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The Beaufort ^g? Republican. . . ,i?" ? AN INDEPENDENT FAMTLY NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLTTICS, LITERATURE, AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. OUR MOTTO IS-TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR. ' " " ' ' ' " " " . ' 1 1 ' ? ? ' JOE. III. NO. 8. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1872. {$2tfgrA?S3Z I t Unasked. ti White as the enow is the garment I'm making; P Fleecy and filmy, and foamy, and fine, si And every stitch that my needle ia taking *? Pierces and tortures this sad heart of mine, a] There fs mirth and music to-day in the palace? ^ To-morrow the bells will be ringing with S( W glee; JJ And robed in this garment, the fair Lady Alice Will wed with Duke Harold. Ah,woe is me ! f1 n Is It not strange tbat the tender young bloe- h som, % Wakens to life 'neath the Spring's balmy 01 skies; ' Is it, then, strange if, witbin the maid's bosom, Love wakes unmasked in the light of dark ^ eyes ? 31 He was as far as the heavens above me, King of my castle and knight of my dreams ; ^ I never thought?never hoped he could love me, q Yet I'm sewing my heart piece by piece in w these seams. Sitting and sewing through long 8ummer d hours, sj Here at my window I watched him pass by; Sometimes he'd toes me a bouquet of flowers, ^ With a kind, pleasant glance from his bonny 11 black eye ; n Sometime he'd bring me a bundle of sewing, And lean in the window a moment and r< st; t Then off to the hunt, or tho chase, little know _ o b The lovo and the passion that raged in my breast. t( I kept each bud, like tho gift of a lover, w I keep them still, they are dearer than gold; h I lived our moments of meeting all over h Again and again, and they never wero old, A To-morrow the bells all will ring for his marnage, S1 I pray the skies may hold never a cloud ; He will pass by with his bride in the carriage? e: Would God this robe were my burial 6hroud. * U ___ -( BEAUTY AND THE BABBEB. s< si I had just finished putting up my shut- jJ ters; it was gettirg rather late?nearly s< ten o'clock?for I'd had a hard day's d work of it; and no wonder, for it was the ^ night of tho lord-lieutenant's ball. We ^ think a good deal of the lord-lieutenant t( down in Yorkshire; and when wc get up h a bit in the world, and get asked to his h ^ lordship's ball, we think a deal of our- ^ selves; and my word! some folks are a ,( bit^ proud. Yes; that very day I had dressed the Misses Milhkin's hair for the vv ball?pretty early, mind you, for I 1,0 S( wouldn't put my old customers out of the ^ way for any of your upstart people, seeing ^ as I've dressed the hair of all the first g families in Lydford, and my father before me, whereof no man knoweth to the contrarv, as the lawyers say. Now MiHikin a] has drawn me many a gill of ale in the w days when he kept the tap up Newsman's Yard, and has borrowed many a sixpence ot me too?not but what he was welcome g( to them, as I told his lordship when he tl came to ask me for my vote for the town si council. But that's neither here nor a. 91 there. It isn't Millikin and such-like as v I trouble to tell a story about. It was ^ passed nine, as I told you, and 1 was putting up the shutters pretty smart, not being a thing I often do myself, but it so happened that night; and in another J} minute I should have been off to the ^ White Horse to meet one or two gold fellows who were in the habit of having a ]g glass or two together of a night; but as 1 was screwing up the bar of the ^huttersf jj what should I see drawing up to my door & but a splendid carnage and two beautiful ^ horses, all of a lather with sweat! Well, g that put me about a bit, to think what a j carriage should be doing at my door at this time of night; but I hadn't long to r, wonder, for a grave, tall, solemn-looking chap comes up to my door and calls out, ' 4< Is Creecher here ?" [j 44 That's me," says I. u 44 Oh, then," says he4 44jump iu," point- j ing with his finger to me to get up the steps of the carriage, where tliero was a t, tall flunky holding ihe door open for me. p Well, that capped me still more. I had heard of things like it in the " 'Rabian ^ Nights," where they seem to think a deal more of ns barber chaps than they do in jj this country. But then this is a land ot w freedom. Well, as I were saying, this j, t'other chap kept motioning of me to get t] into the carriage, but says I, " Master, a where are you bound?" t] " Oh, never you mind," says he; you'll h be well paid. Look sharp." " But I'd like to beautify myself a bit," ? says I, "and I rnun tell the missis." u With that he took up my hat, that was ^ lying on the counter, and bangs it on my bead, and pushes me into the carriage, t, and away we went before you could say a "Jack Robinson."