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4-M4 NT____ --N. 8 WINNSBORO, S0 Co. WEDNES'%DA*Y -MORNIN7JUAY3,87.dane SCENES IN THE SENATE, TILE GiL-ANS (l-PPTh.~ IG111'11 Ie; G TR 7I A I'll; 0J11i'EjI. Epocch of -o<,muxAds on Saturday--An Ablo Effort--Morton "Eatin Crow" on 1 Monday. ,S/3eriod to the Phidudphia Tines, WASnINoTON, January 20.-Crowd ed galleries looked down upon a quiet Senate. No sign there gave notico that anything unusual was about to happen. The little quick footed but soft-stepping pages flitted about. The secretaries busied themselves over their poll I derous journals. The offieial re plorters had no thought outside of the curious cliaracters of their sound-writing. The President of the Sonato buried his hand in his long beard, and faced, but evidently did not listen to, the Virginia Sena tor on the floor. THE SENATORS IN COUNCIIh A heavy figure makes its way wit4 difliculty through a side en tranco. The dificulty arises from the Imalnageilent of a stout crutch wIieh luppolrts the massive should ers of the low, stooping man, while the other hand makes a leaning p)ost ,of a slick that right have been a belaying-pin snatched from the deck of a pirate. His slow. labored pro cession across the floor gives time for all to notice this muan, who if huia antecedents do not helie him, will becomo the Danton of the American Senate. A. gloom sooms to surround his very person. It may be physical pa;in which accounts for the deep scowl set into his broad, intellectual forehead, but tie black, ill-fitting clothes, the dark, etained hair anl1d overhanging eye brows and bristling moustache, when brought into contrast with the clainmy whiteness of the skin of his face and pate, gives to the spectator anll impressioli wlihih results ill a1 shudder rather than a sigh. As e9enator Morton pinges his lhugo formin into his seat he brushes the shouldor of his next door neighbor, a thin cad averous-looking man, whose iron -gray whiskers and 'moustache show intimate acquaint ance with an indusitrious pair of scissons, and his doop, sunken co, hollow cheeks and pinclied visagu seem to tell of bile on the stomach and narrowness of the soul. The very orange fliat Senator Sherman takes from his pocket and lays on .the front of his desk seem to have a Rour look. Yrow CONKRLINo LOOKS, Aeross the central aisle an entire ly difforont sort of a man sits dally imig with his handsome hands. Tie occasional flash of a knife blade shows that no more serious thing is enaa u his attention than his na11 . S henl hie rises up you will see a tall, symmetrical form, neither too large nor too small, dressed in tho (atest.fashiion. The "cardinal" in his cravat -and the scrupulous care with wh~icly'his light-colored, curled hair isibankedi up on each sidle of his Vandyke head give his -appearance a touch of ' dandyism. Senator Conkling waits quietly in his seat, with one shapely foot swinging lazily over the other, until his great 'campleer enters the expectant Senate to begin the debate--thme debate which will becomo as memorable in the historics of pop1les as any thmat over echoed in the halls of legisla tion. These are the figures in the im mediate foreground of the Senate of the United States. The Senators who sit around are hardly less con spicuous. The oye running over the chamber will rest easily upon the almost unnaturally heavy shook of snow-white hair of the venerable o~nator from Pennsylvania, who took Sumner's place ait thme head of the foreign relations, and whose son holds the father's 01ol ortfolio in the War Office. Far back of him, on the last row, sits the Senator whlo counts, in piles hundreds of times bigger thman his little body, his inlgots of silver dug from the bowvels of Nevada's earth, The Senator from New Jer'sey, whose name tells of the Dumtch ancestors whom Irving has immortalized, and whose seat in the Senato is now trembling in the balance withl the odds of a matjor'ity of one on joint b~allot against him, sits beside the desk of the speaker of the day. Thme Grocer of Groton, whose r'etironmont from the Senate in favor of Judge Hoar seems to give auch universal satisfaction, chats with the carpet-bag