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VOLUME I.
THE INDEPENDENT.
SATURDAY. JUNK 21, 1 873-
p.bliihrd Weekly at $4 00 per Annum
in Advance.
Single Cupiee S cent..
[From the Flew York World.]
President Grant at New Orleans vs. Gen
eral Grant at Vicksburg.
The long chaos in Louisiana at last is
resolving to order serene as thut which
reigned in Warsaw. The imperial rescript
went out from Washington that there
should be quiet, and quiet is accordingly.
The reluctant subjects who sought to reu
der uneasy the seat of Casey's tool are re
minded that he is hacked by the vast power
of Casey’s brother-in-law. and so the slum
bers of Kellogg are no longer broken by
the dread of what a malcontent people may
do to restore order and law. Grant’s oars
are no longer vexed by cries of distress
from his favored satrap on the Gulf, and I
having issued a proclamation of warning,
ia more free to enjoy his fast horses and ;
the society of Tom Murphy at Long I
Branch. When Grant became the silent, j
though active partner in the scheme to setj
up Kellogg in Louisiana the sole capital i
which he brought into the concern was bay
onets, aud it is on the actual or threatened i
use of these that he has from first to last
relied to carry the venture through to sue- i
cess. He has turned aside from the beaten I
path marked out by law and precedent,
slid has made judicial usurpation, backed .
by military force superior to both.
"When Grant appointed his brother-in
law, Cnaey, to Ire Collector of the Port of;
New Orleans, the Custom House ring, I
with Casey at its head, deemed all the
political power and patronage of the State ;
its lawful property. But Warmoth, the ,
Prince of knaves and of carpet-baggers,
stood between them and their prize. Tal-1
on ted. versatile, unscrupulous, ho held;
the political destinies of the State with n
grasp which it seemed that nothing could ,
break or loosen. Two such ambitious
spirits as Casey and Warmoth could not
long remain in the same organization, and j
Casey, bucked bv the Federal patronage
and the friendship of Grunt, proved too
strong for Warmoth in the regular Repub
lican party. The latter was driven out,
but carried with him sufficient strength to
secure victory to the coalition formed
during the Presidential campaign bv a fu
sion of his own followers with the Demo
cratic-Conservative party of the Stab*.
Casey was ignominiously defeated; a ma
j irity of the votes in the Htate were east
for' the Greeley electors, the fusion or
Conservative candidates for Governor and
a majority of the Legislature. Warmoth
was secure of a seat in the United States
ISonate, and brother-in-law Casey hud noth
ibg Smt chagrin for hi., pains. His vault
lug ambition had over-leaped itself and
■alien on tJolhor side. Grant and Grant's
Ba roily required that Casey beset up again
Hud lus wounds healed. Warmoth, too,
Hiust be punished for another reason—he
Rad committed the grievous sin of help
\ig to carry the State for Greeley. The
election which resulted so disastrously to j
the New Orleans Custom House has been :
fully investigated and ventilated by all
parties, and nobody with a reputation at j
stake can be found to question its fair- j
ness, llut the Custom House purtv, look
ing to Grant for support and countenance, j
pretended to fear that fraud van about, to
be perpetrated by Warmoth s returning
board, and tiled a bill in Dirndl's court for
the prevention of fraud and the perpetu
ation of testimony. As though it were a
necessary means to prevent this merely al
leged and only intend o ' l fraud, Warmoth,
then Governor of the State, was unseated,
and Piuchhack made Governor in his
stead, by decree of DurelL This action
K States Judge is pronounced
strong' .partisans of the
le’mefe'y Yt in itigated usurpa
rant furnished with alacrity
carry it out. Grant is not u
e has lawyers to advise him.
well kli'-fv that Durell’s de
cision was illegal, mild nobody pretends
„hat he has been a tool of Dtorell in this
business. lie has a large discretion as to
when and how the army shall bo em
ployed, but the troops to carry out Durell’s
usurpation were promised to Casey on the
day before that Judge issued his order to
the Marshal for the seizure of the S ate
House, and they arrived all Use way from |
Florida on the day after. lor leas than .
the shadow of the shade of such a usurpu- '■
tion President Johnson would have been
in peached, convicted and deposed, unless
aueflt lawless effrontery had cowed the pub
lic mind as the n ml of the Republican
party is co-"- -d.
The issn .ce f.f the proclamation by the
President thre -toning the opponents of
Kellogg with fu army and navy is the last
act in this dreary drama, for the Louisi
ana ,-ioont •!> s have never proposed re
sistant' to h power of the General Gov
ernment. Hi is summary solution settles,
IHBI question 'or the present. There is
Louisiana, but it is tho eoid ob-
Etracih Y apathy paralyzing all the po
"litical, nklMriaCv “<* commercial fur|:-
tiexs ‘f society. From the more- fortu
nately ' eonstrueted Southern States we
hear . i aew industries, new commerce,
and isc eas exertion to raise the great,
staple vhi< h makes the chief item in our
exports. From Louisiana we hear of noth
ing but stagnation and sulien despair. The
cost to the nation of this cheek upon the
industry ef one of the most productive
States of ih< Union and the attendant
damage to the market for Eastern manu
factures mtd Western grain is yet to be
computed; but one thing is certain, viz.:
that great pecuniary loss has been inflicted
upon Louisiana and upon the rest of the
country, and is chargeable to President
Grant Large amounts of private capital
have been withdrawn from New Orleans
within a few months, and the money cen
tres of the country refrain from sending
their goods to that once proflitablo field
for investment Just as anew era of rail
roads and commerce is dawning upon Mexi
co and Central America, and just as the
West is finding anew market there for its
products, and a better field from which to
draw a class of imports which it hugely
consumes, the mouths of the Mississippi
are given over to a den of negro toll-keep
ers, who, by taxes on property and com
merce, by misgovernment of every sort,
will bar that magnificent channel to its
proper commerce as effectually as did the
guns and batteries of Vicksburg during
the war. President Grant at New Orleans
is cancelling the work of General Grant at
Vicksburg.
