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YOL. III. NO. 13. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1873. (aSWS/raS:
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After All.
I'm -orne' im-s puzz'ed which I most admire :
Belinda'* wealth of lovely golden hair,
Cetiti i'b jet black eyes of sparkling fir.-.
Or bright Matilda'* akin no dazzling fair ;
Bat, after all. '
My little Flo' love* we. and 1 love her.
' My fancy now and then ia led a<tray
Dy Lucy's gnorful rhapo and slender waist,
By Mil'y'a dainty feet I'm drawn away.
Orhslf beguiled by Dora's tact and taste;
But, after all.
My little Flo' loves me, and I love her.
When steadily I tbink of her I'm safe :
My heart its royal constancy avers; #
I'm not a fickle wandi ring stray or waif;
I'm pro'.f against all charms bnt hors ;
But. after all,
I love my little Flo', and she loves me.
THE LOTTEBY TICKET.
James LanniDg was a mechanic?a
young, honest man, whose highest ambition
was to gain a comfortable home for
* " 1 " * - * ii La 11
imnsilt ana who, ana 10 ue uiougnt wen
of by his neighbors. He had built liitn6cll
a house, and there still remained upon
it a mortgage of five hundred dollars; but
this sum he hoped to pay in a very few
years it he only had his health. Ilo had
calculated exactly how long it would take
him to clear off this incuinberance, and
ho went at work with his eyes open.
One evening James came home to his
supper more thoughtful than usual. Ilis
young wife noticed his manner, and she
inquired the cause.
' What is it, J.rines?" she kind'y asked,
"WW, 1 never saw you look so sober be'
fore T'
' Well, I'll tell you, Hannah,'' returned
the young man, with a slight hesitation
in his manner. '"I have been thinking
that 1 should buy a lottery ticket."
Hannah banning did not answer immediately.
She looked down and smoothed
the silken hair ot her hube, which was
chirping like a little robin in her amis,
nml rim shades of her handsome features
showed that she was tubing time to
think.
"How rnrch will it cost ?"sbe at length
a-ki d. looking halt-timidly up into her
husband's face.
"Twenty dollars," returned James, trying
to assume a confidence he did not
feel.
"And have you made- up your jnind to
buy it?''
"Well, I think I shall. What do you
think about it ?"
"if you should ask my advice, James, 1 i
should smv do not buy it."
"But why so?"
"For many reasons," returned the wife,
in a trembling tone. She would not offend
her husband, and ahe shrank from
giving him advice he would not follow.
"In the first place. I think the whole
scheme of lotteries is a bad one; and then i
you have no money to risk."
"But just look at the prizes," said (
James, drawing a "scheme" from his
pocket. "Hero ia one prize of twenty
{housed dollars, aud another of ten thousand,
and another of live thousand, and
so on. Something tells me that if 1 buy
a ticket 1 shall draw a large prize. And
then just think, Hanuah, how easily I
could pny all up f.?r my house, and, perhaps,
have a good handsome sum left."
The young man spoke with much earne-tue-s
and a-surance, but he saw there
was a cloud upon his wife's brow. i
"It seems to me that the chance of i
drawing a prize is very doubtful," said
Ilannah, as she took the scheme. "Here
are many thousand tickets to be sold." j I
The b ile tried hard to suatch the paper, i
ana ttinnan juki u usiue.
' I think 1 shall run the risk," resuiyjd 11
James, glancing once more over the pa /cr, j
and resting with a nervous long:ng vyon 1
the figures which represented the ki ger
prizes. '-There's Barney; he drew eight' i
hundred dollars about a year ago."
4'Yes, I know it," answered Ilannah, j
with more warmth than she had before j I
manifested, ''and what has become of the !
money ? You know he has squandered I
it all away. Ah, James, money is of no \ 1
use to our happiness unless we come i
honestly by it."
"Honestly," repeated tlio young man.
' Surely there is nothing dishonest in
drawing a prize in a lottery."
' [ think there is," kindly, but ernphat- i
icnlly, returned the wife. "All games ol
hazard, where money is at stake, are dishonest.
Were you 10 draw a prize ol
twenty thousand dollars, yon would rob
a thousand men of twenty dollars each ;
or, at least, you would take from them
money for which you returned thein no
equivalent. Is it not gambling in every
eens? ot the word ?"
' O, uo; you look on the matter in too
strong a light."
"Perhaps I Jo, but yet it look* so to
me. What you ?nay draw some one else
must lose; and perhaps it may be some
one who ouu atford lite lossno better than
you can. I wouldn't buy the ticket,
j.urles. Le*. us Jive on the products ot
our honest gains, aud we shall be happier."