Senator from Alabama, whose fat, vealy figure seems to express the character of the man. iBouitwell looks as though 4he know this was the last session his iron-grey whiskers and mixy eyes will be soen in the Senate. THE1 DIEMOCRtATIc sIDjE, Over on the Democratic side, t-o the right of Ferry's chair, the al most boyish, clean shaven but strongly marked face of Bayard, of Delawvare, suggests the statesman ship and love of country that made this scion of a house of statesmen and patriots be among the foremost of the signers of what will be the second Magna Charta of the Ameri can Republic. The; wtronN ~cotch face of Wallace, of Pennsylvania, looks serions as lie sits in the fore.. most row, the better to hear the groat lawyer who will load the do bate in favor of "the fair course of equal law which shall justly settle this dispute." Thurman's groy head is soon amiong the officials at the clerk's desk, where he looks directly at the whole Senato. Ransom, the Confederate General, who will bo known hereaf ter as the Signor of the Peaco Measiue, talks quietly to his brother officer in the lato war, Gen oral Gordon, of Georgia, whose check shows Conspieously the plow ing path of a "Yankee" bullet. THE ENTRANCE OF JU)DOE EDMUNDS. But it is five minntes before 1 o'clock, the hour set for beginning the famous debate. Judge Edinunds comes in qniotly at the Sonato libra ry door with a couple of law books in his hanld, One of which he will 19e in his speech to quoto a sentence from a case in which the Supremo Conxt of "the great State of Penn sylvania" and the Supreme Court of the United States joined battle over a slave. The Chairman of the Judiciary Committee and the first signer of the report on the act pro viding a plan for the counting of the electoral vote gives unmistakable token of being a great man as he rises in his place, sends to the Clerk's desk a morocco-bound, gilt-edgo Copy of the Constitution, and asks that; the twelfth article may be read. His stature is tall and Wis figure rather spare, but his face is the face of one of those fine old Puritans with whom we associate the very fouida tion of the Republic. It is impossi ble to ignoro the whispers around you, from men capablo of judging, that he is finest constitutional lawyer of them all. "If he errs at all, he will err in being too technical," remarks ono of the ablest of the Senators, as they all pu1sh forward into the vacant seats nearest the speakor. A mo montary passes, while "Ulysses Ju nior" (it boy just springing out of his teens) announces a message fromI his father, and the Senator begins. TUE SENATOR ON HIS FEET. He rises with dignity, but without any of the fuss of outward prepara tion. His -desk is free from papers or notef of any kind, the two law books on his desk being the only signi of an intended speech. He speaks slowly and deliberately, with a distinct articulation, and the li. toning and crowded Senate and gal leries loso no word of tho masterly effort. After the first sentonce. spoken with his hand clutching the lappel of hid coat, ho moves out to the front of the desk, and raising his Voice slightly proceeds with his opening of the caso in "which ten millions of voting citizens have been engaged in a contest so close that it has become a matter of serious dis puto between five million Ol oneO side and five million on the other, as to whoi they have chosen to the highest place in tile Ropublic." He does not make an exhaustive argu mont on the act, but takes up the most salient points. The allusion to the dlifferlent geographical sections of the country in which the Judges of the Supreme Court live is the finest bit of descrip)tive word-painting in tihe speech. He brings out strongly his view that "this is a tri bunal to pass, not upon'a future or a policy, but upon01 accomp~lished facts." The right to go behlind the action of the State Returning Boards he discusses with all tile skill of the jurist, and leaves tile ascertain mont of that right uinder the "now exist ing laws" to the tribunal to decide. When lhe comes to the right of Con gr'ess to pass this bill, and the "pro tension," to use his own word, that the occupant of the Chair