A Springfield woman has invented a
dinner pot in which four articles can be
cooked at once without interfering with
g each other,
THE INDEPENDENT.
[From tb<* Sava mm h Advertiser ami Bepblioau.]
THE BRITISH BARK “MONARCH.’’
THE WRECK OFFCCMIIKUI.ADISI.AXn.
Full I.Ut of Tile I,out and Saved.
From Darien we have the particulars of
the loss of the British bark “Monarch,”
which occurred on Sunday, the Ist inst.
The vessel sailed from Doboy on Friday,
the 30th of May, with a cargo of timber,
cleared bv Messrs. Ebbing, Bellas & Cos.,
and was* bound for Newcastle on Tyne,
England:
In consequence of strong easterly winds,
which prevailed ou Saturday night, the
vessel was driven ou the breakers on St,
Andrew’s bar, where in spite of the almost
superhuman efforts of her Captuin and
crew, she beeume a wreck.
About 4 a m. Sunday she parted her
fore chain cable, wheii the mizzenmast
was cut away, the vessel riding at star
-1 beard anchor until 3 a. m, when that part
i ed. Some sail was then rigged on the
stump of the foremast to try and reach the
vessel off land. Meantime, the long-boat
and pinnace were launched, into which the
men’s effects, ship's papers, etc,, were put,
ill order to be in readiness to make for the
shore before night came on, as the vessel
was fast drifting toward the breakers. The
Captain’s wife iuul three men were then
put into the long boat, as it was feared a
rush would be made for the Wits when
the vessel struck and the bout filled. At
this juncture, lines were thrown to those
in the boat, and two men got on board.
The steward remained, trying to fasten a
rope around the Captain’s wife, but witli
nut success, when the Captain jumped from
the rail into the sea to endeavor to save
his wife, and in the endeavor both were
lost, the steward, with great difficulty get
ting on board. About this time the chief
officer, carpenter, and four men, got into
the pinnace, and were urged to go to the
rescue of the people in the bout, also the
Captain’s wife who was seen clinging to the
oars; but instead they made for the land.
At this time it come on very dark, and
nothing more \qs seen of the Captain, liis
wife or tile mate and boat’s crew. About
three a, m. the rudder wen', tilling purt of
the deck with it, and a very heavy sea on
which was making clean breach over ship
and through the cabin, the ship being
then expected to break up every moment.
At daylight, the w lather moderating, sig
nals of distress were made, and though
several vessels hove in sight none seemed
to take any notice. About four p. m., the
crew commenced making a raft with deals
which were launched overboard. J ust as
this was done they saw two boats coming
from shore, which proved to be pilots
from St. Andrew’s bur from whom
those on board the vessel made
inquiry if they had seen or heard anything
of the mate and boat’s crew, to which they
replied that they Inal heard of the wreck
of three boats having been blown ashore.
The steamer E. A. Souda then came along
side and was given the ship's lianser to try
and pull her off, but without success, when
the nine men who li-ijj romaiimd on board
shipwemon the'steumer to' Brunswick,
where they were kindly treated by the
Mayor and authorities, and sent here yes
terday.
The names of those supposed to be lost
are: Captain Thoams and wife; Morris
.Tories, chief officer; Wm. Peters, carpenter.
George Smith, Alex. Williams, Eugene
Pobbe, Owen Strickland. Those saved
are: Robert Roberts, second officer; E.
Desbonne, steward; Jus, MoMinn, John
Ward, John Guiyrout, John Canoran,
Win, Powers, John Parsons, John Eck
muu.
A Twelve-Mile Tunnel Through the
Rocky Mountains.
The Newt, of Denver, Colorado, makes
pqblie the following story:
A scheme is now on foot for running a
tunnel through the Rocky Mountains.
This may seem a prodigious enterprise at
first to the casual reader, but the persons
who ha .e the matter in hand are sanguine
of the most complete success. For some
time past gentlemen have been investigat
ing this matter, and they have arrived at
the conclusion that the projects feasible
in every particular. The ideafiS to tunnel
the mountains from a point about, one mile
below Black Hawk to the Middle Paik,
in a northwesterly direction. The tun
nel to be run will, it is presumed, cut
many rich veins of gold and silver, and
thus a great mining interest be developed.
