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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1870)
IHB WEEKLY 00S8T1TWTI0MALI8T WEDNESDAY MOHSiNO. MAY Jffl, l«? 0 Club Haiti tor (he Weekly teiaatlUaUeu ■Uet. That ev.iry one may be enabled to sob- Kribe, a:vl receive the benefits of a live Jonr nal, we offer the following libera! terms to Clubs : 1 Copy per year - - $llOO 3 Copies per year - • -.- 750 S Copies per year - - - - 12 =OO 10 Copies ]*r year - - - 20 00 We trust that every subscrilier to the paper will aid us in adding to our list. OEOFS AST) QURB.ES f NEWS. Our subscribers and friends in the Coun try will confer a favor on us and our nu merous readers by sending us Items as to crop prospects and general news In thclr diffcre’it sections. We trust tliat each subscriber will consider himself a special correspondent for the Constitu tionalist, and tliereby add to the Interest of the paper. THE SHORTEST AND MOST PRACTI CABLE ROUTE TO CONNECT PORT ROYAL WITH KNOXVILLE VIA THE BLUE RIDGE RAILROAD. In view of the active enterprise shown by other cities of our Htate, and in conse quence of the effort of various rival rail way companies—in operation or in em bryo—to secure the rich harvest of trade and freights that must come from the West oh the shortest and best lines communi cating with tide-water—our citizens neces sarily feel a deep futercst In the building of a route to connect with the Bine Ridge Road. The necessity and advantage of such a connection have been brought more prominently before our people by the now assured consummation of two railway en terprises that were, but a few years since, deemed Idle fancies, viz: the Air Line and Port Royal Roads. The completion of the former, if only to the State Una, will draw to Atlanta a large trade now enjoyed by * Augusta, nnless checkmated by a road crossing It at right angles. The Port Royal Road shortens the distance to tide water fully twenty-five miles, affording also the great advantage of the best harbor on the Atlantic coast. This Important point of lessening the distance between Augusta and tide-water, added to tho gain of a road directly connecting with the Blue Ridge route, would give tho shortest pontile line obtainable from the West to the sea board To accomplish this connection with the Blue Ridge Road, two routes, urged by dif ferent parties, have lately engaged publio attention. The first and most practicable, oae Birr Muov mwotr. latire extension tn uie Athens branch of the Georgia Road to Clayton, a distance of eighty miles. The secoud is a direct road from Augusta to Clayton, a distance of about 160 miles, to be called the Augusta and Hartwell Rail way. These routes, however, are considered somewhat In antagonism. The building of a road from Augusta to Clayton would, It is supposed by mauy, work damage to the Georgia Road; while the extension of the Atheus branch to Claytou woald make the direct road from Augusta to Clayton nn Impossibility or a financial failure. The resolution passed by the stockhold ers of the Georgia Road at their late con vention : “ That their road be extended “from Athens to Claytou, the work to be “ commenced at the discretion of tlielr Dl “ rectors,” has most probably put a quietus, for the present at least, on the Augusta and Hartwell ctfterplso. If such be the foot , ami those Interested In the Port Royal road still desire a more direct connecttou with the Blue Ridge than through the Georgia Road, In fact a virtual extension of the great line thoy now are pushing forward, the purpose cau be accomplished by a much shorer and more practicable route than the proposed Augusta, and Hartwell scheme. Beside, the plan we arc about to suggest, In addition to the oilier advantages enumerated above, can be con summated at probably half the cost and In one-half the time It would require to hnlld from this poiut to Claytou. At the same time, an equal benefit would accrue to Au gusta. We refer to the &i«M>nnoA /User Talley Route, for which a charter was grant ed by the State of South Carolina several years previous to the war, and which, at the Wine proposed, received the hearty en dorsement of a large majority of our clti sens. A public meeting passed resolutions authorizing Council to subscribe $500,000 to the stock on certain conditions. But the "rivalry” bet wee u Hamburg and Au gusta for the locntlou of the depot, com bined with other causes, defeated the enter prise. We append the report or Engineer An ms who surveyed the route and estimated the coat of construction; also, the result of an Interview betvvivu a committee appointed by our City Council to confer with those having the enterprise in charge. It will be seen by the Engineer's report that the distance to Audereuu, 9. 