The Clarion-Ledger from Jackson, Mississippi • Page 1

The Weekly Clarion. KIaY clair. WEE TBHE .0 ON. DBAWN TO EISTSUCTIOIT. Sad Temiaation cf a Fourth July JIatcL JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1873.

YQL. XXXV I. NO. 33. The Salary Grab.

rowKit baiiksdaiIkT PECPSISTCSS. mviTB HARRIS BARKSDAXE. rtBYtii.lt, IN ADVANCE. TERMS, $2 00 A I KKTI Ml AU E.VFN. r-others are authorized to solicit business fur lu CtAElOS.

8. K. i lies, B. M. Eos ton Boston 8.

M. W. W. Sharps (iKu. ROWELL Datks 5: Locks, CKitFis llormAK Cok, WtTitaai i F.

1. Pibule Co. PeUolykr Kicuks, Thomas MiIxttke New Vork York City. Vork. New Vork.

Baltimore Philadelphia Louisville Cincinnati. Orleans. Reuiitinnci'S should be by registered letter, mr.n..v iir.lnr. draft, or by exire. uea out a iih cannot be responsible.

All himiriesfl communications hould be ad drrel to I'ower Barkidale, Jackson, Miss. JEALOUSY. jealousy thou bane of pleasing friend- Thou worst Invader of our tender bosoms 1 liow docs thy rancor all our softness. And turn our gentle natures into bitter- itowe. Pretty Hands and Feet.

Ihprtwlon of If lie Poetry of tho Iet. tlie In the varied phases of life all the graceful and pleasing attitudes assumed by women are characterized by the move- mentor the nanus, lany gestures of i i the fingers only have a language so true that it appears expressive. We know that a hand held or given has expressed a greater emotion tiian could nave been made in a long discourse. 1 ne pri i ale in a long discourse, due primitive quality of beauty is comparative small ness. A lady's hand is considered more graceful if under the usual Bize.

If it has sof forms and pure outlines, fingers long, delicate, flexible, round and taper- I ing toward the ends; if the dimples over m0rbU8, Asiatic cholera and cholera in-the joints are marked by faint reliefs and tk vri ntAtn a ta first, twfi 82 00 PER YEAR. eded Reforms. From the Iudependent South. in the next election there are several greatly needed reform, to hich all voters an.i candidates should pledge themselves. irsi onori ltg stattve sessions.

i he cost of the Iislature is not less than $1250 per day. The last session was protracted for more than one hundred days, and three-fourths of the laws enacted were not only useless to the people, but injurious. Let the voters see to it that we have shorter sessions snd less legislation lor the future. Second The Legislature should meet but once in two years, and not annually, as is row the case. In this particular the" state Constitution should be amended.

Let pledges to this reform lie exacted from ail candidates for the Legislature. Third Local special legislation is becom ing an overshadowing evil. This is the species of legislation that opeus the way for urioery nu corruption, legislation re quired for the public good is seldom if ever brought about by imnrooer means. It only where persons or rings have an axe of meir own to grind that they are found playing the lobvist. or brinarinar Question able influences to bear upon legislative oouies.

i ne people should at the ixms take a stand against this species of legislation. Let no man be returued to the next Legislature who is not publicly committed against it. fourth let the fitness of things and proper qualifications be consulted in the se lection of all candidates, whatever mar be the office to be filled. Ignorant men. with out brains, whatever may be their moral virtues and personal worth, cannot faith tully and properly discharge important puouc uuties.

for places or trust and re- ponsibutty we waut honesty, capacity, in telligence and firmness. The peace, good order aud prosperity ot every community are greatly dependent on the character ot its constables, therms, justices ot the peace, and supervisors. Let voters pouder well tbe great respousibihty of the trust before casting their ballots at the approaching 1 election. Central Extension. The Trains on the MississiDDi Central Railroad, will commence runniiig ou the Extension to Milan, to-morrow.

The nas- seugers mac pass up the road after to-day. in cuange cars at Jinan instead oi Hum boldt as heretofore. The distance from Jackson to Milan is twenty-two miles. In that distance there are two statious. Oak field and Medina.

The track Is laid for some fifteen miles further on the Extension but it is not probable, that the Central trains will run further than Milan until the road is completed to the Ohio river, which will not be many months heuce. Water Valley Courier 12th. The Dick.Pay Swindle again De nounced. 6pecial to the Chicago Tribune. Madison, July 5.

An incident at oiicwoc, in this county, shows the feel ing among the people on the back-salarr steal and kindred subjects, of which pro- cbsionai politicians nave little idea, lue Hon. James Itoss' oration of yesterday was a mild contrasting ol the patriots ol Congress of '70 and their act with those of the last Congress. When he alluded to the "back-pay business," the people cried. lhats what ve want to hear about. anu lainy compelled the speaker to give voice to oublic indignation in was piain.

The I'jimilj- I From the Brandon Republican. IheOkolona News says the only salva tion lor the Republican party is in the nom ination ot vuies. Alcorn says he won vote for Ames if nominated. Musgrove says rowers is a ttupid ass, and can't spell correctly. Powers sajs Musgrove is a grand rascal, lhe Kosciusko Republican calls Musgrove and Lake, of the Vicksbursr Times, 'sutlers and vendors of cabbage plants." Subsidy Josh takes au occasional crack at the whole ring of lanks, and the lanks show jrreat contempt for Josh.

Ben says he never had brains enourh to aspire to any high position heretofore, but as this is an era of small men he thinks he can come in and compete for Gubernatorial honors. 1TUJIS. Memphis owes her policemen five months' salary. Over 2 000 new post routes went into ope ration the first ot this month. The chignon is no longer seen at fashion able water-places.

A female fire company extinsruishes the conflagrations in Pa. An Illinois boy was fined $23 for beating his mother, and she paid it. The consumption of cigars has been more than doubled in Boston during the past live vears. The English antiquarians have been dig ging up the wedding ring of Mrs. Alfred the Great.

No less than 1927 wets figured in the last English census as resident in London. A Massachusetts septugenarian hanged himself last week because he was cheated in a bargain. A Kansas lady, aged sixty-five, made her fourteenth contribution to the census a few days ago. A young lady of Darlington, com mitted suicide on account of the degraded character of her parents. The narrow gauge railways have been on trial for the past two years, and compari sons nave been made with roads older in years and broader in width of track.

