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(Mlahrr’;: SATURDAY, AUGUST 15,1874. “X . i.iI.LAIII.R, Editor. THE THIRD TERM Why is thin question so cnrlynmT earn estly agitated by the journals of both polit iciil ? One hff of I’fwMtßl Gnat's second term him not yet expired, end the whole Button is oonvulsed as t< whether be slwll be tfrdfrted mid hold tin ofßee a third term. T* the whole imtioii so delightiil with GtUnt’s present and ptisi Administration that it will not bo satisfied with any other incumbent > If he is the choice uf all sections and parties, race* ami colors, tU question i* evidently prema ture. Are there not. millions of casualties that may interpose within tins next two ands half years to prevent liis bring the choice of any section or party ? He is rich and avaricious worship* the Clod of Mammon and may he n<d, ere his term expires, hear ainiatcrions whispering, thou fool, this night thy ward shall be required of thee. Or may he not be lifting up bis eyes with uuotk* rich man of Biblical Historical renown, fruitlessly crying for ltelp, lieing hi torment for his vindietice oppression of the Southern people.— Should tMs be his unhappy lot hit appeals will doubtless be answered by good old Abraham by sending copies of liis gnawers to the appeals of oppressed, down trodden nml outraged Louisiana and Bouth Caroli na. If the time had arrived for agitating the question of political preferment, what portion of Grunt's record 'could 1; Urged in his favor ? 4fe has executed to the letter the moat wicked and oppressive laws that ever cursed r*y Nation, enacted l>y Sectionals and embittered partisan legislators, without any regurd to tlieir Constitutionality. The party that elected Mm and sustain ed him has grown so corrupt that the con servative element ha* grown into startling proportions, even iu the North, until it requires no very aceuto observer to sen that with the extreme lliuliesl party he hasn’t the ghost of chance. With the Conserva tive Wing then is Ids only hope, and for that he i* fishing, with that alone* his chances would bo hopeless. tfo Mr. (front thinks that in order to se cure his nomination for the third term there must he anew political move inau gurated. Here is liis statement to a liber al Republican of the West. He said •‘Unit the country had manifestly Imd enough of the rule of the Republican party; that the party lmd fulfilled its mission and out lived its usefulness, and that tlm people, tired of the corruptions and demoraliza tions of the Republican party in Congress, nud tired of its extreme seetiohul meas ures. were ready and anxious for n change. Next, iu the course of the conversation, the President suggested that if the liberal Re publican party would take the lead in nominating him upon the platform we have indicated he hud no- doubt of the enecoss ul the move. ” He very well knows that, the liberals unaided could not elect him, but his object is to secure the non.ion t ton from liberals anil by that menus will win • •ver the Democracy ami by the consolida tion defeat the strait 01 t Republican oun ilidste. He further stated that Ihe !ibe:n’ Republicans were a “respectable body of independent men, that their principles w ere acceptable to the people, nud Hint in moving fur his re-electicu iu opposition to the regular Republican party they would flint bring over the Democratic party, and that in the next place all the Kouthern States would support the move ment; and, again, the moneyed interests of the country, desirous of avoiding any dangerous charges or experiments in onr financial system, w ill surpporth new party which, while aiming to displace the Ke ptibitams, will support the President for buother term a* the national standard bearer of this aew organization. The President also submitted' that the execu tive patronage would prove an element of! considerable weight in this new party nn-! delinking, and that, with all Ihe forces to bock it which ho had indicated, defeat would bo impossible and success certain. “Furthermore, wo are informed Hint ; when these high contracting parties sepa rated, it was with the promise ou the one part that the Liberal Republicans, so far us directly represented iu tliin conference, will move iu behalf of General Giant for third term, and with n promise on liis part that, to strengthen' tlie movement, the President wSI veto the civil rights bill if panned at tilts coaxing session of Con-I gross; will insist upon civil service reform, notwithstanding the objections of this Congress; will urge a universal amnesty in his next annual message, and to the ex tent of his porwer and resources w ill dam out the carpet baggers and prove himself a true friend of the South and of South ern rights under tho cenvtitivtion.” Tint would be a very good arrangement for Ulysses. But be will find that the South will never eonvoiidnte w ith any par ty to elect him, we don’t cave hoiv much he does now to relieve the South, it is too late, he has done too much to oppress us and we will not so readily forget and for- I ive, and we are not so credulous to be lieve Gen. Grant, w o remember his prom ises at Appomattox. We have no doubt that Gen. Grant is willing to sell out, but we don’t think the Demnerau rare to pur chase him. We have plenty of men w ith more brains and cleaner records. We lmve ample strength to win the race with a straight out, Democrat and that is the line we ought to fight on, ignoring all con solidations but respectfully inviting all who oppose the corruption of tlie Radical party * co-op|M!rute w ith ns. If he does all that lie promises in his bid for the candidacy for a third term it is no more thou bis du ty, and if an honest man ami governed bv prineijdc be will do it. But if be does it to secure his uotniinttiou alone be is cer tainly not worthy of etmfidonoe, but, the contempt of the whole South which he luxs fully enjoyed for six