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T .DVRTIH-!E'RATES. T ER lALDI per Aqure-oine mh- foirstd iserati ori a 7. ra sabsequent insertion. Double EV R F. ~ S A -lM G column~ advertisements ten per cent on above. EERY WEDNESDA Y MORN ING, Ntcso etne btaisadtiue C.E -., - . d i ( u Special notices in local column 20 cents C. I[.P A prlie BY THOS. F. GRENEKERO ""1 Editorr of insertions will be kept in till forbid -f-,and charged accordingly. __________ __________ _____ _____ _____ ____ _____ _____ _ --.----- -~- - - -Special contractspeci.zmaderawithadewi rgearge vere - ~ ~ ___ --_ ___ _ ________tisers. w thi liberal deducious on above rates. . ri. Bob.- vole WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 84_- -f4w--. __ _-------- -.--- -.-~~---71 _ OCTOBER. There comes a month in the weary year m1oth oeiusre and healthfal re-t; W heu the ripe efve. falk and the air ' clear ,,teb': Ae%r4o, the crisp, the bleAl MyfAe hiisc 4gA of bliss; I drag the days of odd eleven, - 2iuai.h,We titne that sle4d. to thi .The aotth iM opens the hunter's-h'eal ea. Antd oh for the mornings crisp and whit With the sweep of the bounds upon Us track The lasrk4oofid esb, the camp-iligh The break of the deer and the rifle crack. Do you call *0is * 1 tell you frieni ArM in tbeas& is past all praise, Give,me a dozen such months on end -:ayak&mylisne oyears an For brick and m6tar breed filth ad erimi And a pulse of evil Lhat throbs and beat Aud men groA withered before their prim WiAhe L curse jmve4 in on the lanes an And lungs are choked, and shoulders ar bowed thpe sothering reek cA mill and sae In1 Death stwlks inl on the st'ugglin* erowd, Ak-' he sh *sh&w of oak ai pane. And of all to which the memory clings, *Th.W is naught s 4sweet as the suGA Where our shanties stood by the crysu sprin.gs, h -anhed Moawds, apd the lwck sota. From Tar Ai.I for October. LOVE ON A LOU. "Mia Beky Newton." WeH, sir." * "Will you marry me ?" "No, I won't." 'Yery wetl: then don't, that'i .31r. Fred-Zkorson drew avI his chair, and putting his feet up twpass. nMWeded - a nows M.i&s Becky Newto. b her Tip and went on with ber sew ing. 79h*'ond, er1 at wal 4MiV toe thoas ga(- it .: Stm had telt, this proposal eoming foi nog#za -. be.t ihe Iene sb4 hafdafticipated was not at all liki this. She had intended to refts Jn, Ut it,-was o be done grae y She wa t.remin firm notwithstanding lus. most ,eagei edrekgei iSlie wats to bare 7tol. him that though respecting ha manly worth ad upright charae ter, she could never, be to bw niere thant :4aS prciaCtCt an< -e.esifrid? 'ad intenfei to shed a few tears, perhaps, al b,e knelt writhing mn an agony o uplcaiatl,ber 'feet. -Botin sladI he hadsakeid ser the asinopli question, without any rhetorica emubellishments, and on being an a wered had pl.ungetLat once -inta b ia. ne*ppegas though he hat meIrely inquired. the .time. of day~ She could have cried with vexa "You will never have a belitei chance," he continued after pas,.r be delberateljr turne< over the eheet. to find the tele graph raiports. "A 1%&ters chadoe -fr -uhat ? "A better chance to marry youn1g, good-looking man, whos i3abry~ to the- sox la only .* c'eedcd by his bravery in their de - onsa." Fred was quoting from his newspaper, but- Miss Newtoi . did not know it. "And whose egotism is only es eeeded by his impudence," retortet the lady, sarcastieally. '-Before long," cont.inued Fred "you uw be out of the market Your ebnosycbiow, az/e get ting slimmer every day." "Sir !" "1 wwo.'4beareaktile bc for~ew!e ineiible. -Yoa wil grow old and wrinkled and "Sacik redeBess to a lady, sir,i monistrous," exelanrned Miss Newi ton, rising bastily, and flushin, to the temples. "I'll give you a final opportr nity, Miss B eek y. Will yo mar-" "Not if you wvere the king C~ England," interrupted Miss Neu ton, throwing dorn her work. "1 am not accustomed to such it suits. sir." And so saying she passed .int the house and slamimed the doe behind her. t.. "She is ne.ver so handsome a d.e when she is in a rage," though fred to himself, after she- ha eat 'ne, as he slowly folded up h der and replaced it in his poe] -ud "I was a fool to goad.her si never win her in that wa: have her," he sxeilaimiet JiAp r, Becky was silent. She was thinking, not of the accident or d the perilous position. but of Ier g appearance when she was lying i, asleep on the grass. N "How long were you there be. a- fore this happened ?" she asked. 