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lilil?. CM ike night the day, thon can'et not then he Jahc to any man.'* VOL. IV..NO. 33 V X. R ? B T j? - \ ?he Award of the Bine Ridge Railroad I Contract. I WHAT THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE HAVE 1 TO BAY ON THE SUBJEOT. t ?n the ??Daily News" Of tho 17th instant * -appeared a letter from Columbia, containing What purported to be a statement dorived from ".first rat? sources," of the clroumslnnces at tending tho recent letting of the work on tho Blue Ridge Railroad, and ulsoof the amount? of tho various proposals, ond the prieta at whioh Criswcll & Co. obtaiucd tho award of thc eoutraot. Tho writer, "Lux," has fallcu into a fow errors of fuct and figures, mid that tho public may bo fully iuformcd upon the matter, tho following corrections of bis statements aro mado from thc official records of tho proceed ings of tho Executive Commit tee : The lowest bid received under thc odver tiscmcnt waB $7,252,099.48; tho highest $10,160,056.94. Tho other bids wore inter mediate between these oxtremcs-that of eriswell & Co. being $9,060,527.46. Tho Executive Con.n itt c having decided to re ject all these proposals under thc terms of tho advertisement, all tho bidders were invited to a conference with tho committee, and were advised of tho action taken upon the bids, and made acquainted with the reasons therefor. At this conference wcrcprcsont all the bid ders savo ono. All were permitted to submit new proposals upon thc new basis laid down by tho committee Under this arrangement fpur proposals were received and considered by tho committee, of which thc highest amounted to $7,333,420.53, and tho lowest to $8,707,051.01. The party who made thc proposal under thc advertisement of 87,590, 000 in which "Lux" seems to take a peculiar interest, now put his proposul at 8900,000, ' ooo. .Some advantages wore ofFercd in tho de ??-.??t^'k tx* Oio.nr?otblt??JO.^hv>.?Jie..hjahcst bi?^ ders. (Criswcll & Co.,) which lcd tho coi ruittco to pursue negotiations with them ; ni the proposition having been submitted them that the}' should reduco their bid bck tho lowest, viz. : to SS,700,000, and tlx having acceded to this, thc company still ha i Og thc bcneCt of tho advances of doti heretofore mentioned, tho award was made them UH tho lowest and best bidders. TliBt tliero is room for honest difieren of opinion ns to the expediency of tho polic pursued by tho committee in thc rejection all tho original proposals, is not denied, is also possible that they erred in preform the proposal of Messrs. Criswcll & Co., ns mo advantageous to tho company than those tho other bidders. Thc committee, however, feel that they cn abundantly justify tho soundness of the judgment on those points to the Hoard of D rectors, nnd to the public. Rut thc point now made is that tho Icttin was perfectly fair and open, conducted accon ing to usage, aud that the committee not onl bud thc right, but it was their duty, to cot sider all collateral advantages offered to th coinpuny by thc bidders, as well us thc price affixed to thc different items of work. Tho work 'was finally awarded to Criswol & Co., at 68,700,000, or 87651.61 below th lowest bid from other parties, and tho com raitteo (uil to seo that in making (hut awar< they have betrayed tho trust reposod ii .them. Tho statement of "Lux" "thai *u0ro Wfll Other bids us responsible in ovory way $8,000,000 a., J 'r.88' but 11,0 *9,000,000 bid WM'accepted, is wholly om>?e?y.f?! Under the captions of "tho prico of thc trork,'' '?Lux" given the prices of Criswell's bid as compared with other proposals. Ile doe? not say in so many words that theso are the, pri?e* at whioh tho work was awarded, Lut fae eertafnly would havo tho public infer that those 'aro thc prices. Kow ?lioso prices coincide nearly with th OJ-o .f Oriswell & Co.'? first bid, but this.bid was tweeted with all others, OH has boon heroin* Ibofore ?tated, and the work was awarded to t'bovn ?t a reduction in total amount of 8900, 000 frofow that first proposed, and of course at a corresponding roduotion in prioes for ma terials and. work-. * Tho Executive Comtn?ttoo have accepted tho bid that thoy heliovo to bo t(^o most judioiouM and advantageous to thc .company, if oavriod out io good faith hy the contractors. I ir wrong, or orrorhas booh obramittod, lot tho responsibility rest on tho moinhers of tito committed present. The undersigned will boar their y^tt. Sjs^fwL^ ?X W.