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We Are Growing Old.
We are growing old—how the thought will rise,
When a glance is hatkward cast
O.i some !ong-rem“mbered spot that lies
In the silence of the past;
It raay te the shrine or our early tows, '
Or the tomb of early tears,
But it seems like a f r-off isle to us,
Iq the stormy sea of years.
Oh i wide end wild are the waves that part
Our steps from its greenness now,
And we miss the joy of many a heart,
And the light of many a brow;
For deep o’er man-, a stately hark
Have the.whelming billows rolled,
That steered with us from that early mark—
Oh, riends I we are growing oM 1
Old in the dimness of the dust
Os our daily toils andcares—
Old in the wrecks of love and trust
Which our bm thened memory bears.
Each form may wear to the passing gaze
Hhe bloom of life’s freshness yet,
And beams may brighten our latter days
Which the morning never met
Bat, oh I the changes we have seen,
In the far and winding way.
The graves in our paths that have grown green,
And the locks that have grown gray 1
The winters still on our 6wn may spare
Th sable or the sold;
But we see their snows upon brighter hiir,
And, frieqds, we are growing old!
We have gained the world’s cold wisdom now,
We have learned to praise and fear;
But where are living founts whose flow
Was a joy of heart to hear ?
We have won the wealth of many a clime,
And the loie of many' a page;
But where is the hope that saw in time
But its boundless heritage!
Will it come again, when the violet wakes,
And the woods their youth renew I
We have stood in the light of sunny brakes,
Where the bloom is deep and bine ;
And our souls might joy in the spring-time then,
But the joy was faint and cold;
For it never could givens the yuuth again
Os hearts, that are growing old.
[From Harper’s Magazine.
The Silent City at Greenwood.
There’s a city vast yet voiceless, growing ever street
on street,
Whither Rends with friends e’er meeting, ever meet
ing never greet;
And where rivals fierce and vsngefol, calm and silent
mntely meet;
Never greeting, ever meet.
There are traders without traffic, merchants without
hooks or gains;
Tender bribes in new-made chambers, where the
trickling water stains;
Where the guests forget to come, and strange, listen
ing silence reigns ;
Listening silence ever reigns.
Ships sail past this silent city, hut their owners quiet
lie,
And no* signals fly from top-tree ’gainst the glowing,
crimson «ky,
Telling the neglectful owner that his well built Argosy
For the fleece is sailing by.
Here the belle forgets the fashions, mindless of her
snow-white dress ;
All unheeded now her toilet, free, ungathered lock
and tress;
None here flatter face or figure, none come fondly to
caress;
Treases flow, and none caress.
Hushed are aU.these many mansions, barred and bolted
doorand gate; , '
Narrow all the walls and earthy, and the roof-trees
steep and straight;
Boom foT all I—the high and lowly. Rich and poor
here equal mate p
Equal dwell and equal mate.
Flowers are blooming near these mansions, kissed by
loving deals at night.
Breathing softly round their porches, flowing through
the cooling light;
Pealing from their bells sweet pneie, pealing odors
puge and white;
Pealing on’y to the night.
Here each keeps his well-ceiled dwelling, fearing
naught of quarter-day ;
Here no landlord dans the tenant, and no tenant moves
away;
Dwelling ever unevioied, dwelling on from May to
Kay;
Paying never quarter-day.
Beckons ever this mute city to its comrade living gay;
To its comrade laughing loudly, sitting on the pu'sing
bay;
Drawing from its masqueraders pale, white spectres
day by day ; -
Spectres now, men yesterday.
Thus two citiesgrow forever, parted by a narrow tide,
This the shadow, that the substance, growing by each
other’s side;
Gliding: one into the other, and forever more shall
’ Growing ever side by side.
In the Right.
I bless Thee, 6, my God !
I bless Thee for the night—
The stilt and solemn night,
When tired nature sinks to calm repose;
For aching hearts, oppressed with weary woes,
May in the silent hours of the night
Bare their mate anguish to Thy pitying sight.
I b'ess thee for the balm,
The deep and holy calm
With which my sad, despairing soul is filled—
The nope of sweet release,
The whisperings of peace,
When Thy dear voice has through the tempest thrilled.
I bless Thee, O, my God I
, I bless Thee for the trust,
Tbs pare and deathless trust,
That in the hour of suffering comes to me—
The promise of a refuge yet to he
Won from the toll of earthly sacrifice —
From penitential tears and prayers that rise
Like incense round Thy throne.
Oh I let their truth atone
For every sin known to Thy searching eye !
Ob I from my quivering heart
Tear every shrine apart
That bears the impress of idolatry 1
I We** Thee, O, my God 1
I bless Thee for the feet,
The perfect, blessed rest,
That shall be mine when this sad life is o’er—
When my glad feet shall press the eternal shore,
And I shall see my Saviour fiace to face,
Clothed in the lovely majesty of glace I
Thus, patiently I wait,
Stricken and desolate—
Walt till the angels summon me to come.
Then shining angel hands
Shall burst my earthly bands,
And angel wittge shall bear the wanderer “ home I”
My Lovers Twain.