There are now in operation in the United States fifteen of these railways, having an aggre gate of 700 miles, and 1,250 additional miles are now under process of construction by one hundred and tweuty separate organizations. These roads have been planned and constructed despite the prejudices entertained against them by the advocates of the wider guage. This steady progress goes to show that the encouragement thus far received has at least beeu suliicieut to justify further experiments. The coat of one of these road3 over a level country is about 10,000 a mile, including a fair equipment of rolling stock, while the four-foot eight and a half-inch gauge costs from 35,000 to 115,000 per mile. In the West, where the trallic is comparatively light, the wide six-foot gauge could not compete with the four-foot eight and a half inch gauges, and it has now been demonstrated that the narrow gauge pays better on the amount of money invested than the four-foot eight and a half inch gauge, and the actual expense of transportation per ton per mile is much less.

Survey of Pancagoula Harbor. From the Pascagoula Star. We take much pleasure in being able to announce the arrival of Lieut, (juinn, of the U. S. Engineer Corps, and party, who have bee.i charged with the survey of the harbor, under the appropriation made by Congress under its late session.

Lieut. Quinn arrived on Monday and immediately entered upon a discharge of his duties. We learn that these will embrace in addition, a survey of our river from and below the railroad bridge, and therefore we will be favored with the official views of this officer in relation to the bar, and the best method of deepening the channel at the mouth of our river; views which, doubtless, our commissioners will avail themselves of in grosecuting their duties under the State appropriation. John D. Baldwin, editor of the Worcester (Mass.) Spy, was six years iu Congress, and therefore speaks from experience when he denounces the idea that "cost of living in Washington justifies the salary-grab." He says: "This talk of the cost of living at Washington, used as an argument for extravagant pay, is an empty pretence, considering that Congressmen do not Jive there half the time, while other officials, with smaller salaries, live there constantly, and find no trouble in paying all their expenses.

The authors of the late increase of salaries began with the intention of making them $10,000 a year. W3 will wait to see what they will attempt next. Congress has a legal right to make the salaries of members 10,000 or $100,000 each, or any other amount but the frame rs of the Constitution did not suppose that there ever would be a Congress capable of abuilng thU right." I An Elopin; Tarty Swept Over Magura. Correspondence of X. Y.

Herald. Niagara alls, July 7. Since the day betore yesterday the principal subject of conversation in the country for a hundred miles about has been the fearful descent of the rowing oarty swept over the cataract on the evening ol the 4th inst. Yesterday I went to Chippewa, wlunee the unfortunate voyagers set sail, nd there I learned all that may be known to-day of their sad story. THE TOWN OF CHirPKWA.

If you follow the river up from Clifton, on the Canada shore, lor a distance of three miles, you will ultimately arrive at Chippewa. A poor, straggliug hamlet, consisting of a lew deserted brick buildings ou three sides ot a little open place; a factory or mill, the machinery of which scoured ago, and which presents a brokeu roof and unglazed window frames to the elements. aud, perhaps, two dozen detached wooden structures of different sizes and in different stages of decay. 'TBI ROY AX BKITISU-AMERICAX' Hotel is one of these sad-looking structures. long and low, aud dirty hire in color, and broken down about the eaves, with a sort of apologetic angle and a general expres sion ot sell-abasement, it was to this hotel that on tiie evening of Thursday last a little company came to play a merry comedy.

A little after live o'clock ou that eve ning the Iaudiord, Mr. m. Plummerlelt. standing in the doorway of his inn, observed a group of persons chatting gaily. approaching from the river road.

They were three. lhe first, a young gentleman of about twenty-two years of age, beard less, and with au open, boyish face, carried a heavy valise. By his side was a very pretty young gin or apparently eighteen, fashionably dressed and atteuded by a little fellow of ten or a dozen years, who brought m. nP TUB MARRIAGK Before retiring on Thursday nlsrht. tho.

young gentleman asked where he should apply for a marriage license. He was in formed that he would have to go to Wel-land, the county seat, in order to obtain one. He then made arrangements for a horse and buggy, with which to ride over in the morning. Before noon he started, accompanied hr the young girl, whose little brother was leu behind. During the absence of the lovers the landlord at intervals chatted with tho.

child. AX ELOPEXJEXT. "Is that pretty lady vour sister Mr. Plummerfelt. Yes, sir," said the boy.

Where do you live when at home At Toronto." And where does the young gentleman "He lives in the States, sir. but he nse.l to live in Toronto. He lived there a liith? while." "And so he and vour sister are ffolnc tt be married Yes, sir." This was on Friday, the 4th of Jul p. In the afternoon the lovers returned, their faces radiant. Can you give us a cold lunch, landlord.

and what shall I pay you tor the ine norsewui oe3.sir," and Mr. Plum merfelt brought out a lunch of cold meat, bread, cheese, ale and milk. lhe three sat down. They ate but little meat, but drank freely of the milk, and it the ale untouched. After the lunch THKY ALL WHISPERED TOGETHER, And laughed merrily, and soon after thev left the hotel and walked down to thecreek.

One of the villagers noticed as thev na-s- ed out from under the shadow of the inn. with its eaves, as humble hs Uriah Heei. glinting in the sunshine, a dark cloud suddenly obscured the sun, and they seemed to walk as it under a dark canopy. When they obtained a boat, however, this time free to go where they pleased, and under no restricting promise to the landlord, they turned its prow down the stream, and lhe sun came out from behind the cloud mid lighted up the waters, arid threw a glory about the fair girl in the stem ot the boat and dazed the eyes of the boy in the bow. An old gentleman who was pass nif over the bridge that spans the creek a lUtle distance from its mouth was attracted by the light laughter that came up from the boat, and paused a few moments looking steadily .1: u'i.

in Ltiiii. uuvLiiun. iienier tne young man at the oars was at the moment too much engaged in looking into thy pretty face directly in front of him or not it is impossible to say, but the old gentleman remarked that lie was very unskilful in his management of the boat. OUT l.V THE CURRENT. While the old gentleman was lookinsr.

the boat, floating with the current, though little impelled by the oars, passed out into the Niagara. at this point, less than three miles lrom the cataract, it is possible to row across the river. Not only is it possible, but, as a matter of constant occurrence, it is consid ered comparatively safe. But in crossing from the American side, leaving the pier near the Erie depot, it is neeessary to row up the river as far as the end of Grass island, and then to cross, still pulling diag onally up the stream, and bending to the work for dear life when in the dark look ing waters pointed out from the shore as TBI CHANNEL OF THE CCRREXT. On the other bank, pulling from the Can ada shore, you still pull a long way up the stream before you venture to diagoualiza across.

