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THE INDEPENDENT.
•crtRiHT, irrmasß , ins.
J. C, GALLAHER. Editor and Proprietor.
The Great Prolongation Enterprise.
An wfR be seen in the proceeding* of a
meeting held by the citizens of Brook*
bounty on Wednesday, the 24th, we had
the pleasure of hearing Oak I*. H. Hmi
ford explain the practicability of prolong
ing the MutHxnipjn from New Orleans to
the Atlantic coast hy eonncrting theostnn
non that fringe the Gnlf of Mexico. Wo
eonfeaa, on our i>art, that heretofore we
were entirely ignorant of the feasibility,
and practicability, as well as the probability
of the couatruction of this great commer
cial link, connecting by tin* system of pjo
longntion the great productive field* of
the AV.'at nnd Northwest with the Atlantic
outlets for distribution, to supply the de
mands of the markets of the world. Col.
Raiford'a explanation and description of
the estuaries that he near and along the
Gulf Boast, together with the short inter
tala of laud that now serve to disconnect
them, as the only barriers to n oontiuous
line of water transportation from the nu
merous Western imviguble rivers to the
Atlantic coast, embracing in all a steam
boat navigation of over 30,000 miles.
But tho present objective point to Is.
reached by the enterprise that Col. Rni
ford is now advocating, i not the Atlantic
coast across tho Florida peninsula, but the
Apalachicola Bay, hy which the line is
extended from Apalachicola, the present
objective point of the enterprise, to the
Mississippi river at or near New Orleans.
The spaces of land disconnecting the estu
aries, altogether amounts in distance to
only thirty miles, the longest interval of
laud only being nine mile*. Nature having
done so much, and left so little for man to
do, that tho enterprise, when thoroughly
understood, loses all of its giant like ter
jv>, and its enormity is visible only in its
benefits and not its difficulties. Less than
four millions of dollars, judiciously ex
pended, will give a line of transportation
cheaper than any artificial lino can be con
structed; and one that will never need re
newal, or demand continual repairing.
One that will never bo controlled by an
organization with a President and direc
tors, increasing or reducing transporta
tion of passengciß and freight at will, but
open to all the world, and as freo to every
enterprise as the great Atlantic itself now
is. The mere statement of the fact, which
is as yet unknown to the masses—that
there nre but a few spaces of land, in the
aggregate only thirty miles, through
which outs have to be made, all of which
it is said by the most practical engineers
can bo done by machinery—will establish
the practicability of this great national
enterprise, and at once arid forever
aileuco every hjeetor in the South
and West. This enterprise will, no doubt,
meet with strong opposition in the East.
New York and Philadelphia, the now
great American emporiums, will, from
•sectional and personal considerations,
strive to strangle the enterprise by pre
venting Government aid. Tho success of
the enterprise will at once divert the com
merce of the West from the old lines, (now
leading to tho Eastern cities), to new chan
nels,. leaving the old to seek and find a
anew groat national commercial centre on
the Southern Atlantic coast. And upon
this issue, we think, the great commercial
warfare will commence between the North
ern and Eastern States upon tho one side
and tho Western and Southern States
upon the other. The North claiming pre
cedence for its expensive and artificial
lines of transportation over nature’s own
eternal and munificent arrangements.
This continuation of inland navigation
doesn’t give to the West a Southern mar-1
ket only, but will enable it to compete
with Central and Eastern Europe. The
London Timet says: ’‘There is a project
being discussed among tho people of the i
cotton and food producing States of the
American Union, which, if carried out,
and it is claimed to be eminently practi
cable, will greatly alter the centres, the
usages and routes of commerce between
them and the countries of Europe, and
w ill also put the cereals of Amcricu in suc
cessful competition with those of Central
and Eastern Europe."
Commodore ‘Maury’s statement, taken
from tho London Timm, is that tho cereals
now carried to New York and Baltimore
by railroad is done at a cost equivalent to
that of producing them. Hence, this im
mense cost of transportation excludes
them from competition with European
” Ctinwtries. —Brit the present enterprise, if
completed, will, by its ofrtuinty nnd cheap
ness of transportation, remedy all of those
commercial evils.
Aa we intend to keep this subject before
our readers from time to time, we think it
bast that our articles should be short to
insure their perusal.
I Col. ltaiford, who is the father of this
k enterprise, is giving it his whole time and
attention, ami if it succeeds, which we
earnestly hope it will, to his fame should
be given an immortality. We hope the
people everywhere may give ear to his
wise counsels with every needed aid and
encouragement until the work is done
nud the blossings realized.
A short time ngo the Queen of the Bel
gians and the Princess Lou iso drove out
from Spa to visit the cascades f Coo.
Noar the village of La CJluiise they were
caught in a lteavy thunder storm, and
bought shelter at oil inn, where the land
lady, seeing the two tallies, refused to ad
mit, “any such persons.” and so they had
topitt up at u neiglil wring farm-house for
the tight.
It is told of one of the "suiiob” who re
moves chairs from tho stage of a Troy
theater with groat effect Unit on the death
of Edwin Forrest being announced to him,
w hile standing on p. hotel stoop, lie ex
claimed, with dramatic gesture: "Great
God! another one of us gone!”
