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THE INDEPENDENT. ■fr*r~.- r*.ncsr' ■ATI*III)AY, JI'LY A, 1 HT.t. - J. C. GALLAHER, Editor and Proprietor. —-r- ■ —- - ■- ■*--•- ■ ■ —— : -- r Democratic Cocvontion. < 1$ the different district* tit the rrmtitv, iti pursuance to a call of Ui GKairumn i.{ the Executive Gsiuuuittou, no-l in ou BaAiir- Uv last (or the purpose of nominating a •vunUdgu .to* the yfil- e of Hheriff. All ilrt disirifct. in tlto county veto repra neutod out one. There was but three: named lx-forc IhcCou vent ion, viz. Messrs. Uowen, King anaThnislicr, all represented by their frn-mjs us la-ipg ting tjoinocpiU- Mil villi riff to IlbWl- by tVe' iISCI-WOI) of the Convention and heartily mipport the nominee. £ b* Conceding that all were good men, well qualified bur the position, Uia question for the Convention to decide was which of the three wia/t suugiUnded m W take the qifiiv with tlie least sacrifice of personal interest, and at the same time be no situated as to ■-radar to tiw people the moif efficient service! In the ease of Messrs. King nnd Bowen, both living in the country, a considerable diatauc* tecta town, their affrvhns at all times would not be available. To abau d' a their homes and plantation and move to town, would bn a sacrifice too great for them to make, or f< the people to de mand. Hence the duties of the office would havti to be dfseharged by a deputy, not chosen by the people, nnd might pos aibly be wholly unaeee)itnhle to a great uuinhrr. TANARUS" avoid *ll of those things the Oonreutimj selected the man Who reaided in the town, who hail nons of the above stated sacrifices to make, who is univer sally pejudnr, in dverv. riwp'-ct qualified for the duties of the office, a stainless Democratic record, and as true to his principles as the needle hr to the pole. After the Convention had considered all things they almost unanimously nominated Mr- John T. fTlnpsher, After they had acted k?dMesalV-s, and the nomination an nounced. it was suggested, inasmuch as there was a great many citizens of the dotihtry’ptwsrtit, that the wish of the peo pie be expressed. Ho the question was put by the Chairman, Mr. Hcsekiah Brown, to wit: All , rtMsA'fT ftiirdr bf the nomina- lion of Mr. Jolm T. Thrasher will signify it by rising to their (pet; ami the vote thus taken was nlrnost, if not. entirely unani mous. So we may rely upon the nomi nee getting almost the entire support of the Demoeratie party. There are a few who, we think, desire to remove the comity printing from the Indki-knoknt to the /fawner, Jt’ho weroDiugcdy disappointed in the weight of their influence. This, wo think, lit attributable to the Imh:it.M)i:n |' , s independence in not courting their influ ence, or recognizing their Importance. If they like the Manner's polities, and the e,Mirns heretofore pruneied by its editor, better tlniii they do the political conduct >f the TvnrT'rvT'rvt, we say they have a right to their political tastes, and to form uny combinations or iiflllinUoiis they Voe Bat ikey lure no jight to |h any obsequi <ms bendings to their whims; and we no tify them now that any such drafts drawn on this institution will be protested. We ape lighting vith i for Democ racy, ud we don’t intend to give a quasi support to our own side, and at the Harae time uid in increasing the facilities of an opposing party to war against ns. A quasi Democrat is," iu our estimation, a first de gree Kadicnl, and if ever he gets a suck at the Radical pup ho will take all (lie de grees at. once We are not working for per-ntial popularity, and \\e don’t intend Hint the party befcmsexnero ft so die one or more in it that we don’t like personally. Our object will be to strengthen Democ racy and weaken the opposing party without consulting tlie jileaaure or dis pleasure of any one or Ilia kinsfolk. Our opinion is tbi)t a mau’s Democracy may be doubted seriously who offers aid and sup j>ort to the opposing party. One who urges a man to rnu a raee, even though he lus a Democrat, with the view to concen trate the opposing forms, should be looked upon with suspicion. A man always feels indebted to the party that elects him, and he seldom fails to pay the debt. We are happy to hear that the candi dates before the Convention are perfectly satjsftpd With the munlt, and will cheer fully support ilho nominee. We wonVI, however, suggest that every citizen bo on the alert. An effort may be made to con centrate all the opposing forces on the day of tlie election and defeat bur ’candidate. We hope the citizens will watch every move and note it, and above all things fail not to turn out on the day of election. Don’t make up your minds that there will be no candidate on the Hndioal side, and consequently your vote may not be needed. Ho complete is their organization that they o ut concentrate their forces in twenty-four hours. The colored jn'oplo are all satis fied with the nominee, but they possibly might be deceived by designing men. Again we nrge you to watch. —*- -■ ’ Don Alfonzo’s Curlists have been de feated by Government troops under Gen. Cabrinety. Mr. Miller, the Liberal candidate for the House of Commons, was elected iu Ber v.iekakire, Socihmd, ,Tumi 21st. Two hundred and seventy Christians have been murdered in Bosnia by Moham medan* within the post six weeks. An in vestigation has beta demanded, and an archy prevails. Sepor Mat gall ojo gonat moled anew Spanish Ministry. Sen or Aurich was to huve been Ministe r