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H7IT0AT HOKJOKa, AUG, 14. ATOLUNTEER SPECIAL POLICE FORCE It has been suggested to us tbat in dealing with the present condition of lawlessness of a certain class of our population it would be well to invoke that public spirit which has been so conspicuously manifested in the organization and conduct of the Sanitary Association. The proposition is fiimply the enrolling of a large force of respectable citizens as special officers. The Mayor, we believe, has the power to appoint special officers "without limit, and all private watchmen are commissioned in this way. Saeh officers are entitled to no compensation, but are simply authorized to preeerve the peace and make arrests just as are members of the regular force.

If say 1000 or 1500 citizens would consent to serve in this capacity, it would undoubtedly supply the de ficiencies of the police system and have a fin moral effect. hey would not, of course, be called upon to Abandon their callings, wear any uniforms, or devote any particular time to public affairs; but merely exercise their 'functions in cases where they chanced to be present during a disturbance, or in the locality where a crime may have been committed. If such a force were carefully chosen, taking into consideration sot only the personal character of appointees, but their places of residence and ordinary resort, the entire city and the suburbs would be under an effective system of protection under the authority of the law. Speedy Arrest and vigorous prosecution in every case of a violation of law "won Id soon restore quiet, and rid the community of many bad characters. We advance this suggestion for what it is worth, regarding it at all events as entitled to serious consideration at the hands of our Chief Magistrate and citizens generally.

I'EOPERTT VALUES IN THE'SOUTH In 1852 the real and personal property assessed in the Southern States aggregated $2,489,000,000, which was 41 per cent, of the total for the whole country, and as much as had the New England and Middle States combined It is very true that these figures do not show the relative absolute wealth of the various sections, but they approximate it. The census of 1860 showed that thisprrperty in the South bad grown to $4,861,000,000, or about 100 per and the proportion of 40 per to the entire assessment of the country was maintained. During that decade, the New England States had added' to their tax rolls only $480,000,000, and the Middle States $1,180,000,000, the one beingan increment of 43 and the other of 70 per cent. Though the growth of property values in the Western States for that period was very great in per centage, it was less than in the South by $578,000,000. The decade ending in 1870, which embraced the war period, entirely changed the relative position of the sections.

Southern property had shrunk to $2,433,000,000, or less than it was in 1852. Allowing something for improvement in values between the close of hostilities and the date at which that census was taken, the shrinkage of taxable values in this section brought about by the war could not have been less Uian $3,000, 000,000 a sum greater than the entire debt contracted by the Federal Gov ernment during the conflict. If we estimate the slave property at $1,000,000,000, which is a liberal Igure, it embraced only one third the loss in values. Daring that decade, however, the Western States valuations had grown 50 per cent, reaching $4,036, 000,000 and the New England and Middle States had advanced with greater strides. Coming down to 1880 we find the figures of valuation in the Southern States had dropped down to $2,220, 000,000, while the West added another billion and a hitt and the Middle States nearly a billion, the comparison standing as follows Section.

1870. 1830 "Slew England State $2,717 S2.8ol $2,409,113,899 Middle States. 4,893.728.939 6 31 IU37 Southern Jstatr 3,433,253,810 2,326,14,381 State 4,028,368,368 8,532,159,69 Pacitio States Mid Teriito rles. 327.183.551 643.946,98 Total $13,898,090 899 S16.358.064 100 While this showing may seem at first view rather discouraging, a little reflection will suggest that the future is likely to witness the greater appreciation in Southern property. There is certainly no good reason why property values in the South should be less to day than in 1860.

Omitting slaves, the Southern tax rolls before the war aggregated $3,861,000,000, while now it is $1,635, 000,000 less than that. The population, productions and manufacturing interests have grown enormously. In all that goes to create property valaes the South is certainly far ahead of what she was in 1860. The land is as productive, and there are more hands to calti vate it. Buildings, improvements and implements are both more numerous and more costly than twenty jesw ago, and the political future is more settled.

Confidence, however, ia bt and that is no flirt the case. i iuvt eteu for example, of late, i outside capitalists coming in and buying railways for a mere song. The Southern holders of the securities did not appreciate the true value ef what they owned. Mining properties, mill sites, timber forests, are being picked up the same way. We shall see shrewd investors soon coming in and buying farming lands and urban property.

They are already getting control of the swamp lands and reclaiming them. The boom in all kinds of Southern property has not yet fairly begun. There is room for an appreciation to the extent not only of millions, but of hundreds and thousands of millions. Among the changes effected by the code of criminal procedure in New York is one which is a great improvement on the relics of barbarity in the old practice. Heretofore, if a man witnessed a crime, he was brought into court with the prisoner, and if he could not famish bail for his appearance to testify at the trial he was locked up.

