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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 19, 1870)
THE WEEKLY 0018 mUxlOlf at.tbt WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCT. 10, 1870 IN St - —One of the most judiciously inaugurated departments in the great St. Louis Pair was that devoted to the encouragement of the production of cotton. A liberal prize of $5,000 was set apart for the development of this interest, which had the effect of stimulating Indi vidual producers throughout the Cotton States to a laudable competition In the ex hlbitionof their beet productions in long and short staple cotton. Mississippi head o4 the list, represented by forty-four en tries, Louisiana by sixteen, Tennessee by eleven, Arkansas by ten, Alabama by five, Texas by four, Georgia by three, South Carolina by two and North Carolina by <*•#. The entries from Georgia were rnidr SlB!1 8 D -Heard, of this city, and W. D. Maples, of Chatham county; from Soutk Carolina by Maj. Paul P. Ham w»d, of Beech Island, andMr.lanac T Heard, of Edgefield. The following awards were made by the committees upon tbs va rious classes of cotton. liOKG STAPLE. Best single bale—Montgomery db Sons (colored), Hurricane plantation, Davis Bend, SSOO. J. J. Roe & Cos., exhibitors. Second best bale—A. G. Carter, Lin- W np2?,’ a ‘ 1 Sells & Cos., exhibitors. Third best bale—N. P. Benton, Feli ciana, La., S3OO. Shryock & Rowland, ex hibitors. Two best bales—East Mississippi, head of Island No. 3, Mississippi, S4OO. W. S. Ewing & Cos., exhibitors. Two second best bales—W. A. Collins, lsoquena county, Miss., $350. Shryock & Rowland exhibitors. SHOUT STAPLE. Best bale—W. B. McShan, Lee county, Miss., SSOO. Shryock & Rowland exhibi tors. Second best bale—Geo. Alexander, Na poleon, Arkansas, S3OO. Sells & Cos. ex hibitors. Third best bale—Capt. A. L. Hill, Mar shall, Miss., S3OO. Bells & Cos. exhibitors. Best two bales—E. A. Lyerly, Clarke county, Miss., S4OO. Shryock & Rowland, exhibitors. Second best— J. H. Foster, Yazoo county, Miss., $350. Shryock & Rowland, exhibi tors. MISSOURI COTTON. Best bale— W m. W. Edwards, Dunklin county, S4OO. Anderson & Watson exhibi tors. Second best bale—W.’ I. McCormick, Dnnklin county, S3OO. Anderson & Wat son exhibitors. Third best bale—Joseph Mitchell, Caru thersville, SIOO. Lewis, Nanson & Cos. exhibitors. SWEErSTAKES. Best bile raised in the United States, crop of 1870, not including Sea Island—W. B. McShan, Lee county, Miss., $l,OOO. Shryock & Rowland exhibitors. THE ANNOUNCEMENT of the preminmns was received by pro longed cheering, and every one seemed thoroughly satisfied with the result. A Good Suggestion.— I The Milledgeville federal Union suggests as a means of check mating the frauds designed to be perpetrat ed upon the ballot by the provisions of Akerman’s election law that at every place of voting “ let the citizens have a box at a legal distance from the Bnllock pen, and let honest men be appointed to guard it.— Let every Democrat be requested after he has marched up to the Bnllock pen and voted, to deposit a duplicate of his vote in the citizens’ box. By this means It can be known exactly how many Democratic votes are polled. Again, let the citizens appoint a commit tee of four or more, who shall stand at a lawful distance from the Bullock pen, and count and keep a tally of every man who votes. Two at a time will be sufficient to watch the Bullock pen, so that they can, from time to time, relieve each other. Let these men not only count all who vote, but also watch all who vote, and without say ing a word mark those who vote illegally and report them for prosecution. By these means we can know how many votes are taken at each place of voting; how many and who vote the Democratic ticket, and in most cases detect fraudulent voting. This suggestion is a good one, and we hope that the executive committees of each county will see to it that such a provision will be made. Failed to Make a Nomination.