THE BEAUFORT TRIBUNE AND PORT ROTAL COMMERCIAL. : i ' i ? _ ? ? VOL. VI. NO. 4. .BEAUFORT, 8. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1877. $2.flfl per Amohl Single Copy 5 Cats. * _ ' m+mmmmm?? Falling Leaven. They are falling, 6lowly falling, < Thick upon the forest side? Severed from the noble branches Where they waved ia beauteous pride. They are falling in the Talleys Wher/the early violets spring, And the birds in sunny springtime First their dulcet music ring. They are falling, sadly falling, Close beside our'cottage doorTale and faded, like the loved ones That have gone forever more. They are falling, and the sunbeams Shine in beauty soft around ; Yet the faded leaves are fallingFalling on the grassy mound. They are falling on the streamlet Where the silvery waters flow, And upon its placid bosom Onward with the waters go. They are falling in the churchyard, nimv t.Ul MilUlW unvvwj ? "t Whore the idle winds of summer Softly o'er the loved onee weep. They are falling, ever falling, When the autumn breezes sigh When the stars in beauty glisten Bright upon the midnight sky. They are falling when the tempest Moans like Ooean's hollow roarWhen the tuneless winds and billows Sadly sigh forevermore. They are falling, they are falling. While our saddened thoughts still go To the stnny days of childhood, In the dreamy long ago. And their faded hues remind us Of the blighted hopes and dreamsFading like the falling leaflets Cast upon the toy streams. THE SHADOW ON THE WALL / a / a ova AO ATDAT7VQTA VTT AT. tmiWCn. Captain James Stuart, who had gone all through the Mexican war, was a man of great great force of character and of unflinching bravery. He had a winning address and the moat placid temper I have ever known, but his principles were as fixed as his feelings were loft*. He went to California in 1849 and settling in Tuolnmne oounty, then one of the principal mining counties of the State, was fleeted sheriff, an office in those days, when they were far removed from State or Federal aid, carrying with it all the dignity and responsibility which that ancient title implied. In ??l.im* )> inUrM^ nn? UUUTriMUlUU WIOU UUH uv U<>wvw>v> ... byrelniiugmaDy reauniseenoes of soenee in his early life whilst in that State, one case particularly, of positive and circumstantial evidence against an innocent man, which I give you in almost his exact words. James Lyons lived on a farm near Sonora, antf many were the stories of persons having disappeared after having been seen near his place for the last time. A roadway up to the tnountiins had been made across the laud of Lyons, but he was always displeased about it He cut down trees and let then fall over the road: he built barricades to present people from passing, although not a blade of grass ever grew upon that part of the farm thus used. One morning a well-respected teamster was found near the Lyons obstruction riddled with bul1. lets. A short time after this Jim Lyons went to the mountains to take charge of a water ditch ; he gave his farm to his brother, who afterwards sold part of H to the Morrison brothers, who paid one thousand dollars down, giving their * # - * 1 Ll/\ AMA notes ior me inuhuit, puj?ui? m yew. At the expiration of that time Hike Lyons came back to collect the notes. The Morrisons seemed very willing to settle ; they figured op the interest, and thumbed over the notes, told Lyons they would have to go to Sonora to get their money to settle, that they would , go down with him in the morning, he could have his papers with them and they..would figure up a little more on them and settle next day in Sonora. Lyons left his papers, and the Morri% i J At T 11,^1 sons destroyeu uieiu. jjjwub uaum wu them for his money, they told him to go to the deuce. * Stung by this piece of sharp practice Lyons hurried to Sonora and laid the matter before a lawyer named Watson. The lawyer told Lyons he had no case as there was no evidence at all to sustain it, but said he, we will bring the suit anyway. 441 want to get a chance at the Morrisons, and will give them the best blackguarding they ever got in all their lives, and before I get through with them they may wish they had paid the money to the persons entitled to it" The suit was brought, the trial came on, and as expected Lyons lost it: He had no evidence to show there was any amount coming to him, and tba Mornsons swore point blank that they had made payment in full. Then rueful mutterings were heard on all sides as to the danger of the Morri rtti hrr?tVi?r? 141 would not live on that farm for all the money in California," said one. "Nor I, nor "I," repeated others. Thus it went from lip to month * with shake of head which brought to mind all the old troubles of the Lyons place, the mysterious disappearances and the horrid appearanoet of all the unfortunates connected in anyway with that fatal locality. I was at the trial, said