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VOL. XEII. WIXXSBORO, S. C.. WECXESDAY, JUXE 30, 1886. XO. 48. A "MAGNETIC" GIIII. TALKS. | (TRIM * OK ?'LB? EKVKSS | THAT Pl'/.ZLEI) THE FXOFE**ORS. How a Muwiilar Voting Woman f)i*eovore<l Lnlu Hurst"* Secret aud Turned it to AcJ\outage?Simple Explanation of Apparently .Marvelous Feat*. (From tie New l urk World.; j I ran across a young woman on the street not long since, a girl whose face had become familiar to many people ! some months n<ro on the stages of provincial theatrevery shortly after Lulu t, Hurst, "The Georgia Wonder," had I created a sensation a Wallack's. She had |' gained considerable notoriety, I rernem- , Oerecl, as one 01 many -magnetic gins, i j The fact also intruded itself that she had : been introduced to audiences as a rude, j untutored specimen of the backwoods, 2 perfectly guileless, with little education, 2 and remarkable only for the fact that 1 Providence (so the truthful manager put j it) had gifted her with a }>ecnliar and marvelous force which enabled her to f ft/vomnlisli most extraordinary tliinsrs ! 1 never before seen or heard of. As she s tripped along in front of me I saw that c she was still a large, well-built specimen of humanity, broad shouldered, and with r excellently developed muscles, which o might readily deter many a strong man d from arousing her anger. Untutored s girls from the backwoods, you know, v very frequently strike from the shoulder y luid hit hard. One thing puzzled me. p Sue carried an enormous sunshade of the a latest style. This seemed wonderful c when I recollected that one of the most n peculiar characteristics pertaining to this c simple maiden, in the days of her ncto- y rietv, was the fact that she could not tl hold an umbrella or parasol over her tl head for three consecutive minutes with- si out its suddenly flying to pieces. I re- I membered also that no man could mam- ii tain in an upright position an open um- l( brella against wlaicli she laid the palm of o: of her white but laxge hand. And yet o here she was manipulating a sunshade ai with all the ease and grace of a Fifth a: avenue belle, without any apparently ii serious consequences. I followed her 0 patiently for several blocks, momentarily S expecting to see the dainty crimson st parachute fly violently from her hands, si Nothing of the sort occurred, however, tc and then I concluded that she was prob- ei ably no longer "magnetic," or that her I ma<metism could be summoned and dis- tr missed at will; that she discarded it dur- ei ing Broadway promenades and called it 03 forth again when the curtain rolled up tl 011 a full house. Beset l>y curiosity, I sauntered after the child'of the back- pi woods until I saw her turn a corner into si a side street. A few more steps and she oc entered a well-known caravansary. It ar required but a moment to find her 'name on the register of the house. This ac- re complished I sent up my card, and was- ta received at once. The young woman si1 had discarded the sunshade, which lay su unharmed upon a sofa, and met me with ch a confidence and self-possession quite at gr variance with, the aaaucis ? the occarion of her initial entree on the pa stsigc a* "wunder. ' After some pre- as liminary skirmishing of a polite nature, yc relative to her health and other kindred ex topics, I asked her if she had visited ^sew ar York for the purpose of appearing pro- to if?:?fC,'+h o -rormrisppni lauirh. CI ItXSMUiULU > . T? iwu ^ 7 ^ ^ half chuckle and half giggle, she replied: i in -'Oh, dear, no! I don't do that sort of | sithing any more." le; ""Why not?" I queried. "Has the oi magnetic influence forsaken you?" Again she gave way to reminiscent cc risibilities, and murmured some unintel- la Jigible words which sounded like "How m funny." qi "Are you interviewing me?" she asked ar after her mirth had subsided. "If so I y< have no objection to the ordeal, and I assure you candidly that you will be the ra first newspaper man who will have sue- ec ceeded in making me talk freely." ai "In the first place," she continued, w; "let me mention an important point u] which everybody who came to witness iii my performances totally overlooked. I si never professed to be either magnetic or st mesmeric. Other people advanced the theory, not I. I did contend that I was t\ able to accomplish some seemingly extraordiary feats, and I accomplished le Al moHcr Wlien ti tllCHl. JLUUU UiV I was engaged by managers who had w witnessed my representations they did sj not inquire as to whether I was the pos- pi sessor of any peculiar or unknown force; a] they simply made contracts with me un- t< der certain conditions, namely, thai I ii was to .give so many performances for so ti much money, and I gave them. If peo- p pie chose to write me up as mesmeric or a] magnetic that was their af&ir, not mine." V "Then you did not accomplish your si feats through the aid of any unknown b force?" 1c The charmingly naive child of nature ti frilled again as she answered, in a very t! non-committal way: "We won't discuss q tliat point, but I will tell you what I a: will do. \v ith ten minutes' instructions s; I will enable you to perform, without a the aid of either mesmerism or magnet- t] ism, any feat which you ever saw me a attempt. Do you remember the con- ^ test? A man takes the article and holds s it before him at arms' length with a hand e tightly gripping each end of it, and en- ii deavors to stand still after I liave placed c my hand gently upon it. Let us try it. L' Take the stick." I did so, bracing myself as rigidly as n an iron bar. The young woman laid the c palm of one white hand lightly upon the ~ rod, and after a moment I felt myself j swaying to and fro. Then I was jerked violently forward, thrown backward and ? yanked promiscuously about the apart- j ment until I was entirely c-iit of breath * and began to feel very red in the face. I sat down puiiing and panting, while; my fair hostess giggled gleefully. The thing was as great a mystery to me as fc ever, and I confessed the fact as soon as I had recovered sufficient breath to express myself in words. "It is very simple," laughed my friend. "I may have accomplished it by < means of magnetism, but I will show ] you how to do it without. Take the 1 cane and brace yourself again, lou see < you are in a perfectly rigid position, 1 with every muscle strained to its utmost tension. Consequently the slightest pressure from me upon the stick, wheth- ( er that pressure be magnetic or not, is bound to throw you off your equilibrium. ; Now I place my ojxm palm upon the article, and I need only use the slightest pressure to move you. Do you see? To demonstrate how simple the thing is let me give you an additional point. When you feel that the pressure is about to sway you, relax your muscles. When the pressure propels you backward let your arms give in the direction of the movement. When the pressure is forward avail yourself of the same precaution. In other words, instead of bracing " 25?1? -ni-rnvrlv limp. voursea nrnn, lcuiiuu j and then I think it will require a supernatural force to move you." Again we essayed the feat I closely following the young woman's instruc-1 tions. This time victory was on my | side, and I stood abashed at the simple ; explanation of a feat which some time i ago liad seemed sufficiently extraordina- i ry to call forth letters of inquiry from ' some of the most scientific minds in j America. "T.