1, "As long as you were. I was up in the tree when you came." y "You had no right to be there, e she said, coloring,-"a spy upon C my movements." t "Nousense!" he replied. "You s intruded on my privacy, and while n you slept I watched over you, lik the sweet little cherub that sits a up aloft." d I "Thank you for the service, I'm a sure." she said, bridling. y "You snored awfully." e "Mr. Eckerson, remove your k- arm from my waist." "Then put yours 'around my d neck." d - "Indeed, I will do no such a thing." LI "You will fall into the river if you do rot." e Becky was silent for several e moments, while their unwieldy t craft whirled along the current, S rolling from side to side and 0 threatening every instant to turn g completely over and tip them off. - At last she said "What are we to do ?" f "I think, now that I am started, I shall go on to New Orleans," he p replied. b "To New Orleans," exclaimed t, Becky. "It is a hundred miles." f "Yes, and the chance for a free S passage for such a distance is not t Lobe neglected. You can.gCo a ashore if you prefer." 7 She burst into tears. r "You are cruel," she said, "to 3 treat me so." v "Cruel!" exclaimed Fred, draw . ing her closer to him, quickly, V "cruel to you ?" 4 There was no help for it, and she again relapsed into silence, quite g content, apparently, to remain in r Fred's arms, and evincing now no disposition to rebel. For once in her life she was dependent on* a man. e "I want to go to New Orleans," i eontinued Fred, and after a pause; , "be.cause there is a young lady of I my acquaintance residing there, 0 whom [have an intention of in viting into thia-neighhood-" -"O0!" B "If we don4 go to New Orleans, S and if we get out of this scrape, I D shall write for her to come any. I way." . "Ah!" d "I shall obtain board for her in :, St. Jean, which will be convenient e for me as long as I remain your rk father's guest I can ride over after I breakfast every morning, youseo." C "She is an intimate friend, then," said Becky. - "I expect to marry her before long." he replied. ", "Marry her ! Why you-you B pi-oposed to me this morning." a "Yes, but you refused me. I s told you then you would never ' have another chance." '-Becky was silent again. It is a S matter of some doubt whether, Shad Fred.at that moment,' sitting g astride that cotton -wood log with ~his feet in the water and his arm around her waist, proposed to her - a second time, she would have aoc 0 cepted him or not. To be sure a e marvelous change had come over K' Becky's feelings since her tumble k into the river: She felt just then a that one strong arm like t h a I ;e which supported her, was worth a s thousand old and decrepid plan. If' ters,and she recogized the fact that ) a man who could talk. so coolly h and unconcernedly in a situation d of such extreme peril, was one of s no ordinary courage. But she e was not yet quite prepared to give d up her golden dreams. The drose IS was not quite washed out of her P soul, and she did not yet knowi ~how much she loved Fred Ecker eO son. Besides she did not half be g lieve him. The clamsy veesssel floated on, rnow root first, now sideways, and Snow-ba.lf submerged beneath the dboiling current. Their-precarious Shold became more uncertain as their frames became chilled by the Scold water, and every plunge of the log threateined to cast them Once dmore into the river. In vain Fr.ed j) endeavored to attract the attentiol ' of some one on the shore. The e cotton-wood retained acourse near o ly in th'e middle of the stream, to( i far from either bank to rendei s their outeries of much ~avail. Ai a. it grew. dark, their situation gre w more and moi-e hopeless, and tc Becky there appeared to be nc V, escape trom *d e a t h, ei,ther by r- drowning in the darkness or b - exhaustion before daybreak. -e Yet to die in this man' s armi e, seemed not wholly a terror. She ie could hardly think, if death must is come, of any way in which sh4 - wopld rather mecet it. Was it pos sible she loved him, and musi h needs be brought within the'valley t, of the shadow before she could e know her heart. Had she loved r. al[ a!ong? While she was think ning about it, chilled by the nigh a ir she- fell aisleep. When she .awoe the 5einra were 0nt hot shi aloud< "By Heaven, I'll have he cost what it may!". Vdry different vas the Fre Eckersou cif the presqnt, pacill nervously up and down the piazz from