years. We do not W lmve the report that Gov. Smith or Mr. !. H. Hill would favor his nomination for bird term under any circumstance*. The wople have uuipte time to reflect upon tire •object. OUR CANDIDATES before the Nominating Convention will be ejpecteti to their positions in reference to the amendment to the Con stitution, which was passed by the last Legislature *d must be past by the one to be elected this fall before It ran foiwe be fore tlrq l*?pj fat ratification. This ihii'nU*iert, it |iMnl'tm) ratified, wiH set j tie The qweation as to tlie payment of the 1 frandulently and iftegally issiied Bonds by i Gov. Bullock in tho year 1871 and '72 Here iy. the.renrtitdmeiW-: - "Neither the General Assembly, nor any i other power iu this Slate, shall have power | to pay, or recognize a* legal, the bonds of j ore-railroad company upon which the un called endorsement of tji.e Btyte was made ; \iy He- lot* Governor Bulfoek, anil wliieh endorsement is declared illegal, fftndnlcnt or void by tlie Legislatures, either iu the year 1871. 1872, and tire present General Assembly.'!’ ' • Will the nominating Conventions recog nize the claims of any aspirants who will not openly avqwipj ii|>|fKAilli>f ditkrtmend ment and pledge himself to advocate its passage? Tlie people have the right to de mand this of Mjy ( mim wdiqr.proposes to | serve llicnfimU l(<(#*HftiVg capacity as a ! condition precedent to his nomination.— I There never was a time when it was more I important to demand pVdges friirfi Iti'pVq -I'ientativea. There never was a time when |it was more inqsittaijt to select men of honor, free from the taint of bribery. By i selecting men of talent and honor with | these pledges aud with, ilgkc.nmmitioii on Ihispm tdtitlie people tnronghout the Stale to win the race Is all that is necessary to settle the question forever and relieve tho minds uf the tax payers'. This is one of the most important questions to the black men, their interests are involved and the white neopltj tjhoukl udvisy theij* /and in struct, Mu rti. v ■* ’f"'* THE CIVIL*RIGHTS BILL will prove a blessing, not in its passage into a law, for that will never be, or, if ! passed by the Congress, the force of pop- I ulnr sentiment will compel the President to veto it. The fi'nrfiil cqusejjproncfis that must necessarily result from the passage of this iniquitous bill is nlready foreshadow ed ill Mississippi, Arkansas uqd Tennessee? i and should- itUjtiiss iftiif become n liiw it ' will never be recognised by the white raci al* binding, nml can never be enforced. The Hnnth submitted to the abolition of I slavery, but tho distinction between tlie { j races still exist, and always will be recog nized. Heaven drew the line? qf distinc- < tioQ and derived their eternal existence, and man can never obliterate them. We ! hope for the sake of the black race tlmt,; the agitation of the vexed question may never be revived by Congress, and tlmt the bill be consigned with all the iniquities to : - the archives of its originator from whcue), j it may never be exlmhied, arid that it may i | remain with nil liis errors and faults in i | eternal forgetfulness. It has given new impetus to Democracy, uud iaaopiwting the -white race sif. ali aaotmas tiigethbr in indissoluble covenants to sustain a white ! man’s government, The, Democracy, wherever -heard from, is sweeping the whole country like a mighty eyehole,, vis iting the'iniquities of Radicals on their ! own vilo heads. The poor negro don't know what lie wants, but wicked men are ! i prompting him to demand a light that ; God has denied him, that, he limy be blot- '■ 1 ted oft of the face of the earth. Tlie pas- j sago of the Civil Rights bill will result in j a war of races, the almost entire extinction of the block race nml volujitury slavery for 1 the remainder. They will seek homesand | employment, and find them not. DEMOCRATIC VICTORIES., , North Carolina—lo,ooo majority, seven Congressmen out of eight elected. Kentucky A complete triumph over 50,000 majority. . ... Tennessee gave an immense Democratic majority. DISTRICT CONVENTION. Tali.okajs, Ga., August 13, 1874. At a meeting of the citizens of Tallokaa District for the purpose of selecting dele gfttes to the different oonyen,t(ojiSi • Qij motion, Mr. JiteMi Reddick was called to tho chair, and 8. D. Edmondson, Score- j tnry. , \ On motion, the chairman appointed a committee of five to select delegates to the Senatorial convention. The committee reported and appointed j the following gentlemen: Mr. Jessy Dodd, John A. fuller and John Strickland. On motion the chair appointed another committee of live to select delegate" to the Quitman convention!, the second Tuesday in September. The committee reported the following gentlemen ns delegates; Jacob Roddick, It. 1). llrow n, J. ill. Hal lings, J. M. Williams and Win. 11. Goiter. On motion of 4ns. M. Williams the Dis trict instructed the delegates to- cast their votes for Capt. H. G. Turner for Repre sentative. , ' ' Ou motion, the delegates to the Senate- : rial convention was instructed to rote for Col. James McDonaid for Senator. It was moved and seconded that the pro ceedings of this meeting be published in Oai.i.ahKit's Indkl'kmiknt and the Quit man Kejmrter. On motion the meeting adjourned. ‘ S. D. EDMOK DSON, Secretary. Snakes on the Increase in Florida What a Correspondent Says. Editor ImfcfteHileuf: On the 31st of July, n negro living in Patterson Hammock, mar No. 5 ou the P. A ft. B. H., kitted three very k\rgt* rattle snakea, and on the same day Mr. W. H. Morris killed ten, all of which were very ttnn, and ou the same day Mr. W. P?Coyle killed sixty in his own cotton patch: some of their heads would not go in a quart. , txicke-t. All were killed in the smm neighborhood, and they my if it hail been ( i good day for Huukiug, they would have I killed more. But most people ssy they j did a good business for a late start. We ; hope they will take au curly start next ; time. Yours truly, T;%j. ■ ’ •’ On* Who Knows. • JPKoei tho Balttul'iro Ossctti-.] Brooklyn home like. In spite of every resolution to the i-on? trnry, we find ourselves anew attracted by, so lop mi sx ported pi rase (if horrid revela tion in the Brooklyn Imsiness-every one confirming the only view we. have cured to take uf it: tlmt tlie whole organization, of which those sCHUiJfds and shames ere Ihe genuine fruit social, clerical, literary, in radically disc aged, nml always has been. Omjb vf the New York papers, the other .day sfiiftmted either, by a sense of justice of t/re spirit of mischief, published wn tiling like a • chronology of the perform ances of Beecher's eirureh since he Ims lmd charge uf it, from the day of Kossuth’s reception, with the Marseillaise hlood ! chant played on tlie organ, down through alKits bbiirpe’s rifle, anti slavery senna | tions, until to-day, In the light of Hie , present, it is rending which has infinite eonaolatlofi for those of us who always de ; tested and never scrupled to denounce tlie wjmle monstrosity—-miscalled Brooklyn iTVingregalionsliSni. tVe had forgotten, j till reminded by tins record, that ou one ; occusion a fugitive negress stute by Bee j elier's aide, either in the pulpit or on the piaMoi'Sn--We bell* Ve they iiieim the same thing—uml when a iWlbwfription was raised to help her escape, how wile euthpsinstio parishioner tore, the wedding ring „fropi her buiui iqidjthrew itiii tile plate <lf jynqy ■ boX, and Mr. BeeeUur.put it on. the ne ’ griieVfinger, uTid called it the • “lilessed ring of freedom;" nud liqw all cheered and their'feet in ecstasy; and how i the multi ied'woman, having got rid of i their emblem of her plighted faith, fell tint) she was, "trey,”-too. This is but one of a ee/jt>* of repulsive exhibitions, the recalling of which has turned our, mijid for-u moifii nt from the train of thought which Mis hist revelation Ims suggested. : The lust and dreariest manifestation of nil, and one quite worthy a passing comment, is what is termed “Mrs. Tilton’s cross-ex amination,” being tho voluntary history lit ’her domestic woes. It is so obviously given to the world in the interest of Ihe licensed party so clearly designed to blow to fever heat the prejudice against Tilton— that we receive it with deep distrust, Then, too, its rhetoric for these folks are all rhetorical—is terribly exaggerated —so much so us to inspire doubt us to what is genuine feeling uml wlmt is not. Take for example that which seems to have struck deeply into the sensibilities of New York and ancillary Brooklyn the description of the poor woman going in tho rain “with water-proof on” to the Grepnwood Uemetery. and lying down between her childrens graves, und the Hupi'rintemlent "bowing down” before. All this may be genuine and truthful, but I it bus a dramatic uir which does not im press us’ If this woman had been taught that' tl/cro was such n thing as “law” in the land, she would -if her story bo true ■ —instead of going to Greenwood, have; gone to a lawyer or justice of the peace, and compelled this alleged brute of alms- j band—editor of a prosperous free love, abolition, radical newspaper -to provide for her. And her excuse for it all is the fascination which slio says he had over her, find for aught that appears to the contrary, has yet. People used to the i ordinary relations of domestic life—the ! pure mutually elevating intercourse of husband and wife, and parent and child ! for there are children here, and not a few of them, dead or alive will shoulder at one i moment nnd smile at the next, in reading I tlie description—indeed, almost a subjec ; five analysis- which this wife nnd mother 1 gives (if her ran feelings nml tho specifi cation of some of her wrongs. “I Wish yon to understand,’' she says, “that to n {-very large extent 1 take the blame upon myself of the indifference my husband has ! shown to me in all my life. At first I j understood very well that I was not to ; have the attention that many wives have, j I realized that his talent nnd genius must not be narrowed down to myself. That 1 made him understand also. To a very large extent 1 attribute to that the later sorrows of my life. I gave him to under stand tlmt . wlmt might be regarded as neglect under other circumstances would not be regarded by me as neglect in him owing to his business and to hi* desire to make a myiie for himself nnd to rise before j the world.” Here we have a woman still professing her reverence for what is called the “tab cut and genius” of n man whose conduct, if we may trust her description of it, has been infamous, and the Brooklyn world accepts it us genuine ! We have no pa tience with such stuff. “1 always thought," she adds, “that if Theodore lmd more business he would have less time for sentiment: and romance I” We have said this tragady lias its grotesque aspects. As for example, one may be ex cused for a smile at the photograph given of “Theodore's” habits ami attitude, when finder the eliess q/ffalms. We give ;it without comniftfit. “At oue period," says Mrs. Tiltouj "my husband was ab i sorbed in dices to such a degree Hurt he would sometimes be up all night. 1 ImVe known him stnud up at night ready Im bed engaged in a problem of chess, aud to be found in,tlmt condition in tlie morning without having gone to bed !’ But we forbear—hardly having left owt selves room to point the moral of these revelations, assuming then to lie- to any extent truthful. They are, as We have often said, typical. That there are iu Brooklyn homes us pure und happy as any. of the world, no one , will qispnte. lint they are quiet mid' secluded ones not those where what. are. called “fnlent and genius," "God-gifted” -for this, we arc gravely told, “Theodore” Means—and .