(-t me show you some-1 tiling," said my fair entertainer, taking ! a hatch of letters from an open trunk and selecting one inclosed in a blue envelope. "Here is a letter from an Oxford professor who happened to witness one of my performances. If you will glance over it you will see that he was particularly struck with the cane test, which he considered marvellous. He iskod about, the date of my birth, my general health and wished to learn whether anv of mv ancestors, so far as known, possessed any of my peculiar iliaracteristics. He also requested, as a particular favor, that I would give a , private seance for the benefit of himself 1 tnd several well-known scientists. The 1 performance was not given. Now, that 1 nan, like thousands of others, learned : is he was, instead of trying to eluci late ; ny feats through the medium of natural ] igencies, dipped into abstruse science i tnd got lost, for of course there was < lothing abstruse in the means I used." s "In regard to some of your other 1 eats, may I ask how it is possible to ] lold a chair raised a few feet in the air o the united efforts of half a dozen men < annot force it to the ground?" < "It can l>e done very easily," was the 1 eply, "if you possess a certain amount I n pnysicai strengtn, ana it is muen more < lifficult to control a chair held by one * trong individual than it would be if it 1 rere held by six. I "will make it clear to t on. Wc will suppose you to be the 1 >erformer. You are a man of strength t lid will and you are determined to sue- g eed before your audience. Failure fi lear.s ruin to you so far as financial sue- I ess is concerned. Iherefore you forget v our audience and everything else but n ie end in view. You take possession of to :ie chair with a resolution not to be C naken bv surrounding circumstances. ^ 'he six men. on the contrary, are think- to lg principally of the derision likely to ^ )Uoav an exhibition of muscular superi- ^ city. There being half a dozen of my pponents, not one of them could secure aything like a firm hold on the disputed rtiele, and each one, as a rule, tugged i an opposite direction to his neighbor. r< ne does not try to hold the chair up. ci imply by pushing it with all my & rengtli I force it against my foes and ft iove them from one side of the stage ir V fl'tA Afhnt* TllO /I MAr> ' t/XXV . JL -LJ.O VA^XXOX^Xl KJX LXXC <Jk UUI" ice quickly relaxes their muscles, while ft never for an instant lose my self-con- E ol. "Wliile I keep on pushing persist- Y ltlv, my opponents grow more unsteady ^ i tlieir limbs, and finally, wearied out, ^ tey retire in disgust." " m ' C;ui you tell me how, by simply w facing your open palms against the : Sj iles of a chair, you can hft it when it is U icupied by a man weighing 200 pounds T id over'?"' gi ; 'Some persons could accomplish it it adily," was the answer, "aided by cerin favorable conditions. Most men in ai :ting down throw themselves back in fc ch a way that the front legs of the is: :air are nearly all the time clear of the b< ound. Almost the entire weight falls & ,1ms eloselv to the sides of a elui?,-^eP j** is generally used in the performances]frt >u cannot help 'gripping' to a certain y< .tent. If you possess a goodly allow- ne ice of strength this grip will enable you pi raise the chair a few inches from the pi ound. Of course it is only a few ia ches, and you drop it again rather oi .ddenly, but the audience hears the er gs strike the floor and you are victori- w' is. See?" * oi ' Well, how about the story that you d( >uld not possibly carry a raised umbrel- S1 for more than three consecutive moents 'without its flying to pieces," I inlired, eyeing meanwhile the discarded id unharmed parasol reposing by the o] >ung woman's side. b< "Oh," she rephed, displaying embar- ai ssment for the first time, "I was order- b: t riot to carry a parasol m tne streets ^ id I simply obeyed instructions. It n as unpleasant, of course, to walk about h: ^protected from tlie sun, but by that n ttle sacrifice of personal comfort in i* imtner I was enabled to enjoy a fine n alskin sacque in v,inter." tc ' 'How did you first discover your abili- g( to perform these feats?" to "I first discovered it," was the guiles ti ss rejoinder, "by going two or three n mes to Wallack's Theatre and carefullv s< ' """ " TT ti_ ? atoning juuiu num s j~uuiuu^. ? jectators really furnished the greater b art of the pei*forraanee. It was really v< musing to notice how the audience used li ) watch my every move and construe it P ito something mysterious. To ilius- h ate?I had and still have a habit of c assing my hand before my eyes and si [so of running it through*my bangs, b Fell, a young man would trip upon the b age to try the cane test. He would I race himself rigidly, grip the stick and -< )ok me square in the face, determina- b on personified The audience were on t] ae alert, and he knew it. I would v -i t T 1 f, liic&iy raise ixi^y numi. i.iviu ouwu. ud jjass it before my eyes. Half the 1 pectators would immediately whisper h udiblv, 'She's mesmerizing him.' Then t tie young man began to grow nervous 1: nd doubtful. After a moment mv hand t rould again unconsciously forsake the tick and run through my bangs. Anotlir audible whisper, 'She's got electricity i her hair.' By this time my would-be t onqueror was half beaten, and to finish tiim wa-s comparatively easy." \ "You have fully decided, then, not to ] ,ive any more exhibitions?" + "Yes; magnetic girls are at a discount, t ?hey were valuable, though, while the s uror lasted. You see they were some- i king novel, and that is what Americans i ike. Barn urn demonstrated the fact i ongago.*' j "What do you think of Lulu Hurst?"' 1 "Precisely what she thinks of me."