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- , - - t 44. -'-.--.-.-.--.T 8-- 3___________ --- - -* -- - . _______-__ DEVOTED V70 POLITICS MA. L T HDU0AY NQMEMNER l COUNT VOL VL PlCIKEN Ps. KC.. TnuRSDAY,NEMR1,186 6ketftb df a anagere 'Fho manafgerie was in town. A fagro occurretice was aln oxhibition of the wild boaste, lions, tigers, polar bears, and ialhneumons, in Baltimnore, at the cai ly ddys of which we are writing, yet they came occasionally, and this time were vieied by Old Nat Wheatly, ajilly weather beaten' boatmlan, well ktowa ia Batltnort as an inveterate joker, who never ler any get to the windward of him le %vad futhermore a stutterer of the first (la,s. Nat vi-ited the manageric. As he encred, the showman was stir ) ing up the monkeys, aid toi ment itig the lion, giving elaborate des criptions of the varimus prophesities and natural eculiarities oi each and 41. 'This, ladies and gentlemen, this, I say is the African Lion. A noble bcast he is. ladies and gentlemeit, io cAlled the King of the Forest, I have (ften heard that he makes nothing of devoulring young Creutures, of every description, when at homo in the woods. Corting it is, that no other beast can whip hi .1' 'M-nmmisteil' interrupted Wheat lhy, d-do you say ho ca,ant be w 'I duz,' tiaid the man of livnis and tigers. 'Wihat wbwill yon b.b-bet I e.m' tLch a cri.ter what'll w.hip hi1u?' '1 ai't a bettin' min at nll. But I dln't object to taking a small but to that efec.' -I'll b-bet I C-cal fetch tsoethi-ng thlat m ill w. ip 1.an1. Wbhamy 30on i 1 -hutndr d d-.I-.lolla s' Now there Wer'u *Uvefah ad Uelanits in Ile crowd wihoI knew VhUatley w%oli, as d were Cally Coll- i.eed that im the e1 'was0 ac -, he wa 1e 4f - inteit-g. I he "id lin ditlictlty inl iiding~ 'U a i ,'L.ite. ut whoru t,Ild hlim fie-.461, gi ve himl tenl ga1s lit; SI un i -f oth. us e:tge, ic 11M I'lliCed at bws itow'. There he -er oIch-d in liis ca"e, h91 ag gy unaze La istling, and his tail s weeping, tAbe very picture of graudue~r and tinjesty. Th'Ie bribe was temspt ing, aund I.e felt assured.' Ger..ting sir, cer'ting; I have no objection to, old IJerculee, taking a bout with ansy cretur you may fetch.' 'iN-~vvery w-well,' said Nat, 'its a bet.' Thec monecy wvas p)hmtked up, tand the next n"iht was desgnated for theo terrible contlict. The naews was spread over1 Bal timtorec, and at an eatrly hour th.e boxes of the spacius teat re was fi!'ed-the I it bei7g cleared for thle ftrav. Ex pectation w& a iin tip-toe, and it was with g.'reat.n pat iece t hat the ~ crowd awaited the arri val ol \'/beat ley [lo at lengti entered, be:t inug a large bag or sack on his shoultder's, u bichi, as he let it fal onUt thle floor, w as ob)served to cenltain stamO re markabily hard and hueavy substnce. lThe keeper luoked on with in digna t.iOni. 'Where's yo1'ur animialr hO it g' nired. 'Thh-there,' sa id Nat, p,inutinhg w.ith his finigor al theo bag. 'WVell, what is~ iii' askod. the man; with incr'eased astonishmeanot. 'Th>-th-th)at, lh-ladies and gentle mien,' said Nat, gesticulat ing like the sihow man, 'is a w h-w h-~ hi m btin 'A whimsbamtber?' echu'eJ the keceper. ''That's3 cerlaiunly a new ILeature in) zoology anid ana'tomy. A w4imbampoul well let b.im out, an~d crlth ring, or old Hleles-mary maik0a notLt hfnul tf both of yon.'. The keeper was excited. Accord.. ingly Nat iaisdd the bag, holding the georinre dowward and o'.t rolled a huge ana,pping trtle, whtich the clheers, and langhter of the a udience flake8 the archecs ringv. 4 'Thiere h.e is)P sati. W h!eatley, as Le tilted tLhe 'whhu4bamber' oe witn both hands, .and set him on his legs. The snapper- seemed unconscioulsof his eril. Whatley mas ax'ut leav-& inq the ringx, ihet tihe keeper swore that his lion should not disgeace him self by fighting sdch a pitiable foe. 'Very weIi,' said Nat, 'if y-yo-you Ch"rch1oose to give ie the hundred dollars" 'But it is nfi t' crd the show man. The audience interposed and in bisted upon te fight. There wais fio escapw, and tle showtmai relnlctantly released the lion, making Iinself es Cre on the top oflhe caffe. The :najcstic beast moed slowly aron11d i he r ng, sim fling and lashir, while every person held his breath ill suspenSe. Lions are bezsts, and Ihis one wai not long il discovel ing the turtle which lay o lie floor, a htge, inanimate mass. The lion soon0 bronght his nose in close proxi.mity to it, wiiclh the turtle not htking pop ped out hia head and rolled its eyts, while a sort of wheeze issued forth fr-omn tzavagerous mouth. 