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snkr’s fttdepfttdint. feWURDAY, AUGUST 2, 187-1. """"X" felf T UAI.I. A IH:K, I'.<ll tor. CfCMOORATiC NOMINEES fOll CONGRESS, lion. W. E. Kmitli, OF DOUGHERTY FOR hTATH SENATOR, Col. .JitM. Mol>unnll, OF THOMAS, THE EXTINCTION OF THE AFRICAN RACE IN AMERICA, The UMtldble Consequences of Emtnci pat) oil Enforced Citizenship Civil tights- Enactment and Unna total Claims to Social Equal ity and Privileges, flint tliere is ft distinction in the etlino login*! stiitns of the two races, no ronn pos- Mwactl of reasonable intellectual endow irtViMH or ©lvlnWy etaotfoftal ocuaabilitiea raft tlmfW! or controvert’. Upon the qtU-* tio&of natnfal c-qnniify no honest, well iu formod mun will ussuu/e the affirmative and hazard his re|mtntion in deliate. Then, if there is a distinctive difference, where is the superiority ? What doe* his tory teach ns ? What linve we learned from experience and observation ? Are we informed of any period in the world’s history of enneiiNsiou nial Ethiopian equal ity as nation* or Individuals ? If they were originally the equal of the white race, why is it that Afriea is not now the proud eqniil or proud rival of European nations, in all the arts, literature and science ? Why does she not rival the white race in commerce, agriculture and mechanism ? 1>) they not trend the same carpeted earth ? And is it not wanned by the same sun and moistened by the same genial tains. Why is it, if equal, that they, like Site white mail, have not utilized the earth Mid seas, and subjugated the elements to ffieir complete control? Why mo the seas not dotted with their ponderous uud majestic ships, freighted with the com mores of their own and other coun tries ? Ilus the mind of the native African wi wondered through tho track lem space in sttiTSfl of hew worlds? Hue lie ever grasped ill lii* mind the blazing ! worlds that dot the fair fields of Ether? j Hu* he computed their respective ills- j tam es from each otln-r nnd learned the ( force* by which they are held ill fin ir spheres ? Docs he know, or lias lie ever known that they have allotted sphere* in which to move, or lias ho ever had any ; conception of tho speed aud regularity J -with wfhieh the various systems move in their respective orbits ? Has tho Goil of the Cniveiwe ever revctsh-il to them his will or hi* word, or even liis existoiiee? Did the Saviour of the world, during liis life or ministry, visit and instruct the Ethe- i opeun ? Did tho native African ever in wmt a letter, a figure, or write, or print a j word ? DhYHo ever invent even tho sim jilest piece of work- for hi* own eonveni euco and comfort ?-' Have they as a nation oirw people, in t?ie World’s grand Cathe dra! touched one chord 1 that harmoniously swelled the grand chorus of anm-rscl pro gress and prosperity ? If not, why not, if tbu equal of the white race ? Have not all of those grand mid sublime discoveries ; Mid’wonderful works resulted from the ! whito man, exercise of n God like reu kM, his research, investigation and indom- ! liable energy nut! perseverance. Where i* the fir-t evidence in nature or rcvelu tienof ttie negroes equality with the white race t It in’t Imi found, it doesn't exist even in the conscience of Hie wildest fanatic. The lines of distinction was drown hy the God of nature, nmbfhtvwliite man endowed with a superiority Hint he bus and always will maintain until God’s decrees-irflnfl he revoked, and loso their eternahdnrution and force; and until (foil shall absolve hnnmdf from the oath he took in reference to the immutability of his laws. And every effort to make the blnek race the equal of the white iu the face of these decrees and in violation of heaven’s statutes, with which both races are stamped, must inevitably result to the prejudice, and injury, ol the less favored of heaven muV weafter of earth. AVo lnvve said and now repeat", that, flic passage and enforcement' of the Civil Bights Bill by the Congress oft ho United States will prove nu-. i<xtiAgtti*hiug element of the African race irr this country. The w hite man Ims a -God-Uko jealousy of his honor, and he will destroy if need lie, with tire, every conflicting element. And to ac complish this there will lift on tie' part of the whito race universal unanimity. The lines will lie drawn at once, and there will be no division of the white race. And (he poor deluded negro w ill he abandoned by his present, deceitful leaders, mid left to sufler’Uic consequences of his pervert edfaiM' infatuated ideas of Civil Bights and social tsjnidity. A war of races will ns certainly follow the passage of the Civil Bights hill as effect follows cause. The black ruuo is composed of different mate rial—his l'esli, blood and bone is not con ponnded of the same ingredients, differ ing in his .rgnuivstion nifd : temperament from the white race. His secretions are different, partaking more of the nature of the lower order of auimabqheuce the mits kynrnt disagreeable odor that pervade hi* system This is the white mans heeitage, and. tin- white race will never sub mit to rtny law that eontmvenes the de crees of Heaven, ami degrades the God like whito race to an equality with the brute-like black nice. Congress may pirns ndaw deidaring eipcri privileges to both races, tint'there isn't meu enough in the world to enforce it in America, luul when rile effort is in.ule woe bo unto the poor deluded ni-gm- Hie dhti'f propose to take from the ne gro a single right lie now possesses, not witLotaailWg the high evidumw of' his iu ... . • _ • 'i rapacity to exercise them. Bwt we lrave j no fears in asserting that any further legal; uliactuionts in the encouragement of his already infatuated mind and native brutal carnalities will result disuStrioitsly to his ruco in this country.