Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 2, 1872, Page 2

[&] THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 187 SCUTH CAROLINA. The Ifeses Party---Fegro Domi- nation and Eis Uses, ~ Etchings of the State. The Past Aristocracy---Their Folly and Fall. From Our Own Corrcapondent, WASHINGTON, Oct., 28, 1872, The most unhappy State in the Union has just sassed its second centennial anniversary, In the year 1071, the first permanent colonists of South Carolina settled upon the Aslley River, pear Charleston, The first centennial, in 1771, witnessed a popu- lation of above 200,000, with middle Carclina eettled nearly thirty-five years before, and moun- teinous Carolina alveady twenty yeers inhsbited, and population increasing at tho e of 4 per Tent per annam. The year 1871 dswned upon snarchical and brutal licenses, led and controlled. by dema- pogues; upon a State debt of $23,000,000, legal end illegal, and tho legal indistinguishable from the illegul ; upon party terrorism, and the will of that party the purchase of the thieves who had robbed the tas-payers. THE OLD CAROLISA EVILS. Bouth Carolina has earned and obtained more riiefortune than any other State in tho Union. Having the least Democratic character and the grestest proportion of slaves, ot the end of the war every bosst of the Commonvweslth tumbled: into the thire, and the hollowness_ef the whole fabric was exposed. It wasa Protestant Louisians, toughened by Scoteh and Irish will aud by German peasantry; over the whole, the State Church of England prevailed, with all the bigotry of the parish sys- tem, where the vestry confiscated all the politics to themselves. In this State, elavery was indeed the comer- stone; and, as the mext colony, Georgis, dis- couraged slavebolding, Carolina received her’ slave-seeking planters. Lo competition for elaves led to the enslavement even of Indians, &nd, as fhese were surly at home, they wers Ehipped to the West Indies in exchange for move, wnd thus the roving pirates of the West India waters becsme traders, refugees, and even plant- *ers in Carolina. Land was the passion of the gentry, and it was the prize of consider- ation even more then fhe test of wealth. The colony becsme coveted by the Southern- European races for ifs mildness and the laxity of its morals, and during the border-troubles of Pennsylvania and Virginia with the'French and Indians, a sombro importa- tion of North Irieh at second-hand was added, smen of prodigious force and no civilization. The social pretensions of the few who possess- ed the land ruled the mauy who despised refine- xoent, and the laws of the rich slaveholders and ‘the prejudices of the poor whites satisfied -both clagses, although they never grow nearer togeth~ er. Despising the negro, the poor white re- epected the great proprietor, and voted his ticket withont a murmur; and if, out of the poorer rauk, a man like - Cal- Bown sometimes grew up, Le catered to the prevailingcless, and span intvicate foudal theories -1n the nume of & Democracy which was neyer the aim of either planter or politician in Carolina. THE LAYING-UP OF WEATH. The views enteriained by the dominant class 3n 1860 were mot widely different from those of the French nobility teventy years before. A crafty politica prevailed toward other States, and circular-letters wero constantly being sent to the neighboring States, asking co-operation and seceesion, Five-sixths of the whole white pop- ulation of the State had but 78 out of 122 Rep- Tesentatives, because, in their counties, slaves svere few, and a property-qualification prevailed. The Democratic principle wes hated by the _lawgivers; = wholessle reaction existed against Ameriden equality ; and prac- tical fll-treatment of = slives was %0 motable in Carolina that the vther slave States wero mortified at the fact. As late na 1803, two negroes were publicly and -Judicially burned alive, over a slow fire, in the ity of Charleston. Within our own period, the English wife of one of the wealtbieat slaveHold- ers in the State relsted in indignant periods the | “inhuman outrages committed upon her husband’s estate. At the eume time, the immense oor white populstion were often. what fhey remain to-dny,—sand-hillers, clay-eaters, _gaunt, cadaverous, and mmall, and their skin tho “Color of the Boil they lived tpon. A white girl who would work hzd no right to be cheste, and no_disposition ; bastardy was the populating divinity of wholo districts ; hog-stesling was the only path to animal-food, ' The poor man's in- frequent dish was “Hoppiug John,” or bacon, pess, snd red popper, stewed together; and the pooier Carolinian's child *weas commonly said to lack comparicon with the ‘Hispano-Indian races. With 2ll this backgronnd of Beatheniom and elavery, tho Carolits poli- tician came down to the footlighis, and chal- lenged mankind for bis- like in refinement, scholarship, and war. He worked to precipilate ‘his own sepulture with the energy of a manisc, and now ho Jics in_the hideous confueion an Tuin, insignificant in numbers, end hardly dis- tinglishable. The anarchy aronnd him js the components of Lis civilization, the pillars of his fabric. He was the clevation thereof, end fair aud shallow he used to be to look upon. But all ©f Cerolina is there remaining still, and what Frederick Law Olmstead wrote twenty yeus ngo s come to pass : = “South Carolina must meet ber destiny,” eaid Olmstead jn 1853; ““either to be Democratized or barbarized. One bundred years hence, the en whose talent and wealth “will rule South Carolina will be the descendants of those now living.in povoriy, igmorance, and tho vices of ctupill and imbecile minds.” THE EVILS OF THE NEW LIBERTY. Terrible indeed hus been the expiation of the old Carolinian. Tho late election will show to what extent. g A gentleman who bas stumped the State of South Caroling, on the Sawyer-Orr-Tomlineon eide, returned t0 Washington » few days ago, and ave somo of his obeervations upon * the only outhern State sure for Grant.” In this State there are, in round numbers, 50,000 white votes and 90,000 blacke, in_a popu- Tution of 706,000, All tho black vote will come to the polls in favor of o black caudidate nomi- ted on o straight ticket. On the other hand, 3i%is difficult to poll Lalf the white vote, on ac- . count of the apathy and disconragement prevail- ing in the minority race. : THE DLACK MAN'S YARADISE. Tl social anarchy of South Carolina is jmi- tated by tho political anarchy which has_accom- anied it. There were twenty-cight different inds of tickets circulated and voted in Clarlea- ton alope. In that city, the extraordinary per- 2onal populaity. of tho bigamiet, C. C. Bowon, lete member of Gongress, prevailed, snd ho was elected Sheriff, The Governor-elect of the Stato 16 by Tace & Hobraw. - And the probable Seuator to be clectéd 'in’ o Massachuseits African, who was at one fimoa Feniau volunteer to invade Fugland by way of St. Albans, Yermont, 0 old Abolitionists and couvert advocates of negro-freedom were put out of countenance, hooted and spurned, by the grateful manhood of cra. Reuben Tomlinsou, long Cor- g Secretary of the Pennsylvauia Aboli- tion Society, was driven from the rostrum. But 2 bolting negro could, in almost every case, be elected, if & white man was the Opposing rogu- lsr. Frederick Sawyer, tho sblest carpet-ag Senator in Congrese, was pathors de combat by the vegro Ellioit, o Massuchusetts fellow-cili- 2en of Sawver. Reverdy Johuson's son was beat- for Congress. And Sawyers collengue, flonias J. Ttoberison, sat back, indifferent to i neies of the vecas urning & hand Graut and his Cabinet were afraid 2 %t JOTE OF SOUTH CARQLINA, 1872, %335 &gjog of Franklin J. Moses, regulur e 3 rnor, iy scwcwhet less than % %{1& 0,—in round nmnbers, about SIS 2 . M A ¥ities for Reuben Tom- xz“k w%nc .9, Charleston County T oz efaton, just west of j 2, :fi;&‘; S;a-rtnnburg, e north Green- whites of the coast could not discriminate be- tween & decent and a shameless Republican. JEX NEGROES TABOO WHITES, The P~ of State, H, E. Hayne, mulatto, cnsily 1 tishite Radichl, Groen. Tho negroos vote T own color in almost every tase whera tiN “Jar candidate opposing = negro was white¥® (iis was instanced in the case of A. J. Ransier, mulatto, tho present Lieutenant _Governor. ' He had bolted, and was throsm ont of £1i6 Stafe Convention, with his delegation, a8 nrprospochva opponent of the nomination of Moses, Nevertheless, to the Congressional Con- ~veuntion he was afterwards _admitted, and there nominated. Had party discipline prevailed, he would have been beaten s an_irfegular, His opponent for Congress was General William Gurny, white, and 5_former member of the Seventh Regiment of New York.