This detention of witnesses has sometimes resulted in serious harm. The Tribune says that there are now locked up behind prison doors in New York city no less than fifteen persons, for no other reason than that they were witnesses of some alleged crime, and are too poor or too little known to furnish bail. By the new code, it is provided that the evidence of such witnesses should be taken at once before the committing magistrate, and preserved for future use. The new code also allows an arrested person to furnish bail from day to day, instead of going to jail each night until the examination is completed. An important change is the simplification of the form of indictments, which will doubtless prevent criminals from escaping punishment by means of technical objections to their indictments.

Under the new form it is only necessary to charge a man with having committed a certain crime, at or about a certain time, in or about a certain place. As the penal code specifically declares what tbat crime is, there is little room for technical objection. There is also a section giving a defendant before a committing magistrate the right to require the exclusion of all spectators while the examination is going forward; and forbidding any one except the judge and clerk from hav iug access to the evidence afterward. This is to protect innocent persons in case of false accusation. The Memphis Appeal says that cotton wed oil has been introduced in Memphis in biscuits and crusts, and has given great satisfaction.

It thinks that we ought to drop lard, cooking butter and oleomargarine, and use our own Southern and cheap product, which is purely vegetable. For frying, making pastry, and cooking generally, and for eating with salads and cooked vegetables the Appeal declares the cotton seed oil altogether superior. The Italians import large quantities of this oil, and mix it with products of the olive, and sell ns the mixture at high prices. It is alleged that the resemblance is so great that an expert cannot tell the difference. Bat it is also said that the adulteration has injured the Italian export trade in olive oil to such an extent that the Government has interfered.

It is asserted that in some parts of Italy the oil is consumed by the peasants, who prefer to get the pure cotton seed oil rather than risk obtaining impnre or adulterated olive oil, and that its use is extending rapidly. Periodicals Staub, at Goldthwaites book store in Exchange Alley, and Wharton, of No. 21 Carondelet street, continue to serve the Picayune with the latest and freshest publications their counters afford. Both of these gentlemen are experts in their line, and are disposed to maintain themselves equal to any demand made upon them. Veterans of the Mexican War.

At Cincinnati, on September 14, 15 and IK, Will be held a reunion ot the soldiers and sailors of the Mexican war, which is designed to bring together the old veterans, whe are cordially invited to attend. There is to be given a grand reception by the city authorities, after which tbe attending guests will be entertained with visits to places of interest, and dress parade, the programme binding up with a banquet, to take place on the evening of the last day. The invitation is extended in the name of the men, women and children of Cincinnati. For particulars address Col. F.

T. Foster, chairman of the Executive Committee, 100 Vine street, Cincinnati. West Ekd Free Theatricals. attractions are announced for the Giand Opera House at West End, which opens to morrow, with the Valdez Brothers in trapeze and pantomime performances, and the Lehman Brothers in King, and clog and fancy dancing. These artists are re engaged, and will appear every evening until further notice.

The entertainment is free, with welcome to all friends of this favorite lake side resort. There is music at West End, with electrio lights, and flowers and good fare, and everything to make everybody happy. Go there earlv and olten, and take children along "for a drive with the Shetland ponies. Vigier's Di8incrustant for Steam Boilers. Elsewhere published is a certificate from the first officer and both engineers of the Edward J.

Gay, testifying to the high merits of this famous Disincrustant for steam boilers. Before it the boilers of this steamer howed piles of scales under the fire 'ftheets. and now they are free of scales and have not been making any whatever since being subjected to the cleansing and protecting process of the Disin crnstant. Testimony like this is of value, strengthened as it is by the full indorsement of the experienced engin eers who have tested this agent with so much good practical effect. Send orders 10 Mr.

Hush W. Montgomery. 158 Com mon street, agent for Vigier's Disin rustant for Steam Boilers. Thornwetjl Rocttktv. Prof.

Caldwell will deliver a lecture before the 1 born well Society in the lecture nor of the First Presbyterian Church, Monday. August 15, at 8 P.M., on 118 ieinoas ana reachings." lJltf. Caldwell ia A. nmfAiunr in tha Southwestern TJniversitrv. ClartHviiiA iuv weu locsiea stare, to street, between Tchoupitoulaa and Magazine, in nttirm1 for rnt Fmm Apply to Doll.

Musquitoes on the Rampage! From the Rigolets to Ocean Springs nobody is out of employment not a tramp or an idle person to be seen, every one is busy fighting musquitoes. The oldest inhabitants say that the musquitoes are worse this summer than any season since 1877, when the musquitoes then took the rag off the bush. No fisherman now comes home without a bite, and a majority of the visitors ignore the new version of the Testament altogether, as not appropriate for the present trying ordeal. Some years ago two Irish emigrants who had but recently arrived in this country were trying to sleep under a mosquito bar on a cot bedstead when the thermometer was high up in the nineties, when one of them, nearly smothered with the heat, crept out to get some fresh air, and took a look round, when for the first time in his life he saw several lightning bugs or fireflies. He called to his companion: Jimmy, you might as well come out of that, for the craythurs are coming after us with lantherns.