of Marine, but declined to serve a ijd cuntm iwa. A column of Spanish Uepublioans were defeated by the Curlists at Sevan*, and they Bed to I’ampelmm and were opposed there by the people, crying • ’Death to Nouvilas." What ore the Leading Principle* of tb Radical Party 1 ( imiiot gome one of the blackmailing plumU-rfiTs, rohl iatlie dark B-mtle of infamy) tell what arc the object# end aims of the party. The creduioobilier, carpet baggers, Urunt'a Louixiunu usurpation, and the Congresaioiurl salary steal are the pet policies and loading principles of the Administration lit M’asßington. But the Republican Convention of Maine, recently held, denounce* nnd repudiates the whole of them. There esn be no question but tln-sti (he 1* oduitf principles yf tin jwrty us exemplified by Cougieasionu! practice, and fiy urn head of the adminis tration. General Butler proposes to stand by the party, und the President of his choice, and is now (he advocate and do fender of nil those questions as the candi date for the gulicniutprinl honors of Mas sachusetts. There ih certainly one set of principles at Washington and in Maasa chnsctte, and another in Maine, lienee, we cnq'ifte whrtf ate the leading princi plesof the party, or have they divided, nnd have they two parties ? What set of principles do the diplomatic Kiwis of Brooks county advocate, and what posi tion will the latter-day saints, those in the preparatory department, take ? It is to be hoped when they properly review the situation that they will übnudon the order and take no more degrees. We have some fears that there are one or two who are so desirous to sharpen their nxe on a Radical grind-atonu that their reclamation is impracticable und hopeless. - This from the Morning News: Hie gushing Galluher, of the Quitman Indepknoext, we gather, is not a hearty admirer of the model newspaper. We take pleasure in snying that we have been, are now, and expect to be, so long ns the Morning News in conducted as it has been and is now, one of its greatest admirers and one of the happiest recipi ents of it ns an exchange. It is to us in valuable, and we regard it as a model pa por. The little paragraph in the Georgia column of our last issue was put in by one of our compositors who aids us in getting up that column, not with any intention on his part to disparage the News, but ns a mere matter of pleasantry. If, however, we had examined it carefully, we. would hove stricken It from the column, not that we would have believed that it would injure the News, or even offend nny of its editors, but because we had determined to abstain from partisanship in the late unpleasant ness between the proprietor of the News and the Typographical Union. It wua a matter that did not concern us except to excite our regret that the proprietor was inconvenienced for the time.and forthemis fortune of the many who forfeited their situations and arc now-’out of erapioyment. Wc hope this explanation will bo satis facton-, and flmt ortr friehd Harris w ill ac i copt pur gushing thanks for his gushing conrplnnont. ♦ *e-- Fieecnptiouß for Cholera, The following prescription was adopted by the Oollege of Phy-ieiatm in Phlladol pliiu in l8(i(i. !l has la ell repeat, dly pub lished, but, as it lias stood tli ■ test (and man.V years of experience, it will bear republica tiou at thistitpe. It is regarded hy many as probably the very best prescription that can be used for cholera in ita incipient* stag 04: ; Laudanum, 2 ounc--s;.spirits of camphor, 'Jounces; Uuotnjc O.'cap.icum,- | onflee: linctufe of ginger,' I ounce: essence of | peppermint, 2ouncen;lloffmiuTsanodyne,2 I ounces. 11 the anodyne ciuniot bo readi | ly obtained, substitute sulphuric a-ther hulf the quantity . Mix thorouglioly and shako well every time it is used. Give or take from ton to twenty -five drops, ac cording to agt-, condition and violence of ! attack. Repeat every twenty minutes til! | relief is obtained, tu a desperate cose 1 hike a tablespo- -nful at once. Take it tn an \ equal quantity of water, and lie on the back getting in an easy sitting position w ith tin- back supported, .till itlumtull op portunity to tv oik. Gurry a small phial in the pocket, with a few lumps of white sugar upon w hich to drop it, to be used in sud | don emergencies. Thu following prescription for cholera, made and extensively practiced by Dr. I Benson in 1866, is furnished uu by Dr J, ! I’. Barn urn. Dr. I>. claims for it. superior ity over any other known remedy: Ghloroform,three drachms; Tincture camphor, five drachma; Tannic acid, half drachm; Morphine, sulphate, 1 i grains. Dose—Teaspoonful in water, syrup or any common diluent This must l>o care fully mixed, and, if properly prepared, niakcM a cleai straw -colored liquid. If it is opaque, 01 contains any sediment, some of its elements are not in solution, and its use while in this condition may bo attend ed, with danger.