- Gurney spent money freely, was put on the regular Republi~ can ticket, and also, in two counties, on the Bolters' ticket. On'the ground of color, hiow- ever, the negroes all rallied upon the irregular black candidate, and Rensier was elected by & Iarge majority. THE REW GOVERKOR. _ Moses, the Governor-clect, ia of en old Caros ling Jewish fomily. Ho is & plousible, profli- ate, second-rato man, resembling a respectable ry-goods drammer. Althoagh of a rich family, be spends his money, for ail sorts of bodil g pleasure, as fast a8 Lie gets it; and a celebrate: politicel trader, of the female sex, now resident in New York, formaly of Washington, boasts & pair of horses as his gift. Moses is said to lave £pent $50,000 on the occasion of o short visit he recently made to New York. His sponsor and trainer is the notorious State Comptroller, y NAGLE. - - Naglo comes from North Caolina, aud be- longs to,the eet of finaucisl scalawage like Swepson.” He is the author of the whole system of bond-swindling in the State, and, by the law, hat are logal and what illegal bonds, in asso- ation ' with the Governor, - Auditor, 'and ‘reasurer. Nogle pronounces that a._cortain clzss ‘of bonds are -logitimate, and the crow which hold thetn forthwith “reelize.” The State Treasury is now dry of everything except £1,000,000 of .insurance companics’ bonds de- posited as security. Laws have been passcd Tegulating, s far as may be, future issucs of State bonds. Nagle is -thonght to be worth far more money than Scott, the retiring Governor, who i8 put down at 52,000,000, BOWEN. C. C. Boiven, who occupied 80 novel & position before the country when tried on two charges of Digamy snd on_one -convicted, is still_the hus- band of the celebrated Mrs. Petigra-King, who was of ono'of the gentlest families in the State, aud he is_the negro's idol. Black women will quarrel with their husbands if ‘they refuse to ~ote for Moss' Bowen ; the reverend Ethiopian clergy yield to bis magnetism; he has found the combination to the negro bosom, and it yields to bis_art. . A mighty demsgogue, such 2s curse whole nges with their 1limsy. rule, .and make manners mean and dignity. asbamed, Lo is the most_potential influencs in South Carolina. Mortified at his reaecendency, the Moses party now proposes to indict him_ egain upon_some fresh criminal charge. Ay informent told me tlat, 2t a certain meeting, he observed 2 fight goiug on between a black man and his wife. The negro had knocked the woran down, but conld not silence her. He know the peoplo.and ap- proached them. - s ‘+Bob," lie gaid, *“what are you doiog to Liz- Zyi" “1ze done gone wid dis, sah! I jess goin' away, sall” Mo womun wus up, looking like a Haytion N " He's 1ny ole man,” she said, “but,” with s fearful . oath, “*he cin't come near me if Lo votes again dat bressed Mossta, C. C. Bowon !” Tho nian, it appeared, was s marital outcast, because he wanted to vote ngainst an irregular eandidate in dat bressed Bowen.” Freedom is the goodly heritage of all men in Christian countries in our day,—those who can obtain it by purpose, and thosé who fall heir to it by other men’s labors,—but can any man say tlat the principle of kelf-government has hold its own since, in the hour of party-need, we took'in 90,000 ignorant creatures in South Garo- lina, wheré they Lave s natural majority, and mads them bigots by sppealing to hoir (eurs, and ruflians by the examples of leeders we ent zmongetthem? The mulatto elementisin itself a study under sufiraga. The average mulatto is the offspring of the slave and the adulterer, the degraded black and the brutal white. In old forms of sociely, even the white offépring of unwedded parentage was excepted from privi- leges of inhevitance and citizenship. In South Carolina, we have for the great basis of citizen- ship a roco which never kuew family fondnoss or parentel regard They came up to suflrage a8 if the Teptiliau nge and its voracious life had sad- Qenly burst through the undercrust upon the Cluistian age and Ity instituti THE STCCESSOR TO SAWYER. The candidstes for the United Siates Senate are Frederick Sswyer ; Joseph H. Rainey; Na- le, the Comptroller ;' Scott, the Governor ; the wi-negro, Elliott ; and Edward J. Moses, Sr., Chief Justico of the Supreme Court, and father of the Governor-elect. Sawyer retains a chance ; Scott bas $he plodge of Governor Moses, who will probably prefer to break it and elect Lis father ; Rainey, & negro, i8 now in Congresa from the Eastern Corst Dis- trict ; R. B. Elliott expects it. The laiter is a full-Dlocded negro, from Bos- ton, who carpet-bagged i into the State, sud is educated, low, and cleser. Ho once horse- whipped s white men for breaking faith with his wife, s native quadroon; snd this act eet him -up in tho regard of the ne- grocs, who love violenco as much as their white_ foster-breihren. Elliott was pertly ed- uceted in_England, at the celebrated Eton School. He ie a Jawyer, and hes been in the Legislature and in Congress, and wea Aesistant Adjutsnt General of the State. Ho affects to Qespiee white men, and to covet a Government where only the binck sball have offices and honors. Some think L It the ablest negro, in- tellectually, in the South. BAILWAY CIVILIZATION IX THE CAROLINAS. The Memphis & Charleston Railroad—which s to this State westward what the Pennsylvania Railroad is fo the Middle States—has horetofore been undor the Presidency of 3L J. Wicke, whoso Savings Bank at Mempbis hius just woun up. perhaps aflecting the Carolina Insurance Company as well, of which Jeff. Davis is Prea- ident. The great Northern monopoly called the “Southern Railvay Security Company.” op- erates tho road, hovever. i Tn this State'was Luilt thé second iron railway in the countyy: the South Carolina Railroad; it “was the first upoan which 2 locomotive engine of American. manufacture ws used; and, when completed from Charleston to Hambirg, in 1833, it wasthe longest railway in the world. Iis firat engine was built at West Point, N. Y., and_be- to run in 1830; and over (his road tho ited States mails were first transported. At " thie presient time, this road (which is an Atlantic arm of the Momphis & Charleston) is 213 miles long, iuclusive of bLranches, and its gross re- ceipls ar about ©1.400,000 per annum. TheStato has about 1,100 miles of road in all. Before the war, this State had made greater railway advances then any of tho Southern Commonwealths. It had, however, only two_outlets to free soil; one by Agusta to ihe southwest, the other bifurcated aud coucentraling at tichmond, Va. It will be & bright day for tho Carolinas when thoy open across the Camberland Mountainsa railway direct to Louisville and Chicago. For nearly 400 miles, the Apalachisu ridge makes a lonely trontier between North and South Carolins and the Olio Valley, cutting off both Sates from companionship with the most athletic and pro- ductive part of the new Lepublic, and aleo cnt~ ting off the Northwest from a region of plentiful bousehold eervants, tho neod of which is the grief of almost every wife in the West. FROM CIICAGO TO CHARLESTON. Thig road—call it the Chicago & Chatleston— ig already indicated snd built, with tho cxcop- tion of gaps of above 200 miles. The following iy the route: Chicago to Louicville... Loutsville to Liviugston, F: Gap, work ensgended... Cole Creek, Knoxviils, 5n Gap, work Suspendod, Mary Walhislla {0 Columbia, 8. C. ‘Columbia to Charlest “T'atal distance, Chicago to Charleston s, “This will put Chicago nearer the sea-const at Cnarleston than at New York The present ronte from Chicago to Charleston is by Nash- ville, Chattanooga, aud Atlanta. The moun- taing from Chattanooge to Lyunchburg, 450 milce, interposo between the Guif States and tlic Ohiio, and fores the railroada off upon their fizuks, a8 il an_impassable ec-een had been planted botween the ted emocratic West and the provincial port of Charleston, Behind this gcreen, the Ohio wasnot bridged at any point. It was inevitable, therefore, that the Carolinas should not hecome acqueinied with the North~ west. Tho few rich planters lived in the lan- guid air of their een-const, in undisturbed rev- erie, and sclf-complacent, shut off Nature from the moving lifs and the ris- ing empiro across the Blue Ridge. The; were cultivated and ebsolute, and possesse o1l the egotiem, high spivit, and political bigotry of an aristocratic province. They were as insub- ordinate as their Franch Calvinistic stock, snd 8 hard-headed as the Scotch-Irish temper en- ossessed o country worth the attention of hging Viest, with deep ports, fertile leyels, heis made = Board of Discrimination to define |. & baliny climate, and even scenery. 