One consolation the torment of the mosquito is not confined to America. An Irishman writing from India to his wife in the old country, told her that the muskatoes had long bills, and that they would suck the life's blood out of her. When his wife arrived in India, sailing up the Ganges, she saw either a Malay Tapir or a young elephant with its long bill or trunk. In perfect horror she lifted up her hands and exclaimed, Holy Mother, is that a muskatoe LATE PUBLIOAUONB. AMENITIES OF 1IOMJC.

D. Appleton fc Sew York. This little volume, belonging to the Home Series, treats of a subject of general interest, and which can be studied by all with profit. It has been well said Of all the places in the world, home is the place in which we should cultivate manners." The volume noted above is a manual for the child as well as for the parent. FIRST LES80KS IN GREEK.

By William Scarborough, A. M. A. a. Barnes A New 01 Ji and Chicago.

In this elementary text book, one finds much to commend. It is adapted to the Greek grammars of Goodwin and llad ley, and designed as an introduction to Xenophon's Anabasis, etc. Especially is it useful to illustrate the forms and principles of the Greek syntax. The Picayune has also received the following publications: The Summer of 1881, Among the Health Resorts of North Georgia and. Western North Carolina.

This pamphlet comes with the compliments of Mr. A. Pope, General Passenger Agent of the Associated Kail ways of Virginia and the Carolina. It is handsomely illustrated, and abounds in descriptions of some of the most pleasant resorts in the country. New York Illustrated.

D. Appleton publishers. In this work of art are delineated street scenes, buildings, river views, parks, in and about the great metropolis. The pictures are admirable, and are accompanied by full descriptive chapters. The Sunday Magazine for September comes to hand from Frank Leslie's publishing house with the usual attractive reading matter and tine illustrations.

Among other publications received are: The American Journal of Philology for July. The New Church Independent for July and The Smithsonian Report for 1879. PERSONAM. Mr. W.

G. Tebault left by the Jackson Route during last week on his annual business trip North and West. He is busy getting up fresh stock for his new double stores, to which he will shortly remove witn immense supplies in choice furniture. Success to this worthy citizen Mr. Geo.

E. Brewster, of the veteran fn nature firm of McCracken Brewster, left recently for the West and North, on a purchasing tour for the fall trade. A big stock and a fine one will result from the summer travels of this excellent merchant. Mrs. S.

Churchill, of Houston, Texas, on her way to the Virginia Springs, is staying a few days at the residence of her sister, Mrs. L. A. Adam, on Josephine street. Mr.

and Mrs. G. T. Schilling were passengers by the Jackson Route yesterday. They will remain some little time at Chicago and Waukesha, and thence proceed to the great metropolis in tjnest of new fall selections for their extensive millinery and fancy goods emporium.

They are wished a safe and pleasant trip. Mr. A. E. Morphy leaves for Mobile today on business tor the American Beer and Ale Bottling Company of New York, for whom he is special agent.

Our goo A neighbors of the Gulf Citv will have treasure in meeting this enternrisingand reliable young merchant. Dr. Rivet and the C. of P. S.

New Orleans, Aug. 13, 1881, Editor Picayune SirMy attention having been called to an allusion to me in the local columns of your issue of the 11th reading thus: "City Hall opinion inclines to the idea that the Tax Payers' Association and Dr. Rivet form the main body of the Public Safety Committee I cannot refrain denying such assertions. None of the members of the Executive Committee of the Tax Payers' Association have any affiliation with the C. of P.

S. As to myself I belong to no secret organization or association. ttnould the Committee of Public Safety decide upon holding open meetings and the leaders be the proper men and working under such a programme as the one published, for one, may flien join said organization. With a force of fifteen hundred citizens willing to assist the Mayor in restoring, enforcing and maintaining order, this great city would in a very short time be 1 1 mnut. fYrvl.rlr owi i a.uu ircituciui the Union no fear, then, would be en iiiwuion ujr au.v muy or old person to travel through the streets at all hours.

I remain, very respectfully, yours, H. J. Rivet, President N.O. Tax Payers' Associat'n. Southern Acclimated Jersey Stock and Merino Sheep, etc.

Col. W. Stuart's new advertisement in the Picayune informs the public that he ha ed a new branch to his merino sheep business, ana is now prepared to sell remsiereo jerst vcows ana uuiia swr lima. td in the South, and of unquestionable Eonty ot Diooa; aiso au of the best reeds of cattle, sheep and boors her singly or by th car load. He will have occasional public sales of such stock in New Orleans, and probably sales at the a oeraeen ana jaeriaiaa lairs in ueiober.