Down below the mouth of Chippewa creek, some twenty rods away, there is a "river fence," beyond whfch the current sets with fearful force tovards the rapids. lhe old man watched the boat iuovinir along in a direction diagonally dowu the stream and heading for outside of "the river fence." He tottered back and caught at the railing of the bridge for support, his face grew deathly pale, and he trembled like an aspen leaf. A little child crossed the bridge and looked at him curiously. Then, an old woman followed, and he asked each of them if they knew who was in the boat that was going to GO OVER THE FALLS. The woman looked scared, as though she thought he was crazed.

The child ran away crying. This man was one of the three who saw the boat after it left Chippewa, and while it etill retained its form. IN THE RAPIDS. As the water fence was passed and the current was bearing them along swiftly, specks of froth dotted the water. The girl looked from these beyond and caught a glimpse of the white foam and mist thrown now and again high in the air along the crest of the first rapids.

She uttered a cry and pointed in the direction of the first line of descent above Goat Isl ind. Her lover looked over his shoulder, and an expression of horror must have settled upon hit face. There was, doubtless, none of the bright color in the girl's cheek that had made her the admiration of the rustics in the village she was leaving behind only a short half hour before. Her lover grasped one of the oars with frantic haste, and with both his hands he thought to turn the boat in the middle of that current running like a mill race. He looked then, apparently for the other oar looked in the bottom of the boat, and on every side frantically.

He had lost the oar in the moment of the first appalling horror. He had DROPPED ONE OAK IS THE WATER, And it was carried away in a second beyond sight and sound, down in the depths ot the foaming abyss of the rapid now yawning beneath them. The boat darted down the first crest of rocks, the stern swinging about; a moment she lost to view, and then swinging on, seeming to point toward Cedar Island. Then she rose on the point ol a great foam-covered rock and darted down bow foremost, as though steered by invisible bands. From the new tower the poor wretches, who had gone so gaily forth in the frail cockle-shell, were seen clinging to each other ia the bottom of the boat.

Then a cloud of mist and spray veiled the whole from sight, and for an instant only, just under the arch of the rainbow over the cleft of the Horseshoe Fall, the end of the boat protruded from the foam and mist; another instant, for the space of the lightning's flash, two black fragments of the broken boat were seen, and that was all. The waters hid all else, and have continued to hide all, save a few fragments of the boat, which washed i shore beneath the cataract. The average post-mistress has a remarkable memory. When she leans over the back fence in the evening she can tell the woman next door every message sent on, postal card daring tht entire day, A Lover's Euse. In 2ST one of the larger French provincial, cities, during the autumn of 1871, a young German officer was quartered in the house of a rich merchant M.

(so the merchant was called) was a Chauvinist of the purest water. At the beginning of the campaign he was sanguine in the belief that in four weeks all Germany would be at the feet of the Jbmperor apoleon and now, despite ai the reverses the French arms had met with, frcm Weissenburg to Paris, he was thoroughly convinced that Gambetta, with his newly-created army, would soon drive the hated Crerman invaders to tne last man from the sacred soil of France." Until this ardently longed-for moment arrived, like the prudent man that ne was, he paid the taxes and contributions demanded of him by the invaders promptly, and gave vent to his hatred for leg mawl 'di Frussiens by vilifying Bismarck and the King of Prussia in his little family circle, and by avoiding, as far as possible. Lieutenant who was quartered in his house. The ladies of the house, his wile and laughter, were good patriots; but their patriotism did not prevent their finding Lieutenant very amiable and in teresting, and their allowing him to spend a considerable share of his leisure -art ii hours their society. Mademoiselle Louison.

the daughter, was eighteen vears old. and verv pretty. Lieutenant was five or six years older, wa3 an accomplished man of society, and thoroughly master of the French language. What was more natural than that, despite national differences, the young people should be drawn toward each other The mother, who was very kindly disposed toward the "elegant young officer, favored his suit, and encouraged her son-in-law, that would be, to formally ask Louison's father for her hand. But Papa declared that he would sooner see His daughter dead than the wife of a Prussian, gave the lieutenant a polite but decided relusal, and forbade his wife and daughter from holding any further intercourse with him.

The ladies were requested to occupy one wing of the house, and the servants received strict orders to deny the Prussian officer all communica tion whatsoever with the fortress. About this time the railroad accidents in the provinces occupied by the Ger mans had become so numerous, that they, as a means of self-protection, compelled some prominent French citizen to ride on the locomotive of each train, in order to prevent his countrymen from tearing up the rails of the road, or otherwise doing it such injury as to endanger the safety of the train, because now the life of one of their fellow-citizens would be imperilled by an accident as well as those of their enemies. The means accomplished the desired end railroad accidents became rare. But these compulsory trips in mid-winter, on an open locomotive, were very far from being pleaeure trips and M. was not a little amazed when, within the short space of two weeks, it was his lot to make the journey in this manner to and from no less than five times.

His protestations and remonstrances were of no avail; the order from the German headquarters was there, and had to be obeyed for ronire la force il n'y a pas de resMame. When M. was notified for the sixth time to hold himself in readiness to make the journey again to he entered a complaint to the maire, who replied, with a shrug 1 am sorry, but 1 can do nothing tor vou. It is certainly very strange that you should be selected so much more frequently than the others to make this unpleasant trip. Have you, perhaps, a personal enemy at the German head quarters I recently refused a German omcer, who asked the hand of my daughter," said he, after a moment's reflection, "and lenied him admission to my family circle." Cest ca cried the maire, laughing.