0., U about 09 miles, through a fkvorablo loea tlon, and at only Off pnr cent, loss over an air line A glance at the map will deiuou atrstr that the rente tea Anderson to Ktiunviti, „ m , )ry direct than the read frett. August* to Cllytoo. Mstitut ib»- suggestion* May cause *" la the subject to give it I'MIIIMI attention, and, if u*<t» Ik, full *' * f**-'»<rfi*s *• aput ant, iMt, »*'»*mm * ai t st M*ti.m«*i« t.K i*et» shown the report of tlr.j Arm*. Chief Engineer, to the President, Mr. Hatchinsoo, of the results of the experi mental surveys of the sbove road, from which we cull the following interesting flCls: Mle* The length of the experimental line from Anderson to Hamburg — it .93J^ | This can be brought down to— ..,.92 An iiicreas of over an air line of only 8 miles or 9tj per cent. I’er Cent. This compares favorably with the following length over a straight line of the road from Charleston to Columbia.... .... 25 Columbia to Greenville... 47 Columbia to Anderson 28 Augusta to Atlanta M Savannah to Macon 27 A comparison of distances show not less favorably. Connecting with the Rabun Gap Road at Anderson it will afford a route from Knoxville, Tennessee, to Charleston, South Carolina, 28 miles shorter than via Green ville and Columbia Roads. Miles. From Knoxville vm Dalton and Atlan ta to Augusta, is 377 Via Anderson 286 Difference 01 Mll.-s Knoxville to Havannfth via Atlanta. .. 498 Via Anderson and Augusta 416 Difference in favorof Valley Route. 82 The estimated costof the road, grading, bridging, masonry, &c $799,070 00 Superstructure 757,000 00 Equipment 185,200 00 Engineering, &c.. 70,000 00 $1,811,370 00 No estimate Is hazarded of the business and profits to be expected from this de servablc connecting link of the Southern Atlantic with the Western States of the great valley ; but they must be immense. The road will make Anderson an important depot for produce and distributing point, similar to Atlanta in Georgia. It must also greatly increase the trade and property of Hamburg and Augusta. It will enhance the value of property upon the whole line and furnish most Important facilities to the planters near whom it may pass. The following resolutions were passed at a meeting of the stockholders on the 80th Inst: On motion of Mr. Meriwether. Resolved, That the thanks of this com pany are due, and hereby respectfully ten dered, to Maj. F. C. Arms, Chief Engineer, for the ability and despatch with which lie has accomplished the survey of the line of read, the results of which he communicat ed In the clear and satisfactory report made by him this day. (From the Con«Ututlon:li«t, August ftb 1H55 SAVANNAH VALLEY KAILItOAD CONVEN TION OF STOCKHOLDERS. We learn that a meeting of the stock holders of this road was held at “ Free land’s,” in Edgefield district, S. C., on the 2d Inst. The. President, Col. John A Calhoun, opened the meeting by a forcible and perti nent address, stating the object of the con vention, and urging upon the stockholders the Importance of doing something In the way of providing additional means for the construction of their road. * * * * After the appointment of a committee to of Augusta, viz: His Honor Wm. E. Dearlng, Mayor, James M. Dye, Wm. M. Hlght, members of Council, A. J. Miller and 8. T. Coombs, on invita tion, took thclr seats, and presented a pro position to subscribe $500,000 to the stock of the company, and to furnish a graded mad bed along the Augusta Canal to Bull Sluice, on condition that the line of road should cross the Savannah river at or above Bull Sluice, and that there should be no connection with the South Carolina Railroad at auy point without the limits of Augusta, etc. The committee to which this proposition was referred reported adversely to its ac ceptance through their organ, C. W. Styles, of Hamburg, who took occasion to say that he considered the proposition “ illibe ral, unjust,” t&e., &c. Mr. Miller, on the part of the Augusta delegates, after having bem invited to make a subscription, and having offered it with such conditions as they considered important to their Interests, and which they had a right to impose, had not expect ed that their proposition would tie con sidered as “ illiberal and unjust." Did not consider it so in reference to the whole road, although the plan might prejudice certain local interests, &c. &c. After further debate between Messrs. Miller and Styles, the report of the commit tee was adopted. We regret this result, and attribute it entirely to tho local opposition of Hamburg, and the opposition or the entire convention to the condition that “no other connec tion should be allowed,” Ac. A Singular St.itemr.nt —The editor of the Freenum's Journal, alluding to the re cent terrible hail storm In Philadelphia, says: “ A friend, long resident in Buenos Ayres, “ wltere all kind of furious convulsions arc In order, assures us of two facts. One is, “ that the old Cathedral bell, that echoes “ all over the city, is rung at every ap “ preach of a storm. The other fact Is, that “ while there arts enough of tempests all “ around, the city of Buenos Ayres Is ex “ ernpt from disasters of the kind. The “ service, as it stands, attributes this pow " er to blessed bells over the spirits of the “ air. “ TVs believe the words of the service for “ blessing bells are true. Wo do not like '• to live out of sound of a consecrated bell. '• It grieves us 'hat, so often, after their u baptism, they are loft as dumb dogs, when " they ought to sivak." A ('oNrvonrw.