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VOL. III. NO. 32. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1873. , {J&WVS85:
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i My April Lore.
| An April maiden is mv love!
I So full of moods is she,
^ I hardly know, to tell the trnth,
Which mood most pleaseth me.
Her smiles are as bewildering
Ab April's sunniest day?
So tender, I am fain to wish
They ne'er may pass away.
But if my love doth charm me so
When she with mirth o'erflows,
How can I tell the strange sweet spell
Her sadness o'er me throws ?
Like violets bathed in morning dew
Her dear eyes seem to be;
And then 1 think she's dearer yet
. Than e'er before to me!
All smiles and tears, my little love
Is like an April day,
For sunshine giveth place to clouds,
By sunbeams chased away.
Ah me! which mood doth please me most
I fear will ne'er be known;
But what care I, since in them all
Her heart is still my own!
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AUlVUjj 1UC AUl(aiVtlll
A Noted Hunter Relate* hli Experlenc
wltli the Monarch of the Lagoon.
A Sun correspondent has been intei
viewing an old Florida alligator hnntei
and from him gained some interestin
information relative to the monsters c
the lagoon. Formerly the lagocns an
lakes, as well as the river itself, abov
Enterprise, were filled with alligator!
They are thicker there now than on an
other part of the St. John's . If a pas
seng(?r on a river boat killed an alligatoi
Cone, the hunter, marked the spoi
Occasionally three or four alligatoi
would be killed inside of three miles
Capt. Cone would then cast off his littl
boat, retrace his course and skin th
animals. He gets seventy-five cents
piece for the hides delivered in Jackson
ville. At this time he was filling a
order from a London firm, through
Jacksonville merchant, for 3,000 hides
Said Cone?these here skins makethre
hundred and forty odd 'gators, I reckon
I have bagged. You see huntin' 'gator
haiut what it used to be. There hain
the number o' 'gators in the first place
and the big 'gators is more skeery.
reckon they know more than the
knowed oncet. Now, T can remembe
three or four years ago when 'gato
. hides was wuth irom two to four dollar
apiece in Jacksonville. Now they hain'
wuth a quarter as much. Correspor
dent?How large was the biggest 'gato
killed by you this season ? Capt. Con
?Not over ten feet. The 'gators i
little this season, I reckon, or the bij
uns is too plaguey skeery. But it's al
the same on the hides. One hide'
wuth as much as t'other. Corresponden
?How long does it take you to skin a:
alligator ? Capt. Cone?Well, I don
peeled the bark from a 'gator in twelv
minits. I'll everedge fifteen miniti
I reckon. At this point two passenger
saw an alligator on the right of th
boat, and opened fire. The old 'gato
hunter straightened himself up, grabbei
his rifle and rushed on the other side o
the pilot house just in time to see th
slimy black animal slide into the watei
" Now," 6aid Capt. Cone, on his return
44 the heap o' lead that is thrown awa
' on 'gators by these here die-hards wh
come down to Florida every winter, i
more thau any man 'ud reckon or
Yesterday a die-hard signified to m
that he thought he saw a 'gator with hi
head out of the water, and he went t
pitchiu' bullets into that here 'gatoi
ir.> ,.t n.?? ii.ni ,,i.^,.i
xxu nun uuc ui uiioc unco tutu oiiwi
eighteen times one after another with
out stoppiu',ancl I'll be dog-goned ef h
didn't put eighteen bullets into th
'gator, and the 'gator stood it. T'war
nothing but a sunken log stickin' out c
the water after all." The old 'gato
hunter said that he had killed a fe1
alligators by moonlight. Occasionall
he found them in the night time awa
from the river, prowling for food in th
pine woods. Indeed the pine woods i
Sourthern Florida are filled with all
gators. I found them thicker thei
than in any other spot. The woods ar
frequently cut up into swamps an
savannas, and water stands in thes
places all the year round. The alligs
tor makes large holes in these swamp
and savannas. Ho covers the hole
with dried cane, grass, and whatever li
cun find of a similar nature. This coa
ering is raised like a cone, and is two c
three feet in height. There is a hole i
oue side of the covering, through whic
the 'gator crawls out and in. In thes
holes the female alligator raises he
family. In Turnbull swamp, near Nei
Smyrna. I saw an' alligator hole whic
seemed to be filled with young one
about eight inches long. I was huntin
deer with Mr. A. J. Alexander of Wooc
burn farm, Kentucky, and Capt. Fran
Sams, a prominent Indian river huntei
Sams Wijs about to put his hand in th
hole to pick up one of the little 'gatoi
when Mr. Alexander shouted, " Hoi
on, Sams, there's an old she one in the
hole, and she's watching you. I ca
see her head." Mr. Alexander the
drew a bead on the old she one, an
fired. There was a thrashing of tli
water as if a tiger had fallen into
cistern. Mr. Alexander had hit the ol
'gator, but had not killed her. In h<
agony she had thrown one of the littl
fellows near the mouth of her nes
Sums snatched it up and put it in h
Docket. The little fellow was ver
lively, and his eyes were as bright f
diamonds. We took him to Lowd
Hotel at Smyrna and tied him T>n tl:
mantelpiece.' He became quite tan
and would amuse himself by catchin
flies. He was very pugnacious an
would croak and snap at little sticks o
the slightest provocation. Aboi
Smyrna there arc thousands of alligi
tors. The people there say it does n<
pay to kill them for their hides, i
Smyrna is too far from a market.