That explains the mystery. Two or three times, when you have been away, I have seen Lieutenant enter your house. He evidently had sufficient in fluence at headquarters to enable him to send you on these accursed journeys whenever he desires to visit your daugh ter." M. 's indignation knew no bounds. My dear friendV" continued the more philosophic maire, I would advise you to consent to your daughter's marriage rather than, in this cold weather, to contract a pneumonia by riding to and from on an open locomotive." M.

threw himself into a chair, and seemed for some minutes lost in re flection. It was a terrible alternative either to give his daughter to a maudit Prmsien, or to endanger his own valu able life. How long, think you," he asked the maire, wm it De Deiore tne Army or the Loire will destroy? the Germans before Paris, and drive the last one of them across the Rhine?" The Army of the Loire," replied the maire, has, according to news received this morning, been defeated, losing ten thousand prisoners, -v Jleiisonge! impossible! cried M. But he concluded that it would be wise, under all the circumstances, to follow the advice of his friend the wiaire. Immediately on his return from his sixth compulsory trip to he gave his consent to his daughter's betrothal with the hated from that time he received no more orders from the (jrerman head quarters to ride on an open locomotive.

-Translated from "Recollections of the Franco-German War," by Franz Eugen. The ladies of Remington made a raid on the saloons, on the evening of July 2d, for the benefit of the families of a few habitual drunkards, ihey pro ceeded in a body, armed with hatchets, to L. Ford's saloon, which they entered and completely cleaned of all intoxicating liquors, not leaving a barrel or bottle nnemptied. Thence they marched to the Fountain Saloon and partly destroyed his stock, when the proprietor promised to clear out in thirty days and never sell another drop in that place. In bonnet trimmings nowadays we see cherries, grapes, blackberries, little car rots, bits of parsley, long pale-green beans, sorrel, marjorum, and other denizens of the kitchen garden.

The ingenious way in which vegetables were used as adornments to the costumes of Le Roi Carotte" probably suggested the fashion. The costume of a young lady nowa days is a curious mixture of styles. The arrangement of the hair is Greek the ruff is Elizabethian the jacket probably Louis Guatorze the fan represents the Trianon epoch and the jewelry is prob ably Moorish or Jtruscan. Ladies with round throats should not disfigure themselves with tUo abominable IIU1IA1T LIFE. The Natural LlmltofllBwaaLife, WhatsavsBufion? "The man whose life is not cut short by accident or disease.

reaches everywhere the age of ninety or one hundred years and he goes on remark, which is very important: we consider that the negro the Chinese, the American, the man highly civilized, the savage, the rich, the poor, the inhabitants of the city, and the dweller in the country, so different one from another in the every other respect aeree in this one point, and have, the same duration, the same interval of time to run through twixt the cradle and the grave that the difference of climate, of food, of comforts, makes no difference in the duration of life it will at once be seen that the duration of life depends neither upon habits, nor customs, nor the quality of food, that nothing can change the fixed laws which regulate the number of our vears. The fixed law which Buffbn recognized was that in the animal economy, not in man only, the duration of life is regulated by the duration of growth. Alan, he 6ays. grows in height until ne is six teen or eighteen, but his size is not iuiy developed until he is thirty. Dogs attain their full length during their frst year, but it is only in tne second tney reach their full bulk.

Man, which is fourteen years in growing, lives six or seven times that period, that is to say, till nmety or a hundred while the horse, of which the growth is completed in four years, lives six or seven times that period, that is to say, from twenty-five1 to thirty years. Recognizing the general accuracy or the principle laid down by iunon, ais distinguished countryman, M. Flourens, has sought to give greater precision to the law by settling the important ques tion, what is the term or limit ot growth. The great physiological problem had been solved by Button's discovery that the duration of life depended on the du ration of growth all that remained was to ascertain ot how many times the duration of growth the duration of life con sisted The one thing which escaped Buflon namely, the one certain sign ot growth being completed M. Flourens claims to have found in the union of the bones with their epiphyses.

As long as the bones are not united to their epiphysis the animal continues to grow but as soon as such union takes place the animal ceases to grow. This union takes place in man at twenty, in the camel at eight, in the horse at five, the ox at" four, the lion at four, and the dog at two and he then proceeds to show how nearly accurate Buflon had been when he said that every animal lives nearly six or seven times the period of its growth the truth being that it lives about five. Thus, man, being twenty years growing, ives hve times twenty that is, 100 years. 13 ut I have yet one, and that a still igher authority to produce. Just as these sheets are put into the hands of the printer, fortunately before they were composed, there appeared in Fraser's Magazine an article "On Longevity," from the pen of that most eminent physi ologist of the present day, Professor Owen, a paper so important, instructive, exhaustive, and convincing, that I entreat all my readers interested in conteuaruiu-ism to give it their most earnest consider ation.

1 rom the essay, to which I shall have other occasion to refer, and in which Professor Owen has done me the honor to recognize my small services in the cause of scientific truth, I extract the following passage, with which I may fitly conclude ray remarks on the average ex treme age to which man may attain. lhe conclusion of 1'rof. i lourens. that in the absence of all causes of dis ease, and under all conditions ravorab to health and life, man might survive as long after the proereative period ending, say, at seventy in the male as he had lived to acquire maturity and completion of ossification say thirty years are not unphysiological. Only under the cir cumstances under which the battle of life is fouglit, the possible term of 100 years, inferred by Flourens as by Buffbn, is the rare exception.

CHit-Cfisit about the I'uhioi. Embroidered muslins are verv fashion able for young ladies they look so simple, and are so expensive. Exquisite little vests for summer eve ning toilettes are made of gay colored silks trimmed profusely with lace and embroidery. Many young ladies are going through a series of calisthenic exercises in order to give their wrists the strength necessary to wield the monster Trianon fans, now-fashionable. In Paris, they have gone back to the limp style of a century ago, short waists, no crinoline, and all the characteristics of the bells of Almacks as we see them in old prints.

Fashionable ladies in the Eastern cities are making a crusade against false hair, and it is believed they will succeed in driving it out of style. The latest fancy in evening kid gloves have four buttons, and are embroidered in black or white on delicate tinted kids, tops pinked out in the old style. The ladies at the fashionable watering- places have entirely discarded the chignon, and will not, it is said, at least during the summer, submit to a revival of that uncouth fashion. The most elegant dresses for summer balls or watering-place hops are made entirely of white or colored tulle. The sashes are all of tulle, looped with gar lands of artificial flowers.