— The Democratic Senatorial Convention for the Seventeenth Senatorial District—composed of Burke, Scriven and Bullock counties— met at Scarboro last Wednesday for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Senator. Col. Joseph S. Cone, of Bnllock, M. F. Haigin.of Bullock, and R. N. D. Wil liams of Bnllock, were the candidates for the nomination. After eleven ballots had been taken without the selection of a can didate, the convention grew disgusted and adjourned sine die. CHEAPER THAN BEFORE THE WAR! —Epicures, are you aware that you can enjoy the luxuries of the dessert at a much cheaper rate than ten years ago ? Pciecce has convert ed a wild product of the Irish coast into an element of immeasurable dainties of the most wholesome, nutritious and delicious charac ter ; and the price of this new staple is less by one-hall than that of any other article of the same class containing a like amount of nutri ment. Need we say that Sea Moss Farinb is the article referred to. The wealthy and en terprising New York Company engaged in its manufacture are entitled to the thanks of every philanthropist for Introducing this new source of excellent and agreeable food, at a price which places It within the reach of all. One experiment will convince the most skep tical that with Bba Moss Fawsb they can pro duce unequalled custards, puddings, ieluei, Charlottes, creams, sauces, Ac., at less cost thin before the war. The depot of the Com pany Is at 03 Park Place, New York oct9-iuwloc INFANT*.—The most Irritable au<l resllsis of these louder hull household buds »r* charmed) e* tt were, into quiet end sweet rs row by using Mri Whitcomb's Hyrsp ocui-doolw Me# edrertliemeat of Or Matte' ttMMMffi I headed, Me«b for the Million-M AUKIAUK ! (iIJJIJg -In suet her eelena ft ebocll be | read by ell. hJ-doviy j HMPirAtmxa io Oun Grasw^Ou i th! - °PP° rtonit y of showing to the world what they can do in the way of receding and entertaining her distinguish th/m* 8 * 8 ’ aad from the manner in which the matter has been token hold of we feel DOt ODC ° f the mtn * vistors Tut WUI le#Te pleas- f L their vlsU - We will have men annoi* State in gentle- TnZ T “ dele ** teß * Agricul tural Congress. We will also bellied upon to suitably entertain the Knights of wa owe to oar Fair visitors. To accom- Jototodf thl “’ commlttees h *ve been ap- SiX* OI !f *** P ublic bodies, the City Council, the Board of Trade wni Aj “° ct * Uon - The* committees pmeat themselves to our business men to obtain subscriptions for the porpoae indicated above. MemmWH h^ebH lß^' JKkS ° D * Bi T P Br “ch by tbe COMm tttees to HSSSmfST’ The entertainment pro- PQMd should be on. a scale commensurate wtth the occasion. It should be a magnlfi c«at one, and it will no donbt be selfans tammg; but in case of deficiency, it is de sirable that there should be something to fall back upon, and this is what Is proposed to be accomplished by these gentlemen. Subscribers will not be called upon for their subscriptions only in case of necessity, and then only pro rata on the amount sub scribed. We regard the coming Fair and Agricul tural Congress as an era in the history of onr city, and the manner in which our citizens are preparing for the occasion, shows that they are alive to its importance. How Boats May Get Over Sand Bars. —A steamboat genius has developed apian for assisting boats over bad bars. The plan of this genius consists in utilizing the balloon. A large number of these are to be carried on all boats, with necessary con veniences for inflating them. When a boat approaches shallow water she is to be hoisted by the balloons sufficiently to pa3S over. We commend this plan to the con sideration of the steamboat men on the Sa vannah river. Prosperous Factory. —The recently published annual report of the Augusta Cotton Factory gives the following figures: The capital stock of the company is $600,000; consumption of cotton during the year, 2,907,875 pounds; cloth manu factured, 8,222,181 yards; hands employed, 489; to whom $157,976 were paid in wages; net earnings, $126,779; from which four dividends of five per cent, each were paid, and $7 79 added to the surplus funds. State Liquor Dealers’ Convention.— At a recent meeting of the Liquor Dealers’ Association of Atlanta, the following reso lution was adopted: Resolved, That in view of the many op posers to our business by legislation, and our rights almost disregarded in the courts of the country, we invite the liquor dealers throughout the State to organize them selves into city and county associations, and elect delegates to meet us in a State Liquor Dealers’ Convention, to be held In Atlanta on the22d day of October. Address at the Fair.— Hon. James Lyons, of Virginia, has been selected to deliver the address at the opening of the Fair of the Cotton States Mechanics’ and Agricultural Fair Association to be held in this city. Hon. A. H. Stephens.— We understand that among the many distinguished per sonages expected in attendance upon the Fair in this city, it is highly probable that Hon. A. H. Stephens will be present. Going Home With Their Cotton.— Some of our country friends are disgusted at the price of cotton this week, and re turned home with their wagons loaded with their staple.