the Fred Eckerson of a fe mromnts ago, receiving his di missal from the woman ho lovei with such calm and inpertuLb: be exterior. For he loved Beek -Newton -with all his heart. Th real diffidulty in the way, as I more than half suspected, was n< so much with himself -as in hi pocket. Becky Newton had a inseparable objection to an em ty wallet. The daughter of wealthy Louisiana planter, reare e in luxury, and the recipient of weekty allowance of pin mone sufficient to pay Fred's whol 3 bills for a month, she had no in mediate idea of changing her si tatio for one of lass comfort an i independence. B e s i d es, it ha been intimated to -het- that neighboring planter of unusui I aristocratic lineage had' looked ul on her with covetous eyes. To L sure, he was old and ugly, but b was rich, and in her preser mercenary state of mind, Mi. Becky.Newton did not desire t allow such a chance of becomin a wealtby widow slip by unia proved. But alas for human nature! I Becky was reallv so indifferent t Fred Eckerson, why did she ruei u stairs after that interview,and tak the starch all out of her nice clear pillow-shama by crying herse: into hysterics on the bed. It wo not All wrath, not all vexation, was not all pique. There ws somewhere deep down in. Beck; Newton's heart, a feeling ver; much akinto remorse.-She w not sure she odFd'not soine da be sorry for what she had. don< She had.no doubt she could be ver happy as Fred Eckeison's wif< after alL "But then," she cried, grrowin hUat.with the.recolleetion, "I neve could live with such a man-oe er P' When Fred Eckerson had walli Od.off some of.his feelings on th piazza, he concluded to take a loo at the river. The Mississipp which flowed within five hundre yards of the house, was at th L time nearly-it -tbe-kigirt-of its at nual "spting rise." Its turbid wo ters, rushing swiftly towards th sea, had nearly filled the bank anda i- many places had broke through the levees and floode the lowlands for many miles. I erevass- of tiis desription ha been made in the farther bani nearly opposite the house, and th windows of the Nowton mansio commanded a view of a vast an glittering inlanti sea, not lai J down on the maps. The mai t current of the stream bore upoi its coffee.colored bosom an enoi Smous mass of floating timbei ' which was dashed along in th !boiling flood, rendering navigatio [wholly impossible. The water still rising and the frequent crasl res far an near told of the udel Smining power of the current, a rsectionBs of the sandy baiiks sua cumbed and disappeared, carryin Swith. them the trees .vhich eve: h ang the stream. Niow t:t happened. thathy a qr aus ec,iacidonce, M.iss New ton als .resolved to look at the river. SI dried .her tears, and, putting c her hat, slipped? out by the bac door to avoid Fred, and soc rfound herself at the foot of a hug eectton-wood tree on the bank b low the house. Throwing herse .upon the grass andlulle'd by the bul bling of the rapid flood' beneat her, she soon fell asleep. H~ she possessed any power of for Sseeing the foturte it 'would has Sbeen the last thing she won. - have don.e, for although it wi very. pleasant dropping asle~ Sthere inhe shade with the so Ssunlight flittering through ti leaves overhead; the awakenir was net at all to her mind. Sterrible crash made chaos of hi dreams; the ground slipped froa 'beneath her; the tall cotton-woc toppled and fel[; and Miss Ne wtc .found herself suddenly immere in the cold flood, with her mont r.irof middy water. In a mnomei more, somebody's armwa.ru and placed somewhere in the~ su1 shine, though precisely whber -she was as yet too bewildered 1 Sknow. Getting her eyes open1 last, she .found Fred Eckerson whiskers nearly brushing her fac L"Well !" *"Well ! "Where am I? asked Beck; shivering and looking arQund hi -"In the middle of the Missi sippi," replied Fred, "and you a in the fork of a eot.ton-wood-tre o and you are voyaging toward tI r Gulf of Ntexico just as fast as th freshet can carry you." S"How came you here !" t "In the same conveyance wil d yourself, Miss Becky. In fa< s you and I and the tree all can -together, to say nothing of a pc >.Lion of your father's plantatio rwhich T fear, is ost to him fore was warm and comfortable. Ra ing her head, she found hersclf veloped in Fred's coat. "Fred!" "Well !" "You have robbed yourself keep me warm. You are fre ing." "No I ain't, I took it oft becat it was so awful hot," and