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# * ? yt fa ? ' The Beaufort Republican. AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. OUR MOTTO IS-TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR VOL. III. NO. 43. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1873. {??/&??& i " * ** I ViUrlni'.PltM Notes. NEW SPRING GOODS. Jas. G. BAILIE & BRO., KESPECTFULLY ASK TOUR ATTEN tlon to the following DESIRABLE GOODS offered by theni for sale: ENGLISH AND AMERICAN FLOOR OIL CLOTHS. 21 feet wide, and of the best quality of goods manufactured. Do you want a real good Oil Cloth ? II DO, come now and get tho very beat. Oil Clotha cut any size and laid promptly. A fall line of cheap FLOOB OIL CLOTHS, from GOc. a yard up. Table cloths all widths and colors. CARPETS. Brussels, thro^ply and Ingrain Carpota of new doaigua. A full etock of low-priced carpets from! 30c. a yard up. Carpets measured for, made and laid with dispatchj LACE CURTAINS. French Tambourd Lace, " Exquisites." Nottingham Lace, " Beautiful." Tamboured Muslin, durable and cheap, from $3.50 1 a pair and upwards. * ! CORNICES AND BANDS. Rosewood and Gilt, Plain Gilt, Walnut and G1M Cornices, with or without centres. | Curtain Bands, Pins and Loops. Cornices cut anu made to fit windows and put up. WINDOW SHADES. 1,000 Window Shades in all the new tints of color. Beautiful Gold Band -Shades, $1.(0, with all trimmlngs. Beautiful Shades 20c. each. Store Window Shades any color and any sixe. Window Shades squared and put up promptly. Walnut and painted wood Shades. RUGS AND DOOR MATS. ( New and beautiful Rugs. I D<x>r Mats, from AOc. up to the beat English Cocoa, that wear .hrce years. 100 sets Table Mats, assorted. MATTINGS. New Matting, Plain and Fancy, in all the different widths made. Mattings laid with dispatch. WALL PAPERS AND BORDERS. 3,000 Rolls Wall Papers and Borders in new patterns, in gold, panels, hall, oaks, marbles, chintzes, Ac., in every variety of eolors?beautiful, good and cheap. Paper hung if desired. HAIR CLOTHS In all widths required lor Upholstering. Buttons, Gimps and. Tacks for same. CURTAIN DAMASKS. Plain and Striped French Terrys for Curtains and v Upholstering purposes. Gimp*, Friiire, Tassels, Loops and Buttons. Moreens and Table Damasks. *U4 uawui?4UUU Uitun suit put up. PIANO AND TABLE COVERS. English Fmhroi 1 -red-Cloth and Piano Table Cor era. Embossed Fell Piano and Tibia Coven. I Plain and gold baud Hocked Piano Covert. ' Ocrmau Fringed Table Covers. CRl'.RU CLOTHS AND DRUGGETS. New patterns in any sire or width wanted. To all of which we ask your attention. All work 1 done well and in season, by James G. Bailie & Brothers, AUGUSTA, GA. _ar'.lT-iy. H. M. Stuart, M. D., ! i Corner of Bay and Eighth Streets, Beaufort, S. C. DEALER IK } DRUGS AND CUEMICAIJ, * FA MIL Y MEDICISES, t FAXCYAND TOILET ARTICLES, s ST A TIOXER }', PERF UMER Y. i BRUSHES, Ac., Ac., Ac. 1 Together with many other articles too numerous , to mention. Allot which will be sold at the lowest ] price far cash. Phyaiciana prescriptions carefully j compounded. fob.11. j ^ pierce l. mm, ; ATTORNEY A1H) COUNSELOR AT LAV. ; Solicitor Second Circuit. !. * _ _ Beaufort, S. C. JERRY SAVAGE & CO., j! Wheelwrights & Carpenters. Carts, Wagons and Carriages repaired in the beat ' Wanner at low prices. . , All kinds of Jobbing promptly attended to. MAGNOLIA St.. BEAUFORT, 3. C. ; J. K. Goethe, M. D. j Dr. Goethe offers his professional servicea to the public. He may be found at his residence, Gam Hill, near YarnsvilYe, , Beaufort Co., S. C. jan.l-ly. j A. S. HITCHCOCK, ' i ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, ! BOUNTY, PENSION AND CLAIM AGENT. UEAIFORT, 8. C. Dec.l-yr. ^ YEMASSEE Eating Saloon, ' AT THE | P. R. & S. & C. R. R. JUNCTION. The traveling public will here find Rood meal* on (he arrival of train*. Alio accommodations for man . and beast, near the depot. ; ( 13. T. SELLERS, , YEMASSEE, S. C. Xov.21-ly. W. H. CALVERT, PRACTICAL | Tin, Shent-lron. Copper & Zinc Worker. DEALER IN Japanned and Stamped Tin Wares. Constantly on ! baud, Cooking, Parlor and Box Stoves. T Kit.IS CASH. ThaDkful for past favors, and hoping by strict attention to buaines6 in tha future to merit your kind favor. W. H. CALVERT. Bay St., between Sth and 9th Sts., BE A UFO It T, S. C. Apl.3-ly. i "CHARLESTON. HOTEL, CHARLESTON, S. C. meh2Wy E. H. JACKSON. _ k [Redeem Your Lands. The A'-ta of Congress and the Regulationi of the | Trea?ury Department in regard to the Redemption of Lands now in the possession of the United States B by reason of the Direct Tax Commissioners sales oas H be had at this office. Price tec cents. By mall ti- j I j : PAUL BRODIE, A R CHIT ECT, BEMJFOJ?T,S.C. Drawing* of Model* prepared for Patent Office. Studio for apecial purpoaea, made at abort notice. Box 31, P. 0> decl-ly William Gurney, COTTON FACTOR AXD Commission Merchant, NO. 102 EAST BAY AND NORTH ATLANTIC WHARF, CHARLESTON, S. C. Particular attention given lo the eale of and xhiptn'ut of Sea I.laud and Upland Cotton. Liberal advance* made ou consignment*. du 7-ly JOHN BRODIE, Contractor & House Builder, Jobbing Punctually Attended To. OFFICE l Corner Bay and Ninth Street, BEAUFORT, S. l\ derl-tf PORT ROYAL SAW & PLANING MILL, Beaufort, S. C. D. C. WILSON & CO., manttactuhers or and dealers in Mow Pine Tiller aid Liter, and CYPRESS SHINGLES, also, Builders & Contractors. Plaster Lathes, all kinds or JOB SAWINGPromptly Done. Flooring and Ceiling Boards Always on Hand. Orders for Lumber and Timber by the cargo promptly filled. Terms Cash. D. C. WILSON & CO. _nov28-ly THE BEAUFORT H0R0L0GIST! P. M. WHITMAN, Watchmaker and Engraver, Mayo's Building, Bay Street. win rtU-fl lain norgnmi uttontiou to the repairing of VATCHESrCLOCKS and JEWELRY. Ornamental mil plain Engraving done at short notice. Gentlemen having fine Watched can test them at bid establishment by one of HOWARD A CO.'S 1500 REGULATORS. Having added to my stock one of J. BLISS A CO.'S ine Transit Instrument*, I am now prepared to furilab Beaufort time to the fraction of a second. Alfred Williams, TRIAL JUSTICE, Crofufs Building, BAY STREET, BEAUFORT, S. C. N. B.?Court still be held every Friday at Ilrick Church, St. Helena Island. mch2fi-ly A. MARK, BOOTMAKER, Bay Street, Beaufort, S. C. Having opened a shop upon Bay Street, I am prepared to do first-class work. mchSOdy A. MARK. PURE WATER Guaranteed by the use of the AMERICAN DRIVEN WELL, Now being pnt down in thiR County. They are Choap and Dnrablo, \n<l (five universal satisfaction. Pure Water can bo utroducert into any house by tho AMERICAN DRIVEN WELL in a few hours. Apply to M. L. MAINE, Sea Island Hotel, or to E. G. NICHOLS, Permanent Agent. feMT-fim S. MAYO, BAY STREET. BEAUFORT, S. C? HARDWARE, Liquors, Segars and Tobacco, Xct Yarns, Fish Line* & Cordage, Grlass, Paints and Oils, White Lead and Turpentine. Sjieeial attention Riven to mixing Paint*, and [;la*? cut to order of any pire. Mil 1 M. P OLLITZER, . Cotton Factor and Commission Merchant, BEAUFORT, S. C. sept4 The Savannah Independent, A FAMILY NEWSPAPER, Established on tbe cheap cash plan, at the low rate of only ONE DOLLAR A YEAR; Address, INDEPENDENT, P. o. Box 8M. Savannah,_Ga._ W. Gr. CAPERS, Upholsterer and Repairer. Old Furniture put In good order, Picture Fratuea made. Mattraases stuffed at tbe aborteet notice. Corner Bujr and Ninth Streets. febW-lv The Good Man's Monument. Old Neighbor Wilson's mesne were few, His seres were bnt small, His lioilse wss plain, yet comfort threw Its cheery light o'er sll. He lived not for himself slone, But did his very best To help his struggling neighbor on; And ciifcw* ?h'? lifeart oppressed. Not his the wish to garner grain, And fill his storehouce high, Merely the love of greed or gain, Or pride to gratify. He tilled his scanty fields, and strove To make the harvests fair { He knew that His rewarding love Would bless the fanner's care. And Neighbor Wilson knew that Re An honest toil would crown, And bless with sure prosperity The good seed rightly sown. Such smiles as Neighbor Wilson won From all, gold could not buy? Such gratitude foi kind acts done In love and charity* His board, though plain with humble fare, To Want was always free; Love was the ministering angel there, Who labored faithfully. He built no 'etaple high and grand, tie reared no jponumeut Of marble wrought by sculptor's hand, To show his good intent. But iu the hearts of men he raised A monument of love, Brighter than poet ever praised, The power of art to prove. Upon his grave the grass is green, And has been many a year i Yet there the mourner oft is sfeen To pause and drop a tear. WRITING FOR TUB FAPERS. Clara Leslie had just turned down the narrow, chestnut-shaded path that led along the river-side to the quiet old farm-house, where she was spending these sultry summer days?a slight, violet-eyed young girl, with heavy masses of gold