?and away we went. Eh, but we di(Lgo rarely! It were a dark e night, and frosty ; andjwc soon got out of j| the lights of the town, and still the horses galloped cn, and I could see the stars a twinkling overhead; and then it grew colder all of a sudden, and the windows c of the carriage were covered with ice in v a minute, and I could see naught but the t, iDside, where I were sitting with the \\ strange man. And he said never a word. a But still we galloped on; and after a good bit I heard the murmur and dash of a a river hard by above the clatter of the hoofs, and we crossed a bridge, I think. ? for we went np and down for a minute as if we bad been in a swing. And then the s sound of hoofs died away altogether, as if! a ".a nvor crOY tnrf Ar (rrorol* I l W V <uiw VI v?tu^ v? V* UV4W tuu V* U VI, ? and presently the carriage stopped all of i a sudden. A footman stood at the door; v ^ the silent man jumped out. ' Stay there!" <] he cried as he went, "with a gesture of au- c thority?"stay there!" And there I ^ staid, tor I were cowed like with being carried off like that, and didn't know if ^ my soul were my own. "What '11 the t old woman say, though ?" I thought to v myself. The carriage moved 011 a bit, c and stopped again. * t "Now, then, my lad!" says the foot- j man, opening the door. ^ . But I weren't geing to be ordered about \ by such cattle as he. Says I, " I'm on p ^ thy master's business, and if thou doesn't 1 speak respectful, I'll smite thee in the ear- r hole." It's well to stand on your dignity s with those chaps, vou see. f " Oh, I beg your pardon," says the s man, more respectful; "but will you 1 step into the house-keeper's room ?" t And with that I fell off the high horse j 1 1 had been riding for, the i t nth, I were thinking for a while I were a erhaps rightful son of a lord as had been I ;olen in his youth, and that they were fj iken me home to the halls of my fathers, b ad happen were going to marry me to s le daughter ol the usurper to make all t: piare. But says I, "I'll stick to the old fi oraan." Not but what the flesh is eacherous, and happen I'd changed my v lind when I'd seen the young one. But, a owever, all that was knocked on the c ead when I heard the [flunky tell me to u o up to the housekeeper's room. It were nly a dressing job, after all! 8; Well, before I'd got well inside the g oor, an old chap dressed in black catches g old of me by the elbow. " Creccher ?" ? lys he; "Creecher ?" d "Yes, I'm Creecher," says I. "What's b our pleasure?" ^ "Oh, you've to come this way d'rectly." ? And away we went along passages, and ^ p stairs and down stairs, and presently a e came to a broad corridor beautifully d irpeted, and the old man tapped at a S( oor, and a young woman opened it, and lys she, "Is he here?" and the man says q Yes." " Come in," she said; " my lady i, "ill speak to you directly." And I went ? lto a little room as was beautifully fur- 8; ished with easy chairs and sofeys, and g 11 the luxuries of the season. h "Well, ray dear," says I to the maid, gj and so your missis is going to the ball. a ut it '11 be well-nigh time to go home v efore she gets there." h "Hush!" she says, putting her finger n - T vva/?an f a fViinlr if ) Iier ilps; nuu lucu JL ue^au n/ tuma u g, 'as a death job as I had got on hand. I'd ^ ad such jobs afore now, when the corpse y as been young, and with beautiful hair. f( di, and many a time my fingers itched, >r, says I to myself, it's a pity such a ight of beautiful hair should go down to le worms, when it might be g*ing on ' joying itself atop of some other young 1 Oman's head?eh, and I could tell you a ile or two about that. But it wasn't a >b of that kind, I found, as I neard P jmebody moving in the next room, and a leh a soft little moan, as it went to my " eart to hear it?ay, lad. And then 8 jmebody came out?a tall, splendid lady, a ressed in black satin, as haughty as a 1 ueen. " Creecher," she says?"are you Cree- \ her ? Don't speak, but listen to what I A dl you. A lady has had an accident? as been severely burned. J Remedies a avo been applied?plasters, what not. 11 [er hair?" " I understand, my lady; yon want me c ) take it off. I'll do it in a jiffy, if you'll a snd me one of his lordship's razors, for I j as that hurried when I came away I tft mine behind me. I've got my scis- ? )rs and comb, my lady," says T, pulling lem out, ".because as good luck would f ave it, I'd just cut a chap's hair as was ji oing to fight next?" h " Silence!" she says, ' Creecher!" look- 8 ig at me quite disgusted; and beckoning 8 le girl, she says, " Take the fire-shovel d throw those things ago." But I n asn't going to loose a good set of tools, 8 ) I claps 'em into my pocket, and but>ns up my coat, and says I, " Now, your 8 idyship." And she says, "Araelie, throw xnething over the wretch." And with lat Arnelie brought a white gown with c eeves, as smelt as beautiful as a nosegay, nd she wrap3 me up in it, and I caught 8 ght of myself in the glass, and thinks I, ^ ou might take me for some parson when P a'a onjta of fV>n cAvon onmmanHments. 