-HABBISON, I 'his waa dot?e*rw^d e*0?cio mouiborof J???o?tlvc '^?ffV s. CAMDON, 1 !.*. v^Hof Exoouttvo Commit. M. : ??? ? ii -Irtl?iriii r the In du oo me n ts Offered to Emigrants to South Carolina, f We dip tho following communication from the columns of tho "Cincinnati Commercial'' of tho 13th instant : STATE OP SOUTH CAROLINA, S BUREAU or AGRIGULTURAL STATISTICS, Y Columbia, S. C., 1869. ) Sir : Senator Robertson, of this State, bas forwarded mo your lottor of tho 20tb ult., in quiring Vrbut work contains the most informa tion in regard to tho agricultural resources of this StatO, with tho request that I shull fur nish yo? with a oopy. I rogrot to say that heretofore wo have boon compelled to rely entirely upon tho census reports bf tho United States, as no provision was over modo by tho State Government to procure such information, nor bas private en terprise, as far as I am apprised, evor oxorted itself in that direction. Tho present General Assembly, however, with a lively appreciation of tho advantages derived by otheV States from thc possession of full reports of their ag ricultural resources and productions, created a Bureau of Statistics which is now being or ganized, and will hereafter Supply a deficien cy that has lately become moro and moro man ifest, ns under tho operation of tho free labor system wo advance steadily to a oondition of permanent prosperity. A few weeks official experience OB Commissioner of that Bureau hus ni ready acquainted mo with n multitude of facts which would long since have largely contributed to attract tho labor and capital which recently gravitated hithorward, had they been opportunely and properly brought to publio attention. Scarcely one-fourth of this State bas over been tilled, and tho residuo now Hos in orig* iunl forest. Suoh of it as hasjbeon improved, even by tho almost primitive system of agri culture heretofore prevailing in South Caro liua has yielded harvests which, in general compare favorably with the most prolific lands of the West, and iu many oases fur surpass thom in variety and abundanoo of their pro n. ductions. Ovnr W..?M?&S?J ^usliols^of id wheat havo, ordinary cultivation, frcquoui to been modo to an aero in this State, and thc iw are instances, sinoo tho close of tho \\ ?y where, by good ploughing and a moderate v v. of manure, three hundred, bushels of co iii Iinvo been gitborodin tho samo aroa. Und to my personal observation two. hundred a twelve bushels wcro made onoue aero, willi co thc corporato limits of this oily last soosc >y ou loud that can hardly bo classed ordinal nf and yet is confidently oxpooted that tho sai It soil will, with tho employment of a little mc ,g enro, yield a third larger orop. ro Prior to 1800, our averaged harvest ji 0f acre, according to tho oflioial reports of t United Statos, was. six hundred pounds ,n cotton, twenty five bushels of corn, flfte jr bushels of whoat, forty bushols of barley, for ?. bushels of rico, ono hundred bushols of Irli and three hundred bushels of sweet potato< g and this despite tho carelessness of slave 1 \. bor, thc luck of improved agricultural impl y monts, tho parsimonious uso of manures, ai many other disadvantages of a similar oho c acter. Since tho oloso of the war this ave ," ago has boon largely increased under tho o eration of the free labor syatom, and will, b ll yond qnostion, bo greatly uugmonted by u liberal uso of modern fertilizing agon o?os. Our climate aud soil Aro adapted to tl ] growth of tho most of tho grain and fruits < j a moro Northorly lotltudo, almost as muob i os to that of thoso whioh are naturally fourj j to prosper boro, and it has beoo said wit , groat truth, that thoro is soarcely u^foot in th domuin of South Carolina whoro n plac woild not ?0U"sh. In the distribution < tho seasons wO oro po?'