1Te lion jumped 'a-k, turned, and made a spring at the turtle, which was now fully prepared for his reception. As the lion landed on him, the tule fastened his terrifle jaws on the lion's nlostrilk, reniered him poweiless to do harm; yet with activitg of limb lie bounded aroumid the circle, growl ed, Ioared, and lashed h inmelf, buit tl,e snai p1er hung (bil uimeniig to en joy the ride vast ly. 'G g it whiibupmile !'cried Wheat ley fiom) tile boxes. Theo Scene wats rich. The tpisw 1nam1 was lio liSs eliiialred i1aI tile lion. Draiwiig a pitli, e threat enled Nat that i it he did Wit take his Intle1 4ff Ie wtIIIo l ihot him. 'Ta-fake him ff3owYiIsl! thouted N at in reply. At this critical moment, by dint (i losiig a pt rtion of his nose, tie lion bbook his dangeat s foe fron nimi, ad clearing the space between hijmself and tie cage with a bound6 he shunak quietly ini, to chew the end of his defeat anid pain. The Augusta Constitutionalist Comes to uts contlainmng a long nec cont of the cremation ol the body of Cob. Wm. R. Sn ph)>ns, publicly in t he streets of Allgusia, by Sn organiza ion knownt as the "Orijental Oirder of lumuility." if we are niot iistak en thIiis is the first public and for mal it stance of cremat i,>n w btich hals ever taiken place in this country-. Af er an aceanut of th ro Ice ion, & 3., the coun lt of 1 he cerem)'onies as llows. "eching this, lhe colho,, a hand S 1n)e rose-w O'RI, u pon w h ich w;as on ~raveud upon0 a si: ver pltate, Wu1.unt~ It. Surres, Aged 42, Died-November 4 hi, 18S76. was pahiced uiponi the pile, and ihec order " as t hen gaither'ed ini a cirele, solem-anid, peclia, arm.n the mi tial reain:iutS of' the deceased brot bi er. Altar thea singnar pray er of.th Oi der haud been deliv'ered by the Jun) ir Friar, the torch was solemnlyb and deliber-ately applie0d to the) pi le, (11neeth flamies in forkedl ton 'nee leapeid up wards, nil I t hey seemedr faily) to reach thle cloius. Thec cof fii wasI soon) enveopedC( ini fLtines anid thiousanlids of our' citizas~ saw what had never been knowna here before at huo.anll budl y' cot.sumed by fire CDr emated . Baleoniies, w indows, hant~op)s, treesP, awn1igs, to say not hing of I lie livinIg was that thrc-n g ud the street, we-re crowded to wi: ness- the sininlar acnd mou rinul pro coedocg. WVhile the fire was hip Iping~ in angry ttnry J.he lifeleless body of this great man the Friar- delivered in the peenla r anguiage oif thle order I most eloquent and t ouebiing org. tiotI. We have3 nevero in ad. ou ex perietnce heard anyt hinig egnal, to) i-. We wouldi give it in full, but it is just o:e of those tliings that (an be a)precifded only by heftoing- it de livered. Soon the coffiu begau 't erimble, whenl a gashly spectacle was, presented to the eye. Tie body blackened, burning, hissing, sinok ilog, wai clearly vi6iblo and as the stifling odors filled the air,th shrieks and ci ies of non, women and chil-, dretn could be heard on all sides~ Many said horrible, horrible? others Laid surely he cau never burn again; while others cried what a consola., tiun to his widow to know that he !iaen't gutto lie in the cold, grotynd all alone. The fire lighted the heav. ens il over the central part of the city, and the entire proceeding from the beginning to the end, was one of the most ghastly as wtil ns gloomy, peciliar and * teresting ceremonies which has over occurred in this city. After the funeral fires had burned down, all that was mortal of V. R. Suppile was gathered in the urn by the "Most Worthy Keeper of the Society headed by the band playing the dirge specially written for the "ccasioln, entitled, "le has goto to his long, long home, uncooled - by clay, tinsoaked by water," returned to the ht where the asbes wero de posited in the vault and the society dispersed. A large nutrber of our citiz!iis visited the lUt on yesterday, where the body was lying in state. We leern that Col. Suppus moved to Atlanta about two years agn, and w%ai highly esteemed in that city as a man of morality, intelligence and sinigular liberality. lie