3 N -A sidigle stem of now road, crossing the East Tennessee nnEen from Kentucky, will pick uj all the cosst-skeina of track in both North ang South Carolina, and obtain sea-poris ot Besu- fort, . Charleston, Wilmington, and Newborn: This road, which I have outlined in the tablo above, has stopped 60 miles-abovo_the Tennes- sce State line, in Kentucky; and it has threo ridges to'cross, ona in each'Stete; the Cumber- Iand Mountain, in Tennesseo ; the Great Smoky Range, in North Caroline; and the Blne Ridgs, of South Carolina, It intersects tho Georgis & Virginia Railway at Knoxville. BOME SBOUTH CAROLINA FIGURES. In South Carolina there are but thirty-two counties to 708,000 people. This puts the State in the rank of Louisiens, Maryland, and Texes, and makes it more {hanequal in population to New Hampshire and Vermont added to Novada. It hos 290,000 whites and 416,000 colored, of whom 402,000 wero formerly sloves. As o Slave State, South Carolina._oxceeded in numbers the slaves of Norlh Corolina by 60,000, of Tennceseo Dby 126,000, and of Louisiana by 70,000. Only four States passed it in slave property, viz.: Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. Its most populous County, Charleston, hns 89,000 souls ; the next, Edgefield, 43,000; Barn- well hes 86,000, and Beaufort 84,000, ‘The sirongest countics are slong the Georgia line, in the cotton-land, The thinnest populations adjoin North Carolina. Charleston City has 39,000 people. Grass grows in mang, if ot the majority, of its stroets. There are loss_than 5,000 foreigners in Charleston. Columbia has about 9,300° inhabitants, and is pretty, half- ;nimt, and dull. The town of Georgetown has ,100. The population of the State has nob proba- bly incrensed mince 1860, and there are only about 8,000 foreigners in all. In 1870, the Stato had more gheep than New Jeérsay, but tho number had fallen off nemly one-half in ton years; tho vield of wool had fallen off, in like mauner, 270,000 Ibe, There were 27,000 horecs less in’1870 then in 1860, and the cattle had decreasod 215,000, Tho yield of cotton was 224,500 bales. The Stato has fallen in almosf overy material respect. It was tho most Aristocratic of all American Common- wealths; to-day it is the most Jacobin. South Carolina bonds are now quoted in the market at betwecn 26 and 45 cents on the dollar, —Stato sixes of Jauusry and July bringing but 2 cents, and the sevens of 1888 futtoring around 30. % Had the carpet-baggers and nogroes applied sny portion of their extortions to connect tho railway eystem of Carolina with the Obio, their domination might ot have been without & mon- ument. At present, Tom Scott’s railway system ‘monopolizos both outlets, north and west. RICH RMEN. It will be remarked that the old plauting axistocracy brought all this woo upon them- selves. Truo; but the responsibility s ours no less {0 see the State rehabilitated. ‘This must bo the work of education and time, Feir crops are etill produced; the State ia picked dry, and there i little left to steal. Tho busincss class in Charleston is still mainly composed of the old type of whito dealers ; but politics of & ravenous sort is the public lifo of tho State. There are Dut two cluskes : tho sullen and aputhetic, and the rapacious. The richest meu at present sro thoge who thrive by the disadvantages of the mauy. Nagle and Scoit probably head the list. In former timen, the richest man in the whole South lived in thié State; Wade Hampton, father of the Rebel cavalry General. The enormous cotfon platations of Wade Hampton were in the Territory of Orleans, now Louisiena. Hampton was tho riclest planter in a1l the Bouth, woRng ugar 5. woll 48 otton. with his 5,000 slaves. He resided mnch of thé time in South Carolins, at Columbia, and died there, at the age of 81, in tho year 1835. In early manhood Do bad béen an sctive partisan- soldier, Tike Sumier and Marion. In 1808, he was made & Colonel of dragoons in the army, and the next year & Brigedior Genoral. In the second war with England, when full of slaves, Jand, prejudice, and pomposity, he was raised to be a'Major General, and put next in command to Willinson, on the Canads border. He bated Wilkineon, was ingubordinate, aud the Govern- ment seomed to be in awo of Lis postessions. To the relief of everybody, ho threw up bis com” mission in a_huf, snd Zetired in 1814 Soon afterward, and consequent_upon Hampton's be- bavior, bis old enemy, General Wilkiuson, re- signed also from the army. Pierce Butler, & great slavelolder of this State, died near tho 'closo of the war, embarrassed. He had been the husbend of the etress, Fauny Komble. Celhoun's body has not been returned to Cliarleston, where it was exhumed at the sur- render and removed. The monument will never bo finished that waa to bave been raisen to him atacosl of $100,000. How like & eatire reads man tho ode to his memory which thoy read at tio iustallation of tho project of this monu- ment : gtrong mountain He defends The laud that gave him being, and commends Her virtues to the love of uther climes, % That else had lapsed from weakness to’ crimes, Andeoto ruin, Battling in the van For the great truths and natural lights of man, He died ia barness, in the thick of strife ; Hia very death a triumph~—like Lis life ! : GaTs. P — XMow Rivers in India Changs Their Courses. A remarkable instance of the extent to which Indian rivors azo apt to chisugo their courses in furnished by the history of the Brahmaputra during tho laat ninely yéars. In 1785 that river flowed far to the east of Dacca, receiving in its courso the rivers of Silhof, which joined with 1t to form the Meghna, at that time the direct ont- let for all the drainago of the Assum and Cachar Valleya. Since then, however, tho Brahmaputra has shifted its main chanuel nearly 200 miles westward, consigning many an ancient city to ruin and giving birth to new centres of trade and population. All this scems to havo happened in the space of twenty years, the pro- cess Laving been preity nearly completed in 1650, The Jheels of swamps of Silket, deprived of the vast supply of salt which the Brahmapu- fra inod £o wash down from the hills and highor valloys, lost their chanco of an carly transforma- tion Info cltivatable land, The influx of the Brahmsputra futo the Gangetic river system tonded to develop the process of land-making in the Gongetic delts, by forcing the Gengotic rivers to spread their ealt over a wider area than before. While Sonargaong, the old capital of Bengal, deserted by tho river to_which it owed its progperity, is now & mean village surrounded by heaps of brick and jungle, the great trading mart of Serajganj, where 50 much jute was damaged by the late cyclone, s sprung up like - gourd on the new chanuel of the Brahmaputre, The trade of Dacca iteelf is even noy thrextenod by tho same disturbing couse. Similar changes sppear {o be going on in the Ganges, one of which we lately mentioned as tending to under- mine a part of the railvay between Colgong and Bhagalpur. It 18 not unlikely, as the English- man suggests, that these changes may have something to do with the provalenco of epi- demic diseases, like the Bardwan fever, in tho districts affected by them. The matfer, at any rate, is one that calls for aud would doubtless repay careful inquiry.