James L inning was uneasy. lie had
no answer for hi* wife's arguments; at i
least no answer that could spring from ;
his moral convictions, and lie let the mat-1
tor drop. Hut the young man could not j
drive the *\ ivn from his heart. All the j
nix' day Ins head was full of prizes, and
w hile he was at his work, ho kept inuttiiing
over to himself, "Twenty thousand
dollars,*' "Ten thousand dollars," ' Five
thousand dollars," and > on.
When he went home the next night, he
was almost unhappy with the nervous
anxiety into winch lie had thrown himSv
It. I he tempter had grasped hiin firm
ly, and whenever he thought of the lottery
he saw nothing hut niles of gold and silver.
Iii short, J.uncs Lanning had wade up hi> }
mind that lie would buy the ticket. He
Went to Hit) little box where he had hi
ready a hundred and twenty dollars laid
up townid paying off the mortgage from
his house. Tlie lock clicked with a ' tarttling
sound, and when he threw back the
cover, he hesitated. lie looked at his
wife, at:d he saw that she was sad.
aO, I'm sure I shall draw a prize," he
said, with a faint, fading smile.
lie took four half eagles from the box
and put theiu into his pocket. His wife
said nothing. She played with her babe
t> hide her sadness, lor she did not wish
I to say more en the subject. Sue had
' E. eti that little pile of gold gradually accumulating,
and both she and her husb.-.nd
hail been happy in anticipating the
day when the pretty collate would be ali
their own. But wheu she saw those four
L pieces of gold taken away from the store,
he felt a foreshadowing of avil. Sue
might have spoken again against tin
movement, but she saw that her husbani
was sorely tender on the subject, and sin
let the atFuir go into the hands of Inte.
A week elapsed from the time Jame
bought his ticket to the drawing ot tin
lottery, and during that time the vouuj
man lud not a moment, of real enjoyment
He was alternately between hope am
fear, and his mind was constantly on tin
stretch
At length the day arrived. Jame
went to the office and found the drawin;
had taken place, and that the list of prize:
had been mado out. lie seized the lis
and turned away so that those who stooi
around should not see his face. lie rea<
the list through bat he searched for hi:
number in fain. It was not there. II<
bad drawn a blank. He left the effict
an unhappy man. Those twenty dollari
which he had lost had bec-n the savings
of two monthB of hard labor, and he fel1
their loss most keenly.
When he returned lioine that night h<
told his wite that he had lost. She fount
fotiH nritfi K5m fi.'io nnlvVlMSflrl llilTl
aod told bim that tbe lesson was a gooc
one, even though it had been dearlj
bought.
But James was not satisfied. He brood'
ed over liia loss with a bitter spirit, and
at length the thought came to him that
he might yet draw a prize. He wished
that he had not bought the first ticket,
and he thought that it" he could only get
back his twenty dollars he would buy no
more; hut he could not rest under his
loss. lie was determined to make one
more trial, and he did so. This time ha
purchased] the ticket without liis wife's
knowledge. The result was the same as
before. He drew a blank.
" Forfy dollars !"' was a sentence that
dwelt fearfully upon the youug mechauic's
lips. " O, I -must draw a prize.
1 must make np what I have lost I Lit
me once do that and I'll buy no more
tickets."
Another twenty dollars was taken from
the littlfe bauk, another ticket was
bought, another blauk was drawn 1 At
tbo end of three months tbe little bank
was empty, aud James Lasuing had the
lust ticket iu bis pocket* Ah, bow earnestly
he prayed that that ticket might
draw him a prize. He bad become pale
and careworn, and liis'wife, poor, con
tiding sou), thought lie only repined because
lie had lost twenty dollars. When
sbo wculd try to cheer liirn he would
laugh, aud try to make the matter light.
' James," said his wife toliiui one day,
it whs the day before tiic lottery was
drawn in which lie held the sixth ticket,
" Mr. Rowse has been here to-day
utter bis semi-annual interest. I told
him you would see bim to-morrow."
" Yes. I will," said James, in a faint
tone. "Yes, to-morrow 1 shall pay him."
Young Lanniug thought of the lottery
and of the prize. This was his sixth
trial, and he felt sure that he should
draw a prize.
Tbe morrow came, and when James
Lanniug returned to bis home at night
he was penuiless ! All his golden visions
had faded away, and he was left in dark
ness and misery.
"James, have you paid Mr. Rowse
bis interest yet ?" asked Hannah.
The young man leaned his head upon
his bands aud groaned aloud.
"For Ileaveu's sake, James, what lias
? .1 il. - : i?
imjipeik'u : intu iuu muiuuu wur,
springiug to tbe side of her husband,
and twining her arms about his neck.
The youug man looked up with a
wild haggard expression. Ilis lips were
bloodless, and his features were all
stricken with a death-hue.
" What is it ? O, what ? ' murmured
the wife.
"Go look in our box?our little
bank !" groaned tbe poor man.
