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THE J31^E^ILLIj JPI^ SS A. '
BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE. S.'C., FRID A Y?.'MAT 12, 1871. ;a .
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SO GOES THE WOELD. V:
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Our varied days p?v?s on and on,
Our hopes fade unfulfilled away,
And things which seem the life of life,
Are taken from Us day by day; r
And yet through all the busy streets
The crowd of pleasure-seekers throng,
The puppet's play, the showman's calls,
An gossips chat the whole day long,
And so the world goes on.
Our little dramas come to nausrht:
Our lives may fail, our darling plan
May crumble into nothingness;
Our firmest castle fall to sand ;
And yet the children sing and dance,
The money-makers laugh and shout,
The stars unmindful, still shine bright,
Unconscious that our light is out,
Aud so the world goes on.
The house grow3 sad that once was gay,
The dear ones seek tbeirBlesSed Home,
And we may watch and wait in vain
To hear their well-known footsteps
come;
And yet the sunlight checks the floor,
And makes the summer shadows
loug,
The roxe-buds at the casement bloom,
The bird pours forth his cheerful
song,
And so the world goes on.
And God goes on, and wltii our woe,
Weaves golden threads of joy and
peace,
Guarding with his heart of-hearts,
Our days of pain, our days of ease?
He marks thein all?the seed,, the
sheaves, ' }
The dauger's smile, the mourner's,
tears,
And keeps them safe?His children all?
Through "all the great eternal years,
And so, thank God, the world goes oil
THE MYSTERIOUS ORGANIST.
At* a grand calhedr; 1 overlooking
ihe Rhine tb.cre appearod a ^iatin-t
guishcd organist. -The great coroipo
ser who had played the organ so
much had suddenly died, and every
;body, from king to the peasant, was
vvondcrhig wtoo could be found to fill '
liis place, whco one bright Sabbath'
morning, as the'sextdb entered the
church; ho saw a saw a stranger sitting
at the crape-shrouded orgftn..
He was a tall, graceful man, with a
pale but strikingly, handsome, face,
great black melancholy eyes, and
hair like the raven's wing for gloss
-and color, sweeping in dark^ waves
over his shoulders. lie did not seen*
to notice tht}? sexton, but went on
playing, and such music as he drew
from the instrument no words of mine
can describe. The astonished listener
declared that the organ seemed to
have grown human?that it wailed
;and sighed and clamored as if its tortured
human heurt were throbbing
through its pipes.
When the music at length ceased, J
the sexton hastened to the stranger
and asked:
"Pray who are you, sir." I
"Do not ask my name," he replied; |
"I have heard that you were in want
of an organist, and I have come hero
on trial."
"You'll bo sure to get the place,"
exclaimed the sexton. "Why, you
surpass him that's dead and gone."
"No, no, you overrate me," said the
stranger, with a smile ; then, as if din
inclined to conversation, be turned
from old Hans, and began to play
again, and now the music changed
from a sorrowful strain to a grand'
old paean, and the mysterious old or
ganist:
Looklng upward full of grace
Playing still from a happy place?
God's glory smote him iu the face,
Jjind his countenance seemed not unlike
that of St. Michael, us portrayed
fyy Guido.
&ost in tho melodies which swelled !
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around him, he sat with ins "lur-seeing''
ejof fixed on the distant; sky, a
glimpso of%hichvKc caught through
am open window, -when there was a
stir about the church door, and a
royal party came sweeping in.
Among them might be seen a bright
young girl, wit3a a wealth of golden
liair, <yw iike the violet's hue, an.d '
lips like wild cherries. This was the I
Princess Elizabeth, and all e\'es were !
turned towards her as she seated herself
in the velveUcushioaed pew ap-;
propriated to the court.;. The myste- j
rious organ infixed his eye upon her I
and went to playing. No sooner had j
the music reached her ears than she
started as if a ghost had crossed her j
path. The blood faded from her t
crimson cheek, her Hps qnivered, and I
her whole frame grew tremulous At
last her eyes met the organist in a
long, yearning look, and the melody
lost its joyous notes, and once more
wailed and sighed and clamored.
"By faith," whispered the King to
his daughter, "this organist has a
master hand. Hark ye, he shall play
.at your wedding."
The pale lips of the princess parted,
Trot she could .not' speak?she was j
dumb with grief. Like one in a paiuful
dream, she saw ' the pale man at
the organ and heard the melody
which filled the vast edifice. Ay, full
.well afre&ncw who it was and why
tlift in&tpiimrwtt caot>iod hlV.athinff OUt
the agony of a tortured heart.
' When the services were over and
the royalparty; had left tbe cathedral,
he stole away as mysteriously as he
bad come lie was not seen again by
tho sextou till the vesper hour, arid
.then he appeared iu the organ loft and
-commenced bis task. When he played,
a>"v?iled figure glided in, and knelt
near a shrine. There 6he remained
until tho worshipper* disappeared,
when tho sexton touched bar on tbe
shoulder and said:
"Madame, everybody has gone bat
you and me, and I wish to close the
door." .
"I am not ready to go yet," was
the reply j "leave me?leave me!"