- Would that they could be led to'SCe the error of their ways mid the dangers to which they arc exjios ed. Would tint Hm stupid creatures could ace the villainies of the white vil lains that have misled and are now mis leading them. DEMOCRACY like a tulle wave is sweeping every thing j liefore it. Wherever the Civil Kiglits Hill has been made u test in elections, - North or riontli, the white rasa ha* lifted his majestic head and stamps with his own j seal of condemnation the Radical effort to degrade him to a brutal equality. The j opposition to this gmnd scheme of villainy is swelling it* ranks and lengthening its lines; mastering into service every day regiments, brigades, divisions and even armies with bunners armed anil equipt in defense of their own fair heritage. The .South has endured much and the Repub lican party has rejoiced at her humiliation, lint the practical workings of the oppres sive hiws have had a tendency to weaken the Republicans, as some grew more Radi cal, others became more Conservative, and hence among themselves they have split and have grown weak aud lire growing weaker, and now the Civil Rights Rill is the straw that has completely broken the camel’s back, and is forming a great white mini's parly that will override all opposi tion and control this government. We re ceive daily intelligence of prominent Re publicans taking bold and decisive stands witli tlio Democratic party against the ini quitous bill. With tb* hosts of secessions to the Democratic party which is almost equal iu numbers to the combined radical force who can doubt, but that the revolu tion will result in great Democratic victories and in a complete union of the conserva tive element of the North and tho Demo erotic party, and a successful overthrow of tile infamous thieves anil cliques that have cursed and drained and impoverished our country. D. F. LUKE. The Sheriff of Thomas comity, elected some t .vo years ago, bus published a cir cular iu vindication, as he suya, of his po litical integrity. He is answering an nr tielo which appealed iu tho lost issue of tho Tlioinasville hnler/rrifi 1 , in which lie is ; represented by tho editor, upon iuforma j tion, as having taken a manly stand in op | position to Whiteley mid the Civil Bights Bill. Luke sitys tlie circulation of this re port reflects upon liis political Integrity. I Aik) in vindication of liis Integrity he says: j “1 claim hi be tui honest, true and faitli ! fill Republican, and in the future, ns in the past, expect fir devote all my energies in working for tho prosperity of tho party. ” Judging from this, one would readily con clude that injustico had l-Cen done him in the information received at tho fitrler jirisn office. 11l the Hanie paragraph speak ! ing of the baneful influence of tlie Civil Bights Bill, ho calls upon his friends j thnsly, Tlepulilicnii friends: “This is file , wedge with which our opponent* hope to i split us. It is fraught with distinction am! ■ its passage *s a htw Cali only result ill tire , most direful consequences to the party:’’ | And further lie says.' “I am opposed to this iniquitio i* incus ! ure. and opposed to any one who en | dorses it. In making this announce ment, I do not fuel that I have renounced j any of tlie tenets of my faith, but on the contrary. lam a better Republican than ever, and feel assured that the honest, un prejudiced and thinking men, of the party, both white and colored, will sustain me in the assertion. , “In conclusion, I would appeal to my colored friends to turn a deaf ear to those who would excite their perjudiee, they seek to defeat vimr party. Heed them not and these side issues will soon be bur ied in the grave of oblivion, never to threaten the harmony and i-*ce of our party again. Then arouse yourself; lay aside evrything tlmt deters you from do ing your duty;J‘ay your taxes, and come up Manfully to the polls and rotrfor thorn trltOM you i-.-soir to In’ true to you und to the vital iutei'esfe at stake. ” What does Unite mean by telling liis friends (hat this i* a weilgo that their op ponents hope to split their party with. | Win ise wedge is it Air. Luke? Who made ;it ? What party propose*- to pass it into u law with, as yon say, all its baneful in tfuenees am} iniquitous consequences ? tauT it the pet child of the party? You say you are ow honest and faithful mem ber of, and slw-sys expects to be. How , eau yow lie an-honest and faithful nn-m --| her of a pnrty tlmt advocates principle* that yon say eve Baneful nnd iniquitous, and that you emi t support it or any one that endorses it ? Now, if the principles of the party are iniquitous, liow canyon lie an honest man and continue your meta* Unship ? Tn other words, how can you Be ; mi hrau-st and faithful member of a pnrty and abhor and deuoiineo it* principles 'J U|**u the hypothesis we presume that there is honor among thieves. Whiteley 1 endorses it, are yon going to vote for him? If not, why not toll your colored friends uot to vote for liiitl ? Why do you tell them that it is a wedge to split their party, ami til pay their taxes and couio to tlie | j Mills and vote for those that will 1 pivteet their right* ? Who do you meatl' By those that w ill protect their right* ? Is it Whiteley, the advocate of Ihe measure Hint you denounce as iniquitous and will not as their friend support ? Will you ml- 1 vise theta'to support a mail that advocates a measure that-you sav will be ruinous to their in tomato- ? Then, Luke, who must they vote for ? Von-have no otlu-r candi date for Congress.