— Er. Wit and Humor. Why do hens always)uy their eggs in the day-time? Because at. night they areroost cm. The very worst of men can help to make a home happy by keeping away from it. Why is u serenmig baby like the good ness o*f morning? Because it is a roarer, (Aurora.) It is said of a Wind wood-sawyer that al though nobody ever' suw him see, hundreds have seen him saw. Why is a man who can’t learn by expe eneo, like a laurel? Because he is an ever green. If you want to keep a dead man, put him into whiskv. If von want to kill a live man, put the whisky into him. Lot the youth who stands with a glass of liquor in his hand consider which he had better throw away—the liquor or him self. It is all very well to say, ‘'Take things iis they come;” but suppose things don't come ? Mexico is said to be like the earth, be cause it has a involution every twenty-four hours. An old bachelor, when teased about his lonely state, serenely replied, “It is better to be laughed at for not being married, than to be unable to laugh because you src.” “I say, I’ouv-what did you dear by that stock speculation?” "Clear,’' said Torn. "Why. I cleared my pockets.” A question for legal authorities—Can you make a blind mini liaolo for a draft which Is'payable at sight? "You don’t think so highly of the hyme neal knot as I do,” saida wife to her husband. "Yes, I do,” he replied; “it is only when you wish to malt :t u dcl ieja knot tint I obvet to it." STATE GOSSIP. The free carrier System went into effect in Savannah on the Ist mat. The “C. I'V propa*o to “go for” the Savannah dogs. An examination will take place at the Orooverville Academy <>n the 1 Itli inst. A movement is on foot in Savannah to inaugurate a Fair for the purpose of aiding the Confederate Monumental Fund. The Atlanta Sun has Is-cn merged into the Constitution. Mr. Stephens still oc cupies a position on the editorial stuff. Miss Tift, of Albany, and Mr. Wolf oik, of.Columbus, became matrimonially allied last week We hope they will obey the Commandment. M. I. Kimball's indebtedness,ascertained preparatory to taking the benefit of the bankrupt, umount to over four millions of dollars. The fire fiend lias made an ugly gap in the business portion of TbowmUa Our neighbor has our heartfelt sym pathy. The number of licenses issued by the Ordinary of Chatham county for the month of June are, whites, seventeen; col ored, thirty-one. Savannah has had a sensation. A man by the name of Conrad Kilterborn recently cut his throat from ear to ear in the vicini ty of “Yamocraw.” Soppoaed to have been caused from continued disappoint ments. , The Tliomnsvillc Enterprise lias this: “Well, Brooks county seems alwut to get ahead of Thomas after all. The introduction of sheep into cotton fields ns hoc hands is a stop in advance." Too thin Mr. Enter prise. I)r. W, N. King has sent to the Savan nah Neics office a great curiosity in the shape of two eggs, joined together by a smul! ligament aln Siamese. The eggs are perfectly formed and of the usual size; one contains the yolk and the other the white. This double egg wan laid bv a Shanghai lien belonging to Mr. Quau toek. The Macon Enterprise has tliis: “Trade is dull as it well could be for even this season of the year. The planters are busy with their crops, or have no money to come to town to spend. Wo are, there fore, remitted to keeping along until cot ton commences coming to town, paying debts as bent we may, and acting ns chari tably as posible towards one another. The Macon Enterprise of the 28th Neva; “The passenger train on the Macon and j Western llailroad, which was due here at 8:20 p. in., yeaterday, ran off tlie track i about erne mile and a half above Burnes -1 villo. The baggage car, we leant, is n j complete wreck. One passenger ear also j ran off’ the track, but our informer states that no ole’was hurt. We return thanks j to Sir. Hightower for the above partial ‘ lars.” The Havannuh Xaes hif* this: “During I the part two days wo have been informed i by a number of parties that they experien i oed the shuck of an earthquake mentioned in our issue of Monday, us having been j noticed on Thursday evening by certain residents on South Broad street. One gentleman states that he was iu the library |of the Georgia Historical Society, on i State street, and felt the jar very sensibly; j others wore in the room at the time, and j also spoke of it, A gentleman leading on Lincoln si reel makes the same statement, and another living on Montgomery near Hull street gives the same exp ricnoe. Others in different ports of tlie oitv bring us the name information, and it would seem from this that the shock was general, ami uot confined to any particular local i This from the Savann&h Ailccrtistr and Kepu/tHciut: "Yesterday morning as Mrs. Morell was returning home from the mar ket, and while passing through Orange street, between the two cotton warehouses, on the w est side of West Broad street, slie was stoppl'd by two negroes, one of w hom asked her if she could toll him where Mr. Somebody lived. While she. was talking to this negro, she felt someone pull at i her dress, and, on looking round, saw the I other fellow with her pocket-book in his hand. She immediately doraaunod her pocket-book of the negro, who deliberately opened it and, taking out the money ! (about twenty-six dollars), he returned the empty pocket-book. The scoundrels I then ran off’ and made their escape. Up to yesterday evening, we had not heard of their arrest, ” Cholera in the west, Nashville, Jnly 2.—There were six cholera deaths yesterday. Nashville. Jnly 2.—Six cholera deaths. No new oases reported. Cahio. , 111 , July 2.—Four railroad hands have died with cholera. Others aro sick. Sr. Lons. July 2.—Several of the most promiuout physicians deny that the chol era exists. They call it malignant cholera morbus. One cholera ease reported yesterday. Cincinnati, July 2.