brown hair, cheeks rather pale, and a dress of simple French calico, made and trimmed by her own hands. Eudocia Martin looked almost contemptuously after her, as she stood at the bend of the road, leaning lightly on Mr. Wyfori's arm. Miss Martin was tall and finely formed, with a bright color, sparkling black eyes, and a way of throwing her head back as she walked. Moreover, her at tire was of dainty checked silk, and she wore gold ornaments in her ears and at her throat. The two girls were of as different types of beauty as could easily be conceived. " Isn't it strange," said Eudocia carelessly, " that Miss Leslie prefers that horrid, stuffy little farm-house to the hotel, where everybody else that is worth knowing stays ?" " Perhaps," began Mr. Wyford quietly, " Miss Leslie's taste?" " Oh, it isn't that," interposed Eudocia, somewhat Bharply. "It'B from a motive of economy." 41 Do you think so ?" " I am quite sure of it. Don't you observe how shabbily she dresses? calico dresses, linen sets, and not a jewel about her but that plain little gold brooch that looks as if it might have oome down from the ark." "She looks very neat always, I am sure." "Just like a man's verdict," laughed Miss Eudocia. " But is it really true that she writes for the papers ?" "I believe so," answered Mr. Wyford, as he walked slowly along toward the Heathdale Hotel with his companion. " But I thought people that wrote for the papers were always so smart and brilliant, and Clara is so plain and quiet." "I don't altogether agree with either of yonr inferences, MiBs Martin." " What does she write ?" asked Eudocia, somewhat sharply. " Have you never read those exquisite little sketches under the signature of ' Clarice' in the New York Quest f" " Oh, those insignificant little affairs? Yes, of course I have ! Yon don't mean to say that the editors pay her for that sillv. sentimental trash ?' " I believe they do." Miss Martin was silent for a moment or two. Devoted as she was to dress, show, and a thousand other minor extravagances, money was a considerable object in her eyes, and she almost envied any woman who had the faculty of earning it, as it were, for herself. " Mr. Wyford," said she, with a little laugh that was meant to be very captivating, "without being conceited I do believe that I could write a great deal better than that' Clarice' nonsence. It's so simple?just like one person talking to another- no fine words or elevated phrases." " I am told that is considered the nliiof nl)orm a/ lioi* nnn " nKoorro/1 Mr Wyford, slightly elevating his eyebrows in the dusk. " I dare say it does very well, when they can't get anything better," said Eudocia, tossing her head superciliously. " Now I'vegot the plot of a charming Moorish story in my head, with old castles like the Alhambra in it, and a hand of robbers, and a magician in a black velvet robe, and? But just wait until I write it out, and I will read it to you. Don't you think the New York Guest would be delighted to publish it ?" " Really," said Mr. Wyford, dubiously, " I hardly know. I believe the quiet impersonations of every day life?" "Pshaw !" said Miss Martin, confidently. "Who cares about every-day life when they can read of princes and robbers and bandits' caves ? I think I shall call it' The Scourge of the Moors.' Or would ' Black Alfonso, or the Hurien's Doom," be better? Oh, here we are at the hotel, and I must run and get ready for tea." She was thinking, however, of "Black Alfonso" all the time she was brushing out her black curls. " I am sure I could writ* a great deal better than Clara Leslie," she told herself over and over again. "Haven't I traveled all over the United States, and visited Montreal and Quebec into the bargain; and didn't I always write poetical compositions at school that were read out every Friday afternoon ? What has Clara Leslie ever seen of the world, I should like to know? Why, they tell inn she's only a district-school teacher in New 1fork, and I don't suppose she ever had a silk dress, or went to a party in her life." As Eudocia martin *ent down stain to tea, turning over these various meditations in her mind, she met Mn. Elliott, the judge's wife, the greatest lady ih all the hotel limits, buBtliog down In her silver-gray silk, With the old-fashioned pearls in her ears. " Why, Mrs. Elliott; what's the matter ?" cried Etidbcia, is by the glitnmer of the hall light she detected the traces of tears on the lady's