It was sundown when Capt. Cor
prepared to leave the boat. He said 1
knew where there were two 'gators in
marsh near an old Indian mound, an
he was going after them. As he entei
ed his boat I asked him what was tl
length of the largest 'gator he had ev<
killed. " Fifteen feet and two inche
I reckon," he shouted back. He the
hoisted his sail, and we soon lost sigl
of him in the tall maiden cane.
A
Crowds of Northern men flock to
Enterprise during the wibter, and many
of them employ their time in hunting (
alligators, The guests sit upon the *
verandah of the hotel hour after hour
and bucLskim Every day somebody .
brings in ail alligator which has been c
shot ill the vicinity. After killing the ^
alligator, the men hitch him to the
stern of their boat with a chain and 0
tow him to the beach in front of the J
hotel. They then hire a negro to cut
off his head and skin him. After the *
head is cut off it is buried for two c
weeks. This is necessary to secure the a
monster's teeth. It is amusing to see J
eminent bankers, ministers, judges, and *
others watching a spot in the ground,
near the hotel, where they have buried *
an alligator's head. Occasionally some J1
gentleman gets hold of the wrong head, J
and then tnere is a row. Everybody J
seems crazy on the subject of alligator ^
teeth. They sell from two dollars }
apiece up to five dollars. I saw one 1:
tooth five inches longseld to Capt. Tom ?
Reeves for twenty dollars. Some ne- ^
groes make a fair living by carving a
flowers and curious figures on the *
teeth. "
a
Boy Lost. p
He had black eyes, with long lashes, *
* red cheeks, and hair almost black and jcurly.
He wore a crimson plaid jacket, J'
with full trousers buttoned on ; had a ''
habit of whistling and liked to ask ('
g questions ; was accompanied by a small a
>f black dog. It is a long while now since h
d he disappeared. I have a very pleasant
e home and much company. My guests 8
j. 6ay : "Ah ! it is pleasant to be here. 0
y Everything has such an orderly, put- n
i- away look?nothing about under foot, ?
r, no dirt." But my eyes are aching for ?
t. the sight of whitlings and cut paper on h
8 the floor; of tumbling down card 8
i. houses; of wooden sheep and cattle; w
e of pop-guns, bows and arrows, whips, a
e vops, go-carts, blocks and trumpery. I n
a want to see boats a-rigging and kites 8
I o.molrinrr T TL-Qnf fn Rfp MUmbleS On a'
I- -
n the carpet, and paste spilt on the kitchen e
a table. I want to see the chairs and the a
i. tables turned the wrong way about. I 81
e want to see candy-making and corn- P
i, popping, and to find jackknives and fish- 8:
s hooks among my muslins. Yet these b
it things used to fret me once. They say: 1
>, " How quiet you are here ! Ah ! one here ?
I may settle his brains and be at peace !" 11
y But my ears are aching for the patter- ^
ir ing of littTb feet, for a hearty shout, a t<
ir shrill whistle, a gny tra la la; for the K
a crack of little whips ; for the noise of
't drums, fifes, and tin trumpets. Yet n
i- these things made me nervous once. A .tl
r manly figure stands before me now. a
e He is taller than I, has thick whiskers, b
s wears a frock coat, a bosomed shirt, and P
g a cravat. He has just come from col- b
il lege. He brings Latin and Greek in b
s his countenance, and busts of the old 81
,t philosophers for the sitting-room. He tl
n calls me mother, but I am rather un- C
e willing to own him. He avers that he tl
e is my boy, and says that he can prove n
i, it. He brings his little boat to show tl
a the red stripe on the sail (it was the end n
e of the piece) and name on the stern, ^
r Lucy Lowe, a little girl of our neighbor, r;
3 who, because of her long curls and ti
if pretty, round face, was the chosen fae
vorite of my boy. The curls were long b
. since cut off, and she has grown to a b
i, tall, handsome girl. How his face red- P
y dens as he shows me the name on the J
n 1 hnnt! Oh. I see it all as plain as if it a
8 was written in a book ! My little boy u
u is lost, and my big boy will soon be. t<
e Oh ! I wish he were a little, tired boy, ?
s in a long, white night-gown, lying in I
o his crib, with me sitting by, holding his a
r. hand in mine, pushing the curls back c
s from his forehead, watching his eyelids I
i- droop, and listening to his deep breath- a
e ing. If I only had my little boy again, ^
e how patient I would be ! How much I ti
it would bear, and how little would I fret 8
f and scold ! I can never have him back ^
r again ! but there are still mothers who h
(v have not yet lost their little boys. I h
y wonder if they know they are living "
y their very best days ; that now is the D
e time to really enjoy their children ! I t
n think if I had been more to my little
i- boy, I might now be more to my grown- f
e up on^.?Home Magazine. ^
j Put Her Through. t
e The steamer Casrini, which lately t
i- reached Philadelphia, after a long pass- ii
s age from Liverpool, was evidently com- t
s raanded by an officer with a genius for '
e the healing art. The ship ran out of 8
r- coal, and rather than run the risk of
ir putting into Halifux, her commander
n used parts of the cargo for fuel. He
h first selected a quantity of asafcetida, s
;e and with this odorous drug fumigrated j I]
ir his passengers until he felt assured that I?.
they were safe from contracting any dis- ' j
?i case of a tvnhoid character. This novel ! .
