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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (June 12, 1867)
®hc tUcchln BY STOCKTON k CO. OUR TERMS. The following are the rate* of fiabacrlption: Daily, one year......... $lO 00 W Mci.Y, one year $3 00 Li*4£* Written Upon Beeing the Portrait of Mw* Virginia 0. fi. Fair a* a Poet’* dream art then, 'Tbou type of youth and beauty; Whom bnt to *ee i* to admire— To love a pleasant duty. Well might proud mankind bow the knee Before so fair a ftirtae * This lovely counterpart of one Half mortal, half divine. A* regal in tliy loveliness As her whose beauty long, In every land, on every tongue, Has been the theme of song. , Tes; fair Eugenie, on her throne, Hath not more regal mien Ilian our sweet Southern flower of love, Bright Caro.iha’a queen. Yet not a stain of earthly pride Mars thy young beauty’s charm ; Thy ipodest air, thy cordial smile, Even stoic he.trle disarm. No haughty step robs thy fair form Os half Its quiet grace; No simper vain, no covert sneer, Disfigures thy sweet face. But good as thou art beautiful, And gentle as refined, And biased with lTeafvcn’s rarest gifts- Pure bool and lofty" mind— Tbou movest mid the careless throng. Near them, and yet afar; Superior to the idle crowd Like sorr. j bright planet star. Beauty ak>nc could never give The charm thou dost possess,— Fair counterpart of my dear friend In her young loveliness; The sloping shou'ders—star-lit eyes, That mock the violets hue, And lips like a ripe rose-bud kissel By early morning dew. Tho’ these are thine, they ne'er could rncke The tender ldVe I feel, Did not each curve,'each b< f.utsous line • A souVs pun thought rental. And thou I Oh fair Original Friend of the warm true 1 would the whole wide With beings like thou art. i Ri A. L. August*, G*. y Swinging on a Birch Tree. Swinging on a birch-Uec To a sleep,, tune, . . rimnmed by all the breezes In the month of Jun 6! Little leaves a-flutter Sound like dancing drops <• Os a brook on pebbles— . Bong that never stops. Up and down v»;o see-saw,; . Up iufto the skv ; How it opens bn' tu», '* ' Like a wide blue eye I You and I-are sailors , liocking ou a mast; And Uie wofld’e our vessel; Ho! she sails"so faM ! Blue, blue sea around us; Not a ship in Sight y They will hang out lanterns When they pass, to-night. We with ours will follow Through the midnight deep.; Not a thought of danger, Though trio crew's asleep. O, how still the air is 1 There an orio'e flew ; What a jolly whistle! He’s a sailor, too. Yonder is his hammock In the elm-top high; One more ball ul, tu se-na'c ! Bing it as yon fly! Up and down wo see saw; Down into the grass, '• ’ Bee tiled fern, and rose-buds, Alla wovflh m iss. That’s the so 11 f carpet , . Fitted for our feet; TapeslVy nor velvet Is so rich and neat; * * ’ Swinging on a lurch tree! This is summer joy, Fun for all vacation— Dott’rvou think so, toys Dp ard down to see saw! . < - - Merry autl at ease ; Careless as a brook is, Idle as the breeze, • t)ur Young Poltfs for June. * [From the Atlantic Monthly. -* Timon's Soliloquy. ST T. Rl'Crr*N*K EKiD. My shadow, wh.ero6oe’r I wend, Is within me, like a flattering friend. - * But chiefly when the win of -Tbr<e Is climbing to it* highest noon, llv fond attendant closses mar, . . As I were growing still more deap ; And then, to show fts love complete, .* Fulls even servile at my Dot, Where, proud of plaee, it scarcely nods Before the temple oi the Gods Bnt when tlie evening sgn descends, , T <*seenis to seek ibr other friends, Faking a dial of the town, W* tell that Timon’s dav goes down : ASM when Stic stormy night comes on, I look, and lo! my-shade is gone—. While A '-liens, wi h iodignaot state, B« ings at my back her scolding gate, And towering o’er me, black with wrath, Frowns unrelenting on my path. But when the sun shall reappear, My semblance will again be hero, Ami every move of mine obey, As it it had not been away. And when some passer-by relates ‘ How fortune on my exile'waits, That l . t.**"* 1 "here fell the shower Os Mother Barth's Daaftan dower, j »sii shall city’B wanton anus Invite me with her liberal charm* And all her crowd obsequious pour To bow me to her anxious door, ’ * Where I m'ght rise anew, extolled, Like Perseus, from a lap of goM 1 An ancient tale that never ends— Here comes my shadow—here my friends ' G. G. Edinundson, a young man ol this place, employed in the steam mill and workshops of W. L. Keough & Callan, near the depot, was caught in the belting of the machinery, on yes terdav morning, while endeavoring to adjust the circular saw, and severely and dangerously hurt. His right leg was badly fractured both above and below the knee, and his head and back contused to an extent not yet ascertained. He was carried around the shaft several times by the revolving wheels, and the miracle is that he escaped with a spark of life in his body.