leaves a % id.w ntid se ci small children who a: e *ortunaitelv' well 1,rovided fur, but w u are to become the "wardens of the society in Augusta." Such is the la:nguage of Le will. Don't Belong to Our Party. The old Knickerbocker nagazine, under the editortbip of Loms Gay loi d Clark was famous twenty or thirty years ago for its out-of-the way aneedotes.. Among them was onie concerning a party which exia ted in one ol the Southern States about the time of the first election of Gen. Wabhington to the Presidency, called the "Jebn Jones' party." TLae said John Jones, after whom the party took its name, was a man o'f talent, a plotting, shrewed fellow, with a good deal of a kind of "yankee cuaning;" in short, possessing all the requisites of a successtal politician, exep personal popularity. To over comne this latter defiiciency, of whtich lie wasu well awiare, especcially in ai conitest with a popular candidate for1 conlgress, John Jones early avowed himwselfC as thle pecul iair and aiCvoted friend of Gein. Washington, aund on th.is safe gro'und, as he though t, lhe en deavored to place his rival inop position. Ini 01 der! to carriy out this lhject more effetuaally, he called ai meetc!ing ini his county, of "all those frienudly to the elct ion of Geni. W ash ing to;a." On the (lay ap)pointed Mr. John1 Jones a~ lppeared and was ona the cut tad- ried motion of a f'ricem.ily aud hieren,t, made chiairman of the meet ing Ile opened the pr'oceedinigs by a high and carefully studied eulogi umn upon the life and servige of WVash ingtaon, but taking care only to speak of' himself as his early pa tron and most devoted friend, iIe concluded his remarks by a pr'Oposi tioni to form a p)arty, to be called "The True and Only Sons of the Fathmer of his Country," and for that object he su bmitted to the meeting a resol'atioun something like the fol low inig: "Resolved, That we are the~ friends of Gen. George Waushington, and will sustain him ini the coming elec tion~ against all Competitors." "Gen tlemen," said Mr. J"nes, after reading the reoltutionI, "the chair is now about to put theo question! Tihe sebaleman hopes that overv man. wint declard his gentimen~t eith'i- for" ol against the rmsoltition. All' hogb fti ftort of tle resolution li iea ,O jo say 69AY.0 A thundering "Ay" shook the very walls of the building. The ini- i ted voices were like t'be "sound of I guany waters." . I "Nw, gentlemen, for th oppoqi, I tion," ssid John Jones. "All thwee < who are contrary minded will please i to say "No.1 I Not a solitary voice was heard.- i The dead silence seemed to cot)ise I Mr Jones very much. After gone i hesitation and fidgeting he said: I "Geitlemen, do vote. The chair i cahno% dcid% a (Jisputed qiestion a when nobody votes for the oter side < We want a direct vote, so that the t country may know who are the realI true friends of Gen, WaArilgtoR." I Upon thii- appeal one of the audi- O 9nce arose and said: "I perceive the- unpleasant dileiu t ma inl which the chair is ulaced, and t in order to relieve the presiding offi, cer from his qinndry I now p oposa to amuend the reso1ition by addiing, after the tiatno (f'Gen. Washington-. and John Jones foir Oongrets." Ilhe amendiutnt is in ordr-I accept the amendment," satid tle chairman, speaking very quickly; 4 "and the chair will now put the question as amended: "All those who are ir. favor of Gen. Wa6hingtons for President and John Jones for Copgress y1 ase saj "Ay." "Ay-a. !' said J ml- tes atnd Iias brother, with loud voices, which they had suipposvd wouid be- drown ed itt the unauimons thunder of -the, affirmative vote. Thle'1chair'tquiir i -ed and hetsitaved "Put the contrar V" s:iid a hmdred vo'eej at the samte m]enIC01t "All those op-po-po-qed," said the chla-ir, "will please say No." "No-o-ot" thundred everr voice but two inl the whole assembly, and those werve Janes' and his br'~othe's. Theni followed a roar of laughter, as Carlyle says, "li -.e the neighing af al' T1atteraall's." "Gentlemen," said Mr. J 'nes, II e chair perceives that there tare pol in this meeting who don'- belong to. our party; ulhey have evidently comet here to agitate and make mnischief. I do thaerefare do now adjouarn this meetintgI" A stanage breaeb of p~ omnise case is on trial in a San Franis~co c.minrt, theo