My lovers twain—my lovers twain, ,
I pray yon let me be!
To wed yon both I would be fain,
Only that may not be.
One lover la Uke music sweet,
That steals my heart away j
And one is like the trumpet blsst
Which calls me to the fray.
One is of gentle, courteous mind,
To low and high dense:
And one Is stern and harsh of mood,
And metteth but to me.
One la so strangely loveable,
That but to touch bis band,
Do woman kneel—before the one
Do moo uncovered stand.
And If I this one do not wed,
He never wife will seek;
And If that one I do not wed,
He sotrowelba week.
My lover* twain— mt losers twain,
Vs should have let me I,a;
J love the one with ait uir heart ■
Tbs other loveth me.
[From the New York Bun, January 29.
Tax on Capital Used by Brokers.
ORSAT EXCITEMENT IN WALL STREET.
The operators In stocks and secnritles in
Wall street are in a fever of excitement in rela
tion to a movement that has been began by
Mr. E. ft.'- Webster, assessor of the thirty
second district, with a view to enforcing the
law providing for a tax of oue-tweuty-fonnh
of one per cent, on all capital in active use.—
The" brokers assert that they are mere agents of
the capitalists, from whom they borrow money
for investment in stocks and other securities,
and that consequently they are nut liable to
pay tbe tax. The assessor relics on the 79tb
and 110th sections of the revenue act for au
thority to collect this impost on capital. In
the former section brokers and other persons
who deal in stocks, securities, &e., are defined
as “ bankers,” and the latter provides that all
“ bankers ” shall pay “ a tax of one-twenty
fonrth of one per ceatiim each month upon the
capital df any bank, association, company or
corporation, and on the capital employed by
any person engaged in the business of bank
ing.” The effort now being made to collect
the tax has called forth considerable 'denun'eia
lion in “ the street,*’ and in their excitement
some of the principal brokers threaten to raise
two millions of dollars cither to have their
construction of the law approved by the Wash
ington authorities or to have the law repealed.
If the tax on the capital in active use in Wall
street shonld be paid, there would be an in
crease of the revenue of about $4,000,000 per
annum.
The reyenne officers of the thirty-second
district, who have charge of the collection of
this tax, assert that the whole amount of capi
tal returned by the brokers and other specula
tors in Wall street, for the past year, as taxa
ble, is fifteen millions of dollars. This allega
tion most astonish the public, for, if It Is true,
the army of speculators who deal in stocks
and securities, representing’ hundreds of mil
lions of dollars, perform financial miracles
daily. One firm, which, it is charged, has look
ed up ten millions to derange the money mar
ket, and sent sixty millions oi Erie ” flying,”
have made returns, showing that their capital
is only seventy thousand dollars, and yet they
confess that they use annually acapital of three
hundred millions of dollars. It is proposed to
draw out this capital from its larking place,
and to make it pay the tax. This, however,
would tend to exhibit the financial status of the
brokers, and hence the law is resisted.
The revenue officers assert, after patient in
vestigation and inquiry, that the amount of
capital in actual use in Wall street, during a
year, is not less than a thousand millions— that
is, that large amount changes bands, and makes
fortunes for the owners or speculators on its
way. A delegation of brokers went to Wash
ington a few days ago, and, it is said, had anfn
terview with Secretary McCulloch In relation
to their liability to pay the tax. The result of
the interview has not leaked out, and as Mr
Webster is immovable In his determination to
enforce the law, it is believed, in the absence
of any communication from Mr. McCulloch,
that the delegation were unable to accomplish
their object.
Yesterday afternoon some of the principal
brokers in Wall street had an interview with
Mr. Webster, who informed them that the law
providing for the tax is very clear and positive,
and that the tax must be paid. Mr. Webster
added that the decision of the Deputy Commis
sioner of Internal Rctciiue, wr. I‘noraas tlar
land, covered the question involved. The Com
missioner, he said, decided, when the whole
subject was referred to him, that “ if a banker
(which the 79th section declares may be a
broker) borrows money and uses it in his bulk
ing business, it shonld be treated as a part of
his capital, and be subject to the monthly tax
of one-twenty-fourth oi one per cent.”
It is cited, as a proof that an itomense amount
of capital does not pay this tax,'that One of the
largest banking houses In Wall street has au
thority to draw on a European firm for £500,-
000, and that the latter amount is not included
in the returns of the house, although it may be
in active use.
. “ The Coming Ship.”—A Rival of the
Great Eastern.— The “ coming Ship," as the
intended rival of the Great Eastern is designat
ed, has at . present been exhibited, in model
only, in San Francisco. It Is to be of the same
size as the Great Eastern, except that instead of
twenty-eight feet it will draw only eighteen
feet, and it will carry proportionally less ton -
taqge It is destined to Carry four times as
many passengers as any present Style of ship,
and to substitute for bunks regnlar beds; it
will also give fonr times the space to a state
room. The. San Francisco Times say e: “The
present mode of bunking passengers is un
worthy of the age. Sea sickness, if preventable
by construction, shonld be rendered obsolete.