— Griffin, Middle Georgian. That is not surprising, inasmuch as the present price of cotton leaves the planter nothing but a loss to show for his labor. Let us see: The hire of a hand at $lO per month and provisions cau hardly be set down at less than SIBO. The wear and tear of a mule, his harness and subsistence will be low at SIOO more, and we shall be under the mark in cost of plows and plan tation utensils at slo—and all this will foot $290 for the year. Now, four bales of cotton of 500 pounds to the hand is a good average product in Georgia, and these at thirteen cents will foot up $240, and leave the planter minus fifty dollars and the wear and tear of bis place and Interest on investment. We say nothing about guano, because we have taken an old schedule product. We have no doubt the cotton crop of 1870 involves a very heavy money loss to the planter, Independent of wear and tear and interest on investment. No wonder they are all dissatisfied. Cotton planting (as mere cotton plant ing) may now be considered as a defunct business. It mast be combined with farm products—meat, corn, forage, small grains, stock, etc.", and cotton at the fag end of all —to represent, in its totality, the profits of the farm. It is true cotton will probably react next Spring, In season to delude some planters predestined to destruction and misery, into still further attempts to toddle on in the old fashion on Western corn and meat. But they will soon be wound np so effectually that they can go no further.— The man who means to keep out of the hands of the sheriff will hereafter farm it, and make ample arrangements to subsist himself, family, hands and stock upon the products of his own soil. Corn will pay him well at $1 50 per bushel. Bacon Is a splendid crop at twenty cents a pound, and these being the price of both, when we do not ralee them, are worth that to us when we do.—Macon Telegraph. Departure op Americans por Lover —The American officers who estM for Egypt In the early Mprlng, finding their re ception by the Government there no cor dial, and the land of Egypt ao promising, I having sent for their families, quite a sum | her sailed from New York on Thursday, in i tbs steamship Batarla. Among them were Mrs Gen-.rai (1, P, Mtone, Mlse Mtone and Dime children Mrs General Hbett.MUs illicit and Master Jlbslt,Mrs. General llsy* Holds and Mrs. Colonel frank Reynold# and cm. I _ ["From tbs Houston Death on the Bottom of the Deep. A BURIED TORPEDO BOAT SKELETONS °AT I’ * * DKAD CAPTAIN WITH A HAND— REMARKABLE CA REER OP A REMARKABLE CRAPT. l Q the fleet of Admiral Farr&irot Md b n^ k , adi “ g Mobile,whlle'aheavyhfnd attack was directed against During our long defensive war a great h* 4 been evpendelTy toeConfederatea upon torpedoes and tor w£ hI 2L™ h w« h / 8 J?, n ® dOWB into the sea » r *ll4 Imper- Her extreme length teamand wKh I or «»*met cigar, sharp at both ends. She Was pro sc',w -th* «hWt of which mn J 1" hoW * * lmoßt from •rem to stern, and was turned by the ”n ei“l?Jwe *“•"•** alon * lt fJ?VL 0 * nl , y hatchway was circular, about i^?„^ t u lnd v, a '? eter ’ wlth alow combing aSd whin H hl , ch ., was P ,aced well forward and when desired could be closed by an tight P workin§ 0,1 hinges and made air- In the forward part of this cap was in- acle ?r filass bull’s eye, through iSS. pilot could see - She was pro vlded with water-tight compartments, by filling or emptying which she would sink or rise and to enable her to rise instantly her ballasting of railroad bars was placed on her bottom, outside of her hull, and by means of keys accessible to her crew could , detached in a moment, so that she would rise quickly to the surface. Besides her rudder, which was of the usual form, this vessel was equipped with side paddles or fins, which, like those of a fish, served to guide It up or down with reference to the surface of the water. To prepare for action a floating torpedo was secured to her stern by a line more than one hundred feet long, and her crew having embarked, the water tanks were filled until the boat was in equilibria , and almost submerged. The hatchway was closed, the men revolved the shaft, the captain or pilot, standing under the hatch, steered the boat, regulating at the same time, by the action of her lateral fins, the depth at which she would move. Her greatest speed did not exceed four knots. She could remain submerged for half an hour or an hour, without any great inconvenience to her crew—and on one oc casion has been known to remain