“sentiment und romance” predominate. They are not the homes that take their gospel-teaching from flash orators like Beecher, or their morality and literature from the hulcpcin/rnt, Gahlen .1 u-\ or l hrintinn Union. Tret ns of the 'border Southland be grateful that the springs where onr children drink are free from sneh prHiuMou. v —- : , THE LAXGTAf iE OF FHSifES. There is something truly romantic in the of the grand ora sea. Its voice comes to us > unified notes, as if trying tg burst from itself, now with a huge roar and again dying away up the long line of white sand in a low, murmuring sigh, which seems to sav until its fel low comes thundering on, bringing now tidings from the “dark tinfathoiffedeaves,” I and throwing its tears of spmy a? your feet. But these are not the sounds that come up from the sea. Musical notes are often heard that in olden time were cred ited to the “siren’s lmrp.” They come to us in low. sweet notes, burdened with a hidden meaning, swelling ou each rise, and finally bursting from the deep in a ehnrus of rich sounds and harmouies. The** peculiar marine serenades were for years regarded witlr superstitions a\v by the toilers of the sea. I\v some they x Mr eve taken hj -> of good U vc.k, aifd y ; others, of the old -nehoot and Mnrryntt clans, as the songs of tlie vast crews of the : dead who roamed the sea in their phall i'tom crafts that appeared to the living com rades at dark muiuiwp and >fi weird form, au ominou* foreboding -of s[>eody iil-for tiiMK nnA so These Ktrange note* were traced to diflcroiit i-vigois, until some curi ous individual threw Irit blame uf all the disturbance upon the fish family, and then it became known that they, having tuouth*, spok*- after their fashion, und so our sirens and mermaids passed away. Their fair foriua are no longer seen ru | clining ou the aunty shore. Their sweet voices have In-efr superseded by the croak of tue unoffending INacrtt, ami the well known lines. | “In gulf enchanted, Where the irlfen sings, And rornt riatfii lie bare,” have lost their romance, Alas, for the ad | vaneo of time, us with every throb our old und well-loved legends slip away, und dis- I upjietti in the dim distance of the past. A noted fish vocalist is- found iu the ficiir'K*, which was noted for the \ powers of it* voeniorgiirr*. Pliny embalm ed it ill verse as the kif>g of tisiies. am) | Ovid und Ossian have also sung its praise !in song. Seleuqus stated, with all good - faith, that it was tho only fish .that ever ! slept, and -T-buii lientowed upon it the honor of being thp lawt Vrehived bv its fel | lows. WiAidi-rful tales arc foki of its pogers of lntonstidn, nml although it was iu great demand for tlie table, the men j were Joth tb take it. ill consequence of the Wails tptd moans it gave teat to When cap tured. At other tioiet. When free, its - voice rose frimi the sea clear as n bell, and ravislfing in the shreetwess of its racWsly. | Tbivwiill RnoWsHgin-nards ary noted tar ami wide for tlie sourials they pro duce, nud aw yet I He' fieenlhl'T ' rheehwfiism i lias not ilts-n deiooatrat*ib At , times ffie sound is not uiipW-wwot, siwl st I oflierii it resembles ls! barking of a dog or the gr**ing to t#o rough substances. This rw*y tas tke esse in some s|ieeMs, but X have held a fish found in the sonthern ; waters, arid sribalsr to onr pwrrb, in iav liwisl, ami listened to tire sound", and they aeeßi'ed to M*' produced by a movement ol the jnws c/t throiat *s the lipa and mouth protAdilig at every sound it tittered; but it is not Unlikely that they are produced by grinding the teeth with a quick aio tiou in trying to escape. On the Jersey coast the Ptiimohit piMtti is called the i pig or hog fisfi, on account of its contin ual barking, as it is drawn in by the net mid in almost ever section of the country -we find these loealkwna all tending to ! represent the vocal tastes of the finny po i pnlation. In the days of old Rome, the murnns, : or sea eels, were supposed to have a regu i lar language, “low nml sweet, says nn old ! writer, and “with an intonation! sc fasci nating that few could resist its influence,” anil it is said that the Emperor Augustus pretended to understand their words. It is well known, however, that he did de ; vote much of liis time to the cultivation ! of these creatures, not for a hyliothesis of lniigunge, tint because they were highly es- I teemed in a gastronoinis point of view :In fact, so far was this earned that some epicures would only rat those that bail ; been fntttcnrd on human flesh. Strange sounds are often beard also j arising from tlie waters of onr coasts, that would bo apt to astonish tlie superstitions ; i listener if lie were not acquainted with the unoffending cause of all the disturbance. Sometimes it rises into the air like the bang of a huge drum, nud again seems to , , steal over the waves with a lmv ( mnnnm ; ing wail; and if you were to place your ear to the surface, the strange sounds would appear to come from five or six different places. Seamen are often startled by the' i “boom, boom" that steals, bv ex the ves sel, seeming to tig,-it- ears mufi; like the .drum of some long lost crew than the 1 voice of an iusigniflesut mMubor of the family of fishes. For such it is, and w ell known as the bearded drum-fish. But how it produce* the queer musical notes is a something that it would be well for onr “fish commission” to discover this summer on the Bound. Still another faithful satelito of Euterpe is found in the noisy inaigrc. it makes a strange co<iing moan, ntroinpanlcd by a sharp croak tlmt can be herd at n depth of one hundred, and fifty feet. The fish attains a length of about six feet, and weighs forty pounds. Wlmt the sounds arc for we know not, lint tm the principle* that nil things are for some (mrticnlar pur pose they must have a tW'tttring. That the imperfect voice of the fish is used to express discontent and pain ( fnvrej no doubt, us in numerous experiments on a fish found in the Gulf of Mexicocafleff the grunt, I