This movement is of great importance to bouthern breeders and iarmora. Whence the Hoodlum? The following open letter to the Committee of Public Safety has been forwarded to us. It contains some suggestions relative to the cause of hoodlum ism which deserve consideration: New Orlkaks, Aug. 13, 1881. To the Commute of lnbUo Safety: Gentlemen In your efforts to secure the object and purposes of your organization you can rely upon the sympathy and support of every good citizen, irrespective of creed, color or political affiliation.

Our press, which Is certainly a fair exponent of publio opinion, has shown to what extent the public is interested in the success of your mission. As a participant in more than one successful uprising of the people elsewhere to restore order and vindicate the laws, I beg to submit the following for your consideration. In every community in which a disordered condition of public affairs prevails in which the law is violated with impunity in which is the rule, not the exception and in which the vicious element of society exercises an influence, the origin and causes can be traced to a definite and well determined source. A review of the history of this city since the accession of the Democratic party to power clearly shows that the rise and progress of lawlessness and crime in our midst has been cotempora neous, and has kept pace with the rise and progress of corrupt political rings. When a few designing men, greedy for power and plunder, advised and arranged infractions of the laws in order to secure office, and gave assurances of reward and protection to their followers, they opened wide the door to all the evils which now afflict us.

The hoodlum was not slow in applying the precept of his teachers to other than political affairs. If he could commit crime for the benefit of others with the certainty of immunity from punishment, whv not do something on his own account Did he not have a friend at court, a solid bondsman and a host of working friends What had he to fear His backing made him safe. He had carried his ward for and was bound to see him through. That the "hoodlums" reasoned correctly the criminal records of our courts attest. Look at many cases of aggravated crime and you will see that the criminal was an influential motor in local politics, and that those who intervened between him and justice were officials charged by their oaths of office with the maintenance and execution of the laws.

It is absolutely essential to the safety of this community that the hoodlum" be suppressed, and to efi'ect this we must dPBtroy the power and influence which give him birtli. So long as this power and influence exist, just so long will the "hoodlum," confidently relying upon their exercise in his behalf, continue in his career of lawlessness and crime. Destroy these reliances of the hoodlum and his occupation is gone. Hold his leaders and backers to a strict accountability and you will inspire in him a wholesome dread of the laws. It is by no means a dillicnlt task to ascertain on whom the responsibility rests for the present disordered and vicious condition of our affairs.

Look for the principal beneficiaries and you will find the real culprits. They are but lew uut their reward nas been great In the midst of our trials and tribula tions thev have thriven and grown fat Wealth and power have thev in abun dance, and grown confident by success they aspire to higher honors and hope for social recognition. As between them and the "hoodlum" let us judge and act fair'y and dispas sionatelv. In determining to hold your deliberations in secret you have aeted wisely, for yon avoid the danger of admitting to rcur councils anv who mav hereafter be shown to have had an agency in the evils which yen propose to destroy. I shall take the liberty at some future day of suggesting practical measures for accomplishing the good work in which you are vvisning gomi speed.

Law and Order. fCommtinicated. 1 Our Water Supply. A matter of equal importance to an enective bre departmentland quite pertinent to ia is a good supply of water for the suppression of fires. Without it, a hre department, paid or volunteer, is useless.

It is a fact that extensive and nonn lous portions of our citv. indeed, almost entire districts, are wholly without water facilities, and, as a consequence, we nave seen large ana destructive con flagrations where there was not a drop of water wherewith to combat the flames and again, often, in seasons of drouth, we nave seen water for the commonest purposes tor sale in our streets by the barrel or bucketful. For a great city a state of affairs like this is shameful, and should, be remedied if there is a remedy for it. The truth of the matter is, the water now furnished this city does not answer, and, necessarily, its consumption as well as its distribu tion is very limited. Our citizens do not want it, and the company, for that reason, has no inducement to extend its pipes, A snpply of pure and clear water, fur nished in abundance and at a cheap rate, is a want long felt in this citv.

and should seriously occupy the attention of all. From all 1 can learn of it, the pro iect now talked of of eettintr this much needed supply from the Bogue Falaya iviver coninsenas nseu very iavoraoiy and its introduction, I think, will be the solution of this very important question If water such as it is represented to be was offered our people, it would come into general use and we would have it in nil nnrtji of our city for household pur poses as well as for the suppression of litre. yew Orleans, Ab 12, 1881. DRY Goods Reduced Prices. The veteran dealer.

H. Kern, 104 to 108 Ba ronne street, announces a reduction all along the line on summer dress fabrics and light goods, on account or scocx taking and to make room for fall sup plies. The ladies will heed about those bargains, which are real ones and among the best ever offered in the dry goods trade. The assortment is immense and various, with late styles in every department. Moust St.

Mary's College, Em mitt.sburg. Md. This celebrated institution of learning is announced to open on the first Monday in September, with able professors in every department. It is now in the 73d year of its academic career, which has been uniformly brilliant and progressive in all branches of polite cul inre. A mercantile course, without Latin or Greek, will be superadded if a demand for it should come from many patrons of the college.