pecnliarity being that a woman enes a mann fir refusIihng to keep a mnan i tmnatl engagemtent made wiakh hier while bhe was the w ife of anlon - er' ittan. M s. Ed wards wa~s thte yotung wife ofl an old hus3band', ald she grew tired of the, inac.ngr'ons relattion. Mr'. KeatinIg w*as neale r bes5towed oun ,m lte affeca ion wv.. ich her' husaband COld not L'aini. MIr. Keatinug gave her his he'art,an Iprom''~ised to give her his htandl as soon as she could be treed from Mr'. Ed wards. Several years were occa pied in securing that freed. ni, for Mrt. Edwoard's behtavior as a husband was not bad eonght to make a di - vorce easy' to go-; tunt a leg il sep:a, rationi wa< at lengt a effeted. In the manJItimeth,e e iurtedhip betwveen Mr. lheat ing anid Mrs. Edwards had progressed in~ a way that woid have been pa oper' had ehe not bee1 a wire. Many love letters were written and prep,r'tIationI w er'e made f'ora mnaiage. A fter t he hacusbanu d w as no linger anu obstacle, however, Mr. Keatinig's ardor cooled gradunaly, atntil bie n. longer des!ir'ed to arraty Mrs. Ed.. wards. TIhereupon she btroughtt the suit, whiCh the pr'esiding Judge says is nny.-ecedented in the history of. law. What is that witiebt Adamn naever saw, never possessed, and y,et he'gave to each of his childreuot-ParD C6B&'f' Ma~ing aVAedt. The Aierican peolle, said anl I toish wi ifer op our politics, is e >erpdtua).y voting for some election or oth.pr, Somebody,, it j"ight be I dded, has to lwar the expense of hese perpetual elections. Just What ho expenlse is, in a general canvassi ike that which is now drawinL to ai 1oso,.it is diffluilt to eAtimrte . with my aplroach to accuracy; for 'there V-re no statistiets extant nyon the mbject, and the Imliticians who plai vid condi.ct (jampa!giii are natumallyi 'eticenlt upin such matters. It is >lain, however, that there must be Shelavy outlay of lioley. The pr-in. ikg ad distribm ion of campaign loelmente, tle rental of public ha1S ho pay <f sturp speake-is, ihe pu- i :base of bantners, torches, unit r ifr umd other paraphernalih; the exIpene of postage and tLlegI aiphing-aUI he8e are m-ecessary outlays, and wheni he exteit to which they are carried iruighout time euntry is born in1 i ind it becomes very apparent that lie aggregate must be enormons. A marag aph has laely. been goihig the (14nds of tle prel-, to the effect that lie strentuous campaign in Indiana irepaautory to the leceit State elec i n consumed $10,000,(00. This is, )t course, wild extiggerattion, based :pon a mere random gues. An es imaute I liat seems to us not far from he truth places time averi:o cost of a Presidenwial electin at about 1.500, )110 for each (it the great oppusiig 1arties>r a total of q3,000,000. Ac, 3oept og this as withii the boumids of probabiiiiy it would seem that the exPeiits (t ? utting Mr. Tilden or Mr. I ia, es .ito the White 11ouse is fif it e'l times greater than the whole a Ilu ut of ta11ry j3aid to time icim bent durrig his term of four vear. u"fling tie population of the c1u1utry atlt,it 40,OO0,000, this would be equivaleti to a tax of seven and one hialf ceits a head for every mDan, Wo 1m1n and child in the United States. The nmaintenanmce, of time court of France for the first year of time second empire was less than two cents per head of' thle p opauat ion. it appears ilhat t he cost ot making a Pi esident may bd greater than thait of keeping '1he exp'enses of of our' elections, hm'gevor, are borne nimilh by3 volumn. ary3 conitrm imutlonl. The burdenm fal ls eli efly iin wealthy part isanis who' ex ect to shmare in soume uayL tihe bene fits ei nug frtom time elhet ion of t heir cand,~idate. It takes thme turin of a I ax only' in the case of oflice holders, whoie am e assessed for elect ion exp.en a-es b.