—The Journal of (\m metre doubts whether, If President Grant should go before the people, this Spring, with a pMimiU, asking for the approval of all hla past course um! a vote of confidence In Ul* future administration, lie’woultl re ceive a ratifying vote of five to one,. Oh yen. Its ootltd get tea to ouo If llul mcnt had the management of It. But the " Priceless Is hid of fro* elcellou " would •end him to tin gutter, SPUTAIMRII.-Ml KuNNHV •*)'• ‘•Uov,“ Itn uh h ha* been "sustained with evtra orillunrv unity by the Republican* of u„ 1 Uiiwrai Awetukly of Usurgl*.' Yea. pretty mm-b a* fOMriV sustaluwl PROFOUND QUIET. Radical Journals of the better class are impressed with the fact that just so soon as Foknev had been paid an exorbi tant sam of blood money, and just so soon as Bullock and his gang had been re manded to something like quiet, “ outrages “ of aXL kinds suddenly ceased in the State of “ Georgia .” Honest men in Congress and just men all over the land can not fail to understand henceforth that the great arch-rioters and Ku Klux, so far as this Commonwealth is concerned, are Rcfcs B. Bullock and Joiin W. Fobney. If President Grant and his party are really desirous of peace, let them hand Bullock over to Gen. Terry to be dealt with, ala Chap Norris, as a disturber of the public tranquillity. Let them send Forney to Delaware, there to be soundly whipped at the pillory for striving to destroy the hap piness, and perhaps the lives, of innocent communities, for the miserable sum ofsl,Boo. Remove these and similar obstructions; strike terror to the souls of the true cul prits, and no more hideous yells will startle the cars of truly loyal people with re ports of “ Ku Klux outrages in Georgia.” It is said that Lord Clive was indig nant when the English Purliamentbrought him to account for riches accumulated in Ilindostan. He retorted that millions had been within his grasp, but he appro priated just enough to astound the world with his moderation. Gov. Scott, it is said, wrathfully denies the imputation that he has disreptuably made a million of money in South Carolina, when the plun dered sum really docs not exceed $130,000. John W. Forney caps the climax. Ho might easily have milked Bullock of $10,000; but he has so many political as sassinations and fabrications on hand that he can afford to be as cheap as he is nasty. So the sum of SI,BOO for stabbing the repu tation of Georgia and slandering her people was something more or less than “ moder ation”—it was sublimely contemptible. Hard. —The Chronicle and Sentinel, edi torially treating of immigration to South Carolina, says: “ Clearly, our Carolina friends must first establish a sound and honest government, and make stable their own population be fore they cau invite, successfully, immi gration. Let them clear away Radical misrule.” Now, this is a bitter taunt, considering that “ our Carolina triends ” have engaged a Carpenter to make anew Cabinet, and so let the State go scot free of Radicalism. As to stable government, that’s a horse of another color. An Odious Comparison.—ls France Is allowed to vote without restraint or com pulsion it Is nobody’s business whether France votes for the empire, or for a repub lic or for the Bourbons. That which con cerns us as a free people is not for whom France has voted, but whether France ac tually enjoys the priceless boon of freedom of election. With the facts now before us we have no good reason to say she has not. say she has.— New York Herald. Well a little touch of the “ priceless boon of freedom of election ” over here would be nobody’s business In France. But they manage these things better in France. Flanked.— ls Sumner forces white peo ple to be bnried with black folks, a re turn to the ancient system of body-burning may be in order. But Sumneb, In such a case, will Insist that no poor white trash shall be burned unless a devoted darky be incinerated at the same time. The fellow who has just opened “Spring styles of coffins” had better send a dead-head sample, without springs, to the Senatorial eunuch, who, having no children himself, wants to disgrace everybody clsc’s children. New England.—New England rules the United States and Boston rules New Eng land. He.® Is Wendell Phillips’ descrip tion of Boston: “ Boston is a city in which every tenth person is a criminal and every seventh a pauper. Three-quarters ol our farms are mortgaged for drink, two-thirds of the pulpits are filled with drunkards, and the bench of justice is nearly vacant because one-half of the judges have died drunk ards.” Now,'let somebody reform Boston. That Is our only hope. Tire Last Fasuion.