This desideratum is attained In Thomas Sliver’s
eoming ship; it is secured by the proportions
ot the ship, and by there beiog thirty feet less
of the bull out'of water than in the Great East
ern, but the motto I is rendered almost imper
ceptible by anew device. The state rooms,
instead of being at the .Outside limits of the
vessel, arC amidships, that Is, along the centre
line of the ship, where the roll is scarcely per
ceptible. The saloon is to be five hundred feet
lbng, and clear of obstructions. It is not for
dining. Instead of a public table, there ale to
be two competing restaurants at the extremities
adjoining the saloons. The ship will sell pass
age only, the board being payable as meals are
ordered. It is contemplated to carry second
class passengers and third class in the some
way. The present first class bunks will be for
third class berths.
*
A New Infernal Machine.—A new and
very dangerous “ infernal ” machine has been
invented and “ successfully ” tried in Ban Fran
cisco. A street car, partially filled with passen
gers, was thrown violently from the traelfc one
evening. All inside supposed at first that it
was another earthquake. A search for the
cause of the disturbance revealed an exploded
torpedo firmly fastened to the rail of the track.
In general appearance It resembles an old
fashioned watch, being about two inches in
diameter and five-elghtiiß of an iocb in thick
ness. It was composed of Russian sheet iron,
with two strong clasps of lead, by which it was
secured to the rail of the track. Fixed in the
intei lor of the torpedo, and nearly reaching ile
upper surface, were three gun nipples soldered
to the lower plate. They were armed with or
dinary percuseion caps, and were exploded by
the car wheels passing over them. The ma
chine was filled, of course, with some powerful
explosive mixture. The whole affair is a mys
tery. The object aimed at was, no donbt, to
see what an explosion of that character, direct
ly under the wheel of a car, would effect The
reckless daring which prompted the inventor
to give it a trial In the very heart of the «Kv,
points indirectly to the probable use to which
others of a larger calibre may be put.
At the meeting of the Trustees of the Pea
body Ffind, held In Baltlmoreon Thursday, Dr.
Rears reported that he bad traveled extensively
In Arkansas and Tent-essee, and had establish
ed schools at I-tttle Bock, Camden,-Napoleon,
Fort Smith and a few other points. He slaws
that he found the people ready and anilpus to
assist in carrying out the object of the gift. The
schools which base been established already
have generally been elded by a gift of one Qr
two-thlrde of the amount necessary to coin
nvuee them, while tbs remaining mhh lias been
rslsed by the dtlaena of the vicinity. Some of
these school* will he self sustaining by the end
ol the jw»r,
AUGUbTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17, 1869.
Exit of Messrs. Breckinridge and Ben
jamin from the Confederacy. —There are a
few facts connected with the escape of General
Breckinridge and Mr. Benjamin from the Con
federaey which are perhaps not generally
known. After the surrender at General Lee’s
army, both Gen. Breckinridge and Mr. Beoja.
min made their way to Florida. Gen. Breckin
ridge struck the State near Montieello, where
he found friends who assisted him it getting to
Marion county, from whence he hoped to find
an opportunity to get out of the eountry.—
Gen. Breckinridge 6pent a number of days in
bunting and visiting with his friends in Marion,
but knowing that he cob Id not remain there
long, bis friends proenred a small metallic
boat, in which he and his companions, Colonel
Wilson and Captain Wood, and the General’s
faithful servant, 60on fonnd themselves ascend
ing the St. John’s river. The party, after much
toil, reached New Smyrna, where they found a
schooner which carried them safely to Nassau,
N. P. The "General was known as Colonel
Cabel.
Mr. Benjamin also struck Florida pear Mon
ticello, where he met friends who assisted him
on to the vicinity of this place. Here Mr. Ben
jamin hoped to find some way to Cuba, or one
of the Bahama Islands; but there was a strict
watch kept by the United States troops station
ed here, and there were but few boats left on
the coast. But Mr. Benjamin finally procured
a small boat at Manatee, upou which' the ex-
United States Senator and ex-Oonfederate States
Secretary of State embarked as conk, and in a
few days fonnd himself under the protecting
folds of the British flag. Mr. Benjamin passed
himselt off as a land hunter, named Howard.
There is quite an amusing little anecdote con
nected with Mr. Benjamin during his stay with
a friend of ours, in this vicinity, hut we refrain
from making it public.— Florida Peninsular.
Alpeoria Heard From.— The Savannah
News says, Alpeoria Bradley has acted wisely
in patting the largest possible space between
bimself and Savannah, and we advise him to
maintain the same anionnt of prudence for and
during his natural life. We received yesterday,
under cover of an envelope postmarked “ Bos
ton, January 23.” the fallowing characteristic
communication, which we publish just as writ
ten, not from any respect to the wretch who
wrote It, but as a judicial and literary curiosity
and par) of the history of those disjointed
times:
\ ***
To the Superior Couit of said county, I pray
that your honor will be pleased to take judicial
notice, of the law and the fact: —that sections
4250, 4351, and 4252 and the laws of 1866 p 151
p 152 3 are not enforced in thej&tate of Georgia :
as onr new Constitution that gave them legq)
existence is not as yet the organic few. of the
State: and because Maj. Gen. G. Mead has by
an order, withdrawn all bis orders by whieh
they were made the provisional taw of Georgia.