of the Senate has tihe sole and exclusive right to count the vote, he riddles tihe arguments of the holders of this viewv and sums up President Ferry and tihe paramount Congress in the sentence, "the Judge in a tribunal decides, tihe clerik counts." Tihe only suspicion of a departure from the gravity of the occasion occurs when he says. after stating several propositions, "to borr'ow a p~hrase fr'om my friend f'-om Ohio (Thur' mxan), 'that won't do.'" He closes inl the hcar'ing of Oar. field and Scott, Lord and Clymer, and any number of members Wvho have come over from the other chamber and filled tile lounges and chairs of the Senate's floor, with this sentence: "Having said so much, Mr. Presi dent, for he pr'esent I dismiss this subject in the hope that the Senate wvill carefully consider whether it is wise (by stimulating doubts in their own minds, or by allowing their wishes to outrun their judgment) to Rend this Republic on tihe first Thursday in February or the second Wednesday in that month, -like the mountains that the poet has spoken of, that are 'ev'ermore tumbling into seas without a shore,' or whether it is better that in the fair course of equal law the dispute shall be .justly set tled." 'rhe Debate on Monday. All the world and his wife went over to the Senate this morning to see--or' rather to hear-Morton "eat crow," for in the, debates a year ago he expressed the very sen.. timents in regard to thme Presidential count which he is now cbmbating sO' fiercely. THE SOENU. The Creat orator of the bloody shirt had, if posible, a larger au dience than Senator Edmunds on Saturday, everybody knowing in ad vance that he was to speak. The favored ones admitted to the floor of the Sonato wore also more nu morous. There was fighting "Bob" Ingersoll, lolling back on a sofa, with legs crossed and with the gon oral "jakey" air so noticeable in the brilliant stump orator of the West. As though to Arcord with the enter nal fitness of' things, the great can didate for the Presidency at Cincin - niati, for.whom Ingersoll made the greatest speech of his life, sat down on the front row of the Senators' benches waithig for a lull in the morning hiours business to permit of the veteran Senator llamlin's rising and saying, "Before the Sen ato proccds, I desire to have my' honorable collengie take the usual oath of oflice," and the be'ivy form of Blame, of Maine, moves sharply across the Senate floor, and as he kisses the Book he becoies formally a Senator of the United States-certainly to listen attentive ly to and probably to take part in the discussion of a question which wvill give another man the plaeo lie so much coveted. He goes back to his seat, where a handsome bouqnot is and listens attentively. William M. Evarts' tall, gaunt figure also comes in the privileged door and lie slips across to a quiet corner to listen to a (ebate which will result in the seating of a Presi dent, and as he does so recalls the timo when he was the leading advo, cato in that very ro om, be.. fore that very Senate, to defend a President from the attempt to un seat him. General. Sherman, too, comes in, armed cap-a-pie with his military cloak anid peaked hat., to hear Morton speak. He is destined to hear his own Senator brother made the laughing-stock of a listen - ing Senaite by the biting sarcasm of Edmunds ; and Garfield, the leader of the Republicans of the other House, comes over and sits behindi Morton to get whatever may be said against the bill by its most powerful opponent, in order that he may use it in his. own speech to-morrow, when the debate begins in the House. British Minister Thornton is also there, to see how we do things in a Republic. MoivroN s MAINER. Morton moves his chair out into the aislo and sits still as lie speaks. His voice is low at first and he com plains of sickness, but as he warms I to the subjoect his voice is raised ] high and loud and his gesturesshow - the man of warm feeling. His very beginning partakos of the nature of : a threat-a goad to -the weaker : Senators. He says "the shadow of 1 the intimidatioi which operated so . successfully inl Mississippi h1s eon- I tered this very chamnber." He in