The sexton drew back into a shady
niche, and watched and listened. "The
mysterious organist still kept bis post,
aod his head bowed upon tho instrument,
and he could not see the lone
devotee. At length she rose from the
aisle, and moving lo tho orgau loft,
paused beside the oig.inist
"BertramI" she murmerecK
Quick as thought the organist raised
his head. There, with the light of
the lamp suspended to the arch above
falling full upon her, stood the
Princess, who had graced the royal
new that dav. The court dress of
velvet, with its ermine trimmings, the
tiara, the necklace, the bracelets had
been exchanged lor a gray serge rohe
and a long thick veil, which was now
pushed back from the fair, girlish
face.
"Why aro you here, Bertram?"
asked the Princess."
"1 came to bid you farewell; and as
I dared not to venture into the palace
f gained access to the cathedra' by
bribing the bell-ringer, and having
taken the seat of he dea l organist,
let my music breathe out the adieu I
could not trust my lips to utter."
A low moan was the only answer,
UMIJ IJ4J CUfillllUCU .
' You are to be married on the morrow
?"
"Yes," sobbed the girl. '"Oh !
Bertram, a trial it will be to stand at
yonder altar, and take upon me the
vojvtf which will doom me to a living
death."
v "Think of me," rejoined the organist.
''Your royal father has requested
mo to play at the.:wedding, und 1 have
promised to he here. if I were your
equal I could be the bridgroom instead
of the organist; but a poor musician
must give you up."
"It is like rending my soul and body
asunder to part with you," said the
girl. 4,Ta-n.ight I maj* tell you this?
tell yoQ.frow fondly I love you. but in
a few*hours it wiil bi a aiul Go, go,
God bless you."
She waved him from her, as if she
would banish him while she had the
power to do so.; and he?how was it
with him! He arose to leave her,
then caine back, held her to his heart
in a lon.'r embrace, with a half
? * d
smothered farewell, left .her.
The next morning dawned in (-loudness
splendor. At unearly hour thecathedral
wai throw n open and Lho
sexton began to prepare for the wedding,
Flame-colored flowers nodded
hy the wayside?-flame colored leaves
came dashing down the tree* and lay
in heaps upon the ground; and the
ripe wheat waved like a golden sea,
and berries dropped in red and purple
clusters over the rocks along the
Rhine.
At length the palace gates "were
Dpened and the royal parfyjappeared,
escorting the Princess- Elizabeth to
the cathedral, where the marriage
iva8 to be solemnized.
It was a bright pageant ?. far
jrighfer thnn the entwined foliage and
kh.^/ttvia t t>o toi-Pl-i *>f ilium ?s
ivliich floated from stately heads and
festal robes that streamed down over
the nousing of the superb steeds
Hut the Princess, mounted on a snowy
palfrey, and clad in snow white velvet,
looked pale and sad.; and when, on j
heading the church, she heard a gush j
of organ music, which, though juhi- j
hint in sound, struck on Jicr enr like a
funeral knell?fiiie trembled and i
would have fallen to the earth,, had
not a page supported her. A few
minutes atterwa ds she entered the j
catbedral.v There wilii his retinue
Rtood the-roy-cl bridegroom, "whern sbe
had never before seen. JBu-t her
glance roved from him to the organ
loft, where she had expected that
mysterious organist. IIo was gone,
upd she was obliged to return the
graceful bow of the King, to whom
she had been betrothed from motives
of policy. Mechanically she knelt at
his side on the altar stone; mechanically
listened to the service and made
the response.
Tuen here husband drew her to
him in a convulsive embrace, -and
whispered:
' Elizabeth, my queen, my wife,
look up."
Trembling In every limb, she obc}*ed.
Why did t^hoseeyes thrill her so?
Why did that smile bring a glow on
her ehceks?
Ahl though, the King wore the
royal purple and-many a, jeweled order
glittered on his breast, he seemed,
the humble person who had been cmDloved
to teach ortran music, and bad
v y ^
taught her the lore of love.
"Elizabeth," murmured the monarch,
"Bertram Ilofi'mar, the mysterious
organist, and King Oscar (the
Royal Free ilason) are one. Forgive
my stratagem. I wished to marry
yon, but I would not-drag to the altar
an unwilling bride. Your father was
in the secret."
j While tears of joy rained from her
blue eyes, the new-made q-icen rc!
turned her husband's fond kisses, and
I for once two hearts were made happy
by a royal marriage.
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Serious affray in urbenvili.e.?
i Wo learn that a difficulty occurred in,
: Gr<*envHe, on Monday afternoon,
which camc near proving a verj* seJ
rious matter. It appears*" that two
! colored men?one of them a notorious
! character?went into the store of a
merchant, named Isaacs, where some
' words ocourred, and Mr. Isaacs ordered
them out; as they did not-lwave
| promptly, ho started after them with
ia stick, wheu the i' traders immedi!
ately left As Mr. Isaacs turned
around, one of the men threw a brick
at him, which struck him just above
1 in tho elf nil
tne lempie, uuu iuhoucu ...
Au officer arrested one of the party,
but the other ran ofP. As the prisoner
was being carried to jail, a rescue
waB attempted by a number of colored
men. The whites sided with
the officer, pistols and other weajpom
j were displayed, and for a short timo
tli^re was imminent danger of a Moody
affair. Judge Orr and other influential
gentlemen interfered, the excite
rment quieted down, and the prisoner
was locked up. Mr. Isaacs was alive
at last accounts, but no hopes are
' entertained of his reeoverv.?Phoenix.