^, ; "And that is ?" < "Ask her." Arthur Ai'AMS. 1 ______ 1 < The Slaughter of Birds. The recently organized Audubon Society for the protection of birds has col .ected some telling statistics concerning ;he slaughter of the feathered innocents. One Broadway firm buys from 500,000 to 1,000,000 small American bir^s every year, obtaining them from even* State in the Union. Gulls, terns, orioles, crows, blackbirds, bobolinks, snipe, larks, sparrows, etc., are greatly in demand because they are cheap. Another house has 5,000 sparrows in stock; and 40,000 pairs of German magpies made up a recent consignment. A million bobo1 V.Vwvon in nrp UU1\.N UJLC \11U iv vuu ~ month near Philadelphia, and one millinen. house had 200,000 bird-skins on hand" at one time. The killing of birds in order to earn a few cents or dollars has become a common practice on Long Island and elsewhere. One of the objects of the Audubon Society is to secure the enactment of laws in all the States against the barbarous practice of making beautiful and harmless birds par tribute with their lives to the demands "of fashion.?Frank Leslie. ti:e swkktest .vame.-. Likewise tlie {,'ojnrnoneat Among Fcmhiiiio . Appellations. More women liave been named. Mary than any other name which has blessed or cursed the feminine sex. It-stands :is , the typical name for the holiest and most " abieet of women?for the vfr<rin ;nwl flio t wanton. And in every language of Asia a and Europe, as veil as tliat of Egypt, c this name appears almost without varia- f tion. It has been an equal favorite with j the aristocrats of France and the puritans t of New England, and it equally becomes } literature or kitchen. It is stately when e we speaK ot JLady .Alary Worthy 3Ion- 0 tague; it is simplicity itself when we re- t; fer to Mary O'Brien, who brings in our a breakfast rolls. At one time it iuay bring *] up a picture of a divine painted face, a hanging in the rich gloom of an Italian y gallery, and at another of a red-cheeked' j, [lain-maid, with her bare feet in the jj ilaisied grass. Two of England's five jj queens have borne it, and the most C( memorable woman that Scotland ever e; produced has made it immortal. The tl proudest women of France have dignified tc it, and the worst women of llussia have tl lisgraced it. There are as many Marys Q] >miling at the circling suns that make n ;hc brief summer by the northern sea as tl oil through the luxurious days by the \ Mediterranean. The name that the Datliolic missionaries gave to the first jonverted Indian maiden was Mary, and cj >erhaps the first daughter of ever}- fami- u] v for all time will stand in imminent p, langer of bearing that name, for it is the p] irst to be considered in naming girl \ >al>ies, and when rejected is always bought of with lingering tenderness, th low many lovers have loved it! How r0 hey have associated it with purity and ki gentleness, with womanliness and candor g( nd trust! What a fateful name it is! Q ts bearer seems predestined to soitow, p( et it is gladsome, too. "My mother's ti: .uuie was i?xary. w nat a pieasant tiling 0 say! "Mr little daughter, Mary." tn )ould anything be prettier? "My sister pe lary, who is dead." What a wealth of (jc inder suggestions! "Mary, my wife." ]v Vliat picture of home comfort!?Chicago w} 1 ews. Foreigners Poxse** the Xorth. ^ The Ivnow-Xothing movement of thir- as. j years ago would be impossible of qc ^petition now, except by foreign-born aff itizens and their children. Some of the tates of the northwest contain a large str >reign-born majority, and many regions mt i the older States contain a majority of r|r tizens only one generation removed [)e om foreign soil. Even in the New Lv,j ngland States the tough and stubborn 0p ankee element which cave that resrion +iw 1 its historical character, religion, liter- js \ ;ure and polity, is fast yielding to a j ixture of peoples as diverse as those c}e horn the King of Assyria planted in est amaria. The Southern half of the an( nion alone has escaped this change. 0^? he negroes, in repelling foreign immi- ne, ,-ation from that region, have protected js \ from the transformation wrought elsehere, and preserved it to themselves mo id the descendants of the original Vv-a; lonists. The French still possess Lou- ? iana; the Huguenot element is still to g]^ i traced in South Carolina, and the < :otch-Irish settlers in North Carolina: or. yeSentTtie same aspects they did fifty tiie ;ars ago. They have several million anc' jgroes with them, it is true, and their 45 esence offers a very difficult social we: roblem for the future. But there is no termixrure; the whites live on one side lati ' a race line, and the blacks on the oth- wj] , as they did in the day of slavery, and we hen the'people of the South are spoken the : reference is had to the pure, unmixed vic ascendants of the original colonist.? wa t. Louis Republican. ius The Mod Who Laughs. The man whose ha-lia! reaches from q0 le end of the street to the other may no: ? the same fellow who scolded his wife id spanked the baby before he got his am reakfast, but his laughter is only the yje rackle of thorns under the pot. The ? ian who spreads his laughter through thi is life, before a late breakfast, when he < lisses the train, when his wife goes visit- ter >rr on/1 lip has in pni. A. ftnlfl snrmer. the *? ~ T- JL" X * ill / tan who can laugh when he finds a but- m, >n off his shirt, when the furnace fire oes out in the night and both of the ^ vins take down with measles at the same me, he's the fellow that's needed. He p0 ever tells his neighbor to have faith; >mehow he puts faith irjto hiiR. He elivers no homilies; the sight.of his earning face, tiie sound oi ins nappy ^ oice and the sight of his blessed (laxly t: fe carry conviction that words have no ^ ower to give. The blues flee before ini as the fog before the west wind; he ^ omes into his own home like a flood of en anshine over a meadow of blooming uttercups, and his wife and children lossom in his presence like -Tune roses. w( lis home is redoleiit 'with sympathy and fr( Dve. The neighborhood is better for ^ life and somebody will learn of him ^ liat laughter is better man tears, ?ne jC( rorld needs this man; why are there so m. ew of him ? Can he be created? Can ^ ie be evolved? Why is lie not in every jlt louse, turning rain into sunshine and winer into summer all the year round, until ife is a perpetual season of joy??Lewis- p( on (Me.) Journal. 