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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 22, 1869)
®l)t tUcchln CoHstitutionolist. BY STOCKTON & CO. OUR TERMS. The following are the rate* of Subscription: Daily, one year.. ; jjp qq Wikly, one year |3 oo [Fro® the London Spectator. Pro IMortms. BY FRANCIS T. FAL6RAVB. ■ What should a man desire to leave ? A flawless work; a noble life ; Some music harmonized from strife. Some finish’d thing, ere the slack hands at eve Drop, should be his to leave. I One gem o[ song, defying age; A bard-won fight; a well-worked farm ; A law, no guile can twist to harm; i Some tale, as our lost Thackeray’s, bright, or sage As the Just Hullam's page. Or, in life’s homeliest, meatiest spot, To strike the circle of bis years A perfect curve Jhrough Joys and tears, Leaving a pure name to te known, or not— This is a true man’s lot. He dies: he leaves the deed, or name, A gift for ever to his land, In trust to Friendship’s guardian hand, Bound ’gainst all adverse shocks lo keep his lame, Or to the world proclaim. Bat the imperfect thing, or thought,— The fervid yeastiness of youth, p The dubious doubt, the twilight truth, W The work that for the passing day was wrought, The schemes that came to nought. \ The sketch half-way ’twlxt verse and prose fs That mocks the finish’d picture true, :i The splinters wbebce the statue grew, ■t- Tne scaffolding ’neatta which the palace rose, The vague abortive throes. M And crudities of joy or gloom: In kind oblivion let him be! Nor has the dead worse foes than he Who rakes these sweeping* of the artist’s room, And piles them on his tomb. > Ah, ’tis bnt little that the best, Frail children of a fleeting hour, Can leave of perfect fruit or flower ! Ah, let all else be graciously snpprest When man Ues down to rest! Love-Light. “ Go down to the meadow at break of day. Go down to the meadow, son John, And labor away ’mong the sweetest bay, That ever the sun shone on.” And John went down to the meadow land, But he saw not the clover sweet, And the sky was dun for he missed the sun, Though it reddened his brow with heat. He misled the son and he missed the light, And the world seemed ap6ide down, Till be caught sight of a smile so bright, And a linsey-woolsey gown. The snn went up and the light came down, And the field was all aglow, While his heart kept time to the merry rhyme jf Os the reaperis song below. And Mary, she laughed at her lover’6 mood, Asjhe turned from his fond caress, Though the South wind blew from her lips so true The sweet little answer, “ Yes.” I # * • * * * “ Oh, wherefore so glad?” said Father Grey, f “ Ob, wherefore so glad, son John ? For the storm to-day spoiled the swee jest bay That ever the sun shone Upon.” Bnt John knew nothing of the rain or flood, And nothing of ruined hay; > For the flowers of joy to the farmer’s boy, Were scattered along the way. And merry the wedding bells rang out, And merry the pipers did play. At the golden dawn of the happy morn That ushered the marriage day. Te My (Nd Boot. Mine ancient pedal friend, a last farewell! So many days we’ve footed it together— The lane of life—in fair and stormy weather, Mine eyes well nigh their lid dykes overswell. I well remember when thou didst encase My nether limbs with pressure warm and ■ tight; And many a corny twinge, from morn ti>l night, Evinced the ardency of thy embrace. Soon, like the iove of some long married wife, Thy grasp, if not so strong, was still as true, And pleasanter; and as we grew in life, Thou wert as gentle as a pliant shoe; And while on thee I trampled every day, To shield me thou didst wear thy soul away. Though I despise the slander-monger’s art, ADd scorn the wretch who blackens the fair fame ... Os one whose richest fortune is his name, (The wretch whose steel goes deeper than the heart), Yet it has been my daily wont, X own. To black tby face until the skies has shone With ebon elow, as lnst’roo6 as the hue That forms the charm of Gumen s native breed, ... , - - But ’twas not that I hated thee, indeed ; I prized thee so, that when thy sole broke AncUeTin Winter, ’twas my special heed A man of awls thy gaping wounds should sew. And twitching pangs athwart rav pocket To panw’ith thee at last, O worn and faith inl boot. Some Day. You smooth the tangles from my hair With gentle touch and tenderest care, And count the year ? ere von shall mark Bright silver threads among the dark Smiling the While to hear roe W, ii you’ll think of this again some day . Some day! I do not scorn the power of time Nor count on years oi fadeless pnm® , But no white gleams will ever shine Among those heavy locks of mine. i Ah, laugh as gayly as you may, you’ll think of this again some day Some day! • Some day 1 shall not feel as now, > your soft hand move about my brow’. 