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EDWIN MARTIN, Proprietor, Devoted to Home Interests and Culture. TWO DOLLARS A NT ear in Advancf, VOLUME IX. PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1879. NUMBER -2(1. the cottage gate* BY ETHEL LABS. j„ the aultrj time of mowing, When the fields ore full of hay. Pretty Janet brings her sewing To the gate, at the close of day. Do yon wonder that she lingors— Often glances down thebtue? Do you ask me why her fingers geem to find their work a strain? Dore-dreams hold her in their tethor, Lots is often (as we know) Idle in the summer weather, Idlest in the sunset glow. Sow the toil of day is over; Janet has not 1 ] ng to wait p«r it shadow on the clover, And a footstej at the gate. Dow is this?—the slighted sheeting Has been taken up anew; Very quiet is her greeting, Hcarcely raised those eyes of blue. Now he leans upon the railing, Tells her all about the hay; Still his pains were unavriling— Very little will she say. If you think it strange, my reader, Learn a lesson from the rose, gha, from the garden's queenly leader, Fairest flower that ever blows! Not at once she flaunts her petals; Firsts bud of sober green; By-and-by the stretching sepals Show a dash of red between. Breezes rock her; sunbeams woe her; Wide and wider does she start; Opens all her crimson treasure, Fields the fragrance at her heart. Ah! the rose b ids will not render All their secrets in one day! And the maiden, shy and tender. Is as diffident as they. The Obstructed Track. On a crisp night in October the wind rustled the leaves in the woods that sur rounded Viola Vatliek’s home. Above the fair girl who looked out at a small dormitory window shone count- less «*ars; she might nave seen Boots and Orion hud she looked up, but that night the worlds of heaven had no at traction for her. Blie was listening to a strange sound borne from the west by the nocturnal brcez*> that chilled her cheek. I might- have said, with propriety, a succession of sounds, for it seemed as if a number of person* were cording wood or moving heavy timber not far away. Save this noise the night was quiet, and she could hear without interruption from the window of her'boudoir,. •*I believe it is in 'Gwynne’s cut,’ ” she said at last to herself. “Perhaps some viilain is obstructing the track for devilish purposes. The Bed Bird will soon be duo, and this is Ed’s trip down.” Her face grew a trifle paler as she spoke, and a moment later she stood before the ancient wall-sweeper in oue of the rooms. The moonbeams stealing in at the wiudow fell on the face of the dial and ■showed her it was 12 o’clock. “Twelve,” she murmured. “What! 12 o’clock, and he whistles to me at hal'-past 1 Mercy! What if the track is obstructed in the cut!” With the last words on her lips she soon left the house. At Hie gate she paused a moment and listened. The sounds were still to be heaid, ond she believed that they ema nated from a spot in the cut near the eattle-guard. Then she started forward again and crossed the meadows that lay between her home and her destination. The stars looked down upon a little object that glittered like silver in Vio la's hand. It was a revolver and her fingers held it firmly. She was the belle of the country she inhabited. Her father was dead, and with her widowed mother and a little brother of twelve, she dwelt in the humble house won by the sweat of her father’* brow. A railway station called Beamout was the only settlement near, and it was six miles away from her home. She sel dom went thither, for there was no so ciety there, and she could enjoy herself better at home. The track of iron was the m»kiDg of Beamout, for the road was new, and towns were springing up all along the line. Viola could see the cars from the window, and often bad she sat there un til the jlaiuing headlight of the midnight express had appeared and disappeared. An opening in the woods enabled her to see the headlight a moment, and then the lighted windows of the cars. Did the engineer know that she was watching—that his engine gave two shrill shrieks as it reached the opening —two shrieks tnat seemed to say, “Yio- laj Viola!” The brace of shrieks, loud and shrill, told her who drove that engine toward the great city on the Mississippi banks. 1’hey recalled the day, one year since, when the first engine she ever saw store at Beamout, scarcely a station then. The engineer was young and handsome; *a he saw her examining great driv ing wheels, and looking with wonder ment upon the mighty beauties of his iron p«t, he leaped to the ground. “A pretty piece of machinery," said he to her, “and she goes like a bird.” She blushed when she caught his eye, find the sound of his vpico thrilled her. Overcoming timidity, he helped her into his cozy apartment on the engine, and explained to her the wonderful mechanism of this beautiful monster.