Mr. H. L. Schreiner's Card in the Banner
of the Bth in*t.
Mr. H., in his card, referring to an ar
ticle iu a former issue of this paper, says
that “I consider the article iu question aa
I bearing directly upon me as a merchant,
and the quality of my goods.” We dis
avow airy intention of disparaging Mr.
I Schreiner as a merchant, or the quality of
hht goods. .What part of our article be
construed into a reflection upon him. aa a
j merchant f tho quality of his goods, we j
arc now, aftr a careful rending, unable to ,
discover. We stated that Ludden A Bdsi
| were the sole and exclusive agents iu the
! Southern States for the sale of the genuine
Southern Gem. If that is true Rs state
ment os a fact cannot bear upon Mr. H. as
a merchant. If it is not true it will give
us much more pleasure to correct it than
to make the statement. Mr. H. did not
state in his card that our statement was
not correct in reference to Messrs. Ludden
A Bates being the exclusive agents in the .
Southern States for the sale of the genuine j
Southern Gem ? What is the genuine
Southern di m is the question. We say
that it is a peculiar instrument, manufac
tured by J. P. Hale, varying in its con
struction from other instruments, and be
cause it differed from other instruments
lie gave it a name to distinguish it. If
the maker had named it J. P. Hale’s Gem,
and other manufacturers had called their
instrument ,T. P. Hide's Gem, would they
be genuine ? Certainly not; neither can !
they bo the genuine Southern Gems unless
they embrace every peculiarity of plan and
construction. Every manufacturer can j
make a Southern Gem if he chooses, or '
an instrument and call it by that name, !
but the mere name doesn’t constitute the !
Southern Gem. As to whether they have |
a right to adopt Mr. Hale’s trade mark is j
a question wo linvu nothing to do with.
Can Mr. 8. successfully controvert the j
fact that J. P. Hale was the maker of the j
first instrument known as the Southern
Gem ? Does ho controvert the fact
that Ludden A Bates are the exclusive i
agents for thut instrument ? That is all ]
we claimed for them. If he admits that j
J. P. Halo is the inventor of tlic Southern 1
Gem, then he must state that the Gems'
sold by him are manufactured hy J. P.
Hale to establish their genuineness; not
to establish tho value of his pianos, not I
that they are as good. They may be an .
hundred per cent, inferior, and not be
Southern Gems, and they may be an linn i
deed per cent, superior, nnd still ns far
from tho genuine Southern Gem. Mr.
S. says that tho Southern Gems sold by j
him are as genuine as any sold in the j
market. That is an admission that Lud
den A Bates’ are genuine, or else it is a !
declaration that none are, but that they j
approximate genuineness. He further j
says: "Tho name n manufacturer ohoscs
to give liis instruments does not add any
thing to their value.” That is true, but
may it not have n tendency, by assuming
the name of n popular and justly reputa
ble instrument, to sell a mere imitation for
a genuine instrument. Certainly no manu
facturer will adopt the name of a disrepu
table instrument. Hence the adoption of
the name of the Southern Gem by other
manufacturers is a high commendation of
the genuine article. We do not intimate
that Mr. S. has adopted the popular name
of Southern Gem with a view to sell in
ferior articles by it. Many of the instru
ments sold by that name may be far su
perior, but thoir superiority doesn’t make
them genuine. We stated that the instru
ment we purchased from Ludden & Bates
was far superior to any instruments in this
place, claimed to be Southern Gems, and
purchased from other parties. We never
said where they were purchased, nor from
whom they wore purchased. But we will
wager the piano that the superiority
claimed for our instrument over other
pianos at this place is correct.
Now for Mr. S. to establish the genu
ineness of his Southern Gems he must
show by whom they were manufactured
and when they received the name, with all
the peculiarities of the instrument, nnd if
j they are the original Southern Gem we
' will bike pleasure in showing that Ludden
j A Bates’ are not genuine.
Tho Annual Fair of the Georgia State
Agricultural Society.
We have received a revised premium list
of the annual fair to be held at the Cen
tral City Park, Macon, On., commencing
October 27th, and continuing one week.
We look forward to this exhibition as
I the grandest and most extensive of the
! kind ever witnessed in the South. No
pains have been spared, no expenses
avoided to beautify and adorn the grounds
and arrange for the comfort and conven
ience of tho many thousands who are ex
pected to attend.
The arrangements for the protection
, and safe-keeping of all articles entered for
exhibition are ample and complete. Ef
forts are being made, anil will, no doubt,
be successful in procuring transportation
i for passengers and freight both ways for
i one fare.
The officersof the State Agricultural Bo
' oicty nre the very right men—more enter
• prising and efficient could not have been
selected. The premiums are large and
’ numerous, embracing every variety of
i industries. They are sufficiently large,
i (aside from every other consideration), to
excite a lively contest, and we have no
| doubt under the management of the wor
thy aud efficient officers that they will be
awarded according to merit, entirely free
l from prejudice or partiality.