—Allen's Indian Mail. : : TS The Largest Bee-Ilive in the World. From the San Francisco Commercial Herald, n Los Angeles County, on the eastern siope of tho San Fornando rangé of mountaing, and in the immediate vicinity of tha Leaming Petroleum Company's oil rogion, there is the most wonderful collection of wild honey in ex- istence. The hive is located in s rift, whieh penetrates the rock fo the depth of probably 160 feet. The orfice 15 80 feet long and 17 feet wide; four passages. This xitt was discovered to be tho abiding place of a ewarm of bees, that is represented as com- ing out in s nearly.solid column one foot in iamoter. Certain partics have endeavored to descond fo the immense store of honey collected by theso becs, but were invariably -driven back, and one man lost bis life in the effort. Others have, &b the expense of much labor snd moncy, built = ecaffold 125 fect high, in the lops of reaching & plac whetce they could run & drift fnto the rock. and extract ity well-hogrded swests, but finally censed their work, 1Within four yeavs the bees Lave added not less than fiftcen Teet of depth to their treasure, as ascortained by actual meas- urement, and it is_thought that at tho present time thete canriot be lees than eight _or ten tons of honoy in the rock, ~A man named B. Brophy lives in & cabin not far from the spot, snd ob- tained, from the melting of the honey by the wsun's Reat, more than enough for his family ro- quirements. All through that region immenso stores of wild honey are found in' trees, in the rocks, in nearly every place where its industri- ous manufacturers _think of,—for bees seom to think,—that it will be secure, They coneume & very small proportion, as the climate enables them to keep up operations nearly every day i the year, and flowers of some sort are always in bloom. It mustbe a yery severe season indeed when {ho little fellowa aro not seon sbroad in vast numbers, busily engaged in their meNifiu- ous work. - —E: 0. Cole has been engaged as agent to sell ,fl;md upon them. But the fact remains that" 1ands of the Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw Rail- road, in Northern Miohigan. :“THE. FASHIONS. Inanguration of Autumn and Winter ¥ Styles. t From the New York Tribune, Oct. 80, Opers wraps and cloalis offer just now & strong g})mt of attraction for their exceeding beauty. ade up of the caremonte white cashmere, they are . splendidly embroidered. in_colored . silks, palms closely imitating. the palms of India -8havls, gay gerlunds in antumnal lesves, shaded' green Vinos of cypross with drooping scarleb fachsiss; purple pansics, aud mossy buds; and then amiore perfect -style, by some so consid- ered (not by the five. thonsend), is enowy cash- mere, embroidered very heavily in a creamy tinted flogs, and another in 8o fainé 4 pink one wonders if it will not fade a5 one gazes, like the pale glow of & -wintry sun shed wpon banks of 8now. Then there are clonks and sacques of point lace throngh which gleams mistily & lin- ing of silvery white, ross pink, or cicl blue, A most charming cloak was of dolicate dove gray sl tho braiding of the sume color was in odd arabesque- designs ;- intermixed with this wag aTich cmbroidery in Oriental patterns of alms and ailanthus. - In the soutacha braiding, long fronds, slender waves. like. the groined arches of old chapels, gracefal forns, and state- ly palms. Ermine opera closks are beantifully made up and lined with quilted satin ; others aro simply cdged with ermine. White cloth is yot made up in sacques, but is losing caste from its beaviness and lack of pliancy. The beeutiful Cachemire Sicilienne in light and delicate tints forms charming evening and apera wraps, lined * with white and edged with fur. 5 We aro bronght back to the days of the First Empire in heir srrengement with which we are threatened, indeed huve really, 80 to speal, ar- rived at. If the coming style is followed, hair will have aftained its highest altitude. Instead of drooping in the neck it i raised 18 high as possible upon the apex, the back of the neck en- tirely free. A fow light, graceful curls may float 8t the back, The hair is arranged in thick coils or braids, in fron loosely frizzled, and it must be remembered that the hair must be parted from the back hair in & line from the tips of the ears across, {o form the high structure or tower, Once forall, as it has repeatedly been dwel upon here, et it b understood that the chignon is utterly and entiroly abolished, 8ent to Covent try, and as long ss hair continues to heve o “strong upward tendency,” 3 mew era in the wayof wearing bonnts has dawned. Boucher’s printings are recalled by the charming ladics who drive by in Wattcan costumes, like coquettish sheperdesses. Tho powder andlace pstches and bistre shadowing beneath the eyes, rovive all the Pompadour souvenirs, and the high hats crown- ed with feathers and nodding plumes bencath which we know is tho high pyramidal cone of hair of Josephine memory, belong to thedsys of Fran- cis L Ko.wonre rather in & state of anarchy. Alreody .uarrow skirte, narrow at the bottom but widening upward, havo appeared. Amoricans say that they ara only secnin Paris. Nover- theless they are seen and worn here, ungraceful s they aro, and so Mesdames Recamier, Tallien, rise to confased memory, with & host of otlior £hort-waisted, narrow-skirted, horrible Teg-of-mutton-sleeved divinitics of that period. Absurd as are these anachronisms, we must look into the fature with proper submission and equanimity. Women of Falstafian dimensions Jook on with profound dismay, for, while the waists will be shortoned to the arm-pits, the #kirts will resomble an unbrella with the handle downwards. And then, to return to the hair— tlio “ counterfeit presentment” can be ndmira- bly managed for tho towor on top, but thore is thie front, made bald by crimpers and hot irons. Nous terrons! Half & dozen hairs constitute an oxcellent capital now-a-days. If they can be conxed into e parting, or & foundation for the charming, little, foating, lose, wavy curls, which eliall form an aurcols over and around the brow, the faghion of the coiffureis satisfactorily ar- rapged. t “The winter style of bonnets is very much as described befors, excepting tho making up of heavior materialé. Tho way in which they are ¥om maliog s marked chango n the wholo ap- pearance. Tho bonnet and hat are both placed very much at the back. The face and front hair remain in full view, but are no longer shaded. Bonnots are lese elaborate than we were lod to anticipate. A Parisian model was extremely elegant in its simi)licity of olive-green silk rops. Upon one side a cluster of loosa of olive ribbon; upon the other feathers shaded in olive to white and & superb group, arranged as with an artist’s and, of gorgeous sutumn leaves. Tho silk was placed upon the frame Quaker-likein its straight- Bess. A beautifal Fronch bonnet was mads of ‘maroon and pearl-gray velvet. Tho high crown was s full puff, and s large bow of ruby velvet at the back. At the edges was & quaint bordering of ruby velvet and black curled feathers intermixed with gray velvet and ruby ribbons in velvet. A coquettish Bot, making one think of paintings by Greuze, 'was of white or creamy white 'u‘.velI {aced with pale blue, trimmed with pink and biue flowers, and a long drmging white flower. Felt hats, come in all fashionable colors, gray, black, prane, bronze, and maroon. These are trimmed ‘with two feathers, one must be white, the other to carespond with_the color of the hat. At the Into oxpositions, New York bonpeta commanded uite a8 much sdmiration s those imported; n_ fact, they needed only the magic Wor “ Paris ¥ inside to deceive those who profess to ridicule everything American. Ono of the most becoming hats to a fresh brunette