- Ten cholera deaths. Another New Defahattr* Contemvla rti>. —A Cincinnati dispatch of Jnly 2d says: A mass meetingof the opponents of the Republican party is called at Colum bus, July 30th, to ’confer, and perhaps combine, upon anew departure. A Cuban Defeat. —A Havanna dis patch of the 2d iust. says: A Telegram from the Spanish authorities at Santa Clara announces the dispersing of a band of In surious near that place by Spanish troops. An advertisement of a farm for sale in Wisconsin winds up as follows: "The sur rounding county is the most beautiful that, ever came from the Creative Baud. Scene ry is celestial —divine; aUp two v :&ons and a voke of steers. ” FLORIDA MATTERS. Everything is serene around Jackson ville regarding the Pojt Oflio# robbery. A I’olici man iudiujlsonviliewasrcoently invited to play “quits.” The steamer Florence has taken tin place of the Han Antonio on the line be tween Savannah and the Bntilla river. A severe gide, accompanied by heavy showers, prevailed around Jacksonville on Sunday evening last. There is a Revenue cutter lying in the harbor at Jacksonville, and its officers wear naval uniforms. That’s singular. The Alderman of Jacksonville work on city improvements themselves instead of hiring others to do the work by contract. Tlie editor of the Floriihi News is much troubled by tlie melodious music of un agonizing acoordeon in the neighborhood of his sanctum. From the Florida News we learn that curiosities of Feruandena just now are a big woman, a little man, a Salt Lake wife, a snake, a bird or two, and a fellow who eats knives for pastime. This from the Gainesville New Era: “Never eat stale vegetables; County Court for Alachua next Monday; Hail last Satur day. Pincushion a*ia solid merchant; the defunct Sheriff Baines, is dead. The Florida News says: “The Lizzie Baker on her last trip, earned twenty-sev en thousand, three hundred and six water melons for the Northern markets. This is the largest shipment of melons from this port that lias everbeen known. Tlie Florida News has this: “The way the County Commissioners propose to re dnee county exjietiKes ifc a caution to snakes. The laws of the .State of Florida allow jurors 81 25 per day,payable in scrip, which hug heretofore been discounted at the average rate of fifty per oent, on the dollar. At the last session of the Board of Commissi-mers for Duval county, they ordered the Clerk to endorse on the back of all scrip issued, tlie words: ‘Not receiva ble for State or county taxes,’ which virtu ally renders it worthless, and makes it about as valuable as the paper upon which it is issued. This is probably the reason why intelligent men cannot be obtained for jury duty, and so long us they have such facta as the above glaring them full ill the face, tin scarcity of intelligent ju rors will undoubtedly continue. The Florida Arc if* is responsible for tin following: “The Fcmsndilia Obserrrr, the only paper in Florida that takes tw o States to print it, thinks that i'loyd is destined to take up his quarters at Chattahoochee, as there is little doubt in tlie mind of the editor of that paper, but that he not only connived at the recent rubbery from Kp pinger, Russell &. Cos., of this eity, but planned the raid. The Ht. Augustine Press is worrying bemuse Walworth killed his daddy, and think:- that th, re in a revo lution going ®n in sJhiety. Home of our exchanges tbonHiglyiitStdfcrstand the prop er use of the aeissorsjj- The Quincy Jour nal. tliiuka it a sin to borrow a newspaper; this is a wicked world if that is true. The Talhiharuee Sentinel gives its readers* good talk on the subject of economy in tin mat ter of criminal prosecution in this State. He admits that stealings are going on. and thinks the Governor is not responsible for them. Who is?" — The Florida A’. irs say-: “Theauthorities appear somewhat puzzled as to the bint mode of getting rid of the dogs whose owners fail to supply with a tax paid Col lar. It seems barbarous to shoot them dawn in the streets in broad daylight, and it is a difficult thing to catch them, espe cially before their teeth have become at tached to some citizens tender haunch. This is the way they are managed in Mo bile and New Orleans; a man is hired, who has a huge net, and also provided with a portable dog cage and, as it is fun for the boys, every lad within sight or hearing will join in the capture of these nnimals, Whenever a canine is seen, he is immedi ately surrounded, and an opening is made by the net, und as the dog attempts to es cape he iuvaribly runs into the net, thenee dunijx'd into the menagerie, aud the boys deploy for the next victim. As many as one hundred dogs have been caged iu one day by this process. Suppose our city authorities stop this baabarons practice and adopt our suggestion.” Wo would enquire of our contemporary what is then dono with the dogs thus raged. They probably answer admirably for sausages. [Cur. London Echo.