— •Then he said g„od-bye, and she saw the train move off, and his hat waving from the engine was the last thing she saw of the tram as it darted around a curve. A week later she found herself at the engine talking to him agauf. Their meeting seemed purely accidental, and no doubt it was such, but I am sure the meetings that followed were not. By and by Ed Gordon, the engineer, carried a picture over his heart, and oh Viola’s bureau lay the photographic semblance of his face. Thus the acquaintance begun at the station during the Bed Bird’s trial trip over the ntw road, had ripened into love, and two midnight shrieks told her he was safe and driving his engine to ward the river metropolis. She sat at her window oft-times, witu her lamp on the sill, and often fancied she could see him leaning from the win dow of his engtne, with his eyes fixed to catch a glimpse of her, bat the train would be swallowed up in the woods again. This life was excitement and joy to Viola; but it was passing away. The time was coming when Ed Gordon would leave the road and accept the sus periutendency of the company’s car shops in a flourishing city. But let me return to the October night when Viola left her home to in vestigate the sounds which seemed to come from Gwyune’s cut. She felt that obstructions were being placed npou the track in that dismal place. Of late the company had incurred the hatred of several persons in the vi cinity of the station, and once or twice the track had been tampered with, but fortunately to no serious extent. Tho night express generally went through the cut with undimiuished speed, for no obstruction hadbeeniten- countered there, though the cattle-guard in tae centre would assist the evil dis posed. Viola at last reached the cut, into which the mellow moonbeams fell, nnd paused. Something high and dark ob structed the track before her, at the very spot where the cattle-guard seemed to be, and she held her bieath. It was 12 o’clock when she left the house, nnd her walk occupied a number of precious minutes. The shrieks of the Bed Bird would soon be heard, and a moment thereafter its headlight would flash into cut. the She saw more than a pile of strong ties on the track. She saw the dark figure of a man moving about the pyra mids, as if contemplating his night’s work and speculating upon tho death and ruin It would cause. She watched uutil she believed one man had accom plished the diabolical deed, then she crept forward through the shadow of the bushes that lined the sides of the cut, until she stood within ten feet of him. “l’il go back to the station, now,” she heard him say to himself. “I can get there before the accident, and when it occurs, why I can run up there and see him under the mins of his engine, so crushed that that doll-faced girl of his will not recognize him.” A cru«l laugh rippled over his lips as he stepped back from the pile of ties, several of which he had forced into tho guard, where they were wedged like posts of iron. He enjoyed his own words as he viewed the work of his mad hands. The last words, full of devilish triumph, still quivered on his lips when Viola stopped from the shadows and thrusi the muzzle of her revolver into his face. He startodback with a cry of horror and mattered her name. “This is your revenge, MorganDnke, she said, looking sternly into his eyes. “Now obey my commands, or there will be a lifeless body on this track to be mingled among the ruins of the night express. To work at once; off with your coat, and remove every obstruc tion your wicked hands have placed here.” “The train can’t be saved now,” he said; nnd there was joy in his tones. “It took me one long hour to obstruct the guard. In twenty minutes, or less, per haps, you’ll see the Bed Bird’s head light np the cut.” “Villain!” she cried, “if this iraokis not dear when I see her headlight, I’ll drive a ballet through yonr brains. — You know what to do. I’ll talk no long- Covered by her revolver as he was, Morgan Dnke, the station master, doff ed his coat and went to work. Viola never took his eyes from him, and the silvery moon that rested over the cut showed his every movement.