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GEORGIA'S GREATEST SON.
A Son of the Late Henry J. Raymond
Visits the Hon. Alexander H. Steph
t'iiS.
II. W. Raymond, Esq., of the
I New York limes, (a son of its
founder,) has recently visited Hon.
A. II. Stephens, at the latter's
home in Georgia. Like all men
who have ever eonie i;; "contact
! with Mr. Stephens, Mr. Raymond
was evidently impressed with his
greatness, lie writes to his paper
that, as the interview was mostly
confidential, he cannot tell what
took pJace wnue it lasted. lie had
Mr. Stephens* permission to make
public some of his views. We
quote:
Warm as was the day, a bright
coal fire was burning in the grate,
at.d every window was firmly fastened
down?Mr. Stephens being a
vk'tim ot that air-abhorring disease
known as rheumatism. Two beds
stood against the wall, a Imok-faee
in each corner, a few chairs and a
couple of tables littered up with a
/utiiliionf) ?n n jo 1
vuinu.^u lAjavo \si
books, documents (among winch I
noticed a pamphlet speech by Senator
Bayard,) and newspapers, made
up the furniture of the room. On
the floor were scattered, in wild
confusion, copies of newspapers
from every section of the land.
Air. Stephen's, appearance is familiar
most people; his spore ligtire
so very slight and frail, his
large head and piercing eyes; but
to mf? wlin liiiil ripvpr kpoii him be
tore, lie seemed but a mere skeleton.
But when he talks the man
is forgotten in the charm of bis
conversation. For three hour* and
a quarter Mr. Stephens talked with
me on almost all subjects, and my
only iegret was thai the time was
tip so soon. Firm in his convictions,
emphatic, and at times eloquent
in his comparisons, illustrating
all points with illustrations
drawn from a long life of varied
experiences, full of reminiscences
of the old political times when
statesmen filled the places now occupied
by politicians, Mr. Stephens
could not but be entertaining as
well as instructive. I was amused,
during our interview, with the freedom
in the manners of the chil
dreu ot Ins household servants. .
They came in-and out at wal-l, squattod
on the floor ami played with
the dog, or stood before the fire
ami stared to their hearts' content, j
took part in the conversation when-1
ever they defied, being humored
in everything by their much-loved
master.
Mfc. STEPHENS' VIEWS.
' I should like very much to give !
a detailed account of Mr. Stephens' i
payings, for I know it would be j
interesting; but, with the excep-;
tion of a few points which I have j
I his permission to repeat, J must be !
silent Mr. Stephens adheres as i
firmly as ever to the doctrine of;
State rights, and sees in its triumph
alone the salvation of the Republic
from a centralized despotism, lie j
considers the thirteenth amend-!
meut as having been full}' ratified ;
and valid, as the natural result of:
J the war. The fourteenth amJfif-j
I teenth amendments he considers
! as "gross usurpations of power, j
passed by force and fraud," with j
seven of the original thirteen colo-!
nies unrepresented. lie would not;
hear of any such thing as "accept-1
ing the situation" with those two j
amendments in existence. lie did
not, nor did any one, propose to j
do away with negro suffrage, but,
desired to avoid what now existed i
?hostility of race to race.
Mr. Stephens spoke of the Tammany
King, New York, as an
"abomination" and a disgrace. Of
Governor Hoffman lie said th<it he
knew of nothing against him, but
he did not know liim. Of General
Hancock and Frank Blair he spoke
strong terms of admiration, the
latter being a "man of nerve."
The conversation turned on State
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TlglllS-, LUC pUllllUUI IIIIUIC, IMC
next campaign, the condition of the
Smith and its needs, &c\; but as
, Mr. Stephens desired the conversation
to be considered as confidential,
I observe his request. Some
of his political predictions, as to
the votes of the States it) the next
election, I jotted down in my notehook
for future reference, since
Mr. Stephens "staked his heml" on
their accuracy,-and said that he
had never been mistaken iu predicting
the vote of a State since
1844' Such a- stake would be
wortli winning.
A nolored postmaster, murdered by
the Kti Klux in South Carolina, has
! suddenly nindc hin appearance in Dei
' troit, Michigan. So we learn from a
i Western oxchan^e.
THE DEMONSTRATION IN LONDON
IN FAVOR OP THE PARIS
COMMUNE.
The last files of the English:
journals contain full reports of the .
meeting which took place in Hyde ,
Park, London, on the fifteenth of i
last month. The demonstration
was intended to express the sympathy
of the English republicans
with the present insurrection which <
is destroying Paris and disturbing |
France. Though the assemblage jwas
comparatively small, the Ian-1 <
gunge of the orators was fierce and .
violeut, and unmistakably hostile
to the governments of England and
other European countries. From (
the addresses made on the occasion
it is easy to perceive the drift and J
tendency of the thoughts of these
would-be leaders of the working- 1
men of Great Britain. Unfortunately
the sentiments of these
'men t<>o often exercise a dangerous
influence over the working classes,
ana noiwiinstanumg that the ting-1 x
lish press affects to ridicule the:-]
the demonstration in Ilyde Park
it is nevertheless true that the agi- 1
tation inaugurated in London, ex- j
pressive of sympathy with the insurgents
in Paris, is the indication
of a dangerous sentiment prevail- fc
ing among a certain class of British j
workmen. In all large cities there
a*re io be found republicans of a I
stripe who advocate the overthrow ^
of every form of government which *
does not concede impossibilities.