taki oat his handkerchief with his d engaged hand he made a pretei of wiping the perspiration fr( his brow. "How long have I been asleep "About three hours. We : drifting in shore now." "Shall we be saved ?" "I don't know. Put your ar around my neck. for I'm going take mine away." Becky did this time as she w bidden. She. not only threw i arms quickly around his ue< but she laid her head upon I breast witho'ut the slightest he tation. In the darkness Fred d not know that she imprinted kiss upon -his shirt-bosom. "Hold fast now !" he cried. "Hold on, for your dear life!" The log had been gradua nearing the shore for some tin and it now shot suddenly under large sycamore which overhu the bank aid trailed its branch in the brown ftood. Quick thought Fred seized the lir above his head, and pulled wi all h i s m i g h t. The headlo couise of the cotton-wood w checked; it plunged heavily a partly .Lurned over, its top becat entangled in the sycamore, aild terrific erackling of limbs basU< With a sudden spring Fred gain the projecting branch, draggi his clinging burden after him. In another' instant the cotto wood had brol-en away and c tinued its voyage down the riv( while the bent sycamore regain its shape with such aquick*rebou: that the two travelers were ve nearly preci pit.ated into t stream again. Fred half suppo: ing, half dragging Becky, work his way to the trunk by. a seri of gymnastics that would ha done no discredit to BlonJin, a in a moment more both had rea< ed the ground in safety. "That's a business we are w out of," ho ai4, whon he had gained his breath. "Now. whc are we?" He looked about. A light w glimmering from behind them, short distance from where th stood. Becky could not wa without great pain, and Fred Ii ed her lightly in his ar;ns a started for the house. It prov to be the dwelling of a small pla ter who was not lacking in hos tality. Here there wants we quick'ly attended to, and und the cheering influence of warm and shelter Becky was soon hi self again. They drove home the, followi day, Fred having procured t loan of the planter's horse a chaise for that purpose, p)romisi to return them by KIr. Newtoi servant the day after. The moi ing was bright and clear, and t fragrance of the orange groves w in all the air. Becky, who b maintained almost utter silen since their escape from the cott< wood, was no'less silent now. Fred himself did not appear pi ticularly c o mm u n i ca tivy e, a many miles of-the long ride w< taken without a remark from ther. It was Becky who spo first. "Fred !" she said. "Yes.". "You have saved my life, have 3 not ?" "Happy to do it any day,'' he se not knowing exactly what else to ? "I thank you very much." "Quite welcome. I am sure." There was another long siles broken only by the sound of the hore hoof upon the road. Fred him: seemed to have lost some of his hal ual ease, for he kept his whip in e stant motion, and held the reins a vously. "Fred ?" "Yes ?" "Are you going to write to il young lady in New Orleans ?" "I s'pose so." "Hadn't you-better-try agali before you-before you write ?" He turned his eyes full upon I and opened them wide. "Try again ? try what ?" "I've been ihinking through night," said Becky, bending low hide her face and carefully separat ths fringe of her mantilla, "tha-j haps-if you asked me again the s-a question-that you did yester< ~morning-I miig.ht answer a little ferent." Becky's head went against Fre shoulder, and her face became imi diately lost to view. "You darling !" he exclaimed, never intended to do otherwise. young lady in New Orleans was whi amt.But when; may I ask, y o hnge your mind ?" "I have never changed it," murmured, "I have loved you all time, but never knew it until night.'' is- Eckerson is :isked where it was that n- she fell in love with her husband, she answers, "On a Log." to J5tHiltO3l5. Lz-I ise DEPTH OF THE ATLANTIC Ig OCEAN. is. se The main theatre of sounding >m operations has been the Atlantic Ocean, which from its relation to the leading commercial nations re and for inter-continental tele. graphic purposes, has been more carefully surveyed than any other as great body of water. .Open from to pole to pole, participating in all conditions of climate, comiminica as ting freely with other seas, and er covering thirty million square miles, it is belieed to represent' general ,ceanic conditions, and to .:contain depths nearly if not quite tid as great