— He was on the pile of ties, barling them one by oue, with the strength of a mod em Sampson, upon the not over-wide grade. He worked for life, for he knew when the thundering train was due, and a glance at the girl on the track told him that she would sorely kill him if he did not do her bidding.' Once she said to Mm as he paused for a breath before attacking the ties wMoh he had driven into the oattls- guard: “I never thought this of you, Morgan Duke- "When I rejected you I thought you would bear it like a man.” He replied not, hut glanced at his watch. “Half-past 12.” he said. “To work!” was the stem command, and Viola stepped forward an brought. the levolver nearer his head. He tagged at the ties with great Strength, and large drops of perspira tion stood ont on his forehead. “I can’t get them out,” he said. “You must wi;s the reply. The girl’s face grew paler than ever, and she glanced fearfully up the cut. “Take them out.” she said suddenly, “the train is coming; I hear it!” The villainous station master heard the rumbling and again turned to the ties. Viola watched him as woman never watched man before. She knew that he was doing all that could be done to undo his wicked work, and while she watched, her heart grew still beneath the ramble of the express. ‘•He’ll soon call me,” she said to her self. “There! there!” The familiar shrieks cleft the cool October air, but they brought no joy to her heart. She was not at the old win dow beside the light he loved to hail from his engine. Perhaps she would be the first to kiss his cold brow be neath the stars in Gwynne’s cut. She almost shouted for joy when she saw the first tie drann from the guard by tlie despairing man, “Quick! the sledge! break the guard!” she cried. “God! I never thonght of that,” he he said, and the next moment he was shattering the long guard with' the heavy sledge. At that the lie was broken, and he thrust the other ties into the long open ing be had made. At that moment the train rounded the curve and dashed into the cut, and the flashing headlight, not twenty feet away almost blinded the eyes of the twain. Morgan Duke stepped from tlie track and threw himself upon the ties, utterly exhausted. He saw triumpluu the girl’s eyes, and wutehed her as the train came on. Oh! for strength to hurl her beneath the wheels of the thundering train.— Her revolver had cea.se:! to cover him,- but he could not have lilted even a child. The train dashed by. Viola saw her lover’s face a moment, and an exclamu- t ou of thankfulness welled from her heart. He was safe, and the precious lives that he carried westward. “You’re a worker, Morgan Duke,” she said to him, smiling. “Wo will sepa rate here.” He looked at her a moment in silence. “Are you going to tell?” lie asked. “Such men as you are dangerous,” she replied. “Then you are going to expose mu?” “I am.” He did not reply. They parted forever there. Morgon Duke was never caught by the officers of the law, but justice afterwards over took him. The iron wheels of a rail way train caught him on the .track. The company presented Viola with a beautiful house, wkeu her husband took charge of the car'shops. I know she will never regret her night in Gwyune’s Cat with her rejected lov er. Massacres in the South. Pacific.'— American vessels navigating the South Pacific would be wise to give Brooker Island, one of the Culvadas group, a wide berth. A Mr. B. B. Ingham un dertook to visit Brooker Island for the purpose of reclaiming some property that had been seized and appropriated by the savages. His steamer was well equipped. He had a good crew and in addition two Chinese and three Kanakas. Two guns were mounted on the steamer one of which was a nme-pounder. The na tives received the party with great ap parent kindness, killed two pigs injtheir honor, invited them ashore, and three daye afterward- massacred the whole of them. The steamer was plundered and dismantled. It is now reported that six parties of shipwrecked seamen and becbe-le-mer parties have been mur dered within a recent period among the islands of this group. Selling A Cm.—The city of Altoo na, Blair county, Pa., has 20,000 in habitants, but there is no money in the city treasury, and it owes a debt to the State for corporation taxes of §£,208.10. The State has obtlined judgment, and has notified the authorities of the city that unless the debt is immediately paid, the city shall be sold to satisfy it- Lockhaven and Sunbnry, it is reported, are in like case with Altoona, and mast be knocked down to the highest bid der. This power of the State of Penn sylvania to sell np its delinquent cities is a peculiar one, and grows out of the fact that the State lays taxes only on corporations of the different sort with in its borders.. The American Bible Society of New York are now offering neatly printed Bibles for twenty-five cents. To the trade these books are sold at a reduction of ten per cent, on the catalogue price. The books are well printed and are a wonder of cheapness. was a grave blunder,. —— ----A. THE EXODUS TROUBLE. The Excited Citizens of Kansas And Missouri Think They Have Had Enough oe It. The excitement in Wyandotte over the colored tronble is steadily on the increase. The best of friends differ, and loud and angry words aro heard on the streets, in offices, stores, and in fact everywhere. The action