1 shall not slight for light commands. And draw your tresses ibrongb my bands, When you shall weave my latest crown Os their thick ma««t long and brown , But you will see no touch of grey; Adorn thy shining locks that u*y Borne day I And while your tear* are falling hot Upon Urn Up* which auawer not, you’ll take from these one treasured tress. And leave the real to alleulneas; Keiuemtier that I used to a*y, you’ll think of ibis again aoute day-* Bona day! [From the New York Journal of Commerce. Writing for the Press. Very queer ideas are euterUlned by a portion of the public in regard to the rights and duties pf editors, and the relationship subsisting between the editor and his sub scribers. When James I. was asked to de fine a free monarchy, he replied that it was a government where the monarch waa left free t© do as he chose. Some people, by a similar process of reasoning, seem to think that a free press is a press that is “free to say what I please of others—provided, al ways, that nobody shall have the liberty of saying anything against me.” The edito rial workshop.is often the theatre of many amusing scenes from which hundreds of comic sketches might be drawn every year. Nearly every mau thinks himself capable of giving the best possible advice to an ed itor, and writes him down as a very long eared animal If he does not follow it—for getting that there are any other principles, views or opinions than those entertained by himself. In this happy country every one is not only born a politician, but a statesman; and nearly every one who sup poses he has caught hold of the leg or the wing of an idea thinks he is qualified forth with to write for the press—and each, of oourse, thinks that his own darling essay must have the first place, and that creation will stand still until it is published. And if the editor dares to reject it. on account ot its objectionable character, or because of its sorrowful composition, or for want of room, he is often denounced as a blockhead or as wanting in spirits. Again, there is a large class of writers, both for the city and country press, who think they are conferring a particular favor upon the editors by every ltne they write, becaasd it will help to “ fill np.” Indeed, the popular opinion, everywhere, seems to be that newspaper editors are wonderfully perplexed to find matter to fill their Columns; whereas the reverse of this is the fact. Their trouble is to find space for. the tenth part of the matter the y get prepared, and many of their own editorials are swept into the waste basket for want of room. A fruitful source of vexation arises from the complaints of people who either are attacked, or fancy they are, by correspond ents, or perhaps for cause, by the editor himself. Cases often occur in Which a per son puts a cap upon his head that was fitted up for someone else; and it often happens that covert attacks are made upon individuals, which, in the hnrrv of busi ness, are not apparent to the editor, or do not meet his eve until after the publication. In all these cases, involving every shade and variety, he is obliged either to meet the case directly (as he will, if an honorable man, If the responsibility justly devolves upon him); or, in case of accidental mis takes, do the best he can. In London and Paris the editor rarely has any difficulty of this description to encounter, because he Is not known as such, and the publisher mere, mauds la tne gap. Queer uiese, tne publisher of a violent political paper, always abounding in personalities, resorted to the device of paying a salary to a fight ing editor. For tiils pnrpose a huge Pata gonian fellow, Sty feet three It) -his stock ings, was engaged, who answered all bel ligerent ealis upon the editor. Whenever an enraged individual palled to demand the name of a writer, or satisfaction of the edi tor, the giant form of Tom would come forth, buttoned to the chin In a dread naught coat, and a stout oaken shillalah under his arm, and answer the summons. His appearance was usually sufficient to give satisfaction, and his catechists were gener ally glad to retire with an apology for hav ing interrupted his studies! This policy, as far as we know, has not yet been adopt ed in this country. The practice of wi hdrawlng patronage from papers for mere difference of opinion between the editor and subscriber, upon accidental questions, is pitiful. It is, more over, purely American. In no other coun try is it so frequently resorted to as in this; and it is but a sorry method of manifesting displeasure of dissent. Tribulations of a Sausage-maker—He wants a Divorce from nis Wife because she can’t Sell Sausages.