A Horrible Crime AtiirtiteoiivlT 1'anUhed. From the Dallas (Texas) Herald. We were shown yesterday a private letter from Pilot Point, Denton eouuty, dated the 20th which says a negro boy, a few days ago, attempted to ravisu the person of a girl aged about eight years. The negro was caught in the act by some passing persons, aud was arrested and placed under guard to await an examination before the magistrate. During the night a body ot men presented themselves, and-outnumbering the guard the boy was given up to them.

The next morning the body ot the negro was found hanging to a limb within the corporation, summary justice having been administered. It is time that the issues of the war were buried. Having well nigh destroyed institutions, there is no reason why they should destroy every material, pecuniary, manufacturing and agricultural interest as well. As a sentiment loyalty, perhaps, is sweet enough to those who are lond ot such embraces, but as a substance, it is as bitter aud as stenle is the ashes upon the shores of the Dead Sea. Kansas City Times.

There are rumors to the effect that the Governor of Mississippi has sent a requisition here for Col. R. B. Rhett, editor of the Ficayuae, for violating the laws of Missis. aippi by lighting a duel In the limits of that suae.

au. AQetc Das not been found, n( DellVed that he has left the CltV-K. U.ril.1 1 IMMIGR.VriOS SOCIETIES. Capital Leller from KfT. A hit- ftelA liafriugion, of JlaUison.

From the Canton Mail. Col. John IIaxdt, Canton, Miss. I see yon have placed my name on the list or speakers, witn to aadrcss the. citizens of Madtson behalf of the lrami gration Society.

I heartil concur with the object of vour society as I suppow every man of any public spirit and intelligence does. Its importance lies in an lmperious necessity, and to dwell upon this point would be as "useless as to attempt to per suade a famishing -with hunger, that he needs bread. The question whkh would most concern Inm, would be the means of his supply, or the mode of obtaiing it Now, I have noticed the proceedings of on or two of yonr meeting, I have read with interest the letters from the honorable gentlemen, who have discussed the re sources of Madison County, but as yet, have seen no feasible, tangible plan given by which this imperious necessity is to be met. You have passed resolutions to solicit membership to your society, but may I be permitted to ask what sismificHnce be attached to his order? What privileges are to nccriie to the members; and of what ad vantage is his name to be to the society if your society is a paper society, why, sir, paper is about the cheapest commodity on the market. If, npou the contrary, you mean business, and tell us what the order is, so that when we speakers go before the huDgry multitude instead of discoursing elegant terms on the valuable properties or oread we may invite them to some deti nue Plan ff obtaining this etftQ or lite.

stand ready, as every other good citizen does, to labor for the prosperity of my country, but then sir, I want my labor to an end. I do not know your plans, further than you propose to publish in a pamphlet the resources of the county, and send them abroad. This, sir, is well enough as far as goe, but then in does not go tar enougn. it the people of Madison in or out of so cieties mean to put the resources of the county into foreign favor, there must be something more than the nourish or trum pets and paper notoriety. There is no end to the natural resources of millions upon millions of acres, that spread their wide domains in every part of this great country and spread them still wider upon paper to the gaze of the unsettled and homeless ribes.

If you intend to poise a lance in this tournament, yours must be of fub.stan-tial metal, or it will be broken. You can not compete with the West by sounding a horn, you can only compete with her by some plan that offers to the Immigrant a ubstantial advantage something upon which he can rely, and which will invite him to a safe investment of smaller money capital and his larger life capital. To do this best, your society ought, I think, to be a corporate body with power to sue and be sued; so that an Immigrant would know hat what you propose to do lr him, you guaranteed to him in your very corporation, by the strong arm of the law. Tiie capital of yonr society should not be the vague and nuehnite promise ot a man wtio intends to fulfill it, provided he can not tarm his land to freed in en. But when a man becomes member of your society, let him come up nd say to yonr directory Here gentle men 1 nave so many acres or land, i wtsn to place one thousand at your disposal to he leased or sold to immigrants for a term of years as you propos I wish to give a bond for the faithful performance of my and grant." Let the society lirst publish to the land-holders the terms upon which they propose to take and lease the land, and be sure that those terms for one or two ears, at leat, shall be.

decidedly in the migrant's favor. Let the immigrant nderstand his advantages, and none the less clearly understand the obligation these advantages impose on him. Let there be mutual understanding and mutual obliga tions, and the society stand as trustee to the parties in obligation. Aow, sir, something like this, with nil the details more specilie and better consid ered would give jour enterprise significance and meaning. The age we live in is earnest age, and if we would command its attention we must respect its tone and temper, and oiler its earnestness unequalled ppiirtunities.

1 have but little lanu, out ui willing to let immigrants Dona nue nimigrants, who come to live here, bo one us, have two-thirds of that land lor one or two years, without any pecuniary con sideration. 1 iudge uiv neighbors by ruy- elf in this matter, and suppose that the reater part of the land in the county could be had on the same terms, if not betcer. deed, I know one gentleman who has said he will give to each lamily that -will come, every alternate forty acres of land he owns, nd he owns about lour thousand acres. Now, let us, if we mean to serve the ounty, go to work, anil work in a way that nieiiis something. Uome betore the people with a plan.

The arguments are not want- 1 in an-enterprise ot this kind, that will fail to command their interest. 1 believe. the public mind is prepared for signilicant action It only awaits your leadership. Have the boldness to presume upon the earnest patriotism of your fellow-citizens, nd they will meet the terms of vour liber ality in behalf of the immigrant, and the mmigrants will come, places will be glad for them your deserts shall blossom as the rose the clods of your val leys will turn to verdure, and your meadows shall be spotted with gold. lours Kespectiully, W.

11AKK1XGTOX. CJen. I. II. Hill on Parson llrowu.

low. The whole life of this miserable creature as been a shame and a lie. A minister of le pure ispei of Christ, he has belched forth nothing but falsehood, blasphemy and obscenity. For a quarter of a century the self-elected champion of human bondage, he has for twelve years traveled in loving sympathy with the hell bound party of ab olitionists. The first to suggest a Southern Confederacy, he has been the fiercest perse cutor of Confederates.