Captain Stewart, and remember well these fearful prophesies. It was not long before a terrible tragedy was enacted in return for the masking farce that had been put off on the Lyons. The trouble predicted by those who knew the desperate character of Jim Lyons, was not long delayed. "But a few days after the lawsuit," gays Captain Stewart, "I was aroused by a man saying the Morrisons had all been murdered and their house burned down." I mounted my horse and went immediately to the spot As I approached, 1 saw a crowd of miners looking about the ruins by the light of pine knots which they carried in their hands. I dismounted and went close to the smoking ruins. They had found the bodies of two of the Morrison*, the third was missing. w i One of the bodies was a mere trunk without head, arms or legs. I turned it over and counted twelve buck-shot holes in the small of the back. The body-of the other Morrison lay outside of the fire line where he had dragged himself, his rieht arm shattered from a gun-shot wound; he was mangled and braised but still alive. I put my lips to his ear and asked him, who did this ? He said, " It was Ed. Watson, the lawyer, who had killed his brother." I was astounded. I knew Watson had abused the Morrison's in court at the suit of Lyons, and had poured out on their heaas the bitter invective of a deeply injured client, but that he should follow it up by a murder most foul, which should glut its vengeance by committing to the wrathful flames the bodies of his victims and their earthly habitation, I could not conceive. I knew Watson had no pecuniary interest in the suit; I knew he did not expect a verdict in his favor, but that ho I had tried it as much to satisfy these men j that an effort would be made to right their wrongs, as anything else and to prevent, if possible, anything like the very trouble which had oocurred in the terrible vengeance on the Morrisons. This was my firm belief, and when he told me " Ed. Watson, the lawyer, did it," I was more shocked and surprised than when I heard of the principal oceurranoe, the killing of the Morrisons and the burning of their house. I had been afraid something like that , would overtake them, and its realization only brought confirmation to my uneasy apprehensions. The eye for eve, tooth for toetli, life for life doctrine had been practiced there every day, bnt here three lives were pacrifioed, I might say, to their own greed. Here was retaliation, not in kind, bnt with dreadful accumulations. I thought of course Jim Lyons had done it, but as if to add new UUUUiD IU wan uu twui ~ gasping, (lying man said, "Ed. Watson, the lawyer, did it." Several of the best known miners or residents came close to the man and heard his declaration. I mounted my horse and rode back to town, roused the lawyer and made him go back with me to the scene of the fire and murder, brought him up where Morrison was laying and putting my lips close to the wounded man's ear, asked him to look up and see whether this was the man ! Morrison opened hie ayes for an instant and then shutting them tightly said, firmly: \" Yes, sir ; that is the man who shot . my brother." Watson went almost wild at this ; he clutched his long beard with both hands, wheeled about once or twice, and coming closer to Morrison, said ; " Ww fXrJi at* to fttoro r?n nnioiliilifv nf AUJ VIVU) DU) Jkl ?UV*V MV w your being mistaken ?" The dying maD opened his eyes and said, iirmly : " No, sir." I knew if I let "Watson remain * there many minutes longer they would lynch him, and very likely roast his body in the burning ruins of the building. I pin eked him by the arm to oome, and as we turned the glare of Ught threw bis shadow on the wall. I was transfixed with astonishment I stopped Watson and pointed with speechless anxiety to that shadow which thrilled me through and through. He stood motionless, apparently not comprehending my feelings, too mnch terror-stricken by this accusation to be more than half alive. The first words I could utter were as if i had been tongue-tied for an age. I raised myself up, and struggled as if I was being smothered, and my voice broke out in a loud call?" Bob Pore and Sam Lyons did this"?The shadow on the wall' wus the exact picture of " Bob Pore, the half-breed," who worked evil with Lyons, and it seemed as if some other voice than my own spoke through me. I was in a perfect ferment of excitement. There was the wounded man who had recognized tjbe lawyer as the murderer? and there I was, the sheriff of the county, with the accused in my charge; and yet that shadow on the wall compelled the loud exclamation from my lips, from me, who should have been the last one to ac cuae any one, bat should have waited m calm dignity the deliberations of the law; in fact, I was there to see tbat snoh deliberation was had. I suppose the fear that an innocent man would be executed, together with the knowledge