London is the very hotln-d of these
men. They flock there from every
clime, and receive a warm welcome
from the fanatical theorists \vl o 1
abound there. The little cropping
out of the Keil element at the Ilyde
Park demonstration mav bt but
?i.~ ~?i ?i
nit: jncuursor ui uuier aim more j r
serious exhibitions. It is well i t
known tlint throughout Uiecapitals j I1
ot" Europe there exists combinations j1
of ineu-as daring and as reckless a$i 1
those who now fight behind the j(
baviieadet? nf Paris. Give them but i ^
an o{i|H?rtuuity to show their j j
stren?^t Ii, ai??l they will do it. View- j
ing the London demonstration in <j
this light, we do not wholly agree a
with the prcssi of Loudon in re- I j
yarding the democratic display in ' u
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uju iLugi.su cupiiui as 01 small r
account.?N. Y. Herald. t
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An Execution in Union. i
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Henry Cannon and Taylor Palmer, .
the two colored men sentenced to bo | |
hung last Friday, for the murder of 11
G M. Stevens, on the night of the j t
:31st day of December last, Buffered ! [
the penalty of the law as ordered by j t
the Court. They died without ma--' (
king any disclosures except that on i
the day of the murder it had been ar- ,
ranged by negroes in the village to : i
meet at or near the place where the ! (
murder was committed and go from I
there to Joncsville, about five miles j t
beyond, to fight the Ku Klux, and if u
they could not get a fight there they j f
were to cail on a respectable citizen f
who lives on the road and "take his ,
head off." The prisoners acknowl- ^
edged that they were In thn crowd r
who murdered Stevens, but persisted t
in raying they did not commit the ,
deed. They pretended to know none ^
who were present, except those who (
had been taken out of the jail by the r
disguised parties, and three who are ]
now at large. There? is no doubt they t
had been led to believe they would bo
pardoned at the scaffold; but. wh<jn |
lint? t Kn an/I I
tHV> oivj/pvu U|J\/|? tuv j/ium/1 III t*iivt I |
the sheriff commenced to adjust the t
rope around Palmei's neek, ull hope |
Vanished and he fell to the ground, j
The prisoners were attended upon b}T j
Golden Foster, a colored minister, j
Before "the rope was cut the minister ^
appealed to them not to die with a lie
upon" their mouths, but to reveal all
they knew; to which they replied,
"you know all." In a moment after
the drop fell, and the spirits of lienry
Cannon and Taylor Palmer were
sent from time to enernity.? Union \
Times. (
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The feat of enclosing 15.000 ordi- i
nary and 500 8vo pages of official d.is- i
patches in a small quill, and attaching 1
the latter to the tail feather of a pig- 1
: eon in an eh a manner as not to impede i
: the bird's flight, or to incommode it, i
and not to cause it to disembarrass
itself of its precimio burden, was ac- i
: cornplisiied in'Puria during the late i
seigc.- The result was not attained
by one effort; at first the dispatches i
were written by hand < n the thinnest <
paper known, next the manuscript
messages were photographed microscopically
on paper; thirdly, the dis
"iti? h\j in ij 1^1 at, uii;ii
reduced by photography, which showed
of greater diminution in sizo, and
afforded more legibility when enlarged.
Lastly, un important important
improvement was erteeted by Rending
the almost imperceptible message on
thin films of collodion. These films
1 were ten times thinner and lighter
than the paper already mentioned,
! on *l.nf i> iiitr<>nri WHst pnnliliwl in
nw viiav u * ^ w/ v-ciiij
un immensely increased budget without
any additional weight or volume
? in fact, With a diminution of both.
I The nystem was conceived and worked
out by M Steinacher, DirectorGeneral
of Telegraphy with* the aid
of MM. Boreswell, Blaise, and Lafuil^-e,
who were at Tours.
Queens of the Summer.
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BY CLIO 8TANLEY.
Queens of the garden are roses,
Bonny, and fragrant, and bright;
A red rose and white rose are shining,
"With splendor of dew-drnps alight;
Their cool leaves are kissing my eyelids,
Their color is soft on the brow:
I cannot grow dull or unthankful?
The roses are blossoming now!
Queens of the green houghs are birdlinga,
Hiding their wealth in a nest;
A.bove ine* about nie, they're flying,
Kiriiriiitr fliAir wn-pclpst Rlirt hMr
5ad hours grow fullest of comfort,
Blessings come back in a throng;
While under tiie green boughs reposing,
I liud the sweet meaning of song 1
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Jueens by the brookside are lilies,
Slender, and saintly, aiid white;
t Iwiiirrlif-. vi'liDM T uMitnhprl thnir nnfnIH.
There could be no bonnier sight;
t'etthe lilies?oh, strange contradiction!
Their giory grew dim in a day,
Yhen my darling, With tender grace
blooming . .
Came silently, walking that way!