>8 practice he followed up by burning vast
g quantities of Peruvian bark, whereby
I- he evidently believed that he would ren
k der his passengers proof against the
r. malarious poison which they would ene
counter in Philadelphia. Other articles,
s most of which are new to the materia
d medica, were subsequently packed into
it the furnaces, and the steamer was l
n brought triumphantly into port, his
n passengers being in vigorous health and j
d full of gratitude to their medicinal cap- (
ie tain. (
tj The Biter Bitten.?A man in the <
,r dress of a workman was lately walking J
in the streets of Berlin witli a packet j
t in his hand, sealed and inscribed with ; t
^ an address and a note that it contained j I
^ 100 thalers in treasury bills. As the 1 ?
*s -bearer appeared to be at a loss, he was iJ
.g accosted by a passenger, who asked him i
what he was looking for. Tlie simple 1
eountrvman placed the packet in the 11
inquirer's hamls, and requested that he
j would read the address. The reply was
n made as with an agreeable surprise:
"Why, this letter is forme! I have been
expecting it for a long while!" The
^ messenger upon this demauded ten thalers
for the carriage of the packet, which
was readily paid, with a liberal addition
ie to the porter. The new possessor of
|e the packet hastened to an obscure corner
to examine his prize ; but, on breaking
the seal, found nothing but a few
' sheets of paper, on which was written
[; "Don#"
?r Fd win Noyes, who has bled the Bank
of England to the extent of over a inilsn
lion, was formerly a dry-goods clerk at
it Newark, N. J., where, on a salary of 8750,
he boarded at the rate of 800 a week.
The King of Confidence.
kit Old Swindler under a New Name?J.
Howard Llvingiiton,who Operated In
New York In 1H71.
The New Orleans papers of a recent
late give the following details of the
iperations of a confidence man, named
lenry A. Livingston who claims to be
k brother-in-law of Colonel Tom Scott,
if Pennsylvania. This man is evidently
he fellow who operated in New York in
870-71, and not caly swindled so many
if our citizens, but deceived many lady
cquaintances. He was " looked for '
?y Detective Warren, who never capured
him, however:
Several prominent railroad men in
Jew Orleans have just escaped a mnglificent
swindle, and are congratulating
hemselves so much upon their good
uck that they don't care much about
ooking for the swindler. A man. callng
himself Henry A. Livingston, hailng
from St. Lcuis, who had the gAeral
ut of a railroad conductor from his
loots to his cap, suddenly appeared
mong them. He stated that he was
he brother-in-law of Colonel Thomas
icott, of the Pennsylvania Company,
? -1 J ItAma lotfova nil p.
Jill BilUWCU vuiiuuo uuuio icvwid jj/u*orting
to be from that railroad king,
lis wife was, according to his story,
lolonel Scott's only sister. He had
3st three or four ohildren in St. Lonis
j fever, but had his wife and two ckilren
left. He had been unfortunate,
nd did not wish to call directly upon
mother " Tom" if he could help it,
bough he showed letters apparently
enuine giving him permission to draw
n the aforesaid " Tom " to any amount
ot exceeding $50,000. He began by
corning pecuniary assistance, and wantag
only work in some railroad capacity;
e refused such insignificant offers as
500 or $800, which were made. In this
ay he established unlimited confidence,
n^ the usually wide-awake railroad
len were thrown completely off their
uard. At length he condescended to
ccept a few thousand dollare from sevral
of them, and wanted to get bank
ccommodations for $38,000, as he had
een a residence which he wished to
urchase immediately, before it was
napped up at a great bargain by someody
else. His private letters did not
nite satisfy the bank, and the bank
fficers told him that he must get a reglar
letter of credit from Colonel Scott,
diich they would honor. This he agreed
) do, and the next day showed a teleram
signed by Scott?and in a few
ays the letter of credit came. In the
leantime, however, it was ascertained
!iat he had got a telegraph office blank
ad written his own dispatch, and had
?wl DAvarul bnn/lrArl railrna/1 HflflRPH
<ll( DUTClai iiuuuiwu * ?? ? vnv? j-.
rinted in a job office in New Orleans,
[is few friends caught and cornered
im in his room, and got back various
nms of money tliey had loaned him,
ic fellow being economical after oil.
lolonel Tom Scott telegraphed them
bat Livingston was a fraud, and he has
ot yet presented his letter of credit to
lie bank or bought the contemplated
lansion. There is a woman mixed up
ith him some way, who probably repesents
his wife and writes a very beauLful
female hand.