Hannah hastened away, and when she
returned she bore the empty box in her
hand.
"Robbed !" she gasped, as she sank
tremblingly down by her husband's
side.
"Yes, Hannah," whispered the husband,
"I?I have robbed you." The
shieken wife gazed upon lier husband
with a vacant look, for at first she did
not comprehend; but she remembered
his behaviour for weeks hack ; she remembered
bow be had murmured in bis
sleep of lotteries and tickets, of blanks
and prizes, and gradually the truth broke
in upon her.
"1 have done it ail, iiannan J
hoarsely whispered the condemned niau
when he saw that his wil'e had guessed
the truth, "All, has gone for lottery
tickets. The demon tempter lured me?
he held up glitleriug gold in his bund,
but he gavo rnc noue of it. O, do not
chide me ! You know not what I have
suilered?what hours of agony I have
passed?and you cannot know how cold
is my heart now. O, my wife, would to
(jod I had listened to you !
"?sb !" caluily whispered the faithful
wife, as j-lie drew her liaud across her
husband's bested brow. " Mourn not
for what is lost. I will not chide thee.
It is hard thus for you to lose your scanty
earnings, but there might be many
calamities worse tha i that. Courage,
James ; we will soon forget it."
"And Mr. Rowso will foreclose the
mortgage. You will be homeless," murmured
young Landing, in broken accents.
" No ; 1 will see him. I will see thai
all is safe iu that quarter," added
Mannah.
At that moment the babe awoke, and
the gentle mother was called to care foi
it. On the mxt day, at noon, llannali
L inning gave her husband a receipt foi
fifteen dollars from Mr. Rowse.
"Here," said slic, "the interest is
paiW. Now let us forget all that ha:
passed, aud commence again."
"Rat how?what lias paid this?'
asked James, gazing lir>t upon the re
ceipt, and tlieu upon his wife.
"Never uiiutl."
"A*, but 1 must mind. Tell me
Hannah?"
" Well, I have sold my gold watch."
' Sold it!"
"But 1 can buy it back again. Tin
mail will not pa.t with it, if I wnnt it
But I don't, want it, James, till wo an
[able, Perhaps I shall rfever want it
You must not chide me, for never did
derive one iota of the pleasure from it
possession that 1 now ieel in the resul
of its disposal."
James L.iuuiug clasped his wifo to hi
bosom, and lie murmured a prayer, ant
in that prayer there was a pledge.
?*?*?*?
Two years passed away, and durini
that time James Lanning lost not
f, single day from liis work. Ho was as
1 punctual as the Bun, and the result was
f sure. ' *
It was late one Saturday evening when
f> he came home. After supper he drew
i? a paper from his pocket and laid it upon
i the table.
] " There, Hannah," said he, while n
j noble pride beamed iu every feature,
e "that is my mortgage. I've paid it?
every cent. This house is ours?it is
our own house. I've bought it with
* -dollars, every one of which has been
honestly earned by the sweat of my
t brow. I am happy now."
j Haunah Lanuing taw that her hasj
hand had opened his arms, and she sat
? down upon his knee, and laid her head
upon his shoulder.
; " O, blessed moment! " she mur"
mured.
3 "Yes, it is a blessed moment," re|
spondee! tho husband. "Do.you remember,
Ilanua!), the hour of bitterness
we saw two years ago ? "
j The wife shuddered, but she mado no
reply.
J " All," continued the young man, "I
have never forgotten that bitter lesson ;
aud even now I tremble when I think
how fatally I was deceived by the
- larontcr fhnf l.ns lured thousands to des
traction."
t "But its terror is lest in this happy
moment," said Hannah, looking up with
i a smile.
: "Its terror may be lost," resumed
? James, " but its lesson must never be
i forgotten. Ab, the luring lottery-ticket
' lias a dark side?a side which few can
see until they feel it."
? " And are not all its sides dark ? "
i softly askedTthe wife. "If there is any
brightness about it, it is only the glare
>' of the fatal iguis-fatuus, which can only
had the wayward traveller into danger
and disquiet."
"You are right, my dear wife. You
were right at first. Ah " he continued,
as he drew the faithful being more closely
to his bosom, "if husbands would oftener
obey the tender dictates of the loving
wife, there would be far less of misery
ia the world than there is now."
A De-porato Encounter with a Panther.
A professional hunter named Repzs,
was out hunting iu Oregon, on Martin's
Island, down the Columbia. Tlie hunter
was accompanied by a young bound
only, which started some animal a little
distance away in the dense brush. Repzs
rau from the thick timber in which he
was standing, toward tho edge of the
watpr. A clear space of several rods divided
the brush and the river margin.
On reaching the bank, Repzs baited aud
placed hiuisolf in an attitnde of defense.