In connection with tho officers of the
Society the city of Macon tenders an invi
i tntiou to Kith stranger and citizen. We
1 are informed that the Park to be used on
! the occasion lias been under the immedi
| ate supervision of W. A. Huff, Mayor of
the city of Macon, who is the embodiment
l of enterprise aud energy, skill and taste,
] arid unequaled iu the liberality of his
j views.
Charles O’Conor and Ben Butler are
rredited with rending more poetry than
' any other two men iu the United Slates.
A Stiang* Intuition.
We have boon for the last few days intui
tively led to the conclusion that A. A. El
' lenwood, of the Madison Recorder, is at
heurt an honest man, and that it is not his
wish or desire to associate with the base
carpet-baggers, and still meaner sculla-
I wags of Madison county. That at some
unguarded moment inhis political histo
ry lie went astray upon ainero abstraction
and that he lias now seen his error, nnd
| is desirous to correct it, our mind has
l come to the conclusion, when ho went off
, after strange gods, that his choice was be
tween Grant, nnd Greeley, and not between
Grant and Democracy. We can state that
many prominent politicians took tho same
stand during the last campaign that
are now regarded as prominent Democrats
and honored ns such. We cannot see why
the same principle would notapplyto him.
Our mind has come to another eon
elusion, that while be was to some extent
I connected with that purty, that he became
j cognizant of many acts of corruption that
I disgusted him with the party. We be
lieve hini-to be an intelligent nnd honest
man, and that in his heart he condemns
carpet-bag nnd seallawng villainies. If we
are correct we hope that he will receive
the highest encouragement, anil all the
aid from the citizens to live anil prosper
while ho publicly denounces them.
“Don’t Scold Me.”
Deal gently with your little child, ro
-1 prove it not in anger, not vindictively, in
a spirit of revenge. Administer reproof
with the view to correct its error; let tears
lof sympathy fill your eyes while you ad
minister the painful stripes. When in its
agony it appeals for mercy the righteous
j object of correction is attained. Then,
mother, cruel father, stay tliy hand; is not
! thine anger yet appeased ? Speak gently
j to yonr child, apply to it no coarse epi
; thets; it will imitate its parents and fol
low their example. Listen to an appeal
to a mother in the words und voice of in
inoeenoe:
"Dou’t, Tommy—dou't do that. You
j know it makes mother’s head ache.
"Does it make yonr head ache, mother?"
asked the child, curiously, and with n
pitying tone in his voice, us he came creep
ing up to his mother’s side, and looking
nt her us if in doubt whether he would be
repulsed or not.
“Sometimes it does, my son,” replied
Mrs. Lyon, kindly; "anil it is always un
pleasant. Won’t you try to play without
making so much noise ?”
"Yes, mother, I’ll try,” answered the
little fellow cheerfully. “But I forget
sometimes.”
He looked earnestly at liis mother, ns if
something more was in his thoughts.
"Well, dear, what else?” said she, en
couragingly.
"When I forget you'll tell me, won’t
you ?”
"Yes, love.”
"And then I’ll stop. But don’t scold
me, mother, for then I can’t stop.”
Mrs. Lyon’s heart was touched. She
caught, her breath ami bent her head down
to conceal its expression, until it rested on
the silken hair of the child.
"Bea good boy, Tommy, and mother
will never scold you any more,” she mur
mured gently in his ears.
liis arms stole upward, and ns they
were twined closely about her neck lie
pressed liis lips tightly against her cheek
—thus sealing his part of the contract with
a kiss,
“How sweet to a mother's taste were these
first fruits of self-control. In the effort to
govern herself what n power had she ac
quired.
Only first fruits were these. In nil her
after days did that mother strive with her
self ere she entered into the contest with
tho inherited evils of her children; and
just so far as she w'as able to overcome
ovil in herself, she was nble to overcome
evil iu them. Often, very often, did she
fall book into the old states; nnd often,
very often was self-resistance only a slight
effort; but the feeble influence for good
thut flowed from her words or actions
whenever this was so, warned her of error,
and prompted a more vigorous self-control.
Need it bo said that she had an abundant
reward ?
Do Bnakkh Swallow theik Ynt xo?—
Mr. George Gabriel writes to the New Ha
ven Palladium that he is as certain snakes
do swallow their young as he is of his own
life. Years ago, he says: "In my native
town, I was strolling over a meadow, and
came near an old stump of a tree that was
quite decayed about the roots, when I was
somewhat startled at seeing a snake about
two feet long (commonly called striped
snake) with month wide open, nnd the
young snakes running in for safety, like
young frightened chickens into the coop
to their mother. Probably I inherited
considerable antipathy to serpents, for I
immediately killed the snake, and then
set about verifying the question as to
whether the young snakes really wont into
the mouth or under the mother. I opened
the snake and found eleven young live
snakes inside the body, averaging six inch
es in length, and from one-eighth to one
quarter in diameter.
We could have told him that an hundred
years ago, if our birth had not been de
ferred. It was one of tho first things wo
learned about “sarpeuts.”
Variety op Pood. —The Scientific
American is of the opinion that we. require
variety iu our final. It says experience
has proved that, for some reason unknown
to science, variety is essential to health
after reaching the age when we are free to
choose our food. The perpetual recurrence
of the same edibles, even though their
number he considerable, be corns in all pe
riods of life, except infancy, not only wea
risome, but positively injurious. Salt
pork, salt fish and potatoes, with pies,poor
bread, Japan ten, are the staples of food of
thousands of families during our long win
ters, It should be understood how need
ful a change of diet, is from time to time.