The New Orleans Times says that
jivingston obtained the telegraph bl anks
y representing himself as assistant Suerinteudent
of the New Orleans and
nckson Railroad. The fellow appeared
t the Jackson depot in New Orleans
rith forged authority to act as conducar,
and thus laid the plan for his future
pcrations. The Times, after detailing
jivingston's career among the blacks
nd the financial circles of the Crescent
ity, says that it is now understood that
jivingston is a professional swindler,
nd had two confederates?a man and
romau?the female acting the part of
be sick wife. This woman iR about
eventcen years of age, and hails from
lissouri, and she is now enceinte, and
as gone to Mobile, while Livingston is
id buck of town among colored people?
a fact, he has made his residence among
lack people ever since his arrival in
his section of country.
' i i.-.i a.i T
10 may ue reniuiKt-u timi uiiiuj^ntuu
ailed to swindle the New Orleans tradesaeu,
and divesting himself of his conluctor's
uniform and badge, is now in
ho negro quarters awaiting an opporunitv
to escape. We believe that there
b a large standing reward for the capare
of this forger and woman slayer,
rho now turns up, after two years'
leep, in New Orleans.
Religious Statistics of the Census.
The church statistics of the late cenus
furnish some very interesting facts,
die church buildings in the United
itates number (>2,552, affording accomnodations
for 11,395,542 persons out of
lie 27,900,000 individuals over ten
ears old in the country. The total
alueof church property is $349,619,780.
die annexed table will show the strength
>f the various denominations in the
irderof their numerical preponderance:
Percentage
of Increase
in MemberKumber
of ship During
denominations. Churches. lfcfiO and 1870.
letliodiht 21.337 7
laptist 13.926 15
'resbvterian 7.071 10
Catholic 3.806 49
Christian 2.822 36
E,utheran 2.776 30
^ongregationalist 2.715 22
Episcopalian 2.601 22
lertnan Reformed 1,445 69
^riends 622 0
"nivcrsaliHts 602 0
.'uitarians 310 17
ilormons 171 250
few a 152 97
The percentages given in the above
able are, in each case (with the excep
ion of the Mormons), much less than
hose of the decade between the years
[850 and 1860. The Universalists and
he Friends, or Quakers, each lost nine
>er cent, during the last decade. Of
ill the creeds, the Methodists stand
irst in respect to the aggregate value
?f church edifices, the Catholics second,
lie Presbyterians third, the Baptists
'ourth, the Episcopalians fifth, and the
2ongregationalists sixth. A singular
act connected with the churches is
'ound in the facts that the smaller the
hnrch membership the greater the
iterary ability displayed as compared
vith the churches of greater memberill
i p.
A Kansas paper describes a man as
aeing "as sociable as a batch of candilates
two weeks before election."
Peculiar People.
We remember one old man, says an 11
exchange, with a mania for litigation,
whose favorite amusement was suing
his sons and daughters on all imaginable
pretexts. Once in a suit, no matter
now small the amount at issue might be, "
he wonld spare neither money nor time w
to push the litigation just as far as the "]
law would let it go, and that too in spite P'
of the fact that in all other matters he cj
was as penurious as a miser. We knew 81
another man once who, in riding on ?'
horseback, would always sit with his cc
back toward the animal s head, because a
he believed it a sin for anybody to sit a
otherwise on horseback since Saalam's ^1
time. Another, a neighbor of this one, ^
would always go out without his hat as ^
soon as a rain began, and would walk &
thus for hours over his farm, returning re
only when the rain ceased or night set
in. Another would not allow on his M
table sweet pickles or any salad-dress- W:
ing in which yjnegar and sugar were to
mixed, even though he was abundantly P
supplied with pickles or dressing to his
taste. In the same neighborhood lived I11
(and still lives, we believe) a gentleman ?c
who has belonged to seven different di
churches, and whose oddities of other in
kinds are innumerable. For many years ei
he thought walking the only proper n(
mode of loeomotion, and so he walked m
everywhere, even to the city, forty miles
away. Suddenly he became convinced ra
that walking was not the proper thing, dl
and ceased to walk altogether outside tli
the house. d<
Somewhat less strange than these was G
ai 1 ii?? ?t .fir
L/ie case ui a fjeutiuuinu ui uigu ^uuuiu ?
and courtly manners, who would never,
on any account, bid any on? adieu, even
when the separation was to last but a If
day. He would lay deliberate plans to p<
avoid this without seeming guilty of
discourtesy, and rarely ever failed to in
accomplish his purpose. But in any th
event he positively would not say good- ?
bye ; and if he could not evade it by la
taking French leave or in any other f?