under water two hours without actual injury to them, although no means were provided for procuring fresh air, and from the mo ment the hatch was closed the men thus fastened in their living tomb inhaled and exhaled continuously the atmosphere which was enclosed with them. The plan of attack proposed by the in ventors was to dive beneath the keel of an enemy’s ship, hauling the torpedo after her. Its triggers or sensitive primers would thus press against the ship’s bottom, explode the torpedo and inevitably sink the ship. Not anticipating an early opportunity of using this dangerous vessel against the fleet of.Farragut, Gen. Maury sent her by rail to Gen. Beauregard, at Charleston, be lieving the waters of that harbor better suited to her peculiar construction, while in the Ironsides, or some other gigantic war ship then attacking Charleston, might be found an object worth the great rlak to which her own crew was exposed in any enterprise they might undertake in her. Gen. Beauregard changed the arrange ment of the torpedo by fastening it to the bow. Its front was terminated by a sharp and barbed lance-head, so that when the boat was driven end on against a ship’s sides, the lance-head wonld be forced deep into the timbers, below the water line, and wonld fasten the torpedo firmly against the ship. Then the torpedo boat would back off and explode lt by a lanyard. Gen. Beauregard’s call upon the Confed erate fleet for volunteers to man this dan gerous craft was promptly answered by Lieut. Payne, a Virginian, and eight sail ors. They were soon ready for action; and on the evening set for their expedition, the last preparation had been made. The torpedo boat was lying alongside the steamer from which the crew had embarked; she was submerged till the combing of her hatch alone was visible above the water.— Her commander, Payne, was standing in the hatchway, in the act of ordering her to be cast off, when the swell of a passing steamer rolled over her and sunk her in stantly, with her eight men, in several fathoms of water. Lieut. Payue sprang out of the hatchway as the boat sank from under him, and he alone was left alive. In a few days she was raised and again made ready for service. Again Payne vol unteered, and eight men with him. The embarkation for their second attempt was made from Fort Sumter, and, as before, all having been made ready, Payne, stand ing at his post in the hatchway, ordered the hawser to be cast off—when the boot careened and sank Instantly. Payne sprang out; two of the men followed him; the other six went down in the boat and per ished. Again the boat was raised and made ready for action, and her owner, Captain Handley, took her for an experimental trip Into the Stono river, where, after going through her usual evolutions, she dived in deep water, and for hours and for days, the return of poor Handley and his crew was watched for and looked for in vain. Alter near a week’s search, she was found, inclining at an angle of forty de grees ; her nozzle was driven deep into the soft mud of the bottom. Her crew of nine dead men were standing, sitting and lying about in her hold, asphyxiated. Handley was standing dead at his post, a candle in one hand, while the other had grown stiff I with death In bis vain efforts to unclamp : the hatch. Others had been working at ; the keys of the ballast, bui the inclination i at which the boat had gone down had jammed the keys so that the men could not cast of the heavy weight which held them down. Their deaths had been hard and lingering. Again this fateful vessel was made ready for action, and volunteers being called for, Lieut. Dixon, Twenty-first Alabama Vol unteers, a native of Mobile, and eight men, volunteered to take her against the enemy. The new and powerful war ship Housa-1 tonic was selected for attack, and on a I oulet night the bravest crew set out from j Charleston In tills terrible, nameless torpe-1 do boat, that ever manned craft before. We ail know the fate of the Ilousatoulc. I Brava Dixon guided the toniedo fairly against tier, tbs explosion tore up the great i war ship's aides, so that sha went aowu with nearly all her oisw within two min- 1 utee The torpedo veneei also disappeared far- j ever from mortal view. Whether ehe went ih/wu with her enemy, or whether ehe j drifted out tone to bury her gallant 4ead, i was aevrr haowa, and their rate was left | till the great dav when the sea shall srlve up its dead. * ®“t wlthta » fcw weeks past, divers in submarine armor have visited the wreck ?