—Northern under takers announce “an opening in Spring styles ot coffins.” The grave-digger still sticks to his old-fashioned openings. He thinks this masquerade and foppery of fnncral display will soon rnn the thing into the ground. Bryant.—Capt. J. E. Bryant denies that there is anything like a political or huslness partnership between him and Prince. The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Gaulle made the charge. We refer the matter to the correspondent aforesaid. How Truk —Bonn Platt writes to the Cincinnati Commercial: | “ The wonderful energy exhibited by the Houtheru people in struggling up from the utter ruin that followed the late civil war Is oue of thu marvels of the day. While contending against th« blundering, unjust acts ot reconstruction, originating In hate and continued through greed, that deprived them of a voice and vote In laws now in volving tho business interests of the eutlre country, the people havo struggled manfully nod with success to a certain extent to motor® the national tiro*purity of their re gion. In this no aid whatever has beoa given by the General Government. On the oontrary, Sta acta hare bauu aggressive to the last extent, and It la no exaggeration to »ay that the Government at Washington has wrought more Injury lotheMumh alirae the war than R wan able to effect during tin* runfiiet ot aruta. ” It la the strangest frilly that ever affect* *d a blind people, *** -wteMt'hAMrere • ’apt H. K H<dl ha* given the required •kind, lorn qualified and entered u|«hi the duile* of Ordinary of Ntiuiter county yif, II (luerry, |ul has been appointed and •Worn In netherk of Ordinary, LITERARY NOTES. THE LATEST NOVELS. Among the latest novels Issued by Messrs. , Harper & Brothers is a tale with the simple title of Hired, by John Saunders, anthor of Abel Drake's Wife, & c., &c. This work has been a great success in England, and, what Is more important, the success is richly deserved. Since the appearance of The Mm on the Floss, no tale of equal fresh ness, vigor and originality has appealed to the taste and interest of the vast mass of novel readers for whom the requisite amount of fiction must each year be pro vided. In some respects Hirell reminds us not a little of 7he MMI on the Floss. There is the same minute delicacy of portraiture, the same perfection of detail, the same vivid insight into characters the most di verse and capacity for reproducing them with absolute vraisemblance, and.finally, the same marvellous art-finish and clear, strong purity of style, which of themselves would have made the book remarkable, but which, combined with the other quali ties we have mentioned, render it an intel lectual triumph. The scenes of the story are chiefly laid in Wales, and its incidents are at once so natural and dramatic as to rivet’the read er’s attention from the beginning. Os the heroine, whose name, Hirell, sig nifies in the Welsh tongue, Angel, or more generally, “ Beam of Light,” it can fairly be said that no fresher, lovelier, more charming creation is to be found anywhere in modern English Action. She is tender of nature as a dove, yet possessed of that exalted strength of character and princi ple of which the “strain” of the martyrs is composed; she nourishes the loftiest spiritual ideas, but these serve only to beantity the common duties of life, as our earth, parched and barren, is beautified by the encircling heavens. It is the fate of this noble girl to be ruined by the exalted sincerity of her affec tions, and the unworthiness of the object upon whom they are bestowed. Ruined, not we meati as to the purity of her virtue, which remains ever undeflled and undese crated, but in all the sweet aims, the gentle ambitions, the tender idealisms of her love, through the base, bitter disappointment whereof life becomes to her as a glorious flower withered and trampled cruelly in the dust, while even the clear splendors of her faith pale in the up-gathering mists of doubt, perplexity and pain. For the man who has been Hirell’s evil genius, we feel a degree of loathing and contempt which in their depth and genuineness prove how graphically that personage has been con ceived and drawn. Sentimental, but thoroughly selfish, capable of admiring good, yet always the vassal of evil, so domi nated by egotism in its most dangerous phases as to be incapable ol true self-exam ination, or self-appreciation, superficially brilliant and amiable, with the deceitful mauv take to be virtoe about him, but a profound corruption and world liness at heart, Sir John Cunllff (the hero’s uame) does more harm in the course of his existence than many a deeper hypocrite and person of a more deliberate, determined wickedness. He is the type of a fashiona ble worldling, with his evil propensities in tensified by a one-sided culture and an in tellect above the average In power, but utterly divorced from conscientiousness. In striking contrast with this man, are Hirell’s father, Elias, and