Iu a few minutes the hound emerged
from the timber and came running toward
his master. Immediately following
the dog, and in hot pursuit, a large aud
ferocious panther hounded in sight.
Repzs raised his gun and fired.
The ball took effect in the jaws of the
auimal, but did not indict any serious
injury, nor retard his advance toward
the hunter. On firing, Repzs retreated
into the water up to his armpits. The
| wounded and infuriated animal sprang
alter and " tackled" the hunter. The
dog came to the rescue of li.'s master,
and made it ho warm for the panther
that it abandoned Repzs mil turned en
the hound. Rcpzs waded out toward
the bank, turned around and fired the
second barrel of his gun at the panther
The load was Jargo buckshot, and took
effect in the panther's side. The wound
was very severe, but did not entirely
disablo the animal, which was getting
the best of the dog. Seeing that the
hound would soon be drowned, Repzs
resolved to rescue it if possible. He had
discharged both barrels of tbe gun, and
cast aside his largo bowie-knife in the
edge of the timber when ho started to retreat
to the water. No time, however,
was to bo lost, and Repzs sprang iuto
the river to save his dog. By this time
the panther had lost much blood and
was growing weak from exbaustioD.
The hunter, who was a powerful man,
seized hold of the panther's bead, and
after a fierce " tnssel," broke ks hold on
the hound. The pantlu r now turned on
Repzs. A long and desperate encounter
ensued between the hunter, panther and
tho dog. At last Repzs succeeded in
keeping tho animal's nose under water
until it was quite dead, after which he
drew the body to the shore and fainted
r- l irnniwla on.l ayIioikI inn. Thf?
irwui nyuuw.j v.......w. .v...
hunter was severely lacerated in the conflict,
and has scarcely been able to leave
Ins bed since. The bound is also badly
. torn.
Cass of Spontaneous Combustion.
Wc have from Franco a well-attested
case of spontaneous combustion, the par'
tienlus of which ore thus given in the
I " Comptes Rcndus" of the Acadimy of
Science. On one of the hottest days of
i last summer, M. Wutticr-Gaerin, a niaunfactucr
of Ribemont, happened to ob.
scivc a light smoke rising I rem an oaken
, beam which had lor a considerable time
rtood in the court yard of his premises,
' one end leaning against a wall. This
beam was some twenty feet in length and
six by nine inches square, and stood per,
bctly isolated, with the exception of nu
old well cover made of boards.sheet iron
| and slates, leaned against it. On coming
? nearer, M. Wattier saw that the beam,
was on fixe, but gave out no flame, the
b surfneo presenting the appearance of at
j extinguished coal fire. By blowing upor
s it, it was found to be burning vigorously
t The lire did not commence at the lowei
; extremity of the beam, but at the poinl
? where it came in contact with the wel
i
cover. Thence it spread upwards, ad
vaucmg in the form of a V, and fiuallj
g involved the entire thickness of the beau
a extending over ten feet in length.
i Is Iron Weakened by Cold.
' We hare alluded to the experiments
of Joule, Spcnce, and Fairbairn, with
' reference to the effects of frost on tht
strength of iron, pointing out that tbeii
results were opposed to the general belief
in (ho weakening action of frost,
Farther evidence to the same effect has
been furnished by M. Caron of Paris,
the result of whose observations on the
fracture of ear axles, hs\ye lately been
laid before the Paris Academy of Sciences.
He finds, in every case, that the
break is due to tho bad form of the
pieces, or the faulty nature of the iron ;
and denies that bar iron becomes crystalline
and brittle under the influence
of winter cold. This denial is based on
the following experiments. Several
pieces of good bar iron were exposed for
four months in an ice factory to temperatures
varying from 0 deg. to 19 deg.
Others were allowed to remain throughout
tho cold of last winter exposed to a
temperature of a out 20 deg. in the open
air. M. Caron then caused the pieces to
be broken, both iu their cold 6tate, and
afttr tho temperature had been raised
several degrees above zero. In no case
was there any appearance of crystallization.
Iron of inferior quality was found
- ' _ !_ 1 "iil
to beliave uinereniiy, iu? wnuvu using
perceptibly increased through exposure
to cold. M. Caron's conclusion
i9; that when a bar of iron breaks through
vibration, or sudden shocks, and the
fracture presents a crystalline appearance:
this condition was present previous
to its being used, and is attributable to
faulty manufacture, and not to usage or
cold after the process was completed.
This appears to account lor the frequent
breaaiug of car rails in winter. At this
season* when the ground is frozen, the
rails are much more liable to shock than
in summer, and being made of inferior
iron, as it is notorious that many of
them are, breakage under the increased
strain is the natural result.
A Fatal HouseI
was walking up the street with Ge n.
Belknap the other day, says a Washington
correspondent, and we passed the
mansion where Seward resided so long,
and where Payne stabbhd him.'