— His condition is critical, though there are strong hopes of his surviving the injury. [ Washington ( Ga.) Gazette, 31 *t. A MINEB’S LOVE BTOEY. Nelly Glover was the prettiest lass in the pH village. Her eyes ware of the Sweetest bine; her cheeks were like a rose; and yon might have thought her brown hair was the finest silk. Then she had a figure like a fairy, it was so trim : and with a waist yon could almost span, l loved Nelly, hot as for that, all the chaps of the village were of the same mind, and she might have had her pick of ns; the worst of it was, she treated us all alike, and wouldn’t look at one more than another. She bad a smite for every body, and was always good tempi red, but there It ended ; and, somehow, none of us could screw up courage to try her lurther. I don’t know bow olten I thought it over. It came into my bead the first thing in the morning, and there it remained the last thing at night, when it either kept me awake, or haunted my dreams. At last it took possession of me. No matter where I was, digging, or. blasting, or tunneling; above ground, or down in the pit; my thoughts turned on Nelly, aud from being the merriest fellow in the village, I just came to be the dullest. One morning there was no work in the pit for my gang, because the viewer wanted that part of the seam shored up, and it struck me, all at once, that I would have it opt with Nelly, so i made myself smart, and set out, walking as brisk as if it was a wager. You may think it conceit m me, but i can say that I was them as clever a chap to look at as you would olten see and I knew it! . For all that, I began to walk a hit slow when i caught sight of Mrs. Glover’s cottage, and I felt of my heart. Bat 1 went on, and I just got up to the cottage when who should come out but Neiiy herself. She never looked prettier than at that minute; but appearing so suddenly, Rbc dashed ray spirit, aud I hadn’t a word to say to her. “ Why, Charley, what is the patter ?” she tried, in a frightened sort of way. “ Well, it is just this,” I said. And there I stopped. • 4 H '* “ la anything wrong with Jack V’’ she cried, quickly. . “ Jack ?” “ Yes, he is down in the pit; they say it is foul, which makes mother and me uneasy. You haven’t heard any thing ?” And she looked in my eyes as if she would search me through. “No, no,”I answered, steadying, bow that I thought I could comfort her. He is all right. You mustn’t mind what the old women of the village say, or you’ll be looking for a blow-up every day in the year, when there is nothing more than common. I haven’t come to you about Jack, Nelly; It is about myself.” She gave me another look, now ; then her cheek flushed up like a flame, and her eyes turned away. “Do you know what A want to say, Nelly ?” I went on. “ I wish you did, for I can’t tell it. It is more than I have got words for. How l love you, how you are alway before me, how I am crazed, and mad about you! But though I can’t say all I want to, here I stand, and I wouldn’t change with a king, if vou’Jl take me as I am!” “Ah, Charley! you don’t know how you pain me,” she answered. 11 Don’t say that Nelly. I doubted about speaking to you, but now that I hive done it, now that I can’t go on deceiving myself, it you have any pity iu your heart, show it to me, and 1 will cherish you to the day of my death.” “It is no use,” she replied, “ I can never marry a pitman. I gave the promise to mother aud Jack, when we walked up the village at the funeral of my father and brothers, all three killed in the mine—our great sorrow, which I can never thiuk oftuthout crying.” And the tears, it Is true, were running down her checks, though, for the moment she seemed to me to be harder than stone. And I Seemed turned to stone myself. 1 had no recollection, uo feeling, asd no sense, and I couldn’t' have' moved a step to have saved rnyTife. Thefi It aft Hashed upon jne Tike lightning. T took a last look: af Nelly", drqppedjiny head upon my bread, and, without "a. word more, 'walked out of the rgatc. .... '■ \ ' ‘ '* . '' , Our village seldom lobked bfighf,*no matter how the sun shone and now I felt as if the sun would never shine again for me, so, hs rhy ipye fell,on the line -of cottage's, with the clouds hanging down from above, apd bottling round but a. waste, I, {bought I Heigh tas W<sll qe In my grave - as continue to live tlietc; Besides, I should always, bq meeting Nelly, perhaps'* lurk ing about her mother’s cottage, and making her as miserable as myself. Why shouldn’t I -go away, to Yprkshire, or Derbyshire, or to the diggings in Australia,'for that matter? The notion, if it wrfs good for nothing more, gave me a little more'spirit. If/tumed my thoughts, and I stepped out quicker, gfrtflg straight hoftn*. I had’n* much to settle there, only to bid good bye to the folks I lived with, and I clime out,, pack on back, and began my- tramp. I stopped at the moor, and looked back,- re- j -memberingl might never see the place ngaiu, j and, dismal as I now thought it, with its gaping walls and Shaken roofs encumbering tiro black ened ground, I had been-happy there. Not (me | ofthose cottages-but would open its door to j I me ; not one where I wouldn’t" meet a friend. ■ And there I had bCcn bofft ;tt was the spot ©n i earth that, even in. that hour of bitterness, I loved best, and I didn’t turn away without dash-! ing my hand across over my eyes. I was waikiug on, when suddenly the sir rang ; with a crash that shook the ground. I knew what it signified; such sonnds denote but one j result in iho black country, aud throwing down ! ray pack, I darted off to the spot, with