Money for the prosecution of the work is
furnished by English capitalists^who arc
sanguine of the ultimate success of the
enterprise. Home idea of the magnitude
of the task may be gathered from the fact
that the tunnel, if completed, will be
twelve miles in length. It is intended to
make it large enough to bo used for railway
purposes, and so, if a rood is ever to be
constructed to thJhliddle Park it will find
its most Suivenie™route 1 through the tnn
neL It will bo called the Sierra Make
Tunnel Company, and the incorporation
papers for its organization have already
been filed.
'A Never Saw a Yonng Man.
An old man who lives near St. Helena,
California, in a wild solitude, has a very
pretty daughter, aged 19, who hail proba
bly never seen a young man till her father
took her to San Francisco the other day
to see the town. She was dressed up
prettily, for the first time in her life, and
her silks and ribbons and the gay sights
almost turned her head. Put what most
interested her was that hitherto unknown
being—the young man.
Every time she saw one she would fix
her eyes earnestly on him, and she actually
made several attempts to get away from
the old man, that she might cultivate the
acquaintance, of these young gentlemen, so
that he finally caught her and led her by
the hand. After ho got her on the boat
for Yallejo, on the homeward trip, he felt
pretty safe and concluded to take a drink.
He took several, and in his absence the
i daughter made the acquaintance of two
I eprightl+ young men on the boat, and she
j was so fascinated with male society that
i she made arrangemnts to forsake her old
father and go with them.
She successfully gave her father the
slip when they left the boat for the cars,
and the infatuated girl was stowed between
them in a smoking car. But her father
found her and whirled her out of the car
in the liveliest manner, and kept his hands
on her till they reached home. He will
not dare expose, her to such peril again,
and the poor girl is destined to close con
finement out of the world of young men
unless she runs away.
There are 3,000 members of the United
Friends of Temperance in the State of
Georgia.
QUITMAN, GA., SATURDAY, JUNE 2),
The Fashions.
The present fashion of arranging ladies’
hair with the profusion of coils, puffs and
frieses, is exceedingly detrimental to the
natural growth of that “crowning glory.”
The head is overheated with false hair and
the weight of the coiffure, which comes
upon one spot on the top or crown of the
head drugs the hair out, and causes the
roiiud bald spot so frequently seen when
ladies ure eu dishabille. The large number
of hair pins necessary to fasten the orna
mental hair in a manner to give it a natu
ral effect arc also injurious to the scalp,
breaking of the hair when they are pushed
in, and getting tangled in its meshes. So
when withdrawn each one will have asniirl
attached. In the fashionable mode of hair
dressing, the natural growth is an insig
nificant part, sometimes more iu the way
than otherwise, for all the show it makes
in the greet pyramid that is heaped up in
such Insurance; it is, therefore, neglected
atid left iu a mostcareless condition. None
would ever suppose that long hairs were
the growth of years, observing how, in
many instances, thev are tangled and ruth
lessly pulled out tinless women have a
large coil of natural hair they ignore it en
tirely, aud strive to hide what little they
possess bv rolling it in u small knot, on the
liuck of their heads to be covered by the
false switches. The state of the majority
of the ladies’ hair at the present time is
truly lamentable. The front lockß are
broken and burnt, off with crimping and
curling with hotirous. The bald spot on top
is fast, widening its circle; the sctdpy head
which is “never seen,” is left undis
turbed hvshampooning, and the hair, which
should ne silky from brushing, aud free
from snarls, receives no attention save the
rough handling necessary to tuck it out of
sight— y. V. Commercial.
It may be fashionable in New York for
ladies to wear “ornamentalcoils, puffs and
frames, ” but not so in the, South. \Vc are
confident thut the ladies in this country
have more sense than to cany suoli bur
dens oil their heads ns they do wear if it
was not the natural growth. We haven’t
analyzed auy of the large packages to as
certain if there was more than one prop
erty. It is true that lniir didn’t use to
grow so luxuriantly, but we attribute it
all to changes in the season, and suppose
that the last two or three years were good
hair crop years. It is true we have had
some little trouble in solving the question
as to how the bundle is disposed of at
night so that the head might reach the
pillow, and we have never arrived at auy
satisfactory conclusion, but will believe
they arc natural until one is dissected aud
the artificial ingredients discovered. Wc
would suggest, however, if it be natural,
that some ingredient be used to check
nature a little, as its growth must cause in
convenience. If principally artificial, us
the Commercial says, wo would suggest
sujdie kind of firtilizer,to assist nature. If
nature is insufficient, nature and art, when
conbined, if combined at ail, is too much, I
and wo hope that somebody or somebody
else will, for the sake of comfort, modify
the extremes.
A Wonderful Clock.
A German in Cincinnati has invented a
wonderful clock, which, though much
smaller than the celebrated one at Stras
bourg, is, from its description, much more
complicated. We soo, in a glass case,a three
story, steeple-shaped clock, four feet wide
at the first story and nine feet high. The
movement is placed in the first story, on
four delicate columns, within which swings
the pendulum. The second story consists
of two tower-like pieces, on the doors of
which there are two pictures that repre
sents boyhood and curly manhood. A
tower crowns, as third story, the ingenious
structure. A cock, a-s a symbol of watch
fulness, stands on the (op, directly over
the portal. When the clock marks the
first quarter the door of the left piece of
the second story opens, and a child Issues
from the back-ground, comes forward to a
little bell, gives one blow and disappears.