0f The S>nrdine Fraud. ^ Last year the imports to the United States of genuine sardines from the -Med- iV/ terranean amounted in value to ?599,- C1] >19, on whicli duties amounting to $170,.30 were paid l>y consumers. In order ^ o check this trade and afford more proection to the canning of herrings for , sardines, Captain Boutelle, of Maine, has ^ ntroduceda bill to raise the duty on 'oreign sardines to 45 per cent. By this ^ v>o+lir,/l flio flis+inornisliftfl legislator from . Maine hopes that a better market would ic >c afforded for the coarse little fish that ^ ire canned in Portland and preserved in . oleomargarine or cotton seed oil and ir then fraudxdently passed off under coun- ?v berfeit French labels as genuine sardines ir of the Mediterranean. Instead of increasing the duties on sardines they ai ought to be repealed, and the men in 0 Portland who derive a profitable trade 0 by cunning herring and selling them for French sardines ought to be punished ^ for fraud.?Philadelphia Record. " m a: A Mo.lel Cow. g 4'Does your cow cringe and curl?" asks o the New England Farmer, "and appear. nervous and fidgety when you sit down to milk her?" Well, not much, she doesn't. She isn't one of your shy, timid, bashful cows. She just fixes her n eyes on vacancy with a glare that will tl raise a blister on an oak knot; sticks her v tail straight up in the air, stiff as a poker, y plants three feet firmly on the ground, nnrl fhrm feels around with the other for 1 the milk-pail, milk-stool, milk-maid; c finds them; tires them up somewhere c into the blue empyrean, and remarking v "Ha, ha!" amid the shouting, jumps s over a six-rail fence and tramples dowa 1: an acre of young garden. Don't talk 1: about cringing and curling to a cow that t has to be milked with a pipe and a a pumping station.?Brooklyn Eajjle. A .\E\Y TRIP TO THE POLE. ?notIicr Hold Explorer (Joiie to the Arctic Regions?Sanguine Expectations of Succeiw. (N-"w York Mail and Express-) Col. W. H. Gilder lias just sailed from Siew Bedford, ou liis novel journev to lie Arctic regions, to settle, if possible? md lie believes it is possible?tlie geographical problem of what there is at he northern axis of the earth. This ex>edition Mr. Gilder undertakes in almost he same manner that Stanley undertook ds great equatorial journey across Afria, which ended in 1S78 by liis discoveiy f the sources of the Nile, the sources of be Congo, and his descent of that great ifrican stream to its debouchment in lie Atlantic Ocean. Col. Gilder's walk cross Siberia, his sledge journey with chwatka from North Hudson's Bay to !ing William's Land and return, includig a summer search over King Wil- ' am's Land, is the longest on record, Dvering a distance of 3,250 miles in 1 [even months and twenty days. During 1 le journey the travelers were required 1 > live on the country through which ley passed, as they only took with them ' tie month's supplies. It was thus mghing it over the wearying wastes of < lat great land of desolation within the J rctic Circle that taught Gilder the true :etliod of locomotion towards the Pole, 1 recisely as Stanley's intelligent appreation of the equatorial difficulties en- i >led liim to go on a well-defined cam- 1 tign against the climate, the topogralv and the inhabitants of Central ) frica. i "My intention," said Col. Gilder, at .e Victoria Hotel, where he was sur- r rinded by a party of travelers and ndred spirits, among whom were Lieut. ? ?11 Tvn/f.lr q Mfln'vor o-n/1 "YTr W "P t riffitl), who is to accompany him oil his t jlar journey, and who has made pedesian tours of Germany and Northern e irica, and is altogether, by scientific lining, physique, ambition and tem- a irament, fitted for the dangerous unrtaking, "is to leavu New Bedford ear- ? in June on one of the two whalers licli will leave for Hudson's Bay. I v 11 be accompanied by Mr. Griffith me, who is a graduate of Cornell Uni- e: rsity, and who will go along as an sistant observer; and," added the "V ilonel, with a grim smile, "to look :er results if anything should happen n me. I shall have all of the best hi- S uments that can be obtained, and my of this kind and quality have o: eady been contributed; but it should /i/vrof 4" + YY?oin O 1 UA1UVXOUVVU VXJXMV UULV JUJ.Ot?ll WMJt^VU Ui s expedition, after I reach my base of erations, will be to push on towards B i Pole and reach it if possible. This the one aim and object of this attempt g< ny third one?within the Arctic cir. But whatever I can do in the inter- tl of science, in laying down coast lines :1 plotting topographical features by serration or otherwise, will not be ^ jleeted. My set purpose, remember, o push always northward, and if I of nd at the very axis of the earth, no H re is to be said?that will be my highfcermark." n< 'And how long will this little picnic ce take you?" fa 'I expect to return in 1S90, or after abfence of about four years. My F: TfilP^gl^flchaler will take me up to is 70Uttexiu. 'c I I thence to Cape safrcSe m-T^ctegrees ?pB! minutes, where Greely and his party re rescued, I will go by some Scotch M aler, 'which I expect to find in those itudes in Smith's ^Sound, and -which cc I carry me as mucli further north as can find open water. But at any rate, XJ :re is plenty of animal food in the inity of Baird Inlet, just to south- ^ rd of Cape Sabine; and if necessary, in tead of making a coast journey on the stern side of Smith's Sound and Kane SI sin, I can pass inland and reach Fort nnrAV in lnfrifn/lo SO 4f> minilteS b] rth, where there are plenty of supplies "V\ fc by Lieut. Greely and which will be jM pie for the very polar object I have in w," S< 'How long will it take you to reach s point?" T 'About a year; and there I shall win- rc . Then 1 shall push my way to a at rtheasterly direction and seek to make - point of dc larture at the spot where T sut. Lockwc'j'l was forced to turn la skward at Latitude 83 degrees 24 nutes, or within 396 miles of the North st le." g "What, then, are the favorable condi- sj ns for reacliinc the Pole?" "I think I am not wrong in assuming tl it if I reacli that point attained by ti eut. Lock wood, with adequate supes for man and beast, the vexed L obleni of the Polar sea will be forever ;tled; if my best judgment and experi- a ce did not teach me this, I would not so romantic as to undertake to leave tl e luxuries of this zone. When Lock>od was obliged to turn southward k that spot, less than 400 miles from e Pole, he could travel from seven- a 2n to twenty maes a uay over uj.etu wliereas before lie was limited to ten ^ iles a day, owing to the condition of a e superfice. His supplies would not ?ld out an<l liis orders were to return. C lis was in the month of May." "So you are confident of retching the t: )le if you begin where Loci wood left f?" t' "Yes. It will require less than thirty ivs' more travel, and I shall make every c Lcleavor subsidiary to this one effort, r therein lies the mystery of the cir impolar world." "How numerous a party will you take ^ ith you from the uortliermost coast of t reenlanu yet reached by man?" j "I shall have three young hunters and ] leir families, and I shall get them from r ie country about Hudson Bay and t umberland Inlet. You may add, too, : tat I shall in no way be embarrassed } w frm/lc nr emsnlips WIiiIr mv frirvnds , id those interested in jiolar discovery ( ive'sent me many valuable arms and : istruments, and while sncli are always ? elcome, I have no misgivings about be- f ig adeqately provided." ; < ( Col. Gilder is a man of stoe&y physique, \ niable disjjosition, self^onndent with- } at egotism, and sell-poised without any , f the I-am.