Bragging of the terrible thing3 he would do in war, he slunk into a bomb-proof on the strong side the hrst whistle ot balls. Preaching, writing and lecturing for twenty years that the negro wa3 a brute, fit only for bondage, he owes his present senatorial honors to egro influence. Prating all his life about honesty, he voted for the back-salary steal. nd took his share ot tne stolen money. Recreant to every trust, faithless to every obligation and false to every profession, the foul monster in his long career oi wickedness has been true only to tilth, to false hood, to slander, to blasphemy, the black- mng character, to blackguardism, and to W.

G. Brownlow. Gen. Hill's Taper. Scandalous Argument in Sup.

port oi the SalaryKteaI. From the Cincinnati Times (Republican). Senator Carpenter uses this powerful ar gument in favor of the steal: "The laxity of life is restrained by the supervision of a wite, and the heait is kept alive to the better feelings of our natures by the sweet voices aud the tender touch of children. Members of Congress will have families at Washington. It is better that they should have their own." As an argument for re tiring Senator Carpenter from public life this is sufficient.

Men who talk in this way are not to be trusted" very much in anything. It is a fact, however, that honest men in large numbers, quite as valuable to the public service as Carpenter, have comfortably supported themselves and families in the District for years, an are now doing it all the year round, for less than $5,000 salary. Congressmen caa do the same, without inconvenience" if they ayoid the gaming table and other vileuess, living honestly in "their own" homes. Such pleas as Carpenter's are an intolerable offense to tLe public nostrils. The Salary Steal.

We believe that the people demand that the whole of the odious salary law passed at the last session of Congress bej-epealed. If it should subsequently be deemed advisable to increase the salary of the President or any other officer of the Government, Congress can readily make the advance at any time; but at present the people are fully persuaded that no advance was required, and determined that the law shall be repealed. Teledo Blaie. Among tht persons spoken of as candidates for the Lower House of the next Legislature from Perry are Messrs. Wyatt J.

Draughan, J. M. Dr. John Gillis and Joseph Denham. Either of these would make good Representatives, as they are oid and tried citizens of Perry.

Their names will- go before a convention com posed of delegates from the district Ma- Hnn anil Prrv iinnt; Hnrthnrn nam. nation in the world. The fascinating forma and mannera of the "ladies of Ca cYn. the theme of old ballads, retain all their famous celebrity. Every one has heard of their dark, glancing eyes, their pretty hands skilled the nice con duct of the fan," their feet, dainty and fairy-like, "of which a glimpse is one of the last nreetous favors accorded to lover's sighs and tears and, more than all, their walk.

The charm is that it is natural, and in being the true, unsophisticated daughter of Eve and nature, the Spanish woman has few rivals. Many persons erroneously esteem the feet of women beautiful in proportion to their emallness. The beauty of the feet consists in their symmetry and grace of outline, and in their being snort or ex tremely small. The feet of the enus de Medicis excite the admiration of every one who looks at the beautiful statue. In the outline of their extremity they approach the elegant form of the ellipsis, and are founded from the proportions of nature, that of six to one between the foot and the body, the standard ot meas- urement adopted by the larger part oi Tt.

1 the sculptors or antiquity, me uaiurm projection of the second toe, which gives the foot its elliptic form, is arrested in it dprplnnment bv compression of the hont nr hoe. and thus its beauty is marred and its elastic tread impeded. ThPrp ia alwav a similarity in the natu- rfll hane of the thumb and teet ot toe Lame person. If the hand is plump, rnnnded nnd dimmed, with a delicate wrist go are the feet dimpled on the first nf iho tna. and the ank sottlv rnunf'ed ivii'HO wa n'v Ilet and Iieae.

Phvsicians usually class under the head symptoras rmid PS1(-h other. Rut much resemble each their ara onri'rclr Iflprnt flienrdprs. Thft nature of Asiatic cholera is as yet unde- mm nn (rr Kv rrnfl At- mofpheric electrical, other influences. On the other hand, cholera morbus is usually traced to easily determined causes. Of tbefe the chief improper food.

Unripe or over-ripe fruit, ereen and indigestible vegetables, likely to be eaten freely at this season va ro with mn of 2 cases of so-called cholera than any babit.itions. un cleanly habits, and other conditions of helpers towards iiskase and death. But an unwholesome diet is more to be dreaded than any one of these common i i i i invitations io me cnoiera una vuuiera morbus. When the epidemic cholera is prevalent, it is common to see the cholera morbus nutting on many more of the symptoms of the dreaded pestilence than usual. Jbiven when, as now, the true Asiatic cholera is far off, there are not wanting those who are eager to pronounce even case of acute cholera morbus to be genuine epidemic disorder.

Unlearned phvsicians, timid people, and wondering old wives are ready to spread alarm. By a sort of choleraphobia, people are predisposed to attacks from disease when it does come and weak-minded, ignorant persons, who are most to be surrounded by other unfavor able conditions, fall easy victims at the approach of the pestilence. I.MHA.VA IUI Jil.J V. IleUVen the Vi-(iiu in Six. Yea rat From the New Albany Ledger-Standard.

Within the last five or six years nine persons have been hanged within limits of this judicial district by committees, or, to give them their proper, shame suggesting name, mobs. Tully and Brown were given short shrift and a short rope in county, at Brownstown. Three men were hung on a beech tree in the same county. negro was hung between Courlland Freetown, in what is known as the White Creek Slashes.Jf Shortly afterward men were hung on the same beech tree, from the limbs of which three men before them had strangled to death. Four men were hanged in the Floyd Orange count'.

lhree negroes were hung in Clark count', and now the mob glutted its vengeance on Ileffren at Salem, and hung him without mercy, a dog. All of these outrages were perpetrated within the limits of five counties. Jackson county has hanged eight men, and, if injustice is not done her, citizens hanged the four men (who were sent from that county to the i loyd county jail for protection) who suffered death in the jail at New Albany. Or ange county has two to eternally stain record. Clark county must account the lives of three negroes.

ash-ington county has just tasted the sweets mob-law, in her first midnight hanging. A terrible record indeed The Lit lie leople. Little- girl at the breakfast table Mamma, this is very old butter I've found a gray hair in it." Aunt Emily "You're surely not go to shoot ine, Malcolm?" Malcolm "Well, no; anyhow, not all at once, you know, cos you're too big." Dear me how cold it is up here in mountains; my teeth are fairly chattering, said an elderly lady. "Don 'em chatter too much, aunty," yelled a fright boy of ten years, or they may tell where you bought 'em." A teacher asked a new boy, who made the glorious universe, but the boy could not tell so the teacher got his cane and told the boy if he didn't tell he would flog him. The boy looked at the cane 1 aud snivelled out, i iease, sir, i oid, but I won't do it again." The teacher fainted.