found that tho voice Was Used nml modulated im with other animals. When touched with the knife the grunts that it gave vent to fairly rose to a shriek, and when dying its moans and sobs were almost disagreeably human. I shall never forget the first ope of these veritable porkers that I caught. Thinking that uiy bait needed replenishing, f hauled in and found nicely hooked a grunt, and no sooner had l placed him in the bout than he commenced a series of grunts and sob* that bid fair to take me by storm. Non be would make’s low noise, and grad ually swell the “melody,” and finally hurt at me such a blast of entreaties, all of which were produced without a struggle tlmt my better nature was aroused, nml I made baste to toss him buck? snd.ua he dis appeared he uttered a sqifeak which to gether with the splash, sounded to me like a bona fide “thank you,” and I have no doubt but wlint it was. Baron Humboldt mentions an occur rence which lie witnessed in the South Sen; "About seven o’clock iu tlie evening the sailors were, terrified by an extraor dinary noise iu the air like the beating of (aroborines, followed "bv sounds that seemed to come from the ship, nnd resem bled the escape of air from boiling liquid." Many other instances could be called ftp to prove that fishes use their voCal organs to some purpose, but the above only serve to show Hint they have a well-defined voice, nml that it is capable of modulation. —Neic York Times [Correspondence of tlio Courier-Journal.) A [TENNESSEE PEO DIG V. An Infant, Plre Day*hid. In “A flrr Alio ViMff,” Prophrflei tht- Drilrartlon Of f*ltt*l>ui'K—THc Owl of Their Ifrad* Wills Vlmih* Or or A**” Nher I* re* dwl ion Ci.ARKKS'Vti.i.F., Tenn , July 31. 1374. For several weeks past fuiniirs of a great wonder existing near Johusonville, in this State, have been circulated freely about our streets. The papers of West Tennes see and of Nashville have given it a pass ing notice; but what lias been published has Keen gathered from travelers who have chanced to pass that point. To-day we met with a gentleman who had visited the house which contains this wmiderfnl lusus naturae, and who furnishes ns with the following information which he assures ns is true to the letter. A man named Ahern resides about four miles from Johnsonville, oh the Tennessee river. Ho is a man of moderate means, yet industrious and hon est. He has a famiiy of five children, all bright and intelligent, and perfectly form ed. IirKTH or THK CHIMJ. On 8 turdiiy, tlie 11th of July last, ntu. other child- a girl—was added to bis household, which possessed no peculiar murks or attractions, with the exception of a heavy suit of Imir, os likeh end course us that, of un Indian. Bite also lms twenty ; well formed teeth, eonrusllng of four incis ors, two cuspidate", and four hienspides, each in tlie Ifriter and upper jsw Itis' usual in iufuuts to show the it first teeth between tlie fourth and eighth mouths, w hile the hienspides do not make tlieir ap pearuuqe before the second year. In this case, however, these teeth are all well formed and ns firmly sot iu the uloeolnr process as is the ease in adults; in fact, u perfect set of adult teeth, with the excep tion of the molars. A small double log tenement, with a stack chimney, and a small double porch in front, situated in a beautiful growth of natural forest trees, on the buuk ol the Tennessee river, is the ! birth-place of this most remarkable freak nt nature ever known to nn rial man. The child prospers finely, as all children do 1 when tbeir jrareut* are active and full of ; health and vigor; and the neighborhood for miles around are going to und from the house of Ahern to witness this modern prodigy. Many bare congratulated the parents by suggesting the pecuniary value of such a wonderful child. Some have ; mentioned the "Siamese twins,” the “double-headed child," the •'sleeping beauty,” the latter creating no little in terest in this State a few years since, and i have urged upon the parents to write to Burnum, who, they feel confident, will i aoon have them on the high road to for tune. A great state cl excitement rages 1 abont that lucidity, and the father of the | girl is almost ruined by the constant flow ut visitors, many of whom have remained to their meals, and lmve. in consequence, j made a considerable sized hole iu the gen tleman's larder. THK I'HKIiICTION ABOUT PITTSBURG. But the most wonderful part of this pe culiar creature remains to be told. On ‘ Thursday, the ltith of July, while the Child seemed to be asleep iu tier crib aud u silence prevailed in the room, a noise was heard to proceed from Hie crib, which resembled tlie voice of a grown woman, j The only words to tie distinguished were. ! “July 25, !W, and 27.” Everylwaly in the - room rushed to the bedside to catch the sound, when the child, with its eyes closed, said in a clear and distinct contralto tone of voice, "A furious storm will come July 26, 20. anil 27 —but not yet." At the ch.se of this little speech the room was utmost depopulated, some running to their neigh bors. six miles off, almost out of breath, vowing that the child was a supernatural creature, and that judgment day was bound to be close about, while those who remained were almost frantic with fright Several spiritualistic mediums were sent for, und after arriving upon the spot they used all the powers known to the art to draw from the child some spiritual man ifestations. Their schemes proved abor tive, and they were forced, after many con jurations and sleight-of liand performan ces, to forego the attempt, acknowledging to the company in attendance that it far surpassed anything seen, heard or read of men. Nothing in A. Jackson Davis'books, or ill "The Clock Struck One,” by Wat son, or even in the “Banner of Light,” could in any way compare with THIS NEW-BORN PBECUBSOI:- OF THE MII.LI-N • MUM. The child spoke but little after this, aud