- Wo presume you want 1 the iiegriH-s tu pay-their taws and vote for ftmith, who wields au iniquitous Republi can wedge to split an iuiquitims Republi can party with, of which yun are *u- hon est, faithful member. Don’t ileal ill metaphors any longer with the negroes, they don’t understand them. But if you are au honest man. ti ll them id-plain lan guage to vote ugaiust Whiteley and the , milieus nnd iniquitous Civil Rights HilL Vow, I,uke, if you will come down here we will prepare a circular for you that will galvhiize you for a while and muke you appear somewhat decent. THE FORREST CITY. It was onr lmppy lot to spend the early part of the present week in Haviuihsfi, the city so appropriately named above. We were there in the Interest of onr paper, and though we received but little encour agement, we can’t find it in onr heart to complain. Times have been hard; the country people's extravagance and the disasters to their crops huvo thrown them behind, and as a consequence, Huvnnnah merchants have suffered- Rat, notwith standing, Ha van null merchants arc live men, ns their immense houses packed and jawed fri/ln garret to cellur will demon strate. Judging from tho largo and well assorted stocks of goods already received and the daily arrival of largo and heavily freighted vessels, u stranger would never believe that there had been a panic in j Georgia. Among tlie prominent dry j goods merchants that wo visited were Messrs. DeWitt, Morgan & Cos., Orff, | Watkins <fc Cos. and Henry Lntbrop A Go. I These arc Worthy gentlemen, excellent j urercfmntH, and with fheif Immense stocks of goods their houses will rank among the most prominent in the .South. Tlie li/ost prominent wholesale grocery merchants are Claghorn A Cunningham, W. H. Htark k Cos. nnd Solomon Broth era. These are houses rivaling with any in the South aud from them the best of of good* enit he Vwnght on the best of I Serins. We would suggest to our country 1 merchants that it would bo to their iuter | eat to purchase their supplies from such houses as we have named above. In speak ing of these houses wo have no intention of disparaging any other liousesordetruct lig from any other merchants, but we | speak of them ns they are in their reapec ; tive lines of business, ns wo believe the ! moat promieneut merchants in tho city. : For this we receive no reward or compen sation. We do this not for the ante of the gentlemen mentioned, But for the sake of the city of Savannah, to ithow that she is entitled to a prominent position among tho cities of tho South. If Georgia would concentrate her capital at, Savannah and build it up and make it n great Honthcru Emporium; a commercial mart, sending out and inviting directly the commerce of the European world. Georgia with her great city would bo n great State. FOR CONGRESS* AND THE STATE SENATE. At our mask head will bo found tlie names of W. E. Smith of Dougherty, for Congress and Col. James McDonald, of Thomas for State Senate. ’With pride wo present these two Gentlemen as the Dem ocratic standard bearers in the two Dis trict*. More worthy mid justly popular men could not have been selected, men of cleaner social mid political records could not he found. They are men truly de voted to the cause, men of energy and persevorenoe, wide awake to the impor tance of success iu the race, fully apprised of the evil consequences of defeat. The dark cloud that hits lowered over us for ycura, venting its wrath from time to time is becoming, attenuated and glimmering rays from the star of hope are peeping through its interstieies, stiinimilaling our leaders and encouraging every follower to give on the whole armour, and light the buttle with confidence Until the enemies ranks arc depleted mid put to flight and a grand victory is won ami our Runners in ! triumph Hunting iu the breeze, and the marshall musie o', victory and con quest shall ride upon every wind of heaven \to cvrey cottage homo in our loved Dis trict. And tho last vestige of Radical gloom shall have been dispelled nnd tlie whole political zodiac from the burizou to tho zenith, shall be clear and bright as a cloudless sky. Wo have everything to encourage us, perfect harmony in our ranks, disseution and discord in the ranks of tho enemy, with daily desertions of thier leaders. Armed with truth and gentleness, raesoii ; nnd pclaunaion, we cun win uud save the. | poor black people befor tlie day appointed i tor buttle. — WHAT WILL THEY DO. The poor negroes are being deserted by < their white ooth-iigues that have nursed and deceived them so long, while there was a hope for position tlirough negro votes,jtliu Scalawags never deserted them; but now when it becomes a question of race awl no hope their chosen leaders drop them and will not accept the nomination. This allows clear liy that the leaders have given it up that the negro vote can’t wiu' Joseph has ignored the ne gro,- can’t swallow the Civil Rights Rill. It even nauseates the stomach of Sheriff’ - Luke, honest as lie is and as true a Re publican us lie has been, and us loud us he lias been of tho American citizen, of Afri can odor, the negro equality is too hitter a pill, and he can’t even support Whiteley, because Whiteley endorses it. Now, oni on and men your leaders have got you into trouble and deserted you; now listen to ! the admouitiou of your true friends that will make you no promises that they will not fulfill, hut in your proper shpore wilt , respect you and protect you iu idl your ■ ignis; they huvo tarnished you homes for your families; tln-y huvo given you em ployment by which you could support them, they will continue to do so it you will prove to he their friends uml not their enemies. Were they- to withhold from you these blessings, w here would you get shelters, food and raiment for yourselves aud families ? Do you- know ot a Radical that eau furnish you a