the feel ings ftiat animate every miner on such occa sions, - - , , , It didn’t seem a minute bemre I came U?Uie. dnst-heap« round the pit’s mouth, but some were there before me, and the off-men aud the , women were rushing up from the village in' a stream- The smell from the pit almost knock ed me down as I came up, autl I had to get my breath a little, when three or four of us .crept up to the month, and looked down. The . explosion bad destroyed the cage, not lea vino- a i stick of It, but it had hot injured the signal ! ' rope; hence a means of eonminnieation re-’ rflafned for any owe tmmediately below A< , soom as I saw this- 1 set U> work to ri* a cross bar. and presently had it readv. ” “Just lower megently,” I said to two banks- I men. ** I may pick up one or two, if there’s any near.” j “ Yo * <*irt go down vet p> cried the viewer “ How many are in the pit “ Half an hour ago there were fifty,” replied the time-keeper; “bnt, lam thankful to sav, j they ail came up but ten.” “And they are air lost,” said the viewer, 1 Pfor there will be 'sitoiber explosion directly.” “I’ll go down, anyhow,” I said doggedly; “ aud if nobody will lower me, I’ll jump dovvu.” A good many were on the heap now—men and women —some of the women crying and ; some praying; but when I spoke wot that way there was a dead silence. Then two or three j called out, “Good-by, C’harly, God bless you,; brave lad.” Tbe banksmen lowered the down, and I sank through the pit's mouth. A Davy ; laitop was tied around my waist, and I held a , rope in my band, so that I might signal to be : hoisted up if the air became too foul. But I had no intention of going back tilt I had ■ i searehed tbe pit, and seen if any were alive. * One thing I didn’t care about, my life i and another, 1 would have been ashamed to face ! i f*>Ki S **>° ve without doing something: so ! lowered me at B °^ h * to in easing J. **** looking up and down The shaft dlstauce Jet to be traversed. fore litr»; d ™a Ver Seemed 80 d ««P to me *»>* S " and Li and eyc ® lntl> the darkness be i !k 6 Ljeam oniiht bottom ? 1 glanced up, and ! ll * bt K rew smaller and smaller. I a° f $ e Bhafl » and marked only i Said b lfi k th^ Q “ d ' B ? 1 my Progress waa no- I tilled by the increasing density ol the air, AUGUbTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 12, 1867. which began to a fleet my breathing ; and, as I went on, I had to shift my face from side to side to make a little current. At last my feet touched the ground. I looked around as I jumped off the straddle, and saw the furnace was out, which put a stop to the ventilation of the mine, as for as it de pended on the brattices, and no air entered but by the shaft. The stench was overpowering, and from this and the silence, 1 guessed the worst. It was plain that the explosion had killed the horses; for not a sound came from the stable, which was close to the shaft; and what hope could-there be tor human beings in a distant part of the pit? You may be sure I didn’t stand to make these reflections; they floated across me, and I was working forward, before they got through my mind. I knew the old mine blindfolded; but what with foul smell and the deep gloom, I was some minutes scrambling to the top of the incline, keeping my anus stretched out as I went along, to feel for anything in the way. And it was lucky I did, or I should dash my head against some jempty tiucks, and in the state I was in, that would have finished me. Thus I .reached the first gallery, which you could only* enter stoop ln&* I pushed open the “trap door, and went on few steps, though my Davy lamp was what pitmen call “afire”—the flame being all blue— t a l r was 80 ranch gunpowder.— 1 along; if I wasn’t to save any f ?‘ dn \ mutter what became of jmyself, and 1 pleased myself with the thought that ? d i y ,£ onl n he i r 1 haddied iH the attempt _ k a t °nce, it came into my head what she had said about her brother Jack beimr in the pit. This gave my heart such a turn that I staggered, and the perspiration poured from my forehead like water. I rnshed forward as if I was mad; ray loot struck something;! bent down over what seemed to be a corpse, and the gleam of the lamp fell on its face. It was Jack Glover. 1 didn’t know whether he was alive or deitd, but I caught him in my arms, and with the strength of a giant and the speed of a deer—hardly conscious, hardly breathing —I made a dash for the shaft. It was easier work going back, when you were once iu the main or horse road ; ior now the shaft was belore you, instead of behind; and, though you wouldn’t thiuk it, this made a wonderful difference in the light. Dark as pitch it still was, though not to pitman’s eyes, and I had found out that Jack breathed when I reached the shaft. The discovery nerved me afresh, and kept all my senses at work without my seeming to know ft. I only felt there'soon would he another explosion. So I placed Jack on the straddle, and taking the rope from my Davy lamp, tied him hand and foot, then pulled the signal rope, and as the people above hauled the tackle and lifted the straddle from the ground, I hung on by my arms; thus we be gan to mount the shaft. It wasn’t till we had got twenty feet up that l felt the strain of standing on nothing, bnt, from that moment, it became just terrible. My hands seemed ready to snap; the ache in my arms spread through every muscle; my head spun around ; my feet kicked about in agony. I watched the mouth of the pit till my eyes swam, and as I reckoned the space between, my strength-waned and my misery deepened, I thought I must drop before I reached the top. Then they began to hoist faster. I mustered all ray strength ; I tightened my grip of the strad dle, though my fingers were growing numb ; 1 steadied my feet, and hardly trusted myself to .breathe. J could see the walls of the shaft; I could feel..