} Rome, A Rome dispatch of June 3d says: Every one seem* M last convinced that the Pope is not going to die just vet, and the dusty folios which had been taken out for the purpose of studying the Conohive and Ceremonial of Pontifical demise and funeral have been restored to their shelves— with the murks left in, probably for future use. His Holiness it able to take w alking exercise in the gardens of the Vatican, and to enjoy this delightful weather, which is not yet too hot, except for those who have to work tlie sun. The Empress of Russia is so delighted with Rome and its climate that she hi most reluctant to leave the Eternal City. Her Majesty’s visit has prolonged the season, and caused a degree of liveliness not usual at this time of year, although Rome no longer falls asleep for six months as in former days. King Vic tor Emmaneul and the Princes Mnrgherita are still here, out of courtesy to the Czari na. This ia the longest sojourn his Ma jesty has ever made in Rome. Lust Satur day evening there was what is called u Gala Night at the Opera, but the King had not been informed of it, and ho went to a pri vate box iu morning dross. To his mix prise, ho saw all the ordine nobile full of ladies and gentlemen iu full-dress; tlie Rus sian Grand-duchesses present, Prince Hum bert, and Princes Marghorita, and :dl the diplomats in grand state! King Vict or Em maneul requested Commendatore Gadda. Prefect of the eity, to lend him his black coat and white necktie, and dressing him self in these articles dc rigusur, he pro ceeded to pay his compliments to the Im perial und Royal ladies humorously de scribing his embarrassment and tlie mode he took to remedy his ceremonial undress. There was grand cheering on the part of the public, and the Royal March was pluved. Yesterday fWliit-Monday) a most origi nal and never-bcforr-hcaiiLotf entertain ment woe announced to take ploce at (I P. M, in the Piazza del Popolo. The I Vgi/t or firemen were to display their iu-tivity, courage and coolness hy placing th* Hiig of Italy on the summit of the opelisks, and there to extinguish the flames of a high wooden house to be set on fire on purpose. A capemnta or hut of twigs and straw, containing within some sheep uml goats, was also to las set on fire, and the man who first rescued the animats was to become possessor of them. I have seen many Roman crowds, but never anything like the multitudes who poured to the north end of the city the whole afternoon --two or three streams directed towards the Piazza, others towards the Pincio, ev ery terace of which was crammed for two hours previously. Everything went off well; but there was not sufficient manage ment as to the Piazza, which was suffered .to become too full of people, and there was much con fusion in consequence; screaming, punishing, struggling, and | fainting, with the customary amount of fearful and farfetched imprecation, which has not diminished latterly in spite of ull increased amount of religious instruction the Jieople are supposed to enjoy, with free evangelical teaching on one hand, and the zealous Jesuit preiu-hing on the other. Some of the Roman papers remarked upon the omission of a visit to Cardinal AutoneUi by the Empress of Ruaia and in terpreted it as intentional. The fact was tliut his eminence was laid up with the gout,-and one of the feet so much admired l>y his lady friends was swollen to such a mortifying size that the Cardinal was obliged to wear a monstrous slipper, be sides being unable to stand. The Osserrn tore Rumnno stated that Monsignor de Mi rode particularly directed the attention of the Empress to the statue in HU Peter’s of Countess Matilda of Tuscany, who left her immense territorial possessions to the Pope (in a will nobody ever saw.) i There bus been grand commemorating of Hilde-brand, Gregory VII, by the Pajsi , linie both atHalemo and here. In fact, the study of Mediieval History is diligently re vived, the Pope having directed the atten tion of all around him to the rtcords of the grand struggle for temporal power, very soon after its extinction in his own jier son. * - [Warden of King Sing Priaon in New York Tim dh.J BOYS IN PRISON. 1 V Penitentiary Warden who BluMhea for lIU Satire State. Since the first day of January hist, a spuee of only five mouths’ time, we have received at this prison 113 boys of the age of twenty years and under, divided as follows: Five of fifteen years of age, five of sixteen, fourteen of ssventeen. sixteen of eighteen, forty-two of nineteen, and thirty-one of twenty. These boys are sentenced to’ various terms as follows: Five for the term of one year, one for one year und two months, six for one year aud six mouths, eighteen for two years, thirty for two years and six months, ten for three years, three for three years and six months, six for four years, six for four years and six months, sixteen for five yearsg two for six years and six mouths, two for seven years, one for ten years, one for twelve yearn five for fifteen years, undone for twenty years. Home of these boys look hard, and, while they have the body of youth, the visage is so much marred by hardship that the head and face rec.-mble a little old man. One poor creature i> so badly crip pled bv a luthsoine discs'*- that, he can scarcely walk, and when l see the small, sleek heads, und little, narrow shoulders of these boys, us they sit at the dinner-table, l>y the side, of tini old ami hardened crim inals, I often blush with shame at my na tive State. But tbosi lairs are not at all the hardened ' illaiiis that the public are wont to believe. In many of them are blooming with manly vigor, and if they were put uuder protwr training, would be come ornaments of society. One would suppose that, after being subjected to ar rest, trial and sentence, all sense, of shame would depart from them. This, however, is not so; they often give evidence of a tender conscience und high degree of sym pathy and love. (hie of these boys, seventeen years of age, who had just turn sentenced to serve fifteen years, said io iue: “Oh, Air. War den, won't you please get me pardoned? I never meant to be a bail buy. I did not belong to a gang of