The terms are reasonable, as may be seen by reference to advertisement. Prof. Ernest La garde will visit New Orleans this month to take charge of pupils for the college. For prospectus, etc. apply to Mr.

Henry Trenioulet, corner of Peters and Conti streets. Autumn Goods. There are new fall prints at E. H. Adams which have just betn received.

Summer fabrics for ale Iow cost by this fimi. Call and see. The Emperor William," it is asserted, 'sents to have overcome his previous Ecru plea against' capital punishment since Hodel's attempt on his life. His objections nsed to be so strong tbat executions had almost become unknown. tl POINTS FRO EX PENSAC0LA.

DEATH OF AN EX MAYOR THE HAIL SERVICE AKTER THE STORM A BUSI NE88 BOOM IMPORTING LABORERS FROM ITALY SHIPPING LUMBER TO THE CONTINENT STEAMSHIP EARNINGS NAVY CONTRACTS BALL A CHANCE FOR THE LEES THE MARINE HOSPITAL A MUSICAL GENIUS PERSONAL MARITIME. ETC. Special Correspondence of tbe Picayune. Pensacola, Aug. 12, 1881.

Hon. Charles H. Gingles, formerly Mayor of this city, died on Thursday, lltn inst. of apoplexy. Deceased was 71 years of age, Ion 2 a resident, and his sudden taking oft will be mourned by a very large circle of friends and acquaintances, and the city loses as well a valuable citizen.

Our mails, with the resumption of regular trains via L. and N. R. have also resumed their former regularity, and all anxiety occasioned by the storm, in this regard, has been dispelled. Damages caused by the recent gale and the unprecedented fall of rain 17.95 inches at this station and neighborhood are being rapidly repaired, and notwithstanding jthe interference with commerce instanced in the delay of departure of several vessels, the loading of which was completed, until after the storm had subsided, and the retarding of all business generally the smoke of this battle with the elements has cleared away, and the people of this live seaport city merchants, ship men, lumber dealers, stevedores and others are greatly relieved in mind, and are at work with renewed energy.

As an additional encouragement the weather during the past week has been unusually pleasant the mornings have been cool and middays not so uncomfortably warm, and we have no reason to' be dissatisfied with the clerk of the weather, who, as chief of the Signal Bureau at Washington, as the Indians of the plains believe, furnishes meteorological phenomena to suit all lasses of mankind. The great demand for business locations and residences in this city, which clearly indicates the growing importance, increasing population and development of business of Pensacola, has caused an upward tendency in rents although upon almost every square of the city buildings are rising np from newly improved property, or from the ahes of the great fire of December, these buildings are all either contracted 'for before construction or purchased or leased as soon as they assume proportions. In this connection may also be mentioned the scarcity of mechanicsMnd labor generally at the Pine Tree port," I am just now advised that W. D. Chipley, Vice President ot the Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad, has closed a contract with R.

Piaggio, of Geneva, Italy, for two hundred to be delivered at once by steamer chartered to brin a them to Pensacola. These Italians will be employed in the construction of this road, which is just under way. EE. B. Men it of Ml Merritt Son, Geo.

H. O'Neal, of Keyser, Judah and other representatives of timber houses, who went to Europe early in the season, are shortly expected to return. From letters received they report encouraging prospects for the coming season and the probabilities of largely increased exportation of lumber and timber to the continent. In a previous letter I mentioned as a "ne7 departure" the engagement and the loading of steamships for the lumber exportation from this port. In this connection Messrs.

Hyer in their statement of transactions in timber, state: "Since our engagement of the steamship Duoro, (1750 tons net of last month, three other steamships have been fixed for pitch pine, which indicates a desire on the part of both merchants and owners to give the matter a thorough trial; and since the date of our last, the Duoro has sailed, and a better idea can be formed of the result of her venture. She cleared with a cargo of 1456 loads, leaving a net balance, after paying all disbursements, of about 1700, which may be considered fair business, and better than she could have done on 3s. 9d. on grain, which rate was the best obtainable at the time she fixed." Fred. Hall, coal merchant of Mobile, has secured the contract from the Treasury Department for the supplying of fuel for the revenue marine steamers of the Mobile and Pensacola stations for the coming year.

Also, Lewis Bear has been awarded the contract for the furnishing of rations to the crews of revenue marine steamers at this port during the ensuing fiscal year. This last award was based upon the satisfaction given by this reliable merchant in his contract for the year just closed. As the best rule by, which to calculate the prosperity of a consolidated community is found in the vitality of its leading men. so there is no better criterion by which to measure the social elevation of its inhabitants than the style of its women. The energy of the 01 mer commands confidence lor it at home.