— About four years ago an industrious little sausage maker. named Xavier Andre, was married by Justice Jecko to a woman of his choice, and his heart swelled with happiness like a newly-stuffed bologna. He took his frau to his sausage shop, and installed her as sales man. She was a smart, intelligent woman, and with her assistance Xavier prospered in business. His bolognas were the boast of Frenchtown, and his wife was regarded as a paragon of a woman. After more than three years of unalloyed happiness and pros perity, Mrs- Audre died, leaving Xavier an inconsolable widower in the midst of his sausages, leber wurst and zchweine jimen. — He found it difficult to carry on his busi ness without a wife to attend the shop, and he resolved to marry again. After a few weeks of mourning and diligent search .or a Successor to the lamented Mrs. A., he select ed another wife, and Justice Jecko was again called upon to tie the knot. A day or two since Xavier appeared once more before the Justice. He begged him in piteous terms to unmarry him—to undo what he had done and set him free from his wife Os course the Justice told him it was not in his power to decree divorces, and that he must apply to the Circuit Court. Xavier stated that he was woefully de ceived in his last wife. Before .their mar riage she had told him that she could not read or write, but was good at figures, and he thought if she could read A" 11 ?* she would (o to attend the shop, and so he took her for better or worse, and found her worse than anv wu-rst he had in his shop. She could not count, and therefore was liable to make mistakes in giving change to cus tomers. He had given her $l5O to dissolve the matrimonial partnership, but she had refused to leave after getting the money, and determined to stick to him as long as ihprp was a sausage left. He told her she would not do for him, and if she would not leave he woald sell out his shop and go to work as a journeyman. He wanted articles of dissolution drawn up, hut the Justice told him that marriage was not like a boM i t . PSS partnership, and could not be broken off for any such cause. Xavier left tut office with a heavy heart, and it Is probable that he will be compelled to do journey ' work as the sausage of his happiness Is completely Jjemoeral, i «7tA ull. Hon. Robert Toomb* ha. returned from I Ida trip to the Northwest, and *» U} '* greatly Improved lu health. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MDBNING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1069. Formosa. Os all the letters written daring the con troversy on Mr. Bouclc&utl’s play, ** Formo sa,” that of Mr. Chatterton, lessee of the London Theatre, where It was first produc ed, goes the stmightest to the point. The critics must find Mr. Chatterton a “ bard nut to crack." He says: “ For seven years I have been the mana ger of this house, and this Is my experience. I have produced the best plays of Shahs peare, Byron, Milton and Goethe. To Illus trate these works I engaged Miss Helen Panelt, Mr. Phelps, Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Montgomery, and ail the tragic talent to be obtained. 1 employ ed Mr. Beverley and numerous assistants to paint the scenery, sparing no expense to render the representations perfect. My en terprise was supported cheerftilly by the pit and gallery, but my boxes and stalls were sadly deserted. I lost money. Had not the pantomime and Christmas come to my rescue I could not have stood my ground at All. I was stubborn, and pursued this policy for pride’s sake during six years. But, sir, I am neither a literary missionary nor a martyr; I am simply the manager of a theatre, a vendor of intellectual entertaln meat to the London public, and I found that Shaks peare spelt ruin and Byron bankruptcy. In this extremity, to which I was led by my faith in the fine taste of the upper classes for the poetic drama, I turned to the dramatist who has made the fortunes ol more than one manager in London. I need not say with what result. Bv his advice I opened the theatre in August, when London is supposed to be empty, at a period when no manager has ever dared to open it until now. To my objections he re plied that, the city was only cleared of those who never patronised the drama they talked so much about; that Lcndon always had three millions of people in it when town was said to be ematy; that he wrote for the middle classes and the working classes, who alone could be relied on to support auy intellectual entertainments; and that where they led their betters would follow. He proved to be right. The amount taken daily at my box office before the doors open toy securing stalls and pri vate boxes, alone to see 1 Formosa,’ ex ceeds the gross contents of my theatre to witness ‘ Macbeth.’ Five years ago I pro duced ‘ Cora us’ in the most splendid man ner, The public would pot come to see it. They praised It and kept away. Where are they ? Mr. Macready, my predecessor in management here, tried to discover their existence, but retreated from the search with very sore pockets, just as I did. No such customers exist. There Is, however, a class of literary men and dilettanti that profess to deplore the degradation of our times. I have remarked, however, that when I produce Shakspeare, these gentle men, who are entitled by cdurlesv to ad mission lotue tneatre, rarely ask for ec. il#rs, but since I have produced .-‘Farmo. sa,’ I have been overwhelmed with appli cations from this quarter fbr private box es for their wives and families. I state faUfs; I allow others to comment upon them.” [From the Albany New*. Domestic Manufacture of Railroad Iron. The glowing descriptions by thpe “ excur sionists,” of the incalculable mineral wealth of Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama, and the unequaled facilities for utilising it, fills us with wonder. We wonder, not only at the munificence of the Creator of these re sources to be developed and used by our people, but at the apparent want of appre ciation by the people of these possessions. We are informed that the works at Columbiana, Ala., turn out pig iron at S4O per ton, and realize about 100 per cent, profit at these figures. We are advised by a re port to the stockholders of the “ Empire State Works, situated near Trenton, on the Wills Valley Railroad, where the ore, coal and lime necessary for the production of pig iron ane abundant, and in close prox imity, that the pig iron can be produced at a cost of $9 35 per tpn; whereas, at the North the cost of production Is S3O to $35. Now, if these figures are facts, why Is it that our railroad companies are paying some $75 per ton for rails in New York?— “Want of capital by those who have confi dence, and want of confidence by the capi talists,” may be the answer. Bnt have our railroad Presidents looked into the matter? They mast have iron, not only for the first construction of their roads, but for neces sary repairs constantly recurring. We are not familiar with the modus operandi and cost of converting pig Into railroad iron, but there is a wide margin between $25, which we will assume as the cost of producing the former, and $75, the present price of the latter in New York. If private capital cannot be obtained for the purpose, would it not be highly advanta geous to different railroad companies to furnish the necessary capital for extensive rolling mills with the most a<iproved facili ties for the manutacture of rails, chairs, spikes, etc. ? If not, the reports of our im mense mineral resources are mythical—a conclusion we can Dot adopt, but rather believe “ the half is not yet told.” Excubions. —Mr. Cook, an enterprising Englishman, has given his attention to this matter very successfully. He maps out a set of excursions to various points, arranged with a view of letting one see everything of interest with as little bother as possible. His plan is this : “ He fttrnishes tickets singly or to parties, which are good for all points named in them—including railway, steamboat, hotel aud necessary expenses. The excursionist has only to select his route and purchase his ticket, tearing off as he goes the rail road, hotel and omnibus coupons, thus avoiding the constant putting pf the hand in the pocket and making change at every turn.” Cook’s plan extends all over Europe, and to the Suez Canal even. It is found to | work well, gives universal satisfaction, and I is much cheaper than the present system. I [fere, then, is a fine field for some enterpris ing individual to try bis fortune in, and I prepare the way for reducing the atmoy | anccs of travel. j The following gentlemen have been ap iiointi-d to represent tbs Mouth- Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical Society In the Homological Convention, to meet in I'hlla ! deinhla on thrlfttil: Dr. A. P. Wylie, of i Chester; 11. W. It*venal, of Aiken, and IJ. C. Pressley, tit Charleston. j I roffiyomJence of the CoueUtutio&»lUt. Importing Live Steok. Much has been said about the unprove pieut of live stock, by crossing with superior E- wrted varieties. It is generally conced that we may take the hogs, tne cattle, «he*p that we already have, am*, by jo iieious selection and crossing, bring them u> to a hjgh standard of excellence— in fact dat, in time, we may make them equal to tie best foreign stock. For this is the pro <tes by which the very foreign stock that e praise so higtily has lieea produced. It hso in the vegetable kingdom. Look at t ie fine and tender cabbage and considef that It came from! Think of the origin of t e tempting, delicious peach I Who would 1 tve imagined, till the experiment had,been tied, that so luscious a fruit codld have bfeta produced from so unpromising a be gkißlug m that whioh is said to have serv er tat its starting point? But it is claimed that it is usd&n to go tiro ugh a long tedious process of breeding anl improving, when we can, with much sadtig of time and money, avail ourselves of;he labors of others, by pure hating the br«ds already improved. This Is true, wfere the superior varieties are not carried toi fhr out of their latitude, or subjected to to* sudden and great a change of diet, tratment and general habits. But, very oftiu, it requires as much time and money to acclimatize the stock transferred from a coU to a warm climate, or vice versa, as it waild to improve those al ready accustomed to the climate and food, by proper selection ol breeders and careftil feeding. I Phis, it seems to me, is the whole truth, ina matter that has been much discussed anl much vexed. If a man has an oppor tunity to breed his mares, his cows, his sows to superior stallions, bulla and boars iu his own neighborhood or latitude, or if be cou buy floe animals under the like cir ca mstauces, at any thing like reasonable prices, of course he had better do It, than tv await the protracted experiment of im proving the scrub stock already in his |x»- swston. Nor do I pretend to say that It is tui-er advantageous to transfer animals from their native climate for the purpose of bieecHog ; but I do contend that, nlaettlmes oit of ten, a sudden and great change In tlis respect will result in disappointment aid loss. Why even within the range of my own couparatlvely short experience, j. have seen I Ifoburn, Berkshire and other hpgs brought to Georgia, that were magnificent spccl nhns—that in their native localities, and with their accustomed treatment, would have contiuued so, but, that transferred to aq uncongenial clime, and put on unac customed diet, have degenerated into some thing worse than “ land-pikers’’ and “alli gators.” And uow come the Chester Whites, <fei I know gentlemen who purchased sone of these last and tb* porkers aif following exactly In the foot-steps oft heir Illustrious predecessors. 1 know » %on buttL imported from England*, v recovcret* effects Os the and, While , I kept stabled, fed and curried like a stallion, he was a very fine animal; but he was turn ed out to graze with other cattle, grew very vej-y poor, and soon died. Iu case of the Chester hogs It is still worse, for the owners tell me that no amount of attention they bestow on their purchases can keep them to anything like the mark at which they first stood. | It Is well known that cattle, carried even the short distance from Southwest to Mid dle Georgia, often pine and die. This I attibute more to the loss of their beloved wire grass, than anything else, for I have noticed in Florida, where tne same age flourishes, that if yon take a milch cow up and attempt to feed her exclusively on Civilized food, like shucks and meal, she ■ will reward your pains by getting poorer anil poorer, till, if you persist in your qk periment, she will, like the Irishman’s horse, die, just about the time she gets used to It. I have seen patches of corn low clown on the Peninsula, with a fence that would scarcely turn our calves, and hundreds of cattle grazing around, that never thought of molesting the crop, and the owners as sured mo that if the cows were driven into the field, they would not eat the corn. But carry grazing stock of any kind from Mid dle Georgia to the wire grass country, and turn them loose to get their livipg—they will starve, where the animals are “to the