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.