as the other ocean basins a of the world although but little is known, it is true, in this respect _of the Indian, Ant arctic and Pacif ic Seas. The general result of ly its soundings would indicate that le the arerage depth of the Atlantic a bed is riot much more than twelve Ig thousand feet, and there seem to es -be few depressions deeper than as fitteen thousand or twenty thous a b and feet, a -little more than the th height of Mount Blanc. Dr..Thom Ig son sums up the general results as of the Atlantic soundings as fol ud lows: "In the Arctic Sea there ne is deep water reaching -to nine a thousand feet to the west -and d. southwest of Spitzbergen. Ex ad tending from the coast of Norway, I and including Iceland, the Faroe . Islands, Shetland and Orkney, n. Great Britain and;lreland, an'd the n- bed of the North Sea to the coast of France, there is a wide plateau, ad on which the depth rarely reaches id three thousand feet; but bo the y west of Iceland and communica Ie ting, doubtless, with the deep wa t.. ter in the Spitbergen Sea, a trough ad five hundred miles wide, and, in es some places, nearly twelve thous ve and feet deep, curves along the d. east coast of Greenland. This is h. the path of one of the great Arctic returns current. After sloping 11 gradually to a depth of three t-housand feet to the westward of re the coast of Ireland in latitude fifty-two degrees, the bottom sul as denly dips to ten thousand feet at a the rate of about fifteen to nine v teen feet in the one hundred, and lk from this point to within about ft- two hundred miles of the coast of 2d Newfoundland, when it begins to ad shoal- again, there is a vast undula n. ting submarine plain, averaging ?i. about twelve thousand feet in re depth below the surface-t h a er "telegraph plateau." A valley th about five hundred miles wide, r- and with a mean depth of fifteen thousand feet, stretches from off Sthe southwest coast of Ireland, ia along the coast of Europe, dipping d into the Bay of Biscay, past the , Strait of Gibraltar, and along the j west coast of Africa. Opposite .n the Cape de Verde Islands it. he seems .to merge into a slightly as deeper og, which occupies the d axis of the South Atlantic, and ce passes into the Antarctic Sa. A >n- nearly similiar- v a I c ey curves .-. around the coast of North Ameri sr- en, about 12,000 feet in depth, off ud Newfoundland and Lay-adar, and re becoming considerably deeper to i.. the southward, where it follows ke the outline of the coast of the States, and the Bahamas and Windward Islands; and finally joins the central trough of the ou South Atlantic, off the coast of Brazil, with a depth of 15,000 feet. d. ([The Popuar Science Mont/dy. A ROMANTIC CAREER. e, Ho0W A GUARDsMEN CAME TO BE e's THE HUSBAND OF A QUEEN. elf - it- A Paris telegram announces the m- death of Fernando Munoz, Dec de er- Rianzares, husband of Q n e e n . Dowager Christina of S p a i n. There was a kind of romance in - his career, or rather in the series iat of fortuitous events that would be styled such, which forbids dis missing him to dust without a -paragraph. He was born in 1810, of parentage as lowly and obscure as ery his native province in Spain, Cuenca, could supply. Who should have dreamed of any good in store bhe for him would have been pronoun to ced witless; yet at the age of ng twenty-three he was the husband er- of a queen. In December, 1829, mc Ferdinand VII, then in his forty ay fifth- year and three times a if- widower, married Christina, a - daughter of the then King of Na d's pies. She is described s having ne- been at the time an ambitious, frivolous,. unprincipled woman of "I twenty, utter-ly devcid of con he science and totally devoted to gay lly ety and pleasure. Fernando Munoz id wae then a pri.vate in the King's Guard. He was the son of a Ma he drid tobacconist and had a sister the who was a laundry maid. A few ast mdnths after her 'marriage he was 1one of the escort which accom sk nanied the Queen from Bueno Rlo tiro to Madrid. It is said that he picked up an embroidered hand kerchief which she had let fall, and gracefully presented it to her. She was at once struck with the portly bearing, handsome features, and pleasing address of the guards nan,then in hi4twentieth year, and derained him in fiamiliar conversa tion at the carriage- door for some hours. lenceforth Munoz was regarded w ith great favor at court; wealth and honors were