^air queen of my summer is JessieJessie,
so tender ami sweet!
'lie meadow with melody ringeth
At sound of her twinkling feet;
?he sunshine of Love's in her presence?
It colors all shadowy things ; ,
Jefore her the moorland grows brighter,
Behind her the valley-land sings!
Sweeter than breath of the roses,
Bright as a bird on the wing?
>ure a? the sweet-scented lilies,
Awake at ihe dawning of spring;
:urer, and brighter and sweeter, - .
Is Jessie, the queen of nay heart; "
Lnd from her, come winter or summer,
I never?no, never will part!
A SINGULAR CRIMINAL
lie Murderous Philologist?He Petitions
for a New Trial.
A conlirbution to permanent crimilal
lite rut 11 re is famished in the petiion
just addressed by Edward II. Rula?
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im, now, vujniiiuiiiy ruimu me
learned murderer," toGoveinor Hoffn?n,
of New York, written Iron) the
ell wherein he is confined, under conviction
of murder in the first degree,
[ he inun himself in a permanent crimnal
curiositj*. He is of marked intelcclual
power, lying especially in the
lireetion of ucute, if not profound
inalyhis, und ingenious, if sometimes
>erveree, induction. Ilia utterances
ire characterized by t>kill und artistis
Inish. Ili.< linguistic attainments,
uo, are of the highest character in
joint of range and thoroughness
Jpon these he has constructed a the>ry
of the progression and perfection
ng of language which is subtilo and
nirenio.us It runs c ounter to the esablished
views upon comparative
)l?ilolog}r. He entcrta ne unaffectedy
an entire faith in the soundness and
i fierce zeal for at least its perpetuaion.
In prison he lias been visited
>y gentlemen of professional scientific
ittuinrneiitH, who have bee" uniformly
luzzled by the man's exhibition of in.elleetual
power and minute, various
ind special linguistic knowledge.
Professor Mather,of Aniberst College,
hus describes Rulloff's appearance:
"In jierhon this strange man in
ibout middle height, and of robust
)iiild, and is apparently verging on
i.ty year* of age. Be lias a singular
'.?Cu, not villainous or groasly sensual,
lor is it scholarly. The features are
itrongly ma'kcd and full of sinister
neariing In mannt-rs he is very ur>une
and natural, and he converses
,vith great facility and elega> ce. Bis
?oice is mellow and pleasant, and occasionally
showed tones of tendericss
But for all that. I do not beieve
the man has any tenderness save
or language." , ... , . . >m
A significant feature of this singoar
chumeter is the apparent absence
?t* what, is understood by the term
'moral sense," and ho has endeavored
;o solve the problem of life as a proessional
criminal. Accordingly we
ind him pursuing the calling of sys^cniatic
burglary for a number of
rears, during which, on several separite
occasions, he was overtaken oy
nisfortune in the shape of a legal conviction,
to which he has arison supe*ior
bj' ingeniously breaking jailraad
juccirtsfully maintaining a disguise
ivhich prevented recapture. He has
been suspected of compassing th<
Jeath of his wife, but the proofs justify
no more than the Scotch verdict of
not proven." Once moro he is now
M'itK O/l t i n t Ka <mica
SLJ'Uggll IJ? n HII V Wl OJ t J III bUV
>f u death sentence, after conviction
for murder, and once more his intellectual
nature stands him in stead, by
interposing the remarkable petition
ibove referred to.
Last summer Rulloff and two
others entered a store in which two
L-lerks named Myrick and Burrows,
were sleeping. 'I lie clerks awoke and
the burglars fled. One of them, however,
was struck down by Burrows,
Myrick following up the advantage.
1 he prostrate burglar cried cried for
... .i U.'otiiwv /./.mnunmna Vi*f llt*n
Ur^miilHUlT, mnn.u
ud, and five pistol shots were tired, by
dug of' which My rick was wounded
and died. The thr<*e burglars attempted
to swfm Chenango JRiver,
All had been wounded und two sank
i<nd were drowned. Rulloff reached
the opposite bank exhausted, was
identified captured and convicted.
He is under sentence to be hanged
May 18th. In his petition to the Governor
he tnnkes two points:
I. Ho wi 1' be able to show on
another trial that he did not fire the
fatal shot. It is shown that the
two burglars bad abandoned
tho commission of the larceny
before the fatal conflict. Tho violence
1 ' 4 " ..l.v..I.A 4/Mitn??/! tliain
KlJOWn o y U1U Cluruo iv/n?iu vnvii
orarade (he hold.-} was an unlawful
violence, and the fata! conflict Was an
attempt to suppress this unlawfalvioIcnce,
Under the statute, such malice
a? fixes the grade of murder in
the first degree cannot he presumed to
attach to a man who bad first abandoned
his unlawful purpose of larceny,
huu next returned to. tne spot omy to
suppress the unlawful violence of the
clerk?*, and, finally, had not himself
fired the fatal shot.
2. But the prisoner becomes more
earnest in enforcing his second point
?the value of his philologic discovery.
And herein be only urges that
o committee of qualified persons be
immediately appointed to investigate
the subject, to ascertain the value of
his dincnverv. and to take such Htens
as may be necessary it* preservation.
In itself it is of infinite interest. It
applies equally to the ancient Greek,.