Flesh vegetables, partieulary in the coun
try, arc readily obtained and preserved, and
should lie unsparingly used. The edible
roots, ns turnips, carrots, onions and beets,
and calmges, arc as well worth preserving
as the*omnipresent potato. All these veg
rtables need thorough boiling, and more
than they generally get.
The pioneer bookseller of America,
Daniel Appleton, called upon an English
banker, or merchant, in Loudon, to open
a commercial credit with him. He de
clined. with the cool remark that ho had
already lost too much by Americans to
trust any more. Mr. Appleton quietly ro
: marked that, if he would turn to his books
and make out a bill for all goods sold by
him to defaulting Americans, he w ould give
; him a check for the amount on the spot,
i The astounded merchant had his books ex
amined, and the name of not one single
American firm was found. All his debt
ors were Englishmen!
State Gossip.
The garrison at Fort I’ulaaki is to be
removed to St. Augustine, Flo.
Savannah hns received the rails for the
Coust Line Railroad.
Macon has already received more than
one thousand bales of the new cotton crop.
The negro Amos Bone, who outraged a
colored girl in Macon the other day, has
been arrested, tried and convicted.
The citizens of Columbus wero horror
struck tho other day hy somebody starting
a free lunch.
The work of excavating for the new Ca
thedral in Savannah will soon be com
pleted.
The Hincsville Gazette says that the
storm which did so much damage in this
section last Friday, was perfectly liarmlujis
there.
It is rumored that an Auguste firm has
sent one hundred thousand dollars to its
New York correspondents to help them
out ill the financial crisis.
The South Georgia Times says that the
Storm King got loose on last Friday and
jerked things aliout promiscuously. We
have a vugtio idea that the wind did nlow
a little on that day.
A young Ethiope in Savannah the other
day, while riding along the street upon the
hack of a docile mule, received a blow on
the head from a rock thrown by some un
known hand, and wus so startled thereby
that he quietly sat down in the sand.
Last Saturday night an enterprising
darkey in Savannah, wanting to try his
skill with the pistol, took for liis target a
negro woman who was standing in or near
the marked, and his aim being accelerated
by an overdose of mean whisky, tlic ball
took effect in her left breast, inflicting a
painful wound.
A Savannah paper has this: "Noticeable
among the freight passing along Bay
street almost daily, from the various steam
ships running to this port, are light plan
tation wagons, wheel-barrows, wagon
shafts, nnd other such material. Com
ment is unnecessary, as the subject is ex
hausted.” Starvation to Southern me
chanics.
The Morn in {/ New is responsible for the
following: "A DeKalb man recently stole
n mule, gave himself up, plead guilty, and
was sentenced to the penitentiary for five
years. Ho explained his erne by saying
tbnt he wanted to get. rid of his w ife. It
is a pretty commentary on onr laws when
a man has to take refuge iu the peniten
tiary to get rid of his wife.”
We clip the following from ihe Aiher
liter and Republican: “A sad accident oc
curred the other day in the western port
of the city. A little boy, Joseph Angel
(’anet, aged four nnd a half years, the son
of Mr. Joseph Conet, a barber employed
at Cutino’s barber shop on Market square,
HI out of the window of his father’s house
on Zribly street, neiir Anji. It appears
that the little fellow told hi* mother, who
was engaged in sewing, that he was going
to help her clean the room, nnd getting
upon a chair at the window, lie pushed
the blinds open, nnd losing his balance,
was precipitated from the second story to
the pavement, his head striking the newel
post of the banister to the sloop, fractur
ing his skull in two places. He was picked
up senseless, and medical aid sent for.
Drs. Waring nnd Reid were soon in at
tendance, nnd did everytliing to relieve
the little sufferer.” We linvusince learned
that the little fellow, after much suffering,
died at 10 o’clock on Tuesday.
Magistrates must be queer birds. This
is what a Savannah paper sys about one
down there: "Yesterday afternoon some
sensation was created on Bryan street by
the appearance, in an open barouche, of a
certain well-knowu Magistrate, arrayed in
the height of fashion. ll* was so thor
oughly disguised iu black doeskin pants,
white vest and white cravat, claw-hammer
coat and silk beaver, that his own consta
bles, for the moment, were unable to recog
nize him. His No. 10 slippers were so
highly polished that they resembled minia
ture mirrors, and his kid gloves were of
spotless white. The sight was a rare one,
and attracted crow ds of spectators. Upon
inquiry we ascertained that the eminent
judicial magnate was en route to Lover’s
Lane to perform a marriage ceremony,
and ns the contracting parties were well
to do, he determined to go is style. Onr
hist reports concerning him were to the ef
fect that he was cutting a pigeon wing on
the top of a zig-zag rail fence, with a but
tle of champagne in one hand and twelve
pounds of cake in the other. ’’
♦- —*♦—
[London Post Lottr.)
Louis Napoleon and the Duke of Bruns
wick’s Fortune.