The high tone of the latter wins golden opinions for it at home and abroad. When its claims are duly weighed the city of Pensacola will not be found greatly wanting in the elements which characterize more pretentious cities of the South. This community may point with no little pride to the high standing of its professional men. The merchants, particularly, with their well filled stores und warehouses, exhibiting the products and manufactures of almost every clime, hold an enviable rank for probity and intelligence. The artisans and mechanics are fully equal to those of more favored municipalities.

The last trip of the Mary Morgan brought over from Mobile tne Rattler Base Ball Club of that city. They came to cross bats with the Haze Club of Pensacola, and to establish their superiority over the Kennedys, (another of Mobile's clubs, which the Hazes had recently defeated.) by improTing upon the record of the Kennedys, in so far as iowalk oil with the fiouor9 ft victory over the Fensacola favorites. The result of this match game was even more discouraging to the Rattlers than the previous game to the Kennedys. The score of 20 to 10 demonstrates the efficienev and skillfBlnees of Pensacola base ballists. The leading members of this cmb are particularly desirous of an opportunity to test the relative strength of the New Orleans favorite club, R.

E. Lees'; and the Pensacola invincible Hazes. Havine been a close observer of the Tecent game, and as well an eye witness of several games of the Lees, your correspondent entertains serious doubts as to tlie superiority of the R. E. Lees.

Further, there appears to be considera ble loose chance here among the Hazes and their friefads available for the back ing np of their opinions on this subject. The United States Marine Hospital belonging to this sfation ia located on a high plot of ground in the rear of this city its location is peculiarly ad van tngeons a dry pandy soil, and no amount of rain has tbe effect of leaving a dampness upon the soil, which in al most all other localities has a tendency to create malarial affections. Drs. Hargis and Whiting are the owners of the establishment and the Government contractors for the maintenance of sick seamen under treatment therein. Br F.

N. Blount, a verv prominent physician of this city, is the surgeon (appointment of the Treasury Department) in charge. There are at the present time discharging at this port two cargoes of ice and a cargo of bay, from Maine. Cant. 3.

C. Reviser has Ttnrehased the steamer Hercules from Skinner, Hub bard Co. I think she is intended to rnnersede the Alice in the Choctaw hatchie trade Pensacolians are just now flashed with considerable pride and almost excite ment over the musical prodigy now in this city and destined to remain here by the established residence of Mr. M. A.

Boniel, the father of this young musical wonder. Miss Eugenie Boniel is 9 years of age, of exceedingly diminutive stature, but is the most elegant, accomplished and complete performer en the piano I have ever witnessed of her years, and has very few, if any, superiors among the princi al musicians of this city and probably tare. The most difficult nieces are exe cuted by this little genius and beauty wiLuout tne least nesitancy, emuarrass ment or mistake. Arrivals since mv last reoort 8th. American bark Freeda Wiiley, WiUey, from Rockport, cargo ice and nay, to Pensacola ice company American bark Sarah Gilmore, Griffin, cargo hay, to master.

10th. American brig Atlas, Newell, from Bath, cargo of ice, to Warren Co. Italian bark Bolivar, Mortola, from Capetown, in ballast. Clearances 8th American brig L. M.

Merritt, cargo lumber to Matanzas. lltb Norwegian ship La Louisiane. cargo timber and lumber to Liverpool. 12th American schooner Orville How itz, cargo lumber to New York. 12th American schooner Anna, cargo lumber to New Haven.

l. An Emperor's Flower. WHY THE RULER OF GERMANY PREFERS THE BLUEBOTTLE. That the bluebottle (also called bachelor's button) is the favorite flower of the Emperor of Germany is a well known fact. The reason why this simple field flower should be preferred by him to other and much finer ones may not be so well known.

On the occasion of a small festivity given at Koenigsberg, the Emperor's mother, Queen Louise, appeared In the presence of several French generals sent by Napoleon I to the unhappy Prussian king in a very simple white dress, wearing some of these flowers in her hair and a small bunch of them in her corsage, much to the astonishment of the rude warriors, who did not hesitate to exchange in a lond whisper derogatory remarks about the plainness of her toilet. Turning with an indescribably sad yet dignified smile to the generals the Queen said Ever since your horses have trodden down our corn fields, gentlemen, these pretty wild flowers may well be counted among the rare treasures of my unhappy country." That scene and the flowers connected with it belong henceforth to the Emperor's sad but Rweet reminiscences of his youthful days. When, shortly before the battle pf Fried land, Queen Louise had once more to flee from Kcpnigsberg to Memel, the carriage in which she traveled with her two eldest sons. Princes Frederick William and William, lost a wheel on the road. They were obliged to alight, and, being far away from any human habitation, to sit down by the side of the deserted road while tne damage was repaired.