1' " Now," she says, "Creecher, hold your >ngue, and listen to me. Whatever hap- * eDS, she must not lose her hair; you un- * erstand, it must be saved at all hazards. ^ fow come and do your duty." Eh, but it were pitiful to see the poor issie, half sitting, half lying, in a thing 0 tween an easy-chair and a couch. All a er face was covered over but her eyes, E nd they seemed to burn. Such sad. pitill eyes I never saw before or since, he'd had beautiful long hair that came v own to her knees a'most; but eh, it were a i a tangle, all knotted and twisted and t iveled together with the messes and L oultices and all kinds ot things they'd 1 ut on her head. No, there wasn't a t jread of it any where that wasn't bound t p and twisted. Well, I looked at it, and shook my head. j " My lady," says I, "It would take me 1 ivelve hours' hard work, without stop- <3 ing, to untwist all that hair." " Well, then." she says to me, " why 1 on *t you begin ?" v "But," says I, "your ladyship, do you now what twelve hours is, sitting up i 'ith a man palling away at your taDgled r airs? Why, my lady," says I, "I don't 1 jink as I could stand the job. as am hale c nd well; and as for the poor young lady t liere, why, bless your heart, it would kill er." ' But her ladyship took no notice of me. Well," she says to the young lassie, ; you hear what he says: are you ready to * egiu ?" 1 And the lassie gave a little sigh, a eart-rending little sigh, and she says, in i feeble little voice, " Go on." t " But," says I?tor I wanted to have an . xcuse to be off the job?" I wouldn't do ; under a hundred pounds." " Oh," says she, " then you"shall^have t hundred guineas." i That was a temptation, mind you, to a . hap as wasn't much before hand in the rorld, and hadn't ever had so much as J en pounds in his pocket at once in all his ? ife. But I was sorry I took the job, after j 11. * t " 1 raun have my supper," I says, "first, . ,nd think about it." " King, Amelie," she says to the maid, 1 1 ami order nn a trav." < And a bang-up supper I had in the little ] itting-roora : a chicken and Champagne, | ( ,nd what thej call a cure-or-so, out of a irown jug ; but I didn't think much 'o ] hat, and I'd sooner call it kill-or-so, if I ] vere were giving it a name: for eh! it \ lid make my head sing above a bit, and I ? mly took about a gill of it, to see what it ! vere like. Well, when I'd done my supper I were 1 aken into the young lady's room, and 11 j >egan the job. I took it up bit by bit, j vashed .it in spirits of wine, combed it ut hair by hair, and so I went on hour J >v hour. There wns naught for it but >atiencc and hard work. She seemed to loze a bit, poor lass, ever and again; but 1 vork as gently as I would, it must have \ :iven her a deal of pain. She'd sigh a ittle now and then, and give a little soft noan sometimes ; but eh! she bore it all, 1 ill her weariness and pain, for all the suf- i ering and trouble that were in her eyes? 1 die bore it like an angel from heaven. ( rhe old woman sat beside us for an hour, ill ghe got so sleepy that she couldn't :eep her eyes open, and thea she beckons nd she goes off to her comfortable bed suppose; and bv-and-by the maid goei ast asleep, and everything seemed asleej nt me and the lassie. There wasn't 1 ound bnt the wind soughing among th< rees outside, and the murmur of the rivei ailing over the weir. "Well, the job went on, and still as i rent on the lassie seemed to grow weakei nd weaker, and then h big awful feai ame into my throat. She was dyinj mder my hands. Conscience says to me, "Joshua!" sayi he, "you're killing that nice fine younj al, you're killing her for a huodrec uineas."?" Hold thy tongue," I says It's no such thing. It's her mother'i oing, says I.?" If she be her motho', hei reasts are as hard as adamant." But 1 rere no use. Conscience has at me again Joshua!" she says, "it's you who an illing the poor lassie. If your were no' t the job, they could get nobody else t< o it. Joshua! throw thy comb anc cissors into the fire." " A'm domraed if I don't, too!" says I uite sudden like, and I pitches my thingi lto the fire-place with a clatter as ] hought'd wake up the maid; but sh< lept too sound. " There goes a hundret uineas," says I. But now you shoulc a' seen the look that crept over the las ie'a face when she saw what I wen bout. Her great eyes softened and fillet rith tears, and she put h^r little whit< land out of the wraps, aud I took it ii line, aud says I: "My dear, do you can o much about your hair that you'd lost tie beautiful life God Almighty's givei ou, and the sweet bright days that ma; >'low ?" "Oh," but she says, "mother!" "Mother be !" Eh, I'm feared 1 aid a bad word there. u Do you care ?' ays I, ay, just like that?" Do you care?' ays I. And she shook her head. Well, 1 icked up my scissors again, and in a jiff; 11 the beautiful hair was lying on th< oor; and the poor head wa9 dressed witl oft dressing, and I'd waked the maid nd had her misses put to bed, right am ight, and then I gives her a kiss, yes, ? I did. I, Joshua