way, he would abruptly turn his back ec
upon his friends and leave without a P<
word. He went to Europe once for a
journey of many months, and gave no ^
notice whatever of his intention to go, re
even to his own family. He left the m
house without baggage, apparently for
a ten minutes' walk, ana sent back a w
note by a servant, saying that he would tii
wait in New York for his trunks to
arrive by express. H
A good many peculiarities, of which re
we are too apt to make sport, are the wi
insult of nervous disease. Several w<
cases of the kind have come within our w
own knowledge. One of them was that p<
of a young man who would be seized P'
with an irresistible impulse to touch, m
with hand or foot, some object within a
sight. Ho would rise from his desk, h<
when writing, and cross the office to w
touch a particular spot on the wall or w
the leg of a particular chair. When
walking along the street he would feel te
bound to touch a post here and a tree tr
there, so that his progress was often Si
seriously impeded by the nervous ne- tl:
cessity. Sometimes the impulse would C
seize him after he had passed the ob- e(
ject, and he would be compelled to ri
return to it. His first meeting with the oi
lady who afterwards became his wife re
was at a partv where, seeing her, a fe
stranger, on tne opposite side of the
room, he was suddenly impelled to cross w
the floor for the purpose of laying his a!
finger on her nose, a proceeding which ni
a friend of both had to explain and C(
apologize for in an interview with the tl
lady next day. The explanation led to al
an acquaintance which ripened into *a fe
friendship and ended in a marriage, ol
But if any novelist had told this life- w
story in a book, who wouldn't have a
thought it an utterly improbable one ? b1
v<
ol
Hard Drinking Times. ti
c
It was a hard drinking time, says a
letter writer, referring to many years
ago in the old country, a time of bac- (],
chanalian toasts and royal bumpers, ^
when "gentlemen" sat down early to, tc
and rose up late from, the dining-table ; i,i
when at certain periods of the evening B(
a boy was introduced under the table to m
unloose the neckcloths of gentlemen g
who fell down drunk; and when a re- uj
monstrance at some one more temperate m
than another passing the decanter was ^
thought to be more stringent if it was jj
enforced by calling attention to the fact
"that the night was young vet?tne cal- ^
lant's not under the table!' All classes p
of society drank, and drank frequently ??
to excess too. A jovial farmer would
go into a tavern when the landlady was s|
"setting" a hen, and would never come
out again until the chickens were run- ^
ning about. His superiors might not
carry tilings to sncn an excess, diu a j{
two days' drinking-bout was thought ^
the most common thing in the world,
und the capacity for standing a certain ^
number of bottles the test of a thorough
good fellow. These were the days of a]
five-bottle men, and in St. Andrew's w
University was a student's club called
the Nine-Tumbler Club, the test of fitness
for entrance into which was the ft,
ability of the candidate, after drinking _
nine tumblers of hot whiskey toddy, to ^
{ironounce articulately the words, "Bibi-cal
cri-ti-ciBm." A miserly old laird ^
used to make it his boaBt, that so popu- w
lar a man was he that he could go to r(
market with sixpence in his pocket, and
come home drunk with the sixpence ^
still in it. ^
w
The Marriage Service.?An English w
clergyman lately reported in an evenincr i>
' contemporary some of the blunders he S
J had heard in the marriage service by ii
that class of persons who have to pick a
up tne worus as oesi iney can uy near- ?
ing them repeated by others. He said S
that in his own parish it was quite the s
fashion for a man, when giving the a
ring, to say to the woman, " With my f<
body thee I wash up, and with all my b
hurdle goods I thee and thou." He c
said the women were generally better n
up in this part of the service than the c
men. One day, however, a bride start- o
led him by promising, in what she supposed
to be the language of the prayer- S
book, to take her husband " to 'ave and a
to 'old from this day forn' a fer betterer
horse for richer power, in siggerness a
health to love cherries, and to bay." t
What meaning^ this extraordinary vow (
conveyed to her own mind the clergy- p
man said it baffled him to oonjectore. t
L .
The Island of Cuba.
iterrlew of the Herald Correeponden
O'Kell j-, with Ceepedee,the Head of tb
Cuban Insurrection?An Interestln
Statement.
The appearance of the residence c
le Cuban Government, says O'Kelh
as certainly far from impressive fc
le strictly material mind. A narro1
ath throngh the forest led to a ama
earing in the woods, in which wei
tuated some twenty huts, constructe
pcncas de manaca. The grounc
ivered with stumps of trees, and wit
scant foliage, rising on either side c
very small rivulet running throng
ie centre of the encampment,increase
te melancholy look of the place. 0
te further side of the little rivulet
oup of young officers were waiting t
ceive me, among them the son of th
resident, Colonel Cespedes. As soo
i the presentation of these gentleme
as over I was informed they were sec
conduct me to the presence of th
resident.
I followed them some distance to
it a little larger and somewhat mor
im modi our than its neighbors, but th
fiference could not excite disconter
the most envious mind. The moe
1 * - 1 -* A 3 1 11-- 1
Itnusiasuc socialist ana leveuer vruiu
it desire a more modest presidents
ansion.
On entering, a small, well-built mar
ther stout of body and below themic
e height, rose to receive me. One c
ie officers said :?" This is the Pres:
int." And at'the same time Presider
;spedes, advancing with hand extenc
I, said very distinctly in English :?
" I am very glad to see you."