face was a Cavalier ” black velvet, the brim was turned up at one aido, and ornamonted with a cluster of black ostrich feathers and a small bouquet of moss rosts and buds peepmg from o dusky calyr. At the buck was_a large full* bow of black ribbon. Yet another was s yollow bronze felt. The brim of this was slightly turned all zound, and laced with s dark bronze green velvot; o band paased around the crown of the two shades, and floatin Dack a shaded feather fell over & wide scar? o velvet and long loops of ribbon. A high-crowned velvet hat, which, adding tho strin bonnet, was of black velvet, properly trimmed with black laco and jets. There Was aroso in front formed of tiny jets strung upon wizes, the tendrils, stems, and leaves turned each way, pussing half ardund the brim. A handsome job arrow behind fastened the long scarf of lace. ~ A soft-crovmed bonnet of olive-brown was trimmed with light blue, the brim rolled back and faced with folds of blue and brown; a full, large bow of brown ribbon was placed directly on top; be- hind this a cluster of bronzo wheats snd a blue ostrich feather; upon the side, to complete this unique hat, bouquet of tea-roso buds and dusky foliage nestled upon tho long loops of brown ribbon. 1t 8 not only dificult to describe the benefits, but very difficalt oven for the most experienced milliners to copy the Fronch patterns. A great variety exists in the crown; “the popular style bes an upturned brim; in this csn bo placed rouleaux. of pretty light silk. Black velvet crowns havo brims of silk, black with_colored pipings. Sharp wings, forest leaves tinted in the bLrightest hues of sutumn, jeb omaments flowers bofore described, drapories of laco an ribbon, and ostrich tips o4 well as ostrich feath- ers, and a comb top to which a long fringe of jot is fastoned, mako up the garnitureof bonnets. Evening costumes aro exquisitely besutiful, the important models from the magic tasto of Worth. His caprice, as hinted at, 18 to copy stxicflg tho pictures of Josophine, Hortense, and the conrt beanties of that roign, not only in quaint style, but colors and materials, s nearly a8 possible, Tho most enchanting costume at & lato opening was of a cresmy white sillt and misty tolle, draped and edged with water lillics and their deep groen leaves. Lnor- mous quantities of rich gauze, tulle, chambery gauze, China crape, embroidery upon silk and crape, faille, and velvet are nacd for trimmings, until it is difficult to tell which is the actual foundaticn for the dress itself. A superb dress of black damask ganze was made with thelow Josephine- waist, Jow and round, with wide belt and sash, trimmed with a profu- sion of dark 2nd red roses mixed with pink; the sash was dark red, also lined with pink. 0dd and contrary o, taste as this mey seem, yet, strangely enough, the effect was sdmirable. The sleoves belonging to the. Josephine corsage ere little scraps of -airy nothings, with a flower or bouguet on one shoulder. y One of the most fairy-like of these dresses was of gauze, or crape, or silk, it was difficult to see, yet the apron overskirt was made of water lilies, edged .with & glossy burnished fringe of long grasses. Wes not that a dress for an Un- dinc? The dresses are too besutiful for de- seription, and it is absolutely imperative that the arms and necks of tho wearers should cor- respond.. Very delicate will be the neck, and the army bared to the shonlder. Full dress costumes aro exquisitely embroidered. wise, first worked in daintily colored silk and designg upon white lace, and_after that trans- ferred to the silk. For front breadths only is this work done upon tulle, geuze, or svy diapha- nous matorial. Ahis 18 Iaid npoa the matarial. The back -breadths are rufiied, flounced, or plaited. Serpent green, before described 4s an ugly, yellow, frog green, is made up in one of Wortli's costumeés in five shades almost im- possible to describe, Bo complicated are the poufs, rdlues, bias folds, ings, and flouncings. A most charmin dress of delicate palest silvory lavender silk waa abundantly trimmed with white lsce. The lace flounce of the overskirt had a band_of Ia: aanlmtql{embrmds_xsd in purple, and white- sheded silk Marguerites. Another style in the imnorted dresses is the antique sleove. daan- elaborately and most Tt is done in this , mado a’ ointed front and basque oF postillion_back. 0 COraage can be square cut or heart-shaped. Point lace, real Duchesse lnce, plaitings of crepe lisse, of tulle, epirals of lace in gréat profusion, 2nd flowers are the ornamentation for evening dreeaes. Bashes and belts aro worn, but only with the round body, and then it depends alto- gether upon the stylo of trimiming. Another -pretty combination i3 a pale ecru crepe dz_chine, with 8 nut brown silk elaborately trimmed with ecru lnco; ruches, and ruflies.” A pale, misty,- gray de chiné costumo made up with silk 8 shads darker, was trimmed with turquoise blue in rouleauz, the tunic of crepe de chine edged with a rich guipure 1aco of the spme shade, and draped with loops and bows of the blue. Itisno longer imperative to bo dressed en suile. Independent garments aro imported in large quentities, and are made to order. Velvet, always firsh, camel's-hair cloth, stamped by fash~ ion, comes next, then cashmore and’oloth, Camel's hair is o yard and throe-eighths wide af Stayard; the polonsises of this fabric, very richly embroidered, braided in round 'larga soutache, and trimmed with Yak laco or fringo, are very costly. The wool embroidery is some- thing like the point Russe stilch—one or two shades of neutral tint wools. Many of these po- Ionaises are_buttoned with oxydized silver but- tons; especially are these suited for travelling sand ses yoyages, with & heayy kilt skirt, or one of velveteen- these are mads of Scotch plaid or Ottomsn stripe, and in_ cashmero and reps. They are very stylish for evening wear, in in whito cloth and trimmed .with Yak lace or fringe. In fact, the styles for swraps are infinite, - The great rage is the Dolman justnow. Originally of a close shape in basque form, with the_enormous sleeves, it has become greatly modified to puit ll Sgrires, and so 1t js nof onl Ioose and belted for the slight, but circular an: tight, With all of these shspos the grest winged eloeves form the distinguishing feature. In velvet, elegantly embroidered with jots in- terspersed, iy are sold at 8150 as the lowest riced. 2 There are Louis XV, velvet coats, with vests of silk, Jong, immensely wide sleeves and pock- ets. Those are accompanied by basques and skirta of silk. It ismore fashionable to ask for a ““Lonis Quinze.” These 2re more appropriate for carriage dresses than the promenade, though Qoubtless the Louis Quinze cost of velvet or cloth, edged with far, will make its appearance anywhere. What 8o irrepressible as woman's ? Double capos, the sacques with cape, and the mantle jacketwill be & 3ecies of uniform daring the winter. A narrow edge of fur makes 2 neat and inexpensive trimming ; the blue fox is very {faghionable. i e Lace vails are very distingue, in diagonal &hape, of dotted Jace, efl?ed With a very heavy border of Spanish Iace in Jeaves and palcis. Fi- uisitely beautiful fans in white satin, with %atlan\lpiet\u‘e! for the.centre on porcelain. A mothet-of-pear] fan had the centre-piece in satin, representing the famous scene of the ©Broken Pitcher.” Pear], white satin, and oint-lace_for another betuty, It has rarely B ppened batore, that onentogdsys Have been continued on 80 late in the season. The fault is laid with the weather. The styles for winterare varied enough to suit all fancies, but, contrary to the general supposition, prices have under- gone n slight increase; still no one grumbles, and the richest goods are eagerly purcliased. P sseh S IRl Switchmen. New York (Oct. 26) Caflupnznl‘dmu of the Boston Jour-, ‘The recent terrible accident at Seabrook, and the narrow escape from one on the New York Central, owing fo the misplacement of a switch, naturally call sttention to the class of men employed in this important department of public service. As & general rule corporations get the exact talent they pay for. A first-class man in an important placeis not usually secured st & third-rato price. _Accidents will occur from ‘misplaced switches, without regard to the wages pni£ the steadiness, sobriety, and intelligence of the employes, simply for the resson that switchmen are human. “A very high degree of respopsibility is put upon them. In the fury of incoming trains, the rapidity and often un- certainty of their movements, the responsibility 1clt and the fear that they will make & mistake, often unnerves long-experienced switchmen and throws them into confusion, 80 that they have not the glightest idea what they do; and acci- dents which are attributed to negligence and in- attention to duty are the result solely of fear. One of our most successful and long-tried railroad Superintendents, in reference to the Seabrook disaster, said to me the other day that mo human foresight, no long experience, and no care could relieve a irain from the drmier resulting from a mis- placed switch. I had in my employ a switch- man who for tiventy yerrs served the Company. He was as steady o8 the day was long. He was religious, conscientious, and a total ab- stoiner. 