-^arly^ blessed, it boin neither too warm nor too oo.1'? ?ero as in th States of th? West and North. Th? plante IOROS but fow laboring days iii tho^yoar an enjoys the .inestimable advantages of a HW ocasi?n of orops. Thus, ho U onoblod to prc ' duoo ootton of long and short staple, rice, ur land and swamp, f oro, whoat, ryo, oats, bal loy, tobacoo, peas, homfV **ftx? noT8? *? ? nn evory variety of garden ^ogotable. Tn a parts of tho State grapes grow* abm. .antlj whilst poaches, apple*, pears, aprils, "? and other fruit? of olmosfc overy desorip MO aro raised in immonso quantities y X>f pcaohc alono; n single.county sends to the city o New York hundredo of thousands of bushed In bri of, South Carolina preso? ts, in hor pc , aliar looation and advantages, induoomont j to, farrows such os cannot bo surpassed b ihosb of any other State ,io tho Untom Thes sho holds out with open hands, and cordial! invites tho'ohildrcn of every seotion and elim to draw their sustenance from hoy fruitfii and generous bobbin. With the pleasnni du ty of extending this invitation t am uffloiall oharged, and, in furth?rahoo of it, I eba always bo happy to furnish any Ihformatio 1 Jn rofcronco to'tho various restir?os pf th Sta to which may be desired by yourself dr th publlo generally. . I am, vory respectfully, Corawbteio'nor, ?v. U?i?Amia??. ? "The Old Spirit in Abbeville." ! If wo bad notjjo^familiarizod ad nat?? cum to tho falsifications of tho Radioes overy whero, wo might oxprcss surprise at tho ar ticle with the obovo caption, taken from tho South Carolina Ropublioao. We, venturo to assert that not ono of our readers, Radioola not oxoopted, if he haa a glimmering of hon esty, and is not afraid to toll tho truth, will hcsitato to pronounoo tho said artiolo a sbeor fabrication from beginning to end. Io our last issue, we stated tho faots with rogard to the ocourronocs of luBt Saturday week, and wbloli ore tho very rojerso of the statements made by tho South Carolina Ropublloan. A oollision was provontcd by the kindly inter position of on Episcopal olorgymnn, and not by thc constabulary %oo. So far from being disposod to violooeo' our people aro ready to listen to reason; and so far from there being any necessity for tho prcsonco of tho eonsta* bulary foroo, there is not a man in tho Dis trict HaMo to arroyt who would not give him self np to Sheriff Cuson. We have yet to hoar of tho' ' first instance, in whioh the Sheriff has been resisted, or in*: any way hindered in tho disobargo of his duties. We are constrained to boliovo. that, thero is ia somoquortors a settled purposo to provoke.our pooplo to nets of violon oe, th ut thero may bo tho shadow of an OXOUBO for anning tho militia, eusponding tho writ of babona corpus, and dedaring martial law, in this Uistriot. Tho only purpose whioh tho constabulary foroo ha* subserved is that of giving provocation to bur people So far tho interior designs of tho onomies of our peaco have failed, and, we must confess, that WO have regarded with surprise, ns well a? admiration, the patience and forbearance of our citizens. Pespito the diabolical sobornes of tho malignants, wo do hopo, that our citi zens will be able to endure to tho ond, and by their continued quiet demoanoj, infix moro deeply tho brand of falsehood upon their de famers. TICK Cit*-?tfilUT IN ABWEVIIXK. Thornie? spirit of bitterness and violence ^".^^bo'eolorod people scorns to bo reviv* ro lng in Abbeville. The (Minuit olnves" tigation and tho State Police report a growl '? spirit of hostility and many outrages up unoffending Union people. As an exam] 3^ of tho reokloss bullying of some of tho oitizc of that notorious county, on Fridey last t n drew thoir knives on ono of tho State cous ? bios. We did not learn whether they w< fi arrested--if not, tho constable oortainly foil 10 to do bis duty, p We are also informed by private lottortl on Saturday last, eight men, "armod to t ,r teeth," m a vebed into town (at Abbeville 0 H.,) aud attomptod to got up a row, but w< ' provontcd by tho prompt and decided acti n of tho State Police thoro. Our informe ? docs not state that any arrest? wore modo, t 1 udds that thero ore in tho county two ba? of bushwhaokora, and that the. present Sti *;. police foroe is only ablo to protoot tho oitizc ' in the towns without affording - n ny assister to oouutry people on plantations, Every d & colored pcoplo aro coining into town oompla ing of having boon Mhipped, and in ma * .ways lUttlUoatcd, and ruu off thoir places tho whites. >. ; AU this should bo promptly stopped. Tl ;.' limo has oortainly oomo when forboaron J toward suoh ruffianUm has ceased to bo virtue.. Tho colored peoplo have labor * hard, ond undor most discouraging oiroui stances; but trusting onco more to tho fi 1 promises of tho land owners have put in tbi 1 oropa-watohed and tilled them with oai i and the whites hovo forborne to seriously n lost them titi they find the oropa need liti or no more attention till harvest time, wh tho whites sook every occasion possible for disturbance, heat, outrage and drive thc poor harmless families from their homes and tor what ? Pirat, to rob