cheek. " You have been crying 1" Mrs. Elliott laughed. " And I am not ashpmed to confess it either," She said. "I nave bOen cryibg, Miss Martin, and I don't know who could help it when they read 'Clarice's1 beautiful sketch this week in the 'Guest, about little Willie's death; Have yon seen the Guest /" "No, ma'am," said Miss Martin, arching her upper lip with rather a contemptuous carl. "No? Well, I'll send it into youi room to-night." And kindly Mis. Elliott p&seed on. Endocia did not divnlge to Mrs. Elliott that she had learned the secret of "Clarice's' identity with simple little Clara Leslie, who boarded at the farmhouse and wore plan calico dresses; but she was more than ever confirmed in her determination to enter the lists of authorship, and eclipse Miss Leslie's light at once. She sat up late that bight drafting out a rough sketch of the Moorish story, and all the next day she shut herself up in her own room writing. She culled out the most resonant words in the die tionary?she carefully sought all manner of synonyms?she sprinkled the tale with Spanish phrases picked out oi the "Book of Quotations." to give o general idea that she was familiar with the Spanish language; and made il musical with the play of fountains in paved courts, odorous with the heavj sceht of orange groves, and luminoue with stars shining out of purple midnight heavens. "There," said Miss Eudocia to herself, wlien she had read it over for the third time, equally well pleased with each perusal, "if that don't cut oul ' Clarice,' there's no taste left in the literary world. Of course they will wish to engage me to write regularly foi them, and they must pay me well. How nice it will be to have lots of monev ol my own, without being compelled tc coax papa, as if every dollar were a drop of blood out of a stone. I wonder whal Clara Leslie does with all the monej she must earn. I know I wouldn't weai common calicoes and board at a farm house, if I had a piece in the New York Guest every week." " I am so sorry you were gone awaj A. 3?- " oni/1 Midf YCBI/tSrUttJ, lUi, T! JIUiu, u??%4 ?- ? Eudocia, as she met him at the breakfast table one morning. " Indeed ? I am much obliged to yon for being so kind as to miss me, but ] can hardly comprehend why," said th? gentleman. " I wanted to read you my story. ] sent it to The Quest by last evening'f mail." " I have no doubt it would have beer a literary treat," 6aid Mr. Wyford courteously. " Oh, I'm not at all sure of that,' said Miss Martin, tossing her head ir all the conscious pride of authorship "but I should really like to have hac your critical opinion of it. I suppost you read a great deal ?" "A little." " Though, of course, my own reading has been extensive, and if I couldn' write better than that chit of a Clari Leslie, I tvould give up. I'll send yoi a copy of the Quest containing "m; story, if you would like to see it ii print." "Thankyou," said Mr. Wyford, witl rather a queer look on his face, whicl was half a smile and half a frown, " yoi are very kind." Miss Martin whispered her secret " confidentially, of course," to ever gentleman at tne tieamaaie nouse, am two-thirds of the ladieB, and already be gan to feel the lanrels of success encir cling her brow. But on the eightl day thereafter a huge envelope wa handed her by Sam, who always wen for the mails. Endocia flushed up ti her forehead. Could it be possible tha the missive was distended with bank bills? Did The Guest pay as liberall; as all that ? The matter was speedily decided however. She tore off the envelope amid a circle of admiring and expectan friends, and out dropped " Black A1 fonso " with a strip of paper beltei round him, containing the simple words " Rcxpcctfully Declined." If Eudocia Martin did not go int hysterics, it was only because she wa not constitutionally inclined to that es cape-valve for her feelings. " Blac Alfonso " declined! " Black Alfonso a drug in the literary market! "Blac Alfonso" nnarmreciated bv pnbli taste! Eudocia swept out of tbo roorr biting her lip till yon would hav thought the teeth would have m( through the quivering flesh. She was unwontedly silent when sh came down to tea that night. Mortifie pride is by no means a quickener toth tongue, and Miss Martin would hav given the prettiest dress in her ware robe if only she had had the sense t keep her own counsel respecting "Blac Alfonso." "Eudocia," whispered Mrs. Elliott t her, "I've a bit of news for yon?thre