1 was atanding near him one day when he turned the switch for s freight train. He did not know that I was near. He turned the switch back, and it was all right for an_express train that was_thundering along. When the whistle sounded, announcing the approach of the train, he went deliberately to the switch, turned it back, so that the lightning express would dash right into the freight train. I yelled with all my might, ‘ Reverse your switch.' He sprang to the handle, reversed it, and he had not a gecond 0 spare. = Tho train flow past with thevelocity of light, and was out of sight and hearing in & moment. The man could ive ~ no account of his conduct. W‘han the whistle sounded, an impulse seized him to turn the switch, as he had an impression that it was wrong. It was not negli- gence, it was not inattention to daty, for he wos painfally in earnest. - But he was confused and aralyzed by fear, and did not know what he was oing. Such sccldents are likely g ocour on the best managed roads in the world.” Government regulates everything about the English railroads, The road-bed is laid under Government inspection, and royal oversight is taken of evéry rail. No road can’ cross another, or cross & highway, on the same lovel; bridges or tunnels must be resorted to. Itis felony to crosa the tracks from one side of the station to another. - Switchmen are made the subjects of eculiar care. They are s choicely selected ot of men. A house is erected over the tracks, inclosed on all ~ sides with glass windows, carpeted and warmed. The handles of the ewitihes come ap into this Toom, and are ornamented like the handles of a beer- fountain. They are all numbered, and are called “Points.” Conspicuous in the room is the painted cantion, “Mind your Points.” The room is light, made warm from s fire and made cheery by & carpet and flowers. Here theswitch- man takes his position, sheltered from the storm and wind, in aroom comfortable and cheery; if he makes a mistake something more than repri- mand and dismissal awzit him. His offence is & crime, and tho State will punish him by fine and imprisonment. With all this outlay, accidents occur—switches will be misplaced—and statistics show that there are more such accidents in Eng- land than in America, * Quadruple Amputation. Jorzhe British Medical Journal tells the story fol- owing: .. . . j 4 Our resders may remember that in the su- tumn_of 1869, Dr. Begg, of Dundee, amputated tho whole of the extremities in the case of & young woman named Robertson, whose hands and feet hnd nssumed 2 gengrenons condition, tho proximate cuuse of which was attributed to embolism, After the operation.s subscription ‘was raised, and the poor woman gent to London, where, at the request of some influential friends of hers, Mr. Heather Bigg had constructed for her some specially devised prothetic appliances, in which thedistinguishing featureswero that the artificial hands were automatic in action, opening and shutting their fingers at the will of the pa- tiont. This peculiar prehensility gave her the power of mfihg even gosmall a substanceass crochet -needle, snd enabled her to gain s _comparatively Iucrative ' livelibood = by moking “shewls, eto. 8o - admirsbly did she do this that one was sent by her to the Queen, who, struck by the excel- lenco of the orkmanehip, and the remerkable means by whichit was accomplished, generously gave the poor woman £5. The utifien?legs were aleo 8o arranged 28 {o enable her to stand and walk with the aid of crutches. Three years bave paseed since she first began the use of extrane- ous up){,fimces, and she now writes an admirablo hond, besides_ knitting, feeding and dressing herself, ete. & communication made by her & fow days since, which is now bofore us, sho writes that ehe can walk alone quite easily with the aid of crutches, and that no one could ob- serve the cause of her lameness. The case is one of 1o common interest, owing o its being the only one on record in which the wholeof the four extremities have been removed. Apart {rom its pathological value, ss indicating how lifo may be saved by judicious interference in cases of embolic gangrene, there remains the gratifying result that, by the use of ingenious mechaniem, the patient is enabled to gain her living, while presenting nearly the same extern- al sppearance s if she ill retained possession of her natural imbs, It is an unique case, 2nd a triomphant instance of mMechanical Iuge- nuity.” ——————— A cCalifornia Komance of Love and Faro. From the Trinity Journal. 3 A young Chinswoman, generally pronounced the belle of Chinatown, committed auicide last Monday by taking opium. The circumstances a8 we serve to be embalmed by the Chinese story-teller. The young woman was lately brought to WWeaver- ville by an old rascal, who i8°said to make the traffic in Chinese families his sole accupation,and finds it profitable. ~This unfortunate victim of his avarice would not submit to dishonor, and Was & profitless investment on his hands.” She met with s dashing, honest miner from the Flowery Kingdom, by whom her tender af- fections were led captive, and Wwho rocipro- cated her tendernoss with all the ardor of vig- orous and impassioned manhood. was necessary to their happiness that the hero of our tale should redeem his fair one from the clutches of the ogre who claimed her as his gropert{. He toiled and hoarded until by ard Iebor and economy he got together $300 toward her ransom. nt this was not half enough. Tho was & fancy piece of property, and was held at the fancy price of 3300. 70 get this sum by hard kmocks wonld require long yeare of tml—pexl_mgs a lifotime. She mignt be sent away; might be_ cnm)i‘cllsd to marry another, 1f not, to wait till he could earn the money was an insupportablo thought. The future of the loving and unfortunate pair was of inky hlackness. But one fesble ray of hopo was per- ceptible through the surrounging dukness, In the labyrinths of Chinatown there dwelt a terri- ble beast, whose conquest would result in glory and wealth to the successful antagonist. ~Ani- Tated, doubtless, by the maxima that “fortune g;wr'g:u ut}l;e{;:{rngef § tugd "(imne but the hx]']ave de- r,” last Sunday night our hero at- tacked the tiger in hia den, reguolvedmaonqnex if possible. The rest is briefly told. He lost all bat his honor, and his dulcinea drowned her woe In 2 eup of cold poison. She was buried by her master without display, and all her wearing ap- g:;;}k perhaps 8200 in value, was burned at her ther them are hiihly romantic, and de- _—— GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. Sufferers from ‘‘hay fever,” or sutumnal catarrh, say that the horse-disease i8 that and nof.hxfig else. i % —The required sum, 925,000 for the erection ot.fl%nmt Hall at Dartmouth College has been raised. ~An entorprising Yaulieo has opened. an in- stitution in Boston for turning left-handed peo- ple into right-handers. —The hens have got an epedimic of their own, whereby seversl thousand Rhode Island hens have been laid in their narrow beds. —Tt took twenty men, armed with Whitney rifles, to kill s mad bull, near East Rock, Conn., on Sunday. 