At the second quarter a youth appears,
strikes the bell twice, and then disappears;
ut the third there comes a man in his
prime; at the fourth we have a tottering
old man, leaning on a staff, who strikes the
bell four times. .Each time the door closes
of itself.
When the hours are full the door of the
right piece of the second story opens, aud
Death, as a skeleton, scythe iu hand, ap
pears, and marks the hour by striking a
bell. But it is at the twelfth hour that
wc have the grand spectacle in the repre
sentation of the day of judgment. Then
when Death lias struck three blowß on t.he
top of the little bell, the cock on the top
of the tower suddenly flaps his wings and
crows iu a shrill tone; and after Death has
marked the twelfth hour with his hammer
the cock crows again twice.
Immediately throe angels, who stand as
guardians iu a central position/ raise their
trumpets in their right hands, (in the left
they hold swords), and blow a blast to
each of the four quarters of the earth. At
the last blast the door of the tower opens,
and the resurrected children of the earth
appear while the destroying angel sinks
out of sight. Then suddenly Christ de
scends, surrounded by angels. On his
left is an angel who holds the scales of
justice, on the right another carries the
Book of Life, which opens to show the
alpha and omega—the beginning and the
end. Christ waves his hand, and instantly
the good among the resurrected ure sepa
rated from the wicked, the former going
to the right, and the latter to the left.
The archangel, Michael, salutes the
good, while on the other side stands the
devil, radiant with fiendish delight—he
can hardly wait for the final sentence of
those who fall to him, but, in obedience to
the commannd of the central figure, he
withdraws.
The figure of Christ raises its hand
again, with a throating mien, and the ac
cursed sink down to the realms of his Sa
tanic Majesty. Then Christ blesses the
chosen few that draw near to him. Finally,
we hear a cheerful chime of bells, during
which Christ rises, surrounded by his an
gels until he disappears and the portal
closes.
A complete drama 13 here represented
without the aid of a human hand. The
movements are steady, calm and noiseless,
with the exception of Christ and the move
ments of Lucifer, who darts across the
scene with lightning rapidity. Of course,
the peculiar action of these two figures is
. intentional on the part of the artist, and
i adds greatly to the effect.
TROUBLE ON THE BORDER. -
Capture* of the Mexican Indian Chief
Koittda.
A St. Eotiis dispatch says:
Dr. D. H. Williams, who has resided in
Chihuahua two joars, has arrived here.
Dr Williams confirms the capture of the
Mexican Indian Chief Sosaila. It was be
lieved he was imnediatelv shot. Dr. Wil
liams thinks there is no serious complaint
over McKenzie's incursion after the Kiok
npoos. Williams, however, thinks tire*
Mexicans will use McKenzie’s exploit ns a
precedent and follow Mnnsuder into the
United States territory. This will eventu
ally lead to trouble and plunge the frontier
into war. Such n result would, however,
be hailed by many as desirable,as it would
lead the carving out of another fnt slice
from the sick man on theSouthem border.
However, there are efforts being made bv
some of the lending oil the Mexi
can side of the Rio Urande which may lead
to negotiation for the annexation of more
Mexican territory in order to strenthen
the boundary line, and by which Mexico
will be enabled to pay her debts. The ter
ritory covetted for t his purpose embraces
the States of Nueva Leon, Cohuhulia, Chi
huahua. the north end of Durango, Ho
liora and Lower California, known as the
Mexican frontier States. This would
shorten the boundary line one half the
present meandering of the Rio Grande,
and leave a frontier that could lie much
more easily protected by both nationalities,
which it is almost impossible to do with
the present, boundaries.
It would be a rust, territory, with fine
arable and mineril lands, and pasturage
which are now nearly worthless to the
Mexican people.
Louis Napoleon and Poor Carlotta.
In the review ofa recent German work,
Samarow’s “For Sceptre and Crown,” an
extract is given describing a singular in
terview between Louis Napoleon aud the
Empress Charlotte'of Mexico, who had
left her husband struggling for his crown,
and had come to Paris to seek succor from
the Emperor. Titus fur her purpose had
been unsuccessful] Napoleon had deter
mined to leave Maximilian to ilia fato.
The unfortunate lidy had tried every re
source of passionate entreaty in order to
change his mind. But, nil in vain. “She
awaited, however, a visit from tho man
whose hands could, she imagined, save her
husband from the abyss of ruin and blood
into whieh lie was fust sinking, in order to
make one last desperate appeal. Wiien
Napoleon arrived in the ante-room of the
Empress, she advanced toward him to the
threshold. General Almonte withdrew
back into the ante-elianber, and the Em
peror of France and tie already almost
widowed Empress of Mexico were left
alone. The Emperor iissed the hand of
tlje Empress, and, after regretting that at, a
previous interview lie had been unable to
yield to her wishes, endeavored to persuade
In r to join-with him in efforts to induce
Mrfiflranian to'retrn“hofijc,'since the pro
ject for the establishing an imperial
throne in Mexico tad now been proved hi
be hopeless. To such suggestions the
Empress turned ajdcof ear. Tho honor |
of her husband was engaged, and he
would sacrifice liis life to his honor.