lavis.ed on him, and three months after the death of her husband-the en feebled dissolutcFerdinand-the Queen, who was then the mother of the Princesses Isab.ella and Louise. was secretly narried to him. causing great scandal in Spain. After a stormy regency of' eight years Queer Christina was, in 1840, driven from.Spain, but three years later she returned in triumph, and soon after was marr'ed in pub lic to 'Munoz, to whom she accord ed the title of Duc de Rianzares. The Queen continued in power ev en after her daughter Isabella had attained her majority and ascend ed the throne, but was finally com pelled to leave the country in 1854, and never afterward regain ed the ascendancy she had exer cis6d. The Duke took little part in politics, and was contented with the honor of being the Queen's husband. . It was proposed in 1846 to give him a Spanish Ameri can Kingdom, but he evinced lit. tle desire for the doubtful honor. He was created agrandee of Spain of the first class, and a Knight of the Golden Fleece. In 1847, at the time of the Spanish marriages, King Louis Philippe of France gave him the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, and the French title of the Due de Montmorat. He has resided several years in France, and his wife, the Queen mother, survives him. BLINDFOLDED SOLDIERS. WONDERFUL DRILL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CADETS The San Francisco Cadets gave their first exhibition in this city in the Seventh Regiment'Armory last evening. They are the guests of t he Sdv'enh -uni d 1.at 'Puct V ST sufficient of itself to assemble a hall full of spectators. The Cadets numbered ninety-three men, com manded by Capt. McDonald and Lieutenant Bigley. The drilling squad hast evening consisted of twenty files. They entered the large drill-room in a column of twos, and after exhibiting their proficiency in changing from twosI to fours while on the march, and even in the act of facing about, their peculiar skill of drilling blindfolded was exhibited. Capt McDonald says that the theory of executing maneuvres by rule and not by sight enables men to operate1 as efficiently by night as by day. His success in drillinga chosen few under this theory was pronounced marvellous by the military men who witnessed it. The first pecu liar evolution was executing the manual of arms to the tap of the drum. The men were drawn up in colunmns of fours with wide spaces, and after executing every order of handling arms-order; carry, support, right shoulder shift, present, arms-a-port, load ing, aiming, and back to order again-no variation in the align mnent was noticeable. Blindfold marching to word of command was next exhibited. Starting in close column of twos, the align ment was.changed to-fours, sixes, and eights, then front into line, and back into close columni of twos, with as little variation as though the.men were puppets re sponding to the wire. The more difficult wheelings were not exe cuted. Right wheel on centre pivot and about-facing, left wheel, in two ranks and four ranks, were repeated several times, and when the command finally halted in two perfectly dressed ranks applause was showered uipon them. After more marching evolutions, which. w ere executed with precision, bayonets were fixed and the skir mish drill was,performed. Bear ingT in mind the necessity for keep ing the spacing accurate in this drill, their remarkable proficiency will be s-een in the fact that in the loading and firing on face and back, in single and in four ranks, rallies in twos, fours, and eights, ther-e was iio bad alignment, no mistake. When the command took off their blindfolds in two ranks, their dress wa.s as near per fect as if they had mneasur-ed every step of the various evolutions by eye. Their rifles -were next ex changed for Springfield muskets with the oldifashioned bayonet, and the bayonet exercise pci-fonrm ed -blindfold. This drill, in its rapid changes, with the gr-eater variety of positions in which the musket is held, demands more movement than the skirmish tac tics. They were so successful in the thrusts and parries, guard and lunge, that a stormy encore de.I mandcd a repetition. The closin" perfornrance was the skirmish drill % ith the lindlold removed. The moveinetiL of rallying around the flag at hollow sqnare and in eigst? with flanking fours, was introdaced for effect, and was exe eutcd with wonderful precision. [.N. '. Sun. KU-KLU'X