"General," says I, "do yon remember
a reception you gave one night when
these four rooms in the second itory
were all crowded? I call it to your mind
because, perhaps, yon did not knew that
a whisper rau suddenly around the room
that the old house was mighty shaky,
and might fall down with the ueight ol
guests, and that a good many got our."
"Yes," said Belknap, "I did bear
about it, and it was a shaky old place.
We were particular after that about
on tnnnr tlftAnlfl IMIo if."
UllUjjlUg ow AAJUMJ l'~~l --
Mr. Belknap then said that a distinguished
public man had cautioned him
about going into that house to live.
Said this man: "Belknap, no man ever
lived in that Iioupo who did not meet
with death, assassination or something.
Seward's occupation of the place was a
sories of misfortunes nud deaths. When
it was a club house, the Sickles murder
and a lot of other events of a dark character
took place in and about it."
The consequence ha3 been that Seward's
house is given up as a residence,
and it is now one of the military offices.
General Belknap lia.-: not escaped some
of the evil occurrences >1' the neighborhood,
aud, although ho has spent four
years dutifully and qiuctly here, he lias
lost his estimable wife, and bis eldest son
is seized with a disorder of the lungs, and
has had to go to Santa Fe for recuperation.
Adulteration of Food.
The so-called adulteration act is working
well in England. It would be a for
tanato tliiug for tlic American siomacii
if a eimilar law could be enforced in this
country. Iu addition to the advantages
which pure food and drink would possess
over impure, the undisguised element ol
humor which would be the inevitable
concomitant of the workings of the law
could not but have a salutary effect upon
the American digestion. Tho clarion
cry of the milk carrier which rends the
siience of tho morning twilight, would
be changed to " water, treacle, salt, anuatto,
cerebral matter, sturch, turmeric,
gum tragacanth, carbonate of roda and
milk," with variations. A package ol
cocoa would be?labeled as has happen'
. in England?"mixture of brown sugur,
, llour, refuse biscuit, with a trace of CO'
coa." Cans of mustard would be de
scribed as " mixture of flour, Cayennt
nenner. turmeric, cliromate of lead and
mustard." While the exhaustive win<
drinker would stand aghast at the chaug
ed label of his favorite brand of "cliam
pagne," | white sugar, brown sugar, tar
taric acid, water, white wine, and Freucl
brandy or alcohol. Let a commune
' such as " thou shalt not secretly adulter
1 ate." be issued at once.
, Loss of Like on tue Lakes.?From tb<
s statistic.". c?r tlic loss ct life upon the greal
i lakes during the present season, it appear!
i that 139 persons were drowoed, ard o
. this number 113 were lost with the vessel:
: upon which they were engaged. The othe:
t seventy-six cases were those of sailors wh<
I .'ell over-board, and were washed ofl bj
heavy teas. This loss of life seems suffloi
i ently large, hut the total number of sucl
i casualties is sixty-one less than during thi
prsrfous year.
Jay Gould and the Erie Road.
i It seems that Jay Gould made the pro
i posal to the Erie, road to accept property
. from him to settle the claim of the road
preferring this to litigation. The prop
, erty transferred includes in New Yorli
, city, the Opera House and a large nnm
i ber of buildings on Twenty-third anc
Twenty-fourth streets, which had beer
( bought by Gould and Flak at a cost o
$1,300,000. Mr. Gould agrees to paj
off all the mortgages and incumberances
i of every description which may lit
i against the property, and to release the
property from any claim that the Fisl
estate have on it, so that whatever property
the company receives will be whollj
clear, and. the settlement entirely disconnected
with the late Col. Fisk's estatt
and transactions with Erie. This settlement
will cancel the lease of the Operr
House. The other property consists ol
real estate and $2,500,000 in stocks anc
bond, s A result of the compromise wa;
an advanco tin Erie, which went fron
53 1-2, as the lowest price of the day, \
57 1-2 after the news of the settlement
the market closing at 57 1-4 asked,
57 1-8 bid. It is said that before tb
agreement was made Gould bad bee
quietly buying Erio in New York an(j j
nn.l I, a f lift nnw ho' ,1.
uuuuvui ?uu tua
200,000 shares, on which ha "expects t
make more money than ha 'gives to th
Erie Company by snrrendr ring 89,000
000 in securities anil real estate. A ris
of a share on 200,00,0, shares is 8800
000, which is about tVie amount of th
advance in value ye at erday of tho 6toc
which Mr. Gould i.s credited with owe
iug.
It is said that the company will use
portion of the money derived from th
settlement in laying a third rail, whereb
the narrow 'guage roads of the West wil
have another outlet to the East withou
breaking bulk.
How the French Build Hansard Boots.