-?e^ab"out him.' His consti- , ition has stood'ceyexy- shock that can 1 Lsit a journalist", "explorer and man-of le-world, and his temperament even* ] nslaught that malccs dyspejjtics of some j ad tedious narrators of others. He . oes about his present undertaking with- ] ut excitement or solicitude, just as if it ere an every day affair. A Fair Head Flurried l?v a Busy Scribe. This reminds me of an episode in a ' ewspaper office in Chicago. I was in j lie city editor's room one day writing ery fast on some late copy when a ; ^ Ti-i+li o nmn+lnmrni UUIiJi o111 vaiiic Aia. uiui t* ? rho load some business with the editor, 'he men stepped into the next room to onfer together and I gave the girl a hair at the end of my table and went on rriting my report. She watched me ilently for some time as I turned oft' my lasty pages, then she said in an awed ittle voice: "Please excuse me, but ron't you please tell me whether you re composing or writing from memory?" -Chicago News, CONFEDERATE OE.\ERAI>. Wliat Tiiey are Dains anil Where Thcv are Located. The recent meeting of ox-Confederate generals at Mongomery, Ala., leads a Washington correspondent of the Louis .-."11^ T>,^+ , J. ? ?axx^ jl woi LU lip llIC ]MtT!5CUl; IIUIC" abouts and occupations of some of the principal survivors among the leaders of the Confederacy. Of the six full generals appointed by the Confederate Congress, only two survive?Joseph E. Johnston, now United States commissioner of railroads, and G. T. Beauregard, adjutantgeneral of Louisiana and manager of ihe Louisiana lottery drawings. Of the twenty lieutenant-generals appointed to the provisional army, several are living. E. Kirby Smith is professor of mathematics in the University of the South, in Tennessee. James Longstreet is keeping a hotel clown in Georgia. D. H. Hill, of Xortli 1 Carolina, was, till recently, president of tlie A?nVd!traral School of the- State of ' Arkansas, and now cams a living chiefly 1 is a magazine writer. Stephen B. Lee is a fanner, and presi- * lent of the State Agricultural College of ' Mississippi. Tubal A. Early practices law at Lynch- ' >urg. Of the major-generals, A. P. Stewart J s now president of the University of ( Mississippi at? Oxford. Joseph Wheeler is in Congress, is very 1 vealthy, and one of the largest planters 13 n Alabama. r?: ^ T? n? . ? S V vi iu XJ? UV1UUI1 IS il 1111I11UI1U.IHJ JUlll- , oad man. General Loring, of Florida, was en- a [inecr in Egypt nntil a few years ago, r riien lie came to New York to work at c he same profession. v B. F. Cheatham was recently appoint- J: d postmaster at Nashville, Tenn. , Sam Jones, of Virginia, is in the judge ; dvocate general's office. Lafayette McLaws is postmaster at v iavannah, Ga. f S. B. Buckner lives in Louisville, Ky., here he owns a great deal of real estate. ,, S. B. French earns a scanty subsist- , nee by engineering in Georgia. V5. C. L. Stevenson is in Frederickburg, ^ a. John H. Forney, brother of Congress- J lan Forney, is in an insane asylum at . elma, Ala. : Abney H. Mauray is Washington agent E a Nevv York life insurance company. John G. "Walker is aLso in the insur- , ice business. Isaac 11. Trimble is in retirement in altimore on a fortune. General Heath is employed by the Dvernment on some Southern rivers. Cadmus Wilcox is writing a history of ^ te Mexican war. rc T.AA 1C r/ATTAW A1** A^' 1r?1rt A AU.UA1U^1X AO 1 \J.XH\JJi \JX t i.X ^ ii-LiCi. "Extra Billy" Smith practices law at ^ "arrenton, Va. er Charles W. Field, once a doorkeeper ' the House, is superintendent of the ^ ot Springs reservation. ar William B. Bate is governor of Tenissee. in W.-H. F. Lee is a Fairfax county ^ rmer. ' (k C. J. Polignac, who came over from ^ ranee to espouse the Confederate cause, ^-( luLek-in Paris busied with railroad .. . . rC. Tfrgttnatrw??^rfrsr~ ^ John S. Marmadiife is "governor of issonri._ _ _ . TT_^a ki .fierce iU. &. loimg is umteu ouitt-s msul-generaJ at St. Petersburg, M. C. Butler is a Senator of the nited States. jn G. W. Curtis Lee is president of v rashington and Lee University at Lex- r gton, Va. _ tr Gen. Wade Hampton is in the L nited ates Senate. Only a few of the several hundred igadier-generals can be mentioned, 'est Adams is postmaster at Jackson, so 1SS. . -Frank Armstrong is now* waiting tlie hi snate's confirmation to be Indian agent. E John C. Brown was twice governor of ^ ennessee, built the Texas Pacific rail- ui >acl for Jay Gould, and is the latter's ai itorney for all his roads west of the tl: [ississippi, as well as receiver for the exas Pacific, with headquarters at Dal- ai s. J. R. Chahners represented the "shoe ^ ;riug" district, in Mississippi, in Con- L 1 i i* n t?. ? l? m ress, until JUe "was ieit last iau oy iJurvy olits. g' John B. Clark, of Missouri, is clerk of to le United States House of Representa- h: YCS. F. M. Coekrell and A. H. Colquitt are tl i:iited States Senators. R. E. Colston is in the surgeon-gener- c] t's office. ^ W. R. Cox, of North Carolina, is in t le House. d X. B. de Bray is commissioner in the d tnd office of Texas. ^ Basil Duke edits the Southern Bivouac h t Louisville, Ky. tJ J. T. Morgan, of Alabama, and S. B. a laxey, of Texas, are United States Sen- tors. v A. M. Scales is governor of Xortli Carolina. C. M. Shelly is third auditor of the reasury. g E. L. Thomas is in the land office of c he interior department. j< K. M. Vance is assistant commissioner i-' if patents. f .j _ c Death of the "Silent Woman.'' lj ATiss Frances Hranuelli, the "silent \ roman," died in St. Luke's Hospital in L his city on Sunday. In 1879, while liv- * ng with relatives in this city, Miss c. iranuelli met, loved, and was loved in % eturn by a young sea captain then in ^ his port. Her relatives opposed the 1 natch, and, as she believed, intercepted f lis letters to her and trie " :o keep them * ipart. Violent altercations ensued, and c luring one of them, in a paroxysm of v age, she vowed that she never would j igain open her hps in speech. For over * seven years she kept her vow, and even ? )n her deathbed the efforts of her friends 1 s :o induce lier to breaic ner vumuuuj ulence were futile. As her relatives ' gathered around her deathbed, her sister, c ivith tears in her eyes, imj)lored her to j oreak lier vow, if only to say good-bye. j The two brothers added their entreaties, f but to all appeals she was obdurate. Her 1 brother went outside and plucked a rose, : xnd offered it to her. She shook her bead and refused to take it. However, when the matron offered her the same flower she took it eagerly and evidently . enjoyed the perfume. When her brother ] attempted to smooth the dying woman's ( pillows she strongly dissented, out ui- , lowed a nurse to do it, anu seemed grate- : fill. A few moments after she breathed ' her last. She carried her resentment to her relatives to the bitter end.?San : Francisco Chronicle. t ^ > ? - ntu ITCHflll luui ...... A young fellow won a kiss from a young ady the other evening, and when lie des manded payment she said, "'I'll pay when von present your bill." And the puckering process began right away, and the oslculatory forfeiture died away amid sound similar "unto those made by a cow when pulling her fgot out of the mud. FREEMAsiOXs? AMD KMGilTS. Extracts from the Canadian Hi>ho|>V Pastoral Letter. The collective pastoral letter of the eleven Catholic Bishops of this provincelias proved a disappointment to many. It was believed that the Ivnights of Labor would be roundly denounced, ___1 j.v . _ _ .Li i . . v_ ... 