of the bad character of the half-breed, Bob Pore, and of Lyons, who had a real grievance?I suppose ! these things heightened my nervous ap| prehensions that a great wrong would be ; oommitted if that crowd hung Watson. These feelings innst have invested the shadow on the wall with what then seemed to be almost a supernatural apparition. It went through me like an : electrical shock and compelled me in i stantly to cry out, " It was Bob Pore and ! Jiin Lyons who did this." I hurried the accused back to jail and started with a warrant of.arreet for Lyons and Pore. I found them in the meantime about daylight the following day. I said to Lyons "I want you as a witness in a case, and asked him if he had seen Bob Pore lately." He said he had not seen him for several days, but that he was at the up?er ice-house. The snow was deep, but started up. I came across a ditchtender, who told me Bob Pore had just passed up a ^little while ago from the direction of tlTe upper dam, where I had just left Jim Lyons, and that he was all drabbled and wet I pushed on and a little further up I spied Pore. He began to run when he saw me, and I called to him that I wanted him as a witness on that old case, referring to the one he was in. This seemed to quiet him, and he returned with me. We called back for Jim Lyons and brought them both back to jail. In the meantime the coroner's jury had met, the suspicions against Lyons had been cleared up and the murder and the burning fixed on the lawyer. When I returned with the two prisoners, I looked them up iu our somewhat insecure jail and the coroner continued the investigation. He had previously given out warrants to arrest Bob Pore ana Jim Lyons as witnesses in the case. The. trial of the lawyer was the first business now on hand. Summary punishment was then the rule, and the law's delay i but provoked swift retribution. There was no putting off until terra timeu Right now, was the word with those ! men in that rough life, who still carried j with them the notion of well-regulated society, and the lve of liberty and justice in their harts. The accused could not prove an libi. He bad been ' at home aick for seeral days, and the ' law did not allow hiiwifeto testify. The wounded man swort directly and point ; blank that he saw te lawyer shoot his , brother, and a Mexran swore that he . saw the aooused theight of the murder j Sass his door on a >vhite horse with a 1 ouble-barreled gunover his shoulder, and he could not e mistaken. This | seemed to flnish the use. ( During the trial,a German laborer ^ came to me and sauthat on the morning after the murde^ a young man had , come to his house win a double-barreled , gun on his shoulder that he said he had fallen down, sfcruol the trigger on a atnnp and discharge both barrels : that , he worked for Mr. jyons up at the ice house. I went out at once for Mr. Wallace the young xan described, and in bringing him in said : "Wallace, you are a young max; this is a bad business to be mixed p in. There was more than one man {resent at that murder. Lawyer Watso. never could have done it all himself, and that story of you falling down xnd striking the double-barreled gnnigainst the stones, sounds suspicious. fow do not let any 'one put you in a hoe in this matter ; life iB still before yu, and it may be bright and suooessfj." Wallace said nothing in reply exopt to ask what the law officers would dtif any one would tell the whole affair I told hhn they often let that one gc unmolested. We reached the jail. Ixut him in a cell, ! and before leaving, tiked again to him. ! As I closed the do>oi? T aknviwl it nn nmfar his nflt. ah this was the way Wallace said Pore was disguised the night of the murder. He resisted somewhat at this, but I finished it and walked him up. The wounded man opened his eyes and at once exclaimed "God forgive me for what I have said against Mr. Watson, bat this is the man. This is the murdererJ" Then the shadow on the wall became a living creature. I grasped Pore convulsively?few would be his steps to the grave. Pore had worn a loose cloak the night of the murder. His beard hung loosely but his hair had been tucked under his hat as described by young Wallace and as confessed by himself, Watson's shadow on the wall was the exact and striking picture of Ben Pore as he now stood before me. Watson was cleared. Young Wallace was released and Bob Pore and Jim Lyons were executed" at the scaffold where they again confessed their guilt. Texas tiirls. Pale blofeded, languid fashionable i belles whose very rings seem too heavy j weight for their listless fingers, seem I quite a different type of beings from the ! lithe, brown cheeked Texas girls, whose habits a San Antonio letter thus describes: "Someof our dainty dames should see the Texan girls ride in for the fair, mountecf on hardy little mustangs. Sometimes the rider and mustang are nearly covered by a huge sunbonnet ; at others, the rider boasts a orewux lurmci ihbuiujib uuhuwou nuiu an anoienfc fashion-book. I saw a fair creature in a hooped ?gown canter into one of the plazas, evidently conscious of being perfectly "in style" in her accoutrements. The hoop was not very graoeful on horsebeck, but it had a novel effect, and was greatly admired by some of the critioal loungers? of whom there are always plenty. A Texan girl, if she live in the country, generally possesses one unique accomplishment. She can lasso the wildest oow while you would be thinking of mounting your horse. This lassoing business requires a welltrained horse, a firm seat in the saddle and u steel-like strength of wrist, be. sides long practice. She delights in long curls that flow down her back. She is as healthy as an Amazon should he, and sometimes very pretty. i TRAINING ELEPHANTS. ~ t i Keeper'* Account of how the Unwieldy Beaut* are Trained?Peculiarities of Elephant*. ' A New York Sun reporter has had an f interview with the keeper of five ele- * phants, performing in a circus at Gil- * cnore's Garden, and obtained from him [ the following "points" in regard to * training such animals: "I suppose," said the reporter, "yon 1 know the elephant's nature pretty thor- J Dughlv?how to care for them, and how t to handle them f" " Well, I ought ta< I have been with j thorn over nineteen yfars, and liave had 1 charge of a good many. I have never j hp an verv hfldlv hurt as vet. though I Lave been in the hospital three times ' through in juries they gave me. I was 1 onoe laid up for fire weeks; but I suppose f my time will come, for almost every ele- ( fhant trainer is killed or disabled finally. 1 was with Forepaugh's circus when the vicious Borneo killed his keeper, a good 1 fellow named Williams; I afterward had charge of the elephant Williams thor- 1 oughly understood his business, but long ! familiarity with the beasts had made him careless, and he paid ior his carelessness with his life. Borneo had one tusk j broken off short, and it was a fearful weapon. He was subject to ugly spells, 1 and then it was not safe for any qpe man \ to go near him, unless others were near * at hand to give him assistance if he should need it. His keeper knew this ' well; but one Saturday morning when Borneo had one of his spells on him, Williapas, over oonfldent, went up to and 1 spoke to him. In an instant the beast 1 knock*! him down, jumped on him with hi 8 fore feet, drove his terrible tusk , nearly through him, and?poor fellow? _ almost before he could cry out for help he was dead. We rushed up as quickly | aB possible, scared the brute off, and picked up tne body of Williams. You ' would be astonished to see how thor- ; with and frisks. ele phants can mangle a body." *' What did you then do with Borneo? confine him?" "Confine him? Well, that is good! j Why, there was not a house in the place, nor chains in the village strong enough to hold him. In his blind rage he would have torn everything to pieces, and if he had got away from ns, heaven knows how much property he wonld have destroyed, or how many people he would have killed. We did as we-alwaya do in such cases. With ropes, chains, and bars we tripped aud threw him. Then we set to work to bring him into subjection. Half a dozen men, armed with hoop poles, big blacksnake whips?such as mule drivers use ? and anything .else that would hurl but nei break bones, thrashed him, laying* ou the blows as hard as they knew how. When they were Exhausted others took their places, and so we kept it up for four hours before the brute squealed, and then wo let him up." " WhAt do you mean by that ?" *' Why, when an elephant squeals from a licking, it is a signal that he is conquered, that he gives in, and then it is safe to untie him and let him up. " I have here five Asiatic elephants, which\rere captured near Ceylon." " What is the best age to begin to teach a trick or performing elephant ?" "Well, about eight or nine years. They then grow and develop slowly until they are about forty-eight or fifty ?and then grow in treachery as they increase in years. Chieftain, there, is beginning to show his disposition already, and ten years from now he will be an ugly fellow to handle, jln captivity their average age is from seventy-five to eighty years, but in their wild state they will frequently live for a century and a half. These fellows have good annetites. I crive each one about 125 pounds of hay, two bushels of oats, and twenty-five or thirty gallons of water. Every Sunday they are thoroughly washed with carbolic soap, and they are now in splendid condition. They are very fond of water, and when we are on the road, if we come to a pond or river, it is almost impossible to keep them out of it. When they do get in they splash about and cut up as many pranks as so many children. Like the children, too, they never know when they have been in long enough, and I frequently have considerable trouble in getting them out. A singular thing about them when we are traveling, and have to camp out, is that they never go in pairs. The females go by themselves and the males by themselves, and thev do not seem to care at all for each other." " Do you have muoh trouble in teaching them to perform?" "Yes, it requires a great deal of *? i* ? 