sistod that Rutherford B. Hayes had I been elected, and lie "must be inau gurated, unless a bill is passed which will count him ont." le saw] the "crow" beforo him staring him j in the face, and he gulped it down with the sauce that "few men can claim to be entirely consistent. I) have not been so myself." THlE VERIIOT OF -THlE JURY. Senator Morton also ran across a. snag which compelled an advoeney of States' right to prevent anybody from going behind certificates of the electors. He kept his breeches from being torn in getting over the fence b~y saying he was not the adro. cate of State sovereignty, though he wvas of States' rightsq. He laid the most stress on the jurisdictional Section of the bill, calling it its vitmil part. The kernel of the nut lay in wvhether thme State seal could 1)0 gone behind, and lie declareil that this bill re quires-the tribunal to go behind the returns. And then the Senator brokeo ab ruptly off, pleading sickness. He sat, however, throngh the whole session, anid even endeavored to lond his'aid to' his neighbor Sherman when that Senator had been battered down into his seat by Edmunds in the rather warm debate which en-1 sued Morton's speech is regarded on all sides as a most absolute fizzle, not becanse of his sickness, but from: lack of argument and want of the impetuokity with w~hich he usually bulldozen the Senate. This speech received great attention, but failed 1 to convince. SIMON OAMERoN SP'EAKS. Then Frelinghuysen, thiermnan, I Bayard and 'Thurman suceessively ventilated their viewys.] Then fhe Senate saw another sight, one which had 'not been wit- I nessed for years. Senator Simon Cameron rose to speak. He plump ed out in a most unexpected way that the bill was a Democratic mean nre (langhter); that he ha# ~rejur I dices against all cotnprcomise taes. tures, anid that thriee of the' ablest a Republicans in the Senate had grati ' fled their political opponents. "I a am a plain mnand I like to tello heI truth, 'said he. "What's the differ. once whethei' the mlajorty be one m. I twenty-one 1" The occupant of the y seat of the scholarly and elotinent Sinmer created iite a sensation' by his abridpt opeeoht. and tho okd j goditleinan-'was probably tstonished a himself, it' his nervousiness'in twitch .a in at~a bit of redst ayiei' him ibrc a gave the true indication.T 01lonad the debate for the day . A SLIP ON SLIPPERS. T'HlE MI) EXP'I'EuhJlNeCE 01-' A BIG FOOTED BRlOKAWH. Mustrating at the ShaneA Timo tho Size of the Chicago Foot. Augustus Harrison is ono of the gay society young mon of the West side. He is handsome, he dances well, he waltzes beauti fully, says wity things which makes everybody langh, and parts his hair exactly in tle middle. His graceful figure is :no of the most faimiliar at all of the club dancos and private partios i that part of the city Augustus a day or two or ago was in lovc-deeply, mIadly in love with lvangelino Jerome, a pretty blonde, Ato lives on West Monroe street. Hie first met 'Evanglino Jorome at )ne of the club parties given at riartin's last season. Ho loved her t first sight. Once, while looking >vor a volume of poetQal quotations preparatory to goin '" to Brown's party, which everybody reoninbers, eo came across the line, Ite only lvos who lovei at first ght, md exclaimed, "That's thog4pol bruth." He lavished ohocolato caroiols on hat girl, and the cQarse tlhought thlt she was the champion caroinel Lhower of the Vest, side never [lashed upon his intellect. *Wlen bis sister confidentially.told him that Evangeline "toed in," his love was aot shaken in the loast. Had she Lo'l 'him that his Evangeline had a .dg mole on her back, he wond still lavo loved that girl. One night Aiis winter he frozo his nose while taking her sleigh-riding. Yet ho murmured not, though the skin ?eeled off and mado it look like a iece of raw ve-dl cutlet. Oh, he nadly loved his Evangeline, and houglt she adored the ground Ahe considorable area of ground. 