It happens to fall within my knowledge
that years ngo that eccentric Prince, the
late Duke of Brunswick, made the Prince
Imperial his sole legatee, thus leaving his
millions to the heir of a civil list of a mil
lion * year. He informed the Emperor of
this intention, and forwarded to him a
schedule of his many investments. It was
this schedule, found at the Tuileries among
the Emperor’s private papers by the insur
gents of the 4th of September, that gave
rise to the fable of the hoarded wealth
which Napoleon was said to liavs placed
in English, Dutch and other securities.
Since the Emperor’s death it has been
proved how poor a man he died. Not the
least singular part of the story is that im
mediately on the fall of tho Empire the
Duke of Brunswick rev si the disposi
tion of his vast fortune—which would now,
indeed, have been invaluable to one who
has little more than a great name for in
heritance—aud east about for some other
object sufficiently nnd securely wealthy to
justify the device of further riches. He
was residing at the flourishing city of Ge
neva, nnd it seems to have struck him that
the ancient Swiss Republic was possessed
of a vigorous and stable existence, nnd
Geneva of abundant resources. Accord
ingly, on tile sth of March, 1871, care
fully excluding all his relatives, he devised
the whole of his real and personal estate
to that- city, subject only to the charge of
a princely funeral aud the erection of a
magnificent mausoleum in which his em
balmed and petrified remains nre to be en
tombed amid statues of bronze aud mar
ble.
A Young Man Runs Away with a Judge’s
Wife He Takes the Two Children and
a Two-hnndred-and-fitty-ponnd Servant
Girl Along for Ballast.
The Leavenworth Times of the 2d says
that about two days ago a letter w’as re
ceived at polici headquarters in that city
from Bethany, Harrison county, Mo.,
stating that a young man by the name of
Samuel Frost had stolen his mother’s best
span of horses and eloped with the wife of
a prominent judge and merchant of that
place.* Besides the woman nnd her two
children—one at the breast—the young
renegade managed to get awfty with the
horse and carriage of the venerable judge;
nnd Inst, but not least of all his thieving*,
did feloniously steal und carry away,
against her will, the light, fragile and deli
cate corn-fed servant girl, who "kicks the
beam” at exactly two hundred and fifty
pounds.
Then he fled the town, and goaded the
horses on toward happy Kansas, where he
expected to settle down on some retired
spot out on the plains, where noone would
know him where everything was known
to be sweetly bucolic —where sweet milk,
sweet butter and tranquility reigned su
preme and everything was i vely. He did
not reach his paradise, however, owing to
his folly in placing himself in the way of
onr efficient and wide-awake police force.
Monday officer Spaulding got wind of a
camping party of one man and two women
at Three-mile creek, and concluded to go
out ands. who they were. As soon as
lie saw the portly domestic ho "knew
liis man at once,” anil apologizing to the
women for the intrusion, laid his hand on
Frost's shoulder and told him he was his
prisoner. Of course, the women fainted,
and the 250 pounds of servant-galiam
rolled her eyes wildly toward heaven and
dropped.
But this affecting tublenn did not affect
tho officer in the least. He took the two
horses, a wagon and the man Frost nnd
returned to the city, leaving the women
in camp to mourn tho loss of their pro
tector.
The Judge's horse nnd buggy were sold
about ten miles aeross the river in Mis
souri. He has been notified of the arrest
of the parties, and will probably send for
liis recreant wife at once.
Frost is young and unsophisticated, and
is entirely overcome with the calamity
which has befallen him and his harem.
That Judge was very indiscreet in ex
posing his tender wife anil delicate maid
to the ravages of Frost. The wife is en
tirely blighted; the maid much smitten.
Thk IsoF.re.NHEK.vr respectfully advises
the Judge to take them home again, and
be more faithful in the future in the dis
charge of his duties, and don't let Frost
fall on them any more.
[from the Southern Enterprise.
Drowned,
Two wonng ladies. Misses Sarah Norris
and Ella Ball, aged respectively 16 and 13
yearn, were drowned in the Ocklockonce
river on Sunday afternoon, a short dis
tance below 80. tla. & Flo. K. R. bridge.
The parents of these girls live in the 17th
district—the former a few miles, aud the
latter aim at one mile beyond the river.
Miss Norris was on a visit to Mr. Ball’s
family, and after dinner the two girls left
tlie house for the ostensible purpose of
biking a walk. Failing to return nt a sea
sonable hour, their friends became alarmed
and instituted search. No clue as to their
whereabouts was ascertained, and the news
of their mysterious absence was spread
; abroad through the neighborhood, and
the search became general. About 7
o’clock a. m., Monday morning the body
of one of the girls was discovered lodged
against a limb m the river, and near by,
on the sand bar was found tile clothing
and jewelry of both. This left no doubt
as to the fate of the other, and the search
ers at once directed their efforts to the re
covery of the body from its watery grave,
A short search proved successful—the
muring body being on the bottom in the
immediate vicinity of tho other.
Latkil —On Monday afternoon Mr. W.
L. Hudson, J. P. for the 1227th district,
held an inquest on the bodies —Dr. K. J.
Bruce making a pout mortem examination.