SPEECH. .F1oIC-Citie.ns, and Lai'es in1 Purticular: I pear befb you dis e-ening fresh from de presence of my washerwoman, and de balance of my family, to elucidate de sub eCL of all de funicalties, com1icali Lies and originslities. Whar's de good tilme coiing? :,i it here ? am it dar ? Mv sweet geraniums, when de Priiice of Whales married Lucre Lia Borgia and de Radicals run off wid all de Sunday school stamps, what did Oliver. Croiiwell sav? Why, as he stood drinking a glass :f bay rum wid Barnum's bearded woman, he said to himself-"dat's what a man said." Secondly, in de third place 11 do time of do wet weather. when it rained thirty-seven days Ind twenty-four nights in de long Jry month of Augus, when Noah ;ook into de Ark, out of de wet, le elephant, de little pig,de cock roaches and all de other birds iow do you spose dat if he had ,iven de contract to build do Ark to Yovernor B dat -it would ave been finished? Of coarse it ,vouldn't. It would take everv :ent de old man had to pay de ,ommission and de taxes, because -"dat's what a man said." Fourtenth chapter eighty-ninth ection, mahogony drawers-my uight blashing seriousness: .Let, us take a front seat in. de obby and look down amid de halls >f Congress, and dar we will find bery ting a failure, from de rising >b do moon even to de going down >f de cotton market. De stars dat lidn't fell was a failure: de buro s a failure, because whar is de ligger dat eber got one ? One eyed chapter, clause twen y-fourth, s'pecial act of Rump .ongress; my beloved holy hawks, vhat does de poic say on de sub ect of a-of-so forth, and all dat ort of tings. Why he says: think, 'he lived upon nothing but viule and drink. In de seventeenth place, section le forty thieves; my Peruvin unflowers, give your divided years ny attention, which a man enters Ic holy bonds of padlock, when ie leads his gal to de haltar, does ie ever think how sad'll be his ate beoare he is bridle wise ? Now when his queen of spades consumes le reigns of Government, spose ic should be a little sulky, or de )ridle couch a little buggy, den uhar's he gwine to git his cup of sofl'ee in de morning? Why den 20 will have to wagon th'e best vay. be can, because whcn do wo nan gits to wearing de feminine render of do masculine goose, dcy tre so'. to pnt do blind bridle on le man and have dar own way. Spargrass de forty-third, sectica lick, lobster clause ; my infatna .ed1 cinnamon drops when Abra Sam Columbus brought dis world ber here, de new world.dat he rias just got up and patented, when rio came sailing up the beautiful river, what was the fust questions rio axed ? Why, my incipent dah ies as ho stood taking a drink of ager beer with President Grant, the poet and horse tamer he' ask ad Mullins what he got for the last nigger he sold. My disgusted herers. let us look it de tax bill; dlar's gwine to be i tax p)ut upon everythjng, and more too. Free dollars an inch on do gal's hoops; ten cents on R *d's melish, and dat's about as much as dey are worth. My brudder ignoramusses in de course of human events,it becomes useless to protract dis subject any furder, and now I lay me down to sleep on a ladder. A FOOLHARDY FEAT. Our correspondent S. A. MK writes from N iagara Falls: "The fools are not all dead yet. A poor fellow of this class, calling himself Signor Bellini, has concluded to out-Blondin Blondin by not only walking a tight rope stretched across the river, but then by jump ing into the water at a distance of one hundred and thirty feet.I saw him perform botIh feats this afternoon. At first i felt for the man and would rather not have him so expose himself; but aft'er a monment's reflection, I camne to the conclusion he was a ftool any how, "no loss to king nor coun try;" and that if he did not kill himself in -this- manner, he 'would certainly (10 so in- some other way,1 and ilhad just as well see it as no. S sat quite composed on the piazza of this hotel, and watched the madman to the end. The river at this point, is 1,190 feet wide ! The rope is about two' inches in diameter. He walked across from the Canada to A meri utes. and walked back to the cen tre of the river, when he jnmped in at the fearful height, ofone hun dred and thirty feet! The gene al impression is, however, that he has an India rubber rope in some way attached to his person, which brcaks the fall, otherwise he would sink, by the mere force of gravity, to the depth