'hat Ie stood oi. Wedinesday evening he ing the front door bell of the Jerome famiily nansion, The servant girl came to A:e door, "Is Miss Jerome in ?" "Yes. Walk into the parlor, Mr. [1airison, She is drosAing. I will ;oll her you are here." He walked into the parlor and sat 'amiliarly down in the large arm dhair, 'which lie often convinced 1Kvangeline was big onough to hold :.hom3i both, and bright 1xpoetant niles ogitated.the waxed, needle iko ends of his small nmistacho -the mustache whicl E4vangelino, the Ilitterer, always sai( tickled go. Live mmiites dragged slowly awiy. L'ive morer minutes successkilly recomplished a similar proceeding. iugustus yawned and wondered why dIo didn't coie, while, as a mattor f fact, Miss Jerome had but just )ut the finishing toneh upon the irst soap curl. Thon he sauntered ;o the centre table and lookod at the )hotogratph album, although ho 'ememibered very well that Evange ine had showed them to him the irst time lhe called uplon1 her, Then 20 sannteredl to the little what..not n one of the hack corners of the oom A paper parcel, loosely done ip, lay on one of these shelves. tugustus picked it up. A pair of dippers dropped out of the p~aper. 'My Christmas prosent," he mur nured softly as ho p)icked them up. 'Darling girl. Oh ! how I love her," md he fell to admiring the onm aroidery and the pleasing pattern. )n the side of each slpper wvas a log with a cardinal r'ed' head, a a aick body, and a pink tail, chasing m green (leer wvith solferino antlers md a mnanuvo tail around each tail mround each heel, On the other sid1e of each slipper wvas a magenta ake, into wvhich these singular (leer 10 doubt intended to plunge to 3scape these peculiar dogs. "Oh I owi beantiful!" exclaimed Augustus. 'Uear girl, I know she would ro noembor mec." At this instant he glanced at the sole, and an expres sion of acute pain, wvhich would uave been less inexplicable had it >een the green-apple seasonm, passe d cross his face, and lhe groaned, 'Gracions heavens I number nines. [mpossible ;" and lie held thr' ~o the light and looked again. "Yes, iumber nines. Oh I Evangeline I ivangelinie I is it possible ? Can it ict Is there another ? Oh I cruel, alsoe, heartless, fickle Evangeline. The loves another because he has mall feet. The deceitful jade. Oh! iow I loved her. Loved hear'? aye, rorshipped her, adored her. Heaven tolp me bear this. She has broken ny heart," and ho mussed up his lair which he had so carefully oiled sna slicked, and threw his arms vildly about and paced the room in rreat excitement, lookoll extremely vild; and ;haggard, indeed. "Oh, be. peraimous wretch I Oh. the leoeitfuniss of .womanl " he groaned ,a he knocked, over 'o .chair which tood in his way. "7heo heartless aonister. Only to think how I oved tha4 girl.; how t brought ,her hocolate drops and' froze may nose or~ hen~ duas t I," The last 'two oronis reofeirred to a tpot rest 'which to kicke4 qver~i 44 1$4 careei' 'Oply to tl'P* of heoi faling in jove uith~~aamhast ,theause he has sall feet. tlIgw shallow. Oh, "Why, what's th~ matter, Gus," aid Evangelina in geat surprise, a she entered the room vt this junc ture. "Canm you ask mo what's tho mat, tor ? Oh, Evangeline, how could you V" "How could I? How coulA I what ?" "Do not try to ececive mA Evangeline." "What to you men ?" "T1'hose slippers." "Well ?" "They are not for me. Tlhxy ar'e for another, a hatoful rival." "How do you know they are not for you ?" "They aire number hinies. You know, Evangline, I w cloes." "Oi, you stupid I They aro for Uncle George." "You never had fin Uncle George You arm deceiving mue." "I amn )lot." "You are," "Can't you believo 11no V "No." "You are no gentleman." "You are a deceitful hussy." "I hate aind despise you." "I don't doubt it." "I shall call papa." "You may, fori all I care." "Pa)a ! Papa i !' called tho loVt Evangeline. - Papi : immncliately onter'd the parlor andl asked excitclkY. "What is the niatter, my child ?" "This man has insulted me." "Insulted you, my daughter ! Got out of my house, sir !" "I will go When I get y you baldlcaded old fool, you." "You infernal rascal, you'll go now," aind 'Mr. Jeromo planted a kick in the neighborhood but slight ly protectled by Augustus Harrison's broadeloth coat-tails. Augustus then throw a fancy glass paper weight at Mr. Jerome, whiuhi struck that elderly gent,1eman in the head, and glhncing