Creecher, kisse< he Lady Felicia Felixstowe, and I says rod bless her, as if I'd been her father ind she called me as I was going away nd says she in a little whisper, "I've go 10 money; take the hair." The maid let me out by the back 6tair ase, without anybody hearing us; am way I went right over hill and dale, a ired and as happy as a man could be lut I were sorry about the hundre< ;uiueas too. Well, it were about six months afte hat, a tall, nice-looking young chap cam nto my shop, and says he, "Creecher iave you got a nice plait of hair, rea olden hair, as you could sell a lady as i oing to court?" So, says I, "Well, no;" for I neve aeant to sell the hair as the young lad; ave me, never ! "Well, but," says he, "you haven' old it, have you?" " What business is it of yours?" says I " My dear," says he running out to th< arriage, " it's gone I" "Oh, Creecher, how could you!" shi ays, looking out of the window a littl at put out, but so sweet, too, bless he iretty face! Ay, it were Lady Felici; ierself, as bonny as a fairy ! " Why, your ladyship!" says I. "Well 'm pleased to see you. Bless yon ! I'v :ept your hair for you, my dear; and I'v !one it all up in the most beautiful way -Come in, my lord," says I. "Oh, I'm not a lord," says ho ; " I'n >nly plain Jack Thompson of the Holt;' nd says he, "Creecher, I owe her to you ay boy." " Why, how's that ?" says I. Says he: "The Dook of Dovercour rere wild to have her, and they say ho'? ,sked Lord Cromer, her father, for he he very night she was burned; but w he: le heard 6he'd lost her hair, and wa ikely to be disfigured, he cried off, els hey'd have forced her right into it; bu hen I stepped in and carried her away. 'Ah,*' says I, "and much joy I wis -ou, Colonel Thompson," says I; "an lope you'll accept this hair, Sir, as a wed ling present.' "All right!" he says, " Creecher;" bu le left a bit of paper on my counter. I vas a check for a hundred guineas. So I didn't lose by the job, after al Vnd the carriage coines for me every tori light to take me to the Holt to do th rnir of the young people there ; but the :ome so fast that I say that they'll ovei naster me Butter Making in South America correspondent of The Methodist, wrii Dg from Brazil, says: "In Sout America there are font native modes c nakiug butter. The first is, puttin ihe milk in a common bowl, and beatin t with a spoon as you would an eg< rhe second, pouring the milk in a bo ;le, and shaking it until the butter a[ jears, which is extracted by cracking o he top of the bottle. Bottles are valu< ess in this part of South America, o iccount of the number imported wit rruits and liquors. The third, whei io mAi?a nrr\ftr>eivn ia liflvfnr ,Ut UU?iJ AO aiViW VA|/VU41TVJ *.*? |/VA<V4iUV. jy filling a hide with the milk, which : lustily shaken by an athletic native, t jach end. The fourth, by dragging th hide after a galloping horse, until it : supposed the butter is formed. Th nilk is never strained and the buttc never washed. I am speaking of the n; tive mode. Of late years, English an Jeotch people have introduced a fe Yankee churns. The greater part of tl butter used in the cities is importe horn Ireland, France or Germany, will thousands of cows graze on the va pampas in South America. Mrs Fair doesn't appear to value h< Life very h'ghly after all the troub that was taken to save it and the scand npon the administration of law that wi caused by her continuing to live. SI agreed to pay her counsel $2,500 at tl bccinning and the same amount at tl end of each of her trials. Having pa the first instalment she repudiates tl rest of the contract and declares th she has paid all that the services we worth, C ? Influence of Marriage upon Health, * M. Bertillon, lately had to draw up a x paper for the Academy of Medicine of ^ 3 Pans on the influence of marriage on ^ r mortality, consulted the registers of the * t only three countries in Europe which v r were carefully enough kept to give him T r a reply to his question?those of France, 8 T Belgium, and Holland, He shows that c if the male sex bo first considered, we c 3 find that, from 25 to 30, 1,000 married v j men furnish 6 deaths; 1,000 unmarried, 3 10 deaths ; and 1,000 widowers, 22 a deaths. From 30 to 35, of 1,000 married r men, 7 die; of 1,000 unmarried men, Hi ^ t die; and of 1,000 widowers, 16 die. 1 3 From 35 to 40, of 1,000 married men, <t 7i die; of 1.000 bachelors, 13 die; and of ^ > 1,000 widowers, 47i die; and so on at c * all the following ages, married men con- r tinuing to live with greater facility than ' j the bachelor. It has been said that 1 [ since only the most fortunate men can 1 ; afford to marry, it is not astonishing 8 j that these persons should five longer. * . But this will not, of course, account for 3 the very great mortality of widowers at * * all ages, which, indeed, surpasses that 1 j even of bachelors. 