Why don't vou wash the bottom of your feet, asked a grandmother a boy when ne was performing the operation before retiring for the night to which he gravely replied, Why, gran ny, you don't think that I am going to stand up in bed, uo you: ot Judge John Robinson of Virginia, whose death has just been announced, was an ardent secessionist, and in 1861 was sent by the Secession Convention to Washington to ascertain from Generals Scott and Robert E. Lee their status on the Question of the Southern Confeder acy, and also to Montgomery, to confer with the chief conspirators in tne attempt to establish a new government. Since then he has not been prominent in public life, and, as the Lynchburg Virginian say 8, being too old to unlearn his early lessons in pohtics, he never accepted the situation, and died true to his con victions, an honest man and an unre Extracts from the Press. The salarv-erabbers came in for their share of attention at the farmers' meeting nere ror no puDiic meeting is expected to be silent on that matter aud formal notice was served on them all that the farmers of Columbia county would have no further use for their services after their present terms of office shall have expired. Portage (V is.) Register, The late Congressional salary steal is becoming daily more an object of agitation, disgust and abomination in the eyes of the people.

Indeed, now that the people have nau sufficient time to recover from the hrst shock and ponder over the outrageous deed, its venality is realized Free port (111.) Bul letin. We don't believe the fuss about the grab will blow over soon. It has been growing. as we have said, for four months, it is not necessary for the politicians to keep it be fore the people; the people will keep it be fore the politicians. It is not necessary to bring outside influences to work up public feeling; for, like yeast in dongh.it works itself- The people had inst begun to realize the extent of Uongres- tonal corruption, when Congress, defiant of decency, openly made the salary-grab the dou Died the price of their own shame, Cincinnati Commercial.

Of course nobody disputes the power of congress to do what it did. lherefore. Senator Carpenter wasted much time in arguing that point. Congress might vote its members $50,000 a year, and there, is no power that could stop it: but we are not talking, about legal rights or power, but about the moral right. Congressmen did not steal, but thev did which was about as mean aud almoet as demoralizing.

Therefore it is called the salary-steal aud by that name 11 win ot) Known long niter lue uumi- eal graves receive and hide out of sight the Si 111 1 1 I I remains of those who so grossly offended public sensibilities, and plunged the Congress of the nation into disgrace. Cincin nati uazette. The country is awake upon this subject, ano no sopnistry or wnitewasning will close their eyes or so cover up this crime of their public servants as to hide it lrom their sight, and we much mistake the temper and spirit ot the people of Wisconsin if they do not convince Air. Carpenter one of these days that he has received the compensation provided Dy law tor the last time. Atchison (Kan.) Globe.

This salary-steal was one of those bold villainies which bring their own punish ments. No carpenter, or joiner, or tinker, or cobbler can mend a character so rent and rotten as that of thesalary-grabbers. St. Joseph (Slo.) Uazeue. The salary-grabbers are receiving origi nal reiereuces the resolutions passed by the nominating conventions of both parties.

It was an act that will long stink in the public nostrils. Harrisburg (Pa.) State Journal. It is likely that all the State conventions held this year will be compelled to denounce this infamous transaction, and we may yet expect to near oi numerous cases ot the return of the money to the National Treasury. Philadelphia Inquirer. Most of the above extracts are from Republican journals, yvhich are in full accord with the Democratic press on the saiary-sieai.

it is signmcaut mat not a 1 Ti .1 single newspaper of influence in all the land, of any party, has spoken out in justification of the iniquity. Its only de fenders are the men who perpetrated and are profiting by it. A Model President Grant sent the following letter in reply to an invitation to assist, on the 4th of July, at Philadel. hia, to give the Centennial performance a send-off: Tono Branch, N. June 28, 1873.

"My Dear Mr, Bokib: Your favor in closing a letter addressed Dv ir. joliw Welsh to you was received last evening. It was my intention to comply with your and ids request; but I am just now in receipt of a uispatcn that my laiher is sinking very rapidly, aud cannot survive very long. 1 start hence, therefore, at once, and will re main until alter tne iourtn, it my latin should live that long, aud caunot, of course. attend the celebration in Philadelphia should he not live- I hope and trust that the Centennial will receive ou lie 4th prox imo such a 4 go off' as will attract the attention of the uation to it, and awaken a de termination on the part ot the people to niaKe it a grand success also that foreign nations may have awakened in them asDirit of honorable rivalry with our young republic in ttie exhibition three years hence.

lours truly, C. b. Ubast, A Earmer and his Wife Tortured hy Itobbers. Salina (June 30) Dispatch to the San Fran cisco Chronicle. The following strange storv is reoorted here to-day, and believed to he true 'borne days ago two men one whose name is Larquez, and the other whose name unknown visited the ranch of Jesus Otilla, at the Arroya Seco, forty miles from here, and seized and bound his wife, and with small pinchers tore from their fingers the finger-nails to make them disclose the whereabouts ot a large sum of monev which Otilla was supposed to possess.

Their ef- lorts to mane tnem reveal the secret were unsuccessful, and in spite of the torture they remained silent. The robbers then commenced a search for the money, and found a package of gold notes, but, not knowing what they were, left them behind. The would-be robbers are believed to be members of a gang of thieves and highway men infesting the San Joaquin and the lower country, whose deprecations were at one time quite frequent. Of late nothing has been heard of them until this occurrence. SEWS l'ARACiiKAPIIS.

A committee of the North Carolina SDe- clal tax bond-holders have money to commence suits, under charge of Reverdy Johnson. Mrs. Jefferson Davis in Toronto. Tier husband is still in New York, where his apartments are deluged with visitors. A Washington special states that a combination of whisky dealers and railroad men has been formed to operate ou Congress to repeal certain internal revenue laws deemed inimical to their interests.