therefrom, smash ing a Sevres vase w'lich stood on the mantle piece; and young Jerome rushed out of the house aind bawle( "P'lice ! P'lice I" and Augustus was in the hands of an ofhleeni by the time he could slip into his overcoat and put oil his lat. Evil -doers oil tle *West side even tually find their way to Justice Scul ly, and that grave mn110 of the law frowned upon Augustus Harrison on yest.er(lay morning, an(l a fter hoar ing the evidence from the several wvit-ness'es, finled him $10 and re buked him with a severe reprimand Last year the exports of the oum try exceedod the imports 8170,000, 000, al though in former years the imports from sixty to o110 hiuinidrIed millions This unparallekld condi tion of our foreign commeree is telling raipi(ly everywhere iln the support of mnanu factories through a long period of depression that would othierwiso have destroyed them I in providing a livelihood for teis of thousands who would othorwise have had nothing to do ; in sustain ing the courage which still appre honds activity and profit after many disappointmnents and1 in fr'esh euter prises to augment the eff'ort which han had so minany consequences. One of the last among continuing exam pl10s of this spirit comes from New Jersey, which sent an ingenious citizen to South America, by whom the natives wore taught that their refuge from earthquakes does not lie ini stone but in wooden buildings. They saw ih good sense of the suggestion and salaried him in several thousand gold dollars fln nually to build their towns andecitios of wood1. ieo has just stenredl mechanies and all the material for b~uildling, excep~t wood, in New Jor' soy, and sailed for Venezuela. This is the foundation of new comamer'ce. These houses anld others will need more thain walls, windows and doors; and the man who fights earthquakes by nion-resistance will direct how the want shall be met. Thus lIttle by little there are gains on every side and in every land, and their Suin is felt and seen here Tihe Washington correspondent for the Chicago Timea says that "Lamar, exaspor'ated1 beyond en du ranco by the insinuation that he had authorized a correspondent for a Southorn journal to speak for him, wrote a very vehement denunciation and (denial to a Washington journal, stigmatizing tihe purported action as a dishoniesty of which no aot of his life gave wvarrant for aniy one to believe him guilty. Lamar is not on y opposed to the'Hayes conspira oy, but is one of the few strong con stitutional lawyers who hold that the House of Representatives, being p~articularized in the constitution as the body having the power to elect) the Senate, has pilainly no co-ordi. nate voice save in electing its own presiding officer. As to Hayes, Lamar is at a Ioss to understand bow he can be an honest manl and permit himself to be used by disrep' titable political gambler's, who are itninig him as a' decoy to win place for themselves." A tt t s begun on Monldy ini blhe 'Unifted States 'District Cott't of New York before Jitdge Bilatchufor4, ugah 1 i~v e~ln 1~ he r~~9er (Gb'ernrnent on~ ulngald Inedme taki Phis fI tjue' -ease' abolut Nwhibh so mic~h was heard durig the. cam paign. Mr. Tilden denies the alle ration. The T ruth About South Carolina. Now Yoik Sun. The official report of Colonel Hunt of the United States arqiy, stationed in South Carolina at the time of the November election, %.hich we print to-da3N is an intorosting and important docmilimit. It shows conclusively that the election in that State was exceptionably quiet and peaceable, and that whatever at tempts at intimidation were mado came from Republican negroes, who in several instances assembled in armed bodies for the purposo of preventing colod Democrats from voting for Hampton. Th teestimo ny of this oflicer, supported by the reports of subordinato officers in command of detachments of troops that were sent to various parts - -of the State, will hardly be questioned by ay .party. Colonel Huit's account of the riot in Charloston on the day after the eletion, when the negroes - firell imto the oflice of 'It/ Arews and Couier, mmd undortook to take possession of, the principal streets, is of -pecnliar