3 . —The new buildings of Trinity College at Hartford, Conn., are to be loczted on ths grounds known a3 the Babcock farm” in that city. —The class in Civil Engineering at the Maine State College heve, for practice, located a line for arailroad from Orono to the Insfitution. —A female circus-clown is the latest develop- ment of woman's intellectual supremacy in Eng- lond. Who seys that ¢ woman’s sphere” is not enlugiilfi? —A s Jones, of Cambria, Tows, fell deadon seeing her little son mitting at the top of the staging of & newly-built wind-mill, to which dangerous perch he had climbed. —The late James Gordon Bennett’s e!agmfi residences, st Washington Heights and on Fifth avenue, New York, are to let for five years. The city house is offered for business purposes. —The proprietors of the Ilustrated London News bave despatched one of their artists to Pekin, ‘in order to obtain illustrations of the festivities connected with the forthcoming mar- riaga of the Emperor of China. —An enterprisiag Deluazo peach-grover Les sent a present of choice peaches to Queen Vic- toria. He is now watching every express for a gold muff-box or some equally gracefal and re- ‘munerative token. —For frank man commend us to the gentle- man in Springfeld, Mass., who announces that the fire in his block the otherday was eo clearly due to his negligence that he does not intend to call on the insurance companies to make good Bis loss. —Somo figures given by the Boston Adzerttser show that the profits of the menufacturers of that State wers $102,000,000 in 1870, or sbout 368 per capita to the population. The wages paid amounted to_ 518,000,000, which, to those employed in the factories, was equivalent to each. —The Colombian Government has paid all but 856,000 of the claims beld by the United States azainst the Government. During the month of Beptember $114,000 was paid, and the amount due, is expected, will be handed in sometime in November. —Mra. John Newberry, of High Falls, N. Y., in iumgmg from the express train at o beck, the 30th ult, fell upon the track and had both feet cut off. She was taken to McEiroy's Hotel, where she died in a short time. Her hus- ‘band and child and three ladies were Wwith her. —The civilization of Eentucky has been agaln darkened by the public whipping cf one of its citizens. Andrew Jackson received ten lashes upon his bare back in the market-place of Paducah the other dsy for some minor offence, and & crowd of idle spectators was witness to the disgraceful scene.—Louisville Courier- Journal. ¥ —The Kingdom of the Sandwich Ielands is on the highway to baukruptcy. The population -ows smaller yearly, whila the expenses grow gor. For a nation of 60,000 people, a force of fwents-six Supreme Conrt Judges, at salaries of $10,000 apiece, is maintained, with the usual roportion of, inferior judicial officers. King amehameha will soon be able to take the “poor debtor’s oath” at the rate things are g 7K death from an uousual canse ocourred noar Shilob, in the neighboring county of Cum- berland, last Sunday evening. A lsdy who had just returned from & visit to her friends in hihflelg-zhh, eickened on the night of her arri- Yal—Friday—aad, after two daya and nights of intense suffering, died. A post-mortem revealed the fact that a piece of tomato skin had rolled itself into a small o, and mads its way through the walls of the stomach, causing dreadfol suf- fering during its passago through & portion weskened by discase, and instant death, it is supposed, whon {airlf through.—Salem (. 1) Standard. —The Epglish, in_trying to invent something new under the gun, in the way of attracting the E‘nbl.ic, have at last hit upon 8 barmaid show.” itty barmaids, all ribbons and fuers, aat be- hind fifty bars, and dispensed beer and smiles to the verdant youth of London. A gold watch was the reward of the barmaid who took in the most money. It was o show neither very moral nor very pleasant, for_the rosy, bowitching, lump snd saucy barmaids of the romancists is ¥ o means the barmaid of the metropolis. PERSONAL. Congressman Eelley has returned East from his summer on the Plzins. —Lewis D. Campbell is Iyiniidnngeroua]y in at his residence in Hamilton, Ohio, —Bishop Bourget, of Montree], has receiveds telegram from Pius Ninth, conveying his bless- ® Golonel James_Coleman, of Memphis, has resigned_tho Superintendency of the Sixth Dis- trict of the Western Union Telegraph. —Albert Bierstadt, the artist, and Clarence King, the geologiat, ara travelling in tho high Sierras of Californin. —Chatles IL. Smith (“Dill Ap") baa pur, chaged the Rome (Ga.) Daily Commiercial, ‘and will continue its publication 88 a tri-weekly. —Sir Francis Hincks, lato Finance Minister of Canada, will undertako the superintendence of one of the leading banking instifutions at Mon- eal. e e, W, B L. allsco, has returasd to Of- tawa, I1i., from Europe, bringmg a memori: window Yor tho Episcopal Churchi, which cost 1,000 in Dresden. ° &L ibon B, Hopkins, who has been olected Superintendent of Public Instruction in Indian, has resigned the Presidency of Howard College, at Kokomo. Bayard Taylor recently passed up the Rhive with his family, meaning to spend tho autumn in Goths. Ho is writing & life of Goetho. —Says the Woman's Journal ; “ If half the jury bad been women, in accordance with the Bpirit of the law, Mrs. Fair would most proba- bly have been convicted.” Z_Pio Pico, the youngest old man in the State of California, ig a8 active and vigorons as a man of 40, but was Governor of the Territory long before its occupancy by Americans. —Carlton B. Curtis, of Erie, Pa., Copgress- man elect, wes a Representative from 1831 to 1835, being the successor of the Hon. James Thompson, the present Chiof Justice of Penn- sylvanis. —Nat. Bhelton, of South Bend, Ind., who was ejected from a moving train, near Elkhart, some £ive yearn since, by means of- which kis left arm was cut off b{ the wheels, has got a verdict which will, afler paying the attorney’s fees and other expenses incident to four years of litiga- tion, net him some $4,000. : —There are two brothers Golladay raoning for Congress, viz.: Edward I., in the Nashvillo Tenn.) District, on the *any-body-to-beat- rant tickeb; and Jacob S., in the Bowling Green (Ky.) District, on the *‘any-body-to-beat- Greeley " ticket. Jacob is the Cadetship-selling Congressman of some notoriety two years ago. —A Washington speciel says the Tressury De- artment is going to begin euit sgainst General Daviel Botlecheld, for & deficiency of §2,300 in his cash sacount while in charge of the Sub- t New Yorl hi‘fl?c‘&nnenumn--b-!‘me elect from Bouth Carolina is the Rev. Richard H. Cain, familiarly knownas “Daddy Cain,” s amusingld darker, Who was ori y & field hand. His education is imperfect, and his character not much betler, —Emily, Conntess of Shaftesbury, died some- what suddenly on Tuesday, The much lament- ed Indy, who lesves & large family, was the eldest daughter of the late Viscountess Palmerston, by her firgt husband, Earl Cowper. —Princess Lonise has received her first wel- coms to Balmorzl g the Marchioness of Lorhe, heving been escorted with the Marquis from the lodge to the castle by a torchlight procession of servanis and tenantiy of the estate. - — —General Rosecrans is now in the City of Mexico, urging Congress to allow him certain concessions, but T do not see how the Govern- ment can afford to pay & cent, having scarcely enough to say its own employes ; vacant lands alone would certainly be no inducement o Eu- Topean capitalists—much less American—to invest in Mexican railroad stock.