manner born” flourish and keep fat. It is possible, of course, to teach the Florida cows to eat the food that our cattle love, by mixing It with theirs, and humoring them a good deal. So it may be possible to accustom Middle Georgia stock to Flori da climate and pastorage, by giving them some of the diet to which they are accus tomed, but letting them get hungry enough, occasionally, to nible a little of the wire grass ; but I persist In asserting tlrat gen erally, the process of acclimatizing and ac customing stock to new food and uew hab its, is slower than that of improving the native breeds by selection and crossing among themselves. Oeilouveßt. An Earthquake—Brock Felt in Jef ferson County, Tennessee— The Knox ville Herald, of the 7th, relates the follow ing. It says: “ About 9 o’clock on Sunday evening, the sth inst., the citizens of Dandridge, in Jef ferson county, were startled by experienc ing a well-defined shock of an earthquake, lasting nearly a minute. The shock was accompanied by a loud rumbling noise, oc ’ casioning much alarm among tiie people. ; Window panes were broken, ami we learn ; from a prominent citizen of Dandridge that | lamp chimneys fell and were smashed to I pieces. Beyond these slight effects, no oth -1 er ill results of the earthquake occurred.’’ Grindstones in Alabama.— Some of ! our exchanges have been publishing a state ; ment that grindstones was to be procured : at only one point In the United States, and : that some far ont of the wav place we have forgotten the name of. This is a mistake. A few miles below Jacksonville there is as . fine a quarry of grindstone as is in the! | world. Rocks of any grain or any size can be taken up with the greatest case. The Confederate Government worked it during ! the war, and the people around there have - I»c-en getting ont their own grindstone ever j since.— O'utsden (AUt.) Times. 1 Flirtation is like cricket—one has to i>e healed to play It. When a girl has plenty I of rocks she becomes even boulder. ft, H, Wright has been a pointed Deputy Collector of internal Revenue for Beaufort, 1 Barnwell and Colleton, H. O. * General Items. The President is now at Saratoga. The Question is: When will the swallower home ward fly? It lysald that out West whenever a Radi cal newspaper denounces stealing and liars, the Radicals accuse the editor of being r bolter, Uerber C. Kimball, the recently deceased Mormon, left $50,000 to be divided among forty-one children. t An Irish newspaper editor who has held high official positions in Ireland, is a laborer on the new Post Office in New York city. The sliver mines of Real del Monte, in Mexico, are said to be yielding liberally.— One of them, within the last ten years, has produced ulnety millions of dollars. The Louisville Courier-Journal thinks it is no more dishonorable for the natiou to repudiate its debt than it was lor the South to be compelled to repudiate Its own. The great adulteration of liquors is proven In the fact that even what is sold as whisky “ straight” makes men go crook ed. An artist claims to have made a “ speak ing” likeness of Grant. If that be the case it cannot be like the original, for he don’t speak at all. It is said that cne result of Sickles’ mis sion to Spain is that the Government thinks seriously of taking back Isabella, In imita tion of Sickles’ magnanimous conduct to ward his wife. Colfax staid so long in California that the State gave an increased Democratic majority. He has now gone to Oregon to Improve Democratic prospects In that State.^ Worth, the man milliner oi Paris, was asked recently what trimmings should be put on a dress Just finished. He answered, turning up his nose as he spoke, “None whatever ; it Is only an 800 franc dress A book will soon be published In Boston, defending polygamy on moral, religious, social, physiological and political grounds It is the work of a clergyman, not a Mor mon. An excursion party of about 1,000 negroes, from Chesterfield and Darlington, 8. C., was expected to arrive in Charleston yesterday. There was a great fire in Richmond, Va., on Monday night, destroying over $900,000 worth of property, about half of which was covered by Insurance. In Charleston a pet deer astonished the natives by leaping from a third story win dow. The dear creature is said to have been unhurt. A Louisville negro found himself under arrest the other day for carrying concealed 1 weapons, because tbs broken toamdle of an 1 | umbrella protruded pbfcket T Mr.Frmnk H,A«nena, auttforwt ton In tne Cape Fear Acade my In