of the Belief Committee in having Mayor Stockton withdraw his proclamation regarding the landing of colored fugitives has created general dissatisfaction, as it is considered an open instigation for all boats to land colored immigrant paupers on the Wyandotte shore. The majority of the citizens deemed it necessary that prompt action be taken in regard to prohibiting the binding of tho colored people on the “Durfee.” About seven o’clock on Monday night that long ex- pection boat reached Wyandotte. As soon as she touched shore, as agreed upon by a number of citizens, Capt Nelson interviewed Capt. Kieth of the boat, explaining to him the situat on of affairs, stating to him the excited con dition the people were in, and request ing him not to land any more darkies at. W. andotte. At first the Captain ob jected, but after consideration conclud ed he would not land, and therefore dropped down the stream, and landed about two hundred and forty passen gers at tbe old Bigger packing house, in Kansas City, Kansas. As may be im agined the citizens there were very in dignant at the proceeding, but had to do as Wyandotte had done, accept the situation. Tbe class that arrived are mostly from the Mississippi and of the same order as the former arrivals. Four of their number had died on their way up, and were carried on shore to be buried in Kansas soil. There are a few sick, but generally they are healthy; their ideas are much the same as these who arrived some weeks since, and they are all af ter the 160 acres of land and a mule team. What Kansas City, Kansas, is going to do with them has not been learned, although it is stated the ne groes will be sent southwest this morn ing. Wyandotte will ship the balance of her immigration over the Fort Scott road this morning. This will clear her of this trouble. There were several gentlemen from a distance yesterday in Wyandotte offer ing advice, and no doubt kindly meant, but in reality*only taking up the time of the committee and doing no good, Wyandote is small but it seems to be the opinion that she c-an regulute her own affairs. Send her no more negroes, nnd she wants no more money or sym pathy,—The citizens seemed determin ed yesterday that their thriving little city shall not be made a rendezvous for colored paupers. In this they are back boned by the entiro resident • colored population, and therefore, after the shipment of the immigrants this morn ing, will need no further pecuniary as sistance, as no more will be landed here. If a few of the crazy loons who keep shouting. “Bring on your col ored people, we will help them,” etc., could be sent to the Ossawotamie As- sylum, the trouble would die out iu a few days, and would all be quiet. Daniel L. Bussell of North Carolina, who was elected Judge of the Superior Court of lhas State for six years by the republicans, without ever having gradu ated on the legal profession, and who was elected to the present Congress by a coalition between the republicans and Greenbackers in the Washington Dis trict, was a Confederate soldier, aud a large slaveholder at the outbreak of the rebellion. Upon quitting the army he changed his views, consorted with the negroes and carpet-baggers, and was thus accepted as a local Bepublican leader. He belongs to a class who have contributed largely to briDg ruin and desolation upon what was left of the Nouth after the civil war was over. This small demagogue is now seeking to secure the support of the men whom he persecuted when he had the power, and here is the manner which he takes to commend himself to the Bepublicans of the North, and to the ex-Confeder- ates of his district, in a speech deliv ered in the House of Bepresentatives: “I am not afraid to say that I hope the time will come when the poor Con federate soldier, hobbling on his crutch es, will be pensioned by this Govern ment. If sny man wants to take that np on this floor, I am ready to discuss it, and to‘take tbe full responsibility of what Isay.”—Kansas City Times. If that declaration had been made by a Demorat, how the changes would been rung- upon it by the patri otic party organs. But as it comes from a Bepublican, of course it will be passed by iu silence. Secretary John Pinkston Sherman says the act of 1S73 demonetizing silver of nervousness, the practice was rapeat- A British Cavalryman suggests that ibe art of swimming on horseback be regularly practiced, whenever possible, by the British cavalry, and urges as a reason the recent loss of an entire squadron of the Tenth Hussars while attempting to ford the river Cabul. He mentioned that last summer he saw a French cavalry regiment practice ‘mounted swimming” in the Seine. If either men or horses exhibiting signs THE KEELY MOTOR Almost simultaneously with the an nouncement of the patents issued