thieves, as the news papers stated; 1 never stole in my life. I worked every day. and went home to my father and mother at night. Please, Mr. Warden, let me go home, and see w hat a good hoy 1 will be. I bird heard of the State Prison, but 1 did not know what a bod place it was. Some laid buys got me to leave my work one day and go with them, and then they put me up to snatch a pock et-hook. I was terribly frightened after I had done it. Oh, Mr, Warden, I cannot stay here. Oh, dear me, what will my poor father and mother do without me? Please let me go home. I w ill be a good boy," This and much more was said, amid gushing tears and pitiful sobs and moans. Other boys show their sorrow in a similar way. In the main hall of tlie prison are situated 1,200 cells, and it is a solemn scene (with slippers on) to puss over the long corridors at night, when most of the prisoners are asleep. The dim gas-light, which is just sufficient to light the watchmen, as lie quietly treads the gallerries from cell to cell, looking through the grated cell doors of each little room, reveals the form of a prisoner— some iu fitful dreams; some show great trouble even while in the attitude of slum ber; others cannot sleep—their thoughts are too busy with the pant; some are brooding over w hat they imagine are great wrongs; and here and there are young boys, who just begin to realize that they are in a felon’s cell. Some of these bovs give vent to their feelings, and the stillness of the great hall is broken by the sobs and moHits of that broken-hearted boy. In another cell, on a coarse couch of straw, may be seen a boy with regular features, a high forehead, a noble brow. Ho has cried himself to sleep, and even yet the last low solis can be heal'd, and as the tones echo through the corridors and die away in the distance like the gurgling wave along the shore, the most hardened old prisoners are molted to pity, and may be heatd to exclaim: “Poor boy! this is no place for him; better take him away; he will be ruined if he remains here.” We do not claim that, these boys are ail innocent; they are, most of them, fallen, bin they are very young yet, and by a wise, judicious system of training they | may have their minds so directed.and hab ! its of virtue so firmly fixed, that they may 1 live many years as worthy men; but if al lowed to remain in this prison from three to twenty years they will he utterly ruined, ! and become a moral pest to society. The I question now n..study arises as to where to fix the blame and how to apply a remedy. It is no use denying that men are supe rior to womeu. as men; and that women are immeasurably superior to men. as wo men; while both’of them together are more than a match for either of them separately. [Front tlie Southern Enterprise.) The Fire in ThomasvHle. IXC KN DIARIES AT WORK. One-Fourth of the Business Portion of the City in Ruins LOSS Horoin-V ESTIM ATED AT *IOO,OOO About 2 o’clock on Monday morning last, the rcur of Mr. Hirt's shoe shop, on Broad street, was discovered to be on tire. The alarm wu-s sounded, but at that hour of the night it was necessarily some time before the Fire Department was in full pky, and the fire was rapidly gaining headway. The building fired and those on cithi r side wen: of wood, ami lieiug old auil dry and almost ji lining each other, were in u Uttle time w rapt in flames. The heat became so intense that it was imjaxs riblc to approach them for the purpose of j saving any of their contents, und hut very \ little from Mr. Hirfa shop, Mr. Kottman s store, Messrs. Davies k. Go’s drug store and Jno, Watt's gun alrop was rescued. The spread of the. fire down the street was stsyed at Messrs. Hardaway, McKinnon ,t Go's new brick store by the activity of the engine companies, und fur a time it was hoped that the fire would he confined to the enroll buildings between Hardaway, McKinnon A Go's and AAR. Smith's. The heat, however, was too great, und the tunliers of the latter store, although the liutldiug was covered with tin, filially took fire, anil all the efforts of the Department and citizens to stay the flames were una vailing until they reached the store of Mr. B. Goldberg, second door from the corner of Broad und Jackson streets. Here the fire was mastered, but not without consid erable damage to the building. Thus it will be seen that all the business houses between Mesam. Hardaway, McKinnon A Go’s and Mr. B. Goldberg’s, consisting of Watt’s gun shop, Davies A- Go’s.drug store, Hirt’s shoe shop, Kottmun'sconfectionary, A. & K. .Smith’s house furnishing store, Lohustcin A Btevermnn’s dry goods and grocery store, Kirksi-y A Scott's (formerly 0. M. McKinnon’s) store, Fans’ dry goods store, Gasset's drag store and Rushing A Outten’s dry goods and grocery store, were completely destroyed. It was also with great difficulty that the buildings on the opposite side of the street were pre vented from burning. In fact, it is due to the untiring and almost superhuman ef forts of the firemen, aided hy the citizens generally, that the whole of the business portion of the city is not in mins. Many daring feats were performed by both fire men and private citizens, but where all did their utmost, comparison would la- unjust, A few of the firemen received injuries, while others fainted from over heat. Mr. Join s, of the Hunk and Ladder Company, received a painful and dangerous wound from a nail in the right leg, near the knee, and Mr. Henry Ladson got smartly scorched. Then- may