Latin and 'Hebrew, Sanscrit, Arabic,
Celtic, French, German, Ehglish languages.
It carries us back to a time
in the history if the ancient Greek
when as yet the letter R was on-^
known. Should petitioner perish
without the means of perpetuating
his discovery, ages might elapse before
another p? rson would make such advances
in this particular line of inquiry
as to make this method accessible
for purposes of general education.
Petitioner sets forth a Bampleof what
he elaims to be h's discovery, and of
* L. iL ?.J iL.. ^2 it.n
uie uieinuu en tuc juiruuuvuuji ui tut;
letter R into the etcaeture of the
Greek language, tracing some of its
consequences with raro ingenuity..
Alter a review of the whole caso.
however, it appears to be fitly summed
up in the happy language of the Newark
Advertiser ?' "Philology be
hanged."
The Planet Mercnry on Time.
The sky and the atmosphere gave
the requisite condition# for the observation
of the planet Mercury on Sun- .
day evening, which having then reached
its greatest eastern elongation, was
visible for nearly two hours after snnset.
It was one of those rare evenings
which are the delight of astronomers.
when not a single fleecy cloud
obscured the sky, and not a breath of
vapor dimmed the vision. The cold
-J /Vttltt /I Mil Kanlr 4 /* i A
wiiiu was uic umj uian uati\ km iuc
perfection of meteorological condition^
Juat-aboutan hourafler sunset the
tiny star made its appearance in the
position indicated lbr the fiery little
planet. It wao directly in the sun's
path, but so faint and small that wo
could hardly believe it to be the glorious
orb for whose long-anticipated
sight we were willing, to watch the
whole evening. But as the twilight
waned tho tiny star grow in size and
ruddy light, until we knew from it&
soft glow that it must be the plane',
we sought, and that for the first time,
thongh we had looked for. it unsuccessfully
hundreds of times, we saw
the star so shy of showing itself to
mortal eyes.
A lovely pictaro of starlit plory
was spread out on the dark concave
of the sky; the growing orange twilight,
the peculiarly brilliant Mercury
the fascinating Venus, the silver crescent
moon, and the '-star of imperial
Jove" rising in celestial glory above
each other, with ''the red planet"
Mars mounting to the zenith in the
eastern sky, while they Batik slowly
to the west.
Later in the evening, after the twilight
glow had faded away, we had a
view of these planets through the
Professor's telescope M< rcury looked
like a ball of glowing fire; Venus
was intensely bright, reflecting every
TM?iumntii* hiiM vvitii I'pimwn nnH win
v -
let predominating; Mars resembled
Mercury, only larger and of a more
fiery red, and Jupiter was tbe most
charming telescopic object in the
heavens, with his soft light, his wonderful
belts plainly visible, and his
four moons glistening" liko diamond
points of light. The Moon also put
on a lovely aspect. The edge's were
clearly defined against the sky, and
the cusps of tbe crescent shone liko
stars reflecting their light on the unillumined
surface, the whole bod3' of
the Moon being distinctly seen as a
sphere of grayish white.
We had a third view of Mercury,
i iust before he sank beneath the hori
zon, when il was dark enough to bring
out the constellation of the Pleiades,
a lew degrees above him, the planet
making a beautiful pendant to the
glittering cluster.
Mer'-ury may?lill be 6een for two
or three evenings, but owing to his
rapid approach to the Sun he mnut be
looked for lower down towards the
horizon. After this his light will be
lost in the Inightnessof the great luminary
until parsing to the wost of
the Sun he will reach, on the 10th of
next June, his greatest western elonj
gution, when ho may again be seen
j about two hours before sunrise as
i morning star. ?A^. Y. Herald.
The Interior op the Earth.?A
writer in Soribner's Monthly says:
! We suppose that Professor David
! Forbes, of England, knows as mueh
! about the interior of the earth as auy
! inan living. In a !nte leeture he inj
sisted that all the objections brought
j by geology, mathematics or astrono'
my againwt the old theory that the
j earth is a molten mass surrounded by
I a crust about fifty miles thick, are
I quite untenable. He would have us
i believe, while the outer layer of inel
ted mutter, just below tho earth's
cruet, may be a kind of glassy slag,
: that not far below this layer, a salamander
bent on discovery would fiud
tho pure molten metals, of which the j
heaviest?gold, platinum, etc.?would
bo at tho earth a centro, \ ?ry .lKeiy
c
the mass of the earth is molten iron;
and this view is quite corroborated by
the fact that the broken fragments of
some disrupted world, which in the
form of aerolites, are continually JH1K
ing from the sky, are often metalic
iron. But what a tantalising thought
it is, that just under our feet are
countless tons of the precious metals,
nnlir umiiinir fli* .TriHn Whnrnflf f.n Int.
us &now the route by which bypassed
through to China*
useful morxmok *
How .to lay off a Square Acre^Qf
Ground?measure off 2u9 feet oa eaeh
side, and you will have a square acre,
within au inch. ,v t -f [ ({ /j if? off *j
Contents .of an Acre.?An acrecon-.
tains 4840 tquare rods... . . . ,
A square, uiile contains 640 acres.
Measures and distances? A >iuila is
4280 feet,-op 1860 yards ia length.-.. - ^
A fathom is bix t'eet.