The French, witjj whom the Mansari
originated, construct it in a ma tine
wki?:li combines safety with elegance
Instead of placing wooden or iroi
frames on the top of substantial bricl
walls, they carry up the latter to the ex
treme height required. From the line
where the roof commence* the bricks an
i corbelled inside at each course?that is
tho end# of the brick slightly project
over the one on which it is laid. A re
; ceding front is thus obtained for tin
roof, which, up to its highest point, is at
solid as the walls of the house. The an
gies of the bricks on tho outward fact
are smoothed over, and the slate is laic
directly on the sloping brick wall. J
coat of plaster is laid on the inside, tin
finishing touches aro then given,and the
Mansard roof is as solid as any part o
lmnsn nf u-hioli it is tliA mnst plpcnn
I feature. It would be well for our insur
| ance companies to examine the differen
methods of construction in use here am
iu Paris. II the Mansard roofs can b<
constructed in a manner which makos i
as safe as nny other, there certainly
seems no reason to abandon so tasteful i
feature in our domestic architecture.
Is tho Unioorn a Fable ?
The question of the existence iu nnturi
of an animal corresponding to the nui
corn of the Bible and of tradition has
been again raised by Mr. Rouwer's ac
count of a visit to a stone cave in Kama
qua T.and, about twelve days from Lak<
i Ngarni. On tho walls of this cave nr<
pictures of various animal', drawn bj
Bushmen with considerable accuracy
and among them is one represe'jling ai
animal with a single prominent horn
Mr. Bouwer was informed by an ok
Bnshman that he had himself seen tin
animal, and that it was very fierce, bu
that it has now disappeared.
A writer on the same subject, in com
, meeting upon Mr. Bouwer'a observa
, tions, remarks that, in his opinion, tin
?ir.;..,
UUllTUlU t'Aiaiuu itLt'iiti t iu xxuiiti, uuv
that, although not proved.to he extiucf
the probability of its being in cxisteuc*
at present is not very great. He resfi
his opinion on the general accuracy o
tlio sketches by savages in other parti
of the world besides Africa, and asks, i
the unicorn never did exist, why shouli
native drawings of such au animal exif?
in Namaqua Lund, Natal, the Trausvaa
Republic, and Cape Colony, all havinj
the same general characteristics and tin
one particular feature.
The Beindcer.
As a draught animal, speed endurance
and its special adaption to traveling 01
snow, make the reindeer the most vain
able of creatures to people in the lati
tndes of almost perpetual winter. Th
ordinary weight drawn with ease by j
single reindeer is about 240 pounds ; bu
j it can travel with over 000. Its speed i
very great. When put to its utmost i
hus been known to travel, for a slior
distance, at the rate of 19 miles an hour
? but its power of endurance is still mor
t remarkable. It is not an unusual fen
s for a reindeer to perform a journey o
t 150 miles in 19 hours ; and the portrai
s of one is preserved in the palace o
r Drotinghblm, Sweden, which traversei
> 800 miles in 43 hours, conveying nn off]
? cer with important dispatches. Thi
was at the rato of nearly 17 miles ai
i hour ; and we are not surprised to lean
? that at the end ef this cruel journey th
poor creatore dropped dead.
German Emigration to America.
A letter received by a Wash-' >t)gi
j member of tbe German Color ^zat'
Society seems to indicate that tl pol
' of tbe Piussian Government ir (preve
ing or discouraging emigratio- x wjjl m
[ with considerable oppositio a from I
. people themselves. Not ' j^cn the
i cent o 'ders to the manage ^ 0f railrOi
and ship-owners, to incre ^ tbeir chci
1 for transportation for persons leavi
f tbe country, deter p numbers
, farmers and mechanic j from making p
parations to emigraf A jjje letter ref
red to sets forth th' of orgauizati
} of the German-A jneric&a Golonizali
Association, tbe object of which is
encourage syste jaatic emigration to tl
conntry. The Associati on is to be co
^ posed entirely 0f fartr.ers and mecban
who desire t ^ emigrate, and who, by
constitutio fl and V^y-ia^s, are required
> have a 'japitaJ of at least 500 tbah
. ? ,c^? ai id to l*je less than 60 years o
It org'^nizg,^ w|th 250 membera, e'ect
its ofAcers, and adopted rules and reg
lati jn fo\. future operations. Circuit
I br^YQ b een sent all over yie Emoire, ai
3 'meetings have been called and measui
, tak'jn to establish branches of. the ?
ci ety in all parts of Germany. t
0 Persons not joining the Associatic
> but living in tlie Uerman 'Colonies
(1 the United States, will be allowed to jo
e tbe colonies which it is expected will f<
follow each other in rapid succeesio
n The increased cost of living m Germai
n without a corresponding advance
>r wages since the late war has caua
0 much discontent, and the movement
likelv to be very popnlar. At a reco
6 meeting of tho Association, an Exec
i* tive Committee was elected to canva
ie for colouists, and some represeutativ
. of this committee are expected in tt
' country before long, to arrange for t!
e accommodation of the first colon
k which will arnve in tho SpriDg. Tl
i- Prussian Government is said to I
watching the movement with great inte
terest, feeling that its future power as
nation depeuds largely on being able
e keep its able-bodied men at home. If
y interferes to prevent tbe departure
! tbe colonists, they will attempt to brh
. tbe matter to the attention of tl
' United States Government.
