since-
Lieutenant Colonel Henry Charles Fletcher, who
was the military secretary to Lord Dufferln during
his Canadian Viceroyalty, Is dead.
It is something to know that Mrs. Langtry, the
professional beauty of London, makes her own
clothes and trims ber own hats. There is some
thing handsome about that, certainly.
Thomas Carlyle has expressed a wish to be buried
as quietly as possible in the choir of the oldCath e
dral at Haddington, where he laid his wife twelve
years ago. He is believed to be at death’s door.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in spite of his seven
ty years, is incessantly busy. He writes as much
as everand is as interested (n his duties at the Med-
icai School. It is hinted that he inteuds to publish
another volume.
Mrs. Sprague’s hiding place has not yet been dis
covered by the reporters, but her counsel know
where it is and have been in consultations with her.
The latest rumor is that she will soon institute
proceedings for a divorce.
Colonel Nicholas Smith, who married Horace
Greeley’s eldest daughter, is going to lecture on ‘The
True Idea! for American Youth.’ Lecture commit
tees will be interested to know that ‘He has been
styled the handsomest man in America, the Queen
of England going so far, it is said, as to pronounce
him the handsomest man in the world.’
The house built on their Maryland estate by the
Clays, who were the ancestors of the Kentucky
statesman, isstill standing, and is excellently pre
served.
The Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Ga„ reached
Baltimore Wednesday, and is the guestof Col. R M.
Jrhnston, of Pen Lucy, Baltimore county.
Capt. Henry Fuller, the Apollo of Beaufort, N. C.,
was recently visiting Charleston. He Is shortly to
lead to Hymen’s altar the beautiful Miss
Nightingale, of Bruniwick, Georgia.
The daily Income of James Gorden Bennett, de
rived from the Herald alone, Is estimated at $ 1,500.
Among the young gentleman’s reeent purchases is
a piece of propeaty in Rhoke Islaud, within eary
riding distauce of Newport, for which he paid 360,-
000 cash.
REMARKABLE SWIMMING.
A One-Armed Man’s Long Jour
ney, and an Illinois Girl’s Swim.
[From the Norfolk Virginian.]
Augustine Donaldson, the swimmer, did not
make his exhibition swim on Sunday as proposed,
owing to the prohibition of the authorities of the
city, such an undertaking bei*g considered a viola
tion of the sanctity of the Sabbath day. Yesterday
morning, however, he plunged into the river from
Town Point, and accoinoanied by two small boats,
struck out boldly for Old Point. Owing to the fact
that he had but one arm wiili which to buffet his
way among the waves, Donaldson’s progress in the
water was not as rapid as might have been expected
from a swimmer sufficiently expert to undertake
such a journey through the water as a swim from
Norfolk to Old Point, a distance variously estimated
from fourteen to eighteen miles, would necessitate.
Nevertheless, he moved along at a gait which was
remarkable for a one-armed man, and after very
arduous work of over five hours, he accomplished
the task He was taken out the water by the
men in the boat just off the hotel and even with the
wharf. It was then after three o’clock and he was
very much exhausted. Towards the last he could
hardly manage to make headway at all, and it was
with great difficulty that he reached his destina
tion. He was taken up to the hotel where medical
treatment was rendered, and seemed to be rallying
from the effects of his long swim when the last boat
up from Old Point left for this city. Donaldson’s
feat may be deemed a remarkable one when we con
sider the disadvantages against which he had to
strive. He is a short, slight man, of dark complex
ion, eyes and hair, and has been deprived ofone arm
and is crippled in the remaining hand. He is very
much like his brother “Wash,” the famous rer >naut,
so well known in Norfolk, though considerably
more worn in appearance. He has his brother's
determination and pluck, and his feat yesterday
was one requiring those qualities, in full, in addi
tion to skill as a swimmer. We congratulate him
on his success.
AN ILLINOIS GIRL SWIMS ACROSS A TWO-MILE LAKE.
The most remarkable evant of the season occuied
on the lake yesterday. Miss Mamie Minier. daugh
ter of Mr and Mrs. H. S. Minier and granddaughter
of Judge Ayer, of Harvard, III,, a bright-eyed bru
nette of sweet sixteen, periormed the unparalleled
feat cf swimming from Harvard Park across the
lake to Camp Collie, a distance of nearly two miles,
in less than halfan hour, winning a wager from her
father, the ladies’ natatorial championship of the
United States and numerous souvenirs presented
by admiring friends. This naiad queen was accom
panied by a gentleman swimmer and by boats co -
taiuing the judges and spectators There was uo
time limit to the performance; Miss Minierdid not
hurry, but moved through the water with easy
grace, taking a regulation stroke, occasionally
changing position tor relief, now on one side, now
on the other, then listlessly boating for rest; again
swimming with face up, sword and arms folded on
her breast. The heroine of this adventure was only
slightly exhausted by such an extraordinary feat of
skill and endurance. She was clad in an elegant
bathing costume, a la Dieppe, which allowed full
and free movement to her magnificently rounded
arms and voluptuous phjsique. Miss Minier has
been somewhat celebrated around the lake during
the summer for her skill in aquatic sports, anu she
was determined to close the season with a grand
effort which would eclipse all her companions and
she has thus met with admiring success.
THE GRAND STATE DINNER.
An Excruciating Affair.
Eighteen or twenty guests enter a room adapted
at most to a dinner of twelve. It is lighted with
gas; the chief available space being occupied by
the table, surrounding which is a narrow lane, bare
ly sufficing for the circulation of the servants. Di
rectly, perhaps after oysters, appear turtle soups,
thick and clear. A consomme is to be had on de
mand, but so unexpected a choice astonishes the
servitor, who brings it after some delay, and cold:
with it punch. Following arrive the fish—salmon
and turbot, one or both, smothered in thick lobster
sauce. Sherry. Four entrees promenade the circuit
in single file, whereof the first was always oyster
pat es; after which came mutton or lamb cutlets,
a vol-au-vent, etc.: hock and champagne. Three-
quarters of an hour at least, perhaps an hour, hav
ing now elapsed, the saddle or haunch of mutton
arrives, of which gentlemen who have patiently
waited get satisfactory slices, and currant jelly,
with cold vegetables or a heavy flabby salad. Then
come boiled fowls ami tongue, or a turkey with
heavy forcemeat; a slice of ham and so on, up to
game followed by hot substantial pudding, three or
four other sweets, including an iced pudding, wines
in variety, more or less appropriate; to be followed
by a.pate de foie gras, more saiad, buscuits and
cheese. Again, two ices, and liqueurs. Then an
array of decanters, and the first appearance of red
wii.e: a prodigious dessert of all things in aud our
of season, but particularly those which are out of
season, as being the more costly. General circula
tion of waiters, handing each dish in turn to every
body, under a running fire of negatives, a cerem *
monial of ten or fifteen minutes’ duration, to say
the least. Circulation of decanters; general result
of silks, disappearance of the ladies: ami first change
of seat, precisely two hours and a half after origi
nally taking it. ' It may be hoped that a eharmihg
companion on either side has begui ed and shorten
ed a term which otherwise must have been felt a
hlittle long. Now the general closing up of men to
ost, and reassembling of decanters; age and quali
ties of wine, recommendation of vintages. Coffee
which is neither black nor hot. Joining the ladies-
service of gunpowder tea, fatal to the coming’
night’s rest if taken in a moment of forgetfulness-
and carriages announced.
EXTINCT PRINT