home, ranch lew your entire race. Black man, stop anil re lied, don’t risk your all upon this issue. We tell you iu your proper sphere the white men of the South will respect mid protect you, und we warm you tlmt au of- ■ fort to get beyond your legitimate sphere will be exceedingly hazardous. DEMOCRATIC DISTRICT MEETING At a meeting of the Democrats of Quit-1 man District, Brooks county, held at tho j Cottrt House, ou lust Saturday, 22d iust,, ■ Mr. T. A. White was chosen as chairman, ■ and l. A. Altbritton elected Secretary. On motion of Air. H. M. Mclntosh, Cap- i taiu J. H. Hunter explained the business of tho meeting to lie the appointment of delegates from Quitman district to meet with those appointed by other districts ill thi* county on the first Tuesday in Sep tember next, to select a Democratic can didate to represent Brooks county in the Legislature. Cupt. Hunter then made a motion that the ctinir appoint a committee of five to report names of suitable persons tat delegates and to suggest Other business for the meeting. The committee wag appointed nnd con sisted of J. H. Hunter, \V, J. Winters, H. T. Kingsbury, J. M. Bhcarer and W. A. McNeil. The eommittee reported the names of ,T. C. Hpell, Jerry Wilson, A. Willaford, E. R. Harden, D. R. Creech. The committee also reported the follow ing resolution, which was unanimously adopted: Jtemlreil, That these gentlemen lie ap pointed to represent this district in the. county Contention without nrtv ifisfmc tions, and that we will give the nominee of that Convention our hearty support who ever lie may be. T. A. WHITE, Chairman. I. A. Ai.rnmiTroN, Secretary. Quitman, Aug. 22, 1874.- • • - FIRESIDE FRIEND, We hate before us a copy of this valua ble journal, piitlished at Chicago. It is ntie of the best, witli perhaps, the largest, eireiilatioU of apy weekly fiterary journal in the North West. It iii neutral in polities aud religion, devoted to news, rotnunoe, literature, arts, sciences arid general infor mation. We met with Mr. King, while in Savannah, who is the authorized agent and Klin has traveled through the South ern States for three years in the intercat of the paper; we find him a genial compan ion, with all the elements of n gentleman. He Inal heard from his youth up the ex ag,-rated reports of Southern cruelty to tlie negro race, and believed as a large ma jority of Northern men do who never traveled South, and as a matter of course he came South with a deep m uted preju dice against the Southern people and ill favor of What he thought an oppressed | race, But during liis sojourn of three , years he has become acquainted with South ern character and the negro character, and with tlie information thus uequirod his prejudice have passed away. He is as much opposed to the Civil Bights Bill as i any Southern man, and wo believe that the whole Northwest, with the same iufor | Illation, would be of like opinion. We take pleasure in reconimendfuti Mr King us u worthy gentleman and the journal he rep resents as one of the highest rank. Expensive Cotton Raisin?. The New York Uinoncotl tool Commer cial Chronicle, of the 25th ult,, hit* the fol lowing item : The good old Book tells ns Hint “the destruction of tlie poor is their poverty.” Never won this truth more forcibly illus trated than in the history of the Southern planter since the war. A case in point is before us now. We are not at liberty to give either the names or the place, hut we will vouch for the accuracy of the inci dent. The planter in question, culled up on his factor for an advance, but the pres 1 cut condition of the money market iu that | neighborhood, and tlie uncertainties sur ! toundiug the future nr6 such, that the fuc ; tor was nimble to hespoud, and eveu re fused to “accept” fbV the planter, although ! ho had paid up every dollar lie owed lust year, and was i-steeWi and a man of sterling integrity. Thus repelled, wo nest discov er our poor applicant- knowing he had many hungry mouths to till —in search of a “grocery denier” liis last hope; one who would be induced to furnish bins tbe Imcon needed by liis family. When our informant met him lie hud at length ob tained the accommodation needed, but what terms! Bacon at llq* point was worth 10u., per pound, cosh; this planter i* to have it billed to him at 12je., and to the account so rendered per cent, interest i* to be added, and a note given, due Nov. Ist., secured by mortgage r.u*l crop lit *. As we make it up this Snutbrru farmer has satisfied the hunger of Ins fatally by pay ing Hilcrcst at the rati; of about 45 per cent. Surely the destruction of tin poor is their poverty ! Nor is this an isolated Case;- it is flic re sult, which is ivuite general, of going into debt for mules und tools and food, paying soveuty dollars a ton, with exorbitant jfi* terest, for manure, while wasting domestic fertilizers, aud i-.1l for the purpose of culti vating ouo hundred acres of land, where, if ho hod cultivated only ton, thoroughly and economically, lu- would more likely than not have seen red nearly as much pro dnoe, and certainly have realized a neat profit instead of a loss. One would feel like scolding at such improvidence, if it were uot that one’s sympathy was thor oughly aroused. The Amkhicax Boron. -No other : country ever produced such an article. He can lie distinguished anyw here bv the qualities that are enameled ou his scound ! rally conntenance. Ho is so cowardly, - cruel, cunning and vicious tlmt one does a great wrong to i-nll him beastly. He is ft 1 bully, ever imposing upon and abusing the weak, and shrinking before tho res olute and strong. He Begins life Bv i*<ib | Bing his father. If ho'-lilt’s one to Know’, i anti beating his mother, nnd he ends it ns a New York ahlcrtuun or judge. There !is no place where the rough is found in j such perfection, if l mav use such a word, its in New Yink. He abounds everywhere i in our blessed lalitlof free institutions, es ! pecially about our cities, But nowhere I such a specimen as in New Y'ork. Some | years ago he was produced on the stagi under the name of Mose, the fireman, i But Mose, unfortunately for himself, vol unteered in the Beginning of the late war, and appeared at the first Bull Run as * zouave. The pensive public were disgusted to (emu that it* favorite Mose ran away like the poll-tun, as lie is, nt the first lire, and Could not Be rallied, or stopped even. He disappeared from hu man view and human favor. Weddings in Borneo.