1 x patience, ana mey are very umiu uuuui mounting platforms, or going up and down stairs; but they can go up and down a steeper flight or a hill than a horse. There is one satisfaction in training them, though; when they have once learned a trick they never forget it. We use blocks and fails in teaching them to raise their feet, legs, and bodies, and after they once understand what I want them to do, I have but little trouble with them. Sometimes, when one does particularly well, I give him a pieoe of carrot or some other dainty, and he knows what that means precious quick." " Do you induce them to learn by a series of rewards ?" "Not e bit of it. If we were to show them too much kindness they would get the upper hand of us in a day, and the trainer's life would not be safe for a minute. Fear is the only thing that - - ? ? v* n _ controls them. They most snow an me time that they have a master. We never punish them unless it is positively necessary, and then seldom severely. Their skin is as tender as a horse's,'and they feel the lash quite as acutely. The instrument they fear most, though, is this i prod and hook, and the mere sight of it will, on ordinary oocasions, bring them to terms. It frightens them the same as it would to tell a child you would prick it with a knife blade. To show vou how cunning they are: At rehearsal they do their work quickly, and make no mistakes; but at night they will loaf on me?go round picking up pieces of paper, or do anything else to make time?simply because they know I dare not punish them before an audience. . The people would think I was very cruel. If they knew how treacherous aud savage the brutes are, and how necessary it is to keep them under control, they would think differently." , " Have you uo fear of them when in he ring ?" " No ; but I keep my eye on Chieftain ill the time, and at the least miss, a tap >f the whip reminds him that I am lookng on. He understands this, too, and mows just how far he can trifle with ne. He is the leader, and as long as he >ehave? I have n# fear of the others. iVith performing 'dogs and horses the nore kindness the keeper shows the nore successful he is, and strong affecion frequently exists between the brutes ind then- trainers; but it is not so with dephants. They never form any liking 'or the men who have the care of them, ind when they have their ugly turns heir keeper is the first one they will ittaok. They will select him out of a room full of persons, and then, if he shows the least fear, he is as good as lead. The long list of keepers slain proves that." " "Rnf. liaVP alenhants no affection for mything ?" "Oh, yes. They will form a strong Attachment for a dog, or ft bear, or some Dtlier beast. Baby here has a great liking for the camel Dick, and whenever lie is let loose will ran over to him and mount guard over him; and he will not then permit anybody to approach his favorite. I should hesitate to go too near the camel until I had first called Baby away ; .but strong as is the afifeotion they will thus form for a beast,they seldom have any for a man, and never the least for their keepers." - 44 If they are so very treacherous, I suppose you have to stay with them the greater portion of the time ?" 41 k am never away from them for more khan an hour at a time, day or night. I have a room here in the building, and when we are traveling I always sleep in bhe same tent. I have a bed made near them, and they are the most curious customers yon ever saw. They will never go to sleep until they see me go to bed. Sometimes I sit up reading for mi hour or two after the performances, and they will all stand in line watching me until I get through. It's a queer Bight?the great garden dark as Egypt, only an occasional watchman's lantern flitting about, and I sitting reading at my little table by the light of a solitary candle, with these great brutes looming up in the gloom, with flapping ears and staring eyes, following my every movement Frequently, if I get interested in my book, and sit up too late, my assistant will come to me and say, ' Come, George, do go to bed and give the elephants a chance to get some sleep,' and then I have to tnrn in whether I want to or not, for I must keep my big fellows in good physical condition, yon know." / tVhat Five Sheer Will De. J H. G. Abbott, of Maine tells, in the New England Farmer, what five sheep will do. He says: Five sheep will enrich one acre of old, worn out mowhig land in three years, so that it will produce one and one-half tons of bay per year, for several years, by n light sprinkle of seed each year, sown in the early spring. Fivo sheep will produce manure in winter to the value of ten dollars, by giving them suitable bedding. Five sheep will get their living ihroncrli the summer on one acre of ground; the pasturing of same would be three dollars. Five sheep will raise five lambs,worth fifteen dollars. Five sheep will shear' twenty-five pounds of wool, worth six dollars. Now, let us see how the account stands: Ground improvrd by the sheep mm ing on it me year $15.00 Valne of manure in winter 10.00 Fire lambs 15.00 Wool 6.00 Sheep get'ing their living on the land. .. 