3 3 However, it must bo noticed that 8,000 T 3 young men marry in France yearly, un- ^ 1 der the age of 20. This is very fatal to 7 such young men, for M. Bertillon finds ( that whilst'1,000 young men from 15 to 1 [ 20 furnish 7 deaths, when unmarried, no ' less than fifty deaths occur among 1,000 young married men under 20. Women seem to reap less advantage from marri\ age than men, and there is hut little 3 difference in the mortality of unmarried i and married women before the age of 25. , It is but little marked even between 25 * and 30. 7 1 Our Enormous Crop of Provision!. ; The New York HulUlin. in an article , on our exports of provisions to foreign t countries, discloses several important facts. One is, that during the past I twelve months there has been a great ins crease in every item except beef, butter i. and cheese. Tho falling on two of these 1 items, we are told, is due to special causes: Under the stimulus of the Francoe e , Prussian war the export of beef was car1 ried to enormous proportions in the 8 early part of 1870, and tho foreign markets became so overloaded that the r y export movement was for a time checked It ha.s been resumed within the past three t months with great activity, but at veiy low prices. The falling off in the cxg port of cheese is due to the firmness with which prices have been maintained e in this market for the present season. e Last year prices were forced down very ^ low, and an euormou3 export took place, and when our markets were thoroughly j I, cleared a smart advance took place in ] e Liverpool, and the prices for prime fac- j 0 tory cheese rose in this market from 11 i to 20 cents per lb. The export of | i butter is so small as to be insignificant, , but that of tallow represents very fairly ^ ? the increase in our products of neat , cattle. ' t In the shipment of hog products, there , il has been an enormous increase. The j r estimate runs as high as 5,000,000 hogs ] 11 for the past two years. To the higher , e wages and better general prosperity of ] I the laboring classes in Europe, as well ( as the low prices in our markets, the ^ Bulletin thinks, the great export of pro- ( visions is largely due?and, unless some ] epidemic should afflict the live stock of , ;t the country, the supply promises to be t fully maintained, not only of pork, lard, , I bacon, etc., but of beef, cheese, and . other products of neat cattle. The bay e crop was large, the pasturage has been I excellent for many months, and the corn crop probably exceeds all precedent. A Horrible Crime. ? The grand daughter of Sylvester Dey, residing 25 t- miles distant from Concord, N. II., h mysteriously disappeared. All efforts >f to ascertain a cause for her voluntary g absence were unavailing, as were also all g efforts to discover her whereabouts. Tu 5 a day or two circumstances transpired t- to lead to the belief that she had been )- murdered, and an old man named Frankff lin B. Evans was suspected as the mur? derer. The old fellow finally confessed n that be enticed tho young woman into h the woods, and after outraging her com o mitted the further crime of murder, d Having admitted his guilt he went with is tho officer into the woods and pointed it out tho exact spot where the murdered ie t girl's remains were buried. They were is concealed beneath an old stump, some ie brush and just sufficient earth to hide sr them from the view of a passer-by. i- The body was most horribly mutilated, d and there was every evidence that the W nonr fir! mnrfA n flpRr?^r?ifo strnnrrr'n fr.* I'"- O ~ AW A. ie chastity and life. The remains were ;d brought into the town and placed in 'e a village store, whero they were st viewed by the excited citizens and the grief-stricken parents, and then handed over to a Coroner, who immediately ?r commenced an investigation. Themur? 0 derer is about CO years of age, and a a most repulsive-looking man in every 33 particular. He has been a sort of an 10 itinerant beggar for years, but was never 10 regarded as a dangerous person, ie id 3? le It iz a great deal easier tew be a at philosopher after a man haz had hii re dinner, than it iz when he don't know where he iz agoing tew get it. i i ? Tkirty Years la Prison, Some thirty years ago one Thomas Thorn was convicted of murder, sen- , enced to death, and to hard labor in i he State Prison at Thomaston, Maine, 1 intil the time of his execution. A few , reeks ago he waa pardoned. Daring & ( hort interview with Mr. Rice, the war- , len of the Maine State Prison, we were ' urious to find how he was impressed ; nth the outside world after having been ; hut up from it for nearly a whole gen- i nation. ' ] Mr. Rice says that although a man of ifty, he wa3 really in character and j naturity of mind only a boy of fifteen. J )n his release the warden took him from , Thomaston to Rockland, a distance of >nly four miles, in a buggy. As Thorn j ode along his first impressions were j hat the distance between the two places : ras immense, and that the time occupied , n the journey was very long. What to ; m every-day traveler would seem but a ew