of fiorty or more f'eet, froi which he never could rise. The under current here runs at the rate of thirty miles per hour. and the river over two hundred feet deep ! it cost Belleni twelvo hund,red dollars to put up the rop.4 and fixtures. It will take hi son time. at twenty-five cents per man or woman, with two exhibitions per week, to make this back. But my opinion is that he will not live Iong enough to mahe it back even at this slow rate." Rail Road Matters ia Spartan burg. At an adjourned meeting held in Spartanburg, on the 13th inst , in the interest of the Spartanburg and Ash ville Rail Road, the following resolu tions were adopted: VuEREAS, the Chicago, Augusta id South Atlantic Railway Company :ontemplate building aa Airline Trunk Railway from the City of Chicago to ome point on the South Atlantic zoast, and whereas the extension of the Spartanbu'-g and Union Railroad via Butt Mountain Gap to Asheville, North Carolina, and thence by the way )f the French Broad Valley. Morris own and the Cumberland Gap.presents ,he shortest, cheapest and most prae ical route, as demonstrated by report d surveys of the most scientific engi 1eers, for reachiiig the cities of Char eston. Wilmington, Augusta, Savan iah. Resolced, That we the citizens of ipartanburg feel the deepest interest a the consummation of this great en erprise, and are alive to the iml.ort tuce of the connections along the line adicated. Resolved, That the County of Spar anburg pledges the sum of S10U0WO ,a individual subscription to this -oute. Resolced, That this m e e t i n g tppoint ten delegates nnd ten alter mates to attend the Couvention which lleetS In the City -or CILIaa on1 Lhl )th of October next, to represent the uterests of the Spartanburg, French Broad Valley and Cumberland Gap Ine. Resolved, That the Commissioners ieretofore appointed by the corpora ors of the Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad be requested to redouble .heir efforts to get the largest amount >f subscriptions at once in order that ;he Company may be organized. JOSEPH ARCH.-TuE EMIGRATION SCHEMES OF THE LEADER OF ENG r1isu WoRKINGME.-Joseph Arch, ~he workingmen's orator of England, who has arrived at Quebec, says that ~he English National Laborers' Union has established an emigration fund with which they intend helping English laboring men, if sober people, to enmi grate to America. They give one pound to the man, ten shillings to the wife, and five shillings for each child. Mr. Arch says: "Let the English laborer be assisted in reacinug Ameri ea, and convinced that he can improve his condition here, and he will engage passage on the very- first steamship that sails from Liverpool. At home he can have at the most, only an acre of ground to till. He is incredulous when he is told that he can buy hun dreds ot adres of virgin soil in Ameri ca for a few shillings -an acre ; and this brings we to mention another object which the union had in giving money to come to Americas I am here to learn the truth about emigration ques tions. My duty is to the toilers of England. I did not come here in the interest of any speculative emigration sehethie. I did not come to pander to the erotchets of demi.ogues. You have broad lands in America. Eng lish .rm laborers will make desirable citizens. Help them to get here, give the ermigrant good land and ask pay ment in easy instalmnents. You may have to lend a little governmental aid until the first crop is harvested, but after that he is independent and ready to repay 'the money you have advaneed. The Bible contains 3,586.489 letters; 775.692 words; 31.173 verses 1,197 chapters, and 66 books. The word and oc4urs 46,277 times. The word Lord occ-urs 1855 times. The word rcevrend o-curs but one. which is in the 9th verse of the 111th Psalm. The middle verse is the 8th verse of the 118th Psalm. The 21st verse of the 7th chapter of Ezra contains all the - letters of the alphabet except the let ter j. The finest chapter to read is the 26th chapter of the Acts of the Apos tIes.. The 19th chapter of 2d Kings and the 8ith chapter of Isaiah are alike. The longest verse is the 9th verse of the 8th chapter of Esther. The shortest verse is the 35th verse of the 11th chapter of St. John.. The 8th, 15th, 21st and 31st verses of the of the 107th Psalm are alike. ~ Each verse of the 136th Psalm ends alike. There are no words or names of more than six syllables.-Barper's Mfaga -