3.00 $49 00 The above being credited to the sheep, let us see what it costs to keep five sheep through the winter: Fire sheep will est one and onc-htJf tons of hav, which costs $18.00 " ' 5 K on lcrereei at a iai Care of sheep 10.00 $33.00 Deducting this from the first mentioned figures we have a profit of $16.00 on five sheep for one year: Now, make it three years, and we have a credit of $147 00 And debt of 99.00 Leaving, as the three years' profit... .$48 00 Now, if the above is correct, we have a profit of $48.00, and a grass field that will cut from one. to two tons of hay for several years, and without the usual cost of plowing and the application of manure of some hind, which is no small item. It may be found Ufest in some instances, to plow the seed; that depends somewhat upon the oondition of the sod?but I am now speaking of land with a firm sod. but bound out and run out, as we term it, and producing but a small quantity of hay. You will see, by my statement, that J have valued the manure from sheep onethird more in summer than in winter. From my own experience and observation, I am fully satisfied that sheep are of very great value on improved land, and that they should always be kept on the plowing land, and ahead of the scythe. Words of Wisdom. I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving?O. W. Holmes. Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. Leisure is sweet to those who have earned it, but burdensome to those who get it for nothing. Do not be afraid of diminishing your own happiness by seeking that of others. Keep goodmo cpany and be one of the mmVvnt* UUIUWA* Riches gained by deceit cheat no man so much as the gainer. One day you will be pleased with a friend and the next day disappointed in him. It will be so to the end, and you mnst make your mind up to it and not quarrel, unless for very grave causes. Your friend, you have found out, is not perfect. Nor are you, and you canuot expect to get mifch more than you give. You must look for weakness, foolishness and vanity in hnmau nature ; it is nnhappy if you nrr toe Fbnrp in seeing them. SENSITIVE SENATORS. Acinlulaceace* of a Reporter of the Debate* la the United Htates Senate. I " Mack " has the following in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat: While on the snbjectof Senators, I am tempted'to give a few reoollections of the reporters' gallery during severaf sessions when I was employed as reporter of the Senatorial debates for the New York Associated Press. If it be true that no man is a hero to his valet, it is more true that, with few exceptions, no Senator is a statesman to his reporter. The man who sits in the gallery to make notes for printing soon learns the large per cent, of linman weakness that is in the composition of the great men assembled below. Before I had been very long in my position I received a summons from i Mr. Stewart, of Nevada, then a new-born Senator. He wanted fame, and his grievance was that I had cut him short in the report of a big debate.- There had been a warm time on the reconstruction policy. Ben Wade had launched out fearfully against Andy Johnson, and Reverdy Johnsun, of Maryland had come to the defense. The New York papers arrived with full reports of these two speeches and only a mention ot tne other orators, among whdm was Mr. Stewart, who had been cut off with a paragraph. I was ushered into the presence of the great man from Nevada. " Why didn't you report my speech?" said he. I replied that I had selected the two representative men of the debate?Wade and Johnson?and cut all the others down. "But,"said I, very modestly,/-*' You are not as well known as Mr. Wade or Mr. Johnson; they speak for their parties, and what they say is of national significance ; you only speak for yourself. "The deuce you say!" said Mr. Stewart "I speak to the Republicans of Nevada, and my speech is as important as any body else's. The result of the interview was that, Mr. Stewart insisting that I had wronged him, I agreed to send his speech by mail to the New York Herald. In response there came a note saying it would cost $1,350 to print it as an advertisement, and that they did not care about printing it as news. Mr. Stewart never bothered me after that There were constant