to Mr. Edison is connection with his invention of tbe means of practically applying the electric light, some very remarkable ac counts come to us from Philadelphia m regard to the completion of tlie “Keely motor.” These accounts—the New York World gives three columns and a half to the subject, and the Philadel phia Press nearly as much more—are to the effect that Mr. Keely has found out how to “generate” a new “force,” which, by the simple introduction of a quart of water into his apparatus and the turning of a crank, developes a power of twenty-five thousand pounds to the square inch. This force is represented as being practically inexhaustable, and it drives bullets (according to the wit nesses) through a steel-plate and twelve inches of pine, plack. Mr. Keely has also “invented” in this same connec tion, a “vibratory engine,” _wliich is claimed to apply and render of practi cal service his new force, and some very wonderful things are told of this ma chine. Mr. Keely is said to be backed by some capitalists who are known to have made their money by the employ ment of known forces in a practical and economic way. As to the unknown force —until it should become better known —it will perhaps he advisable for care ful investors to wait before they com promise themselves by investing too heavily. There is a “vibratory force” in fancy stocks which, like what Mr. Keely claims for his new force, has be fore now pulled down the strongest honses.—Savannah News. The New York Herald publishes in a late issue a long letter from a corres pondent who is engaged iu “working up” the South. His reports about Georgia are to the effect that the State is rapidly improving in wealth and gen eral prosperity; that the difficulties un der which the white and negro both suffer in this State are those which arise from ignorance, and they cau only be removed by the gradual growth of intel ligence, and that no legislation can pos sibly reach them. He also says that the product of cotton in Georgia, North Carolina aud Texas will be so much in creased as to effectually offset any pos sible decrease which may be occasioned in Louisiana and Mississippi on account of the nigro exodus from those States. Oue of the gentlemen interviewed by said coire6pondcnt is of the opinion that in a few years the seed belonging to a bale of cotton will be worth fully half as much 'as the bale itselt, as it can he made useful in the following manner: “The lint left on the seed by the gin can be used for batting. The hull for tanning, or for the extraction of dye stuff's. The spent hull for paper stock, for which it is admirable. The kernel first for oil and the residue for feed.— There are new methods lately disclosed for extracting every partiole of oil, which leave the'residuum a sweet, dry and extremely nutritious food for sheep or cattle—more nutritious than beans; and if the residue be fed to sheep on the cotton field the crop of cotton will be doubled and the clip of wool added thereto. ” Hear what Daniel Webster said upon the army question: “Quite too frequent resorts are made to military force, and quite too much of the substance of the people is consumed in maintaining armies, not for defense against foreign aggression hut’ for en forcing obedience to domestic authori ty. A military republic, a government founded on mock elections and sup ported only by the sword, is a move ment indeed, but a retrograde and dis astrous movement from the regular and old fashioned monarchical systems. If men would enjoy the blessings of re publican government they must govern themselves by reason, by mutual coun sel and consultation, by a sense and feeling of general interest and by the acquiescence of tho minority in the will of the majority, properly expressed; and above all the military must be kept, according to the language of onr bill of rights, in strict subordination to the civil authority. Wherever this lesson is not both learned and practiced there can be no political freedom. Absurd, preposterous as it is, a scoff, and a satire on free forms of constitutional liberty, for frames of government to be prescrib ed by military leaders and the right of sni ff age to be exercised at the point of the sword.” Szegedin is threatened with pesti lence, now that the floods have sub sided. Eight thousand of the.ten thou sand honses in that afflicted city lie in rains. Nine hundred dead bodies have been found under the fallen walls of the Cathedral;fetid deposits of slime and mnd cover the streets to the depth of six feet, and the streets and surround ing country are filled with decaying casses of drowned animals. It is hardly possible that these tMngs will fail to breed pestilence, and the inhabit touts are seriously in dread of an out break of plague like that of Yetlianka. THE ORGAN