I was frightfully tempted to try
ttle stage effect jand leave a mot fc
jsterity. In fact, like other people i
milar circumstances, I had arrange
i my own mind, while toiling ove
iose sharp, infernally pointed rocks,
try magnificent phrase ; but at th
at moment either my moral courag
iled or my national modesty ovei
>me me. I said .nothing worthy c
isterity, but simply expressed m
.tisfaction at seeing President Cespede
ell, and thanked him for the cordis
ception he was pleased to extend t
e.
President Cespedes is a sma1! ma
ith a good deal of iron in his compos
on, stands remarkably erect and i
irvous in action and in temperamen'
is features are small with a claim t
gularity. The forehead, high an
ell formed ; the face oval and a littl
orn by time and care ; his eyes, gra
ith a tinge of brown, are bright an
metrating. His mouth and the lows
irt of his face are concealed by
ustache and "beard of iron gray, wit
few black hairs interspersed. Whe
? smiles he shows his teeth, which ai
onderfully preserved and of extrem
hiteness.
As soon as the first exchange of com
sies was concluded the President n
oduced me to Senor Miguel Brav<
i cretario de Guerra, and afterwards t
le members of his staff. Presider
espedea then requested me to b^sea
1, nointing to a fixed stool made c
idely-planed laths, close to the tabh
i which were placed some pamphlel
dative to the Cuban question, and
>w copies of papers.
A few books and bundles of papei
ere arranged in an orderly manm
3out the hut, which contained no fu
iture but a hammock, table rudel
instructed of sticks bound together b
le Magaqua, a vegetable cord whic
sounds in the woods. In addition,
sw valises were placed against the sid
[ the hut containing the Presidentii
ardrobe. A revolver suspended froi
belt of golden texture and a sixtee
looting Winchester rifle completed tl
jry simple furniture of the Presidei
[ the Cuban Republic. The first quei
ons were about my entry into th
uban lines, and whether the Spaniard
id permitted me to pass freely. 0
arniug the threat of General Morale
a los Rios to shoot me in case I shoul
a captured, President Cespedes oflFere
) send me to Jamaica in one of the Ci
in boats that constantly make the pa
igc. This offer I declined, as I hai
ado'up my mind to return through th
i !- ?i?
pamsn lines, uniess buiuewiiiiig *ci
nexpected happens to make me alt<
17 resolution. I then expressed a wis
> be allowed to pass through the Cuba
nes to the Camaguey district, in ord<
iat I should be made acquainted wit
le state of the whole insuryectioi
resident Cespedes at once replied
Every facility shall be placed at yov
isposal to see and examine into tl
.ate of our forces, and whatever info
lation or papers you may require reli
ve to the civil or military organizatic
lall be freely placed at your disposal,
;eferring then to my letter on slave]
l Cuba, he said :?
" We were pleased with this lette
ecause it showed a desire to presei
le case of Cuba fully and truly. Thei
re many points in it, however, aboi
hich I will speak to you at a futu:
me. A hut has been placed at yoi
isposal, and as you must be fatigur
d may desire to rest, I will not detai
ou longer now, but expect you will c
le the favor of breakfasting with me
Reporter?But if Spain should final
dopt a republican form of governmei
rould not Cuba be disposed to becon
econciled to her ?
Cespedes?I cannot say what the se:
iment or feelingB of the people in tl
awns may be ; but the Cubans in arc
nil accept no reconciliation or pea<
rith Spain except on the condition .
idependence. We are separated fro
pain by an ocean of water, and haiterests
different to hers, but we a:
'so separated by an ocean of bloodsh<
nd cruelty unnecessarily used by tl
punish government in their efforts
ubdue us. The blood of our fathe
nd our brothers and of helpless, d
pucelefts families, slaughtered in co
>lood, forbids our ever accepting ai
onditions from the Spaniards. Th<
inst go away and leave us in peace, i
ontinue the war until we are all dei
r they have been exterminated.
Reporter?What would become of t]
ipaniah population in case of t]
bandonment of the island by Spain'
Cespedes?At present we look up<
11 Spaniards as enemies, and tre
hem so; but if the independence
Juba were conceded, and a Ireity
eace made with Spain, those Spanian
rho would select to remain would i
ceive the same protection as otner cmt
zens, and, as the Ctibans are a very or,e
derly and law-abiding people, if it were j8
g only shown that the Spaniards were
permitted by law to remain, they COttld ^
. do so without any fear of interference jn
or injury at the hands of the Cubans.
' Reporter?A proposition that a cer- .
' tain sum of money guaranteed by
U America should be paid to Spain as the
price of abandoning her claim to Cuba
j has been put in circulation by 6ome jjjj
parties. Would the Cubans acceptsuch
a solution of this difficulty ? ?
. Cespedes?No authoritative proposi^
tion of this nature was ever made; but ch
j if such a solution would be accepted by S<
Spain, and the sum required were not ly
unreasonable, the Cubans, in nly opinion, $2
would be willing to accept such terms,
in order to put an end to the war so W
n barbarously waged by Spain. We de- gt
sire peace, to return to the reconstruc- lei
|t tion of our homes and the well-being of wi
the country; but before everything we
want our independence. If Spain will a
continue the war we will fight until the u
e country is a desert, so that Spain shall e]
receive no benefits from the blood she ^
is shedding uselessly. But I believe
it that the public opinion of the world re
^ will not long delay in coming to our ,
d *? ai
The prospect for Cuba is very favor(
able. The Spaniards are everywhere
^ abandoning the townsandencampments
in the interior, because they have no
i longer the utrength to defend all the Pj
onnnf.fr Tt. i* mv nnininn thnt thev in- ?'