The Eleventh Article section third of the State
Constitution that makes Irwin’s Code the law
of Georgia, cannot compleat its , work until
Congress had adutited our Senators.
1 submit to your honor the law and the facts,
that if the Ogechee colored people are insurrec
tionists it is against the United States and not
the Btate of Georgia.
And again because Sheriff Dooner did not
take the Test Oath as required by the reoon
struction acts of all officers acting under pro
visional laws, and therefore ha might be leo"”?
, ccieteu as onenn or Chatham county.
If these sections are to be enforced as legal
law : under them the Republican party of
Georgia they can have put to'death, the editors,
owners and news boys of the Savannah Ilepub
lican—and the Jfeses and one-balf the printers
of the State : for what they write, print, and
circulate for the. purpose of exciting resistance
against the laws of the United States.
A. Alpeor a. Bradley.
Aiken.— Thurlow Weed, now a sojourner at
Aiken, thus writes to the Commercial Adver
tiser ;
“ We find in the climate of Aiken all the ad
vantages we hoped for'. In this respect, there
was nothing of exaggeration In the many favor
able representations we had heard and read, In
climate, the January of Aiken resembles the
October ol New York—it is dry and clear. We
walk morning, afternoon and evening, without
overcoats. Ladies enjoy croquet iu costumes
suitable for May on the North river. Violets
are in full bloom. Now, as heretofore, there
are many Northern citizens passing the Winter
here, among whom are Hugh Maxwell. Geo. T.
Andrews, of'New York,and General Dimick, of
the United States Army.- Mr. Maxwell came
here tor the benefit of bis own health, whieh is
fully re-established. The son of Mr. Andrews,
who was dangerously ill, is improving. Mr. J.
C. Derby, the enterprising New York publisher,
has a large and productive farm, adjoining the
village of Aiken. His peach orchard, the
largest we bad ever seen, is in full view lrom
the railway cars. Mrs. Derby, who called yes
terday, says that they are preparing one hundred
acres for cotton planting this season. The
Globe Hotel, where we lodge, is well kept.—
The walks and drives iu and about Aiken are
very pleasant. The woods, they tells US, will
soon be beautiful and fragrant with wild
flowers.”
Tag Material Progress of the South—
Cheering Signs.— Perhaps the beet evidence
of the sure and rapid material progress of the
South may be found la the fact Hat the price
of the bonds of (he different Southern States is
steadily rising in Wall street. The directors of
our New York savings banks, who are pro
verbially conservative, captious and sagacious,
have lately bought largely these State bonds.
The Southern people themselves are also add
ing considerably to their investments in these
bonds. Other cheering signs of the energy
with which the recuperative powers of (he
South are awakening may be fonnd in the
great cotton crop, estimated at two hun Ired
million dollars.; in the plentiful rice and eager
crops; in the abundant production .of every
thing consumed by the Southern people at
borne; in the report that in many parte of the
South labor baa become even cheaper than it
used to be in the days of slavery; and, lustly,
in many indications that (be political pacifica
tion which mast infallibly follow the inaugura
tion of Preeidcnt Grant will open at the South
an era of good feeling apd of unprecedented
prosperity. —New York Herald, Jan. 90th.
Manufacturing at Columbus— We learn
from the Sun that the city of Colpmbue now
has three factories in the “ fall tide of success
ful operation ’V-tbe “ Eagle and Phoenix,” the
“ Columbus,” and the “ Steam Cotton Mills.”
Tbe first has 0,000 spindles in operation, exclu
sive of the woolen ; the seeorid 3,500 ; and the
last 2,ooo—total, 13,500 spindles. Tbe finest
kind of cassimeres, all kinds of thread, sheet
ing, shirting, etc., and beautlfal blankets, are
being made. The Eagle and Pbtenix and the
Columhail both contemplate doubling their
machinery during tbe present year. When this
is done, there will be 25,000 spindles In opera
tion.
There can bo do room for doubt as to the im
portance and value of enterprise* of this char
acter. When our people wake up fully to a
knowledge of, and belief In their capacities to
do their own manufacturing, and thus geCrleb,
as the New England spinners are doing every
day, we ahall begin to h* lop rail again.
\Journal $ Meuengtr.
A doxeo men and hoys, and about tweiitv
dogs, war* bitten by a mad dog, la Cincinnati,
lately.
Independent Journalism.— The World,
discoursing upon independent journalism,
takes occasion to contrast the different rela
tions now existing between Journalists and
party managers, with those which used to
obtain, in former years. It says :
“ Party journals are becoming more inde
pendent than formerly, because journalism itself
has become more powerful and self-support
ing. It requires, at present, such large invest
ments of capital, such heavy outlays for the col
lection of news, such a number of alert, trained
men to keep up its various departments, so
much business capacity to manage its finances,
that a successful journal must be a great, com
plex establishment with large resources and
wide connections. The consequence is, that it
is a very formidable undertaking to establish a
new journal. Os the new ones started the
greater part fail, andthe very few that take root,
succeed only after staking a large amount o/
capital.