The little princes, being tired and very hungry, loudly bewailed their fate to the dejected mother, who did not know how to appease the wants of her children. The young and delicate Prince William in particular clung beseechingly to his dearly beloved parent, who finally rose from her grasey seat and culled blue bottles in the adjacent fields, encouraging the two boys to follow her example. With the flowers thug plucked she twined wreaths, which occupation the princeB looked on with trreat ennositv and interest. The feeling of helpfulness and the thought of the unhappy condition of her family, her country, and the future of the sons by her side, brought hot tears to the mother's eyes, which 6lowly trickled upon the flowers she held in her hands. Prince William, deeply touched, threw his arms round her neck and tried to comfort her with his childlike caresses, wnich brought a sweet smile on the maternal face and lips, and won for the irresistible comforter a wreath of the blue Jiowers upon his ten year old curly head.

This touching road side scene Prince (now Emperor) William has never forgotten. On every corn flower (this being the German name) he still thinks he sees the glitter of a maternal tear. Hence his fondness for them. Still, it is not the flower alone he loves he has also a great partiality for its color. A peculiar construction of the Emperor's eyes causes this particular shade of blue to strike them more pleasingly than any other to such a degree, in fact, as to render him almost indifferent, nay, insensible, to all other colors.

This is also the reason why he likes to surround himself with this his favorite shade, and the ladies of his court have long made it a point to appear on festive occasions in blue toilets, which not only produce an agreeable effect upon his sight, but also upon his mood, imparting to the hitter that happy tinge of cheerfulness and amiability which has long become proverbial in his case. Michigan 0 One of tbe lumber dealers in this State has for the past three years been supplying a dealer at Albany. For the first year everything went well, hut at length the Albany man began to complain. He found shortage and culls in every car load sent him, and demanded discounts therefor, and this spring it was impossible to please him. No matter how carefully lumber and shingles were culled and billed here, he was sure to write back that they were not np to the standard.

Two weeks ago a car load of "star" Bhingles was sent to him. The "star" shingle heats anything made in the country, and they know it at Albany as well as in Michigan, but as sqq the car arrived the dealer replied that he reaUy fhust protest. The shingles were hardly "clear butts." and he could not unload the car until assured of a discount of 25 cents per thousand. Tbe Michi gander had suffered long, but the end was nigh. He had inspected every bunch of the shingles on that car, and he made np his mind to go to Al bftcy and inspect them over again, fne deafer there had never seen him, and the Wolverine walked into his office as a would be purchaser of some extra line shingles.

I ve got exactly what you promptly replied tne Albanian. I trot a car load of Michigan 'stars' out here which lay over any shingle you ever saw." Are they all perfect Every one ot them." No culls in the centre of the bunches "I'll eat every cnll you find. I got them from a Michlgander who is as straight as the Ten Commandments, and he bas never yet sent me a stick of second class stuff. Come and see 'em." The Wolverine quietly pulled out his bufine 88 card and laid it on the desk. The dealer took it np, read the name, and sat down on a stool with a queer feeling in his knees.

There was an awful silence as they glared at each other, and it was a uU minute before the victim slowly extended his hand and hoarsely whispered Did you ever see a man make such an infernal ass of himself Shake Free Press. 1 dried Her Lover's Ralls. A story cd thes to ns from Bloomington, Alleghany county, to the effect that a few days ago a freight engineer on tbe Baltimore and Ohio Railroad had a "falling out" with his sweetheart, who lives at or near that place, and that the dam eel in revenge oiled the rails on the track in front of her swain's train, which was struggling up the seventeen mile grade. It is saia to have taken the locomotive proper, the "helper." and several tons of sand to overcome the eff ects or the girl's stratagem. Cumberland Md.) Timet.

A A calm, delightful autumn night. A moon's mysterious golden fixat A maiden at her wladow height In robes ot pure and fleecy white, The little wicket rate sjar, A lover tiippln rrem alar, Wltn rnnelm voice and light gratar To woo his radiant guiding star. A lute with soft, insidious twaar Oh how the doting lover sanr. A. bulldog, with remorseless tan A nip, grip, a deathly pangT A maiden with a startled glanea.

A shrieking for deliverance A kind ef weird, hilarious daaoe, I A pair ot riven doeskin pant. A maiden fainting with affright, A lover in a fiekenlog plight A ball dog chuckling with delight A wild, dUlriou autumn night. St. Louis Republican, A Surgical Aspect of tha Spoils System. What may be called a surgical aspect of the spoils system has been set forth by Dr.

Bliss to a correspondent of the Boston Journal. After gracefully ia. timating that the attending surgeons of the President have known for some time tbat Dr. Baxter was the rnspirerofT mnch of the published criticism of the surgical treatment of the case, Dr. Bhas tells afresh the pretty story of his bat.

tle over the President's body with Baxter, and gives us this picture of the spoils system in its application to so high an office as that of Surgeon General of the army. It will be seen that Bliss confirms the story that an arrangement existed between President Hayes sod his successor for the benefit of Geo. Swaim and Dr. Baxter. "Referring to Baxter, Dr.