rods, appeared to him miles. Oil reaching Rockland he stood up in lie buggy and looked around in amazenent. Before his imprisonment, thirty ( rears ago, he had kn?wn it as a little rillage. He now saw it a city. "Is this , dockland?" said he, in his bewilderment; 'Why, it looks just like New York." When a boy he had been to New York n a coaster.) The citizens of Rockland made him up i purse of fifty dollars, and in his childike glee he was telling everybody of his jood fortune. Seeing his imprudence ind that there were those round that night relieve him of his treasure, Mr. Rice warned him that ho should say lothing about his money as there were hieves and pickpockets in the world low. "Oh, don't you be afraid, Mr. Rice," exclaimed the ex-prisoner; "I've :raveled; I know a thing or two about ;lie world. See here, I've get money lid in this back pocket under my coat. Nobody would ever think of looking here for it." Thus he had unconsciousy informed the bystanders, against whom die warden's wife was cautioning hiin, ust where his money was. It was Thorn's purpose to go toWliitciall, N. Y., where he had two nieces residing who were born ?fterhi3 imprisonment. Of late years they have corresponded with him, and have kindly olTer?d him a home with them. On parting tvith Mr. Rice, to whom he was greatly ittached, he promised that lie would write him, and let him know how be was getting on out in the world. Mr. Rice accordingly expects to hear from lim soon.?Banqor Commercial. The Hell Gate Tunnels. The work that is expected to culminate .1 lliA TAiMnr il r\ t flio fit U IUU IVlUVItU \J A VUV V/MS^V* ?. EIellG.ite. is now progressing favorably, diough some additional appropriation jy Congress may be necessary to facilitate its completion. About one-half the tvork has been accomplished, and at the present rate ot progress not more than a pear's additional time will be require!. The main tunnels number sixteen. In lddition to these are five galleries or intersecting tunnels already completed, leaving the roek above, which has au average thickness of about ten feet, resting upon solid columns. Several of these columns have already boon pierced f?r the reception of nitre-glycerine, with which it is intended to burst them asunder at the final explosion. The average length of the tunnels is about 170 rect. Blasting is now done entirely with nitro-glycerine. This powerful agent breaks the rock into small pieces, rendering the use of the hammer unnecessary. At least two tons of rock are thus loosened at every blast. The work is under the superintendence of Mr. G. C. Reithemer, who has had charge of similar operations in Europe. After the excavations shall have been completed the columns will be charged with nitro-glycerine cartridges, and as it is easier to raise a weight uuder water than above it, the cofferdam will be cut, and the shaft, (which is thirty-four feet deep,) will bo flooded, Tho electric current will thon be turned on by the superintendent, and the dangers of Hell Gate, it is confidently believed, will be among the things of the past. Should the explosion fail, or should it not take place at all, it is some satisfaction to know that the largest vessels will be ablo to pass through whero the shaft is situated after tho coffer dam shall have been removed. Tub Vintage of Medoc.?Tho Vintage of Medoc, France, was not as full this year as the previous ones for a few seasons, nor as rich in quality. The grapes were late in maturing and consequently the operations of picking and pressing them had to be hurried in order to prevent them from spoiling. The vintage of Burgmndy and Medoc sells this year for francs, when in former times it sold for syus. The vines have been blighted in exposed places by the cold northeast winds, and some vineyards have the appearance of having been scourged by lightning, being streaked in irregular, zigzag lines with withered vines. The vintage season is a joyous one; it is emphatically the merrymaking season in the rural districts. After the grapes are gathered and pressed, the laboreis in each vineyard are gathered together for a repast, and afterward give themselves up to all sorts of innocont festivities, which sometimes i last for several days. ManOMMnao Apples in the West. Few people have any idea of the araouut of money invested in the applo w trade by the fruit merchants of this city. The figures given below are as nearly oorrect as it is possible to get them, ^ owing to the fluctuation in the market, h, &c. The greater part of the apples brought to this market ore grown in b< Michigan, although a part have been ,w received from Indiana. Since the sea- in son opened 33,500 barrels have been received, of which only 4,500 barrels w SO were from Ohio, the remainder coming from Michigan, excepting, perhaps, 1,? 