* * Formerly, if a party journal was not
subservient, parly leaders coaid set np anew
one at a trifling expense, and draw off sub
scribers enongh to damage or destroy the re
calcitrant organ. But established journals can
so longer be supplanted in this easy way ; and
their conductors, having no fear of new rivals,
are more free to follow thalr own judgment as
to what is for the best interests of their party.
If a jonrnal has enlightened convictions and
sound views, it can afford to advocate them 1n
a forcible spirit, confident that time will vindi
dale them, and that snch members of Its party
as are displeased will, after a while, recognize
(heir soundness.”
Taking an Equitable View of the Case.
—JI lew years ago, one Mrs, Harrington (a
handsome widow of sixteen) was tried lor the
murder of her husband, at the Delaware Oyer
and Terminer, before Jndge Balcom. For the
purpose of establishing her motive to poison
her husband, the district attorney proved that
her husband was thlrly-Blx yesra of age, and
married her when she was only fifteen years
old, in Pennsylvania, by falsely representing to
her that he was a rich tanner of Delaware
county, N. Y., when ho waa an Intemperate
teamster there, and that he abused ber after be
brought her to Delaware county. This evi
dence created the strongest kind of sympathy
for her. It became so strong (in the thtrd day
of the trial, one More met Judge Balcom as hi
was going but to dinner, and More (with tears
in bis eyes) besought him to take an equitable
view of the ease When he came to charge the
jnry; whereupon Judge Balcom asked him
what be meant by an equitable view of the case,
and More (crying) exclaimed, “ Tell the Jury
the poor girl did not kill her hnsbnnd half as
quick as she ought to.” And it was supposed
the jury took that view of the case when they
acquitted her.
f Cor. Albany Evening Journal , Jan. 25 th.
The Blue Ridge Railroad.— We learn that
a full report by Col. James P. Low, Chief En
gineer of the Bine Ridge Railroad, of his re
cent reconnolssanee of the Gap, has been re
ceived by General Harrison, the President of
the company. We are glad to learn that the
deterioration of the road-bed and bridges,
whieh it was apprehended would -be oonstdera
h’V; from the long Interval since work wus sus
pended, is pronounced comparatively trivial', in
cpi'seuuence of the substantial character of the
made
Gap (the tunnels included) ebu be completed
in twenty months from the time that operations
are resumed. Colonel Low proposes at once
to confluence the re-snrVey of the line, with ao
effective force of assistants; and expects to have
the working estimates ready for the contractors
in the early part of April; ao that ibere*aro
reasonable hopes for the completion of the
road from Anderson to the Rabun Gap by the
month of December, 1870. As 1 nearly all the
difficulties on the route to Knoxville are com
prised wßhin this section, and as the remainder
of it is of easy construction, we can afford to
congratulate our readers on the early termina
tion of tijia work, which will make South Car
olina the thoroughfare, and Cbwrleston the out
let, of the immense productions of the mighty
West. —Columbia Phoenix.
Niggers in the Gallery.—The Washing
ton correspondent *f the Cincinnati Commer
cial gives the following acceunt of tfie reasons
why negroes congregate in the galleries, ol the
Legislative Halls:
I woe. greatly amused at what one of the door
keepers of the gallery said to me not long since.
I remarked to him that the galored people were
not so fond of attending the debates of Con
gress as they were formerly.
“ The weather U too fine,” be responded,
sententlonsiv.
“ Why, what has the weather to do with It ?”
1 asked.
“ Every thing. When It is cold and uncom
fortable, and no warm side of a wall to be bad,
they flock here, for they have comfortable seats
and a warm place without paying for It. You
como here some bitter, cold, inclement day,
and see bow crowded the galleries will be with
our colored friends. They will' sit and sleep
and snore here all day, like black snakes in the
son of fipriog.” •
Poor creatures. lam glad the galleries cun
be made ao useful—lodgings for improvident
negroes. ■ __
A Desperate Affaib.— We learn, from re
liable authority, that Sheriff McClurd, of
Picken* county, accompanied by a man by the
name of Brown, succeeded in arresting a horse
thief by tbe name of Richie, who had been op
erating between Hamilton county, Tenn., and
Pickena county, Ga. After tbe arrest, Richie
made a desperate effort to escapeand succeeded
by shooting, and almost instantly killing, the
sheriff and wounding Brown In snch a manner
that be soon afterwards bled to death. Richie,
afterwards mounted the best horse in thecrowd
and made good iris escape. Richie told tbe
sheriff, tbe moment he drew bis pistol from Ms
boot leg, that he H had killed seven men, end
that be would be tbe eigbtb one.” This sad
affair occurred nine miles below Jasper, on
Sunday, tbe 17th Inst.— Vahlonega Signal.
ANbw Tot.—A. late nnmber of tbe Conti
nental Gazette publishes tbe following para
graph: ”The fashionable Bnd drawing-room
pastime of the present boor Is called the Grim
akUticope. It is a box containing all the celeb
rities of tbe day, unto the features of whom
any visitor can, with a touch, Impart any ex
pression he likes, from tbe most awful grim
aces that ever added ugliness to a monkey, to
the eweeteat ever dreampt of by the Undone
det Hoeei.”