complaints to the effect that I was always omitting important debate, which the Senate desired to have printed, and that I was always making room for personal "spats," which the Senate desired to suppress. To remedy that it was proposed that the Senate should furnish its own Associated Press report, prepared by a man of its own choice, to be paid by the Senate. I appealed to Mr. Hudson, _ then managing editor of the Herald, and to John Russell Young, then managing editor of the Tribune, explained the matter, and telling them that if they would so order I would omit all the per"" * ' * -1- ?a sonauties 01 aeoHie, uuu euuuuc io|a>iu> to the more dignified points. Their reply fully indorsed my selection; the people, they said, were more interested in the personalities than in the points. As to the Senate's proposal to famish its own expurgated report, there was not a paper in New York whish would agree to print it, except at the usual advertising rate. One day there was a personal spat between Fessenden and Sumner at the close of a long debate. I omitted the debate and put in the spat. Next day two of the New York papers had editorials on "plantation manners in the Senate." The position of Senate reporter for the New York papers became very unpleasant from that time forward and I soon after gave it up. A Literary "Cariosity. Great interest attaches to the first book in the English language printeu in this country, usually called " The Bay Psalm Book," from Massachusetts Bay. A perfect copy was shown at the Caxton memorial exhibition. It is dated 1640, and now belongs to the Bodleian library at Oxford, and is believed to be the only copy in Europe. Here is a sample of the rhyme and rhetoric which satisfied our forefathers: 1. 0 blessed man, that in th' advice of wicked doth not walk: nor stand in sinner's way, nor sit in chayre of soornfuhfolk. 2. But in the law of Iehovah, is his longing delight: and in his law doth meditate, by day and eke by night. 3. And he shall be like a tree planted by water-rivers: that in his season yields his fruit, and his leafe never withers. 4. And all he doth shall prosper well, the wicked are not so: but they are like vnto the chaife, which winde drives to and frc, 5. Therefore shall not vngodlr men rise to stand iu the doome. nor shall the sinners with the just in their assemblie come. 6. For of the righteous men, the Lord acknowledged the way! but the way of vngodly men, shall vtterlv decay. ?Psalm 1. ??-? ? Aenai ieicgrnpnj? Professor Loomis has been making experiments in aerial telegraphy in the mountains of West Virginia, his ides being to send a wire up to a certain height, reaching a 'particular current oi electricity in the atmosphere. At anj distance aWay this same current can be peached by a similar wire, and communication can be had immediately. The ' professor has telegraphed to partifes eleven miles distant by merely sending up a kite, at each end of the distance, a * certain height, attached to which in place of the ordinary string was a line coppei wa When both kites, although el ever miles distant from each other, touched > the same current, communication wa* had between them both, and message* were sent from one end to the other bj means of the ordinary Morse instrumenl in connection with the instrument invented by Professor Loomis. He has * scheme now on fc*>t for a series of experiments from a point on one of th* highest peaks in the^Ups, in Switzer land, to a similarly situated place in th* i Rocky Mountains. If this succeeds, ol course his invention will rank in impor tance with that of the electric telegrapl itself. All the money necessary to earn od the experiments lias already beei promised. J i \ THIRTY MILLIONS OF GOLD. ??? ' The Wealth That Haa Bees Extracted Frea Alder Galfh, Meataaa. Iq the spring of 1863 a party of five , miners from Bannock took the trail for the Yellowstone and Big Horn country, which for some time had been supposed to be rich in gpltL Shortly after crossing the Madison on their way eastward they encountered Indians, and were drivei back across the spur west of the Madison into the valley of the Stinking Water. Following down this scream toward its junction with the Jefferson, they camped over night at the month of a narrow gorge coming in from the east. As usual, they prospected its bed, and to their intense gratification found exceedingly rich prospects. Stimulated by success, they pushed explorations next morning still further, and before the day was over bad satisfied themselves that the new creek was richer than any vet found in the Territory. This was Aider Gulch, which proved the most productive mountain gorge for its length that has probably ever been found in any part of the world, and whoee history, if it could be written, would pre- i# sent, perhaps, the wildest tosses of diesis pa Lion and lawlessness that could be found. The Fairweather party, the