the rough Meth odist preacher, Ephraim Jones. The for mer is an artistic study. Peremptory and stern of bearing, he has underneath his repellant front and harsh manners a great well sprihg of humanity and genuine feel ing which in times of real trouble is poured forth without stint upon all who need such healing waters. Marked out from his youth for calamity, he meets all the blows of fortune with a bravery only the more admirable because it is not the courage of a Stolid, but a profoundly sensitive nature. Upon Hirell his affections centre; and nothing, we think, in fiction exceeds the pathos of that silent agony with which he is depicted as watching day by day his daughter’s decline, the waning of her per fect beauty into the land of shadows, and tho passing of a spirit as perfect from his passionate mortal grasp into the keeping of the Hirell or “angel” sisterhood of Heaven. It Is impossible here to do more than hint at the unusual excellencies of this noble story. Apart from the narrative, its Incidents and plot, we cannot fail to derive a rich pleasure from the author’s style, so vigorous In its Saxon simplicity, so sug gestive in its poetic imagery and beauti ful wealth ot illustration. Hirett Is, In feet, a prose-poem, and the writer is a poet although he may never have composed a rhymed couplet or stanza ; of any kind in his life. | Very different from the foregoing is the j anonymous tale of Bound to John Company, or The Adventures and Misadventures of Robert AinsUigh. This Is a quasl-historical uovel, full of exciting incidents and graphic pictures of English life in town and coun ; try more than a century ago. It also refere to the earlier scenes of the British conquest of India, recalls to mind the magnificent career of Clive, and so intertwines with Important public events the private for tunes ot its dramatis persona us to produce a well digested narrative, which partakes of some of the best features of the histori cal and social romance. Some scenes of the wsr between British adventure and Indian rule, In the first doubtfril and oloudcd days of “John Com pany," are drawn with a picturesque force which stamp* them upon the memory. The horrors especially of the " Black Hole of Calcutta,' 1 Into which the perfidy of So- 1 rajs Punish had lured the fragments of the little finny which had Ikllen Into hla |tower, I •re iteserltvd lu fi wanner well calculated to reproduce themselves la dream*, dreams i of anguish, blood and despairing rage. The narrator professes to have been one of the few who survived that night, aod his details we have no reason to doubt. ‘ Our first impulse,” says be, after haying been imprisoned, “ was one wild bsrst of rage.” Then followed a scene of horror unparal leled in the history of ages. One hundred and forty-six wretches, many wounded past hope, jammed together in a space of eighteen feet square, open only by two small, dose barred windows, looking to the westwarl a quarter, whence, at that season, no air could come! The block of living creatures rolled desperately towards the door, in the hope to force it open. Unhappily, the door opened inward, and this dead weight could do nothing against it. Some unarmed wretches next tried to drag it open with their hands and nails, but fell back pres ently with bleeding, lacerated fingers, howl ing for pain!” Mr. Howell, the British Commissioner, imprisoned among the soldiers, believing, as he watched the faces of the guard out side, that he could detect some pity in the looks of an old Indian sergeant, entreated this man to get the prisoners relief by di viding them into separate cells, of which there were a plenty near at hand. He em phasized his entreaty by the promise of -a thousand rupees, to be paid to the ser geant next morning. The Indian disappeared for a few mo ments, but soon returned to say that the thing was impossible. The tyrant Sura’ ja Doulah was sleeping, and the idea of disturbing his rest simply in order that a hundred or so of tortured infidels should be relieved was too preposterous. “ We had not,’’ the narrative continues, “ been shut up in this terrible hole more than ten minutes when every one among us fell into a perspiration so profuse as to drain every drop of moisture from our bodies. This brought on a raging thirst, which increased every instant. * * * Before we had been an hour immured this thirst became maddening, and the cry for ‘ water ’ was repeated in a hoarse, perpetual, uuiutermittent clamor, resembling the in sensate lowing of thirsty cattle rather than the reasonable demand of humanity.” Water was at length granted them, but the opening between the bars was too nar row to enable the skins to be passed through. Thus, the agonies of Tantalus were added to those of Dives. Backward and forward the crowd swayed, in its in tolerable pain. The feebler part dropped down, or fainted, and were trampled to death by their crazed and infuriated com rades. Over these corpses the throng