*S ie * Uon^ ton,c ' and h Ave found the little torpedo vessel lying by her huge vic tim and within her are® the tonesTf the most devoted and daring men who ever went to war. [From the Huron County Nows. Crazy Celia. A WILD WOMAN OF THE WOODS—SHE CAB RIEB THE SKELETON OW HER BABE—A RO MANCH OF HURON COUNTY. t** Dominion of * k® l1 * 01 well-to4o French psople, who immigrated hither In the year f A> lr Jo™* ®ower was the dart:- around the social hearth. Time passed. Ito seamrds had calledthe wowms from their home; the father, al lo**® hy the rewards which smuggling pre sented st the time, end which was engaged °P **“ lAlw shore in ?? 7®*** had tamed his honest r-lu'^i ttintc 5 smuggling craft. £•£% fettered by the commoners and re cognized by the “ select ” on account of her grace and beauty, all unconscious of the lawless father and the fate of the three war rlor brothers, laughed on, all heedless of what was in store for her—becoming vain, and fond of dress. Vanity is always the thin ice of destruction, and in Celia’s case it proved no exception. The spoiler was on the watch; he recited to the daughter ttm story of her father’s crimes, her broth in Southern prisons, and ended with the fairest proposal of marriage. In her terrible despondency, caus'd by these horrid revelations, the girl Celia accepted the proposal of her destroyer, in the reck lessness of her despair. Shortly after one 04 lier brothers returned from the war, alive and well as ever, and through his In strumentality the real character of the vil lain was discovered and made known to his sister. Knowing the disgrace and de gradation into which she had fallen, her reason began gradually to fall her, and in a short time she disappeared from the neigh borhood going no one knew whither. Dur ng the Fall of 1865, some two years after the disappearance of the Frenchman’s d ?H?* r > two hunters from the town hip of white Rock discovered in a wild and untenanted forest the footprints of a hu man being, barefoot and alone. ‘Their cu riosity was at once aroused, and by the aid of dogs, after a chase of eighteen hours, they succeeded in obtaining a view of the object of their pursuit. Nearer they ap proached, the form becoming more palpa ble at every step, when the object bearing the approach turned foil upon them In all its horrid semblances of the hu- manlty it was not. Revolting and hideous as was its appearance, the hunters recognized through all the ghoul like aspects the person of a female lunatic. The dark, wild, insane eyes, the matted and tangled hair, the shreds of filthy cover ing, the scarred and festering skeleton form —all told of reason lost, of a life wrecked, of a soul which had perished. With a scream wild and unearthly, she gathered a bundle from the ground, flung it across her shoulders and disappeared with the swiftness of the wind. The people of the neighborhood were aroused, the exclte ] went rang high, and long into the early £srt of the winter hunting parties were souring the woods In search of the lunatic woman. At last she was captured, just over the line In Hanilac county, and taken to the common jail. People gathered in crowds to see this strange phenomenon. The bundle which she was always seen to be carrying while on her flights in the for est was opened to the public gaze, and there—oh, horror of horrors!—lay the skull and skeleton of an Infant—dier babe, which ■he had carried throngh all her tedious marches, by night and by day, for two long years and more She was an inmate of the jail during the whole of the winter and the following sammer. The only ser vice which she rendered at the time was knitting, at which she was an expert. There are many yet who recol lect the “old crazy woman," and bat few who saw her will believe ns when we state that her age, Instead of being 50 to 60, so it really seemed, was less than 80 years. At times she would mumble over a list of names, which the jailer would hurriedly take down as near as possible in their jum bled state, and inquiry would be Instituted and letters written to all parts, but all to no purpose. Her name and history re mained a sealed volume. The following autumn, however, she took advantage of the liberty allowed her, wandered away, and was never heard of again. Following some ignis fatuui of her unsettled brain, she died perhaps alone, unknown, with ouly the wild beasts to listen to her expir ing cries. And this was Celia—the lost link In the chain of circumstancee was only discovered a short time since, and the writer of this article Is one of the three ones who knew the real facts. There may be some slight errors In the dates above given; a false name has been given the subject, and the picture maybe slightly colored, but In the main the details are cor rect and the statements facts. The brother above alluded to Is yet alive, an orphan, sullen In his desperate purpose of wreaking his vengeance, and the tragedy may be but half told. A Trot Negress Mabrib9 a Texas Senator.