-the purer air ;*I heard voices ; and presently the tackle swung ; strong arms caught me round, and I was landed on the hank. They had Jack Glover off' the straddle before you could look around, and he was carried away, while they raised my head and poured a little brandy in my mouth. I called out for the ! vieWei*. ' “ What, is it, -Charley Batson V T - he asked, ! bending over me. “ Everybody away from the pit, sir,” I said. “ You a!*e right, he answered ; it will come jn a minute or two. They got me to the top of tbe bank, wheu I ; "heard a scream, and there was Nelly, trying to., ’throw herself on her brother Jack, but.kept ' back bjrfbe other women. She never glanced : ’ rotind at mg'! I wished then that I had stop- | pcd.in the pit, or lyt. my self drop frrtm the bar, ! as I'?amo up, and so escaped seeing her again. ! But I made up my mind that I had looked on j her for the last time. I told in} r helpers that ! j conld walk now. arid when they lot go my anus, k turned towards the moor, intending to i pick up my pack, aud drag on at Jeast to the ; next village. 1 | But' I could no more walk five miles than 1 ! eou'ldy fiv. When l eamo to thp pack t sank i down by it and feh, that I must give up. I was so heated, that I thought there wag noW anoth- > , er explosion at the pit, 'as I had expected, and ! -though it shook the fjtfltihd' Under me, I did'nt I lift my head. AH I thought of was stretching out my arms and legs and lying quiet*. How long I laj- there I never knew. But by degrees I recovered a little strength, and my thoughts'! took mOre shape, when T decided to l-otnru-to my ©Ui- lodging aud have a day’s rest before Ii set out on my .wanderings. - The (Jav passed aud the night, and the next | day, and 1 wfts still in bM, the good folks tend ing me like » child. My limbs, wiuch bad been racked with ,pain, now felt easy, and I was ■ready for a start again. But I thought there would be opposition, so I got up very quiet, | and was putting on my things, when the room door opened, and to my. wonder, in came Jack I Glcvep. “Halloo, Charley, here we are,” he -cried, st-izhig'tny hand and giving it a hearty squeeze. “ Who would baVfe thonght of us two being alive to-day ?” . . ; j “ Well, Jack,” I answered. “ I am glad for yon, but I should-rf’f have cared for myself.” “ How’s that. ? ’ he ssked. “ Because I have something on.my mind.” . “ You!” he said, laughingly, aud giving me a little push. “Here, sit down and have a*' pipe, and it will all go off like the smoke.” « I don’t <**ro If I never smoke a pipe again,” I -said, savagely. . , “Now, I’ll tell you what it is,” said Jack ; “you bate been having e tiff with out Nelly.” “I haven’t,” I answered, mv cheek burning. “ Well, you know best about that,” continued Jack ; “ but it’s what I guess, because you were seen talking with her, and she had a cry ing fit directly after- And when she heard from me that it was you that brought me up Irani the pit, she fell on my neck, and fainted.” “ Didn’t she know it before ?” I asked, re lentiug. “No.” - “Then, I’ll just teU yon all about her and hie,” I said. I was a long time telling it, but Jack sat up as if he was listening to a play, or a sermon, at chapel. I give him a description of Nelly that would have done for the Hue aud Cry ; went ! iuto all the feelings she had raised in iny breast, ■ told him how I had watched for her, thought of her, and drenmpt of her, and, finally-, recounted onr hist colloquy. Jack never moved a muscle, ; and not till I stopped for,breath, did he put iu j a word. “ Don’t you think vou’ve been a little fast, Charley ?” he thensaitf, dubiously. *• Hqw do you mean ?” I inquired. j “ Why, in giving up so. Suppose, when Nelly said she couldn’t hare yon, you had put ; your arm round her waist, and said she must!” This view had never struck me, aud rather took me back. “ But there whs her promise to you and her mother tfever to marry a pitmaß,” f urged. “So there was. But did you never hear that promises were made to be broken ?” “ I can’t say but I have,” I muttered, clap ping on my hat. “ Where are you going ?” asked Jack. “You wait here a minute,” I replied. With that I took two strides down the stairs ! into the road, and hurried off to Mrs. Glover’s | cottage. I stood outside a minute, when I opened the. door, and the first thing I saw wa6 Nelly, sitting by her mother, and looking like a gho6t—only ghosts never look pretty. She gave me ohe look, then started up and sprang into my arms. My heart was 60 full I couldn’t speak at first, but I thought I must do some thing, ©o I slipped my arm around her waist, as Jack recommended. Now I felksure of her and of