ihterest, as it shows that under tho most aggravating circumstances the Charloston rifle clubs acted -mly as conser'vamtorm of the peace, aiding Colonel H11un1t in his efforts to imintain order and cheerfully obeying th inst.ruict-iois in every regard. It also oxposes the conduct of the Repliblicah Ma.5or, Cunninglian, on that oe ealsion, in a lost, ulpleasait light. That civic functionary, who0 ias just been indicted for fiuid, was ovi dently indisposed to co-operato with Colonel Humt in his exertions to protect the city from riot ; and when his acts are considored in con nectionu with tihe communications he wis having at the time with Gover, nor Chamberlain, it is diflicult to believ e that ho was not willing to encourage the rioters, il thIm ox. pectattion of iimaking poJif ial capital for his party should serious dis- I tulrlbances occur. Another fart that is clearly shown in this report is that -lie troops - in South Carolina were intended to be used by Chamnberlain and his con federates, not for the preservation of the )eaice, but for partisan Cnds. Because Colonel Hunt would not disarm peacoable white citizens, Wortlington, the Collector of the, Port, declared that he should b re moved within twenty-four hours by the Wrji Dopartmelit, and renovd he was. But lie had saved the city of Charleston from what would probably have been a fearful masmia cro of blacks and whites, and his removal from his command for doing this he can hiaily fool to be a humiliation. As tho facts of the recent election are iilvestigateld, overy dlay brings forth now evidence of the falsity of the pretence that Tilden gained his majorities in the South through the intnidation of voters ; and every day aiffordis nOw proofs of the mon strous character of the meains enm ployad by tayes' upporter . rTlhie p)roceedinlgs in South Ca~rolinia woero of a piece wvithm those in Florida andl~ Louisiana, and they can only be characterized as uittorly in famous. A Nov01 Hair Restorative. Persons aflhieted with baldnns will 1)0 glad to hear that a luxuriant growth of hair may be produced by a very simlo priocess, dlescribed by~ a British consul at a Russian port in his commercial report1 In the summer of 1875 his attention wvas dlrawhi to several cases of balhss among bullocks, cows and oxen, and the Joss of manes and tails among Ihorses. A former servant of the con)sul, p)rematuirely bald, whose duty it was to trim lamps, had a habit of wip)ing his protrolein besmeared hands in his scahty locks, and after three months of lamp trimming experiencen his habit pro:. Cured for him a munch finer head of glossy black hair than he over posa' sessed before. Struck by this ro' mnarkablo ocurrence the consul tried the remedy on two retriever' spaniols that had become suddenly bald, with wonderful success. H~is exp)erience therefore induced him to siggest to the owner of several black cattle and horses affeicted an above stated, and, while it stayed the spread of the disease among animals in .the same sheds and stables, it afeted a quick and radlical cure of the animals attacked. The peOtroleum shotild be of thormost refined American uliy rubbed in vigorottaly andqicy With the palm of the hand, anid applied at intervals of thtee days, six or seven times inl all, excoept i the cases of horsies' tails ahd mabel when more applications may be. requisite. Anita the uncertainties kina nxieties attendaht upon the politi dal complicatiotas it is pleasabt to reflect that some of the tiltra, adia cals of-the Settatc, who liave blgeon1 Lfordmnpat is fomenting trouble and keeping utp the bitter feeling' grow ing out of the -lkt. WMr1 are being gmd h~ eft.. on in~ the cold. Ilotitwol,1tkoock and Frlng 1i9s late Siven "way, the first tho' to\' Ootedi~ative Be billina I andatlie 1tt@. to' a 'attal ht out Demoorty while the llinoj p bg licans hve 'withd.rinvn the to ignant Ii Logan. , A TURKISH SLAV XART. irOW TIlE ItAREMS ARP,'SUPPLIPD WITH BEA UTI. Circasslan Cirls at Two Hundred -Poltnds Turkish, and Goorgians One Hundred and Twenty--Black Girls at Thirty-Eight. A correspondent of the Pari 4wloj.q describos a recent visit to a slave sale in Constantinople. Not withstanding the nominal- abolition of the slave trade in Turkey, through the efforts of the civilized European Governments, it still continues in a furtivo way. As long as 11 'o harem exists, this trade will oxist. - This sale was in a house. - Attlie windows facing on the street were - Closed. The correspond ent accon panied an Egypt ini, friend and his valet in a carriage to tlTnosque of the Sultan Mahomnet, Wich point they turned into 'i nd com plica'to( str'eets; ~l' 'fihmly bre. caino iipasabl.' 