OF THE NIHILISTS. I CONCERNING DIAMONDS. The chief Nihilist organ, wMch is 1 It is generally known that there is -in clandestinely distributed throughout: Georgia an immense ledge, the forma- Russia, is entitled Semla i Swaboda 1 tion commonly called “elastio sand* (Country and Liberty), and is printed] stone,” whicb is the matrix of the dim* in quarto form. It ctaims to hold jn- j niond. It is described by Dr. M. F. risdietion over everybody. It warns, Stephenson, in his book, now almost threatens and pardons right and left, aod gives prompt and aoenrato informa tion respecting the carrying out of its sentences, which are those of the rev olutionary committee. It is fonnd everywhere. It is laid by nnseen bamls on the master’s table, is unex pectedly discovered among the banker’s registers, and the Imperial Councillor is astonished to meet with it among Ms papers; it is slipped furtively between tho sheets of Conservative journals—in a word, it finds its way as if by en chantment on the tables of the chafes and into the private houses of rich aud poor. It appears twice a month, and advertises for subscribers. It mentions the Nihilists pamphlets which have ap peared, and informs the public that oth ers bearing this or that title are shortly to be published, the prices of wMch are given’but the editor contents himself with designating the place at which they can be bought as the “well known house.” On the day after Gen. Mesentzeff was murdered the Semla i Sicaboda appeared illustrated with a large cartoon, in which the General was represented as lying.in state, the first page being occupied with a kind of praclamation giving the reasons which had decided the committee to jjro- nounce the sentence of death upon him. Three days after the secret print ing offices in St. Petersburg were dis covered by the Russian police a man was assassiuated at Mosco v, but who he was aud why he had been murdered remained a mystery till the Semla i Sicaboda published the fallowing notice. “Ou the Dili of March the traitor Rein- stein was executed iii the Moscow Ho tel, at Moscow, Reiustein, a Polish Jew. disclosed to the police the whereabouts of two of the printing offices. We have therefore killed him. The government need not boast of having made any great discovery. It has fonnd nothing of any great value. The editors port folio being seized, has certainly caused us some inconvenience, bat as we never sigh any of our articles the affnir has no further importance. It will be useless to offer gold; traitors will not be found in our ranks. Bcinstean was only an agent—a newspaper distributor. Wo have at our command such considera ble sums of money chat we can resist all attempts at l>rib< ry. The execution of Meseutzeg cost us 6,000 roubles, Krapotkin nearly as much: neverthe less, we still possess £00,000 roubles for the accomplishment of our work.” A Chinese Expedient.—A law aimed at the Chinamen’s desire to remove the bodies of their friends to their native country for burial has been passed by the Nevada Legislature, It forbids un der heavy penalties the digging np of any budy without first obtaining a per mit from the Board of County Com- misioners. Wishing to know what the Chinese thought of the law, u reporter questioned a leading Chinamen, who said: “Well, what can do must do. White man makee law kiznesa, China man makee new plan—that all.” “Hovi do you make a now plan, John?” "Well new law biznes3 makee some trouble. No matter; we makee some bizness, too.” “What will you do?” “Come see—me show.” The CMnemen led the way to a shed in the rear of his store, and pointing to half a dozen tall eartkern jars of an oval shape, said: “White man raukee new law bizness, we makse new funeral bizness. Me company send ’em big jar. S’pose one my man die; put him in jar, cork up, send California, where no hab got new law. Good bizness, hey?” A Mouses.—The Mississippi Sun is in favor of domesticating black snakes for the purpose of exterminating rats and mice aud “sick” like pestiferous evils that disturb tbe even tenor of home life. They are not only better mocsers than cats, but they eat less and. catch their own grub. Then they are quiet, and are never seen on the top of the barn with their baoks bumped and the fur standing straight ont like pins stuck in there sides, and then give a shriek so unearthly, and differ ent from all earthly sounds, tbat mis taking it for anything but a caterwaul is simply impossible. The first engine crossed the railroad bridge over the Missouri river at Qlas- The Scottsboro (Ala.) Hei-ald, noting the recent death of Capt. John Hannah, says: He had reached the wonderful age of 186 years, 1 mouth and six days. He was born Feb. 13, 17£3, aud died March 20, 1879. He served under Gen. Washington duriDg the French war. and