bits of news, in fact" "Ah!" said Eudocia, trying to loo interested, "what are they ?" "In the first place, I have disoovere that the 'Clarice' who has tsken all on hearts by storm, through the witcher of her pen, is no other than Clare Leslie and that Mr. Wyford is one of the ed tors of the New York Otiett." Eudocia oolored scarlet,as she though of all the foolish things she had saic > and Mrs. Elliott want exultingly or quite unaware of the sting lingering within her words. "And what do you think Mr. Livingston tells me ? They are to be married next month. My dear, you are not ill ?" "No," said Eudocia huskily; "I?1 have only fergotten my pocket-handkerchief. And Miss Martin fled up stairs after the bit of linen cambric, that was safe in her own pocket, eoming down no ; more that night. She burned "Black Alfonso," orange i blossoms, moenlight, musical fountains, and all; and she never wrote any more lucnbrauC08 'or the New York Quest. Precautions Against Choiera. The Board of Bealth of New York has issued the following circular to " prevent the outbreak and spread of cholera'' i 1. To disinfect diarrheal aisdiarges and to purify water-closets, privieB, i drains, and cess-pools, dissolve ten cif irrn fcormerasl puuuuo Ui v. x^_jr f i m fire gallons of water, and ado lialf a pint of common carbolic acid. Keep a small quantity of this solution in the vessel which is to receive the discharges. Pour a pint of the solution into the pan of the water-closet three or four times , a day, or add half the entire quantity to the contents of an ordinary privy 1 vault. If this practice is made general in all private dwellings, not only will the house-drains of such, dwellings be disinfected, but the benefit will extend ; even to the public sewers, i 2. The seats and floors of all water closets in private houses, at ferry; houses, at hotels and lodging-houses, 1 on steamboats and rail-cars, should be i frequently washed with a solution of i one ounce of carbolic acid in each gallon of water; d. During the prevalence of feholera, all diarrheal discharges should be re\ ceived in vessels containing some of the [ disinfecting fluid, before beiDg thrown . into the privy-vault or pan of the wat.er. closet. Patients suffering with diarrhea, , however mild, should remain isolated, f observe the recumbent posture, and k avoid unripe fruits and stale vegetables. l Nothing is of more importance in these . cases than absolute rest. ! 4. Clothing, sheets, towels, etc., from r cholera patients, should be immediately , boiled ; but, when this is impracticable, . they may be thrown into a tub of water, in which have been dissolved eight ounces of sulphate of zinc, with one or ' two ounces of carbolic acid to every three or four gallons of water, or in ' watereontainingsufficientpermanganate | of potash to maintain a light purple [ color, until the articles can be boiled. 5. To absorb moisture from damp r cellars, closets, courts, and sunken . areas, use fresh stone lime, finely broken | and suitably distributed, or placed on > plates in the places to be dried. White. washing should be done with pure fresh " lime. Putrid and offensive gasses may l-?rt /1ao4*.awo/1 Kw nKlnnMo nf liTT1P B UC UCObl\tj VU UJ UU*V4?V?W v. ?mmm?w 6. Open and thoroughly ventilate . cellars, garrets, closets, sleeping-rooms, and all other apartments, and keep them p clean and dry. Observe the utmost ( cleanliness in basements, areas, and grounds about the house. 7. Personal health requires pure drinking-water, fresh air, substantial r food, the needed rest, and bathing of , ""body. j- Fashions for the Summer Season, i Riding habits of light black cloth, made with severe simplicity, are seen 1 on the forms of the most fashionable equestriennes in the Park. With these ? habits a silk hat, with narrow, rolling i brim and a crown just five inches high, ; is worn. The very high crowned hats I are going out of vogue. " The Moun; taineer," a tall crowned, black straw hat, is worn by equestriennes out of town. A long black ostrich plume j sweeps around the crown. Oxidized t silver buckles and small ostrich tips are i also seen on country riding hats, i Riding gloves are of undressed kid, y long in the wrist, cut in one piece, and j without buttons. A novelty just introduced in redini gotes is to have the fronts faced down i the whole way inside with silk or satin, i and leave the garment open, like a gentleman's overcoat. The latest fabrics , offered for redingotcs is East India bamy boo cloth, a light washing material, 1 woven very loosely, making it cooler - than linen or any other summer fabric. - Smoked pearl buttons are more approi priate for these redingotes than oxidized s silver. t Little boys ere again wearing regular o roundabout jackets, with knee breeches t sailor straw hats. The latest fancy in parasols or ladies y umbrellas is to ornament the haudh with n round knob of plain sterling sil !t ver, sterling silver band and chate i, laiue, steel ferrule at the end, twilled t silk serge cover, steel "paragon" frame [. The summer croquet shoe is of blacl d lasting, foxed with kid, tied on the in i: step, high at the back of the heel and curved low aronnd the ankle. Heeli 1 ? i * xl O DFO(UlCF RQU lower hihii mot bcutuu s Striped hosiery in various colors 01 i- white or ecru is worn with thiB style o k shoe. " Watering place polonaises for ful k dress are being made of alternate stripei c of black velvet ribbon and insertings o i, Bilk guipure or yak lace. These polon e aises are wore over colored silk skirts >t Point Rtisse and ecru linen fancy worl are taken by ladies going out of towi e for whiling away rainy days and tin d time spent indoors. Point Russe ii e simply backstitching in colored em e broidery silks on plain drab or leather I- colored cloth. o Antique designs are thus wrought 01 k chair seats, sofa cushions, lambrequii drapery and gentlemen's slippers. Th o ecru linen fancy work is simply an ap e plique cut work on ecru linen, with i buttonhole stitch in bright colored, o k white or ecru silk. Lace work is alsi becoming very fashionable. The Eliza d bethan sampler stitches are used to maki ir socques of lace intended for tidies, sof; y and toilet sets. Fayal mats, fine a >, cobwebs, made by nuns and their pupil i- in oonventa, are sold at the fancy store for toilet mats and other fancy put it pases. A set?two mats?cost iron I, SI. 75 to $5, aooordingto siss and beaut of work. Jioaern nmpiuuu;. We are supposed to hare civilized the forms and perfected the art of society. We look back on the rude feasts of our forefathers -with disdain and wonder at their gross gluttony and coarse lavishness. But, at least, they fed the poor in those days of ruder living; and a feast, if wanting in gastronomic art, was bountiful in hospitality. As it is, hospitality is a name; no more. There is none of it in the sense of sharing your goods with others, in our modern entertainments. A dinner or a soiree is a social obligation discharged perforce; or an occaii011 'or display; or both combined. To prefer tnO?e who need is as far fetooted from the caletiiawpns of the host as the "fire party" imagined by ?unch. No one who gltes ? party, as it Is called, thinks of the real pleasure or good whidh it will be to the guests; only whether it is "well done" according to the conventional standard?that is, reflecting honor on the river. The arrangements of society are in them--1 it?i? t..UnivMia irliilo aflfpfitinff | 8CIVCB Utter IJ unx uuiuuu, ?M?*? ^?? q I to be specially civilized. One could imagine e simple, generous, and most delightful banquet/ with music and flowers, and plenty of space ?<nd freedom of action?a banquet that did not include three long hours of cramp and surfeit with an indigestion to follow, or a crowded crush in a stifling room where conversation is impossible, and the music not worth listening to. One could imagine arrangements more artistically lovely than now, yet more costly; a welcome more hearty, and with less parade. But our civilization dooms us to a table where one side freezes and the other burns; where draughts chill the naked shoulders at one end, and the heated air. loaded with unwholesome vapors, threatens apoplexy at the other; to rooms where delicate women turn sick and faint for want of oxygen in a fetid atmosphere used up by two or three hundred pairs of lungs; it dooms us to accept invitations given by people we dislike and to eat things that will disagree with us, just as it dooms tis to an artificial mauner. an insincere smile, a false speech; it dooms us to open our own house to hundreds of our fellowcreatures, not half a dozen of whom we care ever to see again, just as it dooms us to the suppression of all emotion, of all earnest thought, of all honest Words; and when we have made ourselves the most like animated dolls in manner, and put ourselves to most inconvenience for things we