clambered and straggled, uuawed by the horror of death. Meanwhile, we are told that this de moniac anguish “ proved vastly entertain ing to the guards, who held their torches close to the bars and peered in upon the sufferers, with horrible grins upon their black faces, jeering and hooting at us for very joy." What a vision of hell is this! A herd of suffering wretches, with parched tongues lolling from fevered lips, wrestling insen sately with each other in the thick smoke and stench of Tophet, while black-faced demons glare upon and gloat over their agonies. Many chapters in Bound to John Company are vivid and correct pictures of London literary and artistic society during the middle of the • eighteenth century. Clear through rapid glimpses are given us of the illustrious men of that epoch. The theatre and drama are particularly well described. On one occasion we catch a full view of burly old Johnson laying down the law of esthetics and defending the dignity of “ hu man letters” in a decidedly inhumane manner. In brief, this book is eminently worthy the attention of the historical scholar and student of past customs, habits and modes of thought, no less than the professed novel reader. The author is a man of discrimi nation, ingenious fancy and tastefully cul tivated style. We hope that he will write again. Under Foot is the title of another of the “ select novels ” recently published. It is by Alton Clyde, (the author of Maggie Lynn), whom we take to be a young writer, and certainly one of considerable cleverness. His present venture is just one of those tales which is calculated to interest, not too profoundly, and to excite onr sympa thies, bnt not to a troublesome degree if we take it up at tharight time ; that is to say, during some interregnum in business, when distraction of mind Is sought or in the course of some dull journey by car or boat The materials of the work are unoriginal, the personages are somewhat commonplace, and the plot is by no means very ingenious or striking; still a pleasant style, some power of pathetic description, and here and there, a touch of sly humor, are quite suffi cient to rescue the work from black list of failures and to entitle it to that gen eral verdict of commendation expressed in the words: “ Agreeable reading for hours which cannot be better employed.” So Runs The World Away, by Mrs. S. C. Steele, is a vastly superior work to Under Foot. There are flashes of real genius in its pages. Despite the clumsiness of the plot and a diffuse ness of narrative which at times is not a little provoking, we have several original studies from nature and at least one specimen of portraiture In this novel, which show tact, keenness of observation, a mastery over some of the subtler elements of human nature, and powers both of sualysls and combination by no means usual—with the majority of writers of fic tion. The general etfeet of the story Is •ombre and depressing, yet It is too true to mttnre and too evidently the genuine out come of the alreumsUness described to Isavr sny room for just complaint on the |t«rt of the reader, If he be anything of an I artist or capable of appreciating art In I oUi*r>. (Fro* a* rrortdme. April ft. Health of Mill Operatives in Rhode Island. There has been much discussion in this and other maoofactariug countries In re gard to the effect upon health of confine ment to daily labor in the work-rooms oc cupied by the operative population for the space of ten and more hours daily. It Is presumed that all intelligent persons be lieve that the mills of this country devoted to the manufacture of cotton or of wool will not bear an unfavorable comparison with those of the couutries of Europe in their adaptation by ventilation, and in the possession of other general requisites, to health. , . Circumstances have not been favorable to an accurate determination of facts upon the subject of the effect of such confine ment upon persons employed in our mills. We are favored with a careful report of a population- consisting of 3,800 working people, abont equally divided between the sexes, the preponderance being males, all over fifteen years of age, much the larger proportion being more than twenty years of age. The work people were occupied during the year ending April Ist, inst,: 1. In the manufacture of cotton to be woven. 2. In the manufacture of wool to be woven. 3. In weaving fabrics of cotton or wool. 4. In bleaching, dyeing and flushing the same. r It has been accurately determined that of these 3,800 operatives, 280 were so ill at someone time during the year as to require the advice and attention of a physician ; or one person in every 13t£, or 74 in every 1,000. Os these 280, 17 died. The average length of the sickness of these persons was seven weeks. The sickness of the four classes may be seen as below: Os the first class, nine per cent. Os the second class, nine and seven-tenths per cent. Os the third class, (nearly all females) five and seven-tenths per cent. Os the fourth class, six and three tenths percent. The diseases may be thus classified: Os the 280 persons who were sick, four and six-tenths per cent, suffered from hu mors or diseases of the blood ; thirty-nine and six-tenths percent, suffered from fever; ten per cent, suffered from accident in and out of mills; seven and eight-tenths per cent, simply required rest and recupera tion ; eleven per cent, had diseases of the digestive organs; sixteen and four-tenths per cent, had diseases of the lungs and ad jacent passaged. The Inevitables.