An American Lion.—A party of htmtere
bad a fearful encounter with a foil grown
American lion, nisar the Belt Ranze of moun
tains in Montana Territory, one day last month.
The animal received seventeen bullet* before
he succumbed. He measured eight feet from
nose to Up of tail, and wa* nearly lour feet
high The contest was desperate and pro
tracted, and several of the boaters received
ogly wounds.
The Rev. Dr. John Hall had occasion, a few
we'-k* since, to preach a sermon on behalf of
! domestic missions. Next day be received s
i note from » gentleman expressing a dealre to
' add aa much more a* the congregation b«d
given, and wishing to know the amount. Hr
j wa* Informed of tbs amount (94,70(1), and **nt
! at one* *5,500 In money, pot wishing even hi*
i ebsok to Indicate bis natne to any one, and say
ing IbM h« wiabsd to make lbs sum ”910,000
I even."
Golden Hair.—lt Is said that no woman
can now command a good salary on the stage
unless ahe has golden—that is, bright yellow
hair. The managers are perfectly insane upon
the •* blonde” style ol beauty ; teat. In conse
quence, every aetreßß who can scrape together
SIOO or so is purchasing the application of the
alkaline washes that bleach, and the arsenical
liquids ttyit auburnlze the hirsute appliances of
the female cranium. We understand tbet these
requirements are also in demand among' the
ladles who arc denominated a social evil; and
that good society, excepting in rare instances,
has therefore shnt down upon the “ beautiful
forever" Bednctions, and is content, with much
sorrow intermixed, to cling to nature somewhat
fondly. Those who attend public places of
amusement habitually, will have noticed that
dark hair among jhe female performers is as
much of a rarity as golden and flaxen tresses
used to he. Anon, nins-tenths of onr actresses
will be bald-headed, and possibly paralytic—
which will perhaps give the gentlemen who
profess to cure palsy by a process of “ dry-cnp
ping”. plenty of opportunities for making ex
periments. Hair-dyes have led in a great many
cases to loss of muscular action.
[New York Atlas.
No More Cakes and Alb.— On the railroad
between Philadelphia and Cape May, in ihe
Btate of New Jersey, is anew creation called
Wneland— a district of country embracing fifty
square miles. In IBfiß it was a wilderness.—
Now there is * village, a mile square, with a
population ot 3,000, and within sound of the
village hglls a suburban population of 9,000
more. Magnificent obnrcUes of various denom
inations have been constructed; schools, acad
emies, taverns, stores and palatial private resi
dences abound. Thrift, prosperity, happiness
and a widespread and univeraal morality dis
tinguish the ooinmunitv- No police, and not a
gill of liquor wereevef seeu within the sacred
precincts. Sociable rneetli gs, with weak tea
and scientific conversation, enliven the blissful
community and variegate the routine of exist
ence. In a word, It is the properest place tire
world has ever seen. But We suspect a poor
son of mother earth, with any of the infirmities
of humanity hanging loose about him, would
find life there somewhat of a bore. We should
be a little afraid of It ourselves.
[ Richmond Whig.
The First Woman Doctor i* Russia
The Medico-Cblrutrieal Academy at Bt. Peters
burg conferred, at Us annual conference, a
week or two ago, the degree ot M. D. upou
Mdme. Kaschewarow, the first female candi
date for this honor who bad presented herself
before them. When her name was mentioned
by the Dean It was received with an Immense
storm of applause, which lasted for several
minutes. The ceremony of Investing her with
the Insignia of her dignity being over, her fel
low-students and new colleagues lifted her
upon a chair and carried her, with triumphant
shouts, through the hail. But at this moment
Mdme. Lucca was espied among the audience,
and such was the students’ fickleness that the
lady doctor had to yield her elevated seat to
the popular singer. The prima donna not only
remained in undisputed possession of the ex
temporized throne, hut was carried npon It to
her carriage. Whilst the new doctor had to find
what comlort she could Id ber diploma.
Handsomely Stated.—' The editor of the
scathed through a trying libel stilt. He does
not, in the hour of his exultation, turn npon
hi? enemies, hut extends to them hie hand, and
in substance says : Gentlemen, your efforts
were vain. Yoa can not stop history maxing,
you can uot muffle truth. The press is the
organ of though! in the body politic. If you
can not' bear Its, power, Stand from under. This
victory is not mine, or I might vaunt myself
and tnnnt yon. Itle simply a step forward of
journalism. It is the Shaking oft of n parasite
#hich might have disturbed, but never ednlrl
have choked up, th® avenues ol free expression.