detest and people we despise in fact, then we are considered of the best breeding and the most perfected civilization. Half the entertainments, too, given by the middle classes, are only poooihto ihrongh screwing and pinching in things more essential to the true dignity of life than the giving of a dinner badly cooked and worse arranged, which no one who eats really enjoys. Yet, if the food is questionable, kid gloves are de rigueur; and you cut your stale fish with electroplated knives and forks of the covenanted pattern. Honor to those who dare to offer simple pleasures within their means of money, and service, and whp invite to their house those whom ir will both delight and benefit, not only those whom they say they "must" by the queer law of social reciprocity in boredom and pretbnce! The New Tactics. A lecture was recently delivered before the United Service Institution, in London, by Captain Brackenbury, of the Royal Artillery, in reference to the new tactics which the modern breechloader is forcing upon the various war departments of Europe. He said that those officers who lmd not had any experience in the field with these terrible weapons would do well to give the whole subject a thorough and profound study. To go to war armed with breechloaders, proposing to meet an enemy armed with a weapon of the same 01 similar capabilities, and at the same time expect to manoeuvre in the face of 1 such an enemy with the old system of tactics, would be about as wise as tc send a fleet of wooden ships to encounter a fleet of iron-clads. The whole system of tactics must be really in' verted, as it were. Skirmishers, instead I of being the antenna, the mere feelen of an army, will be the army itself and any reserve held back to operate al > a particular moment in line or coiumn, , will merely come in on a rush to reaj the fruits of success already won, anc ! will not be itself any longer the meani ' of winning the success. The notioi " that a line will advance over or througl 1 its own skirmishers to attack the enemi beyond, is, therefore, a theory whicf c must be entirely dismissed from tlx ' minds of campaign drill-masters. Al ' recent experience shows that the way t< J get a skirmishing line forward is not t< * keep it hanging under cover in hopes o j relief, but to keep on throwing in judi * eious reinforcements, so that its lini may be constantly advancing, and, i 1 | possible, crushing back the opposinj 91 Whether it will be actual): v * 1 possible ever to strengthen the line o ' skirmishers into such close order as wil - make it approximate to the normal lim c of the present drill-books, is doubtful 1 though, of course, compression in i 0 very great degree will sometimes b 8 i forced upon a commander by the natnr * of the country. This whole questioi " j of the future of infantry opens up I most interesting and useful line o 1 speculation which, it is to be hoped 1 ; will finally crystalize in a new tactics e system fully equal to the demands o " modern warfare, a r a The success of flying machines i r truly astonishing. A Mr. Folger, u e in Michigan, recently constructed on< a went to the top of the barn, "lit onf b and went with such rapidity that he lot s his consciousness for half an horn s when he found himself bnt a few fe< - fmm the harm He thinks he could n< q h?Te been entirely unoonsciou*. othej y wise lie would not here returned to ti The Mammoth Cave property ia announced for sale, and the price named ia $500,000. The wife and daughter of Gen. Fremont are at the Grand Union, Saratoga, and will remain there ontil the clese of \ngnst. Lake George, from present indications, will have a larger patronage this season than it has had for two or three years. James Parton and several other liter V atenrs of note will snmmer at New buryport, Mass., and bathe and drive on Salisbury beach. Several new hotels and repaired ones have been opened among the Berkshire Hills, and the tide of snmmer travel is setting steadily toward them. All the hotels at the Summer resorts are now open, and Cape May, Long Branch, Saratoga, Newport, and the other places wear the appearance of aotitity. New York has nearly 50 wateringplaces, 15 or 20 of them being of wide reputation and extensively patronized, in..