all the happiness that the world could give, and, as my breast swelled proudly, I be gan to bear a little malice. “Ah, Nelly, if you had only loved me!” I said. Nelly tightened her arms around my neck. “ How happy we might have been !” I con tinued. “Tuen we can he, Charley !” she murmered. “ How, Nelly ! “We can never marry, you know.” The little lingers unlocked, and I felt Nelly falling away ; but I remembered Jack's coun sel, and held her by the waist. “ There’s your promise to yonr mother and Jack,” I continued ; 4 how are we to get over that ?” “ I forgot that,” faltered Nelly, as white as a sheet. “ And what do you say to it, mother,” I cried to the old lady. Mrs. Glover got up, and took Nelly’s hand and put it in mine. “ That’s what I say to il,” she said heartily ; “ and I know Jack is of the same mind.” “ Aud this is what I sav to it,” I cried, giving Nelly a kiss. ’ s ~ s # Yon won’t be surprised to* hear that we Were married the next week. And now I am the viewer of the colliery : and ns for Nelly, she will tell you that, though she has married a pitman, aud has her roughs and smooths, like other women, there is no happier woman in the kingdom. Hamlet at the Baptist Church, of Macon. “ Horatio W hat! lias this thing* appeared again to-night ?” “ Bernardo—l have seen nothing.” % For some time past, there have been unusual musical sounds heard at the Baptist church, at an hour when the house was closed, and no one therein. On yesterday morning, about one o’clock, , When “ Tired nature’s sweet restorer—balmy sleep,” and “ Night sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayles majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o’er a slumbering world. Silence, how dead 1 and darkness, how profound 1 Nor eye, nor listening ear an object finds : Creation sleeps,” a song was heard by two young men in their apartments consecrated to Morpheus. They immediately arose and repaired to the sacred building, from which it emanated. They were sood joined by Lt. Nance, of the Police, and the trio began to invest the place. Windows were all down ; the blinds and doors securely closed. Still the singing of the hymn : “ When we’ve been there ten thousand years,” was continued by a voice as- weet as an angel’s. The trio were soon reinforced by several other, policemen, and an assault was considered be6t to be made upon the doors of the church, when a neighbor, who was a member of the Baptists passed, andadvised that the “solo” be permitted to continue nntil he could find the sexton, with the “great keys of the temple.” The sexton was sent for, and notwithstanding the noise and confusion made by the party : “Rock of ages,” “Before Jei ovah’s awful throne,” On Jordan’s ! stormy banks,’-’ and numerous other sacred j songs were sung by the unseen, vocalist, until j he arrived. It Was concluded to place a guard over nll*the apertures ih the house, to prevent the escape of the inmate, and the gallant lieutenant, w T Uh one of the part}*, resolved upon an entrance. No more singing or othdr music was then heard. One of Hie party, like Horatio, exclaimed : I “ Stay ! Speak ! I charge thee,ispeak!” Another I said : “ ’Tis gone, atfd will not answer.” Well lit didn’t speak, nor wasn’t seen. So one of the I parly bebame more bold, and played- Hamlet in ! saying • 1“ Be thou a spirit of health, or gob | lin damned ; thou corceth in su< h a question ! able shape, Unit I will speak to thee.'.’ ! The invisible songster not thinking such ! “ cuss- words' ” appropriate in church, did not \ answer, or show his, her, or itself. ! Our bold police then searched the entire edi j lice from “ turret to foundation stone,” witli ! out-finding ont whence the music emanated. ! AH hands are wilHiflg to swear before the 1 Mayor, to-day, that the foregoing account is I true. His honor, the Mayor, lias erdered a ! special police stationed around the sanctuary ! of our Baptist friends, aud wc hope they will ! bb successful in discovering the origin of this invisible nocturnal seveqadcr. Journal 8$ Messenger, 4 th. The Pullman, Kimball & Ramsey Sleep i ing Car Co.—The stockholders of the above i named company held they* annua,! meeting iu , Nashville on Wednesday, when the following ; named gentlemen were elected officers of the : company for the fiext Tear :***• 1 President—George M. Puiknan, of Chicago. Yiae-President—Col. Robert 11. Ramsey. Secretary—H: I. Kimball, Atlanta. Treasurer —John Rice, President Georgia Na tional Bank, Atlanta. Superintendent—E. N. Kknbfti], Atlanta. Directors —Campbell Wallace, Superintend cut Western & Atlantic Railroad ; A. G. Ban | ford, President First National Bank, Nashville; | George M. Pullman; Coi. Robert H. Ramsey ; 1 John Rice, Esq.; E. N. Kimball. Wc understand, that the stockholders were vefy much satisfied with the annual reports of the officers of the company. The following resolution, complimentary to the popular Su perintendent of the company, was unanimously adopted; Besotted , That the directors of this company, for the first year, were .exceedingly fortunate iu securing the services of Mr. E. N. Kimball as Su peril) ten dent, and having evidences from every quarter, where the cars of this company are known of his energy, activity* sound judg ment and economical management of the com pany’s affairs, we would earnestly recommend the directors just elected to secure his services the coming year if possible. We are pleased to know that Mr. Kimball has been re-eleetcd, and is still to remain with us, fbr his uniform courtesy and gentlemanly deportment, no less than his business activity, has won for him many friends. [Atlanta Intelligencer. Milk and Onions in Dropsy.