A league is three miles.; t, , : Crf>
A Sabbath .day's journey is 1144
yards? tbis is eighteen- yards less
tuau two-thirds of a mile. , - ... .j
A day's journey is 33} miles. I
A cubit is two feot.
A band (horse-measure) is 4 inches.
A palm is 3 i'eet. r. y,
Barrel Measure?A barrel of flour
weighs 196 pounds. \..y
A barrel of pork, 200 pounds.? - .
A barrel of rice, 60i> pounds.
A keg of powder, 25 pounds,
A tirkin ot butter, 56 pounds.
A tub of butter, 84 pounds* ,H ; Bushel
Measure.?The following are
itnM hir *rp\tr\it. n?r lui^tml
'"IU J * ""? V J/V?, VMWUVI
Wheat, beans and clover seed, -60
pounds to tho bushel. .
Corn rye and flax seed, 66 pounds.
Buckwheat, 53 pounds.
Barley, 43 pouuds.
Ool?, 32 pounds.
Bran, 20 pounds* w.
Coarse salt, 85 pounds*
Various We ghts and Measures.?
? . c 1 1. -tj\ ? . ?r
A ion oi rouuu uiuuer w tew, vi
square limber, 54 cubic feet ; j
A commercial bale of cotton is 400
pound*. '
A peek of wool, 240 pounds.' '
A section of government land is
646 acres, or one mile..,,
A liquid ton is 252 gallons.
- A box 16 by 16$ inches and 8 inches
deep contains a bushel. -
Under the head of "Useful, Facta
for Grocers," the American Grocer
gives tbe following information : "
A sack of Liverpool salt should contain
224 pounds. '
A bushel oi Turk's Island salt-will
weigh from 70 to 75 pou rds.
A box of lemons will average a*>out
330 in number, a box of oranges from
200 to 250.
A case of preserved ginger contains
9 jtirs.
A-frail of dates weighs from 150 to
200 pounds*
A dram of figs, 2, 4, and 8 pounds
each..
A cask of prunes, 1300 to 1800
pound*, averaging about 1500 pounds.
A box of raisins contains 22pounds
net.
Currents como in casks of from 275
to 300 pounds. a
Citron comes in small boxei of
about 25 pounds eaob. Tare, two to
two and a half pounds. ' I
Peanuts are usually sent to market i
?*> fio?.|/o /.Mnfniriin/y oKAiit. 5 hiwKnla I
J IJ COVy UCj vviibtui i4,'& ui/vu V V vmvmwaw*
Dried applet and peaches come in
barrels, generally from 150 to 225
pounds. Blackberries
come in barrels. .
A quintal of tish is 112 pounds*.
Virginia peanuts weigh 22 pounds
to the bushel,. Wilmington do., 28
to 28 pounds. African do, 32pounds.
THE NEXT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
WHAT THE SOUTH ASKS.
The South has ho negro issue to
make in the coming election. All
her views are national and conservative.
We think we know the
temper and opiuions ;of her peopie
on that Question, and. at the risk
A ** ' T .
of a note of dissent from a few
extremists, we now take occasion
to embody them in the following
pr .-pcwitions, which, we believe,
will meet the cordial assent of
ninety-nine out of every hundred
democrats in the South.
First?We regard African slavery
as abolished, finally and forever.
Second?Equal civil right to
every class of American citizens
without distinction.
Third?While we hold that republican
government, to be wise
and safe, must rest upon the virtue
unci intelligence ot the people, and
view with serious apprehension the
incorporation of a large servile
class of unlettered peraous, wholly
unfitted by previous education,
habit or association, for an intelligent
use of the elective franchise
with the voting population of* the
Union; yet, as suffrage without
distinction of race, color, or previous.
condition, has become engrafted
upon all of the constitutions,
State as well as federal, we
accept the change as law, and, repu
dinting all responsibility therefor,
will give it a fair trial, leaving to
the fatnro to determine, by the
light of experience, whether a
continuance of the system ahajl or
shall not be safest and best for
the country. ~
These propositions, in our judgment,
embrace the views of the
great bocty of intelligent Southern
men on the negro question, and if
| the Jacobin leaders can make any
tning ny tnuing issue with tliem
they are welcome to the victory.
: .? -.'-?l i#!'JT - I:W '(IP'I'
.:t<- -scraps.
.. c ?.:> " '.?df f ??5?!
rf* Over, seventy Germai writer*)^"
al present engaged in laanuiVwjturli^Y,
war novels.
' The United States Goveriment expenses
for Anril ??ra tvuiva ^ - ?
half millions? " "loi.
<v A. .
The California Vintage for this ?eft*
eon is estimated at ten million gal-41
lontJ. ^'"*"" " ???
, .Over twohundred 'delegates^^)iSt
medical convention fro n the Eastern
States are in San Francisco.^ * . IS-"''
" TKli MlWAtt# TifrtnilaW'- ??
.??? ?.vvuj.w?vj5? rwi uvnu
the schooner Ada A.' AndwWs, from - ;
Alejwiciria .fqr, Boeton, wj^i ooij., >
Tho erew were 6*ve{l. .. , ., .