Nothing else but, armed help from France,
or money, could save her husband and his
honor, and his lioror was the honor of
France, since Francs had thrust him into
his present perilous position. ‘Sire,’said
she, with heartfelt bit gentle voice, ‘par
don tho wife who sneaks for the honor and
life of her husband. If I, in niy zeal,
have allow ed mysrlf to lie carried on to
too bold defence ofthe cause which to me
is the highest and holiest, it could not
have been otherwise Sire, I beseech you,
for the sake of eternal mercy, have com
passion. Give us yet a year’s protection;
or give us gold, if tie blood of France is
precious to you.’ And with an indescrib
ably beseeciiinglool of anguish she looked
at this man, from wliose mouth the word of
hope might he sojhded, which she might
carry on the wings* love and joy to her
husband pining afar, in order to restore
bis despairing soul with new strength.
With cold tone replied Napoleon; ‘Mad
ame, the. greatest ilffvice one can render
ladies in serious noment.s is complete
truth and candor, (t would boa crime
toward your Majesty if I were to offer to
vou hopes whieh (fluid not be realized.
My resolves are mil tortile, like the neces
sity which has dictated them. I have
no'thing more left for Mexico —not a
man, not a diltnr.’ Then tho fea
tures of the Empnss became convulsed in
horrible fashion; (lie white of her eyes
became of the color of blood; her glances
bad a flaming phosphorescent glow; her
lips parted wide bick from her splendid
white teeth. With arms outstreelied she
stepped toward the Emperor, and, driving
forth her words between the puntings of
her heaving breast she cried witli a voice
which? sounded ini re than human: ‘Yea,
it i?4&tie—the pic,dire of my dreams, the
horirble phantasy cf my nights! There he
stands before n.iaxil hr the beaker of blood
—that demon ovlfell -the murderer of my
family! Murder dvr husband, smiling devil!
Murder me, tYY grandchild of Louis
Philippe—of that King who snatched thee
from misery and stved thee from the scaf
fold!’ The Empemr retreated slowly to the
door, as before tin apparition ofa specter.
The Empress remained standing, anil,
stretching out herliand, cried again, while
her features became still more disfigured,
and her eyes morefiildly glaring: ‘Begone,
damned mun! but take with thee my curse,
—the curso whi(h God hurled at the
head of the first murderer. Thy throne
shall fall into ruins; flumes shall destroy
thy house; and when thou hast been cast
down to the dust from whieh thou emerged,
sinking in shame and impotence, then
shall tlie Angel of Vengeance cry to thy
despairing soul in mournful tones the
names, Maximilian and Charlotte.’”
A Mother Killed bv Her Daughter.
—At Brighton, N. Y., a married woman by
the name of Camay;, has been fully com
mitted on the charge of causing the death
of her mother Rosa Cannitty. A post
mortem showed fatal wounds on the head,
finger marks on the throat and biuises
generally on various parts of the body.
SaystheSt. Louis Democrat'. “Mr. Stone
of this city, and (everal other excursional
Congressmen lost their watches and pock
et-books at New Orleans. There were so
many back-pay members on the trip that
we are only surprised that come of the
I rolling stock is not hissing.”
[From tliu Decornli (Iowa) Ventilator.)
HORRIBLE.
An lowa Child Confined for T* Year*
In n llox Thrrk and a Half Feet
Lung mid TvnnlyjTwo
Indies Wide.
The good old universal doctrine that all
will be saved may be a good thing to live
by, and may do to die by, but we some
times think there ought-to lie a “lake of
fire and brimstone,” and a regular fire
eating, fork-tailed devil, whose busi
ness it should bo to snatch bald-headed
such recreants and brutes iu human form
as we are about to describe:
It seems that therisjives iu Washington
township, this county, a man named
Wertzer, u Gorman (not a Bohemian, as
the papers have it), who lias a wife, a
good farm, and is surrounded by all the
comforts of life, apparently; and it also
appears that this man ami woman had a
foolish child, a girl ten years old, who,
ten years ago, was known in the neighbor
hood. All at onee the child was missed
by the neighbors, and finally she was for
gotten by ull of them save one Mrs. John
Stoffos. Mrs. S. has kept her in mind for
ten years, and upon inquiry about her a
few days ago, and getting an evasive an
swer, her suspicious were urotised, and
she made an affidavit before the proper
authorities, sufficiently strong enough to
compel legal investigation of the ease.
Sheriff Thompson accordingly called on
the family, and made inquiry regarding
the missing child. After some hesitancy
the father led the officer to uu up-stairs
apartment, and pointed to a rudo box
three feet and a linlf long by twenty-two
inches wide, which contained a human
being, a girl now twenty years old, wal
lowing iu her filth, and a sight which beg
gared descrip'tion.
Suffice it to say, the officer returned,
and the Insane Commissoners. consisting
of Dr. Coleman, Hon. G. R. WiUetj, and
S. E. Tubbs, Clerk of the District Court,
repaired jo the house of Wertzer to ex
amine into the case.