— Dr. Pautier, a Ere»ch.phyeician, relates the case of a man who was afflicted With general dropsy and a double dropsy of the chest, accompanied with great difficulty of breathing and other distress ing svniptoms. Various remedies'lmd been taken without any apparent Jjeneflt. Dr. Pau tier then prescribed the following treatment: Three cops of milk porridge to be taken daily, e£ch to be followed by eating dry bread and raw onions, without any drink. This diet was persevered in for thirty days, but before half this time had elapsed the patienj was able to leave his bed. In the following month nothing remained but slight puffings of the feet and ankles. A generous.diet was then prescribed and in another month a complete sure Was es ; fected. 7 | m The person who gave information about Mr. Greeley’s letter to John C. Breckinridge, in viting him to return to this country, further says that the .President has also written a letter of similar import to the rebel exile, which was forwarded with Mr. Graeley’s to-day, through the hands of a lady who is well acquainted with him.— Cor. Boston Advertiser. About Dogs—The Different Varieties. —Few persons are aware oi the value and va riety of dag*, varying as they do in weight from 180 pounds to less than one pound, and in value to about *SOO to less than nothing. A description of the different varieties may not be nninteresting: The Siberian bloodhound weighs about 160 pounds, and measures 40 inches in girth, and is worth nearly *SOO. The St. Bernard dog, which is of a buff or light lead color, is very large and valuable. The Newfoundland dog, when pure, is entire )y black, and its pups are worth from *lO to *ao. The shepherd dog, or Scotch colly, is won derful for its patience, fidelity and bravery. It is worth from *SO to *IOO. The English mastiff, a good watch dog, is worth from f!5 to *25. Os terriers, the black and tan is most admired, It varies in weight from 1 pound to 25 pounds, and increases in value as it decreases in weight. A member of the bar in this city has one which weighs less than a pound and is the smallest w*e have ever seen. It could not be bought for *l5O. Terriers are often crossed with the Italian greyhound, producing a very delicate but extremely useless dog. Tire hootch terrier is the hardiest of dogs, is very courage ous, and is worth from *lO to *3O. The Scotch deerhound is the rarest and most valuable of hunting dogs. They are very rare, and are owned principally by the nobility of England. They are worth *IOO each. The beagle is the smallest of "the* hound kind, of superior scent and endurance, urrd is the best sort of a rabbit hunter. English greyhounds, the fleetest of dogs, are worth from *25 to , *IOO each. The Italian' greyhound is merely a parlor dog. The pure breed is rare and valuable, a fine one being worth *l5O. p There is a great variety of pointers, setters and spaniels. The Prince Charles variet}* Is the most valuable of spaniels. He is snpposed to have originated in Japan, where a similar breed exists. He lias a round head, short nose, long, curly ears, large, full eyes, black and tan Color, and never weighs|over ten pounds. They have been sold at auction in England, at *2,000 each. ihe coach dog is from Denmark, and is uot of much value. Aip for the South.— The State Relief Com missioners have forwarded up to this date as follows; North Carolina—s,lso bushels corn 25 barrels flour, 40,496 pounds bacon, $2,500 in cash. South Carolina—ls,oo2 bushels ' com, 49,562 pounds bacon. Georgia—ll,s39 bushels corn, 35,000 pounds bacon. Alabama—l4,B64 bushels corn, 39,853 pounds bacon. Arrange ments have been made by which SIO,OOO will be invested in corn and bacbn iri New Orleans for distribution in the flooded portions of Louisiana and Mississippi. The distribution is made by county committees, who are appoint ed by relief commissioners selected by the Governo-s of the States. The plan is-found to work well, except that each county thinks Its proportion too small in view of its necessities. Further'shipments will be made as fast as the Commissioners can obtain the means. f ßaltimore Gazette. From Mexico.—A telegram from Galveston says that a lettei from Queretaro, date not given, says: Maximilian and. alibis principal officers gave up their swords to Escobedo him self; the entire army, Maximilian's artillery, ammunition, wagons, sui rendered. The fol lowing chiefs are prisoners: Maximilian,Mejia, (Jagtcllo, Cagsanaua, Gayon, Merino, Alvena, Maximo, Campas and Miramon. The latter was eaptnred in the streets of Catsi shortly af ter the .surrender.-- Mendez, alone is missing. •Over two hundred subaltern officers are also captured. Miramon arid Catnpas are reported by a private letter as having been shot on the' 16th.