- On the wedding-day the bride mid Bridegroom are brought from opposite ends of thevilliage to the spot where the ceremony is to Be performed. They are made to sit on two liars of iron, t hat bless ings as lasting, aud health ns vigorous may attend the pair. A cigar and bctul leaf, prepared with the areca nut, are next put into the hands of the bride and bride groom. One of the priests tlieu waves two fowls over the heads of the couple, and in a long address to tho Supreme Be ing, Cklfs down blessings upon the pair, and implores that lienee and happiness may attend the union. After the heads of the affianced have been knocked against each other three or four times, the Bridegroom puts the prepared siri leaf aud the cigar into the month of the Bride, While she does the same to hint whom she thus utkuonledges as her husband. Old Sam Gilbert’s Glass Eye. Bung ti llw a story told him by a man out ; Woftt, which has an air of truth about it aud i ciirimiN: “Old Bam Gilbert wa the alyefrt one,” j Maya the orator, “Old Haul had lost one i eye, he had, but he’d got a gin** one ft"t j ill which would not eree anything, iii course, but which looked just as mit ral as | I life, and had a guxe ns steady ns t* peddler, i Well. Old Sam used to sport a good deal, and sometimes he’d git hard up, and then j j the dodge that old rnss played to raise j the wiua was anmjdm’ He’d just go out ! I to some town where lie wasn’t known, and j I he’d pick udt some likely mau for a muss, j I and keep pidrin' on him in a mild kind of Ia way until the stranger’d get mad and pitch into Old Sam to take satisfaction <mt of hit skin. Well, Old Hunt was j some on a rustle, himslf, and he’d always: lay about lively and dually clinch, aud' he and the other follow would roll about o il tlie ground, and gouge and pull and swear like thunder. Tin tk Old Ham’s dodge would come in. He’d always manage to get out his glass eye some way and slip it ! in his pocket in the row, while they rolled | about, afld as hoou as he'd done that he’d begin to holler, and then the crowd would ; separate m. Then Old Ham would lie: back and yell, and moan, and say as how the other fellow had destroyed him by i i gougin’ his eye out, en* half the time th* other fellow'll really think he bad; and if he disputed it, it didn’t make no differ ence, for there was the eye gone ! Then Old Ham would either bring suit an’ git; big damages, or he’d compromise the mat ter an git a pile as big ! I’ve known a good i many slmrp men in my day, but Old Hum j was just about the thriftiest cuss I ever | struck anywhere.” A Gambling Dodge. A Parisian medical man was sent for the ! other day to see a patient, who was in bed. | Having prescribed, he promised to call on j the following evening. lie did so, and in I the sick man’s room found several other I persons silting ut a table playing cards, as i they said to amuse their invalid friend, j The table whs covered with gold. “I am much better this evening, doc | tor,” said the pretended sick man, and af j ter some few other remarks, added: “You have a lucky counteancc, doctor; I wish I you would play a few games for me.” “tVitfr all my heart, replied the doc ! tor, and on the patient giving him ten ! napoleons he seated himself at table, nnd ; in a short time won HM) napoleons, which he handed over to patient saying that he ! had several times thought of proposing to go halves with him. “Nothing would have given me greater pleasure,' replied the other; “but wimt is j deferred is not lost; do me the pleasure to i come at the same hour to-morrow evening, ; and you shall meet the same party.” The doctor did so, and for tw o or three sueeftsaive nights, ami after being allowed fat first to win, was ultimately a loser of j 23,05)0. On tlLe fourth night he returned, | hoping to retrieve his losses, when he | found the bird flown, tho apartment bnv | iug only been taken for a week. A Great Natural Curiosity. For tho past day or two there has been I in this city a colored man who presents in 1 himself a queer physiological freak. He is thirty-four years of age. thick set, of j medium height, of fair intelligence, aud ! was born in Manchester, England. He ! gains a livelihood by exhibiting himself |to physicians. His abdomen is uutur*Uj ; full, at will, without the use of his hit fids, jhe gives it a wave-like motion ntul it ! gradually sinks in as being wound up, nn j til apparently rests close against the back ] bone, and he presents the appearance of a man with no abdomen, and in the j same manner he rolls it out to its original hrm. He then drops from under his ribs a duplicate set of ribs, with a | breast bone, when the original ribs and : the duplicates can bo hit and counted, ! and the whole front of the body is, as it were, iron-clkd. Or, at will, bo appear ently drops his heart from iT3 natural posi i tion some twelve inches, puts it buck and sends it to the right side of the body op posite its natural position, puts it back and sends it to the lower part of tho body on the right side, thus putting iu four dif ferent positions. During the.se changes the sound of the heart cun he distinctly heard in either of these new positions, and not where they usually are heard. It seems to be nec essary however, that after each change it ; should go back where it belongs before j being sr lit to anew quarter. He also has the power to stop the beating of his heart at will from live to ten seconds ut a time, the pulse stopping at the same time. He seems also to have consitkerable strength, easily bending by a bfciw Oti the arm a j heavy iron eaue w hich he carries. Sever al of our prominent physicians have, ex amined him, from one of whom wo have j obtained these facts, and pronounce him j to be the greatest curiosity in physiology ! they have ever seen or heard of.