The report of the Commissioners has
been made, hut wo learn that the girl is not
insane, or does not exhibit sufficient signs
of insanity to place her in an asylum—thus
the Insane Commissioners have no jurisdic
tion in the eusc.
The girl is described as a poor, little,
helpless, crippled-up thing—her lower
limbs being half bent, and her arms like
wise crooked; she has laid in her little box
on her face, in a doubled-up condi
tion, until sho appears more like an ani
mal than a human being. The appearance
of the child indicates that she was first
jammed into the little box, and covered up
or nailed up, until she had grown ill-shaped
—in fact, until she became a frightful de
formity, and then the inhuman parents
were ashamed to let people see her, anil so
they kept her in a filthy little pen or box
for ten years. These are the indications
presented by tho appearance of the child
und her cage.
ipbe hums* mind cannot contemplate
tho sufferin'Jo! misery this human being
has eiidurnu—%he long, cold winters she
passed in that miserable den—the starva
tion and privations she has suffered, and
tho wicked, demon-like and outrageous
treatment generally which appearances in
dicate she has received.
These facts, and the inferences drawn,
are given us by a description of the child
and her place of abode, by the Sheriff of
the county, and a prominent physician of
our city, who saw for themselves and
know whereof they affirm.
This report will cause the matter to be
taken up by the Brand Jury, and human
ity demands of them a verdict that will be
a lesson in moral depravity and human
barbarity, and a warning to human devils,
that a great sin can not go unpunished,
even in Wimiesheik county.
The entire German population of the
county feel aggrieved, and their sense of
honor and humanity is shocked at the de
velopment of this barbarians conduct on
the part of a German family.
Saving Life at Fires.
The ferial ladders for saving life at fires,
of which a description was published by
us last week, were again exhibited yester
day in the City Hall Park before delega
tions from the Boston, Philadelphia, Bal
timore, anil Hartford Fire Departments.
Tho experiments were conducted by a
dozen [licked men of the New York De
partment, and were, ns on the previous
occasion, performed with ‘celerity und
agility, While the large ladder was ex
hibiting a mishap occurred whieh, but for
the prompt action of an engineer, might
have resulted disastrously to a number of
persons. A line of hose hud been car
ried up the ladder, and a fireman, standing
on one of the topmost rungs (120 feet from
the ground), wus directing the stream of
water over the surrounding trees. The
pressure from the engine kept increasing,
until finally the suction became so intense
that the hose began to wriggle like a snake
and, heightening each moment, threatened
to snap the ladder in two. Everybody
present, noticing the escape bending back
wards, stood from under und the ladder
would doubtless have tobhled over in a
few seconds more had not a fireman dashed
into the crowd and, drawing his knife,
plunged it into the hose and thus allowed
the water to escape. The ladder, lightened
of its severe strain, righted immediataly,
and no more experiments were made with
it after that. — N. V. World.
Here is wliat a correspondent of the
Boston Globe has to say of the Vienna
girls: “In fact under twenty-five there are
no ugly ones; while for every third young
lady one meets, one’s heart jumps down
into his boots. They are mostly fair, with
the clearest of complexions, beautiful hair
and killing eyes; and the remarks apply
equally to tlie servants. I have been in
many capitals, but I never was so com
pletely prostrated by appeuranee as I am
here. ”
Young men who contemplate matrimony
with the expectation of “living with the
old man,” had better steer clearof Newton
county. A worthy farmer who has several
lovely daughters was asked by one of these
‘home hunters’ “if Miss Mary marries
will she still live at your home to make
your life bright and "happy?” He skinned
one eye at the young man, and replied:
“No, sir! YVheu one of my gals swarms
she must hunthcr own hive.”
The editors of Kansas are about to make
a visit to Lincoln, Neb., and the citizens
of the latter place are making preparations
to give them a formal reception at the
, penitentiary.
[From tlio Washington Republican, .Time 12.)
MRS. LEE AT ARLINGTON.
An Interview With a t'i>rrea|,(indent—
Her ('laintM Again** tile Unlti-d
State* Govillinil nt.
Mrs. Lee, widow of the late General
Robert E. Let*, is a great-granddaughter
of the wife of George Washington, mid a
daughter of George Washington Parke
Custis, whom Washington adopted at the
ago of six months. Mrs. Lee is appar
ently about sixty years of age. She is a
lady whose noble character and Christian
graces render her an object of reverence
to all who meet her. Her mind is richly
stored with the recollections of the patri
otic, cultivated and distinguished persons
who will ever be prominent iu our national
history as among our Government’s wisest
statesmen, and some of whom were her
own nearest kinsmen.
The home of her youth and married
life, Arlington, was 'built, by her father,
George Washington Parke Custis. To
this charming place she was carried when
only one mouth old, anil all the associa
tions of her life centre in and cling to this
spot. Among the classical localities which
our Government claims as its property
Arlington is one of the first, and is almost
equal to Mount Vernon in its historical
memories. Here were entertained all the
statesmen and men of letters prominent iu
our early history. Here ull distinguished
foreigners were invited iu the name of
American hospitality, aud year after year,
as a summer restored her beauties to the
yards and gardens and fields of this noble
estate, which included iu its limits eleven
hundred acres, all American visitors were
made free guests to enjoy the cool re
treats, anil free to examine the instructive
relics, books and papers there preserved.