— Excitement was caused in this city previous to the late war by the at tempted seizure of a negro named Charles Nalle, who was in the employ of Mr.—now Mayor—Gilbert, as coachman, and who, it appears, was a runaway slave. He was tracked to this city and pursued, but evidently eseeped to Canada, and daring the war returned to this city and lived in peace. Nalle was almost white In com plexion, and had a daughter, named Alice, whom It would be difficult to distinguish as a colored girl. Her complexion was light and freckled, and her hair straight and tinged with red. Sometime ago the daughter obtained employment at Wash ington as seamstress, there she met a colored gentleman named Ruby, State Senator of Texas, and on September 20th last she was married to him with all attendant cere mony. The conple are expected here to | visit relatives about the tenth of the preaent month.— Troy Press. The Chinese official report*, which Dr. j Chauveau tells us are t little exaggerated, estimate the lose of human life at 418 Lama I priests, 57 soldiers, und 2,812 "common People,” A series of earthquake shocks! were felt as far as Pungmonitaiig, where Mr. TANARUS, T. Cooper met Suer Huggu*.slug, the Nepauleee Ambassador, In 1808. The vil lage and many others are destroyed, and so many of the authorities and the soldiers have beeu burled under lbs rains of their I houses that " robbers, like wild beasts, run everywhere," To couolude, in the htshop'e own words, "The Imperial highway from I'eklu tg f,'Masse seems, and l* said to Ist wow, totally lmpra< livable near Jtong-die-i tin by the rail of a mountain and the sad den upheaving ts a a*w oa*" Twsfirt Speech on Womon. The funay faculties of the celebrated humorist, “ Mark Twain,” were called into play at a dinner once given by the Correa pondeots’ Club at Washington. Mark was called on to respond to the usual toast of “ Woman,” which he did In the following characteistic style: “ Mr. President: Ido not know why I should have been singled oat to receive the greatest distinction of the evening—for so the office of replying to the toast to women has bees regarded In every age. [Applanse.] Ido not know why I have received this distinction, unless it be that lam a trifle less homely than the other members of the clnb. Bo thin as it may, Mr. President, I nm proud of the position, and you could not have chosen any one who wonld have ac cepted it more gladly, or labored with a “Human intelligence aanaot estimate w "**v!2» owe wmaau. Mr. She sews on our battens [laughter]. She mends oat c L° tb ? she ropes os in at the church filrs, she confides inns; she tells ne what she can find out about the little private affitire of the neighbors: she gives us a piece of her mind sometimes—and sometimes all of it; she soothes oar aching brows; she bears onr children—ours as a general thing. In all the relations of life, sir. It is bat jast and a graceful tribute to woman to say or her that she is a brick. [Great laughter.] “ Wherever you place woman, sir—in whatever place or estate—she is an orna ment to that position which she occupies, and a treasure to the world. [Here Mr. Twain paused, looked Inquiringly at his hearers, aud remarked that the applause should come In at this point. It came lu. Mr. Twain resumed his eulogy.] Look at the noble names of history! Look at Cleopatra! look at Desdemona! look at Florence Nightingale 1 look at Lucrctta Borgia. [Disapprobationexpressed. ‘Well,’ said Mr. Twain, scratching his head doubt tolly, ‘suppose we let Lucretla slide.’] Look at Joyce Hcth! look at Mother Eve! [Cries of Oh 1 oh!J You need not look at her unless you want to; but”—said Mr. Twain, reflectively, after a pause—“ Eve was ornamental, sir; particularly before the fashions changed! I repeat, sir, look at the illustrious names of hlstoiw. Look at the widow Machreel look at Elizabeth Cady Stanton! look at Geo. Francis Train I great laughter.] And, sir, I say it with wed head and deepest veneration, look at the mother of Washington 1 She raised a boy that could not tell a lie—could not he? [Applause.] But he never had any chance. [Oh I oh!] It might have been different with him if he had belonged to a newspaper correspondent’s club. [Laugh ter and groans, hisses, cries of ‘ put him out.’ Mark looked around placidly npon his excited audience, and resumed.] “ I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman, she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. Asa sweetheart, she has few equals and no su periors (laughter); as a cousin, she Is con venient ; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. (Laughter.) “What, sir, would the people of the earth be without a woman ? * * * They would be scarce, sir—almighty scarce ! Then let us cherish her; let us protect her: let us give her our support, our encourage ments, our sympathy—ourselves, If we get a chance 1 (Laughter.) “But, jesting aside, Mr. President, wo man Is lovable, gracious, kindhearted, beautiful—worthy of all respect, of all esteem, of all deference. Not any here will refuse to drink her health right cordially in this bumper of wine, for each one of ns has personally known, and loved, and hon ored the very best of them all—his own mother. (Applause.) Extraobdirart Er.ROrRo-StjßorcAL Op eration on Grn. Kilpatrick.—lt has already been announced that Gen. Kilpat rick, our late Minister to Chill, wae ob liged to resign his position end return home on account of declining health. The disease which afflicted him was a swelling on the left side of the lower part of the neck, which made Its first appearance about two years ago. He returned to the United States about tan days ago with his family, and on consulting with some of the most skilful physicians In New York city, where he is stopping, they decided that the form ation was an erectile tumor , and that Dr. Lincoln should perform an electric opera tion, to which Gen. Kilpatrick readily as sented. Friday last was the day fixed upon for the experiment. At that time the tumor protruded outwardly as large as a hen’s egg. Inwardly It was much larger, crowding the windpipe half an Inch over to the left, making the effort to talk and eat very difficult and painful. The New York Mad says: “ There were present dar ing the performance of the operation. Dr. L. F. Bass, Dr. R. P. Lincoln, Dr. Ham mond, Dr. Charles Hackley, Surgeon-in- Chief of the Third Cavalry, Army of the Potomac, Gen. David Vickers, of Philadel phia, brother-in-law of Gen. Kilpatrick, and Gen. W. H. McCamey, of Boston. Gen. Kilpatrick was placed under the Influ ence of ether. Four large-sized darning needles were then Inserted Into the tumor, and It required all the strength a strong man possessed to force the needles Into it. An unusually powerful electric battery was then applied to the needles, the full force of the battery being given. Notwithstanding the Influence of the ether, the electricity had vmch an effect upon the patient that two powerful men had as much as they could do to keep him upon the bed. The needles were removed, and in thirty min utes the outward swelling began to go down, and soon disappeared altogether. Os course, the General was left In a terribly weak condition, but to-day, although In structed to keep his room and bed, Is look ing exceedingly well. The physicians de clare the experiment a complete success, the tumor entirely removed, and the pa tient himself again wl h voice and health as good as ever Dr. Lincoln says that the amount of electrlcty thrown Into Gen. Kilpatrick's system by the operation, If concentrated, would transform a piece of the hardest kind of coal the size of a mar ble Into a coai of fire." A Souvenir oe Fontenot.— A special dispatch to the World, dated London, Oc tober 5, says: " Your special at Boulogne sends me word that a foreign regiment has been (orroeU for the service of France at Cherbourg, to be called the volunteers of Fonteaoy, and to be composed exclusively of Irish volunteers. The men for this regf mi'ut are dally leaving both Irelaud ami England, and the hope 1b openly expressed at Dublin aud lu other Irish cities that the Prussian Government may venture upon j rsmonetratlug with tliu British Govern ment sgelnet this action of the Irish peo- P l *” - \ " Landlord,", said s traveler, at (h i labh of a country tavern, " Gils soup Is a lulls j weaker than lam uaed to, I wish you'd mat Ist that «bl«ksn of yours wads through It ease mors, If you plains" A Pastoral. mMtbMouru lUb**^ \n tumaMatK—T esavi^ta* r awset, natanfTad Ul * * surnl la tea way at ▼eniDcatloa. Observe the wonderful ten to which certain wontoofiß wV? I .*? 9 .1° !