would not notice questions or tho crowd that surrounded her bedside. But on the 2fith of July, in the night, the voice came from the body, with but a slight move ment of the lips, and said: “The storm rages.” This created a great deal of satis faction among the unbelievers in miracles, some of whom Teniarked: "The stars are j shining brightly; in fact, not a cloud can be seen.” Little did they know uf that. Terrible storm tlmt was t arrying ou its bos om thousands of dollars* of property and hundreds of lives in the cities of Pittsburg and Alleghany. . A PROI’nEST VET TO BE FL I.ril.l.E]l. No further mention is made of any word uttered by the child until on the, morning of the 29t1l of July, abont half-past nine o’clock. An old negro, named Isaac Halli burton, who has always been foremost on electioneering occasions, hart dropped in with some new comers to view the 'gri st wonder." While standing by the eriii, looking at the child, she suddenly looked tip into his face, und, iu a clear, distinct voice, said: “Woe to yon and your race on the (Ith of August next; look well to your households; stay close to your homes, for a storm will rage far worse than the one just passed, which will wipe nil negro stragglers from the face of tlie earth. Take heed, colored people, and respect this Warning.” Isaac’s eyes begun to dilate when the first word was uttered, und onr informant states that, bad the child just uttered one word more, he believes firmly the Degree's eyes would lmve burst from tlieir sockets. The negro sloped and has not Is'en heard of since. The gentleman who saif all this- with his own eyes is w illing to make an affidit as to its truthfulness.— He left there shortly after this manifesta tion. The fume of this child is spreading all over the land. Scientific men are com- j ing from a distance to visit it. The child ! is hearty, goes to the breast willingly, nnd if it lives will doubtless tie visited by peo ple from all sectiofis of the world. ♦ • ir.l/r IX ARKANSAS. Memphis, August 11. - A special to f) e Appeal from Helena, Arkansas, received at 8:30 this morning, says: At 11 o’clock last night, three ladies and two gentlemen arrived here from Agustin in a skill' and report tlmt there was considerable fight ing lab- yesterday evening. Thecommun der of tlie post, whose name we did not learn, dispatched a scout of twenty-five men on the road to Cold-water station, on | the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad, i and captured a picket of twenty negroes, who were stationed about twenty miles from the town, and brought them iu as prisoners and disarmed them. One of them, as they were being put into the Court House yard, tried to Brake his es cape, when he was tired upon and killed, and in the melee which ensued another negro was wounded, but not mortally. Later in the evening a larger body of ne groes advanced from the south and made an attack, driving in the white skirmish ers to the Court House, where the main body of the whites were stationed. ' A charge was made by the whites and the negroes were repulsed w ith a loss of several killed and wounded. The fighting was going on when our informants left, and were fired upon as they crossed over to Ship Island. Later. —A second dispatch from Helena says that Major Horn Chalmers, of Her nando, has just arrived here for the pur pose of chartering a boat to take men to the assistance of the whites in Austin. He says a courier from Major Woodson, at Austin, reached Hernando to-day, stating that the town was snrrutroded by about one thousand negroes, and asking for help. About two hnndred white men from Hernando nnd vicinity will be here at two o’clock, and, iu company with volunteers from this city, will start at 4 o’clock far Austin. Dr. Smith, who is the unfortu uate cause of the trouble there, reached 1 here last trljjlit. Some three weeks since Jjo junoaitucked in the streets of Afistin by iwiregfio, and, drawing u pistol, fired at the negro,—but missed him and killed a bttlt negro girl standing tiy, which eios ' peruteil the in grues to such n extent that they collected a.mob and took Dr. Bmith to the woods to hang him, and *hey would hnve done so, lint for the entreaties of Major Hoedson and tho Doctor's wife. Hinee. that time Dr. Smith lias been u voluntary inmate of tbejajlto prevent being mobbed Until lust Friday, when some friends cauie and carried him to Her nando. Ou learning this, the negroes col lected in large numbers and notified the Mayor tliut unless be was brought back and put in the jail, they would burn the town. TO VliH *'HE WING. Old BlodgCr was a man of some note in Salisbury. He bad much business to at- 1 tend to away from home. One year he was elected a member of the Isiurd of se lectmen, and therefore he bad a great many important committee meetings to attend, wliieh kept him out very lute at nights. At lust he told bis wife they were committee meetings. On such occasions Blodger did not come home to sup with bis family, but Mrs. Blodger was in the habit or leaving a cold bite for him on a shelf in the pantry. Boiled cahWge and pork was Blodger's favorite cold lunch; and though he did not deserve such favors, yet bis wife tried to please him. More than once had she accused him of coming home drunk, arid slie declared that he ; never came home from his late meetings perfectly soliyr. Blodger stoutly denied tito nhAird insinuation. One fright Blodger cum* home later and i drunker tliun nsmd. He stumbled into the kitchen, nnd called to his wife in an ! adjoining bedroom, demanding in thick j uncertain tones, to know if she had set out any biled pork and cabbage for him. Bhc replied to him, rather sharply, that he’d find it where slie always left it for him. Blodger stumbled into the pantry, and 'found a broad dj*h containing a gelatin- I on* compound, wbieb lie speedily attacked. But the cabbage wouldn’t be masticated. He got a piece in lus month, and the more he chewed the tonglier it grew. He worked awhile, nnd the cal ed out: “Bah-ab—pohoo-ho ?