The sleeping car on an Eastern bound train on the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad jumped the track near New River bridge, on the 12th, and rolled over a small embankment. The brakesman wa3 killed. The sleeping-car conductor had a leg bro ken, and some halt a dozen of the Dassen- gers were badly hurt, but all escaped serious injuries. Wm. M.

Gaston, a citizen well known in the city, died suddenly Thursday night, under novel and distressing circumstances. He had taken an over-dose of chloral. Meridian Mercury. A few days ago the creditors of Major Levy, family grocer, closed him up, and he has not re-opened. Day before yesterday the firm of Mur-dock furniture dealers, was closed up by their creditors.

Same. Dr. Eliza Walker has been elected house physician at the Bristol (England) Hospital for Women and Children. She i3 a Scotch lady who graduated at the University of Zurich. Work on the Southern Pacific Railroad has been recommenced at Los from which point it will be built northward.

Comparative Cotton Statement. New York, July 11. The following is the comparative cotton statements for the week ending to day Bales Net receipts at all United States port3 uring the week 1 5.306 Same week last year. 31.401 Total receipts to 3.512.187 Same date last .2,687,597 Total ex ports to date 1,884.336 Stock at all United States ports. 212,838 bame time last year Stock at interior towns.

Same time last year Stock at Same time last year Stock of American afloat for Great 135,992 31,758 10,495 Same, tjrmj last year $9,000 1 county uu uicn were strangled to death on the Lost River Bridge, between Orleans and 1'aoli, in and the wrist softly rounded pering arm, it is more delicate and femi- mue. bienuer, nervous, white, slierhtlv veined with blue, with the hollow rosv uuu.t,, "ttUBPari, iney belong to the patricians Hands are infinitely varied. Their shape, tint, the nails, length, width, roundness, are as different as individuals. There are hands that seem intellectual in their symmetry, beautiful in flexi- dity and grace ot motion. Some tre r'f tt, A il Tit 11 mi a An V.

I ivuLuuuo, UUu utiles pi wise, nanu ouen expresses tue capabilities ot tne person to wnom it belongs, lhe 1 I 1 )1 I ifjnia, aiiu sina.it thumi) indicate in woman indolence, fan- cy and feeling. The square hands be-1 long to the intellectual and ambitious. and those who love influence and rule, mi il iv i i i i 'I jl ne Biuitii, null, uiuii, iiesniess nanus, but rosy and with knotted fingers, are brilliant and witty. Fingers delicately squared at the ends, like those of Eno-lish women, love uoinestic lite. he small thumb and fingers, broadened at the ends, desire activity and a practical knowledge of the world.

There are smooth and knotted hands to the first belongs grace to the second, reason. Conical hands with pointed fingers obey inspiration and worship the beautiful in painting, poetry, romance and nature, There are soft hands, more capable of tenderness than of love, and "delicate fingers that are formed for sensitiveness and 8inpathy of touch, and made to 'inintMter to pain and grief;" hard hands that know no tenderness, but are not ignorant of love; and "rough hands that the htart teaches and guides -and softens." Listen to what pulmistry reveals of the female hand Women may be ranged under two principal banners under the one, those with a large thumb, and those with a small thumb under the other. The first are more intelligent than feeling, wise from history the other more feeling than intelligent, from romauee. A woman with a large thumb loves with reflection less with the heart than the senses, but adds to her passion constancy and every mental charm. Women with small thumbs are not endowed with so high a principle of sagacity.

So, love with them is ail their thought; but such is the charm attached to that powerful passion that there is no seduction equal to it. Order, arrangement, symmetry and punctuality reign without tyranny in a beautiful young lady with square pha langes? Ftpiip yourself with good sense and steadiness, reject all captivating airs and confound not singularity with distinction. In the number of her axioms are these silence is a power, mystery an ornament. With women of a strong palm, conical fingers and little thumb, paint your language in glowing colors. They love that which dazzles, and theory has more power Over them than logic.

Three thiugs govern them indolence, fancy and feeling. They have in their hearts the prayer of the Corinthians addressed every morning to Venus: goddess, grant that to-day I may do nothing unpleasing, and that I may say nothing which may not be agreeable," for to please is their chief care, and they love much being beloved and adaiired as esteemed. Such were, doubtless, the hands of the beautiful and triumphant ipnazons of which the flying squadron of Catherine de Medicis was composed. A high-priest of palmistry tells us, M'me lloland had beautiful large hands, indicating a head full of poetical ideas and a soul inclined to the ideal. She understood the beauty of passion and the self-sacrifice it imposed.

At once stoical and impassionate, imperative and enthusiastic, tender and austere, she loved three things with an intense love country, liberty and unity. By nature bold and courageous, like the majority of women of her type, she did not belie herself in poverty, in greatness or on the scaffold." Queen Elizabeth was proud of the beauty of her hands. It is written that durino1 a public procession to prayers she pulled her glove off her right hand, sparkling with jewels, and gave it to kiss, as a mart ol particular lavor, to a Bohemian Baron who had letters to present to her. Diana of Poictier's features wer regular 11 '11 1 ana classical, ner complexion faultless her hair of a rich purple black, whir-h took a golden tint in the sunshine while ner teeth, tier ankles, her hands, her arms, her bust, were each the theme in turn of the court poets. The hand of veorge band is narrow, with pointed fin gers, delicate, smooth and elastic with out softness.

Parisienne is synonymous with slender leet, narrow ankles and arched inst3o. We learn every day that the small arch ed loot is a sign ot nobility a rule that admits of many exceptions. Generally. the aristocratic foot xs fine, slender, nervous, delicate the foot plebian short and gross. The English have the flat loot the Kussians have enormous feet.

as heavily attached as those of an ele- pnant. or this reason, it is said. Kussian princess invented trained robes. The American women are acknowledged ttiose dwellings governed Dy the gentle economists with the square phalange and small thumb. Are j-ou paying court to or is so ne the I is the the the apt first teen the A and two has like her her for of ing the let of biga iruls now worn, yi aave mo most DeautUul feet of aoy pentant.