- Maximilian had a severe attaek of dysen tery on rlie evening of the 15th'. A physician of Escobedo’s was scut him. A private, cor respondence from Styi Luis ‘says: lie liasW covered find is expected in that city and will probably cross over into the United Mates. The report that Lopez sohl Fort Lacruse for three hundred thousand dojlars is denied. An official report from Escobedo, announces the death of‘Col. Lois Carndo, of Labuca and Co}. Miguel of Paleapalcione. . • The Disadvantages of Being an Amerj can.—'Americans arc acqlfiringin foreign conn'- tries a reputation for lavish expenditure which sometimes operates to opr disadvantage. A correspondent in Naples writes .as follows : “It is very unfortunate to spdak the English lan guage. Answering a question- of an American yesterday at dinner cost me a franc, which was. moderate. I had ordered my dinner in French, and as the waiter was not very well versed in that language he took me for a Frenchmati; hn't the English language was the signal for an ad vance in my bill. A few days ago I went into a cameo shop and stsked in French the price of a miniature, and was told thirty francs. I went ten paces further -and asked in English the i price of the same thkig, and wus told sixty i francs. My gentle reader.—all reader* are gen- j tie—if you ever expect to f visit this continent, begin to study French and German now ; and when the shores of America lade in the dis tance, speak yopr last word of- English till your return.” , Registration tn Louisiana.— Owing to the stringent roles enforced is Louisiana, ami the neglect of the whites to register, the New Orleans papers say the proportion of registered colored voters to white voters is so large as to become alarming. Oatside the city ihc pro portion is still greater. At the latest accounts the voters registered at Baton Rouge were thirty-six whites and. three hundred and lifty colored. At Ascension, fifty-one whites apd seven hundred and ninety-six colored. Part of the disproportion Is accounted for by the fact that every qualified negro registered, while a j large proportion of those whites not disfran chised by law refused to register. * " - \ Troup Superior Court.— Tbe LaGrange Reporter says : Several old and important cases < have been disposed of this week, among them the case of L. P. Hodnett vs. Atlanta <fc West ■ Point Railroad, in equity, for recision of deed and damages. Damages found by the jury, $3,160, with right of way confirmed to the railroad. * W, B. Berry vs. Montgomery & West Ifoint Railroad. Action to recover the.value of a negro killed by defendant’s train, negligently, on tlie 15th of June, 1862. Verdict, $1,863,- We are pained to record the death of Col. William M. Varnum, which occurred at P s ’ residence in Twiggs county, ou the 27th till'. j Col. V, was widely kupwn and universally r«- j spected. * ' j Arrest.— A man by the name of Greene was j arrested in this place Wednesday last, charged j with having robbed an Express office iu Florida of ten thousand dollars. He is in jail awaiting further orders. — Sumpter Republican. A Hevrrbnd Embezzler,—Erie, Pa., May 29.—Rev. Julius Seymore was arrested here yesterday for embezzling fifteen thousand dol lars’ worth of revenue stamps. He was for merly a clerk in the Internal Revenue office. False calves, fatee bosoms, false hair, false teeth, false complexions and false stomachs! Now. what next ?— Ex. Why, the legal maxim of course—“JFoZmm in uno etc. VOL. 25. NO. 24 Obituary. 4 " BIE ARCHIBALD ALISON. The cable brings as intelligence of the death of the celebrated historian, Sir Archibald Ali «rn.w In letters, In the early part pre , eent TT t ntnry , there Wa9 none 90 cele- Pl* writlu K®’ *™eeful and able, were seized with avidity by the English and American reading public, and the labors of his luaturer years prove of invaluable service to the student of- European history. He was born at Kenley, December 29, 1792, his father a Scotch divine, having before him created lor himself a name as the author of “ Essays on Taste, ’ appearing in the Edinburgh Review. Educated at the University of Edinburgh, he adopted the law for a profession in 1814, aud‘ having traveled considerably over Europe, he was, in 1823, appointed to the honorable posi tion of Advocate General. From this post he rose gradually, distinguishing himself for a keen, energetic lawyer, and in 1828 he became a member of the Crown Council. Four years later he Was appointed Sheriff of Lanarkshire, an office which is, iu Scotlaud, the highest judb cial station next to the bench. In the same year be published his first work—a rather dry oue—“The Principles of Criminal’Law,” and a year later a companion volume from his pen appeared, “Hie Practice of the Criminal I,aw.” By these two works his reputation as a writer was established, aud so much were they esteeiu ,ed that they became staudard authorities with the bar of Scotland.. He now turned his atten tion to the great work with which his name will always be associated. The first volume of “The History of Europe” appeared in 1833, and the successive nine volumes at intervals during the successive years. This work achieved an lipmerise success. It rau. through a largo number of editions in England, was reprinted in this country, and translated into French, German, and gym Arabic and