Wilmington, N. C. A Frenchman has Invented a reporting machine, w.ilch prints a speech as It is de livered. It will be out of fhvor with after dinner orators. Frank Ward, a son-in-law of William B. Astor, J unified off the steamer Sacramento and drowned himself because he could not pay his wine bill. The New York Stock Exchange, at a meeting held Wednesday afternoon, gener ously subscribed the sum of $5,000 for the reilei of the families of the dead miners at Avondale. Five parties, among them the city, lay claim to a mastodon’s tooth, found in dig- Inga sewer in Cleveland, and the Jaw they furnish is big enough to match the tooth. An lowa correspondent reports that George Glllapsy, the Democratic candi date for Governor, is k ponderous Individual, weighing three hundred pounds, more or less. It is hoped that will not Interfere with his running a successful race. On Thursday afternoon, Mr. Henry T. Moore, the proprietor of Rutherford Park Hotel and Treasurer of the Rutherford Park Association, committed suicide by shooting himself in ills hotel at Rutherford Park, New Jersey. The new Senate of Kentucky will con sist of two Republicans, two Independents and thirty-four Democrats. The House of Representatives will consist of eight Re publicans and ninety-two Democrats. The fifteenth amendment will not stand much of a chance in a body thus composed. David Ross, who was under sentence ol death, and was to have been hung on the 8d of September, has had his sentence changed to imprisonment In the peniten tiary at Little Rock, Ark., for the term of five years. Ross Is a Cherokeo Indian, and was sentenced to be hung for the killing of a white man who married in the Nation. The question whether tobacco leaves, when put up in hanks and sold at retail for consumption, are taxable within the meaning or section 61, paragraph 3, Act July 20,180&, has been submitted to Com missioner Delano, who decides It subject to the tax of 39 cents per pound imposed on manufactured tobacco. In Montgomery, (Ala.) on Friday, a diffi culty occurred between two brothers-in law, Mr. Henry Herron and Mr. R. H. Knox, In which the latter fired a pistol at thy former, the ball taking effect in his neck and passing through the wind pipe. It was thought the wound would prove fatal. Knox gave bond in $2,500 for pre liminary-examination on Monday. Among the noted receipts by express, at Louisville, Saturday, were four imported Cots world sheep, at a cost exceeding two thousand dollars, for Mr. C. C. McFerran, for his form in Jefferson county. They were imported direct by Mr. Cochrane, of Compton, Canada, and arrived at (Quebec last Week. The buck, one year old, weighs four hundred pounds. The three ewes are not quite as heavy, and arc pronounced the finest sheep ever imported to or seen In Kentucky. The next commercial convention, ad journed from Memphis, will be held at I»u- Isvllle, Kentucky, on the 12th of October, and will be largely attended. Tbe State Governors, city anthorltleftJssteaniljoat, manufacturing and mining corporations, chambers of commerce and boards of trade, are Invited to send delegates. At a public I meeting lieldlritLonlsvllTe, during the Mnm | mer, resolutions of wctcomu and cordiality were unanimously adopted in reference to i all who may attend. VOL. 28. NO. 38 The Imperialist has exploded, and left tMfff empire ’’ without “ peace.” A New York journalist has Invented a car seat which Is vermin proof. An Englishman is to paddle hlmseir in a canoe all the way from New York to Texas. A man in Moscow, Russia, was recently arrested for “ lnsultiug the police,” because he would not stand treat when requested. Merchants do not have business enough in Panama to pay their daily taxes, and the Isthmus Is being rapidly deserted. When the latest French Princess Felicto was born, Eugenic took her into the Em peror’s study Tu her work basket. Up to the 11th, sll,lOß 50 had been sub scribe*! to the relief of the Avondale suffer ers. There is a considerable rise in the Blgbee river, to the interest of cotton transporta tion. General Beauregard is about to trans plant in a more Southern latitude a fair daughter of the Old Dominion. An American lias given Patti a silver bucket, with the sentiment that It may be long before she kicks it. The steamer Virginia, recently sunk at Silver Shoals, between Mobile and Selma, has been successfully raised, aud will soon resume her regular trips. Arrangements have been perfected and the work commenced of extending the tele graph line from Greenes boro’ to Tusca loosa, Ala. Distance, 