When jmpotent men and swindlers learn these
great truths, black mailing attempts on journal
ists will gradually cease. * ' ’ •-
New York Amusement*.— There Is pr<i{is
- no city lo the world wbers the people pay
so much to be amused as in New York. Be
low will be fonnd the total receipts of tbt va
rious establish rnents In that city for the year
1868. Legs and tinsel take the first prize;
Nibto's Garden, $359,376; Olympic
$349921; New York Circus, $311,027; Wal
lack’s Theatre, $263,810 ; Broadway Theatre,
$171,250; French Theatre, $165,848; Wood's
Museum, $100,490; Pike’s Opera House, SIOB,-
599-/old Bowery Theatre, $107,263; Theatre
Conrtque,;sni4,72B; Kelly ALeon’s, $101,480;
New York Theatre, $98,480; Tody Pastor*,
$83,331; Baa Francisco Minstrels, $88,635;
Bryant’s Minstrels, $59,080; Academy of Mn
sfc, $39,743; Boiler’s American Theatre, $8,095.
Beat it if Too Can— Mach 1* said through
tbe paper* of tbe Peeler, and other varieties of
long stsplo cotton, but We have yet to lenrn
that any ol these have sold !b any Southern
market for more tli*n about thirty-five cento
per pound, except the “Tbrelketd Cotton,"
grown by Mr. T. J. Threlkeld, OOe of the firm
of Sims A Threlkeld, cotton brokers of this
city. Twelve bale# of tbl* cotton wa# told, a
tew days since, in Savannah, Ga., at fiftj-enc
cents per pound.
Mr. Tbrelkw'd raised this cotton on bis plan
tation, in S| aldl ig county, and has a few bash
el* of tbe seed on band, which he Will cell for
ten dpUars per boehel. —Griffin Star-
Alt Example for the Georgia Legisla
ture. —In the Illinois Legislature a hill has
been Introduced to compel railroad companies
lo that State to charge uniform rotes for trans
portation of freight In proportion to the dis
tance carried, and providing that any railroad
charging more than tbe pro rata proportion,
shell pay tbe owner five times the tom wrong
fully collected, besides the attorney’s fees.
A llfe-siOT wax figure of a living New Or
leana belle has been set up In the New Orleans
Muse Om. She Is a member of tbe most fash
ionable society, and is justly distinguished for
ber beauty. It was manafoctured in New
Tork, from an nmbrotjrpe sent for tbe pur
pose. The young lady knew nothing of tbe
liberty thus taken of her person.
Gen. Sherman 1* said tw detest “new” uni
forms, and never appears in new clothes If he
can help it. The reaaop la said to be that, when
a lieutenant, he was one day at Washington,
sunning himself io a bran new outfit at the
door of bis hotel, where a crowd of beys gath
ered, one of whom inquired: “ Mister, where’s
your engine going to squirt f”
Os the originally known John Brown party
who ckjxured Harper’* Ferry and act up a pro
visional government for Tlrginfa, bnt two arc
now living—Oliver Brown, who resides in
Western Pennsylvania, and Oliver P. Ander
son, a colored man, living in Canada.
Cincinnati theatre receipt* for 1888 amount
ed to tbe enormous sum—for Cincinnati—of
9210 434.
A doctor In Missouri has been detected In
poisoning hi* patients, Which bn has been ac
customed to do In s cautious and stealthy man
ner. On examination he wa* found to bo In
sane, and yet be had been practicing lor months
fu that condition.
Two Clark* war* burntd to death by tha
Philadelphia Ira reported by telegraph Friday
last.
VOI* 28. NO. 7
Hon. Joshua Hill U in Atlanta.
An accident occurred on the State Road*
few daya since, damaging three ears.
Velocipede aleeve-bnttons are the latest de
velopment of fast finery.
Thirty-four million dollars In gold were
mined in Montana last year.
A popular organist hi New York gets SIOO
lor playing at fashionable weddings.
A Chinese printer works on the San Jose
(Cal.) Mercury.
The Bank of Montreal, Canada, was entered
and robbed a few days siuce ot $50,000.
Everybody is anxious to go to heaves, but
nobody fein a burry about it.
A Yankee, named Keeler, is lecturing in Bos
ton on how to make the “grand tour ” on slßl,
as he did.
A Nashville firm has recently shipped a large
number of samples ol Tennessee corn to a firm
in Calcutta.
Cotton seed meal is being shipped in large
quantities from Tennessee to Ohio, as food for
cattle.
A handsome set of plate has been presented
to Mrs. Abraham Llneoin by the admirer* of
her hnsband at Frankfort-on-the-Maio.
French citizens ol New Orleans have sub
scribed $95,000 to the stock of a cotlou mill to
be erected in that city.
The report of the Oneida Commnulty shows
a.constant increase of the eos( of living for
several years, until it averaged $4 85 per week
to each person in 1868.
The general opinion of Congressmen is that
the first session of the next CoDgrea*, com
mencing on the fourth of March, will not last
over fonr or five weeks.
Florida planters are preparing foi; ,planting
cotton largely this year. They think the un
usually eold weather there has destroyed tbs
caterpillars.
A medical atudent say* be has uevep been
aide to discover the bone of contention, ond
desires lo know whether It la not situated pear
the law bone.
The tears we shed for those we lord Are the
streams which water the garden of th* hshrt,
and without them U would be dry and barren,
tnd the gentle flowers ot affection would parish.
Mr- Manton Marble baa bought dot aij the
other owners of the World newspaper, and it
now lta sole proprietor. The prlee mild for
one quarter of Ot* stock was one hundred
thousand dollars, exclusive of any real estate.