—Provi ! tlcncs Daily Jtmmal, National Financial Mattees. IIWi ! iuyton Augnal 22. A rumor has prevailed { here that Secretary Bristow contemplated : making a second call for the retirement lof additional live-twenty bonds. To-day |he said that it was not his policy to make | such calls in the middle of the month. He said that no such onll would Be made I untill at lonst tlie Ist of September. The \ papers and data to lie embraced in the <V ! maud ou tlie Pacific Railroad companies | for five per cent, of their gross earnings, ;os required by repent legislation, have 1 bon pri-pured, and will be turned nv.'r to j him on Monday. The demand wdl be I made at once thereafter. The Secretary, liu a letter, calls tho attention of custom j others to so much of the net of June, 1874. | revising and consolidating the statutes of I the United States, in force Doceuibei 1. | IS7J, as relates to the assessment nnd : collection of duties ou imports, and es i pecially to the repealing clauses of the i act. In its character, as an iuterprotn ; tion and legislative construction of acts I in force December 1, 18711, it is not man datory, as against any duly authorized construction prevailing previous to tin date of it* enactment. In tho absence of such authorized construction, holding ad versely, either of the courts or of the Sec retary of the Treasury, its interpretation must lie complied with after June 22, 1874. Its requirements are absolute law, to lie enforced upon nil importations with out provision for time elapsing or for the date of being put on shipboard, at any foreign port, or nuy other condition or resolution whatever. The latest mail advices from Europe in regard to the crop prospect* there are not so good as the last preceding reports. Though the French crop is a good aver age one, still the hopes that it might Be classed among the rich crops will not bo j realized. Rve and barley will yield good quality, But rather limited quautity. Complaints about oats have, in conse quence of the heat, Become more intense in certain parts. From \h'una, the official bulletins say the continued- July heat lias done harm only in a eompura | tively small part of the Empire, But was | pretty damaging to barley, oats, and feed, i Rye and wheat look well, and corn is also ! looking well. A Ten-Thousand-Dollar Gill. On a certain day, on a Pennsylvania railroad, a liclle of a thriving Pennsylvania j town, the daughter ot a weltliy lumber I merchant, aim traveling iu the him train j with a shrewd old citizen of her native town ami an agreeable yonng gentleman from tiie Weat, who tell* the atory: The latter had Been talking to the Belle; Bat, a* night drew on, and the young lady grew drowsy, be gave his Seat to her and placed himself boride the some what cynical Pennsylvanian. The latter begun the conversation By pointing to a high mountain past which they were whnling, ami said: “You see that mountain? Six or eight years ago it was covered w ith as flue a forest as ever grewi, and was worth ten thousand dollars and upward. Now, Without a tfee, Covered with stumps, tin land is scarcely worth a continental. The net produce of that mountain is over there in that seat,” nnd he pointed to the recumlient Bello, “That is fny calcu lation. It lias just absorbed all of that lumber, which her father owned, to raise and educate the girl, to pay for her clothes and jewelry, bring her out in society, aud maintain her there. Some of you young men, if yon were given your choice between the mountain yonder as it now stand and the net produce on that seat, would take the net produce;! hut, as for me, give me the stumps!" A SWELL AT TilK Gallows. —The first Earl of Holland was a great dandy, who I played a prominent and not altogether re- ' putable part in the history of his time. ; lie was u favorite at thecourt* of James I. i nnd Charles I.; But when the civil war Broke out, he at first sided with the Parli meut against the King. In an unlm-kly time, he went over to the royalist side, look up arms against the Commonwealth, was defeated, made prisoner, put to trial, and duly saiiteueed to lose his head. He appeared upon the scaffold in a white 1 satin vest, and cap trimmed with silver laces. His costly garments wore tho law ful perquisites of tho executioner, to whom the Earl said, ns he approached the ; Block: Here, my friend, let my Body and my clothes alone: there is ten pounds for thee; that is Better than my clothes. I am sure. And when you take up niv head, j 'do not take off my cap.” Then laying his neck on thp Block, lie added: “Stay while I give the sign.” After a brief prayer In- stretched out his hand, saying, “Now !” The word ,W 1 hardly left his lids When the ax Ml, ami the head was 1 severed from the body at a single stroke. Gentlemen’s Weppim* ('ohttmu. —lt being now considered more fashionable to have the marriage ceremony take place in the niorniii. or afternoon, tlie correct costume for