Convicts on the Road.
On one part of the line, writes a'cc
d respondent who has been traveling
r Virginia, a motley crew of State-pris<
. birds were at work. Tbe State of Vi
1 ginia hires ont its convicts to suoh oh
i door labor, and does well for them i
. well as itself in the act. For surely it
s better for a man to live out of door
3 even though his labor is more sever
, than to be shut up between walls, awi
a from the sunshine, the trees, and tl
. fresh air. These conviots were dresst
3 in shirts and trowsers having broad blac
3 stripes ; they lived in strongly bui
. | shanties, having iron gratings in tl
3 windows; and guards, dressed in hom<
1 spun and armed with rifles, watclit
l over them to prevent escapes. Our a
> {tiat.s were amused at the coolness wit
3 which one of these guards explained tbj
t he was rather a noted shot; and that 1:
t did not think, frum where he stood, c
. a little knoll, any man could get awe
t alive from his rifle. The convicts thru
I much better than in prison, and we cou]
3 not help but wonder if it would not 1
t wise to employ State-prison convic
f generally or universally in roa?l-buili
i ing. Ail onr States need good counti
roads ; and if convict labor were turne
systematically to the thorough constru
tion of such roads, it would be but a fe
; years before country life, in the Easter
States at least, would lose one of i
3 most serious drawbacks ; while the coi
victs themselves would acquire tt
knowledge of an art?-the art of coi
j structing durable, and smooth hard cour
; try roads?which would make thei
7 skilled laborers and useful in every ne
, country.
A Half-Mile Tiuck.?Iiay off tw
-light sides GOO feet each (parallel) an
' 152j feet apart, connected at each en
' with a perfect semi-ciivlo (radius 22(
1 feet); piece jour fence e * aetly on the lir
so formed, (which is the inside of yoi
track) and you track will measure exact!
half a mile, three feet from the fenc
2 If not convenient to get an engineer 1
' run the curves, it cau bo done by placin
' a stake midway between the puralli
9 straight sides at each end ; fasten a wii
8 to this and measure upon it 22G$ fee
* which, from the center stakes, will e:
8 actly reach the ends of the parallel line
' then describe your semi-circle, beginuin
1 at the end of one of the straight sid<
* and putting down a stake every tweh
^ feet.
v
A Great Undertaking.?A nnmu<
p
of business men of New York have, a
sociated themselves together for tl
purpose of erecting a building in the U]
, per part of the island similar to the Cry
a tnl Palace at Sydenham, England. It
purposed to uiako of the palace a plai
for the industrial exhibitions. Tl
L, building will be very large, and will cc
a from $1,000,000 to 80,000,000, accordir
t to the material of which it shull be CO]
s struc-ted. The capital basis of the coc
j pany has not been stated, but it wi
t probably be in the neighborhood of 81
. 000,000. The undertaking is a vast on
e Good Engineering.? Although tl
1 Hoosae Tunnel shaft was sunk 1,030 fe
f into the earth, the heading from it w:
t so true that when the junction was ma<
f with the opening from the east, it shoi
3 cd a difierence in line of only fire-si
' teenths of an inch, and difierence :
5 level of bat three-eights of an incl
0 This result seems almost incredible, bi
0 it rests upon the statements of the lie
* sachusetts State Engineers, who ha<
made a careful < xamination of the wori
Br? Title* ?
ton San Francisco advices anaotmoe that
ion hone disease has got to Mare Island.
i?y An amiable Wisconsin Indian emptied
nt- a box ef rattlesnakes on the bed of the
eet man who had offended him.
The Pennsylvania buckwheat crop 18
JJ1 said to be large enough for the consump*ds
tion of all the lasses in the State. ~
The ship Matchless, of Boston, Mass.,
? has been wrecked off the coast of Northumberland,
England, and all on board
er[ were lost.
;0n The Japanese Government employs
on in the interior nearly 300 foreigners'
to v>z : American, 41; English,. 170;
his French, 69.
m- A young lady at Toledo fainted when
ics told that over 5C0.000 men had died last
its year, but was revived by the informsto
tion that there were 13,009,000 left.
:1s Serious floods have occuried in Franco
j and Belgium. The river Seine has overea
flowed its banks on both sides, flooding
,r?" many buildings in Paris, while the enir?
virons of Ghent are oompletely inunda*
Dd ted.