obtained the rank of Captain. He knew the great Irish-American orator Patrick Henry when he was tnt a mere boy in Virginia. Capt. Hannah had never been ill until he was a century . old, and Ms eye-sight was perfect at 1 vading their country, the time of Ms death. ! , ... - ' ont of print, on “The Mineralogy .and Geology of Georgia. It ex ten. Is -fan many miles. A few splendid diamonds were found there years age by gold* washers, who were ignorant of what they found. Some of theso wero out in England and set in jewelry, but most or them were lost. They we re of weight from two tosix oar its, and threat are remembered which were of large size. One of these was broken np by the miners to learn the cause of its lus tre. Another was used for years by tbe boys in plajing marbles. By far the largest oue was lo3t by a Dr. Loyd r who was employed to oversee the min ers, and was one day working in the- pit in the place of a sick hand- He- says that about two heurs before sun down, while engaged in raising grayel* he picked up a stoue “which was bright aud slimy only on one side, tbe otbetf sides being covered with a crust of. brown stuff. It was about the size of oc guinea egg. He laid it out on a baulo. under a gum tree, intending at night: to show it to his wife and children a* the largest of the “pretty stones” which- had been found. Twelve years later be- learned from experts who took-hja.de* scription of the stone that his “guinea, egg” was a diamond, wMch, if pure,- must have been worth twenty-fire mil lions of dollars. TWO HISTORIC DIAMONDS. .. The Koliinoor and the Mogul* ore two of the notable diamonds of the world. The first, as is well known, be longs to Qneen Victoria, by the con quest of Panjanb in Indio, who, to, gratify a caprice of her own, haB quite* destroyed its historic yalne. It waa found four thousand eight hundrep^ years ago, (this date is amply verified), and when cut by Indian lapidaries-: weighed only one hundred eighty-si^ and a half carats. If honestly cot, It, would have been worth thirty million, dollars. But by taking off slabs from, the facets of a hundred and thirty carats, they reduced it to a value of three mil lion. •; n Afterwards the Queen, not being, satisfied with the Indian cut of it,, had the stone re-cut by Amsterdam, jewelers, who reduced it to one h un *f dred and ten and a half carats, and of. course totally obliterated its bistorio. shape. She still values it at three mil-, lions, when, by the laws of trade, it i». not worth half that snm. A - rough dia-. mond generally loses one-half, of. its., weight by catting. This depends upon, its form of crytalization and its freedom, from flaws, which are common. The.. “ Mogul” diamond, the lar gest ever found, weighed 787 carats., It was cut down by dishonest workmen. to weigh only 280 carats, ■ and the stol-. en slabs cut off were worth fartnove than, tho stone. Tbe true worth of the atone by the rules of trade, was $93,000,000,, but it was thus redneed to $£,000,000. The terrorism of the revolutionary government established by the Nihilists in Russia inspires the greatest alarm, and the measures taken by the antbori-;. ties are regarded as totally insufficient, to cope with the evil. The revolution-, ary propaganda is believed cMefly to proceed from the universities and col leges, and it is said that new restric tions are to be imposed on young men entering those institutions; but it is rightly pointed out that snob a meas ure a ould only strengthen the opposi tion to the existing order of things,. The true remedy, it is urged, would bo the grant of liberal institutions to Bus-, sia. A sticking demonstration in this, sense took place the other day at a ban« r quet given to the celebrated novelist Toorgenieff. The eminent St. Peters burg advocate, M. Spassovilch, mode a' brilliant speech on this oocosion, i» which proposing a toast to the youth of Russia, he defended them against, their accnsors. and pleaded for liberal reforms as the best guarantees of the fu ture welfare of the country. The speech was warmly applauded by the many distinguished representatives of’ tbe educated class in Russia who were present; but it has been attached by the government papers, who call M. Spas., sovitoli a “Polish Revolutionist,” and* accuse Tourgomeff of total ignorance of* Rresian affairs. Chili has declared war against Peru,* and will now fight both that country and Bolivia. Chili will greatly im prove the advantages she has already acquired. A probable attack of Peru vian ports is not at all unlikely. The ' officers of the Bolivian army, to the number of seven hundred and fifty-seven,’ all above the grade of sub-lieutenant,' have issued a protest against Chilian occupation of Bolivian 6 agree to renounce fLeir order to perfoiin their the " ,s to avengo .