the bridegroom to wear is a double-breasted blue superfine cloth fr-iek coat, cHher plain or braided, ami with silk breast-facing; a white double breasted waistcoat to show above the turn over of the coat tape), and silver-grey or lavender trousers; a dark blue satin scarf, tie-1 into a sailor’s knot, nnd lavender colored gloves. AYhcn the ceremony takes place in the evening, or is made a full-dress otcasiop, (now vt ry rare among fashionable cireli k. ) tho bridegroom •ihfmkl wetar i ordinary evening dress suit, viz.; plain black drew coat, with frock hqt Is rolling low to the waist scam, black dress vest, neatly embroidered witli a rolling collar, and opening so as to show three studs; or a white Mnrscil s dress vest can lie substituted with good taste, and black doeskin trousers, with a lndf inch silk braid laid on flat over the side seem; white cambric tie, with hemstitched cuds, aud with gloves. - Emit Ani.ei:s.—A correspoudenl wri ting front an unfashionable summer resort says: “A little company of New York hi ’ dies, accompanied with their husbands, are enjoying a fishing excursion litre. The appearance of the ladies when equipped for business is quite picturesque. They wear fishing suits that Bear a remote re .Hcnililaiicc to Bathing suits, mid they go through all parts of the stream with the utmost intrepidity. A fishing suit for a lady eonr.ista of a sort Of frock dress, a pair of I Aooiucr trousers, fastened tight at the ankle, a common straw- hat worth about fifty ei-iits, and a pair of Brogan shoes with course woollen stockings. The ladies fish only with worms, nnd, after a little experience, they eau put a worm on a hook without calling it a nasty tiling, or making any other disparaging reimiik. They carry trout basket* of the regulation pattern slung over the left shoulder, and they stumble and straggeriup aud down streuinjwith all the freedom that Mis* Anthony could desire for her sex. Occa sionally they get a duelling, but this does not seriously disturb them. They merely say, ‘A olu ll,’ and go Oir fishing us if nothing had happened.” Men Who Didn't Fiuht. Wnsyinghm, Auipift 22. - The threatened (?) duel Be tween ('-01. Mosßv, of Confederate guerilla fame, und Cupt. O. 1). Payne, of Warren tou, Vo., which was to have been fought yesterday and wins prevented by the con venient interference of tlie authorities lu re, may now be declared off’. They have Both Been put under Bonds; and those who believe in “the Code” recognize the Bonds as sacred ns the Code itself. Mos- By’s friends claim that he was determined to light. When the news was commu nicated to him that Payne had accepted liis challenge, and had named rifles as tin weapons anil forty paces as the distance he scut through liis friend u note to his ad versary requesting that the distance be reduced from forty to ten paces. Proba bly this was pure Bravado. Prior to leav ing home he ostentatiously made nil ar rangements, as if anticipating the worst, and bidding his wife and children nn elaborate farewell. Payne made an equal show of bravery, real or bogus. Ho was on the ground first selected nt the ap pointed hour, but from which Mosbv was prevented reaching on ncoount of his ar rest Both men are said to have fought duels, aud are considered excellent shots. It is rumored that, after the bondsmen are. discharge from tho securities, an ar rangement may he effected by which the meeting may take place at no distant day. The greater probability is however, that a convenient arrest would again Be managed. ♦.- The A fee- riov for a Mother. —A sing ular and affecting trait, is recorded of the bison when yonng. Whenever a eow bison falls by the hand of the hunter, and happens to have a calf, tlie helpless creature, instead of attempting to escape, stays by its fallen dam, with many expres sions of strong affection. The mother being secured, the hunter makes no at tempt ou the calf, beeauso this is unnec essary. but proceeds to cut up the carcass; and then, laying it on his horse, he re turns home, foltowesl by the young one. which thus instinctively accompanies the remains of its parent. A hunter once rode into the town of Cincinnati, between tlie Miami's, followed iu this manner by three calves, all of which had just lost their darns. Brooklyn does not know which to worry about first, scandal or the daily leak of 22,- 000 galkiis at t.ke storage reservoirs. [From the Loui.xvillc * Wkat the Beecher-Tilton Busiue* Teaches. We have never read, and never expect to read, Beecher's defense. It is not necessary to read it to decide upon hi* guilt or innocence. There me very much | Better data to judge from that the mere substance of Beecher’s words. When a ; man occupying the positon of Beecher is j accused of n specific crime as Beechef I was, and takes two mouths and nine col i limns of a newsiHqier to explain his iuno* I ceuce, we may read Ins explanation, if we will, as a matter of curiosity, but we will ! hardly need it to enable ue to come to a couclusion. But the truth is it is of very ittle consequence whether Beecher is in -1 liocent or guilty of the particular offense ! laid to his cliargo in this instance. The i investigation is equally damaging to him iiu any event. A man is known by the ; company he keeps, and Beecher's Iru-nds are fatal to him. If tlie charge against Ueeolier is true, of course there is an end | to the argument; hut suppose it is false. It must not be forgotetn that it is urged by men with whom, up ton very recent date, Beecher maintained the most inti* mute relations; whom who were ids con fidents in his tumbles; whom he speaks of nnd addresses by their Christian names as his bosom friends. What must be the real diameter of the men who would trump up such a