—3azatlan Lflllel;‘. e v —DBret Harte, who woke one morning and found himself fimous on s rather InSigniicant literary venture, was announced some time. ago as having & play nearly ready for production at the Fifth Avenue Theatre. It has niot been pro- duced because M. Harte has not written it, and it may noverbe produced, becanse nobody khows whetlher he can write it. —Foublanque, whose death at London was announced the othor day, mado his first_appear- ance m literature in 1633, with Leigh Hiint, &5 one of the writers for the Ezazviner. His con- nection with this paper he kept up after Hunt went off o Italy to b disappointed in his pro- ject of a great literary journal, to be conducted y himself, BMoore, and Byron. ~ Since 1852, Ar. Foublanque has been in the service of the Eng- ish Government, in the Board of Trade. —Napoleon Wyee, an Irish gentleman, was in- vited by his sistér, Madame Rattazzi, to visit her at Tronville, whero she had_taken s coitage. She telegraphed to & friend, ‘ Everything is prepared; Napoleon can_come.” A Gredt excite- ment in the official world; the telegraph was sent to AL. Thierg ot last, who isa grest friend to Mme. Rattazzi, and who Isughed, and_does .Eltelt“’ at the scare the telegram caused.—Paris ter. —A Michigan candidate to Congress is said to bo making speeches to tho workingmen, Twith two artistic black patches on the ceat of his gra; g:ntn!cnns‘ Ho parts his coat-tail in the mn{ le, flings a half over each arm, buries his ‘hands to the elbows in his tronsers pockets, and turps his back to the audience eo constantly that * protection” and * home industry,” in twin combination, at onée present themselves 2s the most silent and the most ehining features of his oration, if not the very bottom Of his eloguent fabric. —Ulysses Grant, son of the President, is in Germany, perfecting himself i the lauguage of tha conthry sodin Fronch. Ha isalitn eep- ing up his studies with the junier class at Har- vard, to which he belongs. He is not ab & university, but is boarding witha privato family in Gottingen. Next year ha wilreturn to enter the senior class at Harvard The young gen- tleman hes & good foundatior already in French and German, as aleo Misi Nellio, though she does not readily speak eitherlanguage. —The Christian World noes, in Dr. Samuei ler's memoirs of Chief histice Taney, that o Judge was an awful smer. He began to pull avay early in lifo, anl kopt on fndnstie. ously pn!fini away to the ed. _Yet he had one of those delicate, nervons excitable organiza- tions which are thonght peuliarly susceptible to injury from the use of thacco. Whils on his sick Ded he found his grestest relief from pain in smoking. He died almost with the cigar in bis mouth. Here (says tsy_World) is a case for the Anti-Tobacco League. :If suchan organiza- tion can stand the poisne for eighty years, would?n‘t it be well to ge up SOV new argu- ment . Bouble Homicide in Loukianz. From the 8t. Francisville (La.) Repulfjan, Oct. 23, Last Sunday, at 8 o'clocls p. m., iithe neigh- borhood of Ratlill’s Landing, sevekeen mijes from Bayou Sara, while & colored Jea named Early, in the employ of Mr. Geo. H.Sury, was returding home, he was met bys ¥hte men named Samuel Jones, who, with & cclod shot- gun, ordered him to divest himelf of his CQothing. Having complied with the ordcra iven by Jones, he was told to 30 hazeand tell ST Cury that if he chd not Liko1t heroid bress him (Curry) in the same marner. | Cofortun- ately, Early; on_his way home, met Mr. Curry, in company with Henry C. Lingstén and in- Formed wim of what had becn done aa(ceid b Samuel Jones. Mr. Carry went at oncein sesrc of Jones, and met him abont 300 yards tom the house of S. H. Cotton, father-in-lgw o Samuel + Jones. AMr. Curry was advised by Kington that Jones was armed, and_ suggested that Surry had ‘better ask Jones to disarm himeelf. I did €0, iving up s Deringer pistol to Mr. Curry. a7y then informed Jonmes that he wanted no controversy with_him, that he must give up the clothes he had taken from tbe colored man, Eerly. During the conversatior which was car- ried on relative to the clothes the parties ap- proached s thicket, and wher within sisty or Beventy yards therefrom, Jones raised his shot- gun above his head and began praying in a_loud voice, which must have been te signal for Joncs' accomplice o fifyon Curry—ss immediately the discharge of a shotgnn waa beard, and Cury fell mortally wounded. It sppears, however, that after receiving the wound, which in a few min- utes proved fatal, Mr. Curry wrenched the shot- out of Jones’ hands acd tired one shob zt ?;:asz cansing instant death. In the meles, Mr. Curry's horse wes killed, and that of Kingdton wounded. Josh_D. Cotton, brother-in-law to Samuel Jones, has been arrested, charged with complic ity in tho murder of Curry, and is now in jail awaiting a preliminary exemination. We learn that this shooking was the result of an old_feud which had existed for some time between Jones on one pert, and Messrs. George H. Cunry and H.C. Kl:ngshm on the other. Rumor saya that Jones hsd been watching for Curry for sote time previoua to the shooting. Where Dickens Slecps in Westminster Abbey. From Edmund Yates' Lecture. Death took Charles Dickens suddenly, but who shall ey he seized upon him unprepared? Our shrift may be ehort as the hfhhmg‘s fiash, or wo may mumble over our heads for fourecors e, mu die unready. It is suficient for us to ow that God took him in his own_good time, and that he had boen permutted to Sll& pisce in the history of his age, to enjoy & career, and to accomplish a life work which Kings and mfier- ors might envy. That life work accomplished, T sleops in Westminster Abbey. There Was a progosxtmn that he should be buried in Rochester Cathedral, Rochester, which 18 the cloisterham of Eawin Drood, close to his old Kentish home; but the voice of England spoke Ou% that her great son should-be lai ashes of the dead in that - ner, which has been consecrated o greatest, wisest, and ~best of her Countrymen. And there helies at the foot of Handel, and at the hesd of Sheridan, wi - ard Cuusberland resting on his ni!;fi band, and the great historian Macauley on his left.” His grave is near the foot of Addison's statue, and Thackeray's bast looks down on the last resting- place of his old friend; Dr.Johnson and Gar- rick lie within a few yards of him, while sepa- Tated from Dickens' grave by the statues of Sliskspoare, and Southey, and Thompson, azs the memorials of rare Ben. Johnson, ionnms John Dryden, noble ‘John Milton, and a host of other ‘Worthies, each of them the glory of English Lit- erature in their day. When I visited the Abbey, the next dsy, crowds of pao%l:fl,r w&v.h mnnd'ml sympathizing faces, were gathered around, an the Exnzd utgna, on which, in plain characters, hia name and the number of his years wers graven, was strewn with wreaths of immortelles. And I thought, my friends snd brothers, thai when I croseed the Atlantic 1 would, in your presence, a8 it were, lay this poor flower upon the grave of one whom you sppreciated 80 gan- erously—whom you foved so well. —_— The People of an Arkansas Town Startleds From the Fayettvitle (Ark) News, Oct. 24, 2 About twelve miles south of Huntayille, Madis son County, on the 8th inst., occnrred the most wonderful and startling phenomenon that haa ovor boon witnessed by the citizens of that neighborhood. Near the farm of Captain Smith, Sheriff of the County, some of the citizens were startled by a frightful noise like the rushing of a mighty cannon ball through the air. On look- ing up :Iv discovered something that looked lilie & solid column of fire passing with tremend- ous velocity through the air, with a whirring, Rissing sound, something like that of & she but many fold londer. It appeared to be from eight to ton feet in length, and from four to five fost in diameter, bt it was pussing with such swiftness that it may have been many times larger than it appeared. When first discovored it seemed to be roveral hundred foot above the earth, and was inclining in its conrse toward tha ground, profusely emittiog great sparks of fire. About & minate or two after it passed ont of sight an awfal explosion was heard, that shook the earth for miles around, and was heard at a poet’s cor- th distance of fifteen miles. The truth of this statement is vouched for by Captain Smith, Mr. Qualls, 8, P. Bmith, Mr. Tassey, and other prom- inent citizens of tho neighborhood, -