The New York Fire Commissioners are emu
lating the vigorous measures taken by the
Board °f Health tor the suppression of “ the
Illegal and dangerous traffic in kerosene." H
The New York Express predicts a prosper
ous Spring trade and an early commencement
es it, owing to the prospect of speedy Open
ing of navigation.
The Jury in the case of Daniel Dechert, edi
tor and proprietor of the Hagerstown (Mary
land) Mail, gave him a verdict against the Ha
gerstown corporation for $7,500 damages, for
allowing his office, types, etc., to be destroyed
by a mob In 1863, and driving him out of town
as a secessionist. This case Is likely .to lye
taken as a precedent for numberless suits
throughout Maryland.
Veloelpe building new forma an important
branch of trade in Paris. There not only raan
rlWwfi'or e" tire “tro’n*%i orlT “o f ’ Wffleft’fbllj'fifc
composed is cast. Oneof these employ* two
hnndred and fifty workmen, and tarnishes
twelve velocipedes per day for n coitoh builder
of Lyons. A Lyonese veloelperiiat Is wllHngto
take a bet that he will beat the fastest trotter
In a race.
Brigham Young has telegraph wires leadltfg
to bis office and connecting with every hrariet
in Utah—a line five hundred miles long. Bvenr
nett lenient of half a dozen houses .has atsde
grnph office, with fetfmle Saint Operator*, irtid
ib charge of a Bishop of the Mormon Cbnrch,
and who can report, at any time, all that, takes
place to Young. From bis private pffled i«
Salt Lake City, like tbo watchman In the’tete
grapb, Brigham may gtvfe an order or ring an.
alarm from Idaho to New Mexico.
The following I* the letter whieh Barfyer
wrote from his death-bed to the Comte dc
Cbambord: “O, Monseigneur, O, ray King!
they tell me my last hour I* at .band, l.die
with the sorrow of not having witnessed the
triumph of yoor hereditary right*, consecra
ting the establishment and expansion ol those
liberties which onr country needs. I earry
these wishes up to boaveij for your Maietty,
for Her Majesty the Queen, for our beloved
France I That tiny be In* unworthy 01-fold
ing favor lo the eye* of the Almighty* I deport
from thl* Die provided with all the aids es oar
blessed religion. Adlan, sire ; may heaven pro
tect yon and preserve France I Yoor devoted
and faithful subject. BIRRTERf”
A Womanly Woman—A party of young
girl* Were assembled around a centre-table
under the-llght of ii Chandelier in one of lour
moat elegant and foehionaol* bouses. A bObre,
elderly lady, whose silver tresses, banded
Madonna-wise on- each s'do of ber head, showed
that near four score Winters bad Irosted Aetr
Once raven beauty, but whose dark eyes atljl
glowed with the softened intelligence which
belonged to n green old age, sat not far distant,
engaged with that everlasting knitting.
The group around the table were discussing
matters of gossip with which young people are
Interested. They spoke freely of tble or that
gentleman’s or lady’* peculiarities, foibles,
faults, merits, or beauties. Finally, a lady’a name
was mentioned abont whom there seemed a
variety of opinions. She wa* not only « social
notoriety, but one who all agreed was admired
and respected, and who moreover, exerted a
wide spread Influence. But she was not accom
plished, In tbe asttfil sense of the word. She
did'not eing divinely—nay, she did not ting at
nil. She did not play like Tbalberg—indeed,
she did not play atoll; she was not a brilliant
conversationalist; she bod never written n book;
she bad never presided over a benevolent
society, and yet her claim* to social position,
respect, and Influence were undisputed.
” Pray what did Mr*. D. ever do to obtain her
position and influence ?” exclaimed a little
beauty, rather impatiently. Breaking from the
circle and going to the piano, she senta shower
of stiver bell* ringing tbrovgb tile room, in a
manner Mr#. D. never could have done. “What
has Mrs. D. ever done ?” and whirling on the
piano atool ahe ftCed the old lady. “My dear.”
said the silver-haired matron, smiling as only
dear old ladles know bow to smile, a smile of
tefWer pitying love, “My dear, Mr*, 0. never
did anything—she endured.”
[New York Demotrat.
Fatal and Disgraceful Oocurbence at
Obaniteville.— Near Granitevllle, ow Satur
day night, ten days ago, while an assembled
company were enjoying themselves at a hall,
certain men left the room and, for cansea Un
known, began Bring promiscuously into the
company. Before the affray ended, Mr. JSd.
Dinkins wss shot through tbe bowels (it i*
{bought be will die), and Mr. John Prescott
tbroagb tbe shoulder. The perpetntors of
this nubenrd ot atrocity are stilt at large, hav
ng defied all attempt# at capture.
[Kdgefteld Adverther.
Not TiißSaM* War or Thinkhhi.-A l*4y
correspondent ol the Washington Chrontale
•talus that although Senator# Pomeroy, Wsdo
and Wilson attend the Womcn'l 'tight* Con
». hi ion io Hist ally, their wives ar# all opposed
to the movement. Tkja la nothing satraordl
nary.