1 wnereas tne anainema nas neeii reserved for Freemasonry and tlie Knights are 1 only casually referred to. The following are extracts from the letter: '^Freemasonry lies in the hands of half , a dozen unknown individuals with sinister designs. A great Protestant states- ( man wrote in connection with the European revolutions: 'All these great j movements of oppressed nations, etc., , arc controlled by half a dozen individu- ' als, who give their orders to the secret ; societies of all Europe.' It must be ad- ^ rnitted that there exists in Freemasonry a concealed Board of Directors, which varies according to the times, place and . country. 1 "Besides these societies there are oth- r er forbidden ones, which must be avoid- j cd under penalty of grievous sin, and . xmong these must be remembered especially those which impose on their mem- ^ ijers.a secret which is to be made known ^ :o no one, and an unreserved obedience ' :o hidden leaders. Such is, in particuar, the society known as the Knights of ^ Labor, which the sacred Congregation ^ )f Inquisition has declared must be :lassed among societies condemned by he Holy bee. lhe cosmopolitan cliar- n icter of secret societies, and that of the a lights of Labor in particular, neces- * arily exposes many who belong to them o obey the orders of a council sitting in ^ . foreign country-, which at a given mo- n aent may be opposed to interests and ven at war with the Government to ."horn its members owe allegience. The ^ trincipal dangers of these societies are ound in the fact that the members are ^ 'ound to secrecy and become vile intrumcnts in the hands of a few leaders a< 'ho may exact from them the most out- ^ igeous and tyrannical acts, as is shown y numerous most deplorable strikes." f The Bishops have, it will be seen, left * lemselves free to change their front irmld rlift TvmVlits nl+fr t.lmiv pnrmHfii. . on so as to, meet tlie wishes of the ^ iiurcli. The principal stipulation will . e that Knights shall sever their connecon with the order in the United States, meeting of the local branch is being , eld to consider the matter, and should ju icy fail to come to an arrangement all m. atholics will be peremptorily ordered to ave the society.?Montreal Dicpatch. oJg >?catH in a Car. ^ A veiy common theme of conversation nong travelers is the question of wheth- s or not a car rides easier in the middle su tan above the trucks. Une of our rail ad contemporaries some time ago pubshed an article on the subject, and took .e ground that there could be no differ- ! ice unless the sills and framing of a car th< elded like the buckboard of a wagon, mi Liere is certainly no yield to car sills" is i td framing; yet every old traveler pr< oids the seats, and especially the sleep- jui g berths, above the trucks, and old of avelers generally know what they are crt >ing. If the party who insisted that th< ere could be no difference in the mo- be: m in the different parts of the same thi r had ever crossed the stormy ocean Ita Imio; ctrapngr he might Cai c point of least motion. jra lown that there is less motion amidV Va .ips than there is at the stem or stern, val lcI less motion at the bottom of the otl issel than there is on deck. A car acts crt a similar way. Anything defective ry: >out the track jerks the wheels, which ge: unsmit the irregular motion to the acl uck, and that in turn to the body of na .e coach. Ec bis ." M'nsiiile Tal!(. ^ The movement among a few veteran ildiers in this locality to create ieenng . respect to tlie proposed visit of Robert . Lee Post of ex-Uonfederates, of Rich- ca; ond, Va., to the New Hampshire re- ?.0, lion, at the Weirs this year, is unwise ? id unpatriotic. Elsewhere throughout 1 te couutry this mingling of the gray id the blue has led to happy results, id no New Hampshire Union veteran in furnish any objection beyond a silly ^ jotism to the proposed visit of R. E. ee Post. If there is here and there _ le who thinks that his honor is in dan- ?*e 2T of being tarnished or his loyalty v,!l impered with, this is a good time for P* im to take to the woods. When these , 1 - - 1- Al *>0 jllCilllllSU yC'JlUUiiUJii gtl uuuuqm ...v? lis job, tliey might turn their attention , j fencing out the east wind or putting a Jv iirtain in the sky to obscure the sun. If J1 ew Hampshire fits thus poorly in the 'nion of to-day that the tread of a hun- . red visitors from Virginia is liable to , isplace it, it matters very little whether i.1' i stars in or not. But before the mat >r goes further we desire to remind p icse over-sensitive sticklers that they re fur from constituting the State of i'ew Hampshire or representing her j eteran soldiers.?Manchester Union. i? F Xcw (>ame of Card*. The card-loving classes have a new Ynme which bids fair to pin progressive uchre to the wall. It is decidedly the J? jlliest game of cards yet invented. It 1 < called "Hearts." and was brought rem New York a few weeks ago by a ,J ommercial tourist of renown. "Hearts" s somewhat similar to whist, except that he essential element of the game is to tare no heart left in your hand or in the ricks you may yet have captured at the onclusion of the game. The cards are [ealt as in whist;'suit must be followed. ' j There is no trump?the idea of each )layer being to get rid of all the hearts f? le may have and avoid being compelled o take in any of his neighbors'. In the ffort to do this consists the fun. Any _T riiist player can see how easy he can be ? oaded up with his neighbors' hearts if 0 ic have long suits of other cards or high r ards of any kind. At the conclusion of , he playing the player who has been addled with the fewest hearts rakes in he pot, which is a chip for each heart? ? >r thirteen in all. One beauty of the ?ame is, that unlike whist, one can chater and talk, and the dreadful struggle to ^ ivoid capturing hearts leads to no end of nerrinient. The game of ''Hearts" will ' ;oon be a craze?especially among the adies, for whom it has great fascination. , Honor Anions Thieve*. A burglar was going through a house " ? +MTi-n m?