40 miles. Three hundred Chinese have been em ployed by Mr. Burnside, of Ascension Par ish, La. According to John Quincy Adams, the office of Governor of Massachusetts ds a mere figurehead for military reviews and prayer meetings. It was admirable gratitude on the part of Vanderbilt which prompted him to select brass as a monumental material, since to it he owed so much of his success in life. We are constantly running across re cipes, each claiming to be the best fly-kill er. The best one we know of is a six-year old specimen of Young America. The Galveston News will soon have a stereotype foundry lu operation, the first ever introduced into Texas, If not the only stereotype foundry connected with a print ing establishment in the Southern country. It is estimated at the Quartermaster- General’s office that by the time the work is done there will be buried in the various Government cemeteries no less than 305,000 Union soldiers. California understands the three-fourths rule. Being asked to ratify the proposed negro equality amendment, she returns three-fourths of her uew Legislature against The town council of Opelika has made a Company, and ordered an election on the 20th Inst., to ratify or reject the same. The farmers of Simpson county, Ken tucky, think there will not be over half a crop of tobacco, owing to the drought iu many places. The corn will bo quite short, ft-om the same cause. The Journals announce that M. Halery, one of the authors of the “ Belle Helene ” and of the 14 Grande Duchessc,” was thrown from his horse while taking a ride la tbe Elyses, and broke his collar bone. Efforts are being made in Berlin to or ganize a line of steamers to trade between Stettin and New York. The present pro posal is to start with two vessels and a Bub scribed capital of 750,000 thalers. The Foreign residents of Havana, par ticularly the Germans, are enlisting in the volunteer reserve corps, so as to strengthen that branch of service, and allow the old volunteer organizations to take the field agalust the Insurgents. General Rawlins was twice married.— By his first wife, who died August 30,1861, he had three children. Ills second wife is now in Connecticut in feebje health, conse-. qnent upon the recent birth of an infant, which lived but a short time. The Montgomery Mail says many per sons are liable to extreme suffering from felons on the finger. Alabama and her sister States of the South are liable to ex treme suffering, Just now, from felons In office. In consequence of the general dissatis faction with the news postage stamps, or ders have been given to prepared signs for new Issues. The heads of Washington, Jack son, Franklin and Lincoln are to be restor ed in place of the present designs. General Joe Shelby, the Confederate cav alry commander, has raised 17,000 bushels of wheat in Lafayette, Missouri, this sea son. His field was 800 acres. Gen. Shelby has beaten his sword Into a ploughshare with good effect. A Chicago man (of course, he lives in Chicago) mode arrangements to kill his wife, and when the police, alarmed by her cries of murder, biokc into the room, they found upon the bed from which the wife sprang when they entered, two guns, a re volver, a keen bowie knife, and several heavy iron bars. The sanguinary husband had three more guns iu a trunk, to be used in case of necessity. A Case of Poisoning. —Mr. J. W. Smith, a citizen oi this county, near Rocky Plains, was very severely poisoned, on the 21st ult., in quite a singular manner. He makes his tea in a common iron tea kettle, and on the evening of the 21st ult. made his tea as usual, and happening himself to take the first tea poured from the kettle. He states that be hail taken but a few swal lows of the tea, when he became very sick. Two of his neighbors came In, and on ex amining the kettle, fonud a large worm, known as the thousand legged worm, had crawled Into the spout of the kettle, and poison extracted from it, in making the tea, produced the injurious effects. Dr. T. W. Simms, being called in, by his skill and timely efforts, relieved the patient of his suffering— Covington Examiner. Comfort to Tax Pavers. —A German statistician has discovered that those who pay the greatest amount of taxes live the longest; that Is. he says that only one pec ceut. of those who pay fifteen thalers taxes die lu a year, while two per cent, of those who pay only twelve thalers die In that time ; and so on In like proportion down to I ttios*- who pay nothing. There's a little I comfort for American tax payers.