thom of th< hard earned crops. Second, to distress ai starve if possible thoso they so bitterly hs and have eo oruolly wronged, These wretc 08 doubtless) used to boliovo in slavery ai praotlo? it-^-but slavery is only anothor nat for robbery) they oanqot have slavery now name, so they determino to hold to tho su Mtanoo aa long na possible. But our govoi mont ?J <lu,t0 strong enough now to prott every oilispn, bowovor humble or obso?i and whatever ia noonary to aocoraplish should bo sp co di ly provided*. AND ?? EOOBHEtD. Ia Elgoftold affaira are evon moro unei tied than itt Abbaviljo--tho aplrli more vi <\i?UlYO and murderous: "vVe ?oar,bf ban being organized and armed to reitst the la and of instaooes of colored people being nu dored or run off, and their Uvea ihreniohod they returned, abd of State and ladera) o oor? notified to leave. Tbl? ?tate of Mitti will doubtlosa r^olvo prdpor attention due time by the government; Vfom v?ba^ ia taking plaoo in this abo named counties, tho duty of our party, and of every State and County ofJ&oial ia unmis takable. Speoiai and full protection must bo afforded for overy man whose lifo or property is tn on need. At whatever cost or effort we must notx fail in thia. Tho weak must bo protected-while the perpetrator of .these fiendish outrages should bo brought to sore and merited punishment. Abbeville Prent. < Longstreet, Hood and Beauregard A correspondent of tho "Boston Travoler" writes from Now Orleans : ''Into the uncompleted customhouse, upon wbioh Cen. Beauregard was working when he abandoned architecture for tho Cold, we went, admiring the grand design and tho ponderous masonry of tho building. In the rooms where the troops were quartered during the war, wo found tho desks of busy olerks surrounded by piles of official papers and bundlos of red tape. In tho basement was the postoflico, oooupying nearly the whole floor, the way to which is up tho same old riokety plank stairs, is the room occupied by Gen. Longstreet. "Ho was tbero when wo went in, and greeted us in a very cordial manner, appear ing as much at homo as any other man should in a fut oustomhouse o iii co. If a man ever has reason to smile, it is when be gets into tho customhouse ; for it is one of the neatest, prettiest, jolliest, laziest positions ever held by man. "General Hood is ruuning a commission house on tho second floor of a stono building on a sido street. He was very soeiable, and talked freely about the warj and said ho bad dono, and would do the samo fighting ovor again if ho had a chance. tie said when ho succeeded GeneralJohnston in com mand of tho westorn Confederate army he know the gamo was up. Ho was only fighting to save his honor. Tho - ' rovolut iou' was crushed when Vicksburg* fell, and bo said co at the time. He said it was painful for him to talk about tho lost causo, and he did not like to recall tho war. "Gonoral Beauregard is 'President of the ?New Orleans and Jackson railroad, and bad ?I,. ? . " . - -vbio-front building in B his office m a hne in???,. n .the wealthiest part of the city. Ho ma 0 little or no reference to the war, but conf?n 8 his conversation to the commoroial convent! 0 and the condition of the railroads. Frc what he said and our own experience, we oe 6 eluded that ucarly all tho railroads in t South . wero almost as bad stock to invest as Southern Confederacy bonds. Nearly ( * cry ono had borrowed monoy at tho Nor ' boforo tho war, and whon tho Confedera ' confiscated ull moneys, duo Northern cr?dite J they paid these sums to 'tho powers tl: 1 were j' and being now obliged to pay thc J debts to tho lawful creditors, they havo I 1 como poor as a chinch mouse. i The Suez Canal i Tho "Now York Herald" has an article i i tho opening of tho Suez Canal, whioh tak plaoe in September next. It gathers fro all aocounts that this occasion, wbioh col brates the connection of the Bed Sea ai Indian Ooorm with the Mediterranean ai 'tho Atlantic, will be conducted with a roy gathering and regal splendors nover surpasse or approaohed in tho grandest celebrations anoiout or modern timos. It says all the p tent?tes and powers of tho great divisions the earth will bo represented on the oooasio Tho Empress Eugenio, in tho namo of Pram and this FranooE-gyptian work, is to assi ia the ooremonies t ono or more of the princ and prinoosaoa of England will bo present, ar tho viceroy of Egypt will devote 1,000,0C frances in behalf of the representutivee of tl newspaper press. 