> nifrlit and diseov :red an exceptionally large roll of money, j. Curious to know whether he had broken o into an editor's house or that of some g other variety of capitalist, he turned to t the owner, who had just awakened, and t said: c "Excuse me, Colonel, but I would like I to inquire how you came by such an un- 1 usually large wad of wealth?" ^ "Sir,"' replied the moneyed mau, "I j am a member of the Territorial Legisla- c ture.*' " t * * " ? 1 1 X"!^ -i "A thousand paruons; es.cutiuu.cu mc polite burglar, dropping tlie money. "Shake. We never steal from members of tlie profession. Goodnight."?Estel- ( ^ine Bell. j XEW BREEDS OF .SHEEP. I am making two "breeds of slicc-p. One I call the "Farmers' Sheep,'' and it is to be a mutton sheep, with thick fleece, thicker than that on the English breeds and better adapted to our changeful and rigorous climate. The truth is, no one ever yet imported any of the English breeds and kept them up to the I standard of the imported stock. We need an American breed adapted to our climate and tlie modes of feeding and care we give. Tliis will require a sheep with a very compact body and a close fleece; sheep with open wool are not suited to our wants. I shall not aim to . jet a good sized sheep with square body, uroad back and short legs and as meaty . is possible. Such a sheep will mature . roung and the lambs will do to slaugh- . n xt .m _ *1 ,?r yuuug, aiiu Liiey wm majie a goo a veight. * Legs and lank quarters do not , veigli much. I take pleasure in show ng farmers my foundation sheep, and he line of breeding. This year a pure- , >red Oxforddown ram is being used. , [here is in reserve a dash of ?.Ierino to < nake the fleece more compact. It takes ' wo years to fix types in breeding and to stabli.sk uniform characteristics. So ^ he sooner we begin such work the bet- , er. Why should we not have breeds of * air own? * XUVVbUCX 'UV/V/U KJX OUVCJ/ AO -U.ULtV.Li J Ierino." The future must necessarily , .nd Merinos more plentiful than any ther breed, as in the past. This is on j, ccount of their special adaptation to lountain lands, dry plains and rough (J ad sterile places where other sheep 11 ould not exist. No others can endure , 'hat Merinos will, or thrive in such irge flocks. But cannot Merinos be ' lade to fill more than one sphere of t sefulness, and thus become proportion- , :ely more desirable? Yes, and I wish I * ad got this idea twenty-five years ago ,' 3d had just so much time to develop it. Je must have a mutton Merino to give ? i -.- i-i. -i? I n Ittigt .UCCVC Ul J1UC HWJ, ilUU. ttltU 'Jiuti':teristics well established, to breed a d mb which, with good keep, can be ?j ade to dress thirty pounds or more at ur or five months' age, which is ten . junds ahead of the present average, p 'oreover, slowness for maturing must i bred out. The average Merino, al- i ough the smallest sheep, is the longest ] get its full growth. I have my ideal utton Merino, and am now using a m which is perfection in some respects -ool and form), but of course the na- ti re for quick growth is lacking. This ast be coaxed into the blood by selec >n, crossing, ana gooa icedmg. inc taring must exceed the parents ii: size d rapidity of growth. A real mutton ?0 erino would be the most valuable c? eep in America, because adapted to ^ ch a wide extent of country and wants. t F. D. Curtis in The New South. The Catholic Cardinal*. ^0 Several of the New York papers in su sir articles on the cardinalate, make a In stake in saying that Cardinal Gibbons wc a, Cardinal Bishop. The distinguished F( slate of Baltimore is a cardinal priest, ce it as was the late Cardinal iMcCloskey, j ke New York, and will so rank in the sa-1 tk id college. On the first of January co ire were just sixty cardinals, the limit esi ing seventy; of the sixty cardinals ha xty-six were born and educated in tic ily. The number of those styled th rdinal bishops is limited to six, tel hans ana & rd, Cardinal Howard, archpriest of the is t*?an Basilica. The officers of the vei 01 ^ prefect of the ?10 aces, and Lord Chambei'iiti^^^iii^ l!;ual archbishops of sees who are caruir*ft? Is are always cardinal priests. Henry i ly i i /-i_ .!_ i ~ I in, Lwara, varu-Luai io >hop of Westminster and tlie primate de the Catholic church in England. The lo: nous Simeoni, prefect of the propa- of nda, is a cardinal jjriest; so, also, is co cobini. secretary- of State. After the pr rdinal priests come the cardinal dea- is us, there being at present thirteen, su hn Henry, Cardinal Newman, meta- be ysician, poet and preacher, one of the ye 3st eminent men of Great Britain, al- th ough a priest in the church, is a cardi tli 1 deacon in the sacred collegc. Car- Ai aal McCloskey -was the lirst prelate in th nerica to receive the cardinal's hat. lr\ lat was in 1875, when he was sixty-live to ars old. At that time Dr. Gibbons er is bishop of Richmond. The second ci elate to receive the cardinal's title was tic shop Gibbons, the first insignia having A :eu handed to him at his residence yes- su rday. The third prelate in America hr 10 receives the same dignity is Arch- 111 shop Tascherau, of Quebec. He was lOsen a cardinal at the same consistory m rich conferred the honor upon Gib- w >ns. Some of the New York papers ti? ivc also made a mistake in stilting that ci eland has two cardinals. At the time ti rclibishop McCabe was made a cardinal k< j was the only wearer of the red hat in tL eland, and he had borne the rank only ai short while when he died, leaving no ish cardinal; but recently Dr. Patrick rancis Moran, of Ireland, was sent to ustadia as archbishop of Sidney and . as created a cardinal. Dr. WaLslI, carnal McCabe's successor as archbishop K .-imate of Ireland, has not been men- + oned in connection "with tlie cardinal- " e, so far as the public has been ad- ? sed.?Richmond State. ^ * ? 1> Secret* of the Apothecary's Clerk. O There is one field in which, so it is c* lid, woman, lovely woman, will never nd employment. She can never be an oothecary's clerk, because she is not die to keep a secret. A pharmacy is a jgular confessional, and into the ears of h le discreet attendant are poured weighty 1 ?crets, which it would never do to in- ^ ust to the possession of the gadding ossippy female. In the regular course* ? f his business, the dispenser of pills 1 ad powders knows all about people's " oclily afflictions and weaknesses, and a ecomes acquainted "with httle sins and 11 nings of that kind which the interested a arties would not have the world to f/w onT4liin(r TTiPn. tort, lit! leai'llS ho paints, "who powders, who cats pium, wlio nses belladonna to brighten he eyes, arsenic to whiten the skin, who f > obliged to use insect powder at home, a nd various things of that kind which v could be too great a temptation for a 1. ilkative woman to give away. c An I'HMUceeaKful Strike. ? Hie striking mania reached a colored t ireacher in a town in Mississippi the r ither day, and he arose before his con- , negation and said: "(jjjaii en, ? ze oeen 1 ryin' hard to preacli de gospel on $2 a