, tend retiring to the sea coast and trying ?
to maintain themselves ; but as soon as "
we can procure cannon and organize
thoroughly our army we shall attack V
|f them in the towns. There was a mo- b<
ment, about a year ago, when we were tfc
^ reduoad to terrible extremities, and we tl
wanted everything, clothing, ammuni- oi
tion, arms ; but to-day we have all
e things, and in great part taken from $
the enemy. If the war should continue hi
r we hope to profit by the experience of li
the past, and continue our system of di
' attacking the enemy, which has pro- ai
duced such good results. In fact, we
are now living on the enemy. We take ^
from him clothes and food and whatever ^
else we may need. In the beginning
we acted with too much generosity, 8I
setting at liberty the Spanish prisoners, a,
/ even after the proclamation of the
t Spanish government announcing that .
' all taken in arms Bhould be shot, and 11
j that even the women captured in the m
- insurgent districts would ue subject to R1
ten years' imprisonment or deportation *'
s to Fernando, Po. Several times I have "
1 made efforts to induce the Spanish
a Kovernment to carry on the war in a ft
. civilized manner, but without result, ir
The Spaniards have resorted to the <1
most barbarous expedients to subdue u
o us. Six different missions have left h
' ' Havana with the intention of assussiua- T
ting me. Three returned, having aban- a
doned the enterprise, and two of the
" others are supposed to have perished, a
The third was a man who presented it
if himself to enlist in the body guard of p
j" Geueral Quesada. Something suspic- d
j ious about liim caused his arrest, and T
^ concealed on his person was found a le
^ knife. Being questioned, he confessed a
' that he had been sent from Havana
with the mission to assassinate me. Of S(
course he was at once hanged, but these
circumstances show you to what lengths jt
' the Span ish^mthori ties are capable of g
" proceeding. It is pleasant to record e,
that during four years of the insurrec- n
7 tion no attempts have been made on e.
my life, although I live, as you see
, without guards and without precautions. .
j Every one is at liberty to come in here.
Onlv at night there is a single Bentinel ?
on duty before my door. "
Reporter?What may be the number 18
'. of the armed force in the field ?
Cespedes?That iB somewhat difficult ,
s~ to answer correctly. Owing to the con!
dition of disorganization to which we
were reduced a year ago a good deal of
i disorder crept in, and the difficulty of
communicating with the generals, as
, well as the absolute want of paper and n
ink with which to mako reports, ren- p
dered it impossible for the generals to C(
.* furnish the proper returns. At one 0
^ time we did not have a piece of paper as p
' big as this envelope on which to write a f,
J communication, and were obliged to
I write on the leaves of the trees ; but, c,
1 speaking generally, I think we must
' have from ten to twelve thousand armed c
, men in the field, with about an equal 0
^ number of convoycroa and servants, who q
perform service in the army. The M
strength of our forces is also liable to p
great fluctuations. In the moments of
defeat large numbers disperse or desert, p
and, when any success has been gained, c
the army is suddenly augmented to an j,
extraordinary extent. We have been j
' lately receiving large accessions from
^ the Spanish ranks, principally from the a
Cuban volunteers, many of whom come v
1 over to us with their arms and ammuni- c
1 tio?. . In the district of Bayamo I am p
informed, in a letter lately received, that c
1 nearly four hundred volunteers have p
re presented themselves, mostly white i
*1 men, and a large proportion of these p
' have brought with them their arms. 0
in The same things happened in Mayari
? after our attack. I believe that in time p
j alt the Cuban volunteers will eventually j,
7 take sides with us against Spain. /
1 Should this happen our triumph will be p
18 j
osBureu. v
n- ^
le A Murderer Dying. fi
18 E
:e James C. King, the lawyer who killed J
of O'Neill some months ago on the stairm
way leading from a law office in New *
re York, and who has been confined in the 0
re Tombs ever since, it is now pretty cer- *
?d tain will never be tried. King, since 0
le the day he committed the deed for ^
to which he entered the Tombs prison, has '
rs been sinking under the weight of sev- c
e- eral diseases, and has now come to such
Id a pass that he cannot rise from his bed. c
ly Indeed the trial, which was to have been *
sy on some time since, has beenpostponed I
or from time to time, to allow King to reid
gain his health sufficiently to appear in
court. Instead of this, however, he has a
ae been growing worse, and it is now cer- i
ae tain that he can never recover hishealth. r
1 He never leaves his bed, and lies on it j
an constantly without moving, being unable e
at even to sit up. It has been ciear for i
of some time past that he was not well, but c
of it is only within the last few days that 1
da the extent of his disease has become a
e- known. " ?
The U. S. two cent piece is to be abolhed.
In Brooklyn Peter Fox was sent to
e nenetentiary for two years for killg
nis son.