200 Europoan journa will bo roprosented, and altogether the col bration io dos ti nod to bo ono of tho wo mic of tho modorn world. It says : The idea of a?hjpoanal across tho dose Isthmus of Suoz, between sixty and se von mi ice, is older than tho Pyramids; but lil tho mystery of tho inundations and tho souro of the mighty Kilo, it has passed down to ot nineteenth oentury for its prootloal solutioi An English oxploror, Slr Samuel Baker, ha1 lng oomoplotoly solved the Pfilo souroes, i unfailing stream and its annual overflow, h boen commissioned by the Egyptian Pool on a largo and I i boral ?on lo, to head an exp dition to tho groat Nile lakes of tho oquato inviow of making the longth of Egypt tl length of tho river, which flows through soi? thirtv-fivo degrees of latU**^ On the or bani, soi^c Frentjli , c> the feasibility of. Uv engages tho Fwno. upon tho wild Ara bringing tho ioflii and ibo best ?ppli E?rdpdan powors ? ? ? , ohtldres, of the di J key. thor,, who ow ff land and FranSo^V- --^NN*'-?^ . hte progresivo ab l^-^^Mrsr;*^^? Facts for the People MIK RINO THAT RULES AT WASHINGTON. Tho following is from a Fourth of July oration at Xenia, Ohio, by Brovet Brigadier General Donn Piatt : Last fall a distinguished journalist eont mo to Washington with instructions to look im partially at the transactions there, and write the truth, regardless of consequences. I did my best to comply with his request. I strove to lift myself above partisan considera tions and feelings, nnd give to print a fair statomont of all that could bo seen. I say it now, as I wrote it thou, with a sickened heart, that we have tho most corrupt govornmont in tho World. It is run by riugs. There is no moneyed interest in the land that is without its rings in Washington. Wo havo railroad rings, landjobbing rings,- Indian Buroau rings, whiskey rings, protection rings, that branch off in every conceivable direction. Aud they wore intriguing, oauoussing, boring, and, through wino and women, baiting without cessation. I do not wish to be understood as charging that a majority of our representatives in Con gress aro dishonest mon. On the contrary, I was surprised to find that, living in this at mosphere and under those influences, there were so many puro and upright men. But I will say, without fear of successful contra diction, that adding tho incapables to tho rogues they aro made tho majority. Not the least disheartening part of all this is to bo found in the utter indiffcrenoo with whioh the public at largo regard all this. It is no longer a ahorno to steal. It has ceased to be a dishonor to defraud. I saw sonators who carno to Washington with scarcely mouey enough to pay boarding house bills, rolling over tho streets in splendid equipages, and entertaining society in palatial residences They are now millionaires, and not only toi orated, but flattered, sought and sued by mer and women who would he honest woro it"th< fashion to affect that virtuo ; and if you turc from men who have made their fortunes ou of their places, it is to staro ot men win bought thoir way io. ELEGANCE DOES NOT MAKE A HOME. T never saw a garment too fine for man o . ?~ '-!-<.- f0 i maid; there was novor u ontm iou 3 a cobbler, or cooper, or king, to sit in ; nc - a house too fino to shelter the human h< . These elements about us, tho gorgeous f a tho imperial sun, are no, toogood for tho i man raoc. Elegance fits mau. But do . not value these tools of housekeeping a li i more than they aro worth, and somet? f mortgage a homo for the mahogany we wc a bring into it ? I had rather cat my din t off the head bf a barrel, or dress after ) fashion of John tho Baptistin tho wildern - or sit on & blook all my lifo, than const myself beforo I got to a home, and tal? much pains with the outside that tho im was as hollow as an empty nut. Beauty ' great thing, but beauty of garments, ho and furniture is n very tawdry ornament c pared with dom cati o lovo. AU the elega in tho world will not make a homo, uv. would give moro for a spoonful of real hot love than for shiploads of furniture; and tho gorgeousness that ell th? upholsterer/ tho world could gothor together.-Theou Parker. ----??.?? A GRAVE QUESTION.