reek, an' I'ze got discouraged. You lias ither got to raise the salary to 83, or ^ 'ze gwine to go out an' skirmish fur . togs an' chickens 'long wid de res' of ou an' take my chances of gwine to j leaven." By a unanimous vote of the ( congregation it was decided to continue he salary at 82 and let him skirmish.? iVall Street News. , A. S. Friek, of Fairbanks, Lexington, < :ut a 1-3 pound cabbage from his .spring )af.ch on the 20th. ~ j A SCSXE IX THE SEXATE. Senator Butler Hinkes His Fist at Senator Plumb?The Fit'/. John Porler Bill the Casus Belli. f Special Dispatch to the News and Courier.) Washington*, J line 25.?There are cer-, tain Republican Senators who cannot discuss political questions without attempting to revive sectional issues. Sena--' tor Plumb, of Kansas, tried it in the Fitz John Porter case to-day, and in consequence received a stinging and merited rebuke from Senator Butler. The opponents of Porter were aware that they could not prevent the passage of the*bill, so Senators Logan, Teller and. til l- 1 ? 1 wwi wiui eacn otner ui saying the xnost disagreeable md exasperating tbin^s about Porter and those in favor of the bill. It was while Plumb was arraigning Southern Senators for voting in favor of Porter that Senator Butler interrupted iim. The South Carolina Senator said that he had sat quietly and listened to ispersions heaped upon the character of Senators i'or voting their honest convictions until forbearance ceased to be a T4- -1 i - , uiv. it ?"3 uusciTca tuat tne speaker vas laboring under intense excitement nd meant just what lie said. He delounced Senator Plumb's insinuations hat Southern Democrats voted for Porcr not to vindicate his devotion to the Jnion, but as a reward for his treachery, ,s cowardly and unmanly, and declared te would not hear them repeated in any -tlier fon an without holding the person ittered them personally responsible. Senator Butler's indignation knew no iounds, and he created quite a sensation s he advanced toward Senator Plumb nd shook his fist at him threateningly, enator Plumb realized that he had gone jo far, and after remarking in an exited manner that he had heard of that . ind of talk before, proceeded with his rrn . ii "? ? * mjccu. j. lie inreaa oi ins argument was, owevcr, gone. So, after rambling along ad threshing over the same straw, he ave way to Senator Blair, of New [arupshixc. It was admitted on all sides that Sena>r Butler's denunciation of Senator lumb was one of the most thrilling !cnes ever -witnessed in the Senate, and is Democratic associates commended armly. M>ITH CAROL1XA FARMERS, ic Financial Condition of the Tillers of the rMJII. ("Ri ;blar.d" in the Aupista Chronicle.) A prominent and well informed statislian. who lias been traveling in the South r nearly 20 years, during the growing the cotton crop, has assured me that c South Carolina farmers are in a betl financial condition than those of any her Southern State. He says that the , rrners iu the other States were unable hold their cotton last year, but that a rprising amount was held in this State. . one county alone over 5,000 bales ;re in the hands of farmers as late as jbroary. Not more than ninety per 1 uic cuiire crop naagoneto mart at that time. In fact, so much of e crop was held back that the large tton houses North believed that the innate of South Carolina's production d been overstated until an investiga>n by trusted representatives developed e fact stated. This gentleman also Is me that the outlook in the South>st, in Tfxas -and Alabama, . ? oouin uaroututfie prospect no (Setter than, at" the same time last ar. In Texas the com crop was so nndant lai-t year that it could not be .rketed properly, and consequently ; farmers are so well supplied with this galthat they have enlarged the cotr^^kj^^ducing the acreage recentg the"i>>5,^*i*ii^janners, anticipathciency in sto^k ss of the oat crop, have their lands recently put in cott(Sn^^_ rn. An evidence of the financial imovement of the South Carolina farmers found in the fact that the amount of pplies and fertilizers purchased has 'en decreasing annually for several :ars, and this year alone the saving in esc two items lm-amounted to someing like a million and a half of dollars, aother strong reason, to suppose that ere lias been an improvement is shown ; the numerous railroads now projected which tllfi !;irmw< !iw cnlic/vriliiriflr 1iV?_ ^ + HW ally, far in excess, usually, of the ties ami towns. All of the upper counts are wild on the subject of railroads. LI this means that the people have mething to give, for if they did not ive a surplus such enterprises would eet with little encouragement. I have quoted above the views of a ost intelligent and observant man, hose occupation is to furnish infonnaDii on the condition of the great South u staple from the time it is planted unl it has been put on the market, and to ;ep posted 011 the financial condition of ic farmers. His opinions, therefore, vtilitoliln Tryr..^ to (ict to Liberia. Petitions asking Congress to aid cerlin colored citizens of the South to roeeed to Liln'ria arc agrin making leir appearance at the Capitol. Sena>v Butler recently received one of these etitions signed by Alexander Massey ad sixty odd persons in Lancaster counr, South Carolina. Accompanying the etition was a letter from Mr. Massey, f which the following is a verbatim Dry. Ci ketox's Store, S. C., ? L.vxcastej: Co., May the 12, 18SG. \ Hon. M. C. I hitler?Dear Sir: I forard you a list of 61 persons all being eadsof families. Givinsr me their Names. 'ertitioning Congress to aid tliem to lieir Native home Africa; Please present lie said pertition to Congress giving our aid to the Passage of the same, 'lease hand this our address to Repreitives in Congress, Tilhnan or Aiken or uy one from the State of South Cardial Not knowing the full names I cant ddress them personally. Yours respectfully, iiouekt Alexander Massey. ?Nothing is funnier than the craze or relics. Franklin's wig, Washington's rtiricial teeth, and the old clothes of a I'liole army ul' heroes, were droll enousrh. >ut now the height of absurdity is reachd by the solemn presentation to the Hate of Illinois of the cork leg which vas worn by Santa Anna and left by him n a carriage as he escaped after the batle of Cerro Gordo. Could nonsense go artlier in this direction than by the jrave preservation of such rubbish in the nemorial ball of the State? ?The Senate committee on the Disriet of Columbia has voted to report idversely upon the nomination of C. F. Matthews, colored, of Albany, X. Y., to jc recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia. Cunt. -J. C. Lyncs, Associate Principal >f King's Mountain Military Schcol for the >ast two years, has been called to the chair )f Modern Languages in, the Maryland Military and Naval Academy at Oxford. Maryland.