Open-handed hospitality reigned at Ar
lington. In 1833 Mary Custis married
Robert E. Lee. Her father, George Wash
ington Parke Custis, dying in 1857, gave
to Mrs. Lee, by his will, the entire Arling
ton estate, The terms of the w ill vested
the property in her absolutely. Beyond
the simple duties of an executor, General
Lee had no control of the property, and
never, either before or since, assumed or
attempted to assume a single right of
ownership.
This important statement of a fact was
made bv Mrs. Lee at the house of her aunt,
Mrs. Fitzhugh, in Alexandria, on the
lOtli instant. It would be very interesting
to repeat all the conversation of that in
terview in usual form of an interview, hut
that would he a violation of her wishes
anil displeasing to Mrs. Lee.
Mrs. General Lee has for many years been
a great sufferer from inflammatory rheu
matism, aud quite unable to move without
assistance; but in her age and affliction she
has a noble and dignified countenance.
Her features much resemble those of Mur
thu Washington. With her sail yet firm
expression of face and eyes, beautiful and
sparkling with the uncommon intelligence
which marks her conversation.; with her
almost,snowy hair,, fine. soft, and jai wales
and curls, framing her full forehead, and
covered by her plain widow’s cap, she sits
before one a grand and lovely picture,com
bining within itself milch of tlic history
und glory of the immortal past with the
modern events of our history.
No one can see tliis much sufferinghidy,
and hear her accounts of her old home,
and not feel convinced that on the day our
Government shall have remunerated the
mistress of Arlington forits loss and made
that settlement with her which is esteemed
just and legal by all who fully understand
the circumstances of her absolute owner
ship of the estate, it will add to its repute
for just and honorable dealing.
From Mrs. Lee herself, it was definitely
ascertained thut not only was Arlington her
unqualified bequest from her father, but
that Gen. Lee never participated in any
ownership or control, always refusing
(from scruples not unfrequeut with gentle
men in regard to wives estates), to arbi
trate important matters relating to it, and
from the termination of the war to the date
of his death he constantly avoided any
authority, control, right or independence
relative to the estate, and refused to act
concerning it in any way.
When Mrs. Lee’s father died he made in
liis will an obligation that all the slaves
belonging to the estate should bo set free
after tho expiration of five years. The
time of their manumission came on in
1863, and right iu tho very height of the
war. General Robert E. Lee, as the ex
ecutor of the w ill, summoned these slaves
together at a convenient point within his
lines, and gave them tlicir free papers ami
passes through the Confederate lines to go
whither they would.
Concerning these two great and impor
tant facts we have reason to think the
community generally have not been quite
familiar. They certainly have an impor
tant bearing upon the case. Mrs. Lee
does not ask to have the estate restored to
her. It lias become a national cemetery,
and as such she presumes with other citi
zens it will ever remain, but she does ex
pect a reasonable remuneration for the
ground.
There are eleven hundred acres in all,
and some two hundred acres of the estate
are occupied as a soldiers’ cemetery. The
land at the time of its literal occupation
by the Government could not have been
worth less than two hundred dollars per
acre. Since that time its value, for vari
ous reasons, has rapidly appreciated. At
the time of its nominal purchase by the
Government for the faintest sort ofa song,
under the operation of a tax sale, there
were several of Mrs. Lee’s friends ready
to make the purchase for her, or to pay
the taxes. They were not allowed an op
portunity to do either, and Mrs. Lee is
now hardly more serious in calling in ques
tion the validity of the present title of the
Government to the land than even high
legal authority within the lines of the Gov
ernment itself.
Neither does Mrs. Lee regard questions
as to the validity of the title at all settled.
To her mind her property has simply been
seized, confiscated in short, aud without
the slightest remuneration being granted
to her. Injustice has been done, and she
believes a just and generous Government,
sustained by an enlightened public opinion,
w ill repair the wrong.
The pure und lofty womanhood, and the
true nature of Mrs. Lee’s character, was
revealed in the farther fact that she con
versed upon the whole matter without one
single expression or shade of bitterness.
Of the Fresident and his administration
she spoke in the sincerest termS of respect,
and seemed entirely ealm and patient in
the reflection that at the proper time the
right would prevail. Like her great hus
band, she ‘ ‘recognizes no necessity for the
state of things” that existed when the late
, war commenced, and now she rccogffifl
NUMBER 7.
no necessity for any other state of things
than that of profound peace, amity and
concord between the North anil the South.
The very pleasant visit terminated with
kindly expressions of good will, and emer
ging from the residence of Mrs. Fitzlmgh,
the last golden rays of declining day were
falling over the venerable Christ Church,
nearly opposite—tlie church where Wash
ington worshipped, and where, from the
oarly days of the Republic till the present
time, “Pence v n earth and good will to
men” has been taught.
Mrs. Lee leaves Alexandria to-day for
a sojourn of several weeks ut the Hot
Springs, Bath county, Virginia.
The Vienna Exposition.