**» With thecor- X sat with Doris, tea Shepherd . Her crook wee laden with .. And the, my Darla, wheea lea eneloeM Till ehadaa had derkeaed from gloee to gloom. She touched my shoalder with flaw HP ipsssassr"’ I ehell be scolded aadeeot a way l" They ought to Urn van when yon get home; w«f awarded hr friend add neighbor Should be the labor from which you come. 19 " They might remember,” she answered meek tombf *« weakly and sheep are wild; Bat If they love me it 1 * none to fervent— I am a servant and not a child.” Then each hot ember glowed quick within me. And love did win me so swift reply; “ Ah I do but prove me, and none shall blind you, Nor fray, nor find you, antll X die." She blushed #nd started, and stood awaiting, £* lf r debiting In dreams divine ; Bat I did breve them-I told them plainly She doubted vainly, ahe must be mine. So we twin-hearted, from all the valley Did rouse and rally her nibbling ewes» And homewerd drove them, we two together, Through blooming heather and gleaming dew*- That simple duty from grace did lend her. My Doris tender, my Doris true; That I, her warder, did always bless her. And always press her to take her dne. And now In beauty she fills my dwelling, With love excelling end nndefiled; And love doth guard her, both feet end fervent, No more a servant nor yet a child. Grandfather’s Darling. Qrandfether la past ninety, and little Hay but four; Tet they love to elt together beside the cottage door; , And as the old man dances hie darling on his knee, Ho tells her of the far back time when he wet young as ahe, Those long and rambling stories May oft before has heard, But she lls ena with wide-open ears to every well-known word; And in her mind she wonders If he remembers too The men who lived In Noah’s ark, when this old world wss new. Grandfather’s balrls tcanty, and white as driven si ow, While May’s rich curls are golden, kissed by the sun’s warm glow; But as the young heed nestles, fondly against the old, Too see the sunlight blending tbe silver end tbs gold. Grandfather Is not book-learned, bnt from kls early yonth He has striven to walk heavenward, and loved the way of troth; And now be claapa his darling as tha day is getting dim, And both together muraor 0 tlfbple evening hymn. His stalwart eons come round him—and well advanced In years— And tell him bow the world goes on, with all its hopes and fears ; Bnt from tbe modem gossip he tan* away to hear The childish prattle little May Is wblaperlng la his ear, Fotks coll the old man childish—U may be even IO His heart Is ss a little eblld’s, snd this we love to know; Aud somewhere it is written test not tbe wise alone, But those who live in child-llke foltb, our Father calls His own. Grandfather Is past ninety, and little May bat four, So they will not sit together long beside that cottage door; But we know when tbe old man from earth is called away, Hts God, and hers, will still protect bis darling little May. Th# Housekeeper's Tragedy. One dsy, as I wandered, I heard a complaining. And aaw a poor woman, the picture or gloom; She glared at the mnd on her door step ftwas raining), And this was her wall as she wielded her broom: “ Oh I life Is a toil, end love Is a trouble, And beauty will fade, sad riche* will flee. And pleasure* they dwindle, end prices they double, And nothing Is what I could with It to be. “There'* too much of worriment goes to* bonnet; There’s too much of Ironing goes to a shirt; There’s nothing that pay* tor the time you wa*te onlt; There’s nothing that laata us but trouble and dirt. “ In March it la muddy; it’s slush in Decem ber; The midsummer breezes are loaded with dust; la Fait the leaves litter; la muggy September The wall-paper rots and the cantU eaUckSTuet. “ There are worms la the cherries, and slugs lu the roses. And ants in the sugar, and mice in the plee, The rubbish at spider* ao mortal supposes, And ravaging roaches and damaging flies. “ It’s sweeping at six. and It# dusting at seven; It’s victuals at eight, and its dishes at nine: It’s potting and panning from ten to eleven: W e scarce break our net ere we pin how to dine. “ With grease and with grime, from corner to centre, Forever at war aud tortrer alert. No rest for the day, Jr*’ ‘he enemy enter— To spend my whole life In a straggle with “ Lett night. In my dream, 1 waa stationed for ever On a little bare isle lu the midst of the tea; My on* chance of life was a entries* endeavor To sweep off the they swept off poor me. w “ “Alas! Uwas no dream—again I beheld Ilf I yield, 1 am helpless say fate to avert." ■Us rolled down her sleeves, her apron she folded, | Then laid down aud died, ana was boiled la tUri. The Wyoming womea prattle of “split tlokota,” " seraleblsg,” m 4 ** vottag early ud oftsa," with eharmlsg volubility.