Bliss said: He has cooked his goose brown. It's overdone, in fact. He is not so big man as he was six weeks ago, and less worthy of attention. Mark my words he will never be Surgeon General of the army. He ought never to have been talked of for the place.

It is one that ho has not been examined for and which he probably could not till. It was arrranged to have him mentioned for the place, but, thanks to himself, he will not here aft.T be even mentioned. In my opinion no change will occur in the Surgeon Generalship. Barnes will be allowed to retain it as long as be pleases, but if he should die to morrow Baxter would not get it. Let me tell, yon another fact: Baxter's claim to the position of am ily physician "to the President exists only in his fevered imagination.

Mrs. Garfield said to the wife of a Cabinet officer, who repeated it to me only a day or two since: 'Dr. Baxter's statement that he was or is our family physician is nujjicujcjy riuiuujuuB. av pnysician nas the right to claim that he is our constant attendant. We have no family physi cian.

Dr. our relative, comes as near being our family physician as any one, and he does not claim thai As a matter of fact," continued ihe doctor, "the Gartields never had sv family physician. Baxter prescribed for them, Boynton prescribed for them, I prescribed for them so did a dozen others. When they needed the services of a physician they called one in. Bax ter had the audacity to come into the consultation room next to the sick room 4 of the President on the morning of the Snnday after the shooting, and say: "Bliss, I want to see the President.

au 9viwui ss. tauvivu frontery is characteristic of the msn." Dr. Bliss detailed the now familiar con vereation between Baxter and himself, concluding: And I said to him "AU know that you are and have been for years a professional lobbyist, a man who i has toadied to the great, attending all public officials who would accent your services gratuitously. I admit I don't object to that. Yon got all that yotrc cervices were worth.

We know that you are a shame and a disgrace to the medical profession of this citv." You're 1 1 a liar," burst out Baxter, who was very angry. I was as cool as a encumber, although I looked, Beyburn said, after wards, very much disgusted, and I said, as cooly as possible: I am astonished and pained to see you forgetting your duties to your brother physicians as a gentleman and a physician to such an extent as to apply to me such an epithet a place where you know I cannot pos fibly resent it." Just here my son in law Fred forcibly expelled him. We agreed Reyburn, Mason and myself to hush the matter up, but Baxter vomited about, and we had to tell the straight fitory to the Cabinet and family. They are united in condemning Baxter." i A Story for Boys, When Malek el Adib left the house of his childhood that he might go West and salt a mine and grow up with the conn try, after unloading upon some smart fellows down in the provinces, his mo ther gave him forty pieces of silver and 7 made him promise never to tell a lie. Go, my son." she said in a voice husky with hairpins, go we may never meet again, and if we do I will probably be married before you come back, and it wouldn't be pleasant for you to live at home and have to call some squarehead ed old mufti 1 be youth went, and the party he traveled with was assaulted by road agents, who shot the driver, cut open the mail bags, blew open the express box nd went through the passengers.

When one of the robbers asked tbe boy how mnch he bad. he replied with surprising candor: I nave ten dinars sewed np ia my gaiments." The robber laughed a hoarse guttural laugh in tbe United States language and paefed on to an eioeny man, tninaing the boy lied. Another robber asked the boy the same question, and receiving tha same answer, laughed as did his com lade. Finally the chief called Malek to him apd aektd what he had. The boy.

replied: I have already told two of yonr people that I have ten dinars sewed up in my nay elothes!" At The chief ordered the clothes to he ripped Open and found the money. And bow," he asked, came you tell Because," replied the hoy, "1 WOttld not be lalse to my mother, whom I solemnly promised to never tell a lie." "Aw, cheese that," the robber chief replied, that's too diaphanous, stripling; str won't lanndry. Staird him on bis, fad. fellows, and tap him for all he's worth." So the robbers stood Males on hi head and pounded the soles of Bis feet with the bastinados until he dieiotd. i rom various secret pockets, belts, dimyl0 boe soles and from tbe straw and ccb ions of the coach 123 dinars, a gola watch, a lot ot Erie stock, seven railroad tiaet.es, some promissory notes, a now Derringer, photographs of Maud Grander and Sara Bernhardt, a marked poet deck, a flask of Old Cabinet whisky," feme chewing tobacco, a diamond pin and a blood stone ring, nacksv of counterfeit tens and a alucgshoti They then cnt off his neck and tossed him over into the canyon.

1 "That, said the robber chief, as be pocketed the bulk of the swag, wll teach him to keep his promise to bis mother the next time. Always play aw ful close on a man who tries tbe honesty lay on a road agent." llawkeye. i ,1 The Baltimore pyrotechnists whore ceived from the Congressional Commit tee the contract to furnish fireworks for the Yorktown celebration will display eight set piecea on tbe evenings ef October 18 and 19 from rafts or canal boats ia the river. The representation of tno surrender of Lord Cornwallis will forty feet square. Six hundred of largest rockets have been ordered sixty 13 inch shel Is.

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