We have not seen the Justice’s return, but
learn that it is. in substance, that the gills
came to their death by drowning, at the
hands of unknown parties. We also learn
that the physician's affidavit is to the effect
that the person of Miss Norris had been
violated. On examining the grounds, a
large bare foot track was discovered on the
sand-bar upon which the girls left their
clothing, and leading from thence into the
water.
Emily Faithful, in her chapter on Amer
i ioan journalism, says of Greely and his suc
cessors: “The one thing that the childish
old man never learned —]>oliey—he found
lin Whitelnw Reid; and in time, it was
known that the blow that broke Greely’s
’ heart came, to Reid’s judgment, as some
| thing to he dealt with as a desert guide
I deals w ith a simoon. He was calculating
when it would blow over. Life to him is
Ia broad balance sheet. It was to Greeley
• like .he breeze that plays upon an zEolian
harp. Win c Greeley hesitated, Reid
pushes. Greeley discussed promises; Reid
1 insists on the undeniableness of his eon-
I elusions. He earns nothing for the passing
* rhetorical effect of his sentences, provided
I ho wins. The pail may be. red or yellow;
i but does it hold water? He is indefatigable.
i This man—keen cool, judicious, strategical
j unflinching—has not the slightest doubt
1 that the problem of guiding the Tribune
j through the many years to come, has been
solved by him. He lias a firm reliance on
his own strength, and he asks no man to
confirm it. In his management he is as
much like Barnes, of the London Times.
as anybody. ”
Robert Dale Owen, in liis autobiograph
ical narrative iu the Atlantic Monthly / for
September, relates the follow ing anecdote
of Mr. Greenwood, one of the Harmony
I colonists: We had, during the summer of
; 1820, several terrific thunder storms, such
as I had never before witnessed. The
steeple of our church was shattered, and
one of onr hoarding-houses struck. It was
during one of these storms, when the
whole lievens seemed illuminated, and the
rain was falling in torrents, that I saw old
Greenwood, thoroughly drenched, and
carrying upright, as a soldier does his
musket, a slender iron rod, ten or twelve
feet long. He was walking in the middle
of the street; passed with slow step the
house iu which I was, and, as I afterward
learned, paraded every street iu the village
in the same deliberate manner. Next day
I met him, and asked mi explanation. Ah,
well, my young friend, ” said he, “I am
very oh\, I'm not well, I suffer much, and
I thought it might be a good chance to slip
off, and be laid quietly iu the corner of the
I peach orchard” (the tempoaiy cemetery
I of the settlement).
A Galena man went to the cemetery, dug
up his father’s glare stone, aud offered it
for sale to a marble cutter. The Gazette
triumphantly adds, as a challenge to the
world: "Bring on your mean men!”
The great-grandfather, grandfather, and
uncle of Miss Jennie Bnrham. who was
drowned in Grand Bay, at Newmarket.
; N. H.. were drowned in the same bay,
within a mile of w here was found.
Greenwich Time.
Never hud science a more pleasant re
treat than Greenwich Observatory appears
to lie this bright summer morning.
For all its pleasant aspect, however, the
iden of exploring it is a decidedly formi
dable one. At the very entrance gates
one feels suddenly convicted of the most
abject ignorance. Here are mysterious
metal pins fixed on the wall for the deter
mination of British measurement, and the
question at once auses, what have these
hi do with astronomy? Then there is a
great clock-dial on which the hours are
reckoned from one to twenty-four, and
which is popularly believed to be kept go
ing by the sun.
Determined to clear the way as he goes
on, the visitor niukcs these outer difficul
ties the subjects of his first inquiries on
pulling admittance, and he discovers to
his amusement that the very length of his
trousers, and the cut of his coat, and the
height of his hat have all been determined
by measurements based upon the motions
of the heavenly bodies.
A tailor’s yard measure, it appears, bears
o'certain proportion to the length of a
p< minium which, under specified condi
tions, beats accurate seconds of time, and
seconds of time are determined by as
tronomical observation. If the tailor
w ishes to verify his measure he has only to
bring it to the observatory gate, where he
will find a standard absolutely accurate.
Ah to the clock, it is an astronomer’s clock,
and astronomers know nothing of a. m’s
anil p. m’s; their calculations ore suffi
ciently complicated without them. The
notion that it in kept going by the snn is,
it need hardly be said, a mere delusion.
On passing the outer portal of the ob
servatory, the visitor finds himself in an
open court-yard, with an irregular pile of
buildings on his left hand. Entering a
low doorway in one of these, lie is at once
interested to discover that he is really at
what may Ik: considered the fountain head
of all onr computations of time. The
chief business of Greenwich, as .all the
world knows, is to tell us the time of day,
and in this small and somewhat mean
looking apartment is the great telescope
by which observations for this purpose are
effected.
The instrument—the transit circle, as it
is technically called—ia twelve feet in
length, ml its largest glims is eight iuches
in diameter. It is suspended by the mid
dle between two massive atone buttresses
in such a manner as to permit of its sweep
ing the sky in a straight line overhead,
though it cannot lie veered round to the
right or left.