-wongh ! Hay (hie) Molly ! Wha' kind o’ cabbage, for (hie) mitey’snake, d’ye (hie) call this ? I might’s well try to chaw thunder !” Mis. Blodger was out of bed id an in stant, and with a lighted cnudle she en tered the pantry. “Simon Blodger ! aren’t you n pattern man ? My caps aud your own dickies, thHt 1 left in starch over night! Now I know you are drunk !” Blodger was confounded/ He was caught in ftaifrimtedelict", nnd for the sake of peace in the family bedmpped his com mittee meetings thenceforth. HRKlllTEli DA its 'soli Tllß SOUTH No true lover of his country can con template the condition of the Southern whites without tin- keenest commiseration. A proud and powerful race, which once swayed tlie destiuies of the Republic, still lies, nearly a decade nfter the close of the war, in certain sections, in almost com plete political subjection to thermic nnd untutored men who once tilled tlieir fields and picked tln-ir cotton. In the over throw of the rebel cause great fortunes were swept away; nml men who had counted their negroes by hundreds became as poor as the poorest of them, nml sometimes were fain to acknowledge Uicir former slaves ns their employers. The whole edi fice of since po.nor tliat had grow ntbnu ll u height, fell in one crash, nnd the ruins vet climber the ground. And nine years of peace seem, after all, to have done little in the work of recnjieratioii and growth. The political rule of the ignorant blacks is still almost unbroken. But there is a sunnier side of this dark picture. In many respects the future of tin* South was never so promising us it is to-day. At the clttse of tile war her people accepted the situation with n frankness whii h required no small effort, for it is the beaten man who finds it hardest to forgive and forget; the victor can afford to Im magnanimous. Rut long before the ex-Confcderates ceased to feel the smart of defeat, a few of their late antagonists, led by Oreelev nnd Chase, had stretched out to them the light hand of fellowship. Wlmt was then considered an aetof political suicide has now become one of the favor ite postures of the politicians, nnd the number of people has supprisingly dimin ished who would be willing to admit) as the War Governor of Pennsylvaiuia did the other day, tliat tliev would not have ( been sorry to see a judicious use of tlie rope when the conflict ended. So far lias this feeling melted away that the Union veterans bailed w ith delight at one of their recent meetings a proposal that, nextyear, the close of the first decade of lienee should be celebrated by s reunion of the Bine and Gray of a more friendly character than those to which they had been nccus- touied; and this lias been followed by stray propositions that an effort should be made to gather ns many as possible of both armies at the Centennial. So that the sOB which rises on our bundreth birth day bids fair to behold a wholly united people. The remedy for her political evils lies in the bands of the South herself, for no one else ean help her. The common school means death to carpet-bug govern ments; and, if tho people will but bide tlieir time, the slow, steady work of educa tion mid enlightenment will render black and white equally tit for the duties of citi zenship, and divide between them the honors nud the responsibilities which the one now refuses to share with the other. The twaddle about a third term ought not to ilevert them for a moment from the serious task they have in hand. Appeals to a stolid President or a benighted Con gress must be equally fruitless. The work is liefore you, brother of the South I —From the New York Tribune. ax aLmosFFATAL BITE. A countryman by the name of Hornby arrived in the city yesterday, fr—m Haber sham county, amt gave ns the following account of ah almost fatal ease, from the effects of U dog bite. He left borne for Atlanta Sunday morning, with a wagon load of country prod ce. His wife and three children were with him; also, one of his dogs, Sunday evening the dog began to act very strange, and finally commenced foaming at the mouth, which at once con vinced Air, Horuhy that the dog was mad. and he went to his wagon, got a gnn and shot the dog; but the shot did not at once kill Irim, and being already mad, ami in furiates! by the pain of the wound, be made a savage charge on Mr. Hornby, bat he turned him off with his gnn. The dog then made for one of the children standing by, and before Mr. Hornby could get to it, KAVAQEMF ‘.RASPED ITT by the dress and bote it to the ground, slightly bit it on the right arm. Just them Air. Hornby dealt the dog a fearful blow on the nead and kilted it. The child did not at first seem hurt at ail, but its mother discovered blor>d on its dress and undressed it, when the wound ou the aria w'aS seen Some herbs which Mr. llornhy had with him were imme diately appHed, but in V&w minutes the eliild showed signs of extreme pain and begun Cryifig. Mrs. Hornby HECOSIE KBAKTIC WITH JfKAKS, and her husband says he feared fora while that she would tone her mind, home whis ky nnd more herbs were applied to tlie wound, und a small piece of flesh was cut out w here the bite was. The ehtld in a few moments became very sick, wad be gan to grow very weak, buf sujue whisky was forced dmvfi its throat and it revived. It was forced to drink more whisky, and final fully recovered, and half hour after it was bitten it was completely well. This is one of the few cases tlmt do not result fa tally from hydrophobia, and a* this and next month will lie wlmt are known aa the “dogdays,” persons should Be. very care ful to keep their children out of reach of the reach of these mad brate*— AlLmla AVir*. >• •f’* S WISB HA RHIA HE L A HIS. The Swiss government finds it necessary to issue a special proclamation; bringing to the notice