Hindooslanee. This well Known Work is one of the most re markable historical compositions in existence. The information contained in It must have taken a large number of years hr its compila tion, aud a considerable charm attached to it from its eutire reliability. Sometimes the author allows himself to be biased by his high lory principles, .but these occasions are few, - and the work is probably the most unpreju diced that may be found. To those who have seen it, the clearness of the style and brilliancy ot the ideas contained in it, must have been ap parent, and the later volumes to the time of the assertion of Louis Napoleon are characterized by a conscientious accuracy and unbiased criti cisir. The other works of Sir Archibald Alison are his “ Principles of Population ” and “ Life of the Duke of Marlborough.” In 1851 he was elected Hector of the Glasgow University, and soon after the foundation of the Derby-Disraeli Cabinet, was created a Baronet. His death forms a gap in the literary world difficult of filling up. {Frorii the Boston Post. Masonic. amicable adjustment of long existing >■ TROUBLES. * We have already stated that the hitherto (or for many years) two wings, or divisions of the Supreme Council, thirty-third degree, Free masous, have been in session in this city sine* Wednesday last. One divisiou met at tlie Free masons"’ Hall, Sumner street, ttaeolher at Nas sau Hall, at, the South End. The leading object ot these assemblages* jwe«ire informed, was to bring about a reconciliation or adjustment of difficulties, which have existed for a period of fifty-throe years, ffio schism ”.iaving originated as early as 1814. In 1850 the troubles had reached a.point, which -threatened to seriously injure tlye great Order. Since the latter.period some of the best Masons In the country have labored with zeal to heal over she lamented 'wounds and bring the brethren of the two wings under a common fraternal .fold. Thia effort lias at length been consummated, and the union was formally ratified in Convention yes terday. The document is one of no little in terest, and will doubtless become historically iarnoup yj Masouic annals. Jt signalizes a peace which follows a warfare pursued, as we are informed-, with great.'jicrsonal bitterness, but which like some other discussions among men will make tlie Order ail the more strong and harmonious in the future.* Experience in this case, aa in others, will prove a wise and . beneficent teacher. Thq two bodies assembled in Sumner street yesterday afternoon. Tne meeting is described as of very great interest. Men from every sec tion of the Northern jurisdictions, aud also rep resentatives from the Southern, joined hands and hearts for the first time in their (Masonic) livqs. It was like the meeting of a family, the members of' wh a’.i had been long separated.— T.ie exchange of fraternal feeling was very cor dial and touching. Every countenance beamed with joy, more t Ban could lie expressed. The thousands of miles traveled *by many members, the labor oj years on the port others, is more than compensated by the gratifying result. It was very properly followed by congratulations, festivities and other demonstrations of satisfac tion and joy. After a final meeting to-day the members will separate for their homes, carrying with them the honor of having participated in j a work which will add new power, dignity and character to the great Masonic institution. Pardoned. — Montgomery, Ala., May 28. j Tlie Unked States District. Court, Judge BTis ! teed presiding, convened here to-day. 1 George W. Gayle, who was indicted for al [ leged complicity in the assassination of Presi dent Lincoln, presented a foil pardon from the ' President of the United States, and the Ipdlct ment was dls nissed On payment of costs.— This disposition of the case meets with general ! approval. • in— s— * l Remedy for Bud Worm,— An old. planter gives tfie Columbus Sun the following remedy [ for this pest of the farm and garden : u Dissolve half a pound of saltpetre iu about 1 six gallons of water —or in the same propoc ; tion for a larger quantity of water. Then put ; in a sufficiency of seed corn to float the water ; througtr, and soak it well. Let the corq soak for twenty-four hours. Whfen takeiLOut, put in a fresh supply of corn, and adfi at each change about two tableapoonsful of saltpetre to keep up the strength. And thus repedt un til the jflanting is ended. This is certainly a ebedp remedy,-and is within the reach of every planter. Tne corn,should not be suffered to dry before it is put in the ground.” “ l^l • Col. Briscoe G. Baldwin, formerly on Gen. Leo’s staff, attempted to take bis own life by means es chloroform a few days ago. Pecu niary misfortunes were the cause. He was dis covered in his bed apparently dying, and meas ure* were taken which will ensure bie recov ery. He is .brother of Speaker Baldwin, of the Virginia House of Delegates. The legislative correspondent of the Spring | field Republican perpetrates the following paro ■ dy, supposed to be sune by the wife of a Berk i shire representative: “Husband, dear husband, coma honje tome now, The garden needs spading for peas. The boys should be picking up stonesin the lot, And tend to your business at nomc