have been other ac cidents, not reported to us. We will, therefore, close our remarks in reference to the firemen with the unanimous venlict, that each company, mid every member present, did their whole duty. After the fire the city presented a dreary and desolate appearance. The water from the engines, together with a slight fall of rain, h;u] render,-I tlie sidewalks muddy and almost impassable; the streets were thronged with citizens, male and female, who hud gath-n-d to seethe ravages of the fire. The ruins were still smoulder ing, and the smoke, in their immediate vicinity, almost .suffocating; and her. and there lay heaps of goods which had live n moved 1 rota.the flames, Gi-n'usion reigned and naught was thought of but the fire how it originated, how it might have been stayed, how much each had lost and to what extent lie was insured. The uon sutfering business men were slow to open their places of business, and not until about noon did order und quiet resume control. Then the insurance agents were astir, merchants liegan moving buck their goods, und those who were honsi less sought temporary quarters to await the settlement of pouch s or to resume busi ness as best they could. The losses arc variously estimated at from $50,000 to 8100,000, but all is guess work. Much of the loss on goods i.- from damage by water aud removal, and this has not vet been assessed. Most of the merchants above Messrs. A. A H. Smith’s succeeded in removing the greater por tion, and in some instances the whole of their stocks. The figures below are ns wo obtained them on Monday, either from the parties or from those who claimed to be posted: J. Watt, stock. $1,500. Insiutmce, SSOO. Davies A Cos., 8:1,500; Insurance,sl,7so. X. Hirt, stock, SBOO. Insurance 500. J. T. Kottrnan, stock, 2,500. Insurance, 800. A. A It. Smith, stock and house, $1.5,- 000. Insured for 80,000. Hunt A Puryear, stock, SOOO. No Insur ance. J. A. Linton, house, SI,OOO. No In surance. Lohustcin A Steyman, stock, SB,OOO. Insurance SO,OOO. Dr. Beid, house, 7,500. Insurance $4,000 Kirksey A Seott, goods saved. No In surance. T. C. Mitch el, on house, $1,500. In surance $3,000. .T. Fass, stock, SIB,OOO. Insurance $lO,- 500. llosenfeld A Levy, house, $4,000. In surance $3,000. 8. .T. Cossets, goods little damaged. In sured. Rushing & Outen, stock, $2,000. In surance, $1,500. Knbitsliek & Bro., house, $3,000/ Insur ance, $2,000. B. Goldberg, on stock, SO,OOO. Insur ance, $4,000. House, SI,OOO. Insurance, $3,000. Ainsworth & Finn, stock and house damaged, but covered by Insurance. Dr. Bower’s three houses were worth some $3,000 and Insured for $2,300. Besides these estimated losses there were others of a different character. Tlie Cor nets lost nearly all their instruments; Air. W. E. Davis and Capt. A. J. Love, and perhaps others sleeping near where the fire originated, lost their wardrobes; the Nep finies and Rescues lost, all their splendid hull furniture; the barber shop was turned out of doors, and a number of doctors and law yers were forced to seek other quarters. The telegraph was also ushered into the street, and for a time Mr. Helms had headquarters under a shade tree, from whence he apprized the outer world that Thomosville was on fire. Yesterday the fire question had been well nigh exhausted and was giving place to others of a more pleasing character—the real estate owners discussing the style of buildings they should erect, the merchants hoping the raging would abate mid the wa ters subside in time for the fall fishing. The fonner topic, especially, is a hope ful sign, and though the lire has possibly embarrassed a few, and for the time causes our city to wear a mournful appearance, we expect soon to see the old sites graced with new and superior buildings, and then if not before, may the houseless again set sail and glide safely end swiftly into the haven of prosperity. [Fr-iqi the Madison (Wis.) Journal ) COLUMBUS “PLAYED OUT.” A Monument to be Erected to Leif Erick ■on, WUi uDlaeovrred America** lu Ihr Yfr lUOO. Ole Bull, Prof. R. B. Anderson, of the Wisconsin University, Senator J. A. John son, and other prominent Norwegians arc raising mbney to liitild a uioiiiimuit to Leif Eriokaoli. Xhu tuwt named gentle man has already given some concerto, and will give a few more before leaving for Norway, the entire proceeds to be devoted to the monument fund. Prof. Anderson, a linguist, thoroughly versed ill Scandi navian literature, is to lecture for the benefit ol the fund. The total amount to be raised is SIO,(XX). The monument is to he built in Madison, and dedicated w ith great ceremony oil thn one hundredth unlit reranrv of American Independence. Ole Dull, Bjornson, the famous Norwegian authyr and poet, uml other celebrities, will he jiresent on the occasion, together with such a host of en thusiastic Norwegians from this nnd ad joining States, as were never before seen together outside the lairders of Norway. Leif Erickson, whose name is to la- in scribed njHin tlie monument, was a bold navigator, who diseov*red America in the year 1000. That is what the Sagas sav, and circumstantial evidence tends to eo’r roboTate the leelandie records. In Wssh iugtou Irving's valuable “Life of Colum bus,” published in 1827, he says: "If the legends of the Heandinaviuu voyages lie correct, and tln-ir mysterious Vinland was the coast of Labrador, or the. shores of Newfoundland, they had but transient glimpses of the New World, loading to certain