: ?'?! V3:. & U ?rif
The Beppblicftn exeoptlv#, copwniV i
tee of New. York City bas t adopted
resolutions against the annexation jdf
San Domingo. : Jii}l ::t3'L * ! ?'-f
' A dispatch from ^ff?<npt?is-?lafcii* a #
that a hail storm did fnuch1 damageni l> '
JNortb Alissiaaippi, Jloodagr-:!'^.r: pi v'i
W. W. Corcoran, th*Wasbfinikidnc;1
philanthropist, is better, and hopa?/<
are entertained of hiSireeovqrjv^ 01fn>
Deer Creek earned off tiifttrwstta?*
from the crevasse, saving; the rich ,
Deer Creek Valley of Bclivar an<t
Washington Counties, Mississippi. ' * '
^ General Spinner has been Treasurer., ,
of Che United' States for lo 'yeara>
.and" hat bandied in that? time th? 'r
very large an m of $50,000,000,OQOu. m;.>
The* ladies of tlie BuItanV ikraW
hold are reported to have read 93,00# h !
worth of French novels laet year. n;; f
The bpanreb government bsfl jofcJ
given oal a contract for
ington rifles, to be delivered as /soon .
?ooh as po6sibie, for 'shfpmeottb
Cuba. , . ' .<a q l\, \T.lUt
A man at Sairry/ Termont,
cased of having whipped bis dugSk
ter, a boat welre jeanpld, so: me%: ;
fy as to CMU80 her death, ^ ^
- The Washington, Chromclft gives t
currency to a rumor.that-Minister,
Cnrtin has tendered his regittnition
and will soon return from Rtnrtia.'v,fI f
Needles were first made in' England''
by a Spanish negro'-io-tb^ reign of ;
klury. ;jQit hit) deaths bu art was Jott .
nnlil 1566. when JBlias Groroao, aGer.iJ
- ..... . ' u
man, re-discovered th?u same. * ,
. JlfiiT ' no ffO:.: <ii _!?>*!?> ?
The fonr richest men in Virginia ..
are William T. Soatberiin, of .Dan* '
ville; James Thomas, of Richmond,1'
Joseph Anderson; of : Richmdnd,> andFranklin
St?arns,of. Richmond., _T.;, ,
An Illinois undertaker advertiMi ?
that he keeps on hand ' an ^leg*H&
stock of neat and nobby 'shrouds, !
warranted "to give satisfaction to thft
most particular. ifF %' {
James Tyson, now living near tfcr
A A _l_ 1 !_ ' I, ? ? .. ?
a.r?, Arit., ciairns la nave iongnr if*
sixty battles and' skirmishes on" tb?
bide of the rebellion, and to have' rwi;
ceived more tl^ii) forty wounds
is still able to manage a small farm. 4>;;
Cashmere dresses, colored arid7
b1ack> are worn this spring over-Bilk'
dresses, end are elaborately' embrold*
ered or braided and edged with lao&
The sack is cut ap at the sides awj'
back, and with very loag sieves,. Abo
trimmed with lace. / . <-v*;;
The cotton merchants at Htm
after long deliberation, have resolved
on adopting in the^lassiflcation ofcotton
the designations employed in 1
in America and Liverpool, instead, of
the French ones heretofore employed*
A . ?L.l *l>?(-i- ? -J? '
a j'UUiig Itiau ouyo bu?l mew Bay
have been Mich a thing &s real -trttfr
love in old times, bat now the notioa
is entirety obsolete, and if yoo aak .* :
lady now-a-daya to 6harevyo?ur lot,
she immediately wants to; know hot* j
large that "lot" is.
Frederick Kapp, one of the po?ftK
cal refugees from Prussia of 184%.
was lecoived by Emperor William, at
the palace in Berlin, with tho greatest
cordiality;, as the representative of
the Germans of America. -> , '
,'i M .. . V.! . . ...?
o l?o* O 1
JUTm* 4Ug ? ov* uivu )?oir
Plymouth Church, on 'Ages to Come/
Rev. llenry Ward Beectrer indignantly
scouted, the theory ol the teaurrection
of the body.
In consequence of the great consumption
of perfumes by Americas
soap manufacturers, it is now found
profitable to go into the coltivatiooof
some of the vegetables, especially
winter-green, peppermint and berga*
mot. i
I GlfI1C U- ' V > ^
Eugene Webb, in Agricultural Park
at Sacramento. Cal., yesterday, rode
one hundred miles on horseback in
four houra and thirty-four minutes.
Ho agreed to perform the feat in fbnr
hours and forty minutes for a purse
of $1,000.
On Thursday evening at 6 05 Sam
Collyer, the well-known light-weight,
| left Richmond on foot for Petersburg
; on a wager of $200 that he could
reach it in three hours and fifteen
minutes. Ho arrived at 9.15?five
minutes wilhin time?winning tho
mniinir
r?
Mrs. Fair, tho deliberate slayer of
a Mr. Crittenden, of San Francisco,
i will not be sentenced until the 29th of
1 May, her counsel desiring a month'*
I time in which to prepare his motion
j for a new trial. IJe makes only forty
; exeeptions to the rulings of the court
, during the trial. The verdict in the
: case of Mrs. Fair is generally approv.
! ed by the press of California, and, we
may add, by the press of the - whole
country.