Under date of May 20tli Bayard Taylor
writes that within the exhibition building
the work still goes on, but iu many de
partment* there ure signs of its approach
ing end. He says:
In tho United States *ll is activity,
spaces are allotted, 1 sixes .distributed., aud
the skeleton form of the disblay daunt last"'
be traced. I think the work will be for
the most purt finished within u fortnight,
so that we shall not be much Indited Eng
land and France. [The United States de
partment was opened June 5.] We shall
have the Wet exhibition we have ever
made, except in art. We shull occupy
twice ns much space us in Paris, and show
ft much greater variety of objects. Swit
zerland is still the only country in com
plete order. England and France, by
hard work, have nearly finished their por
tions of the main aisles, but their trans
cripts ure cumbered with unopened boxes.
The same may lie said of Italy, Holland
and Germuny. In the eastern wing, Aus
tria and Hungary take the lead, in both
but little more is neepsarv to be done.
The gorgeous jev. elry and Bohemian crys
tal of Austria balance in bright effect tho
iinoomparable porcelnin and pottery of
England at The other end. Pausing before
a display of Bohemian crystal, I happened
to notice a large printed card, headed “U.
H. A. Customers. " The first name on the
list was “Sir Hamilton Fish!” Of the
Eastern nations, counting Russia as one,
Greece and Tunis are just finishing their
work, while Turkey, Persia, Japun and
Egypt will each require about eight or ten
days more.
VASTNESS OF THE SHOW.
The first characteristic which strikes a
visitor is the vußt scule upon whieh the
show hits been arranged. Yet, although
the main Imildnig is nearly double the
length of that in Hyde Park, it produces
nothing like the effect. Owing to tho
comparative lowness of the wings and the
great height of the show frames and tem
ples and pyramids which fill them the eye
finds no vista. Your aching feet tell yon
the distances you traverse, but your vision
is constantly checked, bewildered and de
ceived. Even the rotunda, which gains
by its vast spun nearly all which it loses by
its squatty character, is deformed by tho
strange, irregular, inharmonious [files of
productions cumbering its floor. Scarcely
one of the transepts is visible from its
Junction with the wing to its extronfity.
On tlie other liaml the space la-tween tho
cases is so ample thut 50,000 persons
might circulate within the building with
out much jostling. Machinery having its
own hall, agriculture its dozen special pa
vilions, and art its detached temple, tlie
internal arangement of which is greatly
simplified, and will be found sufficiently
practical. While America anil Western
Europe are at least as well represented as
on former occasions, all Europe east of a
line drawn from the Rhine to the Mediter
ranean, with Egypt, tlie Orient and Asia,
make tlicir best and most varied display.
This will be the main point of distinction
between the present aud all tho former
“world’s fairs.”
[From the Gwinnett Herald.]
An Infuriated Swarm of Bees After a
Child.
Mr. Tyler Brand, who lives near Logans
ville, has a httgc number of “bee stands”
in his orchimr, near liis residence. One
day last week his children were playing
near the, hives. It is supposed that they
commenced lighting the bees, and the
bees commenced stinging the children.
They immediately ran off, leaving the
youngest, a child about two years old.
’flio cries of the child attracted the atten
tion of its mother, who was at the house
sick; she immediately ran to its relief.
By the time she got there the bees wera
thoroughly infuriated,uuil the whole swarm
was pouring out of the gum, until neurly
every bee had left it. She seized the child
and ran, to the house, the bees following,
stinging tho child. When she arrived at
tho house, being very feeble, she fainted,
and a neighbor lady, who happened to bo
on a visit there, fearing that the child
would bo stung to death, picked it up und
started toward the woods.
The bees seemed determined not to let
the child escape, and followed her, sting
ing her so severely that she had to drop
the child, when the bees covered it, con
tinuing to sting. By this time Mr. Brand,
who was working in a field near by, heard
the cries of the children, and came to
their relief. He found the bees still hov
ering about the child, und, our informant
states, had to rub them off with his hands.
He then took tho child to the house, and
went to work to relieve its intense buffer-
Ile pulled out a largo number of tho
stings, and washed it with brandy. It had
been stung all over the face and head, and
even in its month and under its tongue.
With tho kindly assistance of some of
the neighbors, who came over as soon as
they heard of it, the sufferings of the
child and its mother were considerably re
lieved, und both of them will get over it
without any serious consequences.
Treating.—A teetotal orator recently
delivered himself as follows: “Now, boys,
if you want to be generous and treat each
other, why not select some other place be
side the liquor shop? Suppose, os you
go past the post-office, you say, ‘I suy, my
dear fellow, come in and take some
stamps.’ The stamps will cost you no
more than drinks all round. Or go to the
haberdasher’s and say, ‘Boys, come in and
take a box of collars. ’ Walk up to a gro
cer’s, free and generous, and say, ‘What
kind of coffee will you have?’ Why not
treat to groceries by the pound, as well as
liquor by the glass? Or take your com
rades to the cutler’s, and say, ‘l’ll stand a
good pocket-knife all round. ’ ”
A Kentucky wagoner finds from hie ac
count books that in tifijfty .tears’ journey
ing over the turnpike between MaysviUe
and Trfc-tendon ha paid $26,000 toll, which
as he -hravtlv on hie