-- i. vomarkahle for a State with JLiiiq 10 4vii.w so little sea-ccmut. The season at the Ocean House, Newport, i? now compressed, so far as remarkable activity goes, into about four weeks, from the middle of July to the middle of August. Longfellow is gt his Nabant cottage, where he will entertain several of his friends from Boston and Cambridge, and devote only half his usual number of hours to study and composition. A nnmber of fashionable Bostoniann have already gone to Swampscott, where a long and delightful season is anticipated. Sea-side teas are to be one of . the serene dissipations of the place. An animated contest is now going on as to the possession of the best beach by a number of tbe sea-side resorts. Cape May, Atlantic City, Rye, Swampscott, sud Chelsea are the principal contestants. The Cliff Cottages, as they are known at Newport, rent for $1,200 and upward for the season, and the occupants pay S3.50 a day per head for their meals (prepared in a common kitchen), including the table service, and one regular servant for each family. The arrangement is very much liked by the cottagers. The Hot Springs, Arkansas, are believed to have been flowing for 2,800 years, so that they may lay claim to respectability through antiquity. De Soto was there, so was Bonce de Leon. Both wrote glowing accounts of the waters to the Old World, and fcr ages thei- previous virtues were handed dewn by ab original traditions. Brave James h*xw?h James Maxwell, of Glasgow, was a pilot. He belonged to a family of stnrJ? ?1 mon anr? inherited UJ tUiU CUCI^OViV *MWM| _ their qualities. In 1827 he was employed to pilot a fine steamship?the Clydesdale?from the river Clyde to tho west coast of Ireland. Every one knows the terrors of this'rock girt coast. The weather was rough, but no danger was apprehended. A foe more dreadful even than tempest was destined to attack the vessel. They had just reached the most difficult part of the Qalway coast, when the vessel was discovered to be on fire The flames burst through the paddlebox. The pilot, of course, bad charge of the vessel, and his place was on the quarter gallery, where the heat was most intense. He had to put back, and the passengers were gathered to the bow, the rapid rush of the vessel through the water keeping that part cool, while it-carried the flames and smoke backward to the quarter gallery. There stood the pilot, like a murtyr at 1 the stake?for the only chance of safety to the passengers was his keeping to his post. The master and crew did their very best to keep the place on which he stood as cool as possible, by ' deluging it with water. But soon the i cabin under him was on fire; still he f never flinched. He certainly gave him' self up, for he breathed a prayer, ? " Oh, God, provide for my wife, my mother, and my child, ana enable me s to do my duty." His feet were actually roasted on the 1 deck ; but he contrived to run the ship i into a creek, alongside a ledge of rock, ; and there every creature got safe on I shore?all uninjured except the gallant , man to whom they all, unaer God, owed > their lives. He was a terrible spectacle I of suffering ; not only were his feet disj abled, but his sturdy frame was reduced i to the utmost emaciation. His hair * J tnn voaru older ) LUnit'U ^ 1 ttjf? HO luvavu wu j v?>w ? ? in that one night. It is not on earth i that 6uch deeds are rewarded. ? Messrs. Chambers brought his case I before the public, but the brave pilot ) did nof live to realize the full benefit of > a subscription that was raised for him. f His wife did not long survive him. His - children wfcre aided in their education e by the fiimls raised. But their best inf heritance was their father's example. f A Scaly Battle at Far Rockaway. 1 A strange battle occurred at Far 9 Rockaway, Long Island, in front of the ^ Nelson House. A school of druraflsh e were chased into shallow water by a e school of porpoises. The drumflsh a tried their best to get away, but the * porpoises pursued them so hotly that a number of the former were driven ashore, j The people of the hotel were awakened ,{ by a great splashing and a noise some* what similiar to but less distinct than the grunt of a frightened hog. Look* ?r.k nf windows thev saw the *"6 W ---- ? s porpoises striking the drnmflsh with p their tails. Soon after, the porpoises >, turned and left The porters at the t, hotel and some of the fishermen secured it with boat-hooks about twenty-five dead r, drnmflsh, and a large number ore still st floating around Jamaica Bay. Ths >t drnmflsh secured weighed from thirty r- to seventy pounds each. Some were e sent tc Canarsie for exhibition, and