of all eitizens, and especially of tlie cantonal administrations, (he full bearing of that part of the revised con stitution which deals with the law of mar riage. There hove been already, it is stuted, numerous appeals made to the central authority under this article, which prescribe that no impediment whatever,- founded on religions considerations, -or o it supposed want of means, is to be pat in (the way ol those "about to marry,,and "high forbids any government, tta*or fae !of any kind on the ceremony. It also confers on the- wife a shore of "her bus band’s settlement rights in his pariVh and canton; and, imitating the Scotch law, it legitimatizes children horn before wed , lock. Lastly, it renders legally recogni zable marriage contracted by Swiss persona anywhere, if it be valid according to the Irx loci. As certain eantonial governments have hitherto refnsed to recognise sny saeli marriages when celebrated without previous sanction from the authorities of at least the husband’s canton; while others have required caution money from those who hud no neal projx-rty, and continue to exact it even since tlie constitution passed; again, a few object to acknowledging mixed marriages except under special ecclesiastical sanction; they are warned that all such obstructions are illegal, ad vised Hint any deposits of money received since the 2tlth of May, when the constitu tion came into force, should Ire restored, and further are informed that a special law is being prepared designed to carry nut the intentions of the constitutional aet in fail detail. As the first decided inter ference of the central gorvenment with cantouial practices under its new powers, this proclamation has made a considerable sensation in certain parts of Switzerland. Exchange. 117/. 1 T A SORTHLRX LAD Y THIS KS OF SOCIAL EQUALITY. We copy the following remarks of "Bea nie Beecli," an intelligent Washington correspondent of the Repository <tnti Tnm*nript, published at Oananduigna, New York: No political question interested ns ao milch as the passage of the civil right* bill. Although Republicans in principle, we cannot tolerate a measure that even the great philanthropist, Sumner, advocated. To force one chess into companionship with those who are perfectly repugnant to them, not from prejudice, but from ree-, sons we shall name, us simply overreaching the demands of justice. Why do not the masacs of our country’* poor raise a hue and cry because they nre not admitted, to receptions, balls, parties and weddings, and in every private and public place tolerated, withtout restric tion in their dirt and debris, their ignor ance and unfitness for such places ? To legislate white people out of the Inst birth-right of freedom, and to cram the colored race with favors they cannot ap preciate, is intolerable. We could swallow all the bill without choking if our schools could have escaped tyranny. In many parts of the country the question of mixed schools would amount to little hut here in the South, where a large proportion of the inhabi tants nre colored, it would work serious results. We -are Sooth with big hearts of sym pathy for tile poor, abused blacks. Two venrs of dealing with a moo who don't knee# what truth is, and wlio had sooner steal tbs* Work,- and in whom there ia no depend-ncc, makes us shrink from having onr children educated with the ignorant, unprincipled dregs of society. A colored jiersou will solemnly promise yon over laid over a thing, without ever wtewdrug to do ss he says. Be willdewouscu (heft, pray ad ring, attd riiowf a ttA rising from las knees stent the ->ety first thing he etui lay his baadv on. its a race, they need missionaries among them to educate them to a sense of bower. They need a religion that will have power enough to make them trust-worthy. Wo have, since coming here, had trowMa and anxiety enough from these eye servants tar lost 11s a lifetime. , , . When this lace are civilized by sdnen tion, and can respect (heir word, and tiot steal all their eyes behold, it wilt bo tin** enough to compel white children to aorso under their influence in mixed schools. Returning from the city recently, wedrovo through Howardtown, where the colored people number seven to four whites. Jk person who has any nose at all, would bn obliged to hold it in passing these peopla, whose repulsive odor cannot be scrubbed, out. We should pity sensible white chil dren who were obliged to be crowded-up in a school room with a race God newt designed they should amalgamate with. We should not deprive those people of one single right. We are glad they are free. We crave the boon of freedom 100. To-day they have more rights and better privileges in the District of Columbia than poor respectable white people, la the eastern part of the District they have large imposing school buildings with every modern apparatus and school fix tures. Wo blush to tell you that sixty white children are crowded up in a mis erable dilapidated school that’s a disgrace to this government, and we cannot get even enough to repair the building that the government owns, while the colored people's ckihlien must be provided with every modern facility for an education. These two build logs are within > mile and a half of each other. Go where yon will, in the street, on tfe sidewalk, do colored people condescend to give half the sidewalk ? Never. So dis respectful are they over one’s rights that rules have beeD j.ted up along the high way, with the penalties for breaking them, if persons fail to keep their own ride of the street. After all thfe trouble, we are often obliged to stop our horses and scream at the top of out voice for that darkey with his dilapidated cart and don key to give us a piece of the highway. Sambo will roll b>s eyes at us very much as if he thought he wasjmighty eoudscend ing. Bessikßeecb. The Ijondon theatre goers are not "Led Astray worth u cent. It doesu't pay.