We have arrived, let us suppose, a little
before noon; the sun is about to cross the
meridian, and an observation is to be
made. Shutters in the roof are thrown
open, the great telescope is swung up and
fixed in position, and an observer seats
himself at the lower end of it. While we
are waiting for the great luminary, let us
take a peep through the instrument. All
that can he seen is a number of vertical
lines—technically called wires, though
they are in reality ao many pieces of col>
web—stretched across the field of oliser
vation at irregular distances. The center
one is the celebrated meridian of Green
wich, or at all events it represents it, and
it is carious to reflect that from this cen
ter lino ships of all nations, and in all
parts of the known world, are reckoning
their distances; that this little piece of
cobweb is, practically, all that divides the
world into eastern and western hemis
pheres.
While we nre peering along the telescope
the drowsy tinkling of innumerable clocks
is heard through the still summer air, aud
we begin to think, for once at leant, the
sun in behind time. If not, then it seems
plain that all the Greenwich clocks are
wrong, a supposition which is quite at va
riance with all our traditional ideas of the
place. On inquiry it is gratifying to find
that our faith in Greenwich timepieces is
perfectly justified, and that it really is the
sun that is behind time. Tho apparent
motion of the sun, as everybody knows, is
really the motion of the earth. Now, tin
earth moves round the gnu in a kind of
oval pathway. When she is on either side
of this oval her motions are accelerated,
and the sun will cross the meridian before
he is due. Just now, however, we are at
one end of the oval, and the earth mnviis
slowly, and. as you see, the sun is behind
hiR time. It is clear, therefore, that, if
the Greenwich clocks were to he regulated
according to the time at w hich the lord of
the day puts in an appearance at this little
cobweb, they would require constant al
teration. They are, however, set to record
(lie average time of his transit. This nev
er varies, and twelve o'clock "Greenwich
mean time” is simply the mean or average
time at which, throughout the year, the
suti crosses the meridian.
Let the observer now resume his watch
at the instrument. What he lias to do is
to record the precise instant at which the
sun’s edge or "limb,” ns astronomers ex
press it. passes that central "wire.” In
any single observation, however, he may
be a little at fault, and, for the sake of
greater accuracy, therefore, lie will note
the instant at wnicli it passes over all the
“wires,” and then strike an average be
tween them.
Slowly the sun creeps up to the first line,
and the observer lightly taps a little spring
attached to the telescope. The second
"wire" is reached, nnd again the spring is
tapped, and so on throughout the whole
of the seven or nine webs employed in the
observation.
This spring is connected with a tele
graphic wire extending to a "chronograph”
in a distant part of tho building, and, in
order to understand the method of record
ing the observation, we will now follow
the telegraphic signal; or, os imagination
is even swifter than tho telegraph, we will
imagina that we have reached the "chro
nograph” first, and are there ready to re
ceive the signals.
Accordingly we find ourselves in a queer
littlo chamber, in which the most promi
nent object is a very beautiful specimen of
a clock, whose pendulum, instead of os
cillating backwards and forwards, swings
round in a circle, thus producing a motion
perfectly uniform and unbroken. This
clock is revolving the “chronograph,”
which consists of a cylinder around which
a sheet of white paper has been strained,
while we nre watching this revolving bar
rel, we see the observer’s signals come.
A little steel point, which is traveling over
the surface of the paper, is in electric
Communication with the spring attached
to the great, telescope, and every time the
observer taps the spring this little travel
ing point, pricks into the paper, thus re
cording that the sun lots just crossed a
"wire.” This, in itself, however, would
not be a record of the time of transit if
it were not that another little steel point,
which is in connection with a galvanic
clock in another part of the building, bas
proviuosly marked the sheet of paper into
spaces representing precise seconds of
time. On the completion of the observa
tion. the paper may be removed from the
cylinder, and affords a permanent record
of it.
Nothing, perhaps, throughout the Ob
servatory at Greenwich is calculated to
strike the visitor with greater astonish
ment than that galvanic clock to which
reference hi- ;, ist been made. There is
nothing vei -arkable in its appearance,
but the work >. accomplishes renders it
pci haps tlic most wonderful clock in th<-
world, and certainly the most important
one in England.
In the first place, as wc have seen, it
plays an impoihint part in registering ob
servations. Besides this, it regulates sev
eral clocks within the Observatory, us well
ns the large one already referred to outside
the gates; one nt Greenwich hospital
schools, another at tho London bridge
station of the Southwestern railway,
another nt the l’ost Office, St. Martin’s le-
Grand, and another in Lombard street.
Once every day it telegraphs correct time
to the great clock tower ut Westminster;
it drops the signal ball over the Observa
tory, another near Charing Cross, and one
at Deal; it tires time guns nt Shields and
Newcastle, nnd every hour throughout tho
day it flashes out correct time to each of
the railway companies. All this is accom
plished, as it were, by the mere volition
of the clock, and without any human in
terference whatever. Every morning it ia
corrected by an actual observation of a
star; and thus, without living aware of it,
do we every day start our traius, and make
our appointments, and take our meals by
the motions of the heavenly bodies, as ob
served and recorded during the preceding
night.