'68
[0. The following proverbs are from the
ancient Hebrew : When two quarrel, ho
lD that ceases first is of gentler birth.
Qf Wisdom is a crown for the head ; modjQ
esty sandals for the feet. Descend a
aj. step to choose a wife; ascend a step to
n choose a friend.
ay Woman's rights are practically exemof
plified in Spain. A correspondent thus
ad describes the loading of iron ore at
is Bilbo a: "It is a curiaus sight to see the
nt women loading ships with their balky
a. cargoes, carrying it in baskets on their
? heaTls. sinnincr <ravlv the while, and trip
es ping up and Sown the steep planks with
lis their short petticoats, brown bare legs
he and straight, supple backs."
A young lady writes to an exchange
tie giving a receipt for having fun. She
36 says, invite half a dozen boys and girls
!r" to ypar house when voar pa and ma are
* away; put a half-dollar silver piece in a
t<3 dish with molasses an inch deep in it,
and offer it to the boy who gets it with
ol bis month. The more the boys who
58 try to get it, the more the fan will be.
That girl sorely deserves a diploma.
Theodore Tilton, it is stated, will publish
a statement in the Golden Age denying
tho domestic irregularities recently
,r" alluded to by Woodhull and Olaflin,
in His statement has been ready for somo
>Q time, but was withheld until the women
were released on bail. Mr. Tilton at
first determined to ignore the wholo
matter, but haa been so severely pressed,
as that he has determined to make a statej8
men!..
>,
. Madams Jamel.
e, %
iy A biographical sketch of the lady
le whose estate is now in litigation in New
id York is given by an Exchange :
:k The maiden name of Eliza Bowen
It Jnmel was Eliza, or Betsey Bowen.
te She was the daughter of John and Phooe
be Bowen, who, the defendants claim,
id were married, althongn no record of
r- their marriage exists. Eliza, or Betsey
;h was born in 1775 (the day cannot be fixit
ed), in Providence, Rhode Island. F.om
te her birth till 1782 a blank occurs in her
m history. In that year, according to tho
ty Town Council, she was living with her
mother, whose house, on tho gronud
Id that it was disreputable, was torn down
ie by a mob. tier mother soou opened ants
other house of tho same character, for
1- which offence she was sent to jail, and
~ i i-.
:y Eliza, or Betsey was seas (U IUU M Wi IV:d
house to be cared for. She was then
a about ten years old. In 1790, her mow
ther having been released from jail, and
n having been mai'ried to a Captuin Cluik,
ts a widower with six children, she returna
ed ; but her mother and stepfather bele
haved in such a disgraceful manner that
l- they were sent away from Providence
i- with the threat that they would be whipin
ped at a "cart tail "if they returned,
w Eliza, or Betsey remained in the family
of Major Reuben Ballou untill October
>o 9, 1791, when she gave birth to the plain^
tiff, George Washington Bowen ; and it
^ is supposed that the Major was his fa..
ther. Soon after the birth of her son,
she wont away, leaving him ft Major
(r Ballou's, and was not seen in Providence
i : until she returned (time not known;
* with the body of a sea captain (name unknown)
ana caused it to be buried there.
During this visit to Providenc n!;e frequently
inquired for the young sou whom
she left with the Major, but could learn
rc
nothing of him. From Providence she
' went to New York, whero in 1804 t-ho
* married Stephen Jumel. She lived with
' him until about the close of the war of
^ 1812, when she went to France, whero
;>g 1 '
she remained about four years. Upon
her return she attempted to deliver a
lecture in Providence upon the rieucii
fr Court, but she was prevented from doing
8" so by a mob, which assailed her on anIe
couut of her parentage. Jumel died in
P" 1832. His estute was vested in her, an.1,
f" in 1833, sho married Aaron Burr, from
15 whom she obtained a divorce on the
:e ground of adultery. Charles O'Couuor
16 defended Burr. She died on July 15,
8t 1SG5.
ig
Q" Shocking Acts by Medical Students.
Q" ?A Montreal correspondent of the Tor^
unto Globe says: 44 The medical students
at Victoria College, Montreal, are bccorae
mg the disgrace of tho city, and arc reIe
ported to bo comDletely beyond theconet
trol of the Professors. A few days ago a
as party of them stole a bodvjftoru their own
Je dissecting room, took it to McGill Medical
if. College, received tbeir price, and had a
z. drunken spree on the proceeds. Since
in then lucj nave oeen act mm w mcai.Mg
jj. in broad daylight a corpse from the Hotel
at Dieu, their cvm hospital, only dead a few
8. boon and unburied, of taking it to k colore
lege and.ttllltog it,and spending the ttoney
t in a limilar way." ^ i