dicoverers, immediately located and staked oat the richest ground they could find, andr., began washing, meeting with unprecedented success. For a time the discovery was kept a secret, but ultimately provisions had to be bought, and the trip made to Bannack for these retailed * in the publication of the news. Instantly there was a tremendous rush to Alder. The gulch was invaded by thousands of the wildest and most un- ? tamed of 4he pioneers of those days* Prospecting disclosed the fact that it was rich from end to end, from ths.bese of old Baldv at its head far down into the valley of the Stinking Water. Everjh foot of the ground was taken up, and much was claimed twice and three times, a circumstance which instantly neoeantated a large graveyard and a coroner. With hardly an exception, everydata in the canon became almost immediately highly profitable. In twelve months, a population of 15,000 had congregated# there, and five miniature cities had * sprung to life. ' Boring the summer of 1863 over six millions dollars in dtis^ a yield almost incredible, bad been taken, from the bed of the creek, and in the spring of the following year the population had increased through immigration- * jl from all parts of the United Siatea, bgttf* East and West, to nearly 20,000. Many claims yielded to their owners $100,000; and several doubled that amount. II can be easily imagined how wfid mat have been the days an that ragged i senses could call placed" withfn reach of the miners suddenly raising to affluence. Ihe flush times*at Washoe were child's play to these Alder Gulch days. Of the five settlements Strang along the narrow seventeen miles of the creak, " ?-' ??it- 1 Virginia, beiug tfte most centrauy vjcated, was the most prc:.iinent, and is to-day the only one inhabited. . It: is pleasantly located on the east bank of the creek, and for a number of years was the capital of the Terpiqgy. During the four years succeeding its discovery, this canon yielded the enormous amount of $35,000,000. The Fuirweather party, who discovered the gulch, realized immensely from their claims, and threw away than: geld in all forms of excess and dissipation, as was customary among the pioneers. William Fairweather, the leadertifrthe party, a character in our natiooai^istory, not unlike Corns took, the discoverer of the famous mines in .Nevada, died, like the latter iu abject poverty wfflffew friends, and with scarce shelter owerdiis head. In both cases the discoverer was forgotten or lost in the fame of his discovery. ^ * ?a/ " . t Necromancers of OM. ,.-v The raising of ghoets was a fajflfite exploit of the necromancers of old ; the ? fame of Torraiva, the Spanish magician, has been immortalized in Don Qnixbte. The demons that the oelehjrated TH"" artist, Benvenuto Cellini, describee m having seen when he got within the ponjnror's circle, and which ainazelhent magnified into several legions, are now . believed to have been merely figures produced by a magic lantern ; and their appearing in an atmosphere of perfumes is accounted for by the burning of ordoiiferous woods, in order to dim the visions of the spectators. When the Emperor Charles the Fourth was married to the Bavarian Princes Sophia, in the city of Prague, the father of the i tribe brought with him a wagon load of ' magicians to assist him in the festivities. Two of the chief prottcienta m ine pan ?Zytho, the Bohemian sorcerer, and Gtiion, the Bavarian? appeared qs rivale in an extraordinary trial before an exalted assembly. After "superhuman efforts to astonish, Zytho opened his jaws from ear to ear, and swallowed his companion until his teetyi touched his shoes, which he spat out because he said they had not been cleaned. ITwsfelmir; ation of the andience was sueoeoded by feelings of horror, bat Zytho calmed their apprehensions by restoring the vanquished Guion in his perfect corporal proportions to life?a triumph-of art inexphcible. < The Horse Chestnut for Rheumatism. . Last year we met an Amen&A-born fellow citizen with horse chestnuts in his pockets, which he said he jeacried as a safeguard against rheumatism. m We had not known of such a reputation before, and supposed the idea originated on this continent. But Bouillon satn* that the " * * "At- - [ I oil from nuts is nsea wiin numi^Q ( against goat and rheumatism, which i shows the same idea prevalent in France. r We farther find that in China the seeds t of their species (.Escuhu turbinate) is used to prevent museukr contraction i in severe cases of rheumatism, If all these experiences come from distinct ) observations, and each without soy - knowledge of what the other has found. ) it may be that there may be more than f mere imagination in the ebes&mt being a rheumatic cure. Have any of our i readers had any reliable expenesse with r it ? For we suppose that the knowledge i of its powers must be wider than we know.?The Gardner'* Sfontht*/. V M