false charge 1 Will any one Believe that such a mau as Beecher could live on terms of such close intimacy with these people for yenrs, aud not discover their retd character ? Then look at the character of everybody who knows anything übout the affair, or is connected with it iu any way. The men are all liars, and the women arc all wantons. One of the sisters of Beecher, we are told, acknowledges liis guilt, Vint defends it ou the grouud of “advanced social views," which seems to lie a part of the religion of Plymouth Church. Tho plain English of these “advanced social views,” however, is simply that the woman who holds them has more impudence than the most of her class, and attempt to thrust herself into decent society. The very lawyers called into the case are a lot of disreputable shysters, and even the ac cession of Ben Butler to their number brought no additional discredit upon them. * The first tiling that the lb-eclirr-Tilton business teaches is that Hemy Ward Beecher is not a saint, and that Plymouth Church is we don’t like to say what. Then when we remember hew all theso pious people used to Be shocked at ns poor sinners in the South; how their cleri cal down never entered his pulpit with out launching forth some foul-mouthed abuse of ns; how they prayed God for onr extermination; how they scut forth their emissaries armed and eqnipjied to give effect to their prayers; and when wo see now that, after all, they were not greatly better than their neighbors, wo ale consoled us we deduce the second lesson, that the Bible is out Billingsgate, nor the crack ol Sharpe's title the voice of the gospel. But in addition to the parties imme diately interested iu it, this delectable scandal has called to the front a goodly number of what wo suppose may lie called tlie representative woman of tlie North, or perhaps more properly of New Eng land. At least the principal disciples of their school seem to be found iu that section. These brilliant sisters have been accustomed to think and apeak with a great dial of cout- mpt of our retiring .Southern women, who have not spirit enough to mount the rostrum and de railing their ‘ rights" from the tyrant man. ! But a view ul ihe strong-minded female* | iu the strong light of the Beecher scandal i quite reconciles ns to the reproach; and we conclude that the Bi echei-Tiiton busi ness tcacl.es, among-other things, thuf our Southern women have lost nothing by confining themselves to the sphere of : private life. Thet'e is still another pond of view, .Ton which it is perhaps proper to taken look at this Bccchei-Tiiton business while we are examining it. I'lymont-h Church is in Brooklyn, but it is eminently a Ne*r England concern. Its pastor comes of a great Nt-w England family of preachers; its people are for the most part New Eng land emigres; and its principles are especially and emphatically tho out growth of New England morals. New England Inis long been held up to tho voihl by itself as the pattern of excel lence aud an example for imitation; but : when wo find it giving ns Beecher as su apostle, Butler as a patriot, Woodhnll as a type of womanhood, a-1 it Plymouth j Church as an assemblage of tlie saints, we are inclined to demur, and inquire if the Beecher-Tilton business doesn’t also teacli that the puritan piety of godlv Nt-w Eng land is not the genuine article after nil, I but only sounding brass and a tinkling j cymbal. There is a remarkable fact connected , with this Brooklyn scandal (o which i wo have noticed allusion ill sa-Ccral of OtSr , contemporaries, and that is that not a 1 single Democrat Ims been mixed up with it iu any way. The actors, without ex ception, are Radical Republicans, and this circumstance, properly Considered, is probably not the least valuable of the lessons which the Beecher-Tilton bnsinesn teaches. And now to sum up, in conclusion, wo would say that what the Beecher-Tilton business teaches is:" to avoid sensational religion iu the pulpit, “advanced views’’’ in the social circle, “woman's right*" in onr governmental theories, New Engluml ethics iu general, and Radical politics in particular. A White Wife, or Death. Intelligence reached this city yesterday of an extraordinary lynching affair in the eastern portion of CnrroU county, near Maple Creek, last Saturday. A segro, of notoriously had character, hail boasted that ho intended to have a certain worthy white girl for his wife. Ha was reportetl to the gill’s father as having said that he intended to marry the girl or kill her.— The father calk'd on the negro to know alio tit the threats. They were admitted; whereupon the outraged parent adminis tered to him a terrible beating. This si outraged the ila-ky desperado that he swore vengeance on both futher and daughter. The better to execute liis ven geuanee, he secreted himself, well armed, near the father’s spring, w aiting his chance to execute hisjliluody threat*. Before he laid an opportunity to do so, information of liis lying in ambush was conveyed to the father, who procured the assistance of some friends anil succeeded in capturing the would-be assassin. That night a party of masked men took possession of him, aud when lie was next seen he had “died kicking ut the United States.” The trag edy occurred iu one of the strongest Rad ical districts in Carroll county. The fa ther of the young lady is Radical, and the general speculation as to the identity of the masked parties is that they were al so Radicals. —Nashville Union. The general assembly of the Catholic as soeiation at Mayence has declared modern civilization incompatible with the ehnreh. A high-toned American abroad writes an indignant letter because a United States consul iu Ireland received him iu his shirt sleeves.