'ley alighted before aipile of mind whicf1 could be crossed only on foot. 1ea'hing the house, they were introduced into the s'lamlik, or bmnber reserved for malo visitors. Hero they found the slave doalor standing,. a short pipo -in hand. Re wan i littlo old Tri pitan, Gassirgi-Megud-Aga by nao.. He has follovel the busi noss for forty years. Afer the cus toiary salutations, piektaYdoffeo woro offered and taken with the si lee usual to Orientals before any Imisiness transaction. An ebony young eunuch soon entered and \vhiq)cred in Messoud's car.. The latter made a sign of aequiescence, and, turning to the guests, said : "Bouyouron" (permit me.) The guests rose and followed him into th'e room of the harom. A long divWu, aboit av foot anid a half high and four feet widos 8Arrounded threo sideA of the chaiber An excavatioll fi the, wall hold t1ko cushions and coverings used at night. Thol loor was covered with miats and looso pieces of carpet. Upon the divan were seated, side by si(deS two white girls from Cireassia, in the dross of their country. Op posito were throo other women, one of whom wits whito, from Georgia, and the othere black.. All arose as tho visitors entered- One of the (ireansians seem ed scarcely 14. She had bright chesnut hair, long dark eye-lashes, which shaded eyes of liquid blue : a light, well-rounded form and rogular features, overcas6 with melancholy. She was a boauty of the tirAt class. Her companion, aiged 18, was slightly ]ess beautiful, but w'as a perffotner on the kmeundja or Turkish 'iolins In addition, she was recotuumnhde( as a goo(d cook) seamstress ahd washer. HIr brown hair fell to hr knees. She looked at the visitorh coolly, and fixed her Uyes oi the Egyptian with an expressioh that seemed to ask him to purchase her. At a sign from MOssoid one of the black girls disirobod the Circaesians. This was not a coml)icatd.( process, as' their dress wvas simp)ly a tunic, a pair of trousers and a chemise. The younger noemned distressed ; the other simply fixed her eyes upon the floor. Mossoud passing his hands over them, called attenition to their good points, and made thiem show their regular, pearly teeth. He dwelt also upon the strict decorum of their antecedents. After an oxa amination of the Goorgiah and a glane at the black~ girlH the party retitrbred to the selamlik to close the biargatin, The younger Circaussian was quoted at 200 pounds Turkish, the elder at 130, the Georgian at 120. The Egyptian found them too high priced1 and took one of the black girls for 38 poundas He sjmI' ply' wanted a house servant. The sale being completed, thoe p)a-ty woere again served with pipes ahd coffee, and left the house. The prelimniharion to this were conducted With great caution. The valet of the Egyptiah was sent the day before to anfloihee huis master's desire,- and Mossond immnediatelyV came to the latter to assure ' himsef that all was right for a personal in spection of hi b custo*iei. As a mere visitor to ther harem: would have been eyed aekaiico,.the corr-es pondent was introduced as Tahir Boy, a Syrian gentlernan 4ho wished to take a chambefuraid home with hli The~ ohdition into whieh the business intereets 'c.f the ountry Layen been thrown by the Prebidenitial rauddle-ist clear'ly shown'by the po.. ~itions sent to Con gress by the great trade centres in faydr of the passage of th6 electoral billt The whole country watt the fiatter set-4 Iled sp~eodily; an'd Joiugxess s will aarcly. 17e abhp to Withstand the pressure. - "It le' ~ ratiying fact iti th1e ~onhet , .8tqyp sn epokaigg "at ew Women .ha'wo busbu e l'hat mgiy be1 but no maial n , * ied sadh itther as this an~ i~ wherg QC1y were m~ heldese5