-Tho Frenoh At emyof Sciences has boon considering subject of burial grounds, and ooo of its m bora, M. Chorlos do Froyoioot, reconnue . that vaults oomposod of stone or briok sho bo abolished, as they have a tendonoy to teoeify tho mophitlo exhalations. All < fins should bo deposited in tho oarth, wh lo a short tinto will absorb all tho noxi gases. Evory burial ground must bo tl oughly drained and thickly planted with tr whioh purify th? atmosphere by the i amount of oxygen whioh they produce ; i finally, no now oe m o tories should be ni loi to bo opened within a regulated dista from any town or vi llago. LARGE trocs, evergreens or deciduous, bo safely removed, and tho most of tho r< preserved, if a moist day be seleetod. d??p?r?te need try n moonlight night. I the sun that docs tho mischief. Tree r< stands currents of hot air about r.s well fish do. Small tree* aro boiter every way ?ono can welt. Tho man who has not '^fM the pleasure of watehing growth THE RETURN OF Soui'rtBuNEita FROM, BRAZIL.-At the closo of tho rebellion a corY siderablo number of Southerners, shrinking ; from tho dreaded couscquonoes of tko triumph of Fedora! Oovorninont, organized eo'oriiieifly expeditions from Mobile, Charleston. Balti more and Nov? York-whoro thoy woro joined ;/ by certain Northern emigrants-toBtatil.*-*? In the Brazilian empire tho Southerners hoped to find in the existonooof nogro Jlavcry a guarantee for somothing like tho advantages ? which thoy used to claim in bohalf o their " own "peculiar institution" before it hal boc?Vo^ destroyed by tho war. Thoy had net tho , , slightest idoa that negro equality, as well airy |^ nogro slavery, was possible in Brazil. j Moro- f j ovor, they had boen misled by glowijig dca- >X oriptions of thc prodigious fertility of frazil, ian soil, and the inexhaustible wealth of Brazilian diamonds, and thoy were not aware of what an ineffectual struggle had been main tained for centuries by civilized man Against tho overpowering forces of nature in -that strange land. Tho last of tho home sick American colonists arrived in New York, on Sunday evening, on board the United States steam frigate Guerri?re, from Kio Janeiro. Tho Norther nora among thom aro ?atisfiod that this is a bettor country for immigration than fdr o m migration, and tho Southerners are now ready to profer thoir old homes. They agree that, after all, tho United States.' will do to live and dio in. Tho most tempt ing offers on tho part of tho Emp?rer of Brazil will not tempt thom to emigrate again. EXCESSIVE READING.--Among, other prevalent vices it would scorn that thc vtoe of exoossive reading has dono a good doal of harm, and is all tho moro hurtful because- wo aro used to think it a virtue to be encouraged. Indulgenoo in reading whatover taxes our idle fanoy is gradually ruinous to our intellectual tone, and if looked for there might bo found as curious eases of moral delirium, dyspepsia,,,^, and dooay from tho abuse of mental stimulants S as there are records of phy&ioal injury by gluttony. Not haying tlio bala nco of practi cal experience given by hard work pf any kind, the unfortunates who aro a prey to lit erature and loisuro soon succumb to the iner?^ tia induood by thoir daily surfeit of idoas. Thoy grow moro dependent on tho judgment of others than the most ignorant serfs of the darkest ages, and yiold thou ^oscienttos to tho control of their prophets with a slavish facility that would have astonished a grand inquisitor. There aro many symptoms of tho discaso evident to any looker-on in society. Every one must notioo tho rareness of good talk, tho increase of recklessness, tho craving for excitement, tho nocossity of material lux uries that all indicate woakening of the wilt and dcoay of the judgment. AXAI.Y7.INQ A WOMAN.-A 'celebrated Parisian belle, who had acquired tho habit of whitewashing hersolf-so to speak-from tho soles of her feot to the root? of her hair with chemically prepared cosmotios, ono day took a medical bath, and on omorging from it way horrified at finding hcrslf as black as an Ethi opian. Tho transformation was completo. Not n vostige of tho supreme Oauoasria^ rac |>c$8 loft, lier physician was sent for in alii and haste. ^ On his arrival he laugh immoderately said-K. "Madame v< longer a woman, but a s- ' question of medical treatm chemical aotion. I shall I ?hail submit you to a ' diluted with water, honor of combining up tho sui plier, tho phato, and WO si pretty woman." went through was rcstoiv whito vaco. J of having bor this ar metica th' AN J J Judy ft? j ?nd witty Cu ?cate nt St Ste* j acting as an nuctio ; out reserve, a fino c i Gladstono holds tho ci [xvjh?o PatnoHfc (they always givo I blunder attach of the Catholic bidders.1 ,,Ui. in hi? or h