We now proceed to one of those curious
little domes surmounting various parts of
the observatory. Here we find an instru
ment devoted entirely to the study of the
moon. Observations of the moon are of
immense importance to is aa a nation of
navigators, inasmuch os she affords tho
means of determining longitude at aca.
Her motions, however, from various causes
are of an extremely complicated nature,
and it is very necessary that she shall bo
oliserved at all times and under all eirenm
stanees. But with tho transit circle, tho
instrument first noticed, it is plain that
the moon could he observed only when
she is crossing the meridian, and not al
ways then. Some five or six-aml-twenty
years ago, therefore, Sir George Airy, the
present Astronomer Royal, designed tho
“Altazimuth,” nnd since then the impor
tance of Greenwich as a lunar observatory
has been just about doubled.
With this instrument and the transit
circle tho observatory might do ail that,
strictly speaking comes within its province.
The w hole duty of Greenwich,as defined liy
Herschcl, is "to furnish now nnd in all fu
ture time the best and most perfect data
by which the laws of tho lunar and plane
tary movements, as developed by theory,
can tie compared with observation.” Men
surative astronomy for practical pur[H>c
is the great business of Greenwich.
{From the New York Graphic.]
Peril in the Air.
Tile financial situation is nneeKain.
The break of the gold corner, instead of
relieving the market and removing appre
hension, has increased the sense of inse
curity and brought trouble where it was
least expected. The failure of Kenyon,
Oox A Cos. almost started a panic on tho
street, not so much because of the liabili
ties of this well-known and trusted firm,
as because it indicated the general condi
tion of unsoundness and uncertainty in
monetary affairs. When Mr. Drew, whose
operations are on a vast scale, nnd who
usually knows where he stands and steps,
found it convenient to redeem the paper
he had endorsed, and w r ns obliged to
steady himself to keep from falling with
the house of which he was special partner,
the entire business community recognized
the peril of the situation, and the opera
tions of every broker and banker showed
that the street was in a fever. The danger
of an immediate crisis Ims paused. But
all the causes which conspired to produce
the fluctuations in tho market und the
momentary disturbances of the lost fort
night nre operating still, nnd the inevita
ble panic is probably merely postponed
for a time. If nothing else would lewd to
it, the universal feeling of insecurity on
the part of capitalists nud bankers, the
apprehension which lurks in the nir and
keeps everybody on the outlook for dis
aster, the disjHwitiou of all extensive oper
ators to draw iu their lines and make their
sitnation secure, would help produce the
pinic they temporarily avert.
A good many wise speculations are made
as to the cause of the present feverish and
threatening state of our monetary affairs.
One of the most important of their causes
is generally overlooked. It is reunukabln
that all onr recent monetary troubles lravo
been directly connected with railroad
operations. Formerly it was the rule: to
sell all the stock of a road that coulel bo
disposed of before the road was built, and
to make up the deficit in mortgage! bonds.
These bonds held the road. They paid
interest at the current rates, and were
much sought for its permanent institutions.
Tlieir character became established, and
they were in general demand. But with
in a few years the entire method of pro
cedure has been reversed. A small num
ber of stockholders, representing an insig
nificant amount of capital, have obtained
a charter for a road, nnd then, hare sold
the bonds for tho money with which to
build it These bonds represented tho
entire cost of the road, aud often three
times the amount of its uctunl value. Tho
inevitable consequence was that hundreds
of people who bought bonds on tho
strength of their well established ebaraetor
found themselves in the. possession of de
preciated, if not worthless pajie.r. They
wore proprietors of a debt, and instead of
receiving interest on their investments
were fortunate if they escaped an assess
ment. In this way the value of this kind
of property has fallen from a high point
to a very low one, and millions of dollars
have gone to that bourne whence no money
ever returns. These operations in rail
road bonds have liad a disastrous effect on
our money market and all our business
transactions, and go far to account for our
present financial embarrassments. The
bitter, biting experience of the last five
years should teach our bankers and capi
talists the danger of dabbling in the bonds
of unbuilt railroads which represent a
want and not a property, anil which, w hen
completed, will be managed by a small
body of stockholders w hoso pecuniary res
ponsibilities are insignificant aud for their
own profit. Just now, while the present
feeling of alarm fills the air and nobody
knows who to trust or what to it
is obviously important for all who hare
money to keep it at command, or invest
it iu government securities, or those
equally safe and remunerative. The les
son of prudence in expemliture is always
in order, but never more so than when on
the brink of what may possibly prove a
severe conrmereial crisis.
How Yotrxo Men Should Drink
Stand up straight like a man. your left side
to the bar, take the glass neatly and firm
ly between the thumb aud forefinger of
the right hand, lettiDg the little finger
drop down to near the bottom of the glass,
swing the glass iu a plane exactly corres
ponding with the top of the bar, until it is
precisely before you. Just then throw the
head back a little, push the chin forward,
so as to leave the throat in a full, open,
easy position. Compress the lips tightly,
draw a full breath through the nostrils,
and with a graceful enrve raise the glass
until the rim is within about three inches
of your chin. Now is the supreme moment.
Just here, turn your eyes upward, think
of your mother, and open your hand in
stead of your month! If any one laughs it
will be an insult which you should
by not going there again. __