500 grown in Indiana. The average ^ cost to the dealer has been $2 per bar- tc rcl, making a total of $67,000 that has g: already been used this season, in this *c w important trade. At present there is not a largo supply on hand here, and one of our leading dealers reports that j] ho has orders for 500 barrels, which he m has on hand, but is afraid to deliver, as g< it is almost impossible to get them from ir Michigan owing to the effect that the horse epizootic has had upon the means w of transporting them from the orchards ^ to the docks. This will probably be only a temporary lull in the market and tl will hardly affect the price. At present dealers are selling in car lots at $2 25 & for choice, making a profit of 25 to 50 si cents per barrel to pay them for hand- C1 ling. Thi3, to the coDSumer, may look ^ like a large profit to the dealer, but when we take into consideration the fact that ^ the loss by decay and other causes is h considerable, and also figure the interest lc on the money invested, they make but 8 a fair commission. Wisconsin apples are scarce, being so wormy this year that they are compara- p tirely worthless and win not pay for p handling. In Ohio, apples may be pur- tl chased at marvellously low prices, the " barrel being worth nearly as much as ^ the contents. It can bo safely said that before the ^ season closes ?250,0G0 will have been ^ paid out by the consumers and buyers il of Milwaukee, for this important item? ^ apples.?Milwaukee Neics. ^ Oil Proiuceri' Unitn. e The producers have got up a union * among themselves, and have agreed on ^ the basis of a co-operative plan for man. c aging their business. They have got t along for ten years and more without ^ any concert of action until very recently in respect to the control of development and the regulation of prices. They have * suffered accordingly from ignorance of ^ their real condition, of .their real v stength, at the hands of adverse combi- ? nations and speculators, and from rail- ? roads at one time, from refiners at another, now from this monopoly, and thou from another still, and again from their ^ own disregard of the law of supply and j demand,either accidental or intentional, t they now hope to remedy these evils and t grasp the wholo question by the wisdom * of united counsels and united effort. ^ The scheme proposed is, taken together, a very large one; the control of so ^ vast a product, aggregating in its com- f( mercial value over twenty-five millions a of dollars annually. The experiment is ? new and untried. Some of its features ^ are probably good and expedient, and tl should be adopted even if nothing else o was attempted. The chief financial part a of the scheme has, in our judgement, more difficulties, but it is to be hoped c that these can be modified and mado to c accord with sound business principles. '1 The importance of unity among the pro- a ducers as a class cannot be overiated, 11 y and the desirableness of securing the ap- ^ proval and support of all business classes j t' must be apparent to ti[\.?Tttu$vi!le ller- j all | C D Sailing Through Mid-air. I In Salt Lake lives a young lady who a is seemingly delicate, bur although petite a in form and figure, is abundantly on- jj dowed with nerve and energy. Fond to c a passion of the grand 111 nature, she 1 has scaled on foot the highest peaks of: 1 the Cottonwoods, and explore 1 the cav-1 T ernous recesses of the deepest mines, t We have known her, on several occn- 1 1 f sions, when prospecting on foot, with j staff in band, the tall peaks of the Wa- t satch, to compel her male escort to first cry halt. Our fair prospectress being at j Alta a day or two since, saw for the first i time in operation the wire suspension t tramway just completed by the Yallejo c Company, and her masculine escort pro- a po;ed to her, in jest, to take a ride up ( the wire cable to the imno. t She promptly accepted the invitation, t when our male friend, growing a littlo I nervous, suggested difficulties in the 1 way of the trip, but failed to dissuade i her from attempting it. The tramway i is 2,380 feet long, rises at an anglo of 1 twenty degrees, and the cable is sus- t - - * ?--l t.:_u i pended on stancmons lony leeu twgu. i There were no other carriages than ore j buckets, and in one of these, which are i suspended six feet below the cable, our 1 heroine, undaunted and alone, took the i passage and made the ascent without mishap or serious inconvenience, although the swaying of the wire between the stanchions is calculated to create the sensation of seasickness. Quite a crowd gathered, and to those a short distance off, to whom the wire was invisible, it appeared as if our fair friend was sailing through mid-air. Brevities. Carpets are bought by the yard and orn by the foot. A women who tells fortunes from a lacup need not he a sauceress. English statistics make tho total poplation of India a little less than two undred million. The first exclamation of an American slle on entering the cathedral at Miian, as: "Oh, what a'church to get married ,.5) Voltaire was asked what he thought as the age of the world. I don't know, ad he ; but I