knowledge, u little time lost again to mankind. ” But at that time there were in Copen hagen untranslated Icelandic manuscripts (Hagasj, giving an uA-uiuit of the early dis eoveries of America. These were trans lated by the celebrated Prof. Charles llafn (the best authority on Northern antiqui ties that ever lived), anil published in 1837. Irving speaks of these Sagas in the appendix to his edition of 1853. But ho derived his knowledge of them from For ester's works, and said he had not thn means of tracing the story to its origi nal sources. He adds, however, “there is no great improbability that such enter prising and roving voyager* as the Heiui dinnviano may have wandered to the northern shores of America, and, if iei - bind manuscripts cun la- relied upon as genuine, free lrorn modern intenmlation, and correctly quoted, they wonhi appear to prove the fact.” We have seen these Sagas, priutesl in Icelandic, now in the possession of Pro fessor Anderson, aud examined the similes from the original Icelandic manuscript, and can discover no i-vidcne.-s of interpo lation In fact, tin- high character of Pro fessor llafn pris-lmli-s the idea that them is an attempt at imposition. We think the Sagas clearly entitled to be shown lu evidences as historical records, und it ap pears from them that Bjsrue Herjulfson, a Norwegian, owner and captain of a ve„- sel was on hi< way to Greenland to see his father in t)8(i. Tin- compass was not then invented, and a violent wind drifted him southward through tlie fog. When it cleared he was in sight of Vinland; but, finding himself too far South, he pro ceeded northward to Greenland. He sub sequently returned to Norway, and was greatly blamed liecauso he did not go ashore at Viulmul. The Norwegians who discovered Iceland in 861, and Greenlnnd in 1)84, were anx iously looking forward to still more lands in toe ve st. Leif Erickson, son of Erik the Red, who had discovered Greenland, 1 -might JBjarne s ship, and enlisted thirty. five men, and gnided by directions from Bjarue, and w ith the stars for his compass. sailed for America. In tlie year 1000 he landed at Finland, and sjw-nt the win ter at or liesr Fall River. Mass., where, seven years afterwards, Tliorfin lytrlcsvno and his party left the famous “Dighton Writing Rock" inscription. In 1002 i there was an expedition to' Finland by Thorwaild Erickson, who was.- pierced by an arrow and died there, and. according t > the description of the Sugas.it seems that he was buried at Gunn t Point. About • forty years ago a skeleton in armor whs dug up in that vicinity. Longfellow had written a poem about this, and the Arch il .logical Society in Boston sent part of the armor to the celebrated chemist. Ber zelius, who analyzed it, finding it to he of tlie precise composition of Norwegian armor during the tenth century, aud it was the same style of munufaetimv The next expedition was under-Thorfni, 1 mentioned above, who left the writing on tlie rock, which corresponds with the ac count in the Hagan. He lmd his wife and 151 men, and stayed three years, and Snorre, his son, was born there in 1008 ; (Thorwaldson, the famous sculptor, was a . direct descendant of Hnorro.) | There were various expeditions after this until 1121. when Bishop Erik Upsi was sent to Finland. The last expedition known was in 1347, when the Black Plague broke out and reduced the population of : Norway from 2,000,000 to 300,000. This stopped farther expeditions. In addition to the Sagas, “The Dighten Writing Rock," the Newport Tower ! (which Indians say was built by giants), and the skeleton in armor, we have, in support of the early discovery by Leif J Erikson, the writings of Adam of Bremen. I 1 an pld historian of high authority wbofl visited the Danish King. Svend-Esthid-1 | son, and afterward wrote in Latin an ac count of the northern nations. He saym ! “There is a land discovered by many in this ocean (Atlantic) which is called Wine land, lieouuso vines which produce very good wine grow- there spontaneously; and there grows grain in abundance without being sown. Of this we have knowledge, not by fabulous supposition, but by relia ble statements of the Danes." Columbus made a voyage to Iceland ill February, 1477, and it is thought by some that he must have learni-d of Finland then, as the clergy were Latin scholars, ' and that he probably knew of the writings : of Adam of Bremen. We understand that a literary gentleman of Minnesota ia preparing a work in which he maintains that the throe Pinsons, who were with Columbus, had a map of Vic land during the first voyage of Columbus. Leif, the bold Norwegian, deserves a mon ument. Death or Gexeual Caxbt’s Beother. 1 Died, at the State Lunatic Asylum, in this eity, on Monday, June 0, 1873, Mr. C. G. ;C. Canby. Mr. Canbv lived at West Ely, 1 Marion county, Mo., and was a highly rcs -1 pceted citizen of that place. It is always a painful duty to tbejournal ! ist to record the death of any one, and it is doubly painful under the peculiar and distressing circumstances which surround ■l cd the subject of this notice. Mr. Can by was a brother of the late General Canhy, who was murdered by the Modoes, and i* is thought that the tragic death of the lat ter led to what Was hoped would prove a temporary spell of insanity. Air. Canby , was brought here and placed in the Asy lum a short time ago, where he on Mou ; day, breathed his last. His remains Were ’ taken --home for burial. — Fulton f M)-) [ Tc’.Ajraph.