— These are the men and women who never miss anything that Is given. Their ruling ambition Is to be thought fashionable, and therefore they ac cept with alacrity all the invitatlous they receive and fish persistently for those which are beyond their reach. They can always be counted upon as certain to come. They are always to be seen at almost every pri vate entertainment or public place of amusement, and Invariably met when you travel. Escape from them is impossible. They give society no relief, but are with pitiless regularity “on hahd." This peri pathetic disposition growseat of an insane desire to be always before the public.—- Nothing but the’ death of some near rela tive will keep them at home, and If de prived thus of being seen .they will make up for it by walking the streets. They are as certain as taxes when there is a Wedding or funeral in the community, or a testi monial to somebody, or a call for a public meeting. Being chronicled aB “ our well known fellow-citizens,” or “oue of the brightest stars in the firmament of beauty,” is sweet to their souls. As groomsmen or pali-bearers they are equally serene and grim, and wear the honors thereof with professional nonchalance. In making up party lists they always go down first on account of the familiarity of their names and their known reliability. At parties they are the main hope of hostesses, and are particularly available for taking in to supper wall flowers, or filling up sets lack ing a couple. They are often Impressed as escorts upon emergencies, and are often very bandy if they are a trifle tiresome. [Louisville Courier-Journal. Publishing Notices of Betrothals.— One of the Jewish papers has taken to pub lishing notices of betrothals, in the same manner as the common announcement of marriages, whereupon the New York World meditates thus: What may be the source of thin innova tion we know not. It may be intended only as a device for the assuagement of public curiosity about private affairs, and a protest against the irresponsible and unauthorized utterances of the hebdomadal Jenkins on the same subject. But, whatever the motive, the result is likely to be good. It is now not uncommon for a young woman to make a tentative engagement with a young man, without any serious intention of marrying him, for the convenience of having a falthfol follower and bill-payer constantly on call, so to speak, i The de moralizing influence of such a practice on the female, and its lacerating influence on the male mind, do not need to be point ed out. If it becomes a social custom to make formal announcements of engage ments, so that a certain disrepute might at tach, as it inevitably would in such a case, to the breakage of vows so publicly made, engagements would be entered into-much less unadvisedly and lightly, and with much more prospect of being the precursors of weddings than they are at present. The Wonderful Silver Spring in Florida.—The Key West Dispatch, says this grand and natural curiosity bursts forth in the midst of the most fertile coun try in the State. It bubbles up in a basin near 100 feet deep, and about an acre in extent, and sending from it a deep stream 60 to 100 feet wideband extending six or eight miles to the Ocklawaha river. In the spring itself, fifty boats may lie at anchor—quite a fleet. The spring thus forms a natural inland port, to which three steamers now run regular from the St. Johns, making close connections with the ocean steamers at Palatka. The clearness of the water is truly w6n derful. It seems even more transparent than air; you see on the bottom, 80 feet be low, the bottom of your boat, the exact form of the smallest pebble, the outline and color aud shades of color of the leaf that has sunk, and all the prismatic colors of the rainbow are reflected- Large fish swim in it, every scale visible and every movement distinctly seen. If you go over tho spring lu a boat you will see the fis sures lu the rocks, from which the river pours upward like an Inverted cataract. Railway Speed.—Jim Flak, the Prlucc of Erie, took th® Democratic delegates to the Rochester Couvcntlou from that place In a special train to New York, runutng part of the time at a t|ieud of 70 miles au hour. Vanderbilt ran a train from Roch ester to bryacuse, last Hutulay week, 81 miles, |u one hour aud thirty utluutes, Fisk's trelu gained fire hours on lightning express tints-