regard the world as an Id coquette who conceals her age. Queen Victoria was so much pleased ith the five barrels of apples presented her last fall by some Michigan fruitrowers that she this year sent an order > that State for 11 times as many for inter use. A National Convention of Goose-pick s is to be held in Chicago next year, to svise some way of plucking geese by lachinery. and deodorizing the dead aslings that are so often found in boardig-house pillows. * rr1, ??a Uii.tofln cVint-rmns. with XiiClC UXO Q ? J omen at their butt-ends, prowling round the sVestern States looking for uant husbands and their naughty iminine companions. Thunder from le West may be expected soon. A woman in the last stages of intoxiition from opium was picked up in the ;reets of Rochester a few days since. A itizen explained that it was " nicotics" d not whiskey, when the officer in harge at once released her. In Marseilles, France, recently a oung girl named Irma Gras, a very andsome brunette, assassinated her >ver because he refused to buy her a old watch. To the general astonishleut of the Court and audience the jury cquitted her. A Pom fret, Ct., woman recently lost a ivorite hen, and revenged herself by oisoning the corpse with strychnine, lie result being a dead owl, one of tho irgest varieties known in new England, nth a six-feet spread of wings, a dead 3x, and a skunk. The Canadian way of measuring a tree j said to be as certain as it is grotesqae: rou walk from the tree, looking at ; from time to time between your knees. Vhcn you are [able to; see) the top in his way, your distance from tho root of be treo cqnals its lngnt. A Connecticut farmer having an lephant on his hands in tho shape of ,200 bushels of apples, for which there ras no market, " settled the matter by eeding tliem to his cow3?at the rate of me busbel per day?with veiy satisfac017 results, securing a largely increased low of milk." An Anti-Horse Thief Association ? laving 56 subordinate and tributary ocieties, and a total membership of ,000-includes farmers of Illinois, Iowa, ud Missouri. At a recent conclave it ras 6tatcd that only two horses, were tolen this year, both of which were ecovered and the offenders speedily rought to justice. Two ladies, named Schoonmaker and Ipencer, residing in the same block on efierson street, Albany, last week died rom starvation, the result of cancer in he stomach. In consequence of the errible disease they were unable to reaiu any food in their stomachs, and for everal days had partaken only of small luantities of liquids, like tea and broth. Some time ago, says the American Wanvfacturcr, Boston offered 310,000 or an invention which should certainly nd prominently give warning at railroad rossings of an approaching train, and hus put an end to the torture produced 7 the steam whistle. Thirty or forty afferent plans have been submited, none f which appear to be of a practical cliarcter. A man was awarded a premiun at the attle show and fair at Northampton for two-year-old colt, when the animal he ntered was a horse eight years old ! Tie man had a colt in pasture, and sent man to bring him to the show ; the jan made a mistake and took the eightear-old horse, which was in the same astnre, aud the committee " put liim hrougli." A letter has been received at the leneral Land Office setting forth that a aovoment is on foot by the Israelites of luropefor settling a colony of Roumanian nd Continental Jews in America. It ppears there is a company formed, loesessing a paid-up capital of $1,500,00, who contemplate settling in this 11 ntry some M,000 families, comprising 0,000,* persons, and the question is >resonted to the (leneral land Office riietbor the United States Government Fill extend to the company a title to a ract of land, say 250,000 acres, for this rnrpose, on condition that so many amilie3 should be located annually, it >eing the desire to have but one settle aent. Tiie Increasing Immigration of Jwedes.?A European correspondent of he Financier says that one of the first jbjeets of interest to the commercial isitor in Sweden is the outflow of immigration toward the United States. This vriter says ho saw at Gothenburg some ire hundred persons of both sexes ezn3r?rk for England, en route for America 3y the Inman and National lines. The mmigration from Sweden and Norway !s large and constantly increasing, but jy reason of its route through England, jome of it is unduly credited in our stafn fli? latter country. As 1 lOUUUl WW lor the character of the emigrants, it is ill that could be desired. They are of the best class of peasants?pious, clean, and hearty. There are few or no bad characters amongst them. They emigrate simply because their old country is cold and comparatively sterile?so rocky that large farms arc impossible, and so undiversified in its industrial character that agriculture is substantially the only resource of the poor, and agriculture, too, at great disadvantage of climate, tools, and markets.