A deaf mnte entered a Peoria saloon,
tely, and wrote on his slate : " Give
e an I 0 P ner."
All the Smiths who go to Enrope this
immer will coma home Smvthes.
aompsons will omit tho "p, and
ikers will style themse ves Becairs.
The sale of pews in Dr. Hepworth's
lurch in New York was a great success.
) well did they sell that the gross yearincome
of the church will be about
150,000.
H. C. Gann, editor of the Sentinel, at
'arren, 111., accidently shot, and danirously
wounded his wife, while caressly
handling a gun which he thought
is unloaded.
The Modoc assassinations have caused
profound sensation all through the
nited States, and a general order of
termination has been issued by the
ar Department.
Dry goods merchants in New York
port an increase in the extravagance
: fashionable women this season over
ij previous season, especially in laces,
nbroideries, 6ilks, and velvet.
An act providing for the punishment
f imprisonment in the Penitentiary of
srsons convicted of bribing State
ficers or members of the General Asimbly,
has passed both branches of
te Ohio Legislature.
The grave of a woman buried in a
ermont town some months ago has
sen opened, to disprove a statement. <
one of the nersons who prepared
le body for burfal had cut off a portion
! her hair and sold it.
An Iowa druggist has been sued for
>,000 dapaages by a woman to whose
nsband he is in the habit of selling
quor. She says she does not see any
ifference between drug-shop whisky
id dram-shop whisky.
Intending visitors to the great
ustrian Exposition will do well to look
> their vaccination marks as well as to
leir letters of credit, the deaths from
nall-pox in Vienna, at last accounts,
/eraging sixty a week.
Her name is not given, but she was
eard pouring forth a volume of richest
lelody while currying a cow in Sweden,
id bos been sent to Paris, from whence
le will come to demand 84 for tickets
om American lovers of song.
There is a gentleman out West who
jels considerably taken down. He remrked
to his wife that it was lucky he
idn't meet Miss before he got ^
tarried, and his wife unfeelingly put in
er oar and said, " Yes, lucky for her."
he custody of the children has been
warded to the wife.
Dr. Brown who attempted to murder
gas collector, in New York, has been
lentified as having been sent to State
rison eleven years ago for causing the
eatli of a youug girl by malpractice,
lie murderous attack upon the gas eol ctor
was plainly made to get the
toney he displayed.
Forty years ago a revolutionary
ildier d? posited 8100 pension money
i a New Hampshire savings bank, and
l each of the two following years added
15 more. Neither principal nor interst
has ever been drawn,und the amount
ow is 81,228,81, with a share in an
rtra dividend about to be made.
Another Illinois verdict of 85,000 for
reach of promise suggests the question
liy it should be so hurd to alter a mere
itention to commit matrimony when it
i so easy to dissolve a marriage already
ansummated ; and further gives rise
) thereflectionthat 11 Dreacn-oi-promise
iwfl were repealed there would be fewer
pplications for divorce. m
CItj vs. Country Newspapers.
The city weekly newspaper i? usually
inde up from reading matter used and
aid for by the daily paper ; hence it
asts but little ; while the country paper,
n account of the limited amount of the
>cal advertising patronage, cannot afard
a daily, ana must make its weekly
rom matter expressly prepared for its
olumns.
The city paper is made general in
haracter,?adapted to one part of the
ountry as well as another, and conseuently
has a wide field for circulation; ?
rhile the country paper must be made
acuf, and adapted to its particular latiude,
hence its circulation is limited to
is particular locality. But does the
ity paper answer the purpose, and sat?fy
the wants of the country reader ?
ly no means.
The paper published in the city relizes
thousands of dollars from its adertising
patronage, while the local
ountry paper gets but a meager support
from this source. The principal
Icrk in one of the agricultural newsiaper
offices in New York informed us
hat the "advertising patronage of their
taper amounted to an annual income of
ver one hundred thousand dollars."
And yet the people of the country cxiect
the local paper to be furnished at a
ower price than the city monopoly. '
.-f.i ?i.;i? l,, ~o.ro o?uVi ?'n nilvancu for
luu nunc 11c; |/njo vu?.. ...
lis city paper, he puts his home paper
>ff with a promise to pay when he sells
lis produce after harvest, or when he
;ets ready, and can best spare the
noney, at "the end of from one to three*
ears.
The tendency of such procedure on
he part of some delinquent subscribers,
6 well as the recent act of Congress,
aking away from country publishers
,nd their county subscribers the only
>oon they ever allowed them to have,
rill require the utmost economy in the
onducting of the country papers.
The best way for subscribers to en
j l.? ?n
ounige ineir papers uuu ?rrp wviu up
o their present standard, is to be
irompt in their payments.?Exchange.
What it Costs.?Dr. Edward Young,
,t the head of the Bureau of Statistics
n Washington, estimates the amount
>&id for liquors consumed in 1870 at
1600,000,000, averaging nearly $20 for
tvery man, woman and child. The to>acco
sold in the country for smoking,
hewing, and snuffing costs $250,000,000.' ,
STo wonder so many people are poor,
vhen such sums of money are expend>d
on indulgences of this kind.