> tihe party in ['oer, a custom thLat of eni falls heavily u ipon deparit melit cler'ks and miinor o fficial s. Time bim den tainebles thle peo pie reimotely aund idirect ly it all, wile in reality they der ive ani actunial and imnmed iate bemefit ThIe s intus devices by whiichi t heir ey mi at bmy andt support are enli cited sem ve to aiwakeni a iore active iterest in pul ic affai rs, anid time nuases t hierebiy acqu'ire thle rudinit ini a athym3 and ignmoram cc of time con. dion) of thme country amid time admin ist rain ofii i thle govern iment Great as the cosis of our elections) may be thiey cannmlot be lamenmted as8 anm un--i miitigateid burmden npon the people. Ne.s York ileralid. Novel Reading. The thmeatrie and ime wvine cup have beeni justly charged with ontailinug iorro. ~v on1 mnanmy a hiit herto hmapp)y b4mily; but it is the sodlmn conmvic tion of time wrmiter, that thme novel somfes iln for I t nl share of perni mions influenice. F'ollow thmat younag mnan who has b)en JullIinig over' the fiet icious ti ahe, beh1 id ml he coun ter , or at hisi de-k, to time dombestic circle and see whmethmer he meUets the~ glad steps oif his sistev as in the days of hm ii h ihood he was wont; or' whethi er he 'Oturnfs the~ w elom of hmis mol'ther with that io,gmuo -u; viichl most gladdeus A art. -Mark the husband whe..as oaght recreation from the pages- of omance, and see~ wheather lIe eiterg lie Ime 0his' wile and ch4dre, v itI a .ligltes.heart or a kindlieu greoting. Watch the mother wi ias been forced to d'eeend fri6i%fte deail world to the prosiempInp iie 4 the needle, and see whether .*rt ieeins to be in. the. work, Look..at he datighter who-is accustotned t6 rim the inidnight lAmli, tlat 614 nay pursue the waking dreams; why uts she W' laghingly by her inothera iide? Wheru is tho. glad voice that voild have made .labqr 1igWd,rwblie ,vil ing hand to assiet--itr tbt4ab Alab I the thoughts and efections, ind sympathies, which shnld hftvo )eel consecrated to making a happ ome, have been wasted on Imagf-L inry suaeringa and ideal beauty. H1uw many a wife owes tZie averted ye, and heedless manner, and dis Amil tcois reply, that C11111 hler con-1 idig beart, to the falke sntinepts 11d impressiois which her hsA,rI ias gatheied from the page of ro nancel The wife of his youth ia 1o longer youth. Disease, and per" -.han1ce tffliction, have blanched her. heek, and thinned and silvered her ,lckt; her sep is no longer eiistic4 111r her form erect. TIe,. her ea beats with an affetion, it not as ro Iiaitie, yet more deep and abidil than when she first listened to h i early v. wS; but the fountainii kf lli love have s' often flowed 'ut for ward toward the creations of f6lc', that they have been exhausted, an are diedI up. Fa.L PLoWING.-A correapondent gives his reasons for fall plowing :s follows: "By experience and oberva-. tion I arM satiEfied that all soils ough4 to bo plowod in the fall, especially green sward, for several Yeasoni. L The sod roots during the winter, and thus supplies thaboil wit nutri mont re.. dy p)repared for the young crop. 2. Th~le lumps become pulverize sooner', permi tting. the lanid to be stocked down ini better shape. 3. A team can work much easier in t.he fall, and the farmer is less hur riod. Trhe action for a longer time i also benefei-at." A correspondent of an eSchangd, discnussing the same topic, says: "t have toi d fall plowing on light and heavy soil. On light soils, which never p)roduco cak<es and clods; l4 does well. On heavy soil it, is com mconly detrimental. If followed by a dry winter, it sometimecs succeedi but commonly It produecs a hard cloddy so.il, which is long in becoming mebllow. I have known this hardn-ess to last a full year afterward.. Ev'bn when the land was thoroughly and evenly drained, this unfavorable re suit followed. It is thereforo necces, sary to use caution in plowing heavy or' adhesive clayedi land in autumn, and as a general rule It should be avoided." "Ah, husband, do you see th1is heautiful carving? IHow delicately cuit Is the pure white stnt' Ys Very pretty." "But, William, yotr have no taste for art, and you doni enj>y these thuings as I do. Just not ice this slender column of imnma culate mnarble, ith the touching quesCtion) so beautifully carved: 'Do they miss me at home''' Yes, I set. And here is her name on the foot stone: 'G. A. B.' Yes, I guess they miss ber-if that wag her name!" 'Deer Biill.-Doaut kirm to see mu enny moar for a while enny way. Fatther has got awfully skeered about bur glars and he sets every nighlt tili late with a double barrel ebot-gunI. watchling the backy'ard. He p)tirt mol(ren at po)und u,v led. inito old m)anl Smithl's dig whlich wvas kvimud'-. over the tense after a body 10 n igh t. "The rose is red; th,e vfolet's'buo, I w:uIdn't kum now ff I was ynu."